skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But I always wondered why stuff that literally grows on trees isn't cheap and abundant

It is!

Around here it's apples. Everyone with a few apple trees has far more fruit than they can eat in the fall and they're begging to give them away. I'm lucky in that most of ours are in horse pasture and the horses just eat them when they fall (cue horses drunk on naturally fermented cider!).

I'm told it's a similar situation with lemons in LA: they just rot on the ground. Again, I imagine similar happening in Georgia with peaches. Lather, rinse, repeat for whatever fruit is common anywhere else in the country.

Extend this to stores. Local fruit "that literally grows on trees" is usually the cheapest fruit you can find. Other than the bananas at $0.54/lb. The economics of those just blow my mind. Cheaper than potatoes but travelled 5x as far.
The environmental impact of having children is mostly attributed to the children, though. You don’t reduce your own impact much by not having children, by that measure. You do reduce overall impact in the short term, naturally.
I'm also blind. I use airpods, and sometimes I'd like to know where the phone is. I ask Siri, where is the phone? Or "make a sound." Siri just says some stupid joke, or "I'm right here." So not useful, just make a chime or something.

Even basic stuff like changing the lock rotation can't be done with Siri. I just don't understand how it could be that bad. I feel like I could sit and code a better parser that would be more useful. And Siri was the first really big voice assistant, they've had 13 years to get it working.
The author name and university name runis everything
ah, thanks for the source!
Federally subsidized advertising platform is what it is
This was something I kind of figured out years ago. If you eat what the food eats then you can greatly reduce the needs and complexity of the food system. That is a big win right there. I see the arguments against this position and always just seems like post-hoc rationalization. It is trying to fit cherry picked facts to fit their lifestyles rather than letting the facts being something to consider in their lifestyle. I mean, I get it, but don't try to BS people with this stuff just to justify how you live. If you are going to eat meat and dairy and you just don't care about the environmental factors of ethics - just say that! Don't try to be holier than thou via manipulated stats.

As an side, about the only complex food stuff I use nowadays is Nooch but that just because it is basically just a savory bomb that makes all my cooking taste so much better!
I think the “humans are not special” idea will lead to some really bad places. Jaron Lanier said it better than I could: https://twitter.com/etodd_/status/1638932095551836161
Focus on creating economic opportunities like housing/construction.
> Instead of better educating our population

We need to do a better job educating our population, for sure. Most of the failings are at the K12 level. IMO (as someone who works in edtech, in both K12 and higher ed), the primary issue with higher education is not that we're not doing a good job of educating students, it's that the cost is sky-high and does not correlate well to the value provided. So much of the value is in signaling and network-building, not in the actual teaching itself.

So IMO, this is not a choice between "better educating our population" and reducing the reliance on college degrees. The percent of the population that gets a college degree has shot up in the last 70 years, and it's likely we've overshot the sweet spot. The pendulum is starting to swing back a bit, and hopefully we'll reach an equilibrium point that makes sense and is affordable.

To your point, I even hope that when we reduce our overspending at the higher ed level, the government will be able to shift those resources to K12, where the bigger failings are happening.
Perhaps it's more realistic to focus on more realistic solutions like lab-grown meat[1].

1. I know it has its issues, but it seems more realistic than "make everyone vegan".

Disclaimer: Now omnivore, was vegan for 10 years.
This is very practical, I like it. I can’t stand listening to my own voice memos.
Your comment led me to learn about Plex Plugins even though I've been using Plex for literally a decade!

Unfortunately they're removing support for all Plugins over time and have already eliminated ones that play content.

https://support.plex.tv/articles/categories/online-media-sou...
memes are art.
I prefer Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs.
Wow. How was your experience there? Even as a native Swede, that’d be quite a cultural challenge, as well as harsh to deal with the total darkness during the winter.
I’m pretty sure that’s how, say, Expedia makes their money. Traditional hotel reservation permit very late cancellation (24hrs typically). Hotels are willing to offer a reduced rate if you promise to not cancel.

So Expedia is just a front for that other class of bookings that are non-cancellable and they skim a profit from that. Hotels save face as they can just fingerpoint if someone complains yet they gain by getting the non-cancelable bookings.
Former OpenAI researcher says there’s a 50% chance AI ends in 'catastrophe'
Anyone who used Facebook in the last 16 years can now get settlement money
* Only if you were a user in the US during some of that time.
I don't think emails are worth this much.

As others have posted, users will spam-report even emails that they intentionally signed up for.
I certainly had no surplus at all until I was well into my 30s. And then the dot com crash caused me to take lower paid work and I burned through the savings I had. Wasn't until I was in my 40s before I could say I had some spare cash, then I had a kid!

This is the UK, but I think it's fairly normal.
Hard times are here for news sites and social media. Is this the end of Web 2.0?
In European. Yes.
This is a nice summary! Subscribed.
Hit 'em in the wallet
Using evidence that we can't show you, which goes against what has been previously but very publicly alluded to, we have concluded that you should know the people who would be harmed most by the event were the culprits... because... you're not allowed to know.

*stop hitting yourself*

I have absolutely zero faith in the statements in the article and am writing it off as blatant propagandizing.
- "should be messaged"

Why? It's purely counterproductive. Framing a political issue as "this is a moral failing by you, personally; and you must suffer and live ascetically to improve yourself in order to" whatever is a surefire way to get utterly rejected.
Pretty soon you may not even be able to have that prejudice, because who will be able to definitively say your favorite author isn't using generative AI?
> It definitely is.

Is an independent indicator, or is statistically correlated?

> And there are even bot detection services that can detect puppeted Chrome installs pretty reliably (I ran into that when I tried to scrape some data about the housing market).

Interesting. The arms race continues...

> Blink, WebKit, and Gecko are the only common browsers and the rest is a long tail. If you pick an uncommon browser (Lynx, Ladybird) you're an outlier in most automated scans but still end up with a smaller total browser market share than even the small bots

The post I was responding to was calling Firefox an "uncommon browser".

> If you're being extorted by someone who paid $50 to DDoS your business for a month, you're going to turn up the DDoS protection knobs. The annoying tracking, cyberstalking and CAPTCHA services are mere symptoms of the underlying problem.

Wouldn't most Cloudflare users prefer that Cloudflare notice that attack, adjust the settings by itself, and send them an email saying "You appear to be under attack; we've enabled X, and lowered the thresholds for Y and Z"? And then notice when the attack seemed to be slowing down, and put things back the way they were?

I'm normally not a fan of machines acting like they know better than I do... but the machines probably do know better than Cloudflare's average customer.

At the very least, they could probably find ways to discourage people from messing with knobs they don't understand, and more ways to make the specific costs obvious, even if those knobs ultimately stayed available.
Does this fix the market? Or are we just putting out fires as they crop up.
Works in Firefox on Linux for me. Probably some form of unicode normalization?

http://xn--orhcp.xn--mvh.xn--mvh.xn--orh:8000 -> http://127.0.0.1:8000
Stagi isn't a word (unless you count Lojban). Gagi isn't a word unless you could Filipino slang.
What's right should be easy. SSNs should be censored by default and it should be really hard to disable that.
So? They're not in the same market.
Left unexamined: how long ago and why did employers decide that a 4-year degree was the minimum qualification for general employment?

And why should someone without a degree be excluded from socio-economic advancement, thinking for themselves, or challenging the established order? If anything, professional success based on work instead of degrees is a challenge to the current established order. :)

The American Dream doesn't need to be degree examiners gatekeeping it. If you care about socioeconomic advancement, don't pull the ladder up by excluding people without degrees: instead, make sure you don't require folks to jump through hoops before doing work that they already have the skills to do.

And to the "authoritarian-reactionaries" dig: note that the Congresswoman in this article is pursuing this as a progressive. Same with the new governor of Pennsylvania: https://www.penncapital-star.com/government-politics/in-his-...

(signed: child of an immigrant with an 8th grade education for whom the American Dream is alive and well)
Amazing to see it still getting sold now in 2023.

I own two of these and while they now sit in my garage I've probably used them for 15 years. I bought them exactly for the reason laid out in the article - this router has solid hardware and the fact you could out just openwrt/ddwrt on it was amazing.
Pretty huge disparity in some cases.

It has never really been an issue or caused awkwardness/weirdness.
If they had allow-listed themselves that would have been much more disturbing.
Did you read the whole 1984?

It is exactly about this "this is for (the grater,your,your peoples) good" or rather it is about total control of the information space that indeed everyone thinks, whatever the party is doing is good.

No one is living in a dystopia there. They are living in the best of the best worlds. And everybody thinks and believes that.

It is an examination of power and control mechanism. Power over the mind of people.
I'm sure the LLM-based engines will shine here, partly they are already here. A couple observations:
- Google Lens, now by default activated when you post an image to Google Images (https://images.google.com) has a text recognition feature and it is very impressive even if you give it an image with a screen dpi and grammatically incoherent text (dictionary entries with short phrases and abbreviations)
- I played with different LLM-based chats with the following queries "Please reconstruct the original text from the following corrupted one: Smng rng wt ths ly". The test is similar to an OCR task when not all letters are recognizable or printed clearly. Perplexity for example answered with hesitation, but mostly correct (Something like: "I can not answer definitely, but related is "Something wrong with this reply")
This message is devoid of evidence lol

Look how hard some governments have tried to stop this movement, and none have succeeded. That's real life evidence that they simply aren't capable.

I think this cloud will outlast the old men yelling at it.

Also: I hope one day someone calls my company a failure because it "only" has hundreds of thousands of users
I don't. I fast most of the day and eat a rather large meal around 1600 that has most of the nutrients I need. I also take vitamins to supplement. My partner is vegan and needs to eat much more frequently than I do.

I have a friend who is a body builder who eats several times a day (more than three) and with specific proportions. I think there's a vast array of experiences in the US with respect to nutrition.
Yeah, if there's such a feeling in what should be a normal interaction, I'd question the friendship
Oh wow, I think HN normalized the unicode with punycode since it's a URL. I submitted with ①②⑦.⓪.⓪.① inside the http:// and :8000 And the punicode version also works for me :)
For some content I agree with you. For example, a heart warming story about a girl losing her mother to alcoholism and how she coped. I don't want to read that from an AI. The literal exact same story feels different if I know an Ai built it.

In contrast, a new virtual world for GTA 8 -- I don't care if that is from an AI or a human. I feel like either could be just as immersive as the other.
a virtual commodities market isn't socialism. they haven't even collectivized the bots, let alone the currency
If I understand your point correctly, your view is that any money not given to charity towards people worse off than me (or perhaps just worse off than some standard you get to define?) is inhumane?

[Why] do you believe that?

I believe that bosses owe more to their employees than individual people do to all the other random people on Earth. Maybe I’m wrong.

How do you define inhumane? Am I treating everyone less wealthy than me inhumanely if I don’t give them money?
Starving most of the population on the way to the bright future. The research team reinvented communism and USSR.
> or people using more secure browsers like Firefox with resistFingerprinting = 1. I suspect this is a significant blind spot for site operators. Have you personally tried your own site with RFP=1

Yes, and it is not an issue for us. Again, this is up to site operators to decide for themselves. The defaults are sane, and Cloudflare makes it very clear what each level of their security configuration does. It is up to the site operator to decide how they want their site to behave. Perhaps, simply avoid sites that bother you? That list will grow by the day, unfortunately.

> TOR browser bundle, VPN from a datacenter IP, etc

Nobody, and I mean nobody, cares about this traffic. We're in the ecommerce space, so perhaps by that I mean nobody in the ecommerce space cares. We do not want TOR traffic. We do not want random-cloud-ip-vpn traffic. These are more often than not where our fraud bots/attempts originate, and we are not alone.

Recognize, if you are using TOR, or browsing regularly via a datacenter IP VPN - you are in an extreme minority and unfortunately lots of folks before you have used these services for bad things.

I personally like TOR, and VPNs. This is no slight against them - but the facts are undeniable here.

> surveillance-based user-hassling

You also referenced canvas-based fingerprinting, and seem to assume that's how these things work. Some might, but many are much more dumb than that. Usage-pattern based challenges are fairly simple when you understand what normal traffic looks like.
I'd be curious if the lack of available "suitable" recruits is also adds to the pressure.

"77% of young Americans would not qualify for military service without a waiver due to being overweight, using drugs or having mental and physical health problems." [0]

[0] https://www.military.com/daily-news/2022/09/28/new-pentagon-...
In case the repository disappears I share an archive of it https://archive.softwareheritage.org/browse/revision/7ef85f4...
That very much depends on the level of detail required in the description right?

And we have to do this to some degree to simply navigate the world of content. I already filter for action films or documentaries depending on my mood.

Sure, a world where I have to already know the entire script for a film to have it appear is (while technically astonishing) not great for me individually, one where I can say I want a new Poirot and get it is incredible.
Unfortunately, same here. I too seen this a lot. I wish I could donate to EFF though. )
> you must suffer and live ascetically

What do you think veganism is?
I disagree, at a certain point the AI will be able to create new things for me. To think only humans have some innate fundamental notion of creativity is foolish, in my opinion. We're just biological machines, if you follow the physicalist school of thought.
> I'm not sure I see your point here.

The writer was fine with associating their online blog writing with subscription fees, locking content behind paywalls and so on 10 months ago.

So they were fine with monetization in a scenario when it benefited them, and against when the scenario, AI assisted writing, wasn’t as favourable for them.

> You are saying that because the writer signed up to a paid blogging service, and paid for their own domain, their opinion on how AI may replace humans is not valid?

This is nonsense, personal opinions can neither be valid nor invalid by definition.
We were also heavily conditioned through the 80s and early 90s to not use butter for health reasons. Many homes stopped using lard and animal fats entirely in favor of artificially flavored plant-based butter substitutes that melted poorly and tasted horribly.
That's an intriguing idea. What is the purpose of it? Can you share screenshots?
I wonder if strict and short term limits would inhibit the ability (for any entity) to condition the masses.
I disagree with your premise.

Butter is a key component of a quintessential American sandwich - the grilled cheese. Also, bread and butter is a midwestern dinner table staple, and buttered crackers are things I snack on, I put them out for dinner parties. Though, older people use margarine for "health reasons".

If I want tanginess on a sandwich, I reach for mustard.
If you're in proximity to Wisconsin, https://carrvalleycheese.com has various bread cheeses ( https://carrvalleycheese.com/product-category/bread-cheese/ ) can be found in the specialty cheese section of many grocery stores.

For coffee, you'd likely want the one without other things in it ( https://carrvalleycheese.com/product/bread-cheese/ )

> In Finland there is a cheese called Juustoleipa. This translates into cheese bread. We make ours different but better with oven baking it until it has a browned crusty top. Pop it in your oven or microwave until it glistens. Serve it with your favorite dip as a delicious snack. Good as is!

Note the pairings recommended:

> Honey, jam, syrup, coffee

It looks like you can order it from there too.
I think the general idea is that instead of grow plants > Feed animals > feed People. It should be grow plants > Feed People.

It doesn't make modern agricultural practices any better but does reduce their scale dramatically.
I think there is something fundamentally wrong and blasphemous about a human, the apex living being we know of, in some ways the most incredible achievement of nature itself, to say "we are not that special" compared to a machine that can write an EULA in Speakesperean English.

I mean that's cool, but have you seen life itself? What about conscious matter that can observe itself? The goodness of AI is relative to us, the one that invented it. By some definition we will always be better than it because we created the damn thing in the first place.

Seeing ChatGPT and saying we're not that special is just utterly wrong to me. Even if it is true, accepting that as a fact is dangerous, if not traitorous in some way — reminds me of the Adventists in The Three-Body Problem (massive spoiler ahead) having such a low opinion of humanity that they would rather be destroyed by an alien race.

/philosophical rant I keep coming back to and I need someone smarter to expand upon
Let's all note just how much market share cloudflare got before throwing this switch. While they took over a huge part of the web this sort of thing never happened. Now it seems very much harder to even attempt to browse with slightly more anonymity.

Ladies and gentlemen start your conspiracy theories.
Hopefully RedPajama will change things when (if) they release models based on their independent LLaMa recreation. Until that happens, it might make sense to use the LLaMa model as a stopgap for internal development.
Hi! Are there limits to how many times we can use Dall-E? Are we going to pay credits every time we generate images? What is the maximum size dimension of a DALL-E image I can generate?
This is the norm in law firm hiring. Top firms don't look outside of a handful of schools. Good firms consider graduates from 1-2 dozen schools. And legal academia is at least as elitist — something like half of all law professors graduated from one of four schools. It's great for groupthink!
You can do a ton of creating things on iOS. People just don't. It's not remotely because the devices are "locked down," it's because consuming content is easy and satisfying.
I totally agree but I don’t see how the system will change. I certainly can’t convince my employer, can you?
Can you provide more sources that show Police education by state? While I don't disagree with the premise you are suggesting in and of itself, the link you've provided is entirely insufficient to make the calculations about police education and per capita police violence rate

I found [0], which in Appendix F has a state-by-state breakdown for only some states. Cross referencing it with your data source is useless, all the top states for per-capita police killings have their data omitted from that table.

[0]: https://www.policinginstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10...
I doubt human created art will ever go away, if only for the mere fact that there are people who share your view who want human made art. People still buy artisan, handcrafted products.
As I said and meant: asceticism, in service of a religious or moral principle. I respect what it is, but that *is* fundamentally what it is: people rejecting pleasurable things.
I did consider that as an option, and I tried routing email through a number of other delivery services, but ultimately I rejected it for a few reasons:

I was hosting email not just for myself but for a few other people, and that gets tricky to route through Gmail;

Gmail could change their policies at any time and give me a really bad day, potentially when I can't respond to it in a timely manner;

If routing email in this way ever triggers Google's abuse mechanisms, then potentially I'm losing access to a lot of the Google network, and while I don't use it for anything personally, sometimes I have to work with companies that do;

After spending tons of hours dealing with Gmail-related headaches despite not using Gmail myself, relying on them to get mail routed felt like a deal with the devil.

I've instead helped a bunch of people get set up with Fastmail. I love Fastmail, they're great, I miss hosting my own email but they're the next best thing. Fastmail must be handling enough traffic that they're hovering above Gmail's piss-off threshold, and really my experience with them has been extraordinarily good. Everyone I've set up over there has been happy with them too, save for one person who got told by the next IT hat-wearer that "everyone's using Google Workspace and you should be too" (and then immediately ran into a problem during setup that snowballed into a big hairy mess).
If we didn't value humans more than other things we wouldn't have survived as a species. You can argue over terminology, but you can't beat evolution.

I'd imagine that you'd prioritize saving a human child from a fire over saving a machine or a meat based robot. Why?
Yeah, it's worse.
hot take: grumpy techies and admins killed email already 20 years ago. They were so intent on fighting html mail, top posting, and other perceived abhorrations that they forgot to make sure that it actually stayed alive, evolving viable platform for development. There were all sorts of cultural issues that made it so that there wasn't any major active promoters/evangelists/advocates for email pushing it forward, and so it has been rotting away for the past decades.