skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Real harm #2 is literally the Luddite argument.

Of course, we never actually heard the Luddite argument, because 17th century Parliament[0] responded to the Luddites with reprisals, censorship, cruel and unusual punishment, and most importantly, propaganda. When you heard the word "Luddite" you probably thought I was accusing AI Snake Oil of being anti-technology. The reality is that the Luddites just wanted looms for themselves, because there were already structured phase-in periods for looms to ensure that skilled weavers got to buy them first. Smashing looms was a tactic to get business owners back to the table, and the business owners responded by propagandizing them as angry technophobes standing in the way of progress so that everyone would have to pay more for clothes.

Oh, and also by smashing heads.

> One way to do right by artists would be to tax AI companies and use it to increase funding for the arts.

This is not a bad idea, if you want to live in a world where everyone has fair access to generative art models but we don't decide to turn human artists into 17th century weavers[1]. However, I don't think this proposal would go down well with artists. Remember when the EFF suggested that, instead of the RIAA suing individual pirates, we should just have a private copying levy on all Internet service to remunerate artists? Yeah, no, that was never going to happen.

The reason why this was considered a non-starter is simple: copyright isn't a means to move money from readers to writers' pockets in aggregate, but individually. Nobody wants to be paid out of a pot, and that's why you also see a lot of outrage from artists over Spotify, because it's an effective revenue cap that screws over midlist artists. AI copying levies would further obfuscate attribution, because there currently isn't a way to determine how much value a particular training example provided to a particular generation prompt. And artistic endeavors vary greatly in terms of both quality and, especially, market value. An AI copying levy would flatten this down to just "whoever has the most art in the system wins". In other words, artists are currently playing Monopoly, and you're suggesting they play Ludo[2] instead.

[0] An institution largely consisting of rich nobility fighting a cold civil war against the English crown

[1] The average /r/stablediffusion commenter would disagree.

[2] US readers: Sorry / Trouble. I don't know how the same game got renamed twice to two different things.
Same here, also i was surprised how well popOS worked "out of the box" with just the default settings, running on a new pc/latest hardware.
Speaking of which, George Soros had this to say about China in early 2022:

https://www.project-syndicate.org/onpoint/china-and-xi-jinpi...

"China has turned its tech platforms into national champions; the US is more hesitant to do so, because it worries about their effect on the freedom of the individual. These different attitudes shed new light on the conflict between the two systems of governance that the US and China represent.

In theory, AI is morally and ethically neutral; it can be used for good or bad. But in practice, its effect is asymmetric.

AI is particularly good at producing instruments that help repressive regimes and endanger open societies. Interestingly, the coronavirus reinforced the advantage repressive regimes enjoy by legitimizing the use of personal data for purposes of public control.

With these advantages, one might think that Xi, who collects personal data for the surveillance of his citizens more aggressively than any other ruler in history, is bound to be successful. He certainly thinks so, and many people believe him. I do not."
No, it's not "misleading". You just disagree.

Jesus, can people please relearn how to debate without these weird underhanded tactics?
The majority of Americans commute less than 30 minutes. How is something the majority of people have "extreme privilege"? The idea of a 2 hour commute each way to be gone from 7am to 7pm is a complete fantasy.
A court ordered monkey that sits on your shoulder and smacks you with a wrench when your brainwaves are out of pattern.
What does rigged mean?

Does gerrymandering count as rigged?
I heard once that even the names of spells have power so a little care fulness is sometimes warranted.
Scratch gets a lot of hate with semi-experienced programmers (the kind to browse this sub) because of its simplicity, but it's actually really good. It teaches you basic programming concepts without all of the complexity of other programming languages.

I remember back in school, some of the students in my computer science classes didn't understand the basic concepts of programming: variables, loops, functions, etc. and programming is 90% logic and problem-solving.

You can't teach programming by teaching the syntax of a language, you have to teach logic. If you know one language, figuring out another is going to be easy because most of the things are the same, the only difference is the syntax.
> I'm not sure how else Roku can make money.

I'm pretty frugal and pay closer attention to free streaming services than the average person, and can say that in the last year or two, Roku has significantly improved its lineup of "originals." Although some are just hilariously bad (like Cypher from 2021), they're also getting some pretty good people like Samuel L. Jackson (The Fix) and Daniel Radcliffe (Weird: The Al Yankovic Story) making quality content.

When you own quality content, there's the potential to make money from it. Personally I think Roku may be attempting to build a streaming service eventually worth paying for. Maybe it'll be accessible from non-Roku devices, and maybe it'll remain free for Roku users to entice people in a similar way that Amazon Prime includes free Amazon Prime TV and Apple device purchases get some free Apple TV. (Yes, I know people don't buy an iPhone just to get TV... it's a perk).
a lot of it got outsourced to the private sector.
To simply share some JavaScript you've got to consider JS runtimes, module formats, and package.json interpretations. Was it easier when cross-browser compatibility was the big headache?
There's also nothing illegal about a 7 year old jumping into a rushing river or buying unregulated "research" chemicals on the internet. Same thing, isn't it?

The way 7 year olds are kept out of rushing rivers, or consuming black market dope, is they have a parent, guardian, foster caretaker, someone looking after them. It's illegal to neglect a child. Sending a 7 year old to buy you cigarettes arguably isn't neglect, letting them smoke cigarettes or research chemicals probably is.
What town/state are we talking about?
Is it a mining town where the mines are shutdown?
Is it a mill town where the mills are shutdown?
Is it a auto manufacturing town where the cars went obsolete?
Agricultural town where the farms are gone?
Watch the level of social disease spike once this becomes mandatory.
Well, I suppose now we know what it takes to get a divided Congress to pass a law. It just has to do nothing at all.
His life exists at the whims of putin, who isn't exactly known for giving people freedom to express controversial ideals.

It's not Snowden's fault he is in Russia, but it's important to not be blind to the reality of the situation. We should have protected him as a wistleblower but "even" obama seemed willing to throw him to the wolves. The fact we didn't burn down the capitol when they revoked his passport means we are all culpable in this. Nothing will get better unless we take responsibility for the government we have allowed to fester, and unless we band together and march together, this will continue.
Public companies are required to hold annual meetings with shareholders where they vote for board members and bring up proposals. Shareholders may choose to vote for board member with views about managing the business that they agree with.

https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/040315/what-can-sha...
Regardless of the aim of the particular tool, I just want to say that the visual quality of the web page, documentation, and the quality of the content is excellent and I wish all the projects had this level of attention. Kudos!
You are now wildly off topic from the original discussion.
Italian plan to ban lab-grown food criticised as misguided
FWIW, my comment was tongue-in-cheek.

I'm a programmer and I started a business. I think it's unlikely I would have been able to successfully organise a cooperative, so I have a fairly standard business where people write code with me and I pay them.
Most modern (less than 5 years old) Android smartphones support Project Treble/GSI, which largely reduce the maintenance cost.

But that Treble technology is actually being used by ubports which does Ubuntu Touch using Android drivers, and porting Ubuntu Touch on any modern Android smartphones is quite easy nowadays (assuming you have kernel source code available). It pretty much just requires rebuilding kernel source code with different parameters and that's it.
My philosophy toward design has always been that the architecture of the problem/solution is the hard and important part of design, but in most design tools (like Figma) the bulk of the tedium goes into making things look visually convincing and not messy.

I’m super excited by this direction. Even for designers like myself I think it could help us reclaim a lot of time for solving the hard parts of the problem!

Great work guys
I have minimal contact with YC these days, and have no particular motivation to artificially inflate the value of the program.

YC was transformational for my company (MedCrypt). I have almost zero negative things to say about it, and would do it again immediately with my next company (despite probably not needing help raising the first $500k for a company).

I can't think of a situation where I would recommend a company not accept a spot in YC.
Elon bought Twitter because the Delaware courts are not the milquetoasts he's accustomed to (at the SEC).

Edit: my suspicion is that Elon expected the Twitter board to rebuff him, and he'd walk away calling them names for the rest of his days - and then the market dropped, removing resistance from the board (if any existed). This was capped off with Delaware courts showing every sign of muscular oversight of contract law, with Twitter reveling at the chance of embarrassing Musk and people in his orbit and getting bought off at a now-overpriced amount. It was a perfect storm.
As a thought experiment, what would be wrong with drunk driving if it we could always prevent drunk crashing? It feels wrong, but I guess we should in theory be fine with it.
The worry is that AI like GPT will just exacerbate modern human exploitation, because the surplus will not be allocated. The same thing could be said about any disruptive invention, but AI is particularly centralized, expensive and technical
The chapter in Erewhon from 1872 is interesting. In this strange utopia/dystopia the sick are punished like criminals and the criminals are treated with compassion as if they were sick. Particularly relevant for considering how drug addicts are treated.

https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/samuel-butler/erewhon/text...
My first and only experience with APL was on February 5, 2010, at the ACM ICPC world finals. I spent probably an hour and a half trying to figure out how to write a right-associative parser, and never ended up submitting a working solution.

Anybody here write a working solution to that problem? Or remember it, even?
It's because despite being far more efficient than incandescent they are still only about 30% efficient at producing visible light. The rest is heat, and unlike incandescent an LED does not want to be hot. The device must be cooled or it becomes less efficient and wears out faster. There is no good way to get the heat out of the front of the device because that's the side you are supposed to see, so in practice all the heat is removed from the back, i.e. the part inside the fixture.

Other solutions to this include using much larger devices, but that costs proportionally more and has application issues because people want their light bulbs to act like either line or point sources, not as areal sources. So most lights on the market use a single small LED, unless they are targeted to a buyer demanding high efficiency and long life, like a city streetlight.
Why posting an article from 2009?! Twitter and Facebook are still blocked by the China Great Firewall, we know it.
You remind me of my primary school teacher who had the tendency of condemning me for my achievements...
Please read my comment again.

> limited set of data whose use is constrained by well-defined legal processes (involving warrants and courts) is categorically different than "the state forces you to decrypt and hand them all of your data".

This still describes the difference between PRISM and the CCP's system.

It doesn't matter if "the CCP has their own potemkin legal system" - the fact is that the NSA only (allegedly) takes a very small set of records and providers get to see every one of them, where's the CCP's system takes literally everything.

Plus, we can look at the massive differences between the CCP and the US in every other way - the Great Firewall's real-time monitoring and censorship of all communication in the country, for instance, as well as the total lack of constitutional rights to privacy that the Chinese people have - and pretty reasonably conclude that the FISA courts are going to be more rigorous than whatever China has.
"Roku soars past revenue expectations as it bets on streaming devices to boost growth" - Feb 2023[1]

[1]
https://techcrunch.com/2023/02/15/roku-q4-2023-earnings/
Vinod Khosla on how AI will ‘free humanity from the need to work’
Better than the emoji you get back if you email press@twitter.com.
> a law that requires mentally ill people who are prone to violence to wear a brain augmentation AI headset

Between this and your "law to make retirees talk to AI" post, I have to wonder; is this part of some forced-innovation challenge? You really shouldn't be pushing yourself (or society, for that matter) this far.
Not a Scratch user. Also not a child here. A grown up software programmer. But I did try Scratch and I could not make much sense of it. Maybe I am missing something. So read this comment as a request for help.

The last time I tried, I remember I had to drag and drop building blocks available as tiles. Some tiles made the character turn right. Some tiles did something else. Some implemented conditionals. Am I remembering it right?

And then when you run the program, the character moves across the screen in the way it was programmed. Is that all? Is there something more that we can do with Scratch? Can we write an interactive adventure game for example?

Just making sure I did not miss something. I would really like to try it again but not sure what I was missing. Or is it really meant for children and it would not appeal to adults?
VC's have pitched their "value added" other than funding forever. I suspect it is no different with YC. From my own limited experience as a startup founder VC's can be detrimental as well as helpful. Ultimately if they provide a stable source of funding and lend credibility to your venture consider yourself lucky. The valuations are just a reflection of the mood of the day.
So you have some stats proving that Tesla cars are more dangerous or crash more often than other cars? With so many Teslas on the road, there must be an obvious spike if AI is making them more dangerous than the baseline of all cars.
It is interesting to me that all of these labor cuts are from companies vastly outperforming the stock market.
RWKV training can be parallelized just like transformers. It's not LSTM.
That’s very cool and interesting, nature never stops to surprise! I wonder what will be discovered in the future about plants, like the controversial thing about if they can feel the pain.
Heh, imagine the day most of online content will be AI generated, good luck guaranteeing that AI X,Y,Z, ... etc. won't feed each other, possibly even circularly.
Yeah, just paying £2000 fot an item does not mean you got anything quality - 90% chance you got scammed
> I can't imagine what it would have been like if I had spent the week out commuting between the hours of 7am to 7pm

I can, because I lived that life. My wife and I moved from 1 bedroom apartment in the city to a house in a suburb ("only" 10 miles away) and the only time during the week I was able to spend much time with my child was 7am-8:30am before school. By the time I got home, he was going to bed. Generally, one weekend day had to be devoted to home/yard maintenance in the summer.

Before he started kindergarten, my wife and I decided that's not how we wanted to live our lives, so we sold the house and went back to renting w/a 2 bedroom apartment back in the city. My commute was 30 minutes, if I walked, with my son's school about at the halfway point of the commute. I was able to walk my son to school daily, and leave my office at 5pm and get to the sports fields at 5:15pm to coach sports. As a bonus, no house or yard to take care of meant both weekend days were also free. No regrets.
The thing that would be better to know but impossible to tell is - how much was unable to be recouped as a result of picking a boutique TLD for the main site in the first place. Good to know at least some is recoverable though, assuming you hit enough volume.
Is there evidence for it or are you just on a rant?
The EU regulations were against sales of incandescent bulbs. But in most countries they are still available rebranded as "heat bulbs" or "workshop bulbs" with a large "NOT INTENDED FOR HOUSEHOLD USAGE" 'warning' sign.
Oh, yes, that's definitely occurred to me. :-(
That sucks for all of these people. I can only hope all of them were related to the parts of the business intent on spamming their home screen. Die Harter Two has no business being the second most prominent thing when I turn on my TV.
How is this possible? Doesn't it have a 4k token limit, how are you able to ingest documents that have vastly more data than that?
Sci-fi magazine 'Clarkesworld' stops submissions after a rush of AI-made stories
> the real number is 50 + 90 = 140

This doesn’t make sense. You’re adding deposits (liabilities) to assets. $56bn deposits doesn’t mean $56bn of cash in a vault, it means $56bn owed to depositors.
Oh I love your tool. The autocomplete is great.

It would be a lie to say that I wasn't inspired by some elements like "sync".
But I still consider that gut and bit are not so similar.
I hope there is no problem
I'm in the US and every single LED bulb I've ever bought - some ten years old - still work fine.

I also don't buy the shitty cheap bulbs. I buy mostly Cree's high CRI dimmable bulbs, Phillips high CRI dimmable, or GE high-CRI bulbs if I can't find the Crees (Home Depot stopped carrying them in-store.)

The problem is that both the author and a ton of people in this discussion buy shitty, cheap, no-name bulbs and then they're shocked when they flicker, don't dim well, and fail often.

This whole discussion is a bunch of angry old men yelling at clouds because the guvmint won't allow them to waste 4x as much electricity to light their home.

Even high-CRI bulbs aren't a "perfect" replacement for an incandescent, but the energy savings, especially if you're in an area where you use air conditioning and thus the heat of an incandescent bulb equals more energy usage for cooling, is worth the small sacrifice.
https://www.keckmedicine.org/blog/commuting-and-your-health/
I have lots of fantasies but that ain't one of them. The gist of my point is that there's going to be a subset of the population that is "broken" and is unable to function as a "productive member of society".

We are going to spend money on them one way or the other; my way would be far more effective than how it happens today (both in cost and in actual remediation).

How would this destroy my (and others) humanity? It's currently challenged by watching people live in tents, shit on the sidewalk, and pass out in public on dope. How is my suggestion worse?
I'm sitting here and thinking "Why would anyone ever use this remaster feature other than the 'wow AI incredible' novelty?".
>This seems like an arms race doomed to failure. The spammers can just add Hello World to pass the check. Then the check could be upgraded to look for some non-trivial behavior. Then the spammers will work around that. ... all at increasing costs to the package hosts. And now they have to be arbiters on what counts as trivial functionality.

IIUC, most of these spam "packages" don't have any code at all, just a README with links to whatever malicious sites they want folks to visit.

As such, don't assume that just because someone uploads a spam package actually knows how to code anything, especially since it appears that such spam packages are uploaded not to scam Node devs, but to use the good reputation of npmjs.com to host their spammy content.

Getting rid of that stuff is the low-hanging fruit. And I would not be at all surprised if almost all of these these folks couldn't code anything useful or worthwhile in Node or any other language.

It's highly unlikely that most of the folks uploading these spam packages are node devs, or devs of any kind.

As such, most of these folks wouldn't be able to participate in an "arms race."

And while some tiny fraction of those folks might be an enterprising spammer who writes an actual npm package. The problem with that, of course, is that it's quite likely that it's just a small number of folks who are uploading dozens (hundreds?) of these "packages," forcing them to either reuse the code over and over again (which is fairly easy to spot) or to actually develop new code for each package.

And that's way too resource intensive for scammers. If they were folks who had skills, decent work ethic and/or an interest in anything other than running their scams, they wouldn't be posting fake (i.e., just an empty package with a README) packages in an attempt to use npmjs.com to host their crap.

I mean, I get it. Perhaps you made the assumption that these folks are actually devs? Since they're using the site -- but IIUC, there's no proof that's the case -- at least for the specific empty packages I referenced above.

Edit: Clarified my thoughts.
This makes a lot of assumptions. Space is ridiculously big, and rather hostile to life, even artificial life.

You first have to survive long enough to become advanced enough to make electronics. You then have to not kill yourselves with nuclear weapons, climate change, or similar inadvertent effects of a rapidly industrializing civilization.

The planet and the solar system have to be friendly enough to space exploration and travel. Maybe there’s no gas giants for gravitational slingshots, or maybe no other rocky planets or an asteroid belt for mining materials.

Maybe the planet evolved complex life in extreme conditions, with such a deep cloud cover there’s no concept of outer space, so as far as the AI knows it’s conquered all there is.

Maybe the AI conquered the planet, but oops, there goes a super volcano or an asteroid and it gets wiped out.

And again… space is really really big. The AI may be on its way and just hasn’t gotten here yet.

There’s plenty of reasons why a super AI wouldn’t be able to conquer the galaxy and beyond, or why we haven’t noticed yet.