MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by simonw | 2025-12-21 15:35:21+00:00
I had Claude go dig up some science for me: https://claude.ai/share/2dc95280-ff92-4b13-816f-24f5993d8fc7

The most relevant concepts appear to be:

- Desirable Difficulties - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desirable_difficulty - "A desirable difficulty is a learning task that requires a considerable but desirable amount of effort, thereby improving long-term performance. [...] The task must be able to be accomplished. Too difficult a task may dissuade the learner and prevent full processing."

- Worked-example effect - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worked-example_effect - "Specifically, it refers to improved learning observed when worked examples are used as part of instruction, compared to other instructional techniques such as problem-solving. [...] However, it is important to note that studying [worked examples] loses its effectiveness with increasing expertise"

- Expertise reversal effect - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expertise_reversal_effect - "The expertise reversal effect refers to the reversal of the effectiveness of instructional techniques on learners with differing levels of prior knowledge."

- "Generation effect" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_effect - "The generation effect is a phenomenon whereby information is better remembered if it is generated from one's own mind rather than simply read."
by smurda | 2025-12-21 15:35:23+00:00
Another word for coarse is impasto technique, where the paint is so thick the painting-knife or brush strokes are visible and leave a pronounced texture (e.g. Van Gogh, Rembrandt).

Another cool prompt could be specific painting techniques (e.g. pencil shading, glaze) as if you were training an actual artist in a specific technique.
by ben_w | 2025-12-21 15:36:18+00:00
I do not take strong views of what "should" be, the following is merely my opinion on what "is".

The legal judgement in the case of Anthropic may answer your question, although with the caveat that I'm not a lawyer, that I have no legal training, and that I may be misreading what looks like plain language but which has an importantly different meaning in law.

The judgement is here: https://cases.justia.com/federal/district-courts/california/...

To quote parts of the section "overall analysis" (page 30):

The copies used to train specific LLMs were justified as a fair use. Every factor but the nature of the copyrighted work favors this result. The technology at issue was among the most transformative many of us will see in our lifetimes.

…

The downloaded pirated copies used to build a central library were not justified by a fair use. Every factor points against fair use. Anthropic employees said copies of works (pirated ones, too) would be retained “forever” for “general purpose” even after Anthropic determined they would never be used for training LLMs. A separate justification was required for each use. None is even offered here except for Anthropic’s pocketbook and convenience.

In a way, this seems to be a repeat of the "The 'L' in 'ML' is 'learning'" argument:

You are not allowed to use the photocopier in the library to make a copy of the entire book. If your local library is anything like the ones I remember back in the UK, there's even a sign right next to the photocopier telling you this.

You are in fact allowed to go to a public library, learn things from the books within, and apply that knowledge without paying anything to any copyright holder. If/once you buy a book, likewise, because once it's been bought you don't owe the copyright holder anything for having learned something. This is the point of a library, of education, and indeed of copyright: the word is literally the right to make a copy, as in giving authors control over who has the right to make a copy, this is not the right to an eternal rent from what is learned by reading a copy.

(If you then over-train a model so it does print verbatim copies, this is bad for both legal and technical reasons: legal, because it's a copy; technical, because using a neural net to do a lossy compression of documents is a terrible waste of resources, which is just like humans in exactly the way that nobody has any interest in reproducing in silicon).
by barnabee | 2025-12-21 15:36:26+00:00
I don't see how this follows.

London is a net contributor of tax revenue to the rest of the UK, which presumably goes towards, for example, the 17 (non-London) power grid improvement projects listed at https://www.nationalgrid.com/the-great-grid-upgrade/where-it..., among other things.

The UK is often too London centric, but this project doesn't seem like evidence of it.
by senkora | 2025-12-21 15:36:58+00:00
Yep, might as well go straight to the Mathematical Universe Hypothesis:

> Tegmark's MUH is the hypothesis that our external physical reality is a mathematical structure. That is, the physical universe is not merely described by mathematics, but is mathematics — specifically, a mathematical structure. Mathematical existence equals physical existence, and all structures that exist mathematically exist physically as well. Observers, including humans, are "self-aware substructures (SASs)". In any mathematical structure complex enough to contain such substructures, they "will subjectively perceive themselves as existing in a physically 'real' world".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_universe_hypothes...
by materialpoint | 2025-12-21 15:37:04+00:00
This started long before Oracle and the favouring of verbose, ritualistic boiler code was set back at Sun. James Gosling has been staunchly against overloading operators, properties and value types (almost out of spite from Microsoft's success with providing this in C#), the aftermath of which the language and run-time still struggle today and forever will. It's unfortunate that the original inventor, while a brilliant programmer himself, thought so little of others that such features were not to be included, because other programmers might mess up their use.
by giorgioz | 2025-12-21 15:37:13+00:00
>You wouldn't give a _human_ this level of access to your browser.

Your statement made me thought of this possibility:

It's possible we are anthropomorphizing LLM but they will just turn out to be just next stage in calculators. Much smarter than the previous stage but still very very far away from a human consciounness.

So that scenario would answer why you would be comfortable giving a LLM access to your browser but not to a human.

Not saying LLM are actually calculator, I just consider the possibility that they might be or not be.

The concept of Golem have been around for quite some times. We could think it but we could not actually make it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golem
by graemefawcett | 2025-12-21 15:37:25+00:00
Is art then just the outcome? The artifact that was produced?

What's your criteria then for who is allowed to produce art? If allowing everyone to create it lessens its value such that it becomes worthless, there must be a cutoff.

If your goal is to ensure the continuity of human expression, limiting who is allowed to create art and narrowly defining art to great works kind of misses the point.
by throw0101c | 2025-12-21 15:37:25+00:00
> Unlike IPv4, my LAN addresses include the prefix, so every time they change it, all my LAN addresses change.

Yes, a topic of active discussion at the IETF. See perhaps BCP RFC 9096, "Improving the Reaction of Customer Edge Routers to IPv6 Renumbering Events":

* https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc9096

And informational RFC 8978, "Reaction of IPv6 Stateless Address Autoconfiguration (SLAAC) to Flash-Renumbering Events":

* https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8978

A few drafts, like "Improving the Robustness of Stateless Address Autoconfiguration (SLAAC) to Flash Renumbering Events":

* https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-6man-slaac-...

Using ULA seems to be what a lot of folks recommend:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unique_local_address
by airstrike | 2025-12-21 15:37:59+00:00
I'm no image gen expert but these prompts are downright terrible even by my standards.

Are you really complaining that ", from the British Museum." leads to it a painting in the actual British Museum? Just remove the sentence, and you'll be fine. Now good luck trying to make Midjourney place the image at the museum!

I'm a paying MJ user and am impressed by Nano Banana. They're different models. They each serve their purpose.

This analysis is just noise. Yawn.

Ironically, even an LLM with its fake reasoning capabilities can point out the issue with the prompts if you ask it to critique this article.
by dns_snek | 2025-12-21 15:38:19+00:00
Well that's a gross oversimplification of the process. Hunting for a missing semicolon is a basic mechanical task that doesn't require much thought.

Engaging with an intellectual problem, trying to solve it one way, failing, reasoning through the process and the requirements, trying to discover a better way of solving something, going down some wrong paths, backtracking, merging diverging ideas and ultimately finding a solution is going to yield an infinitely deeper understanding of the problem, what works, what doesn't, and improve your general intuition and problem-solving skills.

Deep engagement builds deep understanding, shallow engagement builds shallow understanding. There's no substitute for doing the hard work yourself - I've tutored classmates in school and I find this rather obvious. A tutor (human or LLM) can try to find a way to explain something in a way that you understand but if you don't do most of the hard work yourself it's never going to stick. I noticed that when I would spoon-feed answers to people it would always just lead them into a false sense of confidence.
by ninkendo | 2025-12-21 15:39:15+00:00
> First, this results in exception messages that are a concatenation of multiple levels of error escalation. These become difficult to read and have to be broken up again in reverse order

Personally I don't mind it... the whole "$outer: $inner" convention naturally lends to messages that still parse in my brain and actually include the details in a pretty natural way. Something like:

"Error starting up: Could not connect to database: Could not read database configuration: Could not open config file: Permission denied"

Tells me the config file for the database has broken permissions. Because the permission denied error caused a failure opening the config file, which caused a failure reading the database configure, which caused a failure connecting to the database, which caused an error starting up. It's deterministic in that for "$outer: $inner", $inner always caused $outer.

Maybe it's just experience though, in a sense that it takes a lot of time and familiarity for someone to actually prefer the above. Non-technical people probably hate such messages and I don't necessarily blame them.
by tptacek | 2025-12-21 15:40:18+00:00
This is just an extrapolation of NAEP testing. It's more or less a chart of SES and how many students in each state need English language supports.

People tend to believe without questioning it that there are geographical/regional surveys of "IQ". But have you ever been compelled to take an IQ test as part of a survey like that? I've never heard of that happening. In fact: those kinds of surveys do not exist.
by card_zero | 2025-12-21 15:41:15+00:00
When I was about 12 a car crashed in my quiet street (somebody tried to drive it through a concrete fence), so the next day I sat in the street and did an ink drawing of the wreckage with a mapping pen nib. That was excellent art. Then I stole one of the gigantic suspension springs and took it home to use as a stool, which by some silly definitions was also an act of art. But this all evades the original question about whether the actual car crash is art for evoking feelings, or whether art in fact must involve pictures, or human communication, or what. It's one of the impossible definitions, along with "intelligence" and "freedom". I'm a fan of "I know it when I see it".
by NeutralCrane | 2025-12-21 15:41:36+00:00
Except it uses existing art transformatively, which means that even under our absurd, dystopian IP laws, it’s not exploitation. There isn’t a single artist out there who wouldn’t be running afoul of copyright law if that wasn’t the case.

It’s been insane to me to watch the “creative class”, long styled as the renegade and anti-authoritarian heart of society, transform into hardline IP law cheerleaders overnight as soon as generative law burst onto the scene.

And the environmental concerns are equally disingenuous, particularly coming from the video game industry. Please explain to me how running a bunch of GPUs in a data center to serve peoples LLM requests is significantly more wasteful than distributing those GPUs among the population and running people’s video games?

At the end of the day, the only coherent criticism of AI is that it stands to eliminate the livelihood of a large number of people, which is perfectly valid concern. But that’s not a flaw of AI, it’s a flaw of the IP laws and capitalistic system we have created. That is what needs addressing. Trying to uphold that system by stifling AI as a technology is just rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic.
by exasperaited | 2025-12-21 15:42:12+00:00
I am not disqualifying it because it’s code-CAD. (I think it’s a bad language design but that is a total aside)

CadQuery, Build123D, Featurescript etc. all have something OpenSCAD does not have: they all have facilities to operate on generated geometry such as edges, faces and vertices. So they have generalisable operations, and they can output pure geometry representations as STEP/IGES. Featurescript presumably also allows access to sketch constraints. (Build123D is beginning to add those I think.)

These are the things I think are necessary to “aid” design, because they are the things that begin to abstract away the mathematics. OpenSCAD never does. So it “aids” design little more than any pixel graphics library aids 3D software developers.

And it does not, in fact, create precise 3D models! It produces mesh representations of them. So it cannot, by definition, produce a precise representation of a cylinder, sphere, cone or curve.

The 3D models from OpenSCAD are not highly manufacturable at all, except with additive production techniques. STLs do not make good inputs for a CNC (nobody will tell you that is good engineering practice).
by delis-thumbs-7e | 2025-12-21 15:42:22+00:00
Just fucking by canvas, brushes and good quality oil paint. You need only five colours[1]. Cost you maybe 50-80 euros. And any mess you produce will give you more joy thanand shot produced by any clanker brain. Keep at it for few years, take evening classrs, look tutorials and you have learned yourself a skill. You can now travel to any majos art museum across the world and have a discussion with masters through their works hanging on the wall.

And you will also see how fucking sad and inferior all these ai images are. Really, trust me, please. There is more to art than this. There is more to life.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7F67FsLaaY
by estimator7292 | 2025-12-21 15:43:07+00:00
In the olden days we didn't have GPUs, we had "CRT controllers".

What it offered you was a page of memory where each byte value mapped to a character in ROM. You feed in your text and the controller fetches the character pixels and puts them on the display. Later we got ASCII box drawing characters. Then we got sprite systems like the NES, where the Picture Processing Unit handles loading pixels and moving sprites around the screen.

Eventually we moved on to raw framebuffers. You get a big chunk of memory and you draw the pixels yourself. The hardware was responsible for swapping the framebuffers and doing the rendering on the physical display.

Along the way we slowly got more features like defining a triangle, its texture, and how to move it, instead of doing it all in software.

Up until the 90s when the modern concept of a GPU coalesced, we were mainly pushing pixels by hand onto the screen. Wild times.

The history of display processing is obviously a lot more nuanced than that, it's pretty interesting if that's your kind of thing.
by franga2000 | 2025-12-21 15:45:03+00:00
I really don't get the appeal to have everything om one top-level domain, especially completely separate or even external services. The scope of this would've been basically zero if they just put it on docs.discord.com.

Especially something like this, where they were reverse proxying a SaaS, seems extra stupid. It's more work to set up, adds an unnecessary dependency between services and you end up paying for all the internet traffic three times (even if not directly).
by Kim_Bruning | 2025-12-21 15:45:34+00:00
There's an interesting question about scope.

The IGA FAQ states, in its entirety on this topic: "Games developed using generative AI are strictly ineligible for nomination." [1]

Sandfall probably interpreted this reasonably: no AI assets in the shipped product. They say they stripped out AI placeholders before release (and patched the ones they missed). But the IGA is reading it strictly: any use during development disqualifies.

If that's the standard, it gets interesting. DLSS and OptiX are trained neural networks in an infrastructure-shaped raincoat—ML models generating pixels that were never rendered. If you used Blender Cycles with OptiX viewport denoising while iterating on your scenes, you "developed using generative AI."

By a strict reading, any RTX-enabled development pipeline is disqualifying. I wonder if folks have fully thought this through.

[1] https://www.indiegameawards.gg/faq (under "Game Eligibility")
by BoredPositron | 2025-12-21 15:46:22+00:00
The OP would likely prefer Disco Diffusion if they want their art to remain coarse. Modern models possess advanced spatial understanding and adhere strictly to prompts, whereas the OP is using unstructured inputs better suited for older models with CLIP or T5 encoders that lack that spatial awareness. These legacy prompting styles are incompatible with Gen3 models that utilize VLMs as text encoders. If the OP wants to explore modern architecture, they should use Flux.2 with a LoRA or perhaps a coarser model like Zit if they prefer to rely solely on text conditioning. Nano Banana Pro requires extremely long and distinctive prompting to achieve specific aesthetics. His blog post shows a lack of understanding and a lack of adaption to modern architecture which would be fine if it wasn't that dismissive.

Here is an image from NBP with an adapted prompt for Italian futurism: https://imgur.com/a/4pN0I0R

and for Kowloon:

https://imgur.com/a/rDT8dfP
by troupo | 2025-12-21 15:46:37+00:00
> but so much of that has to be auto-generated and AI-generated slop.

There is. And most people would not even recognize a lot of AI music without multiple listens and digging through things like "is there any online presence (which can also be easily spoofed)".

I've fallen into the trap myself with some (pretty generic) blues music
by zelphirkalt | 2025-12-21 15:48:42+00:00
I don't think it is some secret. There are many who say that art is not just a painting itself, but in the process of making it, and the motivation and goals behind it. Generative "AI" has none of that. It does not labor like a human would. It has no motivation, because it is not a thinking being. It has no intention in making a digital output. It just works. It has no meaning by the process of creating. Some Michelangelo working on something amazing for years, that's something that has meaning.

It is also not inventive. It's rehashing and regurgitating. That point is a bit muddy, because many humans do that too. But ask a generative "AI" to make something better than what it has learned from and new, and you will probably be disappointed.

I am not an art buff, but I can sort of see, why one wouldn't consider it proper art.
by kelnos | 2025-12-21 15:49:08+00:00
> electricity is a government issue and whoever runs it will work at the behest of the California government and the voters.

That's hilarious. The CPUC is regularory-captured like nobody's business, and our governor has been in the pocket of the utility for as long as I can remember. I guess in some sick way that's "at the behest of the government", but it sure as hell isn't at the behest of voters.

Unfortunately, we rarely have choices in every aspect of political candidates in order to change this state of affairs.
by TheNewsIsHere | 2025-12-21 15:49:12+00:00
Having worked in security on a fairly high profile, highly visible, largely used product — one of the fundamental decisions that paid off very well was intentionally including mechanisms to prevent issues with other businesses (like Google) from impacting user abilities for us.

Not having email change functionality would have been a huge usability, security, and customer service nightmare for us.

Regardless of anything else, not enabling users to change their email address effectively binds them to business with a single organization. It also ignores the fact that people can and do change emails for entirely opaque reasons from the banal to the authentically emergent.

ATO attacks are a fig leaf for such concerns, because you, as an organization, always have the power to revert a change to contact information. You just need to establish a process. It takes some consideration and table topping, but it’s not rocket science for a competent team.
by djtango | 2025-12-21 15:50:12+00:00
Well it seems pretty accepted that refined sugar is worse for you than consuming sugars locked up in fibrous fruits. From a similar intuition glutamates locked up in natural sources probably has a different bioavailability profile to refined MSG, incidental sodium intake notwithstanding.

In any case, everyone is different and catchall health advice lacks nuance. I have to very consciously consume more and more salt because I habitually cut it out to the point that I now suffer from hyponatremia especially as I exercise and sweat bucket loads.
by lithocarpus | 2025-12-21 15:50:24+00:00
I've been envisioning a market for agendas, where the players bid for the AI companies to nudge their LLM toward whatever given agenda. It would be subtle and not visible to users. Probably illegal, but I imagine it will happen to some degree. Or at the very least the government will want the "levers" to adjust various agendas the same way they did with covid.

I despise all of this. For the moment though, before all this is implemented, it's perhaps a brief golden age of LLMs usefulness. (And I'm sure LLMs will remain useful for many things, but there will be entire categories where they're ruined by pay to play the same as happened with Google search.)
Top mind blowing ChatGPT images prompts
by Tech_News_Daily | 2025-12-21 15:51:26+00:00
AI-generated images have taken creativity to a whole new level. With ChatGPT and its powerful image generation tools, you can turn words into stunning visuals. Whether you're an artist, designer, or content creator, knowing the right prompts is key to creating jaw-dropping images. In this article, we explore the top 10 mind blowing ChatGPT images prompts that will help you generate surreal, realistic, and unbelievable artwork.
by cmews | 2025-12-21 15:51:43+00:00
Structured outputs work well depending on the tasks. The example mentioned in the blog post output doesn’t say anything because we are missing the prompt/schema definition. Also quantity is quite ambiguous because it could be bananas as a term is readable once on the receipt.

I would love some more detailed and reproducible examples, because the claims don’t make sense for all use cases I had.
by graemefawcett | 2025-12-21 15:52:12+00:00
Besides, if everyone could paint the Sisten Chapel, then we'd have works equivalent to the Sistene Chapell everywhere.

Why is that a problem?

That to me sounds like the opposite of a problem.

Used effectively, these tools are elevators, enhancing the capabilities of everything they touch.

Telling them to paint you a picture results in the word you envision.

Painting a picture with them is how you see mine