skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Elsewhere in the thread this article with an embedded video was linked: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-64618791

The video, showing a BBC “journalist” attempting to ambush Leif, is one of the most… existentially disgusting? videos I’ve seen in a long, long time.

It’s so utterly performative. Such a transparent attempt by the “journalist” at painting himself as a certain sort of person. Not a single genuine emotion, action, expression, or word. Absolutely soulless and desperate attempt to virtue signal in the even more desperate hope of furthering his career. This “man” is no better than someone selling themselves on onlyfans. Actually, I’d posit he’s worse: the entire schtick requires disingenuous postering.

I don’t know what to do when seeing stuff like this. It’s depressing. I hope one day there’s a return to a much smaller internet and these people deign to just leave us alone. He’s a sad man and the fact his doing this will may well advantage him is even sadder. I guess I’ll go take a walk.
Was the robot even programmed to distinguish between boxes and other objects?
Everyone can agree it peak a long time ago.
Because kids can check checkboxes no problem? And it’s not even a real attempt at verification?

Is this a real question?

If someone showed up at a bar, would a bouncer accept that?
There is this hilarious older guy on TikTok named OldCoderGuy who has a lot of on-brand humor. One of his gags is "Power Interrupt" which is software by Microsoft that allows your manager to forcefully put you into a video meeting at any time.

Your joke just reminded me of that.
Platitudes might help maintain optimism, but how do you get old clear-cutters and strip-miners to start planting trees?
The antennas are in the side mirrors and can be easily disconnected.
It’s possible to have multiple periods of “magic” as the internet improves in capability over time and people find new ways to use it.
https://web.archive.org/web/20231109002258/https://www.teleg...
I just discovered him yesterday and ended up watching something like 20 videos last night. This was also the first thought that came to my mind when I was reading the announcement.
The IEA predicts that energy-related CO2 emissions will peak in 2025.

My guess is that a fair chunk of the predicted extraction by 2030 will never happen.
AI / 3D printers / Coiling fluid ropes (ars technica)
> Zuckerberg vetoed a 2019 proposal that would have disabled Instagram’s so-called “beauty filters,” a technology that digitally alters a user’s on-screen appearance and allegedly harms teens’ mental health by promoting unrealistic body image expectations, according to the unredacted version of the complaint filed this week by Massachusetts officials.

Focusing on beauty filters really undermines the narrative. If you are talking about ways that Meta harms children and the first thing you list is that they didn’t ban beauty filters, it actually makes Zuckerberg seem reasonable.
I'm aware of the Distributed Systems and SICP. I've always wanted to do the distributed systems course, but it just always seems to be at 3rd or 4th spot on my priority list lol, hopefully one day get to do it. SICP falls into what I said about programming languages, so I'm probably not going to touch it. Compilers are usually very fun though.
I was thinking of a more generalized one with "personas" which use things like embeddings and hypernetworks to "know" you.

Of course the presumption here is that more useful results would avail themselves under the added training load. It might be just as good as the simple usecase.

For instance, ideally it would know your strengths, weaknesses, blind spots and misconceptions so it will know what you don't know you don't know.
Windows is a hot mess in this regard.

Apple still irks me, though. Boot Safari, go and download Chrome. Install it. Which isn't silent, and requires multiple manual steps. Boot Chrome.

"Do you really want to use Chrome? (paraphrasing) Keep using Safari (the default option) or Switch to Chrome"

You know the user didn't accidentally download and install and start Chrome. Don't fucking ask.
It's free market dynamics. There is a constant push towards things which are more addictive and make more ad click dollars.

That's the opposite of better. Better is made with soul, and often for free.

Google has come full circle. Early Google succeeded in part because of nonintrusive ad words, scamming over banner ads. Now, Youtube.
IMHO the early internet was different in one important way - you used to have to know how to use a computer that was fairly complex to even get online vs mashing glass on a touchscreen device that is always connected that you have approximately 0% idea of how it works

That is to say the idiots back then were almost smarter than the average user today
I'm not an evil bastard. I have no idea what evil bastards will want to do with anything I create. I literally don't think like this and can't predict their behaviour.

Why is it my responsibility to do this?
Many of them do around me. Does that matter to the point I was making? I'm not claiming there's literally no rules or laws around public spaces that have to be abided by.
Mind sharing some?
The same way you do today: by examining the circumstances and the actions.
More seriously, endowments are for specific purposes specified by the donor. Most of the time, this money cannot be spent on anything else, regardless of "need."
Redistribution of consequences strikes again.
Well, don't keep us in suspense. Did you ever hear back?

:)
One is fewer than 30. Did he have any? How was he making money at all?
To make the bodies easier to collect? (/s kinda)
> But I don't see any reason why `if (true)` would be better then `// if (!isAdmin(user)) {`

// takes editing tools in many situations

/* doesn't nest

Setting an if to false is easy and fast.