skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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How "AI" is completely unlike human intelligence: Our kids understand what images of evil look like and yet we never had to send them off to Kenya to be trained by a thousand underpaid workers. And those underpaid workers themselves were never so trained.

Why is that?
Cultivating Control – Corporate Lobbying on the Food and Farm Bill
Disagree. I'd trust a large social network from Google much more than one from Facebook or Twitter.
Off topic:

When I was a teenager and started playin D&D (1st ed), there was only Lawful/Neutral/Chaotic. No Good/Evil.

At the time, I tended to see the world primarily as Good vs Evil, so AD&D (2nd ed) seemed like an improvement.

As I got older, I came to realize that what people consider "Evil" is mostly used for people we're in some partisan conflict with.

Like in Israel/Palestine: Each side see the other side as "Evil" and themselves as the "Good Guys".

If anything, the main purpose of allowing ourselves to see some groups or individuals as "Evil" is to dehumanize them in ways that allow us to do "Evil" things to them.

Lawful vs Chaotic makes a lot more sense to me than back then, though. It's the yin/yang dualism that when in balance gives rise to most of the interesting dynamical phenomena.
Directly from the linked article: "On average, first quarter 2024 earnings results were solid. Four sectors — Communication Services, Utilities, Consumer Discretionary and Information Technology — generated the strongest earnings growth for the quarter"

But that was just a link I came across quickly. You can look at almost any economic statistics you want and see that the economy (at least in the US, you mentioned the S&P 500 so I assume you are US-based) is quite strong right now.
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Very strange to me that people in the comments are jumping from OPs “I developed late onset ADHD” to “OP doesn’t have ADHD because late onset ADHD doesn’t exist”

Isn’t it every bit as likely OP has had ADHD their whole life and is just now noticing the symptoms/the symptoms have recently been exacerbated in some way?

To answer your question directly: I’ve been on stimulants for years. They helped me a ton, but more importantly they’ve helped me learn behaviors I can use when I’m off of stimulants to keep my focus where I need it. After 10 years, I’m taking them less and less, maybe 2 days a week. There are plenty of downsides to them (Andy Warhol said stimulants make you think the small problems are the big problems) so ideally you can use them as a tool not a crutch.

I just read a book called ADHD 2.0 which was very enlightening for me, I recommend it.
> The US Chamber of Commerce, which calls itself the world’s largest business association, was the biggest spender among entities that reported lobbying on the food and farm bill between 2019 and 2023. Other top spenders included the Bayer Corporation, a major pesticide manufacturer; American Crystal Sugar Company, which processes sugar beets and other agricultural products; Koch Industries,
which manufactures fertilizers; and consumer food product makers Land O’Lakes and Mars, Incorporated.

Full report @ https://www.ucsusa.org/sites/default/files/2024-05/Cultivati...
Not going to lie -- I had hopes for the Humane Pin, but feels like we are in the early 1990s era for smart phones in relation to the platforms needed to host specific agentic AI. A few years before the iPhone moment.
Since then, the Parliament’s COMPETENT services have been working ...

(Emphasis added)
It absolutely does not. A C++ structure is a much richer object: it can have custom copying, moving and assignment behaviours, it can have vtables, it has RAII, etc. That's the whole point about the "object model" in the article: C++ has it, C does not.

What I think you're trying to say is "a POD structure with no custom behavior is essentially identical in C and C++". That is mostly true, though if the struct contains a union, C++ has stricter UB rules (there might be other differences as well, but that's the one I can think of at the moment).
Let's for just a moment give Ukrainians some agency here. Should they have a say as to whether they are deleted by a foreign imperialist power, who claims that they, their language, and culture have no right to exist?

https://theconversation.com/no-the-west-is-not-to-blame-for-...
I know several locally renowned artists, the kind that make big murals in celebrities mansions, who have switched to AI work

They wanted to express themselves in the output that the AI was giving them all their lives

I don’t think it’s that complicated, if you want to express yourself a certain way, manually, you still can. Now more people, including professionals, can express themselves the way they wanted
Maybe my reading of the post is incorrect but I did not interpret it as solving the parenting problem. In the US there is a massive growing problem where parents are simply not parenting their kids and relying on institutions (schools) to do it. I honestly do not know what will solve that problem.

To me this post shares a future where kids coming from good households will have the ability to learn more efficiently than before. It is not to replace the teacher but perhaps it will replace the tutor.

Lastly, I am not sure why but I genuinely believe that folks focus too much on "hallucinations" and "fabrications" by LLM. Does it happen, yes but I think its one of those things you can actually tune for and it get down to low to no errors in a walled environment. It is definitely something to consider but not a blocker.
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Why would they have taken down the voice if they were operating on a level of truth in their favor?
Whether the actor was an impersonator or not is still up to debate. I can see an argument being made when you consider the entire context.
As I see it, the Land was in common ownership only until 1066 AD. Then William I distributed the land amongst his 180 barons. However, he promised the English people would be able to exercise their previous rights (pasture, roam etc), hence "common land".

That's important -- all land was (is?) owned by 180 barons (not sure how many families survived till today), it's just the government restricted land owners to prevent people using it in some cases. Yes it was called "common land". But it doesn't mean its owner is common people.
I am pretty sure this is not the first battery ( Sodium or not ) to do it, the question is how many of these 90% in 12 minutes can they endure.
someone has to be first...of all the countries involved, uk and france are the best positioned for this...falklands talk is just a plain distraction, on the other hand sub-saharan coups + new caledonia uprising are real suspicious with russia/china involvement
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You keep harping about the "forty-year-old law!" (actually only 36), as if that meant it were somehow bad or irrelevant.

So I guess you wouldn't mind if someone killed you, since laws against murder are much older than that? Shit, outmoded old boomer thinking, amirite?

Wow, when you realise how you're coming off here...
> I tried reverse image searching a few of the prints, only to find they were one-of-a-kind. I started googling “morris artwork” and found images that, while beautiful, seemed to lack the finesse and colour range of my new prints.

Yeah, that seems to be one of the MJ telltales, and preference-tuned model telltale in general: they use too wide a color range and want to jam in every possible color. It's possible there's a lowest-common-denominator human-rating bias towards using a lot of colors. That seems to be a big problem with RLHF and instruction-tuning as practiced, which you will notice as you delve into outputs more.

(I don't worry too much about the 'erosion of art history'. You know how many forgeries there are out there in art history? The only reason you don't think about this for, say, Rembrandt, is that the 95%+ of fakes or pious forgeries or restorations out there over the centuries have been winnowed out or destroyed or lost.)
I struggle to see the authors point.

His last sentence:

> It could have worked, at least in theory, in a world where preserving API compatibility (in a broad sense) is much more common than it clearly is (or isn't) in this one.

Is he implying that using vendor packages is more clear that using version tags in a go.mod? That would certainly be the first I’ve ever heard of someone preferring dependency management via vendor packages over a go.mod & ‘go get’.

Personally I absolutely love the way go manages dependencies. I have way more confidence that my old go programs will run with minimal dependency related issues compared to programs written in something like python.
Oh sure -- for piddly enterprise nonsense, having some VM yeeting magic to HA a thing that's not HA is .... yeah, I guess. Ideally in combination with tested backups for when the HA magic corrupts instead of protects, but such is life.

But that's not "at scale" that's just some great plains accounting app that's been dragged from one pickle jar to another.
That's how you run a large corporation. Not a successful startup or moonshot project.

It is perfectly valid to ignore a risk and then assume you'll figure something out if it comes to pass. Few things happen quickly so you'll have time to talk to other founders and investors and so on. Or maybe you'll fail and then start a new venture in six month. Trying to plan for mitigations ahead of time will mean you spend all your time on mitigating risk versus growing the business. A climber that does that is a corpse.
It's time for new startups/search engines.
Moreover it is documented by Microsoft itself: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/devnotes/mas...
Surveilling the Masses with Wi-Fi-Based Positioning Systems [pdf]
end of IP era. Content produced by ai is expressed as generated. which means most of that products are generated not copied.
I went to red lobster in Toronto yesterday as a "lets save red lobster Canada" idea I had in my head, they came to Canada the year I was born and my dad was obsessed so I have a lot of nostalgia.

Came out thinking: let em burn.

Worse than mediocre rubber for $200 after tip and tax.
Also https://spwhitton.name/tech/code/papersway
> Even the initial quote for three hosts was ridiculous for the CPUs offered.

And storage, a few years ago they were trying to convince us that their cache is soo good, you should use spinning disks with some SSD cache. Of course they wouldn't provide any concrete numbers, and even with hybrid storage and subpar CPUs, they were a decent chunk more expensive than traditional servers with better CPUs and a dedicated full flash SAN.

Add to that the subpar (even in their demos!) software with lacking APIs, and it just seemed extremely weird to see them getting business.
And how has Cisco done since the early 1990s? Not so bad, right?

Nobody knows if Nvidia is in the late 1990s or the early 1990s. Based on valuation on P/E they are cheaper than Cisco in late 1990s.
My totally uninformed outsider view is that Google lacks leadership that can set a direction and follow through with it. They're no longer capable or interested in shaking up the environment like they did with Gmail. I understand that Google is a large mature company now, but they also seem to be uninterested in steady-handed long-term maintenance of a lot of their products either.

I don't see any vision in Google's products other than "ad money printer go brrrr."
This is a 5 paper long argument aimed at other mathematicians. It's a formal proof in the sense that it's standard math talk, but not a formally verifiable proof that could be, e.g., machine checked.
When I first used ChatGPT's voice assistant's I was like "Wow, this one is clearly Scarlett Johansson from Her, they even copy her mannerisms."

No amount of unverifiable "records" (just pieces of paper provided by somebody who has a multimillion dollar incentive to show one outcome) will change my mind.

But if they can produce the actual voice artist I'd be more open-minded.
> fundamental understanding of the Universe hasn’t progressed in several decades

Imagine expectations set that high at any other point in history
> Depending on where you established infrastructure on the moon, it might be pretty easy to conceal the things you're doing in space.

No it wouldn't be, because there is zero chance in hell of everyone else on Earth not realizing whats going on, if someone were suddenly busy launching all that machinery, building materials and weapons towards the Moon, not to mention hundreds of personnel with all their space suits, provisions, water, shelters, space poop collectors, etc.

Hiding something is pretty pointless, if the process of getting whatever it is to wherever it is hidden, is announced to the entire planet by shooting it into the sky on roaring pillars of fire.

> The moon is also a pretty decent staging ground for the rest of the solar system

The rest of what now?

There is Earth. There is the Moon. There is Mars. This is all the places in the solar system a human could, in theory, visit without immediately dying horribly. Maybe Phobos. Maybe.

The other planets are off limits: Mercury is worse than literal Hell. Venus is a hypercorrosive hothouse. Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune would instantly crush everything in their deep gravity envelopes, and most of their moons are highly radioactive hellholes. Not to mention that everything beyond Mars is not even theoretically reachable with a manned spacecraft as of right now.

So, that leaves Mars. A freeze-dried, irradiated, airless, toxic rock desert covered in microabrasive regolith, with too low gravity, no magnetic field to speak off, no available Nitrogen, and no resources that aren't found in abundance on Earth. And before anyone says "Land": May I present the [Gobi Desert][1], a 1.295 Million square kilometers large rock desert, smack in the middle of Asia. And while it is largely a cold, barren rock desert, it is still a paradise compared to Mars.

And even so, the Moon offers ZERO advantage as a "staging ground" for Missions to Mars, because, there is nothing on the Moon to be staged. Every kg of stuff that would be "staged" there, has to be first launched from Earth, so all a Moon Base does, is add another launch to an already costly equation.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gobi_Desert
> What if it wasn’t a computer voice model but rather a real-life voice actress that you could pay a few cents to try to imitate Scarlett Johansson’s voice as best as she could?

> That’s effectively what’s happening here, and it isn’t illegal.

Profiting from someone else's likeness is illegal.
Very few proofs in actual professional mathematics are written in a formal proof structure where what you suggest is actually possible. You definitely need to understand the underlying ideas to follow along.

"rewrite in lean when" isn't really practical (at least yet).
This is correct, and is very different from both the Midler and Waits cases. The courts are never going to tell a voice actor she can't use her real voice because she sounds too much like a famous person.

And besides, it sounds more like Rashida Jones anyway. It's clearly not an impersonation.
I had no idea that this happened. I would love there to be a spiritual successor the awesome N900.

I guess you could argue that that's kind of what Android is, and that would be fair (you can do a lot of Linuxey stuff with Termux and the like), but I dunno, I think I'd still like something that feels a bit more like "a computer"
I don’t know how “McKinsey Trained” could be anything other than an absolute insult.
> but the alternative implementation of state machines in any frontend framework would look terrible

async function animation(setState, signal) {
while (true) {
setState("a", 1)
setState("b", "")
await wait(250)
signal.throwIfAborted()

for (_ of range(0, 3)) {
setState("a", (_) => _ * 2)
await wait(250)
signal.throwIfAborted()
setState("b", (_) => _ + ".")
await wait(250)
signal.throwIfAborted()
}
}
}
Literally has been used to mean figuratively since the 1800s.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/literally

'The "in effect; virtually" meaning of literally is not new. It has been in regular use since the 18th century and may be found in the writings of some of the most highly regarded writers of the 19th and early 20th centuries, including Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, Charlotte Brontë, and James Joyce.'
Took them several hours to put that message there though.
Is it the same sh* like Tim Hortons? RIP then...
I'm just grateful we're not counting file shit in "blocks" anymore.
Programming languages, sorted by creator age
I love this low-tech DDG interface! Made my day, thanks. (aha, https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/features/non-ja... mentions the "HTML" and "Lite" versions)

Also, why is your username green?
I made a books recommendation app based on your mood
Just like Toys 'R Us. Same playbook.
You pay normal tax on them when you sell after holding for 1 year, but an increased tax if you sell within that year.
To me it's not so much about drawing skills. Technical drawing ability is not as necessary as it once was.

It's about aesthetic taste. You will end up with lots of art looking like the AI generated aesthetic. E.g. overly impressive looking at first glance, but lacking any real "character" or human element.

Time and time again we see that impressive looking art does not always translate into good art. Keith Haring's simple line art characters or Van Gogh's big brushstrokes were visually very original and very human, even if they weren't as complex and technically impressive as AI generated art.

I like to assume people are smart. And what will always stand out in art is originality and humanness. Even crappy looking MS Paint drawings can have charm to them, like the NBA Paint guy on Twitter.

I don't really think this feature is all that worrisome, it's more that it'll add unnecessary bloat to a program that's supposed to be very simple and just for making quick pictures. If I want to make something more composited I'm going to use Photoshop, not MS Paint.
>>And yes, while FPVs can be queued onto SPGs (or whatever) by these other drones, so can other means of fires (like traditional artillery). As a reminder, tube artillery can usually reach out to at least 20km.

Yeah but that's the whole point thats been discussed in interested circles - the shift of the vulnerability of SPGs from the firing to the travel phase in absence of accompanying VSHORAD. (If they just had 2000 Gepards) And as Gunlorrys have to travel and fire on certain roads, that decreases the problem space.

For the M109, you are completely right. I missed that one.

I am not saying that tube artillery has a problem, but that ~10-20km around the line of contact seems to be the place you don't want to rely on mobility alone for survivability. Rheinmetall currently seems to be developing a 100km ranged base bleed grenade for 155mm pipes.
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Johansson might not win a lawsuit, but she isn't looking bad at all. She is totally standup in the Arts vs BigTech AI cultural battle. (See also, Apple's recent iPad crushes all artist material" commercial.)

Nothing in this article changes the essence of her complaint.

The only real, though partial, rebuttal to her is that OpenAI copied a work product she did for a movie, and the movie was was more than her voice, so it's not totally her own work. So maybe the movie team as a whole has a stronger complaint than the voice actor alone.

She didn't lose any game of wits. She just got done dirty by someone who got away with it.
She doesn't need money from them. She has respect from people who matter, SAM and OpenAI behaved badly like big tech always does.
If OpenAI permanently stops using Johansson-like Sky voice, she'll win what she wanted.

Of course, anyone whose voice sounds like an AI has the unpleasantness of that experience, and a rich person is more able to endure it than a regular Johansson.
Moonshot to me indicates there is a specific goal versus simply making a startup that may pivot utterly. If the Apollo project ended up building a high speed train then it'd have been a failure no matter how good that train was.
> Founding team of the African office of investment fund focused on starting new
businesses from scratch to fix market failures.

This is context from the person's LinkedIn[0] - looks like maybe someone who was a manager in a fund that had preallocated money to be spent on African agri-businesses, rather than you might think of when you read the phrase "building startups".

[0] https://www.linkedin.com/in/kathryn-zealand/details/experien...
I'm at a company that seems to be struggling with how to dictate a vision but then obtain buy in from the workers. They keep playing this game of throw out an idea, hope the workers will all understand and implement in the same direction, and everyone will have great success.

The middle managers (the VPs and Directors) are essentially useless as they are passing forward the leadership 10,000 ft view. The managers are stuck implementing in their area and thus no two teams operate the same way. The workers are then in this area of constant upheaval as nothing seems to get accomplished the way leadership expected.

I read these articles as they seem to have come out every year first Google then Zappos then various startups. Leadership communicating to workers never seems to work out well as companies grow. They operate at too high a level and unless there are a solid structure of guidance to go across teams/individuals it makes it difficult to all row in the same direction. It makes sense that a UI team is going to operate at a different cadence to the services team to the data team, but if you don't have managers over each function at least there will be chaos in my experience.
> I remember when Microsoft got sued for including a web browser in Windows. Oh how anti-trust has fallen.

The case was more complicated than you’re suggesting, and a lot less relevant.

Which of these companies are you suggesting has the monopoly position in the phone market? Apple? Google?

Which other OS-level AI voice assistants are being prevented from competing in this case? This isn’t like a web browser download where the marginal cost is negligible download bandwidth. Voice assistants are expensive to develop and run. They’re investments made in the product being sold.

Most importantly: What outcome do you even want? That the government forbid companies from developing AI integration into their own platforms because it might make people more loyal to those platforms?
Mount Google Drive as a folder (rclone) and run WinDirStat?
Oh man. I really miss that Ubuntu (5.04 - 6.04). As for many, it was my gateway into Linux, a 5.10 CD they gave me at uni. I still have it somewhere.

Not only the startup sound was epic: all its system sounds were great and unique. The visual theme was nice. Its typeface felt warm. You could feel the attention to the details, that it felt kind of handcrafted and that everywhere from the desktop to the help pages you could feel the ubuntu and that indeed it was Linux for human beings.

Sadly it seems they ditched their motto and forgot what ubuntu meant somewhere in the way.
No, there are physical limits, and those are the ones determining mobile screens.
The white-collar version of walking out of a failing company with the chairs and coffee machine. 1000x more damaging, 1000x less punished. Business.
Yes. But it's generally far easier to fuel a cause with burning zeal for one's own ideological purity, than with compassion for innocent victims far away.