skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Nvidia

Doesn't Nvidia make first-party drivers for OpenBSD? And they're more likely to work since "OpenBSD" is far more specific than "Linux"?
The initial community of HN was the readers of the blog posts^W^W articles of pg.

The initial community of Stack Overflow was the readers of the blog posts of spolsky and codinghorror (the two founders).

So the recipe appears to be to make a interesting and unique blog.

And after you have a nice technical community, you need moderation, a lot of moderation. There was a lot of work initially by pg and now by dang to moderate the site. A lot of that is invisible, but you can take a look at the recent comments by dang https://news.ycombinator.com/posts?id=dang
one word: 737MAX
This is entirely anecdotal but recently many top results in DDG read like they’re written by GPT-3 or the like. Half coherent sprawls of text that contain lots of random factoids but nothing novel or that actually answers the question.
Honestly, all the Twitter acquisition has shown is how irrelevant to Twitter’s success the management team was. Twitter has gone from a sophisticated, large organization with 8000 employees to 700 guys following the direction of a random guy making crucial business decisions off Twitter polls (lmao), and if anything it’s become slightly more popular and successful
You don't understand how this works I think. The idea of this protocol is for the compositor to change how it does page flip in specific conditions. So just allowing a player, for example, to prefer visual bugs over latency on a specific game over bug free image but having everything else still being bug free. I'm not sure you know how building software works but it's called iterating. The main need is bug free rendering, which is achieved, an iteration is a niche need of buggy visual prefered over latency, this will be allowed.
No it's not, and no she isn't.

She's talking about reducing the number of transitions. As in, discouraging or limiting the medicinal and surgical interventions that people who are unhappy with their sex sometimes pursue.

She is not advocating for people to be exterminated or sterilised or anything like that. That is an absurd reinterpretation of what she actually said.
I have mixed experiences.

The evangelism on HN and reddit can be stifling. Particularly the overemphasis on "safety".

The community on discord was very helpful though, when I was struggling.

I feel like the community is large enough that you can find a lot of more normal people using it, and just avoid the zealots.
Funny because I just switched to Chromium and left it on for around 36 hours and my commit space is not being eaten up. Coincidence? ;)

Before, when I killed Firefox (before it crashes naturally, of course), my committed memory would drop from 38GiB to around 18GiB, so uhh, unless some other app is intentionally playing with me and syncing up its memory leaks with Firefox's existence...

(Plus, Process Hacker confirmed that all of Firefox's "Private bytes" added up to about how much committed memory got freed when I killed it. Explain how that is caused by memory fragmentation!)

This is my third conversation with a Mozilla engineer about this! Always looking forward to be proven wrong, but it looks like you just can't seem to find the problem yet. I hope one day you can. :)
It seems like in nearly 3 out of every 4 years the whole internet is unusable on February 29... why pick on microsoft?
Base material for GoreTex is PTFE is implantable so probably pretty safe.
What bull. It’s certainly true that the Japanese legal system is draconian, but if you are a marginally decent citizen you will never encounter the police in your life (beyond their normally helpful role as public servants).

If there were any punishments for public intoxication half of Tokyo would be locked up. What is probably punishable is public intoxication in the western way (e.g. agressive displays, public intimidation and other obnoxious behavior).

The streets are safe here because nobody feels the need to make them unsafe. Punishment from the legal system doesn’t factor into it. I mean, I guess to some extend it does. If you are not interested in keeping the streets safe, and add to the feeling of danger/unsafety, the system will come down on you like a hammer.
> So they're taking about "animation"?

I found this funny as well, but on reflection I think the author is talking about the specific effect of changing the seed but not the prompt. To me it highlights a weakness of AI imagery — no intent, no progression, no story.
I don't think for "art as art" purposes where we take some painting and say it's worth a million dollars and put it in a museum ai can replace humans. But a lot of art is much more utilitarian: art in games, art in movies and tv, in picture books, etc. In those cases I care that it looks how it is meant to and costs as little as possible to make.

I feel like the majority of "art" we consume falls in the second category.
"Art is anything you can get away with." — Marshall McLuhan
> it's pretty unreasonable for them to not have a convincing modernisation plan

The planning isn't the issue, it's the conviction, resolve, determination...whatever you want to call it.

COBOL modernization is quite expensive and fraught with major risk. You're talking about multi-year efforts where the key players who initiate the effort are often not around to see it through. Limited legacy resources, poor-to-absent documentation, mission critical systems...it's a mess no one internally wants to touch or take the fall for. MicroFocus, Blu Age (now part of AWS), TSRI, and plenty of other companies are happy to take your money and tell you it can be done, and it certainly can be done technically.

The reality is the cost benefit is often years down the line, so keeping the right people around to sustain the effort and see it through financially and technically is the tallest of enterprise orders. So it's the old two-step: 1) Pay IBM for another three years of support and licensing and 2) Go through the motions of migration planning then repeat Step 1.
Societies have periods of (population) growth and (population) decline. Wanting, and managing for a steady 2% growth rate is technocratic, unrealistic, and will lead to more trouble than having natural periods of growth and decline. (Same with steady money growth too.)
Showing a causal relationship here would involve explaining why many other western countries with much more relaxed policing laws also seem to be safer than the US. I would guess a more likely reason is that more foot traffic reduces crime.

Also purely anecdotally, I have been let off with a warning in Japan before; certainly their prisons are draconian (or so I’ve heard). I’m also not sure how you could be arrested there for public intoxication; I’ve only seen police confront a drunk person who was actively trying to fight someone. Compared to countless workers or college kids passed out on the sidewalk…
If a copy of a Van Gogh is next to the original, and you can't which is the original, do they have equal artistic value?

If an artist who studied Van Gogh intensely made an original piece in Van Gogh's style, does it have equal artistic merit as one of Van Gogh's originals?

AI is just going to be another aspect of provenance, and if it's found out an art piece had AI used to make it, it won't be forgotten or ignored.
Actually you are both wrong :)

Regulating away legitimate secondary markets to sell on leaves us all paying higher prices. If brands and retailers believe it’s really retail theft causing all of this I invite them to track their goods better and run sting operations. I guarantee this type of money is going out the side door a truckload at a time, not the front door stuffed into someone’s shirt.

But the “progressive prosecutor problem” is a made up lie. Even in San Francisco where a DA recall vote actually succeeded it was obvious (and immediately proven[0]) that SFPD were actually just refusing to respond to calls:

https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/brooke-jenkins-sf-...
Anything to get rid of car-dealers. Literally NO added value.
Editable content also supports rich text copy-and-paste, so you can literally control+c a portion of a site and control+v into a content-editable, and it will look exactly how it did on the other site :D
Looks like only 200 million years to reach the goal.
The owners and creditors of auto industry can fail and the assets (factories, IP) would remain and be transferred to new owners. Bankruptcy does not disappear factories.
IAAL. Regardless of how the Copilot case develops at the trial court level, anyone who thinks the Roberts' Supreme Court is ultimately going to kneecap this technology needs to reboot.
At that point wouldn't you want to use Python, Node, Ruby, etc?
I thought the same, love the style - kudos.
> beauty is relative

I'd agree that "beauty of syntax" is relative and subjective. It's a fascinating observation that Lisp grew prettier over the years.

But the philosophical or mathematical beauty of the core concepts of Lisp, I feel like they're closer to eternal and objective beauty, if there is such a thing. It's like they're low-level universal primitives, not only of human thought but thought itself. If we're to ever communicate with an extraterrestrial intelligence, they would probably grok Lisp.
We actually wrote an entire jvm in javascript to try to get the J2ME version of WhatsApp working. It actually did work, but not well enough to be considered polished, and I think they must have discontinued the J2ME implementation as feature phones became more and more rare.

https://github.com/mozilla/pluotsorbet
Note is was USD and potentially more importantly French African Franc under threat, as Europe was very involved in this.

And this likely one of several other reasons like ensuing oil/gas flowed to west. And his history of supporting terrorism. Wider arab spring and hope to remove dictatorships.
Hi author of jqjq here. I don't know why Stephen Dolan designed the jq language the way he did. But for me the most attractive things about jq is the terse and pipe-friendly syntax. This allows you to write queries in shells and REPLs without the need of multiple lines, and it's easy to compose add addition pipes. And by using generators/backtracking you can do complicated traversals over tree and list without much syntax.

Now after using jq a lot think about it the other way around. The language itself is no that tied to JSON, it can be used for more things with other types then just JSON. If you interested have a look at https://github.com/wader/fq where i've tried to expand on it.
Thank you for clarifying that. I would hope that I can be forgiven for not understanding what you meant seeing how stingy you are with your words. Even so, I can't say I've heard anyone that works on ActivityPub projects call "Activities" events.
Typically, but it's also watered down to the point of being synonymous with "icky" in some contexts.

E.g. you'll see posts of the inside of wasp nests and the like being marked NSFL on Reddit.

NSFW has also evolved to mean "disable preview", among other things. E.g. it's used to hide the punchline of visual jokes on Reddit.
or use https://hn.algolia.com/

the problem with Reddit is for some stupid reason that has yet to be fixed and likely never will, Google shows reallllllly old reddit results but marks them as new.
I'd be fine with it being used to train models. The music world is already extremely derivative and trendy. In western music anyway, we have 12 notes to go around and often only use a subset per song. Additionally, much of a song's structure is formulaic, even with music as experimental as my own. I've used AI tools for composition (though I've always had to modify their outputs), pretty much all musicians use samples, etc. If anything, I see the use of AI as a step towards having less reuse in music because of the ability for generes to bleed together.
> Programming languages should not be overly opinionated in formatting

I think gofmt, python black, etc have demonstrated that it's usually better to have a single standard then it is to fight endlessly about these details.
How was a failure represented before exceptions?
The guy has gone through multiple police investigations - one of which appears to have been voluntary - plus this investigative article piece here. I'd say, from appearances, he's not shied away from attempting to fight this. He even stated in the article it was the money that made him choose not to pursue the legal path (although as previously pointed out, the costs would be free if he prevailed and there's free representation that would jump at the chance to fight cases like this).

So, I don't think hassle can accurately describe this particular case.
That's still "barely useable for any real work outside of concepts". It makes for some impressive thumbnails, but it still has all the obvious signs of an AI-generated image. This is despite it being a situation that's heavily playing into the AI's strengths by using abstract or fantastical content where departures from reality and mistakes of scaling or logical arrangement of elements are less obvious. The lighting is also something that's really helping the AI there, as the highly unnatural lighting will cover up any illogical shadows or highlights. Everyone's hands are all mutilated, it has real trouble with text, symmetry, circles, multiple instances of the same object, and if the scene has more than one subject, everything starts to get all melty.
> if you don’t have the means or experience to prepare for it.

This is where they therapy side would be interesting to understand. Everyone is going to need a different response plan. Granted, many will be similar, but how do you teach someone to prepare?
King Ranch will be the site of the largest carbon capture project yet
It seems many Americans do want to start companies in Europe though. US multinationals directly employ about 190,000 people in Ireland, a country with a total population of 5 million.
Decriminalizing drugs doesn't mean that addicts would suddenly be able to afford them. How would drug decriminalization mitigate retail theft? Who is going to purchase their Fentanyl for them?
Crypto = Bad helps you reach the right conclusion in this case, and in all the other cases too.
Arbitration is not public - so we would never know. That is not unique to Google either, it's just how it works.

My guess would be it happens far more often that you might realize, given Google's scale and breadth of services offered (paid and unpaid).

People have disputes all the time with big companies, and arbitration is how they are normally resolved. Arbitration is designed to 1) usually minimize the public risk to the company in the event of a loss, and 2) make the proceedings far more affordable for all parties involved.

Arbitration carries all the same weight and enforcement of a real lawsuit, but takes less time and is less costly.
For small orgs this makes sense, but this really depends on how big your data sets are that you're training against and how your ML Ops / Data Ops is set up.

GPUs are better run close to your data. If you're training on-prem then your data needs to be on-prem too.
Yes. When artists say things like "this really feels like it should not be fair use" we are dismissed with "well it's legal!". Changing what "fair use" covers is a possibility.

Unfortunately art is a hard business to make a lot of money in and the vast majority of the people unhappy about this do not have the money to mount any kind of legal challenge to the corporations developing these databases, so we are basically fucked.

Which is in some ways nothing new, the average Internet user has no concept of creator's rights and will blissfully assume that if something's not behind a paywall, it's free for any use. It feels even shittier and worse when this is being done on an industrial scale by these AIs, though.
That would be useful, but I would prefer you add to the doc/ folder instead of the README.
For dev searches, Kagi. I switched during closed beta, and I couldn't be happier. The SEO'd GitHub or SO copypasta is gone by default, and it gives you the ability to ban or prioritize other sites in your searches. I honestly haven't had to do that much because their filters are great by default, though I did give MDN a bump so it's always at the top for web stuff.
I am an oil painter. AI art is, imho, art just the same. The more art the better.
I think they are selling based on the brand name. I bought a few GTX versions before concluding that for me it isn't worth the cost. Clothes are much easier to wash and keeping clean so the membrane can perform.
We have just spent a week on the Gold Coast with the kids and they loved the bin chickens.

We come home with a stuffed toy bin chicken toy and book for our little niece which is the no. 1 toy at the mo.

Also Barry the Bin Chicken 2032 - https://barrythebinchicken.com.au/
Seems TOTALLY plausible; who are we to argue with the guy who gave us cross-country fully-autonomous car summoning in 2018 and a manned mission to Mars in 2021? /s

Oh wait, he _said_ he'd do those things ("2 years out" in 2016, and "10 years out" in 2011 respectively) and then didn't. It's almost like Apartheid Clyde is a serial bullshitter.
I’ve occasionally seen some of the internal AWS capacity management dashboards, and they can frequently be operating very close to 100% on some resource types.
buuh bye Investopedia
I think it’s easier to say those things in hindsight. Obviously, if someone created good times, they must’ve been strong men. If the times are getting worse, it must be because whoever is in power is weak.

I’m more inclined to say that when times are harder, it becomes easier for fortunes to shift, and a lot of the regulations that would otherwise stifle growth are lifted (either because nobody cares, or because the law makes it so).
It’s a sci-fi graphic novel. I have the story written and I’m looking for an artist to collaborate with.
Although something that padded is almost certainly not Gore-TEX!
> Statistically criminals will commit crimes again if let out even on minor infractions. Japan seems to have realized this and capitalized on it.

What a worthless bit of nonsensical rhetoric.
The article you linked is titled "The declining elasticity of US housing supply", where as all your comments speak about "demand".

>The more inelastic housing supply becomes, the more rising demand translates into rising prices and the less into additional housebuilding.

My argument is that we should remove barriers to building housing so that increases in demand (it is already very high) translate into more houses. Landlords aren't the problem. The single family zoning that constrains supply is.
TIL Gore-TEX from Seinfeld is a real thing
I don't actually know what realpage does, but in the spirit of HN, I am going to speculate anyway.

at a high level, yes, there is a "market rate" for apartments that is driven by supply and demand. you won't have a lot of luck trying to let a 1 BR for double the median 1 BR rent in that neighborhood. but individual units are not fungible either; landlords can definitely charge more for units that have been more recently renovated, better layouts, nicer views, etc. plus or minus $50 on rent might not make much difference to a tenant, but having the data to make those little adjustments could matter a lot to a landlord with hundreds of units. this isn't something you can get just by scraping zillow.
For me personally, it's more about appreciating the act and capabilities possible by a human being.

I find it similar to watching chess. AI/Chess engines will always be better than humans, but it's exciting to watch a human play to see what they can do.
> would it really be too expensive to invest some time to learn it?

I guess it depends on who you are. I find the complexity of Rust, and the community's cultural acceptance of said complexity, oozes out into every library to make every new thing you try to do seem like another incredibly hard slog.

I had one try at Rust a couple of years ago, and gave up. I had another one in the first half of this year, this time intending it for a (personal/hobby) cli app. But again, just found it dispiriting. I wasn't baulking at a single tutorial. I read all the Rust book (and worked through about half of it in detail). I read Jim Blandy's book. Lots of tutorials etc. I went through all of Rustlings. And wrote the first phase of my cli app (it's trivial but fairly robust and I use it daily). I still found it damned hard to get anything done in Rust.

I haven't quite given up (mainly out of stubbornness and having some time on my hands), and plan to take up the 2nd phase of my one Rust app. But anyone who finds Rust to be tractable by just 'investing some time to learn it' is living in a different world from mine.
It's now in english
> Training and hard work are barriers to entry?

Yes, assuming there is no substitute.
For that, I usually just use the built in editor of the OS. On iPhone use notes
I think OP understands there may not be a physical difference, but the provenance / "Colour of the Bits" is important to them; and that's a valid position to take (not the only valid position to take).

For example, a woolen blanket made by my mother is much, much dearer to me than an equivalent woolen blanket made in a factory.

I see it very likely that certified-provenance human-art may command high prices in the future; but also for physical part, it's pretty trivial and doesn't have to be so posh and fancy - anything from street art to art galleries and art collectives/workshops.
I have a Substack post on "Public Speaking for Engineers" all ready to go. I viewed this one with some trepidation: what if she's stolen all my thunder?

However, as lumenwrites hints: I soon relaxed.

It took a while to notice that her head, with headphones on, is in a tiny rectangle at the top right. At first it seems like a disembodied voice.

As athrowaway12 says: slide decks are a relic of the 90s. If you view your talk as "speaking from the slide deck" you've already lost.

Lastly, you can't get there all at once ("there" == being as good as the most captivating public speakers). All you can do starting out is be decent, have the audience not hate you, and get better with practice.
> I'd be fine with it being used to train models.

Right now, your music requires attribution and can't be used for commercial purposes.

Should visual artists have the same ability to choose the rights they reserve?
It is, but it also means other things too: nip in the bud, a nip of alcohol, to nip off with something, to nip by, etc.
Also data structures, don’t forget.
The print's story is the original's story with one sentence added: "and then I printed it a million times".

People will pay more for the original because it's rare.
You should just make an account with another provider for that purpose.
no intent, no progression, no story.

Eh, yet. I can see where the prompt just gets extended to, "in a hilarious series events in the style of buster keaton" and all of a sudden your vampire-toothed anime furry in cyberpunk clothes is flying down the side of a building, being saved at the very end by a sunshade they flop into. But I don't know if I'm going to live long enough where AI makes new Buster Keaton shorts using commonplace elements around them in new and exciting ways. Like would AI know that you can hang from the hands of a clock, which move over the course of a day? to me that's some creativity that was years ahead of its time.

Now that I've attempted to predict the far-from-now future, I'm sure we'll see this in 6 months.