skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the US, your livelihood essentially justifies your existence. Disdainfully reducing someone to being a 'hater' when they react to that being threatened is exactly the reason many, if not most people find SV culture disgusting. They're not wrong.

Beyond that, if you think AI algorithms will replace art, you don't understand art. It replaces much of the commercial utility of many artists and creating many types of images, but the idea that it threatens art, generally, is preposterous. People who think art school is only about learning to physically make art are like people who think computer science degrees are only about coding. Most of what you learn in art school is conceptual thinking, communication, really deeply seeing things in a way that most people don't, and stuff like that.

Factories didn't replace potters when they started making pots and dishes or sculptors when they started making cheap home decorations-- it just meant the artisans no longer made money creating a commodity because most people were satisfied buying chintzy shit cheap. Many potters who lived through that change probably died in poverty because of it. Talk big numbers about the way industry shifts all you want, but not everybody can switch to an entirely different category of employment just because someone taught a computer to do it.
That’s it. Great job expressing a feeling!
I don't know, but like that's not the point of my comment!
Not sure what the purpose of going outside would be, though, other than for maintenance, given you'd be 50km up in the clouds.
I read them, thanks for sharing your thoughts.

I experienced the same re criticism.

I’m unsure about the diversity questions in the application form though. Do you think your new answers would have changed your outcome ?
How about this conversation:

"Midjourney v5 can do hands"

"Did you look at the hands it did? There are a bunch of mis-shapen blobs, hands with extra fingers, two thumbs on either side, etc."

"Sure, but there are also some accurate hands, so it can do hands."
> it feels like a distinctly modern phenomenon

Probably not a modern phenomenon. Except in so far as it's a lot easier to "hear" people say things much more easily now.
yeah but with night there is just some quibbling around the edges, is civil twilight night etc. This is more like reptiles, it's a concept that when you pick at it the concept as popularly used it falls apart (for reptiles you either need to include birds or break it up into at least two groups).
Seems silly, I care about the quality of the content. I don't care who, created it, just if it is good, and if I can use it, learn from it etc.
Well, all developers should be WFH so that shouldn't be an issue. For those companies backward enough to force their devs onsite, if there aren't enough homes to house the workforce local to the office, then the office is in the incorrect location.
After the second, closer, approach of the Russian fighter, a blade on the drone’s propeller is badly bent.
I think some of it comes from the smug disdain that generative art fans throw at traditional artists.
> minimum amount of skill to produce something passable

Look at the history of woodworking for inspiration.

It used to take human sweat to make flat straight surfaces. Something like a walmart flatpack bookshelf would have been VERY expensive to make 1000 years ago. Industrial tech made that cheap and ... now its seen as tacky and out of style and only for poors.

The result culturally this century is an avoidance of "plastic wood" finish, faux finishes and faux surface prep that look old and worn and hand scuffed, and a strange hipster fetish for "live edge" raw bark on finished product. Sure, in 1875 one might have predicted based on mass production trends that furniture in 2020s would be all right angles, smooth as glass mirror, photographic "ideal" woodgrain instead of real woodgrain, plastic-y lifetime thick film finish. But thats only for poor people who shop at walmart, nobody with money buys that stuff.

I suspect what AI can cheaply produce will rapidly culturally be considered lower class and trashy. Oh, sure, completely AI generated movies look very nice and sound very nice and are ever so trendy and well written, but special effects and yesterdays memes on todays big screen generated entirely by computer algorithm is only for poors. Now, us rich cognitive elites only attend live theater plays. Aspirational middle class types watch recordings of theater plays (admittedly maybe some AI generated). You wouldn't show off your 'wealth' and 'class' by taking a date to an AI generated movie, that would be insulting, you might take her to a live theater play... I'm sure there will be some AI incursion, maybe the lights will be run by AI or AI painted backdrops or some actors will lipsync their lines to AI, or roughly every 5 years we have to tediously suffer thru a new generation of rewritten modernized classics and it'll be worse in the future with AI... but in general human will be the status symbol because it'll be expensive.

I suspect being able to ask an AI to generate non-copyrighted commercial quality music will mean massive noise pollution (much like every room required 15 digital clocks in the 80s and every room required 15 super bright blue power LEDs in the 00s) followed by the only people making money in music will be live humans playing physical instruments.

Poor people try to get by and don't spend money and when they do it'll be on infinitely cheap AI commodities. Rich people spend money on unique stuff, not mass produced AI shovelware. Aspirational people spend money trying to look rich so they will spend all their money on non-AI stuff.
Quick note that "synchronize" may not be quite right -- if Amazon deletes all your photos you don't want to sync those deletes anywhere else.
Cute! But doesn’t work in Firefox Focus. The submit button on a round can’t be pressed.
What else could have caused that magnitude of propeller damage to the drone? From what I could see, it was bent out of shape pretty badly immediately after that second pass.
I so desperately want an electric golf R or GTI.
Off site!

Geographical separation is important if you're serious.
I agree. One selling point of cloud services is that technical details, like backup, are managed for you.
Then why isn't it shut down already? Social manipulation campaigns have been known for years, and AI will be far more effective than anything that has come before.

"We'll just turn it off before it causes damage" is a scenario that's been wargamed many times, and it usually does not end in our favor if the AI is sufficiently capable.
So you state that there are at least two axes -- severity of the problem and how widespread the problem is -- that influence whether a problem is worth addressing (or whether it is a "real" problem, as you put it). I agree so far.

For instance, we can probably agree that slavery was an issue that, in the US, affected a small minority of the population, but that was extremely severe so worth addressing and a "real" problem.

In the same vein, I would state that police brutality towards black people (typically categorized as a "woke" topic) in the US is a problem that affects a minority but that is very severe. Not as severe as slavery, but severe enough to be a "real" problem worth addressing.

Not using preferred pronouns is perhaps another rung down on the severity ladder compared to police brutality, and affects fewer people. But I think it's still a topic worth talking about because it scores very highly on a third axis we've omitted so far: how easy it is to address the problem. Not using preferred pronouns is done exclusively out of callousness. It is similar to other forms of bullying: it only affects a fairly small subset of people and the damage is "only" psychological, but the solution is: just don't bully/misgender people.
I'd actually agree the problem is tech and capitalism. Probably should've been more clear. I'm very much a luddite (which makes this whole board quite interesting to read) with regards to tech, and I think messaging apps, even, have done a lot of harm. Yes, I can talk with my friends back home in the States (I live in Ireland) thanks to Discord, but I have some who've come to live through that thin veneer of socialisation and never get out and actually socialise. And then wonder why they feel like shit all the time. It's quite interesting to see.

I've read a lot more into anti-tech and philosophy of tech stuff recently, even some anarcho-primitivism (though I realise that's unrealistic). I actually should read Ted K.'s works to see his thought, even though I don't condone his methods.

That said, I do wonder if we can make more human-oriented tech if it wasn't for capitalist incentives. Probably, but it'd look like nothing that we have now I feel.
Good or bad, this is kind of cool.

The most common way of distinguishing periods of geological time is by means of the fossils they contain. On this basis picking out the Anthropocene in the rocks of days to come will be pretty easy. Cities will make particularly distinctive fossils. A city on a fast-sinking river delta (and fast-sinking deltas, undermined by the pumping of groundwater and starved of sediment by dams upstream, are common Anthropocene environments) could spend millions of years buried and still, when eventually uncovered, reveal through its crushed structures and weird mixtures of materials that it is unlike anything else in the geological record.
I agree with your review. I enjoyed the Wild West vs Versailles take, but then the 100% focus on diversity took it sideways. The politics at these large companies is still driven by getting senior leadership to like you and see that you are moving their agenda forward. But even in that case, it’s not 100% politics, for the most part you need to be able to both deliver and play the game to advance. His whole focus on diversity was not well reasoned or an accurate portrayal of what goes on at these companies.

Source: I have worked in big tech
> However, many GPL violations are resolved through non-legal means, such as negotiating a license agreement or reaching a settlement outside of court.

Have any actually been decided by the court?
Yes, and you shouldn't use it either. Do you mean night as in dark conditions or night as in the night time? When does it start, when does it end? Is it a threshold or a discrete night-not night effect?

These questions don't have a right or wrong answer. So don't use the word night, or if you do, define exactly what you mean by it.
I wonder whether material science has advanced enough that new probes could be landed that last for longer. I mean the pressure isn't as high as the bottom of the Mariana Trench. Or a balloon that hangs about in tolerable pressures / temperatures.
Or more likely, end them entirely.
You need to buy one too, and put it in a different building than hers.
I can’t find an arm image for macOS. That’s a bummer.
Yes, this was obviously a deliberate attempt to disable or at least disrupt the drone. But the drone was almost certainly conducting surveillance to benefit Ukraine. As such, the Russian actions are not necessarily an act of war against the US. The US seems to be reacting as the Russians expected, hence the Russians may not be insane.

See the closing paragraph of this article:

Mary Ellen O’Connell, a Notre Dame Law School professor and expert on international law and the use of force, noted that by dumping fuel and downing the drone, the Russian pilot was “further polluting the fragile Black Sea”, but she noted the US had not called the interception “unlawful”.

“In all likelihood the Reaper was conducting surveillance for Ukraine. Under the laws of armed conflict Russia may disrupt such assistance,” O’Connell said.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/mar/14/russian-figh....
Days Until AGI
I had a pretty big incident mid last year, which will turn into a dramatic blog post eventually.

I didn't lose anything I've yet noticed. Very happy with how well the backup strategy held up, although potentially quite lucky the second on-site backup was unaffected. Didn't have to dip into the complexities of the off-site chaos (which reminds me...).
Having a psychotic break doesn't suddenly make you homeless. You would need a psychotic break + lack of healthcare + lack of family/friends/support network + lack of money + lack of social programs + lack of affordable housing. The idea that people just one day lose their minds and wander out into the street is not supported by my experiences working with and interacting with unhoused people.
References to the emperor’s new clothes seem to be focused on the moment when the lie everyone is going along with finally gets revealed, though. I think the English equivalent is more like “brown nosing.”
>many GPL violations are resolved through non-legal means, such as negotiating a license agreement or reaching a settlement outside of court.

And IMHO this is killing the license. Companies are doing the calculations and determining that by the time they get caught they can just negotiate at best and at worst just ignore it and drag things out until it realistically no longer matters. Without teeth no one will follow their obligations.
I never got the appeal of that honestly, less for something like a BUGATTI. Not like an artisan hammered the panels into shape by hand, or somebody manually bored those cylinders.

In fact it's probably something completely incidental to the entire thing -- they're not assembled by hand because it's better, but because not enough of the cars are made to make automation make sense. It's just a pragmatic business decision, which then some marketer figured out how to spin.
Get out of here, SwearGPT!
> think most people under the influence of marijuana are not really going to want to go anywhere most of the time.

This is an old joke that I wish would go away. People smoke weed and drive everyday and as a former user we were always looking for something to do. Pot heads dont, as a unit, “sit around and do nothing” much more than any other group of substance abusers.
Approach certainly, but actual violations of airspace are extremely rare.
It would be much, much easier to turn an AI that isn't sentient off though?
Over here liberal means as in liberty (but not libertarian). As in liberal economics, which means free market economics. Sociologically it means promoting equity and individual freedom, but not extremely so like libertarianism. Here in the UK it's pretty much synonymous with centrism.
Lots of categories have fuzzy edges. It doesn’t mean they’re not useful or that they don’t exist.
> to people who would treat those like himself as second class citizens

Sigh, when will the left learn this rhetoric only destroys the country, it doesn’t help them win more.
So much opportunities if there's only a current-day-science-breaking development like infinite energy or propulsion.
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Often people critique a small part of what you wrote. If I'm feeling attacked, it helps to remember that it's often about one or two sentences in a several page article.

If the critique covers the entire article, either the person holds a different opinion (in which no one is 'right') or the premise of the article is false. Either way, it's good to hear why.

On the one off occasion that someone is writing hurtful comments (and you can't seem to get it out of your head), looking through that persons comment history often reveals a pattern of abrasive commentary and at least for me makes it easier not to take it personally.

If you have something to share, publish! There's always someone who will enjoy reading it, and that makes it worth it.
Question to the author. How does ergomake do multi tenancy on K8s?
Whose Time? Which Temporality?
Whenever there is a simple error that most laymen fall for, there is always a slightly more sophisticated version of the same problem that experts fall for.

--Amos Tversky
Hey Bryan,

It'd be helpful if you could provide a couple of examples of that _boilerplate content_ looks like.

I led the team migrating to Contentful (CF) a hefty documentation website [1] from a homegrown CMS based on MDX. 600+ mdx articles, multiple GBs of media. This was about a year ago, so my knowledge might be outdated.

What worked for us was focusing our workflow as if CF were a database. I personally borrowed a bunch of concepts of how Rails' Active Record allows you, or your CI pipeline, to manage your database schema. Things like:

- have CF doing some gymnastics to keep track of migrations ran.

- supporting ephemeral CF environments so each developer could work without stepping on each others toes.

- promoting environments on PR merges

Being able to track changes in CF's schema through migrations, allowed us to build other useful stuff like:

- structuring articles in a way that the navigation under each section is not a pain to rebuild.

This might be what you mean when you talk about _boilerplate content_. Didn't find anything at the time, but it's possible that someone else has built a framework of sorts.

It took us a few weeks to prepare ours before working on actually migrating content. However, it supported our work along the way during the incremental and continuous migration we planned.

And then we were in a good spot to actually start migrating content. Transpiling the MDX to the JSON CF can ingest, uploading media assets, rewiring the UI (nextjs) to fetch contents from CF instead of the local MDX source.

Anyway, let me know if you want to bounce some ideas off. Contact details in my profile.

[1] https://tray.io/documentation/
I mean when you think about it, the Earth is an uninhabitable hellscape with frequent tectonic activity, asteroid impacts, freak weather events, supervolcanoes, etc.

How 'one day' is that one day volcanic event on Venus compared to one of the extinction events Earth has had?
> I'll just become a contractor that does physical work: plumbing, construction, woodworking.

Enjoy competing with everyone else trying to do the same thing.
When I see AI art from those communities, it all looks the same to me.

People tend to overestimate their talent, and get overly attached to their own ideas. So when a tool like midjourney/stable diffusion generates beautiful artwork based on a low effort prompt from the user, it's comfy to think that they had a big part in it.

The reality is that almost everything those tools make is equally gorgeous/amazing regardless of who uses it, so they're effectively interchangeable. As a tool for personal expression, it has a lot of value because of the impact it can have on the individual using it, but as art it's pretty worthless. A generated AI image could potentially have some cultural impact or value, but not on the merits of "it looks pretty", since they all look like that.
What about WW2 kind of ending?
I understand in your case it worked out well, but I have to believe transactions like this, in aggregate, are highly negative EV for the seller. The buyer just has so much more information than you do on how market valuations are being set. And, the buyer knows the sellers are desperate for liquidity. The only way to combat these dynamics, as a seller, is to drive significant competition in the bidding process, but I doubt there's sufficient competition in most cases.
Maybe not but

> the fact that this was retrospectively a misguided concern

You claimed it was a “fact” and it’s not. It’s misinformation that should be pushed back against.
I've often wondered how important our moon was to Earth developing life. The moon gives us tides which creates areas where sea life can learn to adapt to land, but I've also wondered if the moon had any effect on keeping the Earth's core and mantle hot and fluid.

If moonless Venus also has volcanic activity, then clearly our moon is not necessary for that. But if Earth has tectonic activity while Venus doesn't, then why that difference? I would have expected tectonic and volcanic activity to go hand in had, but clearly that's not necessarily the case.
I do believe AI sometimes generates an idea that is just as original as a human's.

I don't believe originality is that valuable. It's a positive term to me, but just slightly.

I've seen a lot people on HN credit the SV companies' "free food" practice to google. Do they believe free food for your employees is a new idea that someone in google came up with? I don't think so.
Why every checkout counter in America stocks those $14 magazines
Cars didn't create new jobs for horses, it eliminated them.
"You found the Nth highest word score"
It still feels unintuitive to me that models aren't able to infer these concepts from the training data given how consistently the training data follows them. It's not like there will be a lot of examples of bad hands in there.
A hand isn't so much a 'thing' as it is a complex asymmetric relationship of multiple elements that have to be within certain ratios of each other to fairly tight tolerances. Humans are very sensitive to those ratios. It's a hard problem.
Yeah, so if they get on a freeway they'll be doing 50 instead of 65?

My friend got in a car crash when stoned (forgot the details, seems he didn't make the turn quite right), the passenger was hurt
>BUT, leaks memory like crazy.

Huh?

a) Isn't it written in Golang, which has a GC? Does it do custom buffer based management?

b) Isn't it supposed to be run on a file and get some output - as opposed to an interactice session? Why would it matter if it leaks, then, and how could it leak, as the memory is returned to the OS when it ends?
There's also a gigantic difference between spending 10+ years learning to play the drums and recording my playing at a recording studio, and dragging in a drum loop from Splice. Listeners don't seem to care either way.
I try generally not to be the vindictive type… but Lego being SUCH HAWKS and sticklers when it comes to brand protection, I can’t help but root for them getting skewered for this. I doubt much will really come of it, though.
For the people who can’t see the page - I don’t have it open anymore, but it was someone asking for help to figure out what version of certain libraries was used in the BrickLink studio software, since some flags they expected to work weren’t working. Another user replied that they did some digging into the decompiled source and found which version it was, but they also found strings from that source that matched GPL-licensed libraries (including at least one that user had written himself, because he recognized hardcoded filepaths to locations on his own machine he had used when developing the library).
I defy you to describe race in certain terms.
That's assuming that there isn't already something out there, e.g. floating in the more manageable atmosphere. There's beings living in or close to thermal vents in Earth's oceans or in acid pools in Yosemite, so it would be possible for things to survive there as well.
A Porsche 911 has 4 seatbelts, but nobody calls it a 4-seater.

When manufacturers call their cars 5-seaters but they're not really meant to regularly carry 5 people, buyers lose trust in that designation. And then buy bigger vehicles to compensate.

This is great for the automaker, but not for you, your safety, or the planet.
Hey that’s pretty cool! Thanks for the link, it’s helpful to see the shots in question. Am I understanding correctly that the K droid was rendered from behind using Unreal in those shots, and the front shots were rendered with the in-house renderer? If true, I’d love to hear what the reasons were for not being able to use it on all the shots in the sequence. Are there more recent examples? Is Unreal still being tested like this at ILM, or is the focus on the in-house real time renderer?

BTW I’m hugely in favor of pushing real-time rendering for film (and I work on high performance rendering tech, aiming squarely at film + real-time!) I only was disputing the broad characterization by @Someone1234 that Unreal is widely used today for final, and that film studio path tracers are in imminent danger of death by game engine.