skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah some of my points are really space dependent. For example I'm working on a solo game project, so my comment on the public/private etc. modifiers is really aimed at that where nothing will ever be exposed and the modifiers are pretty much irrelevant.

>So, that's my whiny personal take on some things on your list. Maybe I've adapted myself to the existing tools. But I personally think that many of your items, if you implement them, you will find that you don't really like how they work out.

You could very well be 100% correct there. As developers we really become used to our tools and its quite hard to adapt to new ways of doing things. But I figure its worth a shot, at the worst I'll have learned a few things along the way.
Making tools for the powerful to use while they manipulate the weak is not merely a waste. It's actively harmful. We're summoning monsters today that we'll have to fight tomorrow.
Culd be my KJV upbringing talking, but personally I think there's an informative quality to calling it "vanity" over smoke.

And there's more reasons not to simply compare the modern challenges of image and media with the ancient grappling with impermanence. Tech may only truly change the human condition rarely, but it frequently magnifies some aspect of it, sometimes so much that the quantitative change becomes a qualitative one.

And in this case, what we're talking about isn't just impermanence and mortality and meaning as the preacher/quester is. We'd be lucky if it's business as usual for old planet earth, but we've managed to magnify our ability to impact our environment with tech to the point where winds, rivers, seas, and other things may well change drastically. And as for "smoke", it's one thing if we're dust in the wind, but when we're dust we can trust, that enables continuity and cooperation. There's always been reasons for distrust, but with media scale, the liabilities are magnified, and now we've automated some of them.

The realities of human nature that are the seeds of the human condition are old. But some of the technical and social machinery we have made to magnify things is new, and we can and will see new problems.
Not the bettors as much as the organizations facilitating it.
Which is why many homeowners are losing coverage in CA.

At this point its probably cheaper for an acreage owner to build natural barriers to fire vs getting fire insurance.
https://archive.ph/1nDTV
How do people deploying SQLite server side handle migrations ? I've seen two ways but I'm still not sure which one I prefer:

* using an external tool, just like any other RDBMS (I know and use https://github.com/golang-migrate/migrate)

* embedding migrations in the app and letting the app manage migrating up.
Thank you for pointing out the potential ambiguity in saying "MIT open source". I can't edit my comment at this point in time - I'll be more clear next time.
And then pave paradise, put up a parking lot.
If you’re looking for the IRL version of that story the guy you’re looking for is Jack Barsky.
Which may be common but is a bit silly: even in the Bond universe James Bond is an extreme outlier, one of ~5 double-O agents in a much bigger agency. And he regularly interacts with normal spies
Do they have anything to show for it?
Meta's new smart glasses look like the future
I doubt OpenAI will start challenging TSMC at building chips anytime soon.
CVS doesn't sell through Amazon though. If you're buying CVS-branded chems off Amazon, its definitely not the reputable first world grocery store selling it. Its a fly-by-night third party seller, probably selling stolen goods.
> Incredible amount of negativity here.

Negativity isn't spared on bad actors.
Honest question, is blog spam still a huge problem today if you’re not running a buggy old Wordpress stack, or better yet, not using Wordpress at all?

I would think scammers and spammers would just focus on lucrative targets like instafacetok and yelpazon reviews in 2024. And is seo hacking based on comment threads really still a viable business, or we are mainly worried about links to malware?

I get that new platforms of any kind are certainly likely to be targets of vandalism, but it’s surprising that everyone seems to be suggesting that every new/unpopular/niche platform will immediately be targeted by what amounts to organized crime. Even if I had evil intentions and an army of thousands to craft malware and scams, I wouldn’t task even one of them to poke around on platforms with less than like 10% of the market, because why bother?
Measure 32 signals from brain with shield PiEEG -32 for Raspberry Pi
Another incredible agent in WWII was Virginia Hall, aka the limping lady, who managed some pretty incredible feats, escapes, and rescues and did so with only one leg.

For a (hopefully entertaining) rundown of her exploits, you can watch this 22m video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRdGS5ia2OQ

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Hall
The default behavior is to output a `fixup!` commit. Which is a command for the todo editor of git rebase.
I hate reCAPTCHA.

https://web.archive.org/web/20240927122501/https://www.theat...
The Italian mafia operated in my large New England town when I was growing up in the 1960s and 1970s. There was a beefy Italian guy at the YMCA I frequented with a nose that had been horribly disfigured by some intentional violence. One of the Italian boys in my high school offered sports bets as a service to the other children. I'm guessing that that boy was mobbed up, but I never saw any sign of it that time I challenged him to a fight (to get him to stop talking trash to me).

Certainly everyone will agree with me that the mafia is a pale shadow of what it was on the East Coast of the US in the 1960s and 1970s? And do any of the non-mafia criminal gangs in the US even offer sports betting as a service? Sports betting is still illegal in many US states, including California: does anyone know of any gang offering sports betting to Californians?

I've spent many hours on Youtube learning about the mafia, which gave me the distinct impression that the worst effects of the mafia are when it "taxes" necessary society functions (like garbage collection and skyscraper construction) and that the mafia's offering services that are unequivocally illegal are less harmful. Certainly it was outright illegal for any party to offer betting of very-high-interest loans when I was growing up.

So, without someone's proving a decent amount of evidence to the contrary, I'm going to believe tentatively that "driving sports betting underground" does not in fact has a high societal cost. The mafia's making some regular money on this or that is not necessarily an unacceptable societal cost; the optimal amount of crime is not zero.
I already do this but after someone on HN marked this practice as "best I ever done" I am going to practice this as a conscious thing.
Their TV network has always been terrible, but in the early teens, their website seemed reasonably well run.

I wouldn’t seek it out, but it wasn’t on my short list of sites to avoid in news aggregators and HN like it is today.

(I’ve never heard of the reporters they fired for being too liberal, but that event marked a sharp change in their strategy, where they said they wanted to target Fox News and Newsmax fans, and that they were changing their reporting standards to cater to those audiences.)
I , for one, thank the investors for subsidizing AI and making it affordable for us. I am not sure my measly US$20 per month will be enough to cover the cost of my usage but I am grateful for the fun I am having while the music plays.
Impossible optimism can be a good thing too. My family and I play the lottery whenever expected reward is over purchase price. Of course we aren't going to win, but spending $20-50 a week to spend a couple hours dreaming about what we'd do with half a billion is such a fun uplifting family activity that makes us realize our true wishes are a lot closer than needing millions of dollars.

Also I probably talk to my father more often about fantasy football than for any other reason, despite not caring about football.. the gamification and having stakes can be a compelling social experience.
Exactly, and I think you'd expect the people managing those servers to be experts and do their job. That's the whole point of what I wrote.
YouTube - tons of YouTubers who are independent, X - raw, fast, first hand news, Not saying don't go to mainstream news, just know the bias they may have.
In 2005, some scammy ad company paid me to do similar stuff - let them completely control some pages on a high ranking domain. Google figured it out after a few months and blacklisted my entire domain until I removed them. Crazy that this is still an issue.
One interesting idea I’ve seen is none[1]. That’s definitely more on the exploration side than the shipping one, though.

[1] https://tonsky.me/blog/crdt-filesync/
> which traditionally could not be used for online payment.

I'm not sure what country the context is, but I remember using my mothers debit card in Sweden somewhere between 2000-2010 for online things without problems, as I only had a Maestro card at that point which didn't allow online purchases.
:) I tried to make it as easy as possible to build your own copy. At the moment it should be as simple as `npm install` and `npm run electron` (two commands with no other setup to create the installer -- all in under 5 minutes)
In the authors previous post he goes into Forbes marketplace which is the same company doing this garbage content farm for CNN that they have already been doing for Forbes.

The content farm company is now trying to buy the original Forbes company.

So when our media companies become small subsidiaries of affiliate content farms then yea I think it’s a bit disturbing.
You're assuming exponential growth based on early growth rates. Those rates are extremely unlikely.
I'm not being facetious; I really can't think of a single good example where we need something to be deterministic and then have a reason to be disappointed about AI giving us a stochastic response.
Get a B/W Laser one . You will print and print and print...
> unless you really meant a “donation” from the foundation to the company

Yeah, that's what I meant.

Essentially laundering money through the 501c3 to try and negate taxes. In this case actual money never changed hands, but what is the financial value of cutting off your competitor from the theme/plugin repo?...

Not an insignificant amount.
Also the book “a woman of no importance” on her story is excellent reading.
Agreed. But this terrifies me. The goal of reusable code (to my mind) is that with everybody building from the same foundations we can enable more functional and secure software. Library users contributing back (even just bug reports) is the whole point! With LLMs creating everything from scratch, I think we're setting ourselves on a path towards less secure and less maintainable software.
Do you consider it theft because of the scale? If I read something you wrote and use most of a phrase you coined or an idea for the basis of a plotline in a book I write, as many authors do, currently it's counted as being all my own work.

I feel like the argument is akin to some countries considering rubbish, the things you throw away, to still be owned by your person ie "dumpster diving" is theft.

If a company had scraped public posts on the Internet and used it to compile art by colourising chunks of the text, is it theft? If an individual does it, is it theft?
I agree that choices are limited. Nonetheless, the days of trusting "the news" media are long gone, at least for now. You can get *information* from CNN, etc. but that doesn't make it news, nor does it mean you're getting the full story and proper insights.

Listen. Think about what is said. Think harder about what is not said. Check another source. Repeat.
> Let me break down how the media industry works nowadays

How free* media works. The media landscape has sadly divided into assuming only those who can pay for news want to be informed or have their views challenged. The poor get ads and echo chambers.
Maybe you misunderstand the market my employer serves?

We've built sites for clients both huge and small. Our clients like WordPress because it's well supported, easy to roll out, and easy to find someone to work on. Lots of people have experience with it, from having their own blog.

Even infrequently updated content can go through a logjam of revisions. And this is the failure of WordPress's versioning model: there's no way to "check in" a revision. So you can't mark what's approved/reviewed. Instead of a "check in" that nukes the middle revisions ... now you have 5-7 revisions where someone updated a button text.

Add in ACF fields (which uses approx 2.5 rows in post_meta PER FIELD) and now you've got a complex page with lots of rows that build it up. Now each "revision" is 1 post row + 20 - even 1000 post_meta rows. You see the problem.

Over time the DB bloats, and the index isn't partitioned in any way. That page a cheap dev built to query something? Runs 5x slower after a year, and the client doesn't know why.

The only reason we use WP over other platforms is: support, maintenance, but most importantly to the client COST.
Maggie Smith and Michelle Dockery were brilliant in Downton Abbey. Their characters always seemed two to three steps ahead of everyone with their wit. And were hilarious to boot.

Robert Crawley was nominally in charge of everything. But it was clear that Violet and Mary were pulling all the strings through their understanding of how the social contracts really worked. And it was fitting that in the finale Violet hands over the future of the estate to Mary.
That's a fair point, I only very recently found that LLMs could actually be useful for editing, and hadn't really thought much of using tools for that kind of thing previously.
How will ChatGPT affect Homework?
The best $4 ever spent
This is baseless cynicism.
The damage is done by these systems long before any courts get involved.
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Conversely I sold thousands of bitcoins years ago once I learned the technology and recognized how stupid/useless it was.

Didn't pan out well for me.
Tangential—methanol poisoning from an improper brewing or distilling process is largely, maybe completely, a myth. Where toxicity events have occurred they are almost always deliberate or accidental adulteration, e.g. fortifying moonshine with industrially "denatured" (deliberately poisoned) alcohol. There has been a lot of sloppy journalism in such cases that doesn't question the myth, as well as Prohibition-era propaganda that lives on to this day.

Great Reddit discussion about this: https://old.reddit.com/r/firewater/comments/9p1fwe/methanol_...
What signals do you think Google should be using instead?

I presume they made the change because their search results were filling up with blogspam, and there was no algorithm that could detect a high-quality review from a spam one.

So what do you think would have been the right approach?
6.5 Billion won't move NVidia's needle at this point. You need exponentially growing revenue from AI firms to drive increased spend on compute.
You clearly haven't read the full article as Jim Salter writes about the mechanical stuff at the end of the article.

Also, you want to reduce vibrations because of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDacjrSCeq4 (Shouting in the datacenter)
I wasn't sure what an "interlock" was, and it's a breathalyzer that prevents the vehicle from starting. Was that a mistake?

Edit: ah! I think you meant engine immobilizer
> If other people want to hit enter, watch as reams of text are generated, and then slap their name on it,

The problem is this kind of content is flooding the internet. Before you know it becomes extremely hard to find non AI generated content...
It is still being used by a cool open-source project, Kazoo, which is essentially a multi-tenant PBX.
As someone only familiar with WP at the surface level, I had assumed that WP Engine actually was affiliated with WP, so it seems to me the market confusion is certainly intentional.
Is classism not more real than race?
I heard this one about Linux in the '90s. "If you need help with doing something in Linux, don't ask for help - you'll get ignored. Just boldly state Linux can't do that and you'll have PhDs running to prove you wrong."
Peak HP has been ages ago, when they spun off Agilent and turned their core business from top notch lab equipment manufacturer to consumer electronics.
36 new plants, 7 trillion dollars and that would all have to be backed by AI? yikes.

I know Sam is gonna be a billionaire assetwise soon but I wonder if it’ll make him more realistic or even more “idealistic” (bigger bullshitter)
I'd say Llama has improved at a much faster clip than anything OpenAI has released, so probably in 3 years what I said will be even more true.
Sounds like something a spy would say
Who in the hell reads CNN, USA Today or Forbes?

They are all rags.
It's just training the source association together with the training set:

https://github.com/mukhal/intrinsic-source-citation

The only 2 reasons big LLM providers refuse to do it is

1) to prevent a long slew of content creators filing class action suit.

2) to keep regulators in the dark of how feasible and actionable it would be, once regulators are aware they can perform the source-aware training themselves
If you're curious, Martin Luther (of Lutheranism) wrote on this [1], summarized here [2] although the original is quite legible. Mercantilism (i.e. profit-making on the exchange of goods) was a very popular way of making ones' livelihood in his time and place, so it was a frequent question religious leaders were asked to weigh in on. Essentially, "how much profit is too much profit?"

[1]: (PDF) https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=501...

[2]: (PDF) https://history.hanover.edu/hhr/18/HHR2018-fergus.pdf
that's curious, what was the alternative to the CD at the time?
Well, you can always check out my stuff, and see what you think. Easy to find.
It is exactly the same as applying established patterns - patterns are what the LLMs have trained on.

It seems you haven't really used LLMs for coding. They're super useful and improving every month - you don't have to take my word for it.

And btw - codespin (https://github.com/codespin-ai/codespin) along with the VSCode plugin is what I use for AI-assisted coding many times. That was also generated via an LLM. I wrote it last year, and at that point there weren't many projects it could copy from.
Let's not focus on "LLM" then, I agree that it's just a step towards future solutions.
We all serve someone...I just prefer mine flame-grilled...
as will the summer, spring and autumn.

global warming is killing us all
Yeah, huge mistake. I see way too many people casually addicted to wasting their money and burning it for no good reason. I enjoy playing fantasy football, but gambling on it is a sad use of your hard earned money that will only impoverish people and keep them working for the man.
>Education defeats these methods.

It does not. For example young women and girls, even when knowing that an image of a fashion model is photoshopped, still exhibit drops in their self body image.

>I would rather be manipulated by private industry than controlled by government.

In many cases these two things are the same, due to the prevalence and efficacy of lobbying

>I can out wit a billboard.

Lots of people believe this, but it is false.
I personally agree that what you advocate is better. But apparently people get by without it. It’s better. But not essential. No bridges will collapse because of squash merges.

I also disagree with the framing: some policy can always be enforced if you have some kind of authority over the other person. Now we’re veering away from arguing on the technical merits.
Very little spam, but also very little engagement. The same post on hn might have 100 comments and on lobsters it has four.
I completely agree. Yesterday I stumbled on a backup I had made of an old Internet forum (2002) I was on. Just the amount of trolling and shooting the shit in every comment was awesome. The internet was the place to get away from the seriousness of life. Now it’s as bland as all the rest of it. I realize I’m doing the same in this comment , pontificating on the merits of humor. But I’m not like the rest, I swear! I remember when it was fun!
Yep. LLMs don’t really reason about code, which turns out to not be a problem for a lot of programming nowadays. I think devs don’t even realize that the substrate they build on requires this sort of reasoning.

This is probably why there’s such a divide when you try to talk about software dev online. One camp believes that it boils down to duct taping as many ready made components together all in pursuit of impact and business value. Another wants to really understand all the moving parts to ensure it doesn’t fall apart.
There are some gaps in this argument.

First, insurance boards by each state set the rules of the game, and one of the rules is to have an asset coverage ratio for the risk. Its effectively a sort of liquidity measure. Another one is minimum capital etc.
Both are traditionally paid by the original owners.

So, in effect, if the insurer goes belly up owners do lose some of the capital, and owners cannot loot the assets, either. But I agree that overall it is the customer who is most short changed because although they will get a partial payout in a crisis, it wont match their expectation - most of the missing funds will be gone as you have explained.
The GDP of UAE is 500B, 1.1T in Saudi, and 230B in Qatar. It'd take them decades to provide that kind of money.
There are still counterexamples:

https://www.propublica.org/

Traditional newspapers would get stories from things like AP, and then the editors would decide what to run. They’d also have reporters that wrote local stories, etc.

I’d argue that any news site that has eliminated all those roles is already out of business and is simply burning down their brand at this point.
this pattern is a pretty defensible way to run a sports book. obviously you don’t want to accept large bets from someone who is doing arbitrage or consistently has inside information.

any business with variable prices works this way, if some mysterious person shows up to your car dealership and seems really excited to unload a bunch of used cars on you, you should feel nervous that you’re overpaying or something is wrong with the cars.

in my view the diabolical part is the predatory marketing tactics, and making gambling platforms ubiquitous.

i say this as someone who, like you, thinks legalizing sports betting is an ongoing disaster, but wants the strongest arguments against it.
Jones Act is what is keeping that tiny fleet alive on life support. It would likely approach ZERO outside the Great Lakes without the act.

Jones Act is not what killed the US Merchant Marine Fleet. Globalization is what killed it.
usatoday owns soooo many local newspapers. Where I live if I want local news it's either them or my local NPR station and pretty much nothing else.
spending habits of the informed vs the spending habits of the uninformed or desperate.
> Prior to legalized sports betting, was "state violence" used against people who bet on sports as a casual hobby?

Yes: Sal Culosi was shot and killed by police in Virginia for wagering more than $2,000: https://reason.com/2011/01/17/justice-for-sal/

I am certain that there are more — that’s just one which leaps to mind.