skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You’re lucky! You basically have an opportunity to multiply the way you work; every day, strive to make yourself redundant. Hand off as much as you can and support along the way; if you do this well, new, more challenging projects will find you. Second, don’t treat them like children, but like peers. That being said, when the corporate bs comes for you or them, don’t throw them under the bus. In fact, protect them. Laud publicly, be critical privately.
If I operate a webpage, and I incorporate this content quality metadata tag, why would I put anything other than "highest possible quality"?
Sounds cultural maybe? In the US, 1 to 1's aren't about fighting, they are about developing, and there is an attitude here of never stopping developing, so there is no "once they are developed" phase.
Can multiple APs work together to do beam forming or do all there antennas have to be in a single AP?
What are the other 50 nay votes doing?
foone uses they/them pronouns :-)
> Privacy is a human right. We probably all know that they will show reasons like "fighting terrorism", "preventing national threats" or "hunting down child pornography"

The four horsemen of the Infocalypse

> The phrase is a play on Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. There does not appear to be a universally agreed definition of who the Horsemen are, but they are usually listed as terrorists, drug dealers, pedophiles/child molesters, and organized crime.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Horsemen_of_the_Infocalyp...
I've got a few bots and a timeline archiver - if it's, say, $50 for a year of v1.1 API access, 1000 calls a day, I'd probably sign up for a year just to give people more time to follow the Fedi versions (migrated them in November.) If it works out to more than about $50 a year for my usage, I'm out.
> “Religion and the existence of god provides a coherent framework that largely matches how people talk and reason about existence and morality, so exactly why should that not settle the debate and require us to all understand that this is our origin?”.

Except that's wrong. Theism is not a coherent framework at all, and it doesn't at all explain our origins in a way that's compatible with observation. By contrast, Compabitilism is a coherent framework in which to reason about choice and responsibility, and it agrees with how people intuitively approach this as tested empirically, and it agrees with one of the greatest ethical equalizers we've found: law.

You can crap on the law all you want, but it was the first great step towards social justice that tore down the power of monarchs and divine rule and started the process of treating all people on equal footing. Science has an equally storied history of mistakes, and yet you clearly value its current state, and so I'm saying don't be so dismissive of progress and precedent in law. It too has been shaped deep of philosophical debate among tens of thousands of people over hundreds of years. Don't fail to learn the lessons of the past.
Lunchclub is just that. It is really nice to talk to real people in an intimate 1:1 rather than the cocktail party of the modern Internet.
Lately I have been collecting MiniDisc hardware, one of those things that progresses from "I'll buy a deck from Japan" to seeing a deck at the thrift store and taking it home right away.

The ATRAC codec used in Minidisc is similar in bitrate to the QOA although it is transform-based. I had a music technology prof ask me "How do you stand listening to something compressed?" I also have a monster CD changer

https://www.crutchfield.com/S-sTSOm8D5jfj/p_158CDPX355/Sony-...

which I am filling up with 5.1 DTS disks that play on my home theater. I told my son that I find it hard to listen to 2-channel minidiscs next to really good 5.1 recordings with good bass management, but this weekend I did some heads-up listening testing between 2-channel CDs and minidiscs I made from the CDs and I could not tell the difference on my stereo. I am somewhat picky, I think "128 kbps MP3 suck" and can prove it. More careful A/B testing through headphones might reveal more weaknesses in ATRAC and any codec has some files that will stress it, but I am impressed with the quality of ATRAC and also with the low complexity. I have a portable player that plays for hours that runs off a single AA battery, mechanical parts and all.
>What's your current professional background?
Python - a bit machine learning background in the financial sector.
Have worked on performance critical software in pure C as well as some Data Science / Machine Learning projects. So a bit far away from robotics. Still hope to be able to get it, at least in form of an internship. Just not sure where to start.

> Robotics takes a lot of people and money
> Robotics is a wide field with many opportunities
Excactly, seems right now that it is pretty expensive and a wide field. Let's say I would like to be able to train a robot to "Open the fridge and take out a beer". That would be something "cool" and guess possible with current technology. Especially after looking what boston dynamics can do... So where would you go?
My simplified economic world is literally just paraphrasing established theory:

>Economic profit does not occur in perfect competition in long run equilibrium; if it did, there would be an incentive for new firms to enter the industry, aided by a lack of barriers to entry until there was no longer any economic profit.[0]

Your issue isn’t with me, it’s with what’s taught in every economics department in every country around the world.

(I also never said “profits would be pushed below the cost of capital”, my comment does not imply that at all. See: “nominal profits aren’t zero”)

[0]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_competition
That is oversimplified. They are against scraping things that against a site's terms.

"The collection of data from websites can serve legitimate integrity and commercial purposes, if done lawfully and in accordance with those websites’ terms"
Sure, I wasn't trying to be all "rah, rah, authoritarianism!" in my post (though several posters seem to have taken it that way, so maybe I wasn't clear enough). My point was more that our notions of freedom can sometimes be rather myopic, and miss the forest for the trees, such that we can become so un-free that even (some!) authoritarian states can feel much freer (until, as you note, you piss off the wrong people, which is obviously a huge problem—or you happen to be of the wrong ethnicity, or wrong religion, et c.—I am not trying to defend authoritarianism).
What is the difference between something that is undefinable and something that is fictitious?
I bet that the kvetching doesn't happen now that it's a single Tumblr post rather than a tweet thread.

And if it does, the complaints can be flagged instead of the post.
If people just read the EULA, it says you're responsible for the text it writes. If you don't like the output, don't publish it.
CTRL should work correctly in fullscreen mode
That's good to know, I haven't been able to try it yet, maybe map crouch to C and use your thumb?

Edit: It looks like it has a notification to use C while in windowed mode
I frankly don't understand this. I suppose the school also helped out with my healthcare premium, but I didn't have other notable benefits.
> you can't simply tell chip fabs to backdoor each and every design. They'd grind to a halt in order to comply.

Yes, it's supposed to be an unrealistically optimistic thought experiment, both in favour of the efficacy of technical solutions (ignoring the societal component) and government power (ignoring economic side-effects). It shows that technology alone cannot outmanoeuvre unchecked power, and so power must be kept in check.

In reality, there are multiple forces beyond legislation that naturally add friction, which you allude to... However governments can get very far before hitting those thresholds, especially if there is no pushback from the people. There is also the problem of compounding policies eroding democratic freedoms, that can allow for easier enactment of ever more extreme policies, even in spite of economic consequence. For instance this is the case with the GFW in China where workers no longer have access to the full wealth of information available on the wider internet to perform their jobs as effectively.

The ultimate point I'm trying to make here (and I think we are in agreement), is that as technologists we cannot simply bury our heads in our code, we must acknowledge that developing more resilient technology is only a single component, it is not sufficient. Supporting the fight against freedom eroding policies is necessary.
Greta is not impressed
My concern after seeing the AI-generated Seinfeld knock-off that passed through HN today is that it'll be easier to train a model to generate addictive content than it is to create that content with a human.

I mean the AI Seinfeld was terrible, but it's an entirely software generated "show." Someone will figure out how to feed measurements of engagement into the model, and the model will continuously "improve." The net result is it will eventually generate an infinite amount of the most addictive content ever created.

And of course all this will be a profitable thing to do, because ads.

The addictive trash content on the Internet is basically going to go from heroin to fentanyl.
It's difficult to trust a source that fights fire with fire. If stress and anxiety is handled by beating it, where does the entropy leave the system?
Bluefirebrand cynic:

People directing AI to create things are not artists.

At best they are art commissioners
Location: Revelstoke, Canada <-> Costa Rica <-> Mexico

Remote only: 10+ years experience, 8 Remote

Technologies : C, C++, SIMD, OpenGL, WebGL, WASM, JS, TS

Interests : compilers, runtimes, 2D & 3D graphics, performance, compression, streaming

Hello, my name is Jesse.

I'm looking to solve hard technical problems that have a net-positive impact on the world.

I'd describe myself as a competent generalist; a lifelong learner. I'm pretty much always working on something I've never done before, in the context of one of a handful of long-running side-projects I have.

One of my side-projects of about 7 years is a 3D game engine. Working on it has taught me a great deal about systems and graphics programming. It runs on Windows, Linux and Web (WASM/WebGL). I chose to build it without any libraries (barring a couple CRT functions), which began as a learning exercise, and has taught me the value of simplicity.

In more recent history I've been working on a metaprogramming system for C. Think C++ templates/constexpr, but fast to compile, and with intelligble error messages. It turns out I have a small passion for compilers. I was also recently contributing to Oil, a new bash runtime and POSIX compliant shell.

I've done a significant amount of web development, having started my career as a web developer. I would certainly consider joining a web development shop with a compelling team and product. I've worked with probably a dozen web frameworks, running the gamut from CodeIgniter to Rails and React/JS frameworks.

That's the cliff-notes on my technical background. As a person I'm friendly and easy to get along with. I like the phrase "Have strong opinions, weakly held". Outside of work I enjoy surfing, backcountry skiing, snowmobiling, rock-climbing and beer! I split my time between Canada, Costa Rica, and Mexico.

Cheers,

Jesse

https://scallywag.software

https://scallywag.software/resume.html

https://github.com/scallyw4g

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At some point you need to stop seeking and start building, and this requires you to set down some axioms to build upon. It requires you to be ok with your “bubble” and run with it. There is nothing inherently wrong with a bubble, it’s just for a different mode of operation.
The cops are the system. The people deciding in the moment what to do are cops, the people deciding who is going to be in those positions are cops, the people deciding the consequences for the decisions are cops, the people investigating abuses are cops. The people in oversight positions for the entire process are cops. The civilian government might be able to dismiss the top ranking leadership, the DA's office can choose to prosecute especially egregious behavior, but they have very little if any direct influence on the incentive structures for rank and file cops. Institutions like police unions typically have more control of the civilian government than the civilian government has on the police. This is a system that the cops both individually and collectively choose to participate in, and those who would seek to see it changed from the inside are forced out. Of course you can't place the blame on any one individual, and probably every person involved would like to see some change or another, but there is no shadowy cabal who designed the police to be what they are, they have done it themselves.
And who judges the quality? one man's trash is another man's treasure .
I replied once, but I'll share another example that's happening right now. Climate change models are being deferred to as some kind of reliable expert about the future, and all kinds of tyrannical laws and controls are being put in place because "the experts" and "the advanced supercomputer models" say Bad Things are going to happen.

But I'm sure that now I've triggered your cognitive dissonance and you will see me as an insane person.
A Primer on U.S.-Philippine Military Ties
https://archive.is/dLCwq
As a PROPORTION of their wealth/income what percentage do the Rich pay and the poorer pay?

The poor pay a higher PROPORTION of their income in taxes than the rich pay. But because the poor earn so little it amounts to such a small amount of the total taxes collected.

Your static actually highlights the vast gulf in wealth/income between rich and poor. Shame on u for not seeing that.
Google does offer bounties on security vulns found in third-party apps on Play that have a high install base.

https://bughunters.google.com/about/rules/5604090422493184/g...
Those kids gotta eat so unfortunately you have to pay them more than AI.
> When I was a leftist stuck in my far-leftist bubble, I didn’t realize just how unreasonable/unrealistic some of my positions were until I was challenged by my more conservative friends, colleagues, etc. Social networks like Facebook made it even harder to see anything outside of my existing views by primarily reinforcing content and folks who held similar views. It’s been years now since I’ve had an active social network account, and in hindsight, it’s amazing just how much these social networks have helped turn so many of us into ideologues. To now see a world where the same thing is going to happen via these GPT-based AI’s is scary to me.

This happens to any concentrated ideology on social media. It's just the long tail of only being around people that reinforce your general train of thought. I've seen it happen to liberals, conservatives, and libertarians alike. If you don't want to fall into the pit of ideological entrapment then don't justify your thoughts with a connected ideology.

I fall on the liberal end of the spectrum if you write the things I currently believe in and assign them to distributions, but I call myself an independent. Frankly, a lot of people don't do this because it attracts subtle ire from everyone, as opposed to having a close camp to psychologically make you feel safe. my liberal friends think I'm too conservative on certain things and my conservative friends gawk at my liberal ideas. I'd say our political atmosphere and the two party system is all justified by social consequences. That said, people who judge you for (non-fringe) politics are particularly awful people in my mind, so it's gotten easier to settle with over the years. Stick with the people that ask curious questions of you rather than the people capable of doing lettuce throwing and out casting.
This is ridiculous. Why does everyone try to claim "Web 3.0" for over a decade?

Tim Berners-Lee said Web 3.0 was the semantic web, and allowing others to query data with SPARQL etc.

The Ethereum community said Web 3.0 involved signing transactions with private keys and storing data on blockchains rather than centralized servers.

Now someone is claiming that ChatGPT is the birth of the "real" Web 3.0 -- okay, first of all, chat has NOTHING to do with web. Web means hyperlinks and at the very least letting a user move between domains that serve content, and hopefully increasing interoperability using standard approaches like REST and JSON-LD, as opposed to a centralized provider that is owned by a tiny number of people, and relies on with Big Tech cloud providers (Microsoft). This isn't even a web, let alone open.

And secondly, why not already move on to Web 4.0? It's been a decade or more. Everyone is "denying" the last thing was Web 3.0 It's ridiculous. We have a semantic web now (Open Graph, for instance, or schema.org, and more). We have significant adoption also of "Web3"... crypto has co-opted the word cryptography, and Web 3... we just have to accept it https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/nov/18/crypto-cr... ... many people on HN hate crypto so much that they think the Web3 term hasn't already been solidified, whereas somehow they do think that the word crypto has solidified to mean cryptocurrency rather than cryptography.

Jack Dorsey is using the new OPEN technologies from Microsoft / Sidetree protocol / DID standards to build "Web5", and he thankfully gave up his ideas of trademarking it: https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/11/30/jack-dorseys-tb...

It's time to move on. Build applications that combine all these different tools. The Web has come a long way now. It can do PaymentRequest. It can do WebRTC. It can do Web Push. Just use the tools.

But definitely ChatGPT currently is everything that is OPPOSITE of what "The Web" was supposed to be. Maybe if an open source version comes out, and obliterates all current systems of content and reputation on the current web, then we can talk about "a new (dystopian) web", a kind of dark forest with chatbot swarms descending to shout down / annoy / destroy reputations of individuals and forums who espouse an inconvenient point of view. There is obviously going to be an arms race of bullshit drowning out actual thoughtful posting. But right now it's not even web.
https://archive.is/hnWI2
Let's be real.

Nobody knows anything for sure.

People who like Bitcoin will deny this.

People who hate Bitcoin will use this as confirmation bias.

/thread
I actually feel better about mis-informing than not being asked. I feel it's an opportunity to actively mangle the data that's being aggregated.
What if an AI-generated picture is a real person?
If the cops come over and tell me "it's a different world now" and the streets are not safe for kids I'll ask them what they're doing about it because they're obviously neglecting their duties :P

Yes I'm sure I'd find myself in the back of a squad car like this dad. But it's worth it
Don't worry about that audience. Us profesional-managerial upper-middle class types are surrounded by people whose beliefs are subordinate to their personal ambition; it's a qualification for entering the class, because it takes an enormous amount of hard work, social connections, and study to reach and maintain that position. So you end up surrounded by people who live a politics of personal interests i.e. real concern about issues that affect them and the people they love (deemed universal), and ephemeral concern that sometimes borders on actual ignorance of things that don't affect them and theirs. This ephemeral concern and ignorance is entirely based in fashion.

Upper-middle class PMCs generally aren't worried about being monitored or censored by authorities (except within the games of party power politics and wedge issues.) If anything, when they hear about it, they look to see if there are job openings. They are concerned about child abuse, because even wealthy children get abused. Universal.

They constitute (if I'm being generous) 20% of the population and are useless to try to convince. It's their duty to explain to you that the society that has rewarded them generously for their hard work actually has everyone's best interests at heart, no matter how ludicrous it seems.
https://archive.ph/iUGb1
I don't understand? Why would you post a blog on the public internet and then have an issue over it being shared? It's not like HN is reprinting it and the discussions are interesting.

I would not have know about this format if it hadn't been posted here.
Very fascinating.

Reminded me of FlexPlay from 2003, "self destructing" DVDs for short-term rentals: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexplay
US secures deal on Philippines bases to complete arc around China
Yes. Lovely tech. Heartfelt Ai. And frustratingly dense as a toffee pudding protagonist that had me throwing my phone at the TV.
In b4 controversial users get their content banned by accidentally tripping the AI filter
Yep, it's the TV equivalent of Blaseball, or Dwarf Fortress(DF). Given a sufficiently complex generator of event strips, framing[1] becomes a social activity. Blaseball saw the production of wikis[2], songs[3], and announcer recap[4] framings.

Likewise, DF wouldn't be the same without Boatmurdered[5] or any of the other story tellings that followed suit.

Conspiracy theorists follow the same pattern but applied to news and current events - a participatory group activity that discards the majority frame and synthesizes new frames under a different genre. Participants reuse people[6] and locations[7] but rewrite the script to become both playwrights and audience members to a substantially transformed alternate experience of reality.

Watchmeforever, is exactly this group mythmaking experience that pairs a random event strip with improvisational community framing that takes the meaningless output of AI-generated content and transforms it into a meaningful group experience.

EDIT: Also The Sims franchise to a large extent. Longtime players have a certain tendency to embellish in-game events beyond the game's pre-packaged framing in a way that produces deeper meaning than the novice/out-of-the-box-frame engages in. Certainly CK1/2/3 and countless others as well.

1. In the Erving Goffman sense

2. https://www.blaseball.wiki/w/Main_Page

3. https://thegarages.bandcamp.com/track/my-name-is-mike

4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diAHuUV2Meg

5. https://lparchive.org/Dwarf-Fortress-Boatmurdered/

6,7. People qua actors, and locations qua sets.
The worst part about this is that if there is another set of bots that tries to generate engagement, then the training data isn't coming from humans either. You have one set of actors spamming. And another set of actors upvoting stuff, predominantly their own but maybe also other random posts. So the resulting posts don't necessarily even cater to humans. It will be real online hellscape.
Can be, but isn't, right? What's the delay? It's been over a decade -- apparently the electricity consumption isn't a priority for the community.
lol, I need a diagram.
Are sex differences in self-estimated intelligence an elusive phenomenon?
Read the article and thought it was going to be about AI being used to assist in story development, unexpected plot twists, believable character dialogue, etc.

Using it for CGI de-aging seems more like driving a Ferrari to the grocery store.
Can you share your prompts for reproducibility?
If Google or Yandex provides Search engine Tools dashboard that shows their score for your pages and that your being severely punished in SEO. "This appears to be secondary content. Please update your meta data to secondary or bot"
If you do hard physical exercise (weight lifting, forget running), until you are dead tired, and stop drinking stimulants (coffee et al) then you will have good sleep. So simple.
Because that statement is meant as sarcasm, highlighting the absurdity of certain claims, and not a literal statement.