MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by TeMPOraL | 2025-04-11 21:45:14+00:00
> People hate AI images, cut and dry.

People hate bad AI images, because they hate bad images, period. They don't hate good AI images, and when they see great AI images, they don't even realize they are made by AI.

It's true, there's a deluge of bad art now, and it's almost entirely AI art. But it's not because AI models exist or how they're trained - it's because marketers[0] don't give a fuck about how people feel. AI art is cheap and takes little effort to get - it's so cheap and low-effort, that on the lower end of quality scale, there is no human competition. It makes no economic sense to commission human labor to make art this bad. But with AI, you can get it for free - and marketing loves this, because, again, they don't care about people or the commons[1], they just see an ability to get ahead by trading away quality for greater volume at lower costs.

In short: don't blame bad AI art on AI, blame it on people who spam us with it.

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[0] - I don't mean here just marketing agencies and people with marketing-related job titles, but also generally people engaging in excessive promotion of their services, content, or themselves.

[1] - Such as population-level aesthetic sensibilities, or sanity.
by teamonkey | 2025-04-11 21:45:24+00:00
Soldering contamination mainly comes from ingestion. Touching it, having small particles of lead burn off and land on your skin, then in your mouth (or eyes, elsewhere). Even so, by washing hands and wearing light PPE it’s fine.

Because if that, many people consider the ban of industrial lead solder to be over-zealous. But that ban is in place to stop consumers being contaminated if they somehow touch the board. Also to minimise lead entering the water table once it is discarded.
by poorts | 2025-04-11 21:45:25+00:00
At the peak there were around 600 deaths per day, I believe a lot of those were in care homes, but even if not that's less than 1 in 12000 people per day, so 1 or 2 ambulances per day to a single apartment building still feels like an exaggeration to me, almost like propaganda...

I also guess it would be hard to accredit anything to the vaccines as you originally asserted, if it was actually all down to plucky New Yorkers mask wearing and social distancing

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1109728/coronavirus-deat...
by chacham15 | 2025-04-11 21:45:53+00:00
Since nobody here has actually read the article, it states that the reason the posts were taken down was "prohibits incitement to terrorism praise for acts of terrorism and identification or support of terror organizations." This type of speech (incitement) is illegal in the United States and support is very borderline depending on the type and meaning of "support". Now, if the reason doesnt match the actual content removed that should definitely be addressed which is your point, but I think that the reason is valid.
by j-krieger | 2025-04-11 21:46:24+00:00
> This can't be further from the truth. This is probably written by an American, and US is a very car-centric, but German infrastructure is a shitshow.

I just know that this is a comment from a German person who has little experience with public transport in any non-top-class country. Yeah, it could be better, but it could also be so much worse.

> Also healthcare is absolutely stiffled by bureaucracy

This I agree with.
by plasma_beam | 2025-04-11 21:46:30+00:00
This is a common sentiment..and was quite prevalent especially in the whole ‘abolish ICE’ movement. But I always fail to see in these arguments the explicit distinction between the two divisions of ICE - ERO (enforcement and removal operations) and HSI (homeland security investigations). It’s like grouping together the beat cops and the detectives - they work in the same precinct, but vastly different jobs. HSI also houses other programs like SEVIS, which admittedly has lots of its own issues, but manages all foreign students in the US and interfaces with universities for reporting purposes.

Now HSI is undoubtedly informing some of the immigrant raids, and the leadership of ICE is now clearly oriented to the right, but there are some what I’d call non-partisan things the agency is doing that we don’t want abolished.

Not picking on you at all, I just wish more of these arguments dove a little deeper into all that ICE does.
by dennis_jeeves2 | 2025-04-11 21:46:45+00:00
>Germans live significantly longer (81.1 years vs America's 76.4)

Got to point out a nuance here.

Americans living shorter are partly the result of America's success. An aggressive big pharma and a health care system that over medicates the population and give them bad advise ( eg nutrition) is one reason why they live less. Often more technology/business is not necessarily good. Germany's overall better outcome with result to life expectancy can be attributed to their incompetence/bureaucracy but certainly not a conscious decision to be better.
by dijit | 2025-04-11 21:46:58+00:00
I’m too stupid to navigate this topic in anything other than a crude and adolescent way, however I think it could be tricky for pro-palestinians because they can fall easily into the trap of using party slogans used by proscribed organisations.

My understanding of Hamas is that they are not considered a legitimate army, but if they were they would be guilty of an insurmountable number of war crimes (not unlike the IDF as many would say). Showing support for such things is beyond reasonable accepted discourse in my home country.
by skydhash | 2025-04-11 21:47:11+00:00
> The days I can have even a few pure functions are few and far between. I'm honestly curious what percentage of your code bases can be this pure.

A big part of it, I'm sure, but it requires some work. Pushing the side effects to the edge requires some abstractions to not directly mess with the original mutable state.

You are, in fact designing a state diagram from something that was evolving continuously on a single dimension: time. The transition of the state diagram are the code and the node are the inputs and output of that code. Then it became clear that IOs only matters when storing and loading those nodes. Because those nodes are finite and well defined, then the non-FP code for dealing with them became simpler to write.
by shermantanktop | 2025-04-11 21:47:16+00:00
> Everything that isn't dross in the computer world is either a well designed standard, or a well designed algorithm

You must be hanging out in a different part of the computer world.

What I see is that most standards reflect evolved systems, and those standards usually have many amendments. Most algorithms are generation descendants of broken predecessors. I love hearing about a singular talent coming up with something new and getting the world to listen, but the story is usually way messier than that.
by chongli | 2025-04-11 21:48:02+00:00
You can do that easily and cheaply today without a fancy transistor printer.

You can find Apple II schematics easily enough online. All the chips are common, off-the-shelf parts still available today. You can send the KiCAD drawings (also available) to a company like PCBWay and have PCBs made very cheaply and in small quantity. Then all you have to do is solder in the chips and other components and connect the board to a power supply.
by bumby | 2025-04-11 21:48:55+00:00
I agree with basically all of this. The one distinction I would make is that the pay reduction is real terms is across all kinds of domains so I don’t think it’s particularly unique of physicians, but part of a larger issue. Same with the cost of education/training etc. In other words, I think the healthcare issues you highlight may be emblematic of bigger systemic problems.

With all that said, it’s still a different argument than “pay = ability”. Put differently: the $ amount in TFA could be used to increase Congress member pay from $174k to $10MM each. Do you think that would result in better politicians?
by franze | 2025-04-11 21:49:17+00:00
yeah, who still remembers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaero the German-French initiative against Google. A European search engine.

In the end Technicolor / Thomson, Exalead, SAP, France Telecom (Orange) got most of the funding if I remember right. Other than a few university, museum digitalisation projects nothing consumer facing ever so the light of day.
by fxtentacle | 2025-04-11 21:49:28+00:00
It's boring but otherwise harmless. You skim through 20 pages of legalese and fill out the blanks. Your local goverment office has an advisor who will check the forms together with you before you submit them. (I applied for and received a De-Minimis grant.) Plus for the larger grant types, there are advisory companies that work on commission.
by alabastervlog | 2025-04-11 21:49:43+00:00
For those who haven't been keeping up, these are huge firms with resources and expertise to take on large federal cases, that have large and diverse workloads that may include things like cases involving classified information. He's extorting them by actually issuing, or implicitly threatening to issue, executive orders blanket revoking clearances for all their lawyers, banning them from federal property(!!!), and blocking any former employees of theirs from being hired by the federal government.

These EOs amount to death sentences for these firms, obviously, and so far they're rolling over and submitting when EO'd against or they perceive they may be EO'd, halting legal work against the administration and providing free labor to Trump.
by pansa2 | 2025-04-11 21:50:53+00:00
I think for someone with a basic knowledge of both languages, the Ruby version is more understandable than the Python. It's a combination of basic Ruby features, whereas Python's `match` statement is much more obscure - it isn't really Python at all, it's "a DSL contrived to look like Python [...] but with very different semantics" [0].

I don't particularly love the Ruby code either, though - I think the ideal implementation would be something like:

fn stringify(item) => item.is_a(Interpolation) then item.value.convert(item.conversion).format(item.format_spec) else item.to_string() fn f(template) => template.map(stringify).join()

[0] https://discuss.python.org/t/gauging-sentiment-on-pattern-ma...
by harrall | 2025-04-11 21:50:57+00:00
It's extremely rare that I come across products with a prop 65 warning. And in the rare chance you do see it, like on a bowl, you might learn that some bowl paints and glazes actually have lead in them!

Second, information is not meant to be executed on directly... you are supposed to process information with critical thinking. Yes, enclosed parking lots give you cancer. Guess what, you can still park in it... In the same way that tuna contains a lot of mercury but I still eat tuna.... just less of it. I rather know and make an informed decision than not know anything at all.
by mubou | 2025-04-11 21:51:10+00:00
If you use stable diffusion to make an image, are you "drawing"?

Coding is the act of writing code. Prompting an AI until it poops out a half-working product is not writing code.

Having the editor/copilot generate some boilerplate or copying shit from Stack Overflow isn't coding either, but once you've done that you go back to coding, so there's a difference there. (Using SO is part of the job, yes, but so is attending meetings and I sure don't feel like I'm "coding" whilst sitting in standup. Any engineer who spends 100% of their time coding is lucky indeed. The point is, just because you're making software doesn't mean you're "coding".)
by SkipperCat | 2025-04-11 21:51:13+00:00
The Republican Party changed dramatically in 2016. They became something they never were before and due to the populist trends in the county, they won the election. There is a very high chance that the next democrat contenders will be very different from what we saw in 2016 and 2024.

We can’t judge how same or different the DNC will be in 2028 much like you could not see Trump as a contender when Romney faced off Obama in 2012.

So, I’d say your estimate of “zero chance” is too early. Let’s see who the dems field in the midterms first.
by llm_nerd | 2025-04-11 21:51:21+00:00
Bluesky currently has the kuro5hin "A Group Is It's Own Worst Enemy" effect going on. People who think they claimed land first believe that they get to define the future of the service for everyone else.

It's obnoxious, and if the service truly offers a real alternative to Twitter it needs to squash these brigading groups. I get that people don't want to see the posts of brands...so don't follow them. It's incredibly simple. I don't want furry content but I don't run around the platform complaining that some do.
by mdp2021 | 2025-04-11 21:51:23+00:00
Historically, embracing a "persuasion" has been part of strategies in games of power - as in, "you are different from us so you cannot govern us".

In the context of this submission: yes, again there can be suspicions of "partitic" actions ("see, we are defending our base").

Which, if this is the case, amounts to blasphemy (again as per my original introduction, then flagged).

(And of course, with regard to the more times expressed relevance of this submission, it raises a question of "and where will this "defence" stop, also considering that we are creating pseudo-mind software?")
by ernst_klim | 2025-04-11 21:51:36+00:00
I lived in Russia, Georgia, few European countries. Even in Georgia trains are way more punctual, than in Germany. Moscow metro works like a Swiss-clock compared to U-Bahn/S-Bahn.

Maybe what you are talking about is true for some very pour Asian/African countries, but many middle-income countries have more reliable public transportation, than Berlin. Not to mention developed ones and China.
by petsfed | 2025-04-11 21:51:56+00:00
I think I was ambiguous on who raped (or attempted to rape) her, but the point still stands. While its certainly possible, it seemed like such a non sequitor to have her fall immediately for her savior, after a rape whose sole point was to make it clear that the russians are the bad guys.

I think Clancy was misunderstanding his audience in believing he needed to add rape to all the other bad things, trivializing rape, and probably most importantly for the purposes of this discussion, insisting on a superfluous romance subplot in a techno-thriller. Its been a long time since I read Red Storm Rising, and the main thing I recall is that I hated the romance subplot. It was a human interest story when I picked it up for the guns and bombs and missiles and things.
by __s | 2025-04-11 21:52:17+00:00
It applies when it can be said literally: gaming communities. There people will complain about athletes pushing their edge

For example, the 2019 blizzcon SC2 finals where Zerg overran with a busted Nydus meta. You can't blame Reynor & Dark pushing their advantage to reach each other in finals. The game went on to be patched

Same goes with hating draws in chess. Players are trying to win a tournament, they'll make the moves they feel will make that happen

Another example: hating on Protoss in TvP in broodwar. The game won't be patched. If you can't deal with it then hate the game, not the Protoss
by xipho | 2025-04-11 21:52:34+00:00
I suspect arthropods are way too diverse to fall under a single umbrella of "is_allergic". Millions of years of evolution can produce very radically different things for our bodies to worry about. Just the fact that there are no marine insects (completing their lifecycle within an ocean) tells us something about how different their biologies, and therefor allergenic "surface" are. Poison pathways from venom can target completely different systems in a humans.
by AtlasBarfed | 2025-04-11 21:53:08+00:00
Byd is a product of CCP subsidies, of course they can be competed with

It would simply take a government capable of recognizing the multifold benefits of EV transition: environmental, geopolitical oil independence, energy efficiency, associated alt energy rollout and grid adaptation, lower total costs and associated economic benefits, reduced cancer and air pollution death rates, reduced logistics costs.

That's just off the top of my head and I'm not even that smart
by Alupis | 2025-04-11 21:53:13+00:00
Well, AOC has been threatening for several years to introduce a bill to curb this. But... hasn't, and I'd be willing to bet we already know why. Many others have promised the same and done the same as well...

Nancy Pelosi is perhaps the most prolific insider trader of our lifetime. None of this is new... it's been going on since before any of us were born.

It should be put to an end - but we can't pretend the current administration is doing something so abhorrent and clutch our collective pearls in shock. We can't hold one party (that we disagree with) to a higher standard than our "own" people. That's hypocritical and not a foundation upon-which agreement and consensus can be formed.
by mountainmonk | 2025-04-11 21:54:48+00:00
"Give me control of a nation's money supply, and I care not who makes its laws"

Both parties share the blame. With Trump some claim that it was Kamala's focus on trans that made the difference while others claim that she didn't focus that much on it if at all. My take is that both parties jump at the opportunity to focus on these lesser issues rather big picture items such as taxes, universal healthcare or anything else that would actually make a large impact in people's lives.

This is nothing new. I remember when Bernie was drowned out years ago and the focus became gay marriage instead of the much more important issues he was advocating for. The blame for focusing on these issues cannot fall just on the republican party. The democrats were more than happy to focus on these issues instead of something that might pit them against those that fund them. If all that matters is who is paying you behind closed walls, then it doesn't matter which party is in power at all.
by xmprt | 2025-04-11 21:54:54+00:00
Naughty Dog has always been at the forefront of PlayStation development. Crash Bandicoot and Uncharted couldn't have been made if they didn't have a really strong grasp on how to use it. I love rereading this developer "diary" where they talk about some of the challenges with making Crash: https://all-things-andy-gavin.com/video-games/making-crash/
by DataDaoDe | 2025-04-11 21:55:02+00:00
Germany has tons of potential, but Germany is one of the most risk averse countries on the planet (see Uncertainty Avoidance Cultures)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncertainty_avoidance]. This makes it amazing at building high quality industrial products, taking innovation done elsewhere and refining and polishing it, slowly over many years - building standards as you say. However, it doesn't help much in the innovation department. Also as probably the world leader in data privacy and protection that's another vector working against innovation. And then there is the robust legislation and bureaucracy (in a controlling sense) around all financial products (not to mention in general), which gives Germany advantages in certain industries but is also a distinct disadvantage for innovation in many sectors. There is also a massive union culture, which provides Germans with a great quality of life, but again, that's something probably negatively correlated to innovation.

I'd like to see more innovation in general and if this leads to that its good. But I don't personally think that innovation needs to happen in Germany, so long as it happens somewhere and Germans can do what they do best with it.
by 1970-01-01 | 2025-04-11 21:56:18+00:00
Here's the quote I find most substantial when I gestalt over AI:

"We dared to hope we had invented something that would bring lasting peace to the Earth. But we were wrong. We underestimated man’s capacity to hate and to corrupt good means for an evil end." --Orville Wright

AIs are the airplanes of the 21st century. They were invented to be used for good, but they will quickly be used for evil as well.

I did use an LLM to find the exact verbiage of this quote.
by lukeschlather | 2025-04-11 21:56:35+00:00
The thing about LLMs is that they're trained exclusively on text, and so they don't have much insight into these sorts of problems. But I don't know if anyone has tried making a multimodal LLM that is trained on x-ray tomography of parts under varying loads tagged with descriptions of what the parts are for - I suspect that such a multimodal model would be able to give you a good answer to that question.
by andy_ppp | 2025-04-11 21:56:47+00:00
I have an alternative theory about tech and growth in Europe - the rich are too greedy here and are not optimistic enough about growth. They:

a) don’t fund risky things

b) don’t believe Europe can create unicorns so it becomes a self fulfilling prophecy for their investments

c) try to cash out too quickly from potentially huge businesses

d) valuations are half the investment for double the equity, so of course the companies have half the runway and half the upside.
by eli_gottlieb | 2025-04-11 21:57:03+00:00
>Also healthcare is absolutely stiffled by bureaucracy. I have a friend who is a cardiologist. He says that exactly half of his work time is paperwork. And not just paperwork, but German paperwork, where you manually type PDF fields one by one, then print, then sign, then scan and so on.

Wait. That's exactly how paperwork has always worked for me in America. What am I missing?
by fxtentacle | 2025-04-11 21:58:47+00:00
I would describe my business relationship with Adobe as:

"hostage"

They annually harass me with licensing checks and questionnaires because they really hate you if you run Photoshop inside a VM (my daily driver is Linux), although it is explicitly allowed. Luckily, I don't need the Adobe software that often. But they hold a lot of important old company documents hostage in their proprietary file formats. So I can't cancel the subscription, no matter how much I'd like to.
by TeMPOraL | 2025-04-11 21:59:10+00:00
> You see any of them backing down and waiting for answer from a higher authority?

Should they? That's generally not how things work in most places. Normally, if something isn't clearly illegal, especially when it's something too new and different for laws to clearly cover, you're free to go ahead and try it; you're not expected to first seek a go-ahead from a court.
by lofaszvanitt | 2025-04-11 21:59:31+00:00
No it is absolute bullshit to compare a specialised computer with a human. Sorry to say this, but JC is missing the point or just full of shit.

Humans have constraints that are - at the moment - very hard to alter. An average human can/will read at best a few hundred books in its lifetime. You have to have some innate or acquired skill or taste to come up with something that is unique, to select what works you gonna spend your time on, that would make you better at what you do and elevate your work above others or offer something truly unique.

AI is not human, AI is billions of humans. Let this sink in, alrite?

No, copyright is not evil. Patents are not evil. Ideas are yours and you are an idiot if you give them away for free. These are your best friends if you know how to wield them.

Just look at what happened to the internet after Google put its overweight arse on it. And Cloudflare is looming in too with their totally walled garden ecosystem.

Copyright is evil... suuuure. Then what AI is that expropriates skills of humans, who have put their life to become best in whatever they do. And AI redistributes this to those who have money and power, to the elite.
by Alupis | 2025-04-11 21:59:33+00:00
> Everytime I go on, I’m assaulted by fight videos, gambling ads, porn bots, ragebait, and the worst extreme takes from the left and the right.

You seem to be describing my reddit experience to a "T".

I created a brand new account recently to get away from all of the doom-n-gloom politics that polluted my feed to the point of being just downright frustrating to look at. It took all of a week to be right back to where it was, despite my best efforts to join and engage in subs that have literally zero to do with politics. What the hell does bread making have to do with seeing 843 unfavorable pictures of Trump on /r/pics every single day?