skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At least in my area of Kansas City, and I believe many other cities, this is simply not true. Downtown Kansas City before WWII was similar to many European cities. It still has boulevards and parks, but it had 300 miles of electric street cars, row after row of mixed use business with housing above stores, and a train hub that carried passengers to about any town in the region. It was a vibrant city similar to European cities today.

Under the guise of urban renewal after WW II, they literally bulldozed rows of downtown business' to install the interstate loop. The interstates chopped the neighborhoods apart making it nearly impossible to walk from one to another. They tore down about half the other buildings to accommodate parking for all the people that now lived in suburbs and drove in. They widened roads and shrunk sidewalks. They tore out most of the passenger train service and all of the street car lines. The effect was the downtown area of KC all but died, with many boarded up buildings. It became a place nobody wanted to live with a family.

With several major infrastructure projects it is just now starting to come back. But it is still a far cry from what it was. It is still not that walkable. There is still little public transportation, with only one short street car line and one or two slow and clunky Amtrak trains a day. Most people still live in suburbs and drive in, so we have never deleted all the parking lots and rebuilt the buildings to make space for a vibrant business scene or ample housing.
The Guardian is one of the best examples of independent journalism. It's owned by the Scott Trust. It was set up by the original owner in the 30s to ensure editorial independence. People do sometimes confuse "editorial independence" with "taking an editorial line I personally disagree with", however.
The money passes the duck test.
Or it accelerates the endpoint: cutting the pre-made art out of the process entirely.

AI image generators don't need to see art, they just need to know what blobs of pixels "are" in relation to words. That sort of data can be extracted from just photography of the real world - it just turns out there's a lot less of that easily available and properly tagged then art collections right now.

There's more then enough public-domain examples of "style" to do the rest (and style-transfer was one of the original AI image manipulation applications).
I'd like to see the end but I cannot get past level 6. I'd enjoy a spoiler if anyone has it.

I enjoyed the film. There was this nagging feeling the whole time that there was supposed to be some sort of metaphor for the conflict in Ireland but I knew nothing about it, so it felt like I was missing something. I don't know that I really understood what it was trying to say either way. I liked 'In Bruges' a lot more personally.
They'll transact with Bitcoin given two conditions: 1. They know that resistance is futile. You can't stop it (or at least one party acting alone can't stop it) and 2. Crypto is liquid enough across many markets.

People (and government) will use the path of least resistance. Crypto is pretty liquid in many parts of the world now. You can P2P from crypto to your bank account and $10K is pretty feasible. However, $1Bn is not (outside the US and maybe EU). Once the liquidity is high enough, point 2 becomes possible. Point 1 always was.
I think what we're learning from all this is that the people we trust with our money, the "financial sector", can't be trusted with our money
Do people want the ability to watch an entire movie from start to finish, without a bunch of ads insertions? Yes.
kW is a useful measure of power
kWh is a useful measure of total energy consumed

kWh/{time} is a useless and just confusing unit. So yes, I think we all agree kWh/s is a bad unit, but kWh (or gWh or similar) are all useful units.
> is too whatever to think this red flag is a hill to die on

Gotta choose your battles carefully - any one battle could probably consume 100% of your time.
Fairy-like robot flies by the power of wind and light
If technology causes the value of the fruits of that labor to crash, then... The value of the fruit of that labor crashes. No more and no less.

The invention of the printing press didn't stop writing, the invention of the camera didn't stop painting, and the invention of Stable Diffusion won't stop creation of novel art. But it definitely upends a known methodology for extracting value from non-fungibility of labor product.

In any case, the labor-to-value question is moot because Stable Diffusion will enable companies to generate unlimited visuals off the single-time-compensated manual labor of a handful of artists (for no other reason than some artists will take that deal). So whether any one artist is in the training set will become irrelevant as people choose nearly-free good-enough product over far-more-expensive handcrafted product most of the time.

Glaze is useless when an advertising firm is fairly-compensating consenting artists to toss their work into the meat grinder and that grinder then still churns out work that swamps the individuality of traditional-methods artists.
Does this technology also poison the well when there's already existing training data? If an artist's well established style that they've honed for years has already been scraped, this isn't particularly useful unless this would also begin to disrupt the whole model of that artist's style in an existing training set. Better late than never, but if it can poison existing training data, that might be worthwhile.
Well, I paid into SS and Medicare for fifty years, and I’m getting less out than I put in. But, still glad to have them.

Some people call it a Ponzi scheme, but it’s a pool, as designed.

The military is a big jobs program and all the industrial support generates a lot of economic activity. Better if they just dropped it in the ocean, though. Too much temptation to test it.
Ask HN: What comes after the “pale blue dot” enlightenment?
We are all but smaller-than-insect organisms in a pale blue dot [0].

Our entire lifetimes are but small flashes, mere nanoseconds in the scale of the universe.

Realizing all this through Science and Philosophy- I am in despair. I don't see the point of any long-term goals anymore. I don't see the point of anything other than immediate fruit-bearing activities like spending time with friends and eating.

What to do? How to get past this?

Many here has gotten the pale blue dot enlightenment, I assume.

What still drives you? How and why do you still have long term goals?

Can you share with me your perspective and/or any reading material on Philosophy/something else?

(Note: I am in situational depression connected with my current job + AI scare. I hope to get out of the bad job hole in about a year. Does it get better after the situation changes? What to do in the meantime?)

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pale_Blue_Dot
The story should link to the original source. Secondary versions (archive.is, nitter, etc) should be in the comments.

> Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter.
If only it were so simple. Maybe it is.

This feels like one of the most Lawful Evil, Imminate'ing the Escharon'ing ruinating region-murdering life-destroying things the USG has done, and which it continues to perpetuate.

The idea that law must be upheld blindly at any cost, for law itself sake, for "stability" sake is so fallen. The furtherance of these grotesque rights is the use of law to end life, to ruin the country. The law was the mistake, is the instability, and it should not be honored, it's idea should not besmirch just & right laws.

These should be rolled back in huge degree, with not a penny paid. But I have no idea how we do it.

Instead we just wait for the rivers to go dry, wait for the end.
$20k -> $28k -> $27.5k is “dropping like a stone?”
Well done, this is a really cool approach to leveraging ChatGPT. Messing around with it locally now
I don’t disagree, but my question still stands. Besides every single desk worker learning a trade. What else can we do? Right? We are saying the same thing. You are right nobody cared when it upended a lot of translation. You are right people didn’t care because it was going to effect “low skill” jobs. Okay, now that we have that out of the way. What is a proposed solution? UBI? That’s fine and dandy but what does every desk worker on a working visa do? Go home? Is that viable? I’ve said in this post, I don’t have any solutions, all I see is real hurt and anxiety. Should we have cared before? Yes, I get that.
Nothing in those slides contradicts me.

The PRISM vs Upstream slide makes it very clear that PRISM requests are done through the front door, because PRISM-to-vendor communication is 'laundered' through the FBI.
The HN headline has been changed from the website's title. The website is called minimal.design but has nothing to do with minimal websites. As far as I can tell, it's more about certain minimalist visual design principles.

From the about page: [1]

> Minimal Gallery was accidentally brought to life when I started collecting websites as inspiration for client projects, screenshotting and categorizing them for better organization. And never stopped.
Show HN: Sure Stack for Developers
What democracy? Citizen interests haven't mattered for a looong time.
They are not equivalent. Running a function in another process incurs the overhead of copying the data to the other process (potentially over the network). In both directions. Task.async introduces extra necessities like a linkage between the two processes, a timeout receiver, etc, and the result receiver.

Moreover, there is a context switch and it's more likely the code will run on a different core if you run it async than if you run it in the same process (which is very likely but not guaranteed) to run on the same core.

The way in which they are equivalent, is that the code that you write is identical, and the bytecode that gets run, and the existence of implicit yields is identical between the async and "sync" code.
Personally I don't think AI tools energy usage are comparable to BTC yet.

Also, with BTC it's literally burning it in an unproductive way for "improved security". It's like lighting a forest on fire to keep warm.

All the AI tools combined, last I heard, aren't consuming 0.5% of the world's energy usage. And even if they were, it would be absolutely bonkers to argue we should keep doing that when there were alternatives that accomplished similar goals without the energy usage (proof of stake)
Who can say? Btc has no intrinsic value or connection to any part of the real economy, other than the willingness of some people to pay money for it. They make up stories about why it should go one way or the other, but they are just stories with no real meaning. It’s all in their heads.
I'm thinking more about the places where people care about performance, since accessing a T[] is faster than accessing a List<T> (less indirection).
A slightly better form of metonymy
To whomever downvoted this - what happened at SVB and Credit Suisse was confidence inspiring? Trust building?
Umm what

aptX was made in the 80s

Opus came out in 2012

Someone had to pay money to make them exist… because no one was making free ones!
You can use it to do the assignments for you or you can use it to help you understand what you're solving. In my computer science exams I had to write correct code with paper and pencil. ChatGPT won't be able to help you in the exam, will it?
Your link is pointing to the general mastodon.social instance and not to birds.town. To see local birds.town posts, go to [0]. Looks like birds-only to me w/o any politics, tho I'm not aware of any of these birds' political preferences.

And generally, whenever there's people annoying me, I just unfollow/mute/block them - problem solved.

[0] https://birds.town/public/local
Radar is non-ionizing, no?
Thanks I wasnt getting it either
That’s a lot of scratch for not a lot of chickens.

Juciero like.

Chickens are cheap, don’t need to Face ID them to authorize entry. Coops are easy to build and cheap. Don’t need a chicken Fort Yeti. Plus, this certainly doesn’t make you a farmer. A bit of an appropriation.

But it does look cool and I’d buy one if I had unlimited money.
I think of a related effect every single time I'm at the DMV, or on the phone with a customer service representative, or dealing with insurance or some other job where few people love and I'm dealing with them clearly doing a shitty job.

I remember that people on the left side of the bell curve need jobs too. And, all else being equal, I'd probably prefer them manning the phones at a hotel and sometimes screwing up my reservation than wielding a scalpel when I'm under the knife.
I think there is a substantial burden of proof necessary for the implicit claim that AI people, in the main, care in the slightest about supporting those who will be negatively affected. (Wringing one's hands about "well we should have UBI" is not caring when one knows it will not happen. It is moral dress-up.)

As the sibling comment notes, only one side here is saying "stop" and only one side is saying "you can't make me."
The last few big companies I worked for did this automatic chat deletion as a standard practice created by the authors. Microsoft even did this for email a long time ago when I was there. The lawyers tell them to do it as a defense mechanism. It's really common now.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/irony

It is simply risible to pretend that the tech-industry has not created a new generation of piece-workers. Or that conditions cannot be bad (even unacceptable) in a well-paid and otherwise privileged job.

Perhaps you simply lack insight to realise that by writing this comment you have become the thing my comment was mocking? :)

"You Gladiators, look at the purse awarded to you! And you call yourself a common slave! It is an insult to the slaves who toil in the mines!"
"Nations reach accord" is not a win for commoners or for the environment.
> Burning Man has been pretty much taken over by SV tech dweebs

Burning Man has been intertwined with tech culture for like...30 years?
This is phase 1 of a multi-phase study. Analyzing the role played by ionizing radiation exposure due to high-altitude flight is planned as part of phase 2.
I simply are not up to speed with what to replace the meat with.
I know there are alternatives out there but knowing them, knowing where to buy them, prep and cook them is the main hurdle.
How about the inverse? Having ChatGPT be able to open a browser and perform actions (like visit a website, summarizing it, giving you the best answer, triggering actions, setting up an ads campaign, replying to comments on a social media platform, etc). Then you don’t even need to open a browser window, the agent can do it for you headless. You only need to tell it to do it via chat. Kind of like on-demand, chat-triggered selenium tests.
Technical analysis? Is there anything statistically robust about that or is it reading time series tea leaves?
There's this bit of fiction:
https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/10/30/sort-by-controversial/

I was blown away at the time, but I seem to remember didn't get much love when discussed on here. I thought about it a lot during the Covid information wars.
IWC’s mission: “provide for the proper conservation of whale stocks and thus make possible the orderly development of the whaling industry” — what it actually should be - “do not impact whales in any form”

Love YC, might be wrong, but top 20 founders of the almost 10,000 that have gone through YC created majority on YC’s returns; this count doesn’t even include the 100s of thousands of applicants that never got in. And now have ever to my knowledge come close to changing way 8 billion people behave on a daily basis.

Least for me, I am not an arm chair activist, though unlike most activists, I (now) see activism largely as a waste of time. Not because it randomly makes progress, but because the progress made normally has nothing to do with actual changes to way people reason about the world, and everything about how the feel about the world.

To me, without changing way people reason, everything else feels like it’s not addressing the fundamental problem.
@Balaji is betting on a huge run-up in the near term due to loss of confidence in banking. I’m not certain his targets are rational at all but his thesis is sound.

In essence many billions and probably trillions of dollars are being pulled out of insolvent banks and a good deal of that will find a home in BTC over the coming months since BTC is sheltered from the banking and central bank system, which is hobbling.
> They created an incredibly unequal world that has eroded democracy to the point where we can seriously discuss a US that isn't a democracy anymore in our lifetimes.

Could you elaborate? I find this too much of a stretch to think about and am not knowledgeable enough on the topic
Moreover, if your personal code of ethics permits hurting other people, you may need to contemplate revising your personal code of ethics.

(Excluding edge cases such as kink or vengance.)
Moving from Germany to Indonesia is a wild move! Did you move to Bali or somewhere else?

"the West": This term is meaningless to me. Does this include Africa, South America, AUS/NS, Middle East?

"Where there was once optimism and openness, there is growing political repression": In continental Europe? I don't think so. Please provide concrete examples.
Ironically, the drama provides an incentive for people using AI art tools productively (which includes artists by trade) to just not talk about it and cause the drama to continue to perpetuate.
I just use it to update the drive firmware and as a convenient way to check the SMART data for the drive. It doesn't use hardly any resources in the background so I don't worry about it that much.
Where are these? https://thebestmotherfucking.website/
Insolvent in the sense that they won't be able to pay the debt? That's not very likely given that the US controls the emission of its own currency, which is the currency the government bonds are denominated in.
You don’t think all the refinance cash out money contributed to inflation? You couldn’t find a trade with free time in the second half of 2020, 2021, and 2022.
Similar thoughts. Some of the thumbnails don't even match the site, and some just hide how much zany detail and activity there is.
Ah yes, fishing, the other environmental disaster which is nearly entirely caused by China, who utterly refuses to change behavior.

At some point the rest of the world will need to take actual actions against China, but it won’t be anytime soon as long as the oligarchs are happy and China has them by the wallets.
I thought this was simply one person trying to keep another one at arm’s length.
I agree, I think that a lot of discourse on this website is grounded in critiquing people's misconceptions about these AI models when in reality accepting the concerns of writers, artists, consumers of online content, etc and offering them even superficial peace of mind is much more conducive to gaining popular support at a broader scale than teaching people how they work.
I like how Coq describes its grammar (https://coq.inria.fr/refman/language/core/basic.html), though it's definitely not a standard. The Coq grammar and language is very complex with edge cases for niche features so it's good they have a detailed reference (also because other than CPDT and Software Foundations there aren't many references or tutorials out there...).

IntelliJ Grammar-Kit also uses sort of EBNF (https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/6606-grammar-kit), the file extension is even `.bnf`.

Even though parser generators are often much different than EBNF, I still wish more people followed this standard, and parser generators could create EBNF grammar definitions. Because it's not just for parsing directly: it's a good starting point for creating parsers; a reference to validate and regression test; and it can be used to generate a (sometimes ambiguous) parser which is good for prototypes and toy languages.
They don't care https://www.reviewjournal.com/news/area-51-burning-revealed/
We seem to do a lot of cooling things down to near zero in physics. Is there something special about how things behave there? Or is it just basically a way to give us a slow motion view?
I think https://uilicious.com is trying to do something like that. Haven’t tried it yet but they market themselves as “GPT writes selenium tests for you”
From the study:

> This study found that compared to the U.S. population after adjusting for age, sex, and race, aircrew had an 87 percent higher rate of melanoma, 39 percent higher rate of thyroid crew had an 87 percent higher rate of melanoma, 39 percent higher rate of thyroid cancer, 16 percent higher rate of prostate cancer, and a 24 percent higher rate of cancer for all sites. Ground crew members had higher incidence of cancers of brain and nervous system (by 19 percent), thyroid (by 15 percent), melanoma(by 9 percent), kidney and renal pelvis (by 9 percent), and of all sites (by 3 percent). However, aircrew and ground crew both had lower or similar cancer mortality rates for all cancer types when compared to the U.S. population.

That last bit is presumably related to the VA providing free health care for any service-connected condition.
Relevant: https://kframework.org/faq/
This is not merely a deeply wise post, but a necessary one, and one that all of us, but especially advocates of AI technologies, need to deeply internalize.

We as an industry have brought immiseration as a primary product to the developed world for quite a while. Shoving human beings "below the API" (coined by Peter Reinhardt, but I heard it first from Venkatesh Rao) is what has gotten the richest in the tech space paid, and the idea that we can adjust our pince-nez and hmm-hmm at the people being actively harmed for not being sufficiently calm about the incipient transition from immiseration to active ruin is a silly idea when it isn't outright insulting.
>“Oppression in China is real and effective.”

Just imagine being black in the US.
So far FDIC insurance has protected depositors, even those with millions in the bank (right or wrong, I won’t make that call).

Notably, the FDIC insurance fund only holds $128 billion to backstop over $17 trillion in deposits. We know now, and the Fed knew since at least September, that close to 400 banks are in a similar situation to SVB (basically insolvent on a mark to market basis).

What happens when more banks fail than the FDIC fund can backstop? The only question is will it be depositors, US taxpayers or all dollar holders globally left holding the bag?
My argument is that the last 13 years of low interest rates produced a distorted economy where wealthy individuals gained more wealth without making profits, and those without assets saw their incomes and living standards stagnate. Low-interest rates produced companies like Uber, and socialized losses for bank failures. Low-interest rates meant TSLA became the most valuable company in the world while turning a loss.

When you print money, Its unsurprising that those closest to the money printer will accumulate the most money.
Yeh, I made a similar comment. It didn't really connect with me. Like, Parasite went hard on the Korean life allusions, and it felt very clear even to foreign audiences what it was trying to say.

Banshees felt distant. Was it about Irish society specifically? I don't know much about Ireland but I got the feeling that this was a really fringe island community and probably not representative of Ireland realistically or figuratively. I don't really feel like the themes it was presenting were universal. Perhaps the timeliness was an issue. idk.

In Bruges is like peak black comedy. the themes itself, on some level, are pretty damn funny, which isn't a thing you really see in many works.
It's a loan like PPP was a loan.

Sure, technically, but substantially different from how loans usually work...
Yeah, and that's arguing about semantics. We could do that in a loop endlessly, ignoring the fact they're fundamentally different.