MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by anovikov | 2025-05-30 12:31:40+00:00
Japanese people believe that are the Gods themselves, if we put it into Western perspective. They are indeed the most trustworthy people i got to work with (but also extremely procedure-driven, formal, slow on decisionmaking, and painfully anal when it comes to matching even the tiny details in requirements - so i found it really hard to work with them). Although it has nothing to do with trust.
by uzyn | 2025-05-30 12:31:41+00:00
You made a good point, esp. if your passkey vault is comprosed, e.g. Apple iCloud's credentials are leaked. signCount, incremented or not, would not help here in informing you of your hacked iCloud account – that would be dependent on iCloud's service itself for detecting and informing you of your compromised account.

I would still like to see big tech passkey providers implement signCount for the following 2 reasons:

1. It helps to push relying parties to implement signCount verification. Right now most relying parties do not implement it as many providers are returning `0` for `signCount`.

2. This would be an odd one, it helps against detecting leaked private keys of passkeys, if a malicious attacker, internal or external, manages to obtain the private key.
by jimkleiber | 2025-05-30 12:33:07+00:00
I'll try that. The one that sometimes works for me is to sing the song very slowly in my head. Something about disrupting the tempo seems to work.

My operating hypothesis is that earworms help us maintain a specific tempo, like the old working on the railroad or singing songs while doing work together, that when we disrupt the tempo, especially slowing it down to where it won't catch other songs, then it works.
by criddell | 2025-05-30 12:33:11+00:00
For me, Procreate is the killer app that made me want an iPad and my 7 year old iPad Pro is my favorite computer.

I can't believe it's only $13 (I think I paid $10 many years ago). It's one of those rare apps that I wish was more expensive because a $13 purchase doesn't feel sustainable.

I should probably sign up for a Procreate course. The app is so deep that I know I'm only using the most basic features. If anybody has books or courses to recommend, I'm all ears.
by CompoundEyes | 2025-05-30 12:34:16+00:00
I researched this awhile back they call it Default Mode Network (DMN) which it’s our brains idle mode. Some people’s DMN includes “musical thoughts”. I write music all the time and I think it might be more intense for some due to genetics (my grandparents were old time radio performers and all their kids musicians) or nurtured more by engaging with music (e.g instrument, singer, avid listener). It’s normal for many (humming). I surveyed my 30 classmates in high school class once and on the spot most said they had a song they were “thinking” about. I usually am just cutting up and repeating bits of things. Not much different than daydreaming and “visual thoughts”.
by verisimi | 2025-05-30 12:34:21+00:00
> I wouldn’t worry about this project becoming overly mainstream or changing everyday speech.

I disagree - I think the word is already frequently used; the unnecessary use by this project is just another example.

I've no problem with the software or anything like that. Although, I could say that even in the context of the software its a bad name as it is too specific - as you say, it is for intimate toys in general, not specific ones. I also don't think it is going to be valuable for search purposes.
by potato3732842 | 2025-05-30 12:34:36+00:00
>Id say like 75% of Americans don't use their garage for their car, it's just storage for shit.

>A lot of Americans also buy 5th wheel recreational vehicles(caravans) that they can't store at home so they have to store them at designated facilities.

I am involved in this business and I assure you you are vastly over estimating the fraction of the population that pays for storage.
by vidarh | 2025-05-30 12:34:51+00:00
When you invent a language and tell it express something in that language, you've not given it the answer before asking the question.

That's an utterly bizarre notion. The answer in question never existed before.

By your definition humans never produce anything new either, because we always also extrapolate on patterns from our previous knowledge.

> it fails spectacularly for exotic programming languages.

My experience is that it not just succeeds for "exotic" languages, but for languages that didn't exist prior to the prompt.

In other words, they can code at least simple programs even with zero-shot by explaining semantics of a language without giving them even a single example of programs in that language.

Did you even read the comment you replied to above?

To quote myself: "Invent a programming language that does not exist."

I've had this work both for "from scratch" descriptions of languages by providing grammars, and for "combine feature A from language X, and feature B from language Y". In the latter case you might have at least an argument. In the former case you do not.

Most humans struggle with tasks like this - you're setting a bar for LLMs most humans would fail to meet.
by hoseyor | 2025-05-30 12:35:37+00:00
We literally just got past and are even still dealing with the ramifications and ripple effects of the Covid lockdowns (a term originating in prisons) for years, where people were censored, berated, abused, violated, and even beaten; and you’ve already forgotten about those abuses, perhaps because you also took part in them, and now want to chide people for “hyperbole” like any narcissistic abuser always does when their abusive episode has subsided.

No, there is no such thing as hyperbole when it comes to free speech or privacy from narcissistic psychopaths that want to control and abuse you, because when they have you in their clutches they will never let you go.

Psychology considers narcissism incurable as it is a character type, albeit a malignant one, but it can be managed and controlled, even if it is difficult and requires constant vigilance of those who are vulnerable to and target of narcissists. You may want to consider that.
by zipy124 | 2025-05-30 12:35:44+00:00
This is not necessarily a paper read by the rich and powerful, but just by those in the finance industry/politics/academia/c-suites/board-members. It combines two key markets, objective no-nonense news pieces heavy with data and a light analysis (it's very good at separating the data from analysis/opinion) and also opinion pieces from high-influence people such as the top members of various governments, central banks and think tanks. You can read an opinion pieces from the heritage foundation, next to one written by the founders of just stop oil or other.
by cb321 | 2025-05-30 12:35:51+00:00
I would just call it a "pattern", but if you want to be more specific Re your 1/2, perhaps a "pattern of over-simplification". Over-simplification is, of course, basically human nature, not specific to HN, and something "scientists" of all stripes fight against in themselves. So, there may be a better one-worder.

EDIT: while oversimplification is essentially always a problem, nuance and persuasion are usually at odds. So, it's especially noticeable in contexts where people are trying to persuade each other. The best parts of HN are not that, but rather where they try to inform each other.
by dmbche | 2025-05-30 12:36:15+00:00
I don't think reliable defenses against nukes can exist can they? Airbursting nukes high enough causes emp events and the irradiated material still floats around - that's without the assymetry in cost in trying to hit 100% of decoys produced by the nuke, stopping a single nuke is at least an order of magnitude more expansive than sending one - I don't think it could really be done!
by gosub100 | 2025-05-30 12:36:28+00:00
> the internet is full of people

This is the part that is about to change. Big time. The Internet is going to be full of bots thanks to LLM. It's going to get to the point where the majority of "people" are fake and the suspicion will overlap onto the actual people. It will reach a point where nobody will believe anybody online.

Inb4 "we've had bots forever now". You know what I mean.
by grues-dinner | 2025-05-30 12:37:22+00:00
With a bit (OK quite a lot) of fiddling, you could probably remove the CCD and feed the analog data into the controller, unless that's also got a crypto system in it.

Presumably if you were discovered you would then "burn" the device as its local key would be known then to be used by bad actors, but now you need to be checking all photos against a blacklist. Which also means if you buy a second hand device, you might be buying a device with "untrusted" output.
by necovek | 2025-05-30 12:37:22+00:00
I readily admit that my language processing center is not up to the task. Others are bringing up examples of people who seem to be.

However, the point is that we tie our thoughts to their verbalization, but the question is if verbalization equals thoughts? Others are bringing up memory here as well.

If we are capable of having parallel thoughts, just like the brain is able to run multiple parallel systems, could we also train to do parallel verbalization? Would we even need to?
by aspenmayer | 2025-05-30 12:37:56+00:00
This meaning seems somewhat contrary to readings in the OT (Ecclesiastes 4:12), about how a person alone is defeated, but two can fight back-to-back, and how three are a braided cord. I think given how other verses speak about not serving God and Mammon (money), that the rich are asked to give their riches to follow Jesus is a direct appeal to that given rich man, so that he could braid his cord with theirs, and have the man and his money work toward spreading the Good News. These braiding metaphors are similar to comparisons of Gentiles being grafted as a new vine onto the covenant with Abraham.

The parable of the talents and the connection between investment skill and being blessed by the master show that being rich or good with money is considered a good thing that can be used poorly or toward evil, not simply evil in itself. It is the love of money that is the root of all evil, not that money is evil in and of itself. Money is simply a tool fit for a purpose, as Jesus shows with the miracle of the fish with a coin in its mouth which was used to pay their temple taxes, so that Jesus could keep the legalistic Pharisee and Sadducee busybodies off their backs for a little while longer.

"Render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's." Or something like that.
by skydhash | 2025-05-30 12:38:00+00:00
> Once you get to the question of _which specific data is shown on a page_ the decisions are closer to the human side of how we've arbitrarily chosen to organise things in this specific thousandth-iteration of an e-commerce application.

That's why communication is so important, because the requirements are the primary decision factors. A secondary factors is prior technical decisions.
by lurk2 | 2025-05-30 12:38:01+00:00
> But high status guys by definition wouldn't be seen dead in clubs like these to begin with.

The problem with joining a club is not that it’s a club but that it’s a club governed by Title IX legislation and the Damoclesian threat of getting cancelled for telling the “It’s too white in here” college liberal that he’s no longer welcome to attend.
by palmotea | 2025-05-30 12:38:14+00:00
> Generative AI is drawing that period to an end, and we're returning to "who said / posted this" and having to trust the source rather than the image/message itself. It's a big regression.

Which just goes to show that one of the core tenets of techno-optimism is a lie.

The Amish (as I understand them) actually have the right idea: instead of wantonly adopting every technology that comes along, they assess how each one affects their values and culture, and pick the ones that help and reject the ones that harm.
by criddell | 2025-05-30 12:38:55+00:00
You will probably be very happy with the Air. I'd recommend the big one.

I use a 2018 13" iPad Pro and I love that size because it's basically the same size as a sheet of 8.5x11 (or A4) paper. It's the perfect size for reading and marking up PDFs too.

Last year I bought and returned the M4 iPad Pro because they didn't make a Smart Keyboard Folio for it which I prefer to the more heavy duty Magic Keyboard. So I'm still using my 7 year old iPad worrying about what I'm going to do when it dies. I thought for sure somebody would make a knock off, but nobody has made anything that I think is as good as the Apple product.

For me, Procreate and GoodNotes are a killer combination that justify owning the device.
by bluebarbet | 2025-05-30 12:38:56+00:00
Article raised interesting questions but suggested no answers.

To the extent there's a technical fix to this problem of mass gaslighting, surely it's cryptography.

Specifically, the domain name system and TLS certificates, functioning on the web-of-trust principle. It's already up and running. It's good enough to lock down money, so it should be enough to suggest whether a video is legit.

We decide which entities are trustworthy (say: reuters.com, cbc.ca), they vouch for the veracity of all their content, and the rest we assume is fake slop. Done.
by vidarh | 2025-05-30 12:39:21+00:00
> But reward models are always curated by humans.

There is no inherent reason why they need to be.

> So yeah theoretically you could generate reward models with LLMs, but they won't be any good, unless they are curated by other reward models that are ultimately curated by humans.

This reasoning is begging the question: The reasoning is true only if the conclusion is true. It's therefore a logically invalid argument.

There is no inherent reason why this needs to be the case.
by raincole | 2025-05-30 12:40:00+00:00
I don't know. On one hand, it's noble to see apps (CSP, Procreate, Krita) rejecting AI at this era.

On the other hand, I can't help but feel it's mental gymnastics when Krita is implementing a neutral network based linework filter [0] while very vocally being against AI. I understand the technical details, and I still fail to see the nuances here.

[0]: https://krita-artists.org/t/introducing-a-new-project-fast-l...
by zipy124 | 2025-05-30 12:40:26+00:00
This is frankly not true. They have news but also opinion pieces and it is important to separate the two. It is also important to look at the specific journalist/guest who wrote it which they make sure to feature prominently at the top along with any disclosures of shares/positions.

They for example often publish articles encouraging lower taxes, but also those advocating for wealth taxes, land value taxes, estate taxes, non-dom/exit fees which are often the ones which specifically target the ultra rich.

The important thing to note is that on any financial trade, a party is on each side, and both will be reading the FT so they have a vested interest in trying to present both sides to capture this audience.

There are heavy-weight bond investors for example, who believe government debt is too high, and we need to tax the ultra-wealthy in order to reduce deficits.
by Spooky23 | 2025-05-30 12:40:56+00:00
There was a decade long rebellion and civil war.

The French followed the pattern of the British and Germans in Africa and put a couple of million people in concentration camps with the associated torture and repression. They took a nascent movement and empowered it, just like they did in Vietnam.

Empires are messy. Frankly, your argument sounds like the Americans complaining about Puerto Rican “immigrants”.
by sillyfluke | 2025-05-30 12:41:50+00:00
Did we though?

The triangle design for the stealth plane (I'm not arguing the merits of the design or the plane) to come out Skunkworks came from a radar paper from a Soviet journal -- at least according to book on the topic. As I recall from the book, the Soviet author of the paper, who emigrated to the States in the 90s (?), said he wasn't too surprised that it was the States and not the Soviets who took his paper seriously.

And here we are revoking visas of international students.

This tells me that in a couple iterations down the road the MAGA admin is not going to take its own government journals seriously either.
by imaginationra | 2025-05-30 12:42:40+00:00
"AI" is just a tool like any other- creatives will use these tools to make things they couldn't make before because of the limits of their budget and/or scale-

I just made an original animated feature film where I sang %75 of the roles by using an AI tool(audimee.com) to convert my voice into others- I couldn't do that before- we're now creating Portuguese and Russian language versions of the songs with a tool that has a $20 usd/month subscription! Couldn't do that before!

For creatives/artists- As long as we don't use AI to generate ideas we're good, human generated ideas are a must- bring on all the AI tools!

The whole built on theft thing- as a human film director I could rattle off endless examples just in cinema of human directors "stealing" premises, sequences, shots, styles etc from other filmmakers with no consequences- so why stop the AI now?

I see the "theft" as being democratized now- large studios/entities with large resources have always been able to legally "steal" so with these AI tools I guess we all can now?

I make original animated films, games, music, art etc etc and I feel no "threat" at all from AI-

I feel the opposite as I'm excited to see what things they will allow me to do next as a micro-studio with limited budgets but unlimited creativity.

Aesthetics are dead now imo because of generative AI as anyone can be any "style" so now it is all about ideas- original human ideas.
by gokhan | 2025-05-30 12:42:57+00:00
Just like in blind wine tasting, I suspect people’s perceptions (including many here) would be very different if the author hadn’t told us it was created by AI.

There’s a noticeable negativity on HN toward AI when it comes to coding, writing, or anything similar as if these people have been using AI for the past 30 years and have reached some elevated state of mind where they clearly see it's rubbish, while the rest of us mortals who’ve only been fiddling with it for the past 2.5 years can’t.
by dominicq | 2025-05-30 12:44:30+00:00
It's true that we treat children like property. In fact, not just children, but anyone who's powerless.

I think this is why so much of our fiction revolves around children, their growing-up stories, and how they were mistreated. We, or at least some of us, recognize the great injustice visited upon the young, and so we write it into our stories.
by giancarlostoro | 2025-05-30 12:44:42+00:00
I had to google what ear worm is. English being a second language, I read the comments here first and thought you were using telepathy (essentially) to get some parasite to leave your ear.

Its rare for a song to really capture me to that extent. I dont know if its because I would just listen to entire albums on repeat or what.

I cant even mention Baby Shark without freaking out some people but I dont get it stuck in my head, I just eventually get tired of singing it with the preschooler.
by justlikereddit | 2025-05-30 12:45:15+00:00
Malthusian themes have been recurring for the last 200 years.

Every few years a functional illiterate with disproportionate reach in media thinks that "current reserves of X" is a value describing the total amount of X available on the planet and that this can only ever shrink and will hit zero in our lifetime. The doomers scream and have a tantrum over our impending apocalypse for a year or two, then it fades into an embarrassing silence before repeating with theme Y instead.

Eventually we've rotated through the entire doomer alphabet and we're back at screaming about X again, as is the case with the OP article which I didn't read and never will but can reject in its entirety based on having seen the Doomer pattern a hundred times before.
by bayindirh | 2025-05-30 12:45:30+00:00
Thanks for the heads-up, didn't know TIFF/FEC. However, I can't because the images are .ARW (Sony's camera raw format). I keep multiple copies with hashes of them currently. I check the disks periodically.

Mid-term plan is to build an UNRAID array with patrolling. Will probably do backups with Borg on top of it, and keep another "working copy", so I have multiple layers of redundancy with some auto-remediation.

UNRAID will keep disk level consistency in good shape. Patrolling will do checksum tests, Borg can check its own backups against bitrot and can repair them in most cases. Working copy will contain everything and refill if something unthinkable happens.
by 1659447091 | 2025-05-30 12:46:19+00:00
> conception of angels primarily informed by comic books and films.

Dogma was a great/funny film.

Looking at the Ophanim link and related pictures reminded me of Contact(1997), not great+boring imo, but your comment reminded me of the wheel thing in the movie, and now I wonder if it was something intended (being a heavenly chariot and all) I could have easily missed it — or if that is just a coincidence
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-05-30 12:46:48+00:00
Well, people who make a lot of money, do so, by selling lots of cheap, as opposed to few expensive, and I think that Procreate may be one of the best-selling apps ever.

I remember Corel Painter. It was about $400, and did many similar things.

I think it may no longer be around.
by codingdave | 2025-05-30 12:47:00+00:00
Is it wrong that whenever I hear people talk about super intelligent AI, I think of Star wars -- Qui-Gon Jinn: The ability to speak does not make you intelligent.

The point is that AI is not intelligent at this point. It is clever, and quick. But it does not surpass its training data. So I don't see a future where AI is smarter than us... I see a future where it is a really fast way to get the median quality answer to any question posed.
by testfrequency | 2025-05-30 12:47:26+00:00
This needs to be a path more companies take.

Procreate knows their target users are skilled humans, and it’s been consistently refreshing to see them align their morals and beliefs to how much AI has stolen from the creative world.

I think unless you are a creative yourself, you’ll never be able to fully grasp just how sickening it’s been to watch and see centuries of artists blood, sweat, and tears all be garbled into a slop smoothie with no credit or citation.

Any creative who enjoys AI was most likely never a creative for the right reasons to begin with.
by mr_toad | 2025-05-30 12:47:41+00:00
> "we think you can pay more, so we'll charge you more" type of thing. Is that a good/bad/ethical/predatory thing?

Econ101 says it’s a bad thing because of the deadweight loss occurring versus a single market price.

It also arrogates a lot of consumer surplus to the producer (the airline), which many would argue is bad from an ethical and inequality point of view.
by TaupeRanger | 2025-05-30 12:48:13+00:00
Like most pieces of neuroscience writing that frame a "why" question ("Why we sleep", "why we get earworms", "why we like beaches") - the question is literally never answered in the article/book, and the explanations given are things that an 8 year old child could produce. This is, of course, because we have no idea how the brain works to create the complex experiences that we are so familiar with.

Almost all of the explanations here boil down to descriptions of the earworms themselves, rather than an answer to WHY we get them. There are some things about short term memory and the "phonological loop" peppered in to make it sound scientific, but again those just boil down to "it's a short melody that you can hold in your memory". But of course, even after all this, none of these things are actually explanations at all! They are post hoc observations masquerading as explanations, like trying to explain "why" birds migrate by describing how long they fly, and what direction they fly in.