skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Except that the streamers don't take everything that is available... streaming has a cost to bear.
It is different this time. I bet that was also said when the transformations that you mentioned occurred, but this time it really is different.

LLM models are pretty general in their capabilities, so it is not like the relatively slow process of electrification, when lamplighters lost their jobs. Everyone can lose their jobs in a matter of months because AI can do close to everything.

I am excited to live in a world where AI has "freed" humans from wage slavery, but our economic system is not ready to deal with that yet.
“very capable” and “state of the art” aren’t the same thing. In this case the gap is huge
It's impossible unless they publish scraper IP ranges...
Coding is already mostly debugging existing systems if you come into a large codebase that you didn't build yourself
> When Russia invaded Ukraine it was said everywhere how much it was going to affect the price of wheat.

The UN, and large wheat-exporting countries, took action here. For example, exports of wheat through the Black Sea were prioritized. Fertilizer export and transport was fast-tracked around the world. Wheat-exporting countries said they won't sell to traders, only directly to other governments.

It took a lot of effort (which didn't get a lot of media publicity) to prevent a wheat shortage.
Rxdb pouch and couchdb. All forgotten tools to build wonderful offline products.
Not one mention of "software" in that article. It's clearly written in a general context where this may be true. They don't mention c(3) at all:

"For purposes of this section, any amount paid or incurred in connection with the development of any software shall be treated as a research or experimental expenditure."
Tell HN: Some Notes on Section 174
After reviewing this discussion, I thought others would benefit from seeing things themselves: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35614313

IRC S. 174 and the depreciation rules jarred me awake yesterday. I wanted to share some relevant links that I thought others might also benefit from seeing:

[1] 26 CFR § 1.174-2 - Definition of research and experimental expenditures: https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/26/1.174-2

This defines what constitutes Research and Experimental Expenditures. I am not a lawyer, I am not your lawyer, and so forth. The key discussion in this section and how R&E is created appears to be related to the elimination of uncertainty: " Uncertainty exists if the information available to the taxpayer does not establish the capability or method for developing or improving the product or the appropriate design of the product." Fortunately, item (10) appears to address work-for-hire, if any here were concerned.

[2] 26 U.S. Code § 174 - Amortization of research and experimental expenditures: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/26/174 -- software development definition here is of concern.
Facebook is, even now, entirely beholden to Mark Zuckerberg's willingness to accept falls in share price. He cannot be removed.
Firms are headed by individuals, and said individuals take home pay is directly tied to stock performance. And stock performance is directly tied to how much money you can make while cutting costs. Bonus points if you tie your firm to a dominant narrative.

CEOs have all the incentive in the world to overspend on AI adoption.
Of course people have an input. You can buy it from someone else who makes it a different way, or not at all.
The line is not so clear as you are indicating. If I produce a system that makes 7 billion people feel slightly more depressed, then that system will in all probability contributed to a non-zero number of suicides. The unfortunate matter is that with fantastical scale there comes a need for systems that can understand the long tail of outcomes because there are real lives and impacts in the tails.
AFAIK GIMP does not use GTK's builtin file chooser, specifically because it lacked image thumbnails up until recently.
Because "local issues" aren't just local issues, as much as NIMBYs hope to frame it that way for persuasion purposes. There are larger global effects. In this case, a crippling housing crisis, leading to disenfranchisement and alienation of large swathes of the populace, leading to human suffering, inequality, and political extremism.
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Which Golden Age? Yes, the preservation for pre-1927 films is very very poor, 3/4's was lost, with most of that loss being things make before 1925.

Much more of the post-1927 content was preserved (more of it was preserved with sound once we switched to sound on film) - I'd note however that Silent Movies are virtually unrecognizable by modern viewers as being even the same art form as sound pictures - and sound movies didnt reach the same... production values? as the silents until 1936-37.

The period between 1927-and 1937 was a period of reinvention and learning of a new medium, which is why - my general take is the golden age of Hollywood was 1939 to 1959.

Consider what films came out in 1939 -

* Gone with the Wind

* Wizard of Oz

* Mr. Smith goes to Washington

These are films that still find audiences today, now - 80 years or so on.

Most Americans might have seen one movie produced between 1927 and 1938 - but most people who are above 30 have seen at least two those three movies at least once.

And that trend continues from there on - where 1940 to 1959, most americans have seen one movie released in each of those years.

So while I dont disagree that we are losing heritage in these things - I take issue with their definition of Golden Age and the idea that there is value in saving everything ever written or filmed.

Much of it wasnt meant to be relevant for decades, it was meant to be ephemeral topical entertainment, and functionally intended to be disposable. Most of the production of Poverty Row, and B pictures by the majors are like this, they were intended for Block Booking, and largely just as a way to fill the content needs of the theaters and as a way to provide steady revenue in the event an A picture flopped.
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>When the technology gets speeded up

If not when.
At a certain point OpenAI and others could need more and more training data for less quality increase.

VR and AR were also a hype. The headsets just need to become as small as normal glasses, could be impossible without sacrificing crucial features like color space or resolution.
Meta invested billions but their best headset is still bulky with smartphone quality graphics.
I suspect the platform of choice will move around as the current one reaches saturation and more people are primarily on there to make money where the crowd is. The noise becomes greater than the signal.

That HN has been able to keep the signal to noise ratio high seems like a feat of the gods this day in age
I've never heard of Schmachtenberger but this is what chatGPT had to say about his take. Accurate?

===

Daniel Schmachtenberger is a philosopher, systems thinker, and futurist known for his work in global systems change and the development of a more resilient and sustainable civilization. His take on this century can be characterized by the following key points:

Existential risks and global catastrophic risks: Schmachtenberger emphasizes that humanity faces a range of existential and global catastrophic risks, including nuclear war, pandemics, climate change, artificial intelligence, and others. He argues that we need to address these risks comprehensively and proactively to ensure a sustainable and thriving future.

Game theory and rivalrous dynamics: Schmachtenberger highlights the importance of understanding game theory and the rivalrous dynamics that drive competition and conflict. He argues that many of our current challenges stem from win-lose dynamics that incentivize short-term thinking, self-interest, and resource depletion.

Comprehensive sense-making: Schmachtenberger stresses the need for better sense-making and information processing to navigate the complex, interconnected challenges we face. He advocates for interdisciplinary approaches that can provide a more accurate and nuanced understanding of the world.

Civilizational resilience: Schmachtenberger advocates for building a more resilient and adaptive civilization by fostering cooperation, developing better decision-making systems, and focusing on long-term, sustainable solutions.

A vision for a sustainable and thriving civilization: Schmachtenberger envisions a future where humanity transcends its current challenges and embraces a more cooperative, sustainable, and equitable global society. This includes the development of regenerative economic systems, effective governance structures, and cultural shifts that prioritize collective well-being over individual gain.
It's worth mentioning that the blog's author is not an expert on the matter. I really don't agree with the title or the article.
That's not true at all. My airplane, which is a Part 23 certified, factory-built aircraft that was made by Grumman-American, has numerous fuel lines running through the cockpit, and none of them have any fire protection on them, not even firesleeving. They are made from aluminum and copper, which are not considered intrinsically fireproof. That's also the case for every Piper and Cessna aircraft that I have worked on, which are typically older CAR-3 certified designs.
Yeah and additionally, most silent movies were garbage. Even the good ones are total crap by modern standards.

Who would have watched them again? A few weirdos and only a tiny random subset chosen by random criteria. Might as well watch the 25% that was preserved and is waay too high anyway.

Some things must just go away.
Huh? Everything they said is true, isn’t it?
> Windows backwards compatibility is also pretty phenomenal if you know what you're doing.

Windows backwards compatibility is also pretty phenomenal if you DON'T know what you're doing and are important enough.

There is the famous case about Windows 95 detecting SimCity and then switching to a more careful memory manager as SimCity had quite some use after free problems, which would crash otherwise.
9/11 was used as an excuse for every encroachment on civil liberties.

"Child abuse" is the current excuse.

Meta should go ahead with encryption.
I suspect if you replaced Accenture's consultants with a random number generator you'd get better results

LLMs would be an overkill
> By your own citation, solar is safer. I realize graphs can be tricky to read, but come on.

I would consider them equally safe, and both the safest form of energy. If you really want to get technical this graph excludes rooftop solar which has about 20X the fatality rate of industrial solar in terms of deaths per TWh. [2] But I don't really care, they're equally the safest form of energy.

> The fact that nuclear requires so much concrete also means solar and wind use less carbon.

This is factored into the calculations I linked and no, they don't.

> And you're missing a data point: nuclear is also the most expensive form of energy ever conceived.

Again, not accurate. Solar and wind are bursty and sometimes just drop to zero. Solar at night or when it's cloudy, and wind when it's not windy.

If you actually want a 100% renewable grid you need storage. And adding this storage makes wind + solar + storage combo significantly more expensive than nuclear. In fact even a 90-something% renewable grid with storage is more expensive than nuclear. [1]

Also there's nothing intrinsically expensive about nuclear, you put the spicy rocks in the water and it gets hot. The cost is all up-front in plant construction and as the DOE's head of the loans program Jigar Shah says, there's an easy path to reducing that cost: stop building one-off plants in each location, design cookie cutter plants and drop them down where it makes sense. The actual cost of uranium input into a nuclear plant is $0.005/kWh.

I have nothing against renewables, why would I? They'll be part of the solution. But let's at least have an honest conversation about the facts.

[1] https://spectrum.ieee.org/what-energy-storage-would-have-to-...

[2] https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2008/03/deaths-per-twh-for-all...
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Intelligence?
More a chinese room.
> Yeah, absent an effort to speed up a code base, it will tend to get slower, unless the team has a culture of performance

My experience with JVM over the last few years says otherwise. Most teams I have come across try too hard to achieve "performance" where very simple idiomatic code would have sufficed. Idiomatic code improves in performance every release. Instead they picked up some dogmas based on JVMs of the past and their "peformance culture" is a farce.
I think it may be naive that people believe that the deciding factor on how these things are used is likely to be "chip speed." or "efficiency on the machine."

I wish we were in that world; but it more likely seems like it would be "Which company jumps ahead quickest to get mindshare on a popular AI related thing, and then is able to ride scale to dominate the space?"

REALLY hope I end up being wrong here; the fact that so many models are already out there does give me some hope.
Lufthansa is bringing A380s back as well
What next on climate? The need for a new moderate flank
> Clive Hamilton once wrote that we live in a phase of history where power is diverging from knowledge, and sadly, on climate at least, that still seems true. The situation is really quite grim, and we cannot change the facts. But we can change our idea of power and our relationship to it. That’s partly why action leads to hope, rather than vice-versa, because our sense of power is dynamic and we gain vitality and perspective by doing what we can, which is usually more than we think. The moderate flank is yet to be properly born, but it is a latent power that needs to become manifest. This essay is an important contribution to clarifying what that means for all of us now.
Many of them (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:20190922_Mollisonia_pleno...) are angled similarly to how an opponent would be in-game (I guess prior to Gen 9 with its free camera).
This has to be the most in-depth wiki page I've ever read that had so little text.
concepts don't change codegen in any way, they just mean your error messages become actually sane :D

Essentially, in the past you would have your template code, say something dumb like:

template <typename T> T halve(T t) { return t / 2; }

and if you instantiated with the wrong type, say:

halve("foo")

you get an error message pointing to the t/2 in the halve implementation. As your templates become less trivial, so do the error messages. So we could apply concepts:

template <typename T> concept Halvable = requires (T t) { t / 2; };
template <Halvable T> T halve(T t) { return t / 2; }

Now our call to halve("foo") will complain that const char* is not Halvable. It will also produce an error similar to the original saying that we don't conform to Halvable because the `t / 2` expression fails. In this case it's not super valuable, but if you were instantiating a type or method that was more complicated instead of getting dozens or hundreds of errors in the instantiated body of the template, you just get an early error saying "you aren't conforming to X for these reasons:...".

Unfortunately this does not stop you writing a template that depends on things that your concepts don't guarantee. For example, if we can halve something, we must be able to double it, right? (silly example to demonstrate the issue)

template <Halvable T> T double_it(T t) { return t * 2; }

Note, Halvable doesn't ensure that * is available, but this template is still "correct".

Now we can do `double_it(1)` and that will work, but `double_it("foo")` will say the error is at the t * 2 in the body, when we probably want the error to actually at the point we try to call double_it.

Preventing this kind of error is non-trivial (possibly actually impossible?) given how concepts are defined. It's literally just a list of statements and expressions that need to be valid for a type. But going from a list of "these statements and expressions are valid" to "is this specific expression or statement valid in a template" is at best nontrivial. This is core limitation of the entire feature.
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Elon Musk Threatens Microsoft Lawsuit over LLM Training Data and API Abandonment
I mean do whatever you want to do, i don't care lol.

>An intelligent system should be able to disassociate and work with the logic puzzle in an isolated fashion

seeing as some people have issues doing this and we still call humans generally intelligent, no

Your example underscores absolutely nothing. It can do that sometimes...same as people.

anyone looking to fool people can easily fool people. you've not made some giant revelation
Turning off infinite scroll dramatically reduced my reddit usage (on RIF). Infinite scroll is a nice feature for keeping you locked in for the next dopamine hit but if you want to just learn a few things and keep abreast of news and then get on with your life you're better off without it.
As I mentioned elsewhere Substack is a double digit million product at best, propped up by the crypto scammy a16z.

Beehiv is already giving them a run for their money.
So:

- You didn't save your file

- You didn't export your file

- You ignored GIMP's warning about it

And somehow it's the program's fault? I guess they could implement some form of temporary autosave like some office applications do, but that comes with its own can of worms (i.e. stuff you really didn't want to save staying on your drive).
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Please let us know if we missed the mark!

https://incidentdatabase.ai/editors-guide/
For the worst use cases, like scams, why would they respect the license? Though that probably applies for some legal but immoral use cases
Imagine that Mona Lisa was lost shortly after its creation ... do you think we would not have something else like Mona Lisa in its place?

Society created the value of Mona Lisa out of nothing. It is not such a unique thing - there are tens of thousands of paintings that could be just as valuable.
And ends with "...I'm afraid I can't do that."
What is the difference between a newsletter and a blog? Aren't they both essay services that get traffic from lists of subscribers + suggestions?
might as well go for Kwimp then and become part of KDE
Feelings (emotions not sensory like touch or sight) are experienced are they not? Not the other way around. As in you observe your feelings; not you tell yourself what to feel.

So what's the problem again?
There are likely a ton of tools that are using the Twitter API in ways that helps Twitter and almost all of them are going to be locked out because there's no way they can afford $42,000/mo.
My first thought too. Reports can show the power usage for each process. So reduce the power-hungry processes. Or schedule them for lower cost times of day.
I asked it how to scroll to an element taking into account a fixed header. It helpfully described the `offsetTop` parameter to `Element.scrollIntoView`. Only problem is, that parameter doesn’t exist.
>>By giving locals the power to enable extra construction, and get a share of the resulting economic benefits

>>and get a share of the resulting economic benefits

THIS, right there, is the key.

Zoning rules of density caps exist to create & maintain a more pleasant environment. People building or purchasing into these areas pay higher costs initially and throughout their residency to maintain the better environment. These include everything from higher purchase cost, higher taxes, higher maintenance costs, higher regulatory costs, and more, and the benefits are worth it to them.

ANY proposal to rezone at higher density essentially steals this extra value the existing residents have created over the course of decades (and generally transfers it into the pockets of the developers). Whether it is a medium-density city street with postage-stamp lots, a tight suburb, or an exurb with genuine wildlife habitat, the value of both the existing property and the neighborhood goes down. They get zero benefit, the benefits they've worked and paid to create are destroyed, and the developers extract the value of the land that is now worth more per square foot, building higher-density housing. So, OF COURSE they vote against it at every opportunity.

However, this can all turn around if the existing landowners, who have paid for decades to create the value, share in the increase in values. If the property will devalue from 500x to 400x, but the compensation is 120x, then some will still vote against it because of the intangible environmental degradation (trees, wildlife, traffic, noise, etc.), but many will happily vote for it. The developers will still extract absurd amounts of money.

That is how you make it work. An actual market mechanism, not expropriating value that homeowners have paid over decades to build with fiat dictates.
The CVE and consumer product incident databases are as close as it gets at present, but that may be changing soon... Much is happening. :)
Hallucinating is the least surprising behavior there. Anyone who uses LLMs should be expected to deal with completely made up stuff, period. The bigger problem comes from things that are just subtly wrong, that may even pass the verification at first glance, but make you arrive at wrong conclusions unless you put a lot of effort into reviewing it. In my experience it does it so often, that it effectively negates any time savings from using it when it performs well.
In both cases you're still subject to editorial oversight (your own) and (financially) encouraged to publish clickbait. It's just that the clickbait can be more narrowly targeted to the slice of the ideological/subject-interest spectrum your newsletter most appeals to. And if you stray outside of that line, you'll see revolt from subscribers just like any other publication.
Un-similarity would generally just mean further away in the latent space. I don't know if there are common heuristics used for this - taking the furthest away would give you outliers, and then probably lots of members of whatever class was furthest away. So you'd probably be best first clustering in the latent space and then sampling from each cluster.
A JPG is copyrightable and that's just an array of numbers. Model weights seem pretty similar as a class.
All I really want from Substack is an all-you-can-eat model where I pay a base fee and they sort out who gets what based on what I read. It can’t be that hard, lynda.com did it ages ago and was always profitable.
In this case there’s nothing specific to humans that make us uniquely capable of completing an information task. It’s not like we’re talking about creating great art or something. There doesn’t have to be intent behind completing a spec in the most reasonable way possible.
I think the motivation here is that Twitter is charging about half a million dollars a year for access to their API when it was previously either free or close to free.
it works in most cases
This is awesome! A long time ago I used to browse Deviantart looking for similar stuff. Here's a nice example:

https://www.deviantart.com/albertonykus/art/The-Cartoon-Guid...
What I didn't like about the "Clean code, horrible performance" video is that he talked about "clean" code as though it was this unjustified, useless way of thinking about programming. This is maybe something you have to think about if you want the most performant code possible, but I don't think it's a good mantra in all situations the way it's presented in the video. Number one priority should always be "understandable code". If you aren't always thinking about the best way to get your point across to future programmers (including yourself) you're going to have a bad time.
Some did reach the same production values as modern films - but Silent Film was functionally a completely different art form than Talkies.