skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Normally one might consider the political spectrum to go from the liberal stance of "It's all society's fault that you are how you are" to the conservative stance "It's all your fault you are how you are", with the practical situation being somewhere in between on a case by case basis.

However, things like drug decriminalization bring out further extremes, with extreme liberals espousing you should be able to do anything you want (even if you become a hazard to your community) and extreme conservatives feeling you should do what you want and the weak should die and the strong should live.

Only centrists and perhaps realpolitik people see all highly profitable addictive drugs that destroy the lives of the users as not some kind of accident on an individual basis and instead a super successful subscription business model with negative externalities that they would rather not suffer the side effects of as a community. Alas this view seems to not get so much airtime, and just ends up being a matter of fact as things play out.

To all the it's been illegal for over 100 years and it hasn't got any better school of thought people, so has murder. Were we expecting the nature of people to evolve in 100 years?

Seriously wondering from the perspective of choices of how to do things. Do we want to try to get the best result for the most people? How many false positives or false negatives do we want?
Programming Language Explorations (2nd Edition)
In Germany, there is the term "Gebrauchsgrafik." It refers to visualizations of products or services. These works typically lack artistic value and are often only visually aligned with the zeitgeist. Think of your bog-standard low effort advertising or IKEA instructions, generative AI is more than suitable for that. Not everything is or has to be considered art.
It cheapens humans, period. In the coming years, AI will be good enough to replace X% of a human's productivity. It will be as cheap as duplicating a process in a computer somewhere. It may never get to 100% but it will get to a high level. How many human equivalents will we be able to buy for a buck? AI is not the human savior people wish it would be.
in 0g, object that does not leave contact with the curved (by-whatever-means) rubber sheet will behave the same way

"using gravity" in the experiment is convenience of the experiment - gravity is freely abundant to use, both as a source of curvature and source of "making objects not leave the sheet"

if you want to hold the sheet by yourself, and hold the objects to the sheet by yourself - you are free to do it, enjoying your victory of "not using gravity"

but the point is not in the means, but in the end - create curvature, keep contact
> lorries, buses and fuel trucks

None of those drive on small local roads, but mom trucks do.
I only knew of Dublin Core as it relates to image metadata. I was told it was popular among photo-journalists (it has tags: publisher, keyword, creator). The more nerdy EXIF metadata is what the camera often provides and tells you about how the image was taken (f-stop, shutter speed), not who or what.
Why yes, my self expression was to remove these exact 5000 triangles on my model so that it has the exact amount of fps that I expected in this cut scene on a computer with the following specs…

Said no one ever. Most game assets are not “self expression based art”
> You mean, you didn’t enjoy the “spill resistant” membrane keyboard?

It's not an exaggeration to say that one third of the ads in contemporary Atari magazines is for some sort of keyboard replacement for the 400.
Actually I misspoke, it's a full adder and very similar to the one on page 5 here

https://www.cerc.utexas.edu/~jaa/vlsi/lectures/8-1.pdf
> Rentals ran by international firms suck the life out of communities, as people cannot be part of a local community when rent hikes can force them to move every couple of years.

You can't believe that only international firms... raise rent? That's extremely ridiculous.
Seems like a good fit for op's suggestion.
LLMs as AI are sparking this conversation, there are articles outlining similar positions against Photoshop when it first came out.

https://www.arkansasmomentos.com/burning-with-desire/2017/4/...

A counterpoint to offer to this position beyond the legitimate concerns a new technology like this is having... if it was decided to re-imagine shooting the first 3 Star Wars films created, we probably would use today's sci-fi abilities.

Of course, this doesn't cover the gamut of artistic skills and abilities.

I'm hoping this means if it makes average people into a designer or programmer, a designer or programmer with AI will be 10-20x as effective.

Learning, reskilling, upskilling, may be a reality in more areas.

The question does move towards agency, and who is driving the content creation - experienced artists, designers, etc seem best positioned to describe creative descriptions and explore artistic imagination in these new ways.

Human created art may be worth even more too.

English is the new programming language, and those people who spent many years learning to describe and discuss nuanced things like art, and the creation of it, are probably better positioned than most.
This strategy is usually presented as a way for billionaires to avoid paying taxes on their wealth, but that's a blatant manipulation. The reality is that it allows you to introduce a bit of risk to potentially save taxes on day-to-day expenses. Which, even for billionaires, are not that high to have a noticeable impact on society.

Nobody is going to take a loan provided in the reddit example, since even a minor market fluctuation will trigger a margin call and cause you to lose all your assets used as collateral (and pay taxes on it).

The higher the loan amount, the higher the risks. The longer you have left to live, the higher the risks.

Since you have to commit to this strategy till the end of your life in order for it to work, you're essentially betting that your asset will always appreciate faster than losses accumulate on your compound rate on the loan. Making a bet like that for the rest of your life is quite the gamble (unless you're planning to die in the near future).

This strategy is only viable if you use it for a tiny fraction of your wealth, so it can potentially be used to fund your day-to-day expenses. But it's still a lifelong gamble. What if you happen to die during a market crash?
Pretty sure it’s not at every border crossing. The one by Tahoe is “famous”, but I don’t think there’s one if you cross over via 182. At least I don’t remember one last time I did so.
Beazil will ban Bluesky, too, or worse, Bluesky will comply with Brazil's censorship.

Nostr is the actual solution for this dilemma and our best bet to preserve free speech right now.
It's literally my biggest annual expense. So if I spend any brain power to optimize expenses, this is the biggest easiest target.
Thanks for the clarification, I've never heard about US states controlling their borders before.

But I guess the level of scrutiny is way laxer than that at international borders.

My point was how effective would be a policy like the one instituted by Oregon be, when the state can't effectively control the flow of drugs? Wouldn't any progress be offset by "leaky" borders and the free flow of people?
No problem, if upstream doesn't want their software packaged for Distro X, nobody needs to do anything.

The thing about Linux filesystems, though, is that they consist of two parts: the kernel patch and the userspace tooling. Bcachefs is already in the kernel, so it's a bit awkward to leave out bcachefs-tools. Which is probably why it got packaged in the first place. Stable distros generally don't want loose ends flailing about in such a critical part of their system. If nobody wants to maintain bcachefs-tools for Debian, Debian will probably remove bcachefs entirely from their kernel as well.
Where are those fent zombies going to go instead?
Everything that you wrote reads to me as "human savior".

The issue is capitalism. If we doubled productivity that should double quality of life. The fact that they convinced us it doesn't is the issue.
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Carrot: treatment

Stick: jail

Was fairly successful in CA while Prop 36 was in effect.
This doesn't even make any sense.
Imagine if we used all of our resources for humanitarian purposes
https://archive.is/p5LPz
OpenAI Inks Deal with PwC to Resell ChatGPT T Businesses–As Firms Race Toward AI
We were made to study this in numerical analysis classes. I regret not paying more attention, I failed the subject. The university was close to british steel, and so it made sense to the lecturer to use a subject he had some affinity to. Now, if they'd organised a tour of the steel plant...
A couple years ago, at $Job, I got a call from a Comcast "customer satisfaction" surveybot, after a frustrating interaction with Comcast's "press any button to accomplish more nothing" phone system.

I gave the latter a very low rating.

Our Comcast internet connection went out a couple minutes later.
I'm not sure I understand this analogy. If Meta changes what underlying model they use, it'll still be called Meta AI. Having the criteria be "what new features does it offer to the users of the site" means that things like databases, servers, etc. are not products. This is objectively false.
If you think about how we've handled climate change, then we're fucked, because what I'm reading from you is it's going to take.

1) Co-ordination on a massive scale.

2) Honesty and integrity on all political fronts, including between hostile nations.

3) Uncompromising forward thinking and planning.

Yes I know I'm negative, but people who expect some type of solution to come in the form of organization, are deluded IMO.

The only saving grace for me is that we lack a lot of imagination about what the future will actually look like and so the AI takeover scenarios, and worthless humans hypothesis are not really what happens, we don't really know what will happen.
You sound exactly like a drug addict rationalizing their using. After 28 years in recovery, I’ve heard probably every single variation on that theme.
I am pakeha and tangata triti .... now I have an idea for the next window (I was thinking about a neuron ...)
Place expressions and value expressions in Rust
> the standard way businesses are run filters out the most capable and most effective people from executive positions

You say this like it’s not the intended outcome? If you have money, do you really want to invest in a high variance strategy that relies on a genius pulling rabbits out of a hat? Or do you invest in a sure thing? MBAs are very reliable at extracting value from successful firms. The continued success of the enterprise is a non goal. Same exact thing with Scrum. You have value locked up in some innovative software? Run Scrum on it for a few quarters until the juice is all sucked out, then move on, having reliably delivered features right up until the wheels fell off. It’s not about value creation, it’s about value extraction. Different game, different rules.
> If those people don't like it, they can go live in a different civilization, or in an uncivilized place.

The former don't want me and the later did not exist for the past few centuries.
No it's not. Read again

> measure a specific amount of milk in isolation than to eyeball how much of it you've just added to something else
Huh? I've had horses in my basement. The last mile was solved centuries ago.
> What risks & attack vectors do you have in mind here?

People with deleted passwords not being able to access the old file, or really any kind of mistake being irreversible.
Oregonian here. Living through Oregon’s experiment with decriminalization was tough. The law was flawed and ultimately failed, but did succeed in demonstrating why legalization, along with regulation, and taxation are the only real winning way to solve these problems. Look at our Cannabis programs. Massively successful and pumping millions into our public programs. Sure, Decriminalization reduces arrests but it leaves dangerous, unregulated substances in the market. Where legalizing and regulating recreational drugs ensures safer, controlled products, reducing health risks. Without the tax revenue from a legal market, there’s no funding for vital public health initiatives, like addiction treatment, or education programs. Oregon’s approach missed this by a long shot, leading to huge gaps in our support systems and funding. Also, regulation promotes real social justice by allowing those who get hit hardest by the total failure that is the "war on drugs” to benefit from better legal opportunities. This backstep is horrible for sure, but decriminalization wasn’t enough and without a plan to move further forward it's the only last-ditch effort to fix the problems the weak policy has caused. The better way forward would be restructuring the decriminalization to include some form of legalization along with regulation and most importantly taxation, but I won't hold my breath waiting for common sense to have a place in US state or federal politics.
> New coal construction is pretty easy to measure relative to emissions, and is a leading indicator suggesting future emissions are coming.

It's not that simple.

* The power plants are running at lower capacities: https://www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/china-coal-plants

* Not all coal is equal. High-volatile bituminous coals have ~5% less emissions: https://gaftp.epa.gov/ap42/ch01/s01/reference/ref_77%20c01s0...

* Some of the new plants are "clean" (not actually clean, but produce less emissions): https://globalenergyprize.org/en/2024/03/29/china-remains-wo...

* You can build newer, more efficient coal power plants (~45%) which slightly reduce the amount of coal you need to burn at older, less efficient coal power plants (~33%): https://www.google.com/search?q=how+efficient+are+newer+coal...

* ~5% of the new additions replaced retirements.
That's historically been phase I.

Phase II is when debt-burdened countries stop paying their debts, and the creditor sends in their military.

Phase III is when other countries support the debtor, for a variety of reasons, and start a proxy war.
The artists at the firms making the logos are absolutely going to be using AI to come up with ideas to pitch to their creative director (with some human tune up).
https://archive.ph/eByQd
https://archive.ph/rGjU6
Do you have any recommended references on this subject? Seems like this sort of system would be able to obfuscate a lot of metadata that can be used to deanonymize activity. Very interesting.
There is a real concern rapidly developing for artists just like there is for all types of human labor. That is valid. But the idea that AI necessarily reduces the level of art produced by artists seems to be a false conclusion.

AI art DOES make it harder for artists to rest on pretension. But if the actual product of the artist matters, then it should make it easier to create works that are both more aesthetically pleasing AND more conceptual and relevant to society.

The more substance there is to the art, the easier this is to see. The AI can help flesh out the details while the artist focuses on the high level concepts and experience they are trying to communicate.

Like all automation, it does make classist viewpoints weaker. This article seems to be coming from that standpoint.
Hence the mostly: audiobooks with extra benefits as you mention will be fine, but there's a massive long tail where average output is sufficient.
What does size have to do with anything? We should not assume that the human brain size to brain capability ratio is the highest in nature, or even that it’s in the top half of all creatures.

Humans are just arrogant and overconfident. We’re an incredibly flawed species and we’ve created incredibly flawed societies.
I looked at them awhile ago while lamenting that Lego doesn't do a Star Trek line. But you can't tell me their designs are better. I watched the video of the 2 chaps going through the sets and they're just not things of beauty. Whereas I just put together the Lego Concorde and it looks, as much as possible, like the thing it's supposed to be.
Better source: https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/09/starliners-speaker-beg...
I agree with the principle of what you’re saying, do drugs but only if you can contain yourself away from society. The problem with that idea is it’s only a matter of when the dope fiend sells their acreage for more supply.
Integrity is commonly defined as "doing the right thing, even if no one is watching", is it not?

I highly doubt this person would have rolled through the light if a cop were sitting at the intersection watching them, and they knew they were being observed.

To several other posters' points, the specific regulation in question exists for safety reasons. Those safety reasons don't go away just because you don't think they apply in the moment. I'm sure every person who has hit (or been hit by) another person when rolling through a right turn like that thought their judgement in the moment was reasonable, too. I'm also sure not every one of those would have been prevented by coming to a complete stop and looking at the turn, but certainly some of them would have, which is a net positive for everyone. This comes at a cost of a handful of seconds, which seems like the most trivial of inconveniences, and wholly worth paying every time.
Ok then... why does depression potentially lead to suicide? Is that also adaptive? (stick with me, I'm not being facetious)

Consider the possibility that suicide is an adaptive response by the microbiome. After all, the microbes that colonize our body would survive (and subsequently participate in consuming the body, a process called autolysis). It might be their collective way of saying "this vessel is no longer viable, let's take our chances on the outside". Think of it as a self-destruct button and they're ejecting in the escape pods.

This challenges our ideas about self.
I think something similar happened in British Columbia.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/29/british-columb...
That 1M is a 4 year rate and the 250 is a 1 year rate. Additionally you don’t have to be drafted to play in the NFL. So it’s about 5x that.
Yes, exactly. This kind of AI is a tool for artists, not a replacement.
It's in "Joule", one of dozens of less prominent publications on the same platform as Cell.
You don't even have to go that far back, illustrators and "artists" were griping about photoshop in the early 90s.
Majority of artists are working for companies worth less than $100 millions. The SME sector is the bulk of our economy.
Prison (3 strikes type laws) or poorer areas that police herd them to.
To add to this, I think it's also whether prior training will make a substantial improvement in productivity.
I don't have diabetes, so I'm not regularly comparing it to alternatives, so I can't comment on my personal accuracy against clinic measurements. Which is obviously a nice privilege to ignore for "hobby" usage.

A huge portion of glucose management (even for diabetics) is the actual trend of the data vs the actual blood glucose levels. These CGMs capture trends correctly, even if the absolute value is off. A prescription variant would have periodic calibrations as an option. If you eat a meal that spikes blood glucose level, the CGM probably won't smooth out a peak, so you'd still see the magnitude of the effect. The other thing to consider is that when read from the arm or a "fleshy" bit, a change in glucose level is about 20min delayed from blood levels.

The healthy range for a non-diabetic is ~70-140 mg/dL, and your body regularly can swing up more than +50mg/dL after a meal. This is a pretty big range and swing, and being 15% off (in either direction) is not particularly problematic. Your bodily response to the same meal can vary more than 25%. One test I did do is consume "glucose tablets" (which are basically candy), they're products meant to spike your blood sugar (for diabetics who get "low"), and all you can predict is that my levels go "up fast". Again, all that matters is the trend, especially if your body can self-regulate.

The FDA does study how accurate these products are, and they conform to certain expectations. That said, you're not wrong that it can be 25% off sometimes. According to a study (linked below), ~99% of the time, the device is within 30% of clinical test levels, and about 90% of the time, the device is within 15%.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35157505/
When you say "mostly replaced," then, you mean "grown through new capabilities." That is different from replacing the people in the industry.
I think they all harmed the public.

My point is that it seems that the only circumstances that lead to corporate decision makers being held to account for wrongdoing is if someone can link their wrongdoing to a financial fraud.
> Why would it be wise to skip fab investments at this point?

It's not free. They don't have infinite funds either. If it's either skip or sell / crash then skipping a small part sounds like a good deal.
This ignores historic examples of societies with multiple cultures, religions, etc living peacefully.

It doesn't always end well, but are you proposing the solution is to ensure that societies never try?
Generative AI is an artistic medium. Just as acrylic, marble and the cello.
This is why people who spend their whole weekend on their phone end up with anxiety, our lives are sand timers, we can see the end coming in the future, and when you spend your valuable time consuming bullshit, you look up at the clock, it says 6pm, and you wondered why you squandered your life, and think about what you might've done instead. This thought becomes too much to handle, then you look back down at the device so not to have to face the truth and on it goes until one day, reality bites.
Being forced anywhere starts to sound like jail, except it would be a free for all in there. How would the policy force anyone into a camp without guards? Why would this work great?
And I have absolutely no idea what you think this explains. Which is the point of physics you know: to convey actionable concepts about the behavior of experiments. Not be cryptic and vague.