skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was much easier and healthier for me to just leave Twitter (never gonna call it the other name). In fact, I’ve left nearly all of social media. It would be nice to get away from all algorithmic content feeds. Maybe someday.
Hey, author here.

I understand that its not very clear if the neural net and its weights & biases are considered as IP, I personally think that if some OpenAI employee just leaks GPT-4o it isn't magically public domain and everyone can just use it. I think lawmakers would start to sue AWS if they just re-host ChatGPT. Not that I endorse it, but especially in IP and in law in general "judge law" ("Richterrecht" in german) is prevalent, and laws are not a DSL with a few ifs and whiles.

But it is also a "cover my ass" notice as others said, I live in Germany and our law regarding "hacking" is quite ancient.
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The platform was not the problem, it was the people. People migrated to bluesky and fedi and now create these contents there.
> However, the costs are high and double with each year of use.

Brandon, how high are they? For consumers: $30 per year. For education: $1 per year. Then $2 per year. The third year is $4.
Which ones? Drying only removes the water content, what else is lost when drying foods?
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It's advisable to align the product with legal obligations prior to engaging in financial relations with clients. Also, '#1 Invoice Generator App' on the first screen seems to be slightly misleading.
I don't always like the pressure of the "New Year" to come up with a "goal"... Maintaining the habits you already have isn't easy either! And I think a goal can emerge along the way.
It may not be such an egregious example as what GP comment was referring to, but it was the first thing that came to my mind. Maybe the Medium UI has improved somewhat since I was last annoyed by this.
Thanks. My slots are M.2. The trick is getting those ridiculous NGFF/MHF4 antenna connectors to snap together without breaking.
US consumer protection law is actually fairly feeble compared to, say, the EU equivalents, generally (for a particularly dramatic example see treatment of EULAs and similar). The US does seem keen on making regulations terribly _complex_, but not particularly strong.
I am really amazed by the capability of platform, keeping me engaged towards my work by providing me XPs for the work and efforts, I put in. Looking forward to se even more integration features with other external communication channels, with upcomong updates
In my job we have metrics, but they are not mandated to employees. There are no targets and stuff like that, they are just there if you want to know. Managers track it and try to optimize for it, but nobody bonuses or employment is on the line over them. Maybe some sales people have commission, but most of the customer acquisition is organic anyway.

Funnily enough we have a weird situation right now, where we want to optimize the _cheaper_ plan of our product, meaning moving people from the more expensive plans to the cheaper one. It is a weird dynamic, but due to licensing our cheaper plan is actually far more profitable than the more expensive plans. Most clients wouldn't really miss anything from the more expensive plan.

It is one of those rare situations where convincing people to switch to the cheaper plan aligns with what is best for the consumer.
You're presenting it as a solution, but if dystopian sci-fi has taught me anything it'll become the cheap standardised food for the poor while the rich get to eat proper food.

I mean Soylent's naming couldn't be more on the nose. At least it's not made of people (as far as I know).
Switching to mastodon has been such a breath of fresh air. No algo-driven feed manipulating me to constantly check in means that I have a much healthier relationship with it. If I'm, say, on the metro I can use it to kill time for 5 minutes... and then put it down, and I don't feel compelled to pick it up.
With websockets, the client can immediately acknowledge receipt of a message, since the connection is bidirectional. And on a resync the server can just send events that the client never acknowledged.
Just an FYI that Pinboard pages aren't public anymore, only being visible to those who are logged in to Pinboard.

Marciej mentioned the following when I noticed myself and asked what the cause was:

> Unfortunately you've run into a necessary anti-crawling measure that keeps the site from getting overwhelmed. About four months ago I started getting hammered by distributed crawlers from Chinese IPs, with no real way to block them short of blocking the entire IP range. Putting things behind a login is a stopgap while I try to figure out a more durable and friendly solution that makes it possible to have public-facing pages again.
Nowhere else on earth is that structure a concrete wall. Its always some rather flimsy metal structure- designed to crumble.
I think the comment author means offering inference via Firebase, with the model never leaving the backend.

This works, just like ChatGPT works, but has the downside of
1. You have to pay the computing for every inference
2. Your users can't access it offline
3. Your users will have to use a lot of data from their mobile network operator.
4. Your inference will be slower

And since SeeingAI infers the model every second, your and your customers bill will be huge.
Do not think it's a bad thing... Even if it's just once a year
I think this is a glimpse of the future. I can imagine ever-greater amounts of information overload, and AI used everywhere to filter it to manageable levels.
My first website was a baseball fan site in the late 90s. I discovered Google that way, because I had somehow reached the #1 result for "perfect game baseball" and got a lot of traffic thanks to David Wells (or Cone, can't remember which).

The web was so amateur back then, that I even got an email from a sports journalist asking if I accepted submissions from freelancers.
Your cost for running anything on the internet is never near null. The cost for an extra transaction may be, but you'll have a fixed floor.

You'll have servers to run. You'll have servers fail in a weird fashion. You'll have customers that have weird issues. You'll see GDPR requests for data. You'll have servers to patch, software to update. Wait until something comes up where you need legal guidance (ToS and GDPR compliance, for example)

You're doing invoicing for customers - they'll expect that you keep their data safe. They are legally required to keep that data for 10 years. Unless your offer is "Create the invoice from a template and ythe customer is responsbile for safeguarding their data" - in which case I can replace you with an OpenOffice Document Template, for free.
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> Fucking NPR now has ~2--6 "Related" links between paragraphs of a story.

Some sites even have media, like videos or photo carousels in or before an article, the content of which isn't related to the article at all. So you get this weird page where you're reading an article, but other content is mixed in around each paragraph, so you have no idea what belongs where.

Then add to that all ads and references to other sections of "top stories" and the page becomes effectively unreadable without reader mode. You then left with so little content that you start questioning if you're missing important content or media.... You're normally not.

I don't believe that these pages are meant for human consumption.
I see the above discussion as a describing a process, very much like evolution, with web sites
bieng the species of interest, and how they are bieng shaped by, internal competition, for resouces (and prey), errr food, preditors, parisites, and environomental changes.
neat!
The need for “impact” in performance evaluations is also the cause of a lot of bike shedding.

I had a meeting the other day where my manager sent our team and told us to “be visible so we have something to report for year end about broader impact.”

We basically disrupted a meeting with poorly thought out commentary to put “cross pollination” on our self summaries.
Not new, but always enjoy occasionally checking what Rek and Devine are up to @ 100 rabbits: https://100r.co/
The decline in birthrate is because of social media and dating sites? Source? It already started way before those existed. In some countries for many decades (Japan for instance).

And working till dead was normal throughout almost all of human history.
Social media apps have downsides, but I find the algorithmic short videos on facebook ("reels") quite incredible. The algo seems to suggest mostly science; niches I would never have known about, let alone had an active interest in, had the algo not suggested them.

I suspect experiences using social media apps differ wildly from person to person.
I don’t use AI for any of my work or study requirements.

Rather, I’ve been using chatGPT as a recipe book. I generally hate cooking so decided to see if having a robot cooking companion might help make it easier.
For me, it actually does. Firstly, the AI recipes are so much less wordy than human written recipes but also… chatGPT will adapt the recipe if I realise half way through cooking that I have forgotten to get an ingredient.
I’m sure it’s not something good cooks would need, but I find AI most useful in my kitchen of all places.
I somehow miss the time when face recognition was the only "controversial" area of ML/AI.
Well, yes .. it is a label, and a label can be put almost anywhere. This is normal, expected C behavior and any standard conformant compiler would behave the same, not just GCC.
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This, plus in several years we will observe many MVPs generated (partially) by LLMs that will require fixing and further development. LLMs barely produce 1k lines of coherent code, riddled with bugs. Benchmarks are improving, but there is no breakthrough in handling real, large codebases. I have no idea about the future job market, but the quality of the "material" we work with will be quite poor.
Yes, because the speed was lower. Kinetic energy increases with speed squared. Uncontrolled 300 km/h on the ground kills you in any vehicle.
All of those can be made on a relative dime, too; you mention things like rice, chicken, beans, carrots, all of which can be bought in bulk or from a freezer.

I hope people learn how to use spices and can source them for cheap; we have a source that is bascially a big rack that sells things like paprika powder for €2 for a relatively big bag, it's the basis for a lot of premade sauces / seasoning mixes and a lot of familiar flavours (italian, mexican). Learning to make bolognese sauce from scratch is great. Hummus can also be made from scratch, iirc it's just ground chick peas.
I assume that OP was talking about the cosmic inflation theory that claims there was a rapid expansion immediately after the big bang. I don't see how that's a solution to the GR equation, could you maybe explain/give a link?
Author here, it would be nice to claim that I did this on purpose but I really did not know it was open source.

I was rather interested in the process of instrumenting of TF to make this "attack" scalable to other apps.
Why even obsess over how others ought to get stuff done? Judge the results.
Just leave out Xitter. Read blogs over RSS and gopher phlogs (SDF, bongusta...)

Also, Usenet and Dove/Fidonet (you can get them over NNTP news://cvs.synchro.net:119) have more polite discussions on politics.
Wow, this is cool — thank you for building and sharing it! I can’t wait to have one of these on my desk :)
> if you made murder legal there would be A TON of murders,

This is an assumption.

> it is that simple (I personally might pop a cap in couple of people that have wronged people I love)

I dont think so. I will bet good money that you don not have what it takes to kill. Most people do not.
Wow that was tough but completed it with a hint! Very clever and definitely unique
Another FYI: Requesting one's archive seems to go nowhere nowadays.
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True inflation is money supply inflation. Doubling the amount of money (diluting the total value across more monetary units e.g. dollars), halves the value of each monetary unit, doubling prices.

This is why hard assets, like gold, housing increase in price at approximately the same rate that the banks increase the money supply (historically the number of dollars doubles every decade, other currencies are even worse).

If people saw the same increases in consumable prices as hard assets then they would be become aware of the falling value of the currency and the currency would quickly collapse in value as they stored their wealth in other things (hyper-inflation). However, the continuous optimisation of production through efficiencies of technology and associated automation means that consumables take less and less human time/effort to produce and so are going down in value at rate of around -5% year. This offsets the 7% devaluation of the dollar to give an overall price increase of consumables of 7-5 = 2% which is a level that the population finds acceptable without losing faith in their currency.

However, in recent decades the recent struggle and failure to keep devaluation of the dollar at 7%/year means that the official inflation figures need to be massaged, and so hard assets are removed from the basket goods used in the algorithm (e.g. housing related costs) and more consumables that have benefited from increased automation and reduced value are added.

If you run the algorithm used say 15 years ago, you'll find that it produces a much higher inflation figure than the one used today.
That's how our civilization's relationship to cows has worked for millennia.
Well that sucks!

Not that I think many people were looking at my Pinboard page directly. But still.

Interestingly it doesn't apply to the RSS feeds - you can still visit https://feeds.pinboard.in/rss/u:andrewducker/
Thanks for the considered response. I guess it was a provocative question.

Regarding this: "the best we can do is to have a look at the countries that adopted Communism (the Eastern bloc) and compare them with their neighbors that didn't (have to)"

This does feel like an informative perspective. I suppose it assumes that Eastern bloc countries would be left to their own devices in the absence of the Lenin/Stalin USSR, which may be fairly safe to assume.
My wife uses Vinted (UK) for selling hers and the kids clothes, usually single-to-double digit values at most (or she uses Oleo to just give it away). It works _fairly_ well from what I've heard, but she does have the occasional issue with people complaining about things and sending them back for obtuse reasons, often hardly worth it because the value was so low, the cost of the shipping there and back eclipsed the value of the item.

I wonder at times whether this is their game, hoping people will just tell them not to bother sending it back and they get a refund anyway.

As for ebay, I stopped selling anything on there years ago, well over a decade, when someone tried to scam me out of a laptop but failed. If something is valuable enough for me to sell, I sure as shit am not selling it on eBay.

More often than not, I give away my valuable tech that I'm done with, because I'd rather get nothing for it, and give it to someone who'll appreciate it than risk being scammed by some scumbag.

This way, friends and family get my hand-me-down PCs, laptops, phones, etc for nothing and they're still, by the time I'm done with them far better than something they'd buy with their budgets. When I buy something, I factor its lifetime in my possession into it's cost, I effectively expect £0 value left in it when I'm done or I don't buy it; everybody wins.
I’d argue this as well. I eat mainly meat and other animal products, and get by on less than $10 a day just fine while hitting optimal nutrition.

Trying to gather a cheap and healthy nutrition profile from random items in a grocery store is a task doomed to fail.
No way "drawing lines" between you and other people could backfire.
The point is another: why.

We need to consume less, so we need new buildings, and that's will be as well in the future, so we need to been able to rebuild at little costs, HOMES and SHEDS respond to such needs, not high rise. High rise nowadays respond only to construction industry need to maximize their own profits.
Brave has this.

brave://settings/?search=Speedreader

https://support.brave.com/hc/en-us/articles/360045031392-Wha...
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Shameless plug, but I'd just like to point out this was actually made in our game creation software Construct 3! (https://www.construct.net)

It's mainly focused on 2D, but we have been adding some 3D features over the years that can handle retro-style content like this, although I'd speculate this is based on some kind of raycasting technique rather than true 3D.
90% of my feed is just AI generated art. The mute button seemed to work on the baiters.
If I could give one piece of advice to my early-career self, it’d be this: do more "visible" work rather than "good" work. The former gets you promoted, while the latter leaves you stuck as a senior engineer forever. For me, that ship sailed a while ago, and I’m sorta happy being stuck as a senior engineer. That puts me in a good spot to say OKRs are bullshit.
Elon was one of the main enshittifiers. I even used to read Twitter without JS.
Let's not promote divisions.

Unless you meant: "people should stop using social media in which there are monetary incentives to be sensationalist", which I definitely agree on.

I would love if we had more civilized discussions on the web, we would understand eachother better that way. But it's an impossible ask.
Ethically viable? That threshold has been crossed a long time ago when any of these related sets of technocratic tyranny enabling abilities were developed.

There are now cameras everywhere and now facial recognition is being integrated into everything, on top of all the other ways of essentially harvesting human rights and dignity for profit and oppressive purposes.

Your mention of ethical viability seems rather late to the situation, a bit of a feel of closing the barn door after the horses have bolted.

What humanity is creating here is more akin to the Matrix than people are able or willing to even acknowledge, even if it is many years out and turns out even worse than the limited imagination of people from the past. Maybe Her and The Terminator are more immediate phases of human development, but the trajectory is clearly there when you simply look at humanity’s tendencies over history and even now. Just as an example, did you ever think you would see something so nakedly and blatantly homicidal and evil as what the Israelis have done and are even still doing in Gaza? Does any of that indicate that humanity is going to do anything responsible and ethical?

The only purpose of appeals to ethics and morality appear to have been to disarm the dominant power by the subordinate power that aspires to become the dominant power in the world, an amoral, unethical, nakedly narcissistic and psychopathic power.
That seems quite extreme.

Most people probably have a lot of scope for some easy wins on reduction though.

I found that batch cooking and freezing is a remarkably easy win. Especially something that is lentil based. Bit bland but reasonably nutritious dirt cheap and entirely passable if you only substitute let’s say every 6th meal.

Some with beef stews. Beef is expensive but even a little bit of good quality beef in a mostly veg one can impart a lot of flavor.

Pressure cooker ftw
I call it planning palooza. It keeps a ton of people employed though.
Why is Ukraine losing ground? Mobilization crisis and command failures exposed
This sounds like an extreme waste of resources in all sides.
Higher ups love to be "a data guy"! Just reduce all their responsibilities into a few numbers so they don't have to really understand what's going on underneath them. Have you notice how in love they are with their "progress dashboards"? They love to kick back and put their legs on the office desk watching minions making "progress" on OKRs so they can report that to their manager. It's too much work to really understand things and be on top of them anyways...
That’s not the same and hopefully you know that and are just recklessly equating incomparable things.