- travisgriggsIs it too much to hope for some fin-syn restoration? And not just for TV, but for all digital content. Make it, or distribute it, but never both.
- How do I know this fine article wasn’t the result of
“Create a web page infographic report that is convincing and boils down the essential truths of how people are feeling about AI in different professions and domains.. Include statistics and numbers and some rolling/animated sound bite quotes.”
- I keep wanting to see the "Rainbows End" style experiment.
The common reaction to surveillance seems to be similar to how we diet. We allow/validate a little bit of the negative agent, but try to limit it and then discuss endlessly how to keep the amount tamped down.
One aspect explored/hypothesized in Rainbows End, is what happens when surveillance becomes so ubiquitous that it's not a privilege of the "haves". I wonder if rather than "deflocking", the counter point is to surround every civic building with a raft of flock cameras that are in the public domain.
Just thinking the contrarian thoughts.
- I wonder how much generational impacts there are here. My son is a PhD student at an ivy. The most lucrative tuition source for the university is foreign students (as in, they bring in far more tuition dollars for each foreign student than they do native). He has also observed that the payers of these tuitions are usually the parents, who tend to be people who rose through the ideal of "the dream of american education" that is now 20+ years old. As the students (children) go through the programs, they are finding it increasingly more hostile to live and study here. So they end up wanting to "go back home". The Xenophobic rhetoric, as well as the policies, are having an effect. He does not see this as a good thing at all.
Multiple of my children have considered moving abroad to study. It's weird to sit between them and their frustration of the system, and their grandparents (our parents) who seem to think that the crap they're embibing off of fox news, all so that advertisers can target/fleece the older generation, will actually lead to good for their grandchildren.
- I’m disappointed there is no docker image for this. How will I test it out?
- I see this is 2023… the article refs GPT even then. Can’t believe it’s already that much time gone by, still seems like “last years big news”
I was gonna comment “this is what I really like to see on HN”. Then I saw the date and was sad that we’re having to dip into the history box to find fun/interesting articles more often of late it seems.
Anyone else interested in a temporary moratorium on all things LLM? We could have GPT-free-Wednesday, or something like that :)
- What if...
there's an AI agent/bot someone wrote that has the prompt:
> Watch HN threads for sentiments of "AI Can't Do It". When detected, generate short "it's working marvelously for me actually" responses.
Probably not, but it's a fun(ny) imagination game.
- > A highly social, relatively hairless bipedal ape that was once a nomadic hunter-gatherer, but has adapted to create websites.
Definitely worthy the scroll!
- Huh. I blame it on the influence of money. Money flows easier when hysteria (really any level of un-rationalized fear) and its peers abound. It is hard to have honest rational objective discussions these days without the influences of earning another buck being just over the cognitive horizon.
- Anyone skilled in the medical arts got a dumbed down synopsis of this?
(I just had my first shingles vaccine 2 weeks ago)
- > The real goal is the complete elimination of anonymity on the web...
I'm ok with running this experiment (not sure how it really turns out) BUT only if everyone participates. Governments and businesses get to watch me... I get to watch them. If the death if anonymity is inevitable, as unpleasant as that sounds, the goal to shoot for then is universal application
- Or, more dystopian take... it won't matter. If software reliability continues to degrade in a normalized fashion, it won't matter. First mover advantages and networking effects will make it impossible for an outfit trafficking increased quality to ever get enough breaths to even compete.
- My interest has been piqued of late. I've been a Linux enthusiast since the late 90's. I don't think it's a sense of contrarianism that motivates my interest anew.
As I've aged, what I've come to value most in software stacks is composability. I do not know if [Free]BSD restores that, but Linux feels like it has grown more complicated and less composable. I'm using this term loosely, but I'm mostly thinking of how one reasons and cognates about the way the system work in this instance. I want to work in a world where each tool on the OS's bench has a single straightforward man page, not swiss army knives where the authors/maintainers just kept throwing more "it can do this too" in to attract community.
- But ARS is not what it used to be. Sadly. The content is still decent, but not the forum so much. My arrival at HN nearly 8 years ago was about when I wasn’t seeing community there anymore.
- Came hear and read “GitHub isn’t a good guy anymore” (not the first time, and seems to be increasing in frequency).
It’s like sourceforge all over again. History rhymes with itself, and enshitification has been added to dictionaries for a good reason.
As a once upon a time avid slashdotter, makes me wonder if some day, HN will go the same route.
- > I love and use rust, it is my favorite language and I use it in several of my OSS projects but I'm tired of this "rewrite it in rust" evangilism and the reputational damage they do to the rust community.
Thanks for this.
I know intellectually, that there are sane/pragmatic people who appreciate Rust.
But often the vibe I’ve gotten is the evangelism, the clear “I’ve found a tribe to be part of and it makes me feel special”.
So it helps when the reasonable signal breaks through the noisy minority.
- Like the author, I am saddened by systemd. I'm not rabidly opposed to it. I use it because Debian uses it and I like debian. And in some ways, I like the consistency better than the plethora of init script/run levels I used to have to deal with. But it does lack (to me) the Unix gestalt of having composable little pieces that could be pretty well put together and are each individually documentable and compose well in conceptual space as well. There was less surprises and nuanced side effects.
- For me, the fundamental gestalt was/is binding behavior to data. I found/find it useful for modeling how things work. I was always inspired by one of Alan’s seed inspiration for Smalltalk, how biological cells accomplish computation through interacting with each other. I did Smalltalk for many years before polyglotting.
- I swore off lamb after trying to make a couple lamb stews. It is clearly an acquired taste if that.
- > Namely that someone tries to gain control of a project by appeals to "community", while subtly insulting the people who actually did the work.
Lately, I’ve taken to labelling these different behaviors with D words: Doers, Discussers, Deciders, etc.
It’s amazing to me how often people want to create a specialty for themselves, where the doing is relegated to the doers, but all the doing is dictated by others.
This happens in businesses, NGOs, communities, churches, just about everywhere.