skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not just stagnant, but clearly getting worse.

- 95% of my auto-suggested/generated playlists I get for the last ~year are now the same ~200-400 or so tracks rearranged in different orders.

- Half of these tracks are not artists I ever intentionally picked myself, and in fact they are tracks and artists I don't like. So I have to essentially skip half the tracks which are suggested - Spotify doesn't seem to take into account that I keep skipping certain tracks/artists - it suggest and keeps recommending them over and over again. I've gotten to the point where I have to block entire artists in settings just to have reasonable playlist suggestions (which still suck).

- The mobile (android) and webos apps seem to be getting more and more buggy every update. From pause/play breaking and skipping to the next song, to the webos app bugging out when attempting to control using phone, to the apps randomly crashing like once a week, etc.

All of these problems didn't exist or were far less common just a few years ago.
Eh, all good things eventually come to an end. E3 played an important part of gaming history, but we're not worse off given that it died because gaming culture became extraordinarily mainstream and no longer required these kinds of industry marketing events.
There are two issues.

On youtube the content was uploaded by creators on the understanding it would be freely accessible to everyone.

Additionally it's a matter of user control and rights. They don't get to tell the user what their user agent does and what content it should fetch or display to the user or what code it should run.

It's their website, but it's my device.

The next step is for youtube to require you to watch the ad and stop playing if you look away.
I wouldn't buy ads on any of the major platforms.

Twitter (when I downloaded my info, they were still called that) classified me as speaking three languages I know zero words of, and as having interests in several sports (I care for none); my YouTube ad experience is like yours; my Facebook experience today was about renouncing my US citizenship (I'm a British national); the Instagram ads are only marginally less bad — I do find myself liking them, but I have no idea what they're selling because what I get shown are all uplifting landscapes or cute animals with no sales pitch.

Edit: also, a friend of mine was just playing a game, advert popped up in a language neither of us could read. I had to open Google Translate just to find out it was Romanian and which button was "close" (and also to discover that it was an ad for "easy and fast international payments"?)
File size on disk is ~10GB.
Regarding PrivateGPT, if I have a 12GB Nvidia 4070 and an 11GB 2080ti, which LLM should I run?

Edited to add: https://www.choosellm.com/ by the PrivateGPT folks seems to have what I needed.
> The intention of section 230 is to isolate delivery mechanisms

No, it wasn't, it was to enable forum hosts to moderate content without incurring general liability for all content in the forum by so doing. The motivating cases were about ascribing liability to forum hosts differently based on moderation as a trigger for publisher-style (no need to prove knowledge) liability, with unmoderated forum hosts getting only distributor-style (specific knowledge required) liability. It wasn't about ISPs qua ISPs (the CompuServe and Prodigy cases involved entities which were incidentally ISPs, but involved them in their role as forum hosts, not ISPs) or transmission at all.

> But but but then social media would have to be moderated.

No, if it was outside of Section 230, the opposite would be the case. Section 230 is what make it economically possible for it to be moderated instead of unmoderated given the threat of general tort liability attaching as soon as any moderation is done. Without Section 230, social media, if it was viable at all, would only be viable unmoderated.
> escape-goat

Unless this is an online joke I don't get, I think you mean "scapegoat".
Chatblade is another good one: https://github.com/npiv/chatblade
I think the big chunk of the penalty is because he lied to the secret service agents rather than the company damage, that being said, why would the secret service investigate a private sector company incident? At most, it should be the FBI afaik
House cats linked to 2x risk of schizophrenia
Meanwhile, having a dog, not a cat, as a child may protect against schizophrenia: https://newatlas.com/health-wellbeing/pet-dog-cat-child-prot...
> I just hate the trend that most tech landing pages have these days of random graphics that don't mean anything. I want our content to be substantial.

Couching substantial content in the visual language of "random graphics" results in the parent comment.

You could have cake and eat some of it too if the transforms straightened out on mouseover/click/tap. It wouldn't make the transformed ones any easier to read, but it'd at least let people opt out of the flash to focus on the substance (and further signal that they _aren't_ random graphics despite the effect).
For what it is worth, Youtube's tax is around 70%, but people get to see non-monetized videos for free. Similarly, the Google Play Store lets people download software at no cost when no price has been attached to it by the developer, despite having to do the work of distributing it.

Also, the OS developer acting as a gatekeeper is necessary to prevent malware from getting onto devices. Without that, you have Windows where black hats trick the average user into installing malware constantly.

Almost everything you list is actually a positive thing, although I would be wasting my time to explain it to people who should take the time they put into complaining into developing their own competing platforms that align with their ideals. Please do put your energy into making a competing platform. We need more choices at the operating system level, and nothing people hope these lawsuits would accomplish would give us that.
> The mortgage interest deduction (reduced under Trump, of all presidents).

The way I understand it, reducing the mortgage interest deduction disproportionately affected homeowners with higher mortgages in high cost of living areas, just like reducing the SALT deduction affected people in higher income tax/cost of living areas. Both of these were likely supported by President Trump to punish "blue staters" in these areas.
I tried plain WebAudio gamedev in 2021, making a small 2d game library with no dependencies. Web Audio was the only place where I eventually caved and broke my no deps rule and used Howler.js instead.

I forget the exact reason but I think autoplay on mobile devices was the thing I couldn't figure out, and howler had some workaround.

If I did the project again I'd just copy paste the 3 lines or whatever that Howler uses for the workaround and bring dependencies back to zero.
I think the intent is what's most likely to cause trouble.
I always assumed it was an abstract representation of a rotary switch like:

https://images.app.goo.gl/MQ81XWMZP2dgqkjN7
They were not amused when I told them I'd pay "up to" the amount on my bill.
> it's truly sad. i keep waiting for a trend reversal where people would instead prefer real life interaction because everyone's exhausted by the soulessness of zoom & screens. i really think it's coming, but i keep miscalculating when

I don't think this is a "trend," so much as the environment changing in unhealthy ways that we're not adapted for.

It's like a tree whose seeds will only germinate if the ground is just the right conditions, if the climate changes and those conditions no longer occur, it's not all the sudden going to start making seeds that germinate in other conditions. It's just going to fail to reproduce.

If the past, there was a lot more necessity to going out of the house, which has a lot of important side-effects, because you couldn't accomplish certain goals any other way. Technology provides easier and more isolating ways of achieving those goals, removing the necessity of going out. Now the needed side-effect are activities that require will, but people aren't set up as well to pursue them directly. That means most people won't do them or won't do them as consistently.

An example is exercise. Everyone got enough when there was no option except to walk everywhere. Now it's an option, so people are much less healthy due to lack of exercise.
As far as I'm concerned, the main issue in the article is indiscriminate use of IP-to-person mapping. If your roommate watches something that gets you sued, with the threat of making the top google result for your name being some porn lawsuit, then he's shaming you for something someone else stole. Yeah, that's being a bad guy.
I'm not saying that starting 2024, journals should only start accepting formalized proofs. I'm well aware that we're probably many thousands of person years away from being able to formalize research involving modern mathematical objects like rough paths or perfectoid spaces. But I do think that we should be moving in that direction. We're halfway through formalizing undergrad education, once we're there we could start including it in graduate courses, and at some point we'll have caught up. Many thousands of years of work divided by many thousands of active grad students maybe isn't prohibitively much. I don't see a reason why in some future, something like Lean couldn't replace something like LaTeX as the de-facto standard language for communicating mathematics. We could build the papers directly from source with docstrings. I don't even think that it would replace peer review, since this considers at least three things, correctness, novelty and relevance, roughly in that order, but it could make it substantially easier by automating much of the first part. And I think it might make the paper writing itself more efficient and enjoyable as well.
It's also really easy to turn that off.
Without this ability, forums would quickly be overrun with spam, propaganda, and extreme trolling. They would all shut down or have no normal users. This has been tried before and it's unworkable.
No surprise. In a sense, I bought my premium because I was fed up with scam. I wouldn't mind targeted ads if they are not too excessive. But watching a gambling scam tailor-made for my (adittably) small country broke the camels back for me. Apparently, there is no "with malice intent" clause anywhere, otherwise these ads would be illegal everywhere by default.
I am disappointed that I missed that. Sorry
E3 Is Dead
Vapoursynth can be used for image processing too (albeit more clumsily with variable size input), and its also a great way to hook into PyTorch.
And yet, like many things you could do undetected, you still probably shouldn’t do that. Assuming it’s against work’s rules for their phones, anyway.
I can't speak for others, but I'm an iPhone user, and I'm complaining!

> why the heck did you buy one knowing its limitations.

Because:

• Almost everyone I know uses iMessage exclusively.

• I very strongly dislike Android's UI design.

• I strongly prefer iPhone hardware.

Any two of these would be insufficient to offset how furious I am that I can't decide what code runs on my own damn phone! But taken together, Android just doesn't make sense.

I jailbroke my iPhone for years, despite the many inconveniences of running an outdated version of iOS, but Apple's security has just become too good.
Tanaka is saving her money for finger reduction and ear balancing surgery.
This is a really poor article and business insider is almost blinding to try to read but anyhow.. for the last few years we've been too accustomed to throwing money at problems, as opposed to thinking about the deeper rooted systematic causes and fixing those. This is now rapidly changing, right across the board, and it's fantastic.

Spotify at this stage of growth has a complex problem, they can either raise prices to squeeze more juice (something they are doing), or they can figure out new ways to attract more paying people, continuously while also curbing churn.

I'm not surprised that they are downsizing, cutting operating costs to maintain a sustainable business under the pressures they are facing is the first place I'd start too. Perhaps I'd take on some more accountability than Ek, yes that's for certain.
Sure, but this then becomes a fulltime role by itself, once the info grows enough.

I maintain it for my teams, but as things grow, it becomes less manageable, since I'm also a T3 and have technical tasks to address, as well management of the teams.

The good news in all of this, is in less than a decade, it'll all be someone else's headache. ;)
You've definitely simplified the problem too much. This only works under the assumption that everyone is making the same amount of money for the same amount of time and are interested in the same housing. In the extreme case, clearly any software engineer could take a 20% pay cut and still be able to out bid someone who works in fast food but got a 20% raise by working a 6th day.

Human preference is also wildly variable. I don't buy the constant "I'd rather not live in a city" argument that we hear because people could in fact do that, but there are plenty of preferences that people do make and it isn't like housing in fungible.

The simple model won't get us very far in estimating the actual effects and likely will actually make us make the wrong conclusions. Plus, there are solutions to many of the housing problems (which also is non-singular).
Sure they do, but even with a computer and a database, keeping track of exactly which taxes apply and which don't to who, from 3,143 counties and 19,495 cities isn't a trivial thing to do.

Again it's not a defense of the big companies, but it is a legitimate beef.
I have no idea where you got that information from. I've been using T-Mobile for about half a year now, and it's leaps and bounds better than the ATT DSL I was using beforehand. I went from 30 Mbps down to 200, and even during high usage periods it's well over 100. Their customer service is also far less of a pain in the ass than ATT or Charter.
I was responding to

> The bigger problem is the inpainting needed to generate hidden detail when the movie is viewed from angles that are different from the one it was actually filmed from.
The article suggests that ChatGPT slows down because it is winter and in the winter people (and data on which ChatGPT trained) sometimes slow down: the dark/gloomy/depressing winter feeling. To which I made the statement that ChatGPT does not know that it is winter so the hypothesis in the linked article does not hold up.

Several people have commented that ChatGPT does know the current time and date, so maybe there is indeed some truth in the linked article. But it does show how inconsistent ChatGPT can be: in any interaction I had with it I could not get CHatGPT to admit that it knew the current time, date, or season.
It should work for any macOS app. It just takes a screenshot of the currently active window, you can even append the application name if you'd like.
Section 230 is an extraordinary demonstration of Chesterton's Fence.

If we want, as a society, to remove safe harbor provisions from CDNs, we need to openly and widely discuss what the consequences would be:
- end of open social media platforms (Meta properties, TikTok, Tumblr, Twitter and clones)
- end of open content CDNs and streaming platforms (YouTube, Twitch)
- end of public cultural repositories (Internet Archive, possibly Wiki properties)
etc.

The end, that is, in any form we are familiar with.

We can do that; we just need to be clear about why this section has persisted against numerous assault, even against the "think of the children!" type.

Those interested in debate around the nature and limits of "free speech" in an open society take note—what comes after a removal of safe harbor provisions will enrage all of you. We'll have closed-garden, 100% moderated, default-no, forums—or end-to-end encrypted darkweb alternatives.

I realize the specific battle is around whether "AI" should get differential treatment.

It's a battle, and a hill to capture, in a broader war, with society-defining scope.
The MSM is doing a sh-tty job around this, on the whole. I just heard an episode of This American Life which sounded as if it were written, more or less, by a thinktank opposed to Section 230, which picked an outlier example of perverse consequences, centered it, and then asked snarky ill-informed questions which amounted to the assertion that "for too long Big Tech companies have exploited their money and power to make themselves uniquely unaccountable."
The Chinese system of central libraries is better than copyright.

Imagine having every book ever written, for free, all your life.

Imagine authors and inventors being compensated twice what they are usually paid in the USA, while the corporate lawyers panhandle.

I know the lawyers would end up as party higher-ups still screwing us, but I can dream.
Google doesn't care about the context, they care about who pays the most for the ad. Hungarian fascists have deep pockets[0] and are willing to spend shittons of money to make you watch lies about immigrants[1]. Most of that money is wasted, but if they can radicalize even one out of a million viewers, they won. So they pay loads for it.

Yes, this is the same math that scammers run on - because fascism is a scam category, alongside advanced-fee fraud, refund scammers, and fake tech support companies. Your grandpa thinks the immigrants are invading the country for the same reason he thinks he needs to wire $10,000 to the 'bank' of a Nigerian 'prince'.

also

> It was shown in the middle of a Minecraft video (a game without binary gender)

For the same reasons as above, the creator of Minecraft went from "I don't want gender in my game" to "all women are evil", because he isolated himself in an LA mansion and read nothing but Twitter. He also had a girlfriend he broke up with. This makes you vulnerable to being fed bullshit that agrees with you - in the same way that expecting a UPS package might make you vulnerable to clicking a fake UPS text that steals your login info. Either that, or Notch was a trans inclusive radical misogynist[2] the whole time!

Now, let's say you're a scammer. Your 1-in-a-million odds suck - but what if you could pay more money to find more vulnerable people to send texts to? Like, even if you went from paying $1 CPM[3] for 1-in-a-million odds to $10 CPM for 1-in-ten-thousand, which is mathematically identical, you still get an advantage because less people can see what you're trying to steal. Targeted advertising lets you do this[4], and for unrelated reasons, legitimate advertisers will pay more to target their ads to a smaller but more lucrative cohort as well. So Google inherently makes more money the more they build out tools for scammers to do their scamming.

You are perfectly in the right to block ads. I pay for YouTube Premium but I won't yell at anyone who uses uBlock Origin.

[0] To be clear, we don't know exactly where the money comes from, though I can guess either Russia or Saudi Arabia

[1] The core irony of fascism is that the most efficient way to demonize the other is to point out that the other also has a fascist wing. e.g. in America, Christofascists yell and scream that we need a Muslim ban to keep Islamofascist terrorists out.

[2] See also: James Somerton

[3] Cost per French thousand

[4] If you read between the lines I'm accusing Google for the last decade of democratic backsliding.
vs CPython

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...

vs Node

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...
For starters, there aren’t any big cities in Wyoming.
> I realize inflation, wages, etc. But how much of this increase is just because?

I can assure you with certainty that it’s all in the because category. Their approach in my experience is raise prices until the customer complains.

I had to quit spectrum due to moving out of the country (10Gbps symmetric now for €25/mo thank you very much) and they still offered a reduced price “in case any roommates are staying behind”. I was paying ~$100 and the “discount” was significant but I don’t recall the exact number.

I was too lazy to basically fight for a better price, but if you threaten to quit (or better quit it for a while) they’ll 100% lower your bill. I’m sure there are more sophisticated “negotiation” tactics a search away.
Well it's not a normal booster. It's a test booster. Also normal boosters don't do a flip while getting blasted with rocket exhaust.

SpaceX clearly has a winning method, as they have a success rate of 99.3% and hold the record for most consecutive successful launches at 253. Second place is Soyuz-U, which had 112 consecutive successful launches and an overall success rate of 97.3%. SpaceX has more consecutive successful booster landings (173) than any space program has had successful launches.
Yep, and its so much better than ffmpeg CLI that its not even funny.

This is a pretty good (but not comprehensive) db of the filters: https://vsdb.top/
Well can do whatever you want with your phone. Apple however has no obligation to make it easy for you to run third party software or support this at all. After all that would be an additional feature which they never claimed their devices have.
Nice! I didn't know about this. I'll update the post with ToothFairy. Thanks for sharing :)
The biggest benefit of CLEAR is if you frequently travel through an airport with a lot of occasional-tourist visitors, like Orlando. Just skipping the line there might be worth it.

For others in this thred, as you note, longer lines in Precheck do not mean longer waits in general. Precheck travelers are overwhelmingly frequent flyers and know the routine.

Contra what some others have said, my experience is that almost everyone I know who has Precheck has it as a consequence of Global Entry or NEXUS. But I’m a doctor; healthcare people are subject to background checks and fingerprinting already, so the vast majority of my coworkers are already clean legally. One old simple drug possession is about all anyone will have, because otherwise they would have run you off before you enrolled in nursing or medical school.
Indonesia's new capital aims to be a net zero model city
>Absolutely brain-dead, I'm not entirely sure the marketing people for cable companies are still living in our reality. Why would you even bother sending these out?

I actually submitted a ticket/request to Spectrum, with essentially the exact same question once. Surprisingly, they called me back and interviewed me about "What it would take to sign up for their service?"

When I described what I get from my local city fiber service, they acted like "price" and "reliability" and "decent customer service" were all impossible requests — as if EPB didn't exist. I'm not sure if feigned, or actual, ignorance was at play.

Regardless, I did not switch over, and they didn't lower their prices. Still get advertising, and am often left wondering "why do they even bother?!"

I do know a few elderly folks, despite also having EPBfiber (local city-supplied), maintain other services as "backup" or "for the email address they've always used from @comcast." No amount of reasoning will resolve this, so the cable internet lines still get maintained along city-provided-fiber routes.
Too bad to fail ?
Indeed.

> "Besides the general requirements of 'good faith' and 'balance', the EU rules contain a list of specific contract terms that may be judged unfair.

> Here are some situations where contract terms may be judged unfair under EU rules:

> [...]

> - Terms which allow you to alter a contract unilaterally unless the contract states a valid reason for doing so."

https://europa.eu/youreurope/business/dealing-with-customers...
Can you pay for Kagi with bitcoin?
I've tried running Llamafile on my Lenovo Legion Pro 5 laptop with 8GB VRAM, but it has a dashboard that shows the GPU and CPU utilisation in real time, and almost all the processing is done on the CPU. Is there a way to shift the processing to the GPU like using gpt-fast?

https://pytorch.org/blog/accelerating-generative-ai-2/