skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No "enshittification" is a specific process where you use VC money to make something great and attract a lot of users then you open it up to third parties to make money together with your platform, gradually making it shittier for end users, then once you have killed off competition and have third parties locked in you start turning the screws on them making everything shitty for everyone while you shovel money into your accounts.
Why would anyone do this? Make it easier to scrape your site and lose organic traffic?
> Why does training cost matter if you have a general intelligence that can do the task for you, that’s getting cheaper to run the task on?

Assuming we didn’t need to train it ever again, it wouldn’t. But we don’t have that, so…

> I know multiple startups that use LLMs as their core bread-and-butter intelligence platform instead of tuned but traditional NLP models

Okay? Did that system write itself entirely? Did it replace the programmers that actually made it?

If so, they should pivot into a Devin competitor.

> Most people I know in NLP-adjacent fields have converged around LLMs being good for most (but obviously not all) problems.

Yeah LLMs are quite good at comming NLP tasks, but AFAIK are not SOTA at any specific task.

Either way, LLMs obviously don’t kill the need for the NLP field.
A human would assume if you said “Portland” they would first assume you meant PDX unless they looked up your address and then they would assume Maine.

Just like if I said I wanted to fly to Albany, they would think I meant New York and not my parents city in south GA (ABY) which only has three commercial flights a day.

Even with a human agent, you ask for confirmation.

Also, I ask to speak to people on the ground - in this case it would be CSRs - to break it.

That’s another reason I think “side projects” are useless and they don’t have any merit on resumes. I want them to talk about real world implementations.
Winning a war isn’t terrorism. The Palestinians and their Arab allies started every war except the original one and even that is arguable. Losing has consequences. The Palestinians can now choose to settle for what little Israel will give them or they can continue starting wars/engaging in terrorism which will lead to them never having any level of sovereignty.
Let’s get them in Neovim and call them Neopets.
One more tool that we could be quickly ramping up deployment of is herds of goats [0].

Much cheaper than people, can clear terrain that's too difficult for people, no smoke or noise of herbicides needed, etc.

Herds can be grown over time too. (Brief googling tells me they reproduce annually, and tend to usually have twins or more, so you could do a quick back of the envelope calculation to project growth.)

Used in conjunction with other methods of clearing biomass, they could help a lot.

[0] https://www.npr.org/2023/08/10/1192905277/goat-grazing-calif...
Why would China let American social media companies in? If they did, their people might start only caring about themselves and not their communities, might want to drive F150’s and eat hamburgers and take Ozempic.
It's not really written backwards; it's just equivalent to a different if statement. Something like this:

if (want: edge Y X) {
search for: edge X Y
}

This is searching in reverse compared to a different if statement:

if (have: edge X Y) {
assert: edge Y X
}
Depends on what you are hosting. I found that source code repository viewers in particular (OP mentions Gitea, but I have seen it with others as well) are really troublesome: Each and every commit that exists in your repository can potentially cause dozens if not hundres of new unique pages to exist (diff against previous version, diff against current version, show file history, show file blame, etc...).
Plus many repo viewers of them take this information directly from the source repository without much caching involved, as it seems.
This is different from typical blogging or forum software, which is often designed to be able to handle really huge websites and thus have strong caching support. So far, nobody expected source code viewers to be so popular that performance could be an issue, but with AI scrapers this is quickly changing.
If you go to a police station and ask them to arrest Amazon for accessing your website too often, will they arrest Amazon, or laugh at you?

While facetious in nature, my point is that people walking around in real brick and mortar locations simply do not care. If you want police to enforce laws, those are the kinds of people that need to care about your problem. Until that occurs, youll have to work around the problem.
Doing it the way it does allows specifying multiple services.

systemctl status myapp mydb
FHEM: A GPL'd Perl server for house automation
Looking at the way the system is rigged to the wall of the station is quite humorous to me in how it is taking full advantage of being weightless. From the arm the camera is attached to the tracker, and then the tracker being mounted to the one arm just seems like it would collapse on itself if it were on terra firma.

I've seen some crazy/shitty rigging done, but this one gets a pass because it's in spaaaaaaaace
Hell, I'd roll in the mud if that's what it takes to upsell $10k worth of compute to $1M.
Israel already controls all the offshore oil in the region. They don’t need to take Gaza for that. Didn’t read the rest of your comment
Server certs will be losing the clientAuth EKU this year, so those will be out. SMIME certs may start to drop it too. I don’t know many CAs that will do a clientAuth only cert from a public CA, largely because it’s unnecessary. If it’s for auth, use a private CA.
It's really not a convincing pitch to me. It just raises the cost of bots to whatever I have to bribe a poor person to let me scan their documents, and it doesn't do anything to prevent me from putting an LLM in charge of my posts.

Maybe you could require biometric login, something that requires a Google, Apple, or Yubikey issued secure enclave that authenticates on physical touch / face ID, and require that touch for every post.

For me as a person participating in online communities, I'd rather just stay in my private group chats where I have met the people I'm interacting with.
The reason trains are deprioritized in the American travel schedule is that the rails are rightly used for freight instead. Even if you're trying to optimize for CO2 production, rails are barely better than air travel [1], and adding more passenger service would require a ton less freight service.

That freight service would be pushed to trucks - already too high of a percentage of freight. [2] trucks are half the efficiency of trains per mile[3], and truck freight is already most of fuel usage[4].

If Europe converted their rails used for passenger service into freight only and everyone flew instead, we'd have solved the climate crisis.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/04/climate/trains-planes-car...
[2] https://www.bts.gov/content/us-ton-miles-freight
[3] https://railroads.dot.gov/sites/fra.dot.gov/files/fra_net/16... is the last authoritative study, but truck efficiency has greatly improved since then.
[4] https://climate.mit.edu/explainers/freight-transportation
> What if instead it was possible to feed the bots clearly damaging and harmfull content?

With all respect, you're completely misunderstanding the scope of AI companies' misbehaviour.

These scrapers already gleefully chow down on CSAM and all other likewise horrible things. OpenAI had some of their Kenyan data-tagging subcontractors quit on them over this. (2023, Time)

The current crop of AI firms do not care about data quality. Only quantity. The only thing you can do to harm them is to hand them 0 bytes.

You would go directly to jail for things even a tenth as bad as Sam Altman has authorized.
That is quite a thing. I've been out of the 'design loop' for chips like this for a while so I don't know if they still do full chip simulations prior to tapeout but woah trying to simulate that thing would take quite the compute complex in itself. Hat's off to AMD for getting it out the door.
Poll: Do you use Perplexity more than Google?
Yes - It's great
No - It's AI Slop
My favorite example of this was how folks fingerprinted the active probes of the Great Firewall of China. It has a large pool of IP addresses to work with (i.e. all ISPs in China), but the TCP timestamps were shared across a small number of probing machines:

"The figure shows that although the probers use thousands of source IP addresses, they cannot be fully independent, because they share a small number of TCP timestamp sequences"

https://censorbib.nymity.ch/pdf/Alice2020a.pdf
> It probably feels like it proves too much, because it's confirmed over and over again in nature everywhere, at all times.

No, logically it is proved true because it is assumed to be true and then used to prove itself.

> For starters, species go extinct all the time for reasons tied to their evolutionary trajectory.

Again, this is circular logic. You assumed that the only reason that species go extinct is because it wasn’t fit enough. If you assume survival of the fittest then of course it is true.

Here’s another circular explanation: things are the way they are because God created it that way. This explanation rises to the top precisely because it has explanatory power all across nature without evident counter-example, right?
Not a crawler writer but have FAFOd with data structures in the past to large career success.

...

The closest you could possibly do with any meaningful influence, is option C, with the general observations of:

1. You'd need to 'randomize' the generated output link

2. You'd also want to maximize cachability of the replayed content to minimize work.

3. Add layers of obfuscation on the frontend side, for instance a 'hidden link (maybe with some prompt fuckery if you are brave) inside the HTML with a random bad link on your normal pages.

4. Randomize parts of the honeypot link pattern. At some point someone monitoring logs/etc will see that it's a loop and blacklist the path.

5. Keep up at 4 and eventually they'll hopefully stop crawling.

---

On the lighter side...

1. do some combination of above but have all honeypot links contain the right words that an LLM will just nope out of for regulatory reasons.

That said, all above will do is minimize pain (except, perhaps ironically, the joke response which will more likely blacklist you but potentially get you on a list or a TLA visit)...

... Most pragmatically, I'd start by suggesting the best option is a combination of nonlinear rate limiting, both on the ramp-up and the ramp-down. That is, the faster requests come in, the more you increment their 'valueToCheckAgainstLimit`. The longer it's been since last request, the more you decrement.

Also pragmatically, if you can extend that to put together even semi-sloppy code to then scan when a request to a junk link that results in a ban immediately results in another IP trying to hit the same request... well ban that IP as soon as you see it, at least for a while.

With the right sort of lookup table, IP Bans can be fairly simple to handle on a software level, although the 'first-time' elbow grease can be a challenge.
I am using an RSS reader to read latest hackernews and other stuff... the more RSS support the merrier
A cat that spins around in circles if it detects a function results in an infinite loop?
> LLMs are useless (for one of their main purposes) if the models get stale.

I don't think that's entirely accurate. A lot of people deliberately continue to chose to use the older GPT-4 despite it not being updated since June 2023.

GPT-4o has had releases in May, August and November of 2024 - so about one every 3-4 months.

Anthropic's Claude 3.5 Sonnet was released in June and had a single update in October.

Personally I'd rather have a model with excellent summarization / tool using abilities that can look up recent facts about the world.
> Technically, the models can already learn on the fly. Just that the knowledge it can learn is limited to the context length.

Isn't that just improving the prompt to the non-learning model?
> Data center science has... well improved since the earlier days. We worked with Facebook on the OpenCompute Project that had some very forward looking infra concepts at the time.

Am a bit surprised Meta doesn't offer a cloud provider yet to compete with AWS/GCP. Especially considering how much R&D they've put into their infra.
Appreciate the concrete advice in this response. Thank you.
Any of the big chat models should be able to reproduce it :)
Better advice has never been given, but the direction is, sadly, incorrect.
I was wondering about this but more in 10 years when people have their physical house assistant robot, when you ask it to search something online for you, itll be the next seo thing to have your site be easily readable by AI because that's how the people will be doing a good portion of their google searches.

Even now I wonder what the stats for marketshare are, I know my first choice is for chatgpt or grok to scan a hundred websites for my query.

Fun to think about for sure.
I'm not more knowledgable, so I looked it up.

Trading is well underway, already up over 2000%.

With each Trump coin now worth almost 9 US pennies.

Just about a tenth of a dollar but not quite.

For recent quotes:

https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/trump-coin/
Sheep love to be fleeced.
FWIW, I don't want that behavior. 10 lines is great for my usage.

And IIRC you can change the default behavior. In the worst case, just alias it if it is bothering you that much.
It does seem like the SEC should be involved at least for public companies.
That’s actually part of it for me- I often work from home and have very little required driving- so I do mostly see driving as a recreational activity. If I’m going to visit a remote beach or mountain lake for fun on the weekend, I want the drive down a long winding road to be fun also.
Why work hard… Train a model to recognize the AI bots!
So in a sense, being an early adopter for the previous models makes you worse at this one?
Bribing hotel clerks to make a new account every time a guest checks in and hands their passport over might be easier since in this case you just need to scan once to register. Maybe that sounds impractical and low volume but imagine you own a chain of hotels across thailand or whatever, you could probably make thousands of accounts a day and just sell that as a service.
Yep, I got the impression that courts consider polygraph only when the results implicate the accused. Good thing that by law they cannot force you to get questioned with polygraph attached.
Even still it will be quite easy to sabotage these ships. Filling them with people will 100% lead to everyone on board dying at some point when the ship is sunk. Maybe Chinas ok with that I guess.
"But it would be nice to see some efforts to incentivize green energy for those datacenters instead of just saying "whatever" and powering them with coal."

The major datacenter operators all have very aggressive targets for clean energy which they have been mostly sticking to.

Google: https://sustainability.google/progress/energy/

AWS: https://sustainability.aboutamazon.com/products-services/aws...

Azure: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/explore/global-infrastruct...
More than 1,100 inmates help Cal Fire battle for less than $30 a day
I got "power mode" (or something similar) installed in Intellij/Jetbrains IDE. The faster I write or bigger change I make the more sparkles and flames etc grow around the cursor. Similar plug-ins exist for other editors as well. A bit fun to enable before pairing with a coworker to see their reaction.
Incentives are all wrong.

As a consumer, I want immediate answers from the AI not visit another website.

As a website owner, I want people to come to my website. Not spend money sourcing data, and having it be stolen by AI Company, and repurposed.

---

What's the solution here? Perhaps company's can offer their data with a very explicit license that to show data sourced from my site you must present it in this way: X, Y, Z. Where it's like a mini embedded version of the site?

Whatever the solution, the incentive misalignment must be addressed sooner rather than later.
Hmm, I thought you explained the FDIV bug was (in part) because the Boron† used carry-save adders to generate quotient digits? I don't see how you'd combine carry-save adders and Kogge–Stone carry lookahead. This post does mention the carry-save adder and link the other post, but doesn't explain the relationship between the two adders (are they the same in some galaxy-brain way I can't imagine? does one of them feed the other?)

______

† https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systematic_element_name
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/oo-ee-a-e-a-cat-remixes
what if I was an AI bot programmed under the direction of President Xi? :)
> Winning a war isn’t terrorism. The Palestinians and their Arab allies started every war except the original one

There is no war except the original one, which never ended with a peace (although a few participants eventually made peace with Israel.) The other things often referred to as separate wars are just more active phases of the same war.
Woodpecker CI v3.0.0 Release
GDDR has been point-to-point since... I dunno, probably 2000? Because cet par you can't really have an actual bus when you chase maximum bandwidth. Even the double-sided layouts (like T-layout, with <2mm stubs) typically incur a reduction in data rate. These also dissipate a fair amount of heat, you're looking at around 5-8 W per chip (~6 pJ/bit), it's not like you can just stack a bunch of those dies.

> A multiplexer would need to be somewhat large, but its job would be simple enough that it should be doable with an older, cheaper process and without using entirely unreasonable amounts of power.

I don't know what you're basing that on. We're talking about 32 Gbps serdes here. Yes, there's multiplexers even for that. But what good is deciding which memory chip you want to use on boot-up?
fairly easily how? bold statement with no explanation of your ideas on where the wasted mass is.

the front/back plates? looks like your standard 3/8" aluminum plates. could they have used 1/4"? other materials like plastic/carbon would probably not have passed NASA requirements. plastic/carbon could chip into small pieces which is a very bad thing on the ISS. so you're left with a metal, and aluminum is pretty safe choice. it's clear there are several holes in these plates that are not tapped and are there solely as a means to reduce the weight.

moving the pieces closer for a tighter fit resulting in a overall smaller unit size? this thing is meant for ease of use. extra space affords that, and making it more compact complicates its use.
>which judicial system is worse, I'm sure russia would win

Having indefinite moratorium on the death penalty is a big plus though.
this is solid but if I am China what is $400,000,000 to spend on 40,000,000 bots that now we think are real people…
And yet, the moon was reached a mere 66 years after the first powered flight. Perhaps it's a better heuristic than you are insinuating...

In all honesty, there are lots of connections between powered flight and space travel. Two obvious ones are "light and strong metallurgy" and "a solid mathematical theory of thermodynamics". Once you can build lightweight and efficient combustion chambers, a lot becomes possible...

Similarly, with LLMs, it's clear we've hit some kind of phase shift in what's possible - we now have enough compute, enough data, and enough know-how to be able to copy human symbolic thought by sheer brute-force. At the same time, through algorithms as "unconnected" as airplanes and spacecraft, computers can now synthesize plausible images, plausible music, plausible human speech, plausible anything you like really. Our capabilities have massively expanded in a short timespan - we have cracked something. Something big, like lightweight combustion chambers.

The status quo ante is useless to predict what will happen next.
Nice! I didn't know that was an option.
Definitely something I should make configurable in `isd` :+1:
I think that's just how you can implement it and not something that is incompatible with the commenter's post. They use a different meaning of "key" than you do, but that doesn't make it incorrect.
Also, have they sorted out the 12V battery management for this low use scenario?

Our family has an older Hybrid Camry from around 2010 and it will destroy 12V batteries with too much local driving and parking. A typical regular ICE does better in the same conditions.

From the behavior, I assume it's because they only charged the 12V via a weak alternator when the ICE runs, rather than also keeping it charged via DC-DC conversion from the larger electric traction power system.
Prius system is considered "CVT" for bureaucratic reasons only, it's slightly fancier EV style reduction gear.
If you're careful with the index fingers of opposite hands, you can remove the stinger from your skin without killing the bee.
The Microsoft KnowledgeBase Archive
How I use Git worktrees (2024)
Looks great, well done. It's a shame that it's needed at all. The vast majority of my interactions with systemd are trivial: (re)starting a service, looking at a log file to figure out what's wrong, and making sure a service starts on boot. I find it baffling that the ergonomics of systemd for those common tasks are so lacking. But the TUI seems to help, so thanks.

And sure, systemd it's more deterministic and includes the kitchen sink, unlike initd.

Thankfully these days I can automate most of such interactions out of existence, so I no longer feel the burning hatred that I once did. More like a smoldering ember.
Perplexity AI submits bid to merge with TikTok