MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by smj-edison | 2025-04-26 20:47:28+00:00
I think of "the economy" as a set of emergent principles that come from many people trading goods and services. For example, the USSR had a black market, which was an economy. No matter how much regulation was put into place, an economy (though hobbled) still emerged. Economists study this emergent behavior and use economic principles to accomplish their goals (whether that's to improve the well-being of people, or to increase a company's size, they're both applying these studied principles).
by metalman | 2025-04-26 20:47:31+00:00
they should just give adolecent kids a course where they are exposed to this technology in a safe and apropriate way, ie: there heads get stuck onto convincing teddy bears or there friend, whatever, and then be told to brace themselves for deap fake porn, and just report it and ignore it they will know, that anything can be done with there image without there consent now,there is no shame in bieng a target, and it up to them to be proud, and strong enough to walk away. Also giving children the agency to be able to easily block and mark any sender of bad stuff. adults aparently will need the same classes and tools, but perhaps it would be simpler to yell at them,and point out that all in all they are lucky that it's only virtual abuse, cause there is no end of the real kind going on, and ask what do you realy expect from our species?
by slowmovintarget | 2025-04-26 20:47:53+00:00
The point of most AI-generated videos is as an attention sink. They're uploaded to get you to spend 30 or 45 minutes watching, and they're typically a mishmash of "points" loosely related to the title of the video. They are often very low-content, and do lots of "before we get to the point, let's backtrack over the history of Three's Company..." and then you get a rehash of the whole Wikipedia article on the topic with zooming still photos.

The style, when it is so obvious, becomes indexed in my mind with low-quality waste-of-time videos.

I blame the tool users, not the tool. The people sloshing these things up onto YouTube are deliberately flinging enough crap at the wall to get clicks. Imagine if they put some oomph into it. Focus on the topic, emphasize main points instead of having a monotonous litany that just sounds like facts strung together without logical connection. Have a point. Thesis, summary, argument, elaboration, summary, map to the thesis, conclusion... Or, if it's fiction, give me three act structure, or seven-point plots.

Otherwise, I'll continue to recognize, and discard what are literally garbage videos, generated by the thousands, to waste our time.
by jarofgreen | 2025-04-26 20:47:59+00:00
I'm not sure we can be certain everyone has that view. I get the impression many of the people who vilify art generators are also against coding copilots.

> I reflexively told my wife, “That’s AI—skip it.”

> Yet I’m using AI-created illustrations for my graphic novel

Aren't you worried people will skip your graphic novel?
by kristopolous | 2025-04-26 20:48:10+00:00
Mostly I'm sensitive to the classic technique of scapegoating an external enemy as the source of failure for a poorly done internal policy.

Whether it's Jews, Russians, Communists, leftists, the Chinese, immigrants, it's always some infiltrating evildoer and not the failure of policy.

It's purely ideologically driven because these accusers think their thing being sabotaged, whether it's an economic policy, a candidate, whatever, is so obviously superior that only some secretive cackling outsider could be to blame for the disparity of the results

Whether it's Clinton in 2016 or Trump in 2020 there's an elaborate conspiracy to explain it. Any excuse to avoid introspection.

If I am anything in life I am anti-bullshit. Nothing can move productively forward when based on nonsense.

So that's really the larger context here.

Being part of Jan 6 is a signal, being a repeated guest on an ideological show like Nick Fuentes, Russ Roberts, or Richard Wolff, these are signals.

Appearing on Rt? Not so much
by dheera | 2025-04-26 20:48:15+00:00
1. In my career so far, I have paid enough taxes to buy 3 houses in cash but I still can't afford 1 house in cash. The machine says "you can buy a house with debt" which is yet another way to create a way to extract money from me when I should have just been able to buy 1 house in the first place. Most of the population has been brainwashed to think "I must pay my taxes, I must go into debt" and hasn't opened their eyes that the system is broken in the first place.

2. The company is taxed when they pay me, I pay taxes on that money again, and then I pay taxes yet again when I buy stuff with it (most of that money is being used to pay someone else's taxes), and then in some cases yet again just for owning it. It's frankly bonkers. 80%+ of money I make for the machine goes to paying taxes of sorts. I see very little of it.

Yeah, the country needs money to support infrastructure, you say. Fine. For what the US provides its citizens, it really doesn't need that much. There are countries that tax at similar rates to the US. They have well-developed railway systems, almost free healthcare, free university, they control crime effectively, they're delivering actual value to the citizens. If you dig into it, the US is a massive money laundering scheme -- the economy has learned to tax the fuck out of citizens without actually returning that value to the citizens themselves.
by xg15 | 2025-04-26 20:48:41+00:00
Good points. Though I there are other options - e.g. build a proof-of-concept in a closed environment, e.g. as an university project, demonstrate it with a small (but still sufficiently large) group of people, so you have witnesses and publish a paper about it.

I know the prevailing wisdom is to always publish your code with a paper, to ensure maximum reproducibility, but this would be a valid case where you DON'T want to make reproducibility easy.

It's essentially the same dilemma that security research already has today: You want active research into vulnerabilities to be able to close them, at the same time you don't want people abusing your research to exploit them.

There is also the point of how feasible such a system would be to deploy on new phones. E.g. if you require a rooted phone and a custom Android image, chances are relatively slim your system will be used in the wild.
by crooked-v | 2025-04-26 20:49:25+00:00
That's a bad comparison because the much more important factor is that housing is incredibly and disproportionately expensive right now, not becuase that's the 'natural' state of the economy, but because almost every major US city has made it expensive to build housing and impossible to build middle-density housing.

Or in other words, your 'cheapness' comparison is only against a self-inflicted artifical high point.
by martin-t | 2025-04-26 20:49:29+00:00
> By that logic, we should skip the depleted uranium and head straight to thermonuclear weapons

Yes, actually.

(With a massive caveat being if the opponent does not also have nukes.)

I mean, why do you think the US nuked Japan at the end of WW2? Because it was the most expedient and economic way to kill enough people to break the government's will to fight and make them surrender.

The estimated losses for the invasion of their main islands were 1 million. Would you kill 1 million of your countrymen, some of those your relatives and neighbors or would you rather kill a couple hundred thousand civilians of the country that attacked you?

Ironically, this time the math works out even if you give each life the same value. If you give enemy lives lower value, how many of them would you be willing to nuke before you'd prefer to send your own people to die?
by Aloisius | 2025-04-26 20:49:58+00:00
Having read the Senate debate on the amendment to grant citizenship to what would become the 14th amendment, I can't disagree more.

They were absolutely aware that is what it. Indeed, they stated it outright:

> The proposition before us … relates simply in that respect to the children begotten of Chinese parents in California, and it is proposed to declare that they shall be citizens. … I am in favor of doing so. … We are entirely ready to accept the provision proposed in this constitutional amendment, that the children born here of Mongolian parents shall be declared by the Constitution of the United States to be entitled to civil rights and to equal protection before the law with others.

- Senator John Conness (R-CA), May 29, 1866 during Senate debates on citizenship amendment introduced by Senator Jacob Howard (R-MI)

The only real change came when they worried that citizenship would be extended to Indians in tribes we had treaties saying we wouldn't do just that leading to a change that excluded them.
by StopDisinfo910 | 2025-04-26 20:50:05+00:00
> Unless there's some kind of threat of physical force involved

Last time I checked the mob called for these people lives to be destroyed by asking for them to lose all possibility of ever having a job and threatening anyone who would employ them or support them of dire repercussions while slapping themselves in the back for what a positive impact they made.

So yes, it’s very much about threat of violence.
by nextn | 2025-04-26 20:50:09+00:00
> well, the comparison is quite far off the track:

Might not be that far off the track.

A post on X says "US Military Intelligence leaders (MJ-12) didn't like this idea because it would antagonize the Extra Terrestrial Biological Entities who inhabited to the dark side of the moon."

https://x.com/Andercot/status/1904692633697730644 https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Gm7T2wBbYAMEN3_?format=jpg&name=...
by ramesh31 | 2025-04-26 20:50:16+00:00
>"Do you think that the rest of the world needs to protect itself from Tesla then and slap tariffs on any Tesla cars exported?"

If it were a stated policy goal of said country to develop their own indigenous EV production at scale, then yes. The same the US did for 30 years after WWII to develop its own auto industry.

The era of dumping mass amounts of cheap "good enough" products on the global market, made entirely possible by the ignored and externalized costs of dumping trillions of tons of CO2 into the atmosphere via oceanic shipping, is coming to a close.
by wkat4242 | 2025-04-26 20:50:32+00:00
This story has such a different feeling about it since the rise of auto correct, lol. It's the first thing I thought of when I read the title. I was a bit disappointed it was utterly harmless. Though I'm surprised how far back the rubber ducking habit goes.

Also someone sent me that meme "Dear Autocorrect. It's never 'duck'." recently :) It was still fresh in the back of my mind. Also I'm a super "open" person when it comes to such matters and activities. So I have a very dirty mind :)
by cyberax | 2025-04-26 20:52:11+00:00
> So the fight needs to be to make things universal and fair, not to do away with everything.

Like, automatic voter registration on license renewal? Nope. Denied if you're in a Republican state.

> I think a lot of people see all-out resistance as extremist and somewhat irrational

That's more restrictions _will_ be used to entrench Republicans even more. That's the simple reason for resistance.

And yes, the media does a poor job explaining this.
by hinkley | 2025-04-26 20:52:27+00:00
To wit: Bill Gates did a bunch of press before starting his foundation to make it clear that him selling MS shares was not about concerns over MS’s future but that he needed a shitload of money for other pursuits.

And Warren Buffet would use many frontmen to slowly buy shares without triggering a buying frenzy. You can’t just buy or sell 3% of a company without causing drama.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-04-26 20:52:28+00:00
> dad of a kid was literally fighting for the kid to stay. He is an American

Are you saying he's figuratively American, or that the father is a U.S. citizen. Because VML's petition for writ of habeas [1] doesn't mention the latter.

[1] https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69940863/1/v-m-l-v-harp...
by low_tech_love | 2025-04-26 20:52:41+00:00
So, real story, I work in a university in Europe, and we’ve been told by the immigration explicitly that we need to increase at least 50% of rejections to applications from Pakistani students. Apparently they come with a student Visa to take a Master’s degree but after a month or two they get a job and disappear from the university. And this is not desirable.

The fun part is that they are allowed to work with their student Visa, and they pay the tuition fees normally, which is spicy.

So basically we have a huge gang problem right now, but instead of deporting gang criminals, we’re deporting honest Pakistani young people who are actually working legally for the country’s companies. But guess how many companies ever got in trouble for this?
by overfeed | 2025-04-26 20:53:02+00:00
> No one has been deported for their opinions, yet

You probably thought I was talking about El Salvador. I wasn't.

Is it not deportations when multiple university students have stripped of their visas without notice, by order of "Little Marco" and forced to leave the country?

> How would you react to 10 million tourists moving to your country, buying up all the food from your grocery stores, drinking and driving, stealing, dealing drugs,...

...ask the kingdom of Hawai'i
by user32489318 | 2025-04-26 20:53:29+00:00
There’s a difference between “knowing how to”, “been able to” and make financial sense to do it. What you’re describing is a “society”, ie everyone has a dedicated purpose, that’s similar to yours “knowing how to” and “been able to”. Do you really need a monetary systeem, ie economics, around this? I’m not making a case for North Korea/Soviet Union, but do we as a humanity really need a lever (money) to push the society forward
by weare138 | 2025-04-26 20:53:38+00:00
This fact is important, because if an app were accessing a microphone and sending the audio to a cloud server for analysis there would be detectable traces of data consumption.

Because that's not how it works and companies like Meta know this when misleading it's users about their privacy.

Speech-to-text transcription is handled on your device. They never transmit the raw audio, there's no need to. A compressed text transcription of your conversation would only generate a few kilobytes of data. You would never notice it.

And the mic needs to be active in order to receive legitimate voice commands. If it can respond to your voice, the microphone is on and listening. That's the only way it can work.
by RedNifre | 2025-04-26 20:53:53+00:00
Maybe because it's not about the code, it's about the compiled software?

Also, I like AI art; I made a Lego model and then fed it into an image generator to kinda generate a "reverse" reference image. So it looks like the Lego model tries to look like the reference pictures, even though its look is more dictated by the very constraint parts list (it's an alt build of an existing model): https://rebrickable.com/mocs/MOC-218657/RedNifre/31124-battl...

I could not have drawn these artworks myself and the use is so silly that I would not spend any money for paying for them: Without AI, these would not exist.
by skybrian | 2025-04-26 20:54:00+00:00
I recently figured out a good way to handle having more subscriptions than I feel like reading in Newsblur.

I have one group (“0-front”) for feeds that I usually read immediately (such as favorite comics) and many more groups of feeds that seemed interesting at the time. I will catch up with the first group, but only read the rest when I feel like it.
by alecst | 2025-04-26 20:55:30+00:00
I recently read a book (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabloona) about a "modern" (1930s) man who sought out the Eskimos to check out their way of life.

They have nothing you describe -- no agriculture, no antibiotics, no farming, no electricity. (The fridge, however, they got covered.) They are quite happy that way. Certainly happier than the people around me in NYC.

Perhaps quality of life is about more than just material goods.
by taurath | 2025-04-26 20:55:45+00:00
You’d be surprised - parents of an entire generation basically paid for their entire schooling with a part time job. They pay less on their mortgage for a 3 bedroom house than a studio apartment.

In their mind, they made it on their own, and their entire parenting strategy was to teach the lessons of how they made it to their kids.

This is incredibly common with conservatives.
by analognoise | 2025-04-26 20:55:46+00:00
Such an answer to someone like the Gestapo would give up your friends - they would not be so easily thrown off. The question is if an absolute like that outweighs, say, the life of others; your only chance to save them is to lie directly for them. Do you do it?

It wasn’t a shit post, it was an example from a philosophy class I took decades ago that stuck with me.

I believe we were discussing Kant at the time, who did hold that such a lie (even to save the lives of others) was not a positive good, but I found that extremely unsatisfying answer I could not agree with. Then again it’s been enough decades for the details to be fuzzy.
by 90s_dev | 2025-04-26 20:55:55+00:00
I'm not sure it's a bad thing to not necessarily have a plan. Intuition is the hidden sister of logic, both children of reason, and we don't always see her because she's often behind the scenes doing all the work.

Technical debt is as sure as death and taxes. Good software grows over time, like a person growing up. Sometimes you have parts that are needed for a time but not permanently, like baby teeth. That's what technical debt is like.

Other times there are parts that are absolutely ideal long term, but it's a long time before they even make sense. And sometimes things only develop much later than we expect, like wisdom teeth. These are software features that won't make sense until you write the thing that you don't realize yet is only temporary.

I have the same goal of writing everything myself from scratch. It's a very important goal to me for a reason I don't fully understand yet.

Congrats on writing an entire OS, and getting it booting on real hardware! That must be such a rewarding feeling in its own right, even if no one understood how. And it looks so very cool.

You've given me more motivation to announce my project soon. Maybe next week. Thanks.

Have you played around with Zig yet? I hear that would be a good replacement for C here. Did you have any thoughts on porting your OS to that, or did you have any branches some Zig code made its way into?
by krosaen | 2025-04-26 20:56:29+00:00
If I had just said, “from what I can tell after briefly researching” maybe I wouldn’t be taking so much heat on this one - the point wasn’t chatgpt, but to raise a point that hadn’t yet been raised in this discussion- what exactly is legal in this situation. But I will take the L on this one as it seemed to be received as if I was delighted to show the world I could use chatgpt lol.

And underlying all of this is a sense that maybe nobody is in the mood to explore the finer points or these terrible acts. I can accept that.
by hayst4ck | 2025-04-26 20:56:54+00:00
I don't accept this at face value. I'm open to this line of reasoning, but can you prove it or provide evidence that there's something to it?

I also think there is a counter point that now fast food laborers have more money to spend on fast food or other businesses that provide goods or services that help grow the economy.

The more I think about it, the more it sounds like you are defending trickle down economics, which is literally a turd of a theory... It's other name is Horse and Sparrow economics. If the horse eats enough oats, then sparrows can survive of its droppings.
by jstanley | 2025-04-26 20:57:09+00:00
Consciousness is the only thing that can not possibly be an illusion.

Whenever this comes up I have to wonder if half the people are secretly p-zombies and actually genuinely aren't sure whether consciousness is an illusion because they've never experienced it? I know that's not a very charitable take but I just can't see how any conscious being could imagine that consciousness could be an illusion!

Consciousness isn't the illusion, consciousness is the audience!
by danans | 2025-04-26 20:57:23+00:00
> That we don't have good measurements to reconcile that contradiction

We do have many measurements to reconcile that.

We know how much particulate air pollution from fossil fuel combustion increases health care expenditures. We know how not having save places to exercise outdoors affects general health and results in sedentary lifestyle diseases.

But most of our decisions, individually and as a society, are predicated on short term convenience and gratification, not long term health, so we ignore the measures we already have.
by benator | 2025-04-26 20:57:43+00:00
Thanks and yes, I agree with you! Reality is muddy and complicated and political tendrils reach deeply into all government functions. I would like to ask though: what do you think the author wants us to believe? a) that data is more unreliable because of corrupt influence, or b) data is less reliable because of statistical department cuts and a partisan audience? If it’s b, why mention a? It’s not that I disagree with b or a, just that if you are arguing for one, why mention the other except to say “yeah, this happened but it doesn’t contradict my view because x”
by djoldman | 2025-04-26 20:57:57+00:00
> The A.I. tools my students and I now engage with are, at core, astoundingly successful applications of probabilistic prediction. They don’t know anything—not in any meaningful sense—and they certainly don’t feel. As they themselves continue to tell us, all they do is guess what letter, what word, what pattern is most likely to satisfy their algorithms in response to given prompts.

> That guess is the result of elaborate training, conducted on what amounts to the entirety of accessible human achievement. We’ve let these systems riffle through just about everything we’ve ever said or done, and they “get the hang” of us. They’ve learned our moves, and now they can make them. The results are stupefying, but it’s not magic. It’s math.

The best description I've seen so far.
by sigmonsays | 2025-04-26 20:58:00+00:00
i don't get the value of a tool like this.

Do we really struggle bringing up services as containers and applying kube configs?

For my development of services that run in kube, I don't dev with kube, you shouldn't have to. I also use docker-compose for most dev env services.

Perhaps i'm not developing the right kind of software. Whoever finds this type of tool useful, when would you use it?
by michaelt | 2025-04-26 20:58:01+00:00
The reason people keep working on human-like hands for robots is: The world is absolutely full of things adapted to be operated with human hands.

Handling heavy boxes? Baking a cake? Operating a circular saw? Assembling a PC? Performing surgery? Loading a ream of paper into a printer? Playing a violin? Opening a door? You can do it all with two five-fingered hands.
by simonw | 2025-04-26 20:58:32+00:00
https://chatgpt.com - I was using o3 which I think is paid only, but o4-mini and o4-mini-high should both provide similar results and I think at least one of those is available on the free plan.

EDIT: My mistake, looks like those models are only available on the $20/month Plus plan or higher. I added a note about that to my post.
by riehwvfbk | 2025-04-26 20:58:48+00:00
I know you mean well and want to save the world from trolls, but this is not a hypothetical. I have a friend who is in this exact situation (previous administration, don't get your hopes up for another story for your bandwagon). The parents had temporary asylum. They had kids in the US. Asylum expired and was not renewed. They've been fighting a court battle for several years now because there's an order to deport the parents and place the kids in foster care. They would prefer to stay in the US, but failing that they would like to leave with their children.