skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Most sickeningly is that privileged tax status can be passed parents and children, effectively creating a separate caste of people with lower taxes.

Thankfully this was significantly curtailed by 2020's Proposition 19.
Have you used Reddit or Twitter recently? They're basically open air insane asylums.

You should spend 0% of your life talking about being a "Based Alpha Male." You absolutely should not use the same website as a "Based Alpha Male" influencer.

I can come up with left wing equivalents if you're more into that?
I've heard such mixed things about Bard lately, I wonder if it depends on the application one is trying to use it for?

And yeah there's definitely good reason to work on scalability but they are charging such a cheap rate to begin with, it seems like there could be a middle ground here. Increasing the cost of the full compute power to the point of profitability and leaving it up as an option wouldn't prevent them from dedicating time to scalable models.

I suppose they have a good excuse with all the press they've drummed up about AI safety though. Perhaps it might also serve as an intermediate term play to strengthen their arguments that they believe in regulations.
A Week with the Wild Children of the A.I. Boom
> My salary here as an American can feel very low, but I feel wealthy in Sweden. You don't need to make a lot of money to live a good life. Back in the US, I was making $60,000 a year before taxes and that was almost eight years ago. Here, my annual salary is around $45,000 a year before taxes.

I've lived in LA for about 3 years now and I find it fascinating how lackluster the salaries are in this area (for both technical and non-technical roles). $60K isn't even paycheck to paycheck for Burbank. That's just simply not enough to afford basic housing. No wonder people get burned out.
I choose to live in Scotland over many other places in the world. Unbearably hot summer days where you have to avoid being outdoors for the mid afternoon are not my idea of a good time. Factors like holiday entitlements, and cultural norms are far more important than "is it hot outside".
Sounds consistent with the Dunning-Kruger effect.
Wheeling and Dealing: How Auto Dealers Put the Brakes on Direct Sales
> It's possible for someone to already be far away even if a detection system cuts the engines right away.

If you see someone go overboard you're told to keep your eyes on them, point and shout man overboard repeatedly until a crew member passes on the alert. Then depending on if the person is seen a life boat can be launched or the ship will turn and circle.
No, he just pivoted to talking about how America is just a bunch of "Black ghettos" and then I blocked him.
My experience with Philadelphia since the pandemic is that its public transit is now riddled with crime and heroin users, whereas before that was not the case
If anything, this is a neat art piece asking "Why do people take pictures?".

I've found often that the gut feel that makes you take the shot doesn't necessarily know when you have the right composition or what the subject of the shot actually is, you just hit he shutter, you know that this was the shot.

Then, when looking at the shots, you have all the time and the world to analyse and find meaning and beauty in this sliver of an instant.

By replacing this by a random seed, a 20 word prompt and gps localisation, I doubt that anyone would have a personal connection to the image, or to the instant it was taken. It become a "clean", "sanitized" image, that's only esthetic (or arguably memetic depending on your prompt), and is wholly separate from the person that took it.

You also lose all of the information that you can not consciously perceive while taking the shot/writing the prompt, since you filter what you see through the lens of language, and then back into visual.

It's neat !
What does any of this have to do with the US?
Seeing lots of mentions here in the comments about increased serving costs but the nature of the message sounds more like the community itself has fallen apart / lost people due to covid and war. I can't imagine the effort it must've taken to keep this site running for so long given the amount of traffic, especially during the hellish last few years.

I'm sad to see them go but I support their desire to spend time and energy/resources on something else after all they've done
There are a large portion of moderators who will quit if they cannot use RedditIsFun because the official app is complete crap for moderators.

I really don't know why it has to be API use based anyway. We all log in to our individual accounts through the API. For clients they should be able to determine requests/account or let users pay for their own usage or something. They're in full batshit MBA mode.
I always wondered this. Many piracy sites have Adsense or some sort of ads. Can't Google just fingerprint which Adsense account is being used and find the person getting paid?
I don't disagree with either party here. $12k for 50 million requests is not egregious, but $2.50 per user for something that is probably cheap/free to users is a non starter.

Reddit has failed to adequately monetize their userbase, they've run into the same "politics and porn" issue that every social media platform has, and they've raised way, way too much money.

The worst part? I couldn't tell you the last legitimate ad that I saw on reddit. Facebook shows semi-relevant ads, sometimes location based. Reddit ads are visual flotsam.
"6 months of total darkness" huh? That's news to all of us that have been there.
Sokal did not publish in a peer reviewed journal.
In Reddit's case data scraping is soon to be against the Terms of Service (which is already the case for Twitter), which will earn you a Cease and Desist if you try to make a business off the data.
Hi! Yes, thanks for the clarification! And by "robust frontends" I meant "advanced views," so you're totally right! The goal with Onu is for you to be able to build those advanced views completely in backend code instead of using React. We made this choice so that pure backend engineers wouldn't have to learn React to build internal tools. In fact, I didn't know any react while being an infra eng at lyft! We've heard this from a lot of other backend engineers as well -- they don't want to deal with react components.

To define inputs in Onu, devs use our SDK! This is actually what Airplane does as well (I think they deprecated their yaml config).
Without googling, tradcath sounds like traditional catholic, similar to the term "tradcon" for traditional conservative.
> Finally, to ensure that all regulatory requirements are met in the handling of mature content, we will be limiting access to sexually explicit content for third-party apps starting on July 5, 2023, except for moderation needs.

Reddit really buried "no nsfw outside official reddit apps" (from the end of your first link). Didn't Tumblr do something similar and lose a significant fraction of its userbase and revenues?
Really excited to see if this approach can help reduce hallucinations overall. Process supervision combined with the browsing models could drastically improve how logically sound anything that's generated is. Creating consistently valid logic is the harder part so this is awesome.
FYSA: I had gotten the email and replied.
So it's just like every other cookbook then.
You’re comparing internet communities with real life institutions. You do realize there is a difference between real life and the internet?
27% of Californians are over 55. That means the majority do not get to have the benefit of keeping their tax bill when they move. To compound that, the most dynamic economic growth probably comes from under-55s moving, not over-55s -- new jobs, new opportunities, start a family, etc. Obviously it's good if it's easy for old people to move, but the economic value of a young family being able to move closer to a high paying job is probably many multiples more from a "net good for society" standpoint.

Prop 13 freezes your tax rate when you purchase the property. So the subsidy isn't given only to those who buy before the bill was passed -- it is given to anyone who buys before housing goes up, at any time while the law is in place.

It's extremely common for people to borrow against the equity of their home (even moreso if you are very wealthy). I think the parent is arguing that those who own property are borrowing against the value of their (subsidized) asset. Another thing to consider is that a yearly tax on an asset can significantly affect the valuation of that asset, far in excess of the amount of the tax itself.

Of course there's many reasons for the embarrassing lack of ability to solve the housing problem. Prop 13 is a big reason, certainly one worth looking at when considering solutions to this problem.

It's also just unfair. Most people who are subsidized by prop 13 are subsidized for no reason at all, just market timing. And there's another layer to it, which is that the earlier you have bought, the more you are subsidized. Guess what was more difficult for minorities to do 30 years ago? That introduces an additional dimension of racial unfairness to this. Not to mention, it's a subsidy for the rich (homeowners) paid for by the poor (everyone else).

Prop 13 is an anchor around our neck. It's kind of like that excruciatingly painful disease that causes your bones to fuse together, except for growth and prosperity in the state of California.
Sweden is for sure not the socialist paradise that some think it is. But the Winter in the (relative) South of Sweden are relatively mild and there are always some hours of sun. I live in the North of Sweden (geographically somewhat north of the center) and while the winters are long, there are always some hours of sunlight, often direct sunlight without clouds, reflected by the snow. It's beautiful. The real problem is that the current inflation, recession and increased unemployment, in combination with the previous habit of infinite-time mortgages and policies that favor the non-working elites, are ruining the social contract...
I believe we also have a record in bombings. With that said, the grass is always greener in these articles. You can find both ends of the spectrum in most countries depending on where you live.
There's a fix for that.

Host your own. Then you only have yourself to blame.

>But that's hard/expensive

TANSTAAFL
The cause are the people not the platforms. The same people will move over to "digg version 3" once reddit finishes shooting itself in the foot and you'll add a new name to your list of "problematic" platforms. It's the minds that need changing, not the CSS or the domain name of a website that is effectively lists of URLs and comments.
Impossible for some Americans to get home insurance because of climate crisis
Having spent too much time on Reddit recently, I'm not entirely sure. The comment is hyperbolic, to be sure, but on the other hand the most popular subreddits have gone largely insane. Quite noticeably in the last year. Every subreddit now has a political ideological stance, and some quite overtly threaten your access if you don't toe the line.
> But ORDER BY random() will scan the whole table and assign values.

Er, no, it will assign values to the result set, which may not involve a full table scan.
I also used to work on a lot of side projects, but never shipped any of them. Eventually I decided that shipping was important to me, so I started changing my mindset a bit.

What helped me the most was recognizing that 1) it didn't have to be perfect, 2) most likely no one is going to see what you ship anyway, and 3) you have several attempts to re-ship what you've built.

The biggest thing was just getting over perfectionism. Nowadays, if something is good enough and it works, I'm fine with it. I don't stress if I have a few bugs here and there.

I still encounter feature-creep here and there, but generally if I remind myself to prioritize getting something out the door, I tend to go with "good enough". And again, if I mess something up, I can ship an update, so it's not a huge deal.
Like I said, Java and C# have single binary AOT builds coming down the pipe. Shops could end up gravitating away from Go for this reason.
India is the new Texas.
Born and raised here. It is different (of course no city stays exactly the same over three decades). It feels like it is more concentrated now. Back then, there were a lot more areas in the city (and in the Bay) where one would be a little on guard. A lot of those places have gentrified to the point where they are much nicer than they used to be. But the hotspots have gotten a lot worse. On balance, I think more of the bay area population is safer and has a higher quality of life than in the 90s. But if you are near those hotspots, it seems like things are a lot worse than they use to be. This is probably why this topic is so muddy. It is pretty easy to generate a click bait headline about how bad things are by focusing on those few hotspots, but it is a lot harder to convey the more broad QOL improvements that the average resident is likely experiencing. This also explains why there hasn't been some sort of massive exodus, because most residents are not impacted by these issues.
It's a dexterity game. Think of it like Jenga, even if you know which block to pull out, the tower can still fall if you don't do it cleanly.

At least with this you don't need to rebuild the whole tower!
I think mostly what they do is stop kids breathing carbon particulates.
What we learned from building a ChatGPT plugin prototype
The firmware for the TPM(+a few functions more) chip in Chromebooks is Open Source. There was a presentation on it in 2018 whose slides can be found on https://web.archive.org/web/20211120005203/https://2018.osfc...

You'd have to adapt it to the SoC you're running it on though. Have fun.
About ASCII art and Jgs font
A lot of subreddits blanket ban you if you've posted in other subreddits that the mods don't like.
I think peer review exists for reasons beyond building or affirming the reputation of a scholar. In particular, it’s regarded as a filter for eliminating the very worst-quality research. And judging from the manuscripts that came across my desk when I was still in academia, I’d say it’s performing this particular duty reasonably well. As such, the connection between AI fakery and peer-review isn’t all that clear cut to me.

I might expect the peer-review pipeline to become inundated with prima facie credible manuscripts, which would overwhelm the reviewer’s ability to process publications even more than is already the case. At this point, I’d expect scholarly reputation to become even more important for getting published, and I’d expect to see an increase in signaling and other out-of-band communications (e.g. talking about your draft at a conference). Critically, I’d expect this to generally avoid AI generated “studies”, despite the obvious drawbacks.

And moreover, I actually have serious reservations about the project of purging the scientific landscape of informal processes. While there are some obvious and notorious drawbacks to the way things currently work, I am also wary of top-down, “authoritarian high-modernist” (to borrow the turn of phrase from James C. Scott’s Seeing Like a State) projects in all their forms, especially in science. The production of scientific knowledge is not pure technae; it cannot be reduced to a well-behaved formula. A large part of it is a craft requiring a significant share of informal processes in order to be truly creative. But that is a separate topic, and indeed, one might argue that doing away with formal peer-review altogether would be a step in the direction of informality.

So at the end of the day, I’m not convinced by any predictions that relate the effects of AI on peer-review. I think it could go either way :)
This is what I referred to as Claude: https://poe.com/Claude-instant

And this is Claude+: https://poe.com/Claude%2B
This means the end of a lot of my reddit use. Sure, I'll use it on my computer in a browser, but no more on my phone. This is probably a good thing, but I have gotten a lot of enjoyment out of some communities. And I pay for Apollo premium and just reupped. The app is a complete joy to use. The app developer is first rate. For how complex the app is, it is both easy to use and surprisingly bug free. (I know there are bugs, from the release notes for new versions, but I've never seen one.)
You've unfortunately been breaking the site guidelines repeatedly and badly. This comment here was the most egregious of the ones I saw - we ban accounts that do personal attacks like this. But you've been breaking them in many other places too. That's not ok if you want to keep posting here.

Would you please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here from now on? We'd appreciate it.
With a reasonable amount of muscle mass, you don't need to reach as low of a body fat percentage to look fit. With regard to your original comment, yes there are millions of people who remain fit, lean, and without a "belly", as you put it, in older age.
It's not "their" data in the same way that last mile network access isn't "their" (telco's) pipes.

If value in a platform comes from third parties choosing to use the service, and those third parties are free to use alternatives, then platforms should be very careful about how greedy they get in exploiting their users.

Most of the platform value actually comes from future, continued use.
> The idea that this is bought solely as waste and the market is made up of people picking over things in a landfill simply isn't correct.

I'm sorry, you are correct. I got wrapped up in the metaphor and forgot the point.

I think we fundamentally agree. At the core we have commodities whose market value is driven aggressively below the cost to bring it back into the market. The forces causing this are legion and (unfortunately) economically rational in broad strokes. The "disposal" acts like a subsidy that inflates the market value enough to bring those costs back into profitability, or at least cover the final disposal cost. Take everything above to its logical conclusion, the customer pays for disposing unsold inventory via margins and the citizen pays to donate via taxes. Even this price is pushed down by corruption at the expense of people in Africa and fuels all the behavior above.

In all of our defenses, we're here deep in the weeds on HN precisely because this outcome is madness!
Would I see this in cities outside of the United States? Everywhere is not just Memphis Baltimore and Chicago....
If people have saved chats maybe we could all just re-ask the same queries, and see if there are any subtle differences? And then post them online for proof/comparison.
Great writeup, this helps us understand where to spend our time vs what OpenAI's progress will solve.
The Tenderloin in SF was a worst in class skid row area pre-pandemic; post-pandemic it is a full blown open air drug market zone, ala Hamsterdam from The Wire.
"DID" stands for "dissociative identity disorder".
It goes up to 4 fingers, and the last one is 3 fingers again but basically impossible without switching fingers. Edit: nvm its possible without cheating
She lives in Malmö in southern Sweden. Some years they don't even get any meteorological winter at all (5 consecutive days with an average temperature below 0°C). Scandinavia does not have brutal winters thanks to the gulf stream, and the polar night (which is not total darkness) is a few weeks in the sparsely populated area north of the arctic circle.
Building a video game company, depression (talk with Talin/David Joiner)
Personally, Facebook/Instagram show me really good ads, while Reddit-ads are always a complete miss.
> Reddit seems to want NSFW content gone altogether.

Between this and trying to crowd out third party clients, one has to wonder if they're trying to position themselves to become the next Digg.
well the problem with mobile apps is the alternatives are free. It's a bad business and why I didn't take my passion for mobile apps as a career.
I'm hung up on the idea that challenges keeping a log list updated disqualify CT, thus motivating deployment of DNSSEC, a protocol so dependent on a clean connection to the Internet that its deployment in browsers on modern operating systems was derailed.

I acknowledge that embedded systems are a difficult place to do the policy-driven cryptographic security that we're talking about when we talk about the WebPKI and DANE. They're difficult for all sorts of reasons and they're difficult for all of software security, not just this. But they're pretty clearly also not a motivation for the deployment of DNSSEC; in fact, they're a sort of worst case for DNSSEC.

That's what this whole long subthread is about. It wasn't a strong argument. The thread has mostly been attempts to lay out why it isn't, without any interesting evidence for DNSSEC's suitability being presented.
New macOS Vulnerability, Migraine, Could Bypass System Integrity Protection
I suspect that a fraction of users would convert and many others would trash the developer/app for the switch to subscription. Users of free apps like this have a seriously warped view of software costs.

It seems like Reddit is pushing these changes because that's exactly what they want to happen. They want all users to be using the free first-party Reddit app.
Reddits mobile app, and website are one of the worst UX experiences I've encountered on a UGC site. Terribly bad. I they should be working with people who can make products people want to use to consume their content, not killing them off with absurd pricing.
Maybe one day computers will be fast enough for a `gcc -O4`

-O4
Extreme optimization. GCC uses AI and quantum
computation to warp space-time and invent
entirely new paradigms to make your programs 2% faster.
Warning: May destroy your current universe.
Unequivocally; yes, this is harmful. You are not a doctor, and should not be giving medical advice.

Neither am I but you certainly have not known or worked with people who have done this kind of lifestyle transition.

That level of calorie deficit requires medical supervision because the potential complications are life threatening. They don't say 'less', its 500-1000 calories.

Your kidneys, liver enzymes, and a number of other factors must be healthy before this can even be considered, and you must be using a nutritionally complete supplement each day for shakes and drinking a lot of water while also taking anti-gallstone medication. They run blood tests weekly to confirm this for as long as you are in the program. I've people who I've worked with who did this.

Some people develop gallstones on these low calorie diets, it gets stuck blocking the duct, requires surgery to correct. You can potentially die.

You can have a gallstone attack and other complications if you can't slowly ween yourself off the supervisory diet. Suddenly transitioning from no food to 3,000 calories in a hunger haze can cause your organs to shut down.

Ask a doctor, they'll tell you and set you right.
It's one thing to communicate an unpopular idea in a civil manner. It's quite another to be offensive. Now, I will admit there are some people out there that cannot separate their feelings for an idea, and their feelings for the person communicating it. I can't really help that person.

What I have noticed is those who express your sentiment are often looking for license to be uncivil and offensive first, and their 'ideas' are merely a tool you use to do that. That I judge. I think that's mostly what others judge too.