skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have absolutely no idea why people are so worried.

There is a human choice in a lot of matters, especially when it comes to how and why one perceives quality.

Quality in literature. Food. Arts. Fashion. Blogs. Programming. Acting. And all such things.

What I believe, based on a both cultural and philosophy stance at where the world is and where its going, is that, at best, so-called AI will push an even larger human segment towards finding the truth for oneself in a different and orginal aspect in terms of being human and how one perceives reality.

I think that the intelligent and thoughtful individual will find plenty of ways to nuture one's own abilities towards quality, which has always been the only true real value you can measure yourself against.

No one will stand a chance against the fluff and the obvious stupidity of "my ai will call your ai" and therfore, the only real direction to follow is the one that gives you an edge for yourself based on your fundamental skills you learn through years and years of experience and personality.

The reason great books are great is not that it's written. It's that it sips through the words and sentences, by their very human authors, that you can feel them inside of you.

There will be, is my belief, a larger calling in the world for removing oneself from the fast paced results which has absolutely no nerve or soul.

I am not afraid at all. I only feel sorry for the humans that has nothing to give in themselves to obtain a larger meaning with their time spent, in whatever profession or life they pursue.
Steam and combustion engines might be a net good for humanity, but weren’t good for millions of species in the current mass extinction. I think it’s a similar worry that AI will only be a good for the very top of the food chain.
What information sources would you recommend for the industry?
Windows 11 does not require setting timezone. I just did it in a VM to check I wasn't confused. Neither do android or iPhones.
Possible negative outcomes seem to be becoming more and more possible. And no one cares so long as the number at the bottom of the piece of paper hits the target that was made 90 days prior.

Altman's not the only example - our reluctance to tackle things like gun violence in the US or climate change are others - but he and his ilk are a prominent example.
I guess some of it might depend on how good the AI-generated content gets, and also how good the AI gets at detecting AI-generated content.

If the AI was good at detecting it, it wouldn't matter if the AI-generated content sucked, yes?

Even a low probability of detection would help. Let's say our algorithm is 50% likely to detect AI junk. That means that half the junk data won't make it in to model. Even 20% would probably be worthwhile, especially if it also threw away human-generated junk (and let's be realistic here: there is, and always has been, no shortage of terrible and/or wrong human-generated content).

Let's say those crappy filler paragraphs that get stuck between pictures on meme clickbait pages... I suspect most of those people have already been replaced, but that prose was horrible long before the current LLM boom.

I suspect there is a lot of effort being expended right now on ways to ensure the training data (whether human or AI generated) isn't shite.
Moving to another country is a nightmare because you cannot bring your phone number.

I am currently paying for a US phone number I don't meaningfully use, because it's not clear that all of my important account-holding organizations reliably support a two-factor/login confirmation strategy that isn't "US phone number".
It depends what your goal is.

If you're trying to prevent anyone from getting a copy of what's on your site, you're probably screwed, because technical solutions are hard and legal solutions are only going to be violated by The Internet since it isn't all in your jurisdiction.

If you're just trying to keep them from putting an excessive load on your servers, technical solutions are easy. Just give them an API or some other efficient way to receive the data.
I am reminded of the time Uncle Jed bought the buggy whip factory...
> I have another 40-50 years of existence to get through.

With that attitude, you're sure to live a very long time.
Unlike the low background radiation steel, high quality content will still continue to be created. Arguably even at a faster rate with these powerful tools.
The proportion will drop ofcourse but that only means curation will become king. With search this curation was difficult, because the value was so low you could only do it profitably if it was completely automatic, and that was difficult.

An optimistic take would be that LLMs will make curation so much more valuable, that it will be done much better. If the wider world gets to use this curation to limit spam, and highlight good work, it would be amazing for the world.
I've found fastmail's masked email to be a great solution to this. I don't give any services my primary address these days.
Sorry, these sorts of comments seem kind and well-intended, but we have to be real here and allow for the possibility that an impressive advancement has many (or mostly) negative effects.
If you got into art because you enjoy drawing and modeling and wanted to make THAT your job (not just abstractly "producing pictures") then these advancements are just obviously a negative development, no matter how you try to reframe it.

And we can all be like "noone is owed a job doing traditional art, this happened to millions of people during the industrial revolution too", but in that case we have to be honest and not tell art-folks that they are overreacting.
Developers aren't a cartel, but they respond to incentives just like anyone else.

https://www.fresheconomicthinking.com/p/upzoning-predictions...

For one example of how upzoning alone doesn't result in developers exceeding the market saturation rate.

To be clear, I support upzoning but I think it should be accompanied with an increase in the holding cost of land, so landowners are incentivised to develop now rather than later.
No, you can filter bullshit by trusted public keys. This isn’t a new problem. It just now needs to go mainstream.
Exactly, the fitness function is "make a picture which looks like these other pictures", which is used as a proxy for "make a picture that a human would find appealing by making it like all these pictures made by humans". The former definiton will always hold true, but the latter actually desired definition breaks down once your training set is contaminated with imitations of imitations of imitations.
Because it is the product of the likelihood and the consequence, not just the likelihood that matters.
The Internet Archive never follows robots.txt and they're still around
"bitches, check out my bank account balance"
You mean to say "nothing is an absolute right". Yes. If you want me to be more precise, I'll say that privacy is a lesser right, one that is important but that is nonetheless frequently and deliberately compromised in the service of other rights.

You get to weird places if you try to wrap an entire worldview around privacy the way people do expression or self-determination, because privacy does not have that standing.
Also, some people are just more sensitive to it than others.
I think AI is really exciting, I'm having a lot of fun building with it... but this is clearly the golden Era of AI. The future will see deep consolidation, most people will struggle to compete. The future will be full of wealth, but it remains to be seen if the wealth makes everyone's lives better, or just a select elite.

Potentially the future might be great, we don't have jobs... we have hobbies. Think Sisko's dad from DS9, replicators can create anything for everyone... but he runs a restaurant with handmade food because that's his passion.

But we might end up with a dystopia with corporate government, centrally controlled resources probably metered based on a social credit score.
I don't know about the rest of the world but most Americans live in significantly larger housing than previous generations did (that's part of why it's so expensive). SROs are basically illegal now, and "starter houses" that used to be 800 sq feet three times that size now.
So are you, if you abstract enough.
The responses in that thread are basically telling a 16 year old kid that their feelings are wrong and they should shut up and get on board.
Not sure that’s entirely true, especially if we’re talking cars. Volkswagen China is around 50% of VW sales, and Mercedes sells 40+% in China for example. If we’re talking US cars, they’re typically too focused on US market desires for other countries.
So if someone wants to live in a home without parking, it should be illegal?

Anyway pricing means that people can allocate the scarce resource of land in a city efficiently.
This is the comment I was replying to in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39408640 Where the person quite literally said "I don't care if it only works in Chrome, since its market share is high enough".
Perhaps LLMs will figure out the same thing.
Where's that amazing place ? O.o
Number of works that are released to the internet! At the end of the day, there is a human who has an idea in mind and is using an LLM to realize it. They are tweaking their prompt until they achieve their vision, then publishing only those successes. The resulting art can then be used with the prompt as training data.
The Price Is Wrong by Brett Christophers Review
So...? Tariffs are just like subsidies or taxes, a transfer of money between one sector and another sector in the economy
The web already contains vastly more information than you could ever even begin to read or look at in a lifetime. Most of it is total garbage. You have to use a trust filter to find things worth looking at.

You're arguing that there isn't a trust filter that can do that, but there will be, and it will probably be an AI.
> So are you, if you abstract enough.

Doubt. Explain, for instance, pain. How do you create that algorithmically? Or if you don't like to explain pain, how about love?

You see, that's the problem with being caught up in the "technical person" identity completely. Reducing yourself down to an algorithm is not exactly healthy if you ask me. But it sure explains a lot about where the world is headed and why.
For anyone else who was confused by what ROR means, it's ruby on rails.
Every generation had a real or perceived existential crisis that might have prompted this type of mindset. The Great Depression, World Wars, Communism, rock music, nuclear weapons, nuclear energy, global warming…

This latest one isn’t going anywhere, and humanity will almost certainly find a way to make it ‘work out’.
That would be a very game guess, given up until last year EV sales look to be rising quadratically or better. https://www.iea.org/data-and-statistics/charts/electric-car-...

It's more likely EV sales are driven by cost. They have always been more expensive than ICE cars, so they only eaten into the luxury market up until now so the rises you see are increasingly bigger bites out of the luxury market. But the primary cost is batteries, and a blip during COVID aside the cost of batteries has dropped every year. EV are approaching the cost of ICE cars now, if you include a bit of hand waving about maintenance costs.

Once they cross cost threshold and drop below the cost of ICE cars, that quadratic curve will go exponential for a while. Chargers will spring up like weeds, because you can make money out of them and they cost far, far less to build and run than a gas station.
It's getting really tiresome to see tech bros talk about biology as if they know what they're talking about.
I don’t understand. How does speed implies inverse security, even with corporate blinders on? Let’s say the add all the bloatware in the world, how would a slower developmental speed compromise the security? That their ability to push code goes up and their potential for bugs increase?
I don't think spammers care if trimming the plus-alias doesn't work for some email providers.

Gmail is also pretty popular, so it's not much work to just hardcode it there.
1 Over 7000 licenses for Pegasus alone. Both opposition and own party surveilled.

2 Usage of Pegasus means all intercepts are on the servers in Israel. All Government secrets and potential kompromat transferred to foreign power.
> The Liberal party uses Climate Change basically as anti-western-Canada/anti-conservative-party tool.

It isn't used by the liberal party as an anti western tool. It's an actual threat that is creating serious problems across Canada today.

Here in Alberta today, we are facing an unprecedented drought in 2024 as a product of record low snowpack that itself is a product of 2023 being the hottest year in recorded history.

Pine beetle infestations are destroying forests across the BC / Alberta border because in the last decade our winters have simply no longer been cold enough to kill them off.

The revenue neutral carbon tax is the most effective market oriented policy for decarbonizing economic growth, as demonstrated by economic study after economic study.
Same, and despite this, Vim over SSH feels better than regular VSCode (assuming a decent internet connection).
Bottom line is that private companies can’t compete with governments. China heavily subsidizes its industries, far more than the US or Germany, and makes it easy for them to operate.
I know what you mean, but there are plenty of mundane and labor-intensive tasks in art too. Ever try to make background characters or landscapes for a video? It's stuff that nobody pays attention to, but it still has to look plausible. Real artists will use Sora as a tool to automate those tedious tasks, so they can focus on storytelling.
The Dead Internet Theory was only slightly ahead of its time.

Used to be real people pretended to be girls on the internet. These days I can’t even get an honest real fake person pretending to be an attractive female on LinkedIn.
All of it almost works.
They have a download page on their website that will give you a binary. Alternately, you can install it from Flathub[0] or see if they have packages for your distro[1].

[0]: https://flathub.org/apps/dev.lapce.lapce

[1]: https://github.com/lapce/lapce/blob/master/docs/installing-w...
Another distinction is that the EU has figured out something in between.

That the US has been waging an economic wars and used unconventional warfare techniques, corporate espionage, corruption, and weaponized the US dollar.

That US businesses have been lobbying and interfering with politics in the EU to provide themselves with competitive edges.

Lobbying is itself illegal in many EU nations hence done undercover, thus is plain bribery and corruption of government officials

EU has started retaliating, that's all. At least in using the justice system the way the US has instrumented its own to serve US businesses, helping them win certain markets, and fine competing foreign to the US businesses, fortunes, and ruining them whenever possible.

Still, not letting side loads, imposing to be an intermediary and payment gateway between all publishers and their audience, taking an outrageous commission rate, plus a fixed developer licensing fee, plus forcing all developers to build the published binaries exclusively on Apple made hardware, plus disallowing third parties to repair, plus circumventing the right to repair bill, altogether is without doubt abusing a position of dominance and deploying anti competition tactics.

Saying these are measures to keep users safe is a fallacy and an insult to educated consumers, all it says really is a reveal of how Apple considers its consumers at large.
> It’s just really clear that a giant text averaging machine can only go so far

It's not really a text averaging machine, it's a pattern matching machine.

Right now the "depth" of the patterns it can match can only go so far, but in a few years with more advances in chips and memory the depth is going to increase and the patterns it can match will fan out accordingly.
Good. Having people work in entertainment always seemed to me like a huge waste of human potencial.
> The courts have not decided whether this is "fair use". However, the four factors make it pretty clear.

It's funny because you say it's "pretty clear" without saying which way you think it goes, which then makes it unclear what you think the result is.
I put a complex codebase into a single 120K-token prompt, and asked 7 questions
Mysterious 'MMS Fingerprint' Hack Used by Spyware Firm NSO Group Revealed
That's the trick - not all email providers behave this way, so systems would have to throw out legitimate emails.

Also, most of the automated email systems are not as sophisticated as people think. Ours actually relies on + wildcards for internal testing.
big enough shareholders get to place their own board members

you seem to have it backwards:

> Typically, the board chooses one of its members to be the chairman (often now called the "chair" or "chairperson")

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Board_of_directors
Also, size of files. Less of an issue for typical codebases, but VS Code historically has slowed to a standstill on anything remotely large.
Hackers got nearly 7M people's data from 23andMe
This made me think of LookAtMe, a python markdown-to-text-presentation tool, which supports embedded terminal among other features.

https://lookatme.readthedocs.io/en/latest/getting_started.ht...
Sure. But the reason it doesn’t apply “equally” is not because citizen Kane is a classic, but because ant man 3 is mainstream blockbuster trash. People who frame marvel as the height of films today are just so… intellectually lazy.

I’ve shown quite a few people citizen Kane and, aside from a musing discomfort at the parallels of post modern trump like media manipulation (FRAUD), it really doesn’t resonate with people nearly as much as, say, Parasite, despite them probably being culturally closer to Kane.

Tl;dr if you’re going to show someone a “life changing film” pick something new that is similarly ambitious. Classics require too much effort to enjoy. It often doesn’t work.
> this is a contradiction.

> If every election has some shady things happen then it's not possible for every bit of shadiness to be explained as anything other than shadiness.

> So was there shadiness or wasn't there?

I didn't say that there was absolutely no shadiness, but I haven't seen evidence that there was more shadiness than in any other election. The "evidence" brought forth for Trumps position that I've seen hasn't held up to scrutiny.

> A lot of it can be explained away, which is why I said the hanging chad issue was a bigger problem. but ALL of it? I don't think so, even at the time there were a few things that gave me pause.

You're free to share them if you'd like. All I'm saying is that I'm not aware of evidence brought forward that holds up to scrutiny, which leads me to believe that there was no significant deviation from the norm - the simpler explanation is that being primed for months by somebody with a lot of sway, combined with the strong distrust in non-partisan media, has led to these heaps of non-evidence (again, as far as I've seen, I'm happy to be proven wrong).
This sounds like bullshit generated by an LLM. How will we ever know for sure?
That depends on the power/mass ratio of the system.

Lower acceleration systems can also be used to preposition chemical fuels for use by crewed vehicles.
It is difficult to forsee what will happen. I am worried that AI will destroy industries, while on the other hand my son just used ChatGPT to teach himself how to program an Arduino, which is just awesome. Translators will lose jobs. Illustrators will lose jobs. But if you know how many jobs were lost in the printing industry (typesetting was an incredibly laborious work) which was completely offset by new jobs in other industries, things may turn out great. To be honest, despite having spent more than 50 years on this planet and having seen some things, I am completely undecided.
At least in the US, isn’t the stored biometric data just a JPEG of the person’s face? In that sense, a photograph should suffice to reproduce it :)

If the intention is in fact to communicate some fact about the passenger to other parties in the travel sector, it does seem like it might make sense to disambiguate the passenger you’re talking about by specifying their gender and date of birth, and for that matter a stable state-issued identifier.

I am curious about what kind of headaches a passport document number could cause, though. I hear people worry about it a lot, but also I’m accustomed to places of public accommodation routinely scribbling the document number down at check-in, or photocopying the document themselves. Is the threat, like, a false visa application or something? Is it the birthday that people are worried about getting out there?
You can definitely find a similar metropolitan areas to Oslo in the US. I find Portland to be quite similar.

So why don’t they have a similar adoption rate? I don’t see how the “but USA is bigger” means that ALL of USA is completely off the hook.
If people didn't constantly use the monetary value of a company as the sole determinant of whether it brought about societal progress, I'd think of it as something to enjoy.

But that's what we use and it's not getting better. It's getting worse. It's not just OpenAI either, but that's a fairly prominent example that's germane here.
Reality forces us into 0% free time. Not much choice.
You can't throw around specific metrics ("two outages they had last year") then claim you were just sharing a personal anecdote when someone calls you out and brings receipts. Just take the L.
Have some basic respect. You are reading this. Maybe other people reading this are also fully developed adults that don’t need your condescending instructions. And if you don’t want to be in a debate about “which is better” then don’t come in and rant that other people are giving poor advice.
First, just to be clear, I didn't call their code or data structures bad. The only context where I used that word was "make it as easy to write the well-performing version as the bad one", which was talking about the performance, not the code.

I know nothing about their code or data structures beyond what was in this blog post. I'm just working from the numbers, which don't add up.

In the interleaved version they're spending about 430 microseconds for each of the editor operations. In the batch version they're spending <2 microseconds. As per the blog post, the order of operations is the same. (The bit about removing overlapping search results is irrelevant, their search term can't self-overlap, so doing that portion in batch doesn't seem relevant.)

So, given the order of operations is the same, how much cache pressure is there between two calls to the editor data structures in the? The file is tiny and the results are dense. There's a span element on average evey 74 bytes. There's basically no pressure. And still the interleaved version is taking 430 microseconds longer. Given the minimal cache pressure between the calls, it is just impossible for that to be due to cache misses. It'd basically require that having accessed a couple of cachelines worth of (easily prefetchable) data would have the side effect of turning thousands of memory accesses from L1 hits to L3 misses in the next function call. Seems pretty implausible.

Why do you think that this is a more likely explanation than second order effects from the interleaving? (It doesn't need to be my initial guess of edits resetting the search state, there's plenty of other similar issues where a leaky abstraction causes minor changes in the order of operations to have outsized performance impact. For example, maybe they don't commit edits immediately, but only on the next read operation.)
A carbon tax is not 'weak virtue signalling', a sufficiently priced carbon tax changes the composition of supply and demand for all goods to account for carbon emitted.