skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. I'm radically anti-advertising so literally any ad whatsoever being removed is a net positive to me. But regardless:

Ads and marketing that paint extremely unhealthy foods as healthy are deceptive, to put it simple. I'm against deception, because then you're not making rational choices. Be that greenwashing, or predatory loans with misleading terms in big letters and hidden small print. I think this is not a bad principle to have.

Btw: we already made laws so that packs of tobacco went from having a cool cowboy on a horse to a picture of diseased gums on plain packaging. I think most people agree that has been a net positive.
> I'm confused as to whether it applies to online gaming

As written, it should. Which is ridiculous, and it's a ridiculous law in the first place. I'm loathe to discuss politics, but by god both Labor and the LNP are woeful when it comes to tech policy.
So is that an argument for banning gambling ads as well, rather than not banning ads for unhealthy ultraprocessed foods?
Tintin is not a French comic, is from Belgium. And the first two comics are controversial, but also a product of that age. Blue Lotus also depicts a terrible image of Japanese.

Asterix is more consistent, complex and rewarding for adults. A part of Asterix has dated also because the endless cameos of real people popular in that years don't mean so much for new generations.

Other European comic in the big leagues is the Spanish Mortadelo and Filemon. If Tintin is adventure and Asterix is clever wordplay, Mortadelo embraces directly sadistic fun in its wild own way. If you don't know them still, see the film "Mortadelo and Filemon: Mission implausible" for a good glimpse of that world. You'll thank me later.
It can be no regulation.

There has not been regulation for online forums for forty years and Earth did not explode or human kind did not end.
There's a big difference between showing and telling. GP wants a demo that makes it clear that something interesting has been produced.
You are rewarded for something that is useful to the market, i.e. to other people (useful enough so they agree to pay you money for it). If something you know is no longer useful, you will not be rewarded.

It was true 100 years ago, it was true 20 years ago, and it is true now.
It's also really REALLY hard to prove dumping tactics, unfortunately, at least if there isn't a global commodity for the resource in question - it is easy to prove dumping/loss leads for stuff like grain, rice, coffee or whatnot, but a TV with its complex supply chains?
Ahhh so this is how all those new component library websites are springing up so fast. Hundreds of cards, buttons, and forms that are perfectly cromulent but all the variables are spelled weird.. thanks
That world is already here. Nothing you can do about it, might as well democratize access to the technology.
As someone who grew up on a small island with 700 people on it, with one tiny library that I could borrow unlimited amount of comic books from (a lot of Tintin and Asterix :) ), that does sound strange.
Poor MPs. Being power hungry must really suck in the age of social media :(
This is our future. I hate it, but it feels inevitable.

My job is going to be unrecognisable in 10 years time, to the point where I'm not sure I'll be particularly skilled to do it. And the tools I need to do my job are being made worse, just so that I can be overtaken by the next generation who are agile enough to switch to leveraging LLMs better.
That ship sailed shortly after the invention of photography. Photos were altered for political purposes during the US Civil War.

Now, we have entire TV shows shot on green screen in virtual sets. Replacing all the actors is just the next logical step.
We already have hate and murder, evil actors influencing elections on a global scale, denial of physics and reason, and cults of personality. We also already have the ability to create realistic videos - not that it matters because for many people the bar of credulity isn't realism but simply confirming their priors. We already live in a world where TikTok memes and Facebook are the primary sources around which the masses base their reality, and that shit doesn't even take effort.

The only thing this changes is not needing to pay human beings for work.
Ha I didn't even count oxygen in the mix; it could hold its breath maybe? j/k, what's for sure is that I don't see how a biological entity could ever achieve escape velocity from self-powered flight, because, well, physics.

That, or they "keep improving every month" til they become evolved enough to build rockets, at which point the entire point of them being birds becomes moot.
Is the documentation for AI chat bots or for humans?

The PR is now closed but seems like we should be striving to do better.
Its explicitly designed to also see private use, and sold to governments as such. They want to claim that this can subsidize the government operation.

This is the exact same playbook that they use with the Ariane 6. Don't worry, its operation will be subsidized by commercial contracts. And then the actual commercial contract is a billion+ $ for Amazon.

> Such is the price of strategic independence.

If you only get 1% of value for every project, then its simply 100% impossible to actually have broad strategic independence. This is just basic math. There are 1000s of things that you could talk about in regards to strategic independence, if you have to spend 10-100x for each one, then you will simply fail to achieve it in 95-99% of them.

And if you are in a position where you can't even get close to the goal of overall strategic independence you need to prioritize. Is a LEO constellation really the most important of those things? If your goal is not consumers streaming Netflix, but resistant military communication, what would a constellation look like that was focused only on that.

Strategic thinking is about priorities and using resources in the most efficient way possible to the greatest possible effect. This is specially true in Europe where the money for such things are incredibly limited.
Whow, huge!

This should replace perl's regex engine, as it would blow it away with its builtin unicode features and much saner coding. No longjmp's.
The sad part is, our major politicians are pretty much straight up blackmailed into doing this (though in practice they appear to do it gleefully). Murdoch and others own basically our entire media apparatus: don't do what they say, and you're destroyed in said media. It's absolutely wild the power they've been given.
MS admitting their artificial "intelligence" is too stupid to understand tables, not even 20 hours after HN discussed how are developers preparing for AI to takeover our jobs. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42431103
> Because then they're responsible, at least socially, for the things the new admin does.

Nonsense.
>But the low quality CRUD websites (think restaurant menus) will get swallowed by LLMs. You no longer need a guy to code up a model, run a migration, and throw it on AWS. You also don't need a guy to make the art.

just like you don't need webmasters, if you remember that term. IF you are just writing CRUD apps, then yeah - you're screwed.

If you're a junior, or want to get into the field? same, you're totally screwed.

LLMs are great at soft tasks, or producing code that has been written thousand of times - boilerplate, CRUD stuff, straightforward scripts - but the usual problems aren't limited by typing speed, nor amount of boilerplate but by thinking and evaluating solutions and tradeoffs from business perspective.

Also I'll be brutally honest - by the time the LLMs catch up to my generation's capabilities, we'll be already retired, and that's where the real crisis will start.

No juniors, no capable people, most seniors and principal engineers are retired - and quite probably LLMs won't be able to fully replace them.
No. "Spatial video" is just stored as two separate views instead of just squishing both images in one frame and a tiny amount of metadata about the camera. "Immersive video" is that plus 180 degree FOV and 8k.
It's not just you. From one of the main contributors to Ruby Video[0]:

2024 is the year with the most Ruby talks in a single year, ever!
This is the first time we beat the previous all-time record from 2015!
Ruby is so back!

[0]: https://ruby.social/@marcoroth/113665539397868492
Curious: what kind of problem domain to you work on? I use LLMs every day on pretty hard problems and they are always net positive. But I imagine they’re not well trained on material related to your work if you don’t find them useful.
There's no evidence that this fearmongering over safety is actually correct. The worst thing you can do is pummel an emerging technology into the grave because of misplaced fear.

Just take a look at how many everyday things were "incredibly dangerous for society" - https://pessimistsarchive.org/
the way forward should be making llms understand tables better. those documentations should be written for humans, as an alternative you could have an llm friendly version
I have a Conbee II stick but it's running through Zigbee Home Automation.

HomeAssistant is running inside a VM with the stick passed through from the host.

It works mostly well, hasn't lost any of the Sonoff and Lixee sensors. The only issue is that I need to reboot the VM after an update, or it will lose access to the stick for some reason.
Your wall of texts are very hard to read.

Anyhow, you juxtaposition of moral and rationality justifies the murder.

You say that it is the publics responsibility to out pressure on law makers to align moral and rationality.

In an oligarchy, like the US, this is really hard to do through the normal channels.

So your line of thought must be to use channels that transcend normal channels, such as murder.
Sociologist Robert K. Merton coined the term "unintended consequences" (amongst numerous others), and developed an existing notion of manifest vs. latent functions and dysfunctions.

In particular, Merton notes:

Discovery of latent functions represents significant increments in sociological knowledge .... It is precisely the latent functions of a practice or belief which are not common knowledge, for these are unintended and generally unrecognized social and psychological consequences.

Robert K. Merton, "Manifest and Latent Functions", in Wesley Longhofer, Daniel Winchester (eds) Social Theory Re-Wired, Routledge (2016).

<https://www.worldcat.org/title/social-theory-re-wired-new-co...>

More on Merton:

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_K._Merton#Unanticipated...>

Unintended consequences:

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unintended_consequences#Robert...>

Manifest and latent functions:

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manifest_and_latent_functions_...>
Maybe I should attack the bailey instead, but anyway I'm compelled to note that the French plural for "bon mot" is "bons mots".

(I'd also like to offer this comment as evidence that humans too are fond of being obnoxious while being smugly stupid.)
Do you feel better off in a jurisdiction where, for example, anti-vaxxing is promoted?
I was talking more about further iteration of things like the Outer Space Treaty. There is currently very little chance that this will be evolved to systemically handle things like space junk and so on.

The Artemis Accords are the closes, but that's sign up based, much more coalition building then global cooperation.
The life of the programmer. Nothing new!
Also nobody is going after the small spaces, because they don't even know they exist. And when they do they can be shut down I guess, if there really is misunderstanding. I don't get preemptively doing it other than giving up after a long duty of almost 30 years and using this as excuse. At least pass them to someone else that won't care about the liability.
> Why is everyone so confident it will just keep getting better?

Because there are literally thousands of avenues to explore and we've only just begun with the lowest of low hanging fruit.
> Google is groaning under the weight of sacrifices made specifically so these SREs can play in their engineering playground every day

they're literally doing that. google has +$300B net positive assets. [1] they could distribute that to stockholders, go to the bahamas and call it a day. but they keep this wealth there so that SWEs can "play" and create stuff for others to use.

yes, they're not a humanitatian org. they do it so that they earn more, then invest more. but they are sacrificing short term gains and risking actually losing money.

[1] https://www.google.com/finance/quote/GOOG:NASDAQ?hl=en
Have you ever interacted with a person over 70 that has mobility problems? Do you really expect an 80 year old to ride a scooter up a hill in the rain/snow? Getting into the car is difficult enough.
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right, looking at it again, I think I get it now. You'd need: the 8-bit sRGB source, to the premultiplied image as floating point (Pixman can't do to 16-bit channels it seems,) then to the resized image as floating point, then unpremultiply that, and then go back to 8-bit sRGB. It makes sense in my head, I just don't know if it's really worth all that tradeoff, it's a lot of extra steps... I don't even know that the original resize algorithm would've even done it either given its age, and my goal is to replicate that. But maybe I'll test and see how it goes eventually
Highly unlikely you learned any history from Astérix ahaha x) But I did learn about plenty of European and French regional stereotypes!
You know when multiple people are trying to tell you something, you could consider listening.
I get the same feeling as the repercussions for bad actors are fines relative to revenue, 10% if I read correctly, given that the OP has stated that they work off a deficit most of the time, I can't see this being an issue.

Also if it is well monitored and seems to have a positive community, I don't see the major risk to shut down. Seems more shutting down out of frustration against a law that, while silly on it's face, doesn't really impact this provider.
> No is supposed to mean no

One counterargument is that nobody forces you to use their services.

I think the root problem is that nobody produces personal hardware over which the average person could conveivably assume full control. I'm not even sure it's possible, given how advanced the computer technology is.
Indeed, it has a clear answer too. Of course new techniques might pop up!
Of course if the only offer you get is places who suck and people you don't like, it's a bummer. Although I don't think the OP meant that - going for going's sake. In a hypothetical situation when the place would be just okay and the people too, some people's brains (mine too) tend to say "meh don't bother, nothing stellar gonna happen anyway". That is the impulse we ought to fight: don't save yourself for exceptional events, but be surprised by the small pleasures in regular ones. And still avoid the bad ones, that goes without saying.
That is reality, that is nature. The natural world is filled with camouflaged animals and plants that prey on one another via their camouflage. This is evolution, and those unable to discriminate reality from fiction will be the causalities, as they always have since the dawn of life.
I can understand them not wanting the due diligence burden (even if only self-imposed rather than required for any official reason) of picking a successor in this way, or the admin burden of setting up “some non-profit trust format”.

Also depending on the terms agreed to when people signed on and started posting, it might be legally or morally difficult because transferring the data to the control of another party could be against the letter or the spirit of the terms users agreed to. Probably not, but I wouldn't want to wave such potential concerns off as “nah, it'll be fine” and hoping for the best.

Even leaving a read-only version up, so a new home could develop with the old content remaining for reference, isn't risk free: the virtual-swatting risk that people are concerned about with this regulation would be an issue for archived content as much as live stuff.

At least people have a full three months notice. Maybe in that time someone can come up with a transfer and continuation plan the current maintainer is happy with, if not the users at least have some time to try to move any social connectivity based around the site elsewhere.
You may not be unaware of this but Elo ranking systems are used in a lot of online multiplayer games these days, typically referred to as 'MMR' (multiplayer matchmaking rankings).

And, at least in that context, they're not regularly referred to as 'fun' XD. It's a very good system, but when they're also used to determine who you play in the pool of players it can regarded as a method to forcing players towards a constant 50% win rate or 'forced 50'.

Personally I think Elo is a nice neat system and it's cool to see you making it accessible for other offline use cases.
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I read this at a poetry evening recently, to much laughter. From Titus Plautus, a comic playwright, we have an early example of a rant about disruptive technology or - possibly - a satire about technophobia!
Can you cite the law if you're going to make claims about it
It is a paradox because there is an apparent contradiction in the fact that higher efficiency leads to higher consumption. By definition the opposite should be true.
I was pulled into a tough legal case and my lawyer explained that engineers have the hardest time working with law because they expect things to be logical. It's really a squishy mess full of ambiguities that are resolved with sophistry and head games.
To me it seems possible, that seniors will become in even more demand, because learning to become a decent developer is actually harder if you're distracted by leaning on LLMs. Thus, the supply of up-and-coming good new seniors may be throttled. This to me is because LLMs don't abstract code well.
Once upon a time electronics engineers had to know a lot about components. Then along came integrated circuits and they had to know about them, and less about components.
Once upon a time programmers had to know machine code or assembler. I've never had to know about those for my job.
I programmed in C++ for years and had to know plenty about memory. These days I rarely need to as much, but some basic knowledge is needed.
Its fine if a student is learning to code mostly in Python, but a short course in C is probably a good idea even today.
But as for LLMs, you can't say "now I need to know less about this specific thing that's been black-boxed for me" , because it isn't wrapped conveniently like that.
I'm extremely glad that when I was a junior, LLMs weren't around. Really seems like a barrier to learning. Its impossible to understand all the generated code, but also difficult, without significant career experience, to be able to judge what you need to know about, and what you don't. Feel sorry for juniors today to be honest!
This gives me hope WayMo might come to the UK after Japan.
Cause it’s even harder to build them
Self-Driving cars will make roads safer and open up cheap travel for millions of people.
One absolutely should not trust what you see and hear around you. One cannot trust the opinions of others, one should not trust faith, one can only reliable develop critical analysis and employ secondary considerations to the best of their ability, and then be cautious at every step. Trust and faith are relics of a time now gone, and it is time to realize it, to grow up and see the reality.
Yes, but still after some years not really usable. Or maybe I got a bad one? I’ve a 2016 macbook pro (the one with touch display) and already after 6 years was failing. And now almost unusable.
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Claude and pasting code back and forth for simple things. But I’d like to try Claude with a few MCP servers so it can directly modify a repo.

But lately Cursor. It’s just so effortless.
And I'll keep telling you that I never said I'm safe forever.
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The vast majority of people in Axis-occupied Europe, especially in the West (France, Belgium, Netherlands) collaborated with the occupiers. I think this speaks more to the spinelessness of the average human person than to this man in particular.
That’s super interesting. It would have been some mainframe fortran from the 1970s because I remember him bringing me and my brother as children into a university computer lab where he had weaseled some time on a mainframe so he could punch cards. He told me the variable naming thing (and was prone to exaggeration) so it might not even be true - I can’t ask him now as he’s writing pseudo fortran implementations of Newton-Raphson with short variable names in the great computer lab in the sky at the moment.
Well, you could argue that's most of the point.

Remember, though, there are funerals where only one person attends. And publicly acknowledging one's loss - even if it only consists of going to a building with strangers and posting an obituary - can be one of the most important steps in processing grief for some people.
Have you already noticed the trend of image search results for porn containing inferior AI slop porn?

I have. It sucks. The world we're headed for maybe isn't one we actually wind up wanting in the end.

I like the idea of increasingly advanced video models as a technologist, but in practice, I'm noticing slop and I don't like it. Having grown up on porn, when video models are in my hands, the addiction steers me in the direction of only using the the technology to generate it. That's a slot machine so addictive akin to the leap from the dirty magazines of old to the world of internet porn I witnessed growing up. So, porn addiction on steroids. I found it eventually damaging enough to my mental health that I sold my 4090. I'm a lot better off now.

The nerd in me absolutely loves Generative models from a technology perspective, but just like the era of social media before it, it's a double edged sword.
Spend any amount of time on mainstream social media and you'll see AI-generated media being shared credulously. It's not a hypothetical risk, it's already happening.

Even if you're not convinced that it's dangerous, at the very least it's incredibly annoying.

If someone dumped a trailer full of trash in your garden, you're not going to say "oh well, market forces compelled them to do that".
You're the one who claimed that I'm arrogant and pulled that out of thin air. Take your own advice.

I also have no idea what your comment here had to do with LLMs, will you elaborate?
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From what I know, HAOS runs on Docker in the backend, plugins are basically containers that are started up
I see, thanks.

>So when Web Corp gets fined, you lose your site.

My mind immediately goes in the direction of "Maybe you lost that server, but just buy a new one and change some DNS entries", which isn't free but a lot less than £18M. But maybe there are protections against this kind of scheming? I'd like to think there were.

>If Big Corp owned the site, and Web corp operated the site, you may be OK.

I don't follow -- if Big Corp owns the site, won't it lose everything?

>Since this applies to laws in general, are you arguing that corporations are a farce? I may be inclined to agree.

I think I am actually. They do seem like a way to get something for (almost) nothing (and they seem like they were probably engineered to be this way deliberately).
Obviously via public key cryptography. It seems that you lack a sufficient understanding on this subject to back up the repeated snarky comments.
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