skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> cannot trust anything that has been written in the past 2 years or so and up until the day that I die.

You never should have. Large amounts of work, even stuff by major authors, is ghostwritten. I was talking to someone about Taylor Swift recently. They thought that she wrote all her songs. I commented that one cannot really know that, that the entertainment industry is very going at generating seemingly "authentic" product at a rapid pace. My colleague looked at me like I had just killed a small animal. The idea that TS was "genuine" was a cornerstone of their fandom, and my suggestion had attacked that love. If you love music or film, don't dig too deep. It is all a factory. That AI is now part of that factory doesn't change much for me.

Maybe my opinion would change if I saw something AI-generated with even a hint of artistic relevance. I've seen cool pictures and passable prose, but nothing so far with actual meaning, nothing worthy of my time.
A bunch of profanity laced name calling, derision, and even some blame directly at the user base. It feels like a Reddit shitpost. Your claim is as generalized and un-scientific as mine, but if it makes you feel better, I'll say it _feels_ like this wouldn't fly even a couple years ago.
Painting can be quite an expensive hobby. Maybe not 3.9k per year expensive, but still, I'm sure I've spent more than $1k in the last 12 months. It starts cheap, but the cheap materials tend to be shite. There's always savings to be made, but they often cost time over money.
edited to specify that I was addressing adult use. Agreed use in adolescence or even younger can be problematic. I also think that there isn't enough discussion around the impact of cannabis on cognition. Here in the U.S., though, as far as medical consensus there truly is not very much concern around cannabis use. A report found that there is limited evidence of the harms of cannabis, and ample evidence of medical use-cases- published by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) in 2017

Worth noting our current overdose crisis and general lack of health care in many parts of the country, now the under-prescription of controlled medications- which all helps shift a lot of these dynamics in a direction that might not be seen in other parts of the world.
MS Teams is a UX disaster zone. So if that is any indication, the new Outlook might not be that great. MS is oddly inept building good UIs lately. Things like Outlook and Office are still a big part of their revenue; so it's kind of odd just how terrible their products are.

I haven't used Office in over a decade. Just not a thing in startups. But teams seems to be a necessary evil to be able to talk with our customers who insist on using it. So I get exposed to that quite a bit. Horrible bit of software.
I don't think it's the contrarian part that I have a problem with.
I kind of feel like if you're using a "Random text generator based on probability" for something that you need to trust, you're kind of holding this tool wrong.

I wouldn't complain a RNG doesn't return the numbers I want, so why complain you don't get 100% trusted output from a random text generator?
I just want consistent and fair rules.

I'm all for abolishing copyright, for everyone. Let the knowledge be free and widely shared.

But until that is the case and people running super useful services like libgen have to keep hiding then I also want all the LLM corpos to be subject to the same legal penalties.
I guess he's asking for specific examples of AlphaFold leading to some tangible real-world benefit.
A Findus and Pettson reference here is awesome
Neither did/do I. When I write "you", of course I don't mean you personally. Keep fighting the good fight! What I'm trying to point at is that convenience trumps privacy concerns almost every time for most people. The reasons for that are plentifold.
This is from his homepage. This dude is weird af. Certainly gives off some pedo incel vibes.

>Since I've been banned from Wikipedia, here are some non-sexual, completely legal PHOTOS OF NAKED CHILDREN, hosted by Wikipedia itself: 1, 2, 3, 4. Please stop being afraid of nudity.

and

>Pedophilia is a sexual orientation and is completely natural, it is not a disorder, it should be morally and legally accepted.

and

>Censorship is always wrong, possesion and sharing of any kind of information, including any type of pornography, has to be legal and moral.

and

>I am quite lonely, if you want to FUCK let me know please (but I've never done it yet).

What in the fuck lol
Perhaps "trust" was a bit misplaced here, but I think we can all agree on the idea: Before LLMs, there was intelligence behind text, and now there's not. The I in LLM stands for intelligence, as written in one blog. Maybe the text never was true, but at least it made sense given some agenda. And like pointed out by others, the usual text style and vocabulary signs that could have been used to identify expertise or agenda are gone.
Can I ask what you migrated to?
~4 years ago, redesign phase of our 50K a month public facing wordpress NGO website, agency strongly suggests moving to gatsby. We/I thought about it for 5 minutes and said no. I am still happy with that decision and I will push to take the same if/when another agency comes at us with Astro. Node CMS are autophagous.
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Like I've said to someone else, the contrarian part isn't the issue. While I disagree with the race to the bottom, it reads like a Reddit shitpost, which was frowned upon once upon a time. But strawman me if you must.
Logged in to write exactly this.

I tend to default to DT for any open-ended/creative problem. Write it down in Apple Notes, let it simmer on the back burner for a while and add ideas as they come.
I sincerely worry about a future when most people act in this same manner.

You have - for now - sufficient experience and understanding to be able to review the AI's code and decide if it was doing what you wanted it to. But what about when you've spent months just blindly accepting" what the AI tells you? Are you going to be familiar enough with the project anymore to catch its little mistakes? Or worse, what about the new generation of coders who are growing up with these tools, who NEVER had the expertise required to be able to evaluate AI-generated code, because they never had to learn it, never had to truly internalize it?

It's late, and I think if I try to write any more just now, I'm going to go well off the rails, but I've gone into depth on this topic recently, if you're interested: https://greaterdanorequalto.com/ai-code-generation-as-an-age...

In the article, I posit a less than glowing experience with coding tools than you've had, it sounds like, but I'm also envisioning a more complex use case, like when you need to get into the meat of some you-specific business logic it hasn't seen, not common code it's been exposed to thousands of times, because that's where it tends to fall apart the most, and in ways that are hard to detect and with serious consequences. If you haven't run into that yet, I'd be interested to know if you do some day. (And also to know if you don't, though, to be honest! Strong opinions, loosely held, and all that.)
No, I don't think that's true. What will instead happen is there will be expert humans or teams of them, intentionally training AI brains rather than expecting wonders to occur just by turning the training loose on random hoovered-up data.

Brainmaker will be a valued human skill, and people will be trying to work out how to train AI to do that, in turn.
That's just the problem -- you can't.

Not because you can't distinguish between _one_ bad piece and _one_ good piece, but because there is so much production capacity that no human will ever be able to look at most of it.

And it's not just the AI stuff that will suffer here, all of it goes into the same pool, and humans sample from that pool (using various methodologies). At some point the pool becomes mostly urine.
> most religions have weighed in on gambling as most societies have been shaped by religion

Really? Except Islam, are there rules against gambling in Hinduism, Christianity, Judaism, or Buddhism?
I run Linux and have been for 10 years. There have been many vulnerabilities with CUPS over the years and its generally known as being risky.

There at printers that let you send a pdf directly to their ip address, ones that take in usbs, etc...

CUPS does a lot of things, but for desktop use do you really need everything?

I personally haven't printed anything for a long time, so I might've been biased in my reply. So, I'm sorry if the comment was a too generalized.

As another thought, why does it come by default on most distros given its history?
> The nastier the more likely it's human written, which is a bit ironic.

This is as everything else, machine produced has a flawlessness along some dimension that humans tend to lack.
Often things are popular that I don't like but can understand why they are popular. Even in cases like "Hawk Tuah" I kinda get how these meme blow up and create celebs which people follow as a new form of pop culture.

But Nardwuar is one of those that every time I listen to an interview of his, I just don't get it. Like at all. His persona isn't just fake but overly exaggerated and annoying. It reminds of the people in my school who would do something stupid and say, "I'm so random haha!"

His vibe makes me feel uncomfortable and I often feel celebs feel uncomfortable in his presence but try to play along because they don't want offend or upset. Some really like his vibe, but many seem uncomfortable.

He'd be way better if he just dropped the early 00s "I'm so random" crap. That said, I don't really follow his stuff because I find him so annoying. Perhaps I am missing something.
I don't think you're right. People love the benefits they get from the cloud, mostly being able to access data from multiple devices and huge storage capabilities. The downsides are, unfortunately, often overlooked.

For non-techies, it is not immediate obvious what the downsides even are, or why they should matter.
This. I am very picky about how I use ML still, but it is unsurpassed as a virtual editor. It can clean up grammar and rephrase things in a very light way, but it gives my prose the polish I want. The thing is, I am a very decent writer. I wrote professionally for 18 years as a part of my job delivering reports of high quality as my work product. So, it really helps that I know exactly what “good” looks like by my standards. ML can clean things up so much faster than I can and I am confident my writing is organic still, but it can fix up small issues, find mistakes, etc very quickly. A word change here or there, some punctuation, that is normal editing. It is genuinely good at light rephrasing as well, if you have some idea of what intent you want.

When it becomes obvious, though, is when people let the LLM do the writing for them. The job search bit is definitely rough. Referrals, references, and actual accomplishments may become even more important.
>Pedophilia is a sexual orientation and is completely natural, it is not a disorder, it should be morally and legally accepted.

Dude is a pedo
This is not entirely true, there are some copilot for O365 features in the old outlook. Like the "summarise these emails with copilot" and the "draft with copilot".

The chatbot interface where you can ask basic questions is still missing in the old Outlook though. But you can use the web interface at https://copilot.microsoft.com to access your emails too.

Other than that I agree, the new outlook is terrible, and it's ridiculous that it doesn't support offline email. It's really nothing more but a wrapper for the web interface.

I'm not a huge fan of copilot either. It's not nearly as capable as they try to make it look. Unfortunately all the top dogs in our company are riding the AI hype train so they must all have it.
I read the original comment not as a lament of not being able to trust the content, rather, they are lamenting the fact that AI/LLM generated content has no more thought or effort put into it than a cheap microwave dinner purchased from Walmart. Yes, it fills the gut with calories but it lacks taste.

On second thought, perhaps AI/LLM generated content is better illustrated with it being like eating the regurgitated sludge called cud. Nothing new, but it fills the gut.
No, you can finetune locally hosted LLMs to be nasty.
I’d love to read it but it’s pay walled
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Buying a book means buying the paper the book is printed on, the intellectual content (text) is not bought. You are allowed to resell the paper. And you are in fact not buying a license to use a book when you buy a book, you are literally buying the actual physical book.
This is a fair question. It is arbitrary, but usually over 20-30%.
I guess I must be wrong. So many people disagree with me I must be an idiot.

You can write and understand llms but not selinux policies..

You are right, the crowd has spoken. Thank you for the education hn.
I think the evidence is closer to “completely harmless” than “mostly harmless” there’s literally never been a reproducible study that shows cannabis is in any way “bad for you.”
i think the problem started when quantity became more important over quality.

you could totally compete on quality merit, but nowadays the volume of output (and frequency) is what is prioritized.
> The best people are naturally attracted to knowledge and intellect

That is a pretty narrow-minded way of evaluating other people's worth...
I too am not looking forward to industrial scale job disruption that AI brings.

I used to work in VFX, and one day I want to go back to it. However I suspect that it'll be entirely hollowed out in 2-5 years.

The problem is that like typesetting, typewriting or the wordprocessor, LLMs makes writing text so much faster and easier.

The arguments about handwriting vs type writer are quite analogous to LLM vs pure hand. People who are good and fast at handwriting hated the type writer. Everyone else embraced it.

The ancient greeks were deeply suspicious about the written word as well:

> If men learn this[writing], it will implant forgetfulness in their souls. They will cease to exercise memory because they rely on that which is written, calling things to remembrance no longer from within themselves, but by means of external marks.

I don't like LLMs muscling in and kicking me out of things that I love. but can I put the genie back in the bottle? no. I will have to adapt.
Yeah so it's nothing like IMAP really.
It's just been said for so long that either HN always been on the decline, or people have always thought it been in decline...

This comes to mind:

> I don't think it's changed much. I think perceptions of the kind you're describing (HN is turning into reddit, comments are getting worse, etc.) are more a statement about the perceiver than about HN itself, which to me seems same-as-it-ever-was. I don't know, however.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40735225

You can also browse some results for how long dang have been responding to similar complaints to see for how long those complaints have been ongoing:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
I totally understand your frustration. We started writing our book long before(2022) AI became mainstream, and when we finally published it on May 2024, all we hear now is people asking if it's just AI-generated content. It’s sad to see how quickly the conversation shifts away from the human touch in writing.
Adopted on paper - likely. Adopted in the real world - unlikely. Just look at many other EU-wide initiatives.
Context:

https://old.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/9si6r9/postmortem...
The impeachment has zero relation with this topic, you are using this space to drop in a political and highly controversial statement in order to try and gain visibility to your highly contentious POV. How is this not removed yet? Flagged.
It is long established but if you are a clickbait website trying to drive traffic to your ads, why should you care?

Inc is one step above 'obvious AI generated drivel' for me. It's literally just regurgitated popscience and 20 links to either other Inc articles or to 3rd party popscience sites.
title should be “FreeBSD Status Report Second Quarter 2024”
https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/113075051598780302

(its about half way down the thread, look for scattered spider.)
> This was due to a conflict between AdGuard and Apple iCloud Private Relay.

Following your post I arrived at this:

https://github.com/AdguardTeam/CoreLibs/issues/1914#issuecom...

You might want to let the developer know that posting on the forums is absolutely not “reporting the problem to Apple”. They need to file a proper bug with Feedback Assistant, and ideally spend one of their two yearly Technical Support Incident (TSI) to get priority, seeing as it’s a paid app.
> Everyone will hate this but whatever, internal company email is dead. It causes more issues than solutions. Phishing, spam, malware, etc. It's legacy tech.

Yeah I know, our Microsoft consultants are constantly spamming this "Use Teams not mail" BS. And the "Why are you not using edge yet?" stuff. I really hate the Microsoft approach where every technical person must also push all the marketing drivel.

However Teams has a major problem: Discoverability. In Outlook when you communicate a lot you can move your emails to custom folders to find them back easily. In Teams you can't. Every ad-hoc chat opens up some Sharepoint site somewhere and after using Teams for a couple years it means you have thousands of locations where your information could be. It's a huge mess and there is no way to manually categorise this to find back important stuff like you could with email.
Exactly. OP is implying that even a single item is too much for them to remember and they would need a notepad, so I must be misinterpreting what they mean by "bit".
I'm not really sure if I follow how that relates?

I'm just saying that "X is legal" is not really a good counter to "X is not moral", which of course also applies in the reverse. Legality and morality are just not the same thing.
Fair, I just don't print usually. Didn't think the phrase through too much. Sorry about that.

I've talked about alternatives in another reply, they do not offer the same flexibility as CUPS however.
> So I build stuff and exit once done and making money.

Sounds nice. Any recommendations on how to get into this game? E.g. how / where do you find your exits?
The port has to be open on the node for the functionality to work - the whole point is that printers on the same LAN can auto-register. If you don't want that, disabling cups-browsed is much safer than just relying on the firewall. If you do want that, you can't firewall the port at all.
VLC has all sorts of prefetch settings.
The problem is not that email gets moved to "the cloud" - naturally, email has always lived on somebody's servers. The problem is non-tech people get tricked into doing something they would likely not want if they understood the implications - like, allowing MS to copy all of your existing email from a different account (say, gmail), when all you want is to manage multiple accounts from a single piece of software.

This whole "cloud" lingo serves to hide technological realities and privacy implications with the only goal to improve business.
Except a few large ones :)
Maybe, over time, there will also be a renewed appreciation for authenticity
It certainly matters when you e.g. find a patch in the wild and have no idea what commit it was originally based on. Metadata fiddling becomes more important in email workflows.
Frankly, I never understood why you'd ever want to connect your TV to any network rather than use an external device. Any convenience (?) you might get will be quickly offset by problems becoming inherent to your TV which doesn't make any sense to me.
> important to note

Why is that important? The guy surely has controversial opinions but you’re not supporting them by importing his rasteriser, is it?
Those APIs (i.e. fetch) are regular async/promise based. And in this synthetic scenario you can't construct your response-to-caller without something in that respond payload. I don't see a way to solve this all with magic.
I think you underestimate how high that bar is, but I will grant that it isn’t that high. It can be a form of sophistry all of its own. Still, it is a difficult skill to write clearly, simply, and without a lot of extravagant words.
While a separate smart device makes more sense from an ecological perspective, it won't save you from ads, tracking, screenshots etc., as long as the same OS that would be running on the TV is running on the device. And, if you want to install apps from streaming services, you need one of the supported OSs - AFAIK most smart devices use Android TV?
You're discounting the human variable there. We're not machines. Look at other sports and you can see other athletes be dominant for years, then "magically" become non dominant after a single bad season (sometimes after a single bad game!). Factors like age and confidence play a huge role in human performance.
Wow sounds nice, any of it open source?
Would love to see
> probably for my own 'safety and security'

Yes, your safety and security from Microsoft.
I'm absolutely positive that the vast majority of fiction is or will soon be written by LLM. Will it be high-quality? Will it be loved and remembered by generations to come? Probably not. Will it make money? Probably more than before on average as the author's effort is reduced to writing outlines and prompts, and editing the generated-in-seconds output, rather than months-years of doing the writing themselves.
If anyone has any more info on this I'd be very interested in seeing it
HN is a place for intellectual curiosity. For over a decade I have seen great minds respectfully debate their point of view on this forum. In this particular case, I would have been genuinely interested to learn why exactly the original comment is advocating for a "race to the bottom" - in fact, there is a sibling comment to yours which makes a cogent argument without personally attacking the original commenter.

Instead, you devoted 2/3 of your comment toward berating the OP as being responsible for your perception of HN's decline.
"Because some people are irresponsible, responsible people should be prohibited of taking risky actions responsibly."

It's the same with the prohibition of alcohol.
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Apple is responsible for plenty of death in foxcon companies.

Google, is a lot different than Apple or Facebook. Google did a lot for our society through Android, Google maps, https, Gmail, Kubernetes and Search.

YouTube had a problem with fake news and especially the algorithm (flat earth etc.) but they actually acted on it a lot faster than facebook ever tried.

But yes pls don't assume something without knowing were my viewpoints are. There is no cognitive dissonance but we talk here about facebook and not about every other companie on the planet.
*CMS -- I don't know what I was thinking
Using LLMs to get things done
Also useful if you want to do microprocessor debugging.

OpenOCD is scriptable/configurable using a small variant of TCL called JimTcl.

https://openocd.org

https://jim.tcl.tk/index.html/doc/www/www/index.html