skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> "Piracy is almost always a service problem." — Gabe Newell

Once again; the media companies are absolutely doing everything in their power to drive even casual media consumers into piracy. I wouldn't be surprised if piracy was already more rampant than it's ever been - but it's only getting worse, due to ludicrous streaming fragmentation.

It'll never happen, but the only thing that can save piracy is an aggregate all-inclusive monthly subscription platform where all the films/shows from all services are available, just like Apple Music or Spotify. I pay $30-40/mo and I have access to all the stuff on Netflix, Prime, Max, Disney...

When you stream a movie from Netflix, they get the credit. Disney? The same.

Nobody is going to pay for all these services, and more and more are ditching them altogether. The response of the streaming services is to increase prices and reduce content. It's hilariously embarrassing. They are asking us to pirate.
I Agree.
Probably the big part of the "intelligence" here, is by the reader, seeing in the textual output of a probabilistic model some sense or quality.
The intelligence is hidden in the training data, i suppose, and probably the output is little more than a mirage.

Building this AI systems, now and in the past years, has proven usefull in narrow and specialized fields, chess play, chemical classification, planning, scientific data analysis, etc, but when the field is the Human Language -per se- and it's significance i feel something big and deep is still missing.

About the "Intelligence" till now we have no good idea of what really is, or how work, and how is related to Mind and Brain.
I mean you use a Google product to circumvent a Google product.

I understand the frustration of course but it's hard to me to complain about Google because I never thought Google search is independent unbiased.
Did they really remove their own post describing the changes? I haven't seen that before.
> The unusually high software/tech related salaries have somewhat diminished the ability of the other folks to enjoy the lifestyles they previously enjoyed.

Absolutely false.

The refusal of NIMBYists to allow anything to get built which pushed housing costs to infinity is what pushed everyone out w/o a top-1% paying job.

Not that the Bay created a bunch of high paying jobs.
This was an old 2014 model which had old HW1 Mobileye based package. It cannot have FSD.
For example in my EU country, it's legal to download movies for own use. shrug
It was OSS from 2008 through 2017 [0]

[0]https://web.archive.org/web/20120501073813/http://blog.reddi...
Then you sort descending of course /s
Sites like reddit and discord will have trouble surviving eventually I think. The communities that rely on it may as well just host their own alternative at this point. It will allow them to have more control. However, I do admit that maybe doing such a thing is a bit much for many non technical communities.
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I mean, some people are calling for that.

But people generally look at that as "regulating cars", not "regulating AI."

And the failure mode there is not at all what's being bandied about as a nightmare AGI scenario—there, it's an AI that has chosen to kill people, where with Tesla, it's just an extremely stupid AI that doesn't know any difference.
That's what I mean by the first of the three ways I'd be concerned here.

Asking a human consultant to take a human-intelligence-using look at every single customer (or every single visitor to a website, or whatever) isn't realistic at scale. A company will pay a bit for a background check for a prospective employee, they won't hire a PI to read every single piece of social media correspondence that person has ever written.

So if LLMs get cheaper and cheaper, there's a major scale difference due to the existence of the tool.

Technological developments leading to re-thinking laws and regulations is nothing new, of course, and "we should outlaw employers hiring PIs to read every piece of text a human has ever posted online" is something that never would've been a realistic thing to pitch to a politician 25 years ago.

Now, the technology has changed, so we need to talk about it.

You seem to be agreeing that it would be bad, so like the original poster here proposed, let's focus on figuring out what "bad" use cases this tech makes far cheaper and more realistic today and then trying to convince others that we should regulate those use cases.

(The second thing I brought up is a difference not in scale but in deniability and ass-covering: it's illegal already to take a retaliatory action against an employee who complains about harassment, for instance. Figure out a sneaky-but-very-plausible way to make that employee just-happen-to-come-up-bad in some LLM-mediated part of a performance review process? Now you'd have a much harder time getting caught.)
Yea even with a 24GB card they kinda suck. But I’m excited about em anyway
"Cooperate or we'll kill your family".

(Just to be clear, this is a hypothetical intelligence agent saying this, not me.)

I mean, it's not exactly rocket science, who wouldn't instantly fold to that?
> Someone says, "Is this yours" and you say nothing. Now you've got to burn hours and dollars trying to prove someone owns something so that you can go after them.

The opposite is the German approach. Shower the cuntiest lawyers with money, lobby for laws allowing to easily pick a victim, bully the victim senseless. Lobby even more and if someone uses the word "corruption" in context of copyrights, bully the shit out of them as well. I'm so glad Anglosphere and German copyrights predators have been perfectly impotent for so many years. They know how to create faceless enemies.
Just checked my go-to grocery store (Town & Country in Seattle), they have non-GMO boneless pork shoulder for $5.99/lb, and, uhh "natural" boneless pork shoulder for $5.29. However, the $5.29 one is currently on sale for $2.99, so excuse me while I run to the store for a second.
> Tik tok is 99% garbage content.

You're likely not using TikTok effectively. I personally use it, and all my engagements with it are 100% relevant to my interests.
I think you and I are far from alone in that sentiment.
But why would AI be required for that? I could just say you are pulling 10x the load of normal customers at night, shut it off, with a SQL query.

It's the shutting off power that's a problem, not the AI.
ugh, discord is basically IRC. There's a reason we don't use IRC for everything. I hate that it's replacing everything.
Ivory is for Mastodon. Lemmy is the Fediverse replacement for Reddit.

The only iOS app for Lemmy is Remmel which is dead and no longer available on the App Store.
Reddit didn't create data. I did, you did, random users did. Why did it happen on Reddit? Because Reddit, at least for a while, seemed like it was a relatively open place where data wouldn't be stuck and made inaccessible without an account.

Reddit exists _despite_ Reddit's incompetent management and tech teams, not thanks to them.
I stopped using C# & F# almost a decade ago, but there are some relevant pieces of information that answer your questions:

1. Optimization is primarily handled by the .Net JIT, not the C# compiler. That allows F#, C#, VB.Net and other runtime languages to share similar performance characteristics without duplicating effort.

2. Docstrings are used by the IDE to help the user. That avoids the need to read the source code itself for regular usage.

3. When comparing the .Net List<> implementation against any C++ std::vector implementation, the former looks quite tame in comparison...
Uh, because it responded to a comment that wrote a bunch of 2009-era Guy Fawkes mask-wearing redditor bullshit that attempts to make piracy noble.

> o7 thank you for your service

(o7 would be a salute)

> Where one piracy site dies, a thousand spawn from its corpse.

False and nonsense, especially in 2023.

> Maybe the media companies will eventually pull their heads out of their collective arses and quit their cartel...

Okay, I'll stop here.

I'm fine with piracy, personally. I'd prefer we just admit that you're mostly using it to download movies, music, and television shows for free. This isn't some noble fight for freedom. We're talking about watching mindless bullshit content like Star Wars, without paying for it. Piracy proponents, and comments like the one starting this thread, make it seem like we're entitled to this content. We're not. But I'll admit, I don't watch much in the way of tv or movies any more anyway, so the whole debate is lost on me.

I just rolled my eyes at the ridiculous tone of that comment, like they're freedom fighters. It's self-important bullshit.
Do you painstakingly read the EULA/ToS of every service you use that has one? Because you're in a slim minority if you do.
This is a very strange comment for a Hindu nationalist to make. I thought it was well established that Shiva installed the elephant head on Ganesh's body after he rashly beheaded him before realizing he was his son. It seems very bizarre to imagine a god using a plastic surgeon to sew the head on.

It almost seems like he must be trolling.
Infinite doom scrolling, clicking into threads, load more comments, replying/making comments, etc. It adds up.
Developer says Reddit will charge him $20M/yr API fees to keep his app working
This is very true! I trim a lot of the chicken thighs I get because they almost always have extra skin and fat that it really doesn't need. A little skin and fat is ok, but I have to trim it to keep it reasonable.
Reddit is a website. Just make normal browser requests. You don't have to use their "sanctioned" "API."
At this current moment what type of companies are preferring to build their own LLMs?
Not to mention most of my bash scripts are just wrappers around calling some other binary executables
Actually, i was being sarcastic...

The legal fiction if corporations being legal person-like that shields sackler's and whoever headed the credit rating agencies leading up to 2008 is obscene
I found that for some levels it worked for me to set my phone on a table and use my thumb to rotate the screen instead of trying to twist my hands.
I think that's the first nontrivial use of multitouch that I have seen in the wild (i.e. that is not basic "pinch to zoom" stuff).

Really cool!
I don't think we know enough to understand if "consciousness" can be sliced and diced in the way you're describing. Are you conscious while your neurotransmitters cross their respective synaptic gaps, or only when they arrive at the receptors? I don't know how we'd begin to evaluate the question.
What's annoying and counter to popular convention / user expectations is that you have to keep your finger in the established path to keep grip of the "ball". (S'pecially given your finger often blocks the view of it).
> They’re not wrong. Just look at London, where a (again, perfectly sensible) system of “congestion charging” and “low-emissions zones”

Just wanted to point out that the rich in London see this as more of a tax. i.e. Poor people are banned from driving in London, whilst it has made no difference to the rich.

I knew someone who regularly sped in the bus lane, and saw the fines he got everyday as a fee for doing so.

Fines make no sense unless they're weighted against your taxes (though of course, the rich find ways around paying tax too).
Just the name of the substack shows great bias. Small things matter."But a powerful group of AI technologists"? Nope, that's academics, researchers and non profits. I'd say, these are the articles that are paid, not vice versa.
Nah, its pretty obvious big sellers and middlemen are milking populations like there is no tomorrow. I dont understand why is there no lawsuit anywhere, cartel behavior out in plain sight, affecting literally everybody.

Ie Tesco in Europe had record income for past year or two, as did most other mega chains. It a mystery why...
I haven't looked beyond your example page, but analytics (justifying internal tooling) and compliance (mitigating bad actors) features are required to gain entry in companies who would pay a lot for your product. You can get far without these features, but a lot of companies willing to pay money to automate away human involvement need to meet compliance levels you likely haven't experienced based on the description above.

There is zero chance these customers would let an engineer SSH into a production environment either when they have compliance requirements. Either it'll be some just-in-time access via a jumphost, or production changes need to be scripted separately. I would think about some kind of internal tools API offering. You deploy that onsite and all of these tools work through it. You then start more lock-in. If your current tools just hit internal APIs that exist anyway then your tool is easily replaced.
Just like how Big Music decided to fight their pirates by only releasing unlistenable music for the last 20 years.
Them going closed source is one of the many, many changes I have seen on that site. It used to be somewhat cool back in the day but Reddit feels like it is trying as hard as it can be to be FaceBook these days. I had to leave because it feels nothing like it used to be.
Its just a way to lie that doesn't sound as much like a lie.
Bingo. To someone like me, the "energy of the city" is a severe down-side. I don't want "energy" in my life. I don't care about "amenities". I don't want to hear my neighbors music, or smell their cooking, or deal with their drama. Where I live now, working from home, I could go an entire week without seeing another living soul, and it's wonderful. I value the ability to sit on my porch with a beer, hear nothing but birds and crickets and the stream behind my property gurgling away, smell nothing but the trees, and see nothing but the sunset.
Next and Vercel
Um, the users create the data, and consume it. Reddit provides a "marketplace" for that, and sells your data in exchange. Now, they want to rent-seek from the very people making it possible to create and consume that content easily.

And it IMO, is anti-competitive - they are intentionally killing all existing competitors, vs. improving their own offering.
(Hi, I'm the CEO & Founder of DuckDuckGo.)

It is simply not true that we have censored anything or made ourselves "the arbiters of truth." I realized I previously explained how our news rankings work very poorly on Twitter but I subsequently put out a clarification in this help page with a much clearer (and detailed) explanation of how our news rankings actually work: https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/ne...

From that page: "When we apply our own ranking signals we do so in a strictly non-political manner, meaning we don’t evaluate or otherwise take into account any potential political bias or leanings of websites in our search result rankings."
On the other hand, I think the price is damn steal. If Apollo's numbers are to be believed, Reddit is willing to sell its traffic at ~$2.50/user/month. That's half the value of a pre-Musk Twitter user and a third of the value of a Facebook or video streaming user.

So, if you already have a sophisticated ad tech and sales team, you'd be able to pull 50%+ profit margin without having to worry about running the infrastructure for content.

That being said, there's maybe only a handful of companies with a more competent ad tech/sales team than Reddit, and Reddit's is pretty damn bad. So while the numbers make sense, the strategy does not given the competencies available in the market they're trying to sell in.
I can't stand RGBA fringing on text, it gets tiring very quickly despite making the fonts look better.

This font config is what I've been using for ages:
https://gist.github.com/radupotop/acec155e01a3b5c7ec9beff100...

Basically it boils down to: rgba=none, hinting=true, hintstyle=hintslight, antialias=true, with a few font replacement directives.

Having a High-DPI screen obviously helps. I found that 27 inch monitors with UHD resolutions to provide a good density at around 163 PPI.
Watch Tenet.
> the only impractical part is number of packages in Guix is really small compared to Nix

For reference Guix has 21,798 packages while Nix has 80,000+.

I think another issue with Guix is that some packages just seem to go away after a while, and it's a tiny bit inconvenient to get at older versions once they've slipped out:

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/698811/in-guix-how-...

That said I'm all for guix over nix (though day to day I use neither) because I think a full programming language is the better tool for this use case (in my mind terraform vs pulumi all over again).

Also there's one more issue which is related to guix's avoidance of binary blobs -- IIRC this means stuff like gfx drivers can be hard to come by/make work and I think this is by design.

Before that just meant that gamers maybe were left out (they weren't really the focus anyway), but now it might leave out a whole bunch of AI enthusiasts as well.
The death of self-driving cars is greatly exaggerated
Especially since they're trying to kill third-party apps a la Twitter: https://old.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/13ws4w3/had_a_ca...
Several other folks have chimed in, but wet-brining and not overcooking chops are good solutions. I also like to cut a slit in some thick chops and stuff in a mixture of spinach and cream cheese that I've cooked on the side. Just be careful on how much salt you add.
As with a lot of India news appearing here of late, take this with a pound of salt. Like you were saying, this makes no sense as a political move. Hinduism (and by extension Hindutva, the problematic political form) has no bone to pick with Darwin and evolution. Actually the opposite is true - it's likely to be promoted because evolution is a point of contention in Abrahamic religions. The Indian far-right promotes a lot of fabrications; this isn't one of them though.

The two academics quoted in the article come from JNU, which is known for its left/far-left leaning. Looking through their social media, I see retweets of: US stealing Syria's oil, opposition to bombing Syria and aiding Ukraine, etc. What does it say about the author of the story, if she can't see through biases? It's kinda disappointing that balanced opinions are becoming rare in news media.
Yeah, reporting abuse on reddit is a minefield

The lesson I learned is not to report anything because trying to be helpful is not worth the risk of blowback
Thus, punishing breakage of the rules more severely would lead to fewer people breaking the rules. As per your reasoning, to reduce crime we have to make breaking the rules more punishing than abiding by them.
I've been using old Reddit for a few years, pretty much since I found out it was a thing. Judging by their current iteration's UX, the code is probably horrific enough that open sourcing it would hurt their reputation. As you may know Reddit is owned by Conde Nast or some sibling company, and they love outsourcing their stuff to bodyshops.
https://suckless.org/philosophy/ apparently
"Science education is not political in India"

You've not seen the back cover of textbooks that says X or Y is only possible because of the generosity of the "Insert current Chief Minister of State?"
It's absolutely wild that all these years later new reddit is still so bad that a sizable portion of the overall traffic fights the defaults to use old reddit. Users never fight defaults... unless you screw up as badly as new reddit did.
How do you compare this to [lyft/clutch](https://github.com/lyft/clutch) and would you ever consider integrating with [backstage](https://github.com/backstage/backstage)
It’s like complaining that companies go out of business while the dollar keeps going up…
There is, as yet, no evidence that AGI of any kind, let alone the world-ending kind, is even possible.

The proposition that when AGI has been proven possible, it will be too late, effectively relies on the quasi-religious notion of the Singularity—and not merely that the Singularity will happen, but that the very first AGI we build will without any doubt initiate it as soon as it exists.

This is not a proposition that is based on any actual evidence or logic.
The Thrills and Terrors of Recording Van Halen’s Debut Album
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difference: Twitter's native web clients work, do not force you to go to an app, and are feature complete.
s/decade/century/
It is. I'd argue that alignment is the difference between GPT-3, which was a neat toy for nerds, and ChatGPT.
Here is the gist (directly taken from the website):

> Governikus provides the online service for authenticating your OpenPGP key on behalf of the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI). This online service compares the name read from your ID card, your electronic residence permit or eID card for citizens of the European Union with the name specified in your OpenPGP key. If the names match, your public key is electronically signed by Governikus, confirming the match. The Governikus public key can be used to verify the Governikus electronic signature.

So this is apparently useful if somebody wants to send an encrypted email to somebody else and want to ensure that only the desired person can read the email. For that the sender would have to check that the OpenPGP key got signed with the Governikus public key before encrypting and sending the message.

What that doesn't seem to address are multiple people with the same name. So the sender know he's sending an email only John Doe can read, but he still don't know which John Doe it is.

To me that sounds like something which makes only sense for a few limited use cases.
The taxes are skewed towards the rich, but also towards people who want to move for work. It's a wealth transfer towards the asset rich and immobile from the workers and the mobile. It's the economic distortion that's the problem as much as the lower taxation, but certainly part of it is shifting the taxes even more heavily onto the high income earners.
But that's what I mean- for the few specific places to go, sure it's great. However I only need to go to something like an /r/nfl or /r/valheim for a few minutes each day to catch up on some specific news like that I want to see.

For checking out completely random things, or funny things, or just to brwose around... that's where tiktok destroys them now.

>Tiktok is 99% garbage content

That's... a statement.
You used the word "only" there to imply ... well, that it's simple? I don't think most serious aerospace folks would agree with that assessment.
100%

The real value of reddit goes down annually.

They got rid of the boobies and kept the gore and violence.

Its mostly a machine for manufacturing Marvel & SW fandom.
Borrowing your analogy: Except right now AI isn’t an ICBM or sarin gas, it’s a slingshot, and we don’t even know that current approaches will get us there.

AI risk is a valid discussion but regulating AI in its infancy seems misguided at best.
It's very unlikely we'll make AGI that's just as smart as a human but no smarter. And as hardware gets better and algorithms get better, AGI will not be even roughly as smart as a human for long, unless we somehow to control literally every person on earth and stop them from making it.

So it's not like humans controlling other humans, it's like chimps controlling humans. It might last a while -- maybe a long while. But it doesn't seem stable.
I don't think there's any evidence to support the idea that dramatic events or small organizational issues (note that there are many rust teams that function fine) will drive platform direction.

Every other language has survived plenty of drama.
I believe there are a number of domains that have a higher "gravity" as they tend to lead to unconstructive "flamey" threads. I wouldn't be surprised if Reddit is one of them.