skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I downloaded Tinder right after I got single, back in 2015? It was glorious. It really did feel fun and exciting - I'm by no means a model-looking dude, but I got hundreds of matches in a fairly small place (think city with population of 50k), and people just felt more genuine and interested on the various apps back then.

Next time around I tried Tinder et. al. was a couple of years later(2018/2019), and I immediately noticed less matches, less convos, and the app being more pushy.

I recently, as in this year, tried some of the apps again...it's a total shit show, to be honest.

I've never tried any apps that applied so many dark patterns. It all feels like one big funnel where the goal is to extract money off you through gold memberships, boosting, extra swipes, and what not. I noticed "fake" notices, spammy notices, just a constant barrage of notices and messages NOT from actual people.

After a couple of days I concluded that most (all?) of these dating apps are pay-to-play. You start off with some initial amount of matches, which drop off sharply - then nothing. I asked a friend in the same room if she could see me on Tinder, but no dice, I didn't even show up on her feed - though she came up on mine.

These apps used to be easy and fun - now they just feel like the most pushy and parasitic apps out there.
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Do you read comments differently depending on which username posts them? I usually don't. That's the kind of personal I mean.
I think the standouts are generally people who are highly liked/rated. Id see a lot of people there before & after I saw them in my normal feed. Roses just give an escape hatch for pay to play but they’ll show up in your feed normally if the recommendation system thinks so.
I think these people are all around us and we just don't always recognize it.

I have a friend who, in his youth, decided one day that he was going to be left handed because a teacher he admired was left handed and he wanted to be like them. He is genuinely left handed now. I'd heard of the opposite - often with severe treatment - with asian parents, but never that.

On that note, I had a left handed teacher who could write sentences in kanji in full mirror mode two handed (both swapping left and right and double-swapping left-right/up-down). His parents had beaten him and taped down his disobedient left hand.

I can read at full speed upside down. It makes absolutely no difference. It's a good party trick, and one had a practical purpose where someone was presenting an offer letter to me which had all the wrong values, which I knew because it was on the desk in front of them and I simply read it, so I pre-empted them and told them to go get a new letter made, much to their confusion.

If you've ever known someone who was an expert non-digital artist, yes, it is true that they do typically practice a ton to hone their skills, but the ability to simply capture an object, person, animal or scene at a glance is uncanny.

I know someone who has that skill, but for politics. They look at the situation and see exactly the players, the motives, etc. As far as I can tell, their entire career is based on this. A weird talent I've never heard anyone else describe.
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Creator Economy 2.0: What we’ve learned, why it’s hard, and what’s next
Long weekends in NY aren’t that uncommon from the UK
did you read the description?
If you have customers familiar with your domain, annual domain renewal is an extremely negligible cost to your business.
AI will only replace the work of creatives who have already turned themselves into AIs long ago.

There are plenty of writers and illustrators out there who have trained themselves to churn out reproducible garbage over the years in order to fulfill the demands of content marketing. These jobs will be replaced by AI soon, but by creating content from a formula they've already be using a crude form of AI.

I really love Stable Diffusion, but, as a means of creating art (including the most common forms of popular art), it can only supplement existing work not replace it. I pay for plenty of real art in my home and the best works on my walls could never be replicated by an AI because what makes them beautiful is precisely the human touches that I have yet to see AI generate (and suspect it can't). Latent Diffusion Models also have a pretty poor imagination.

At the same time Stable Diffusion has gotten me thinking about creative projects I could undertake that would have been impossible years ago. But it's obvious that all of these projects will take plenty of work to create, and SD will ultimately just be another tool in the creative process.

I vividly remember when photoshop started to gain major acceptance and there was a similar anti-photoshop sentiment among "real" designers and artists. What's funny is how many webcomic authors I see critiquing AI art, when I remember quite well pen and ink comic artist similarly scoffing at web artists that used digital tools to create their work.

Hopefully we'll see SD and similar tools accepted as more tools to create cool art, rather than a misplaced focus of peoples career anxiety.
It's been quite effective. After a few months off Twitter, I only really go back for a peek at the schadenfreude every week or so, and only for a few minutes.
>The difference between SD 1.5/2.0 and SDXL is massive,

Can you explain?

I havent used SDXL yet, but I spent a ton of time in 1.5.

So far I gathered:

>Higher res

>higher 'quality'

But given I was using realistic vision 3 for so long, I never had a quality issue. With upscaling, I never needed higher res.
How would someone go about registering domains on their own? Why do I have to go through like GoDaddy where every year it seems to exponentially increase in price? Does anybody have information on how to cut out the middleman?
Last time I was at a stadium (4 months ago), it seemed to work pretty ok. I suspect that it's setup and maintained by a mobile carrier rather than whoever does IT for hotels is helpful. Most stadiums have a lot of days with minimal activity where you can do an intensive install and tweak session, but hotels are hard to take out of service, so kind of works is good enough.
Potentially. Last I tried to boot Windows was a Windows 10 which could deal with this, it just disabled some functionalities relying in the TPM (aka. Windows Hello(?)). It might be that Windows 11 will not like it that much.

Then again, if you want to control what runs on your system, you probably don't run Windows in the first place.

Also if you want to stop Windows from booting, it's much more reliable to change the Secure Boot keys (and of course not adding the Microsoft keys afterwards). Then your system is guaranteed Windows free.
> How is this anything but rent seeking on the part of Verisign?

While I generally agree with you --this smells like potential rent-seeking--, in order to be able to conclusively label it as such we have to know about the real cost structure that drives a company like Verisign. All of that information is here:

https://investor.verisign.com/financial-information/annual-r...

I wish I had the time to dive into this. I just don't. I generally try to avoid making assertions without having done some work in support of them. That's why I can't reach this conclusion --I can suspect it to be true though.

As a reminder, "rent" in "rent seeking" isn't the colloquial "rent", as in what you pay to rent a car or a house. Economic rent, as a term of trade, is related to financial gains obtained without increases in productivity. As such it has been "fuzzified" to make it apply to all kinds of things that have nothing whatsoever to do with economic rent-seeking. As an example of real rent-seeking, an article in Forbes describes how writing an essay in college to obtain a grant (and maybe even admission or tuition discounts) is classic rent-seeking. Same with a company lobbying government for subsidies --they didn't make their process or product better in exchange for the financial gain.

In other words, the question here is squarely centered around the real cost structure at Verisign. Frankly, I don't know everything they do and how much it costs to support the TLD's they administer. I still remember when domains were free --as a fool, I didn't register a pile of them back then.

It sure feels like rent-seeking. That doesn't mean it is. Without the proper analysis of their accounting this characterization might not be correct. In other words, it might be quite possible that they can fully justify the increase in rates due to increases in costs.

Not to go too far, wages have gone up across the board (in numerical, not real terms) and inflation has made everything more expensive. Power, taxes, food, transportation, labor, etc. Every single business has had their cost structure increase, in some cases dramatically so. Given this framework, I'd be cautious about ascribing nefarious intent to any business increasing their pricing.

Put a different way: A rent-seeking claim needs to include a "Minimum Viable Financial Analysis" in support of this conclusion. Prices going up isn't enough evidence of this at all. Not liking price increases is no evidence at all.
I saw something like this for suicide. Dark, and fairly graphic. All the possible ways you might want to kill yourself, complete with descriptions of how it usually goes wrong and you'll just be maimed for life instead. The intent was clearly to convince people not to do it.
I think I have commented critically on this issue.

I hate emotionally manipulative stories like this - it seems plain that they are nothing but propaganda. We are meant to read this and feel that even this small number of cattle are causing irreparable damage to some area - but the place looks fine to me. And then I found out at the end of the article that indeed there is an agenda in play.

If someone is trying to sell me on this or that idea, and are using emotional manipulation to do it, is it not fair to call this out? Even if it is well meaning and for what the "journalist" perceives to be the 'greater good'?
GDPR does not force those (In fact most of them are illegal according to GDPR).
Every site could avoid those banners by just not tracking visitors.
It took about 3 clicks of a play button to find a fem voiced person lacking a romantic / sexual connection with someone, and I have to imagine even with the best of intentions, at scale, this becomes "lead gen for cam folx".

What are the plans to prevent the "adult industry-ification" of an otherwise pretty interesting project?
"This has nothing to do with the model's poor understanding of natural language, and will not change until we have something that could reasonably pass for AGI, and likely not even then. Your text prompts simply don't have enough semantic capacity."

I don't think it's going to take AGI to get to this point. It's 'just' going to take a top-tier model adding robust multi-modal input imho. A detailed prompt plus a bunch of examples of the style you're looking for seems like it would be enough.

That's not to say it isn't really hard, but it doesn't seem like it requires fundamental innovations to do this. The building blocks that are needed already exist.
Can I say something stupid but maybe true: Do you want to be on a domain registrar for whom registration is a loss-leader or their core business?

Like, I like cheaper too, but even just in the last few years I can think of a few "loss-leader" registrars who decided they no longer wanted that division operating at a loss and scrapped it. Google Domains being the most popular example[0], but Gandi[1] is another where they operated at a loss then got acquired with huge price increases.

Disclosure: I'm on NameCheap and AWS's Route53.

I've seen way too many NameCheap alternatives come & go or turn "evil." If NameCheap starts being sketchy or misleading, I'll move, but that hasn't happened yet. I want a rock solid registrar for tens of years, with a business strategy that supports that, rather than saving $4/year.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Domains

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gandi#History
This is a bit paranoid - if no one found good matches through these services, no one would ever use them. It definitely sucks if you are on the losing end of the dating spectrum, but some of those people seem to have some sort of belief that they are entitled to dates, when they aren't. If you weren't getting action in real life, I don't think it's likely that people are going to be more desirous of you online. I've used these services and have had plenty of matches and luck, without ever needing to pay for it, with some of the matches working out for years(I don't blame the dating apps that we didn't get married), so I can't really agree with your perspective at all.
Given that children are our future, making sure all of them get a good healthy nutritious lunch behoovs us all. Even the not destitute, and not wealthy ones. If we have to have fewer stealth bombers and aircraft carriers to pay for that, then so be it. But of course trading one for another in order to be able to afford it makes sense if you think of the whole of the US economy as a one househole, with no control over monetary policy like the interest rate. Except it isn't. Look at how willingly spending is increased on military projects, and not the projects themselves. If we wanted to have the money to pay for it, we could.

It's just this idea that someone undeserving might get something for free. This makes sense for adults, but children, for whom we have laws preventing them from having jobs, can't have jobs.

Don't buy into the idea we don't have the money to pay for it, we do. Monetary policy allows us to create money out of thin air. If we treated this like the emergency it is, we could afford it. We don't do it for other reasons, but it's not a money thing.
I use Cloudflare, they rent their domains at cost, and provide privacy by default.
> and slightly fewer people are designing entire websites in Photoshop & Illustrator alone

Across the wide industry, sure, but I haven't worked with a designer who uses Photoshop in 10 years...

Granted, I'm in my own bubble, but over a varity of gigs it's been Sketch, and now universally figma.
Don't participate in it. Who is forcing you to become a crypto bro? Tech is a double edged sword. It can be wielded either for good or bad. You have the choice to make a positive impact and not treat tech like a grift at every opportunity. Tech is not only about money. In-fact money corrupts tech, like it corrupts everything. It becomes about quantity of output instead of quality.
If people choose their own names, that would make more sense, syndicatedjelly.

My first name was a common baby name when I was born, and as far as I can tell has no connection with my family history or anything else. Probably my parents just liked the sound of it.
I wonder why these Algorithms need to be opaque? If everyone knew the rules, it would be a level playing ground.

Instead it allows the people who have all day/financial incentives to learn the rules.
Oh so google DOESN'T have a surveillance apparatus embedded in nearly every website that exists that by design sends them as much data as possible even on third party sites?

Or did you forget about Analytics.
is it a shared belief that the rich should contribute to society through taxation, and regulatory agencies that try to protect consumers?

no it must be <culture war issue>
The article describes efforts at the University of Calgary to refrigerate affected materials to buy time for their copying/digitizing.
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because parts of code these days is written in languages like java, python, etc which means at least some software runs slower.

add to that that people think that because machines are faster they don’t need to optimize anything.
It's probably ok if assholes get something they don't "deserve" as long as deserving people are helped. It's only the ratio that matters not the absolute waste.
While I'd like to look it left me on a blank page for ~2 seconds before redirecting to the actual app, it needs to be much faster as user engagement drops off almost instantly
> If everyone knew the rules, it would be a level playing ground.

I see you have never worked in anti-abuse.
7-9% increase doesn't really seem the biggest problem with .com domains. I think there is lot to fix before that.

And I'm not entirely even sure if it could be run too much cheaper. And by whom and what process.
True but not relevant. I'm saying we apply a much more lenient standard to people posing a threat to public safety with a vehicle than we do to people posing a threat to public safety via other means such as reckless use of a firearm or a laser pointer.
They know what they're doing: publishing and attracting attention. It's pop-sci-bait. You take some grandiose idea X, dumb it down, operationalize it in a way that doesn't really prove what you want to say, do a correlation, and publish "X is true" or "X is false".
I just started it and also recommend it!
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indeed it does; i've run into it a few times. just last week i was writing some go code in vscode and it wasn't working because i had a circular dependency. vscode was reporting something in the "problems" window like a "go list" failure due to "no go files". i couldn't make head or tail of it for a few minutes. it took me some time to note that the path listed in the issue was one i had just edited. in fact, i didn't even notice the path at first -- i tried running `go list` from my repo root and didn't see the error, but when i saw the path and changed to that dir and tried again, i saw the `go list` error as reported by vscode, and i think that when i opened the file i had just edited in vscode it displayed a more understandable cyclic import message in the offending import, and it was easy to go from there.
Russia's Moon landar had technical glitches
Luna-Glob lander and Luna 25 refer to the same lunar landar.
To be perfectly honest, I have remained convinced that AI technology is, for the time being, mostly a fad technology with far less real-world value and practical usability than most people think.
4 billion is an astronomically high valuation, IMO.
What is it? I opened it up but it kinda throws you right in. Lots of recordings about being lonely. Is that what it's for, or was that some kind of prompt? Is it a mental health platform? Or is it meant to be more general, like a Twitter/Reddit but audio only?
> Next time around I tried Tinder et. al. was a couple of years later(2018/2019), and I immediately noticed less matches, less convos, and the app being more pushy.

They also filter you based on age. When I turned 40+, everything changed in terms of presentation and matches literally the next day.
The major distros and BSD have shown, that yes, that scales fairly well in fact given the number of apps provided through distros official repos.

Most apps that I have been getting from third party repo were not included because most majors distros are us projects that can't ship patent encumbered libs/apps, not because distros mainteners couldn't package them.

> This is why people run games through Wine instead of using the Linux versions

No, the main reason is that the linux versions do not exist for the most part because devs don't want to bother supporting a non uniform software platform that represent a tiny fraction of their market.
Yeh but it’s the same the other way around… as a UK citizen applying for an Indian visa was painful even though I was visiting a supplier in India
Cookie banners were present well before GDPR, and they are not mandated by law.

You can avoid the cookie banner in two ways:
1. Do not use tracking cookies (or other tracking tools); or
2. Ask the consensus in a non-intrusive way, e.g., directly in the page itself.

We know that no company wants to remove tracking cookies because they need to "improve the service". However, there is no reason for not using solution 2. The only reason is annoying the user: a dark pattern to force users to accept cookies.
Google puts together a probable age based on the profile they collect about you.

They 100% know they are advertising to some children, even if just by mistakenly mislabeling children as older in rare cases. That's impossible to prevent through probabilistic means, so by implementing such systems they have accepted such an outcome.
You will get more users if you provide a safetensors file instead of bin and pickletensors a lot of people have gotten really scared by the malware scare that was going through social media a few months ago.
> There’s nothing legally inconsistent about passing a law saying, e.g., “ML training is not fair use”.

Is it still fair use to take inspiration from another artist's work? How can the courts necessarily tell if the art was made using AI or if it's just someone stealing another artist's style? Theft of style isn't currently recognized under the law, but it could be.
I agree on all points, just trying to look at it from the other party’s point of view. But yeah, the situation with this sort of stuff is a pain.

There should be a high-prestige “journal of READMEs and User Handbooks,” haha.
I agree with the comments about dtolnay's decision and lack of communication here.
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> Is there a time limit on felony convictions?

> No, a felony must be expunged to work as an employee who serves, mixes and dispenses alcohol or manages employees who handle alcohol.

Jesus. Stripping people of their employment for a few years is acceptable if the offense is related to the employment. But forcing someone to switch careers or to sell their business for life? That's nuts.
Obvious when you think about it but this is just current plates available for order, and lots of states (all?) let you keep old plates around as long as you want and they don't fall apart or something. Virginia used to have a few different "400th anniversary" plates in the mid 00s (Jamestown was founded in 1607), which I still see around regularly. I used to still see the even older standard 6 character plates around too -- those are mostly gone by now but every once in awhile one goes by.
And all those ones in use are going to be more expensive to renew. That’s the impact.