skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
you have no idea what you're talking about and your comment is just patronising. MMA is a highly technical sport that demands elite levels of athleticism and sporting intelligence. fight fans are also already a highly diverse group from all around the world and that group is continually growing in size and diversity
you might want to check out vopono, i've gotten it working with firefox and its nice

https://github.com/jamesmcm/vopono
Unreliable Government Benefits for rich people
Well yeah, it does matter. People aren't buying them at the current price point.
No, they can’t.
shutting offices... is this the new way layoffs will be conducted ?
We should have static builds and mostly static environments (libs etc).

The "evergreen" madness must stop for platforms that are app delivery targets.

Or do it like Java does it...
It does read like a complaint about the pricing
Based on average interest rates, the $900,000 house in 2020 would be significantly cheaper than the $795,000 house in 2023. Assuming both buyers put down 10% — a fairly average number, contrary to the popular belief that it’s 20 — the $900,000 house in 2020 would give a monthly payment of $3,952. The $795,000 house in 2023 comes out to a little over $5,000 monthly. That’s $12,000 a year more for a house that’s lost $105,000 in value. Bad for everyone .
Show HN: Unriddle – Create your own GPT-4 on top of any document
Which empires are those?
Let's take this offline, we need to get alignment from a few AIs on this one.
You’re an inspiration. I’m going to open an accounting firm and refuse to use calculators.
I think there is a big concern that this will destroy the middle class.
There are no planets on earth
How is it ugly? Boxy design?
Looks like they're getting closer: https://duckduckgo.com/mac?ref=duckduckgo
Do you also hate Human Artists who trained by viewing copies of your artwork and incorporating elements of your style into theirs? Do you sue all Human Artists that create art vaguely similar to yours?
You cannot in good conscience be wishing to do menial tasks for a living, that AI can do for you and instead of you.

That's how doing manual search and replace instead of search/replace in editor or computing stuff in spreadsheet by hand instead of using formulas.

If you think AI's output is suboptimal, right. Maybe find a way to use/train AI better to produce good enough output. But simply wishing to out-robot a robot is pointless.
Why isn't the Steam Deck selling more? It seems like a strictly better version of Switch
Better than the alternative: leave it to Google to dictate whatever they like as a standard and ship it.
> becoming more like the AI...

Current AI systems have a wide variety of outputs. They can totally be asked to complete a task in a 'wildly unusual' way, and will come up with all kinds of non-bland answers, just as you hope to do manually...

If answers being 'non-bland' is your differentiator, then someone will come along and specifically ask an AI for that.
Rails is omasake.
I also can't say I've noticed such latency
While I've seen it reported as of late that fear over Kurdish groups is Turkey's official stance on holding back on voting Sweden in, the original reason given by Erdogan was over an isolated incident where a far-right anti-Islamist burned a Quran[1]. Pretty par for Erdogan's course, but I expect he's likely trying to double-down on appealing to his conservative voter-base for the upcoming election. With this matter of Sweden joining NATO, the outcome of this election has pretty grand implications on the global theater.

Add this spicy bit of news from today seems to indicate that Erdogan realizes what is at stake[2]

[1]: https://apnews.com/article/nato-politics-sweden-government-t...

[2]: https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/turkey-elections-erdogan-...
Doesn't really matter how prolific he is if he violated his employment contract. He should have negotiated a new contract before working for Saudi Arabia and Russia. Seems like a non-story.
https://archive.is/ZuZmY
I enjoy learning about the design philosophy behind an API, or diving into a library to learn the "off the beaten path" workflows. That's where the magic optimizations or shortcuts live.

So far, copilot just shows me the happiest path options for everything I've tried, and really falls over when it's not something that "Well this API looks like API_functionCall, so your query for <get X> must look like API_getX". It rarely does.
> The invasion occurred because of Ukraine's movement toward the EU

What meaningful move did Ukraine make towards joining EU to trigger an invasion?
"Instead of using a motor vehicle, I will deliver all packages by hand"

I mean, yea, in places it would succeed as a boutique business, but you're not building the next Amazon that way either.
Try restarting your browser and see if the fingerprint changes. If it does, that means you can't be tracked across sites using this mechanism.
No European country (UK excepted) has an “immigrant culture.” In recent decades, some European countries have accepted large numbers of immigrants. But as far as I can tell, they’ve even relegated to an economically disadvantaged underclass in every one of those countries. They’re not buying Apple products. For example, average income for Turks in Germany (a group that started immigrating in the 1970s) is estimated to be 2,000 euros per month: https://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/193000-turks-come-back-fro.... Average income for Germans as a whole is almost 4,000 euros per month.

Meanwhile in America, median household income for Vietnamese Americans—who also started immigrating in the 1970s, as refugees—matched the national average sometime in the 1990s.
no because it's not done on an industrial scale

the purpose of producing art is for people to see it

not for some megacorp to ingest it on a huge scale to then make the entire concept of art redundant
Well, I've been a webdev for more, and he sounds prudent, not naive.
> Parisian too, but with reality in mind. We should first reduced by 95% the amount of cars and ban taxis

Oh I agree with that, but we can do both!

First link => that's an ongoing project with Crit'air restrictions. Link is 2 years old, Crit'Air 4 have been banned since then (though enforcement is low). And newer cars emit a lot less of pollution.

Second link => that's Ile-de-France and not Paris. That's why I was careful to specify Paris. Ile-de-France as whole is a lot more sprawling, so there is less alternatives to cars. Skimming it, it seems to support your argument even for Paris though, but I have a hard time to find the exact percentage. I'd be curious what's the actual number for Paris only nowadays.

Third link => that's for France as a whole. I did not skim it.

Fourth link => that's from 2016. I'm pretty sure it has evolved a bit since then. Numerous cycle lanes have been created since then, and parking/car lanes removed. Though that's still an ongoing project. I'd be really curious about updated numbers.
The AI process isn't going away, but suits like these will preserve the opportunity for artists and coders alike to get paid for their work or choose the terms under which it is shared.

Without enforcing copyright rules on AI, it may mean the end of copyright entirely.

I share a lot of images under CC-BY-SA-NC and share code under the GPL. If someone can train a model off my work and disregard the terms under which I have shared it, copyright is my only enforcement mechanism.
I can't tell whether this is a question from someone who didn't read the article, or whether this is the most meta comment I've ever read.
I am a happy LibreWolf [0] user. Wonder how they compare.

[0] https://librewolf.net/
nothing changes

if I create a picture with a style simiar to an existing picture/ artist who has IP on it, then I would get sued

should it be relevent how it was created, either by hand or using AI?
Baffling to me they don't see this, attacking stable diffusion will only harm open and free AI tooling, megacorps will always just "unethically" train.

Also find it laughable that a lot of the most vocal artists against it make their money drawing characters they don't own anyway.

Approaching this as a designer so obviously these tools will impact me but as long as I can run them on my own hardware without paying tax to Adobe/OpenAI I can at least benefit.
The war came about through a trading inefficiency. The Chinese markets at the time (still holds relatively true today) was a selling market, not a buying market. They weren't interested in European goods. So European trading vessels would have to stock up on silver as currency, and sail to China to trade the silver for desirable goods such as porcelain and silks.

European merchants didn't like this because its far more efficient to profit on every leg and the first leg of hauling silver was a loss with a mostly empty hold, so were seeking a product to sell to the Chinese market that would have pull that they could fill cargo holds with. Due to their lack of scruples, they discovered that opium was such a product and set in motion the very events that still plague us to today of growing opium across Asia to sell to China.

As a flood of cheap opium entered the market through the criminal gangs at the time (who were buying the opium through profitable liaisons with the British) the Chinese authorities set about cracking down on the trade in the interests of its people. Eventually this brought them into conflict with the British and in interests of keeping the ports open to the opium trade the first of two opium wars was declared.

The wikipedia article probably puts it better than I have [1].

> They created this difficulty to find a chance to invade.

If they were seeking to invade then European possessions in China would have been significantly greater than Hong Kong given the weakness of the Qing dynasty over the course of the 19th century (although it would have still been a significant challenge given the might of China's manpower at the time). The British were a brutal force but in a similar fashion to today's US hegemony they were not always primarily motivated by conquest and annexation, wealth was more of a primary motivator. So its much like US foreign policy today which is typically flexed to promote interests relevant to American GDP. It remains ugly when its flexed but its arguably a kinder aim than that of a fully imperialistic force such as say: the Mongols of the 14th and 15th centuries.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium_Wars
It's around £3000 for a high-end 16" MBP. Apple pricing went from 'premium' to 'luxury' for a lot of their audience. Meanwhile, the world is in a seemingly permanant omni-crisis.

Yes, there's a lot of great things about these machines. But there's also some very real downsides (repairability/upgradeability and a non-user-replacable battery), and the higher the prices get, the more those downsides need to be considered.
A hella lot more are using iOS though.
the terseness isn't supposed to blow your mind, it's an artifact of k's iversonian heritage. the first iversonian language, apl, was originally intended as a kind of mathematical notation for computer programs, a compact notation for defining algorithms-as-mathematical-objects. imagine a programming teacher writing code on a chalkboard to the same degree a math teacher writes math on a chalkboard and the need for compact notation becomes obvious, i think.
As long as they don't give Hamburgler a pink slip....
> Not to mention it's way easier to delete an accidentally-added snippet of GPL code from a codebase than it is to "unleak" company secrets after they've been publicly revealed.

How often do you think anyone will notice that some part of a proprietary codebase is copied substantially from GPL code? I think it's going to be very rare and a lot of this code will fly under the radar. The GPL was always a kind of legal jiu-jitsu, turning copyright against itself and allowing non-commercial entities to protect themselves from uncompensated exploitation. Models like copilot, if they're legal, upend the status quo tremendously. Even though your code isn't (always) used directly, a commercial entity like Microsoft will slurp it up and sell the resulting model back to you for $9.99/mo.
I wonder if the GPLv4 will be coming out soon with an anti-AI-training clause (unless your output model and its outputs are also GPLv4, of course).
This is my point precisely (that it is a tautology). It's called 'survival of the fittest', not 'survival of the fit enough' for this reason.

If the measure of value is 'fitness', then 'survival of the fittest' is exactly the same as saying 'survival of the best'.

'The best' does not imply singular except in cases which provide a metric which is a total ordering among contestants, which is usually far more specific than the usual usage of the word. For example, you would probably agree in general that the Olympics "is where the best go to compete", but there isn't implied a singular 'best' Olympian unless we consider only a single event and further insist that the measure is medal earned in a specific year. As you can see, to get to a singular 'the best' requires an event and a year and the rule that delivers a total ordering of goodness, but the normal English usage does not imply any of these. In fact in the normal usage, 'the best' would apply to everyone who attends the Olympics as a competitor, even alternates who do not compete in the end.
How often are calculators confidently wrong?
Geoffrey Hinton⸻A.I. Researcher Mehs MicrosoftGPT
So far (super early days, I know) the main thing I've used AI for at work is to write tests for code I'm working on. I get to do the fun bit, solving the problem space, and the AI gets to do the tedious bit (and do it faster than I would). I'm liking at least that level of AI integration.
The tricky bit is that those stock photos include generative images too. Many of which aren't labeled as generative. So I wonder if theirs is already including potentially problematic content.
Will you use a spellchecker when you send out emails about your company? How about doing research with a regular search engine?

"Refusing to use AI" doesn't make sense to me as a blanket policy. If you're going to make that commitment - to yourself or to anyone else - you'll need to be a lot more precise in what you actually mean by that.
$25 for 10/10Gbps is crazy cheap. If I were to get 10/10Gbps it would be $250/month. This is using a municipal-run service provider (not particularly common here in the USA) that offers their 1/1Gbps for the relatively fair price of $70/month for a new customer. I pay $50 due to signing up in 2019.

I have no idea how Poland is pulling off such low costs but props for doing so. Other nations should take note.
So you can be charged if you create a painting in the style of Picasso and try to sell it as a true Picasso work. Which is obvious. Nothing here says Picasso's style in of and itself can be copyrighted.
I am surprised that you pay the price of 7 ordinary laptops and get only 32 Gb of RAM and only 1 Tb of storage.
The human touch is (often) an advantage. Often, because I don't actually want to go into a bank branch and interact with a teller for the most part.

However, I expect that quality human touch will increasingly be a premium service for those willing to pay more. Which is of course a valid business model of which there are many examples.
It’s not strictly better. It has many advantages, but it’s heavier, larger, hotter, louder and more expensive, without the ability to detach controllers. Not to mention it lacks the ability to easily play Nintendo titles.

It’s better in many ways which many people care about, but it’s not strictly better.
The copyright question is of course an important one.

But I was thinking of the tool-vs-platform distinction in the context of the censorship question raised by Midjourney blocking images of Xi Jinping.

'Platforms' like Facebook and Github often censor things like porn, terror recruitment, and political satire fearing reputational damage and loss of advertisers from having such content on their domain, next to their logo - whereas offline tools like MS Word aren't subject to the same fears.

So people who think political satire is a particularly important form of speech might prefer an offline tool for their greater censorship resistance, irrespective of their opinion on issues of copyright.
I 100% agree about the hardware but I have to say the selling point of apple is the OS. I have an iPhone SE 2020 and the screen broke. This caused me to use my QA device (Samsung S21+) while I returned to the city from the mountains.

It was a horrendous experience. The camera is unquestionably better in the Samsung but that is about all the positives I could take from my week of using it.

Android was just an abysmal experience from my perspective. Nothing on it seems intuitive and everything feels like a ploy to get you to use a product which will siphon your data off to Google.

Obviously this is just my own personal anecdotal experience so take it with a pinch of salt. But there will no doubt be others feeling the same.

I miss my old 3310 if I am honest. I’ve been looking at dumb phones recently. I just need one with WhatApp so I can talk to my family around the world ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
RTO for your work, WFH for mine.
Honestly the best value is to buy a used or discounted M1 air. M2 on an air can throttle and the M1 base models even have a faster SSD.
Vanilla Firefox beats it too if you set `privacy.resistFingerprinting` to `true`.

I assume Mullvad browsers has this on by default.
> Having the human touch will be an advantage, not a disadvantage.

Maybe if you re selling high-end coffee or leather bags for status. That's the fashion industry
AI driven business will be cheaper, and faster. The "better" factor will be a case by case situation. One could argue that your competitor combined with their skills, expertise, AND AI would have a market advantage over you.
I haven't run Arch Linux, but what I've heard is that you have to know what you're doing in order to run it. So I'm surprised it's the most popular Linux OS after SteamOS. Is it actually less difficult than I heard?
It's a timescale, like all technological progress. Or even evolution.

So you're working in a games development studio as a visual artist.

At first you're producing renderings in Blender or whatever.

Then, AI is able to generate three-dimensional meshes for you. You are in the loop, deciding that these meshes are suitable, which textures work, which are the best, designing the prompts, etc. This is 3D midjourney.

At this point, you're now able to produce far more more quickly and it's likely that fewer artists are required within your company.

Later, AI is able to more accurately decide which models will be preferred by the higher ups, or by the playerbase, better than you are as an artist. The AI has now replaced you as an artist. The software team or management simply ask the AI - "please produce me a set of fantasy character models for my game, with these characteristics". This is essentially GPT mixed with 3D midjourney.

I'd say we're not far off, currently, from this point.

Beyond that, perhaps the AI is then able to produce game rules, visual imagery, game engines etc than your company. The prompt "produce a doom clone with portals" results in a higher quality product than a team of humans working on it.

We don't quite have that yet.

Beyond that, the AI may be able to determine which games will be valued by the market and thus what is worth spending effort on. It could end up outcompeting all game studios.

Move further and it may produce something which just up-ends the game industry entirely by producing a product which gamers prefer to spend their time on.

I don't think that people quite grok the idea of what human-level or beyond AI actually is. By definition superhuman AI is more able than you are. The question is whether we will actually end up with it; that it will outcompete us if we create it is tautological.
> novices have a perfectly rational fear of screwing with things on the terminal.

This is a very valid point. When I first started with Linux, pretty terrified of screwing something up fundamentally with the terminal.

Most terminal commands are not particularly intuitive either. I'm technically very competent but before I learned how to code, I would have no way of knowing that "sudo" gives you admin privilege, or that "cat" shows the contents of a file.

For the average person, "sudo" or "chmod" are pure gibberish, and "cat" is an adorable pet.

Like this is part of the code for creating a mouse scrollwheel control script:

"if [ ! -f ~/.imwheelrc ]
then
cat >~/.imwheelrc<<EOF"

You can't be serious if you pretend that a non poweruser is supposed to understand what -f or cat, or E0F are supposed to mean.
The problem with the EA/Longtermist formulation of this idea is that it encourages people to take destructive jobs to minmax the potential dollars they will be able to donate in the future. The underlying idea is sound: the most efficient way for a software developer to donate hours to charity is in fact to use those hours to generate revenue, and send the money to charity. You've already got the job you've got; a supposedly altruistic motivate isn't corrupting your choices the way it does for people like SBF.
> on the right side morally

We just got 100s of thousands of Ukrainians and Russians killed so we could write a huge check to the US arms industry.
From the article: researchers were able to reproduce training images (and bad versions of them at that) 0.03 percent of the time. Not 3 percent, mind you, but 109 out of 350,000 images could be reproduced. And if you go back to the paper, these tended to be images which were heavily duplicated in the training set, so the failure modes should be easy to guard against...
An open AI, no matter how it's trained is inherently more "ethical" than any AI Adobe trains.

I'd rather a million artists have their work "stolen", including my own if it ensures future generations wont be locked into Adobe like my work is.
Seeing that Safari/mac/iOS and Chrome/blink (so also Edge/Opera) are the only game in town adoption wise (FF has fallen way below), how else would it be?
What comparable would you buy in place of a MBP?
I think the larger issue is that you're relying on new or exotic browser APIs without enough skepticism about their behavior across a range of platforms. CompressionStream is brand new in 16.4, so zip.js should absolutely NOT assume it's available, and if it does detect the API, it should gracefully fall back to the older implementation if it encounters errors. I realize this is not your issue, but a dependency—but it could be a reason to use a library with a less aggressive upgrade philosophy, such as Pako.
As a SD owner, it's only a "better" version of the Switch through the eyes of Gamers. It's heftier, more expensive, has worse battery life, a worse screen, doesn't have the dock included, and doesn't have Nintendo's back catalog. The average person buying the Switch isn't looking to buy a Linux PC that may or may not support PC games; they want simplicity.
The Hindsight Game
I bought an M2 a couple of months ago, coming from an i9 16". Oh boy, I know what it is like to have a hot machine :sigh:. The Intel version was stuck at 70C in idle, which is nuts. I think that that was probably the main reason of the switch.
GDP will tend to grow faster if your population is growing faster (in capitalist, developed economies). On a second-order (or maybe 3rd-order) basis, GDP per capita will tend to be faster if your demographics are skewed younger vs. older. Regardless, faster growth rates tend to result in higher real interest rates. Higher real interest rates attract foreign capital, which tends to cause currencies to appreciate.