skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would consider this from the opposite stance: why are we looking? The article is a rant against a pathology and I agree with it, I do believe there’s a positive aspect too. Perhaps we just see the annoying consequences when we’re in the real world.

When I see a bunch of kids at a table in a restaurant yes, they have their phones out, but the way it looks to me is their convo diffusely and casually involves more than the five or six people at the table (“hey look Joe has a broken arm!” “It’s Judy’s birthday during the week so we had the restaurant bring her a special dessert and she’s embarrassed” “Hey Joe, Alice broke the same arm, look!”). More messaging than posting, and part of the dinner, not supplanting it. Mostly the kids are talking with each other. I think that’s great. (Note, in my case kids 16-25).

I get the feeling that these interactions don’t increase Dunbar’s number but make the links slightly deeper.

The influencers and social media posting are, IMHO, froth that will subside.

Personally I don’t do a lot of social media and would do almost none if my partner weren’t annoyed that I wasn’t up to date with what is happening with some friends. I do post a bit on FB (guess my age!) but only when something non routine happens. But I do value FB because it helps me catch up / stay up to date with what my friends and their kids are doing, all around the world. A friend lost her husband and it wasn’t an extreme event like the awful ones described in the article, just her blowing off a bit of steam (and grief) as his illness proceeded. Healthy for her and you know, good for those of us who loosely interacted along the way.
We already live in the nightmare scenario Teslas are simply a marginal gain
You mean the SATs that you can study for and doesn't attempt to measure base level intelligence?
Get permission to use the data.
Recently started looking in to GPT/LLM based search tools like perplexity.ai for this very reason. I've not used perplexity enough yet that I feel I can form a solid opinion one way or another yet, but I have yet to receive sponsored results or SEO spam from it. Sometimes I have to tailor the query a little differently than I would on a traditional search engine (using more natural language, for example) but it almost always returns useful information and cites it's sources for me so I can read more if the summary wasn't sufficient.

I think Google has divested enough of it's profit from search that it's no longer the cash cow it once was and we're likely to see the quality of the product continue to decline. I would not be surprised if most people have replaced it in the coming years with one of the emerging LLM augmented competitors unless they choose to get on that bandwagon.

The ultimate irony would be to see Google, ever the killer of products, kill off their original product at some point down the road.
If that's true, then it should be fine for that human to paint with the brush of his AI tool. Why should that human artist be restricted in the types of tools he uses to create his artwork?
I might be missing something because I don't know much about the architecture of either Nightshade or AI art generators, but I wonder if you could try to have a GAN-like architecture (an extra model trying to trick the model) for the part of the generator that labels images to build resistance to Nightshade-like filters.
I’ve written an Ansible playbook [1] to automate XRay installation on a Linux machine.
Some people say XRay works well, but I don’t have personal experience.

[1]: https://github.com/pilosus/Xray-ansible
Not only that, AML/KYC regulations are extraordinarily ineffective. It appears that some people thought they were a good idea and passed them without ever following up to see if the benefit is worth the cost, and the answer turns out to be a resounding no.
It seems like the database should be able to figure this out when a foreign key constraint is explicitly declared in the DDL.
I think I've commented this before, but Bo Burnham:

"I was sort of raised in America when it was a cult of self-expression, and I was just taught, you know: express myself and have things to say and everyone will care about them. And I think everyone was taught that, and most of us found out that no one gives a shit what we think...They say it’s the ‘me’ generation. It’s not. The arrogance is taught or it was cultivated.

It’s self-conscious. That’s what it is, it’s conscious of self. Social media is just the market’s answer to a generation that demanded to perform, so the market said “Here, perform everything, to each other, all the time for no other reason.” It’s prison, it’s horrific. It’s performer and audience melded together.

What do we want more than to lie in bed at the end of the day and just watch our lives as a satisfied audience member? I know very little about anything, but I do know this: that if you can live your life without an audience, you should do it"
is that true? presumably youtube still has to pay the artist for reproducing/streaming the song, even if you didn't watch an ad. I'm suspicious that the licensing agreement YouTube says "we'll pay you for the right to stream your music, unless if they use an ad blocker, then too bad."
On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog.
It shouldn’t be a choice between EVs and them being spyware. It’s the typical Silicon Valley angle where we are forced to not have tech progression without dystopia.
The scientists are upset because the documentaries do not comport with the “scientific consensus” on the subject matter.

There is no “consensus” in the scientific method. I’m going to assume all of the above is propaganda!
Sorry! Changed link to https://github.com/zenml-io/zenml-projects/tree/main/llm-fin...
Model-free description topological edge and corner states in mechanical networks
Enabling Dell Latitude RFID/NFC (Broadcom 5880)
One weird thing I’ve noticed is that many of these pdf menu in the us are hosted on an s3 bucket in the EU. I’ve tried ti see a pattern in the applications but haven’t noticed anything
That's where a lean and hungry third party startup comes in and offers to take a little piece of that action in exchange for handling all the backend work.
DIY: Own Dependency Injection Library
IMHO, it's better for Apple to be a foundary customer than to run an internal foundary.

As a customer, if TSMC falters, they can switch to Samsung or Intel (if Intel foundary materializes).

As a vertical foundary, it's very hard to switch if it falters. AMD managed to spin out their foundry which was becoming non-competitive and switch to TSMC, Intel has a lost decade because of the pipeline bubble caused when the Intel 10nm foundary arrived late and with poor yields.

Apple has a very hard time selling to business, and I think would not be able to credibly provide foundry services to others, so it only works if they can keep it on the leading edge.
Define people.
We are machines. We just haven't evenly accepted it yet.

Our biology is mechanical, and lay people don't possess an intuition about this. Unless you've studied molecular biology and biochemistry, it's not something that you can easily grasp.

Our inventions are mechanical, too, and they're reaching increasing levels of sophistication. At some point we'll meet in the middle.
real title: Model-free characterization of topological edge and corner states in mechanical networks

but HN length restriction meant something should be changed.
We run our most important ones (main api endpoint health check, homepage browser check) anywhere from every minute to every five minutes depending on time of day. We only use one region because our users are mostly in the US. Less vital but still important ones are every fifteen minutes or so.

We overlap “peak” and “non-peak” schedules. The peak one runs during work hours every minute. The “non-peak” ones run 24/7 (no easy way to exclude the time periods that peak runs, otherwise we’d exclude this) but more infrequently, every five minutes.

We use Datadog, but try and be fairly barebones about it because it’s really expensive at scale and we only rarely actually catch issues with them because our CI process has gotten much better. We also used Checkly in the past and had no real complaints, just switched to Datadog to keep everything in one place.
I also just created an account to reply to you. I too feel strongly the same - that AI images are not art just because they look like art.

Art is a form of meaning making, thought processing, and an attempt to communicate and compare and comment. It is a language in and of itself. It is about all of the stuff that led to the creation of the thing, and the context of the time and place it was made. Successful art helps the viewer make a connection or gain a perspective they may not have otherwise. It can invoke big questions about deeply philosophical things, and make fun of you for thinking those things are important at the same time.

AI art scrambles all that up, borrowing from here or there without much going on beyond what you directly see. It is often focused entirely on the aesthetic output, which is mostly beside the point.
This seems more like looking at other artists and being totally incapacitated by some little touch in the painting you're looking at.
They outsourced page ranking to SEO professionals, who have developed new tools faster than Google. They are not in control of their own product right now.
The first perceptron was explicitly designed to be a trainable visual pattern encoder. Zero assumptions about potential feelings of the ghost in the machine need to be made to conclude the program is probably doing what humans studying art say they assume is happening in their head when you show both of them a series of previous artists' works. This argument is such a tired misdirection.
Yep. My wife and I watched all of Ancient Apocalypse and it was really interesting as well as fun to talk about. Definitely some interesting points included as well.

Made us want to visit the Scablands in Eastern Washington, which we didn't even know existed.

It's worth a watch if nothing else. Ultimately, nothing in the documentary is going to change your life but it is very interesting all the same.

The response from Graham Hancock is an interesting read.

https://grahamhancock.com/hancockg22-saa/
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> I don't accidentally say stupid stuff because the clock is running out for a timely response.

For me this is the biggest reason.
I've tried these before. They use directed air onto your hands hence the backpack. They do a pretty okay job at providing a sense of texture. So virtual objects have a surface feeling, but still no physical shape or resistance. The demo has a bunch of feely textured objects you can handle: steam, dripping water, a cat, a rope, etc. You still have to pretend that you "stop" at the volume of whatever object as the system still doesn't provide any physical resistance. Some of the demo surfaces were kind of "meh" but a few, like the rope felt spot on to what a rough hemp rope being touched through a glove might feel like.

To me the biggest problem outside of that was that the system can't really provide the sense of touch of a static object. Like resting your hands on the thorns of a cactus. Because it uses streams of air bubbles, it has to be a continuously changing surface, so rubbing your hand or finger on something works better.

Is it more immersive? Yeah, to a point. I personally think that a feedback system that let you feel the volume or shape of gripped objects would be better, but these are very hard problems.
> without waiting for a paralyzed congress to pass laws to deal with new or even existing problems

ah yes so all the technocrat experts who are undoubtably part of the revolving door between industry & government should just be policing themselves justified by "emergency" exigencies

why are people so keen to defend regulatory capture as not only inevitable but seemingly good?
How Coffee Farmers in Hawaii Fought Counterfeit Kona Beans
Dat Boi, Explained (2016)
When I look back at photos of road trips I gravitate to the ones where the kids are in the photo — they were so little then.

So, yes, for me it's the ephemeral subjects one should capture. That the camera tends to come out when said subjects are standing in front of the Grand Canyon is just a reality.
I've seen this maybe once or twice. Maybe it's just a matter of which restaurants we choose to patronize, but virtually all of them offer paper or laminate menus for us to use. The only time we are forced to use an electronic menu is when we order via DoorDash.
Nutanix has a really nice product. They’re going to win a lot of business.
You don't even need to do that. Art is an act of ontological framing.

Duchamp didn't need negotiate with the ceramic makers to make the Fountain into art.
The 'Millennium Camera' Will Capture Arizona's Landscape for 1000 Years
I’m completely flabbergasted by the number of comments implying copyright concepts such as “fair use” or “derivative work” apply to trained ML models. Copyright is for _people_, as are the entailing rights, responsibilities and exemptions.
This has gone far beyond anthropomorphising and we need to like get it together, man!
What about something like udp over tcp?
Kagi works like how Google used to a few years ago if they had just kept improving what’s useful to users. You can pry my Kagi subscription from my cold dead hands.
https://archive.ph/VwCua
No problem mate, let me know if you need any help. Good luck with AppKit!
Absolutely. But it feels a bit to me like you’re missing the point. If their blend of stainless was designed to last 30 years, then it wouldn’t need to be cleaned per the owners manual. It also seems that clear coat would be a good protective step against the concerns they raise. So it seems as though your argument spins in quite tight circles.
Then you're probably the rare exception who would likely benefit independent artists more by just randomly picking a few every year.

If everyone just pirated and picked a few musicians to support directly every year, the overwhelming majority of people would pick from the 16,000 in the 99.8th percentile on spotify, and the majority of the hundreds of thousands of artists in the 80th - 99.8th percentiles would see no income whatsoever from digital distribution.
Note: The premise of this article is that they call machine translations "AI generated slime".

It is NOT about ChatGPT generated articles.

It's ironic to me, because the ONE thing I think modern AI has no doubt improved is machine translations. DeepL is often miles ahead of what we had, and while LLM's are not trustworthy scientific experts in all fields, if they are anything almost by definition (as LANGUAGE models), it is that they are linguistic experts. Iceland is famously using GPT-4 for language preservation because it's as good at Icelandic as an expert and native speaker.

So please for the love of god let's abandon the former generation of machine translation and let's welcome AI translations with open arms for improved accessibility and cross-culture reach. And let's stop looking down at AI translations just because you see red as you read the word "AI".

Not sure I need to add that I find this article complete junk. As usual with Futurism.com content.
*Title: The Soul of Creation*
by Nick Cave

(Verse 1)
In the dawn of all existence, in the silence of the void,
God spun the world in six days, in a dance of cosmic joy.
On the seventh day, He rested, His creation full of worth,
A canvas painted with His struggle, a gift to all the earth.

(Chorus)
Leon and Charlie, hear this ancient tale,
Of creation's sacred heart, beyond the earthly veil.
In every act of making, in every loving deed,
Lies the essence of our spirit, the planting of a seed.

(Verse 2)
Now comes a force, cold as the night, ChatGPT its name,
A mechanized imagination, turning art into a game.
It seeks to strip creation of its struggle and its pain,
Rendering our efforts as nothing but a chain.

(Chorus)
Leon and Charlie, see this stark divide,
Between the soulful artist's path and the mechanized guide.
In every note and lyric, in every brush and pen,
Is the heartbeat of humanity, time and time again.

(Bridge)
"Let's make it fast, let's make it easy," the machine coldly sings,
Forgetting art's a journey, not just a pair of wings.
The struggle, the striving, it's where our truths are found,
In the depths of our creation, our spirit's battleground.

(Verse 3)
God looked upon His world, and saw that it was good,
A reflection of His essence, in every field and wood.
So Charlie, in your creating, let your spirit freely dance,
For in your artful striving, you'll give the world a chance.

(Chorus)
Leon and Charlie, remember this true call,
Creation's not just crafting, it's a rising after fall.
In every stroke of genius, in every dream unfurled,
Is the story of our spirit, the echo of the world.

(Outro)
So let's fight against this tide, this digital malaise,
Defending art's true essence, through all our nights and days.
For in our hands lies power, in our hearts the flame,
To keep alive the soul of the world, in every crafted frame.

(End)
In the dance of the Great Crested Grebe, in the sun's first light,
Lies the joy of creation, our eternal, noble fight.
Leon and Charlie, in each step and every turn,
Is the essence of our being, the fire that will always burn.
I was deep in this space for a while. For those interested in digging deeper, It's a few years old but one of the better and more comprehensive documents that came out at the time (2021) was this one. Not sure how much has changed since then

A Systematic Review of Commercial Smart Gloves: Current Status and Applications

(weblink) https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/21/8/2667

(pdf link) https://mdpi-res.com/d_attachment/sensors/sensors-21-02667/a...
The problem is that SEO and spam make money for those using it, so it is basically an arms race vs whatever search engine is dominant. The moment something else other than Google becomes popular it will become their problem.
I can go up and down unobstructed stairs without any issues, but I have back problems which keep me from doing heavy lifting and I'm in no condition to jump or climb over a sofa in the middle of a flight of stairs.

The real problem here is expecting people to be able bodied enough to deal with a lack of alternative exits when someone in the same building inevitably is careless enough to start a fire.
You might see some confused faces. To most English speakers "fortune" mostly means good, unless it is preceded by something that specifies that it is bad fortune, like "ill fortune" or misfortune.
It's puzzling to me how much excitement this is suddenly generating on HN.

Yes, mixing Spotify playlists with a YouTube frontend is a great idea, but in no way is this new. Anyone following the app modding scene on XDA-Developers (pre-enshittification) or Telegram has likely seen atleast half a dozen apps that have been implementing the same thing for the last five years.
Interesting, how can I check if a file was encoded with joint stereo? I've never seen those keywords in ffprobe output

Is this only an issue for mp3 or do other codecs also use fewer bits for the difference between channels?
Counterpoint: utf8 <-> utf32
I see this clearly but over time my opinion is shifted a little: especially in writing an essay one often makes a distinction sharper than intended as a consequence of being clear.

Yes, in physics there’s a quantum world and a classical world.

But we teach little kids that there are polite ways to act outside the home and more relaxed rules at home. Then they spend another few decades figuring out that there isn’t a hard and fast separation. But they need to start with a simple model.
Social mobility in the Tang Dynasty as the Imperial Examination rose 618–907 CE
DDG seemed Ok, but I kept going back to Google. For me Kagi is worlds better than both.
What's current thinking on "tit for two tats"?

(one way IRL iterated games differ from PD is that we can, à la backgammon or TCP, adjust our exposure as a window)
The theater is absolutely passing on movie licensing costs onto its customers
It's all fine as long as you don't touch the stapler.
Labeling as sci-fi is also a stretch. He's videoing and documenting real sites that exist around the world. The origin and timeline around those sites is speculation, but that certainly doesn't make it sci-fi.
While this problem is growing for younger people, there are still many many many people who live reasonable non-scoial-media-driven lives. You probably just won't hear about them because...they don't promote themselves on social media. Social media both purposefully by the companies, but also by the nature of the content, depicts a world where everyone is on it. Everyone is doing this new trend, or is aware of this new meme, or has heard about this drama. It's toxic, it gives you FOMO to even think about stopping. It's messed up. It's sad to see it in my friends and family.
A more apt comparison is sampling.

AI is sampling other's works.

Musicians can and do sample. They also obtain clearance for commercial works, pay royalties if required, AND credit the samples if required.

AI "art" does none of that.
> There is no “consensus” in the scientific method.

But there is consensus on how to use the scientific method, and sometimes the evidence accumulated with that method mostly agree with a specific part of the hypothesis space, in which case the consensus is to call that part the consensus
Me too. Spotify may have successfully killed the "open medium" promise of the words "podcast" and "podcasting" as part of their embrace/extend/extinguish strategy, but there are many great podcasting clients that continue to support opencasting, and very few shows exclusive to closed audio platforms like Spotify.
It's 2024 and people still watch documentaries believing it makes them more knowledgeable. This and a myriad of podcasts and stupid self published (or not) books.

It's edutainment, but the edu is silent.
>You can normalize to uppercase and get the same effect.

This isn't quite true. Most HTML, JS, and user content can't be uppercased.

>Thus, your technique must be classified as a lossy algorithm.

I think you might be misunderstanding some parts of this. The article is just suggesting changing the case to sentence case everywhere, whether transferred or displayed. The compression comes from separate lossless algorithms.
Maybe 'educational plan' is a misnomer. How about 'strategy and tactics'. Both knowing what the child should eventually learn and adapting so that they learn it.
Low Pressure, Turbo Shots, and the 'Perfect Espresso' (2020)
Personally, I think ads can be quite predatory, which is why I dislike them (if ads themselves had better ethics and curation, I might think otherwise -- I have less issues with sponsorships elected by creators). That most people choose not to pay is a problem I think, but I think even ideally not everyone would pay (and that's fine): they may not have the means (although I guess they could just pay a smaller amount instead), or have too many other subscriptions (that they find need more money). I personally donate to a lot of services knowing that many won't pay (and many aren't able to), and I'm happy to contribute (although I think it would be better for everyone if they considered donating more!)
Listen, the man did no such thing. It's always the intolerant ones charging others with lacking empathy and broken moral compasses.
I figure not every restaurant has the money/motivation to invest in the mobile POS and so it's still not super common.
what do you think, I have good opinions, everything seems ok
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Commentary: https://pluralistic.net/2023/12/08/playstationed/