skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a long read, and I skimmed it, but I can hazard a guess that a lot of comments are not about the article, but simply about the headline and early premise. Surprisingly (perhaps), the intention of the overall article is more about the state of academic education and behavioral psychology.

> In short, academic psychology departments are immensely more important and useful than other academic departments think. And, at the same time, the psychology departments are immensely worse than more of their inhabitants think.

In effect, much of the story is merely to illustrate that we're bad at learning from history, because we aren't very good at understanding how we think about things.
Jeremy Clarkson plays an arsehole in the media (or is he really such an arsehole?) but I agree about his farming show. It's funny, instructive and touching at times. However, I also found him funny on Top Gear - maybe it's because I assume he was being ironic.
In the future the data from the pre-ai era will be treated like old steel from before the nuclear tests.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-background_steel
Just the market/timing maybe? For comparison, I’ve worked in a similar tech stack and never had any issues whatsoever finding a job until maybe late 2022. You don’t list any dates, but I had no problem getting interviews and recruiters at tech companies of F500s till then.
> Film/video already devalued theater

Is that true? Are there fewer live music shows, plays, live comedy, etc... than there were before cinema and television?
Thanks! I appreciate it. :)
Not only there’s no model weights or code released, there’s not even a paper. Nothing is revealed about the model. “OpenAI”, ladies and gentlemen.
It's msgpack:

0x8n A map containing "n" key/value pairs -> 0x81 introduces a single key/value pair

b101XXXXX : A string where XXXXX is the string length -> 0xA2 introudces a 2 byte string

0xC6 followed by a 32-bit value N introduces an array of bytes of size N

0x70 0x62 "pb"

So it roughly corresponds to

{"pb": <protobuf data> }
> The question is one of scale and usage

So in other words the hard part.
Self-hosted forums already exist (like Discourse), but adoption has been low. I fully support self-hosted forums, but I think they'll never achieve mainstream without a hosted option.
Taskwarrior/Timewarrior or Markdown backed by git.
i am making an os from scratch. but admittedly, i am so far from this stuff i will never ever have anything even closely related to such a problem hah. its so much work :'( (fun tho!)
Yes, OTel has autoinstrumentation libraries for some language that can pick up a fair amount by default. Though it's unlikely that that would ever be sufficient, it's a nice start.

For Java: https://opentelemetry.io/docs/instrumentation/java/automatic...
The impact has already happened, this will accelerate, paintings and even sculptures can be now bought dirt cheap online as it's being mass-produced by machines in China. Now fine art, graphic design etc are next to go.
GrapheneOS in its current state (GApps compatibility layer!) is superior to Calyx.
I think I changed my mind a little based on the reply.

When I think about how I would use youtube (signup, upload some crap, maybe get a couple of views), it feels like a service which is notionally open to anyone. And I have a problem with someone being denied that, without it going to trial first. And even afterward, too - let the judge apply the sentence; don't have the public decide on extra ways to punish him.

But at his level of notoriety I concede that it's a bit more like him being on Netflix. I have no problem with Netflix deciding to greenlight or cancel shows based on the perceived whims of the public (even if they were morons to pull the episode of Community where Chang went Drow-face.)

> and where should that line drawn?

Even though my comment headed in that direction, it's hard to even imagine what that line would look like. I guess that's why case law exists.
Let's say you have events coming in that result in inserts, updates, and deletes on a table with a certain primary key. Assuming no dependencies external to this table, you only need events involving a specific key to be ordered. I.e. it doesn't really matter if row_a gets updated before or after row_b. In either case, you end up with the same thing. So if you do something like kafka partitions and you send events to certain partitions based on their primary key, then those partitions will be ordered which will be enough.

That doesn't fix your example of dealing with individual errors, but in many cases that's enough.
Well... using PureVPN as an example. They claim that they have been audited twice.

First audit, from 2019: https://my.purevpn.com/pdf/Privacy_No_Log_Audit_Report.pdf

I tried to contact the auditor, Altius IT, in order to confirm whether exfiltrating connection data to a third party would result in the audit failure. They replied, but in a very vague way (refused to answer any questions regarding Altius IT's audit of PureVPN's environment). Well, at least they confirmed indirectly that the audit did exist.

Second audit, from 2023: https://www.purevpn.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/KPMG_Pure...

I tried to contact KPMG to verify the authenticity of that report, and also asked the same question - "whether deliberate real-time exfiltration of origin IP addresses, assigned VPN IP addresses, connection timestamps, or connected user activities to a third party by PureVPN, without PureVPN (as opposed to that hypothetical third party) storing anything locally in any form of logs, would have constituted a failure of the privacy assessment." Result: no reply from KPMG at all, so I cannot be sure even that the report indeed comes from KPMG and is not a fake.
If you believe it it is not virtue signaling, and if you balk at the price it is not virtue signaling. So not sure where that idea comes from.
Anyone else noticed the Venus poster having actually legible text? That’s very cool. Previously I’ve only ever seen generated images having garbled text.
From my experience, while MJ is not as good at following the exact prompt, it's been much better at producing overall visually appealing images.

I don't have as much experience with SDXL, but I've used plenty of Dall-E and other models; most of them generate results that follow the prompt well, but look more like a collage than a piece of art. Which may very well be what you're going for, but for doing more abstract and creative brain storming, I much prefer the Midjourney, which definitely has a specific "look".
I haven't heard of comfyui yet but a simple install with a headless API and ability to run on my linode (hopefully..!) without a gpu is all I really need to kickstart the local-running plan. Intersting, will check that out, thanks! And thanks for the kind words as well, glad you love the idea haha!
>"Restoration Agriculture" by Shephard

+1 to that book.

I don't have a farm (wish to, but life is very busy atm) and is still a book I enjoyed quite a lot. Anyone could get a lot of knowledge out of it.
Yes, unfortunately I have yet to beat that technique in wallclock convergence speed vs just using the larger network from the start. :'((((

Whoever figures out how to clearly and effectively do it consistently faster than a 'full network from the start' version will open up an entirely new subfield of neural network training efficiency. :'))))
100% might be a high bar for just skepticism. If there was something massively successful that was even 50 or 60% AI (and the novelty of AI wasn't the sole reason for its success), I think I would be firmly convinced.
art/fine art, will only be at risk when ai learns to physically paint or interact with the world. I think it needs to actually use a paint brush. Pictures of paintings are never the same as seeing them in person. They just can't be captured the same way. Ai is being trained on photographs of these physical paintings.

a lot of art isn't always so much about the technique but the content. ai might make the gap from beginner and crap to pleasing to look at in a technical sense, but that doesn't mean the art it self will be interesting or meaningful.

if you really think art as a whole is at risk of being destroyed by ai you should go to your nearest high quality museum and really think if ai would make that. i know like half the posters are in the bay area lol, go to sf moma this weekend and think about this.
I don't really know them well enough yet but some of these frameworks do seem to be in need of some compiler engineers e.g. with this compile time reactivity for example I was surprised there was no mention of dataflow analysis.
> DALL·E 3 is built natively on ChatGPT, which lets you use ChatGPT as a brainstorming partner and refiner of your prompts.

Nice! I teach ChatGPT on midjourney’s documentation and it gives me great prompts on my loose ideas

This follows that concept
Why do we even want to contribute to a culture so austere and calculating and uncaring anyway? Like, kind of a chicken/egg situation.

It is all just impetus to go and find the prior form of "art" we have had all along. Art need not be about the Artist and her Works, or about creating something for some kind of vague consumption. Art can be about collectivity and shared truths. Art used to be about speaking to God or whatever, and whoever actually placed the pieces of glass were very secondary. At my most optimistic, I feel like some turn like this (but probably more secular) is inevitable. People need to get stuff out, and if this pressure is not relieved by our current ideas of labor and such, it will find a way nonetheless like water through stone.

http://web.mit.edu/allanmc/www/benjamin.pdf
An artist using an artbook as reference material = good

An artist tracing an image in an artbook and selling it = bad

Seems consistent to me
All else is not equal.

If the customers they don’t want to serve are unwanted because their contribution doesn’t fit the market the company is seeking with its coherent speech product than its first amendment rights are being infringed when you force the carriage of the unwanted content.

Furthermore, forcing every social media platform to carry everything is just a questionable idea, regardless. I’m sure you have seen unmoderated internet. It’s not surprising that the common carrier model doesn’t fit social media platforms given that it would lead to perverse results.
Very cool! Thank you for letting me know!
The people in the concentrated urban areas call farming areas "fly-over country," and love to point out that the urban areas contribute 70% to the national GDP. In the past 10-20 years they started making noises about eliminating the Electoral College system.

The fact that farmers have a say in anything is astonishing, and people are hard at work trying to prevent them from having any voice at all on a national stage.

I find it all very short-sighted, but that's politics for you.
I'm not sure why mobile kills this idea or why it even matters. I'm not going to be running neovim or mutt on my mobile device because I don't often use a mobile device to write a substantial amount of code or do anything beyond surface-level email triage.

The next version of Safari has the idea of installable web apps on macOS. Chrome has had that functionality available for years. There are also a number of third party apps for macOS that handle creating app bundles that essentially just run web views (e.g. Fluid, Bulldock Browser, etc).
I’m not terribly familiar with the text to image tools, but you can provide source images as baseline, right? I’d wager that if you’re able to create a baseline image to feed in, your results will be better. The better the input, the better the output. It definitely feels like a situation where artists who can leverage ai will be the ones pulling ahead in the commercial sector.
I'm willing to bet you're a white male, because on average, most HN users are. Given that, would it be okay if I said most white people are imperialistic, colonizing abusers who oppress women and minorities? Because on average they have been exactly that.

Once you're on the receiving end of these "averaged" generalizations, you realize that it's not a great idea to think that way or to try to rationalize using them. It's like the people that say things like "on average, black people commit more crime" and then use that oversimplification to justify racial bias.

(and yeah, i'm probably gonna be flagged for pointing out the logical fallacies that get propagated to justify systemic racism, misogyny, homophobia and slut-shaming, but i'm not gonna censor myself to avoid pointing out fallacious tropes in common discourse)
> I can easily imagine a future where a single dedicated individual or at least a very small independent team can make a full-length movie without leaving their apartment on a tribal budget that rivals a big Hollywood production costing hundreds of mullions to produce today.

This is definitely exciting to contemplate, but it's still quite tricky for the economics: Right now, the fact that you need 4000 people to make a blockbuster movie limits the number of movies being made, giving each movie enough of an audience (potentially) to make their money back.

Better tools will enable more awesome creatives to make content alone - but will there be enough eyeballs to consume that content, even if it's cheap to make?
You know, I've been trying to use some of these new generative AI and LLM models and I think I'm sort of reflecting off of them. I've gotten a few good things out chatGPT in terms of writing advice and such, but I find the generative art bits really frustrating, and typing in long prompts to be also kind of not worth the effort, I can usually just make what I want in less time than it takes to refine my prompts down.

However...I'm a very visual thinker, when I'm thinking or speaking, I often see images in my head of what I'm trying to convey.

I wonder if aligning ChatGPT and DALL-E or something similar so that I can "see" an image of what the computer is saying as well as the text might be a great next step towards making me feel more engaged with the technology.

That and native speech to text would be nice so I can just talk at it and have it just sitting on the side as a helper-bot instead of being the main point of my focus while I work on or do other things.
The Cognitive Strengths and Weaknesses of Modern LLMs
Really? On their large, featured image, the female character's left hand seems to be two deformed blobs sneaking behind her other arm, while the male character's left forearm seems twice as long as it should be, eventually merging with the countertop.
Thank you - try it out and let me know what you think.

Based on the launch feedback so far today, I think I need to build a Slack integration - primarily as a separate channel to deliver the daily newsletter. It seems like lots of people don't even open their work email anymore, so the chat + forum need to work together.

I wrote more about why chat fails for work communication in my launch post here - summarized as "our workplace communication looks like the floor of a 1980s stock exchange, not a place for writing code." https://www.contraption.co/news/launching-booklet/
> "age in a bot" might be a truncated form of "message in a bottle."

Yeah, that makes sense, it is a very odd sentence otherwise. Truncating on "bot" might be a play on words for game AI/NPC.

> The PRNG exponentiation scheme is essentially Diffie-Hellman.

Ah, of course, yes, I was thinking it reminded of public-key cryptography.

> Including, e.g., plasma pistol?

Yeah, it seems so, that was the first weapon I was thinking it to be used for. I tried e.g. setting the duration to zero and charging the plasma pistol. It still shoots like normal and does not seem to affect visual effects, audio or damage for neither host nor guest. It is still possible that it is used for something else that I have not noticed. Modifying the host's fire duration does not cause a desync so it might not affect the game state.

> Very cool investigation and writeup.

Thanks!
This was the most exciting part to me.
You could boil all of this down to the fact that our current best effort at feeding 9 billion people has a lot of unfortunate externalities. If your proposal is to revert back to high land and labor input methods, then maybe it would make a difference insofar as a few billion people would probably starve. For my part, I'd prefer we try innovating our way through it.
If your art style can be put into a bunch of parameters (which it can) it can be copied by a human. Copyright of style is stupid and muddy, it's always a matter of people thinking "the magical humanity" not being possible to put into ones and zeroes.
Introducing GNOME 45, “Rīga”
You are entirely right. Problem with the sha256 is that you kind of need a comment pointing to the proper tag (at the time of generation). It gets tedious with time.
Unicorn Market Cap 2023: Rise of AI
That looks exactly like what was in the video (though the video seems to be down?)
Vehicles have been getting heavier and heavier, but consumers doesn't seem to notice / care. Instead they go out and buy another SUV to park in their driveway next to the two SUVs they already own.

Let's compare an SUV from 2000 to one from today:

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2000 Toyota 4Runner

Weight: 3,440 to 3,975 lbs

MPG: Up to 18 city / 23 highway

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2023 Toyota 4Runner

Weight: 4,400 to 4,805 lbs

MPG: Up to 16 city / 19 highway

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After 23 years of R&D the same model of SUV gained ~1000lbs of weight and lost MPG. The 2023 model does make more horsepower and that added horsepower does offset the added weight in terms of power / weight ratio. Of course horsepower can't make up for handling, braking, fuel economy, tire / mechanical wear, etc.

Electric cars push this disturbing trend even further: an SUV like the Rivian R1S weighs 7000 lbs... but don't worry you got 835 horsepower; I just hope you have some brake pads and tire tread left too.

I hope we start seeing some vehicles that benefit from technology that allows them to be lighter than the vehicles from decades ago. I fear that this will not happen because light vehicles are seen as unsafe when the potential exists to be hit by a 7000 lb under-maintained SUV whose driver lost control and jumped a divider into oncoming traffic while attempting to brake after running an 11 second quarter mile while texting.
Looking forward to the day I have a little stage in my living room where little androids act out scenes from Shakespeare, Beckett. Ha I bet Beckett never saw that one coming.
The spoon is writing on the back of a clipboard.
Learn API development with flask and MySQL
Here's the thread from 72 days ago(from 9/20/23) on Sarah Silverman's copyright infringement lawsuit for the same issue with Open AI.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36657540#36658582
There are several projects that leverage eBPF for automatic instrumentation[1].

How accurate and useful these are vs. doing this manually will depend on the use case, but I reckon the automatic approach gets you most of the way there, and you can add the missing traces yourself, so if nothing else it saves a lot of work.

[1]: https://ebpf.io/applications/
Growing up in the time where Palm and Windows CE were a thing, I knew having a capable pocket sized computer was an inevitability, and couldn't wait for it. And it's great: I would fucking hate not having modern mobile banking, communications tools, maps, calendars and the ability to look anything up immediately.

The internet was more fun pre-smartphone, but that's because of the demographic change brought on by a new Eternal September, not the existence of mobile computers. We went from the internet being the domain of interesting, creative people who made things for fun to "basically everybody."
Take a look at Chimera Linux: https://chimera-linux.org/
I've heard more than once an artist say doing art is the only way to keep themselves from committing suicide. Artists gonna do art.

Another example would be someone who loves to garden. If a gardening robot was invented those people would still garden themselves.

Generative AI allows people without mechanical skill to do art, by iteratively interacting until the AI gets it just right for them, so in that sense generative AI opens up art to many more people.

As for making money from art, I believe we're going to have to implement some sort of universal basic income. I currently don't have to work because I collect social security, so I pursue my hobbies the way most other people on UBI will do.
No third-party auditing could exist that proves you only have RAM in the system and don't have a secret disk in there with a magnetic reed switch in-line with the SATA power cable such that without sticking a magnet on the case the disk doesn't show up. Or that you aren't booting off a USB drive that you plug in only after the auditors leave.

Third-party audits are a scam to begin with and don't prove anything.
The article OP linked is inspired by Gzip+Knn paper that was released a few months ago, compression is not intended to make things harder but to extract useful features that can be used by simple algorithms like Knn or SVG etc...

For example it would be almost impossible to distinguish cat and dog images by using SVG or Knn directly on the data but it would be much easier if the images were first passed into an image encoder and a small embeddings vector would be used for each one instead. In the article OP linked it doesn't seem that Gzip is very good at extracting useful patterns for the MNIST dataset.
That is significantly worse than the FP version and I think it proves the point.
true, fortunately there are many more things to create than nudity, sexually explicit, and political figures

“so for everything else, there’s Midjourney”
What's the alternative? Outlaw AI art? Too late for that.
The fact that postscript(and by implication pdf) encodes circles via bezier curves is an implementation detail, "arc" is a primitive of the language, there is no reason your PS to g-code interpreter would not use circles for arcs.

On that note, circles are rare on machine tools as well, if it is not a lathe(or rotary table) it will have to approximate a circle via a set of linear movements. Nothing wrong with this, modern machine tools can generate very good circles, often better than the rotary table, due to the additional error introduced by having another axis.
To what audience? For someone in a leadership position who is responsible for running their organization, optics are very important, and a silly name can hurt. We're already talking about a fork by a lesser-known organization with no track record. The silly name doesn't help.
Seems like we are experiencing another historical robbery.
I don't know how long such a phase will last, and I don't think anyone should count on it.
It's nice of you to say that, but I know what I did.
$16 and counting. More so just for fun though
I was mostly comparing against Kafka but yes I should def take a look at RabbitMQ again. I remember there was some reason it wasn’t a good fit for me but can’t recall what it was.

Are the horizontal scaling issues solved now?