skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>They'll also find a way to integrate this in a way where you don't have to directly pay for the capability, as it's paid in other ways: ads.

I fear you are correct.
“Religion” doesn’t “require a belief in God.” Lots of religions don’t have a god or gods per se.

I also think that “nonreligious” people tend to retain much of the non-falsifiable moral philosophy they grew up with, and that for purposes of politics, it doesn’t make a difference whether you call that “religion” or not. As a foreigner, I find the phenomenon of white people who start fights with their family for saying racist things fascinating. In my culture you wouldn’t do that because preserving harmony within families is highly prized. It’s very Christian, though. “Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth; I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; and one’s foes will be members of one’s own household.” Similarly, American political debate about LGBT “human rights” is deeply Christian. People can’t come out and say “God created everyone in his image.” But they would flip out if you proposed a utilitarian calculus that couples who can naturally create more taxpayers are more socially valuable than couples who cannot. These people think of themselves as atheists but coming from a non-Christian country it’s easy to see the through-line in their beliefs.

This is a roundabout way of saying that I agree people who don’t believe in God can be moral. But I think that anyone who is moral has a framework of non-falsifiable moral beliefs that, for purposes of politics, isn’t materially distinguishable from religion. Certainly, there is nothing about our Constitution that prioritizes moral systems that arise from university departments over those that arise from organized religion.
> Any suggestions for ad blocking on mobile?

Firefox on Android supports extensions last time I used Android, and uBlock Origin works on mobile.
"In the long run, we're all dead" - Keynes.

Denser housing tends to be more efficient in a lot of ways, so it's better if your concern is for the environment. People living in denser housing also tend to have an easier time of walking or biking to things, which is also better for the environment.
> Apparently a lot of US business sites refuse to connect from oversea IP because (...) they just don't want to deal with it

I am French. What I find fascinating is that there are local US newspapers (that server a tiny community) that went through the effort to do a geoblock from the EU and put a page along the lines "we cannot be compliant to Privacy laws in the EU so we must block you".

Why do they care at all? How is the EU law relevant to their small, local business?

Large companies are different - there could be some litigation against their footprint in the EU etc. - but for thosewho just live in the US (or anywhere outside the EU) going the extra mile to block because of non compliance is really weird.
This might be the endorsement that finally gets me to move to fm
I'd say "riddled with spelling mistakes" is a bit strong in our example (I realise you weren't claiming that about the site).

I got it out early to get some feedback. The 404 spec link is a bad one (since fixed) but the typo in the DNS record is forgivable I think – very impressed anyone spotted that.
I use https://nextdns.io/. Blocks ads in most apps, not just browsers.
Let me guess, your "other ways" include Patreon, maybe writing an eBook, or maybe spending 2 years to promote an affiliate product, or maybe spend 3 years building a product?

Maybe creators can add a "Buy me a coffee" button to their site, that should surely fix the problems?

There's a thing called stability and reliance on something. Ads is something you can rely on. It does not make you produce content and at the back of your mind think, "Am I going to pay my rent this month?". If you think everyone is out there making big bucks just because they opened a website and put some ads on it, you're wrong. Not only does it take time to build reputation and a following, people just don't out of the blue come and throw money at you.

A lot of people have this notion that there is too much SEO spam and too many ads, but what I think a lot of people are really saying is that, "All I want is just free content. Give me a raw white background with a slab of text centered in the middle of it and I will be on my way.".

That is not how this world works, and trying to argue about it just makes you look selfish.
The difference is the US is a country with checks and balances of power.

In China when the CCP says jump however, there’s no recourse
So, free service needs way to pay for infrastructure to provide service? Knock me over with a feather.
I've been interfacing with GPT programmatically for a little while now, leveraging it's "soft and fuzzy" interface to produce hard / machine-readable results. JSON was the format that felt best-suited for the job.

I see a ton of code in this project, and I don't know what most of it does. As far as GPT troubles with JSON, I'll add a couple: sometimes it likes to throw comments in there as if it was JS. And sometimes it'll triple-quote the JSON string as if it was Python.

My approach to solve these problems was via prompt engineering - using the system message part of the API call. Asking it to "return valid json, do not wrap it in text, do not preface it with text, do not include follow-up explanations, make sure it's valid json, do not include comments" - seems to work 99% of the time. For the remainder, a try-and-catch block with some fallback code that "extracts" json (via dumb REs) from whatever text was returned. Hasn't failed yet.

It's fascinating to watch the new paradigm arrive, and people using old habits to deal with it. This entire project is kind of pointless, you can just ask GPT to return the right kind of thing.
This is me with black socks. I currently have a bunch of mismatched black socks sitting on top of my dresser, because I swear their matches are in my house somewhere so I'm not giving them up.
....and you can forward your gmail to your fastmail account, and have fastmail respond using the right address
This is the reason why I still stick with OpenVPN on TCP 443 for my selfhosted VPN. Yes performance suffers a bit but it works absolutely everywhere including behind campus/corp firewalls as no one blocks TCP 443. I've tried running a seperate UDP instance on a different port for situations where I need higher performance but for my use cases TCP works fine.

From my experience UDP 53 like another commenter suggested does not always work as some firewalls forcibly route all UDP 53 packets to their own local DNS server in order to prevent people from using their own.

As a bonus OpenVPN has the "port-share" option which allows you to share the port with other services like an SSL web server. SSLH is also an option if you want to host both your VPN and a HTTPS site on TCP 443.
Ridiculous. It depends on the style of shoe and the setting more than open or closed toes.
In the USA, at least, according to the CDC, cases, deaths per week, and hospitalizations are the lowest it's been since the pandemic began.

In early 2022, when at-home testing kits availability became widespread, I was a bit worried that we'd see COVID cases being under reported, since people doing a test at home likely wouldn't get tracked in the statistics. You can sort of see evidence of it as the number of reported COVID cases in May/June/July flattened out, yet hospitalizations continued to rise, though deaths was almost flat.

The simple fact is, COVID, like the flu, will never go away. But it's followed the trend viruses tend to do: becoming less severe so they don't kill their host before they can spread it.
I removed ads from my blogs years ago.

If you are reviewing stereo equipment or something like that, ads can make sense for all parties -- content creator, advertisers and audience. But for a lot of things, if you want your creative content to have real value, ads make no sense.

My most successful site is a resource for homeless Americans. They have little to no money to spend. Having ads on the site strikes me as tantamount to fraud because my audience can't reasonably be expected to buy enough stuff to make the ads make business sense for the advertisers.
I did the inverse. I migrated to protonmail and setup email forwarding from GMail to proton. Then, every time I received an email that was forwarded, I’d go in and update that vendor or unsubscribe. After a few months, the only thing still coming from GMail was spam and I shut off the forwarder. Basically a classic strangulation strategy used by service migrations.

I did setup a private domain, but just for configuring a catch-all. Now each vendor gets their own email address. Originally did it to cut down on spam and track where it was coming from. But it turns out my personal email doesn’t get much spam. My gmail accounts get hammered with it. Seems like gmail has a unique spam problem.
High rewards vs. risk, to be sure. And it's not as if CS reps are not in demand, so any "burned" asset could easily be re-used. It's not as if their reason for being fired would be communicated anywhere.
No ads in Thunderbird, K‐9 Mail, or any of the other mainstream open‐source IMAP clients I’m aware of.
Gmail has always been an ad vehicle first and foremost.

When it launched in 2004, Google was reading all your emails so they could target ads. This was entirely public knowledge and there was debate about whether it’s a good idea to give a tech company that kind of access, but hey, they promised to Do No Evil and had a colorful logo so it was all fine.

They finally stopped the practice 13 years later [1], but it shouldn’t be a surprise that Gmail’s product design is driven by the needs of ad display and data collection.

[1] https://www.fastcompany.com/4041720/heres-why-it-took-gmail-...
I really hope this trend doesn’t end with ads in my text messages too. It’s sad to see an email service that partly became popular because they had such a great spam filter, now injecting spam.
another happy user here for many years. It is worth it
> The biggest winners of Pichai’s leadership have objectively been the shareholders:

Literally his job. End of story.
They can also be driven by 14+ year olds without a licence in some countries. Pretty cool way to get around.
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I've added 5000+ users to a social media app, boosted ad revenue by 20%, tripled department-level output, and hired and trained developers. Looking for any new challenge on a healthy team. If you are willing to train someone in working with distributed systems, I'd be the most enthusiastic learner.
It looked from the screenshot in the article that they're inserting ads that look like regular messages — similar to how HN puts ads in the feed which look like regular posts. I'm not sure uBlock would catch those, though I both run uBlock and have never seen these ads, so maybe it does.
I think you could implement the entire thing in CUE, minus moving from/to python. We're already doing what the last 3 points instruct the user to do for integration. We are using Go rather than Python, so the CUE to language types has better integrations. Of course, there is the prompt engineering side, but that is just text with instructions for the LLM that need to be well crafted.

One thing we have seen is that you need to adjust your prompts when OpenAI updates their model. Given they only support their dated models for so long, it seems increasingly difficult to make the case to build on top of LLMs you cannot control the life cycle for.
I use Blokada 5 (Blokada 6 sends your info to the cloud). Uses a VPN to block all app ads.
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Mechanical Turk is a layer for sure, but maybe not a very thick or expensive one.
Wouldn't that mean using a paid email service that doesn't show you ads?
That’s mainly because many Americans have a coffee maker instead of brewing tea. But electric kettles are increasingly common. I have one, as well as one that I can put on the stove.
> According to the WTO, those are overgenerous

SpaceX offers payloads to space at an order of magnitude lower price than its competitors.

Infinity times cheaper in the case of the CRS contract, where the competitor has to date delivered 0 kg of human mass to space
Exactly, the accent bump is behind us. I get good transcripts of my meetings even with my tick accent
To be clear, Google does not provide an ad free email service to consumers, and I wouldn't expect the general public to create a Google Workspace account for a personal ad-free mail experience.
I think there should be some important balance in this:

1. What exactly do we mean by open source here? Some of the benefits would even come with a source-available model. Others would need actual permissive licensing.

2. Some public sector funding is strategic in the sense that the government wants to fund developments in some particular sector of the economy to help bootstrap the strategic industry (for instance the space sector in the UK works a lot like this). In this case its not clear what advantage there would be in mandatory open sourcing... But perhaps say you can keep it closed for 12 months after the end of the funding, then mandatory open sourcing? Gives a 12 month head start seems generous enough.

3. There is a reasonable argument when bidding on a contract where a vendor says: we won't implement this from scratch, but we will fund this by selling the same solution to other customers, and as such we can deliver this cheaper than other bidders but only as closed source. This seems valid (i.e. its a build vs buy decision essentially) and I think government organisations that have real budgets will need to make these tradeoffs occasionally. But perhaps there should be a mandated minimum discount that needs to be achieved (i.e. we're willing to pay 25% more for an open source solution, if you can't outbid that then we are obliged to choose a more expensive but open source supplier).
The difference between the two is because California doesn't have density.

No, I don't have an example of a reasonably priced detached single family home in NYC near a subway stop.
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That's not what the article is saying at all. They mention Promotions always had ads (expected), but now they're showing up in Updates, and in the middle of the list to boot, which never had ads before.

In fact, the main usefulness of the Tabs for me has always been the filtering of crap to Promotions and no ads in the other tabs
I like the concept, but it would probably be better to have some sort of cryptographic solutions, where the public key and permissions are stored in the DNS entry and the private key is used to generate a signature so the service can validate.
Those of "us" which think content creators should be paid buy music on BandCamp, donate to open source projects, follow folks on Patreon, or whatever. I submit nobody is actually consuming ads voluntarily. Its like stockholm syndrome. After a while, you find rationalisations for the weirdest shit.
Ruby comes to mind - matz wrote it in 1995, but it wasn't until the pickaxe book came out in 2001 that it gained any popularity outside Japan. And it wasn't until Rails came out 3 years later that it really took off. That's almost a full decade from conception to use outside of niche applications.
> People that reported talking longer on the phone had greater chances of hypertension.

The study depended on self-report? The solution is obviously to stop reporting that one talks on the phone.
> Turing’s great insight was to provide a concrete answer to the computation question in the form of an abstract machine, later named the Turing machine by his doctoral adviser, Alonzo Church.

It might be worth mentioning the lambda calculus that Alonzo Church had already introduced as an abstract model of computation.
One that continues to have a profound impact on contemporary programming languages, such as Haskell.

Turing's great contribution was showing how a Turing Machine could do everything that a human mathematician could work out on (arbitrary amounts of) paper.
In my experience, ad-free paid email from Google aggressively pipes the content of your email to adsense/doubleclick.

They vehemently deny this, but I think the issue is that you can’t run with cookies disabled and also use the gmail web UI, so every time you click a link they track it.

Having said that, they seem to do a good job tracking my gmail (and nothing else) even if I use the IMAP gateway.

I am an extremely happy fastmail user, btw.
Which content creator, specifically, is getting paid when I see an ad while trying to find a package tracking notification in my email inbox?
I was like you, at one point (2021 or 2022) I reckon wore socks and actual shoes maybe less than 30 days out of a year. If I go anywhere it'd be in a croc or sandals.

But then discovered the fun of electric skateboarding.

This necessitated wearing skate shoes and socks.. which I bought in bulk, no complaints there.
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We didn't even bother using flutter for web. We went straight to React/Next.js and the results are wonderful.

For mobile? Sure, we're using Flutter (we're planning to switch to native as soon as we gain traction since our apps will be handling video ala tiktok) but other than that, Typescript for everything else.
Not sure why this is superior to a Ferla for most people. This golf cart weighs 5x more than, and has less range than, and costs more than a cargo e-trike.
We at Pinecone have lots of customers at those operating levels (and many that are even higher)... If a managed option is viable for you.
Less than 1% of workers are making minimum wage.
> , but now having Go and Rust

If you go for Go or Rust you would never go for something like Crystal regardless, as they have different focuses. Just like Ruby, Crystal optimizes for code legibility and expressiveness, which both Go and Rust never really cared about, as it's about stability + performance (in the case of Golang) or safety + performance (in the case of Rust). Both of Go and Rust have horrible syntax compared to Ruby/Crystal, which is a fine tradeoff to make in cases.
Yes, the language runtime version of the "Turing tarpit". Any Turing-complete system can emulate any other. However, in this case, you're bounds-checking absolutely every memory operation, whereas with native Java field access, the class verifier proves the field access is legal just once at class load time.
You can instruct the LLM on what the outer markers are.

> Generate some TOML for me, surround the output with a pair of triple equal signs (===).
I don't think there are a lot of stuff easier to set up than ZeroTier, honestly. For me it has been a godsend.
I imagine typing that comment took about as much effort typing those words on your search engine would have taken. Read this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/XOR_linked_list

It is a datastructure that can easily be implemented in C but cannot be implemented directly on the JVM.
I find it widely uninteresting as a philosophy because it’s unequivocally the same as being non-religious without philosophical affiliation to any moral value system.

As far as I’m concerned it’s a formal definition for those without adherence to any moral value system. You don’t need a biblical argument for that, it just is what it is.

You can call people whatever you want, it doesn’t mean they identify with such a group.

I find it to be the same as associating people who treat women with equality with feminism. Could you prescribe such a label? Sure I guess. But feminism is larger than that concept.

I’m not saying it is a misnomer. I am saying that it can be one for the same reason.

And so if you operate by assumption that one has no value system, they’re immoral.

I’m not trying to dice words here. Humans intuitively know what certain qualities of goodness and badness are. That doesn’t mean they actually live them, though.

That’s what’s dangerous. The subtlety of knowing that people know what goodness and badness are, seeing that they can in some or even most situations live accordingly, but not actually internalizing such philosophy to explicitly live it out, other than doing so my mimicry, requirement, or obligation.
Some folks are more comfortable swaddled in well-defined boxes.
You would run out of people who want to live there faster than you would run out of space.

If the entire US lived at the population density of Manhattan, everyone would fit in 4500 sq miles, which is only seven times the size of Houston.

Just let people build dense housing in the places where people want to live. There is no realistic possibility of running out of space.
The thing that really surprised me is how this whole revolution happened and patents haven’t turned the field into a minefield yet.
> they will not get the same quality CEO

Hah!
Haven’t seen ads in Mail on iOS. It was hard to move at first, but at least I’m not harassed with prompts to download chrome anymore.
Except of course it might rain. Or it might be too sunny/hot. Or you might need to carry kids. Or carry shopping/parcels. Or you might need to go faster than an ebike can legally go (12mph).

Bikes aren't for everyone.
Reading the article, I failed to see what link they found. The headline here matches the one on the article so I'm not calling that into question, but what seems to be more accurate is "Mobile phone calls correlated with increased risk of high blood pressure" since no actual causal link is established. The article repeatedly calls it out as a link as well. It'd be easy for certain groups to fill in the blanks and claim this proves mobile radiation is a health risk, while it doesn't at all establish that causal link. Just as easily, it could be inferred that longer calls are more stressful. And also just as easily the link could be established that those with a family history of hypertension or have other risk factors are more likely to have longer phone conversations.

So I'd argue there's no established link, but there might be an obvious correlation that might warrant more study.
I'm highly sceptical regarding ALL CO2 removal schemes that don't operate directly at a CO2 source, because I see absolutely NO WAY how they could ever be made cost effective:

CO2 concentration in air is less than 1g/m^3, meaning that you would have to pump like 10000 m^3 of air through your apparatus just to remove the CO2 from a single car travelling ~100km.

And this assumes 100% extraction efficiency which is not realistic at all.

So any climate plan that relies on large-scale CO2 removal from atmospheric air is probably a complete SCAM.

Also compare the cost difference between reducing emissions at the source by electrifying a vehicle with the effort required of extracting the CO2 from the air-- it is COMPLETELY obvious to me that even spending a dollar on CO2 removal is absolute LUNACY until all the cheap and easy options of reducing emissions have been exhausted.
I can't subscribe to Pateron for every single website that I visit. It's just not practical. I'd be more than happy to shell out $100 per month to an aggregator if they could spread it out amongst 50+ websites that I visit in a month, but the only aggregator that does that with meaningful coverage is Google.
Even Rust started as a "amateur" language until it was picked up by Rust.

Nothing is saying that Crystal won't be picked up just like Rust was, by some company.
The Cookie Monster ads used to trigger my GF's Siri with "Hey Siri". I couldn't with my normal voice, but when I impersonated Cookie Monster it worked.