skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Allowing people the choice of whether they are the product or not. "Subscribe for no ads" seems like a good middle path alternative to selling ads without demanding a whole new architecture and operational model for federated solutions.

The main problem with social media as it exists today is not advertising (as much as I despise advertising), but the toxic, addictive, engagement-at-all-costs nature of how the information is presented.

I agree with you that most people don't care about their data ownership/privacy to the point that they'll host their own instances. And if they don't do that, then they are beholden to whatever "algorithms" the centralized players want to use to ensure high levels of engagement that keep people on the site/app, and coming back to the site/app.
That's highly dependent on circumstance, and not usually the case. How many remote 0-days were patched in Linux recently? How many local privilege escalations? How many of those subsystems can already be totally removed for a known workload? At the pointy end, you can be more bleeding edge compiling your own vs. waiting for distro releases. In the "I care enough to break from the crowd and own my own infrastructure" class of situation, this is not unheard of.
The difference is that the non.io model rewards more for upvotes from people who have a high bar for upvoting and upvote rarely.
There’s a continuum between “hypothetically there is competition but the competition almost never wins” (Japan, at one time I would have said Mexico), “politics is a cruel simulation of democracy which is manipulated so you know the competition never wins” (Singapore, but most of the world’s leaders are jealous) and “It isn’t even fair to call that a political party in the electoral sense” (China).

Contrast that to the U.S. where a party has only held the presidency for at most three terms since 1948 and that just once and where there is usually divided government, as much as Democrats and Republicans can claim the other side wins all the time, no party is so perpetually out of power that it can evade all blame for the way things are. Looking at Europe and sideways at the U.S. it seems almost like center left parties are doomed to be in some quantum superposition of Tony Blair and Jeremy Corbin. By simply framing themselves as the surviving defenders of the welfare state, the far right wins.
Seems like if you want to argue that LLMs have an intrinsic failure mode you should find an example using the best model available, not the 4th best.
I mean, if you value popularity more than any sort of intrinsic quality of your tools then, yeah, sure, it's a "no-brainer". But that rather strikes me as a "no-brainer" way of making decisions.
I’m not claiming the intent was ever to discourage women, I’m only trying to help you understand that is still what happened despite no ill intent. You’re right that the cropped Lena image used in vision papers is no longer porn after cropping, and there’s no nudity. But it is still suggestive (you can tell she’s posing and not wearing a top), and the image comes with a story, and it comes with internet links to the uncropped nude.

The problem with the Lena image is not just or even primarily the image itself, it’s as much about where the image came from and what it represents. The source is Playboy, which as you well know, published nude women for the purpose of men’s entertainment. Insisting that nothing at all is wrong with the cropped image just because you can’t see breasts normalizes the behavior, it tells people you’re okay with the men’s entertainment part and they should be too, provided we crop the nudity. This isn’t about people being offended by nudity, or about being wildly inappropriate, this is about subtle social attitudes that aren’t conducive to men and women working together on science. It’s about being just a little inappropriate, but enough that we now recognize it’s not really 100% okay, and it reflects poorly on the field of computer graphics if we can’t adapt.

I do appreciate your reasonable tone BTW, I’m happy to continue discussing if we’re having a productive talk. I’m not trying to shame anyone either, or to discount the history of CG, I just happened to know more about the Lena saga, because I’ve read a lot about it over the years, and I believe the women who’ve mentioned use of Lena is now cringey, and I agree with the reasons for journals discontinuing it’s use. I don’t agree with the cynical view that the movement to stop using Lena is either Puritanism like one comment here said, nor just silly political correctness in a pejorative sense.

There’s a legitimate concern about using Playboy-sourced images regardless of crop, and there’s a legitimate concern about the attitude that if you don’t want Playboy-sourced images that mostly crop out the nudity, then it means you’re being a religious nut or a left-wing radical. The problem is relatively minor, but real. So let’s just move on from Lena and get back to talking about computer vision and other cool graphics!
What you've described is essentially China, so no I can't agree with you. I can't imagine ever wanting to live in that world, but if you do it's never been cheaper to fly across the world.
> Bay Area - people are nice, streets are clean and police do their job

I don't know about NYC, but the Bay Area doesn't fulfill those anymore. The number of people on the street. Trash. Crime. It's getting wild out there. I live in a very safe community and a 70 year old woman was beat up for a few dollars last week a few blocks from my house (and 1 block from the police department!).
The good faith argument is that the people who are predating on the poor, beleaguered genius inventor would be unable to avail themselves of a low-cost-for-the-challenger-high-cost-for-the-inventor mechanism for challenging patents.

What makes it bad faith is that the reason the mechanism exists is because the predators in the patent system are the inventors, not the challengers.
Originally you asked "that you think have improved things".

And then someone gave a valid response.

And then you responded to this response by saying "Twitter as a private entity does not have to just say, "Welp, it's legal" to anything that happens on their site."

This response is a non sequitur.

Nobody in this thread said that twitter is forced to do anything. Instead, the original claim is that this was an improvement.

And yes, twitter is allowed to make this change where they censor less things.
I have no context on this but it doesn't make sense to me.

Why would the "hentai/alternate" board be targeting you? Even "insulting" you, rather than the norm of posting hentai?
> The idea of posters getting real money instead of fake internet points when their posts do well seems interesting, but maybe an unintentional experiment in unintended consequences.

I foresee some company suing because their content is being monetised by other people.
And workers get you isolation, no shared memory. You must explicitly pass data ownership from one thread to the next. (And I consider all of that a good thing.)
I live in DC, the haze from the smoke was crazy a few days ago.
I didn't hate it, even though it played out more like a REAMDE type thriller than some of his earlier stuff (Anathem, Baroque, etc). I liked Seveneves, though.
If your source is tiktok or a 360p video, then the story is probably made up
I think for a lot of people stating their pronouns is seen as an act of solidarity with people who use pronouns other than those they were assigned at birth. I think there is a possibility that for Mr Sharf, being asked to state his pronouns too felt for him like he was being asked to show solidarity with a way of thinking that opposed his religious beliefs.
Just wait until you get messages of "in-app purchases" and advertisements and they keep following you around.

Then the real world will feel like paradise.
For the dead, either good or nothing. So I'll say nothing.
Even if not all bits can be error corrected successfully, surely there's enough correct bits remaining to recover some secrets.

A 512-byte sector with 100 bytes stuck is "unreadable", but I wouldn't want my secrets to be read out in some raw mode from the 412 good bytes.
Must our entire species (and countless others) all die together because degrowth is unfair? Those are the only two scientific options at hand.
Can you share any?
> non racist version of 'Mein Kampf'

Peter Singer?
When I try to think of a real world village analogue of 4chan, the only thing that fits is hazing. To people who participate in hazing, it builds character and brings people together. To everyone else, hazing is horrifying as it has led to enough suicides over the years.
You are absolutely bang on with this assessment. I wish I could poke some hole in it but I completely agree.

> They use Canada as an engineering maquiladora for cheap and directly subsidized labour.

This is the absolute best description of Canada I’ve come across. Sad, but 100% accurate.
Yeah, I left after one friend in NYC was attacked on the subway and another beaten in broad daylight in Wallstreet after leaving his office.

Sad that even in my prior neighborhood (los altos) there are carjackings and armed home invasions now... Impossible to imagine in 2015 while I was there :(
The USA is good for making money and being safe from foreign invasion.

Otherwise a lot has been going downhill and there is too much patriotic pride to admit or change it. But it's multiple issues, hyper-capitalism, lobbyists, no form of conflict of interest rules for politicians or anyone working for them, multiple news channels supporting "2 views", but all on the same page of ignoring the class warfare.

I've talked to lots of people from other countries as I meet a lot of people and talk to many and most see us as going downhill or having poor worker rights and no social safety net (healthcare).

Someone from China told me their parents think Americans work too much. Another person from Eastern Europe things we are in the toilet, etc. Other people from South America saying how they would pick Canada over the US any day. I just laugh when I hear it, because I feel we are too blind to see it.

School shooting solutions are all about guns instead of the real issue, mental health.

Politicians that want people limited on what they can earn with SS (keeping elderly people poor), when they get very good retirement benefits. Politicians dodging taxes or making sure the IRS is ill staffed, when its proven more IRS helps get the bungled dollars from Big Companies and Pockets that are cheating the system.
Should be the homepage.
absolute crapton of memory, several times what you actually need

Err, you mean every rack-mount system since around 2000s? Seriously, the commissioning overhead for virtually anything exceeds the "max out the ram" tax. Unless you're a cloud provider commissioning autonomously and operating at excessive scale seeking some particular unit cost optimization ... and even then not maxing out RAM (to some current definition of effective price:performance maxima) would be odd.
Asking it to include the most significant changes isn't unrealistic, but to include "all" the DLC is.

It wouldn't even really make sense, for example the Snowfall DLC only had permanently snowy maps, no snow was added to existing maps or maps from other DLC. CS2 will have dynamic seasons and climate. So asking for the Snowfall DLC in CS2 is asking for a feature regression.
Maybe? I don' t know. The reason I don't use Apple machines is primarily because I find them a pain in the butt to use.

(Also, MacOS is really BSD, isn't it? So there's not a million miles between that and Linux, security-wise.)
I don't think he does, because his religious beliefs are accommodated: as a Catholic who believes God created him as male, he can select "he/him." The pronouns he uses were listed there for him to pick. The form didn't ask him to elaborate; he chose to. He was protesting the existence of the question because it gave other people an option he personally chose not to exercise - protesting that option is like protesting having pork as one of several options for team lunch, vs. just choosing not to have the pork.
I stopped using 4chan 15 years ago when I realized that a huge portion of the people on there are not merely roleplaying nazis, but honestly hold the views they obscure behind the atmosphere of joking.

Up to date knowledge of their internal jargon and shibboleths doesn't discredit my view of the site, it's still right there and it doesn't take long to confirm that my worst opinions of it from 2008 are still valid now.

I never claimed that the site itself has opinions or goals. But its members do! and they emerge in the patterns of interaction and rhetoric eg its culture.
I share this complaint with nearly every podcast site. We all know the episode is just an MP3, but sites generally refuse to have a clear download link, and often just push you onto pointless sites like Apple Podcasts or Spotify. As someone who uses a very locked down browser, podcasts should be one of the most easily accessible forms of media and yet they all seem to go to a lot of trouble to hide the actual files from users.
But we will, and rather soon, because everyone who still has a physical or digital copy will be thinking the same thing you said - "oh, it's been printed in so many copies that there won't be a problem for you to find one" - as they shred their hard drive or throw the paper book into the fireplace.

Just ask a random librarian or archivist how easy it is to find copies of local newspapers from 20+ years ago. Hint: often it's not possible, as the last library trashed its microfiche, in a mistaken belief that someone else surely digitized it already.
Montreal has so much character, quebec in general really. It reminds me of the city you'd get if you combined boston, bits of manhattan and amsterdam.
It would be great if Reddit served static pages of old topics separately from the main site. Topics more than a few years old are unlikely to change in any substantial way, so why not have them conveniently available as a static page easily viewable and parsable for future purposes.
Nope, OpenCore and most drivers are open source on GitHub
Looks like the email address on your keybase page is unreachable?
The Mac is a "real computer" because it can be used to create new types of software and platforms, such as the Vision Pro.

iPad is not because it cannot be used to create the Vision Pro. It may still have advantages where it's better for some uses cases, but it still doesn't make it a general purpose computing device in the same way that a TV is better for watching videos than a Macbook, but a TV is not a "real computer".
It reads to me like:

> "[your subscription fee over my $1 take] gets split evenly between everything you upvote that month."

So if I subscribe and pay $2/month, there's $1/month from me for that, so if I upvote ten things they each get $0.03 from me and if I upvote a ten things a day that's three hundred in a month, they each get $0.0033 from me.

I'm not clear if that covers comments or only top level submissions / posts, but if I comment and get upvoted ten times in a month, presumably I get some money from the upvoters, like $0.03. There are times I've spent well over an hour writing programming comments on Reddit, testing code or trying to explain a concept, things that could have been a blog post. Getting nothing for it is fine, that was the deal. Getting $0.03 for it is more like tipping a waitress a penny, I think. Getting $10 would need into the thousands of votes (which rarely happens on Reddit comments by comparison) and still wouldn't pay for my time wtiting it by minimum wage.
The main problems as I perceive it:
- unreadable generated code (aka, hard to debug in the browser)
- not very accessible (complex docs, unclear what it is or how to use it)
I updated the OpenSUSE wiki page too.
I had problems with their 2FA where the code would come via SMS but be rejected. I was able to recover via email but it was distressing. Do they have OTP service now?
> Reddit is a large community where many users are anonymous

...to you. Not to reddit themselves in virtually all cases. Maybe 1% browses through seven proxies but if the 99% is okay with "public anonymity", it'll work for the masses so long as you don't show everyone's payment details on their profile pages.

(Whether excluding this particular 1% desirable, is a different question.)
And yet, today Firefox has single-digit-percent market share, and the dominant player is in some ways worse than Microsoft was. MS seemed to want to make the web stagnate, while Google wants to turn the web into (more of) a privacy-free, advertising machine, and has been steering web standards in that direction.

Google allows Firefox to exist (by funding Mozilla via Firefox's default search engine) only so they can point to the fact that there are alternatives, with alternative rendering engines.

It is unclear if Mastodon will actually replace Twitter. I'm skeptical. I think Twitter would have to actually fail (as in, go bankrupt, or at least have such severe technical uptime/stability issues) before the platform would be abandoned enough to definitively say Mastodon won.

ExpertsExchange -> SO mainly happened because all the decent answers on EE were hidden behind a paywall.
I will support any platform to replace reddit that is 1) completely open source, 2) community driven, 3) moderators are held accountable by the communities they govern, and 4) not ad supported.

Social bookmarking is something the internet should have as part of it's infrastructure.

Unfortunately the fediverse face-planted in it's time to shine. The infra is the hard part and that all has to be controlled by the same org.
IMO, I certainly think it is the goal, I think they are trying to invent a projected revenue stream, increasing ad track through 1st party views, and layoffs are all about looking more valuable for IPO.

None of it seems to increase value to current users, invite new users, or actually grow the business.
There's a real time experiment happening right now on 4chan. What happens when echo chambers meet and cant censor each other. Left and right are clashing and they cant ignore one another or run away. They're having to talk to each other for the first time in years probably. This is what the internet was like before the siloed communities of social media platforms and their harsh censorship and moderation.
Wow.

Imagine showing the 2021 author the November 2022 double whammy (namely FTX and Stable Diffusion). NFT value is toast and the NFT art economy is obsolete, just like that.
HIPAA requires "reasonable" measures. Hilariously, you can't chuck a drive full of plain text PII into a dumpster in the back of your building...

...unless there's a fence around it.

A lot of the nonsense around shredding hard drives is just the drive industry convincing people that they need to destroy perfectly good devices.

Unless you're facing state-level actors a simple zero-out or pipe from /dev/random will suffice. Or with a lot of modern drives where the data on the platter is encrypted by default, just send the "secure erase" command, causing the drive to roll over the controller's private key.
There's a difference between trust and blindly trusting.
It’s hilarious that the prosecutor’s name there was Binger.

MICROSOFT!
In Chinese media it is common to make fun of how foreigners look and how they speak Chinese. The Chinese don’t see such poking fun as a problem, nor do a great many other peoples on earth. Parts of Western culture, like yourself feeling such things interrupted the flow of the Dahl book, are the odd ones out here, and one might ask oneself if it has to be this way. Of course, I agree that there are powerful corporate motivations to avoid anything that might turn off potential consumers.
It escapes them but it shouldn't.
I suspect it’s very likely that somewhere in the world is a domain-validation server, used by a trusted CA, which has this very anti-advertising hosts file installed onto it.
The irony being that if the public domain had actually been 28 years as it was originally legislated back in the 18th century in the United States, this kind of change wouldn't be controversial. People would be likely used to maintaining cultural media to keep it both relevant and free of changing taboos. And it would likely be decentralized enough that there wouldn't be any single Authorized Version except that which the original author published.
I do and I don't. I miss the excitement, I miss the feeling of finding something new that's precious. You only had so much time on the phone in those days, even if you were sticking to your free dialing area.

I also got exposed to a lot of stuff at a young age partially enabled by BBSes, and I wonder how it affected the adult I am today. I was in a LOT of precarious situations far outside what might be considered appropriate free range parenting.

Anyway, agree man, I miss BBSes!
Not buying this argument. This should be illegal and not excused with "choose a different platform". That's all there is to it.
Literally stated in the response that this was meant as a way to approach things other than smoking and stated that i havent smoked in over ten years but kudos to you for the one upmanship. Once the reddit strike is over take this kind of posting back over there.
> I think the disconnect is in the type of creation, the higher-end production quality you want, rarer iOS devices are. And the corollary is, if you only care about the highest-end of creation, they essentially become invisible.

For producing stuff for computers or for industrial design (e.g. CAD or architectural drafting), yes. In other areas, tablets and phones are ubiquitous tools, and if they vanished tomorrow they wouldn't be replaced with e.g. laptops—they'd be replaced with paper, with various single-purpose devices, et c.
You have to purchase (rumored to be expensive) magnetic clip-in prescription lenses, or use contacts. The device is too close to your face to fit glasses
Good points. Though I think the dynamics by which DEI dos and donts propagate should probably be explained better, because apparently they do invite the image of some shadowy committee.

I suppose groupthink is a more likely explanation though.
The difference between previous spillovers like SARS1 and MERS was these viruses rapidly mutated as they adapted towards humans allowing for the identification of the intermediate species within months. SARS2 on the other hand was already pre-adapted towards humans, had almost no adaptive mutations and no intermediate host has been found. And guess what when a virus crosses into humans the virus does not suddenly go extinct in the intermediate species, it continues to circulate, for example we still to this day find camels infected with MERS. But SARS2 we just can't seem to find this progenitor virus circulating.. . . very strange isn't it?
Speech-to-text, text-to-speech, and more for 1,100 languages
This is what the Airpods look like to me:

https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-37306404
Relative to what? It currently has ~1.2M monthly active users, or less than 0.5% of Twitter. It's probably 20x the active user base of IRC.
> it appears to have no underlying concept of logic, physics, society, etc.

Sure. ChatGPT is quite limited and gives incorrect and contradictory responses at times. And most importantly (imo) it is unable to update an interpretable knowledge base as real life facts change. But the fact that a particular instance of LLM has this unwanted behavior is not categorical evidence that all LLMs will show the behavior. GPT2 is pretty pathetic compared to GPT3, and ChatGPT is even more impressive. I’m agnostic as to whether statistical language models can ever overcome their current limitations, but given previous emergent behavior I wouldn’t rule it out.

GPT4’s context window is something like 32k tokens. Someday that may be orders of magnitude larger, and it may be possible to fit an up to date copy of all of Wikipedia inside (or a condensed version), as well as the current conversation. It might seem crazy but it’s foreseeable.