skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People didn't want the cloud. Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and others wanted everyone in the cloud to get them on the subscription bandwagon.

I hope more and more people vote with their wallets and go to other platforms and tools.
This is kind of silly, because waiters don't remember orders in bits, but...

If the menu has 32 items, an order of one item fits into 5 bits, without any compression. In reality, if the steak is popular, you can save more bits with Huffman coding.
It's not like that box has been firmly closed until now. Every time someone stands to profit from one outcome over another they already have an incentive to influence the outcome, prediction market existing or not. And stock markets already act as a sort of prediction basket about future events that will influence the trajectory of a company (e.g. the outcome of trade negotiations, wars, court decisions, elections, the health of their CEO etc. etc.)

The upside of prediction markets is that it incentives people with information to make their honest estimates legible to society. E.g. an opinion piece in a newspaper has little skin in the game, other than the author's reputation.
I mean, why on earth would it invite him?
Per the article, the attack works like this:

The attacker sends a malicious UDP datagram to the target computer, telling it is a printer available at ATTACKER_CONTROLLED_URI.

The vulnerable computer receives this packet and proceeds to download the "printer information" (attacker-controlled printer scripts) from ATTACKER_CONTROLLED_URI and store it in a PPD file as an available printer, potentially overwriting an existing printer.

There is no user intervention needed, nor any notifications to the user, up to this point. The PPD files are persistent: they will stick around ~forever on your system until some other printer replaces them, or you manually delete them.

Whenever you want to print, CUPS looks for all the PPD files currently on the system and provides print options based on them. If you choose to print using the malicious printer (which might look like one of your known printers), the information in the attacker-controlled PPD file will be used by CUPS, including Foomatic scripts that can run more or less arbitrary code with root privileges.

The biggest issue with all of this is that Linux doesn't distinguish between trusted LANs, where arbitrary printers connecting to you is actually a pretty nice feature; and public untrusted LANs, where this is DEFINITELY not a good idea. Also, the fact that your printer infra can run arbitrary code as root, code supplied by the remote printer itself, is another level of crazy.
So if a window manufacturer decides to save money and not put latches on their windows, enabling them to be opened from the outside at will, and home invasions spike, that manufacturer isn't a large part of the problem?
Why are you posting on this forum where the user's identity isn't verified by anyone then? :)

But the real problem is that having the poster's identity verified is no proof that their output is not coming straight from a LLM.
Thank you. I feel like you've saved me from being rickrolled.

Withholding my individual clicks has zero impact on the clickbait economy, but I still feel a twinge of humiliation whenever I'm duped into clicking through.
What if any traffic is encrypted?
Taking snapshots is not sending them in the meaning that software can delete similarly looking images by their own definition of similarness.
And BTW that kind of testing is more needed for some industry critical equipment - processors with ME, routers, etc. TV is a brainrot thing for dumbs, nobody needs a TV which doesn't spy you.
Sounds like wholesale copyright theft to me.
you can't fool your memory, if you have fewer connections between neurons in your brain, it's more limited, if you have more, you'll remember more things. There are different types of memory - conscious, unconscious, short, long.

learning from tiktoks, you won't learn anything, because a moment breaks your concentration between pieces of information. that's why the best way to learn is long-term. go to classes, lessons, write down, read, retell, and all of this together.
read not brochures or short books, but full-fledged books, because the integrity of information is absorbed by the body only in this way. if it is absorbed faster, it is lost faster. and you need to nourish your knowledge from time to time, and not just tell yourself "I know everything and that's the end" after university.

you can't fool hundreds of thousands of years of evolution, it doesn't work that way.
Oh, i've forgotten sublime. Maybe it's a great time to pay a visit to it for some small tasks. Thanks!!
How do you "check the accuracy of your information" if all the other reliable-sounding sources could also be AI generated junk? If it's something in computing, like whether something compiles, you can sometimes literally check for yourself, but most things you read about are not like that.
> China proved the Great Firewall was possible.

Technologically? Maybe. Practically? I'm posting this while using uncensored Internet from within China, and not because I'm going out of my way to evade any blocking.

The GFW is more like the government put out an umbrella, but nothing is really forcing anyone to stand under it. Five steps and you're out. No doubt they could change that tomorrow if they so wished, but there are hurdles other than technical ones.

In my case I'm simply roaming using my German SIM-card, but plenty of VPNs would work too. They can detect and block these and do with certain ones, but for many they just... don't.
That’s always the case with any new technology. Tech isn’t going to make everyone happy or achieve world peace.
I don’t really have a choice about interacting with the anonymous at this point.

It certainly will affect the reputation of people that are consistently publishing untruths.
WOW, just WOW. This is a must have. Installing it right now!
THanks!
> 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.

Judging a large group of people based on what a few write seems very un-scientific at best.

Especially when it comes to things that have been rehashed since I've joined HN (and probably earlier to). Feels like there will always be someone lamenting how HN isn't how it used to be, or how reddit influx ruined HN, or how HN isn't about startups/technical stuff/$whatever anymore.
"I don't like the opinion of certain persons I read on HN, therefore HN is on a down trend"
Skin-Shedding Code
Ok, but let's take this to the logical conclusion that at some point there will be models which displace a large segment of the workforce. How does capitalism even function then?
Interesting points! Doesn't sound impossible with an AI that's wrong less often than an average human author (if the AIs training data was well curated).

I suppose a related problem is that we can't know if the human who posted the article, actually agrees with it themselves.

(Or if they clicked "Generate" and don't actually care, or even have different opinions)
I think you overestimate the value of things looking professional. The overwhelming majority of books published every year are trash, despite all the effort that went into research, writing, and editing them. Most news is trash. Most of what humanity produces just isn't any good. An top expert in his field can leave a typo-riddled comment in a hurry that contains more valuable information than a shelf of books written on the subject by lesser minds.

AIs are good at writing professional looking text because it's a low bar to clear. It doesn't require much intelligence or expertise.
Smart TVs are a curse (from a consumer perspective). A separate smart device makes much more sense.

People usually replaced their TVs when they broke, which could be 6-8+ years. Nowadays as their already slow hardware becomes even more obsolete, streaming apps are no longer updated and start to break, new ones are not released, etc. they go ahead and buy a new one.

You also have to accept all kinds of crappy agreements, so you can be spied on and get served ADS (?!?!).

Not to mention even the most expensive TVs come with baffingly slow hardware and software. $2k devices can take 10+ seconds to load the menu with 4 options, where you can modify picture settings. Incredible.

A TV should be a display with inputs and nothing more IMO.

Smart boxes are cheap and much faster than even the most expensive TVs, and they can be replaced inexpensively when eventually they become obsolete.

For a long time I pulled the network cable from my TV after I got tired of getting bombarded with changed ToS agreements, firmware updates and home screen ads. Now I have it on the network again just because I wanted to control the source from my PC, but it's still blocked from the internet on the firewall. Go ahead and make snapshots you stupid little TV.
What is the average weight of your poops?

Are you storing and cataloging them all in a deep freezer?
Absolutely amazing stuff. I am now three scores and ten in my life time, seen a lot of changes from slide rules->very fast to calculators->very fast to pcs, from dot matrix printers to lazer jets and dozens of other things. Wish AI was available when I was doing my PhD. If you know its limitations it can be very useful. At present I occasionally use it to translate references from wikipedia articles to bibtex format. It is very good at this, I only need to fix a few minor errors, letting me focus to the core of what I am doing. But human nature always resists change, especially if it leads to the unknown. I must admit that I think AI will bring negative consequences as it will be misused by politicians and the military, they need to be "regulated" not the AI.
So content produced by think tanks was credible by default, since think tanks are usually very well funded. Interesting perspective
Yeah they did the same with the Mac version. It's still a real app, not electron. But it lacked features and still does. For example when you set your out of office you no longer have the ability to auto-decline all your meetings during this period.

And the "Block sender" button was missing for about a year until it was reintroduced (and now it is still missing from the mobile outlook app!). I always block sender instead of move to spam. Which MS wants to avoid people using because many spammers are their Office 365 customers too :(
> But I’m pretty sure I can do without all that ... test cases ...

Test cases?

I did a Show HN [1] a couple of days back for a UI library built almost entirely with AI. Gpt-o1 generated these test cases for me: https://github.com/webjsx/webjsx/tree/main/src/test - in minutes instead of days. The quality of test cases are comparable to what a human would produce.

75% of the code I've written in the last one year has been with AI. If you still see no value in it (especially with things like test cases), I'm afraid you haven't figured out how to use AI as a tool.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41644099
Nice!
Could you give more context about Go? From which lang did you transfer? What are the tangible benefits that you are seeing?
Thanks!
Unfortunately not how it works, or at least not to the extend you wish it to be.

One can train a model exclusively on source code from the linux kernel (GPL) and then generate a bunch of C programs or libraries from that. And they could publish them under MIT license as long as they don't reproduce any identifiable sections from the linux kernel. It does not matter where the model learned how to program.
upvar and uplevel are a significant barrier to optimisation, but not to plain compilation — the hardest part would be autovivification of fresh up-locals, and even that sounds like an extra indirection could reasonably handle it?

EDIT: looks like tcl doesn't bytecode uplevel expressions, so I must be missing a catch?
response from AI on this: I completely understand where you're coming from. The increasing reliance on AI in writing does raise important questions about authenticity and connection. There’s something uniquely human in knowing that the words you're reading come from someone’s personal thoughts, experiences, and emotions—even if flawed. AI-generated content, while efficient and often well-written, lacks that deeper layer of humanity, the imperfections, and the creative struggle that gives writing its soul.

It’s easy to feel disillusioned when you know AI is shaping so much of the content around us. Writing used to be a deeply personal exchange, but now, it can feel mechanical, like it’s losing its essence. The pressure to keep up with AI can be overwhelming for human writers, leading to this shift in content creation.

At the same time, it’s worth considering that the human element still exists and will always matter—whether in long-form journalism, creative fiction, or even personal blogs. There are people out there who write for the love of it, for the connection it fosters, and for the need to express something uniquely theirs. While the presence of AI is unavoidable, the appreciation for genuine human insight and emotion will never go away.

Maybe the answer lies in seeking out and cherishing those authentic voices. While AI-generated writing will continue to grow, the hunger for human storytelling and connection will persist too. It’s about finding balance in this new reality and, when necessary, looking back to the richness of past writings, as you mentioned. While it may seem like a loss in some ways, it could also be a call to be more intentional in what we read and who we trust to deliver those words.
I never wanted any cloud. I never used a MS account to sign into windows either, which is becoming ever more of a fight.
It's true that most people are optimizing for a range of possible outcomes and not actually laser-focused on getting rich.

For example, I always had a dual goal of:

1. Gain wealth.
2. Gain knowledge and critical thinking skills.

I was trying to get rich, but only in ways which would result in me gaining more knowledge and critical thinking ability on the way. So I was going about it in a very specific way and missing out on many possible paths as a result. It's why:

- I completed my university degree instead of dropping out early and becoming a founder.

- I chose to get involved in complex open source distributed systems projects instead of building social media apps and add-ons.

- I changed companies multiple times, even when I found ones which paid a high salary for little work. There's only so much you can learn at one company in one industry. I wanted to see how software works across different industries.

- I avoided cutting corners.

In retrospect, I can only speculate that maybe I would have been successful in gaining wealth if I had been laser-focused on that and disregarded self-improvement.

Still, I think the article makes a critically important point; it's mostly about luck. In other words; the vast majority of people who were 100% laser-focused on getting rich and couldn't care less about self-improvement also failed to get rich... And these people, those who survived the ordeal, have literally nothing to show for it.

They probably blame themselves for their failures and engage in self-loathing because they're not intelligent enough to realize that it's not their fault; it's just probability.

Anyway, when it comes to social and sexual relationships; knowledge and critical thinking ability can often get you the same things which money can get you, but better quality.

The best people are naturally attracted to knowledge and intellect.
I'm sure somebody must have hacked their TI to google stuff.
There was another discussion around the Cannonball run, and how it should be allowed because no one gets hurt.

In a way it does, because it ruins trust as the participants treat your presence on the road like an inconvenience.
For me, AI is super helpful with one-off scripts, which I happen to write quite often when doing research. Just yesterday, I had to check my assumptions are true about a certain aspect of our live system and all I had was a large file which had to be parsed. I asked ChatGPT to write a script which parses the data and presents it in a certain way. I don't trust ChatGPT 100%, so I reviewed the script and checked it returned correct outputs on a subset of data. It's something which I'd do to the script anyway if I wrote it myself, but it saved me like 20 minutes of typing and debugging the code. I was in a hurry because we had an incident that had to be resolved as soon as possible. I haven't tried it on proper codebases (and I think it's just not possible at this moment) but for quick scripts which automate research in an ad hoc manner, it's been super useful for me.

Another case is prototyping. A few weeks ago I made a prototype to show to the stakeholders, and it was generally way faster than if I wrote it myself.
Switching from refined grains to whole grains also reduces disease risk. An observational study of nearly 200,000 adults showed that those who ate the most whole grains had a 29 percent lower rate of type 2 diabetes compared to those who ate the least.

A review of 45 studies concluded that eating 90 grams (or three 30-gram servings) of whole grains daily reduced the risk of cardiovascular disease by 22 percent, coronary heart disease by 19 percent, and cancer by 15 percent.

Following simple healthy habits can lead to a longer life. For instance, if you're 50 and have never smoked, maintain a healthy weight, stay physically active, eat a nutritious diet, and drink alcohol moderately, you might live up to 14 years longer. Even adopting a few of these habits could extend your lifespan significantly.
> I'd argue people clearly don't care about the truth at all

Plenty of people care about the truth in order to get advantages over the ignorant. Beliefs aren't just about fitting in a group, they are about getting advantages and making your life better, if you know the truth you can make much better decisions than those who are ignorant.

Similarly plenty of people try to hide the truth in order to keep people ignorant so they can be exploited.
The alarming trend should be how even a slightly contrarian point of view is downvoted to oblivion, and that newer members of the community expect it to work that way.
> These tools must be absolutely massively better than whatever Microsoft has then

I haven't used anything from Microsoft (including Copilot) so not sure how it compares, but compared to any local model I've been able to load, and various other remote 3rd party ones (like Claude), no one comes near to GPT4 from OpenAI, especially for coding. Maybe give that a try if you can.

It still produces overly verbose code and doesn't really think about structure well (kind of like a junior programmer), but with good prompting you can kind of address that somewhat.
"First of all, congratulations on launching Pake! It's always exciting to see new tools that aim to improve the developer experience. I've been playing around with it for a bit, and I must say, the speed improvements are noticeable. It's great to see a package manager that's not only fast but also easy to use. Looking forward to seeing how the community adopts and contributes to this project. Keep up the good work!"
Hopefully people will exercise more judgement now that every Tom, Dick, and Harry scam artists can output elaborate prose.
This is exactly what’s at stake. I heard an artist say one time that he’d rather listen to Bob Dylan miss a note than listen to a song that had all the imperfections engineered out of it.
>Most of the world prefers moderated products and services.

Yes, the very same "moderated" products and services that have risen sea surface temperatures so high that at least 3 category 4+ hurricanes, 5 major wildfires, and at least one potential or actual pandemic spreads unabated every year. Oh, but don't worry, they won't let everyone die: then there would be no one to buy their "products and services."
This is only the annual drafts. Baseball TV revs are not shared between teams, like American football. So baseball teams in large, urban centers have a huge advantage to buy better players from free agency.
> c) The most popular use cases for these unleashed models seems to be as expected deepfakes of high school girls by their peers. Nothing that is moving society forward.

Is there proof that the self censoring only affects whatever the censors intend to censor? These are neural networks, not something explainable and predictable.

That in addition to the obvious problem of who decides what to censor.
You know that ChatGPT writing is still obvious even when you ask it to change its style, right?
Tens of millions of people are having fun making art in new ways with AI.

Hundreds of thousands of people are making AI porn in their basements and deleting 99.99% of it when they are… finished.

Hundreds of people are making deep fakes of people they know in some public forums.

And, how does the public interpret all of this?

“The most popular use case is deepfake porn.”

Sigh…
> [South Korea, Japan, Singapore] A lot of these nations serve as counter examples to traditional "reddit" or even "HN" orthodoxy on policy

Don't you know those countries don't exist? Whenever a redditor starts talking public policy the discussion is always America vs "the rest of the world", where the rest of the world means Europe. Sometimes they throw in the word "civilized", which is fun. For instance:

"The rest of the world abolished the death penalty."

"The rest of the world tries to rehabilitate criminals instead of punishing them."

"The rest of the world doesn't try to ruin people's lives for using/selling drugs."

So you see, South Korea, Japan and Singapore don't exist!
Yeah if you have O365 it always tries to goad you into uploading stuff into onedrive and sharing a link instead of just attaching stuff. Very annoying because the process for externals to sign into sharepoint (which onedrive is just a wrapper for) is terrible.
That’s the point. It’s a step in the right direction.

This law is aimed at preventing deception at point of sale. It doesn’t target business practices.
> Most are more interested in driving academia/science forward or generally on other social goals as long as they have enough to pay for the house and car.

I don't know about you, but my impression is that people who ended up in academia are mostly there because it seemed like the path of least resistance. They were indeed not optimizing for wealth, but optimizing for comfort by not making the scary decision of quitting the track they've been on their whole life.
Thats just capitalsm not morals or ethics.

With power comes responsibility.

And your moral ethical construct should not just benefit you and work for you but for all.

Plenty of companies are not ethical and not your friend. If you have family and actually care, you wouldn't worry that facebook teaches them garbage? fake news? etc.? Just for the sake of making money or being allowed to do what they want?

Im curious why you would even debate morals here if your main objection is to make 'as much money as possible'? Just accept that its not a moral goal to have.

Moral would be "Making as much money as possible without hurting anyone and benefiting the society"

I often advocate things not for me. I'm quite good in understanding the facebook algorithm and all of that shit. I advocate this for my friends, familiy and other fellow humans including you.