skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Barring simple typos, human mistakes are erroneous intention from a single source. You can't simply write human vagaries off as 'error' because they're glimpses into a picture of intention that is perhaps misguided.

I'm listening to a slightly wonky early James Brown instrumental right now, and there's certainly a lot more error than you'd get in sequenced computer music (or indeed generated music) but the force with which humans wrest the wonkiness toward an idea of groove is palpable. Same with Zeppelin's 'Communication Breakdown' (I'm doing a groove analysis project, ok?).

I can't program the AI to have intention, nor can you. If you do, hello Skynet, and it's time you started thinking about how to be nice to it, or else :)
Folks, don't complain. You wanted the cloud, you're getting the cloud.
I’ll take victim blaming for $200, Alex. Breaking into a house is easy as a rock through the window but we don’t sue homebuilders for not putting in stronger glass.
Wow, you're right. That page is a undeniably an infringement.
It affects hackers how? By giving them cool technology at below cost? Or is it further democratizing knowledge? Or maybe it's the inflated software eng salaries due to AI hype?

Help me understand the negative effect of AI and LLMs on hackers.
Uh, Linux desktops have a marketshare of some 4.5% (excluding ChromeOS which isn't affected). Even if most of us don't print (I haven't in the last year and little in the previous five), that will still be a lot of print jobs emitted by Linux hosts.
Can't you disable that?
I don’t understand how this relates to the article. Are you saying you got rich enough to retire by 25 on pure talent? Or are you saying that for anyone to achieve that kind of wealth by 25 it is obvious luck (or generational wealth) had to be involved? Are you agreeing, disagreeing, is this just a humble brag?

I truly am having trouble making sense of the purpose of your comment. Would you mind clarifying?
> For me, LLMs don't change anything. I already questioned the information before and continue to do so.

I also did, but LLM increased the volume of content, which forces my brain first try to identify if content is generated by LLMs, which is consuming a lot of energy and makes brain even less focused, because now it's primary goal is skimming quickly to identify, instead of absorbing first and then analyzing info
> So instead, you trust for-profit companies to direct the morals of society?

Absolutely not. I don't really have a solution, but in general it seems distributing power to more local level forms of governance works well for many things, so perhaps something along those lines?
Can you hash out what you mean by your last paragraph a bit more? What incentive structures in particular?
Writing a text of decent quality used to constitute proof of work. This is now no longer the case, and we haven't adapted to this assumption becoming invalid.

For example, when applying to a job, your cover letter used to count as proof of work. The contents are less important than the fact that you put some amount of effort in it, enough to prove that you care about this specific vacancy. Now this basic assumption has evaporated, and job searching has become a meaningless two-way spam war, where having your AI-generated application selected from hundreds or thousands of other AI-generated applications is little more than a lottery.
I guess the complaint is about losing this proxy to gain some assurance for little cost. We humans are great at figuring out the least amount of work that's good enough.

Now we'll need to be fully diligent, which means more work, and also there'll be way more things to review.
Does it really make sense for Finnish shipyards to share knowledge of icebreaking when there the released text above discusses things such as the US and Canada selling icebreakers to third parties?

It seems more like a way taking over the industry from the Finns.

Obviously there may be specifics of the deal that makes it acceptable, but the vague text I see seems just terrible for the Finns.

I suppose it might be accepted because of the Canadian ownership of the shipyard in question.
Thank you. This explanation makes sense. That’s what I thought article meant, but wanted to confirm.

Now, I don’t understand what problem this “full-stack” is trying to solve. Writing websites in different languages is not a problem. You use the right tool for the job. HTML for layouts, CSS files for styling, some server side language for logic, etc. that’s not a problem. That’s just how things work.

Again. When you use different languages/technologies for different things in an application you are using the right tool for the job.
Neither of those things will end society, they aren't even issues in the grand scale of things.

Climate change and biosphere collapse, on the other hand, are already ending society and definitely will, no exceptions possible - unless someone is capable of performing several miracles.
Did they have to add a label that the goods may give them cancer?
The author is in for a rough time in the coming years, I'm afraid. We've barely scratched the surface with AI's integration into everything. None of the major voice assistants even have proper language models yet, and ChatGPT only just introduced more natural, low-latency voices a few days ago. Software development is going to be massively impacted.
For me, copying to the cloud is a deal-breaker (I switched to proton mail for a reason!). Fortunately, there's Thunderbird. I don't trust Microsoft not to do dodgy Google-like things with my data at this point.
That’s not the issue. If the source code is in the public domain, you’re not free to impose additional licensing conditions like “no commercial use”. It’s either released into the public domain or under some license that prohibits commercial usage: it can’t be both.
And crop insurance which is usually heavily subsidised. To be clear, the range of agricultural commodities is surprisingly small. Example: There is no coverage for any fruits (except orange juice), not most vegetables.
But you won't tell what it is.

Sorry, kiddo, you are just boring, bye.
>>> a download is not a lost sale

>> It very much is. => FALSE (my opinion)

>> Not 1:1, but it's absolutely correlated. => TRUE (my opinion)

> I think you can definitely say that it’s often like a lost sale. => TRUE (my opinion)

Sorry for being a nuisance and getting caught up in semantics. I think we're mostly in agreement, my bad.
Digital Strava Jockey – Create real fake Strava runs
Lots of news items recently about "Strava Jockeys", people offering to go on runs and upload them to their clients Strava profiles for a small fee.

I think this "trend" is likely to be fake or at least wildly overblown. But I built a digital version that you can use for free. Take the gpx of a real run of yours and create a faster version that you can then upload to Strava. I'd encourage you not to use it!
> If you write regularly and you're not using AI, you simply cannot keep up with the competition. You're out.

What? No! Content volume only matters in stupid contests like VC app marketing grifts or political disinformation ops where the content isn’t even meant to be read, it’s an excuse for a headline. I personally write all my startup’s marketing content, quality is exquisite and due to this our brand is becoming a juggernaut
If you live in the EU, certainly you first have to give consent to that practice, right?
I know people who got burned with bets or risky investments and stopped doing that.

I also know plenty of failures who are addicted to gambling and drugs.

Gambling, like all drugs, is a mental health / attitude problem.

Life is shit for most people and they think winning big is the only way they'll escape that - and if I lose some money, oh hey, I was poor before, I'm still poor.

We need to put the blame on education and society raising mindless zombies good only to be employees for 40 years and pay off their mortgage (in the best case scenario).
Still prefer that over dependence on the cloud which is problematic on metered internet, slow connections or the day they decide to shut down their servers.
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a tape inside,with "Doctor Who" and an episode
that is too blurred to read
Also have an ancient steel wire recorder with a role of wire,and going back even further a pair of
wax drum dictaphone recorders with drums
there are of course ,truely monsterous collections
out there lurking with the epic storys known to
just a few or perhaps only one disinterested guardian/custodian,and these will keep cropping up
for centuries
new motszart piece popped up recently was sitting
on a shelf safe and sound for all this time
> same massive surge I’ve seen in the application of artificial intelligence (AI) to pretty much every problem out there

I have not. Perhaps programming on the initial stages is the most 'applied' AI but there is still not a single major AI movie and no consumer robots.

I think it's way too early to be tired of it
No one claimed humans are perfect. But gen AI is a force multiplier for every problem we had to deal with. It's just completely different scale. Your brain is about to be DDOSed by junk content.

Of course, gen AI is just a tool that can be used for good or bad, but spam, targeted misinformation campaigns, and garbage content in general is one area that will be most amplified because it became so low effort and they don't care about doing any review, double-checking, etc. They can completely automate their process to whatever goal they've in mind. So where sensible humans enjoy 10x productivity, these spam farms will be enjoying 10000x scale.

So I don't think downplaying it and acting like nothing changed, is the brightest idea. I hope you see now how that's a completely different game, one that's already here but we aren't prepared for yet, certainly not with traditional tools we have.
Pirate Bay wasn't selling access to the torrents trying to make a massive profit.
>government-owned space things last a lot longer than they're made for

Don't forget that once upon a time, commercial-owned things lasted a lot longer too. Unfortunately the mba's took over and planned obsolescence became a thing.
I am tired of innovations being abused. AI itself is super exciting and fascinating. But, it being abused -- to generate content to drive more ad-clicks, or the "Now better with AI" promise on every landing page, etc. etc. -- that I am tired of, yes.
AI Hairstyle
The quota changed because it's now easier and faster
> There is no need to make a freaking model out of something so obvious.

But consider that almost the entire first half of the Das Kapital's first volume is precisely a (very tedious) formulation of precisely this: "workers produce more than they get to consume, that's how non-workers can be sustained". And you can find there the criticism of other contemporary economic theorists who apparently disagreed with that ("nah, the workers spend, like, 8 hours of work just to make up for the materials that's consumed in the manufacturing process, so the actual profit is made only when they work the 9th and later hours so if the work day would be restricted to 8 hours then all the factories will go bust; would someone please think of the entrepreneurs!").
Maybe because they make so much money from the ads and unsuspecting users that subscribe to a trial and forget to cancel? Maybe because many websites are developed using similar toolsets, permeating antipatterns, and horrible UI models?
A toddler's crayon art doesn't end up in the Louvre, nor does AI slop. Most art is bad art and it's been this way since the dawn of humanity. For as long as we can distinguish good art from bad art we can curate and there is nothing to worry about.
> Most physicians will agree that cannabis is fairly harmless.

If you read some papers on the subject it should be plenty apparent that it has adverse effects on the development of young adults, as well as long term use by anyone, particularly of recent high-potency strains.

It's not as bad as other drugs (heroine), and it's worse than others (coffee), but it's not harmless. I'm far from being a prohibitionist, and live somewhere that has (I think) sensible policies (The Netherlands), but to simply put that it's "fairly harmless" as something most physicians agree with is not true. I'd say it's similar to alcohol in terms of its moderate use being possible in a working society - albeit with some negative outcomes for people that overdo it, or do it too early in life.

Edit: there's lots of discussion below about if the studies that exist are trustworthy or not, but since anyone can google for studies, I'll leave a different recommendation to check out the r/Leaves subreddit, and read some first hand accounts of long term and heavy users. It's at least a different type of source and you can make up your own mind about what real users say about it, in case you never encountered it before.
Artificial intelligence is becoming part of everyday life, and Apple’s advancements are a great example. Submagic https://ai-depot.net/tools/submagic/ is one tool that stands out for automatically transcribing speech to text, making content more accessible. It’s especially helpful for video creators looking to reach wider audiences across different languages. The tool handles transcription while you can focus on the creative aspects. It’s a time-saver that can enhance content quality with little extra effort.
> Gambling was already an issue 100 years ago, when we were closer to God, allegedly. "God" and religion also aren't particularly interested in gambling

No doubt it was. Workers were alienated before the industrial revolution too, and we were already emitting CO2 before the 1950s, but the scale of the problem changed in a very impactful way.

Of course I doubt we can get reliable statistics from 1920s, but I don't think you should disregard their argument just because it was happening before. Gambling is as old as numbers, and it's not going to go away, but we can still look for the factors that drastically increased the magnitude of the issue.
Ukraine did not choose to be at war.
Venturing a comparison that may fit your mental model below, bear with me:
Is invading south-americans on the southern border a reason to also deny Starlink to the US of A?
I havent coded in years, so I'll take your word for the potential of AI in SWE. But, software development has guardrailed against bad code with unit testing, CI/CD, etc. Also, productivity / output can be measured more-or-less well. Partly for that reason, it's also used to efficiency shifts (say from C++ to Java; or Perl to anything...) and those are not usually massive, all-or-nothing changes.

Where's the equivalent in customer support? or document creation? or any of these other mythical AI use cases? genuinely asking.

The article makes a good case that the SaaS bubble is deflating and needs a new hype cycle to keep investment up. AI makes sense for that, so at least that's one good use case :-)
At no point does the author suggest that AI is not going to happen or that it is not useful. He expresses frustration with marketing, false promises, pitching of superficial solutions for deep problems, and the usage of AI to replace meaningful human interactions. In short, the text is not about the technology itself.
If very general approaches are not working, maybe a very specific approach might work -- without knowledge of what your product does -- there is not enough information in your post to create a specific approach.
We did when I was a kid and my uncle still does. It’s sad that it’s hard for you to fathom safe communities.
How do you like questioning much more of it, much more frequently, from many more sources? And mistrusting it in new ways. AI and regular people are not wrong in the same ways, nor for the same reasons, and now you must track this too, increasingly.
IBM's NorthPole AI Chip
> The revolution will happen regardless. If you participate you can shape it in the direction you believe in

This is incredibly naïve. You don't have a choice.
Welcome to the Extinguish phase...
Agreed big disappointment that "incremental view maintenance" is taking so long to get into the core - despite several IVM extensions. For me this is by far the most important capability missing from Postgres.
After a year, iPhone 15 - 86 cycles, 100% capacity.

I rarely let it get below 30% and don’t charge to 100%.
It's one bad thing to sync all one's email to the their cloud. It's another bad thing to give the cloud the credentials to sync one's email directly. So in theory even if you stop using the client they can still get your email without your knowledge and explicit permission (ie you are not using the client and would reasonably expect they don't have access to new emails).

Also the cloud service now have the capability to save then retrieve the credentials in plain text making them a rich target for being compromised.
To be clear, interest rate derivatives (futures, swaps, [edit] options, etc.) are very important for banks and corps to manage their interest rate risk. By definition, these are zero sum products.

Also, economists would not term the stock market as zero sum game. All boats can and do rise together. Look at the S&P 500 index since the 2008 GFC. Spectacular success that reflects the wider US economy.
Leak claims RTX 5090 has 600W TGP, RTX 5080 hits 400W
When I was living in Helsinki, there were two huge icebreakers there whose main job it was to keep the baltic see open for the Russians. I think that probably changed a bit since they joined NATO.

I guess that aside from Alaska, the US doesn't have to deal with a lot of sea ice and isn't that dependent on arctic shipping routes. For Russia that's very different. The sea near St Petersburg can freeze over and Murmansk is also hard to reach in winter. And with Svebastopol and the black see fleet out of action, those would be strategically important for Russia. And they rely on the northern arctic route for trade with China as well.
EPI tookover iDEAL, which is a really good payment service launched in 2006.

The premise of European payment system is that consumers are protected via law and payments are dirt cheap. While Stripe charges in USA charges 2.9% + 0.30$ per payment, an iDEAL payment (with Stripe) costs only €0.29, that's it. For a television of 1000$, that is hefty 29.30$ payment fee.

Since Wero will be EU wide, it is cheaper to integrate for web shops. Why go to Stripe/Adyen if with a single integration you can get the entire European Union? Don't worry, the adoption will be there.
If you're providing your servers for free and include them as the primary update mechanism to an open source project for millions of websites, maybe you shouldn't use that as an extortion mechanism holding millions of websites hostage.

Taking away access to those servers is one thing, doing it without warning putting millions of sites at risk is another.
The fact I even see responses like this shows me that HN is not the place it used to be, or at the very least, it is on a down trend. I've been alarmed by many sentiments that seemed popular on HN in the past, but seeing more and more people welcome a race to the bottom such as this is sad.

When I read this, I cannot tell if it's performance art or not, that's how bad this genuinely is.
He is saying that he could be much wealthier but chooses not to be because he has other priorities.

This is evidence that other factors than luck play a role.
I think it should be interesting to you that this article caused you an emotional reaction. Your language is emotionally charged and it's made you miss the point that @cudgy has given you
Possibly caused by a virus. A person can develop type 1 diabetes from the effects of a virus like measles and other viruses. I don't think many people are aware of that.
> By the look of text and the usage of the words, you could tell how professional the writer was and you had some confidence that the writer knew something about the subject

How did you know this unless you also had the same or more knowledge than the author?

It would seem to me we are as clueless now as before about how to judge how skilled a writer is without requiring to already posses that very skill ourselves.
I'd argue people clearly don't care about the truth at all - they care about being part of a group and that is where it ends. It shows up in things like critical thinking being a difficult skill acquired slowly vs social proof which humans just do by reflex. Makes a lot of sense, if there are 10 of us and 1 of you it doesn't matter how smartypants you may be when the mob forms.

AI does indeed threaten people's ability to identify whether they are reading work by a high status human and what the group consensus is - and that is a real problem for most people. But it has no bearing on how correct information was in the past vs will be in the future. Groups are smart but they get a lot of stuff wrong in strategic ways (it is almost a truism that no group ever identifies itself or its pursuit of its own interests as the problem).
Do you have a source for the hidden tracking in Apple TV you’re referring to?
There are people who put old VHS on Youtube that seems to be a pretty gruesome job. See Swedish achivist https://www.youtube.com/@RosaMannen

Interesting that you can get Teletext from the VHS, and sad that it is now lost after conversion to a youtube video.
Here is a business model for copy right law firms:

Use source-aware training, use the same datasets as used in LLM training + copyrighted content. Now the LLM can respond not just what it thinks is most likely but also what source document(s) provided specific content. Then you can consult commercially available LLM's and detect copy right infringements, and identify copyright holders. Extract perpetrators and victims at scale. To ensure indefinite exploitation only sue commercially succesful LLM providers, so there is a constant new flux of growing small LLM providers taking up the freed niche of large LLM providers being sued empty.
Which languages do you use?
That's why he declined the cancer treatment, they told him when he was sitting down!
There is simply no reason why this should not be better regulated here in Brazil. It ruins families and the sport. They can advertise themselves freely.
How would that help? You plug your AppleTV into a smart TV (to be able to use it) and the TV takes tracking snapshots anyway.
97% battery on 15 Pro Max after one year of use (september 2023).

80% limiter has always been active.
It's the other way round. The little guys will never win, it will be just a money transfer from one large corp to another.

We should just scrap copyright and everybody plays a fair game, including us hackers.

Sue me because of breach of contract in civil court for damages because I shared your content, don't send the police and get me jailed directly.

I had my software cracked and stolen and I would never go after the users. They don't have any contract with me. They downloaded some bytes from the internet and used it.
Finding whoever shared the code without authorization is hard and even so, suing them would cost me more than the money I'm likely to get back. Fair game, you won.

It's a natural market "tax" on selling a lot of copies and earning passively.
What about 10 mins on HN?
My worry is what happens once large segments of the population become unemployable.
Its maddening how software doesn't benefit anymore from fast local storage. We have massive inexpensive SSD's sitting empty whilst you wait for a tiny PDF to download.
Sure, but luck isn't necessarily either.
I do the same thing all the time!

It has become kind of a superpower being able to deal with many different build systems, general nuisances trying to run both old and new software and just being in the know about the capabilities of all kinds of software.

It's fun and keeps the blade sharp.