thenose

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   by thenose 3y ago

   Oh, thank you. Basically AI training datasets have been knocked offline recently by DMCAs, and the goal is to bring them back online in a place that can't be knocked offline. The most popular training dataset was The Pile, hosted by Th
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   by thenose 3y ago

   Trying, though it's hard to get noticed. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37346620 And I want to participate in the community here, not merely mention the thing I've built.
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   by thenose 3y ago

   Not at all. The trick is to force yourself to find something about their approach that you liked. There's almost always something likable. It's also the trick to being liked in general. Not everyone cares about that, but I've
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   by thenose 3y ago

   The other (depressing) situation is that newcomers often want to praise someone for their work, not realizing they work in a company whose managers are focused on playing games and forming alliances. In such environments, praising someone c
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   by thenose 3y ago

   There are a lot of people saying that Usenet is no longer appropriate given today's social landscape. But it's interesting that Satoshi started Bittorrent by posting to the crypto mailing list. That was 2008, a decade and a half a
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   by thenose 3y ago

   Would you mind expanding on what you meant about BitTorrent? It seems like it's one of the few decentralized technologies that hasn't been ruined.