skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"if you think AI chatter has reached an annoying level right now you're in for something else. it's going to be the only thing on anybody's mind starting shortly... i'm finding it a bit hard to communicate the urgency and heaviness of what's going on"

"Personally I can give you a formal definition of intelligence and even a number of speculative sketches of how I think it could be implemented, but I will also tell you that strong AI is not within sight and that recent advances are not moving us in the direction of strong AI"

Tools that assist in knowledge work can be very useful and very impactful on the knowledge industries without needing to even define "strong AI", let alone "being smart", "knowing ideas", et al.

What's important is not what we call these things or how we talk about what they do in an abstract manner rather if these tools are useful.

There's a general lesson here: Don't waste your time talking yourself in philosophical circles about what "AI" means, or what "knowing" means, or what "ideas" mean. If you'd like further convincing please see Philosophical Investigations by Wittgenstein. If pressed I'm just going to do a cheap imitation so you might as well get it from the source.

Personally, I have found ChatGPT, Stable Diffusion, Copilot, and a number of other large language models and tools built on large language models to be very useful.

I fed a folk song I was working on into ChatGPT and asked it to conjure up some similar evocative scenery... I then generated animations with Stable Diffusion based on a linear interpolation between those descriptions of that evocative scenery in the latent space... Then I wrote wrote some more lyrics about the weird stuff Stable Diffusion was hallucinating... and in the end I had a bunch of visual images, a song, and some animations, all that seem worthy of publishing. The visual components would otherwise never have been made as I don't have the time or money to do much more than sit around with my acoustic guitar and write songs.
You've bought the company line. I'm sure they'd be proud of you. It's nonsense, but keep shoveling it.

People are being laid off who've worked there for 5-10 years, and the company is still incredibly profitable. There is no need to let go of anybody, and the people they are getting rid of are profitable in the long-term to the company.

The long-term part of that is key, though, since shareholders are focused on this quarter, after which they'll seell the stock and move on, while people's careers have been destroyed.
Agreed we shouldn't speak so broadly, but let's not be naive here. Part of the reason California legalized adult filmmaking was to reduce trafficking.

In California they have agents, everywhere else they have pimps.

Just one example: https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdca/pr/adult-film-performer-pl...
Aren't there legal exceptions when you give out something? Otherwise it could cause a lot of trouble to charities that work with donations. It would be a big problem for the recycling industry too.
> I don't see why this deal shouldn't go ahead.

Because the companies are already giant behemoths abusing market power, and further consolidation will only make it worse?

Turn the question around: why should it go ahead? Will it make workers or consumers better off to have even less competition?
There is a case to be made that talking to a human is the bland one now. Amidst all the censoring and self-sensoring and assumption of bad faith, there is a lot that is not possible to discuss in polite company, even online, but is interesting. AIs seem more willing to give me a straight answer rather than going of moral tangents or ego trips. I have had discussions with the chat that went deeper than the smartasses in reddit . I thought that that was a lost art

So, just like with good cheese, maybe i will go with full-fat
It was more than that. Microsoft was giving IE special APIs that it wasn't letting others have, and was also deeply integrating IE into the broader OS (eg, embedding it into the file explorer)

Which is also what Apple is doing but then going even further and just outright banning other browser engines.
"I work on a video site that you've used"
There's many more crimes then sexual assault and murder that can land you in prison.

How many soap bottles would I have to steal before you think I don't deserve any dignity?

And then there's also not everybody convicted of a crime actually did the crime [1].

[1]: https://innocenceproject.org/national-academy-of-sciences-re....
Good point, I had forgotten about that. It seems like the real issue in this case is that minimum wage isn't really much of a guarantee. Waiters are expecting to make much more than minimum wage, but got pushed into a different role that unilaterally altered their wage.
Problem is they have to keep moving it closer to midnight or they won't get any media attention. This leads to ridiculous outcomes like showing we are currently 5x closer to nuclear war than during the Cuban missile crisis when it was at 7 mins. Not sure why anybody takes this seriously.
How else would inmates communicate with family and friends?

Phone? Cost prohibitive in most states.
Internet? Banned or several restricted in many places.
In person visitation? Hard to schedule, especially if you aren't being held near your family's residence.
Reminds me of the Dovetail phyle in Neal Stephenson's The Diamond Age where the rich value purely human made goods in a world of matter compilers that can almost instantly make or duplicate just about anything.

On the other hand, I find Stable Diffusion the most interesting thing going on in art at the moment...
honestly, to me its not the UX.

- it is a lack of disinformation, people here tend to push conversations in the right direction

- it is a lack of advertising and bullshit articles

It is like Craigslist. Everyone and their mother has tried to re-design craigslist, with yearly graveyards of competitors.

The problem is CL's interface isn't the product. It is _already_ extremely useful, and so to get people to leave CL you'd need to give a value add on top of what seems to already be a pretty feature packed service.
The old people die. The population rerurns to 2.1. Do you really think it will continue to go down forever? Do you not see the increadible overpopulation and housing costs in Japanese cities as the cause of low fertility? Why do you think there is something inherently "wrong" with Japanese people that can only be solved by foreigners?
Here's a lower tech + lower cost solutions: introduce said letter in a Xerox or a fax machine - contraband problem solved.
Can Lightrun dynamically add logging to an app in the past? If not, i don't really see this value of this.
Almost every case where you use the value results in an error with unknown, but not with any:

let danger: any;
// These all compile:
danger(), 9 / danger, danger.access, danger.map(x => x \* 2)

let safe: unknown;
// These all explode in TS:
safe(), 9 / safe, safe.access, safe.map(x => x \* 2)
Agreed. That does seem to be an example of a language model failing to understand the context in which the question was asked.

The user was implicitly expecting code that would function when executed immediately and as written with no additional supporting libraries included. This is different from code that would function correctly when executed after having downloaded relevant existing packages. Which is different from code that would function if executed along side additional supporting code from private libraries the user might not have access to. Etc...

Yet any of those answers fit for the same prompt, "create an R script that does such and such". The bot's lack of insight is on the likely intention behind the prompt rather than on the requested language. I'd say if it produces any code that fits the syntax and grammatical structure of the requested language, that's enough to say it understands the language.
> do you really want to cry watching a movie that was 100% produced by robots?

I've had a lot of fun having ChatGPT write stories for me: I'd ask it make changes, to add a character, add a motivation, etc. I'm just playing around, and it's 100% produced by a robot and I enjoy it. I don't personally mind having an emotional response by a story generated by a "robot". I don't really understand how it being bot generated cheapens the experience. The emotion that I feel are elicited by my thoughts and reflections based on what I've read and experienced, not by the robot.
and if the legitimate owner is dead? What about if they simply also forgot the credentials? What about items that have been forgotten, or left in a drawer for some time? How about devices from a business that went bankrupt? what about donated school laptops?
Another user mentioned the reply basically cited tradition.

@dang, can we ever get a reply to this?

either an excuse or an 0xFF in a .css stylesheet, please?
Not necessarily, one of them gave the example of machines acquired at bankruptcy.
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I use a simple custom CSS to: 1) increase font size; 2) limit line length, and; 3) change OP's font color:

.comment,
.toptext {
max-width: 72ch;
font-size: 16px;
line-height: 1.5;
color: rgb(27, 27, 27)
}

In Safari, using Userscripts extension: https://github.com/quoid/userscripts#userscripts-safari
I've recently set up my work laptop and home desktop to run through USB-C. Power/Video/Data to the laptop from the monitor, and Data to the desktop from the monitor, both through USB-C. There's an extra DisplayPort connection to the desktop I'd like to prune someday, but for now it's brilliant to be able to swap one USB-C connection and my monitor, mouse, keyboard, speakers, webcam all work flawlessly. Really helps with work from home, I don't have enough room in my apartment for two desks.
Slightly larger buttons would be welcome, at least as an option. That's all I'd change.
> I imagine that applications with less addressing space also have less of every other resource, and can count less of everything.

That's a fair point, and I've seen here on HN a design approach that everything should have a limit (because programs often explode in unexpected ways, such as degraded performance, when operating outside the programmer's expectations)

But, usize doesn't necessarily capture the right limit, so.. I'm not sure
The OP is talking about why these kinds of things exist.
I'd bet money on it being an INVERSE signal.
Of the entire body of porn in existence, is it closer to 2% or 51% that is trafficking-implicated?

Is "some"? Yes. Is "most"? I seriously doubt it.
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Efficiency over Performance
I really hope it's significant! Keep old.reddit.com alive!

Was wondering if they provide stats for this anywhere and apparently they do on a per-subreddit level that only mods can see:

https://www.reddit.com/r/TheoryOfReddit/comments/m2615l/what...

Look at the unique pageview charts, it seems like old.reddit.com is just a bit higher than new reddit but not by much.

This user[1] posted a graph[2] from a much larger subreddit. They didn't mention which but they moderate quite a few subreddits but I think this one if from /r/Minecraft.

1. https://www.reddit.com/r/TheoryOfReddit/comments/m2615l/what...

2. https://i.imgur.com/dUYWZNd.png
I agree from a language standpoint but trapping overflows by default would be quite costly. If you get the branch predictor involved with every addition or multiplication then you'll very quickly slow down your program, especially in the hot code paths. I think most general purpose programs don't run into overflow anymore these days, and the performance benefit probably outweighs the safety for most people.
Google/Waymo demo'd the AI driving in a snow storm and the method they used to see through the flakes and maintain object detection. Having trouble finding the video I'm thinking of. Here are some videos related to self-driving in snow and progress on weird edge cases.

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kx7fHEhnIZk (snow, like the google demo)

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSX3qdy0dFg | https://youtu.be/LSX3qdy0dFg?t=2229 (snow, but not the one I was thinking of)
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> A human's drawing of a hand will show a clear understanding of what a hand is on an intellectual level.

What is the definition of "understanding on an intellectual level?" I have a friend who is an artist. She is doing a series of paintings with figures. She cannot paint hands to save her life. The hands she paints look very similar to the eerie vignettes produced by Stable Diffusion. I fail to see what makes the hands my friend paints somehow superior on an "intellectual level."
long as it's legal/legitimate, does it really matter if can make enough $$$ to earn a living?

nerf was last minute class project.
The latest models, with the right setup, can already substitute for many (not all) tasks in knowledge jobs such as graphic design, support chat, even programming. I feel like we may be looking at less than 3 or 4 years for a lot of jobs to be mostly obsolete. Or at least, the traditional version of those jobs.

It's already at the point where you start expecting any knowledge worker to be significantly more productive by leveraging these tools.

It's hard to imagine that it will be more than five years before AI tools are available that can handle almost all tasks in these types of jobs.

For example, on my website aidev.codes I just added preliminary knowledgebase support. It can reference the knowledgebase this to write code. I would say that with the code-davinci-002 model at least it seems about at the level of a junior software engineer already since it's pretty effective with close supervision by a senior peogrammer, except for the fact that it cannot interpret visual information.

Knowledgebases/embedding search can also be used right now with these models for answering support questions. The only thing holding it back from very very wide scale adoption is the problem of making up information. There are already solutions in progress for this. It's unlikely that will take more than a few years to roll out and replace the current generation of models. Google and Microsoft will probably roll out their internet-scale chat search interfaces this year even if they can't fully mitigate the hallucination problem immediately.

I would guess more like 2-3 years for many knowledge-based jobs. If you want employment/contracts you will need to be very good at leveraging AI, or people will just use the AIs instead.
Because "never" is an empty set and empty set is a subset of all sets.
Is it better, really? Maybe some of their products would have survived by being spun off, rather than contributing to the running joke that is Google’s project graveyard. They have ruined and abandoned a great many projects, likely at the direct expense of their shareholders.
I'm having a hard time understanding why. You need like 3 or 4 libraries to have a pretty featureful experience with React (routing lib, some kind of HTTP client library most likely, state if you don't want to do that in React proper... probably some kind of form library unless React has stopped sucking at that since last time I used it) and one of those is React itself. You can add more if you want but you probably don't need them. When one of those libraries falls out of favor and goes stale, it's easier to replace one of them than to migrate to a new framework.

There's just not enough to do on the client-side to justify a framework. The browser handles so much already.
Well, this is just the common point that if you don’t use a framework you end up building your own poorly specified/documented framework. I’m not sure I disagree.
ChatGPT, DALL-E, whatever DeepMind produces.
This is related to the electricity guiding embryo formation of a frog, discovered back in 2011?
https://now.tufts.edu/2011/07/18/face-frog-time-lapse-video-...
To add: anything to do with optogenetics.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optogenetics

TLDR: Input the genes into a nerve cell and now you can fire the nerves with light pulses.
Then you just say "Coke" again. If you sound confused, we know you're not from here. If you treat this as a perfectly normal and sane interaction, then you're one of us ;)
It feels like you are taking a rigid approach and reaching an unsound
conclusion.

The law does not concern itself strictly with "exact copies". You are
missing the essential concepts of "substantial similarity" and
"representation". It Britain at least, it has been found a photograph
of a famous painting does not obtain its own copyright. Proving the
opposite; one cannot take a .wav file, convert it to an .mp3 and claim
that because the representations are totally different the "new work"
doesn't violate the original.

The OP you are arguing with turns a useful phrase with "copyright
laundry", because it's clear that GPT tools can and are being used for
that function.

Trying to move the argument to a higher level, I believe this legal
argument will ultimately be solved by a technical matter about
noise.

Everyone talks about the training data. Nobody talks about the noise.
But that is the KEY (literally).

Because there is nothing non-deterministic going on, but each run
seems to create something "new" a clearer interpretation of the
system-signal relation is needed. With exactly the same initial
conditions we can treat the seed noise as a decryption key. The law
will very probably eventually settle on an interpretation of large
models as an encoding mechanism whose seed noise is the other half of
a pair, which together constitute a transformation/transcoding of
the original source material.

The onus is going to fall on the creator to show how their "creative
process" is substantially different from transcoding a jpeg to a png
through a set of filters to obscure the source.
Even if there's a legal loophole (I doubt it), why would Apple want to become known as a reseller of stolen laptops? I don't know the legal technicalities, but if you have a reasonable suspicion that an item might be stolen, then reselling it is at least unethical and probably legally dubious too.
That's all good and fine, but Microsoft has committed to bringing Activision titles to the Sony platform for at least a decade. Microsoft could have easily walled off Minecraft and Bethesda titles on the PS platform, but they haven't because they're heavily vested in the business of selling games... not just consoles.

You're right, they've both done it in the past, only Sony wants to keep doing it. Microsoft is saying lets get rich publishing games people love, we don't care where you play it, we're getting paid regardless and we're also looking to buy a company that has the best version of cross play available today so that we can continue to satisfy gamers where ever they are.

Also, GoW is available for PC, but not Xbox. COD will become a Microsoft game if Sony who opened this can of worms isn't willing to share their concern or prove they're not engaged in the practices they claim to be against, which they are. I don't disagree with you, but it's fairly clear that Microsoft wants to sell games and Sony wants to sell consoles that still aren't even available in most places for purchase.
The Future of Work Is Here: Digital Work Instruction and Augmented Reality
As industries continue to digitize and automation becomes more prevalent, the need for efficient and accurate work instructions is more important than ever. Digital work instruction software is revolutionizing how companies train and onboard employees, and it's only the beginning.

One of the most exciting developments in digital work instruction is the integration of augmented reality. Imagine overlaying digital instructions directly onto the work environment, allowing employees to understand and complete tasks with precision quickly. This technology can increase productivity, reduce errors, and improve overall safety in the workplace.

Many companies are already using digital work instruction software and augmented reality to train employees in manufacturing, assembly, and maintenance. But the potential applications go far beyond that. From construction and logistics to healthcare and education, the possibilities are endless.

As we move towards a more digitized and automated future, digital work instruction software and augmented reality will become essential tools for companies looking to stay competitive.

https://vksapp.com/what-are-digital-work-instructions
That sounds very interesting.

Can you tell a bit more about those mob sessions?
Do all 4 devs participate?
Do you follow some structure?
Unless they need something Pi specific I don't understand why this would be preferable versus just virtualizing instances on a "big ARM" server. I'm sure those exist.
Ask HN: Research about a language's influence on how someone programs?
I'm superficially aware of the work of Chomsky and Wittgenstein, but I wanted to know if there's established/go-to on how programming language design affects how a developer thinks about and does their work.
Honestly I'd argue you don't. I like the explicit nature of top down state and passing down actions via props because then you can see directly, via props, what mutates what. I've built quite sophisticated applications that involve financial forecasting, logistics planning, etc.. using exactly this technique.

It also gives you the ability to use local state when it makes sense. You really don't need the intermediate state of a text input at the top level state for example.
Note that if we're talking opt-in warnings, Rust's linting tool Clippy offers a whole bunch of warnings related to `as` casts. See https://rust-lang.github.io/rust-clippy/master/index.html#as... .
Except the country spend a lot of energy trying to defend Russian oligarchs in their banking systems and preventing Ukraine from getting supplies. A « neutrality » that somehow seems to fall a lot on the side of Russia.
It's not compulsory. It's quite legal to not pay TV Tax and not watch TV. You can use streaming services but not the on-demand services for the TV channels.

I certainly do not miss the BBC news. I found it very bad for my stress levels.
Minority of the prison population is there because of a violent crime *.

There's no reason to assume the majority would committed violence at the first chance they get since they didn't do that while outside of prison.

* Violent crimes often include things such as drug dealing even when no actual violence occured.
Always were.
Even the thickest of individual thieves will soon get it that "Apple log" == "impossible to fence". They'll still be stripped for parts and there are some shady Chinese factories that can actually defeat Apple's locks, but it's statistically insignificant.
So you can set an SVG circle’s radius in CSS?
Can someone tell me exactly why I would need Next.js? SSR seems pointless for most apps and routing is trivial with react-router. What am I missing?
also happens to coincide with the amount of dreams i've been having of being wiped out by some huge bomb/nuke. very odd and in a way comforting because i find myself dying fully in my dreams, and thus giving me a bit more grappling power with the concept of death
Originally the BBC owned it's TV production, but it's not the case now.

The TV production was hived off to private companies, who then license it to the BBC, so the BBC doesn't own lots of the content it (we, the UK public) paid for, they have licenses to it with varying terms.

So; while it should be the case, in fact UK citizens get the er.. "opportunity" to pay for all sorts of the content again later, after it comes off iplayer.
Maybe we've not gotten there yet (kids are 2 and 1), but they can watch the same thing thousands of times and it will still glue them to the TV.