skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Papier ist geduldig. (Literally paper is patient) / roughly: Paper doesn't blush.
There is problematic framing all around this issue.

eg: As I recall 20 odd years ago perhaps 40% of the eligable voters cast in favour of a Hamas who explicitly ran on a platform of seeking peace with Israel and were considered at the time to be more moderate than the alternatives.

Today almost no one who voted for that Hamas of long long ago is still alive which undermines all arguments of the form "well, they voted for them".
Name one technology that has come with computers that hasn't resulted in more humans being put to work ?

The rhetoric of not needing people doing work is cartoon'ish. I mean there is no sane explanation of how and why that would happen, without employing more people yet again, taking care of the advancements.

It's nok like technology has brought less work related stress. But it has definitely increased it. Humans were not made for using technology at such a pace as it's being rolled out.

The world is fucked. Totally fucked.
I think Bandcamp is neat just for having users' purchases be default public, so I can click on user profiles of people who bought an album and see what other albums they bought. Admittedly I don't discover much this way but I do like the Bandcamp weekly radio shows. Probably the highest density of finding new artists was back when I listened to XLR8R podcasts... Wow I just went to see if they were still around only to find they shut down like last week

https://xlr8r.com/news/xlr8r-has-closed-down-its-subscriptio...

One episode I listened to over and over was Songs To Get Killed In The Woods To, wayback machine cached the MP3 thankfully https://web.archive.org/web/20201223182606/https://xlr8r.com...

I'm a Qobuz subscriber now but the auto playlists let me down more often than not, totally changing up the genre of whatever album just finished. Hard to beat their drm free lossless catalog tho. I think nowadays my primary method of discovering new music is Shazaming tunes in hip thrift stores whenever I visit LA or NYC
> Now it is, and replacing those fake artists (...)

They aren't even artists. They release content bought from third-parties, and at most their role is limited to market it. These "artists" are at best brands that are carefully managed and curated.
This is not AGI lmao.
That seems like something very far from a certainty. Imagine if you were to cite this in a scientific paper: "a close friend of mine does this but I have no idea how they do it". What about this [1]:

> We show that the use of the ORNIS 1%, the 5% mortality criterion, and potential biological removal criteria are inadequate for providing safe thresholds with respect to the impact of wind turbine collisions on populations.

From a paper entitled "Mortality limits used in wind energy impact assessment underestimate impacts of wind farms on bird populations".

1. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ece3.6360
> Nice solution, but the bigger problem is how AirTags can basically be turned off, which makes it poor for many use cases.

> Of course, I get it from Apple's perspective, they dont want AirTags to be used to tail others.

I'm also not a fan of having to go back to Apple and pay a fee for "battery service", when the current fix is a CR2032 battery that's under $1.
> I wonder if the new drug of choice is actually technology

Technology certainly is the economic sector that we privilege against all criticism of the harm it does to young people, to voting adults, to information quality, to public discourse, and to democracy itself.
Deep learning to the rescue ...
Art was used by the rich and famous to show off their wealth.
In the 19th century countries got into the game (the idea that Dutch masters were ending up in American collections was a national embarrassment).
Yeah, especially the people scamming others.
FUTO develops, for the most part, proprietary software that they plan to monetize. The license choice isn't some mistake that you can get them to recant by explaining the virtues of the AGPL and third party distributors. (They're already aware of these things; one of the products under their umbrella is Immich, which was relicensed to AGPL after they started employing the original developer, as a compromise between his goals and FUTO's.) They're deliberately going for the same model as Unreal: source access is only provided a courtesy to users, and/or as part of a marketing strategy, and they have zero interest in allowing you to fork their software.
The question I asked was specifically about locally generated content.
What is UA UX?
I think it's simply out of fashion. E.g., "Don't mess with Mr. In-between" is a line from the 1940's song "Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive." It's addressing abstract entities in a personalized form, which --I assume-- is a style convention commonly understood at the time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Qk9o_ZeR7s

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate_the_Positive

I learnt of this song through the fantastic series "The Singing Detective."
psDooM pits you against processes on the system represented as enemies: https://psdoom.sourceforge.net/
Zerostash is a deduplicated, encrypted file store with versioning
Why is this distinction lost in every thread on this topic, I don't get it.
Humans are the biggest problem of what? Of the sun? Of Venus?

Of humans. Humans are a problem for the satisfaction of humans. Yet removing humans from this equation does result in higher human satisfaction. It lessens it.

I find this thought process of "humans are the problem" to be unreasonable. Humans aren't the problem; humans are the requirement.
What is a "technical musician"?
If you don’t actually respect the artist who is getting cloned and replaced by lazy/AI versions of their work without compensation, sure. No problem with this at all.

This enshittification of the streaming industry comes after decades of enshittification of radio (all clear channel owned in the U.S. now) and the total collapse of any revenue opportunities for making an album for a new artist.

It’s no wonder that the arts are dominated by nepo babies today. People who can treat creativity as an unpaid hobby, taking all risks with no consequences, and short cutting the path to popularity thanks to having family connections and wealth.

Taylor Swift had a rich daddy buy a record label for her. For everyone else, why bother?
You will notice that the same people who are against wind turbines are frequently also oppose to nuclear power (and cell tower, highways, factories, farms, forests, high rise building, schools, railroads, new neighbourhoods, pretty much any change that is not to their immediate benefit.

In many cases nuclear is a better option, but if you want to stand up a few gigawatts of power in two - five years, turbines will let you do that. There's no chance of getting a nuclear power plant operating in a country with no history of nuclear power in less than ten year, and that's perhaps being fairly optimistic. Wind is better than running coal 24/7, which is what you competing against in most cases.
>Intersectionality.

Nah, just elementary school Math.

It was around 1%, a considerable morbidity but still very far from losing "a complete generational cohort".
that sounds about as helpful as a chocolate teapot.
Also worth noting that you can create new debts while paying old ones, and sometimes you should.
> That is just serving customers worse music.

There is no music monopoly and customers have a choice in which music they listen to and what service they use (Spotify, Apple, Google/Youtube, Amazon, Bandcamp, buying CDs).

Surely if users get served worse music, they will dislike it, and move to another service or another way to listen to music.
'AI-powered judge' takes boxing closer to brave new world it appears to seek
> Hopefully they will gradually cut out the record labels entirely, and pay the artists the full cut directly that is currently going mostly to the record label

Ok stop it. This is too much.
It does, in a way; AI is already there, all around you, whether you like it or not. Technological progress is Pandora’s box; you can’t take it back or slow it down. Businesses will use AI for critical workflows, and all good that they bring, and all bad too, will happen.
Depending on how you use it, you mightn't need to exchange it often, or at all.

Companies that use it as hedge, or diversification, just need to "hold" it. Investors (not traders, there's a big difference) also commonly just "hodl" it. Also no need to exchange it. And several more such use-cases.

Sure, after a while, they might want to exchange it for something they "need". Like housing, healthcare, food, materials, etc. But often that's a one-time after years of not exchanging. And we still don't know how the future may look. Some believe Bitcoin is what we'll be paying with in a few decades (I don't, not really). I'm pretty sure I can buy almost any house for a few bitcoin, especially if that's "overpriced" in dollar-terms, today already.
Says the technical founder and CTO of our startup who exited with 9 figures and who also has a severe lazy eye: you don't want me driving. He got pulled over for suspected dui; totally clean, just can't drive straight
It's all fun and games until the infra crashes and you can't work out why, because a machine has written all of the code, no one understands how it works or what it's doing.

Or - worse - there is no accessible code anywhere, and you have to prompt your way out of "I'm sorry Dave, I can't do that," while nothing works.

And a human-free economy does... what? For whom? When 99% of the population is unemployed, what are the 1% doing while the planet's ecosystems collapse around them?
This is a problem only if the actual users are unhappy with the music they are being served.

If the music they are listening to satisfy their musical tastes for the monent, again, what is the issue?

If generic slop Spotify created to increase their own profits satisfies the listener the same way a song created with labor and love by an actual artist, well, this is saying something. I am not sure either of us will like the message.
Bird eyes are more sensitive to UV light than humans right? Better UV reflective coating would help them?

Or a transparent film with a pattern of absorbed and reflected UV?
I can recommend https://github.com/joeyates/imap-backup for backing up gmail.
(Sarcasm warning). Surely the music industry will be fine in the long term when everyone switches to Google, Apple, and Amazon.
I just use thunderbird with imap and copy the whole thunderbird folder to a new device when I want to use email there.

That being said, I started using email about twenty years ago and I probably have looked at past emails maybe a dozen times. The vast majority I never look at again.
Show HN: ChatGPT to Word or PDF – Save Conversations in One Click
Hi HN!

I’ve built a Chrome extension called "ChatGPT to Word or PDF' that makes saving ChatGPT conversations super simple.

With a single click, you can export your ChatGPT responses as a Word or PDF file.

Why I Built This:

I found it frustrating to copy-paste ChatGPT conversations into external tools to save or share them. This tool eliminates that hassle by integrating directly into your browser, letting you download files instantly.

Use Cases:

- Documenting Ideas: Save brainstorming sessions with ChatGPT for future reference.

- Client Deliverables: Share neatly formatted responses as Word or PDF files.

- Study Notes: Keep records of educational prompts and ChatGPT-generated answers.

- Team Collaboration: Easily share ChatGPT output with teammates in a professional format.

Key Features:

- One-click export of ChatGPT responses.
- Automatically downloads files in your chosen format (Word or PDF).
- Simple interface – no extra configurations needed.

Link:

Check it out here: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/chatgpt-to-word-or-...

I’d love your feedback! What do you think about this? What features or improvements would make this tool more useful for you?
> Health care costs are growing slower now than any prior decade[3].

I don’t see any data on that page supporting this claim. The current decade is growing much faster than the previous one, and they only show data up to 2023.

> Health spending increased by 7.5% from 2022 to 2023, faster than the 4.6% increase from 2021 to 2022. The growth in total health spending from 2022 to 2023 is well above the average annual growth rate of the 2010s (4.1%).
I would still rather be able to see the code it generates
„Well, our AI that was specifically designed for maximising gains above all else may indeed have instructed the workers to cut down the entire Amazonas forest for short-term gains in furniture production.“ But no human was involved in the decision, so nobody is liable and everything is golden? Is that the future you would like to live in?
I gave too many shits about my home dir once too..

My only correct way today is create your own home dir inside your home dir to combat this hell hole of never ending config junk in your home dir
> No, some C programs cannot be made safe. This can be due to dependency on undefined or unspecified behaviors, or it can be because introducing proper safety checks would limit the domain of possible inputs too much to be useful, or other things.

You can certainly replace code using undefined behavior in C code by using defined constructs.

> I don't think this exists, as the numerous critical vulnerabilities over the years have shown. All we have is C that seems to work pretty well often enough to be useful.

I think this highly misleading. Some of the most reliable programs I know are written in C and Rust projects will also have critical vulnerabilities. Most vulnerabilities are not actually related to memory safety and the use of unsafe Rust will also lead to memory safety issues in Rust code. So I see some advantage to Rust but to me it is obviously overhyped.
> No. Nobody thinks LLMs are perfect. That’s a strawman.

I'm afraid that's not the case. Literally yesterday I was speaking with an old friend who was telling us how one of his coworkers had presented a document with mistakes and serious miscalculations as part of some project. When my friend pointed out the mistakes, which were intuitively obvious just by critically understanding the numbers, the guy kept insisting "no, it's correct, I did it with ChatGPT". It took my friend doing the calculations explicitly and showing that they made no sense to convince the guy that it was wrong.
Sega considering Netflix-like game subscription service
Well, we have tied all of the smooth functioning of society to producing new technology, so regardless of its negative effects or its diminishing returns, we develop it. It's a strong piece of circumstantial evidence for technological determinism, not to mention many advancements are clear-cut cases of the prisoner's dilemma (arms race), such as computer security vs. hackers.
Aaaaand it's flagged out of the front page. @dang, so early in the day this is obviously some coordinated manipulation.

31. 206 points 9 hours ago US judge finds Israel's NSO Group liable for hacking journalists via WhatsApp (reuters.com)
22. 37 points 8 hours ago My Pal, the Ancient Philosopher (nautil.us)
15. 4 points 4 hours ago Testing for Thermal Issues Becomes More Difficult (semiengineering.com)
18. 11 points 2 hours ago The Christmas story of one tube station's 'Mind the Gap' voice (2019) (theguardian.com)
“Undocumented DOS” goes very deep into the technical details, if you want to know what’s going on behind the curtain.
> Despite this, please use volatile anyway! When I do not see volatile it’s likely a defect. Stopping to consider if it’s this special case slows understanding and impedes code review.

There are quite a few things I reflexively write where I know that in the specific case I don't actually need to do that, but also know that it'll make the code easier to skim read later.

I hate having my skimming interrupted by "is this the case where this is safe?" type situations.

One can, of course, overdo it - and to what extent it's worth doing it depends on who you expect to be reading it - but it can often be quite handy.

A concrete example:

this.attrs = { style: {}, ...attrs }

will work fine if the 'attrs' variable is null, because ...<null> is not an error in javascript and expands to nothing ... but I'll still often write

this.attrs = { style: {}, ...(attrs??{}) }

instead because it makes it clear that the code is allowing the null case deliberately and because it means the person reading it doesn't have to remember that the null case would've worked anyway (and also because my brain finds it weird that the null case does work so it often makes me pause even though I well know it's fine once I stop and think for a second).
Wait, why would we want 10x more traffic fatalities?
Hmm. I remember using a code like this with google, too. Seems like they had something similar in the past.
Doesn't thinning make heat transfer easier at least to the package?
Exploring an undersea terrain sculpted by glaciers and volcanoes
The fall in genz ownership rates is also quite interesting: I guess they weren’t buying during the pandemic?
I'd assume there's some model for finding those kinds of photos
Average US home.

In Europe it is around 6-7 kWh/day. This might increase with electrification of heating and transport, but probably nothing like as much as the energy consumption they are replacing (due to greater efficiency of the devices consuming the energy and other factors like the quality of home insulation.)

In the rest of the world the average home uses significantly less.
My main problems with subscriptions for media is is that (a) the provider can change the price whenever they want (b) they can change the service whenever they want, (c) you don't get the media to own, and (d) they can track your usage and sell your data which contributes to the sort of economy I'm not fond of.

Yes, there is the advantage of discovering new media with algorithms, but I'd rather just do some independent research and pay for MP3s to download forever. Nothing beats having a song on a local file, being able to play your song, knowing that it only costs the electricity, and finally that no one in the world knows that you are playing it.
humans definitely don't need office space, but your point stands
Calling it reflection is, for me, further anthropomorphizing. However I am in violent agreement that a common feature of llm debate is centered around anthropomorphism leading to claims of "thinking longer" or "reflecting" when none of those things are happening.

The state of the art seems very focused on promoting that language that might encode reason is as good as actual reason, rather than asking what a reasoning model might look like.
Show HN: Website That Generates "Pseudo-Chinese (偽中国語)" Text with LLMs
Hey HN! I built a fun little website that generates "Pseudo-Chinese (偽中国語)" using an LLM. It takes your input and transforms it into a sentence composed only of Kanji or Chinese characters, but structured with Japanese grammar. This makes it surprisingly readable to both Japanese and Chinese speakers who can leverage their knowledge of shared characters.

The inspiration for this project came from another popular Japanese app called "対多." Its developer mentioned struggling to achieve satisfactory "Pseudo-Chinese" generation using ChatGPT. This piqued my curiosity, and I decided to tackle the challenge myself.

I'd love for you to give it a try and let me know what you think!
And how well would a Waymo car do in this challenge with the ARC-AGI datasets?
But it's in the context of an alternative to a Spotify product, right? With millions of users.

Exactly where the slop is generated, or by whom, is essentially irrelevant: at scale, slop is the only outcome from these tools. It always will be.

And presumably in a resource-limited environment, slop quality is even more likely.
First of all, the way "well, they voted for them" is sometimes used is morally repugnant. It's true that Hamas is the current elected government and military of Gaza, with all that implies, but that says nothing morally about the duty to not target civilians (and the duty to protect them).

That all said I think you're wrong about the history here. Hamas was always very anti Israel, they specifically stem from an islamist tradition which consideres all of Israel to be occupied territory and that all Jews must be removed. They are one of the big factors in destroying the Peace process by launching many terror attacks to destroy it.
The problem here is that if your style is not to return the error, but wrap it, you need a way to wrap it.

You could use special syntax

x != x() ~ "x failed"

that would wrap the error and return it,

x, err := x()
if err != nil {
return fmt.Errorf("x failed: %w", err)
}

is more verbose but less so compared to the "just return error" case.

If you want to get rid of that, you need to have some auto conversion magic. This the way Rust does it, but it adds magic, you can't see the error handling, Rust needs (slow compiling) macros for this etc.
Pest_railroad – A diagram generator for Pest grammars
Problem with banning B (bikes, to not get lost) is that even SUVs are small and fragile to big trucks. Should all vehicles in the road be banned due to its size, except the biggest trucks?

The problem is that banning key cars for their size or fragility is logically inconsistent. Banning now smaller vehicles like motorcycles and bikes is a patch to wrong logic. This is just targeting a specific kind of car because some reason that the regulator doesn't want to disclose.
I couldn’t agree more.
Hiring for tech workers is insanely broken. I was a hiring manager at a FAANG company. I wanted to hire my ex intern (he’d gotten stellar reviews, then gone on to finish his degree while attaining highly relevant additional skills)
Since he’d already applied when I reached out I was told by my hr people that I had to wait for the process to complete.
They flew him out for onsites (now mind you I’d worked with him previously and vouched for him and would have simply made an offer immediately)
They sat him through the whole suite of interviews. You know the kind, panel interviews with people unrelated to the role asking stupid questions unrelated to the job.
A few weeks later they rejected him. I opened up his packet (as an hiring manager I had access to ATS) and it was stellar. Every question answered perfectly. I called the guy whose name was on the rejection “why on earth did you reject? Did he say something so bad you couldn’t write it down?”
“No we just feared he was so good he’d get bored and go do something else”
This from a company that claims to hire the best and the brightest.
I called him, apologized and asked him to be patient with us.
I literally had to start the process over. Fly him out and pretend to interview him again. All the while knowing I was going to make him an offer.
Shit like this is why companies and hiring managers have trouble finding candidates. Not because the talent pool is not there, it’s because your process is broken, absurd, and insane.
Hmmm, how much stock do I own in this hypothetical company? (/s, kinda)
It honestly borders on psychopathic the way engineers are treating humans in this context.

People talking like this also, in the back of their minds like to think they'll be OK. They're smart enough to be still needed. They're a human, but they'll be OK even while working to make genAI out perform them at their own work.

I wonder how they'll feel about their own hubris when they struggle to feed their family.

The US can barely make healthcare work without disgusting consequences for the sick. I wonder what mass unemployment looks like.
This saves the current conversation. Would it be useful to add an option to download the complete conversation?