skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
if someone genetically modifies octopus to survive sexual maturity, we’d probably have a contender

they have a mutation where their digestive tract closes as soon as they can mate, but they reproduce so thats the only thing optimized for in natural selection

fix that and we can see where that cognition goes
>The social media stuff was only long after the fact, and accelerated under M$ ownership.

Github's original 2008 tagline was "social code hosting". I'd argue the social nature is what made github, as well as git, popular.
I'm a big fan of Semantic UI, but I thought it was dead? There's barely been any activity on the repo in over 5 years (https://github.com/Semantic-Org/Semantic-UI/graphs/contribut...).
Worthless article. The conclusion.. "politicians might use AI to create more spam." The article even blandly suggests without any follow up that simply issuing more spam into the world is all that it takes to get you elected and that we're going to need a "congressional blue ribbon" commission to create white papers about it.
(I'm not the OP)

I see this mistake all the time on HN, and other parts of the internet.
Yes, would be much more effective with examples demonstrating the issue in that 3rd to last paragraph.
Arguing for taxes because of (both) funding things as well as creating a more egalitarian society is absolutely an argument you see made in more social democratic societies (than the US).
https://software.ivertech.com/Videos/DisplayVideo.aspx?Video... [video?]

http://www.professors-horror-host-tome.com/Hosts/Canada/Cana...
I like what you're saying, but I'm not sure that's entirely workable regarding edge cases.

If a pilot fantasizes about crashing planes and killing people, and tells someone about this, I'm not sure I want there to be a way for them to keep their career. Sure lets treat them, get them better, but putting them back in a plane? Is it worth the risk?

You put people like that back in planes, and well, eventually one got the keys that shouldn't have. I can imagine TV reporting after a suicide crash "well... we knew they used to fantasize about crashing planes full of people, but they said they were better now and we didn't want to damage their career so we put them back in the captains seat". Help them, retrain them for another job, but don't give them the keys to the plane.

In real life I keep reading about an increase in "near collisions" on runways caused by low performing air traffic controllers that keep getting shuffled around instead of being fired (having their career harmed).

If people with known mental issues can't get guns, why would we give them the keys to a large airplane full of people?
This unnecessary English nitpick doesn't meet the HN guidelines for submissions:

> On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

Instead of nitpicking, have some pride that HN is a mostly-healthy online community that people from many different cultures / language backgrounds can participate in.
An average full-time cashier in Columbus, Ohio (a substantial city) earns ~$27k/year and close to zero benefits, according to Indeed.

The economy being harder on people making $100k doesn’t somehow mean everyone else is earning way more — their COL is rising way faster than wages too.
I want to see my colleagues faces like in a real office and understand that everybody is working with me in my team
It's very usable on WhatsApp and Signal – even on the desktop clients.
Being NAASCO certified and having seen a lot of sewer pipe that's owned by a city, that's probably a terrible idea. Cities are also partially responsible for the bribing scheme required to open a Telco in a town.

There are already backbone providers, having communities band together as last mile providers would likely be far more optimal. It may seem like a minor distinction, but to me theres a big gap between "co-op" and "city owned".
If it were side effects, that would be surprising given that the air force provides those same medications to pilots as a performance booster.
My personal favorite trope as of late is announcing you're leaving for BlueSky, because Twitter is reputedly inhospitable.

Then returning 5 days later as if nothing happened, Costanza-style, because your narcissism can't cope with a mere 14 followers to look at pictures you posted of your breakfast.
Ah, yes, the reintroduction of 3-channel TV. Progress!
https://archive.ph/ulyDk
Crazy. I think this is why people stick to the old reddit design. Or use mobile, but is that properly using reddit?
You act like the meetups are happening in the Tenderloin.

I don't care to attend an AI meetup, but I just googled "sf ai meetup" as a thought experiment. First result is 3rd and mission. A very tame block. I could get on the N Judah and wind up near there and not face any of this "horrifying human experience". I do that same trip with my children since they were babies. It's no big deal. I would question the sanity of anyone who is concerned about that trip.
I don't even use Xitter, but I hate what Musk is doing to a once great company. But maybe you are OK with more hate speech and disinformation.
Also, of is not a replacement for have.

Example: It is wrong to type, "I should of...". The correct way is, "I should have..."
Yeah, and Nuvia (now Qualcomm) aren't the only ones who sniped them.

Apple's effort to make a good modem also reportedly failed, so its not like their chip team are miracles workers.

Not that I am skeptical. Apple has a long history of making good premium SoCs.
Are you missing the obvious reason most people from Israel would not move to Germany?
What if what you can build based on humanity's collective "intellectual property" is worth the discomfort of not "owning" the work you release into the world?
> > Instead of crying for daddy/the government

> This is a weird way to say work together to lay the groundwork for a more functional society.

I see where you are coming from. You don't need to convince me that the U.S. society with its bizarre incentives is deeply broken. I'm all for strong societal support.

But you also need to realize that offloading lots of responsibility to the government (and thereby the rest of society) has real drawbacks. Sadly many people either take advantage of it (in a bad way) or are just so careless that it just leads to overall worse outcomes. That needs to be acknowledged if you want to discuss fundamental rules for a more functional society. We can't ignore those effects.
It doesn't always and often returns with no agent from a google ip.
Protomaps generates daily world files I believe [1] but I haven't confirmed that they're used by the download tool yet. In theory you can download the data everyday to pick up updates.

[1] https://maps.protomaps.com/builds/

Edit: re-reading top comment it looks like they're using a daily file so you'd just have to create a cron job
One can blame both parties. It was foolish (or corrupt, take your pick I guess) for the government to give out money without formal strings attached. It is unethical for the companies to take that money knowing it's intended for $thing, without ever intending to do $thing. Neither is good.
It's pretty clear that Alphabet/Google needs to be broken up into at least four separate parts in order to prevent the current entity from illegally using dominance in some areas to grow their size in other areas:

1) Search and ads

2) Media (Youtube)

3) Cloud services

4) Mobile OS (Android)

Next: A certain fruit company.
It's not my problem to determine how a company complies with regulations. They can either resource themselves or go out of business. I don't care.
Prefix with ' or format the column as Text
I wonder if it is possible to implement a watermark via patterns of Oxford comma occurrences and similar linguistic styles that would fit into a simple character set.
In an ideal world we respect that what other people do is largely none of our business. I don't agree with any ideal that thinks everyone should agree on some set of rules and we respect anything that doesn't violate those rules.

I think an ideal society has rich disagreement and a wide diversity of thoughts and opinions. With that diversity comes conflict which provides us all with opportunities to more deeply reflect on our own beliefs.
The call for donation, for this very very excellent project, are at the end of the post.

> Unfortunately, as we hope to continue to support Sandstorm long-term, we’ve had an increasingly challenging problem with the legacy MongoDB database underneath, as Meteor has dropped support for the version we use. Ensuring a seamless migration on end-user servers has proven to be a challenging problem. Dependency upgrades are not fun and this has become a fairly unpleasant project to undertake for unpaid open source contributors.

> Over the past few weeks, we have spoken to a number of potential outside parties about taking on this project and building a migration so that we can update the databases of existing Sandstorm servers and allow us to continue moving forward.

> We are looking to raise the funding for this project through our OpenCollective.

Please take a look at the long list of supported apps [1], which are basically one click install.

[1] https://apps.sandstorm.io/
Nothing is stopping them from voting on those things... if they are on the agenda. But with a duopoly consisting of two business-oriented parties you are unlikely to see it on the agenda.
Feel free; the link you provided certainly did not have anything concrete.
Musk offered $1bn if Wikipedia would change its name to Dickipedia.

How old is Musk?
It's much safer to land with engines running than dead stick. The crew is going to try to get the engines running if at all possible.
Isn't that the key take away? Legal plagiarism is rampant in the corporate world. Trying to root it out at the university level now that LLMs have trivialized content stealing seems like a waste of time.
The point isn't to be an improvement, but to create an entity that can get all the blame for free, to be then replaced by the same entity with a different face and voice.
Seems too easily defeated?

echo "a string with funny unicode spaces" | iconv -f utf8 -t ascii//TRANSLIT

Though for languages that cannot be represented as ascii, such as Japanese as they paper is discussing, it's perhaps less trivial.
>Why only Apple is able to pull it off? Why this lack of care from everybody else?

Apple got burnt, multiple times, by both Intel and Nvidia. That set them on a complete war path to move to arm where they control the chips. As part of that war path, their goal was to drop x86 entirely so they needed the transition layer.

Microsoft has no need to drop x86 entirely, in fact x86 will continue to remain a good part of a market for the foreseeable future. Who knows, maybe RISCV suddenly takes off because even Qualcomm has begun pushing a cool billion dollars towards RISCV development due to ARM/Softbank attempting to make them destroy their IP. Heck, ARM/Softbank is basically trying to destroy the ARM market for profit by terminating Qualcomm's licenses by 2025.
Is there any reason to believe in this case that decisions supported by AI, traditional or not, can be rationalised by humans?
>It works in a similar way to Nightshade: by changing the pixels of images in subtle ways that are invisible to the human eye but manipulate machine-learning models to interpret the image as something different from what it actually shows.

>Nightshade exploits a security vulnerability in generative AI models, one arising from the fact that they are trained on vast amounts of data—in this case, images that have been hoovered from the internet. Nightshade messes with those images.

So, this will not work at all as soon as the vulnerability is patched? Adversarial attacks are super cool, but they flat out do not generalize afaik. If there's been some breakthrough I'd love to hear about it, but the idea doesn't pass the sniff test to me.
> the company has now made it clear that it has no intention of being a friend to the open internet any more.

It did that awhile ago with amp.

> just because something is a good idea for companies to do does not mean that it should be mandated by law.

like forcing use of USB-C connectors.
> The idea that your muscles have enough strength on the upstroke to contribute meaningfully to cycling is actually a bit of a misunderstanding.

Absolutely not, and there are plenty of easy counterexamples.

If you've ever raced track, team pursuits start from a dead standstill. You have to expend a ton of force to turn a huge gear, and the contribution of the lifting leg is crucial to getting up to speed. Of course it's not going to contribute as much as your lead leg, but all four of your limbs are at maximum exertion getting the bike up to speed. Even not racing at a track, you can test this on any road bike. Shift into high gear, come to a standstill, and time yourself getting up to speed.

Another trivial counterexample that anyone (with clipless pedals) can test is a hill climb. Being able to lift on the upstroke is an enormous additional benefit and the difference can be easily measured and proven. Perform a lengthy climb with and without involving your trailing leg, at a given level of intensity. Repeat this multiple times, and it will be patently obvious that your trailing leg is performing significant useful work. The steeper the climb, the more important this is.

Sprint finishes are another place where this is critically important, but it's harder to set up a simple test.

What all of these have in common are situations where outputting a higher force is more important than long-term endurance. Lifting on the upstroke is difficult to do at high pedal speeds, but at medium or low pedal speeds, it's a clear differentiator.
Their model seems to predict a theoretical top speed of 18-20.9m/s (or 40.0-46.8mph, 64.8-75.2kph): https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aay1950#F2

As much as I want to imagine people chasing down cheetahs, without empirical testing I have to admit I am skeptical of their claims.
Open container alcohol laws apply to all passengers in a car, not just the driver.
Ah shoot. Glad you caught that!
Empathy without boundaries is self destruction
I really wish there was a PMTile implementation for MapLibreGL Native like there is for the JS side (I believe the JS side actually has a way to add arbitrary data protocols). Of course I could stand up some sort of worker or function to sit in the middle, but having this all work client side on Android and iOS would be a game changer for me!
This is seriously the laziest type of analysis there is. It’s like a freshman who memorizes the formulas for a test and attempts to pattern match existing concepts rather than understanding fundamentals. In this case you’re pattern matching the most unimportant features of the existing trend. If you don’t understand the difference between AI and crypto I don’t know what to tell you
Is there a plugin/addon to block paywalled links on HN?
I don't plan on ever paying for access to articles. When I click a link on HN that requires a subscription to read the article I just click the back button. It would be great to have a little dollar sign icon to save me the click and save the world the wasted bandwidth. Is there a browser plugin that will mark paywalled links or eliminate them?
This guy is a professional opinion haver (aka analyst/journalist) which is why we get his opinion about it. Have there been many others because this one’s the first I’ve read and seems well thought out?

I too left Twitter but just resurrected my Mastodon account and got on with life.
My buddy was at Case Western back in 2007/8ish and worked on that One Community project. He called it 'porn for the poor'.

There were all these utopian ideas getting floated about how revolutionary the idea was and that basically lack of high speed internet access was the only thing keeping all these people in poverty.

If we just gave the poor fast internet access as a public service then they would all learn to code, get remote jobs, and raise themselves out of poverty.

Months into the experiment they discovered that no one used the free job training features that came with the internet access and instead they were just using it for porn and piracy.
Why do we tax income though? Especially for billionaire in a globalized world, it's easy to hide incomes. Wealth is harder to hide.
Attributing my perspective to dishonesty seems, well, dishonest. The fact is that members of this forum are broadly more informed and versed in statistics when compared to the general public. The general population, through typical news sources (which are infamously bad at being accurate on scientific topics), was exposed to a cacophony of information of wildly varied quality. One small set of examples from what I consider to be reasonable sources (CDC, WHO, some papers, and two mainstream news publications):

[1] The original official estimates for death rate were off by an order of magnitude or more. [2] Then the government said masks don't work. Then the government said masks do work. [3-5] Then the government said they "miscounted" several relevant stats (cases, deaths, etc) several times. Then the advice was booster shots, as it was being discussed that the vaccine wasn't effective enough. [6-7] And as all of this went on, the public was becoming aware of varying governing bodies from all around the world disagreeing about strategy/effectiveness.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7049028/ - Therefore, the case fatality rate (CFR) has been increasing over time, resulting in a high overall estimate of 5.25% (95% CI: 4.98–5.51%).

[2] https://www.cnn.com/factsfirst/politics/factcheck_e58c20c6-8... - While Fauci, along with several other US health leaders, initially advised people not to wear masks, Fauci later said that he was concerned that there wouldn’t be enough protective equipment for health care workers.

[3] - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/24/cdc-coding-err...

[4] - https://www.npr.org/2020/11/06/929078678/cdc-report-official...

[5] - "We documented 25 instances when the CDC reported statistical or numerical errors. Twenty (80%) of these instances exaggerated the severity of the COVID-19 situation, 3 (12%) instances simultaneously exaggerated and downplayed the severity of the situation, one error was neutral, and one error exaggerated COVID-19 vaccine risks. The CDC was notified about the errors in 16 (64%) instances, and later corrected the errors, at least partially, in 13 (52%) instances. " - https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4381627#...

[6] - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-01-11/repeat-bo...

[7] - https://www.bmj.com/content/376/bmj.o108
I think there are actually several reasons why this is a likely direction:

1. Children (duh, this article)

2. Misinformation (accountability, no astroturfing)

3. Misinformation Robots (age verifying robots is a difficult task)

4. Malicious Robots (do you need Cloudflare if you have an Age ID Firewall?)

5. Scraping Robots (nothing prevents scraping like knowing who to sue...)

6. Hackers (nothing prevents hacking like knowing who to sue, even if it's only 80% of the time...)

7. AI Use / Abuse (anonymity is a dangerous thing with AI)

Etc. To be honest, if I was an Age ID verification company, I'd be calling around to my competition to figure out how to develop some kind of interoperability standard; in the hopes that would make age-restricted services much more convenient and thus widespread. Now if they could get Billing integrated into the system as well, then we're cooking with gas.
FTA:

"Chrome will deprecate and remove support for the Theora video codec in desktop Chrome due to emerging security risks. Theora's low (and now often incorrect) usage no longer justifies support for most users. "
With each kid you add a brain to the world. So it's a net win?
Is there value in moving there for an individual who’s an employed swe, but trying to break into AI? I’d love to work for some of these startups but it seems difficult to get past the resume screen these days, and I don’t think I have that weak of a resume. If moving there would make a big impact I’d consider it, but I’m not sure where exactly in SF, and how to connect to the community while maintaining my current job remotely
Miniature RISC-V Developer Laptop Looks Like a Lenovo ThinkPad Clone
I am not versed with cycling economy. But yeah, it makes sense.

On a bike, if you want to put up more power you have options to push harder or spin faster. If you had to push harder than your weight, you could always change your gears to rather spin faster.
Elon gets his posts artificially boosted by The Algorithm, and he plans to remove the block feature, because "It doesn't make sense". Also, Xitter apparently puts more hateful shit onto people's "For You" feeds now.
Yes, Unix/C architecture has the implicit assumption that accessing out of bounds memory is a non-issue because it affects only one process and thus it's perfectly safe even if it goes undetected.

He he he (sad laughter).
Hacks like this exist in non-tailwind projects where the classes have lost all meaning and the CSS is in a messy state.

On the other hand, in tailwind you could organize things well using your template/component system, be that ReactJS, Vue, ERB, EJS, CSHTML etc.

I agree there is subtlety though. A well organized and "benevolent dictator-ed" crop of CSS files is going to be more powerful than it's Tailwind equivalent due to having selectors etc. available.
How do Google's code tips fail?
There is an easier way to protect everyone from kids. Make an OS-level setting ("show safe content only") that only parents can change. With this setting, the browser would open only pages that declare that they are safe for kids, by using an HTTP header (safe-content: yes). Any other websites are blocked by the browser.

Make it a legal requirement for parents to set up this option for their children on every device they use. Make it illegal to send invalid "safe content" headers.

Also, with "safe content" setting OS should allow running and installing only apps that are verified to be safe (for example, it should not allow installing messengers like Telegram or browsers that do not respect safe content settings).

This way there is no need to verify anything and make life complicated for adult people.
Do they take into account whether I provide an email or not in their final score?
I am still pretty firmly of the belief that "difficulty/cost of generation" has not been the bottleneck on "disinformation" for quite some time, and also, quality of disinformation has not really been that important. Yes, AI might make "better" disinformation cheaper and easier to produce. But I don't think that those are the qualities that are holding the disinformation problem back from getting bigger, so I don't really expect AI to be able to make the problem much worse.
Anonymity is not a band-aid, but a fundamental component of privacy. Privacy is an important right which people often take for granted and its erosion makes people less free in a multitude of ways. Even the expectation that one might be surveilled can change a person's behavior in profound ways (Foucault's panopticon has never been more relevant).

It comes down to the fact that other people may do things which we find distasteful or even offensive. You will never, ever be able to get a large group of people to conform to standards of personal behavior to the extent that this is not true, and so privacy becomes a necessity. But as long as those things aren't causing real harm then they simply aren't my business or that of the government.

In my opinion the only worthwhile discussion when it comes to privacy is what constitutes harm and whether a given harm is possible to prevent without causing even greater harm through restriction of privacy and anonymity. In many cases when it comes to safety and privacy, the cure can be worse than the disease.