MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ilaksh | 2025-04-26 20:59:00+00:00
Different groups or individuals are going to have different reactions. Most of the reactions to AI art are similar to the reactions for art and actually most things in general. They are based on popularity or fashion more than any real judgement.

It's largely driven by social dynamics. If your group generally expresses disgust for AI art, you subconsciously know you have to have the same opinion about it.

Your post is a bad example where you make an artificial distinction based on how you generate it in order to make it okay.

It's okay for what you are doing because it's incredibly convenient. It's not okay for other people because you know it's unpopular.

For videos also, you need to distinguish between that and images or other types of art. Videos are more challenging than still images and just starting to get to the point where the latest ones don't have a lot of weird obvious spatial temporal artifacts.
by samiv | 2025-04-26 20:59:29+00:00
Let's fix that right there.

Capitalism is a concept, a tool to organize production in a society. It doesn't do anything by itself.

And the capitalist didn't do any of those things.

It was the social democracy that demanded and made capitalists around the world to share the benefits of the system to the rest of the society.

For example in the Victorian era Britain the working class people were dirt poor working 16h a way 7 days a week. The capitalists didn't give anything willingly the working people had to demand these things via unions, labor movements and social democracy.
by slater | 2025-04-26 20:59:56+00:00
Those tables seem a bit... odd? Are we led to believe that between January and February, no fast food restaurants closed? Not a single one? And same for July and August?

Also, a gold star for prominently featuring the totals cumulatively, oooo scary number go up! I did the needful:

https://i.imgur.com/OziGDLg.png
by analog31 | 2025-04-26 21:00:39+00:00
Who wants jobs? For what?

I realize that this seems like trolling, so I'll explain myself a bit... the idea that the AGI's will settle into our culture and economy has always struck me as weird. So I always ask: What do they want?

I'm a musician, so I have friends who live at the periphery of capitalism, and actually don't want to spend every day at a job, even if it means that they could be more wealthy. That's part of what forces me to ask these questions.

I imagine an AGI who's like one of my friends, who was voluntarily homeless for a few decades, and arranged his life so he could survive in good health without a conventional income.
by charlie-83 | 2025-04-26 21:00:51+00:00
The gender difference is due to the enforcement officers rather than the letters. They ask if they can come in to check if you have a TV. You can just say no but they can be intimidating and pressure you to let them in. I would bet that it's not just a gender gap; I would imagine that elderly and disabled people would also be more likely to let them in.

She is right when she says that it's unenforceable. Even if you let them in, they find a TV and turn it on to find lots of BBC iplayer watch history, you can just say that it was all watched by a friend who lives elsewhere. The only way they ever catch people is by surprising people and intimidating them.
by koolba | 2025-04-26 21:01:17+00:00
If you read the complete sentence you’d realize I’m referring to cheating against every other potential immigrant to come to the USA.

> To the extent someone is unequivocally cheating, it's ICE.

So what exactly is ICE supposed to do if they are deporting the illegal alien mother and child is a citizen? Forget the possibility of a deported father. Say a single mother with no legal status is being deported.

Does she not get the option to take her child with her?

If she didn’t take the child the same people would be likely be screaming about ICE separating families.

Kids are not a get out of jail free card.
by tsimionescu | 2025-04-26 21:01:40+00:00
No, this is an absurd idea. People with more money have more options - including easily leaving the country if they don't like its laws. In contrast, people with less money have less options and are more dependent on the state, and more at the state's whims if it decides to turn against them. For example, a wealthy person may be able to appeal a wrongful conviction, even taking things all the way up to international courts. A poor person will likely have to accept the initial decision of any judge. An increase of 50% in taxes will cost a wealthy person much more in pure monetary terms, but will have a much, much higher impact in quality of life for a poor person.

So, since laws and governance have a disproportionate impact on those with less money, I would say that, if anything, those with less money have more skin in the game. But I wouldn't put it like that myself - my position is that every person who lives in a country and is subject to its laws for a long enough time has, on balance, the same amount of "skin in the game". The only distinction related to the right to vote should beade based on the ability to take rational decisions (that is, while they still have just as much skin in the game, some people shouldn't be allowed to vote because they lack the ability to rationally understand the vote - but this only applies to children and to those with severe mental disabilities).
by vondur | 2025-04-26 21:01:52+00:00
I wouldn't call it a "small cost." Most fast food meals are at least $15 now. McDonald's just opened a new location here — no dine-in or counter service at all. It's partly because of crime, but also because they don’t need to hire as many people to maintain a dining area. On the bright side, I guess I’m eating out a lot less now.
by zvr | 2025-04-26 21:03:06+00:00
Actually the PDF does not contain "the entire font file for every font used" but only a subset, containing the definitions of only the characters (glyphs) being used in the document.

That's why the font appears not as "XBANDRough" but as "<6-random-uppercase-letters>+<original-font-name>"; this indicates it's only a subset of the original font.
by 90s_dev | 2025-04-26 21:03:16+00:00
I had the same problem, I made a 3x4 font that was just barely servicable for the initial project to show text on screen. It was my first (and only) font I ever made! Eventually I needed lower-case, so I turned those into lower-case and made a 3x5 variant for uppercase. It's still not ideal, and I'm sure when I announce my project, people will complain about it. So I've prepared to say "it's a stop-gap solution to make the OS servicable, but we can make more fonts."

I think people skimming a project often just don't quite get how much we pour into our projects, and how very much it cost us. But it's okay, they don't have to understand just how cool it is what we made. At least we know.

When I saw your video of your project, I was thinking to myself, "wow, that's incredibly cool, and I can relate to the steps he's doing!" Just trying to be the voice here of someone who thought that way, in case there are no others.
by FilosofumRex | 2025-04-26 21:03:52+00:00
That's true of the original APL design but later incarnations simplified it considerably.

Spreadsheets were unstable & cumbersome to debug if longer than a sheet, very slow iterative convergence and encouraged sloppy unwieldy coding, but of course, excelled at the presentation level. This resulted in endless number of "FORTRAN/C++ REPL" tools emerging to fill the gap.

To appreciate the revolutionary design of APL & its descendants, notice most of industrial tools that emerged in 90s & 2000's emulated it under the hood - MATLAB/sage, Mathematica, STATA/R/SAS, Tableau, and even CERN ROOT/Cling - in trading & quant finance Q/Kdb+ is still SOTA.
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2025-04-26 21:04:09+00:00
It's not clear how much the reasoning helped, especially since the reasoning OpenAI display is more post-hoc summary of what it did that the actual reasoning process itself, although after the interest in DeepSeek-R's traces they did say they would show more. You would think that potentially it could do things like image search to try to verify/reject any initial clue-based hunches, but not obvious whether it did that or not.

The "initial" response of the model is interesting:

"The image shows a residential neighborhood with small houses, one of which is light green with a white picket fence and a grey roof. The fire pit and signposts hint at a restaurant or cafe, possibly near the coast. The environment, with olive trees and California poppies, suggests a coastal California location, perhaps Central Coast like Cambria or Morro Bay. The pastel-colored houses and the hills in the background resemble areas like Big Sur. A license plate could offer more, but it's hard to read."

Where did all that come from?! The leap from fire pit & signposts to possible coastal location is wild (& lucky) if that is really the logic it used. The comment on potential licence plate utility, without having first noted that a licence plate is visible is odd, seemingly either an indication that we are seeing a summary of some unknown initial response, and/or perhaps that the model was trained on a mass of geoguessing data where photos were paired not with descriptions but rather commentary such as this.

The model doesn't seem to realize the conflict between this being a residential neighborhood, and there being a presumed restaurant across the road from a residence!
by bigbadfeline | 2025-04-26 21:04:28+00:00
On the contrary, humans need to develop these territories further because AI is only a follower and a student of human-created knowledge, that's why it excels in student-related tasks. In order to have good AI we need good human science which needs a lot of human effort for a variety of reasons.

The problem with humanities is their tendency to be palace sciences, easily abused for political reasons. It's more of feature than a bug and it's unlikely to change from within them.
by kmbfjr | 2025-04-26 21:04:50+00:00
I had my prostate removed six weeks ago due to Gleason 8 score cancer. The pathology revealed an aggressive cancer.

My prostate was not enlarged, my PSA at the end was 4.2. Only because my doctor was overly cautious about the slope of the PSA rise did he send me for an MRI starting the diagnosis. It remains to be seen if it escaped containment.

The point here is, I don’t think enlargement and cancer are that intertwined. Cancer happens for any number of reasons, pinning hope that it can be staved off by diet and vitamins seems to ignore tons of other environmental factors.
by ludicrousdispla | 2025-04-26 21:04:51+00:00
I think mistake is an overused word, and a choice that qualifies as a mistake in the future may not be judged as a mistake now.

Simply put... we make choices based on the information we have now. And our future judgment of our choices should account for the information we had back then, most of which has probably been forgotten.

But to answer your question, we shouldn't regret our mistakes but it is very good to remember them.
by Sindisil | 2025-04-26 21:04:58+00:00
Who is "we", Kimosabe?

Personally, I have no time for gen-AI in pretty much any context, at least given the current landscape.

And plenty of people seem to accept, if not love, gen-AI art. I don't get it, but it's true.

> While browsing YouTube, an AI-generated video appeared and I reflexively told my wife, “That’s AI—skip it.”

My reflex whenever I encounter gen-AI output in any form: text, code, image, music, video, what have you. I find all off it mid in the best of cases, and usually think it's quite terrible. I regularly see posts of the form "you'll never believe this amazing AI generated picture/video/paper/program, and when I check it out I feel like I'm taking crazy pills because I just don't see the magic.

Just my $.02, not inflation adjusted. You (and many others) may well feel differently.
by robomartin | 2025-04-26 21:05:09+00:00
This article is a complete fabrication. Jobs have been lost. Businesses have seen a reduction in sales due to having to raise prices. People don't tip at all now or tip very little. Full time jobs are shifted to be part time. Etc.

As is always the case with these policies, the people who were promised better outcomes are the ones who suffer. Everything is more expensive. On top of that, CA has a fetish with taxation, which means your $20 per hour likely has the buying power you had when you were earning $10, if not less. We pay nearly $5 per gallon for gasoline when, in other parts of the nation the prices are around $2.50. It's all taxes and over-regulation. Insurance (car and home) is crazy expensive. Everything is expensive.

I am not sure how far we are from what I've been calling a "Javier Milei" moment in CA. The moment when the population finally suffered enough to understand reality and put people in office who will actually do what they are supposed to do.

New one: They are pushing for a mileage tax on vehicles. The excuse is that revenues have come down due to electrics. This is a lie. Only about 5% of the vehicles in CA are EV's. Furthermore, the road maintenance taxes we pay on fuel have AUTOMATIC annual increases built in. And yet, I have been to third world countries who's road are better maintained than in CA. It's truly embarrassing and criminal. The money is being diverted to things other than road maintenance.

In short, this article is completely disconnected to reality on the ground.
by simonw | 2025-04-26 21:05:39+00:00
Yeah, the "generative" in "generative AI" gives a little bit of a false impression. I like Laurie Voss's take on this: https://seldo.com/posts/what-ive-learned-about-writing-ai-ap...

> Is what you're doing taking a large amount of text and asking the LLM to convert it into a smaller amount of text? Then it's probably going to be great at it. If you're asking it to convert into a roughly equal amount of text it will be so-so. If you're asking it to create more text than you gave it, forget about it.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-04-26 21:05:47+00:00
> you’d realize I’m referring to cheating against every other potential immigrant to come to the USA

I know. I'm pointing out that the mother's illegal immigration is outweighed by ICE's illegal detention, deportation and wilful abrogation of legal and constitutional rights of a U.S. citizen.

> what exactly is ICE supposed to do if they are deporting the illegal alien mother and child is a citizen?

Follow the law. In this case, that would involve transfering the child to her designated custodian [1].

> If she didn’t take the child the same people would be likely be screaming about ICE separating families

Not an excuse for breaking the law!

[1] https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69940863/1/v-m-l-v-harp...
by StopDisinfo910 | 2025-04-26 21:06:20+00:00
I don’t understand your first paragraph.

The EU has competition law (like the USA to be honest). Competition law is a lot broader than simply being against monopoly which is why I don’t understand why you mention monopolies. Monopolies are an extreme form of disfunction in competitive markets. There are a lot of emphasis on market dominance in the EU law which is itself a concept broader than monopolies. A monopoly is necessary a dominant player so would fall under all the provision of article 102, yes.
by tbrownaw | 2025-04-26 21:06:50+00:00
Art generators can be used by people who would otherwise have to pay artists, so they're in competition with the people dissing them.

Code assistants are used by programmers wanting to be more productive. Things that claim to replace programmers entirely get dissed. (But it's more "that won't work" rather than "that's not allowed", because, well, it doesn't work. Yet at least.)

AI-generated content is probably cheap spam, even though it in theory could be made by someone knowledgeable using the AI as a tool.

Things generated by an AI are lower quality than things made by someone competent... but depending on what you're doing, that might not matter.
by tastyface | 2025-04-26 21:06:59+00:00
Who the fuck knows how popular an authoritarian politician actually is?

> While polling consistently shows that Bukele is quite popular in El Salvador, surveys also show a steady increase in fear of public criticism of the government — to degrees that sometimes match the president’s approval rating. 'There’s a sector of the population that feels better, because it’s true that we perceive more security, we’re no longer afraid of the gangs. Now we’re afraid of the regime,' says Ramirez. 'We see soldiers everywhere, police everywhere, patrol cars, and they’re arresting people.'"
by spwa4 | 2025-04-26 21:07:06+00:00
But that makes these claims of "slavery" even more absurd. Would you have to do more or less living as a subsistence farmer? Would you have better or worse quality of life?

That's an easy one: no way in hell, it'd be SO much worse. Our society can only exist with extreme specialization.

Hell, if we take into account that the land available couldn't even remotely support the people living on it (~2km2 per person per year), so there'd be a famine under those conditions and you'll what's being suggested as "alternative" is effectively extreme suffering followed by death for 95%+ of the population, maybe 99%+.
by cameronh90 | 2025-04-26 21:07:14+00:00
It’s true. Unfortunately I can’t post proof without doxxing myself obviously, but I understand the skepticism considering I’m not sure I’d believe it if I hadn't seen it myself.

I have no memories stored, and in any case it shouldn’t know where I live exactly. The reasoning output didn’t suggest it was relying on any other chat history or information outside the image, but obviously you can’t fully trust it either.
by hagbard_c | 2025-04-26 21:07:33+00:00
Yes, everything I don't agree with is racist. It is time to drop that tired old trope, if you don't want to accept it from me accept it from Thomas Sowell:

“Racism is not dead, but it is on life support – kept alive by politicians, race hustlers and people who get a sense of superiority by denouncing others as ‘racists”

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/11151740-racism-is-not-dead...
by queenkjuul | 2025-04-26 21:08:37+00:00
I for one reject them both equally. ChatGPT's writing style is annoying, the "art" all has this weird similarity to it, and whether it's YouTube or a graphic novel or a blog post, if i can tell it's AI, I'm skipping it. Fixing auto generated code annoys me far more than just doing it myself the first time.
by phillryu | 2025-04-26 21:08:38+00:00
Trying to understand what you're saying, especially with 'let's fix that right there'.

Is it basically the idea that the good we've gotten out of it (like driving down extreme poverty) has required 'social democracy' as another concept or force, to bend capitalism towards something better? And that a more useful perspective is zooming out from just capitalism by itself to include that?

I do feel like I still have a pretty limited understanding of how all of this fits together, so I appreciate you trying to teach me something here.
by elteto | 2025-04-26 21:08:41+00:00
Corporations can (and should) provide training for tradespeople, but you can't do the same for specialized degrees, like engineering. To train engineers it takes 4-5 years of academic + project work, which is what colleges and universities provide. There's nothing wrong with degrees, what we have in the US is a broken aid system with perverse incentives around the financing of such degrees. Don't conflate one thing with the other.
by AustinDev | 2025-04-26 21:09:03+00:00
>Saying "there is no such thing as a perfect process" when discussing the unconstitutional deportation of LITERAL American citizens on an overnight, including a child with cancer deprived of medication, isn't a reasonable position. It's an attempt to normalize extreme rights violations.

As I've mentioned in other comments non-judicial removals (no immigration hearing) are in fact very common accounting for nearly 75% of all removals. Deportation of American citizens has happened, and it is wrong. It's been happening every year in small numbers for the last 30 years. In the OP case in particular the children were deported with the parents at the parent's request according to a DHS statement. So this was not a mistake.

>I'm actually curious - are you aware of that law? Did you hear about it?

Of course, you're talking about The Emergency National Security Supplemental Appropriations Act. The 'immigration amendment' wasn't really necessary and you could argue the better electronic communications outlined in the bill actually could increase immigration efficiency. It was a very popular lie that legislation was needed to stop millions of illegals from entering the country during the Biden administration. Border crossings have dropped ~95% since the new administration took over. Probably for two main reasons, no more parole while waiting for a hearing and NGO funding drying up.
by yellowapple | 2025-04-26 21:09:45+00:00
And #4 can be addressed by not using potable water for cooling. Even assuming a reactor is water-cooled in the first place, that water has to be purified anyway before it can be used as coolant - so might as well just use seawater if you're gonna have to purify it anyway.

Hell, a coastal nuclear plant could be a net-negative water consumer with a desalination plant onsite. California could completely abolish the very notion of "drought" within its borders by going all-in on nuclear and desalination. It probably never will, though, because rich landowners are California's most protected class and anything that'll lower their property values (by "ruining" the pretty coastal views) is verboten.
by sshh12 | 2025-04-26 21:10:19+00:00
This isn't necessarily a new thing but thought it was cool that the new image model can do some of these just with prompting.

- "Generate a depth map image" + https://depthy.stamina.pl/#/

- "generate a 360 pano" + https://renderstuff.com/tools/360-panorama-web-viewer/

- "generate a detailed greyscale top down height map (#fff max height, #000 min height)..." + https://cpetry.github.io/NormalMap-Online/
by MilnerRoute | 2025-04-26 21:10:22+00:00
The linked-to article actually starts with the case for the wage increase. (The HN comment only quotes the one industry-funded study, which appears much further down.) From the article:

"We find that the policy increased average hourly pay by a remarkable 18 percent, and yet it did not reduce employment,” a study by the UC Berkeley Institute for Research and Labor Employment concluded. “The policy increased prices about 3.7 percent, or about 15 cents on a $4 hamburger (on a one-time basis), contrary to industry claims of larger increases."

This is one of those situations where everyone seems to see what they want to see. (The article notes that "Both pro and con studies used roughly the same employment data generated by the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics. The agency does not collect specific data on the fast food chains affected by the minimum wage legislation, so the rival researchers had to extrapolate what they contend are valid statistical bases... without some reliable data on effects, everyone involved is shooting in the dark. It will be politics, rather than fact, which governs the outcomes.")
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-04-26 21:10:40+00:00
> could as well blame this as a necessary consequence of that prior neglect

The endgame for this policy is a Democrat President detaining abroad--solely on executive authority--January 6th types, and other violent criminals on the right. (Or worse, nonviolent agitators.) Habeas corpus predates the Magna Carta [1] for a reason.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habeas_corpus#Origins_in_Engla...