skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you're right, and I don't think it's just about public content being "exploited" to train AI models and the like. Rather, even before LLMs, there was a growing sense that publishing ideas or essays publicly is "risky" with very little reward for the very real risks.

I wrote about this a little in "The Blog Chill":

https://amontalenti.com/2023/12/28/the-blog-chill

Speaking personally, among my social circle of "normie" college-educated millennials working in fields like finance, sales, hospitality, retail, IT, medicine, civil engineering, and law -- I am one of the few who runs a semi-active personal site. Thinking about it for a moment, out of a group of 50-or-so people like this, spread across several US states, I might be the only one who has a public essay archive or blog. Yet among this same group you'll find Instagram posters, TikTok'ers, and prolific DM authors in more private spaces like WhatsApp and Signal groups. A handful of them have admitted to being lurkers on Reddit or Twitter/X, but not one is a poster.

It isn't just due to a lack of technical ability, although that's a (minor) contributing factor. If that were all, they'd all be publishing to Substack, but they're not. It's that engaging with "the public" via writing is seen as an exhausting proposition at odds with everyday middle class life.

Why? My guesses: a) smartphones aren't designed for writing and editing, hardware-wise; b) long-form writing/editing is hard and most people aren't built for it; c) the dynamics of modern internet aggregation and agglomeration makes it hard to find independent sites/publishers anyway; and d) the risk of your developed view on anything being "out there" (whether professional risk or friendship risk) seems higher than any sort of potential reward.

On the bright side, for people who fancy themselves public intellectuals or public writers, hosting your own censorship-resistant publishing infrastructure has never been easier or cheaper. And for amateur writers like me, I can take advantage of the same.

But I think everyday internet users are falling into a lull of treating the modern internet as little more than a source of short-form video entertainment, streams for music/podcasts, and a personal assistant for the sundries of daily life. Aside from placating boredom, they just use their smartphones to make appointment reminders, send texts to a partner/spouse, place e-commerce orders, and check off family todo lists, etc. I expect LLMs will make this worse as a younger generation may view long-form writing not as a form of expression but instead as a chore to automate away.
> ChatGPT can simultaneously claim to return accurate information while at the same time being completely independent from the sources of the information?

why can't that be true? Information is not copyrightable. The expression of information is. If chatGPT extracted information from a source works, and represent that information back to you in a form that is not a copy of the original works, then this is completely fine to me. An example would be a recipe.
It doesn't have to be super drastic - When I graduated college and got a decent job, most of my social group was making less than a full time minimum wage salary, bouncing around couches, or staying with parents - with no hope of it improving. I felt the resentment a lot, even though it was subtle, and constantly felt obligated to pick up checks if we did anything I wanted to do, because what I could afford to spend on an outing was significantly different. Then that builds resentment over time, etc. People don't like seeing people with more "stuff" than they have at a really deep level. Looking back I am not sure that I could have done much to salvage it, the only friends that survived out of that era were the ones that were able to bring themselves out of their situation as well.
This thread has started with GP saying "cookie stuffing is illegal" and me replying "does this qualify as cookie stuffing?" I'm not claiming what they did is legal, I'm claiming it might be illegal, just not for "cookie stuffing". As far as I can see there is no evidence that this particular suit claims "cookie stuffing", so there is nothing in it that can add to the question whether this qualifies as "cookie stuffing" or not. Which was my only original question.
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>> I believe they used a combination of sound dB meters and carbon monoxide detectors to determine approx number of people and how loud they were.

> Carbon dioxide* detectors, people don’t produce carbon monoxide

Wouldn't smokers produce carbon monoxide when they smoked? That might be something they'd be legitimately interested in.
"This post is for paid subscribers". Flagged.
parsing is most difficult for probably the first third of the problems. when you get to day 19 or so, the input is still just a grid or a bunch of ints just like day 1, but the algorithms required are considerably more challenging than the parsing part. (I've done all 25 problems in all years)
Incoming admin said they'd do the same unfortunately [1] [2]. Bad policy, is what it is. Likely leads to some sort of M&A with Cleveland-Cliffs [3]. Steel demand is likely to remain subdued for the foreseeable future [4] due to China's deflationary macro and US Fed target rate remaining elevated, so policy is really just managing stagnation or decline at this time (and the ~14k jobs at risk, ~11k of which are United Steel Workers union members).

[1] https://apnews.com/article/us-steel-nippon-trump-biden-steel...

[2] https://archive.today/xaKEP

[3] https://www.clevelandcliffs.com/news/news-releases/detail/63...

[4] https://www.fitchratings.com/research/corporate-finance/glob...
For another angle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Is_to_Be_Done%3F_(novel)
Just joking about EA, who did exactly what you are suggesting, then it went promptly off the rails. But maybe they’ve regrouped since FTX, I don’t know.
Defamation lawsuits and criminal prosecutions for market manipulation do help keep them from outright lying most of the time.
I create a gource every couple of years wherever I happen to be working.

Here's my personal projects from 2023: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuzFtbM3qU0
I suspect it might feel indecent to tell others you suffer when you're both free and rich, and it's difficult for them to figure what's wrong with you.

Instead, people in such position should probably go out and join associations which distribute food to those who need it. At least they'll see that they're doing something good to improve others' condition and would probably feel better.
You gave me flashbacks of editing html, php, and perl in some shitty web editor within cPanel in the 1990s.

That was before, or maybe alongside, my Notepad++ / CuteFTP workflow.
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Turo, the Car-Share App Used in Two Attacks, Is No Stranger to Safety Concerns
throttling should be an exception, not the norm.

If ISPs sell you a bandwidth per month they should deliver it.

You're the one that's short changed if you accept the throttling.
>we will have tighter and tighter controls over the internet.

Years ago, I said this might happen. Way back when, there was no FCC and the airwaves were the Wild West and anyone could throw up an antenna and call themselves a broadcaster.

The internet is too wild and you all know it. I, too, want to be able to put together my own web site to hold content or sell my wares but, as psychologists now warn, the harm this "anything goes" content has caused us needs to be tamed.
I get a better first pass at code by asking it to write code at the level of a "staff level" or "principal" engineer.

For any task, whether code or a legal document, immediately asking "What can be done to make it better?" and/or "Are there any problems with this?" typically leads to improvement.
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That's the heart of it!
As I understand it, that's common now - cheap HDMI splitters do the HDCP negotiation on the first port, and then the unencrypted digital video and audio signals are cloned to both ports, ready to be captured.
I don't think that this would work as we are generally looking for people with 30-40 hours of availability per week.
Ah, idealism. Truly the root of much of misery of the world.
> At the time I wrote it, the unit tests told me that wasn't true

Yes, it's something I changed before merging your patch.

I didn't mean to say your patch wasn't good or anything It was very much appreciated.
ISPs are free to oversubscribe as much as they want.

As long as they also provide people the bandwidth sold to them when they want it.

Otherwise compensation should be in order if they throttle.
The most effective policy for fixing homeless is, surprise, giving people places to live.

It's hard for people to address any other problems in their life unless they have a roof over their head, if for no other reason that the homeless are chronically severely under-slept.
Nobody takes it literally like that though, because at least in a better job market way too many people have that money.

If you want to tie it to a single scenario I'd say it's taken on a meaning more like 'I'll do what I want to you/your business/parking because I don't care about paying to sort it out if I'm sued'. Parking where I 'can't' & paying the 100x fine seems better to me than finding where I 'can' and paying the 1x ticket sort of thing. Not to say everyone's morals would have them act like that, but illustratively.
And I'd include that as well: if your server rejects emails because of your spam-decisions, you can't claim "we've never received that email". Either you don't use email for any legally-binding communication ever, or spam-filtering is a you-problem, not an everyone-else-problem.

It's not surprising that the strongest protections always happen on the unsubscribe links, but not on the subscribe-links. That just needs to be fined out of existence, just like "you can order with one click, but you need 50 clicks and a three-hour-conversation to cancel".
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Every time I see news about cities discovered in south america I look to see if the dates line up with the Nephite/Lamanite civilizations of the Book of Mormon (roughly 600 BC to 400 AD). This is the closest yet that I've seen. I'm eager to see what they discover in the coming years about their culture and government. Will we find traces of their Judge-based government? Signs that they worshiped Christ and practiced Jewish rituals? It will be interesting to watch this investigation unfold.
Isn't there a legitimate problem with people renting AirB&Bs to specifically to throw wild parties, so they don't have to give a shit about the neighbors?

I mean, having your neighbor's place all the sudden turn into an unauthorized hotel is annoying enough, but it's be even worse if the hotel guests are also throwing parties. It seems like this devices is actually a conscientious way to try to limit those negative externalities.
Have you personally launched and made money with any web2 or web3 apps?

How much did you make?

> reclaim the term like every marginalized group does

I'm 34.
Not just "smart people." The smartest people on the planet, the smartest people he met in his life, maybe ever!
The Chevron doctrine, which was recently overturned by the US supreme court, stated that US courts should defer to the regulations of US agencies such as the FCC. As I understand, under Chevron, functionally, the FCC's regulations on telecommunications were law to the courts and the corporations.

It seems to me that it's unreasonable to expect Congress itself to have informed, correct opinions on technically complex topics. There are a limited number of Congressmembers, most of whom are not technically skilled. Delegating regulation to domain experts who remain accountable to Congress seems like a reasonable solution. If Congress disagreed with the FCC's handling of the situation, couldn't they have made a law to overturn the FCC's decision or limit its authority?

Overturning Chevron is a victory for deregulation in general. As I understand, Congress could pass laws to explicitly reinstate the authority that the FCC previously held. However, pro-deregultion factions (I assume mostly Republicans, but I don't really know) now have a chance to block that, and even the supporters of NN have other fish to fry.

Essentially overturning Chevron curtailed the authority of regulatory agencies-- authority which Congress expected them to have, and could have restricted at any time--without going through Congress. Yes, it's the job of the court system to interpret laws. But when they change interpretations which other laws depend on, that's basically changing the laws themselves, isn't it?
> Does it use Google App Script? Would be a way to gain extra power I think.

Isn't that just straight up JavaScript at that point? Feels kind of like cheating if the goal is to complete AoC with a spreadsheet.
I would venture that introducing fresh ideas and technologists with first principles thinking will yield better results.

It could, maybe. Provided the people you appoint have some measure of credibility and integrity. Or at least seem to have some kind understanding of the basic mechanics by which governments (even when reduced to a bare minimum) need to operate.

Elon and Vivek plainly do not fit this description, and that should be screamingly obvious by now.
Thank you Comrade Bidenov?
“it is difficult to imagine how the human mind could function without the conviction that there is something irreducibly real in the world; and it is impossible to imagine how consciousness could appear without conferring a meaning on man's impulses and experiences. Consciousness of a real and meaningful world is intimately connected with the discovery of the sacred. Through experience of the sacred, the human mind has perceived the difference between what reveals itself as being real, powerful, rich, and meaningful and what lacks these qualities, that is, the chaotic and dangerous flux of things, their fortuitous and senseless appearances and disappearances"

Eliade, Mircea. The Quest: History and Meaning in Religion. University of Chicago Press, 1984

Now, while Eliade’s word is not final, I think it touches on your question of what spiritual means in the context of mankind. Being a spiritual animal means being an animal embodied with consciousness, an animal that is aware of its existence in both space AND time.

Eliade is a great read for a number of reasons but the best reason is because he can be read from an atheistic or religious perspective and his passages are no less revelatory. If you want to believe that there is no purpose to existing that is fine, I wouldn’t recommend it, but that is fine. But that doesn’t take away from the fact that consciousness transcends evolutionary necessity and by that nature alone deserves serious and legitimate thought and preservation.
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The combo of data exports and open-sourcing your code is a great solution to this problem. If you vanished tomorrow customers could easily migrate to a different vendor or even self-host. That carries much less risk than betting on any early stage VC startup that might vanish overnight, even with more people involved.
Sure, ISP can oversubscribe as much as they want.

As long as they make a fair guess and I get my bandwidth whenever I want, all is good.

That seems to be the case right now.

Dedicated internet access is a different thing, I agree, it also provides different guarantees, support, etc.
What it means is abusing chevron deference to make law isn’t going to work anymore. Such sweeping changes need to be passed through Congress.
This one stands out as being the kind of thing I could have used:

> GraphQL Network Inspector
No, he’s not. Calling this telemetry is a stretch and that’s his style on everything he disagrees with (unfortunately).
The best solution, that the LLM did not find, is

def find_difference(nums):
try: nums.index(3999), nums.index(99930)
except ValueError: raise Exception("the numbers are not random")
return 99930 - 3999

It's asymptotically correct and is better than O(n) :p
I am with you on #1 -- I write a lot of tutorials but I'm not trying to help you learn how to open a terminal. I'd prefer to lose those readers up front rather than frustrate them for 30 minutes.

#2 is too far. If people want to misuse your stuff, shame on them, but don't boobie trap it!
Why does YYYY exist? Is there some common need I'm not familiar with?

Also, I clicked on the title because I wanted to know what format Yyyy was... I feel mislead.
The typing effect is unnecessary and goes against the minimalist theme of the app.
No, you're right, I should have said 550ms and 100ms, I'm having a doof morning about timing. Thank you! Too late to edit my post.
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First of all, I'm not talking about international conflict, where the law of the jungle still effectively applies to this day. I'm talking about domestic liberalism, where ideas like the fundamental equality and the consent of the governed are held to be self-evident. If you disagree with these ideas then I suspect you will be intractable.

> At what arbitrary point would you like to start counting

There is no need to keep count. We are all born into this world with no possessions, and we all negotiate with those already here for everything we come to own. It is true that people and circumstances vary widely, but that doesn't provide legitimacy for one person's claim over another (equal) person's legitimate good fortune.

> We live in a society which, by definition, requires multiple people participating

It is exactly the nature of this participation which I am litigating. I hold that it should be maximally voluntary and consensual. The only justified violation of fundamental liberty is in defense of liberty itself. Drafting people into the army (effectively enslaving them) is justified in direct defense of the nation (not to attack eg. Vietnam). Redistributing legitimate (earned through consensual exchange) wealth by force simply doesn't pass this test.

> There is no high philosophy here, it's just the reality of how things work. Get over it.

Funnily enough this is the exact sort of reasoning has been used to rationalize the most horrific atrocities ever perpetrated.
Indeed it's always amusing that whenever the Western media talks about Russian political opposition to Putin they almost never mention the Communist party despite it's consistently strong polling.

Back to Putin - I see him as harking back to pre-communist Russian empire days, rather than the Soviet Union per se.

So he is in the same camp as people in the UK who are nostalgic about the British empire.
> A private corporation has no business reading my files for its own benefit.

that's what i'm saying!! because of all these special privacy measures it's genuinely impossible for them to get any benefit from this. it is only used for your benefit to improve photo search on your local device.

they don't see any of the data, they simply perform computations blindly over the encrypted data that are then returned to your device to then decrypt the results locally and use them to improve local photo indexing for you.
> Would allocating a 640-byte string initially really be the right tradeoff?

It depends, presumably the generated JSON string would quickly be written down inside something else (e.g. sent as HTTP response or saved in database), so the object slot would be freed rather quickly.
I've noticed a few things that will cause it to write better code.

1) Asking it to write one feature at a time with test coverage, instead of the whole app at once.

2) You have to actually review and understand its changes in detail and be ready to often reject or ask for modifications. (Every time I've sleepily accepted Codeium Windsurf's recommendations without much interference has resulted in bad news.)

3) If the context gets too long it will start to "lose the plot" and make some repeated errors; that's the time to tell it to sum up what has been achieved thus far and to copy-paste that into a new context
Yeah, it had a sketchy reputation before the acquisition - here's a 2019 HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21589352