skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Demand for art is far from saturated. Most people have vivid imagination and would like some physical representation of that. For the dozen of amateur creatives there are nearly as many who wish they could get access and have the time to learn a way to express.

That's not demand for art. That's demand for learning to become an artist. It's like saying people wanting to become farmers is equivalent to more demand for food. No. Related? Yes. But they are not the same.

>Anyway I think the scare about AI generated art is misplaced when it comes to art as a general concept. It is after all merely a tool and a tool can suppress art. Plenty of abstract art was already not limited to technical mastery and could have been made by a computer yet abstract art didn’t disappear and artists weren’t displaced.

You can think this all you want. But you can also project the current trends of technology into the future and envision a future where AI creates art better and faster then ANY human on the face of the earth. Then take that AI and apply it to programming, decision making, car driving and every other occupation that right now only humans can do.

Notice how I just made a realistic projection? I didn't say whether it was scary or horrible. I just made a realistic projection and THAT projection itself should give ANYONE pause about the future of humanity. You are way to optimistic. I leave it to you to fill in what the projection means for us.

A lot of people are just like "Oh we'll just switch to UBI, and AI will create a utopia". Yeah, that's not a realistic projection. Unlike my projection, this is just a random shot in the dark. Given that utopia and UBI never successfully existed on such a massive scale yet, such a transition should also give you pause. Additionally UBI is dangerously similar to communism which is in itself questionable.

>The Japanese and Korean illustrators scare however is not misplaced. It comes from how the industry is structured

No it's from how reality is structured. If some machine does your job better than you then you become redundant. No amount of industrial structuring can make this FACT not true.

>These people are scared for their livelihood and they probably are right to be.

You should be scared as well. AI targets almost every job. Art is just the first to fall.
> you have to manually shunt the objects you'd like to release off-thread. A GCP can do that shunting on its own, letting a GC thread perform the releases asynchronously, and piecemeal.

You could also use async programming to do the same thing in GC-free code. Or just use an arena that can be freed all at once.
It’s pretty cool to see that an entire OS can be built with a ~250 line Makefile. Yes, of course there are sub Makefiles etc, but perhaps it indicates that we could make today’s technology simpler (e.g. the Linux kernel).
Plenty of languages have already proven D wrong, as mentioned on my language list, my contribution isn't required.

C# already offers what I care about in managed languages with C and C++ like capabilities.

And honestly why would anyone go through the trouble to prove you wrong, if in the end it eventually has the same fate as the concurrent one, that only works in Linux anyway.
> Nothing that you do or say will matter after a couple of hundred years.

I don't think this is true at all.
Eyes on the code help find bugs.

Smaller code helps prevent bugs, as there's simply less code where bugs could be.

Thus it is not as clear as you picture it.

What is clear, however, is that it should be easier to make BearSSL's code bug-free, by virtue of having less code.
How does a person seeking support for a vaccine-induced injury amount to undermining the officialdom's risk-benefit analysis of receiving the vaccine?

Aren't vaccine-injured people also members of the "public"?

You don't fool anyone by substituting "officialdom" with the "public".
Lots of ppl already do this on twitter itself - instead of quoting or replying, they'll screenshot another tweet and embed it. I suspect they're trying to defend against the tweet being deleted, but they've just opened up a whole new front of potential abuse - I treat all such fake embeds as suspicious, and I would if they were published on a website too.
And why not Debian with KDE?
No dynamic allocation whatsoever

I think this alone is an excellent reason to study the code, but only after you've already had a mental exercise of considering how you could write such an implementation without any dynamic allocation. One of the things that I've noticed in a lot of codebases is superfluous dynamic allocation, which can often be eliminated to make things simpler, more efficient, and removes a possible error-path.
One probably important project that uses it is OpenConnect, as the VPN servers would probably be listening on a port reachable on the open internet.
IS this thing able to be used as a Kodi box and decode all modern codec (HDR+UltraSuperDuper) ?
I don’t think the US was that deeply involved in any of those conflicts. Certainly not so much in the flattening part.
Ah, the early 2010s internet.
Don't forget the casual racism: [0]

Which is part of their racist, institutionally colonial makeup at the top, according to their own staff: [1]

Then there's how they treated Corbyn, or how they "covered" Assange, or their role in the war on terror, etc, etc.

They don't deserve your pity. They've been like this for a long time.

[0] - https://www.msn.com/en-ie/news/other/irish-people-rage-over-...

[1] - https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/bbc-institutionally-r...
I still don't know why Twitter is a thing in the first place. I guess it has never been as successful as the other social media companies.

I used it briefly years ago. I found it was good for only two things.

1) very fast eye witness reports for something I cared about before mainstream media covered it. This wasn't a huge use case.

2) publicly complaining about customer service for a company, getting a quicker resolution than if you didn't publicly complain.

I never found a set of people whose tweets were interesting enough to be worthwhile. I think the issue is tweets themselves. The short message format just isn't long enough to say anything interesting for the most part. Don't get me started on longer messages split up into lots of separate tweets. Ughh.
Discussions and showcases like this always remind me of the business card scene from American Psycho, "subtle off-white" etc., more so than a tradesman selecting their tools - or even better, showing their tools after years of usage.

It's all so ephemeral. The Macbook du jour. The thinnest screen you can get. Designer mice. Trying to get some kind of individuality with allusions of ergonomics with a more specific mechanical keyboard.

That's "creativity flowing in the air"?
So if compilers did this better then processors wouldn't need the extra complexity and the transistors needed to support it themselves?
Show HN: Veecam virtual camera chrome extension
Veecam is a proof-of-concept virtual camera chrome extension that lets you adjust your video appearance in a video conference call. It currently works with Google Meet.
That's what I thought in my 20s and 30s.

View flipped after that. Do your chores yourself as much as your time allows instead of jumping to pay someone to do it. There are other benefits not discussed here beside the time cost factor.
The GC is very nice for evaluating functions at compile time. It has zero runtime cost.
Amazing book. It's an extension of his earlier 'The Fabric of Reality'. There he makes the astonishing unambiguous claim (chapter 2) that 'Single particle interference experiments show us that the multiverse exists and that it contains many counterparts of each particle in the tangible universe'. No ifs or buts! I've been looking for an informed critique/discussion of this without success though it's easy to find plenty of general objections raised to the multiverse concept (Everett's 'many worlds') / interpretation of quantum physics. I guess I haven't looked hard enough.
I don't know a lot about C or the internals of OpenSSL, but going by the commit message, does this mean we should disable TLSv1.3 until we've had a chance to patch OpenSSL?

Edit: Actually, reading through the code a few times, maybe TLSv1.2 should be disabled?

I really wish we had some way to protect ourselves until the patch is widely available.
There’s also a copy of an ancient version of AIX. Incredible this person hasn’t been sued yet…
> But with with Swift, Rust and modern C++ the argument can be made that GC doesn't bring anything to the table.

With Rust and C++ (don't know about Swift), you still have to spend a lot of time thinking about memory.
> with no commentary or explanation.

Enable subtitles/closed captioning to see additional commentary provided by him about what is happening.

>the video is someone speed-typing the source code

They are not actually typing it at all, from the faq https://bisqwit.iki.fi/jutut/kuvat/programming_examples/nese...

Q) Is the video sped up? Or, is that your real typing speed?
A) No, it's not sped up. But the input is pre-choreographed. The computer
implements the choreography, as well as designs a part of it.
It is a TAS, except I'm not speedrunning; I'm just aiming for
15 minutes and to utilize it in the most entertaining manner.
My typing speed is not the focus of that video; it is not even
being presented except in a small part of the 2/2 video.
The focus is in the source code.

He actually wrote his own editor that he uses in the video and I believe that assists with the choreography.
I really like this! Tip for on mobile, press and hold anywhere on the page to aim the katamari. Going to fire up my ps2 and play some katamari today!
Surprisingly, no. I just tried it:

- 'pip install torch' doesn't work inside of a plain Python env (not miniforge)

- 'conda install torch' doesn't work inside miniforge

- 'pip install torch' works inside miniforge
> Anyone can come in and use those assets.

That's not quite right: trademarks are different to copyright. Most open source licenses grant a copyright licenses, but not the trademark.

Over a decade ago there was a kerfuffle when Mozilla didn't approve of Debian's Firefox patchset and asserted that Debian couldn't use the name "Firefox" for the (still licensed for redistribution) source code Debian had. They had the rights to use, modify and redistribute the Firefox code - but not the name. For a while, the Mozilla browser was known as "IceWeasel" on Debian and Debian variants.
In the published discovery chats of the recent lawsuit it was kind of clear that Musk rejects the idea of blockchain as fundamental tech for any type of social media. But I suppose this doesn't preclude payments etc.

The reason from what I recall was something like "social media on blockchain requires huge tech resources which means centralisation".

Basically the discussions were very similar to HN! Blockchain is totally the wrong thing to build big stuff around it but it has it's uses elsewhere
Identity is not the self
Probably nothing. But if you add "blockchain" to something completely unrelated, some people get very excited and start throwing money at you.

This includes, I'm ashamed to say, the French government, who has said that finance regulation rules should be eased for all things crypto.
Fluxon
Yes, my point wasn't at all about the speed. You can replace "speed-typing" with "displaying at a speed too high to read, much less think about".
The Beginning of Infinity by David Deutsch and
The Three-Body Problem Trilogy by Liu Cixin.

I especially recommend reading this combination. Both books fill up with optimism about humanity. First one by providing framework for infinite progress of humankind. (written by acknowledged quantum physics professor). Second one by by outlining how we can overcome difficulties on the way (written by talented Chinese science fiction writer).
I rarely see it self-applied, though. It always seemed to be a more HR-centric / economist verbiage, in the same line as "human capital" and "downsizing".

Whereas people actually call themselves "rockstar developers" "language ninjas" or "data scientists".
Top 2 so far:

* Washington: A life by Ron Chernow
* The Second World Wars: How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won by Victor Davis Hanson

The Washington book is a very detailed by clear overview of his life. Easy to follow (even for complex situations) and very week written.

The WW2 book is amazing. Compares the countries fighting in around 20 different areas (technology, leadership, geography, aircraft) and says who is better and why.

Also very good:

* FDR by Jean Edward Smith
* Master of the Senate by Robert A. Caro
* The Penguin History of New Zealand by Michael King
* The years of Lyndon Johnson 2 – Means of Ascent by Robert Caro
* Blood, Sweat & Chrome: The Wild and True Story of Mad Max: Fury Road by Kyle Buchanan
* Becoming Trader Joe: How I Did Business My Way and Still Beat the Big Guys by Joe Coulombe
* How Innovation Works: And Why It Flourishes in Freedom by Matt Ridley
* Yeager: An Autobiography by Chuck Yeager
* The years of Lyndon Johnson: The Path to Power by Robert Caro
* The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson
* Termination Shock by Neal Stephenson
* An Economist walks into a Brothel: And Other Unexpected Places to Understand Risk by Allison Schrager
* The Devil’s Candy: The Bonfire of the Vanities Goes to Hollywood by Julie Salamon
* Sam Walton: Made in America by Sam Walton
Are you telling me these phrases can cause harm?

As I said before the context was a pun but it should not matter these are factually true statements that any reasonable person would agree on.
Mostly science fiction, and most Adrian Tchaikovsky science fiction at that:

* Elder Race - Tchaikovsky's Hugo-nominated novella does this really neat thing where it tells the same story from two different perspectives, which happen to perfectly meld fantasy with hard scifi in a super clever conceit.

* Children of Time - A hard scifi-meets-entomology-study take on how shifting perspectives work and the no-stone-left-unturned world building he does just really works. Its sequel Children of Ruin was great too, and the final in the trilogy comes out next month.
Most people will not remember what you said or did but they will remember how you made them feel
An interesting question. A bunch of seemingly important advices on my mind right now, but none of them actually changed my life. This is probably one the of things that you never notice because most of them are in the form of “never”. Did “never stick a fork into a socket” change my life? Probably so.

One that I could call ~practical is “there is no eternal friendship, only common interests”. And a related one is “never do business with friends and relatives”. I’ve seen enough lifes “changed” by not following these.
There's enough understanding that things need to be changed, now the doing is needed.

> because I become more aware each passing week of the blindspots in the HN community regarding the struggles and perspectives of women

That's presumptuous and plain insulting. I've no evidence many guys here on HN are keeping women down in any way - that needs verifying (though it may be true). I've personally seen too few women in tech but that's because they don't enter it in comparable numbers. I don't know why.

> The first is basically a memoir of the author in terms of her own experiences with assault and chronic illness

aaand welcome to my childhood (though at least it was non-sexual assault, just the old-fashioned variety). And here's a thing: you don't want to know how it really feels and you won't be able to because you need that experience, and it's a thing nobody should ever feel. You can't get any idea of how deep the damage goes by reading or even talking about it.

Also, I don't want you to know because I don't want anyone to be dragged down by it.

I don't like this comment because it uses words like 'powerful' and 'breath taking' as if it's a positive experience to read about it. This is what people say when they don't have a clue. To experience it is filth, destruction and a lifetime of mental illness. That's the reality of it.

Edit: just my perspective. Perhaps I'm being unreasonable but I can't tell, sorry.
Even moving the bookmark function out of the 'share' menu would be a nice improvement!
> This has caused other currencies to lose value against the dollar, increasing the cost of imported goods priced in dollars like oil and gas and driving up inflation elsewhere

If I have Pounds (GBP) and I need to buy Oil and settle in Dollars (USD), I exchange my Pounds for Dollars, and then I exchange my Dollars for Oil. The price of the Oil in Dollars doesn't matter to me, only the overall price of the Oil in Pounds. It has no effect on how many Pounds I spend if the GBP:USD is weaker now than it was 1, 2 or 5 years ago, it only matters what the net GBP:Oil exchange rate is.

The only time strengthening/weakening of the Dollar can have an effect is if the price moves between the two exchanges, but given how short settlement windows are, this is somewhat irrelevant.

In a system of free-floating exchange rates and absent of supply side shocks, inflation is entirely a domestic phenomenon. The reason why the entire G7 have the same problem is because they all experienced the same pandemic, and their respective Central Banks all took the same action (to increase the money supply).

Foot notes:

[1] We have since layered a supply-side shock on top of this, which has pushed up energy prices in many currencies, but this is not because of the strengthening of the Dollar, it is because many nations wish to minimise the amount of Oil & Gas they buy from one of the largest exporters of said Oil & Gas, effectively reducing supply.

[2] A strong Dollar can cause problems when foreign nations borrow in Dollars (i.e. they borrow Dollars rather than their domestic currency). As the Dollar strengthens, this means they have to sacrifice much more of their local currency to repay the debt, which can cause significant problems. (Editors note: try not to borrow in someone else's currency if you can avoid it.)
And here I am with my 23" acrylic Cinema Display and yellow-tinged original Natural Keyboard…
Time is the only thing you can't buy.
Huh! That’s curious! I wonder what causes the different behaviour!
Indeed, the Gulf war can fairly be described like that. As far as I can tell, none of the other US Middle Eastern conflicts can.

But at least with the Gulf war it’s obvious that the coalition did the right thing, intervening to stop a war of aggression by Iraq.
This is true. But BearSSL does not have so many eyes on looking it, nor haven’t had the same duration as OpenSLL have had.

Which makes it complicated.
It's used for deep learning.
I am preparing for this! Building Kikko[0] that widely supports all the of platforms that have SQLite on it, and allows building reactive interface on top of React/Vue/AngularJS(WIP)/whatever.

Here is the code example for react: https://kikko-doc.netlify.app/react-integration/installation.
Some technical details: with special sql`INSERT INTO ${sql.table`some-table`}` syntax, it tracks in which tables changes are happened, and notify other tabs to make refetch to the subscribed tables.

Project is in alpha, and already has support of absurd-sql, wa-sqlite for web; expo, tauri, electron, ionic, React Native.

I am super excited to add support of official SQLite wasm implementation

0: https://github.com/kikko-land/kikko
"For years I said if I could only find a comfortable chair I would rival Mozart." - Morton Feldman
We didn't adopt the concurrent one because nobody could figure out how to make it work on platforms other than Linux. Everybody wanted it.

I'm curious why you don't use Managed C++ (the one with separate GC pointers)?
> Data flow analysis isn't that good.

It definitely wasn't in the old DOS days. But it's worth testing the approach in the context of modern platforms.
It'll be a success or a good story.
If your app lets users sort, search, group, join or transform non-trivial data then SQL requires far fewer lines of code than procedural JavaScript, especially if you don't know ahead of time all the different ways in which users might want to query the data. It's definitely not useful for every kind of app though.

Think of something like personal finance, accounting, payroll, project management, CRM, zettelkasten style note taking, health and fitness tracking, etc, where users may want flexible analysis and reporting tools.

Much of this is now done on the backend, which makes sense if the data is accessed by many users in a transactional manner. But if it's a single user app or something used by tiny teams then cutting latency down to zero could greatly improve usability while still benefitting from everything a real query engine has to offer.
> the GUI or graphical user interface. A place where every available feature was visibly laid out before you

Android designers: "but what if we could make a GUI where you need a youtube tutorial to access any feature?"
Ownership and influence of chess companies and FIDE sponsoring is not very transparent. This article for instance claims that Mark Scheinberg has a chess.com stake.

https://www.uktech.news/news/this-european-vc-wants-to-inves...

The Scheinberg family also sponsors FIDE:

https://www.fide.com/news/1694
Mayors of big towns are clearing city centers from cars and making them walkable again anyways (at least in Europe, I don’t know how it is being done in other places). If tunnels are the shortest path to get from one part of the city to another (like in Zurich), cars will use them.
It moves process from "put any distro and just install it" to "open the bios, find the right options to change or disable and then you can actually install it".
PowerPC, not POWER: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIM_alliance
“All endings are also beginnings, you just don’t know it at the time”

Helped me with the anxiety I always had about loosing people, opportunities and such
To reduce wear and tear you can set temporary storage to /dev/shm, point the application setting for cache there. TMPDIR is one environment variable for this kind of thing. The distros for SBCs should optimize for ramdisk.
I don't understand how people can live without a numpad. I feel so much more comfortable typing numbers on one compared to using the top row.
So inflation is caused by having too much crap available to buy?
Pay attention to each day as you don’t know how many of them you get. Or how many anybody else gets.
Or OpenCollective.
Start at the beginning. Master the basics. If you get off course, get back on.
Just a guess: perhaps that it’s more applicable to large use cases and at clients that are much more likely to be profitable and therefore able to pay?
We have redundancy, backups and standby instance for have ~100% uptime. We should be able to run the validators provided they are in the languages supported by us.
Use a TODO list. Life changing advice? You betcha.
Well no, US doctrine generally relies on precision strikes instead of anything you could reasonably describe as “flattening”.

In all of the Middle-Eastern conflicts, civilian death tolls through direct US action have been very low.
- The Network State, by Balaji S. Srinivasan

- The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One, 1929-1964

- The Minimalist Entrepreneur, by Sahil Lavingia

- Shoe Dog, by Phil Knight
Yeah, but that was then and this is now. Thinghs kinda settled down since then.

The real danger of opening the API and marking all tweets made through API as BOT is that this label looses impact if some alternative client that uses API raises to prominence.

I'd say that current setup where users have no indication that something might have been posted by bot is way more horrible.
Being on the board of an American charity is kinda stressful imho. Even when you have D&O insurance if you’re on the board. Having buttoned up financials and processes and controls is a HUGE sign of relief for anyone on the outside considering partnering / joining / advising.