skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> AI generated content that gets posted to the web as original human generated content, with LLMs getting re-trained on this content

Isn't that extrapolating the current trend a bit too much? Clearly, the text corpora[0] amassed before mass LLM content distribution are already big enough to train such models to decent general language fluency. So why would AI creators contaminate those datasets with potentially spurious content?

Sure, you want to keep your model up-to-date about the state of the world (the GPT corpus ends in mid-2021 afaik), but you can be much more careful about which texts you include. Those newer training data serve a different purpose than the original corpus, you don't need to bootstrap general language proficiency anymore. OpenAI already released a product for classifying AI-generated text, why would they not use something like that to filter future training data, for example?

[0] edited, thanks!
Also, I would argue that it does have a tangible benefit to the average person: preventing a totalitarian surveillance state, see Orwell's 1984.
oh oh, I love these figs and I eat them a lot!
That’s an arms race that rapidly converges on a thin margin of detection and a high false positive rate.
> Well, I think we had a solid bipartisan support for classical-liberism up until 2015.

This is a fantasy history. We have had solid bipartisan support for neoliberalism (property rights are king) and neoconservatism (and we need motivating myths about them to keep the proles in line) for a long time. That consensus continues. "Classical liberalism" has never been popular anywhere.

edit: we're having an extreme authoritarian wave as a reaction to the internet, but we shouldn't pretend like we don't come from countries that used to open people's mail to look for pamphlets about contraception.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killian_documents_controversy
Perfect competition is one end of a spectrum, where the other end is monopoly. Monopoly is a stable equilibrium, whereas perfect competition is not. On a long enough timeline, a perfectly competitive system will decay into a monopoly and stay there unless acted upon by an outside force designed to break up the monopoly.
I hate being cynical, and I haven't really researched it, but my gut says there is too much invested from the non-tech world at this point in both the public and private sectors. The powers that be would probably rather force us all to asphyxiate on inane AI bullshit spewed out by our increasingly centrally-controlled technical world than cede control of electronic communication. Considering the pressure governments have freely applied to communications companies through policy, public shaming, disinformation, and secret infiltration (e.g. NSA breaking encryption to monitor gmail), and how effectively industry has skirted even the most basic privacy protections for users, I think they'll probably succeed. I don't see any reason to think that things like personal encryption or small community-run fora will change its course any more than legal guns have discouraged the creeping authoritarianism of the US Govt.
> But that's not the standard for good journalism! You appear to be saying we should believe this story in Reason despite the long delay from the events, uncorroborated evidence, and clear bias of the author... because we can't prove it's false?

I never said that.
These comments are mainly condemning the police. While they are definitely at fault here, so is society in the US as a whole. It's become pretty common in the states to not allow children to go outside without supervision. You just don't see kids biking down the road alone anymore. These cops have taken it too far, and made up reasons to arrest the parents, but in general the idea of children having any sort of freedom or responsibility is pretty much dead in this country.
This is what I was trying to point too, and why I added the "ban it, then" argument. Because there's a considerable amount of people who operate with the "if it's not illegal, then I can do this" mindset, and there's a big intersection of this two mindsets.

At least putting a ban on it will make people think, I hope.
A great communicator and a kind man, indeed.

It's been a privilege to see him lecturing at the Cavendish in 2002.

Here's his last video interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCyidsxIDtQ
Really is a sad thing, an entire generation brain damaged by M$.
Huh. Backgrounds have long been semi-automated. I'm sure it's putting people out of work, but it's a long-running issue.

I'm not an animator, and I'm sure I don't understand all of the issues. I could see this being terrible for new animators, who expect to get low-visibility work to get experience. Art of any kind has always been a precarious way to make a living, and it would be depressing if studios and audiences settled for something lesser to avoid paying them.

But is this a case where it frees them up to do more work? If fewer animators are involved, does that mean the same animators can produce more films? Studios are desperate for content, which is part of the "labor shortage".

Perhaps it would be an opportunity for more niche animation -- to tell more personal stories with less wide appeal because the overhead is less? There's a ton of such material on Netflix; it seems to be their bread and butter.

I don't want to get all techno-utopia, especially in a domain I don't know. My guesses are not as good as their experience. But I am genuinely curious.
I created this github project a while back to help with this exact issue. I shared it with the org when I left - not something I would normally do but my team definitely needed the laugh.

It will automatically reassign any jiras assigned to you to a random teammate.

It's named after a ridiculous email management sent where they needed all hands on deck (i.e. weekends) to get a project done.

https://github.com/jmathai/all-hands-on-deck
...Because OP is getting paid a big salary to do what the business requires, not what they wish their responsibility could be?

> Also, if someone wants to write code, in a team with other senior developers, where should one go?

> Startups and consulting gigs probably better align with wanting to be hands on keyboard, but at the price of a paycut.
Er... which of these is Abramov?
I quite liked where "I'm Not OK With This" was going, when it was abruptly canceled.

So I read the original book. That's the one saving grace here: everybody is so desperate for content that they're dragging things in from every other media. Everything old is new again.

In this, case, though... hoo, boy, did that suck. I cannot imagine why they bought that material. It was dreadful, both the art and the story. The Netflix version was a much better property than its source material. (And I really wanted to like the source, since it was clearly working through some very painful issues, but its art was weak and its insight shallow.)
So the inhabitants lose the right to go for a walk?

Enforced by the same who did not manage to prevent the circumstances?
Talk to your manager and find alignment on what the team needs and how you might fit that. If your manager sees/acknowledges what you do and is in favor of you mentoring more — and you want that — figure it out, put it in writing, etc. If you don’t want that, find alignment with your manager. If they are a good manager they’ll allow you to focus on coding.
You might be in a position to give a little and get a lot back both in the eyes of management and your own career satisfaction (teaching over coding as much) so I encourage you to try to zoom out, communicate, and get on the same page as the teams manager.
I never worked at a FAANG. Do these teams not have managers? Most of those responsibilities seem like the job of a manager. In my career, this approach of one senior person on a team of juniors means the senior is responsible for a lot of the system design and other high level technical decisions, but they wouldn't be counted on for things like motivating other employees.
They got sued for a half-billion dollars for doing this without telling anyone. They only admitted to slowing phones down to extend their battery life, which you can now disable. Under the battery setting, check uner "peak performance" to see if it's being throttled.
<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34619336>
https://archive.is/mgHLp
" Comparing accomplishments is a short-circuit pathway to tearing others down."

This is from a comment that I read on HN a few days ago that really stuck out to me, and applies here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34581366
I think this bias is due to the frequency of times a hateful comment about that demographic appears on the Internet. How many times do you hear a negative comment about Scandinavians or Native Americans? Similarly there are very likely more women hating comments online, simply because there are more men online.
These agencies were instituted on public demand to reduce abuse at a societal level, and their missions were constituted with those harms in mind - hence the obviousness of those agencies being vital, at least at the time when they were instituted, with plenty of evidence back then for their necessity [1]. If they are no longer meeting those mission parameters and causing more harm than good, then we should demand evidence for that as well, should we not?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_protective_services#Hist...
I was expecting this threads to turn into a fire dumpster, and instead it turned into exactly the kind of debate I read HN for.
I agree with the headline and am glad that someone finally said it.

Web 1.0 was great: designed by academics, it popularized idempotence, declarative programming, scalability and ushered in the Long Now so every year since has basically been 1995 repeated.

Web 2.0 never happened: it ended up being a trap that swallowed the best minds of a generation to web (ad) agencies with countless millions of hours lost fighting CSS rules and Javascript build tools to replicate functionality that was readily available in 1980s MS Word and desktop publishing apps. It should have been something like single-threaded blocking logic distributed on Paxos/Raft with an event database like Firebase/RethinkDB and layout rules inspired by iOS's auto layout constraint solver with progressive enhancement via HTMX, finally making #nocode a reality. Oh well.

Web 3.0 is kind of like the final sequel of a trilogy: just when everyone gets onboard, the original premise gets lost to merchandizing and people start to wish it would just go away. Entering the knee of the curve of the Singularity, it will be difficult to spot the boundary between the objective reality of reason and the subjective reality of meaning. We'll be inundated by never-ending streams of infotainment wedged between vast swaths of increasingly pointless work.

Looking forward: the luddites will come out after the 2024 election and we'll see vast effort aimed at stomping out any whiff of rebel resistance. Huge propaganda against UBI, even more austerity measures to keep the rabble in line, the first trillionaire this decade. Meanwhile the real work of automating the drudgery to restore some semblance of disposable income and leisure time will fall on teenagers living in their parents' basement.

Thankfully Gen X and Millenials are transitioning into positions of political power. There is still hope, however faint, that we can avoid falling to tech illiteracy. But currently most indicators point to calamity after 2040 and environmental collapse between 2050 and 2100. Somewhat ironically, AI working with humans may be the only thing that can save civilization and the planet. Or destroy them. Hard to say at this point really!
Why do you think you would be burning the bridge by leaving the company for a new position? As long as you do it in a respectful way, with notice, then it shouldn't be a concern.

The key to avoiding burnout is setting boundaries and being proactive about self-care, focusing on what is within your control. Some questions for you to consider:

- Are you getting enough sleep? Are you eating well? Do you have a physical exercise routine? These are your pillars.

- How is your social support network? Do you have people who you can talk to at work and outside of work who genuinely care?

- When is it most stressful for you? Can you find the time to take short breaks during these times? What about slightly longer breaks intermittently throughout the day?

- Can you get into a flow state in your support role where you're focusing on one thing at a time? i.e. can you turn off notifications and limit distractions?

If you want to chat about any of this, I'd be more than happy to. I've navigated burnout from multiple angles, as an individual contributor, manager, and business owner. You can find my contact info and more about me on my profile.
> the situation is like this because kids are not allowed outside.

Imagine if the street-scene was crowded with kids. They would witness vandalism and bad behaviour, and wrongdoers would be much more cautious. I wish kids would play outside on the estate where I live.
The Weight-Loss-Drug Revolution Is a Miracle–and a Menace
I was gonna say, it honestly feels like there's evidence in this article that would go great lengths to explain the real problem. I feel there is a huge disconnect between journalists and the public, and I think that having journalists be on Twitter helped make people aware of that disconnect.

Unfortunately, it has only grown.
As far as indie devs, yes, but in the greater scheme of things that is still fairly pittance money. $180k pre-tax split two ways, and then eaten into heartily by health insurance (Tarn and his brother have mentioned that medical issues are what pushed them to do the Steam release) doesn't leave a whole lot.

But that also means that as long as they don't significantly increase the cost of their lifestyle, that $7m pre-tax will go a very long way.
The media decided they didn't want to be in the broadcast booth. They wanted to be part of the action on the field. That's their choice, but we no longer trust their broadcast to be unbiased.
> As things stand, where every state votes as a block

Not every state. Two states (Maine and Nevada) have district voting, so they allocate one elector per congressional district (based on that district’s vote), plus two statewide. Tough they only account for 9 electors combined. And it’s still far from proportional representation.
In my hometown of Easton, CT, the cops were the sex offenders on my block. I never reported it. The first half of this story makes me wonder how common that is in CT.
Ask HN: Does your country have red tape?
I'll take real professional journalism over amateur internet commentary any day.

Anytime I hear people generically blaming "The Media" for everything I just roll my eyes.
To take a reductionist view, humans are language models too, so the better LLMs become, the closer they become to a human, and at that point differentiation is not possible.
> Half a century ago, most of the public said they trusted the news media.

That was the aberration. 120 years ago when newspapers owned by the likes of William Hearst were doing their best to start unnecessary wars for shits and giggles, would you have trusted the news media? I hope not.

The news industry was crooked then, and I don't think there's any reason to believe the American media briefly became trustworthy in the mid 20th century when public trust in the media was at all-time highs. I think Americans got caught up in a post-war optimistic fervor that blinded them to the faults of American media, and American society in general. Now the news media feel entitled to that level of trust which they never deserved in the first place.

Reminder that one of America's most beloved "founding fathers" was a newspaperman propagandist. A man called Benjamin Franklin, who founded numerous newspapers specifically to push the revolutionary narrative in colonial America. Say what you like about the man, but impartial reporting was not his priority. The supposed age of impartial trustworthiness in news media is myth, not history. Newspapers have always been the tools of those who own them.
> Climate change models are being deferred to as some kind of reliable expert about the future

No, the Experts who wrote the model are being deferred to as some kind of reliable expert. Because... they are exactly that.

You can make the argument that the models or the experts are wrong, but you're not providing any sort of argument for that.

I've spent most of my life deferring to the calendar to know when it will get cold for winter. It's obviously reasonable to defer to some systems. We are in fact quite capable of predicting all sorts of future events!
https://archive.is/A1BZA
It's changed drastically since release. There are lots of people out there who have noticed this and many have saved examples of before and after responses to prompts.
I'd place the turning point on Bush blacklisting anyone in the press corps who questioned the message Cheney/Rove was trying to sell.
No, stop being old. Age is no indication of wisdom.
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Damus is a nostr client for iOS that was just released on the app store

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/damus/id1628663131
If they didn't want their posts linked from HN, they could block it like jwz.org does.
To the surprise of nobody with a brain, the country that can't collect its own taxes or fight its significantly smaller neighbors, also cannot actually brainwash the west with millions of shills.

What's very curious is that some of the institutions spinning this lie have been confirmed to hire firms and botnets to astroturf since the late 2000s. Who remembers HBGary Federal? Or the fed's "Special Identities Modernization" program?
Any tips for what an EU citizen can do against this, beyond upvoting this story on HN?
I dont think it will be a "secret cabal". It will simply be a bunch of powerful people arguing that their personal interests are the national/global interest. And believing this whether its true or not. And institutions falling in line with this.

You see this kind of attitude at a lower level on HN, for example, all the time. And this flaw in human nature only grows the more powerful you become.
How do we find places that still value and foster this kind of community?

And how do we contribute to it ourselves? Lately I've been wanting to be intentional about getting involved, getting to know people, etc. I came across this blog post on the topic from HN a few months ago: https://www.seanblanda.com/its-time-for-localism-in-america/
There are definitely a lot of smart, reasonable people with sincerely held beliefs who nonetheless lie about their motivations and work with like minded people to draft and support legislation under false pretenses for the greater good. They say they want to stop child pornographers and I’m sure they do, but their actual motivations are to monitor political dissidents.
Ah sorry for example local markdown files you have can be synced and auto published to a website like kohorst-garden.markbase.xyz
Seriously! This is one reason I've never liked the plague era designs.

I constantly feel like I'm about to be run over...
I don't understand how this is an argument for staying though, even if so many brings it up.

I did not intend to use this as such argument.

Wrt not being able to even reach EU-politicians: that's a bit far fetched, no? Maybe you don't know who they are but it's easy enough to look that up, for my country the first hit is spot on and the second one is a Wikipedia entry saying the same. Likewise for questions like 'how does EU parliament work'.
This seems to me like more of the same talking past this subject is rife with. I didn't purport to frame any such definition as "first," the context of my reply was referring specifically to a Dennett rebuttal to a Harris essay, which is by definition not first.

To me the semantics of what one wants to call free will really don't matter and aren't worth much discussion, yet they seem to be primarily what gets discussed. What matters is clarity and context (context being do you want to talk about how minds and the universe works or do you want to talk about moral or societal responsibility), and trying discuss which one ought to be called free will seems to me to be yak shaving.

I'd agree the debate is actually fairly largely settled for now, as I pointed out in my bullets in the previous reply. There is still much to figure out about neurology and the origin of thought, and about societal cohesion, but the fundamentals there seem pretty solid for as long as we're mostly human. I add that last caveat because I think these concerns actually do start to merge once a mind is capable of fully experiencing and conceptually recognizing causal lines (physical, chemical, or otherwise), which certainly seems to be not in the cards for us biologically and may even be theoretically impossible, but I wouldn't rule out just yet. In such a world with such minds things would look quite a bit different, and there would be much less daylight between every day morality and mechanistic functions underlying the minds a play.
> Julian Assange is possibly a criminal. He certainly intervened in the 2016 election, allegedly with Russian help, to damage the candidacy of Hillary Clinton.

One of the main things Assange revealed, which has not been disputed, is how Clinton intervened in the 2016 Democratic primary election, to damage the candidacy of Bernie Sanders, using any means possible to stop the grassroots pressure from below felt in both major parties. Strange how the revelation of the inside truth of this election intervention is itself called election intervention.
If you did not buy Tesla at the absolute bottom in 2000-whatever, could you still have been a multi-millionaire?

So why do you need to "be first"?
So you flag an article based on your presumption of bias without actually reading and considering if that is true or not?

Seems suspicious... and would confirm his theory.
The Wayback Machine is part of the library, too. Specifically, it's the periodicals room.
>visiting my friend in Chinatown is either a 10-15 minute drive, or a 40-50 minute bus ride + walk

You're describing a 4 mile journey.

A comparable journey in NYC is SoHo to Central Park.

At best, that's a 30 minute commute in NYC on transit. Probably similar in a car. In LA it's a drive no matter what.

NYC distances just feel longer because they pass more stuff (which to be fair is an argument for NYC).
>cs_italy

FYI there are AMA thread from makers of it on Reddit somewhere.

A quite fun read.
They went to great pains to avoid showing with the map graphic that Ukraine will be able to target large sections of Russia, not just the occupied territory.
Good grief yes. If that was a sincere paragraph in that article, than I have to admit that there is no hope there, because any kind of self-reflection and soul searching is basically pointless with that kind of revelation. This weird patina of technically true sentences structured in a way that is intended to mislead or lead onto a specific thought pattern is just sad for anyone paying attention.

This weird variation of navel gazing is very weird though. Is the author seriously suggest they should stop doing that? At that point, even the remnants of their current credibility will perish with the first source they burn since no one sensible will be stupid enough to disclose anything of value.

If it is not sincere, then I am in full agreement with you. It is a poster child why Americans lost faith in news.
Perhaps you could call it a video essay?
Losing karma, no. It's more that comments get basically invisible after just a few downvotes. So posting anything unpopular just feels like a waste of time.