skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: Do you think there is internet bloat? Will it continue?
Anecdotally I have been experiencing more and more friction when it comes to accessing corporate and goverment online services. The general trend of the internet making things easier to access seems to be reversing. I'll give three examples:

1. To log into my bank I need to do username, password, a few digits of a special codeword, and MFA. This is not in itself a problem as your bank account should very secure; but every time I make an online transaction with my card I need to log into my bank account to confirm it adding lots of hassle for small purchases.

2. Everyone has added MFA, even for small utility sites like our municiapl transport authority's website. Not only does everyone now collect my phone number, but now for basic administrative tasks I need multiple emails, an easily accessible and secure password manager, my phone to be on me and have signal.

3. The UK have now removed the ability to download the tax form PDF to hand fill in. If you want the latest tax forms you need to call them and pass through multiple layers of security and 'sales' before you can request to get the tax forms sent to your house.

Hackernews is one of the few sites which has such a frictionless experience - I just made this account with just a username and password and I can post immediately. My questions to you are:

Do you think this is broadly true and not just anecdotal? If so do you think we will continue to see friction like this increase (beyond cookie pop ups) when it comes to accessing content/utility on the internet? How can I as a user manage/circument this bloat?
No. But courts have continued to rule that new technologies allow humans to create works of art that fall under copyright, and I don't see why they wouldn't continue to do so.
> Your project gets to have top tier programmers as maintainers, make all the nifty features, fix all bugs etc. for free or at minimum cost

In most case in these companies it's maintained and created at the expense of the company. I would expect that 90-99%% of the code, product development (talk to users, understand needs, etc), even devrel (marketing) (be on every conference to convince people to use it, that codification is good)- it's a lot of money, resources, and effort.

> New startup, cool idea, not much budget to hire engineers

In this case a few folks build it from the ground initially (most likely founders) I think. Please, let's not forget about this.

The important thing here is to discuss why did they do this (I meant relicensing it). Most likely- trying t create a moat from a lot of other VC-funded companies that play in this space? Not sure. It would be great to know their exact concern.
Interesting. You appear to be a lawyer or in that realm, so I'm curious your take on it - though I also understand if you don't want to publicly make statements or anything.

i.e is the common take that people have of "scraping is legal after HiQ vs LinkedIn" just completely wrong?

Edit: oh, I didn't realize you wrote quite a bit here: https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2022/12/hello-youve-be...
How do you improve the latency? Especially reacting to mouse and keyboard, I have an old PC which could use that.
read the article.
That could really get under the skin of the AI on the other end.
It's not either/or - the legal/legislative system is jointly at fault, for letting corporations run amok with generating endless complexity in the form of "terms" that nobody reads, understands, or actually agrees to. The big print of "health insurance" is that it covers medical expenses. From a basic legal perspective it should be impossible for any fine print to walk that back. From a consumer protection perspective, insurances sold to consumers should have to cover complete scopes that fulfill public policy goals.
How did you get into that originally ?
The problem is most other devices are cheaper so no complaint for the shit-show.
With Apple’s prices, I want more.
Get your AI army ready to enforce law, I guess.
Cows absolutely have a place in the grasslands cycle and saying they don't is simply brushing away decades of conservation grazing research.

You seem to be under the impression that every grassland is just a forest that humans have stripped bare but grasslands are naturally occurring in every continent except Antartica and cover a massive area of the Earth, much of which is land completely unsuitable to agriculture.

Even for the portions that are suitable, I don't subscribe to the notion that we are going to solve the climate crisis by paving over every square inch of natural habitat with soy fields; in part because I think that would be an ecological catastrophe but mostly because absolutely nobody is going to go along with that plan.

It's not a solution if you can't convince anyone of it. Similarly, based on your comments in this thread I don't think you're going to be convinced of any moderation on your position so I'm not sure there's much more benefit to discussing.
I think the issue of test set contamination is important, but it’s academic - when a model contains a good enough distilled representation of arguably all the code out there, does it really matter whether it can generalise OOD?

Realistically how many of the practical use cases where it’ll be applied will be OOD? If you can take GPT4 there then you are either a genius or working on something extremely novel so why use GPT4 in the first place?

I understand the goal is for LLMs to get there, but the majority of practical applications just don’t need that.
I guess we have different definitions of dire.

A rich person having to stay indoors more than they like is totally different than a person in Iran or India being cooked alive by 120-150F heat indexes.

I live in the US in a wildfire-affected area, but it’s only incredibly unpleasant for me, not dire.
Is there a general guide about popular OSS foundations and what kinds of projects are a good fit for each? What's your general feel on that?
Surprisingly quickly. A shot tower will make hundreds/thousands at a time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shot_tower
I wonder if there's a difference between internal and external radiation. 8 years of radiation internally in the space of a day has got to be worse than 8 years of external radiation slowly.
Presumably related ongoing thread:

Note-taking apps are designed for storage, not insight – can AI change that? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37262265 - Aug 2023 (72 comments)
The ipad is the perfect device for old people. You can't mess it up, it's extremely simple to use, has a long life span, etc. The users do not care that they can not host a webserver on it because it prevents their bank account being drained after they click the wrong advert.
I wonder if space immune health could be informed by further study of Tardigrades?
I don't miss the ads. Every time I listen to the radio it seems like there's 10 minutes of ads for 5 minutes of music. I know that's not actually the case but it doesn't usually take me long to find something else that doesn't have so many ads.
Presumably related ongoing thread:

The Notetaking Cold War (2020) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37266200 - Aug 2023 (14 comments)
FuckStalkerware pt. 3 – ownspy got, well, owned
Not really. Or at least, none that I've found. There's belt magic you can do with splitters and underground belts that is pretty cool. But yeah, the limitations still exist. From what I understand mods can fix it.
Something like 200 million Americans live in this zone near a border.
Dvorak:

',.PY FGCRL pry or Lyly
AOEUI DHTNS tendentiousness
;QJKX BMWVZ xxxv, www, bbq or mm

After 'apt install wbritish-insane'

pyrryl (a chemical group)
unostentatiousnesses (and anaesthetisations is good too)
mmmm
I’m responding to a number of top level comments that seem to presume the idea that the government ought to restrict what happens to my data, without consideration for what I want.
There are other languages that have optional static typing that don't treat types as comments. JavaScript could evolve to add support for this.
I don't think so. You were critiquing the text about free software and privacy that they had in their Github which are valid reasons to use this if you subscribe to those philosophies. While I don't know how you feel about how MacOSs' UI looks at the moment, they had complaints with how modern MacOS looks a lot like iOS. If you wanted a similar experience to early OSX or OS9 and before and weren't too tech savvy, you'd probably enjoy this too.
If you're traveling to the USA or China, take a burner phone.
This article explains everything you need to know about Generics in Java
I was thinking recently that there was something weirdly cryptic and prophetic at the end of that Walter Isaacson biography of Steve Jobs - I haven't looked it up again, but there's some tale along the lines of Steve on his deathbed playing with an interface, like he's seen a vision of the future and having an epiphany. The book tells it as if like he's playing with an Apple TV and a remote control which doesn't make much sense as a deathbed experience...but now I realise he had an Apple Vision prototype and that's what he was looking at/through. I think they must be that many years ahead in their labs, like decadal R&D.

RIP Steve.
My goal is to make walks to satisfy my daily minimum of 6,000 steps, up to maybe 10,000 or 12,000 steps with outlier days up to 30k~35k steps. I live in an area I would describe as having moderate walkability: neighborhoods where it's not much of a problem, bigger streets with sidewalks, but also stroads and highways that I need to mostly avoid. And due to the obvious constraints of my home being in a fixed place, I feel I have completely exhausted my options. I get so bored from doing the (mostly) same variations. To be even harder on myself, I hate using the same in and out route, so instead of finding 3k steps worth of "excitement", I pretty much need double that to satisfy my craving :-D
I've demonstrated against Nazis countless times, and almost every single time the Nazis and police join forces to assault the protestors.
My guess is that Apple wants companies to reinvent their programs to work well on a touchscreen, which has largely been happening. If you could just drop macos on the ipad, we wouldn't have things like Procreate. You'd just get told to install desktop photoshop and connect a mouse and keyboard.
Ukraine breaks through first line of Russian defense – Joint Chiefs Gen. Milley
that's the expected cost of publishing something to the public internet. People are going to access it. No one has a right to complain when people access something that was put there for the public to see.

What is your opinion on spam email?
Leading to San Francisco you can drive on a freeway for almost 50 miles and see practically zero houses on either side of the road.
> Even better would to leave a note rescinding permission for Hashicorp to include that work, though I'm not sure whether that is a viable strategy.

I don't see how that would work. If a valid offer has already been made under a license agreement, it's then entirely up to Hashicorp whether to merge it or not.
By decreasing latency, you decrease throughput. Thus if you have a slow and old computer, you could end up dropping inputs entirely by decreasing latency, or make it feel sluggish/laggy due to it processing a queue.
You’re virtue signaling, plain and simple. No one is forcing you to be verified. It is not mandatory to use the platform.

That he’s “gutting” Twitter seems more like something you hope to see, not something that’s actually happening.
I remember explaining this rather simply, the same question actually. Look at the implementation.

def all(it):
for v in it:
if not v:
return False
return True

If there are no items, it returns True.

def any(it):
for v in it:
if v:
return True
return False

If there are no items, it returns False.

There's no need for fancy mathematical or "marbles in a bag" explanations here. Just look at the code.
I'm the operator
With my pocket calculator
I'm the operator
With my pocket calculator

I am adding
And subtracting
I'm controlling
And composing

I'm the operator
With my pocket calculator
I'm the operator
With my pocket calculator

By pressing down a special key
It plays a little melody
By pressing down a special key
It plays a little melody
Sure, but one of those harms is death and that risk cannot be fully eliminated. Not to mention the ethical concerns of experimenting on animals for the riskiest testing.

Knowing that hundreds of people end their lives /after/ seeking care in our current mental health system, I’m not afraid of exploring other options.

I do believe, however, that developers in this space must not over-represent the capability of their systems and have a duty to strongly warn users that the system can act unpredictably and give harmful advice. Resources to contact health professionals and warnings to contact 911 if there is a life-threatening emergency are also obligatory.

With those disclosures, I don’t see how a self-directed discussion with a language model could be overly harmful.
Very much true, just wanted to add something. In the before times, games would be running on pure forward renderers. Which, in turn, would mitigate many of the the frame timing inconsistencies of the more complex pipelines of today!
Some still do that, of course. With the exception that we aren't relying in fixed function hw anymore!
linkedin also just made this an option (and are soft pushing it). payment apps likely started the trend - stripe, venmo - but that was driven (afaik) by kyc.

maybe x/twitter, linkedin etc. plan to add financial transactions and will need to be kyc compliant - so this is just a first step?

or is there a new 'driver' for this model to cause companies like these to prioritize this 'feature'? is there really that much destructive fraud or impersonation today?
This is usually the Typescript team tightening up some "loose" behavior that should have had saner defaults. For instance, the catch block default typing changed from unknown from any.

The bigger issue I've found is when you're using 3rd party type definitions for some library you can't always trust them to be correct or updated. It's a major risk for the soundness of your build.
But how will it learn "what works" just based on different company's infra? I don't see how that would help an AI learn without things being labelled, and the answer can't be "lower latency means better". I'd actually be more trusting of the results of the current approach (GPT-4), because at least it's trained on every blog, forum response, and book ever.
It's really easy to demonstrate with some basic math too. All of the numbers below are pulled from memory from a textbook example:

Imagine you have a test with a 1% false positive rate when screening for a disease that has a prevalence of 1 in 1,000 and the invasive operation to confirm the diagnosis has a 10% chance of serious (potentially life altering) complications like internal infection or an embolism.

If you test 10,000 people, you'll identify 10 true cases (assuming 0% false negative rate) and 100 false cases. Meanwhile testing those 110 people will result in 11 patients suffering serious complications. Once you include the complicated math of quality-adjusted life years, it's almost never worth it.

In reality the numbers are a lot worse - there is a long tail of diseases with 2-10% false positive rate tests and 1 in 10,000 incidence or worse, with 20% of patients experience QALY effecting complications from false positives. On top of that there are a lot of interventions that require invasive procedures with low rates of success.
Creativity also happened in unlimited environments. That’s why there are many more use cases for computer/laptop.
whoops they did show that. that is cool
I think there are a lot of issues with law enforcement in the US but using Uvalde to generalize to all police is a bit unfair.

There are plenty of counter examples where police responded rapidly. For example the Nashville school shooting[1] or Allen, Texas mall shooting[2] (there's footage where an officer chatting with a mom and her kids immediately ran towards the shots).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Nashville_school_shooting

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Allen,_Texas_mall_shootin...
I remember seeing a Japanese designer, possibly current or ex-Sony, talking about a Walkman. They were saying (via subtitles) something along the lines that that the device needed to feel like something you wanted to hold, regardless of what it was meant to do. There was something about understanding the physicality of the object itself which stuck with me. We only see glimpses of this now, since there is only a single object that people hold, and it's just a cuboid. I would argue that early to mid Ive-era Apple continued this in two-dimensions. But something has been lost in the last decade or so. Is it a move to video and events instead of things, words and thoughts? I don't know.
I would attend this art show and most likely buy one of the works if they were for sale.

Only 45 more to go, send me the invite!
That is so absolutely false. Any game you run if you don't cap fps it uses 100% of your gpu and potentially your cpu. As soon as you cap the framerate to 60 fps it starts behaving normally.
> some tropical trees will still be able to photosynthesize in tropical regions. Those will become the dominant species.

Unless the environmental changes happen too fast for adaptation to keep up with--the tree of life can have dead ends.
>Harm is also real, but much less visible than you'd think and thus mure easier ignored, especially if the negative effects are asynchronous and take a long time to have an impact.

I agree with this but I think you're missing why people still don't care (as much as you).

Lots of people are worried about things that are much more urgent let alone visible, synchronous and immediate.

As an example, I avoid social media very staunchly for privacy reasons. I was recently unemployed and when that situation became more urgent, I started a LinkedIn account.
Having done research for a novelized version of Lord Byron's love affair with his half sister, I should like to comment on James O'Rourke's letter ("Byron Demythified," March 11).

The statement that Byron was "mad, bad and dangerous to know" comes from Lady Caroline Lamb after their first meeting, when the publication of "Childe Harold" (1812) made him the literary and social lion of London at the age of 24. However, Lady Caroline was notoriously worse than he on all three counts, and when she threw herself at Byron, her irrationality and sexual excesses so appalled him that he terminated the affair after about six months. Later, her vengeance fueled the scandal that forced him to leave England.

Undeniably, Byron held most women in low esteem, but in the Regency period, it was the profligate Prince Regent who set the example society followed. Furthermore, Byron's sexual attitudes and behavior were conditioned by early experiences: a dissolute father, who deserted a wife and young child; a sexually abusive nursemaid and homosexual attachment to a college classmate; the agony and sense of inferiority over his crippled leg, and the spell his extraordinary good looks cast over women.

None of this justifies Byron's promiscuity or makes him more acceptable by modern women's standards. It was his one sincere attachment (1813-16), to his half sister, Augusta Leigh, that led to his downfall in London society. That dangerous liason, confirmed by Leslie Marchand's biography, destroyed Byron's brief marriage (1815-16) to Annabella Milbanke. While incest was not illegal in England, it was considered beyond the pale even in that licentious era. Thus when rumors surfaced, Byron found himself ostracized. American publishers of the 1980's are still wary of books about incest.

Disillusioned, and in a move to protect Augusta, who was more vulnerable to scandal than he, and whose fourth child may or may not have been his, Byron exiled himself from England in 1816. His subsequent relations with women—whether the mythical 200 or fewer—were affected by two main factors. First, he was never divorced from Annabella, only separated legally and therefore free to philander as he pleased.

Second, and perhaps more revealing, is what Byron wrote in a letter to Augusta just after he left England:

"My Dearest Love,

"I have never ceased nor can cease to feel for a moment that perfect and boundless attachment which binds me to you, which renders me utterly incapable of real love for any other human being—for what could they be to me after you? Whenever I love anything, it will be because it reminds me in some way of yourself.

"They say that absence destroys the weak passions and confirms the strong ones. Alas, mine for you is the union of all passions and of all affections.

"A thousand loves to you from me—which is very generous for I only ask one in return. / Ever dearest B."

—Miriam Lang, 13 March 1989, NYTimes letter to the ed.

I like to try to add something to things I quote, but the only part I can personally identify with is the spell his extraordinary good looks cast over women. I don't suppose you guys want to hear more about that?
I think for them it's about de-risking their business.
Wow, this is a pretty big deal because NOx is notoriously difficult and expensive to detect at the levels where it starts to affect humans (double-digit ppb).

There are no cheap and reliable health-threshhold sensors for NOx like there are for particulates and VOCs. The really accurate detectors with enough sensitivity are consumables -- the NOx reacts with them and eventually you have to throw them away. The cheapest non-disposable low-ppb-rated sensors (~$500) require frequent professional recalibration.

This is the main reason why we don't have a "purpleair for NOx" and aren't likely to have one anytime soon. At best you might get one or two EPA-run sensors for a given city.
Sure, but you are in agreement with what I’m saying; good code implies specificity towards the line-by-line writing and structuring of the language (that’s what “code” is, more or less), and I argue that’s useless, as do you here by citing examples of how the code solves the larger problem in the system.
Not that I know of. But the regular list view ⌘2 is fairly close to that, I guess?
The more compute you need to get state of the art performance the closer to the plateau you are. If you didn't need the compute researchers would be getting better results with smarter training. Given that the gpt family of models need more energy to train than Nevada needs to keep the lights on they are very much on the flat part of the logistic growth curve.
Sure, for open projects.

But most closed projects and commercial services, the bugdbs are most certainly neither customer-facing nor self-service. You'll never find it by Search, and the only way to "me too" is with a Contact Support session.
What is the term for when the later party doesn't realize this? (While the former presumably does.)
There's Unfunny Science overhaul mod which is quite new ;)

https://mods.factorio.com/mod/un-science
I trialed a similar set up with code-server for a few weeks, and was shocked at how well it works, provided stable and fast internet access.

Although VSCode is impressive, at the end of the day, I'm an emacser. I went back to: emacs in a terminal over mosh, accessed with Blink Shell on the iPad; or access the same instance over Microsoft Remote Desktop for a desktop experience.
GPT-4 as served in the API has been getting 85% on HumanEval (compared to 69.5% claimed here)

https://twitter.com/amanrsanger/status/1635751764577361921
https://github.com/getcursor/eval