skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Its a voting mechanism. Those votes determine what links appears on the front page as almost nobody browses the new submissions.

Also, voting ranks comments. As such this is a means of shifting priority based upon agreement. When a negative vote is cast it becomes one of two means to enforce a heckler's veto. The other form of heckler's veto is by click on the link to "flag" a comment or submission as after an item is flagged 4 times it is hidden from everybody. Notice that those two mechanisms are completely unrelated in their functionality even though the results are similar.

The problem with voting mechanisms is abuse. They are extremely good within small communities, but once a venue grows past a certain size it becomes a means for insecure people to impose echo chambers.
The way to properly make it is to have someone else make it and claim it as your own :)
There is some British humour to this, but I think this is FT taking themselves seriously.

It's an old case, but timely and relevant. The story, now being old and quaint, provides a lower complexity, lower stakes model for monetary actions of the present.
It would have been Lego's responsibility during due diligence to do a software inventory of Bricklink and determine if there were liabilities around software licenses.

It is a very common thing to do. Startups cut corners and don't get attention cause they don't have a lot of money. But get bought out by a multi-billion dollar company and it gets noticed.
Your example here is obvious right? All humans agree with you because all humans can tell the difference.

The thing with these LLMs is that it's exhibiting both seemingly random remixes and remixes with extreme creativity.

A lot of people see some error and flaw with chatGPT or they don't dig deep enough and they miss the fact that there are many instances of intelligent remixing of creative data. Real creativity. Trust that the opposing party has the intelligence to not be tricked by some obvious answer that an LLM took from a look up table and that the opposing party saw something wholly novel and unique.

The main issue here is that people are getting hung up on the part where chatGPT fails to be creative and are completely missing the fact that it can be successful as well.
That would sound like a fixable policy problem by changing laws etc.
That's just another reminder that HN is a big place with different crowds who don't necessarily intersect or interact on the same topics. I've been a regular reader of and poster on HN for over 10 years and have never heard of this company.
> Copyrights don't protect novelty.

Yes, and no. I can't speak for laws in the USA, as I'm from Europe. But Copyright-laws in the EU do have parts which specifically target mixing and mashups of content, and how much new content of your you need to add to make it count as a separate work. These parts were recently updated, because of YouTube, the meme-culture and so on. But it's my understanding that for music and text-quotes, the whole concept is already longer around. So I guess US-Laws do have something like this too?

So of course, this does not handle novelty on a global scale for all of mankind's knowledge and content, but the general Idea and how to handle it is there.

> Two people can independently create the same thing and both be entitled to copyright.

Similar maybe. But for literally the same, I doubt it. People are getting already sued for having too much similarity.
"AI in the hopes that it will be enough to replace and heavily reduce the wages of knowledge and creative work"

But that's not true because the best stuff capable of generating AI art today is open source and capable of running on commodity hardware? People might've invested, but if Microsoft can generate nice pictures, so can a lot of people now, at the same or even better quality.

There isn't a lot of proof that ChatGPT will be in the hands of OpenAI alone forever, so likely everyone will have similarly capable machines in the near future.

The only thing humans need to do to get the future right, is learn to live peacefully with each other, and the algorithms, can we may have a very incredible future on our hands.

We fear machines killing us because it's what we do to each other, if we didn't have these tendencies, maybe an AGI would accidentally kill us, but that would be better than it killing us because it learned violence and paranoia from us. It would of course suck, but it would suck less.
I would like at least one person to see this and think "Man, a lot of those ideas are actually pretty dumb and he couldn't even pass a tech interview, I could do this better and faster."
I was wondering what they meant by that term as well. Does every JSON document in the array have to have the exact same structure (including the ordering of key-value pairs)? What happens if row #1000 introduces a new key-value pair not seen before? What if the value for a key is an array?
Now, I'm traumatized.
so what? We havent sent much of anything to Venus in the past 30 years. There isnt TOO much to add.

Parker Solar probe I believe made a few passes in the last couple years that added some terrain mapping and a few headlines about life possibilities based on some spectrographic reads that ended up being debunked. But I dont think much else has been done.

All that is to say, something from 30 years ago is probably still pretty relevant for Venus.
My family are Dutch farmers who are in the middle of this discussion for a few years now.

As far as I understand, what happened is that Dutch politicians have been too optimistic in their sales for the reduction in nitrogen emissions. In response, the Dutch government has been aggressively making plans to reduce the number of dairy farms in the Netherlands. However, this conflicts with the ambitions of the farmers for two main reasons. Firstly, farmers are very aware of how farming occurs in other countries. The Dutch have a long history of optimizing the farming process with a long history of ever increasing regulations. It makes no sense then to stop farming in the Netherlands to "save" the environment by sending the work to other countries, who then will increase pollution per kg milk produced. For example, farmers in Poland have generally higher maize fields not because they are better farmers, but because they are allowed to put much more manure on the fields. Secondly, farmers are all hard working people who are proud of their family business and who would like to continue their business. Having the government take the business away for controversial reasons doesn't sit right.

Furthermore, from what I hear around me, people are done with the current prime minister Rutte. There have been some scandals including the "Rutte-doctrine" in which Rutte thinks that internal government documents do not have to be shared with journalists and the Tweede kamer (lower house of the Dutch parliament) and him being found out for lying time and time again. The whole scandal around the farmers is just a manifestation of the general civil dissatisfaction, as the BBC points out too.
Setting aside the conceptual criticism, the execution of this badge is also done poorly.

If the goal is to highlight creation by humans, I’m struggling to see how slapping a big fat sticker that says “AI” in large type on it would be a good idea?

All it does is give AI more attention and associates the work with it.
If you want to know whether your TPM is vulnerable I wrote a simple tool to check that: https://github.com/immune-gmbh/tpm-vuln-checker
This has the potential to be the killer app for mixed reality once instant / realtime translation is possible. Imagine being able to understand every language in the world - and if two users of this product meet, being able to converse without learning each other's language.

It would be a technological Babelfish.
It's probably not all that easy to sequence the DNA of study participants when they number in the thousands. Although I guess you only have to do it once per person.
Maintenance is indeed the big one. That's what most ISS EVAs are for!

Plus makes emergency procedures for leaks MUCH cheaper - light emergency ponchos and masks, and just walk over to the next sealed building.
I am also glad to see them win. I don't like to see governments railroad people without any compromise. It was "our way, or the highway". That's not constructive. 'Bout time the "small guy" (compared to the gov) won.
To me the last example is still simple. When I encounter this in the wild, I don't really care about preserving the header.

tail -n +2 example.csv | sort -r -k4 -t','

Or more often, I just do this and ignore the header

sort -r -k4 -t',' example.csv

Keeping the header feels awkward, but using `sort` to reverse sort by a specific column is still quicker to type and execute (for me) than writing a program.
Ask HN: Why do people fear AI more than their children?
Just like a robot, your children can kill you while you sleep...
This is a general question; is no one else worried about Amazon or whichever company trolling your photos with face recognition, building up a graph of who you are connected to, all in the name of "giving you a better shopping experience"? Or who knows what else they might do with the meta data or AI object recognition shenanigans.

I guess I don't extend much trust to the companies that provide these services, especially if they are free. But then I don't take many photos nor share them around much. That might change the equation a bit if I was more into that. What photos I do take that I want to keep I download to my desktop.

Maybe I'm just too damned cynical.
Linux maintainer rejects patches from sanctioned Russian Baikal Electronics
Likewise for lotto tickets.
I would recommend opening an issue at https://github.com/nodejs/nodejs.org
I would have thought the same.
In a way, I believe the idea of a "just, meritocratic world" masks the actual underlying problem -- that we do not have measures in place to prevent individuals or small groups from gaining grossly disproportionate levels of power in our society. We wouldn't need to keep the natural human inclination of socialising and networking in check if all it ever resulted in was a few nicer looking photo books.

In my interactions outside of professional life, I find such happy coincidences of skills and connections to lead to outcomes that simply enrich everyone, like how this photo album surely pleased the commenter, the gf, the school teachers, etc. Rarely does anything like this hurt anyone. Sure, someone might be a little more popular in a social circle for a time because of some cool thing they made with their cool friends, but these kinds of things are transient and -- in a context of conditions of fairness -- some other person with some other cool new thing will eventually displace them.

In a capitalist world where "cool new things" can lead to concentration of wealth that can be guarded and leveraged to create more, then networking (familial/nepotistic or otherwise) can lead to unfair outcomes. But the idea of a meritocratic system still leads to the same unfair outcomes, just decided on a different and still somewhat arbitrary set of requirements.
Watermarking it might be a good start. The people who go through training data are probably flagging pictures that have unsightly artifacts or unrealistic destructive changes in the image. If you add a Shutterstock-style watermark it would probably get removed from most sets, and a prominent signature in the bottom corner would probably also pretty well.

As for text, I guess your best bet is to either limit exposure of it or intentionally poison the data. It's a little bit harder to do this in writing I guess, but you could still try by creating unusable fictitious accounts of characters named "Biden" or "Boris" doing increasingly ridiculous things. Any politically-stark moderator would probably remove your data before it hits the model, and if it does there's a good chance it will be flagged as problematic.
(My posting rate limit went away)

The demand for AI/ML will fast outstrip available talent. We'll be pulling students right out of undergrad if they can pass an interview.

I'm hiring folks off Reddit and 4chan that show an ability to futz with PyTorch and read papers.

Also, from your sibling comment:

> Maybe it is also a matter of location. I am in Germany.

Huge factor. US cares about getting work done and little else. Titles are honestly more trouble than they're worth and you sometimes see negative selection for them in software engineering. I suspect this will bleed over into AI/ML in ten years.

Work and getting it done is what matters. If someone has an aptitude for doing a task, it doesn't matter where it came from. If they can get along with your team, do the work, learn on the job and grow, bring them on.
Colour inkjet or colour toner?

Inkjet provides far better quality for things like photos, but you will tear your hair out due to how iffy ink cartridges can be.
Don't use depth for hands. There is an openpose model that can use hand information.
Nobody is going to go to war over a drone, even an expensive one. They were clearly intending to take it down or at least render it useless, though the collision was probably unintentional.
Right now, it appears to be doing both.

I really miss Picassa... if it wasn't for a bug in the last version, where it sometimes swapped face tags, I'd still be using it.
I am very worried about this. Yes. Facebook already did this since 2007, or earlier.
It's really cute!

I'd change up the UX a bit.

1 - For the drag and drop, I'd keep the original letter in place, and just make the original slightly transparent as you drag. Reason being, as you drag on a phone you can't see the original letter since your finger is on it... so leaving the original as an indicator is good.

https://master--5fc05e08a4a65d0021ae0bf2.chromatic.com/?path...

2 - For the drag and drop, I would add a a "drop indicator" as you mouse over each square.

https://master--5fc05e08a4a65d0021ae0bf2.chromatic.com/?path...

3 - For things like "Triple Letter" I would change it up... "x3" -- I know you're going for "Scrabble" but frankly the text is a bit small for older people, who I think make up the "Dads" in your audience.

4 - Instead of "Delete" I would change the word to "Recall" for recalling letters you placed on the board.

5 - For the Colors I would go more vibrant.

6 - For font sizes, bigger is better. https://imgur.com/a/kduZzwl

7 - For buttons, I would suggest having different colors for different buttons. Having them all black means you have to read through them all... having one as a clear "primary" color helps.
Our nature is not destroyed. That's what the left city people say who never leave their cities. There is also plenty of room to build. But those same people want their children to grow up next to their cities. Thats not gonna happen. Enough room in other provinces. Another problem is mass immigration. Millions entered our country in the last 30 years.
My info may be outdated, but I thought the highest injury rates for vehicle-vehicle collisions was from getting T-boned by people running a red light. You have a stationary vehicle getting hit into its least protected part by a speeding vehicle. In older cars this sort of collision can be deadly at speeds as low as 30mph. Something about the two sides of your brain slamming together and lack of side crumple zones.

That’s why Slovenia (probably from an EU directive) made it illegal to run a yellow light in the early 2000’s. Yellow means stop unless you’re already in the intersection and can’t stop in time.

As opposed to USA where yellow, at least in practice, means “accelerate like mad”
Cool that way everything I type in my terminal, including secrets, probably gets shipped off to some remote server.

No thanks.
On HN click someone’s username to view their profile. Often such information is found there.
> when the future of the environment will be decided by developing countries, not us. There is a balance to be made here.

This is not just misleading but straight up wrong.

Sure, western nations don't dominate global population numbers (and are mostly shrinking too), but the United states alone emit TWICE the amount of CO2 compared to India, with 1/4 the population.

Just saying "the future of the environment is on you, India, China, Africa, since there is not much we Americans can do, there are just not enough of us" is sickeningly hypocritical.

Also, how are you going to convince ANY developing nation that struggles to lift their population out of poverty that paying for environmental protection is necessary, while you (as a rich westerner) sit on your ass?!

Sorry for the confrontational tone, but I feel I HAVE to correct this because it is an extremely popular sentiment ("we're already doing more than our part for the environment in the west, now it's on the Chinese/Indians/etc."), and this is completely unsupported by facts.
That item being several orders of magnitude above all the others is an interesting context, for sure. Regarding the "being set", it would be helpful to have a date on that item in particular. The Forbes "30 under 30" is from 2021, but I haven't been able to trace the age of the company on first try...
From your cited link:

> However, few of these studies were specifically designed to evaluate racial or ethnic disparities, lacking a standardized approach to racial/ethnic categorization as well as control for potential confounders.

The NIH study that the article is about provides concrete recommendations that would help alleviate the precise concerns expressed by your article.

You seem like you might be responding to the headline rather than the underlying content of the NIH study.
I bought a used Ricoh Aficio SP C821DN about 8 years ago for little more than the price of shipping, and have been very happy with it.

It was sold by a company that liquidates old office equipment (this one came from Honda) and, as far as I can tell, makes money on the logistics (i.e. freight).

Toner lasts ages (40k-100k pages), paper handling is adequate, performance and quality are great. It's been reliable despite the fact it got pretty beat up in shipping (guess you get what you pay for - company offered to send a second unit but I didn't have the space). It's not on a UPS (most of them explicitly state not to use with laser printers) and survived power outages that occasionally knocked out other equipment.

I've made a handful of repairs on it myself, and do my own calibration. The insides are reasonably accessible. I got a copy of the service manual and some little-known tips on useful service codes (like overrides) found in online forums.

If you think vertically you can fit it into a smaller space than you might realize. It lived in my tiny old apartment in a "cubby" I built under a raised, theater-style couch. At my current place there's to-ceiling shelving above it for storing supplies and various specialty papers.

The C831DN is an updated model (with faster time-to-first-page) that was too expensive at the time but what I'd have bought say 4 years ago, and maybe still today (depending if it's successors are any good).
If I say I can do something, especially when I say I'm "waving at the haters", what I usually mean is that I can consistently do that thing.

If I say "here's a self-driving car!" and show you a video of a car moving straight down a street and stopping at a light, would you agree that I have a self-driving car? After all, it drove itself down the street.
Probably because AI taps into a more futurist and gratifying sense of despair than acknowledging that people in your home can potentially harm you.
AstroSpect: a Chrome DevTools extension for Astro developers
They won't have "their own", it will be proprietary, centralized, out of real control and hardly imposed.
Yes, they are sent regularly. I have a rental apartment that the tenant has been depositing rent into for about 4-5 years. It's only really used for that purpose.
Zed is nice, really nice, but has some issues on M1 from what I see...
Fails to load the JS language server. On intel machines there's no error.
Just a thought, maybe you could not take informal statements on general knowledge so personally.
If people have nowhere to live some non-farm land could be reallocated - but, yes, sure it'd be a fight.
Can second using DigiKam. It's a great app.
> Keep in mind that in this case the threat comes from within the groups that agree with her ideology, but believe she is controlled opposition.

Really? It's not very believable that someone on the right would phrase a threat like that (i.e. "go away or you'll end up dead, like the last right-wing leader killed by an left-wing environmental activist").

I did some digging and all I could find (in English) was some comments attributing the threats to the "the anti-farmer or anti-BBB lobby" (https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2022/07/pro-farming-mp-cancels...).
> Maybe I'm just too damned cynical.

FWIW, I don't think so. There's such a thing as healthy paranoia.

Privacy considerations definitely factored into my decision to move my library to iCloud Photos from Google Photos a couple years ago.

I still maintain more than one backup of that library — one local, and one to a cloud backup provider.
That is in an energy conservatist framework.

If you fly to a conference to advocate nuclear power and synthetic fuels, it would be congruent.
The government should've pushed innovations in precision farming like they push solar (e.g. 50% subsidy). But they chose to do a full ban. Some startups in the sector were affected even though they reduce the amount of fertilizer and pesticides by an order of magnitude. Was the government so blind and stupid, or were they malicious?
That sounds like contrived rubbish me. Yes we can pluck a dozen Germans off the street and you might find 5 different eye colours, 6 hair colours, a range of 30 IQ points, a priest and a thug, and over a foot between the tallest and shortest.

Yet show me a picture of any of them and I am confident I could roughly point to the region in Europe where their ancestors have toiled for the last thousand generations. Put them and a dozen Congolese in a group and a 5 year old could easily separate them into their two respective racial groups.

There is clearly a common genetic 'core' among people of the same racial group. There may be much diversity within it, too, but to use that to deny the existence of this shared heritage is downright subversive and disingenuous.
AI or technology won't reduce bullshit jobs. To the contrary, they might increase bullshit jobs, because there would be more resources to allocate for those jobs.
Learn something new to learn about yourself
This was my best guess as well. Unfortunately I have not been able to confirm it since they won't say anything
I don't know how rapidly those fighters dump fuel, but it doesn't seem impossible to me that just getting whacked with a literal ton of jet fuel might do a propeller a lot of harm.
> Ultimately, though, race is defined by skin color

No, it's not; a couple of them have names that refer to that trait.
The easiest hack is the social hack.
Tips for Becoming a Pod Person
A foundation, just for free software? https://www.fsf.org/
Is 1.5C still realistic? The crumbling consensus over key climate target
Not all videos of war or military assets are "war propaganda."
I am using generative AI to make a video game and actually I have to look at every output to see if the hands were generated correctly. Gwern mentions this too. Hands + body would be an actual breakthrough.
https://docs.paperless-ngx.com/ might be of interest here
They have crippled many countries ability to produce food, see documentary: "Tomatoes and greed – the exodus of Ghana's farmers"

Probably cheaper for some in the short term, but it means less food security, and potential growth
I love the attitude behind this