skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, trees are custom designed biorobots that make apples, cherries, etc that are way bigger than their wild counterparts. Yes, there is a lot of human work involved in nourishing the trees, keeping pests at bay, harvesting, distribution, etc. But in the past 200 years, the farming industry has seen one of the biggest transformations in how many workers are required, as in 200 years ago high percentages of the working population were employed in the farming sector and now only very small percentages are.

The remaining farmers still need things like fertilizer, people who service machines, etc, and they still have to put in work themselves. In fact farmers are some of the hardest working people I know. But the trend is still true, there are less and less farmers who generate more and more output.

You definitely need some way to distribute those resources to farmers (and other industries) in a good fashion, and in history the market economy approach with pricing autonomy has proven to be the best way. So money will likely not go away in itself, but economy will be more about resources in the future than about work.

That being said, the economies of even the rich nations are still highly dependent on human output so it's still way too early to discuss about UBI, but if we should find ourselves in a situation where we have literally no use for the work output of large percentages of populations, then we really need to think about some way to distribute resources to them so that they don't starve/riot.

If you say that only millionaires should be able to live without working, then you should look at what makes that millionaire a millionaire: their 20 rental properties? worthless if nobody can afford them. Their 5 square kilometer fully automated farm? worthless if nobody can afford the food. Their 100 million investment into a big company? likely that company is also out of business if nobody buys from that company. Sure maybe yacht builders will continue to have a great time, but that's a fraction of the economy. A lot of current millionaires would be rendered quite poor in a non-UBI future, as a lot of wealth is generated from serving existing customers.
>I've seen this on reddit but not here.

Did you try either of the two links at the bottom of the original post?
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> I could happily edit a fast paced version of the video, only to find the next day that it feels jerky and difficult to follow. It’s baffling to see your own taste for rhythm change from day to day.

I've noticed this phenomenon with anything creative, stepping back is not always enough, you need to step away for long enough to have some perspective - Then if your opinion of your own work changes it's difficult to know if it's due to re-framing or because you've been exposed to other tastes in the interim... it's all a little maddening. I try to differentiate, it's important to know if your preference is fleeting, due to exposure to something of novelty, or something lasting.

Similarly with UI design, even within the "flat" era I see things oscillating back and forth, over-rounded buttons, over-squared buttons, over-rounded buttons, over-squared buttons, back and forth, Google does this constantly as if they can't make up their mind... is it just fashion? is the new black completely dependent on the previous black?

After a while It makes you think very little in life is objective, we are all part of this interwoven thread of culture giving context to all.
And for what? Today, Iraq is struggling to rebuild itself. Iran and ISIS remain a serious threat. The Americans hoped to build a Jeffersonian republic in the heart of the Middle East, and failed. The whole thing seems like a horrible, tragic mistake.

I disagree.

This is a bold statement for someone who left Iraq fourteen years ago and never went back. Probably the current regime is better than Saddam. Is it so much better it was worth two trillion dollars and half a million lives? Is it so much better the rise of and fight against ISIS was worth it? I would like to hear the perspective of someone who lives there.
I don't know about all of linux, but default Fedora (gnome keyring) appears to support TPM since 2016.
Ludwig Wittgenstein – Lecture on Ethics [pdf]
Yeah, in 2004.
I guess one can use a VPN or a proxy if not.
In hindsight it’s clear. Why did we allow the web advertising mega corp to own the browser we use? Huge conflict of interest. There’s no way our privacy was going to survive.
Note all the new cool stuff is incubator and preview status and I'm a little worried that this will still be the case for the JDK 21 stable release.
"High risk individuals"?

The "risk level of the individual" is totally wrapped up in how well the economy is able to provide people with adequate amounts of income to pay off debt, and that's not something any individual can determine. If there are systematic shifts that make it much more difficult for individuals to keep paying their debt, those individuals will become "high risk individuals".
OpenAI suggests restricting GPUs and requiring biometrics for safety [pdf]
They're behind their competitor and they're already hobbling themselves. Their "Big brother knows best" attitude isnt going to help them much here. Its like they're stuck in the last decade.
I think within 5 years there will be >50% less office work (=jobs). Could be significantly more.

Motivation: when computers came along, the automation paradox sucked in lots of folks, who are in their majority are "just making the system work". Most do lots of typing, clicking and copy and pasting, doing work-arounds and generally making the promised upside of the system a reality.

But those sucked in by the automation paradox will now be spit out. And it's going to happen fast, faster than we can invent new engagements?
As a software programmer who focuses way too much on logic - and who furthermore can't tell the difference between sarcasm, good humor, or direct honesty - it really sticks out to me that your comment may well be based on wrong assumptions about the afterlife.

As a Christian, I prefer relying on the good old ways of God's revealed Word in Scripture.
> But I remain cautiously skeptical that perhaps our brains are also little more than that.

It's well known that our brains are nothing like the neural networks people run on computers today.
goki: Native Go GUIs (2D and 3D), built on GoKi tree framework
Oh yeah. The `x.y.z` notation that already existed and that SemVer just adopted is totally a surefire signal that “SemVer Here”.

You’ve got the order of events all mixed up.
Just index funds for the most part. I don't attempt to time the market really. I assume you're implying that if I had known things were going to slow down I should have made a fortune trading stocks. I'm not saying anyone had a crystal ball for when the market was going to slow down. I think that's kind of a fools errand for most retail investors. All I'm saying is these companies keep making statements saying that growth didn't meet expectations. It just feels really disingenuous to me is all I'm saying.
This is all so silly. I work in the lumber business. We always, every day, at all times, sell our lumber to the highest bidder. But for the first ~3 weeks of the pandemic, our sawmills ran flat out -- more production than ever. Notwithstanding that fact, we saw unprecedented pricing -- because demand was radically outpacing supply. A true "super cycle" driven, I believe, by robust federal stimulus. That's since corrected significantly as interest rates have cooled home building and repair/remodel. But the idea that we made a bunch of money during the pandemic because we were greedy and jacked up prices is hilarious. We are just as greedy today as we were a year ago -- and making very little. We always sell to the highest bidder. I have no idea how we'd even do it otherwise -- a lumber lottery? All of this reporting about corporate greed is truly dumb.
That's both true and not true.

So sure, banks want to take more risks with your money. But if you start to understand the web of banking regulations, you'll see that there are multiple different groups with oversight, each with different goals and different regulatory frameworks. It's extremely difficult to maintain compliance and the complexity is a problem for a number of reasons, including the fact that a lot of the regulations are legacies of a time before interstate banking.
Launches a waitlist.
>Bard isn’t currently supported in your country. Stay tuned!

LOL, yeah sure, the world doesn't wait. This is dead on arrival.
Bard is "powered by LaMDA". So it's at the bare minimum an interface to LaMDA.

I don't know exactly what's being added to make it distinct from LaMDA, but it is being pushed as LaMDA with extra bits.
Hmmm, they could've just asked ChatGPT how to fix the availability problem.
These models can be run locally, but I see far too many businesses and bloggers resign themselves to renting OpenAI's cloud instead of tinkering with LLaMA/Alpaca, the community Stable Diffusion finetunes and such.

Adobe does have a legal edge here, which is interesting and perhaps actually worth a subscription if needed.
> If money is not injected into some static immobile "vault"

You mean like crypto or meme stocks?
Interesting read, but you would think that resolving some of that past trauma that was hidden would allow you to transition into a state that isn't your old "normal", but a nice halfway between your arrogant 10x present self and your old self chained by trauma.

Perhaps this experience when bundled with a professional could have great impacts that are permanent, as long as you don't start fighting the therapist I suppose! The opposite could also happen, I don't know. Would be interesting to see studies on this.
If I were to go forward with something like this, I would rather provide support/funding to an organization that has been pursuing this that I find to be well versed, qualified, and ready to go, than do it myself.

With the Right to Repair stuff, in some states, I've put together my own lobbying plans. In others, I tried to figure out who had the best foothold there already with an actionable plan & pre-existing experience winning on similar issues and funded them. Some examples of this were washington, rather than do it myself I gave USPIRG a fair amount of funding to get it done, which is helpful since the charlie brown affair sullied my reputation among some of the legislators.

Even in states where we do our own lobbying, there is usually a large level of partnership with organizations that already exist within the state, and a microgrant program where we fund a bunch of small groups to educate locals/organize people prior to making a legislative/lobbying push.
Creative people are paid to be creative, not enter keyboard shortcuts all day. It’s the idea and vision that are the real differentiator.
I don't think the criticism of startup products is the same as criticism of the bailout. But I do think that we've lost our sense of community (or perhaps never had one).

>Seems like the hostility hit its most irrational peak with the sentiment here towards startups who banked with SVB. Many seemed to go so far as to almost hope we’d see a startup meltdown.

This is an image problem driven by plain old hypocrisy and fueled by greed. The "bail us out in full" because we "played by the rules and trusted banks" even though the actual rules are well advertised. Socialize the losses and privatize the profits. You can dislike this if you are a libertarian, on the right or even on the left all for different reasons. But we had a set of agreed upon rules that were apparent not good enough and the "tech elite" leveraged Twitter to broadcast that. Honestly it really shows the power of Twitter.

Then HN itself has been largely pro libertarian and anti-union for a long time although it looks like the sentiment has been slowly changing. There's always been a question in my mind of how much a HN discussion is driven by minority actions of a few vocal individuals or down votes. I don't think we actually get a good discussion of actual ideas here.

YC was also affiliated with Thiel at one point and while Altman espoused UBI (a good thing) that seems to have been dropped. OpenAI was open source and is now closed and it was nonprofit and is now seemingly "in it for the money". And while he is no longer running YC, he is still strongly associated with it. In addition Altman is seen as libertarian due to his association with Thiel. Tan is also viewed as less liberal than SF requires in terms of local politics. This doesn't help the "tech overloads are asking for money" image problem especially when the bank run was trigged by VCs out for themselves.

That is indicative of the real problem which is that SV has a major culture problem, specifically that it is no longer a community and does not interact positively with the larger community. YC companies like Airbnb have this problem too, as do all gig economy companies. Honestly if YC wants to do better they should push for universal healthcare so that they can have their gig economy companies.
> In the last 100 years average shot duration has dropped from 12 to 5 seconds. Try to watch 60s westerns, like the dollar trilogy, today. Very sluggish pace. Viewers today like fast edits.

Do we like fast edits, or is this just being forced upon us? I absolutely hate the pacing of new movies. Super Hero movies take this into overdrive, each shot might only be 1-3 seconds, it's nauseating.

Every once in a while, I catch a modern movie with slower pacing. The problem with these movies is the reason for the slow pacing has nothing to do with the story, and is seemingly done for style reasons. Like it's a 2 second scene and they press pause for 8 seconds. Screen writers seem to be completely unable to write a 10 second scene.
Why would I? If it doesn't make the front-page, it doesn't exist (for me).
"Identity fraud as a service". What a disruptive and novel idea that will clearly make the world a better place.
Yeah man, I think that's the only way anything is going to change

People are such dumb fucking cattle that they'll lash out at you rather than the data brokers or the software vendors who ratted them out though
In all the comment threads so far, I think you're the first I've seen who has actually been able to try it!
> I'm assuming we will solve the hallucination problem

It's unclear what this would even mean, since "hallucination" carries a surprising number of different definitions and commentators are rarely precise about what they mean when they say hallucination.

But, color me skeptical. We will never solve the problem of a token prediction engine being able to generate a sequence of tokens that the vast majority of humans interpret as not corresponding to a true statement. Perhaps in very particular and constrained domains we can build systems that, through a variety of mechanisms, are capable of providing trustworthy automation despite the ever-present risk of hallucination. Something like mathematical proofs checked by a computer are an obvious case where the model can hallucinate because the overall system can gate-keep truth. Doing this in any other domain will, of course, be more difficult.

In other words: we may be able to mitigate and systemically manage the risk for some types of particular tasks, but the problem of generating untrue statements is fundamental to the technology and will always require effort to manage and mitigate. In that sense, the whole conversation around hallucination is reminiscent of the frame problem.
IT enabled a deeper vertical integration yielding direct access to consumers. Fewer parties buffer and arbitrage goods to optimize goods/price relationships. It was great while all the middlemen were cut out - now less so.
To elaborate: at what point is the rest of the world no longer required to conform to your tastes?
Can't say, it is a Chinese game studio
> The perturbative expansion is created by adding successive corrections to the simplified problem.

Wait, so the Theory of Epicycles is morally a Perturbation Theory? (disregarding matching evidence from relativistic effects yadda yadda).

In that sense —morally speaking— Epicycles at the time doesn't sound that like it was that crazy to do scientifically.
Generally speaking, Epicycles would be on the same level as how perturbation theory is used in quantum mechanics.
I imagine this would use "in the style of a line drawing" prompts under the hood to produce line-esque raster images suitable for vectorization, with the resulting vectorized images being what's shown to the user.
I would love to use Haskell. The main reason I stopped writing Haskell and started writing Rust was that I could more easily teach new programmers Rust due to better compiler error messages, and Cargo is 10000x easier to use than the Haskell package managers, which never seem to be able to resolve the right set of versions for me.

Being able to write a lot of functional Rust and drop down to imperative/mutation when necessary also eases the curve compared to Haskell.
Why does the cause need to be the same?

Every stock market bubble has somewhat different causes but always ends the same.
Could someone explain me why simultaneously with this an article about a whale-oiled machine [1] and a video of an exploding whale [2] are on the front page? Is it world whale day?

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35217945
[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35245784
> This is a bold statement for someone who left Iraq fourteen years ago and never went back. Probably the current regime is better than Saddam. Is it so much better it was worth two trillion dollars and half a million lives? Is it so much better the rise and fight against ISIS was worth it? I would like to hear the perspective of someone who lives there.

You don't need to be "someone living there" to answer this question. Just imagine half a million people in your state got killed by some foreign invader, and try to answer for yourself would it be wort it.
Great idea. Processing latency may be an issue. It has to be fast, small, and energy efficient.
Adobe is an ad network, stock house, analytics, etc. They probably have the resources to do this.
Partly because, as a physicist and a ham, it was way easier to solder and clip lead some RS232 wires than to reprogram a tty daemon.
There are already two guidelines that touch on it.

"Please don't post on HN to ask or tell us something. Send it to hn@ycombinator.com"

"Please don't complain that a submission is inappropriate."

The later is specifically about comments and not submissions, though.
So was having a facebook account
I have hopes to see Virtual Threads in Java 21, also being the next LTS.
Avoiding Errors in Demo Day Fundraising
tbf, it was the same with OpenAI releases.
Possible this is not significant, appears that within the feature set is a text-to-vector image generator that produces editable vectors art. There’s no direct link I was able to find, but feature is listed here:

https://firefly.adobe.com/

Is anyone aware of any similar open source or services that handle text-to-vector generative AI?
I smell the sarcasm, but something is telling me this could be someone’s true thought, lol
There are interfaces where you can not just "prompt better" but change the image with a tool like Photoshop and then feed that back into the diffusion model.

Also there are people who really don't care about quality. There have always been different tiers of art: it's one thing to have clip art for a throwaway blog post (royalty free stock), it's another thing to base a marketing campaign around images (rights managed stock) because you don't to have all your competitors choose the same image.

https://cxl.com/blog/stock-photography-vs-real-photos-cant-u...

The bottom feeders will be very happy to accept the problems of A.I. art and in fact you might not have the embarrassing
dogpiling problem that the above blog post describes.
Fantastic article. It aligns with my experience that books can be more useful than video tutorials at teaching you how to create interesting videos. The author did great work to include so many video examples of the ideas too.

The author referenced YouTube videos, but I find that books are still even better than paid Udemy videos for developing an intuition on how to make an interesting video. Though YouTube/Udemy tutorials can be great at teaching you how to use editing software, experienced filmmakers who write books are often better at expressing how they built an intuition for when to use a particular edit at a particular time.

Murch's "In the Blink of an Eye" (2005) recommended by the author is definitely a great read. I thought it was a great insight that cuts are best when you would naturally want to blink. For a short video, I used the advice once to place cut between scenes when a beat in the background music hit, shortly after a natural pause in a narrative voiceover.

Stockman's "How to Shoot Video That Doesn't Suck" (2011) is also a great introduction, which helped me competently film a few videos as a volunteer for non-profits that my colleagues were very happy with. It taught me the fundamentals of making a good educational or trailer-style video that don't relate to software. For example, I learned to film solid, non-shaky shots, to bring the camera close to the speakers, to generally avoid shots longer than 10 seconds, and to take special care to record high-quality audio with a microphone off the camera. This might be very basic advice for people experienced with video, but I remembered having trouble watching videos by people in university, who filmed pretty, creative shots, but recorded dialogue that was hard to understand with poor audio quality.

Video tutorials definitely have a place—I would have struggled a lot more to understand Adobe AfterEffects and Premiere Pro without them—but I would say that books are even more fundamental. It's very possible that an entry-level videographer can produce an engaging video by knowing the fundamentals from books and just Windows Movie Maker or iMovie (sticking to basic cuts), as a great edits can happen without more advanced video editing software.
> I think it's now clear that higher level capabilities are emerging in these models and we need to take this seriously as a social/economic/political challenge.

It is a hard truth to face. I admit I always feel a little bit of happiness when someone shows me a stupid error ChatGPT made, as if it would somehow invalidate all the awesome things it can do and the impact it will certainly have on all of us. What does it matter if ChatGPT is conscious or not when it can clearly automate a lot of work we previously considered to be creative?.

Since last year I started to seriously take a look at AI and started learning about LLMs. Until a few days ago I hadn't bought the explanation that these things are just predicting the next word, but I accepted it once I started running the Alpaca/Llama locally on my computer.

The concept of predicting words based on statistics seems simple, but clearly complex behavior emerges from it. Maybe our own intelligence emerges from simple primitives too?