skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People aren't angry/worried because they don't have a competitive advantage any more--people are angry/worried because they sense (I think correctly!) that AI will eliminate the part of their work that they find enjoyable.

Artists, by and large, don't do art because they enjoy having art--they do art because they like /the process/ of producing art. If that process can be done faster and better by AI, then yeah, sure, they /might/ be able to still do art for a living (some artists will be able to leverage their experience to maintain an advantage; other, less flexible ones will lose work)--but the work they do will likely not be commensurate to the work they were doing before, and will likely be less enjoyable to them.

The thing that worries people about AI is that it'll make all creatives into middle-managers.
With a rooted Android phone you can run an SSH server using tools available on F-Droid (like SimpleSSHD).
For the past few years, I have been using DeepL to translate and save time when I write. I can write quickly in my main language and translate as I write. This saves me a lot of time, because the software also checks spelling and corrects grammar. The problem is that its results show up as false(?) positives in tools that can tell if someone is using AI. Some translations also lose some of their "human touch" (uncanny valley perhaps?) and so far at least one person on HN has called one of my comments as "AI" when it is actually a machine translation.

I can't help but think that social networks and search engines will start to negatively rank AI generated text. In my opinion, this would impact many more people than we think.
Philosophical food for thought: if all content is recycled / mixed from the past, when did innovation and creativity stop?

In other words, if there is truly no such thing as an "original idea", then how did the ideas that we are pulling from, deriving from and combining come into existence?

If all we are saying is that existing ideas inspire new ones, or that most human generated content is derivative, then I completely agree with you. I don't see how that proposition could be controversial at all.

But it seems to me that some people, at some points in time, somewhere have and will continue to contribute something original at least on occasion. Even if the "original" idea is 1% of the "intellectual product" and 99% is reusing existing concepts. To insist otherwise is to insist that we hit peak human innovation somewhere along the line and there's nowhere left to go.
This is what happens when you give the intern prod access
It might be true about some other big tech companies but AMZN is exceptionally obstinate.
What does mindless modern encounter mean? My sense was that modern players are more plot and narrative focus whereas old school players were down to stuff like roll for a random encounter while traveling and actually play out a fight with… Wolves! That didn’t matter at all to the plot. It was just what you did.

Edit: but I could be wildly off here?
I have no doubt that someone could generate a similar result with SD, but it would require a lot of effort, to control hands with SD using controlnet one usually uses the depth model, if one wants to create an image similar to the one generated by Midjourney v5 one would have to place hundreds of hands.
Ontop of this doesn't South Korea have abysmal pay and high cost of living compared to nearer countries.
Can you give examples of Maoist posting on HN? By which I mean actual Maoism, not just general leftism.
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“I imagine” is carrying a lot of weight there.

AI is already trained using AI models of what humans would think of a proposed output. That has been a huge leap forward, not a deterioration.
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Art is already the most democratically available act. Anyone can learn the skills involved. Its not a select few.

It’s about expressing and finding yourself and developing a soul through creative action, not just a squirting out a picture that looks “correct”.

You only shortchange your own soul’s development by trying to skip the hard steps that it takes to develop a skill like that.

Because you can make an image on a computer that looks like it was drawn does not mean you can draw. Hell, I’m not even sure it means you can express yourself. The inputs you contribute when using an AI prompt are so minimal compared to the informational input required to create something in the physical space.

Don’t let anyone convince you that it’s an exclusive act. Find a pencil and get at it.
I mean "critical stuff" like banks and government data, not regular users.
Hand crafted goods have been a thing ever since industrialization of production started. recently, they market it as upmarket boutique to be handcrafted, and i suspect that ai generated content vs hand-crafted content is going to go down the same route.
I get the impression banks want the opposite. My former employer was a bank and their most valued asset is their reputation.
Combinatoric complexity blows up fast
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Well you could just start off by signing your name under the work instead of slapping some anonymous group's badge on your work. In fact, this page seems like exactly the type of underhanded trick an escaped AI bot would play to get more human generated content to train on...

The kicker is the "90% of content will be generated by AI by 2025" quote by an "expert" which links to a Yahoo-TV clips of some rando influencer spouting nonsense.
Better luck next time, ChatGPT!
>> Pods communicate directly with one another on their pod IP addresses with MPI via SSH

It would be nice if someone could solve this problem in a more Kubernetes native way. I.e. here is a container, run it on N nodes using MPI- optimizing for the right NUMA node / GPU configurations.

Perhaps even MPI itself needs an overhaul. Is a daemon really necessary within Kubernetes for example?
Must have gone the same place two-day shipping went.
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It depends on "recently".
I contacted them (human, right away, speaking my language - I'm in EU and the store was in different country than mine) about a year or two ago where I had issue with my phone, and there was no issue to get my money back (Pixel 4 had issue with NFC not working correctly) - no "We will repair it", like any other retail store I used.
If I recall correctly having most of the world relying on a single SSH implementation was raised as a concern by the OpenBSD/OpenSSH developers when HeartBleed happened and OpenBSD forked OpenSSL.

A major security problem in OpenSSH would be a huge issue, as it affects everyone at once.

If someone where to do a reimplementation in a memory-safe language, and let's face it, that's a sly way of saying Rust, it shouldn't be viewed as a replacement for OpenSSH, but as an alternative to existing along side it.
I would argue that not eating fish is not the solution. We can eat fish that are farmed or fished sustainably with minimal and sustainable environmental impact. A World exists where that is all fish. However without regulation, fish will be farmed using polluting methods, and fished in unsustainable and polluting ways, because it's cheaper and there's more profit to be made.

Voting with my wallet for sustainably farmed fish doesn't really affect anything either - this will always be a niche, high-end market that's unaffordable for most unless the fundamentals at the bottom end of the market change.

Fish is not the issue, fishing is, and only global regulation of the fishing industry can resolve the issue of (that industry's contribution to) ocean plastic pollution.
Not a mapmaker but Foundry VTT is a onetime purchase of 50USD (and a pretty flexible license at that) that is free to players.

You do have to self host (LAN is easy of course) or pay a hosting partner a monthly fee on top of the license cost.

We've done a bit of experimenting with Tailscale sharing and seemed to work okay (but does require a bit of technical skill). Tailscale funnels would probably also work and be easier for players. ngrok would be an option as well or a vps.
> I don't bother archiving documents

Isn't that 2 or 3 orders of magnitude less space though?

I do understand where you're coming from for sure.
I think the distinction will increasingly be hard to define. If you take a photo today using the latest iPhones, the camera module is doing a ton of image processing, detection of humans in the frame, brightening of faces, etc. The idea of a “no filter” photo is sort of impossible in this world; the camera has already applied a number of filters to improve the contrast and colors in various ways (even if the goal is to match “reality” or what your eyes might have seen at the same time as the shot was taken). Is this AI?

Soon, many digital image editors will incorporate some simple AI-powered features to detect edges, faces, various objects, etc. Are content-aware plug-ins to Photoshop AI?
What means "strong typing" is very well defined. But most understandings I found do not allow implicit null returns to be "strong" typing. Also: the "strong" thing is at odds with the "dynamic" thing, you cannot have both.
I feel a better comparison is like asking a painter if they use a camera. At some point we just say “you’re not a painter anymore, you’re a photographer.”
I'm creating a label called 'notwithcomputer', just to show how ridiculous this is...
I'm surprised aliens is the low one here. The exact question is "Do you believe aliens exist, or not?", not something more specific like little green men in flying saucers abducting cows.

The universe is large. In the tiny slice we can observe well enough to draw conclusions, Wikipedia currently lists 62 "potentially habitable exoplanets". I'd be much more surprised by intelligent life being unique to Earth than by there being many planets harboring intelligent life, or to answer the question as asked: I believe aliens exist.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_potentially_habitable_...
> possibility of solar flares wiping out storage/data -- at my bank, on my hard drive and what not.

Oh, one solar flare can solve global inequality in an instant! There money in all bank account would dissapear and the recently rich would have to pull themselves up by the bootstraps!
There was a lot of really impressive tech in glass. Especially for 10 years ago. I have no doubt that with continued focus and funding, they could have build something truly impressive.

Unfortunately, glass was a pet project of Sergey's and he decided to exit stage left fairly quickly once some of his unsavory behaviors started becoming known publicly. This was just a few months after the launch. Once he was no longer hands on, the entire endeavor was left the languish without clear direction.
I don't know about other people but I don't "fault" the AI anything, nor am I even particularly bothered by AI-generated content per se.

What fills me with dread is the obvious glee over removing human work from sellable products, when there is no viable alternative to working for most people. We've created a world where a lot of jobs can be automated, and that is somehow a bad thing, and it's going to be used to crush people. It's a labor issue not a philosophical one.
The AI aversion has several reasons:

1) The output, while impressive on the surface, is bland and recycled. It will drag down the general level in the same manner that CGI has destroyed movies.

2) People don't want to consume AI generated content in the same manner that they generally don't watch Stockfish vs. Stockfish.

3) It is not phobia, it is disgust at humans being dehumanized.

The phobia seems to be on the side of AI corporations, who quickly step in any discussion that questions their business model.
They are talking about spacing much finer than half-character.

Where? 1/24" is all they mention, which is half the normal 1/12" character spacing.
Ah, just use sonograms to generate the audio...
https://youtu.be/HT0HH_fc4ZU
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It’s the same thing we heard from musicians who didn’t want to learn technology in the 70’s: using a synth or sequencer means it’s not “real music”.

Those purists are mostly dead. Everyone uses technology in music today. And music is better for it.
Definitely more powerful. But an iterative improvement for organizations (including governmental ones) that already use such tools.
Really fun! I beat your dad by 2 points lol.

Feature that is missing vs actually playing Scrabble is the ability to play a fake word if other players do not call you out on it.

I wonder if you could find a list of common misspelled words or fake words to allow, or could have some logic that compares the percentage word is misspelled by, and have the computer call it out as fake if it is over say 25% misspelled or something.
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Ever try this on large files? A lot of PowerShell commands I make like this can take minutes to run when a combination of Linux commands and Awk might take a couple of seconds.
But then the AI is the writer and you're just an editor or curator. So perhaps don't call yourself a writer if the AI produced a significant amount of the content. Same goes for Stable Diffusion/Midjourney prompters who shouldn't really call themselves artists. (Things would of course change if they do significant postprocessing of the output, though I'd still think this is much easier than coming up with something novel on the spot.)

Of course, it's not my place to say who should or shouldn't call themselves a writer, but I'll simply personally respect someone more if their stories aren't ghostwritten by the AI.
Why not NOT_WITH_COMPUTER just to show how ridiculous this is?
Don't we already, though? I mean, how many of the hundreds to thousands of mediocre movies that hit Netflix, Hulu & co every year do you watch? If they were AI-generated, would it actually matter to you?

As far as I can tell, there's just two interesting things to watch out for:

- Personalized AI-generated content. What if the movie were just for you? What if it expired like a Snapchat, never to be seen again by anyone else? Would this tickle us? Would we succumb to new filter bubbles, increasing the distance between us?

- Can AI make the movie that's so good that it sticks out and does become the one we watch collectively?
> the skill ceiling is now higher than ever as a result

the fear from the current professionals is that the new ai raised floor is good enough to be usable commercially, and thus, cut a chunk of economic value from the professionals.

There is no fear that AI stops people with the intrinsic interest in creation to stop creating - their ceiling and productivity would sky-rocket as a result in fact. And it would be _these_ productions that wow an audience.
If I were to get one of these on ebay or somewhere used, is there any sort of dev ecosystem available if I wanted to hack around on them? Or are they pretty locked down?
Exactly.

And if it’s a local backup, that local backup needs to be taken offline, to avoid the same issue if things get deleted in the cloud
Feeling pretty stupid for all the time I invested in pinhole photography and darkrooms, 20ish years after photoshop was released, about now. Guess the best artist all have $5000 to spare for a MBP and monthly creative cloud subscriptions too…
I work as a professional writer. Editing is a part of the process but for a large portion of work, editing does not exist outside the publishing sphere. Publishers will be unable to handle the sheer load of submissions given to them by "writers". More established ones such as penguin house have already determined that with increased competition they will likely see sales drop predictions for smaller workshops that have existed are believed to fold due to the scale of operations in the years to come. These problems already existed before AI or Chat GPT but due to the scale will make them much worse.

The end has come.
The conflation of sync and backup can actually be really dangerous. You don't want a primary backup to have the opportunity to delete files because they (apparently) have been deleted on the primary.
I can't see why. Is not much different that seen a photo of an astronaut in a space ship. Winter in Canada is harsh. Outside there is dark and chilling, not much food or water and everything outside would kill this animals in one hour or two. Less than 24 hours for sure.

Is totally, 120% reasonable, to keep the animals inside at this time. Inside there is light, warm, safety from predators, food, water, healthcare and other chicken to fight, annoy, cluck or chat with, that is very nice when you are a gregarious species as chicken are.

And at the end of their life they will be insta-killed

But lets don't allow reality to ruin a juicy horror tale. Free Willys, so they can die frozen, or be hunted by predators while trying to fly, and feel how each single bone in their chest is fractured one by one, and then eaten alive.
I'm currently enjoying Zero to Production in Rust. It assumes you already have some experience building production-ready systems, and applies rust-specific syntax and concepts to that. As a complete beginner with the language and having read "the book", I find this to be a good resource to apply the book's concepts to real-world scenarios.
I much prefer this approach as you only have to parse stuff once during the processing pipeline rather than at every step.

Unfortunately after working with it for a few years I utterly despise PowerShell for many other reasons.
With all the discussion of “AI”, someone at the DoD is now asking how to add more intelligence to drones

Five years from now the drone will be constantly evaluating collision probabilities: “Probability of collision 80%. Take evasive maneuvers.”
Exactly, if cloud cannot be trusted I might as well buy a synology nas and drop at a family member's home.
i agree with the tool analogy. However there's something different between using a tool, and outsourcing the entire content production by only specifying the end result.

Whenever a customer ask me to develop an app, i don't consider that he did the job. I did it.
I think the key difference is that writing is less of a zero sum game than trading stocks for financial gain. One goal of getting better at writing is improving your ability to clarify your thoughts to the point where words come easily. Everybody writing more in principle /should/ reduce coordination barriers which pushes out the boundary of Largest Useful Group Size for any system of coordinating.
So I can just, slap this onto my AI generated art?
If a reader is unable to distinguish between the two...
Google Car as in Waymo? Isn't that still growing and getting expanded? Obviously self driving is harder than everyone thought, but its not abandoned by any means.
Some people are talking about how AI hype is just like NFT hype (with whatever reasons).

Well, to me, these anti-AI things are much more like NFT/crypto. It's just trying to create novelty out of nowhere.
The laws of armed conflict are in fact actual literal laws (largely set down by the Hague and Geneva Conventions), so legality is absolutely the question.

In addition, there are two meanings to the phrase “act of war”, and you’re equivocating between them here. One meaning is an action to provoke armed conflict, and the other is an action that occurs during an armed conflict. The material point of the scholar’s contribution is that in the armed conflict between Russia and Ukraine, it is a permissible action for Russia to divert another State’s scout aircraft who is assisting Ukraine - i.e. it is an act of war in the second sense. This does not make it a Russian provocation towards the US - i.e. it is not an act of war in the first sense.
How is this not an act of war? This is 100%, no doubts whatsoever, a deliberate approach and fuel dump. Did the Russians go completely insane now?
If you run a quantized 60G model and the output is worse than raw 7G model, you can throw your quantizer out.
This has not been my experience. I pay 100$/mo for support and when I have had issues (had a RDS upgrade go really bad once) they have contacted me quickly to get details. Usually only 2-4 hours for an engineer to be on the issue.
funnily enough, it think this is a good development for our species.

In the 2000s, if you were talking on the internet, you were pretty sure that you were talking to other humans.

This will quickly reverse as in being sure that one is talking to AI most of the time on anything remote (internet, phone, email, ...)

Which in turn will massively strengthen personal (like non-remote) face-to-face interactions.
I learnt some very basics of computational linguistics since it was related to a side project. I kept wondering why people were spending huge amounts of resources into tagging and labelling corpora of thousands of words, while to me it seems that in theory it should be possible to feed wikipedia (of a certain language) into a program and have it spit out some statistically correct rules about words and grammar.

I guess the same intuition led to these new AI technologies...
In theory. In practice, when you need to shake it more often than once per page, it becomes unusable. In physical universe, once you need to shake it more than once per scanline (perhaphs 1/600inch), you start losing resolution (classical version of Heisenberg uncertainty principle).
Rightly or wrongly, that's exactly what Java is designed for. Write once, run anywhere. It's not just for HTTP servers and web services.
Can Midjourney be used other than via discord bots yet?
Yes likely a relay attack, best way to mitigate is to store keys in a RF blocking container.
The point of this hypothetical is to illustrate the reality of the situation: Russia is at war with Ukraine and the US has been doing extensive reconnaissance for them, for over a year. The US would have never been so patient in a similar situation.
My wife just purchased a 10tb ssd as a "backup" for Amazon Photos.

I think it's likely worth it considering the value of basically the history of our lives.
Terrifying, really? Terraforming, maybe, but it seems a little hysterical to react with terror to this phenomenon.
In this case they do have backups, just not convenient ones

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35181205