skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If we are going by, "random person on the internet prediction proves correct" then nothing is unexpected. I think that they are mostly correct here.

> Disinformation researchers have found relatively few A.I. fakes, and even fewer that are convincing. Yet the mere possibility that A.I. content could be circulating is leading people to dismiss genuine images, video and audio as inauthentic.

People don't expect the nihilistic second order effect where the mere existence of AI taints all evidence.
Dev sets up "goatse" trap for sites that steal his free web game
To keep in your argumentation style: you can kill someone with your bare hands, hence it is completely ethical to deploy a nuclear bomb against your enemies.
I think he means the mind experiment from Descartes where he assumes everything around him has been created by some demon to fool him and in that case the only thing he can be certain about is that he is thinking (or you exist, I'm not sure).

I'm also not an expert but that's what I understood from the original comment. Hope this helps
A political statement? My late mother-in-law had a couple of long guns in her bedroom closet. The statement they made was that somebody had left them to her, and that she hadn't bothered to give them away.
Then maybe funds like Blackrock, Vanguard, should be dismantled as well.
Wow I haven't heard that name since 'The Young Ones' (I'm in the US)
> All of this is basically just empathy.

Or simulation. People have mistaken me for some kind of high-tier empath because my brain constantly (consciously or unconsciously) runs simulations on everything I do. Things I write are based on how I think it will be interpreted, not by whatever decides to come out of my brain. And things that other people are feeling are instantly understood because I can easily run a simulation of what that would feel like for me.

Maybe this happens because I'm autistic, maybe it happens because I have a dissociative disorder (DID), but whatever the case is, I definitely think it's interesting.
It doesn't sit with me well to see this being downvoted. I assume downvoters found it dismissive, but I do not read it that way.

I agree, at first it *is* surprising to see a Nobel laureate walk from the most-obvious-count-on-my-fingers-elementary-school-math all the way up to Euler's Formula, only to stop there without taking the very short step, done in the comment above, to land on Euler's Equation. After all, that is how I see it done most often.

The goal here is not to reproduce famous results. That would be the "we could bring forth this formula in two minutes or so, and be done with it" thing that is deliberately called out at the start. Instead, it is explained

> Every so often it is a great pleasure to look back to see what territory has been covered, and what the great map or plan of the whole thing is.

Seeing famous relations reduced to one another is probably enjoyable for you, and judging how many authors do it I think you've got a lot of good company. What is done here is different. It starts with things we all know as children and ends with a relationship between algebra and geometry, covering lots of mathematical apparatuses in between. It is notable that this is done without relying on the formality of landing on "famous results" at each step. That approach, combined with the easygoing language, is what I found most enjoyable about the writing.
Tell him to do the website changes instead of you if it's very easy for him.

Should he says no, there's your answer.

If he says yes he'll do the changes, take a long trip for a month without any intervention from your part.

Then count how many times he begs you to come back.
OK.

Only the professionals should have access to these tools, then?
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> Because they are massive parent trolls who sue and prevent competition. They need to be called out whenever the technology is mentioned.

Where? How? Please share some evidence so that your claims can be verified.
ML algorithms are already constantly deciding what you should and shouldn't be allowed to read, by surfacing, amplifying, and suppressing content on Google, Youtube, every social media platform, baked-in Windows ads I presume, etc. based on each website's own financial and/or political interests. And soon ML algorithms will be increasingly deciding what you can and can't read, by vomiting out the "content" in the first place according to those interests.

Maybe I'm just fatigued from the constant erosion of user autonomy over information consumption, but as long as a ML ad blocker runs locally by the user's own decision, it doesn't seem that Big Brother-ish (compared to serverside shovel-feeds), and as long as there's a single-click toggle to disable it like in existing ad blockers (or if E.G. the UI exposes a side pane to show the content it's blocked) and it can be configured to be less or more aggressive based on content patterns, it hardly seems like censorship… As far as uses of "AI" go.
Some commenters here say Onlink is an improved version of Uplink.
“If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.”
-René Descartes
Perhaps Bic should be chastised for making writing easier? Microsoft Word and Powerpoint are ethical nightmares as well.

At some point, you're making a generally useful tool and some people choose to use it to create lies.

We don't want to go back to the days of quill feathers and movable type just to make lying more expensive.
Okay your insights are really awesome, as someone who takes their work too seriously I think, I should focus on my health and some tips you've provided are really amazing. Thanks kmarc, SDEs need more advice (on diverse topics) like yours.
It’s too bad there’s no way at all to know if any media whatsoever is plausibly real, say such as by a cryptographic web of trust. Even though similar mechanisms are used to secure services such as domain name resolution clearly nothing similar can be applied here. I guess we’re just doomed to be fed a diet of adulterated content.
I get it but also as a parent I also get it

Sometimes the days are long, kid is driving you up a wall and the iPad just…works

My kid isn’t that old yet but partner and I have agreed no screens for first 15 mo at least. So anytime she’s watching TV we turn him away because he’s definitely interested!
No, I check you didn't make them work worse.
I love the Django admin. I am not a big fan of the highly consumerized, low density, emoji and vague messages everywhere design aesthetic that we have widely accepted. I understand why it exists, but I will always choose something that looks like the Django admin first.
I specifically chose weekdays, because I want to get work done without distraction. I am my own worst enemy ... I find myself checking one random site after another, then opening the same sites in other windows! I needed a break from this behavior.

For work, as I said, I just use pen and paper. There are lots of tasks that don't have to be immediately keyed in. One can design, write pseudocode, think about ambitious tests, write documentation and so on. I can actually feel myself making progress when I don't have a screen in front of me.
Different people will learn different lessons from the realization that the richest person on the planet is just a huckster:

1. People will learn that everyone is merely human, and not to expect, nevermind worship, a "captain of industry."

2. Other people will learn that a mere huckster can bamboozle millions of people and that becoming a huckster is easy and potentially lucrative.

N.b. The second richest person on the planet is suave and sophisticated and sells overpriced handbags. So consider what that yardstick is actually measuring.
Good thing you can still back up your data. It's possible it doesn't affect everyone, I'm not sure. Lemme know how it goes when you reboot?

Or avoid rebooting somehow (if it's not automatic) in the hope they somehow fix it...
> All the content in Google seems to be content farmed

you are just forgetting to add word "reddit" at the end of your query..
Nobody knows how LLMs work, much less LLMs behind an OpenAI server API, so that's a hard question.
STM is about hardware, not programming languages, but is decently recent so maybe someone will actually try it in hardware and see if it provides a good benefit for the increased complexity of the chip.

Region based memory management was first conceived in 1967 and is achievable by any programming language that lets you manage memory yourself.

Mutable value semantics in native code have been available since at least 1980 with Ada.

Lifetimes in Cyclone seem the best example of PL research in the last 50 years you have there, as it’s only 20 years old.

Overall, I’m still unsure if this list proves the point that there is active useful research in the PL space or if it proves that there’s very little in the PL space to research. More research is probably required.
100 Websites That Shaped the Internet
One other thing I'll add is that Chrome doesn't advertise itself on safari (when browsing google.com) on an IOS device, at least all my current attempts to have it do that have failed.
I make no judgement about its invasiveness or usefulness. A possible future is for this monitoring to go further upstream to become more personalized and cross boundaries into other monitoring domains, as other comments noted many pharmaceutical products or metabolites can be detected in human waste.

Possibly something holding practical implementations back is all the other waste put into sewage, which may stop things up in the manner of “fatbergs.” [0]

A related idea I have percolating is to change municipal composting programs from bins and trucks to grind and pipe by deploying more sink fixtures that grind food materials into small pieces so they go thru the drain. Then focus extracting/separating biological materials from other effluvium.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatberg
In 2044 a bulleted list will be considered a deep dive
DSM doesn't support ZFS. It does support btrfs (the default), FWIW.
Apparantly there was an authorized free remake (!), but the site it was published on is now also down, and the internet archive doesn't seem to have the download link. :(

Maybe someone on HN still has the game, or a clue how to get it?

https://web.archive.org/web/20120212100603/http://cholo.ovin...
Rydberg Field Measurement System
...which I suspect has a large overlap with ad blocker users and, even those that don't, probably are not as sensitive to online ads as average Joe.
Knowing this, I think about another question. Is it reasonably possible to steer the direction or speed of advancement of technology, or is this scenario just the inevitable result of a society that continually iterates on past technology without end? I recall the demo video of that first person shooter a few months ago that people were saying was real life footage because it looked realistic enough. And once it was clear it was from a game engine with realism crossing a new threshold, some people raised concerns that the footage resembled police body camera footage and could perpetuate negative stereotypes. But a desire for more realism has persisted for the past several decades with the improvements in each console generation, graphics cards and so on, so it's hard to believe how the logical conclusion of more computing power doesn't converge to "police body camera footage simulator" at some point. At the next year's E3 it went unsaid that the graphics of the game titles on display would be slightly better and coverage at least a miniscule amount closer to those of real life, without a clearly defined end in sight. So what were we expecting to happen?

I think it is interesting that in the case of media that is known to be fictional like video games, we now have to grapple with the novel question of how realistic is too realistic, all because we found out enough ways to make it realistic enough. What was once an implicit and invisible barrier mediated by the lack of advanced technology has become an ethical barrier that relies on persons refusing to use the technology for the harm it causes.

Sometimes I liken the outcome to spicy peppers. I can imagine that at some point the spiciest pepper yet will be engineered such that an average person ingesting one will encounter severe health problems. And yet we can't help but ask the question of "how spicy we can go," so until that limit is reached we keep going. The question of harm that such a pepper could inflict is drowned out by the question of what stones humankind have still left unturned. Somehow we can't stop turning them.

But unlike peppers, the results of these technologies will affect people that aren't interested in the question, and they will still be affected without any say in the matter.
ChatGPT remixes info from beyond the first page of Google search. That’s the value. If you ask it for a list of nice nature spaces in Tokyo, like I just did, it returns 12 spots that all seem appealing. Already, that’s more information density than a Google Search. But now I have to go look up if these actually exist (this isn’t the sort of mistake it usually makes though), where it is, the hours, admission prices etc. So that’s going to be a few Google searches for this question. Of course, I’ll have to actually go to the sites for these gardens, if they exist, because you can’t quite trust Google Maps’s accuracy either - hours and opening days can be off, especially around the holidays, when I’d like to go to Tokyo. One ChatGPT query -> several Google searches.

If for this text output, ChatGPT also linked me directly to the gardens’ sites, scraped the info from the live site, and summarized this - that would actually save a ton of time. Google could have a leg up bc it has a knowledge graph, but so does Microsoft. This requires a lot more than training an LLM - this requires it to be an actual product, not a tech demo like it is. A chat with an agent that occasionally lies is a terrible UI.

I think there’s great scope for UI innovation here. But such an experience might be pretty expensive in terms of compute - lots of LLM queries and extra lookup systems. Someone who does this hard integration work and is willing to spend a lot of resources per query will deliver a delightful, time-saving user experience, and can probably charge for it. And that may be a great value-prop for local AI - you can give it tons of resources to solve your particular problem. As I see it, mass market LLMs that are provided for free will never do this extra work for you. ChatGPT might be in a good position bc it already has a ton of paying customers that it can continue to draw a wall around. Their early Nov announcement might be something along these lines.
Cards aren't generally meant for sending cash -- I honestly don't even know what you mean by sending a remittance using a credit card, or even a debit card. If you're talking about using e.g. Venmo or Zelle, they're generally intended for social transactions of tens/hundreds of dollars, not for thousands, and especially not for thousands cross-border.

For transferring thousands of dollars, that's what wire transfers are for, and basically every bank has supported them for decades. You shouldn't need any luck at all.
First-Ever GeoGuessr World Cup
Apple Watch faces potential import ban in the US
GP is probably talking about Descartes's famous line "I think therefore I am" an the relation of this line to Solipsism.

Solipsism, to quote Wikipedia: is the philosophical idea that only one's mind is sure to exist. As an epistemological position, solipsism holds that knowledge of anything outside one's own mind is unsure; the external world and other minds cannot be known and might not exist outside the mind.

GenAI reduces what once was photo/video/audio proof to uncertainty both through quality (AI can create better fakes) and quantity (it is much easier to use AI to create fakes, therefore much more people will do so).
I nearly omitted “consequently” as I would expect it to be obvious to anyone who is into walkable city planning: real estate is limited, so the choice between 7-lane road sprawl and walkable 1 or 2 lane streets—sometimes bus-only, sometimes shared with pedestrians, inevitably with heavy restrictions on speed and plenty of traffic lights—is binary. You cannot prioritise both pedestrian and public transport traffic and private cars simultaneously.
been using bluefin while it was in beta for almost a year and for me it was very easy to move to it as my development workflow is nothing like most and i heavily utilize podman containers on the outset and not system packager or flatpak. this is what i have been recommending to most at this time as it lowers friction whether you use silverblue or not, and enchances tability of your system as if you switch versions doesnt leave lots of gooblygook of orphaned files and such brokedness
Oh you're the author, in that case I guess you have! Thanks for sharing.

As a suggestion, personally I'd rather the offending items just be removed entirely rather than showing "redacted".
There's nothing unexpected about this, and the clue is in the title, it's an old technique called 'mudying the waters'.

When people can't trust some of the news, it erodes their trust in all of it, and then they can't know for sure what's actually going on.

But why bother with such subtle techniques when you can just cut communications entirely on the eve of your assualt, and then act with impunity.
The copyright fight over authors and OpenAI's ChatGPT
Yes, but the classics were new once. Should the crowds that lined up to buy War and Peace have thought better because after all The Song of Igor's Campaign was written some hundreds of years before?
> Agreed. Anything reduces their profits is valid. Ideally to zero or into the negatives. Their "concerns" are irrelevant.

It would be better to produce a more profitable business model that doesn't incentivize or benefit from being shitty/harmful. "They" can then either adapt and cut it out with their shenanigans, or die out outcompeted by companies that do.
That’s a true blunder on Apple’s part. Maybe they should spend less on the marketing department
and hire quality engineers when pumping out these privacy oriented features.

Makes you wonder if there’s anything else that might be missed.
Why teachers in South Korea are scared of their pupils, and their parents
They have no choice their internal models are just ridiculously bad compared to OpenAI. The behemoth is so fat it can't move anymore, this doesn't sound good for the company as a whole and the only thing that keep them afloat is that they are paying to be the default on devices.
What I really want to see is the JWST images of Sedna

Hubble can only produce one pixel

https://esahubble.org/images/opo0414d/

Apparently JWST was pointed at it a year ago but all they released was an image-less paper on the spectrum?

BTW you know the "deep field" image they use for testing?

I have a new favorite instead. "Abel 2218" just look at that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abell_2218
Doesn't mean they know how to make it into a product.
Intel has embraced the complacent culture for 30 years. Perf/watt is meaningless, phones won’t be a big market, nothing can displace x86 in the datacenter, nobody else can fab like we do…
Benefits and risks of gene drives for invasive plant management
Researchers, not engineers.
Google paid $26 billion in 2021 to become the default search engine on browsers and phones - $2B is peanuts to them.
No-go zones definitely exist in Western Europe, thanks to „refugees” from Africa and Middle East.

https://www.tasnimnews.com/en/news/2023/02/16/2854650/sweden...
Even at $1M/day, the 3 billion from Amazon and Google would last 3000 days, which is ~8.2 years. Nothing to sneeze at! And that’s assuming they make no money themselves, which would extend the runway. A billion is a lot of money. I always accidentally think of it as 100 million instead of a thousand million for some reason.
They are starting to let people try their "capabilities" and it isnt great from having tried them.
The issue will be once we have independent robots with ai, would they be allowed without identification? For the internet the issue is almost here now.
Google paid $26B in 2021 to become the default search engine
But this investment seems different from all the other ones as Google isn't actually taking over Anthropic. Amazon is an even larger shareholder and I think Anthropic has made a commitment to prioritise AWS. So what is Google trying to do here? Offer Anthropic to GCP customers as yet another option?
Ah yes, the elders with their famed media literacy
> QUIC mostly affects time-to-first-paint, which is mostly of interest for the slowest connections, which is nice, but becoming less and less relevant over time.

You give no reasoning for it being less and less relevant. It is very relevant to me, where every connection to the US has 300ms RTT.
The search algorithm does seem to be a bit wonky. Searching for "aloe", for example, returns about 20 results most of which don't seem to have any relation at all to aloe, e.g. calamondin orange or rock moss.
Watch this guy work and you'll finally understand the TikTok era
Right, so exploits.
Read "The Body Electric", 1998, by Robert O' Becker MD.

Also, read "Cross Currents" by same author.
Why do you say that MS beating Google on AI? OpenAI is not part of MS (49% ownership is nice but it doesn't give MS control of the company). MS by itself doesn't own any of foundational models competitive with Google. MS has a solid AI research team, but it's not ahead of Google DeepMind. Microsoft Azure beats Google Cloud, but I don't think you count GPU rentals as AI?

If MS actually bought OpenAI, it would be a different story.
Ad blocking is censorship.

Censorship that many people, myself included, agree with (I don't believe all censorship is harmful) but it is clearly censorship.

But the real problem is assuming everything an AI blocks will be an "ad." Why is this the only instance where the slippery slope doesn't apply? This is different than a normal ad blocker that uses specific heuristics to block specific elements - an AI will be employed to make "intelligent" editorial decisions based on interpreting the intent of the content. What happens when it decides - or is ordered to decide - that political advocacy or the promotion of certain ideas or contrary narratives amounts to "advertising" them?

It's literally just enforcing wrongthink, most likely using closed source centralized services run by corporations who will be harvesting and selling your data to advertisers anyway. But it's cool because ads. It's not cool when it's Nazis or doxxing transgender people or spreading conspiracy theories or plotting sedition, but it's definitely cool if Justin Whang wants to sell me on Nord VPN.