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> kinda the same technique Democrats want to use as well with their "pack the SCOTUS" campaigns. They want to shove a bunch more justices in there so they can get their way.

Did this take place? Or is it just a fear of a hypothetical?


Fear of packing the Supreme Court is a fear of something that the current parties have not done. There's an 1869 law that would have to be changed to pack it since that law sets the number of justices to nine. After that, they'd have to get their justices confirmed.

Well yes, but by republicans on Trumps behalf. Not allowing Obama to put a new judge forward in the last year of his term, and then allowing Trump to with even less time left in his term is just a chef's kiss of hypocrisy.

When people talk about packing the Supreme Court they're talking about adding justices so that one side (the one doing the nominating and appointing) gets a majority. It's not about filling vacancies (or blocking filling vacancies) to reach the current limit of nine justices.

> and done a high-level pass on the rest.

Why would I read your book if you have not read your book?

Edit: I now understand what is going on here. This is an attempt to promote Zenflow. The GitHub account (https://github.com/amoilanen/) is Anton Moilanen who is an employee at Zencoder, the creators of Zenflow.

The account (https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jsontwikkeling) was created 86 days ago the same day as this Show HN post was created: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46290617

It would probably be worth the moderator's time to see if this post was part of a coordinated upvote ring as well.


As you can see I was never hiding and my identity can be viewed and verified quite openly

I just mentioned the tools I use normally and it is my personal project done on my personal time of which my employer is not aware.

I might not mention the tools I used but they did the bulk of the work so I thought appropriate to mention.

Promoting Zenflow or Claude Code was not my goal. They are mentioned purely for the attribution purposes


Just ask an LLM summarize it for you, lol

What was the point of first asking an LLM to expand prompt/"specs" into a book and then asking it to compress it back to a summary? Well, I'm glad you asked! To promote this Z*n tool, of course.


It was not the goal and I was posting in my personal capacity. I just used it together with Claude Code on my personal project. Because I work with it regularly it is natural that I used it.

I wanted to mention the tools I used including Claude Code. I hope it does not seem that I am here to promote Anthropic tools as well?

I just thought it appropriate to mention for the correct attribution, because the heavy lifting was done by the tools, not by me


The goal was to share the book which I finished and ask for review and feedback.

Feedback is clear, I should never had posted and will probably not post in the future.

Hopefully the book will be useful for those who find it, I will get feedback elsewhere and will finish reviewing it myself


It is your choice. I have read a good part of the book, also wrote a part of it and am in the process of finishing the review. The more reviews - the better. The book is officially in beta and this is fully transparent

what kind of author releases about a book they themselves have not read? Could you possibly care less about your readers and your own work?

The main goal of posting early was to gather feedback and peer review as soon as possible. I hope it can become a collaborative effort with external contributions.

The book is still a work in progress, and I have tried to be transparent about that. If you have specific concerns about the quality or suggestions for improvement, I would genuinely appreciate hearing them.


You shouldn't ask other people for feedback before you have done the bare minimum of reading your "own" book

Clear, sorry, my mistake. I just was excited to share and hoped it can be useful.

Though I genuinely wrote a substantial part of the book myself.

I will finish the review on Github in the coming days/weeks and will hopefully get some collaborators there


At least he's honest about it, the vast majority of AI people would just submit it as their own work having never read it at all.

He's being dishonest. He's attempting to promote Zenflow (a tool created by his employer Zencoder). He's produced AI slop (that he has not even read!) as a vehicle to promote Zenflow and get it in front of eyeballs on HackerNews.

I am just referencing the tools I used (also Claude Code, by the way) because the bulk of the work was done by them.

This is what I was taught: work should be attributed correctly. If I would not mention the tools it would seem if the book was written entirely by me which is not the case.

This is a book which was started by me, I did use the AI tools I normally use in my daily routine on my personal projects. They are secondary in this post though.

I posted in my personal capacity and my employer is not aware or connected to this - the book is entirely mine.

It is not AI slop. A large part of its content was written originally by me 10 years ago.

But if it has offended anyone and I should not had posted the work which I have not fully yet reviewed myself, then sorry


How would you know whether or not it is AI slop, you haven't reviewed it

Sorry, definitely my mistake for sharing too early.

> i don't know anything specific about the site or any conflicts involved, yet this smells like a negative PR campaign to me...

What possible value could a comment from someone who has no knowledge of the site or conflict add to this discussion?


the sniff test, or gut reaction...

sure, it's worth only as much as of a total stranger, but still.


> and to likely sell to 3rd parties.

Can you provide literally any evidence that would suggest this is the case?


Since selling PII is a common practice in the US industry, I believe the onus is reversed, they need to prove that they delete/keep-private.


Given how YouTube makes money from advertising, I suspect it's more profitable for them to keep the data to themselves and use it for targeting. I would not be surprised if they also share it with Adsense & other Alphabet entities (and presumably with government agencies), but am doubtful beyond that.

Not that this is much better than directly selling to third parties.


Yep, that's my reasoning too.


This sort of thing is common enough that simply establishing means, motive and opportunity are convincing to me. If not yet then soon. You can't hope for a smoking gun every time.


Give it a couple years for the inevitable data breach to leak all the details


> You attack a straw-man: banning all the content from creators.

They didn't say this.


> Copyright infringement use to be the absolute worst crime imaginable if you asked the tech industry

Every day hundreds of links to archive.is are posted[1] to this website to get around paywalls. Technologists built file sharing tools to subvert copyright. It has never been one of the worst crimes imaginable in tech circles.

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastWeek&page=0&prefix=tru... (85 instances in the last week)


You might be looking at a small time horizon.

What about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Open_Letter_to_Hobbyists ?


Let's not forget the death of Aaron Swartz.


I don't think that was the "tech circles" being pro-copyright though.

I've never met someone who wasn't on Aaron's side on that one.


"Tech circles" was never the claim. The original phrase was "tech industry", and that seems to be accurate. The post replying to it may have misread or misinterpreted what "tech industry" means. (Or perhaps the term is simply ambiguous and each person who reads it comes away with a different meaning!)


> I've never met someone who wasn't on Aaron's side on that one.

This rather says something about the people by who you are surrounded. I know quite a lot of people who are on Aaron Swartz side here, for example people who are in academia or those who left academia but are still deeply interested in scientific topics.


You agree with them


Sorry, because I am not a native English speaker I misunderstood something. :-(


Your parent used a double negation, the sentence simplified would mean something like "any people I've met was on Aaron's side" :-)


Jstor is a tech company?


Well they certainly aren’t selling paper


Jstor is an information database provider that that specializes in the republication of academic journal articles. The web is the company's delivery mechanism, not the defining trait of the its existence. A public-facing website doesn't make it anymore of a tech company as such than it would the New York Times.


NYT is more of a tech company than you might think [1] and they've been one for longer than you might think: the de-facto standard profiler for Perl [2], of all things, comes from them.

[1] https://open.nytimes.com/

[2] https://metacpan.org/pod/Devel::NYTProf


Maybe the time horizon for a statement like that shouldn’t include the decades before most current tech companies existed, much less at this scale even for the few still kicking around from 50 years ago.


It's always amusing that you cannot tell people this rule without in fact breaking it yourself.


> About 10 years ago we had a scenario where bots probably were only 2-5% of the conversation and they absolutely dominated all discussion.

This was definitively not the case on HackerNews.


It's possible that different people flag the discussions you're referring to. That said, it looks like there have been ~7 threads with over 100 points on Iran in the last week alone: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastWeek&page=0&prefix=tru...

If anything, it appears that Minnesota/Minneapolis are under-discussed relative to Iran, no?


> Obviously I think that AI generated undressing pictures of people, especially minors, is bad and there should be safeguards against that.

It's not obvious to me that this is your position. What safeguards do you propose as an alternative to those discussed in the article?


I am for moderation and strong penalties for users that use it in that manner. Anyone who uses grok to generate an undressing image of someone without their consent within 5 seconds should probably go to jail or whatever the penalty is for someone spending 5 hours to create revenge porn with photoshop.

But I'm not sure if the tool itself should be banned, as some people seem to be suggesting. There are content creators on the platform that do use NSFW image generation capabilities in a consensual and legitimate fashion.


Photoshop is a productivity tool, and the pricing supports that assertion.


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