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It was a protest against the monetization of academic knowledge.

You can call that "theft" as much as you want. There are lots of people like Aaron out there that think this sort of information should be freely available.

Just because there is a law doesn't mean that that law is just and correct. Saying we "shouldn't support theft" is an over-simplification of the situation.

I dunno. Nowadays you can store the the conversation's history and use different RAG methods to pull relevant pieces into the LLM's context.

Right. We should just put them straight onto being homeless.

I mean, the person who is saying this stands accused of murdering him. I would take everything she says with a grain of salt.

That age group is pretty large, though. So many people had walk-mans in the 80s and 90s. I'd also venture to say most people who would go to a rave probably like music enough to own headphones.

I do agree though, the useage of Spotify as a given is annoying. Especially since everyone will never be perfectly synced up. I remember silent raves, back a decade ago, would use a FM transmitter mixed with cheapo portable fm receivers.

interestingly, if you still have an audio jack on your cellphone, attaching wired headphones to them allows you to use the phone as an FM receiver (with the proper app). Wire on the headphones acts like an antenna.

Wow! How did you get 300(+) data connections with such a small team?

I dunno. I've seen management be sketchy on transparency before. But when it comes to people's money getting into their hands, I've actually never had management do the "whoops, it will be there next week" thing. It's always been straight forward with what happened and with expectations. Which makes sense, as you said, people won't show up if they don't get there money.

It's all circumstantial anyway. I don't think it's fair to call this a case of a "typical startup". Although it's definitely a stereotype of startups.

GPT-J specifically was written using Google Cloud's TPU stuff.

https://github.com/kingoflolz/mesh-transformer-jax/#gpt-j-6b

They even have a google colab notebook thingie. Not much setup needed, just an account.

https://colab.research.google.com/github/kingoflolz/mesh-tra...

I mean personally the company assuming liability means A LOT more to me than how much the system can do. It's one thing to say your system can drive down a slick and curvy mountain road, and another thing to say you'll cover all liability if the car drives itself off the mountain. It's easy to write software the runs most of the time. This is our lives that we're talking about.

I disagree with his opinion too, but he's not lying. The majority of the world has and still does hold those opinions. The world is still very anti-LGBT outside of the western culture bubble. And even in countries that are westernized, they are often still anti-LGBT even if their governments and media are pushing people not to be.

It's a very sad state of affairs. I mean, just 16 years ago I was marching for the right for gay people to get married in the US. We've come a long way but there is a long way to go.

I've read on the /r/gamedev subreddit of people succeeding with even just doing cold-call emails to popular twitch streamers. Someone recently posted a breakdown of how many streamers played their game after he sent out emails, and he seemed to get around 5% turnaround.

There's a guide that was posted to this subreddit a while ago too, that gives what you are looking for I think. https://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/m74fcj/guide_to_ma...

It used to be a content recommendation system for a chinese media company. We monitored peoples movements through their phone and gave marketers a really easy way to directly target people. It's sort of rampant now, but years ago it felt like it was a dangerous step in the wrong direction.

But recently I found out that an algorithm that I was a crucial part in building ended up doing some real bad things. I don't really want to talk about them because I'm not sure I really want to be implicated, but if you've been keeping up with the news maybe you have some guesses.

The point is, I feel terrible. I played a role in negatively impacting a lot of peoples lives. Sure, I wasn't the only one who built it. Nor did I play a part in what it turned into, or made any decisions about how it should be used. I just built a thing.

But I think we as programmers, tend to look fondly on our systems that we develop. They are sort of like our children (in a very loose sense). I spent years thinking back to building it, and being filled with joy. Now I see what it's done, what I helped create, where it ended up.

I just feel sick. I talked to a peer who helped on it about it. They also feel the same. Just terrible. Burnt out. Ready to switch careers entirely.

I think I might be able to continue in this field, make the right decisions, and thing through the true impact of what I'm building before I commit to it. But then again, I think back at all of the work I've done in my career, and all of it was exploitative to people at least in some sense. I'm not sure you can profit without exploitation in tech, it might be inherent (I realize that's a negative statement. I'm in a mood).

So I'm thinking I may just switch into a career I can feel good about, unless I can find a job or project that will allow me to be ethical.

We really need to come together as a community and stand up for ethics. Every day a programmer out there is faced with an ethical dilemma, one that will probably get them fired if they don't comply. Plus, that won't even matter, because they will just get someone else to do it anyway. There's not a good way to save your source of income while also doing the right thing.

An NFT solution to ticketing seems like it would be trivial given how NFTs operate already. One ticket could be verifiably owned by one person. If that person wanted to resell the ticket, there could be restrictions on how much they could sell it for. If bots can't make a profit there's no use in buying out all the tickets. It would also decentralize the space. Sure you need a marketplace for the NFT tickets, but that could easily be a open source software suite that the venues themselves host. Gas price will probably be a lot less than ticketmaster fees.

Honestly it seems like the biggest problems here are that Ticketmaster in particular has a huge sway in the current venue and artist market, having contracts that require an artist or venue to exclusively use their ticketing system.

Porn filtering is useless or harmful?

It's like telling me you don't have kids without telling me you don't have kids xD.

I have my 8 year old sons internet pretty much locked down at this point, but people still end up skirting around the rules of sites like youtube when publishing content towards kids. Automatic filtering is one of the only ways to prevent newly published content geared towards children from being malicious. The alternative, human curation, even if done by method of reporting a video, is time consuming and expensive.

Also, you know, doctor recommended medication. And not just the "weed doctors" do it either, my conservative neurologist even told me to smoke THC heavy marijuana.

I smoke every day. It absolutely impacts my work and social life, as without it I'm a painful ball of irritation that would have to be on opiates to get anything done.

Actually consumer saftey in e-bikes seems to be higher in China than in the US. Radpower bikes go up to 32km/h, while ebikes in china are legally limited to 25km/h. There's further restrictions on the weight and battery life, along with some other stuff I can't read because I don't speak Chinese. https://www.sjgrand.cn/how-legally-drive-ebike-china/

Totally agree!

I've done this method a lot. Honestly scraping Google Reviews was the most difficult in terms of complexity. This was like 6 or 7 years ago. You would get back these huge nested arrays that mostly had 0s in them. Occasionally a value would be set and that's what I would go with. I'm assuming their internal tools were obfuscated and/or using protobuf. But it certainly took me back to the good ol' days hexediting games in order to make your own cheat codes.

Another difficulty I faced were sites that relied on the previous UI state to pass the API call. You'd have to emulate "real" browsing by requesting the subsequent pages and get the ID number. Still much faster than emulating the whole browser via Selenium.

Honestly, it was the small sites that actually proved more troublesome. The ones that had an actual admin reading logs. They would ban our whole IP Block, then ban our whole proxy IP Block. Once I implemented TOR functionality into our scraper for a particularly valuable but small site and they blocked that too. This site ended up implementing ludicrous rate limiting that had normal users waiting for 2-3 seconds between requests, all because we were scraping their data. I kid you not, by the time we gave up trying, this Section-8 rental site for a small city had vastly more protections in place than Zillow and Apartments.com combined.

This story was originally published in 1955, the night he met Einstein didn't happen then. I didn't see an exact date but he did say "When I was a young man" so I assume it would have been quite a bit before 1955.

I know you are probably kidding about the 50 neurons, but Red Junglefowl (what chickens are derived from) are working with 221 million neurons. Which isn't that much in the grand scheme of things, but more than double the amount compared to a quail and about the same as a parrotlet or a brown rat.

And honestly, I'd find meaningful answers from Terry's RNG to be more indicative of a ghost in the machine than from a GPT clone. That is to say, not that meaningful, but at least it wasn't designed to mimic meaning via statistical inference.

It's worth forgiving student loans, even if people will be mad because they already paid theirs off. It's such a selfish mentality to think because you went through something hard and missed the boat, everyone else has to as well.

However, I don't think this will really solve anything. It's will empty our collective cup of debt, but the faucet is still on. Loans will still be made and college will still be stupidly expensive unless we make more structural changes to our education system. How many times will we "forgive" the debt? It doesn't really even make sense to do it until we have a plan in place to make sure we won't have to again.

A 5-star review should be left. If you are given measurements and the product matches those measurements, the only one at fault is you. A measurement is literally a definitive answer to the size of something. Get a ruler or measuring tape out and visualize it for yourself. Humans aren't good at judging things precisely, that's why we have tools!

My ex was a clothing Seller on Etsy. A 4-star review because something didn't fit right was super stressful for her, because it meant her average rating went down and her seller status might be demoted.

I think a better option is to contact the seller directly if you are dissatisfied with the product. That way you aren't transferring your problem to them.

I'd imagine this is about curbing drug trafficking more than anything. Back in my party days, I had quite a few friends that would use Amtrak to move their weight across state lines.

I can see why this would be lucrative now a days. Go to a state with cheap recreational marijuana, and then take a train back to a state that is still illegal. You could easily double what you put into it.

I used to work at a startup that aggregated apartment listings. Long gone now, we couldn't compete with Zillow or Apartments.com. But what we were doing is just aggregating all of the rental websites we could possibly scrape into one interface.

It was hard. There are so many scams out there. If you are not hand curating listings, you have to rely on somewhat novel approaches to filter out all the bad data. For example, any mention of 'Jesus' or 'God' automatically blocked the listing. Sure there might have been legitamate listings, but anytime I would go in and check 99% of the time it was a scam. You also have scams of people listing units they don't own or have any relation too. They ask for a security deposit up front and just pocket it, leaving the new tenant to have an awkward conversation with the real resident.

Data is often unformatted too. Scraping out bedrooms and bathrooms can even be a challenge on websites like craigslist where the listing is just one big paragraph. (Not anymore, craigslist has come a long way, but that's how it was 10 years ago). Often times you had to just search for the closest number around the word "bed" or "bath". Don't even think about getting features like "driveway" or "laundry" out of them.

In the end, we ended up utilizing some pretty intense ETL pipelines to collate historical data, census information, property assessment data, and other things to try to get a more accurate picture on our listings.

But that didn't win out. What won out are the sites like Apartments.com or Zillow, where legitimate property owners can post their listings in a formatted searchable way. We could scrape them and post the same listings on our site, but at that point we were just pushing our customers to another platform that honestly worked better than our own.

We couldn't have the most up to date data, that was determined by how fast we could go back to scrape a listing. And often times we were knee deep in a battle to avoid being blocked by these companies. Often times, after we had exhausted our proxies, the only thing left to use was Tor.

This is unrelated to your question. But, as another degree-less father in tech, I was wondering why you wanted to show your children the importance of a degree. You yourself didn't have one through all of your success. I would argue you wouldn't have been nearly as successful either if you had chosen from the get-go to go the BSBA route. The average BSBA salary seems to hover around 51k, with the top earners making about as much as an entry level dev.

I don't want to be mean, and it's not all about money, I just don't see what value a degree adds for the most part. On the other hand, my son is growing up quickly, and sometimes I wonder if I should teach him that going to college can be worth it. So I really do want to hear it from your perspective.

There is actually a compilation of evidence of what went on at the Elan School here - https://elan.school/proof/

Even as an extremely spiritual person into esoteric and occult things, I found this a little heavy handed. And like, I believe in God and follow Buddhist trains of thought. Which is what you seem to be doing too.

You shouldn't talk about miracles/siddhis, and especially shouldn't act as if they are gifts or something to attain. They are not the goal. They will delude you and lead you off the path with their intoxication. You are flaunting having the ability to perform ridiculous things, and saying you are basically chosen from God (given gifts, same thing). You say these things, to normal people, on hacker news, with no proof. For what gain? Your own ego? Given the context, it seems like you are using God to support some sort of narcissistic ego problem.

And like, This is coming from someone who believes in the subject matter you are into. What use is this article to the average reader here? You are making the entire occult scene look bad.

Maybe in the moment you go along with what is correct. Like, with the git example, in the moment you believe your coworker is good at git because she helped you. But after that situational event happens, you go back to your normal state. You might be going along with it in the moment, but not critically analyzing your thoughts and seeing how they are different? My theory only holds up if you are mostly oblivious to your thoughts having been different before.

The thing is your talking about your opinions and mindsets more than your "memory". You didn't mention having typical memory issues, like forgetting what you did or where you are in a project or that random thing your boss told you to do. This might be more of a psychological thing than a medical thing. If your doctor doesn't think it's medical in nature, you might want to get a Therapist. I know people don't like therapy, but therapy can give you a lot of personalized advice on how to adjust to your own experience wayy better than random internet nerds.

But what if it was at that top range, 22.75 tons. The math would add up, with 5 other cars on the bridge weighing an average of 1.4 tons each, we would have 29.75 tons or so on the bridge. Before the 10 or so tons of snow is added.