skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Currently, it seems paid newspapers are developing their own solutions, meaning I have to subscribe to each one individually to read the news.

You've answered your own question right there.

Follow the money:

Actual subscriber: $X per month

Paywall clearing house setup: $X÷Y per month (where Y is the division ratio of your payment to the clearing house vs. the clearing house's payment to the publisher) [1].

With $X being greater than $X÷Y, the publisher has an incentive to "go their own way" because they believe they will receive more revenue per reader that way.

[1] And the clearing house may even be worse, in that it may be some $X÷Z per read, where the Z divisor produces a value significantly smaller than $X per month.
Nokogiri also has something similar; I've used it in a couple projects where I needed to output XML.

https://nokogiri.org/rdoc/Nokogiri/XML/Builder.html

https://nokogiri.org/rdoc/Nokogiri/HTML5/Builder.html
I look at it more like a lever or pulley. I'm still going to get a good workout exerting the maximum that I can. But wow can I lift a lot more.
Dupe (57 points, 2 hours ago, 102 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42575940
And two thousand years ago Socrates said the same thing about writing:

> For this invention will produce forgetfulness in the minds of those who learn to use it, because they will not practice their memory. Their trust in writing, produced by external characters which are no part of themselves, will discourage the use of their own memory within them.

https://www.historyofinformation.com/detail.php?entryid=3894

I love to mention this whenever someone taking the “this new tech is bad” angle. We have to be careful to not just have the bias of “whatever existed when I was born is obvious, anything new that I don’t understand is bad.”
I leave this here to contemplate :-)

https://earthsky.org/space/explosion-milky-way-center-seyfer...

https://spaceaustralia.com/feature/milky-ways-galactic-core-...

And 'now' this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galactic_Center#Gamma-_and_X-r...
I’ve discovered CardGames.io when I found out that the author [1] of one of Firefox addons I use, Redirector, passed away. It’s a pretty straightforward, lightweight web app by the same author, with a bunch of card games (and some non-card, too) to play online. Here’s a blog post about the beginnings of CardGames: https://einaregilsson.com/story-of-cardgames-io/

Today I’ve discovered that it keeps getting updates!

[1]: https://einaregilsson.com/
> I wish we had a democracy that could prevent this but we do not

Doesn't this rely on us as the individual? We get the government we allow. We, humanity, could've had anything we wanted, this is what we gave ourselves.
Imagine that you are a customer of that vertical and search accordingly.
I'm currently shopping for a new car, and while asking questions at a dealer (not Tesla), they revealed that the sales guys use ChatGPT to look up information about the car because it's quicker than trying to find things in their own database.

I did not buy that car.
Looks like they sold in 2020 for $4Bn, and both founders left two years later in March 2022. One founder started Pie, which basically seems like Honey with a slightly different angle. The other founder became a VC.
Thanks for the advice, I really appreciate it! I totally see your point about asking for complaints instead of just feedback—people are often more honest when they can point out what's not working. I’ll definitely try asking more specific questions as you suggested. I guess next time I do something like this, I'll know what I could have done better.

Thanks again for your feedback, and for giving it a try—that’s all I can really ask for. Happy New Year!
I'd expect this to increase with the proliferation of AI Crawlers and scraping becoming easier with AI.
Again, you are 100% missing my point. I am fully aware that the job title has no legal bearing on overtime. The job title is used to mislead the employees into believing they are not entitled to OT.
Why would it be incumbent on Honey, or illegal at all? It is a voluntary transaction by two businesses.

If the business does not want their codes given out, then they should not agree to Honey’s T&C.
Sure! I'll do several videos in the future with my workflow. No ide, I just use the web interface.
We now live in a 1.5 degree warmer world. We can empirically study how much that level of warming is costing us already. It turns out that the measurable effects of warming on GDP absolutely dwarf the costs of mitigation. Ignoring climate change constraints in developing civilization will make us all poorer. Again, the effect of warming on GDP is measured, not postulated.
It's a monarchy under sharia so I don't think a western monarchy term properly represents what it is. Iran is very much unaligned with Hamas, it uses Hamas as a tool but despises it. Hamas and Qatar are Sunni whereas Iran is Shia, they despise each other but hate Israel/the west more.

> Playing Iran vs saudi arabia is also the reason why Qatar "passed money to Hamas", when asked by Israel (or rather, Likud). The funds they passed are originally from Israel.

Some money was indeed passed by Israel, but a lot of the payments for families of Suicide bombers etc. was not part of that specific deal. Giving refuge to Hamas leadership is not part of that either.

> I'm pretty sure they only report on things already reported on by Haaretz (which are the only middle east news i truly trust atm) or international medias.

I used to read Haaretz but now I only read specific posts my spouse shares with me.

Haaretz is a bubble. They pick narratives that fit specific world views. That makes it harder to understand why some things are happening. When I read more centrist news it gives me better sense of both sides on the matter and the comments there help me gauge public sentiment more accurately. Unfortunately, none is good and I still need a filter to "read between the lines".

I'd argue that any Israeli news source is better than Al Jazeera but I'm obviously pretty biased on the matter and even I don't blindly trust Israeli media.
What they want, they will have. We have no say.

Who here remembers: "Stay calm. Breathe. We hear you."

Why don't we also have more bots on HN? Oh yeah.

But serious question ... why in 2024 do we have our own widely-available tools for Web1 (Wordpress powers 40% of all web sites) and Web3 (all the semi-geeky protocols, like UniSwap, and wallets) but for Web2 we have, uh, Mastodon and Diaspora? Where is the real open source competitor to Facebook, Twitter, et al?

Otherwise it's their world and we just all live in it. Just to communicate with your friends. Just to have a platform. You have to put up with whatever they want. And give them all your followers. And content. So they can monetize it and make billions, train their AIs on it then dump you. That's the bargain.

And in the meantime they will spy on all their users, try to push advertising and newsfeeds and notifications and bots down their throats, and play their content creators against each other etc.

I'd be saying this about huge AI models trained on corporate clusters but Zuck actually spent billions on giving away an open source one (thanks to that fiasco with researchers leaking weights, LLaMa became sort of the Mozilla of AI models). But AI is recent, Web2 is ancient, where are the open alternatives?
You have almost no far left in the US. You have extreme ID politics (that are distributed on the far right, the right, the "extreme center" and socdems) and a bastardized radical center[0] that include almost every politicians, even those who appear socdems or far-right. And here i'm using far-right to designate people who want to come back on minority rights, and i separate it from the right.

(Because when supposed "far left" organizations use the word "empowerment", i just facepalm, that's "third way" bullshit imho)

I think Musk doesn't really understand his politics, and that's what hurt him. He should be in the extreme center (with Hillary, or Bush), but he was caught in ID politics for a long time.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radical_centrism
It's a tragedy of the commons situation.

Anyone who takes on additional costs will be punished for it, because the hive mind of society always (read: _always_) (let me reiterate: always) favors lowest cost, all else being equal.

If your SaaS costs $12/mo because you voluntarily pay for offsetting all emissions that result, you are going to be hard pressed to beat the guy who doesn't give a fuck about emissions and offers an equal product for $10/mo.

The only way is to regulate these things to force compliance between all competitors. Emissions have a real cost, but it is far enough in the future to hide it. The government needs to force that cost into the present.
We're not concerned about DRM because it will (or won't) stop us from redistributing and playing content. The stated goal of DRM (blocking copyright infringement), and DRM's general failure to meet that goal, is the least interesting part of the story.

We're concerned about DRM because what it does accomplish. DRM creates a vertically-integrated market wherein every layer of the stack is authoritatively controlled by a colluding oligopoly of vertically integrated hardware+media corporations (Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Comcast, etc.)

The greatest problem with DRM is drivers. NVIDIA hardware only works well in Linux because it's important to NVIDIA's business. Even so, there are longstanding issues that would have been fixed decades ago if kernel devs were allowed to collaborate. Instead, DRM (and copyright in general) demands that the driver dev team be siloed away from the kernel devs. This way, NVIDIA can use the exclusivity of its CUDA implementation as an anticompetitive advantage in its hardware business.

Copyright is, fundamentally, a wall between would-be collaborators. DRM is an implementation of that wall, but instead of isolating people, it isolates software. The wall DRM provides is not used to monopolize the distribution of content: it is used to construct moats in our software ecosystem.

There's a reason I prefer the experience of torrenting a Netflix rip over streaming Netflix on my Roku: the entire hardware+software stack is superior. I can actually sort and navigate my library. I can decode&render with my faster GPU. I can adjust the audio delay. I can adjust subtitle placement & font. I can mix the audio so that dialogue is actually audible. I can do frame interpolation with SVP (again using a better GPU than whatever your "smart" TV has onboard). I can seek forward&backward quickly without changing bitrate. I can let the credits play without being interrupted by an ad. The list goes on...

I don't want a goddamn CRT. I want modern hardware. The more we let corporations abuse us with DRM, the less compatible that hardware will be with real software.
I don't like the narrative of generation divide, it's those who own vs those who rent. It's been like this for a couple of centuries and in several countries ended up in revolutions.
> First, that would incentivize posting more low-value crap just to stay on the top of everyone else's feed

For 'social influencers' sure, but normal users don't care about that. Removing the engagement hacked platform that primarily benefits social influencers would be a significant improvement for most users on most social media platforms.
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Its not only about protection, most web developers would use Cloudflare since its a free CDN and would increase the app load time considerably.
Isn't it a 39% drop? From 38% rise in 2023 to -1% drop 2024?
Because if such hosting and developer tools are not protected against bots, the tools end up used for phishing, spamming, etc.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blendle tries but existed the German market. The wikipedia article is a bit outdated. One was able to search articles and then pay per article. If I recall 40-75 Euro cent. Then you downloaded a PDF file. I guess the news publishers insist on subscriptions.

With unifying subscriptions you'd compete against Apple News Plus and Google Play Newsstand. Companies with big pockets.
I agree! I think we should be just chucking excess heat off of earth with massive mirros or micro waves.

There is surely no way we stop producing, even if the world burns to a crisp.

Embrace the nihilism is my current stance. People think they need optimism to think and feel ok. Turns out you can feel perfectly fine and productive when you assume the world is coming to an end as well!

Its just a matter of perspective, what matters is having a clear plan for what you think will happen, and executing on it. It doesnt matter if the plan may be grim to others.

This is just reality, reality doesnt care about someones feelings.
That’s not gonna impress me either. There were zoox cars on Lombard st in sf I think. Windy streets are not the challenge. Putting your money where your mouth is - that’s the challenge.
> Also, given that this is the author's work laptop, what's the economic justification for not investing in the primary tool you use for work?

Shouldn't the burden of proof be on the obverse - Why should one buy a new laptop when an old one will do? Your framing sounds to me like a post-hoc justification for consumerism. Why not "invest" in getting the absolute best in the primary means of transportation, or couch, TV or random product category?
Most evidence is circumstantial. If someone walks into your office with a wet umbrella, that is evidence that it is raining outside but it doesn’t prove that it is raining. Some evidence is stronger than others, but it is all evidence and should be judged in its totality. Having a flag of a terrorist organization doesn’t prove anything, but it is still evidence. Having a knife, rope, and duct tape in your car doesn’t prove anything, but it is still evidence. It is throwing logic out the window to ignore context and the totality of evidence.
Is it possible that some of the readers FSF is targeting may not be using a dedicated GPU.
Hah, we had a common dev chat where we discussed problems and solutions. It worked great.

Then one guy started unabashedly pasting ChatGPT responses to our question...

It got silent real fast.
How is this a captcha ? how does the server verify you killed 3 monsters?
Sure, but no need to optimize for that until it happens. It's not clear to me that they will become profitable; they might go under.
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> I disagree that it’s down to the individuals.

Individual action is known to be so inefficient that the oil&gas industries poured money into promoting the idea of the personal climate footprint.
> People said the same thing about IntelliSense.

Personally I think it's true. I do the majority of my coding with IntelliSense off. It has its uses, however flexing the mind and maintaining a clear mental map of how the code is organized is more helpful.
Could it be that such increasing specialization (sales, accounting, coder, glue…) is driven in part by decreasing attention spans and ability to focus? Maybe nobody is able to exert significant deliberate cognitive processing on anything beyond a narrow slice that they are already comfortable with.
That's not true. The Model 3 refresh was not announced until after it shipped.

Tesla announces non-competitive new models way in advance. The cybercab and cybervan announcements do not compete with existing models and thus could be announced years in advance.

However, Tesla is well aware of the Osbourne phenomenon. Announcing a $25,000 car would destroy sales of 3, so they haven't done so.
Can't you have a normal firefox profile for such cases? Do you have any javascript filters? I bet the issue must be related to configs messing with the JS runtime.
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RWKV is def. better than TinyStories 125MB.

Unfortunately, I have only seen 3 models, 3B or over, handle RAG.

Tested RWKV with a simple in-the-sports-news question and it didn't even get close to approaching the question. And nearly everything was fundamentally incoherent even in its internal reality (ex. Player gets 5000/game and is the first with 1000 in 16 games)

(prompt: https://pastebin.com/sCLn5sCJ, response: https://pastebin.com/TqudvDbN)

I don't think there's a position for LLMs that are "just" writers on the market in 2025.
"Lessons learned #2: Ask ChatGPT again"

It's hard to say if this post is satire at this point. Perhaps next time consider consulting alternative sources of information, like AWS own documentation.

That's not to say ChatGPT isn't useful, just don't trust it blindly. Despite all the useful information it gives, it also will hallucinate and misinform on regular basis.
Apparently the people doing this kind of work have been disproportionately in Eastern Europe and what's going on in Ukraine has so disrupted that part of the world that they currently have bigger problems.

So then you're waiting for either that region to stabilize or demand for cracks to cause people somewhere else to get into the game, and in the interim you effectively have a temporary supply chain issue.

But it's hard to give credit for the ravages of war to the DRM pushers and it's not at all obvious that they've secured any kind of permanent advantage.
What I don't understand is why you have to protect areas that require login so harshly?

If I can log in, especially with 2-factor, you can safely assume I am not a bot, or you have a larger problem.

If I have entered bad credentials 5+ times, okay, you can start backing me off or challenging me.

What am I missing? Fail2ban has been around a long time.
I'm really afraid of what kind of internet we'll have when these kinds of un-diagnosable un-appealable false-positives are not just transient blips, but become metadata companies use to blindly and permanently kill off accounts on other services.

I think it may have been what happened my since-2010 Reddit account was mysteriously killed a couple years ago, and literally the only cause I can think of is that I might've used the wrong public wifi for an evening.
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Sir Terry Pratchett’s _Reaper Man_ offered that snow globes were effectively seeds for dispersing awareness of new cities / malls.
CSS Anchor Positioning API
I really enjoyed this. You made a great choice in typography and the relative size where the English translations do not interfere with the original Latin text. I hope you can continue.
While I haven’t tested it with Minecraft (I was planning to) I believe it should basically work. Let me know how it went if you decide to try it!
I dedicate time to it almost every day. I also have a book club with a friend to keep me a bit outside my comfort zone.
I don’t think that Haaretz is in a bubble as much as it’s simply captured by its audience.

Don’t get me wrong it clearly has a very distinct ideological leaning but comparing their English edition to Google translate of their Hebrew one shows that their ideals very much take a backseat to subscriber fees.
Imagine if you were generating 16 UUIDs per nanosecond, every nanosecond.

According to [1] due to the birthday paradox, the probability of a collision in any given nanosecond would be 3E−17 which of course sounds pretty low

But there are 3.154e+16 nanoseconds in a year - and if you get out your high-precision calculator, it'll tell you there's a 61.41% chance of a collision in a year.

Of course you might very well say "Who needs 16 UUIDs per nanosecond anyway?"

[1] https://www.bdayprob.com/
Thing is, people who foresee problems happen to be the people who have the education to talk about them.

The rest of the world is in the dark ages. Imagine being told they will never have a chance to get to a better life? Imagine being told you will lose what you have because people in the west blew it all up.

Heck, given how crazy things in general are, I wouldnt be surprised if people start throwing nukes around as "solutions" or as "fuck you"s.
They are not targeting people like you. Bots are the target. If you look like a bot, how are they going to distinguish?