skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also non-US, but I never remember this being a problem - the immersion breaking outweighed the lack of a built-in pause every time. But VHS also launched very early in my life and completely eliminated any upsides to ads, as well as many of the downsides!
Why do you stop at looking at ads? Why not compelling viewers to actually support the advertisement by buying their stuff? Letting them pay your way through life without buying their products is tantamount to stealing. All this free money from ads, do you get free money from the grocery store? From a taxi driver? No. So why do you take it from advertisers without buying whatever they offer?
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It can't do any of that, though.

There's no thought or reasoning behind anything LLMs generate, it's just a statistical pile of stuff. It's never going to generate anything new. It literally can't.

However, they are really good at highlighting just how many people will believe nonsense stated confidently.
Yes, minority. Marketing works, and it works on multiple levels as well, serving multiple, synergistic purposes. An ad for a product serves to increase sales of that particular product, which is what most people think ads are for. But in the meantime, the brand also positions itself, by showing that product as their representative, with the experience that comes from its choice of colors, shapes and other presentation material, by showing their logo and other associations like a jingle, and by signaling values that the viewer is supposed to associate with the brand. All of these are happening at the same time, and with every tactic that is not directly illegal - and it works. People's lives, culture is shaped by products, it's impossible to avoid at least thinking a bit about Apple, Coca Cola, or cars for example.

So even if we are in the minority of trying to be as rational with the purchases as possible, we surely don't do this all the time with everything. And surely we can't expect others to follow suit - so, simplifications will be made in the decision process, and that is exactly where advertisers are aiming for, and successfully.
I try!

Oddly enough intern employment for the company is quite sophisticated (and exceptionally fair), they are also paid. Yet, there have been cases of having extraordinary interns, some of them got a direct job offers immediately as well.
Something that concerns me the most is how are we going to train new generations. I teached a course at the university and many students just chatgpted everything, without any critical thinking.

It doesn't matter how many times you showed that it invented assembly instructions or wxwidgets functions, they insist on cheating. I even told them the analogy of going to the gym: you lift with your own strength, you don't use a crane.

And of course, it is evident when you receive students that don't know what is a function or that cannot complete simple exercises during a written test.

We learned by reading, lots of trial and failing, curiosity, asking around, building a minimal reproducible bug for stackoverflow... they (the ones that rely only on chatgpt and not their brain) cannot even formulate a question by themselves.
It comes from philosophy: essential vs accidental.

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/essential-accidental/
Ads make people desire stuff that they don't need. The goal is to make you unhappy. It is the opposite of help, the opposite of happiness.

Ads are also a great enforcer of gender and sexual identification by stereotyping and categorizing in order to target audiences. Hairstyle, toys, tools, colour, food, behaviour, everything. I blame ads for identification crises of countless souls, and for toxic human environments and for hate as people internalize stereotypes and categories. We need less enforcement to identify. We need more 'it does not matter'.

Yes, the correct amount of ads is zero.
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Talk to your manager manager. Talk in manager's language. Be rich. :-/
ostensibly because after years of experiments, ads get more revenue in most circumstances.
Well, advertisers advertise because money: I put $X into facebook, google, taboola, linkedin, yahoo, and so on and I get X+R% back in revenue from amazon, facebook, google, yahoo, etc.

As a result, it doesn't matter whether you are "in the minority" or not, and to show you why simply assume that your "behavior" is the majority for a moment: If I'm still buying ads, it's not because altairprime is on my marketing list, and I'm determined to show you an ad for something you don't want, but because volume of minority ad buys 'V' is high enough to support my lifestyle at an 'R' I have uncovered.

That is to say, as an online advertiser, I'm looking for my channel (with a big R% and a big enough V), and I don't really care about the absolute size (V) of not-my-channel until I have an idea of how to get that big R from them.
Not if you fail by running out of fuel and smashing into Europa.
To me, being anti-ads is being anti-poor, plain and simple.

The advertising model makes the rich subsidize services for the poor, and I think that's a very good thing, and many people underappreciate the extend to which it happens.

On that note, I'm somewhat annoyed that we're culturally ok with people who use online services and block ads, and yet we're not ok with people who ride on public transit and don't buy tickets, even though it's basically the same thing and a very similar business model.
> Ads are a good way to make revenue when it is done right.

Russian roulette is an exhilarating and entertaining game to play when it is done right.
I used to do this when I designed rave flyers in the 1990s.
>has little to no nutrition,

No, it's full of carbohydrates, it might be lacking B vitamins and what not but energy/nutrition it does have. In some cases it would be sweetened with sugar (so both glucose/fructose)

What you explain is mostly the demand, though, in north europe the black bread (incl. rye) is common for instance.
> Ads are an incredible technology that has dramatically improved everyone's ability to build businesses online.

UBI does that better. Not only does it mean we can build the businesses we actually care about and believe in, as opposed to having to defile our own purpose with ads to stay afloat; it also improves societal well-being by allowing people to focus on the content they want/need and not be distracted and annoyed by unsolicited ads literally every day.

If this doesn't resonate with you, you should reevaluate your reasons for making a business. Are you making it so that you can spend your time doing what you enjoy, or are you making it to exploit other people for your gain?
I'm still waiting for an AI-driven ad-removal software or even hardware layer.

I'm willing to pay
https://github.com/y-scope/clp
What hourly rate can you offer?
Show HN: Hacker Herald – like HN but with crowdsourced pics and subtitles
Hi folks this is a project I worked on with some of my students when I was running an online JS programming course. Although the online course is no more, I finally got around to releasing Hacker Herald with a former instructor and student - thanks Arnav and Archis!

To those wondering if there is a need for such a Hacker News front end, I would just point out that most newspaper websites are laid out like this - clearly some people like this kind of layout!

Also for some stories a picture really does help - currently there is a HN story titled, "Portland airport grows with expansive mass timber roof canopy". But IMO it's better to actually see a picture of the timber roof while scrolling rather than having to click through to the article.
It sounds like you're asking it to rephrase until it spits out something you like.

That's not "the good stuff", you've just turned it into robo-Clever Hans.
You can't give informed consent before you click a link.
That is a big question, a few things you can do:

* Air gap EVERYTHING.

* Extremely careful screening of employees.

* Constant security training of staff.

* Anti air defence.

* Bury your cables.
Alternative theory; they know nobody is going to pay them but without a premium tier you cant go all in on monetising the free tier.
> But for things like “I have a question about why I was charged $24.38 on my last statement” you will still be escalated to an agent because inquiries like that require a human to investigate and interpret an unpredictable pattern.

Wishful thinking? You'll just get kicked out of the chat because all the agents have been fired.
Indeed, I too, do not. But that wasn’t my point.
Way more is a joke. They cant even drive on on highways. They cost a lot more and themselves have frequent interventions.

No they aren't top 10 in sales yet but they do have the best selling vehicle on the planet.

And are profitable where others in the top 10 are not. Many are laden with huge debts and Nissan and Volkswagen have said they are in trouble where as tesla is not.
Or if you can't stand the lkml.org UI:

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wh_b8b1qZF8_obMKpF+xfYnPZ...
It's honestly worth asking even about humans. By the time an infant is old enough to display meaningful personality traits, they've been around other humans learning as much as the cats. An infant can't survive in complete isolation, so we have no way of testing how much behavior is truly pure instinct and how much is learned. It's unethical to do this experimentally, so all we have is a sparse collection of historical feral children, but even these were always raised by humans at least through infancy. This paper's intro notes that inequity aversion shows in humans as early as age 4. That is more than enough time for it to be entirely learned.
I'd rather have 10 entrepreneurs passionately engaged in their genuine interest to improve lives, than 10,000 entrepreneurs racing and competing with each other to see who can exploit more people and extract more wealth for themselves.
Neither, I do it to make money in a way that also helps other people. Almost nothing worth doing is zero sum, and most businesses are positive sum.

UBI won't work in the US, we have enough data now that I've moved on
Playmobil has a horrible number of super-small parts that'll go missing really quick when taken outside.

Lego has these, too, of course, but with Lego you at least have the benefit of being able to infinitely combine these parts to build stuff from them. Playmobil is "dumb" in that regard, you can't combine anything except in those ways in which it was specifically designed to be combined.

The real alternative to Lego in my opinion is Duplo, from the same manufacturer. They have no really small parts at all, so these are really good for outside play. But still infinitely combinable.
I'm missing something here. I'm familiar with TomCat, but that's an application server for JVM programs. Here the project specifies which technologies are used to develop it, but which kind of applications will it serve? Are the applications supported by this server using a specific runtime? Will it serve native applications? Sorry for the naive questions, I'm not into web development.
Who defines what is culturally OK? I ask because in my book, using an ad blocker regularily is worse then skipping the occasional public transport ticket. I don't even know why. But I definitely dont give ad blcoker people that much slack. If you want the ads gone, PAY or stop using the service. Hiring a virtual bodyguard to bully your way through cyberspace is somehow weird to me.
So this is something England's Royals are funding?

In a just world, they would be added to the "Conflicts of Interest" section. ;-)
> Juniors today can learn exponentially faster with LLMs and don't need seniors as much. [...] Take me for example, I've been programming for 20 years

You are not a junior, you already rely on 20 years of experience.

Last time i did any sort of web development was 20 ago, but i thought to try some C# (touched last time ~10 years ago) + Blazor for an idea i had and it took me a couple of days to feel comfortable and start making stuff. While i haven't written for the web in a very very long time, my experience with other tech helped a lot.
Supermaven recently suggested that I comment a new file with “This file belongs to {competitor’s URL}.” So, it’s definitely not at the point you can just blindly follow it.

That said, it’s a really nice tool. AI will probably be part of most developer’s toolkits moving forward the way LSP and basic IDE features are.
> Government departments, including the Home Office and the DWP have, in recent years, been reluctant to disclose more about their use of AI, citing concerns that to do so could allow bad actors to manipulate systems.

As we speed into a future where AI will likely be everywhere and fully control our lives, being afraid to say whether certain processes use AI because it can be manipulated is the same as having low confidence in the reliability, consistency and fairness of such AI. I’d say every process that uses AI should clearly state which AI is being used, which model/version, what data it was trained on, whether the dataset is approved, etc. I for one think AIs that use prompt engineering and where the user input can directly affect how such prompts are executed are not the AIs to use in any kind of critical work that affects people at scale.

Ok another note, if a group is more likely to commit fraud (maybe due to culture, religion, social status, wealth level, etc), and the system takes these into account so that it disproportionately negatively affects such group, is it being biased? I think not, but it’s is probably being unfair. Being fair in this case might mean being biased, but can a government create/use such a positively biased system? Isn’t that what led to the university admissions lawsuits in the US? So what would the solution be here?
Interesting idea. And with Musk's ties to Trump, he doesn't need to buy Intel himself. The shake-up doesn't need to fit stereotypes, nor (with the current SCOTUS) satisfy legal niceties. If Musk told Trump "great countries make their own chips", the national security establishment echoed that, and Pat wound up in charge of Intel's fabs, with "Make Great Chips" for his marching orders...could Pat make that work out? It certainly would be interesting.
I'd love to hear what that is.

So far, given my range of projects, I have seen it struggle with lower level mobile stuff and hardware (ESP32 + BLE + HID).

For things like web (front/back), DB, video games (web and Unity), it does work pretty well (at least 80% there on average).

And I'm talking of the free version, not this $200/mo one.
Stakes will be too high for that. The risk of that backfiring will be immense.

Well, there’s always the chance of claiming the shooter got away, and be lying in a ditch somewhere
A French bank was fined $9 billion by the United States because it routed Iran-France trade payments through US banks in dollars, violating American law (despite the trade being legal internationally), demonstrating the power of the US dollar as the global reserve currency.

When Will De-Dollarization Happen? Explained by Kishore Mahbubani

https://youtu.be/k_9bU90gGmo?t=183
There is a huge gap in performance and reliability in control systems between open-loop and closed-loop.

You've got to bite the bullet at one point and make the transition from open-loop to closed-loop. There is a compute cost associated to it, and there is also a tuning cost, so it's not all silver lining.
Oscillofun is the first one I've seen, and I still love the music:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4YyI6_y6kw
It's 4cm shorter and 1cm narrower than an iPhone 16. Of course it's also 4x thicker (~8mm vs 33mm).
Another alternative would be getting something like this: https://www.amazon.com/Nikon-Coolpix-Digitalkamera-Megapixel... although I am not sure about the quality of images you can get from that.
I thought it said Poland at first lol.

But this is nice. I like it. I wonder how well those trees do in such an indoor environment though.
What do you mean? ChatGPT is free, the Pro version isn't.

I'm talking of the generally available one, haven't had the chance to try this new version.
the more it becomes "genuinely astonishing" that people can use the internet without $ProprietaryThing, the more important it is to resist using $ProprietaryThing wherever possible and at all costs. they have been pulling out all the stops for 10+ years to make it seem like you're required to have a google/icloud account to participate in society. it's slimy and endangers the neutrality of the internet.
OAI through their API probably does but I do agree that ChatGPT is not really Enterprise product.For the company the API is the platform play, their enterprise customers are going to be the likes of MSFT, salesforce, zendesk or say Apple to power Siri, these are the ones doing the heavy lifting of selling and making an LLM product that provides value to their enterprise customers. A bit like stripe/AWS. Whether OAI can form a durable platform (vs their competitors or inhouse LLM) is the question here or whether they can offer models at a cost that justifies the upsell of AI features their customers offer
The 10 will all be born rich

And almost no startups extract or exploit. The reason Europe is so poor and not growing is because of this dark turn toward zero sum thinking. Startups literally create new wealth, it's not taken from somewhere (except rare cases of fraud or scams)
Powerful government doesn’t imply strong institutions that uphold rule of law.

It’s usually the opposite…powerful governments rule with an iron fist but are internally marred by corruption and incompetence.
It boggles my mind why the US doesn't simply offer high-speed trains for easy distances like those.

That whole Northeast is just screaming for it with easily managable distances. Boston, NYC, Philly, Baltimore, DC.. All easily high-speed-trainable. Boston to Portland too, for that matter.

Instead of spending 1 hour queueing at the airport, spend one hour on the train and you're there.
How did noone post https://xkcd.com/927/ yet?
The presenter in this video claims there is evidence of a desire for "fairness" in many species: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meiU6TxysCg . Maybe it's a different concept than "Inequality aversion"?
Are AMD chips wearing out after a few years?
> It doesn't matter how many times you showed that it invented assembly instructions or wxwidgets functions, they insist on cheating.

Wouldn't the compiler complain in those cases anyway? Why not let them burn through their mistakes, that's how people tend to learn best :-P
> … wayfinding … is much worse

I assumed they would have detached any signange hanging from the ceiling before lifting it. The text would be too small to read otherwise.
This experiment, listed in one table and in the references but not discussed elsewhere, would suggest otherwise: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meiU6TxysCg There might be other confounding factors in that experiment, but for the life of me I can't imagine what they would be. My stats knowledge has evaporated over the years so I can't follow exactly what the study is doing to come to their conclusion, but it strains my credulity to suggest that the monkeys in that experiment aren't angry about perceived inequity. I'd be interested to know if anyone can do a TLDR of the study as to why they reached that conclusion in the face of what looks like pretty compelling evidence.

Edit: Now I come to think about it, I suppose a counter-argument is that the angry monkey just knows that the experimenter has grapes and they're angry they're not getting them, rather than being angry that the other monkey is getting grapes while they're not. Feels like that argument makes sense given our tendency to anthropomorphise animals, particularly primates.
"Betray" isn't really the right term, the west were clear from the start that they were in this to bleed Russia and were only planning to provide enough weapons to keep the conflict simmering in a bloody fashion. Ukraine hopefully understood that they were just running out the clock in the hope that something miraculous would happen on the way through. It still might, wars are unpredictable.

We've already gone far beyond the limits of sanity in Ukraine. There is no upside, lots of potential downside and the stench of hypocrisy follows everyone who contributed to the recent expeditions into Iraq and Afghanistan that look mighty similar to what Russia was doing but wasn't met with anything more than shrugs and harsh language. It is a profound mystery why only one of the 3 needs to be escalated like what has been done.
HN: “you know, in reality the French Revolution was actually a bad thing. Feudalism is where it’s at”
My personal T&Cs say websites don't get to show me any ads. Websites continue to agree to those T&Cs by sending me content.
> Once a while I turn off ad-blocker to remind myself how bad it got

It's pretty obvious that this is not what the person you're replying to's talking about
Surely not 70% but like 5-10% might be a better ballpark figure. Coding or generating with LLMs is just part of the problem and always the fastest part of software building. All the other things eat disproportionately larger amount of time. QA, testing, integration testing, making specs, dealing with outages, dealing with customers, docs, production monitoring etc. etc. It would be cool if we get AI involved there especially for integration testing though.

I really dislike the entire narrative that's been built around the LLMs. Feels like startups are just creating hype to milk as much money out of VCs for as long as they can. They also like to use the classic and proven blockchain hype vocabulary (we're still early etc.).

Also the constant antropomorphizing of AI is getting ridiculous. We're not even close to replacing juniors with shitty generated code that might work. Reminds me of how we got "sold" automated shopping terminals. More convenient and faster that standing in line with a person but now you've got to do all the work yourself. Also the promises of doing stuff faster is nothing new. Productivity is skyrocketing but burnout is the hot topic at your average software conference.
Email, Jitsi, Matrix/Element, many of them, e2e encrypted and on-premise. No serious company (outside of US) which really care about it's own data privacy would go for MS Teams, which can't even offer decent user experience most of the time.
Because privacy
every ruling class loves this paper
Sometimes I end up watching US TV with US ads on some stream. They are horrifying and amusing all at once.

The idea that prescription medication is marketed to the general public on TV is entirely foreign to me, the descriptions of conditions that 99% of people wouldn't have heard of make me wonder just who they are connecting with.

Then you get to the "side affects may include headaches, vomiting, diarrhoea, haemorrhaging, spontaneous combustion, exploding eyeballs, bubonic plague and instant death - do not take this drug if you are a living breathing human being" bit and you can't help but laugh. Who goes to their doctor after watching one of these?

And "Dude Wipes" - I mean is that a spoof?
Nothing is being forced on you. Just don't buy the product. We're not talking about your church or your kids school, it's a website you can choose not to visit
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>> Tracking me around the Internet is fine though, I don't mind and it has never harmed anyone

So if you had someone follow you around in your day to day life writing down your every activity, then sold the log of your comings and goings to hundreds of companies for cash - that wouldn't be a "harm" by your definition then, would it? Because that's effectively what's happening on the internet, but because people don't see immediate negative impact on their lives they don't see it as "harm".