skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The reality is definitely not that simple. There are many ideas that are good in one context and bad in others, but have been adopted (and imposed) far beyond the context they are good.

I've seen first hand many examples where leadership (within specific schools, probably with a highest concentration within liberal arts schools), consistently value the jobs of the faculty over the future wellbeing of the students. They don't value providing students with knowledge and skills that will make them successful in life after they graduate, and they do value growing their own staff and power within the organization. They value adding more rules and avoiding making any mistakes over taking risks and evolving the education to keep up with the rest of the world. Some of them value short-term benefits for themselves over long-term benefits of their students. I've seen this first hand on many occasions, so many it's beyond anecdote. It's not all bad, that's not my point, but to assume that all their judgement is perfect and they haven't made any mistakes and they have it all figured out and shouldn't reconsider anything... Well, that sounds more like faith and church to me. You're treating them like bishops not academics.
>Strawmanning the alternative as CGI with shell scripts really makes the entire post that much weaker.

I wasn't trying to strawman it--I was genuinely trying to show the historical progression. The snark was intended for the likely HN commenter who'd say this without reading, but the rest of the exploration is sincere. I tried to do it justice but lmk if I missed the mark.

>Be the change, maybe?

That's what I'm trying to do :-) This article is an argument for hypermedia as the API. See the shape of response here: https://overreacted.io/jsx-over-the-wire/#the-data-always-fl...

I think I've sufficiently motivated why that response isn't HTML originally; however, it can be turned into HTML which is also mentioned in the article.
mysterious: adj. difficult or impossible to understand, explain, or identify.

While magic requires mystery, mystery does not require magic and they are not synonyms. It is perfectly valid to state something is a scientific mystery without implying magic is involved in some way.
Probably, but still those who can afford it, reconsider if the experience is worth the money - like with life expectancy where poorest Europeans are on the level of richest Americans. Sometimes you can get more with less money.
I don't use them, but I'd assume vape juice.
Most people bemoaning the tariffs are doing so because they understand that production will not actually come back to the US. It's not that these people hate Americans and don't want domestic manufacturing (or to pay for it), it's that they can see the reality that this isn't what's actually going to happen. Instead, the price of goods will just rise.

A lot of these people too have been saying "buy local!" or "support black businesses!" for a while now. They're not the same people bemoaning the lost of hyper consumerist plastic junk.
Adding even more context /pol/ is about who can be the most edgy edgelord of the hour. I doubt there are more than half a dozen actual racists people on it not counting 4Chan-GPT.
Would you be able to explain the mystery = magic thinking connection? I've not heard it before. I've obviously heard magic being described as mysterious, but not that mysterious stuff implies magic.
Make me think of the 35 pound Kettlebell I’m just starting to use. You feel your body reacting to it the minute you pick it up. It is a workout to just move it around every day so it doesn’t look like it is gathering dust and I find myself very carefully studying Enter to Kettlell and the associated DVD so I can use it properly.
I also have fond memories of being young, but when I really stop and think about it, the key ingredient was *being young*.
The skeletons are mysterious and important.
This is a coordination problem. DST was the solution many societies found.
I think I've spend more on street music than any other music.

Imagine I put up a ghetto blaster and a hat. I play the finest music ever made. Would you put money in the hat? Would the idea to put money in the hat ever cross your mind? Would one even understand they want you to put money in the hat for playing the music?
I'm hoping someone will do something like that. I try to write with the audience of writers in mind.
I think of it as a claim like "we almost have a machine that violates thermodynamics". To avoid confusing the layman that will automatically assume an unlimited energy has been created said claims must be well defined as to what has actually been accomplished.

While the artist in question can have the best intentions, conmen will swoop down on this and productize it, and then artists will be sad and confused when it has zero long term effect on machine learning. That is, except making machine learning more resilient to adversarial attacks.
Because there's no evidence of it until after it was developed outside of Africa?

You don't have to prove something that doesn't exist. Find the evidence, and prove it does.
A compromise is an exchange IMO, it’s just that it’s a give and a take for both sides, and there should be a sense of fairness to it.
I think you're letting the perfect be the enemy of the good. It seems like an obvious advantage to have systems that decide the outcome automatically and correctly 99% of the time, despite requiring occasional corrections from outside. That's not the same as a regular contract, so it doesn't follow people would always either choose smart contracts or traditional ones.

What you're hoping for is, taken literally, impossible. Smart contracts can't protect people from fraud, or coercion. Since the law does protect them from these things, smart contracts cannot be totally isolated from the legal system (even if everyone wanted this, which they don't).

> Using existing governmental power structures to punish people who adhere to smart contracts in ways some system members don't like

Fine, but what about in ways that the rest of society don't like?
> If students and staff have to fill out some kind of viewpoint survey, the only rational strategy is for them to randomize their answers to minimize the chance of being in the group that gets told “sorry, we have too many of your type this year”.

This seems obviously preferable to "Sorry, we have too many of your race."
Actually overheads for many universities were sometimes higher in the late 1990s (and there were some minor scandals associated with this). And remind me again, what fraction of our GDP is indirect costs to universities? (< 0.1%). And what are the benefits? Well, indirect costs are how the U.S. government builds up a distributed network of scientific and technical infrastructure and capacity. This capacity serves the national interest.

If you think you're going to help debt by cutting indirect costs and crippling university research permanently, may I introduce you to the foundational notions of a knowledge economy and how fundamental advances feed into technology developments that increase productivity and thus GDP. Permanently reducing growth is another way of making debt servicing worse.
Remember when Elon Musk intervened with Ukraine's usage of Starlink during one of first attacks with the sea-baby drones? Only a foolish nation would build any further reliance on that company.
> it's curious that you're not commenting on the MVP => PVI tho

I just don't see any value in this new term, TBH. I think more benefit would accrue from spending the energy on encouraging people to read TFSTTE. shrug
That seems like an Occam's Razor violation given all Trump's admin efforts to penalize non-white people.
Yep, exactly. I know cardinals are red and they look obviously red to me. Hard as hell for me to spot one in a tree though, this was the first sign when I was a kid. "What do you mean you can't see it!?"
Well, no. That's just not true.

I care that when I type walmart.com, I'm actually talking to walmart.com. I don't look at the browser bar or symbols on it. I care what my bookmarks do, what URLs I grab from history do, what my open tabs do, and what happens when I type things in.

Preventing local DNS servers from fucking with users is critical, as local DNS is the weakest link in a typical setup. They're often run by parties that must be treated as hostile - basically whenever you're on public wifi. Or hell, when I'm I'm using my own ISP's default configuration. I don't trust Comcast to not MitM my connection, given the opportunity. I trust technical controls to make their desire to do so irrelevant.

Without the identity component, any DNS server provided by DHCP could be setting up a MitM attack against absolutely everything. With the identity component, they're restricted to DoS. That's a lot easier to detect, and gets a lot of very loud complaints.
> I'm not judging anyone for using Amazon instead of buying from a store

Given Amazon's labor practices, maybe you should be.
There's a recap for each major section:

- https://overreacted.io/jsx-over-the-wire/#recap-json-as-comp...

- https://overreacted.io/jsx-over-the-wire/#recap-components-a...

- https://overreacted.io/jsx-over-the-wire/#recap-jsx-over-the...

I don't think I can compress it further. Generally speaking I'm counting on other people carrying useful things out of my posts and finding more concise formats for those.
I admit I had not heard this one. But the first thing I saw on it said:

> According to Lutnick’s interview with CBS News, Trump’s tax policy goal is to remove federal income taxes for individuals earning under $150,000 annually.

(omitted some of the other bullet points around tariff funding and tip exemption)

> While Lutnick later walked back the certainty of these plans, he clarified that the proposal is aspirational and depends on the ability to balance the federal budget.

I have serious doubts about the likelihood of a Trump proposal that even his Commerce Secretary says are "aspirational". Then again, the other part of Trump is that sometimes he does whatever he wants, regardless of what his Secretaries have said or known (witness the tariffs being paused mid hearing, leading to a Republican politician frantically swiping at his iPad in the middle of his testimony about the value of keeping the tariffs despite widespread market uncertainty).
my dad won everyone one of them… with a belt (or threat of the belt)…
I don't think the issue is the scarcity of copies, but rather the scarcity of artists. Not just anyone can write a book that people want to copy, and we should encourage and reward those that can and do.
I am against corporations profiting from others people works, for free.

If that was not allowed, if people could only use my work for no profit purposes, I agree.

That's what CC (creative commons) is for, though.

I am also in favour of people "remixing" and even making money out of it, but the intent it's paramount to me.

As a long time copyleft activist, I do not understand what limiting authors rights brings to the table, in your opinion.

More than once I contacted the author of some work I liked and they gave me free license to use it, no questions asked (after explaining what I would use it for).

IMO basic cooperation between good willing people goes a long way, without stripping authors of their rights.

Edit: typos
It's fantastic.

I just watched Kitsune, thanks for sharing.

It reminds me why Flow was so good.

Flow was great because I could see the shader artifacts. It was the opposite of a Disney model, it was not polished and perfect.

That's why I loved it. Disney would never do a movie with a plot like Flow. They would write and rewrite it and it would be a perfect example of humanity, but totally devoid of the humanity behind it.

It is ironic that this new coming wave of AI generated (or AI assisted) films feel like they have more human craftmanship than Disney films, when honestly it is the opposite. Disney has incredible and brilliant animators, but that is all crushed behind the merchandising and gross behemoth of the Disney corporation.

I used to love seeing independent films. Those art house theaters really only exist in places like Portland, OR these days. But, I'm excited about the next wave of film because it'll permit small storytelling, and that's going to be great.
What the hell is a target triple?
Christchurch

I've watched that video a few times and I am still not convinced it was real. I've seen many people shot IRL and it's nowhere as clean as the victims in that video. There have been dozens of fake videos on 4chan, the most recent I recall was in Russia at some theater. Also fake as fake gets and yet people there slurped it up. I have no idea what the real motivation is to create the fake and staged propaganda. It's barely a narrative normies talk about. It had no political or religious impact as far as I know beyond being talked about at the time and I suspect many forgot if they did not see the video.
I don't know about copyright, since for most artists the royalty revenues are not enough to live on. It seems like a failed system if the intent was to get royalty revenues.
I’d like to know the name of this hotel because this sounds ridiculous. NYC hotels are notoriously expensive.
The preponderance of academic and philosophical disingenuity — which could only be equally well explained by immensely subpar raw intellect (doubtful on HN) — in this very comment section perfectly illustrates why DJT was elected POTUS.

Let me just repeat the basic point:

Phenotype diversity != Viewpoint diversity
>is not eligible for US copyright protection

Once industry adopts AI generation, which it will, a new law will be quickly signed.

In a way, not allowing copyright of AI material really only serves a tiny group of people. "We want to empower everyone to bring their ideas to market, not just those with the ability to draw them" is not a particularly evil or amoral sentiment.
You HAVE to advertise to get sales because everyone else advertises heavily already, and because advertising is so dominant that consumers have come to rely on it as the majority of how information enters the zeitgeist. It is a barrier to entry for competition.

If we could reduce the advertising footprint we could increase information flow from things like consumer reports or wirecutter, and we could reduce the dependence on advertising to get sales and increase the ability to get sales by making a better product.

Economies of scale are no doubt a very, very good thing but they are not tied to advertising. If we stopped spending 100s of billions of dollars every year competing for attention this only adds to the productive capacity of our society.

I find it eye opening to talk to local small businesses, the eye popping amount of money they have to spend on facebook, google, and yelp feels like a racket, not an opportunity. Many types of business that were capable of operating before digital advertising are now incapable of operating without paying the piper.

Of course there are businesses that couldn't operate before but now can because digital information flow is better than analog information flow. This is easy to confuse with it being enabled by digital advertising because our information flow is dominated by advertising.

But I don't advocate for just deleting advertising and going back to analog word of mouth; I'd prefer a market for digital information that isn't simply purchased by the person who wants my money but instead competes on the value of the information.
Yep, specifically the part where they differentiate between an argument and abuse
As someone who has completely straddled both worlds (Arizona/Texas redneck raised, worked in woke VC/SV companies, with a social circle across the board):

I view it as planting seeds, and harvesting them later. Before that can be done though, a person generally has to understand how entrenched a person is in being a stenographer. I have found on both "sides", there are a certain amount of people that literally do no thinking for themselves at all, and only regurgitate. I've tried for years to work different angles on them, and those seeds mostly still lay dormant and un-sprouted...

“The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies... is a foolish idea. Instead, the two parties should be almost identical, so that the American people can throw the rascals out at any election without leading to any profound or extensive shifts in policy. Then it should be possible to replace it, every four years if necessary, by the other party which will be none of these things but will still pursue, with new vigor, approximately the same basic policies.” - Carroll Quigley
A New Kind of Bike Valve?
> I’ve blasted the takeover of entire departments and unrelated student clubs and campus common areas by the dogmatic belief that the State of Israel (and only Israel, among all nations on earth) should be eradicated

Published by Harvard, written by a Harvard professor: "Make no mistake about it: we intend to keep bashing the dead white males, and the live ones, and the females too, until the social construct known as 'the white race' is destroyed—not 'deconstructed' but destroyed." - https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2002/09/abolish-the-white-ra...
That's good to know, but —assuming my sample of size 1 isn't a bad outlier, I should really try a few more— there's another problem: I don't think we'd be willing to sink time into tuning a currently-free subscription service that can be yanked at any time. And I'm in a position to say it is highly unlikely that we'd pay for the service.

(We already have problems with our human review being too superficial; we've recently come to a consensus that we're letting too much technical debt slip in, in the sense of unnoticed design problems.)

Now the funny part is that I'm talking about a FOSS project with nVidia involvement ;D

But also: this being a FOSS project, people have opened AI-generated PRs. Poor AI-generated PRs. This is indirectly hurting the prospects of your product (by reputation). Might I suggest adding an AI generated PR detector, if possible? (It's not in our guidelines yet but I expect we'll be prohibiting AI generated contributions soon.)
An update on our use of country code top-level domains
That's an interesting idea, thinking about it.

The plan is to address all SEC forms anyways so this will be a natural extension
What are the reasons for decline? Online commerce? Or shift in hacker culture?
Urban Ore in Berkeley. It's a salvage shop with an electronics area. Scored some vintage Tek scopes there.
It's not hard to find people with a racist /pol/er's opinions in real life, or on other social media like Instagram or Twitter. Maybe /pol/ in particular is/was filled with bots, I don't know, but such extreme racism is not as uncommon as you imply these days.
> Now I stop to help anyone who's broken down on the side of the road

I have a certain amount of fear about doing this sort of thing. I am ashamed of that, too.

When I was in college (this was in a small city), I was walking at night by the library and I saw someone trip and fall in front of me. I asked if they were hurt and if I could help. He hobbled up and said yes, one leg was injured, but he just needed some help to get back to his car. I helped walk him four or five blocks, supporting his shoulder. In a darker bit of street, his friend tackled me to the ground and threatened to kill me with his gun. He took my wallet, ordered me not to stir from where he pushed me under a car, and they ran off. To be explicit here, the tripping and falling was fake.

The campus police took me to the student health services; my knee was banged and slightly scraped from the tackle. I related the story to the doctor and he said, "Well, you can't stop helping people." On the other hand, the cop just said, if anything like that ever happens, I didn't have to handle it myself, just call them, they were happy to come and assist anyone who might need help on campus.

I still help others when I can, but I am always cautious about my environment and assessing the circumstances
We don't have to go crazy. Let's just meet at MVC and call it a day, deal?
They will exist regardless. The profit motive makes inferior art. Nothing of value is lost if one has to dance for the sake of dancing.
It depends, is it a LoRa focused on Benn? Is it intended to replicate his style? Or is Benn one of the billion authors in the training set? In that case his impact will be minimal, and the generated images/texts will be very different from any training example, mostly reflecting the prompt.
It's a much lower bar to sow discord and chaos vs. being able to maintain a stable, functioning, low-corruption society. Just because a country is capable of one does not mean that they are capable of the other; also, the characteristics that lead a country to be effective in the former may prevent them from being successful at the latter.
I offer a diverging view.

Information is the removal of uncertainty. If it does not remove uncertainty it is not information.

Entropy is the existential phenomenon of potential distributing over the infinite manifold of negative potential.

Emergence is a potential outcome greater than the capacity found in the sum of any parts.

Modern humanity’s erroneous extrapolations:

- asserting P>=0 without account that in existential reality 0 is the infinite expanse of cosmic void, thus the true mathematical description would be P>=-1

- confuse heat with entropy. Heat is the ultimate universal expression as heat is a product of all work and all existence is winding down (after all). Entropy directs thermodynamics, thermodynamics is not the extent of entropy.

- entropy is NOT the number of possible states in a system. Entropy is the distribution of potential; number of states are boundary conditions which uncalculated potential may reconfigure (the “cosmic ray” or murfy’s rule of component failure.) Existential reality is interference and decay.

- entropy is not “loss”. Loss is the entropy less work achieved.

- this business about “in a closed system “ is an example of how brilliant minds lie to themselves. No such thing exists anywhere accessible by Man. Even theoretically, the principles of decay and the “exogenous” influence of one impercieved influence over a “contained system.” Or “modeled system”, for one self deception is for the scientist or engineer to presume these speak for or on behalf of reality.

Emergence is the potential (the vector space of some capacity) “created” through some system of dynamics (work). “Some” includes the expressive space of all existential or theoretical reality. All emergent potential is “paid for” by burning available potential of some other kind. In nature the natural forces induce work in their extremes. In natural systems these design for the “mitigation of uncertainty” [soft form entropy], aka “intelligence.

Entropy is the existential phenomenon of potential distributing over negative potential.

Information is the removal of uncertainty. If it does not remove uncertainty, it is not information.

Emergence is a potential outcome greater than the capacity found in the sum of any parts.
I've talked to plenty of people who regret having future tickets for travel to the US. I assume they were aware of the costs and considered them in their itinerary just as people have always had to for NYC, etc.
Changing my priorities as an indie founder
Nice in theory but don’t know how practical it is to actually do.

How do you define “good”? Theres obvious examples at the extremes but a chasm of ambiguity between them.

How do you compute value? If an AI takes 200 million images to train, wait let me write that out to get a better sense of the number:

200,000,000

Then what is the value of 1 image to it? Is it worth the 3 hours of human labour time put into creating it? Is it worth 1 hour of human labour time? Even at minimum wage? No, right?