skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(This is a response to your comment before you edited it.)

Find the intersection of something that people increasingly value, that you enjoy, and that you can compete at.

The best proof that people value something is that they're spending money for it. If people aren't spending money, they don't value it, and you probably don't want to go into it. If people aren't spending more and more money on it every year, then it's not increasing in value, and you probably don't want to go into it.

The best proof that you enjoy something is that you enjoyed it in the past. Things you liked as a kid, activities that excited you as a young adult, etc., are often the best candidates.

Look for intersections of the two things above. Do some Googling, do some research.

Finally, you need to be able to compete at it. If you do something worse than everyone else does it, then no one will pick you, because you're probably not being helpful. The simple answer to this is to practice to make yourself better. But most people don't want to do that. A better answer to this is to be more unique, so you can avoid the competition. Don't do a job that has a title, a college major, and millions of talented applicants. It's not that helpful to society to do something a hundred million other people can already do, which is why there's more competition and lower wages.

When you find the intersection of what's valued and what you enjoy, call up some people in those fields and ask what's rare. What in their area is needed. What are they missing. What is no one else doing.

Or just start your own company. That's the easiest way to be unique. But it's hard.

Finally, if you feel you're too "mid," then make sure your standards aren't crazy. Don't let society tell you that you need to be a millionaire with a yacht and designer clothes to be happy. Get a normal 9 to 5 with some purpose in it, that you can be proud of, that others appreciate. Live within your means and don't stress yourself out financially. Spend your free time doing things you like. Take care of your health, find good relationships, and treasure them. That's a happy life at any income. I know a bunch of miserable depressed rich people who are very good at making money and very bad at health/relationships/etc., which is the real stuff that life is made out of.
I think companies like openAI, meta and midjourney (if they say you can't train on output) are hypocrites, and probably have no standing to enforce some of the restrictions they try and make. That doesn't change fair use. There are also many truly open source models that explicitly give the users freedom to use them as they want, and I'd prefer more providers license their's like that, ie Apache 2.0 or MIT.
So you're saying: Not being positive == hate?

Thanks for sharing!

How about not being 100% positive, while also not dehumanizing, devaluing, and hating? Is it too much to ask to just accept everyone as fully human and not something disgusting, even those we happen to disagree with?

It just doesn’t seem to scale well.

Please give us a historical example where "letting your hate flow" led to scalable mass changing people -- That didn't also involve mass death and violence?
Reaction: Is turmeric itself antimicrobial? Or is it the (toxic) lead chromate with which turmeric is very commonly adulterated?
Homeopathic medicines are generally non-toxic because they only contain fillers / non-active ingredients.

You may be thinking of herbal remedies.
What does the future hold for Rendering in Godot?
You also pay for your landlord's vacations, and their food. And their drug and alcohol and gambling addictions.
The other companies have significantly different SLAs and drop packets far more readily. They also charge for bandwidth, in my experience, you get your 1TB/mo with your $5 VPS sure, but once you go over, you're facing per/GB charges that are very close to AWS default egress price.

They're not a magnet for these services for the reasons I just described as you reach your per VPS limit very quickly, and to get more "cheap bandwidth" you have to be prepared to run 100s of VMs per provider, and have to consider provisioning VMs you don't need just to get access to another $5 TB of transfer, or you're just going to end up paying the per GB fee anyways.

The terms aren't worse, but the service and their guarantees are different. Again, if you ask AWS for a bandwidth deal, they'll cut you one within a few minutes that will more than halve the price of your transfer if you pay up front. Which is AWSs way of saying, "if you make your usage predictable, we can make it way cheaper."

Why? Because they have fixed _capacity_ on their links. The costs manage that _capacity_.
Taking this further, why would future newborns even care if they are AI or meat? It's really just us trying to cling on to our pathetic consciousnesses. It's quite sad and pointless, really, but it means the world to us.
I think this also applies to the scourge of "modern" user interface design, with its low contrast text, bland color schemes, monochrome icons and excessive whitespace. I was wondering for a long time if there was something going on behind the scenes (e.g. due to social media) to cause this mindless conformity and here we have an explanation for it.
>Due to the constant trash these algorithms insist on feeding me, which I believe is actively contributing to the dumbing-down of society

This part really worries me right here. We don't know the long term ramifications of the modern day internet, but so far they do not look good.
This is the first time in years that I've been interested in a Windows laptop.

This writeup doesn't include price, but others do, like https://www.engadget.com/the-asus-zenbook-duo-is-a-stunning-... . It starts at $1,499.

It's also just 3 pounds, which is 0.5 lbs lighter than the 14" Macbook Pro. I really like this breakdown by TechChap https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzBxLYTUuK4, Dave2d's video is also good.

The thing also comes with a pen with high sensitivity.

It feels like this is priced as a loss leader for ASUS.
Wait until the article comes out that most of the vegetables we eat are cabbages.

- kale

- cauliflower

- broccoli

- turnips

- bok choy

- horseradish

- rapeseed

- mustard

and on and on and on it's wild
> What does seem new is people trying to argue that ML isn't AI.

Well, ML is a well-defined class of processes, calling it AI seems a little disingenuous. Is a beam search still considered AI? How about Markov chains? It's much easier to refer to the specific processes rather than vague floating signifiers if you want to communicate clearly, which I would argue is a primary responsibility of journalists. It doesn't bode well for reporting if journalists aren't zeroed in on this problem of de-jargonizing tech reporting in the first place, and this leaves them vulnerable to essentially marketing ploys that inherently misrepresent the capabilities of the software.
Pure art.
Sir cmovq, you have deserved your username.
Backgammon and Ludo/Parchese look related somehow.
I can't see a situation in an apocalypse where gasoline isn't consumed immediately, and then rationed to only government authorities. My bet would be 100% EV, and if you want redundancy, buy a generator capable of outputting to an inverter that charges the EV (then stockpile a reasonable amount of fuel for the generator).
I'd love to be the lawyer of the first anime artist then.
> Biological males are not better at basketball and tennis.

Yup, for sure, you're not in a divorced from reality bubble.
Funny how I get the opposite result with google, which ignores my quoted text and tries to feed me whatever it believes I want to look up, instead of the exact matches. Especially annoying for code searches.
> narcissists and sociopaths are so much more credible and charming than introverts and tech nerds

A big part of this comes down to practice. Anyone who practices chitchat (or "persuasion") all day gets pretty good at it, at least in a narrow niche. Those "tech nerds" who spend a lot of time going to parties can also get good at it; however, many of the introverted tech nerds would rather be writing code or reading a book or whatever, and end up not practicing these skills starting from a young age, and by the time they reach adulthood are far behind. (In just the same way that someone who never spends time exercising ends up far behind in playing sports, or someone who never spends time solving technical problems ends up far behind in technical skill/expertise, etc.)

Beyond that, if the main goal incentivized is just to "make the sale", the methods used aren't going to necessarily ethical. There's a reason that pick-up artists, used car salesmen, carnival barkers, and social-climber middle managers use deception and burn people in the process of getting ahead: it works. If you have a system that selects for "what works" and doesn't negatively select away "causes collateral damage", then you end up (a) making ethical people play with a huge handicap, and (b) chasing them out of the field.
I wish they'd use a different acronym, not ML: For me xxxML usually meant a flavor of XML, with ML standing for Markup Language...

Is this use of ML standard in the industry?
Google "Queen Cleopatra" is a good example for me. 95% of the results are about the Netflix documentary. There is bodies of work dedicated to the history and legacy of this queen. Quality content, produced by leading academics, historians and universities. And yet Google insists I should know everything about this poor production (a bit of an understatement) and nothing else, except for a wiki article as one of the results (Good job Google, you at least got this bit right).

Google knows so much about me. And yet it continues to act as though it doesn't.
Well, for now I'm not managing it because I've stopped. After surviving a round of mass layoffs, I wanted to answer the question "How screwed would I be if I got laid off in this job market right now?" And the answer I came to is "very!"

The experience was very draining, and it was interfering with my work and my home life. The last thing I wanted to do was lose my job because of job search created performance issues - so now I'm holding off on this until I have no choice.
> "Ruthless, cunning, deceiving" are very different from "machiavellianism, narcissism, psychopathy"

That doesn't sound true to me at all, though. How are you defining these terms that there's no overlap between the first set and the second?

> And are we saying that definitive driver of execs success is due to having all these traits?

Mmm no, that's not what I'm asserting. I can't speak for the other poster.
OK you can now do it here https://news.mu.xyz/add
>learn vim

After starting the (neo)vim tutorial, all I could think about was if people who "learned" vim never learned how to edit text in a normal text/code editor.

And I don't mean this in an inflammatory way. I mean:

hjkl = Arrow keys

b = Ctrl + Left

w = Ctrl + Right

df<space> = Ctrl + Delete

$d = Shift + End, Delete

dd = Home, Shift + End, Delete

2 = just press the keyboard command twice??

ddp = Alt + Down

ddkP = Alt + Up

The more I read the tutorial the more I felt like... do you not have arrow keys? I mean this literally. Is your keyboard just esc to f12 and there are no arrows or the numpad and it just ends there?

I do understand some good points of vim, like how explicit it is. There are many code editors/IDEs out there and sometimes how they treat Ctrl+Left/Right has subtle differences, e.g. ending the "word" in "-" or "_" or stopping before or after spaces. But most of this stuff is (or at least should be) configurable. But that's about it.

I mean how do you even use the numbers? Who looks at code and says "no, this should be exactly 8 lines below this one." I just Alt + Down until it's right. I'd spend more time trying to write the command right than I'd spend just pressing the keys multiple times.
> Should these companies not be allowed to advertise and distribute products that might help some and might hurt others?

That is correct, yes. Pharmacologically active ingredients are medicine. Encouraging someone to take mental health meds without supervision, especially when made who-knows-where with who-knows-what quality control, because they're unregulated, is incredibly irresponsible.

There's a reason you can't buy Zoloft over the counter. Anything else in that space is either:

1. A placebo, in which case, no, companies should not be advertising it and thus keeping people from seeking qualified help, or

2. The real deal, in which case, no, companies should not be advertising it and selling it for unmonitored home use by people with zero education in the field.
There's definitely an observed political dimension to alternative medicine camps; in other words there is a big "left vs right" phenomena that's worth observing. But what we might really be seeing is young vs old in the willingness to consider alternative medicine.

After all, why should young healthy people spend so much time thinking about rejecting mainstream medicine?
OpenAI now working with US Military on cybersecurity tools
It would, but the homeless-industrial complex couldn't stand for that.
Here's a layout I've been following: https://www.youtube.com/@rcgrabbag

Easily highlights the issues in messages here, takes room, time and money to do this.
Singing in the style of someone is a bit different than commanding a few promots to make up lyrics and AI sing them in a specific style. The former implies some effort, the latter is just effortless. That effort not being needed nor rewarded would eventually lead to much fewer taking the road to any type of artistry. Maybe that’s the next evolutional step culturally or maybe it a big loss.
ethanol is poisonous and legal otc
“The most common reasons people gave for not having more children were concerns about the economic, social and climatic outlook, cited by 30% of those polled. Some 28% said raising children cost too much.”

It occurs to me that this could be the fuel for a vicious cycle in countries where the government assumes high responsibility for social care: low birth rates create a population skewed older, which requires greater taxes on younger citizens, which places them under greater financial stress, which further suppresses the decision to have (or to have more) children.
> "I don't know and I don't care"

That is ignorance, and what is apathy? Get out of here?
- I don't trust big pharma, and prefer alternative medicine.

- I will never let my child get vaccinated.

- I don't trust the education system, and homeschool my kids.

- I feel economically insecure and feel like the establishment has left me behind.

- I think the government is lying to us and the Jews are secretly running the world.

- I don't think we should be fighting wars all over the world.

Tell me, do my political views lean far right or far left?
It's not a trap in this context. Somebody who dies from malaria in 1500 is just as dead as somebody who dies from malaria today. Their friends and family are likely to react differently due to different culture, and they will assign different causality, but dead is dead. The whole point of this article is to compare material conditions today to the past. Which isn't the only thing that matters, but it absolutely does matter, and comparisons can be made.
No, it can't equally be applied to Israel, just because South Africa does something, it doesn't follow that it's logical or correct.

It can't equally be applied to Israel because Hamas attacked on October 7th and subsequently vowed to repeat these attacks. That is extremely relevant, you can't just ignore this fact.
Exactly this. I've set up several VPSes for clients. They go for years without any maintenance because they don't want to pay for it. (They only bother when something is absolutely critical... like the OS is EOL and no more security upgrades.)
Even further, Americans are so heavily marketed on junk food we don't know what is what. We're told that fruit is a sugary treat, bananas are 'belly fat food', and I have no idea how to cook beans to make them interesting to eat. (Not that I have tried or thought about it recently - I'm sure I could with a minute of applied brain time)

Meanwhile sugary cereals like Heritage Flakes, and honey loaded granolas are what we think is healthy.
> I don't think any person who actually has worked on anything creative in their life would compare a personal style to a model that can output in nearly any style at extreme speeds. And even if you're inspired by a specific author, invariably what happens is it becomes mix of yourself + those influences, not a damn near-copy.

I don't think anyone who has ever read a novel in their life would say that an AI can write literature at all, in any style.

> not a damn near-copy.

The obvious solution is to just treat it as if a human did it. If you did not know the authorship of the output and thought it was a human, would you still consider it copyright infringement? If yes, fair enough. If no, then i think is clearly not a "damn near-copy"
Does the 15-year amortization period really apply if working with a remote contractor via a U.S.-based employer of record (such as remote.com)?

The "research" is being performed remotely, but you're just paying for the service of a U.S. company.

It would be similar to paying a U.S.-based consulting shop, who may or may not use off-shore labor; I'm actually not sure if the service you're paying for falls under section 174 in either situation, but I'd be surprised if businesses are required to look into the R&D supply chains of their service providers
Yeah, I think a big part of the trendiness of these groups on both sides comes down to a sense of powerlessness in the world. The "secret knowledge" allure is certainly part of it, and I think for both the Goop-left and Infowars-right there's a strong sense of "manifest your destiny", either by being a gun toting self-sufficient alpha male or by harmonizing your vibes with the cosmic mind to manifest positivity in your life.

We've focused on the individual so much in American society that people have a real hard time viewing their individual situations as anything other than a personal failure and something they alone must correct, so we wind up with this kind of wacky bullshit instead of, like, labor laws and healthcare.
While we clearly have the most potential, history suggests that we are not abusing it (well too much). Note that many of those who complain the most are hiding behind the US - when you are in NATO you can sign an anti-landmine treaty with confidence that should they be needed in your country the US will step in and put them down for you. (and if you look at Ukraine today you see why the US doesn't sign those treaties - aweful as they are, in war they work)
That makes sense. Why have separate services for food and alcohol?
Yes, you'll have many machine Agents that are grouped under your personal agency.

In Holochain, a standard service named "DeepKey" (https://github.com/holochain/deepkey, still under development) is tasked with managing groups of "Agent" keys.

On creation of a new Holochain Agent (associated with some Holochain application or piece of hardware), you'll associate it with your Deepkey keyset. Later, you can discard (or recover agency over a lost private key for) an Agent ID.

But at no time should "randos on the internet" be responsible for the agency of your data. That's just crazy -- no matter how "easy" they make it, they simply don't care (evidence would suggest) as much as I do about my data.
I don't know you at all; please don't take what I'm saying personally.

> I'm not trying to convince you trust me, do your own research, I'm just a stranger on the internet.

Great, but then you go on.

> The word of mouth advice that gets thrown around at raves and places like reddit are often incomplete and terrible bro advise:

Your comments are word-of-mouth advice on HN. I think that encourages people, without you intending it, to follow that same advice elsewhere. Lots of well-intentioned people give copious, confident advice without knowing what they are talking about - you can see it on HN and even more on Reddit, etc. If someone doesn't already have expertise, they can't distinguish effectively between truth and misinformation (which is supported by research).

I worry people will get hurt. Maybe links to authoritative sources would help.

> sidenote: I was very tempted to ask ChatGPT to clean up my comment for readability.

Not an enouraging thing to read when veracity is a general worry (again, nothing to do with you personally).
It'll be, and human made things will always be better and more sought-after, however capitalism doesn't work that way.

When the replacements become "good enough", it'll push the better things because of being cheaper and 90% being there. I have some hand-made items and they're a treat to hold and use. They perform way better than their mass produced ones, they last longer, they feel human, and no, they're not inferior in quality. In fact it's the opposite, but most of them are not cheap, and when you want to maximize profits, you need to reduce your costs, ideally to zero.
OpenAI: Democratic inputs to AI grant program: lessons learned and implementa
Mortality's a helluva drug.
Per the license itself:

Additional Use Grant: You may make use of the Licensed Work, provided that
you may not use the Licensed Work for a Document
Service.

A “Document Service” is a commercial offering that
allows third parties (other than your employees and
contractors) to access the functionality of the
Licensed Work by creating teams and documents
controlled by such third parties.
It doesn't matter, those states would not be better off if they did not ban it.

They would be better off if you did it the other way around - ban large public models.
For me, the pinnacle of smart home voice automation would be a fully local voice interpreter that runs on some low-power device that I already have (like, say, an Apple TV), that supports some fixed, explicit set of commands that are easy to reference and/or modify, that has rock-solid reliability and that runs deterministically.

To me, it feels like Siri/HomeKit (or even Home Assistant/Assist) has a much clearer path to that ideal than ChatGPT spitting out JSON.
Insurance claims for stolen property and health stats around number of stabbings? Not perfect, but perhaps useful to validate UCR data.
They didn't plunder animals. They were too lazy for that. They plundered local Asian hunters and their communities.
I've found adding "forum" to my query on Google works decently
That's it, now it finally becomes clear. Hear me.

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is not just a story, it is the story. The story of our planet, Earth, a planet-sized computer built by the Amaltheans to find the definitive question to life, the Universe and everything for which the answer is '42'. Things went awry when an ark full of telephone cleaners crashed on the planet/computer which made it come up with the wrong question. The book only mentions that they'd have to build a new Earth to run the program again but now it can finally be proven that they did no such thing - they just used the old one and recycled the top layer of the machine's substrate and left us the evidence: sand. Billions of tons of recycled computing equipment cover our beaches, filling up the bottom of the seas and covers parts of the planet.

Think about this the next time you're laying a brick wall, pour some concrete or are annoyed by the gritty stuff between your teeth when you eat your lunch on the beach. You're literally eating computing history and who knows what effects that will have on the final outcome.
The AI doesn’t have to be user facing. It can be summarizing , censoring or transforming conversations without a visible agent.

If I send you a message and AI transform it, how will either of us know?