skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While it's normal for a CEO to focus on engagement statistics and whether the company focused on the right way to monetize, Medium is also read by quite a lot of technical and professional folks, and the pain points I encountered are:

1. Paywalls. Some people don't mind. Make it obvious in the link itself that this blog is monetized. I want to know if it's worth navigating away from what I am doing right now.

2. Site it slow. Ask yourself why did Medium scraper websites (that strip tracking) had to come into existence. If the market actively tries to circumvent you then it means you are not in connection with the users who you would want to spend time on Medium. This Silicon Valley mentality of "extract money, we'll think of performance maybe one day next century" is driving away the professional users who would pay for your service.

3. Too much trackers (likely related to #2). If that's your monetization model then the business is already on its way out.

You can do a lot with Medium. You can be the specialized Facebook for small club of readers and authors. You can help people organize events. You can provide a platform for book writers to draft and store chapters. You can put a paywall like "early access to my book's new chapter", too.

These things are not what drives insanely huge engagements that investors love but they absolutely will be bringing some money.

This hyper-growth mindset has to go. There are good ways to make money and not make your product suck.

I loved the idea of Medium when it first came out and consumed it a lot. For no less than two years now though, I use various scrapers and read stuff ad-free and tracker-free. Think of why it has came to it.
> AFIK the amount of people stopped using Firefox because of XUL isn't to big, you could say a vocal minority.

The vocal minority is making the mood for the silent majority. Of course are there multiple reasons for the drop of Firefox, but public awareness is probably the strongest for this. If the laymen hear how much Firefox sucks now, instead of the praise of how secure and awesome it is, they will have no reason anymore to cope with the flaws.
That’s a big W for the Pico W. If you know what I mean. :smirk:
"One 19-year-old women says that she’s looking for mutual respect in a relationship and someone who approaches issues with an open mind."

And probably a dozen other things. Self reporting is very hard for this type of thing. Theynshould probably have surveyed ex-partners and prior dates to get both sides of the story. In my experience, most of the time when a woman says she wants you to have an open mind, it means she wants you to agree with her because her mind is already made up. Respectful disagreement is unfathomable because it could invalidate or compete with her position.
> essenheim was amongst the top performing nuclear plants, and had no issues being given a 10 year renewal because of how safe it was

That is false. It was an old and accident ridden plant.

> And as always, the same awful arguments about "don't overheat the rivers", when the limits set by the safety regulations are way under anything

Luckily those limits are set by people who know what they're doing and not the nuclear astroturf online.

> Hollande did not want to diversify our energy production. It was a purely political play to get EELV's support and used Fessenheim as a sacrificial chip.

That's pure propaganda from the opposite political spectrum and is not even worth the discussion anymore at this point.

> Glad to see the German energiewende led to such diversification that you're running half your country on coal right now btw. https://app.electricitymaps.com/zone/DE

We even had to get some coal plants back from retirement (just like you did) because your rotting nuclear fleet isn't performing and it's cold outside. You're welcome :)
>Nuclear power is only "5x" higher cost if you utterly ignore the environmental catastrophe of fossil fuels.

Well, from, like 1960 until about 2010 everybody who built a power plant did exactly that.

And, from about 2015 onwards if you didn't ignore it it's still 5x more expensive than solar panels or wind farms.

So, between "expensive" and "people who hug trees and have no power", maybe it's the tree-illuminati people.
> Which is remarkable given the wide range of impressive things it could do up to 2016 that it cannot do today.

Like what?
Microsoft have an extension for Visual Studio that does this (and also shrinks lines with {}), I use it every day.

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=VisualSt... (there’s been a version for the last few versions of Visual Studio too)
I feel like you're confusing "date" with "hookup."
My code style too became more and more „vertical“ over the years — I‘ve found it to be much better scannable and therefore comprehensible especially outside its original authoring context (e.g. when doing code reviews in the web browser interface of BitBucket or GitHub).
How are you dealing with this? I used to feel that way too but now that I actually want to put more effort, I cannot being myself to do that. I cannot focus and get easily distracted whenever I try.
Your data is in a disk. Threat data like gold, postgres instances like cattle.

More like a trick poney, actually, because you'll have to teach it a lot about what to do with the several container lifetime hooks and states.

But hey, if you really need to run your postgres instances in kubernetes (which you don't because cloud postgres instances can be fully automated) kubernetes operators are like the world's expert in poney training working for you.
And this, right here, is the fundamental problem with all of this. "Legal" vs "illegal" doesn't really tell us much these days about the value of the thing in question. Civil asset forfeiture losses per year long ago crossed the amount lost to simple robbery, politicians engaging in insider trading has long been seen as perfectly normal and acceptable, and large multinational corporations buying off politicians and getting return on investment in the tens of thousands of percent, likewise.

Very little separates the state from an organised criminal enterprise. A particularly cynical person might point out just how comfortably well the operating logic of states and large multinational corporations fits into the world of organised crime. The only thing that separates the two is legality.

You want to enslave a bunch of people and profit off their labor in some far flung corner of the world to whom nobody is much paying attention? No problem, just don't do it yourself. Invest in cobalt mining or diamonds in Africa, or manufacturing in China. A territory is getting uppity? Support the governmental structure that wants to brutally repress them by buying from their corporations or investing in their treasuries. Want to promote some nightmarish theocratic brutality? Saudi Aramco stock is a steal these days. In fact, I'm having trouble coming up with something that organised crime has historically profited from, which you could not do in a white market context in the modern world by simply trading in the full breadth of financial instruments, particularly in concert with the state financial actors already promoting these very things.

The thing that really scares me though is that as I get older and more cynical and see the way people are responding as the boot stamps down harder on them, I find it harder and harder to care or see the above as something to get righteously indignant about. Why should I find the slavery of people abhorrent when they so clearly crave the lash?
I checked the interfacer and I am a bit sad to that it

1) Is "deprecated" and literally the first sentence states its use is discouraged because often such suggestions are misleading and bad advise.

2) From the readme it appears it just suggest to changes of parameter types in functions to existing interfaces. I was hoping to see something that suggests interface definitions from existing types based on whether share methods with same names.

About 2) I guess it is indeed kind of unnecessary as such suggestions are kind of trivial. On the ither hand I recently started to learn how to use interfaces and I have kind of a difficult time to wrap my head around how to make idiomatic use of that concept. So even such trivial help would actually be of some use to me, simply because it removes some cognitive load and I be able to see many examples (even potentially bad, but compiling ones) in front of my eyes.
> Use the “implicit” false if at all possible.

I understand that it make the code less verbose, but I don't agree that is "less error prone" as stated.

> May look strange to C/C++ developers.

Yes..
Tell HN: Emacs is now available for Android devices
F-Droid: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.gnu.emacs/

Repository: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/tree/?h=feature/android
Formally my Samsung A40 has no user replaceable battery. Actually you can find plenty of videos on YouTube that explain how to dissect that phone and replace almost everything. I don't trust myself to replace the screen but I replaced the camera after the n-th crash on the floor (20 Euros) and the battery after 3.5 years (40 Euros). All it takes is a flat piece of plastic to open the frame and glue to close it again.

Was it better when that operation was a matter of 5 seconds? Yes.
Democracy: Instrumental vs. Non-Instrumental Value (2009) [pdf]
> If we can run open source software the length the devices lifetime last will be greatly extended. This will minimize electronic waste and e-waste pollution.

i think you are overestimating the impact of such legislation. compare how many phones are sold each year with how big the open source community is, then how many devices will actually be used by that community after they’re no longer used by their initial owner. i fear the numbers are so small they won’t even register.
Seamless TV DNS Switching with Dnsmasq and Home Assistant
IIRC this is Ruff's criteria for 1.0
Bill Gates says that ChatGPT will change the world, make Jobs more efficient. Weird that people don't feel the same about Stable Diffusion even though it will do the exact same thing
I've watched this guy's channel for ages knowing almost nothing about mechanical engineering. Really fun channel.
Maybe I'm not explaining myself well.

If you are having a date looking to have a long-time relationship, you want someone attractive. And if you are having a date looking to hook up, you want someone attractive. So it makes no difference at all.

Unless you are looking for a friend. But then "date" is not the word that I would use.
he provided a fact, which is an observation of reality. you provided a judgment, which is a projection of the judge.
$12,000 is more than the average yearly income for a person on this planet. The USA has only 300 million or so people in it. What are the chances you are born in a place where $12,000 is considered 'the least expensive parts of raising a child'?
When someone successfully reduces human learning to predictions on training data, I will celebrate the Nobel prizes they are awarded for medicine, philosophy, and possibly physics and economics.

Until then maybe we shouldn't just assert that it's true.
I use a system of personal knowledge management (PKM), which I've posted about before:

1. Capture: every interesting idea that I think up or read is immediately stored in Google Keep (on mobile or laptop). It can be very rough at this point, the goal is simply to not forget.

2. Transcribe & Organize: every weekend, I go through the notes I accumulated during the week. It tends to be between 10 and 30 notes. Sometimes the note is "read this article" or "catch up on all newsletters", so understanding a single note can take over an hour. On some tough weekends the process takes an entire day, but that is invariably a day where I feel like I learned a ton. Once the note is cleaned up (transcribed), I feel like I understand it. At this point I rarely forget it - it has been absorbed into my brain. The final step here is "categorizing" the note. I classify it using OneNote with tabs like "Clinical psychology" (nested under "Psychology") or "Investment management" (nested under "Finance") or "Math" or "Physics". This way, in the future, I don't have a million notes scattered around, but one clear place I know where to look. On average, this process takes 2-4 hours per weekend. I never accumulate bookmarks, Google Keep notes or unread emails more than a week to prevent existential dread.

3. Revisit: generally, people recommend you revisit your notes from time to time. I almost never do this. But if I ever am thinking about "Marketing" or "Sociology", I have an immense, high SNR repository of everything I've ever found valuable on the topic. I've done this for software interviews and it's been incredibly helpful.

Overall, I attribute this system to making me much smarter. It has been an invaluable investment.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25302365
Energiewende was cancelled by the Merkel governments in favour of nuclear until they made a turnaround with regards to nuclear after Fukushima.
You are biased. You are poison to the well.
I'll take the hardest pass ever on a "dating startup" that tells me I shouldn't care about the attractiveness, age, or finances of a potential partner.
Those database are distributed cluster native databases.

They have failover, cluster elections, node auto joining mechanisms.

Vanilla postgres have none of that.
As a counter point, having gone on 100s of dates and met 10s of thousands of people in real life, in my experience people that mention open mindedness as a desirable attribute tend to mean it, at least as it relates to those who do not mention it.
You don't have to use them for dating to feel less lonely. You can use them to build up a network of friends and have relationships form more organically. Weren't you also the user posting about a friends first approach? This seems like the closest thing to that.
I’m curious, have you had the chance of upgrading postgresql version usong that operator? If yes, how’s your experience?
Pitchfork and the Death of Things as Themselves
<< An oligopoly is not a monopoly.

No argument from me.

What did I say though >> "We have an effective oligopoly"

I did not argue we have a monopoly. I argued we have an oligopoly at best ( if you count Pine and similar as viable candidates ) and duopoly at worst, which somehow manages to be worse than a monopoly for one reason and one reason only.. monopolies are more tightly regulated. Try talking about regulating current batch of market leaders and you will only hear 'private enterprise','if you don't like it, start your own', which completely manages to ignore the problem to begin with.

<< Some people want to sideload, and they can have an Android.

Hmm. Why is that statement somehow appear axiomatic why and does each sentence fragment logically follows one another? Why is it not 'some people want to use their purchase as they see fit so any device they pick they can do what they please with including "sideload"'?

<< some other people are pretty much satisfied with not being able to sideload, the uniformity it brings,

I would argue with that.

One. Not all users know it is an option.
Two. Existence of various workaround to allow sideloading suggests otherwise.

<< the uniformity it brings

If there is one thing world needs now, it is not uniformity.

<< other perceived positive side-effects they see.

Would you be willing to elaborate?
Dynamically typed languages can have strong type systems, ~~eg Haskell, some parts of Rust can be inferred.~~

In C static types exist, but type coercion means you can shoot yourself in the foot if you wish to.

What I meant above is not that Haskell and Rust are dynamically typed. That’s an error on my side but that the types are inferred. Left for posterity.
The parent wrote "We the people", not "I" nor "the government" nor "some corporation".
Jony Ive creates coronation logo
Anything that you do "for dating" usually goes south because it will be by definition forced. The above comment said instead going to meetups for museum visits, dining, basically sharing experiences, opening yourself to new.
Remixing, taking multiple Innovation and gluing them together, e.g. candle-light fast food.

Combining innovations e.g. fork chopsticks.

Transfer, e.g cement mixing in non-stick kitchen tools.

Stealing and improving, e.g. offering the same thing in a different color.
Too your first point, I am not sure what constitutes new or novel here. I've seen the AI do exactly the type of borrowing from different sources you describe and producing something that seems very new to me. Though I admit, often these are under human direction with some carefully chosen sentences. Is that enough to generate something really new?

To your second point, most of the work I've seen generated from these models were done for free. It could be argued that these tools add to an artists toolbox rather than take something away. I can see for example where one poor artist could create a computer game of the same quality that it takes a triple-AAA game company to do today. Is that good or bad?
We don't want any creative human input, because it is expensive and gives opportunity to have a middle class. Sam is regularly at Davos. Ask the Davos futurists about their vision of tomorrow in which everything will be fine and dandy.

Did you see Sam's appearance at the Microsoft presentation? It is all about safety, he said. Safety.
Since you’re here: could you please remove the universal `letter-spacing: 1.5px` from the stylesheet? It’s never reasonable to use nonzero letter-spacing on body text. (Montserrat is also a dubious choice for body text—it’s not at all designed for the purpose.)
Indeed. How can you be sure that even if a human artist gave you a piece of art, they didn't generate it by using an AI?
For much the same reason despite using Twitter a lot, Elon Musk isn't good at running it.
This is actually an exception: Yes.

Why? This is no different than software in general using third-party assets without permission. We, as in both society and the legal world, know how to deal with license violators and IP thieves.

The only question is whether we can stop confounding the discussion from spamming "AI" every-fucking-where every-fucking-time.
By the fourth attempt the author seems to be half on the way to inventing typeclasses.
> and offer something seemingly different, but ultimately equivalent, commercially?

> it'll have to be solved with new laws

Tbh, if an AI will fill out a need I had for cheaper than a human would, thn I'd see that as positive. Be it image asset creation, ghost writing or whatever. Restricting that with laws seems like it would only cut innovation because it takes away jobs. Kinda like forbidding robot assemblers in industry.

Tough, take that from a person on the consumer side of creative works.
On the flip side, an artstyle can't be copyrighted. So if a model creates something that is similar, but not the same, and different enough, is it really infringing?
Bill is obviously reached, a statute of God. He is starting a Climate religion as we speak, he should hire Tom Cruise for a start. He knows a lot about this profitable startup idea.
There's no accounting for taste to be sure, but I for one won't be patronized by a dumb tool. Formatting is for my team and me to decide, and no one else.
Very interesting insights. I hadn't thought about it, but looking back, I've observed exactly the same phenomena regarding junior hires and founders.
Why would you say AI can't create something new? It should be abler to merge ideas from its training data and create something like "The Name Of The Rose".

ChatGPT is able to write lyrics about a topic of my or its choice in the style of an unrelated philosopher for example. It creates something new by mixing ideas from different modalities.
It’s not that they don’t matter, but that they’re significantly less important than if a person is actually has strong relationship attributes — all of which are measurable via platonic relationships. Most dating platforms as is are extremely hostile to their customers actually finding real relationships, since as soon as they do, by definition, they’re no longer customers; for a friend’s first platform, they would not be the case.
Correct me if I'm wrong but pretty much everybody will list the very same desirable traits like open mindedness, humor... and you can go on.
If it indeed delivers what's advertised, it appears they outdid Tesla's "Solar Roof", and actually have a de facto obtainable and better-looking product for delivery!

However, it seems to cost some ~4x the normal price per W of solar panels.

- Could mass production of these and economies of scale reduce the price to more competitive levels?

- And how long for a typical installation of these to recover the investment, aka: "Payback Period"?

(is it the same as ROI?)
Machine learning is not human learning in any meaningful or legal way because laws are for humans and crucially machine is not human.

It will be the case as long as that machine lacks free will, human rights and all that important stuff. If it gets to a level where a machine is granted human rights this could be reassessed. Until then, whoever operates the machine is to whom laws apply, and in this case they violate copyright by capitalizing on others’ creative work and intellectual property through creating derivative works.

The large interests in question are guys like OpenAI/Microsoft, and it is in their interest that we continue to see AI as some human-like enigma and don’t think about the ethics of what they do. If you ask actual small artists, most do not in fact share this enthusiasm.
The section Awesomic Libraries should be expanded and made more prominent because I left the site with little idea of what I could actually create using PHONK.
In a client-server sync setup you can drop a client's deletes (for certain crdts like observed-remove sets) once they send their changes to the server. The server, of course, needs to retain them.

Other GC research unrelated to this project but something I've been following: https://braid.org/antimatter
That sounds like he molested someone, which he did not. He had a secret relationship with a prostitute, who he treated well, helped her with rent, even got her a flat IIRC. He was unfaithful to his wife, if you believe in monogamy. Many species of birds believed to be monogamous are not on close inspection. Both human sexes want to have sex with other people, besides their primary partner more often than we think. To suppress these desires leads to resentment and other problems i think.
I save everything I consider useful as an MHTML file (HTML/CSS/images in one file), which is native to Chromium browsers. This has the benefit of the page not being split into separate files as the normal save page does, doesn't break when the file is renamed like the normal save page does (on Windows at least), removes the need for bookmarks which go dead over time, preserves the original source URL in the file for later reference.

There are over 10k of such files I've saved in this manner. With practice it becomes second nature to categorize and tag them just using the filename, which makes them findable within seconds.

These have become like my own private search engine, without the issue of not being able to find answers to queries you know exist (which increasingly has become an issue with online search engines).

In Chromium the saving to MHTML feature is enabled by launching the browser with the CLI argument `--save-page-as-mhtml` (Vivaldi browser enables this by default without any arguments needed). Firefox used to support it via excellent addons up until their Quantum update but they haven't supported it since and is a dealbreaker to my daily use of it.