skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I can responsibly say to "object" to anything it's people being rushed on a path to gender transition, given the heavy costs that this involves in practice and the fact that some steps are irreversible (including male hormones for those AFAB - though admittedly this might also make it more justifiably salient for someone AMAB to seek to delay their puberty).

This applies to kids the most (they of course aren't at risk for surgery, but the usual notion of a fixed "gender identity" is also least sensibly applied to them), but people in young adulthood should also be a bit concerned. Research seems to show that, by and large, those who transition in middle-age are the happiest post-transition. I'm not sure how that squares with your feeling that someone with my views might just find "trans people unacceptable in general"; my concerns are derived from real-world practicality.
You can start with classic AI, algorithms such as A*, Alpha-Beta Pruning and friends. Understand the heuristics. Make a little algorithm that can play Chess or whatever and see how it works. I'm certain that whatever it is that modern games use, understanding these classics will be a great foundation for you.
Hah. I should have read the article. Assumed the unpopularity of Ordos in Emperor happened in isolation.
> To be honest, I already got to the “why bother” state by seeing on the internet how many human artists are so much better than me.

I'm also learning to draw. As a counterpoint, I found it quite fun and enlightening to use artwork I like as practicing material. You can learn a lot by trying to copy parts of an artwork (without tracing and without uploading the result anywhere) : By copying, you still actually have to draw the artwork and deal with the same challenges that the original artist did - however you can use the original artwork as a sort of guide or cheat sheet on how those problems can be addressed.

I found it often even gave me a deeper appreciation for the original artist, because you see all the small, individual decisions they had to make to eventually get to the artwork - it felt sort of similar to reading code and trying to get into the head of the original developers.

You can also get creative and only copy parts of the artwork or stitch together a new piece from different sources - essentially doing by hand what image generators do automatically. (Just don't upload your new artwork anywhere without contacting the original authors first)
> most reproducible

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_effect?wprov=sfla1

you must be joking right
Serato just released Stems, which allows DJs to isolate drums, bassline, vocals in the tracks they are playing live. The algos are getting pretty damn good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2Wy9szxU3A
> That Apple's system uses the huge existing network of "every iphone" does reduce the barrier to entry quite a lot.

I bought a handful of Tiles to track my ATV/snowmobile that I leave out of state. Even when they're in my driveway, well within my Wi-Fi range they do not work. I'm going to ditch them for AirTags.
You may be referring to the lyrics feature, where lyrics are displayed as the music plays. Apple Music has had that for some time.
Just to be clear - this hot take is completely wrong. The Animal Welfare Act has rules that proscribe that certain kinds of complaints around animal research in mammals other than rats and mice have to be investigated by the USDA. Animal rights groups are very active in trying to infiltrate research organizations in order to "discover" problems, and disgruntled employees also have these complaints as a lever.

To be clear - (1) animal researchers are not perfect people and make mistakes and need regulating, (2) I could never work for someone like Elon Musk - he vastly overstates the potential of current technology but also because he may have other ethical issues, (3) the feds may sometimes go after people because of vendettas including Musk. BUT, in this case, for someone who watches the space of "animal welfare problems", the Reuters piece seems very suspiciously like of a hit piece from PETA or another animal rights group (or them amplifying an internal Neuralink dispute).
Switzerland plans to ban electric car use during power shortages this winter
Interest Growing in Dart and Flutter for Mobile
> They're weirdly stunted and robotic (haha). One point per paragraph, connected with the most basic of connecting words like "Furthermore", they really sound like a high schooler converting an essay outline to passable text.

Otherwise known as the Reddit LLM.
>I'd guess that students with a bad experience are more likely to reply to your survey.

Or only those with strong feelings one way or the other answer.

Or those with strongly negative feelings fear that the survey isn't really anonymous and they worry about retribution.

A. is pretty much how this would be done in most real-world situations. Make a second attempt to get people to answer and then go with what you have assuming you did get some reasonable response rate which 75% probably is.
Was this an AI generated paper?
That’s a great heads up, thanks. I did a little additional digging re: what is and is not included and this [0] is the best that I could come up with. It’s a bummer but if one were thinking of signing up for Coursera Plus, one would probably want to list all of the courses of interest for a year and check them to see if they’re included.

[0] https://www.coursera.support/s/article/360036151932-Courses-...
Of course, it would not be a random sample if 75% get one questionnaire and 25% get two questionnaires and encouragement.
Most everyone I knew when I worked in a grocery store basically never got sick, including my dad. He’s get sick once every 4-5 years maybe. People would call in sick, but it would be to miss a day.

Working in a grocery store, especially as a cashier, can be unpleasant to disgusting at times, especially when cash was a bit more common. I think you’re around everything all the time that your immune system tends to beef up a bit.

Conversely, the kids are getting hammered in winter time the last few years after covid after not getting sick between 2020-mid 2021.

I’m not so sure that humans evolved to avoid illness, despite how unpleasant it is.
How about a more broad assertion: Anyone that seeks authority over the sexuality of consenting adults needs to fuck right off.
People are saying it's a benefit, nobody (maybe with the exception of an occasional misinformed internet commenter, but I don't think I've even seen that) is claiming the saving in reduced admin costs would fully fund UBI. And the fact it wouldn't fully fund it doesn't take away from the fact that saving billions and billions of wasted money wouldn't be a big side-benefit that helps reduce the cost.

UBI would be funded by increased taxation on the wealthiest, but the fact that the majority of current welfare admin costs would be saved reduces the amount of tax-based funding meaning that more benefit comes out of each dollar taxed.
> Having children isn't so wonderful that I'd put up for decades with a miserable relationship with my partner in the endeavor.

Agreed, but that's not what I said nor even implied. If you're insisting on staying together for decades, and happily so to boot, that is a very high bar indeed. Such a high bar that only very few couples manage it. Few couples even manage the LVB.

No. If you want to have kids, you have to know that even if you divorce, even horribly, even catastrophically, that you can have a civil conversation as needed about the child for at least 20 years. If you're not sure, don't do it. Do not have a child. Spare the children and the world your children.
I'm not sure "I respect your decision to have a sad and empty life" is as wonderful a parenting statement as you seem to think it is.
These "open source games" are the most brutal attack ont the gaming industry imagineable, eating the most rare ressource ever. Playtime and players.

Minecraft already took a huge chunk out of the industry. Which they then tried to solve by encoperating this and selling additions.

Now another game appears, that offers endless replay ability with fascinating stuff. If the onslought would be kept up, all those monetization schemes could collapse over time, by virtue of simply being boring compared to what the "indy" dev scene has to offer.

One starts to wonder, what could happen if a concentrated efforst started churning out ever better world generators and "deep" games, allowing others non "deep" players to join the world just as "action" heroes or adventurers.
My friends that stuck it out in community college near us were on the 5 year plan. 5 years until they had enough credits to transfer to a CSU. A lot of the courses were remedial to catch people up and the college track classes filled up instantly with people that had been in the school for years getting priority. If you came out of high school at a college level, you competed with all of the people that had taken 2-3 years of catch up courses and they got the spots.
Don't forget older people who have no kids.

I'm part of a DINK couple and could not imagine leaving an urban area. There's so much more to do, so much easier to get around, etc.
Ethereum paving the way for environmentally friendly Bitcoin mining
>That's not true. Our families may be away most of the time, but we have a constant rotation of our parents (and my wife's Giagia) coming to stay with us. When our second kid was born, I don't think we were by ourselves for the first six months. Even today, we get someone visiting us at least every other month.

That is not possible for many others.
Yes, it is proven trial and error is the common strategy. The best strategy is trial and 'small' error. An Error that does not usurp your survival and that is different for different people.

For Musk that is more than $44 Billion.
Local regulators: it's impossible to meet smog standards without federal help
How much value do you place on "scaling"?

You wrote 80% of the code (who wrote the rest?) and you got it deployed. You're making a decent living on 15.000 users. "Scaling" guy comes in and "scales" you to 150.000 users. Do they get an order of magnitude more profit than you?
Yes, every example of "AI Art" I've seen looks like a composite of:

- DeviantArt techno-future-videogame styles from the 2000s

- ArtStation stuff

- Pixar/Disney style cartoonish faces
Amazing find. This was the first era of 'globalisation', where trade networks connected geographically dispersed and culturally diverse peoples in a mutually beneficial exchange. Whatever the initial event which triggered the Late Bronze Age collapse, it was consequent collapse of these networks which led long periods of cultural regression
Sounds like they're aiming for PaaS with a proprietary framework? Works for fly.io and others - and if they found a growing niche and are targeting it well... I can picture some of the same techniques that work for B2B SaaS work there.
From what I 've read so far, sperm counts do not matter much above some threshold, but the decline has brought us near that threshold. And the cause is not clear.

It sounds pretty fucking apocalyptic, but OTOH I have only seen a couple of random articles about this. I want to learn more, for sure.
please refer to the "reliability and validity" section contained herein https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_quotient

It's a much more complicated topic than your comment would suggest. The very definition of "intelligence" in regards to the iq test is fuzzy and ill -defined.

Not to mention that Alfie Binet (created the iq test) believed the test itself to be insufficient, and asserted that any true measure of intelligence could not be quantitative.
Your premises are unsound.
Thanks for the added context! Would be great to contribute these details to the wiki page as well
That isn't 100% true at least. My friend worked in their SF office on Adobe XD.
The ultra small form factor PCs that have become popular in the business market are honestly great for this. Many times they're using laptop CPUs, which significantly shrink their TDP, leading to less heat waste and power consumption while still having all the good accelerators folks desire for many homelab concerns (video codec accelerators for home media servers, VT-x/d for virtualization acceleration, etc). Grabbing three of those and installing a healthy amount of local storage and RAM and/or using a NAS for decentralized storage will get most homelabbers a real long way to doing nearly anything they want to do, and allow for simple and reliable high availability configs if you're like me and your homelab projects suddenly creep into being production systems.
> Do you REALLY trust that some of these CAs aren't issuing sketchy certificates to their local intelligence agencies, as one of the Middle Eastern CAs was caught doing?

A decade ago, probably. Today, with CT logging being mandatory in most browsers? Much less likely.
It's the physical bits of page space in reader's hands, in this case. The usage is pretty common for print ads.
> This is like suing the phone company because your creepy ex calls and threatens you.

I was going to try and come up with some witty way to claim that your phone company could enable direct physical violence against you, but that feels disingenuous.

We have a responsibility, as humans, to not enable bad actors -- and the Airtag lies somewhere between a phone company and an obviously illegally sold remote access trojan. I think Apple's fucked up because they've been told repeatedly that they're making it trivially easy for people to commit crimes against others, whether it be vehicle theft or stalking, and their solution is just to add a very easily defeatable speaker.

I want a lot more from one of the most powerful corporations in the world.
Gun manufacturers have been sued over school shootings, so this isn't that much out of the ordinary.
Moving fast and break things actually seems like a decent idea in healthcare BEFORE you get to the human trials, then you should slow down. Not sure how hard a change in culture that will be.

We kill hundreds of millions of animals a year after incredible suffering for much worse reasons than making the blind see. And healthcare moves very slowly atm, leading to a lot of suffering.
In order to answer a question in the form of "what is the best approach" the student needs to know what they want to optimize for. There is no global optimization target, so without this the student needs to guess the underlying goal in order to say what is "the best".

Question is bad.
We're moving to a world where almost all code written will be AI assisted.

Think about that. From 10 years ago, almost all code was written by humans. Today, 50% of code is assisted by AI. In 10 years? Humans will not be writing code but expressing ideas that a computer can turn into code.

I'm sorry to those annoyed by it. It's pretty awesome technology which is why a lot of people are excited by it.
I got laid off a few weeks ago

I’m mid senior level in Product Management but come from a big well known tech company, and I work remote from a non-tech “city”. 5 years PM experience, 6 years as a Software dev. Launched 3 products from concept. One has over 20 million MAU, one created 9 figures of revenue for my previous company, and one I have no idea because I got laid off lol

According to my LinkedIn I’ve applied to over 200 roles in the last few weeks and heard back from about 5. Of those interviews, I’ve been rejected from all of them, even smaller shops.

Hearing from recruiters has been much more fruitful, making it to middle and final rounds at surprisingly good companies, but in both final round instances, the role either got defunded due to a hiring freeze or other issues.

In one instance, the recruiter I was working with at a Big N tech company got laid off in the middle of interviews, at which point the company ghosted me, presumably with my application falling through the cracks.

My severance package is much smaller than most, since my company is framing the thousands of layoffs as “performance based” which allowed them to skip the mandatory notice period, and avoid paying out our very generous severance packages. It turns out benefits don’t matter if a company is afraid of a recession.

If anything this whole experience has wiped out my idealistic views of working in tech. I’m a cog in a machine that can be gaslit and disposed of when convenient for people levels above me who have no empathy for my existence

Can any other PMs speak to how their job hunt is going? Hoping it’s not just me
Maybe they will just move a chunk of existing fab?
Super-resolution image display using diffractive decoders
Synchron is not nearly in the "same space". Comparing their active stents to Neuralink's implants is like comparing a current Timex G-Shock to the new Apple dive watch. (Which is to say both are cool, but one requires evolutionary tech progress and the other requires significant R&D.)
While an amount of this is "it's new and shiny", it's not going away.

We're iteratively chipping away at things only humans have been able to do traditionally. We're not entering a realm of displacing skilled humans with a system that has unlimited experience of known work product. There are already AI tools to write and produce animated content. It's super rough today, but it didn't exist a few months ago and now I can run it on my desktop. This could displace trillions of dollars of annual production within the next decade.

They're redefining creativity, what's fair, how we reward people in effort-rewarding knowledge systems, how we identify plagiarism in academia when an AI can reprocess the very ideas we're copying.

It's exciting and bleak in equal measure. I agree, "I did x with ChatGPT" can feel repetitive, but what happens when that x is your core work process? I'd strap in and try to stay ahead of the curve.

Anyway, has anyone got ChatGPT to write the best Stable Diffusion prompts?
The whole CA model is broken by the OS and browser "every CA is trusted for every use case across any TLD or IP range" without any sort of context of scope except dates. Why is it every single one of the 30+ CA roots that Mozilla or Google trusts can issue .com domain certs, not just ones for their local TLDs or local IP ranges which would dramatically limit the blast radius for a breach? Do you really trust that some of these CAs aren't issuing sketchy certificates to their local intelligence agencies, as one of the Middle Eastern CAs was caught doing? To pick on Chrome since they're the biggest, they've got Turkish and Greek, Chinese and Hong Kong and Taiwanese CAs in there, how do you think people in those countries feel about trusting TLS certs from the other sides of disputes?
The high bar to establish a trusted CA root in terms of cybersecurity capital investments and audit requirements means there's very few developing country root CAs. What if LacNIC or AfriNIC could run their own CA roots, but they were scoped only to work on IPv4 or IPv6 blocks they managed?
Meanwhile, in a corporate enterprise use case, how about being able to trust a CA only to issue certs for my dev and test .local domain, possibly with a scoped range of IPs? At that point, I don't care if that internal CA gets compromised and an attacker issues fake .com certs, my OSes and browsers I installed the CA on would know they're only valid for foobarlab.local on 10.10.x.x - 10.100.x.x or some IPv6 equivalent.
You've got to be kidding... that's literally what references are for. Insane.
I can't speak to their washers, but I've been pleasantly surprised with my Haier refrigerator. I needed a very specific width to fit my kitchen, and theirs was pretty much the only not-obscenely-expensive option due to being a non-standard size.

It has gone without any need for repair far longer than other new refrigerators my extended family has bought, but it also doesn't have an ice maker or water filter- just a really dumb refrigerator and freezer that (knock on wood) Just Works.
It seems to me that the estimates of how frequent a given impact happens are off. An impact by a iron meteorite 200' in diameter at a speed of 20k MPH and 90 degree angle does not happens on average every 454 years.

When was the last time any that size rock impacted the earth?
We Need Jotai v2 API
Adobe, please allow me stop your spyware from automatically spinning up a dozen processes every time my computer starts even when I don’t plan on opening one of your astonishingly terrible applications. Thanks!
> This is why founders get the most equity and the most upside if it succeeds. They took on the most risk and it wouldn't otherwise exist.

Is this always true though? I've worked with a grand total of one company where, if the company went bust, it would mean the end of the founders' life savings. Every other startup/company I've seen, the founder was already very well off. Yes, they put a big chunk of capital and/or time into the start-up. Yes, they were highly motivated to make it succeed. But if it failed, they would... be sad, fall back to family money for a while, and then later do another start-up (or go back to their previous career in Investment Banking). I think this idea that the founder must be singularly taking a huge amount of "risk" is a romantic, stereotypical take, not always true.

Start-up employees, however are shouldering risk. They are by and large not already wealthy so if the start-up fails, there goes their livelihood until they line up another job. I think we should stop thinking that "risk" is exactly the same as "how much of the company's raw dollar equity did you contribute".
Yes, I think many crypto fans conflate anonymity and privacy.

however like any anonymous system, once your identity has been associated externally, you lose the privacy garnered by it.

The argument would be then to create many burner wallets but that’s also not exactly scalable unless you’re transferring between them off the chain to avoid gas fees.
I coincidentally happen to be staying as a guest at a house that gets NYT print delivered every morning... and I spent a good 30 minutes reading it this morning (reading a print paper is still a pleasure even though I don't do it much; lots of interesting articles in Business today)...

And I totally didn't notice. Shows how much attention I give to the ads I guess.

When I saw this here on HN, I thought wait, really? Went to look at the paper -- yup, I just didn't notice. What an odd coincidence that I happened to have a print NYT on hand when I saw this on HN.
This.

Vitalik has demonstrated an exhaustively thoughtful approach to building technology, is exceptionally humble, and seems to deeply contemplate the fifth-order implications of decisions being made.

It seems absurd to me that people think someone like this has not sufficiently thought through the societal value of their life's work.
Nobody was going to build these roads until the government came along.

Checkmate, Libertarians.
The neuralink headlines are really screwing with me. Feels cartoonishly bad. If it weren't real life I'd call it heavy handed and silly.
Potentially trademark issues?
One solution could be:

If you volunteered to be acknowledged as a genius, you must open your status. You wear special shakles which is salient and observable to everyone paying the resources directly or indirectly. You shouldn't be allowed to physically protect yourself to your surroundings or you lose the genius status. (or under some absolute physical restraint or suffering verifiable by everyone). Everyone could challenge you at court with sound evidences, which is judged by random sampled jury group by laws well established in future.

With that I could trust to give them "life long resources" to give us "prophecy".
There's a system on Ethereum that does protect against that, but US regulators just sanctioned it.
I've often thought, until we can put a shelter on top of Mt Everest and staff it for a year continuously, we've barely begun mastering the skills needed to live on Mars.