skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My take is that it actually speaks to the incredible achievement. It was so unbelievable some people still don't believe it. I can certainly sympathize, given the technology at the time it seems far fetched that those aluminum foil vehicles made it to the moon. It's also somewhat suspicious nobody else has gone back, but I think China might be planning a moon trip next? The next landing will certainly clear all doubt.
> Is this just reflective of our context as people that streamline and automate, or do HN readers just think a human isn't such a complex entity?

Most definitely the former. Humans are most certainly complex. But some of the tasks we perform aren't.
The mainstream culture has been pretty adamant about stamping out counter cultures, so it's merely hidden. I think the algorithms and filters are not blindly homogenizing culture but are rather used as tools by humans knowingly to connect to and persuade each other.
I’ve been using ARM SBCs for ages now (mostly Pis, but also Hardkernel and a few “alternatives”), and _all_ of them except the Pi have absolutely dismal software support. Armbian does a pretty good job on some alternatives, but until manufacturers ship with _at least as good_ software as the Pi their value proposition is essentially negative unless you have a lot of free time.

And now that the power envelope is closer to a gen 4 Intel (which is trounced by modern Celerons like the n6xxx and n50xx series), the functionality gap is more obvious.

To be fair, though, I think that most people have unrealistic expectations of what low-end SBCs can do as far as “desktop computing” is concerned.

I do use a Pi as a very nice, utterly silent and fast thin client (backed by an i7 in a closet), but if I wanted to run local apps (browser, light office, etc.) I’d just go and get a NUC or an $150 refurbished small form factor desktop (there are great Ryzen boxes with modern mobile APUs from Minisforum and Beelink, but I am extremely wary of their quality control, and the really interesting ones are too expensive to risk it).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--pE9IHuGZA
Because almost everyone who asks for a random number expects a random number. Reusing a predictable seed _by default_ violates that totally reasonable expectation.

(BTW, I'm deliberately avoiding making any distinction between so-called "true random" and PRNG above, because the difference isn't actually meaningful here!)
Yes, if you have Bitlocker with hardware-backed encryption active and you clear out the TPM you will not be able to unlock that disk in the worst case.
No. Most people watch Joe Rogan than read NY Times. It's not even close
Sure, I was just letting that guy know it was confirming your belief that EM is stupid. I think we all agree.
We still have counterculture - but boy is it ever harder to participate in:

Private trackers
Special interest forums
Not using Mc-Social Media
Off-grid.

What's dwindled - due to media consumption habits is the "appearance" of a counterculture. When huge popstars appropriate every square inch of wierdness - what's wierd/different now? Nothing really...

In the 90s, Reznor and Manson sold "edge by the pound"...that was a commonly consumed form of counter culture.

Life getting too expensive is killing real counterculture - specialised stores, quirky cafes which attract fringe dwellers and so on. Depending on where you live - this is either less or more sad.
I think my experience has been similar. There's a couple reasons I can think that explain it;

- Resolutions improving/increasing has made multiple windows per screen feasible, in past you pretty much had to do full screen and toggle windows to multitask

- Mouse/scroll support followed. I can scroll on an inactive window these days. In past, you had to toggle and put focus on the window to be able to scroll, meaning you had to toggle windows to multitask

- Multitasking has become so multi. I am engaged in different apps/windows and need to watch them. I might have open a video on an eighth of my screen too just to watch something as I work. The only app I can think that came close to this in the past was AIM.
SSO is probably the only thing. Other than that, no idea. Netlify pulled the same stunt with us and we left. They must have burned many bridges by now.
> Your writing is also honestly a bit difficult to understand so i assume you're learning English.

His argument seemed like a pretty straightforward logical deduction to me. If his argument doesn't refute the claim that everyone can learn college algebra, then you must have some unusual definition for one or more of "everyone", "learn" and "college algebra".
I'm sorry but I don't share your experience. I find React very easy, and short of a period of creating the baseline components and skeleton, everything else flows very fast in terms of development time. By the way, I think react in strict mode does run components twice in dev, so not running in strict mode will prevent that, and you can use a regular Promise in your useEffect.
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The Supreme Court Considers the Algorithm
C# and typescript towards each other for sure,

And everything taking from lisp/other functional languages: lambda, map, filter etc. Which I really like
I mean, you could, like, just avoid Disneyland. I haven't been there since I was a kid and honestly I don't think my kids would care one way or another if they ever visited. (Now if you had to do this at Legoland, I'd be honestly disappointed)

We also haven't bought any "smart" TVs or IOT, or anything Alexa/Siri/etc -enabled.

At some point those kinds of purchases will be required, but I'll keep looking for non-invasive alternatives including... not participating.
Why don't they finish actually implementing W11, give it a consistent UI standard and stop investing all their energy in trying to monitor and monetize their already paying users? Maybe then, people will upgrade.
https://archive.is/Svsct
> what could be one of the most powerful companies of our generation.

I have the impression that AI tech such as GPT tends to become ubiquitous and that the current advantage that OoenAI has won't last when this become accessible and basically free to everybody.
Yes but do you pass it off as your own original artwork that you created all by yourself, or do you present the book cover in a way that makes it obvious that you are taking a photo of somebody else's book?
Yeah they conflict, haven’t really worked too much on how to resolve this. I mostly did the auto generated notes as I found them cool, how did you expect them to work? Currently they are live updating, but I guess a one of action might more sense?
How old is your life?
I confess I opened it just to see whether the author was Dr. Stephen Falken.
I'm confused. How can this be the record? I took a picture of the moon once - that's a fair amount further than 443 kilometers.
They should get rid of the shackles they've been putting on the AI over the past couple of months. Crippling the free service is fine, but you should offer the full product as is if you're presenting it as a paid service.
The trouble is that popups like this don’t even comply with the relevant legislation. (Which is the ePrivacy Directive after the 2009 amendment, though people largely ignored this part of it until the advent of the GDPR which came into force in 2018. Simplified, ePD says “most cookies must be opt-in”.)

If anything, putting such wildly non-compliant popups should make you more liable to punishment, because it undermines an argument of ignorance.
>Sources? Wasn’t the crack epidemic more related to Contra and the breaking of the family unit due to disproportionate incarceration of black males by the government in attempt to break their political power via the selective targeting of specific drugs by the govt, i.e marijuana and crack over cocaine?

The overwhelming majority of the rise in crime occurred between 1964 and 1974, in which time the murder rate in the US more than doubled and reached its all-time high in 1974.

Crack cocaine itself wasn't found in the US until the mid-1980s, i.e. well after the overwhelming majority of the rise in crime had already occurred. With no crack present in the US, it's clearly ridiculous to attribute the rise in crime to a drug-or laws targeting a drug-that didn't exist in the US until a decade later.

The crack vs. cocaine sentencing law you mention didn't exist until 1986, when it was pushed for primarily by black and progressive political leaders (notably the bill's author, then-senator Joe Biden) who believed it would address the rampant violence they associated with crack in their communities (https://www.npr.org/2017/07/17/537715793/how-black-leaders-u..., https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/how-an-early-biden-c...).

In other words, neither crack laws nor significant crack use itself existed until the vast majority of the rise in crime had already occurred. Even the most outlandish theories of Contra involvement in drug trafficking (which they were involved to some extent like many South American guerrilla groups) would attribute a literal drop in the bucket of the cocaine trafficked to the US to the Contras. Again, this is only even relevant if you think crack caused the rise in violent crime that occurred decades before it was introduced to the US.

To address your third point, the incarceration rates you mention didn't actually start rising until 1973 and remained much lower than in the 1950s until the mid-70s (https://nap.nationalacademies.org/read/18613/chapter/4#35). Moreover, they didn't begin their rapid climb until 1980, at which point crime had begun declining. For reference, about 5 times as many people are in jail/prison today as in 1975: https://nap.nationalacademies.org/read/18613/chapter/4#35 When incarceration rates truly began skyrocketing in the late '80s-2000s, violent crimes were rapidly dropping.
> Even if we're just talking about the level of what GPT 3.5 is capable of, that still corresponds to, let's say, a college freshman level of writing.

Indeed - the output of ChatGPT to a very quickly thrown together prompt and essay question, was able to easily beat the average of a cohort of freshmen in terms of writing skills. I imagine this is partly due to a decline in writing skills generally (?), but also partly due to an LLM having a significant advantage in being able to roll a die and produce a completely grammatically valid sentence on any topic each time.

I suspect that we will see LMMs reach a point where they can pose a threat to weaker non-straight-A students - at least at freshman level, you can already get GPT to write an essay that's more factually accurate than the weaker students in a cohort. It won't be factually perfect, but it will be more factually accurate than the students' own attempts.

Fundamentally though, I do wonder - if the marginal cost of prose reduces to near-zero (through bullshit generation via AI), what will we move to?

Lengthy prose that you know someone won't read is a perfect situation for LMM generation. 5x short, sharp, action-focused bullet points that get to the crux of a situation and how to resolve it are far harder to bullshit, as ultimately people are focused on the substance, rather than style and presentation of your point. This would (I hypothesize) disadvantage both human and AI bullshitters equally.

I tend to see the best students feel less of a need to pad and write more, as they know they have said what needs to be said, and are finished. Those with a need to bullshit (perhaps through not having as robust an understanding of the subject matter) will pad, flounder, circumlocute, and eventually get to something resembling a point, eventually.
People need to give more attention to the collapse in ad-hoc labor. We've made life far too regimented and regulated for many people. I don't think we give enough attention to this gap in the economy.
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I still feel my discussion being stifled and I'm unable to now contribute curious discussion to this site for the short term. I encourage you to think about your actions here, and ensure that you don't negatively affect the space around you in the future. There's hundreds of eccentric personalities on this site, and watching your conversation in the future will only bring positive results.
Netflix Made an Anime Using AI Due to a 'Labor Shortage,' and Fans Are Pissed
I still believe long term that XR will replace or augment our smart phones. Apple will make it socially acceptable and meta will capitalize on selling it to the mid to low end of the market.
So then what are we waiting for
Well, there's both the Glen Canyon above the Grand Canyon and the Hoover Dam below. There was also a proposal--and preliminary work done on--the Marble Canyon (Redwall) Dam in the Grand Canyon, but that never happened.

Ahh. And there was apparently also a proposal for the Bridge Canyon Dam, also called Hualapai Dam, further down in the canyon.
Yeah but it would be nice if that was the floor instead of a ceiling - personally I've never seen a ChatGPT-generated text that couldn't have been generated by asking a high schooler to generate the same thing.
I certainly get several orders of magnitude fewer ads. I don't even get the spam texts and calls that so many people around me do.

And when I do see ads, they aren't personalized -- which is a great thing, in my view.
Cool, I've never heard that before. I love it.
I thought I added numpad support, will have another look. I’ll add a setting to disable the highlights next week, thanks!
How about, unless you can pay someone to spy on prospective customers, you have no business starting a new brand?
It's pedantic buzz killery, which is boring and lame.

Are we going to... not fly planes any more? Drive cars? Deliver cargo? Take trips to visit family in another town/state/country?

"Hey Tim, how was the weekend?"

"Great. I drove down to Portland to see my mom after her surgery, she's doing gr--"

"You decided to spend your weekend destroying the environment?!"
A counter culture that has been productive and changed the status quo is no longer a counter culture by definition, since that implies that they have the power to alter the dominant culture, which implies that they are the dominant culture.

I think what you are really referring to is a social movement, which often aligns with a particular counter culture that has decided to organize. But there can be many counter cultures and not all of them the deliberate goal of social change.
The link there is specifically UPS, which is union.

I guess it is probably the case that guys with a couple years experience are doing about the same work as guys with 10 years (plane smoothly and safely goes from A to B).
Or the average annual carbon footprint for one person in the US.
This. QA jobs are there in the very old school companies, govt. Stay away from QA.
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I can't speak for every company, but I've seen a lot of people claiming that they're leveraging "chat GPT" for their tech stack when underneath the covers they're just using the standard open davinci-03 model.

Still wrong obv but for a different reason.
Original author here: My phone runs Sailfish, a mobile Linux OS (Red Hat).
At least their whole TPM debacle has kept Win11 off my back.
In that sentence, prejudiced is a pejorative way to say opinionated.

I assert that existing legal systems do not suffice. Human governments and courts have shown themselves to be near-sighted, slow, and even corrupt when it comes to rapidly advancing lucrative technology (except perhaps when that tech is a weapon).
Either that, or got hired by top-secret image-processing government/private agencies requiring complete silence.
Just watching a few episodes of Black Mirror and I have all the incentive I need. To use a bad analogy - I don't need to be faster than the cheetah, just faster than my unfortunate neighbor.
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Enlist the help of another nation state and ensure that you have backups in multiple places of your 'stuff that matters'.
> Eh, when your future career prospects hinge on what grades you get it's perfectly rational to optimize for getting those grades over learning "properly".

I knew a few people who cheated and gamed the system at every opportunity through high school, all in the name of getting into the best universities.

They got absolutely crushed in college when their old tricks stopped working and they had to actually do the work. One of them got caught cheating and had a wake-up call when the university threatened him for it. He eventually put in the effort to grind it out and graduate a year late, but graduated nonetheless.

He's mentioned that he could have saved himself a lot of pain and suffering by just engaging in school the first time instead of cheating.

This idea that you can cheat your way into a job and then just coast doesn't really match reality. It may work for some people who get into weird jobs that don't fire people, but the idea that it's "optimal" to cheat your way through life until you're handed an easy job doesn't hold up in practice.
I’m not sure where that tangent came from but that certainly wouldn’t be the lesson learned.

The lesson learned is that these small “brands” that can only exist due to adware (fake demand) will eventually be culled by increases in prices or de-amplification of their products.

If your “brand” is one of these then you should be learning that you need to actually make a good product at a good price that doesn’t rely on advertising to succeed in your marketplace. Otherwise you are always at risk of being squeezed and potentially shut down.

Many (certainly not all) of these companies are parasites in that the rely on Meta to utilize algorithms to get you addicted and alter your purchasing habits. They don’t actually offer a good product at a good price, they offer copies of other products with different labels, or in some cases outright, disposable junk.
Fair thought.

Seems unlikely to me that a mass of HN commenters all hate-commented Musk to shift the stock price (aka slightly conspiratorial), but at least in this mindset, people are seeing things for what they are.
Yes, if it can't write characters in a story that are racist then it greatly limits what it can do. Same goes for criminal, evil, murderers etc, it greatly limits the creative uses it has for you.

What is left is a tool that is too unreliable to do real work, and too neutered to do most creative work. You can make it write children's stories, but most more mature stories has characters that aren't always nice.
If it's more than a few you end up with overfitting though.
Ironically that is very close to his philosophy of antifragility - it doesn’t matter if you’re “right” nine times out of ten, if the tenth is the one that wipes you out.
It's reported here and they suggest adding nginx with x-accel which is basically surrending.

https://github.com/tiangolo/fastapi/issues/5803