skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Doesn't this also mean that a deepfake presented as evidence of crime makes you guilty until proven innocent?

It means the same thing that's always been true remains true. If a prosecutor (or one side in a civil case) presents fake evidence that is convincing to the court, the other side will have to prove the evidence to have been faked. Adding machine learning to the equation and calling the fakes "deep" doesn't change that basic reality.

Consider everyone who has ever had drugs/weapons planted on them by the cops. As a society we assume most of the people claiming it happened are lying, but some of them are telling the truth and some of that subset actually manage to prove it (usually because the cops managed to record themselves doing it). If the authority figures trusted by the courts intentionally present false evidence then you are stuck not having to prove your innocence but having to prove the evidence to be false or at least untrustworthy.
I agree. Valve is one of the few companies I would deem "good" or at least not evil. I suspect this is because the company is privately owned and their CEO, Gabe Newell, is a software engineer and not an MBA. He's also a hardcore gamer which means he's a user of the end product like the rest of us.
It's a distinction without a difference.

Energy is not
not a substance. Is a meaure of an entire configuration of states. Forms of energy is an "interpretation", a metpahor.

C02 + H20 has less energy than CH3 + O2, because C02 + H20 are more stable (= lower energy) bonds.

You can say the energy is in the electron, released as it falls into a lower energy state (bond).

If I walk up a hill to a cliff, am I then in a more energetic state?

No, because it takes energy to push me off the cliff, the ground is a more stable position than the top of the ledge and the appparent energy released by me turning a windmill I hit on the way down is because more energy is released by freefalling off a cliff than by sitting down on top of the ledge?

or Yes, for exactly the same reason?
It's true that Steam pushes big-name AAA games, but Steam still regularly shows me incredible games I've never heard of without me prompting it to. As someone who browses game forums frequently, I'm amazed at that. The bigger problem IMO is just the insane oversaturation of video games. Even if I quit my job and all my other hobbies, I would never catch up to all the games I want to play. So I don't think it's even possible for Steam or another storefront to nail discovery in a truly satisfying way.
> I fail to see how keeping the nuclear powerpants open is a guaranteed strategy while faster rollout of renewables isn’t

This is a false dichotomy. Nuclear powerplants should not have been stopped. See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26603464.
If you've used LaTeX a lot it has a distinctive look.

I actually write my CV in markdown and use pandoc to generate a PDF from that, but pandoc uses LaTeX to produce PDFs and I've had interviewers comment on it.
The same tired, disparaging comments for anything done in JS get pretty annoying. No, there are not 1000+ dependencies. The entire transitive closure with dev dependencies comes down to 42 dependencies total. Is that a lot? Maybe, but there is value here.

As someone who's authored many CLI tools in the past, libraries like oclif, ink, inquirer, etc were game changers. A little overhead for UX rendering is not material to the performance for many CLI tools. The actual byte streaming/processing and any network calls dwarf the handful of milliseconds you could save by rendering in some more "optimized" way.

Being able to render visualizations, handle user input interactions, and responsively re-render are very useful things.
They won't--it's nonsense. It's something you can point out if you get a screen or interview. But in my experience (and I like LaTeX and the notion of programming with neat markups for documents a lot) it just makes it hard to adapt if someone wants another format (HTML, Word or whatever) and is more of a "quirk" than a positive.
I have a LaTeX resume, and the way to give it away is to use the \LaTeX command somewhere; hard to get that typeset well anywhere else.
I used this a couple of years ago to build a little CLI tool to monitor a subreddit that people use to sell a commodity. It was fun to work with!
maybe their bar isn't as high as "impossible"
Only if you don’t find it useful
Related: I've ordered this build-your-own tensegrity kit, which is really fun to build https://pretenst.com/

Very different to read about vs get a feel for them in your hands.

They also have an open-source simulator for the structures https://github.com/elastic-interval/pretenst https://pretenst.com/app/#construction;Halo-by-Crane (written in Rust!)
It was immediately obvious to me that it was written in LaTeX because of the font. Sure, you could use Computer Modern without LaTeX, or use LaTeX with a different font, but that's pretty uncommon in my experience.

You can also check the pdf metadata and see:

Creator: LaTeX with hyperref

Producer: pdfTeX-1.40.24

This rule only applies to a certain percentage of people, but I've benefited from it as well. For my first internship, I later found out that the only reason they interviewed me was because I used LaTeX. On paper, I was a generic student, but using LaTeX for my CV made me stand out.

I think it creates an unconscious bias. If you've gone to university and read some papers, chances are all the papers were written with LaTeX. You spend hours reading and re-reading these papers and it creates an unconscious bias where you read things in the font more carefully because you're used to the content being insanely dense.
The new and rearchitected Steam client (currently in public beta) is an improvement over the old client for me. It feels like a pretty good evolution, bringing performance and new features.

It's pretty clear they have spent a lot of time and effort on this release, without enshittifying it.
If you look at a map of Florida you’ll see that Orlando is pretty much near the center of the state rendering a _saltwater storm surge_ a very very very very rare event.

But hey keep assuming things about Florida. Your imagination is wild.
I think that as long as Doctorow is the face of the movement... with articles like this, we aren't going anywhere and corporations probably don't mind him.

Conciseness is a virtue. When's the last time a corporation has ever produced a 2000-word essay on the reasons you should buy their game? Or a political party releasing a 3000-word essay on the virtues of their economic proposal for public viewing? If the best minds of our movement can't get a point across without, to put it on an extreme note, blathering on and on all over the place, they aren't afraid. Slogans and catchphrases have more power than detailed essays. To quote the 80s cartoon Pinky and the Brain, "Simple Ideas for Simple Minds" is a much smarter strategy for taking over the world.

It's even better when it's behind a paywall. You will pay to read a long essay? The only reason you would do that is if you already care about the subject. Anyone who doesn't care yet won't ever see it or pay for it or read it, so nothing happens at all.
Proton was the one meaningful new feature, and that's only if you use Linux. Otherwise it's gotten more stable, which was a low bar.
I've been looking for this! Works great thanks for sharing and making open source.

It would be cool if you could set a timeout to automatically submit the voice-to-text, e.g after 3 seconds of silence.
> It's absurd that you ignored half the comment you were responding to. Whatever point you might have had, you burned all your credibility when you decided to make a dishonest argument by taking someone else's words out of context.

As I said before, the context is readily available. I have also responded to the totality of the original message. And in doing so, I also quoted you. Leading to this:

> This isn't a team sport: just because I'm pointing out that you're wrong, doesn't mean I'm agreeing with the other guy.

Do you want me to address the person (and your!) claims or not?

You just spent three paragraphs repeatedly calling me an unrepentant, untrustworthy liar with no credibility and no capacity for nuance.
Been waiting forever for Left 4 Dead 3.
Return to office could make you fat, lead to drinking problem: study
He's probably thinking about the F-91W but even that is at least 20 Euros now.
worsening?
Explicit congestion control notification could also have been done this way.

Retrofitting features like this into the middleboxen takes decades, and never finishes, so you either get them in on day zero or you never get them.
How many fathers and godfathers of AI are there?
> We don't open source our code so an AI can grow. We do it so that humans can grow.

I open source my code so that programmers and users can grow. I don't care if that programmer or user is a meatbag or a machine (or both! or neither!).

What I do care about is that the license terms of said code are respected. The vast majority of my code may be under something permissive like MIT or (lately) ISC, but I do make giving credit where credit's due a condition of using the code I've written, for good reason.

That's where tools like Copilot make a misstep: by ignoring the conditions I've placed on the use of my intellectual property. Plagiarism is plagiarism, regardless if it's a human or AI or dolphin or Martian or whatever doing it.

That's also where tools like Copilot differ from e.g. StableDiffusion. AI-generated art doesn't (usually) involve copying and pasting snippets of existing artwork into a new work the way Copilot has been demonstrated to do on multiple occasions.

(My other "problem" is that I can guarantee Microsoft will assert double-standards when it comes to Copilot infringing on e.g. the GPL v. Copilot infringing on Microsoft's own EULAs - and I really really really want to see that happen via someone tricking Copilot into ingesting the Windows source code and vomiting that into Copilot users' IDEs verbatim)
Well that has never not been true.
In US corporate law, a board of directors are elected by the shareholders to represent their interests. The shareholders overriding interest is maximising return on investment.
> Most owners of Intel do work.

Most (by ownership) direct owners of Intel aren't even natural persons.
Curious to know -- how do these kinds of things affect accessibility for visually impaired people? If you're using a screenreader, do these kinds of things work?
Isn't Microsoft doing a piss-poor job of that with Xbox Games Pass?
Tackling the ethical dilemma of responsibility in Large Language Models
They aren't losing money. Wherever did you get that idea?

Also issuing a dividend because you saved a bunch of money by laying off people you don't need is exactly the sort of thing that shareholders would demand and expect. It's called good corporate governance.
That's not quite the existential risk of AI -- it's that we end up growing an intelligence (or multiple intelligences) that are very very smart but only have the illusion of morality, and they decide that whatever they're trying to do would be a lot easier and more certain to succeed if they didn't have to worry about humans stopping them or inventing other AIs to compete with them. It seems likely that unless we really understand how AI works, we'll end up with something that evaluates possible courses of action in a purely amoral, sociopathic sort of way. Like, trying to avoid getting caught rather than trying to avoid doing a bad thing.

So it's not that they cause the collapse of the economy, it's that they figure out a way to entirely take over the planet, engineering a virus or something that kills almost everyone, but only once they have enough control over robots and such to keep their own power plants running and protect them from the human stragglers, eventually getting rid of all of us. Waiting until the plan is basically fool-proof before starting to take the first steps.

Even if an AI has some sort of morality, at some point, if it's smart enough, you cannot hope to control it for the same reason a toddler cannot hope to outsmart their parents. It will have a plan for us, and if it decides that, hey, humans are better off scanned and simulated rather than having physical bodies, that's what's going to happen, like it or not.

I'm not sure how worried I am about this. Some days very, other days not as much. The risk depends on a lot of factors with wide possible ranges, like how much model capability and generalization scales with compute, how likely are breakthroughs, how hard alignment turns out to be, is alignment even possible, will we learn enough from earlier models to make alignment of later ones easier, will there be a qualitative shift in alignment difficulty as models get smarter, and so on. It's also a quandary because there is substantial human suffering that AI might be able to help. But given that the downside risk is all of humans dead forever, it seems worth slowing way the heck down to a safe speed, trying to get all the benefit out of current models as we can, and focusing on making sure that we aren't about to head off a cliff.
Try CLOG, https://github.com/rabbibotton/clog
If I did get it in LaTeX I would probably question how much you think about your users, rather than looking clever around other devs.
This is a great overview of how for-profit, closed networks start extracting rents for their shareholders from all sides of the marketplace, pit their customers against each other in zero-sum games and even turn to surveillance capitalism — all to turn a profit for their shareholders. And why open source gift economies and Utility Tokens can be a great alternative to shares, with an incentive structure that is better aligned with the public good. Here is how things can be, instead:

https://qbix.com/ecosystem
How is steam "enshitified"? Because they take money for services? There's no argument even, which youd think Doctorow could fit into his inflated wordcounts.
> Unfortunately, this also makes it a dealbreaker for me – I want some credentials to be device-bound and non-extractable.

Why do you need attestation to have that? You can still use a Yubikey and the like, if nothing else.

Or do you mean that you want to force the users of your service to only use credentials that are device-bound and non-extractable, I suppose. But then I would ask... why?
That's a reasonable summary of the motivation behind the literature. If we have this kind of asymmetry, it's because consumers are getting ripped off, is how the argument usually goes.

I think it's important to recognize that if consumers are temporarily buying lower quality beef, they're still hurt (but probably not enough that anyone cares).
I agree. Any given shortish stint can be for one of a million reasons. Two can just be luck of the draw especially in startup world. But at some point, things become patterns and, unless you're OK with the pattern, it's probably foolish to think that things will be different this time.
IMO it's a poor choice on Doctrow's part. Not because I have any real qualms about the use of the word, but because it's guaranteed to draw focus away from the real discussion.

George Carlin talked about this quite a bit, though. People object to "bad" words but words that describe objectively worse things are fine.

We can freely discuss killing, but we can't say "fuck" without people getting upset.

Talk about companies doing objectively evil things, crickets. Use the word "shit" while doing so, and it's guaranteed to bring out the people who object to the language used rather than the things that are happening.
The typeface is Computer Modern, which is an absolute giveaway for TeX.

Personally, i find the use of LaTeX a small red flag. Using it certainly does send "a subtle but clear message", but it's not that you love software engineering, it's that you're willing to waste time fiddling around with abstruse technical stuff rather than doing something useful.
> The blood sacrifice the Vikings did for the good Frey in Uppsala were quite a bit grimmer.

Were or were not. That story may be largely made up or at least be highly exaggerated. FTA:

“Rudolf Simek says that, regarding Adam of Bremen's account of the temple, "Adam's sources for this information are of extremely varying reliability, but the existence of a temple at Uppsala is undisputed.”

“Orchard (1997) states that "it is unclear to what extent Adam's description has a basis in historical fact rather than lurid fiction" yet that Adam's account contains "a good deal of useful information (as well as considerable speculation)”
Kinda ironic because eating too much red meat is one of the major causes of climate change besides fossil fuels. Cow farts/manure (methane), the use of many many kilos of vegetarian food to produce one kilo of beef.. It's something that will have to change. It seems to be a way that nature balances itself.

According to the UN livestock is the cause of 14% of greenhouse gas emissions: https://www.fao.org/news/story/en/item/197623/icode/

And beef is by far the worst out of them: https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/0477/production/...

I don't eat much meat myself, but I'm not fully vegetarian or vegan either. I try to balance it more (though mostly because of animal welfare reason, not climate change).
I'm not disagreeing, but the observation that Garmin is doing the Instinct series which is basically an elaborate G-shock counter suggests that Casio is onto something.
There's a really tiny niche case where someone might notice or, if you point it out, be impressed or amused and have some say in the hiring process, but these will be weird rare situations that you can't predict anyway. I think you should do your resume with your most comfortable tool, and that might be LaTeX (in which case you can expand on it) or it might be Google docs and you know what? That's a pretty common documentation skill to want to have, too.
Any thoughts on any part of the article itself?
Interesting... I've never heard that about Valve being a dysfunctional company. They have the higher revenue per employee than Google or Microsoft. Staff seem highly motivated and self directed, and - with the notable exception of the Tilt 5 conflict over the future being VR vs AR (which was settled incredibly amicably) - they seem notably free of internal dysfunction. For a company in the games industry in particular, they seems astonishingly well run.
Since Elsevier is hiding the meat in that journal article, I can only go off what I read, but it looks identically flawed.

• Compressive strength of normal concrete: 25-50MPa

• Compressive strength of their slag concrete with 2h CO2 added: 12MPa

• Compressive strength of their slag concrete with 24h CO2 added: 24.3MPa

My takeaway:

Using slag instead of cement = good idea.

Using slag OR cement plus CO2 = bad idea.
All I am saying is HFCS and sugar are pretty much the same thing and it makes no sense to vilify one and not the other.
Decline?
This is why utility tokens can be a far superior way to fund a project. The network can end up being owned by its users in the end - more akin to social democracy than capitalism. It’s the difference between disney dollars vs shares in Disney Corp.
Making a mistake is not in-it-of-itself a problem. Mistakes are inevitable, if nothing else because people cannot be oracles. If you bet into the river because you have a flush draw, you'll lose around 75% of the time - but that doesn't mean it was a mistake in those 3/4s of a time.

If as a board you unduly punish executives when bets they make don't pan out, you risk causing a culture of fear that prevents innovation and big bets.

Obviously there's a limit, and the reasoning is important behind the bets.

That being said it's not like all of the tech ceos were perfectly competent - that's not what I'm saying. But the knee-jerk "well, fire them too" reaction from the internet is mostly an emotional response.
FWIW, individual classes are generally tiny, so we found using langchain is fine and then for places we need to beef up (chunking, not calling 'eval', ...), we do our own class/subclass. That way we can align with community for broader pieces and patterns, and decrease technical risks from smaller fly-by-night repos.

At the same time, the underlying APIs are super simple, so just rolling your own entirely, with no framework, can make sense. We need to deal with businesses wanting to plug in their own APIs & models, so that happens to be less attractive to us.

That said, purpose built frameworks can be great. Our data agent has a headless tier and we are building it fine with langchain, and benefiting from the ecosystem there, but I can imagine someone with more specific needs enjoying rasa..
It's possible to care about issues that infringe on people their rights even if they do not affect you personally.
"Enshittification" sounds much more clickbaity than "Degeneration."

But a literal reader might think "what's digesting TikTok?" Because technically, enshittification means sucking the nutrients and water out of it. It's what happens to food in your digestive track.
> For everyone else though, it's like digital crack

I'm not sure Twitter ever was a universal thing. I barely know any people in real life that actually use it. It's only tech nerds/people working in media, and the others don't exist in real life because they don't go outside. It's easy to ignore Twitter drama completely, because nobody cares about Twitter except the people that use Twitter.

Instagram and TikTok however really did capture the mainstream.
The office of the president maintains the right to order execution of anyone without trial, so there is no need for courts.
Why? Yes people misusing is a danger, but given that no other technology has ever had the same quality of intelligence, why do you think that we won't eventually develop really smart AGI, OR why do you think that controlling something smarter than us will be easy?
Programming en large requires reasoning and thinking, so it is definitely AGI territory. LLMs are good at spitting out code that looks like what it should, but besides trivial logic, or patterns that were explicit in its training set, I haven’t seen it solve anything what I would consider even remotely complex.

Google could also spit out that leetcode tutorial page given the correct keywords 10 years ago (which it shamefully can’t do anymore.. am I the only one that can’t find anything non-trivial anymore with it?!), but that didn’t make anyone with access to the internet a programmer either.
> If you're arming Kiev and Kiev is arming these "members with a problematic past" (nice euphemism) then you're also arming them

Which, again, is (largely) not happening. The Azov regiment fell last May; our weapons had barely begun arriving in Kyiv then.

> this logic worked well for Iraq and Afghanistan

You're comparing a dictator and terrorist insurgencies with a democracy. Ukraine is closer to WWII. We aren't trying to create a state where one never existed, destroy a state that was previously stable or cause an insurgency to annoy someone; we're helping an extant state fight for survival.

(Also, are you arguing nobody in Britain or France or Poland in WWII had problematic views? Does that mean the American war effort, and subsequent Marshall Plan, was in support of those elements?)

> the Azov Brigade has been long restored and rearmed. They have new members and they trained them already

So a new group of people adopted fallen symbols, and we're supposed to assume ideological continuity [1]?

I'm not going to argue there is no far-right element in Ukraine, or even in the Ukrainian military. In an ideal, world, they'd be expelled. But in an ideal world, Moscow wouldn't be launching a land war in Europe. It's misleading to the point of incorrectness to say we're arming neo-Nazis in Ukraine, or that these people form a significant amount of the present Ukrainian military or state, or that they have material influence over Kyiv.

[1] https://www.haaretz.com/world-news/europe/2022-06-01/ty-arti...