skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The internet is 90% Fake
The internet is not real and 90% of its traffic is likely bots. From the media to the interactions to the connection: we all live inside these little digital enclaves that rarely connect with REAL people or digital media. Its all political ai/spam bot farms and ai generated political videos. More than half the code on github is from ai, probably more than half of all websites are fake and created for some sort of automated purpose. Whats even stranger is thinking back 10 years ago and how unique every page I visited or game I played was. Now the experince is awful: constant garbage on every corner of it, the same bubbly "smooth" UI's on every site, every application, everywhere- ad here, ad there, cloud this cloud that. Your data?? Our data!! its in the big old cloud (their computer). Everything is somewhat the same- everything follows the money, money follows the data the data shows a certain action is profitable, bot farm time- now we all do same thing make same content same shit because its all been captured, we have been captured (6 hours on average a day)! Where is that strange esoteeric nonesense that seemed so common back then?? Its all algorithms to keep you in the hot trash milling around aimlessly. Always "I BELIEVE THIS" and "YOU CANT BELIEVE THAT" as well as the same soundbytes and stupid ai voice generators. We are all flys stuck inside this stupid web tangled up into a cacoon- an enclave of fake interaction, content generation and SPAM. You realize if I really wanted to change your perspective on the world or meddle in elections, I would quite literally entangle you within a fake world manifested to lean towards certain views to get you to vote or think a certain way. An entirely fake media feed and followerbase could be genrated at the click of a button. The internet died without us even noticing.

What really strikes me the most is that the follower based approach to metrics has switched to a subscriber based approach. Now, this is a problem. If you have an algorithm which has a closed source ranking system to amplify or supress certain content you completely eliminate creativity and orginality. Why? Because every content creator will change themselves or their content to meet the demands of the network (or platform), NOT their inner creative self. Furthermore, the fans they are trying to please are mostly fake and they are generating content for some bot farm that wants them to do or think certain things. Then the real people see that content and think they have to be thinking like that person or against that person because of the amplification it has recieved in the digital world. But the simple reality is, its all engineered and we are too stupid to realize it.

We drift in silence, truth erased,
Enclaves of nothing, time displaced.
It’s dead, this digital abyss,
And we are lost, consumed by this.
I believe this is the correct answer.
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.gitignore Is Inherently Sisyphean
I wonder where they host

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I guess couriers could be implemented in many forms, with Bluetooth passers-by being one mode.
Can confirm this is wicked cool! Keep up the good work :)
It's closer to Dutch or German. I had no issue understanding transit signage in Amsterdam. The difficult words are calques and idioms that don't directly translate, i.e. opponthoud. Exit is uitgang, literally an "outgoing". Entrance is ingang, ingoing.
Right: so many of the decisions to treat employees poorly, going way back before the pandemic and the rise of remote work, are not about money (though they are usually justified by talking about money in a superficial way); they're about power, and classism.

If our Just And True Overlords (ie, the bosses) can't walk around and see the people they command doing everything they tell them with their own two eyes, then what's even the point of being one of the Just And True Overlords?
Huh, I went and referenced the ECMA JSON spec and you're right that it treats numbers only as sequences of digits which would make these effectively the same problem
What an privileged, entitled, disconnected, and insulting opinion you have.

A student _loan_ is nothing at all like being a non-person OWNED by someone who can do whatever he/she wants with you, even use you as alligator bait.

Here's from the Jim Crow museum:
https://jimcrowmuseum.ferris.edu/question/2013/may.htm

Enjoy.
Sure, bars and restaurants will have an endless supply of boring music, but no one is ever going to go to an AI music event.
I’ll be honest, as someone who loves riding bikes, I’ve always felt that running is (tongue in cheek) for chumps.

I’ve finished 200mi rides and loved them. I’ve finished intense 80mi races and loved them. I’ve been on rides with over 15,000ft of climbing in a day. I loved them. I’ve passed 75,000ft of climbing in a week and loved that too!

I’ve never enjoyed a run, but I’m hard-pressed to think of a bike ride I didn’t enjoy. Give it a shot!
I have a general problem with not being able to align "I want to do this" with "I am making plans to do this" with "I enjoyed that"

And had the same feelings with game jams. I'd look forward to them, then feel bad while doing them, then look forward to the next one. Which I suppose is better than the normal depression behavior of looking forward to nothing and planning nothing.
A big part of this businesses model is because only large Pharma companies are equipped to handle the regulatory barriers and large enough to negotiate with the PBMs
Apache doesn't enforce copyleft, so the Pear authors can license whatever changes they made to Continue with any license they want.

What isn't ok is to change the license of the existing code. They seemed to have corrected this since[0]. I think it's very hard to argue they didn't comply with the Apache license in this case, especially since the license is technically included in the forked git history.

On the surface this just seems like it was a naive and sincere mistake. I doubt that the Pear people were trying something nasty.

It also seems one of the founders has a fairly popular YouTube channel, so he's probably aware that this sort of nothingburger drama is great for business if handled competently.

[0] https://github.com/trypear/pearai-submodule/commit/335436b47...
I'm working on my plasmid editing software. (PlasCAD). Slow roll! Adding features to make cloning more intuitive.
Before things like this become widespread, can we get some etiquette (and legal awareness)?

On one recent videoconf with a startup founder, it turned out that they were using some random AI product with access to video and audio on the call, without my knowledge or consent.

(Thanks a lot; now some AI gold rush company has video and audio recording of me, as well as ingested the non-public information on the call.)

Their response to me asking about that made me sure I wanted nothing to do with that startup.

But some AI company probably still has that private data, and if so, presumably will go on to leak it various ways.

And it seems the only way to get an AI goldrush company to actually remove all trace of data it's obtained sketchily/illegally, might be to go legal scorched-earth on the company and its executives, as well as to any affiliates to whom they've leaked.

We shouldn't need random people undertaking filing lawsuits and criminal complaints, just because some random other person was oblivious/indifferent about "consenting" on their behalf. Which "consent" I don't think is legal consent (especially not in "two-party" states), but AI goldrush companies don't care, yet.
Godot expressed support for LGBTQ+, so the alt-right had to fork their own.
Sorry if you felt attacked, it wasn't my point.

Congratulations on developing and shipping a fully-fledged product, I hope I'll help people in need of a "it just works" solution for this particular problem. Paying for it is of course justified, as you poured your time and knowledge to provide a fully working fix.

Since this is Hackernews, I shared how I approached this problem on my devices - I use Hammerspoon to script little parts of the system I don't like in macOS and audio device handling is one of them.

I use a more complex version that handles additional pain points, but the default input source changing has worked just fine for me for the last few years (with AirPods, Bose QC35 and regular wired headphones).
At the end of the day, we're all pushing protobufs from place to place
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the osi was founded by people who built their businesses on open-source software, with whom i talked about it in detail at the time. despite entrenched resistance from, among others, proprietary software vendors and the iranian government, open source became the default way to make software about ten years ago. in large part that's because it's much better at limiting predatory abuse from monopolies than proprietary software is, so large users commonly choose open-source software even when proprietary alternatives look better on paper

i think you're missing not only the point but actually reality as a whole
go is a game with an obvious score function which can be used to construct a loss, well defined moves, and total visibility of the board. It is less obvious how to write a score for creativity in art or music, nor does it have well defined bounds on what is considered a legitimate construct of either. Just because computing hardware lets you multiple matrices faster does not mean we have the means to solve all problems.
Interesting. It seems like this move eliminates the real value of Product Hunt. I have zero interest in what the Product Hunt team itself thinks is worthy of attention.
I don't understand this comment. It makes absolutely no claims about the definition of a creole, and it makes no claims about how English doesn't conform to that definition. It just talks about "squinting" at languages, mentions black Americans for no particular reason, and accuses anyone who would argue that English is a creole of being "disingenuous" for trying to reverse the "legitimazation."

It's like the perfect troll comment. Makes no argument, implies anyone who would disagree is probably racist, and uses black Americans as a comparison for no particular reason.*

Here's my opinion: English is the result of a simplification of grammar caused by Old Norse and Old English crashing into each other with the same words but different grammar; then the French forced French usage in commerce, so most people started using a ton of French words with this English grammar. That last part sounds exactly like a creole.

Is your argument that considering English a creole lets English people off the hook for something? Are things that happen to non-white people somehow delegitimized when they are also noted in white people? Are white people so special and unique that everything else has to be defined by it's non-whiteness? If I'm missing your point, what was it?

[*] As a black American, I'm starting to recognize this as a long-standing feature of western rhetoric. A lot of modern argument seems to boil down to which side is more like black Americans. Humorously, actual black Americans are never considered to be like metaphorical black Americans; we're actually spoiled whiners with a sense of entitlement.
Keyboard controls documentation: https://docs.keeptrack.space/basic-tut/keyboard-shortcuts/

I mirrored Kerbal Space Program's controls where it made sense, but for the most part they are original controls that grew organically over time.
The IRS is not a right wing think tank, the source is quoted immediately and you can find it here: https://www.irs.gov/statistics/soi-tax-stats-individual-stat...

You will discover that the numbers are reported correctly.

> A worker's salary is taxed at a high rate like up to 40%

The bottom 50% are taxed at 3.35% of income. That's the IRS' number, not something "meticulously crafted by a right-wing think tank". Or completely made up.

> their unrealized gains don't get taxed at all.

Good. It would be an absolute disaster to tax unrealized gains because, well: they're unrealized. I'm sure the numerous serious problems with doing that will occur to anyone thinking about the question honestly for a little while. The most obvious would be the total destruction of what social mobility we do have.

> a wealthy [sic] person's gains from assets are taxed at a much lower rate like 15%

This is insufficiently general. Anyone's gains from assets are taxed at a 15% rate for long-term gains. 60% of American families are homeowners, so it isn't correct to gloss receiving capital gains as exclusively the province of the wealthy.

As I said before, I support progressive taxation, and a higher rate for people who own (not earn) in the top 0.1%, say 20%, is something I would support.

But 15% is 4.5x of 3.35%, so in no world are the very wealthy paying a lower rate of tax than workers. It just isn't true. Therefore, if the OG poster got their wish, the 'capitalists' would pay much less tax, and the workers would pay a great deal more.
The limited reliability is not only their part:

- living on wireless connections means being less reliable than being on FTTH, of course having a mobile backup/StarLink etc is a good thing, but A BACKUP not the main connection;

- living on laptops in public spaces or in a van it's a bad setup, you get tired, you could get ambient noises, you could get infosec issues much easier than a desktop at home, in a dedicated closed room, maybe with a spare one.

Of course a digital nomad who do not need to work because he/she have enough sources of income to live as an entrepreneur, a retiree etc nothing against, but a digital nomad who is an employee, well, it's a liability. I'm not against them as people, I believe in free will, I'm against digital nomad employees if I need to work with them as a colleague or a customer. That's is.
I have! https://github.com/AwalaApp/specs/issues/44

However, at the sneakernet level, and at least today, I think the only region where it'd be useful would be North Korea, if this is ever used there. Interestingly enough, I'll be talking about this in the next episode of the Inside Awala podcast, in case you're interested: https://awala.alitu.com
it's ex coinbase employees in their own startups. not coinbase
To be fair, a (stable, used by many for many years) mile-long pedestrian bridge constructed out of popsicle sticks and chewing gum would be a fairly impressive feat.
The coal-fired power station being turned into a giant battery
> Patients have time to shop for most healthcare services.

Patients have the time but rarely have the actual ability to shop around outside asking "is this provider in my coverage plan?" They demand me to sign a document stating I'm willing and able to pay while often never being able to actually tell me what the procedure will actually cost. Often, they won't even know that same day the procedure is done, it'll be weeks before I'm actually invoiced. And don't even get me started when you've chosen the surgeon in your plan, the facility in your plan but it turns out the anesthesiologist they scheduled wasn't in your plan. Oops. That's an expensive mistake you made, should have shopped around!

My knee kept locking up and I'd experience tremendous pain. Only once every few weeks though, so I had time to "shop around". I called up several places and tried to get an estimate of what it would cost ahead of actually seeing the doctor. Nobody would actually offer that, they could only make an appointment to see the doctor. No idea what the doctor would actually want to do during that appointment, so who knows what things will cost. Will they want x-rays? Will they want an MRI? Can they do the MRI there? Won't know until you commit to paying!

And out of the few dozen choices of kinesiologists around me which were covered by my insurance few had any appointments available within the next several weeks. Many weren't seeing new patients. So really it was deal with my knee randomly causing me immense pain for several more months or take whoever had the first appointment. And this is in one of the top five largest metro areas in the country, not some small town in the middle of nowhere.

Shopping for which hospital to do the delivery of my children, the estimates for our costs after insurance had a massive amount of uncertainty to the point of being useless. Could be $4k, could be $20k, who knows. Imagine going to a burger joint and the menu says a burger could be anywhere from $1 to $50, we'll invoice you in a month. Go down the street, menu says it could be $3 to $48, we'll invoice you in a few weeks. What an ability to shop around! Free market at work!

> avoid the queues back home.

I already mentioned, most kinesiologists around me were fully booked for months. Very few had anything within several weeks. That's queueing.

I tried to book an appointment with a new dermatologist a few months ago. Once again, in this very large metro area. For dermatologists in my area covered by my insurance, the earliest appointment was six months out. It took several months to get a family member's hip replacement scheduled. We have queues in this country as well.

Getting medical imaging is generally pretty quick and easy though, and places like MRI imaging centers just want to keep moving people through so if they have an empty spot in an afternoon having someone in the machine constantly is important. It's also generally the easiest thing to automate in healthcare; mostly just a matter of getting enough machines and lightly trained techs to rotate people through. Radiologists are often off-site contractors getting paid for every scan they review.
Fastest spacecraft ever built to break its own speed record
criticism can be positive, neutral or negative.
LLMs still can't reason like humans
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I'm 15 years old and I built this new tool to find consumer Pain Points
Hey! Jason here. I'm still in high/secondary school, but I love tech/ai and building helpful (well, trying to) projects.

So, I noticed all these indie hackers scraping Reddit and X for product ideas. But I thought, why not look somewhere else? Somewhere with tons of opinions and complaints...

YouTube comments.

People are always complaining in the comments or voicing their opinion, think about MKBHD's videos, people are always pointing out the negatives of the tech he reviews.

That's why I created PainPoint.Pro. Here's what it does:

You give it a YouTube video URL (We have search functionality if you can't be bothered to open youtube)

It scans all the comments.

You get a neat report with:

Common complaints grouped together

Ideas for products to solve these issues

Highlighting of comments where people are saying "I wish there was a" or "I would pay for" etc etc

Most negative comments

A search function for all the comments

We give 1 free credit, try it out and lmk your thoughts! :)

However, If one Youtube video is not enough:

Enter a Youtube niche, eg tech or sports

It scans (up to) 10 videos in that niche to give you an even better report (This will be increased very soon just currently scaling my infrastructure)

You get the full report like mentioned above

Although this is quite costly for me to do, but I'm interested in a new type of pricing for the monthly plan:

Months 1 & 2: Pay the regular price of $3.99 per month.

Month 3 and Beyond: Your monthly price drops permanently by $2—pay just $1.99 per month for unlimited analysis - niche & individual youtube videos!

Let me know what you think of this pricing strategy!

As long as you stay subscribed, you'll continue to enjoy the low price and I'll have enough to cover the infrastructure! Pro monthly plan price will never increase.

Lifetime members will receive all features forever. (Price will be increased when I expand to more platforms)

I'm not done here though and I will never be done, I'm working on more platforms which will be here soon. I understand the importance of speed and so I am working quickly to get this out.

Social proof is also much needed, so any constructive feedback is welcome.

The biggest thing I learned from this is understanding the concept of doing what you love, and genuinely have a passion for. When you have that drive, you overcome all the difficulties in development. Never do it solely for the money, you will fail.

If you want to see my full journey in building amazing (at least trying to) products, I am very active on X - https://x.com/ardeved - Send me a message here if you have any queries!

I have 53 ideas in my notepad (12 are stupid) which I will work on soon, but I'd love to hear your thoughts on my latest project - https://painpoint.pro!
Hi,
I'm Kamil, and together with my friends Michael and Martin, we have been working over the past few months on an application that gathers news about the cryptocurrency market from over 100 different, most popular sources (articles, CoinMarketCap feeds). Using artificial intelligence, it creates a summary and assesses the sentiment of the information.

As someone who personally invests in the crypto market, I needed a tool that would gather the most important information in one place in real-time, evaluate it, and prepare a summary. This way, I can quickly draw conclusions about the current market situation and check which projects are being talked about the most and the best, allowing for swift buy/sell reactions. In the coming days, we will be adding more features to make life even easier for crypto investors.

- over 100 news sources ; around 2000 news/posts daily ; news summaries
;sentiment rating (from -1 to +1, where -1 is negative and +1 is positive sentiment) and sentiment explanation in aggregated content
; crypto ranking by market cap
; market sentiment from 1H / 24H / 7d / 30d
; best/worst sentiment rankings
; most mentioned rankings
; top cryptocurrencies based on positive sentiment, high news coverage, and stable price growth

https://x.com/voicelark
A high-quality early stage team that self-selects out of follow-up rounds may be a decent outcome for some VCs. This means early liquidity in all of the "positive" events. If the founders were high quality, spinning an acquihire out can still recoup some of the loss.

The challenge would come where the founders are not serious, and instead are viewing YC as a stepping stone to a level up position in a big tech/large firm. While I'm sure everyone has this idea to some extent as a fallback, you need people to be committed to making their business work.
Most doctors, nurses, and even scientists dont work for free.

The incentive to help people is insufficient alone.
They do, more than most countries.
While the behaviors of fermions and of bosons are indeed responsible for what you consider miracles, I fail to see which is the special relationship between the Fermi-Dirac and Bose-Einstein statistics and "quantum entanglement" that you have in mind.
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That is why they pointed out the leaving the company, as possible scenario.

As for well resourced I guess it depends, that variable usually doesn't mean much, as we can see by companies firing whole departments, while swimming in profits.
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Well, VS code isn't abandoned either. Shall we raise the pitchforks against Continue too?
YC gets such great terms (because they invest so early and have great deal flow) that it's hard to see them declining unless the current venture model stops working. It does seem that recent YC batches are less impressive, but IMO that's less due to the quality of person that YC attracts and more that there's less low-hanging fruit. The "software is eating the world" thesis still seems true but now it's a lot harder to compete just on software you often need domain expertise in a complicated field.