skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well there is, vastly increase the barrier for entry into universities. Maybe those 500 person classrooms can now be the 25 person classrooms they were actually meant to be. :)
ChatGPT – Let's talk Chrome extension to talk to and hear ChatGPT minimalist UI
Chrome extension with minimalist UI (almost none)

Works with only keyboard shortcuts to talk and listen to ChatGPT.

Created with native JavaScript with features available in the browser, no external libraries or API calls.
>How many people here see any ads? And if you watch someone without adblock or money to spend on ad-free versions of stuff, they just ignore them entirely because their attention span has already been destroyed.

All the time on mobile. In instagram every third post is an ad. I have actually purchased some stuff on there as well. (Turns out what I bought was just drop-shipped garbage so I am less inclined to purchase in the future but the ad was compelling enough for me to pay).

Ad-free experience is the best. Desktop browsing is wonderful. (although even though I use uBlock Origin, my search terms somehow result in tailored ads on instagram anyway)

I work with Gen-Z developers. They don't even use a desktop at home, only mobile. Therefore, unless they are doing some sort of convoluted setup with things like AdGuard, they are experiencing the full ad ecosystem in their daily computing usage.

I have adguard on mobile but this stuff does not seem to work on Instagram and other apps.

My dream setup are custom mobile apps that are open source wrappers around popular apps with all the ads, tracking stripped out. After all, most apps are just some simple text/graphics that pull data from some hardcoded endpoint. Most of the binary is external libs that you don't really need such as analytics/tracking/QA)

Unfortunately this dream is a major ask that will probably not happen.
Yes, but I can't justify taking a position like that. It was US based, and was not a one-off tactic unfortunately. As others have said it was effectively minimum wage, and the job search started last Mar 2022 (biotech let a lot of people go around that time).

I would rather flip burgers than provide my hard-earned and considerable expertise for glass beads. Its such a waste that exploitation is the norm, and if you don't go for it you can't use your expertise. I'm damn good at what I do, and that kind of interference in labor relations should be illegal.

Fortunately for me my savvy investments cover my fixed expenses so I'm not desperate to put food on the table. This kind of thing is fairly common for those without a degree, and in my opinion it is truly a despicable type of employment discrimination.
Not clear that there was a racism decline, post-Reconstruction, on a collective national basis.

Millions of people and the cultural biases they carried and refreshed, with the following generations, never went away.
We have a lot of words to describe advertising based on what channel it uses, or what stage in an imaginary funnel the marketing might serve, but a pretty poor selection of words to differentiate marketing based on why a person might need a product being advertised. Everyone is trying so hard to convince everyone else that what they sell isn't a commodity, that navigating almost any purchase decision has become a nightmare, even for sophisticated consumers. Do I want fair trade coffee, or organic coffee, or locally roasted coffee, or cheap coffee, or coffee where the beans were previously shit out by monkeys? We're no longer trying to sell the coffee; we're trying to sell the idea that the differentiator is the most important thing. No longer is the first cobbler you see the one you choose to fix your shoes.
See also the BBC documentary series, "Century of the Self".

The article starts out by basically admitting that there is some informational role that is needed: "In the early 20th century, advertisements served a clear purpose: they informed customers about the useful qualities of a product and how that product solved a specific problem or need."

And then came Freud and Bernays. The article doesn't get into it but I thought it interesting that Freud's theories found more fertile ground in the USA than Europe, in retrospect easy to see because the theory of the subconscious was so marketable.

I agree that some sort of advertising ban would be nice, but unlike the article, I don't think it will be an argument that advertising is necessary, but rather a free speech argument that advertising can't be distinguished from opinionated speech. And: "A quick and easy internet search can provide us with all the information we might require about a particular product." Really now?

We're already entering a third phase, where advertising is moving beyond explicitly labeled published ads, into infiltration of social networks and 'hidden advertising' in the form of faked product reviews, fake word of mouth, etc. It's easy to look back on what went wrong with advertising in the 20th c., but I'd rather figure out what to do about what seems to be coming in the 21st.
How you loaded games onto my Spectrum 48k, had to make sure the volume on the output wasn't too high or too low. I could guess it had a bandwidth of about 2-3kbit from how long I think it took to load (nearly 40 years ago)
>In addition, you can't get a second opinion for an oral exam if you suspect you've been graded unfairly.

You can if the exam is recorded.
Whenever I see that I wonder, are we reading the same HN? There's probably hundreds of accounts used by marketing that posts various stories on here, not to mention in the comments. At least they label some of these posts as Show HN.
To be completely ridiculous, we'll have AGI when it can convince a human to mate with it over any other human followed by raising its offspring to a successful adulthood. This is the game we're all playing.
Took me a while to work out that it is a parody and not just vanilla tone deadness...
What are the differences between this and DVC?
Shorter OP: "The place I rely on for triage on my personal projects (because who wants randos spamming questions on GH, amirite?) and for free technical support (no answers posted since 2021, but about a question a month) simply isn't providing the service I pay nothing for!"
Borg backup
I just finished up a job in marketing. We sold primarily to developers and we did this primarily using online ads. The percentage of people using ad blockers (that actually work) is less than you’d think.
I’ll take advantage of the appropriate audience here.. does this mean that M1/M2 Mac Mini just became a viable hardware for home server?
Define exotic? The large company I work for uses .systems
You may be able to symlink podman to /usr/bin/docker and things should "Just Work"
Targeted ads work. If I search Google for a pizza joint near me, a pizza ad is indistinguishable from the correct functioning of the search (except that it put itself at the top of the list).

Non-targeted ads? Most people have mental filters that weed them out. They're just background noise now. (But oh, the bliss when the noise stops...)
OpenBSD. The documentation is good too. The social engineering of getting campus IT to approve your solution might be harder though.
That's the logic that led to Korematsu.
> It's the same as saying that slaves were responsible for deforestation by working the cotton fields.

How?

The point of a cotton field isn't to provide a habitat for your slaves. By the time the slaves are there in the field, the deforestation has already occurred.
How we use Web Components at GitHub (2021)
How does this compare with other systems, like DVC (https://dvc.org/) for example?
Now imagine those who came before who didn’t even have Google.
Chlorine is an element and, thus, by ordinary chemical means, never "breaks down".

Maybe some people are assuming the old remark:

"The solution to pollution is dilution."
Oh they would love to make you "need" all kinds of virtual expenses. But why not both?
I'm not sure arch stores it in an explicit file, but pacman -Qe lists all explicitly installed packages, and anything not required will be listed in pacman -Qdt

Now, it is nice that "apk del" and such automatically takes care of removing unused packages, such that you never need an "autoremove" step or similar.
Why would that surprise you? Parking is expensive, and should be.
It's a good idea to think about some aspects of humans. Most people never be content with what they have.

Once progress was made, we get used to the old tool and begin to build new norms.

The pain is always there, you just run faster.
The flip side is that advertisers pay for "services" that the public consumes for free, e.g. radio, free-to-air TV, most of the internet - especially search and social media.

In the early days of radio and TV - to my knowledge in England, Australia, NZ (and its colonies?), you had to pay a license fee. In those days you had like 1-2 TV stations to choose from. People hated paying those fees and in many countries they were abolished. Likewise, I doubt that people would pay to have access Google search & Gmail, Facebook etc. As long as advertisers subsidize "free services", they are likely to remain.
> as it leads to critical thinking

No, it tells you directly what to think about the material. That's the opposite of critical thinking.
I consider that to be pretty massive, since methane is an extremely aggressive greenhouse gas, but I apologize if I made it seem like it was 60% or 80% or something like that
Yeah you need an aarch64 Linux build. Suggest just using UTM if you don't need anything fancy. Pretty sure they have an ARM64 Ubuntu image in their gallery thing.

I'm running Archlinux ARM in a VM as my primary development environment on an M2 Macbook Pro and it works great.
I believe the author addresses your concerns:

> Of course, capitalists will strongly oppose all of this. They will argue that advertisements serve a clear and valuable purpose: they inform us about products, assist us in deciding what to buy, and thus increase market efficiency by promoting the sale of quality products and preventing inferior ones from capturing the market. This claim is, of course, nonsense.
I think the new network implementation in Podman 4 ("netavark") helps with that sort of thing.

So the following works:

[sam@isis ~]$ podman network create foo
foo

[sam@isis ~]$ podman run -d --name=host1 --network=foo --init registry.access.redhat.com/ubi9/ubi-minimal sleep inf
1f7ffa0e474f7116d782ffa4d8dd9c0454893e9dac54b2cd9e61481a7f86a2ff

[sam@isis ~]$ podman run -d --name=host2 --network=foo --init registry.access.redhat.com/ubi9/ubi-minimal sleep inf
d8ffa58cb9de77305545b9f85043c016d03193adb6543b1768a68623b044b0e5

[sam@isis ~]$ podman exec host1 getent ahosts host2
10.89.0.3 STREAM host2.dns.podman
10.89.0.3 DGRAM
10.89.0.3 RAW

[sam@isis ~]$ podman exec host2 getent ahosts host1
10.89.0.2 STREAM host1.dns.podman
10.89.0.2 DGRAM
10.89.0.2 RAW

i.e., we have a network called 'foo' to which containers 'host1' and 'host2' are attached; they can resolve each others hostnames.

It's worth noting if you are trying this on a system where you previously ran podman <= 3, I think you have to 'podman system reset' to get a new configuration with the new Podman 4 network implementation.

(Personally I just run all containers with --host=net, this is just for local development, who cares)

I think this will work with docker-compose as long as you 'systemctl --user start podman.socket' and 'export DOCKER_HOST=unix:/$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/podman/podman.sock'.
> What we're seeing is the first instance, still very limited and imperfect, of AGI.

None of this is AGI. This is Eliza on steroids.
you're right... its a condition... i have terrible spelling
This seems like a bizarre conversation. Blaming people is about the divvying of moral burden. Blaming cows is about causal understanding, unless somehow you thought that discussing the moral responsiblities of cows was on the table.
CIRA's privacy policy is one of the reasons why I've stayed with .ca for my digital presence:

> The registrant name and administrative and technical contact information of non-individual registrants, such as corporations, is displayed by default. The registrant name and administrative and technical contact information of individuals, such as Canadian citizens or permanent residents is not displayed in WHOIS per the CIRA Privacy Policy. Generally non-individuals are public and individuals are private.

https://www.cira.ca/ca-domains/whois
Windows 10 EOL is October 2025 unless you're paying for out of life support from msft, which I'm not.
On Not Taking Money
Show HN: Scala Typer Simulator
> So most interview questions like "make a binary tree" are dead.

By this logic, those questions were already killed by Google Search.
I think you're absolutely right that not everyone is equally employable right off the bat (though most folks can, with time and effort, become super valuable team members). It's very important to be up-front with that somewhat harsh reality and to bake that directly into your organizational design. When done correctly it becomes a benefit rather than a weakness.

Our group is 18 months in and going strong. However, the structure is based on a decade of thought work from some of the founding folks, so we've been very intentional with the design.

Some of the keys to our approach have been:

1. Our main focus is on "professional empowerment" (learning, networking, experience building, etc) not getting people paid work. We do happen to get people paid work, but we set the expectation up front that it's a network first and a consultancy second. We can guarantee professional growth but not necessarily immediate employment. Of course, the bigger the network grows & the more brand awareness we build, the easier it gets to staff people quickly.

2. We use gamified incentivization mechanics to recognize and reward anything that benefits the collective with actual cash and longterm passive income: mentoring/coaching, bringing in business, building internal tools, working on products we're incubating, etc.

3. We're very focused on membership diversity in terms of role type, career stage and interest. We've got members with full time roles who are only in the group to coach & mentor, long term consultants looking to staff juniors on projects, juniors looking to get their first experience, entrepreneurs looking to exchange mentorship for help with their startups, etc. There's a network effect that starts to kick in when there's enough different sorts of folks involved. That is absolutely critical to longterm success. But it also requires a lot of patience.

---

As you say, this is definitely an extremely hard nut to crack. That's part of the reason why we're putting a lot of effort into developing the model and offering it to other community-centric organizations to incorporate into their own orgs. The more orgs which adopt these sorts of models, the more data we'll have on what works and what doesn't.
Mine’s similar but with fewer steps.

- My blog lives in a Git repo I host on my own Gitea server.

- I run Working Copy on my iPad to push to/pull from the repo.

- I use iA Writer to edit files in Working Copy.

- Every 5 minutes, a script on my webserver runs `git pull`. If anything changed, it runs `hugo build`, then rsyncs the output to the webroot for my domain.

What I see in iA Writer is my blog’s contents. When I edit those words and `git commit` them in Working Copy, they magically show up on the web a few minutes later.
Of course, both on HN and every single popular website out there. Think of how many people use reddit for "human" opinions. Marketing aren't idiots, they know people type "myquery site:reddit.com" for a lot of things these days. As a marketer, you can go to some niche subreddit, ask "I need product for y what can I do" or something along those lines, then take your string of 20 bot accounts to say "Use X" and upvote those posts. It wouldn't be too long before you've snowballed this into THE product anyone on the subreddit recommends for anyone. Maybe you've even paid a mod to put it in the sidebar. Maybe you are the mod! You end up capturing the people who think qvc is for idiots just as well as the qvc watchers.
I have many old videos that have lost their "HD" encoding, and now look like potato vision. I no longer (silly that I did) trust YouTube for video storage.
Please ask dang (or, I suppose, pg) to implement features that were table stakes in the BBS scene in 1985.

Come to think of it, ChatGPT could probably do the job mostly by itself, given the right prompt.
Is it a software issue, or a hardware issue that could be worked around in software... (sorry for the rant as an embedded system developer).
The age of agile must end
If margin cost of "inteligency" hits zero, that is surely the AI singularity, or something close. Until then people will have jobs, even if it is variations of "AI Manager".
i just built 6.2 for arm64. what timing!

https://github.com/nathants/mighty-snitch/releases
Mass farming destroyed this ecosystem not cows. We need regulations that enables swift, painful liability for any ecosystem altering industries. CO2, PFAS, BPA, antibiotic resistance, heavy metal contamination, seems like we are barreling towards a uninhabitable hellscape within in our lifetimes.
The fix for that would be to take out the 'knowingly' requirement.
> How many people here see any ads?

HN puts hiring ads for YCombinator startups in the news feed. Look for the posts that don't allow comments. I'm not say this to complain about HN (they're un-obtrusive, relevant without tracking, and a really clever way to use their forum), but there's even ads on here, even though you might not notice them.
Had one of these with my C64. When my floppy drive broke down, I actually ended up ordering a copy of "Silent Service" on cassette from someone in Great Britain. It kept me sane while I saved for the floppy repair.
What I mean is you might just as well have suggested that anyone who has a problem with the original text applies the same technique.
they promote their business by being listed, and doing a good enough job / providing a good enough experience that people recommend them and come back.

I've never gone to a salon because of an ad. As a matter of fact, I avoid businesses that advertise at me. I have a list of the worst offenders - if I see too many ads from the same business in a period of time, it's obvious that they're spending not on the product but on promotion, and I enact a personal boycott. this policy has served me well, I don't own a lot of garbage.
Remember to strip EXIF yourself if you're used to blogging software.

At least don't upload any pics you've taken at home without stripping out the GPS info
re:
> Loneliness is a choice we have made, but I don't think it's a very good one.

It can be a good choice for particular situations (like the author seems to think of), perhaps some situations call for a balance of alone vs. social.

Your original post makes a good case for specific solutions to specific situations (upvoted), but then as usual, the typical root of disagreements are poorly scoped comments.
It is both. It was an asinine play obvious to anyone that thought about the trolling for half a second, and the purported benefits were what? Now you too can get a blue checkmark? Sure the verification process was capricious crap, but now he's ransoming back features to people.

Musk is a fool. But Zuck is the fool that follow him.
That was an issue before treatment was available. But now not dying is a very strong incentive to still get tested.
Interested in a GPU under $800, then RDNA2 is the latest and greatest.

Interested in the newest available mobile chips? RDNA2 is the latest and greatest.

Steamdeck? Game console? It's the most recent there too.

That said, they've recently released architecture articles about stuff like core from 15 years ago. It's not always about grinding out articles on the latest stuff.
Because of the hype people think ChatGPT can do anything.
This reminds me so much of how "fuzzy logic" was going to COMPLETELY REVOLUTIONIZE EVERYTHING MAH DUDES back in the late 80s / early 90s.

Then as now, the question is still: "how does adding this pixie dust to boring old standard control logic make the product better?"
> Advertising definitely works, though not on everyone.

It works on everyone. In fact, the people who swear "ads don't work on me" are the easiest people to advertise to, because they are hyper aware of advertisements, and even saying to yourself "I won't use X product because Y" is simply enforcing a brand choice based on... advertising.
They stop giving you whatever you traded the minerals for. How is that even an argument. In what world you stop providing your end of a trade bargain and the other side keeps giving you what they were trading for. Sounds crazy.
That’s an interesting example because people very much want to pay for TV channels and streaming channels?
TV license still exists in the UK, which you need even if you only watch iPlayer.

Similar thing exists here in Germany (or at least Berlin, I don't know all the federalisms yet) except unlike the UK you can't opt out by not having a TV or equivalent.
Anecdotally, I know several people (outside the tech field) who have told me that they get value specifically out of product-based FB/Instagram targeted ads, to the point that they don't _want_ to install ad-blockers for those sites. I don't think the experience of the HN crowd resembles the experience of the average user in any way.
or change in EULA!
> I would rather this author be writing about how he is going to re-examine how he teaches rather than bemoaning that students can shortcut his current approach.

He alludes to this: "The first solution is hard for lots of reasons, not least that the current funding model of post-secondary institutions, which does not prioritize the ratio of faculty-to-students necessary for ever more personalized or real-time assessment methods. Larger and larger classes make many of these good ideas impractical. Faculty have zero control over this, but by all means, please talk to our senior leadership. It would be great."

In other words, the Universities are pushing "on-line-all-the-time" because it's co$t effective.
Because ChatGPT isn't thinking. It's not reasoning at all. It's assembling sentences that are statistically predicted from using existing writings as the template.

Accuracy isn't a part of the process except in terms of how accurate the training data is. ChatGPT is not making any sort of truth or accuracy determination, let alone doing so poorly.
You can tell from this the author has not read Manufacturing Consent and if they had not read that book, I question the relevancy of their opinions on this topic.
Wow! Thanks!

I think we should have a cup of coffee together. :-)
Spending a few hours a month maintaining GNU/Linux is perhaps the single most effective learning process for Computer Science I know. The entire stack (except binary blobs) is always available and something novel occurs everytime. I love fixing my Linux, I get to read about so many aspects of stuff I didn't know before.

And with NixOS it's more than cummulative it's a multiplier.

Gonna get me a second-hand M1 or M2 soon.....
A useful rule of thumb to remember, 1gbit/second is about 10TB/day
Ads are a brute force mechanism to generate consumption demand. But society in the developed world has satiated itself with consumption, maxed out on its credit etc and is not happier, arguably more stress and dissatisfied than before. On top, the environmental bills of that pointless overconsumption keep growing.

So things will change irrespective of whether "they must". People will try to find solace in other ways. Economic structures and social preferences are ever evolving - we tend to ascribe to the recent past a longevity and stability that it does not have.

The digital age may accelerate such transitions. Or supress them. It is still a toss. Surveillance capitalism was built on adtech but is somehow conditioned on the masses forever having no agency and no control over digital devices and information flows.