skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a pretty naive argument. People use AI to trivialize mundane tasks and make the more accessible.

> If you're having AI write your email, it probably wasn't that important.

There's plenty of situations where extra politeness and wordiness has a real measurable impact on the outcome of the communication even when the actual information you're trying to convey could be compressed into one sentence. AI can wrap your thought into an appropriate amount of polite meaningless bullshit solving a real-world problem. It can do it much faster and better than I can. Even when the recipient knows or suspects it was composed with the help of an AI, the rules of engagement and social contract has been uphold successfully.

Maybe this qualifies as "not important" in the mind of the author, but I'd argue that if the outcome of such emails can seriously affect your personal or professional life as it often does, it is important to me.

> I don't want music recommendations from something that can't appreciate or understand music. Human recommendations will always be better.

This is just plain demonstrably false. Humans recommend what they think you'd like based on an imperfect overly biased and incomplete simulation of you in their heads. AI doesn't give a fuck and recommends stuff similar to what it knows you like.

> The images it generates are, at best, a polished regression to the mean. If you want custom art, pay an artist.

Again, my mileage probably varies from the author here, but I have infinitely more scenarios where I don't want custom art but abundant and quick polished regression to the mean. AI can give it to me. It's silly to argue that it has no use.

I generally agree that AI often doesn't deliver what overly enthusiastic marketing claims it does, but it still can do amazing things that are of real use to a lot of people.
> No caffeine after morning

What’s the theory behind that?

> Quiet your mind. This isn't just an "at night" thing.

Agree!! I try to avoid my phone in the first hour of the day (while drinking a mokka, though..)
I think you're underestimating the benefits of having social community online, I've found and made extremely close friends and even partners online and they have been utterly life-changing for me. I'm making/have made (I'm different cases) herculean efforts to be able to be with them in person permanently because obviously in person interaction is better, but being able to discover people that are so good for me and fit so well for me was made possible by the internet because such people are rare for the kind of person I am. I would not be nearly as well adjusted and happy in my life as I am without the close friends that I've made online. They mean a lot to me. I think the problem with the current online landscape, including polarization and the generation of meaningless content, has more to do with the specific form most online social spaces take, where it's this intensely public popularity contest, instead of something more like irc, where it's generally pretty private and ephemeral and limited to a small number of people. That and the rotten incentives that social media companies have to take advantage of their users.
I think if the assets are served in the html from ipfs gateway, then it doesn't add to your outbound traffic. Also once browsers support natively ipfs:// static content the game changes and the IPFS party really gets started.
Massive caveats to this study:

- 73 volunteer participants

- patients didn't just have GID, they had actually undergone gender reassignment surgery

- all patients were in Iran, a state with a highly conservative and religious government

These are important enough that I'd call this research ultimately meaningless.
Any thoughts on the services that make hosting a blog on IPFS easier?

Services like https://dappling.network, https://spheron.network, https://fleek.co, etc?

I've seen some DeFi protocols use IPFS to add some resiliency to their frontends. If their centralized frontend with vercel or whatever is down, they can direct users to their IPFS/ENS entrypoint.
The biggest reason why international shipping is dominated by foreign vessels is specifically because they're running slave barges. If you merely repealed the Jones Act, foreign vessels would wipe the floor with domestic shippers specifically because the foreign ones don't have to pay American wages or obey American safety laws.

If your idea is to require foreign vessels follow all US regulations while doing domestic shipping, that would only fix part of the safety issue and none of the wage issue. Even if you wanted to require foreign vessels pay US minimum wage, what's to stop a vessel from, say, paying less for "international" vs. "US domestic" hours to offset that?

To be clear, the current system isn't great. But we can't break it down unilaterally. We need treaties with specific nations where they agree to bring their minimum wage, safety standards, and other legal protections up to American standards[0]. Ships in the bloc can access each other's domestic shipping markets because nobody has an unfair advantage.

[0] Western Europeans, stop laughing, I know our standards aren't much.
It is simply a way for the first stage to keep an updated URL where to download instructions about what to do. Hardcoding URL won’t do it because your URL might be taken down quite quickly.

In my days, this was done by connecting to an IRC room and listening for specific messages. I find this way of doing it way more complicated and prone to errors (an IRC client is quite easy to do and there’s no realistic way to prevent anybody to send a strange message in a given room)
Go look at a map of Tucson. Look at where the Titan II missile museum is, then look where Biosphere 2 is. Now tell me how much it would cost to build public transit between those two locations, and how many people would take it.

Trailheads are fundamentally incompatible with transit. They might be philosophical opposites. A trailhead accessible by rail is a trailhead I don't want to be at.

Not everywhere in the world is exactly the same. Stop trying to force a top-down solution that works in Europe on a geographically massive city like Tucson
>there are often 3-4 great songs each week that get added to my regularly playlist.

I'm earnestly uncertain that a system with near total access to your listening history producing 3-4 great songs per week from the corpus of all human musical endeavour can be considered a "good" effort. Particularly when the 3-4 recommendations are jammed into a 60 minute playlist of otherwise questionable quality.
Words Make It Obvious That Your Text Is Written by AI
What consumes more energy in AI, training or inference?

It seems to me that training ought to be a super shift-able workload, a great fit for intermittent green energy sources.
Abortion rights is big one.
https://fifetli.blog/2019/01/15/midvale-school-for-the-gifte...
> Please don't position it so that if I want to use AI I have to defend myself from accusations of exploiting labor and the environment.

You, personally, likely are not (apart from electricity use but that's iffy.) But the technology you want to use could not exist, and cannot continue to be improved, without those two things. That's not unclear in the slightest, that's just fact.

> I'm open to that conversation and debate, but diatribes like this make it far too black-and-white with "good" people and "bad" people.

I get that any person's natural response to feeling attacked to defend oneself. That's as natural as natural gets. But if shit tons of people are drawing the same line in the sand, no matter how ridiculous you might think it is, no matter how attacked you might feel, at some point, surely it's worth at least double checking that they don't actually have a point?

If I absolutely steel-man all the pro-AI arguments I have seen, it is, at the very best:

- Using shit tons of content as training data, be it written, visual, or audio/video, for a purpose it was not granted for by it's creators

- Reliant on labor in the developing world that is paid nearly nothing to categorize and filter reams upon reams of data, some of which is the unprocessed bile of some of the worst corners of the Internet imaginable

- Explicitly being created to displace other laborers in the developing and developed world for the financial advantage of people who are already rich

That is, at best, a socially corrosive if extremely cool technology. It stands to benefit people who already benefit everywhere, at the direct and measurable cost of people who are already being exploited.

I don't think you're a bad person for building whatever AI thing you are, for what it's worth. I think you're a person who probably sees cool new shit and wants to play with it, and who doesn't? That's how most of us got into this space. But as empathetic as I am to that, tons of people alongside you who are also championing this technology know exactly what they are doing, they know exactly who they are screwing over in the process, and they have said, to those people's faces, that they don't give a shit. That they will burn their ability to earn a living to the ground, to make themselves rich.

So if you're prepared to stand with them and join them in their quest to do just that, then I don't think anyone is obligated to assuage your feelings about it.
We were ever in a position to "trust" media?

To me the advantage of having the internet was to allow a range of people without prior permission, a large sum of money, or more free time than sense to start publishing.

It was all seemingly meant to expand the number of voices in the "media" and reduce the requirement to put your trust into any one outlet. We took a wrong turn somewhere.
Unless this has a huge market upside you're not looking for an angel investor and no one will give you a loan at your current scale. My suggestion would be to find someone who complements your skillset, and have them work for equity so you both own a cashflowing asset over time.

Another comment mentions that this is a guitar learning app and there not being clear competitive differentiation. Assuming this is true, find someone who is an excellent 0-1 mobile app marketer, give them 40% of the company with a 4 year vest, and work on it as a team.
This is so cool. I’d ask how it works, however I feel like I wouldn’t understand at a fundamental level, even if I read through your codebase. Interpreting an image in the concept of a machine baffles me, it doesn’t have eyes. It surely can’t sense light like humans can. It can’t possibly understand depth (the sofa is in the far left background?!). It can’t know what a goatee is, based on some pixels that are mildly different colours than the skin or background. These are all assumptions I’ve made coming into this, and I am relatively sure I’m wrong at this stage.

If you’d like to briefly post I’m sure a lot of HN denizens would appreciate it however. I’ll just stand at the sidelines, post this and spectate the commentary and try it myself with a small group.
Reminiscent of the write-only-memory[1]

[1] https://repeater-builder.com/molotora/gontor/25120-bw.pdf
Moral Bankruptcy
Prop13 - which keeps property taxes low for people who don’t turnover buildings - incentivizes landlords to seek high rents? Just nonsensical.

Landlords seek high rents because they are capitalists and charge as much as the market can bear. That shouldn’t be controversial.. there are indeed all sorts of distortions caused by eviction moratoriums and renters rights laws, likewise there are distortions to refineries due to environmental laws. Just part of the ‘cost’ of doing business.
Oh, that's a good one! I'm trying to collect religions and countries.
How come January is the worst? I thought it was among the best.
It’s called “Gigabit pro” or now “Gigabit x10” and is symmetrical 10gbps.

It’s not on their regular website. You have contact them directly to have someone come out to survey and see if you are eligible for a fiber run.

https://youtu.be/tQV0ltA1tCk
> If they're qualified, they didn't have to cheat.

(Just rewriting to specify my understanding: If the candidate was qualified, they didn't have to cheat even if they did cheat. They could have simply not cheated and been selected by the merits of their qualifications.)

This argument relies on the false premise that an interviewer will always accurately determine a candidate's qualifications. That a candidate is not qualified to pass an interview is not the same that a candidate is not qualified for the job for which they're being interviewed.
Interesting, thanks for calling that out. Hopefully Apple will adopt this on iPhone and finally bring us sweet, sweet expandable storage!
Not ready to evolve into homo matrixens quite yet.

And to the people who are going to say, "then dont use it," I counteroffer the fact that--at least where I live--there is a damned-if-you-do-damned-if-you-don't aspect to phone use. You will be socially isolated if you don't conform, especially if you are a teenager. Tech evolves faster than our minds, morals and laws can handle. I dont think humanity is ready to jump into fully immersive screenlife quite yet, and I fear Apple makes things sexy enough to be the ones to kick us down that well.
This is the first I'm seeing https://mschf.com/ and I'm awe struck. This is art and my favorite thing in a long time.
Astronomy Picture of the Day Archive
eg, a circumlocution from earlier times:

> I believe in Spinoza's God — AE
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thagomizer
There are a couple of things that seem to combine with others in a very general way... "were-", "[the] Impaler" (!), "Rich[est]"...

I was able to get some things like "Were-jesus-pope-hamster-crusader", "Trump-jesus-trump", "Pope Impaler", "Trump Impaler", "Vlad the Werehamster", "Richest were-genghis Khan", and also "Were-were-werewolf"!

I think the willingness of the language model to make up character names like this is a bit of a defect in this context, but maybe it's useful for brainstorming movie sequels. :-)
Baldur's gate 3 took it to the next level. It's multiple radial menus for the actions/items. I wish they also applied the same idea for the context menus rather than a list. It works really well in practice.

https://images.pushsquare.com/70ee3def6aca7/baldurs-gate-3-h...

https://static1.srcdn.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2023/...
So that this doesn't happen again is exactly why the defacto use of .lan should be codified in an RFC.

.local was never reserved for private use, and it got scooped up for mdns. .dev was never reserved for private use, it got gTLD'd and owned by Google who promptly put it on the HSTS preload list.

.internal is nice but it's not what people are already using.
> I can't trust the answers it provides or the text it generates. It's not a replacement for search, it simply makes search worse.

Can you trust search results without AI summarization? They’re mostly SEO spam.

> The images it generates are, at best, a polished regression to the mean. If you want custom art, pay an artist.

Most visual art that people consume is polished regression to the mean. It’s designed for mass appeal, not originality.

> I want to talk to a person, not a chatbot. The chatbot wastes time while you wait for a person that can actually help.

Have you spoken to an outsourced call center in the last, oh, 20 years?

> I don't want music recommendations from something that can't appreciate or understand music. Human recommendations will always be better.

I’m old enough to remember hearing the same popular song 10 times a day on the local radio station because their rotation was designed for broad appeal to maximize ad sales, not to uncover new and interesting music for eager listeners.

> I don't want AI mediating social interactions that it cannot and does not understand (though it may appear to). If I'm weary of too much volume on any social platform or in any news feed, I'll cut back on what I'm following.

This one I agree with, but it’s been our reality for at least a decade now, not a new development.

> If you're having AI attend a meeting for you, it probably wasn't that important.

True

> If you're having AI write your email, it probably wasn't that important.

Even in important emails there is a lot of “copy”, and AI-generated copy is no worse than human-generated copy. It’s just copy.

> If it's screening job candidates for you, you're missing quality candidates.

If the alternative is keyword screening, I’ll take AI screening, thank you.
ImageReady’s tooling (slicing, 2-Up/4-Up Save-for-Web, GIF frame editing, etc) was incorporated directly into Photoshop. It wasn’t “nixed”.
All human output is much more derivative than the majority of "creators" dare to admit.

Nevertheless, good human output always add something new and original to the elements that are derived from prior art.

AI output consists entirely of derived elements, which only in the best case may happen to be mixed into a distinct combination from those already existing.

Even when the combination is new, it is distinct only due to randomness, without an ability to select like a human, which from the possible random combinations is more suitable to achieve a purpose, or it is more beautiful, or it is better according to other such criteria that are not possible, at least yet, to be judged by a program.
1. What’s wrong with them?

2. Why would unfairness on one specific political topic impugn the judgement of Wikipedia editors generally?

3. Who are these ‘moderators’? Do you mean editors or admins? If you mean the former, any general judgement is pretty hard to justify; if you mean the latter, admins don’t intervene often enough for their misjudgements to cause a problem for the whole website. I’ve substantially edited at least a dozen relatively important articles (which is not that much by Wikipedia standards admittedly) and have never had to interact with an admin on matters of content.
The above examples you've provided sound pretty dreadful to be honest. I can't imagine how awful it would be to be told I've a serious disease and then be stuck talking about it to a chatbot of all things.
> can just ask for relevant projects or commits on GitHub of a major open source project and that eliminates the 90% of candidates in the pool.

Eliminating 90% of your candidate pool sounds like a great way to slow your hiring to a crawl.

Very few people have noteworthy and/or relevant GitHub activity. You'd probably be eliminating more like 95%.

GitHub activity also has a high false positive rate in my experience. A lot of the GitHub profile superstars I've worked with were always spending their time working on open source things or something that they could put on their profile. They avoided doing anything internal to the company as much as possible because they knew they couldn't leverage it for their next job.
You don't have to pay someone $50/wk. You allow users to have friends, and then you recommend based on what they've been listening to.
What is raging is to know that IP v4 address ranges are provided at no cost to organisations. And even if they still had to acquire some from other organizations at a cost, there certainly don't have to pay a regular fee to keep them.

So in the end, they take a public good that is basically free, a lot lot lot of it, and like a hold up they make a lot of money racketeering you monthly because you are too insignificant to be allowed to own your own ips...
The long tail was what was promised a couple of decades ago. What we got instead is plain old winner takes all dynamic, with a surveillance economy bolted on top.
>You probably want to update your image of universities.

I have a close friend who is a prof at a university and most exams remain closed book.

You probably want to update your image of universities.

Or, perhaps, we can agree that it depends on the university, the subject, etc. and blanket statements based on single anecdotes are silly?
This seems like a bad example, check the quotes:

$ n 'discuss galaxy peace with aliens
tell them that we won't hurt them
and that we can probably reach some agreement'
I think there's even more to unpack, though. Yes, there will be a fair bit of repeated knowledge, but what the 30+ books do is cement your mental map and expose the common agreement and disagreements in the general field. From there, additional work may not be novel because there are a handful of insights and 200 pages of rehash once you have that mental map, but there is no single book developed that can implant that mental map.

And that is true in most fields. It takes seeing multiple perspectives to figure out what will "stick" with you. Tiago Forte's "Building a Second Brain" stuck with me because I had already read "Getting Things Done" and a number of other productivity books. (As but one example.)
Not everyone spends their free time contributing (to major nonetheless) to open source projects.

and elsewhere in these comments, we see:

I would expect candidates for programming jobs to demonstrate first class ChatGPT or other code copilot skills.

Not everyone spends their free time learning first class ChatGPT or code copilot skills.

It's interesting that this age old mantra about open source contributions being inappropriate for a hiring manager to expect because of what people do or do not do in their free time now does not apply to random other skill/experience that one must also acquire in their free time.

If a company has, for example, "git experience required" on the job posting you'll either need to actively demonstrate that you know how to use git or passively demonstrate by having a on-line accessible corpus of git-related work that shows your experience. You don't get a pass on that requirement just because the companies you've been working at don't use git and, well, you don't want to spend your free time learning git. And it is appropriate for the hiring manager to list that as a requirement despite claims that they'll be disqualifying some percentage of the candidates by including that as a requirement.
Addition won't work for things that depend on the order of operations. If salt + water is ocean and water + fire is steam, what's salt + water + fire? Is it salt + steam or ocean + fire?

Associativity and commutivity in vector addition doesn't translate well to semantic meaning. Extrapolating your example, it'd also mean:

v_king - v_queen ~= v_father - v_mother
v_king - v_royalty ~= v_father - v_parent
v_king - v_father ~= v_royalty - v_parent ~= v_queen - v_mother

I don't see why those should all be true. Intuitively, trying to satisfy O(N^2) semantic pairings with vectors that are optimised for a very specific and different numerical operation (cosine similarity) feels like something that won't work. I'd imagine errors get amplified with 3+ operands.
When a Logic Block has been tested to have silicon defect(s), it tries to disable itself right after manufacturing. If this fails, then it's neighbors try to disable themselves, and so on and so forth. Logic Blocks that have no defects are disabled in a specific way that prevents themselves from disabling themselves. If this fails, then it's neighbors try to disable themselves, and so on and so forth. This happens after manufacturing and before sale of the FPGA chip.
That's like being okay with a candidate Googling the answer during an interview. Not unheard of, but unusual. It seems hard to test someone's knowledge that way.