skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article literally continues from the last quote with an example of unnecessary pain and suffering:

>Company veterinarian Sam Baker advised his colleagues to immediately kill one of the pigs to end her suffering.

>“Based on low chance of full recovery … and her current poor psychological well-being, it was decided that euthanasia was the only appropriate course of action,” Baker wrote colleagues about one of the pigs a day after the surgery, adding a broken heart emoji.
How do you verify age from a porn site's point of view, and how do you do it without opening a huge privacy pandora's box?
It is useful to have a canonical example. Shared understanding of the problem, etc.

It’s related to why memes exist.
>> Pornography should be strictly regulated

> The government should fuck off and not get the idea that it has any authority over the sexuality of consenting adults.

Zealous adherence to oversimple principles like that are the root cause of a lot of harm.
Is there any statistical significance to that. Have the emotional baggage and social complexity younger people are dealing with and the share of middle aged people who did or could not transition been accounted for?
Trying it now, thanks!
Agree - the signing part doesn't, the suggestion is to use Web3/blockchain as a method for others to verify secondarily the hash is from the author.

It used to be email was unique, and public keys shared for verification. Author is suggesting by placing the hash of the content on chain, anyone can independently verify it. I think it is novel
A capitalist fever dream to justify how valuable he is to society. Of course, he completely ignores the labour going into the entire supply chain that enables this level of automation. It's full of underpaid workers likely including some living under slavery-like conditions or in authoritarian dictatorships that don't even live up to his free-market ideals.
> Which of those can you do hundreds of times without going to jail?

Take a look at https://www.findlaw.com/criminal/criminal-law-basics/infract....

> Or, to change the angle, tell me about your proposed porn regulations and what happens to people who just cheerfully go on filming themselves fucking and ignore the regulations?

I haven't proposed any porn regulations whatsover... You seem to be confusing me with someone else.
I am. Still at least it isn't Brazillian Jiujitsu or Meditation.
So the complexity of the product should mean it's development causes more animal suffering ?
Sure agreed that automation is often pointless and more harmful than helpful. I'm just surprised you're making such a fuss about a ten year old in a dark room.
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This is the question I see way too few people asking: how do we want end-game capitalism to look. Should it be Banks' "The Culture", or should it be neo-feudal with the populace at large acting as serf to capital.

Without discussing the vision, discussing the strategy becomes sort of meaningless.

(Edit: typo)
I'm not sure that's the great argument you think it is.

Doesn't it seem a bit coercive if the people who want/need this are so desperate for it that they literally cannot care about the ethics of the company behind the product?
Well yes, give it to the trust fund babies, but also give it to everyone else too. That's the "universal" part of UBI. Once you take out the "universal" part it isn't UBI anymore.
I think the programming working model will change as it did years ago when we moved from punch cards to files and then from assembly to higher-level languages. Programmers will continue to program solutions with assistance from code automation for less business-focused parts of the problem at hand. Consider the more analog version of this: nowadays we spend more and more time copying answers from StackOverflow than we do debugging at a lower level.
Interesting questions, arbitrarily hard to research.

Attention seems to be reserved for events that occur in the sorts of tight loops that affect benchmark results. Thus, the first encounter with any branch may stall indefinitely long without (market) penalty.

Game coders have learned to batch their indirect calls according to actual destination, to throw the branch predictor a bone.
As it turns out, "Move fast and break software" is in the vast majority of cases less unethical than "Move fast and break people".
I'm not questioning your experience but this is very strange to me.

I've worked with contractors based in Brazil, Turkey, and other countries likely categorized as "developing" and the payment process doesn't look any different than when I work with international contractors in places like Germany.

Many of them use Wise (formerly TransferWise) and looking at the pricing for Nigeria it looks completely reasonable - sending money has a 0.41% fee and receiving it is free. This fee includes reasonable things like a website non-crypto enthusiasts can actually use, customer support, fraud protections, etc. For countries with unstable currencies, massive inflation, etc Wise allows you to hold it in over 50 fiat currencies (including USD).

Given that I've had an interest in crypto for many years at this point I've seen online descriptions like yours so I've asked the contractors I've worked with "Why not crypto?". They all tell the same story - that services like Wise are perfectly usable and with extremely reasonable pricing all things considered. Wise even provides the sending of invoices that I (as the client) receive via e-mail and can pay in a few clicks. The most important thing to people is actually getting paid and it's a well known fact that reducing friction around payments is the best thing you can do (I've been a contractor as well).

Note this is technical/development contract work. I can't imagine people in non-technical fields getting an invoice asking for payment in crypto stablecoin and them spending the time, energy, and resources to wander through that maze to pay a contractor, service, etc instead of running their business. Frankly I'd use a different contractor and I'm very crypto literate.
Almost the entire AI / ML landscape is still stuck on the pretense of: "lets feed it a trillion pieces of data, correct the most obvious defects, and call it a day", which leads to some terrific results, but mostly really poor and low quality results. It is fast becoming the buzzfeed of software. Generated images are full of obvious glitches. Chats with AI are full of logical mistakes and very weird changes of topic. Generated text is a lot of the time borderline unreadable. What exactly is the end goal here? Release early, release often, release all hopes of being taken seriously?
(As someone, unfortunately, living in Seattle) Why wouldn't they, really? I mean, there's a reason the problem is not symmetrical - Seattle PD could do the same with Bothell to balance it out and make it a MAD type of thing, but they don't - why not?

I think willfully stupid people should suffer the consequences of their willful stupidity. It's a bummer I cannot move away from them right now, but I do see how this is totally fair to the stupid people.
> Ask ChatGPT to play chess. It can generate a text based board and prompt you for moves, but it can’t reliably update its board correctly or even find legal moves. Note that I don’t expect it to play good moves, but the fact that it can’t even play legal moves should tell us something about its internal state.

Incidentally, I tried handing it a few partial games in algebraic notation and asking it to suggest the next move, and it generally suggested legal moves, though with tactical explanations that ranged from plausible to nonsensical. It refused to actually play chess with me though and I guess I just didn't have the right prompt.
You can probably do with with a EEG headband already. There is also already eye tracking software. No need for an implant.
It got flagged, that's probably why it doesn't show up.
Its so predictable at this point. SV is just such a BS hype machine. There was 1 truly great revolution (the internet + smart phones) and everyone's trying to replicate it to make the big $$$. Its not going to happen. We are now in the steady state till the next truly big thing hits.
How is Twitter a fiasco?

The platform has more engagement than anyone has seen in years, and there is finally transparency around the moderation decisions. Twitter is also finally taking child exploitation seriously. The only negative was the haphazard release of Twitter Blue "verification," which felt chaotic and was turned off as a result pending relaunch, but was hardly a fiasco.
It’s either an infringement or it’s not copyrightable. Pick one.

Only creative works are copyrightable.
KmsdBot botnet is down after operator sends typo in command
you beat me to it, https://go.dev/src/net/http/status.go
Totally, you still hear that feudals didn't deserve to be rich, because serfs created all the value. But the falsity of this claim become obvious as enclosures enabled feudals to use fewer and fewer serfs on their land.
I always find this take that innovation wouldn’t happen in a non-capitalist society very strange, as if humanity hadn’t produced countless innovations before modern constructs like the corporation existed.

I also think its incredulous to focus on one (admittedly, very) positive outcome of capitalism without acknowledging its externalities, like pollution, inequality, etc. I suppose pg believes the current system will lead to a post-scarcity society in which none of those exist. Perhaps that’s true, but I hope the planet survives long enough to get there.
Chat would sign it with a different public/key pair - which upon verification would not match authors public key nor hash.
Why wouldn't you want to be part of a union?

I am a recent member of the UAW (a more white collar local), and it's been insightful. I think unions are much weaker than people perceive. Their strengths are mostly superficial. Striking is something members don't want to resort to. Other than that all you can really do is rally and file NLRB complaints. The NLRB is a slow moving bureaucracy that any competent employer can usually effectively dance around. Rallying and building public support comes with all the pitfalls of politics, media, etc.

The worst part is actually my employer hates the union for no other reason than its an organization they can't control, so it makes the situation of being unionized a bit toxic unfortunately.
I think it's also worth considering that automation will enable founders to grow companies with less and less funding.
> When the VCs really want something, due diligence, especially the sort you mention, and any sort of business plan / model / etc goes out the window.

Indeed. Post FTX, Sequoia not only scrubbed the hagiography of SBF from their site, they also scrubbed a story about how they went from meeting to funding company in 48 hours. Not sure how much due diligence you can do in that time frame.
Sibling comments addressed actual disambiguation. For validation, it _is_ confusing, since CRLF is carriage return/linefeed
Look up AdES signatures and Trusted Lists, this basically exists.
Twitter looks chaotic right now. But to see his actual impact we'll have to wait for a few years.
That's right, they are not crypto. They are exchanges. They operate very similar to stock exchanges except the asset classes they operate around are different. People pointing at crypto's failure right now would be equivalent to TD Ameritrade blowing up and saying stocks failed.
Hehe, I very much do have a condition making me nitpicky and excessively curious! Thank you, your comment made me smile :)
Rights groups threaten legal action over NHS data pilot based on Palantir tech
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Yep this matches my experience too. Me showing non tech people so far is a bit of a let down, at least for a few minutes until they understand better what they could do with it
> Just because Earth's population flatlines at 10m, doesn't mean humanity is heading straight for extinction

By the time the population flatlines (at 10B) it will be with a pretty old population already. Many countries have a birth rate < 1.3 and many more are headed that way. That means after every 30 years or so, the number of babies born every year will decrease by 35%. Every 30 years. This is already very noticeable in e.g. South Korea, which last year had a birthrate of 0.8 I believe, where schools are now closing in droves.

And the problem is, none of the mechanisms that are causing birthrates to plummet are showing any signs of slowing down or reversing. The countries with higher birthrates right now are just further back on the curve, they'll be where we are soon enough. It might be that the reasons for decreasing birthrates are things we're not willing to give up, like improved quality of life of singles, increased education and equality between the sexes. We'll see if natural selection will act quickly enough to produce people with a stronger instinct for having kids, but then the question is why hasn't this already happened, as birth rates have been declining for the past century while living standards have increased immensely. As the number of people choosing to have zero kids rather than just fewer increase, perhaps this will put the pressure on in a way it hasn't yet.
I know you don't find it plausible, just saying that that doesn't necessarily mean it's incorrect.
how is he handling it?
> Theranos also "moved fast" - straight into a ditch

There's no need to make a figurative analogy to Theranos when Musk runs another company with the same development philosophy, with a product that will literally drive straight into a ditch.

Move fast and break things was edgy precisely because it was going against longstanding of common sense. Shaking things up a bit worked for what was fundamentally a low stakes software project (a CRUD microblogging app), where the users weren't even stakeholders. Back in physical world of hardware engineering, it's a terribly sloppy philosophy.
If we're going to devalue and degrade the labour of anybody who isn't "founder" because of its ability to be automated, then let's follow the thread to its logical conclusion and say that it's the only VCs who really "create value". Just as AI will be able to take the legwork out of turning a concept into code, coming up with these concepts might well be an even easier task to automate. Of course though, it takes a wise human to know which AI generated concept to fund, and in that spirit, let's all put our hands together for the billionaires who will define this future for is. Really give it up!
I personally know plenty, that's my evidence. I also personally knowing morally bankrupt people. I know morally bankrupt people who aren't CEOs, I know good people who are. These are separate adjectives.
But is there any real evidence that adult content is harmful to underaged people? Unless scientists have put together a rigorous study, which even then there are confounding factors. Like all existing studies are small and don't control for desire to access such material.

I feel like this regulation is outdated in today's world. We have an opportunity to review existing practices to see if they make sense. With the internet, will children have issues? We don't know so we shouldn't jump the gun.
> If they were really good at their job, they wouldn't need Asian employees. They'd just use the AI chat to handle everything.

Well, sure, the software is training on the human conversations it mediates to do that next. Now I’ll just need my own chatbot representative optimized for solving my problems instead of the company I’m calling.
I only read the abstract because the rest of the article is behind a paywall. So I didn’t see this. However, it too, seems somewhat inconsistent with the idea put forth in the title and abstract. Perhaps the advice is: To be more likable, talk less, and focus your talking on lots of questions about the other person.
You might want to read up on how Portugal handles drugs, you'll be surprised.
But that’s what folk beliefs essentially are: “on average this is going to happen”

Isn’t that inherently what happens when you play telephone across time and cultures? You end up with stories stripped down to the essence, the most important advice from those who came before us boiled down.

Are you advocating that when we find what works for us we don’t share that finding with others? I think that’s exactly what’s wrong with the “science is the only right answer” mindset..
The lack of DD in YC I believe is due to them being Angel/A series basically (not sure if the classification even stands here, they're an incubator)

You do want more DD to invest in bigger companies
I'm confused - nothing at Neuralink is off the shelf. How would you go from an empty room to an animal implanted functionally with lots of data?
Yeah I'm sure they didn't think of that themselves. Posts like this are to generate discussion not to find a solution.
> The whole point of the day job is just to pay the bills while you build your business which will make you rich.

Not for me it's not. I have a day job because it's a relatively low risk, stable way to acquire the money I need. I don't need to be rich. I need a way to pay the bills and buy the things I want to enjoy my life.

And yes, I know that every job has risks, and the only way you can't be fired is if you own the company. But, while the upsides of your own company are bigger, so too are the downsides. When I start a new job, my savings stay where they are. If I start a new company, odds are I'm investing/risking my savings. I'm not interested in doing that while I have a family I'm responsible for.
So who is the magical missing third party that created value?
Regenerative braking will reduce brake wear but not tire wear.
While I agree with you and other commenter, putting all in the same basket is not really fair.

Shitcoins were shitcoins from the start and it hasn't changed.

Real quantum computers will take decades to construct as it's an engineering problem. But it doesn't prevent us to play with the existing hardware, using the available tricks to reduce noise etc. and get the feeling of how it could be useful.

Crypto (as in cryptocoins, not cryptography) was an interesting idea that was turned into a Ponzi scheme. Still, one day when the dust settles, maybe somebody will construct a reasonable alternative immune to the mistakes made in the past (well, I doubt it, but life taught me nothing is impossible).

Autonomous driving got overhyped and irresponsible companies driven by greed started to send on the streets vehicles that weren't 100% ready for the task. I believe we will see AD one day, but I don't believe it will happen very soon.

IoT is basically everywhere, maybe we're not using that name any longer, maybe "smart" sounds better. Try buying a consumer TV without it.

VR is a very interesting tech development for certain niches and I'm happy it's being developed even though I can't stand 5 minutes in the current hardware. I believe there are many advantages of such a solution, but probably just a fraction of what Meta marketing department says - their proposals are simply ridiculous.

The cloud is similarly everywhere. All significant hosting providers started providing cloud services. Maybe marketers try to deliberately make the term fuzzier, but from the technical point of view it's an amalgamation of technologies for managing virtual machines spanning over multiple physical servers - and that's incredibly useful.
Have you ever copied and pasted anything from StackOverflow? Did you ask them if they copied it, if they had permission to copy it, or where it was copied from so you could attribute properly? If so, my hat is off to you Sir.

I did have a discussion recently with some friends as to their ethical reasons against GPT and co-pilot generated code.
I like the proposal, there will also be an intermediate time when AI WILL be able to sign content a sYOU with your own private key without the AI having access to your original private key or without you knowing it.

How? A quantum computer will crack enough existing content signed with poor / old keys that use algorithms that are not quantum safe.
> Worlds of scarcity are made out of things. Worlds of abundance are made out of dependencies.

I'm adding this one to my quotes.txt
So if the people providing the funding weren't there, where would the salary for the workers who are currently getting their surplus labor expropriated come from? If these workers are getting unjustly exploited, then what's to keep them from starting a co-op together where they share all profits? Plenty of co-ops exist in modern day capitalist societies, including several successful ones like WinCo in the US and Mondragon Corporation in Spain. No one is forcing these employees to give up their "surplus labor" to investors.
Yes - I know - I'm responding to the accusation in the quote, which is not at all substantiated.
I feel like he’s missing the second order effect. If everyone can automate everything, then there would have been (or will be) 900 Instagrams and 1 (or 20) that would have had a $1000 exit.
Ask HN: Which children book that you recenlty read has helped you grow?
i recently read There is no such thing as dragon by jack kent to my neice. the book gave me such a jolt and reemphasized the idea of dealing with things when they are small and not letting them grow.

which children book have you recenlt or long time ago read that has stuck with you?
snopyta.org doesn't load for me. Here's a (low-res) mirror: https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/lMHaQGB1Wdc
Dwarf Fortress For Steam has been Released
> The thing I don't miss is that I got sick every single Winter. All it takes is one inconsiderate person to not cover their mouth and everyone is getting ill. And it happened all the time.

When I visited Hong Kong in 2008 I was amazed by how many people wore masks (presumably because they were either feeling sick or were worried about getting sick). It's too bad that post-COVID masks have become associated with authoritarian government overreach in many parts of North America.
Six Tesla recalls in the past two years.

Cybertruck production date keeps being pushed back.
Last time I had a coding test during a job interview, I was left alone for an hour with a laptop that was screen-shared with a number of interviewers that was unknown to me. It felt a little like live coding in public but without any audible feedback. That might stress some people out I’d guess, but it felt chill to me. I did my usual thing, even used StackOverflow for some quick syntax & library tips, and finished the program (a Tetris-like game with an AI player, in Python). Got the job. It was pretty fun TBH, even with a lot of experience, I’d prefer the live-coding interview over talking through database schemas or whatever.
I think this is based on a misinterpretation of the hygiene hypothesis... exposure to germs helps when you're a child yourself but not after becoming an adult (AFAIA). This is supported by https://medical.mit.edu/covid-19-updates/2020/05/all-social-...
> "Trying to persuade people to avoid technical debt at all costs" - put in a linter and concrete rules (even if a rule is loose, note that in writing) or devs will get upset and think you are singling them out.

I went from a company with no linter or style guidelines and PRs were an absolute nightmare. Eight devs, eight completely different styles, each insisting theirs was right. I wasn't able to turn stones into loaves (i.e. I wasn't a Senior Dev at the time), so my style was categorically incorrect. I switched to a company with an aggressive linter, and all that superfluous debate over tiny patterns and "personal preference" went out the window. I no longer dreaded PRs.
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