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Feedback: I really don't want to give out my email for this. I'm already signed up to enough junk. I've never felt the need to query HN before so while this might be entertaining it's not enough for me to create an account. Also on a personal note, even though I know every comment I make is public and indexed etc. etc. I find this kind of creepy. I don't like being part of an AI dataset.
I asked "What's the best database according to HN?" and it figured out the SQL and rendered a visualization. I love AI so much. I cannot believe how well this works.
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> frequency of discussion (especially within an obsessive subgroup) does not represent effective implementation I asked the chat tool to count how many times each different programming language is mentioned in different “Show HN” post titles. If the tool is accurate, it seems that the results diverge somewhat from what you are implying. language post_count Python 3117 JavaScript 2545 Go 2178 Rust 1251 TypeScript 607…
If we were to do a careful analysis to control for the bias of one site, we would consider more sources, for example: https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/ https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2024/technology
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It doesn’t even surprise me anymore that someone is charging a subscription fee to use an off the shelf LLM with scraped data from a public site. The gold rush can’t be over soon enough.
Not scraped. HN itself publishes a live dataset to bigquery. The product is meant to connect to your own database but I thought this was fun to connect to hn
Feedback: I really don't want to give out my email for this. I'm already signed up to enough junk. I've never felt the need to query HN before so while this might be entertaining it's not enough for me to create an account. Also on a personal note, even though I know every comment I make is public and indexed etc. etc. I find this kind of creepy. I don't like being part of an AI dataset.
Creepy? Dude. It’s a public forum. Everything you say here is tossed into an enormous (public) BigQuery dataset. I think the real thing happening here is the realization that anything you say on the public internet can be used against you - and that concerns you. This is what you need to come to terms with.
Feedback: I really don't want to give out my email for this. I'm already signed up to enough junk. I've never felt the need to query HN before so while this might be entertaining it's not enough for me to create an account. Also on a personal note, even though I know every comment I make is public and indexed etc. etc. I find this kind of creepy. I don't like being part of an AI dataset.
Creepy? Dude. It’s a public forum. Everything you say here is tossed into an enormous (public) BigQuery dataset. I think the real thing happening here is the realization that anything you say on the public internet can be used against you - and that concerns you. This is what you need to come to terms with.
I'm completely aware that the information is available regardless, with some scraping effort. I still think it's a bit gross. Let's not be machine men, with machine minds?
Feedback: I really don't want to give out my email for this. I'm already signed up to enough junk. I've never felt the need to query HN before so while this might be entertaining it's not enough for me to create an account. Also on a personal note, even though I know every comment I make is public and indexed etc. etc. I find this kind of creepy. I don't like being part of an AI dataset.
> I don't like being part of an AI dataset. This is understandable, but I'm sure all the HN comments have been a part of training dataset for many chatbots now. In fact, this is a gold mine of sane and valuable sanctuary of comments, so this must have been definitely helpful.
Be that as it may, I don’t think “everyone does it” is an excuse. An absurdly high number of people throw trash on the floor. I actively pick it up or at a minimum don’t contribute to the problem.
The answer to “many companies are unethically gathering your data” is not “it’s OK for me to be unethical too”.