skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe I understand what your position is regarding the concept of art vs non-art.

However, I think the main argument is less about the artistic merit of AI generated art and more about the impact on the ability for artists to be artists when one of the means of generating a means for a living is removed from them. The elevator music and office artwork pieces were the means for income for many that allowed for the pursuit of more complex and long term projects. It was art insomuch as it was a creative endeavor, but I'm not sure how many artists believed that such pieces were their true expression.

A lot of that is now quite easily replaceable by anyone with a bit of time, a few source sample images, some keyword manipulation, and a computer as "simple" as a MacBook. Music generation likely isn't far off, and I think Meta even demo'd some AI-Video generator.

Automation should serve the people, and I have no doubt that at some point in a nicer future it will be a boon where we can have "nice things" and a lot of expression that wasn't previously possible. In the interim, there is a slew of people whose living means are heavily at risk. Patreon, et. al., aren't going to be enough to sustain every single artist, and like a lot of automation advances in the past, it will disenfranchise a rather large population. Besides that, not everyone can just draw furry porn for big commissions.

I think that this should concern a lot of tech persons also who imagine themselves protected from this as the human element of programming, technology design, etc, simply "cannot be replicated", but I think that projects like Co-Pilot are showing that there is a huge focus on replicating AI-Art in the same way, and similar to artists, a lot of programmers are having their code forced into the system to remove their agency, and with no compensation. The very act of producing something in order to sustain one's self is now also an act of self-destruction as the product feeds the AI more data.

I think the technology and the potential benefits of AI generated X is great and it's a step towards removing a lot of the petty grunt-work that is required to make the world work. The big question is how are we going to keep the lights on for people if there isn't a system in place to ensure that people can sustain themselves? Current social safety nets don't cut it, and socially there is still a huge opposition towards creating better safety nets.

I suspect that's why there is such concern over AI-Generated anything; the classic thinking and creative work that was a safe place from automation is now automated, and the world doesn't look ready yet to make the leap to societies that have automated away the need for menial tasks for everyone and provide everyone a pretty nice standard of living.
You can't look at total layoffs. If you really want what this means look at how many engineers were laid off. I know some were in Meta's layoffs but how many? 100? 1000? 5000? Each of those numbers means something different.

It's still incredibly expensive and hard to hire and retain engineers. If that remains true then this is really a blip. It won't really be the "end of an era" unless there is a glut of engineers in the market. This happened in 2000. In the UK, the unemployment rate for engineers was huge (>35% IIRC) and that excluded those who had left the industry.

Another interesting question is what will the collapse in share prices to do hiring and retention since equity is a massive (typically >50%) part of total compensation. Those who got hired last year in particular have seen a huge amount of paper value disappear.
Related:

https://aeon.co/essays/why-pregnancy-is-a-biological-war-bet...

https://theconversation.com/pregnancy-cooperative-paradise-o...

https://radiolab.org/episodes/everybodys-got-one

I feel like I should add some kind of warning regarding the above content. It frames the situation in what I find to be somewhat unsettling terms.
I'm not so sure I would equate these layoffs as an end of an era. This is just exaggerated reporting by wapo.

In my opinion, these are corrections to the excessive hiring done in 2020. If you take each of the companies, the layoffs cane from bets which didn't make money. I don't think this marks as an end of an era.
Ugh... people were using linked-lists before this guy or I was born. They've proven themselves far from 'useless'.

They make rust's memory checking look bad. Spend your time improving that so it can cope instead of these arrogant screeds.
I can't understand the American obsession with, let's call it ethnicity.

Author says he will be held accountable, as he is white and Jewish and nerdy. Like... What???
For most, it wasn’t admiration, it was jealousy. Hateful jealousy.
Currently the 3rd most requested feature on Mozilla Connect is native vertical tabs: https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/native-vertical-tabs-li...

Any chance we could see something like this in Pulse Browser or is that something that just requires touching too much of the underlying code base to be viable? ^^
Dumb question: climate change is inevitable, right? If it is not inevitable, please correct me. My intuition comes from the Ice Age. The planet warms up and then cool down cyclically, right? If it is inevitabile, sooner or later the planet will warm up where life as we know will be unsustainable, right? We might have accelerated the warming phase, but it would have happened anyway?

So, my question is why are we panicking about it? I'm not even sure that we as human are completely responsible for the warming up (what big ego we have?). There are other species which are in trillions and don't even bat an eye about being overpopulated? Why this burden only on us? Why the burden of protecting a species is on us? Why we have such a big ego to think that we are running the solar system and the earth?
The caching vs. update issue could be trivially addressed by running a daily cronjob to update the static completion file.
That’s more applied arts though, not free arts. But I agree with what you are saying otherwise. In the short run I don’t see any big chances, but overtime it’s going to be another tool. I guess curation becomes an even a bigger thing than before. We already do it with information (to some extend at least)

I mean countless books are being written each year and quality still need to be curated (or trash promoted with lots of money)
Show HN: Kira – a fast and scalable code execution engine
Greeting HN, I would like to present my project I've been worked on the several months. I was always fascinated by code execution products like Codespaces or Leetcode. That's why I've created kira.

It is a fast and scalable general purpose remote code execution engine. Currently, kira is in its early stage, and there is a lot of potential. I am constantly trying to work on this project and improve it. Security is critical for remote code execution. That's why, kira is running in a sandboxed environment and the code gets executed as a separated user. Additional security limits are applied to the user that runs the code, such as memory, or file size.

Feel free, to give me feedback in any way! Thank you :)

The main ideas for this project:

* Fast and secure remote code execution engine that is scalable

* Logging of the code executions

* Test runner that executes custom unit tests (for building something like leetcode)

* Future: custom docker environments to have long-term projects
It’s because the Sequoia investors and funds and VCs were applying a pattern that actually sort of works for software onto a financial services company.

If you’re building consumer facing software like a social network or app, and you have massive wild growth, you have a money printing machine in progress.

It’s pretty straightforward to get there with a seed of blind luck and some sweaty immature skilled tech guys from top schools who have literally no fucking idea how to actually run a company.

Everyone has seen that before. It works out. You invest the money they use it to hire people who know how to run a business and you win. You have no internal controls or systems for awhile and some accounts get nuked and there’s a breach or two and it doesn’t matter it’s a photo sharing website.

Then you apply that logic to healthcare or financial services and they make a Netflix mini series about just how much of a fucking moron yoi were for not understanding those are fundamentally different business models.
Subtitles timing has been broken for a decade. I gave up trying to have that fixed.

For unrelated reasons, I switched my home devices to AppleTVs recently. The Infuse app works very well as a Plex client.
Expecting that the typical user wants to use a streaming service, and deprioritising development of tools/components that target other workflows, is not user-hostile. It is clearly the way things are, and the nerds are being dragged kicking and screaming.
What time scale are you referring to with "over time"?
> There are people who prefer paying with cash for the same privacy advantages.

Unless they're mailing in cash envelopes, they're usually doing this in person, so while there is some privacy advantage, it's not as great as most think.

> Peer to peer money and self-custody is more decentralized than holding money in any centralized institution.

First off, crypto is not money - it is an asset that you invest in. Secondly, few people ever bother with self-custody, because it is extremely dangerous for any significant sum, and very very hard compared to the alternative - getting someone to take you dollars and give you BTC or or ETH in return (in a trustworthy manner) is much more difficult, so few people do it. And there are far fewer actual exchanges (real money to crypto) than there are banks in most of the world. This also hits on the point about money transfers: for the way people use crypto in practice, it is justa s easy if not easier to prevent them from trading it tahn it is to trade money.

> You clearly don't understand the concept, so please educate yourself before you comment. The composability of smart contracts is what enables defi.

"DeFi" itself is a meaningless notion, just like NFTs were. It has no legal power, and it can't be used to trade real-world goods or even real money (again, crypto in general is not money, it is something closer to stock, at least in the USA). The fact that the technology allows you to trade ETH for Dogecoin or whatever it is is neat, but irrelevant - my income is in RON and things I want to buy are in USD, EUR or RON - and this is true for the vast majority of the world.
EA doesn't pan out when you realize crypto is used to buy bad things (drugs, guns, CP) or as a tax avoidance scheme.

I've always maintained my theory that Satoshi was CIA. Crypto is the evil kind of stuff they are good at.
Euclidean rythms are well supported in the Tidal Cycles family of live programming environments. Here's a demo that you can play with online: https://strudel.tidalcycles.org?fTGy0eTiAUox

Which I took from its examples in the tutorial: https://strudel.tidalcycles.org/tutorial/

Tidal Cycles can be used to generate sound on your computer but it can also sequence MIDI hardware.
That, I think, is the basis of the advice from Aaronson. There should be some natural rational limit to the tendency because of exactly the types of events that just happened.

Good luck finding that limit though, especially when the market seems undefeatable.
You’re in a bubble if you think that people are not having kids to save the environment
This piece is mostly wishful thinking. The Paper Belt would love to see the information technology industry falter, but its relative impact is only growing.
This is the most important thing I was wondering about. If crypto businesses are shady and Ponzi schemes and these crypto guys are working mostly behind the scene, why would a VC like Sequoia invest in such firms?

I somehow feel firms like Sequoia gave these crypto stuff some credibility and positive exposure. It was like, "don't worry, their business is legit and booming.'
One could just as easily write s-expressions using whitespace, so why bother with parens at all?

Because the human brain is a pattern-matching organ and sometimes redundancy in a signal is useful. I've never understood the lispers' insistence that saving "screen real estate" is a primary concern. Source code is meant to be read, and the more easily code is read, the more utility is has.
> Sorry about Vercel's insight stuff, not sure how that got enabled,

How do you "accidentally" enable such user-hostile tracking? This gives quite a bad image of the site and the associated project. Will you "accidentally" enable telemetry as well on some future versions of Pulse?
I am not advocating for IPFS gateways. Gateways are centralized, I already mentioned somewhere.

You can access the website directly via its CID (ipfs://CID), or via its decentralized domain (domain.eth, domain.x). But of course, you will need a browser with native support for IPFS (Opera, Brave). Currently for other browsers you need an extension called ipfs companion.
He's misdirecting. He will be not be "held accountable", he may be asked difficult but fair questions about his close association to organizations also associated with SBF, via money and ideology, not via ethnicity or (traditional) religious creed. But it's more sympathetic to people only half paying attention when framed his way.
Fennel: Lua Lisp Language
https://archive.ph/kjnwZ
> Isn't google search business built on "unethical sourced data", they keep a pirated copy of every website they encounter and feed it to their algorithms.

Yes. Do two wrongs make a right? An accusation of hypocricy is not an argument.

> Isn't by definition human culture built on "unethical sourced data" remixed by the human brain?

Do not compare AI to human brains. They do not work the same at all, but however similar they are (or might become), they are legally distinct, since copyright law is meant to encourage humans, not AI, to create works.

The problem is people at large companies creating these AI models, wanting the freedom to copy artists’ works when using it, but these large companies also want to keep copyright protection intact, for their regular business activities. They want to eat the cake and have it too. And they are arguing for essentially eliminating copyright for their specific purpose and convenience, when copyright has virtually never been loosened for the public’s convenience, even when the exceptions the public asks for are often minor and laudable. If these companies were to argue that copyright should be eliminated because of this new technology, I might not object. But now that they come and ask… no, they pretend to already have, a copyright exception for their specific use, I will happily turn around and use their own copyright maximalist arguments against them.
When I grew up Halloween (as in, the modern type) was an American thing. Bringing it here was absolutely intentional, it's an event that retailers get rich off. There's an American sports store in my street and it looks like a damned casino with its flashing lights. But kids are walking in and buying a $200 cap that says "Chicago bulls". Americanism involves a lot of spending, I'm not surprised it's pushed.
Plex crossing some “line” doesn’t suddenly invalidate all the previous value one has gotten from it.
Resident Evil Village on Apple Silicon: MetalFX upscaling is a welcome surprise
Leviathan: An Interactive Comic Book by Jason Shiga and Andrew Plotkin
Another interesting link:

https://www.crowdsupply.com/krakenrf/krakensdr
> be a more reliable way to deal with this,

Only if you can guarantee what free_and_zero() would succeed every time. But you can't.
I've held this view for a long time, since the day I realized the average politician was morally inferior to the average citizen.
What if the program never called free? Or if it crashed? A bad actor could intentionally crash a program, and then allocate lots of memory, then search for the password in the memory.
I don't think that banning someone who repeatedly posts "completely deranged and absolutely unrelated" material is not treating them with respect. You don't have to look very far before he starts calling things CIA nigger brainwashing, and stuff like that.
Could it be time for another Bernstein v US sort of case?

The idea that source code publication can be restricted (prior restraint) by classifying it as “arms” seems like an attempt at an end run around the bill of rights.
This doesn't mean anything. Is really hard to have a constructive conversation with people that read to reply instead of understanding the point.

The production has decided to invest 60 million dollars, these money are going to be wasted ok? They have to do the production, pay the actors, technicians, marketing, royalties etc.

Whatever is the case, BEFORE the movie is out, they lost 60 millions. That's what an investment is, losing money in the short term, with the intention to make more on the long run.

So, in any case, someone smarter than me and you, decided that this guy story is worth, at the very least, an investment of 60 millions dollar. THIS IS MY POINT!

The fact that they did more money, good for them, no problem at all that's their business. If nobody went to see the movie, they'd lose 60 million dollars. Not a big deal, cause the production will make not 1 movie but plenty, so from a diversification point of view, they're covered. They can make the 60 million or more in the next movie if this would've had a bad result.

Is that clear?

Replying with the fact that movie lose money too, doesn't change anything upfront. Cause the production spent 60 millions, so for them IS A MULTI MILLION DOLLAR STORY
This is wild. My first question was: who is the CFO who signed off on this?

FTX literally has no CFO [1]. How is this possible for a billion dollar company and billions in client assets? How did the investors not insist on an adult to manage the their investment?

The CFO, and the credibility they bring to the table based on their track record and reputation, is part of the system that helps prevents situations like this.

[1]: https://www.ledgerinsights.com/ftx-warning-signs-no-cfo/
No, disagreements with your opinions are not just meaningless noise.
"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize." [1]

Embedding python in something else was not part of my suggestion, rather I suggested using python in cases like scripting, where python would already be a good choice of an ecosystem. Also YAML-parsing was merely an example, and I wasn't necessarily envisioning that parsing a config file was the only actual purpose it would serve.

The fact is that no piece of code ever exists in a vacuum. It's always part of some application ecosystem, e.g. Windows GUI programming in C#, apache spark based ETL development in Java, scientific computation in Python, etc. ...most applications have an ecosystem (language+libraries) that's a clear "winner" in terms of adoption and richness of functionality for the given application.

My suggestion is merely this: Just go with the flow, pick the winning ecosystem, then embed lua and write your own stuff in lua while exposing whatever bits of ecosystem you need to integrate with to lua through some minimal logic that exists on the host language side.

If you context-switch at any point in the future, that gives you a good chance of being able to reuse your lua code. For example say you've developed some highly specialized piece of math for a scientific data crunching project in Python. Now you want to use that math in a GUI. Just embed lua in a host environment that's good for GUI development. ...chances are you'll be able to reuse that Lua code. If you had written the math library in Python to begin with, you're now in the difficult situation of being forced to use Python for GUI development, embedding Python in something that's good for GUI development, rewriting your code, all of which are pretty bad options and Lua might be a lesser evil.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
You are implying that CZ is doing something more legit and transparent. I belive both were on the same boat and playing the same game. It is just that FTX lost the game first.
If it has no way to wind down to zero it is a Ponzi scheme. Yes the USD and other fiat currencies are partially ponzi schemes as well but only the store of value part.
Yahoo Mail moving to React (2014) – HN reactions
> And a traditional investor who made billions on successful gambles, or arbitrage, or creating liquidity, then gave virtually all of it away to effective charities, would seem, on net, way ahead of most of us morally.

This is madness. Morality is not a game with points.
I play rugby without a mouthguard because it keeps me disciplined and I care about my own safety. /s
I mean I totally get that the watch is a constrained environment and you can’t just slap Electron on it and call it a day or whatever. I have also worked with the SDK and I agree it’s quite limited.

But we’re not talking about a fly-by-night startup - Spotify has a good deal of resources and the requirements for their application are pretty straightforward. Yet every single time I use it it fails in some stupid, unintelligible way. It has a couple of very obvious race conditions in the UI, and it took years to get to this state. I have some sympathy for the difficulty of the implementation but at this point it’s a bit of a joke.
Most intel CPU's have an integrated GPU that is capable of transcoding.
I also tried this. But I could never figure out why my windows 10 box couldn’t do a proper samba share.

Still use infuse, but through Plex server only.
First Look at China’s MOABs
But what does it have to do with, or how does it relate to, the SBF fraud?
The number is a little higher than a couple thousand.
I've used it on a Roku TV, a Roku stick, a Fire stick, a Samsung smart TV, a Hisense android smart TV, and a Sony smart TV. All miserable experiences. Perhaps the Shield has enough raw horsepower to make up for the app being garbage.
Sortition is also much easier to protect from fraud than voting. Generating shared randomness in a way that can’t be rigged is a straight forward well studied problem. For example everyone who wants to take part generates a random value and publishes a public pre-commitment. Then all the random values are revealed, checked against the pre-commitments and xor’d to produce the final random value. All of this can be verified by a member of the public and any member of the public could take part.

Issues around rigging the electoral roll are less of an issue than in voting because the person selected has to show up to do their job. It is far less effective to have dead people on the electoral roll because someone will need to impersonate the dead person if they are selected.
It may work in local elections but nation wide elections require the popular mandate. Humans like to believe that they have a stake in the system, however small.
Pretty much everyone in crypto has done business with Alameda. That doesn't automatically make them insolvent.
As others pointed out elsewhere, as as you suspected, early calloc() implementations didn't zero memory or check for overflow.

"Why is calloc useful?" would be probably a better title.
Yes. The entire post is a contortion to justify SBF as some sort of hero. But he's just another scam artist.
It seems like a really powerful application, but it's main interface looks like it was written in the 80s, because it was. It's a real shame.
> So, my question is why are we panicking about it?

Speed of change basically. If it typically takes tens of thousands of years to make these changes, species can adapt and survive. If you do 10,000 years worth of heating in like 300 years it’s not enough time for that to occur.
There are tons of small budget and artistic films made in the US.
There’s a percentage of couples that unfortunately have internalized the drama/scare around climate change that this is the case for.