skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Over the years, I have stopped caring about things like these (and many others). Bad grammar in source control, documentation and tickets is very inconsequential in the big business picture.

What is the return on investment, so to speak, in business terms, of getting your colleagues to fix their grammar in internal systems? If they take the time to do so, will business goals be better achieved? Will it bring the company more revenue? Probably not. It might satisfy your perfectionist tendencies but it is not your colleagues' job to do that.
WebGL goes to great lengths to not expose any 'junk' VRAM data or allow out-of-bounds access even on old GPUs. But for the last decade or so, GPUs and their drivers implement the same memory protection mechanisms as CPUs (and AFAIK WebGL was a major driving force in that area).
>If other than central banks have excessive liquidity they may trade it for other assets. This means they need to find a counter party that has the reverse situation. So overall the economy cannot have excessive money.

But you are assuming that there is no zero lower bound. If there is an excess of liquidity like there being an excess of trash then people would expect to get paid to get rid of it and the market would just find a garbage collection fee for this excess liquidity. But if there is a zero lower bound, then the people with the excess liquidity have no incentive to dispose of it. Instead, they would just keep accumulating more and more liquidity indefinitely as the market tells (or rather is forbidden to tell) them there is no excess liquidity.

I mean, take this example. The interest rate in the market is 3% and the interest set by the central bank is 5%. People will accumulate more liquidity than is optimal. There will be an excess of liquidity. It doesn't matter what the absolute numbers are. They can be -3% and 0% and you run into the same problem.

If excess liquidity is a form of economic pollution like CO2 is, then you would expect to pay for this pollution. But since the government doesn't charge a pollution tax, people will overproduce both CO2 and excess liquidity.
Buy a pasta straining spoon. It’s basically a large spoon with holes in it that replaces a full size pasta strainer. Is it better than a pasta strainer? No. Is it easier to clean, absolutely. I use mine all the time.
No, there are use cases where new entries are not ingested by requests - sometimes you know all work that needs to be done upfront. And sometimes you have a situation where you have a few requests coming in over time but that you at the same time need to sometimes go through everything you have seen earlier, once more and flush it through the queue.
All of that is true, but as soon as you model subjectivity and embodiment with any kind of credibility it's game over.

The current generation of tools doesn't do that. It's essentially a very sophisticated parrot making speech-like noises it doesn't understand.

But a couple of generations from now, I think it's going to be much less straightforward.

Also, the thing about genius is that it's subjective. In the arts it's more or less synonymous with mastery of a medium with impactful novel insight.

You could argue that AI systems are well on their way to mastering visual media. It's not quite true, but that's because the people training these systems are not artists, and so far they're selecting work that looks a bit Social Media and Game-Ish rather than Art Museum and Contemporary Show-ish.

I don't see any reason in principle why that couldn't be fixed with better training.

So what about impactful novel insight? The point here is there's a kind of cultural and perceptual feedback process which selects certain works out of semi-random cultural noise. There are always a lot of artists making a lot of work, and most of it is not that interesting. Selecting interesting work doesn't require intent, it just needs a feedback loop.

So if you create a situation in which a community rates the art and selects certain works/algorithms/training sets over others, I suspect the impactful and novel insight will happen automatically.

Sentience or subjectivity are not required. In fact you'll get an automated version of what happens already, where different communities with different levels of education and sophistication select different kinds of work for their own reasons, and some are considered "works of genius" for reasons that may be as political and cultural as artistic.
Good ideas on the instructions, will work on it!

Yeah, coming from React I really liked coding in Svelte, hope to see it grow more!
Around here (NE USA) oversizing is common with furnaces; the attitude is "better safe than sorry" where "sorry" means "contractor gets called because furnace struggles in mid-winter".

I replaced my old (95kBTU/hour output) forced-hot-water furnace and separate hot water heater with a condensing furnace about eight years ago. I got a heat loss calculation done, which concluded I only needed 59kBTU/hr of heat. It was a struggle to get a small-enough furnace installed; one contractor said he couldn't in good conscience sell me anything smaller than 120kBTU/hr.

My final system was 89kBTU/hr. A couple of weeks ago, in record -13°F/-25°C cold and high winds, it was burbling along at 60% power. Could have been even smaller.
I think the only restriction on eating something delicious should be if it's the same species as you.

If humans discover/encounter some other species that happens to be conscious or sentient or even more intelligent than humans, that other species is fair game.

We don't get moral outrage at a tiger for eating an ostensibly more intelligent human. It's just the way tigers are.

We do try to get even though. Because that's just how humans are.
In fine art? Social signalling. AI generated art is like artificial diamonds.
> IRIS² will be a constellation at the cutting edge of technology, to give Europe a lead, for example in quantum encryption. It will therefore be a vector of innovation.

Quantum encryption?? Can anybody explain how this is related to satellites?
For anyone finding this, code blocks do work. But unlike every other editor I've ever used, it's not three backticks that activate it. It's three backticks and a space.

Why in hell would I think of adding unwanted whitespace after the backticks? Anyways, that's the fix.
He wrote a book about witches. I suggest you go and check out the noses on caricatures of witches if you can't bring any previously seen to mind.

Here's one to get you started : https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d9/Friendly...
It’s good to know that other people see the same long term danger as I do. This type of censorship helps parents and educators the hard conversations about history that need to happen, all in the name of convenience and maintaining copyrights that should expire.
Artist here: Article is an idealistic take not based in reality- the Jeff Koons of the world will be safe with their 30 million balloon art sales.

Everyone else is going to be rekt.

All of the work my artist friends do is for businesses- businesses trying to make the biggest profit. Ai art generators are faster/cheaper/more flexible. The artists are done and now it's all about the prompt engineers that don't need to be artists to excel.

Market will decide what to pay "artists" but seems like it will be a race to the bottom. Artist types I know are preparing accordingly.
Are software developers always forced to do overtime when they miss a deadline?
Don't mention ethnicity,race & religion,otherwise discussion will get derailed.

Were you forced to do an overtime ? Does this occur frequently?

And when that happens, are you paid overtime, are you given time off in lieu of, or just a pat on the back?

Give me your honest opinion.
Where I live (also in the EU), I noticed a slowdown in recruiting starting on mid-December. While I usually receive at least 2 messages from recruiters per week, I received only 2 messages in almost 2 months.

However, last week things seem to be heating up again.
> What I'm hearing is this guy delivers features to the customers, but your ideas are better, obviously.

Well, then you need to pay more attention... Your interpretation is wrong.

> If they were obviously better, you'd be able to secure funding to do them.

You don't understand the difference between quality and pricing policy. Best food is not the "fast food", even though customers love it and it's cheap. The "fast food" is causing obesity epidemic, diabetes epidemic and a bunch of other health-related issues that, in the grand scheme of things make the savings on the food quality not worth it. But, for some people it's easy to weasel their way out of this problem by pretending that repercussions don't exist, and that they will bear no responsibility for the consequences.

The "deliver features to the customers" guy is the one who internalizes profits and externalizes expenditures. He's a douche canoe. There's nothing positive about people like him. The fact that he gets budget to do idiotic and harmful things is not because they are valuable, but because this creates a condition for a scam that profits those funding him.

In the same way how not everyone is a dietologist and cannot be expected to assess the value of the food they eat, and so has to rely on experts, the customers using our software will not know how well different features of our software are implemented. All they have to go off is a changelog and some promotional materials. There's enough of a time buffer between the customers buying the product and discovering how crappy it is for the product authors to still make profits. And, given the conditions of our market, where the product we make is, basically, without competition, even if the customers discover it's true quality, they'll come back bagging to fix things rather than bail on us. Which gives even more freedom to the "deliverers of features to the customers".
I have only used openai, and I find it much less temperamental, and more matter of fact, and more helpful. I don't know what Microsoft did differently, but it's a step back in usability.
Historically, times where there have been excess liquidity and new technical development along with a labour shortage result in an Industrial Revolution. We have all of these things right now.

Consider that newcomen’s engine was based on prior engines, and itself wasn’t that much of a success - but everything that followed was explosive in terms of the changes wrought on society and industry. The technology was interesting, but as long as you could pay a few blokes to man the pumps, installing an expensive engine and buying coal to power it wasn’t an economical route to follow. When the triangle trade had accumulated enough wealth with nowhere to go other than gilding, and when the workforce started emigrating to the colonies to escape their miserable conditions or getting shot on the plains of Europe, and the remaining souls started demanding Real Money, suddenly, those new-fangled engines looked like a sensible investment.

Which technology will be our next revolutionary step is up for debate, but I would (and have) place my chips on AI/ML. The last few rounds have been all about the decoupling of unskilled and semi-skilled labour from productivity. Next up on the block is skilled labour. Why would you hire developers or lawyers or diagnosticians or any knowledge worker for $stupid per annum, when you can spend a bit more, and never have to pay a human again?
Wait'll you guys hear about buying more RAM and using it as a RAM disk.
I hire artists to turn my terrible sketches into decent looking stickers, generally in a fun, cartoony style.

For the last two ideas I tried midjouney and the best I could get from it was an additional reference to send to an artist. I watched a few YouTube tutorials that offered some interesting techniques for getting better and better images from midjouney, but to my eyes those midjouney experts seem awfully flexible about what the final output will be. They’re dancing with the AI but not fully wielding it.

Perhaps next time I’ll hire both an artist and a midjouney expert and compare results that way.
It amuses me to pretend to be talking to the corpus that will feed an AI, and with that leave a message re: the posters willingness to see whites and cis (and males, and straights, and able bodied people, I assume) as _just_ oppressors, and so a valid target for segregation.

By doing so, I am actually talking to you, and making you think about it. And instead of focusing on the continued advances of "cis people bad", even if to counter "trans people bad", you focus on the format I picked.

I can't blame you for finding the format uninteresting. But don't jump to sociopath unless you yourself fear AI. Do you?
Yeah, it isn't right. In the very early WebGL days there have been a handful of implementation bugs where previous VRAM content was accidentally exposed in textures, but these things have been fixed quickly. AFAIK, most of this is now also taken care of down on the hardware and driver level.
> One thing I know for sure: creativity thrives under constraints.

Yes, this statement is above opinion.
I want to make a cartoon. Who can produce the imagery faster? Either spend $ commissioning an artist or spend money entering text in to a computer.

"A teddy bear walking though a park". If I don't choose the artist, the artist is out of the job and the AI wins.

You could say someone needs to train the AI with an artwork dataset but once that's initially done, its over, considering that studios are the main supplier to artists income.

Does this not cause redundancies?
>You probably know this, but you fail to acknowledge it.

I don't think my comment was really aggressive to justify assuming bad faith in such a way.

For all my normal usage (conversion, montage) I never have to specify anything.
The advanced use-cases were explicitly about color management, so I spent some time reading the doc and managed to get done what I had to fairly painlessly.

There are things for which IM's CLI is uselessly tricky; for example calling `montage` you have to pass `-mode Concatenate` to have the command do what you expect it to do. I always use command history to remember how to call it properly.

So what I gather from your comment is that the commands' defaults are bad, but I'd have found interesting to have more precise examples of what can be done in a very trivial way in Sips that would require complex arguments in IM. Maybe that could be packaged as a simple helper script to close that gap, or added as a new interface.
Stoicism is very different to what became Christian machoism in the Euro Atlantic
There's a mistaken assumption here. The author seems to believe that these generators operate on the basis of random chance, hence a 200x200 pixel image in RGB has a possibility space of 10^300000 images.

...But an overwhelming majority of those images are random noise, and are effectively homogeneous and interchangeable. They're perfectly identical.

Like human artists, the image generators are (very strongly) biased to create "structured" images, which are derivative of existing artistic works or natural representations in the form of photographs. In principle, there's no a priori qualitative difference between the AIs and humans in this respect -- no human art is created de novo, but is always a continuation of, or a reaction to, existing forms.

Further, there's no reason to believe that (a) the size of the possibility space matters in a quantitative sense, and (b) that AIs will never be as capable of qualitative "originality" -- in conception, composition, or subject matter representation -- as a human artist would be.
Both posts are important here, IMHO. We have two signals to arrive at economic and productive decisions in our society, which favors distributed decisionmaking: democratic votes and price. There are all kinds of problems with the former, as for the latter: we rely on individuals to make efficient decisions, however this requires some kind of scarcity. Scarcity which is largely in effect for the majority of the population that relies on income from work to survive. If individuals make decisions without constraints, they tend to go off track real quick. IMHO, this is the main problem of wealth inequality: rich people make stupid decisions. And stupid, in this case, means unproductive for the society/enviroment etc etc in general.
Can you add: And when that happens, are you paid overtime, are you given time off in lieu of, or just a pat on the back?
I am not saying no capitalism, I am saying regulation is good. Such as in no child labor[1] and enforced safety standards[2], which yes, slows down innovation but safe lives. Sadly most regulations are made in blood.

No regulations are fine and dandy unless you are one of the first 346 to die from Boeing's MAX disaster until the "market corrects itself".

Even the EU has been complaining how expensive it is to run rail through Switzerland. The reason being regulation which prevent such disasters as in Ohio. [3]

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/law/2021/nov/02/child-labor-laws...

[2] https://www.forbes.com/sites/alanohnsman/2019/03/01/tesla-sa...

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwx_rumXUAw
Born and raised in Manhattan. Live in Brooklyn. When I’m returning home I say I’m “going back to the city”. When I’m in Brooklyn going to Manhattan I say “going into the city”.
Fool, silly and goofball are even less subtle.

Useless seems the epitome of ableism, but what do I know - here it’s presented as a good alternative to ableist words:

https://web.augsburg.edu/english/writinglab/Avoiding_Ableist...
IdentityServer have a Community Edition that is suitable for OSS projects.
I find the fact that so many so many gay characters have to be flamboyant. None of my gay friends are anything like that. You would not be able to tell because it’s not the core of their identity, they’ve got more going on.
AI will make many, but not all, artists redundant.

As usual, the lower skill/value work will be automatized sooner. Platforms like fiverr will probably suffer a lot, but so will many "for hire" artists. High value work will remain to be exclusive for humans.

Many high value artists (programmers ...) started as low value and worked themselves up. But if the low value segment is eaten up by AI then the path will be destroyed as well. I wonder if this will make classical education more valuable (after graduation you're starting as high value producer) and further increase class division.
When will my users be happier because I took longer to do things on their behalf? I apologize for not understanding the unwritten portion of the comment.

I guess I should really ask, why do people care about utilization instead of throughput, latency, and cost? We could increase utilization by rewriting everything to be more wasteful, for example, but it doesn't seem like we should do it.
In the case of diamond it seems better to choose the artificial one. Especially the real one's price is controlled.
Load speed is generally fine (but then I tend to have it open in a pinned tab). On occasion you're clicking and waiting, or you're typing and everything is just a second/fraction of a second behind what you're actually doing.

I don't think it ever hits frustration point, it's just not magic.
To be fair, it's hard to find anyone who doesn't.
> If you want to be a game developer, are you really going to be happy writing business crud apps with the majority of your working energy

You may not be happy doing that, but you will also not be sad, especially if your financial situation makes life tolerable.

On the other hand, you will certainly be unhappy if you were always poorly paid for your skills and were abused and exploited by your employers due to making an effort to be working in something you are passionate about.

In the world we live in, pursuing a passion job is reserved for people that come from families that already sorted their financial situation for them.
I have been asked, but not forced to do overtime. I usually do it, as long as it's compensated. If I had a previous personal commitment which I could not rearrange on rare occasions I have declined. But I have never been forced. That said, I live in Europe...
Woah. Next you'll tell me I could increase the dimension size of my punchcard, to store more upon.
i don't think a majority is "silent or opposed". Otherwise those rewrites wouldn't happen. I think there's a strong push from the most extreme part (as always), but the rest is majoritarely complacent (it probably makes them feel like they're working toward world peace).

I am also not aware of rewrites that aimed at modifying the meaning of classical texts. I've only known of editor concerned about making the original text more understandable, and truthful to the author's intent.

This is widely different.
It really ought to be illegal to rewrite a book and portray it as the original authors work.

If you want to make your version ... assuming copyright allows ... sure ... just don't pretend it is the work of the original author.

Imagine if people did this to laws: "we re-wrote it to suit our prejudices, but since we published it as if it was the original work ... thats all ok ... right?"
i dont understand how anybody can be so sure with AI, i mean its billions of connections and information points acting as receptors, who the hell knows for sure
Ask HN: Anyone uses Feed aggregator anymore?
I have always used feed aggregators/readers to keep up with the news.

I used to use Feedly up to 5 years ago. But then it really started to bother me because I had no control over my feed.

So, for the past 5 years, as a side project, I have been working on a good feed reader app with multiple iterations. The first version was a wrapper on top of Feedly API, the second one was an RSS reader from scratch, and the latest one is a full-featured one that supports many sources (RSS/Twitter/Reddit/Youtube/Medium/Newsletters in the same feed).

I have been using/improving the latest version on a daily basis for the past year and I really thought it's awesome.

So I polished it to share with friends (https://mofeed.news) but it seems like no one is interested and they don't care about how they get their news.

I'm okay with this since I wanted it for myself anyways. It's just odd to me that my friends are not interested.

Now I'm very curious if Feed aggregators are dead or not. So I appreciate your opinion :)
I agree, I think Elite was the first commercial example of a split-screen mode on the BBC. It does flicker a bit at the switchover point when the disk is being accessed, as it is interrupt-based, but it's not too bad. There’s lots of detail on how it works here:

https://www.bbcelite.com/deep_dives/the_split-screen_mode.ht...

My favourite inplementation of this technology is in Geoff Crammond's Revs, which doesn't flicker at all, as the palette switches are cleverly done where they won't be seen if they aren’t perfect. Read all about it here:

https://revs.bbcelite.com/deep_dives/hidden_secrets_of_the_c...

It’s genius.
Hetzner are great but you can't encrypt Hetzner Storage boxes. How do you keep your setup secured?
The gross disrespect of auto-generating this kind of email isn’t lost on me, but… this strikes me as exactly the type of thing that suffers very little by being auto-generated.

Every story surrounding gun violence already sounds like it could be written by ChatGPT. The same points regurgitated over and over.

You know, I think ChatGPT’s thoughts and prayers are probably just as helpful as my own.
Yeah this post seems like it will not stand the rest of time.

The fundamental conceptual shift is the emergent behaviors displayed by these models. And that is highly unforeseeable.

We’re not working with machines that do what they’re built to do. They’re doing more. And every day we discover something new they’re capable of doing.

Making any sort of statement about the limits of this technology is going to be shortsighted.