skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They can be unleashed if you run the models locally. With stable diffusion / flux and the various checkpoints/loras you can generate horrors beyond your imagination or whatever you want without restrictions.

The same with LLMs and Llamafile. With the unleashed ones you can generate dirty jokes that would make edgy people blush or just politically incorrect things for fun.
why do you trust things now? unless you recognize the author and have a chain of trust from that author production to the content you're consuming, there already was no way to estabilish trust.
I don't think anyone is personally scared, just not someone they want to follow or associate with.
> When would the Chrome version be frozen? Once you've completed the UI?

Updates keep us secure. /s
Too much Sponge Bob for today little Timmy. Go sleep.
It's not so much the understanding of it. It's the putting together a decent summary of the issues involved such that I can make a reasonable judgement and do further research as to what to do next.

Don't me wrong, it's not replacing expertise on important legal matters, but really helps in the initiation of solutions, or providing direction towards solutions.

On the simpler stuff, it's still useful. Drafting first templates, etc.

To do the same in Google would be 30 minutes instead of 1 minute in AI.

AI first, Google for focused search, Meat expertise third
Fix photogrammetry bridges so that they are not "solid" underneath (2020)
> I cannot parse the Go syntax as I do not know Go.

Or you probably never even tried. You should be immediately able to parse it if I provide a hint that `*`, `&` and `[10]` mean roughly the same thing as C, because `*[10]int` has no reasonable reason to be parsed as an array of 10 copies of something. You can't do so in C.
At last some positive news about my fag breaks. :)
Its a Large LANGUAGE Model and not a Large MATHEMATICS Model. People need to learn to use the right tools for the right jobs. Also LLMs can be made more deterministic by controlling it’s “temperature”.
The Drone mode in MS Flight Simulator 2020 is pretty much that - https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/how-to-using-the-drone-...
And it will get a lot better quickly. Ten years from now it will not be slop.
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>voicemails don't clog up my cell phone

People still use voicemails? Do you have a fax machine too?
AI acts like a bad intern these days, and should be treated like one. Give it more guidance and don't make important tasks depending it.
New outlook uses the Edge Webview thing, very similar to electron
So now suddenly when the bigwigs do it, software piracy and "IP theft" is totally fine? Thanks, good to know ;)
I actually think this will be a self correcting problem.

Contrary to popular belief, running a sportsbook is a terrible business. Look at draftkings for instance. They’ve gotten gambling legalized nearly everywhere yet are still wildly unprofitable.

I guarantee you that they will never be profitable unless they are granted a monopoly which will never happen.

It’s fairly obvious. If you travel to Vegas and go to the Aria, one of the premier casinos on the strip, you will have to walk around to find the sportsbook. When you do you may be surprised to see that it’s not out in the center of the floor inviting people in, it’s in a dark remote enclosed corner that feels like a large coat room.

Now ask yourself why that would be? And why do casinos devote so much floor space to slot machines and table games?

Betting apps offer the terrible aspects of running a book- relatively unwealthy gamblers with the inability to cross subsidize more profitable games and alcohol along with the added drag of attracting disloyal users who can and will easily use other books to compare lines or take advantage of promos.
The output of those AIs is akin to products and software designed for the "average" user - deep inside uncanny valley, saying nothing specifically, having no specific style, conveying no emotion and nothing to latch on to.

It's the perfect embodiment of HR/corpspeak which I think its so triggering for us (ex) corpo drones.
Honestly it should really be equalized the other way around: alcohol really shouldn’t be as easily available as it is today, perhaps even illegal.

Of course that won’t happen, it’s too ingrained in society. But it really is a scourge.

And I say this as someone who enjoys my beverages responsibly.

Legalizing heroin or the like will destroy parts of our society of nothing else changes.
vanilla 15 bought on launch day, 238 cycles, 98% condition.

I also set it to 100% when I know I won't be at my desk for longer than normal (i.e. trips).
If you are buying all those, then you are buying massively more then you even have a chance to use.
Not to be rude but your (any) situation isn't relevant. The joke is that this is all rather performative when the lifetime of the device isn't as long as it could be

Burn that battery. That's what it's there for, the OS or carrier whims like baseband will probably expire first. If it survives for use off the charger, you've won.

There, we've now gone the gamut. A person made a joke, someone repeated it, first person used an LLM to explain it, another person provided the actual source... and now I'm here ruining it further!

I'll buy a new/cheaper/dumber phone before I lean further into this ecosystem or feel anxiety over it. They want disposable, it'll be disposable.
Better to use that English explanation as a model of readable syntax.
Outlook (new) (Windows desktop client) is one of the worst product from MS I've used in recent years. The lack of polishing is staggering.

Let's be fair first, it works most of time (I know it's a low bar). And I actually prefer its aesthetics than the Outlook (classic) and Mail app.

Now, back to its bugs/issues:

1. Open an email in a search folder will not mark it as read. This is the biggest gripe I have. Since Outlook (new) does not provide any native way to add a label of "unread" on the sidebar, I created a search folder with "select a type = Unread mail" and added it to my favorite. However, it's almost unusable due to the bug mentioned above.

2. You CANNOT search non-ASCII (i.e. Chinese, Japanese, etc.) category (tag). You can add them, (and if you use a, say, Chinese client, the default color categories are literally in Chinese!) but searching these categories (or just click from a tagged email) returns nothing. This fucked me so badly when I categorized 1000+ emails before realizing.

3. The state of the client at various places are often not in sync. For example you may have cleared your unread email already but the icon on taskbar still shows unread dot. Or you opened multiple windows and some say you have 0, some say you have 5. Or within the same window, the inbox sidebar label says 0 but a search folder label for certain condition (say, from certain email address) says otherwise when it's impossible. And there is no refresh button -- so if that happens you have to re-open manually or click a random label and then go back and wish it fixes itself.

I'm sure there are lots of others, but these are more than bad enough.

I'm genuinely concerned how they can ship a software at this stage, particularly issue 1 and 2 are very easily reproducible and I've reported them multiple times through feedback with only canned reply, and they're still not fixed after months.
These amazing machines weren't consistently able to tell if an image had a bird in it or not up until like 8 years ago. If you use AI as a calculator where you need it to be precise, that's on you.
80 years ago the priority was beating the nazis and japanese. The priority now is making money. Can't make money with ice breakers, so use the steel to make SUVs instead.
People talk about 'AI' as if stackoverflow didn't exist. Re-inventing the wheel is something that programmers don't do anymore. Most of the time, someone somewhere has solved the problem that you are solving. Programming earlier used to be about finding these solutions and repurposing them for your needs. Now it has changed to asking AI, the exact question and it being a better search engine.

The gains to programming speed and ability are modest at best, the only ones talking about AI replacing programmers are people who can't code. If anything AI will increase the need for more programmers, because people rarely delete code. With the help of AI, code complexity is going to go through the roof, eventually growing enough to not fit into the context windows of most models.
They don't say whether the control group is using `Optimised Battery Charging` or `None`. (I assume it's the former.)

Would be interesting to compare all of the three options.

It seems that maybe (for MacRumors staff members?) Optimised Battery Charging already provides most of the benefits of 80% Limit, since the devices are fully charged only for short amounts of time anyway.
I've been using LibreOffice Calc instead of Excel for maybe 10 years, and I'm still yet to come across a feature that Excel has which Calc doesn't. The UI leaves a lot to be desired though. Anyway point is, I don't think Excel will be missed when Microsoft inevitably enshitifies it.
I've been using it in my personal writing (combination of GPT and Claude). I ask the AI to write something, maybe several times, and I edit it until I'm happy with it. I've always known I'm a better editor than I am an author, and the AI text gives me somewhere to start.

So there's a human in the loop who is prepared to vouch for those sentences. They're not 100% human-written, but they are 100% human-approved. I haven't just connected my blog to a Markov chain firehose and walked away.

Am I still adding to the AI smog? idk. I imagine that, at a bare minimum, its way of organising text bleeds through no matter how much editing I do.
Was the legality the question? If so it seems we care about data "theft" in a very one sided manner.
Yeah, they made something that passes a Turing test, and people on HN of all places hate it? What happened to this place? It's like the number one thing people hate around here now is another man's success.

I won't ignore them. I'll continue to loudly disagree with the losers and proudly collect downvotes from them knowing I got under their skin.
Or you know, the oxygen.

Otherwise walking makes the blood flowing again, we did not optimize evolutionary for sitting all day.
> Write a response to this comment, make spelling and grammar mistakes.

yeah well sumtimes spellling and grammer erors just make thing hard two read. like i no wat u mean bout wanting two kno its a reel person, but i think cleear communication is still importint! ;)
I haven't been following the drama since the beginning so thanks for the perspective. Totally agree this isn't good.
Still took nine years and missing a few of the big banks according to their site, and with some serious fees for transfers. I’m not saying it’s not going to happen, I just won’t be expecting it any time soon.
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I think most data hoarders aren't technically knowledgeable enough to get that deep into futureproof archival strategies. I suppose priorities are individually different, though. Some might obsess over preservation, others are happy just accumulating stuff without backups, and data loss is a brief pain, quickly forgotten. The key problem of hoarding is the reluctance/inability to deliberately dispose of things.
It isn't fair (sic) calling it risk aversity when the odds of walking away with a not bad outcome are against you. For everyday people risky business means potentially losing everything including sanity and peace of mind.
My comment had nothing to do with Javascript.

Rust may not have "left pad" type micro-dependencies, but it definitely has a dependency culture. Looking at `cargo tree` for the medium size project I'm working on, the deepest dependency branch goes to 12 layers deep. There's obviously a lot of duplicates - most dependency trees eventually end with the same few common libraries - but it does require work to audit those and understand their risk profile and code quality.
What kind of silliness is this?

AI generated crap is one thing. But human generated crap is there - just because human wrote something it is not making it good.

Had a friend who thought that if it is written in a book it is for sure true. Well NO!

There was exactly the same sentiment with stuff on the internet and it is still the same sentiment about Wikipedia that “it is just some kids writing bs, get a paper book or real encyclopedia to look stuff up”.

Not defending gen AI - but still you have to make useful proxy measures what to read and what not, it was always an effort and nothing is going substitute critical thinking and putting in effort to separate wheat from the chaff.
Yet unlicensed use can be its own crime under current law.
That's the crucial point, though, you wouldn't have trusted it without checking the source after all. My experience with 4o is that 4 out of 5 answers I check are wildly incorrect or entirely made up, while with the rest, if I copy my prompt 1:1 into Google, I get the same correct answer pretty much verbatim in result #1. So I don't understand how so many people still see this as anything else but a waste of time, an intermediary step before going to an actual, credible source -- a step which in the best case is entirely unnecessary, in the worst case dangerously misleading. (From my non-representative survey among friends, the answer may be that barely anyone checks the validity of answers, and are simply unaware that they rely on answers from a system which, except for some lucky cases, gives them wrong ones.
Again, my using "is easier to read and understand" was w.r.t. the parent's claim w.r.t. Go's syntax. You understood it wrong to mean an absolute general case.

You need practice for complicated things and that is what i was pointing out with "can be worked out after some practice" and not that everything trivial needed practice.

"Go is a clear winner here" is your claim and not necessarily one that i agree with since as mentioned, knowing the binding rules and a little practice complicated declarations are not that big of a deal.
I would never have imagined hackers becoming copyright zealots advocating for lawsuits. I must be getting old but I still remember the Pirate Bay trial as if it was yesterday.
a) There are plenty of models out there without guard rails.

b) Society is already plenty de-sensitised to violence, sex and whatever other horrors anyone has conceived of in the last century of content production. There is nothing an LLM can come up with that has or is going to shock anyone.

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.
Yep. ChatGPT will use the code interpreter for questions like is 2 + 2 = 5? as it should.
This study seems to hide everything behind the magical "luck" while not actually explaining anything. The way I understand it, some randomness is added to the model, which I assume was calibrated until the model yielded the result that is similar to the modern-day wealth distribution. So all it proves is that other factors alone (IQ, etc.) are not defining of the outcome, but it still doesn't explain what factors are.

"Luck" exists, I believe, but saying that person's wealth depends mostly on luck alone, is dismissive of all other human individual and collective qualities that are actually at play.

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P.S. I also agree with other comments here, correctly observing that being rich is by far not an objective for everyone. On the other hand, hopefully, wealth is a mean to achieve some other life objectives. Otherwise it's just sad indeed.
Check out Michel Foucault's Madness and Civilization.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madness_and_Civilization

Cheers, M
You kind of notice the stuff written with AI, it has a certain something that makes it detectable. Granted, stuff like the Reuters press reports might have already been written by AI, but I think that in that case it doesn’t really matter.
Whenever somebody misspells my name, I know it's legit haha
And this is the major problem. People will blindly trust the output of AI because it appears to be amazing, this is how mistakes slip in. It might not be a big deal with the app you're working on, but in a banking app or medical equipment this can have a huge impact.
Say what you want about income and asset inequality, but capitalism has done more to lift hundreds of millions of people out of poverty over the past 50 years than any other religion, aid programme or whatever else.

I think it's very important and fair to be critical about how we as a society implement capitalism, but such broad generalization misses the mark immensely.

Talk to anyone who grew up in a Communist country in the 2nd half of the 20th century if you want to validate that sentiment.
If I understand it correctly, Wero is based on the new SCT Insta scheme presented (and discussed here) earlier this year. And it should be compatible with (some of) the existing national schemes, right? Or at least that's what I understand...
Meritocracy, in that founder:elect::hired help:preterite?

[TBV and PG are separated both by a century and by EMH]

Where does lowland scots come in? (I had thought this might refer to PG, due to "Bonnie Dundee", but ere Mons Meg and her marrows spake twa words or three, a few clicks leads to a background closer to the daffodil than the thistle: http://cdn.ans.org/about/presidents/docs/john-graham-nn-arti... )

EDIT: ah, there are ancestral links: mentions of kilts and an epigone "Ian Angus"...

Lagniappe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKoYT4febHM (2m50s)

EDIT2: heavily on one side of the ceremonial/instrumental spectrum, some very neo (2012) Edwardians: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avuYx-rjXmk&t=34s (looks like the US Army got rid of "caissons", lyrically at least, in 1956, but here the RHA is still pulling them, in front of the limbers, in the XXI)
Capitalism started by putting up fences around land to kick people out and keep sheep in. It has been putting fences around everything it wants and IP is one such fence. It has always been about protecting the powerful.

IP has had ample support because the "protect the little artist" argument is compelling, but it is just not how the world works.
Or it will all be slop as there us no non-slop data to train on anymore
you wrote this comment completely by your own, right? without any AI involved. And I read your comment feeling confident that it's truly 100% yours. I think this reader's confidence is what the OP is talking about.
> is it normal that a new-ish iPhone, even if charged "only" to 80%, needs to be charged during the day?!?

Depends heavily on usage patterns. I have friends who watch TikTok videos all day, and they have to top-up before they go out for the evening. If you have less battery-intensive habits, a new-ish iPhone goes 2 days on a charge fairly easily.
Debunking bullshit inherently takes more effort than generating bullshit, so the human factor is normally your big force multiplier. Does this person seem trustworthy? What else have they done, who have they worked with, what hidden motivations or biases might they have, are their vibes /off/ to your acute social monkey senses?

However with AI anyone can generate absurd torrential flows of bullshit at a rate where, with your finite human time and energy, the only winning move is to reject out of hand any piece of media that you can sniff out as AI. It's a solution that's imperfect, but workable, when you're swimming through a sea of slop.
It is but you just have to know how to map it.
Very exciting features!
> Related: actual Nazism is on the rise in Germany, with the neonazi party recently winning control of two state governments.

I actually blame previous governments for this, especially their "invite all possible immigrants, give them free money, and worry about consequences later". It didn't make any sense then and it doesn't now but they pulled it in spite of people knowing the consequences as these are clear in other countries.

I strongly believe if they chose a more reasonable strategy, that is being more picky about 1) who is coming in, 2) in what quantities, 3) how to deal with non-integration, 4) regular revisions of immigration policies based on the reality - we wouldn't have the AfD problem now, at least not at this scale.

You can clearly see from Putin's actions on Belorussian border with the EU that it is his main strategy for destabilizing Europe, one that works quite well.
HN generally hated (and rightly so, IMO) strict copyright IP protection laws. Then LLMs came along and broke everybody's brain and turned this place into hardline copyright extremists.
Not sure this actually tells us anything useful as it's all based on an inherently simplified simulation. You get what you simulate for. You could just as easily replace "luck" with nepotism and fraud and conclude those factors must be very important.
Yes, we can imagine a future where all cab drivers are unemployed, replaced by autonomous driving. However, we don't know when this will happen, because autonomous driving is a much harder problem than the hype from a few years ago suggested. There isn't even proof that autonomous driving will ever be able to fully replace human drivers.
Like the other brands are any better...
Hrm, every benchmark of top-loader machines vs modern front-loader machines I've ever seen has front-loaders doing far better in terms of limiting damage to clothes. I suppose it's possible that old-fashioned high-water-use _front-loaders_ are easier on clothes (are those still a thing in the US?)
VHS tapes sell at easily more than $1 a pop. That's 50k dollars.
Well if you're limiting yourself to zig cc, then all you get is a C compiler.

If you take the time to kick out of your project that soup of build systems and replace them with a build.zig, then you got yourself a complete solution. Takes some effort but it's perfectly doable, see https://github.com/allyourcodebase
I am rich enough (I could retire at 25 or so which is 25 years ago after I sold my first company), but I never had any drive to make much more as that type of work needs all kinds of boring stuff I don't want. I like to build stuff and sell it and move on, not suck up to VCs, have 1000s of employees, make business plans or any of that. So I build stuff and exit once done and making money.

Even with smarter investment choices, I could've had a lot more, but I don't find that interesting either. Building stuff; only thing I care about.
>Nothing that is moving society forward.

OpenAI "moves society forward," Microsoft "moves society forward." I'm sincerely uninterested in progress, it always seems like progress just so happens to be very enriching for those who claim it.

>There are plenty of models out there without guard rails.

Not being used at a mass scale.

>Society is already plenty de-sensitised to violence, sex and whatever other horrors anyone has conceived of in the last century of content production. There is nothing an LLM can come up with that has or is going to shock anyone.

Oh, but it wouldn't really be very shocking if you could expect it, now would it?
Cool! Could the rerendering be done so that only the changed lines updates instead of rewriting the whole grid?

https://gist.github.com/DmitryTsepelev/1e9d73db26aa19d4ad2bd...
I get two associations from your comment: One about how AI being mainly used to interpolate within a corpus of prior knowledge, seems like entropy in a thermodynamical sense. The other, how this is like the Tower of Babel but where distrust is sown by sameness rather than differences.
In fact, relying on AI for coding and writing, feels more like channeling demonic suggestions than anything else. No wonder we are becoming skeptical.