skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Yes, obviously, but why?

Because Adam Smith's invisible hand has torn the veil away from our faces and revealed that humans are so piss-poor at long-term thinking that we'll happily pay ten cents less for a washing machine that breaks down twice as quickly.

Even ideal markets don't optimize for quality, they optimize for utility. And the revealed preference of the human utility function is "penny wise, pound foolish".
Employers today are looking for people who are culturally fluent in diverse settings, can display and document their leadership skills, and can be flexible to take on new challenges.

Yes, this makes sense.

Only one small problem in today's marketplace --- a diploma that cost $100k or more is no guarantee of any of that. Even if it comes from a "legacy" university.
Over time, it should be almost 50/50, yeah. What if you got 10000001 random numbers? There's no way it's exactly 50/50 with an uneven amount. It's almost 50/50
That's a great point, too. Software applications are more than the code in them. All those other folks are required to make an application good. I think the "whatever reason" for these people is the same as for the engineers, though: they gotta pay rent, and working for free doesn't do that.
This is not an undiscussed issue. You see more than enough people on Reddit discuss it to where it’s a small meme now.

The bigger problem is that Reddit themselves don’t acknowledge the issue enough.
For me, cool editors are vscode and jetbrains. I've tried to make them my default editors many times but always go back to vim (which I've been using for decades).
Perhaps worth noting: That picture comes up in a Google search on numerous websites. It was apparently one of the images distributed to generate publicity for the film.

This prompt is very specific: it references not only a film, but also two actors with unique names. It's not really a surprise that it generates an image out of its training data - what else is it going to do? In this kind of situation, I think Midjourney should just give a reference, something like "Due to an overly specific prompt, this image is very similar to XXX".

As I have posted elsewhere, I see no copyright problem using such images for training. If an image is online, it is going to be looked at, maybe by people, maybe by automated systems. If you don't want your image looked at, don't put it online. The only problem here is the lack of a reference.
Folded under the pressure.
I cannot find this story online, what is the name of the child or parents?
Pressure-tested the most popular open-source LLMs
I thought Julia's multiple dispatch was run-time polymorphism?
Is your hand large enough to handle the phone one-handed and touch anywhere on the screen with ease without risking a drop? If not, do you use some kind of magnet finger-ring case or similar case?
> A free option provided by a Corporate player will gravitate towards monopolies and lack of privacy.

Just like a "free" government option?
I was doing exactly the same 30 years ago with X Windows and XEmacs.
LOL @ "nearly 1:1"

The anti-LLM panic is going to lead to corporations like Disney owning not just the likenesses of the characters in their movies but anything that even vaguely looks like something in their movies.
>Taxes don’t create wealth, the job is to destroy it at the correct rate.

Not exactly, it's more about redistributing or reappropriating wealth because we know there exists flaws in the economic system we have (progressive tax systems). In more general terms, ignoring progressive structures, it's about investing in necessary shared services for everyone and to maintain the government that does such and more.

Looking at taxes as if they destroy wealth is a bit bleak. Governments may not be the most efficient institutions in all possible metrics but they're not out to destroy wealth exactly.
Looking at your other comments here, you were likely sarcastic, so if so: you got me :)
Design for the inverse pyramid.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_pyramid_(journalism...
It's weird for me to se an article about a visual subject without a single screenshot about the thing it's writing about.
Ask HN: Are AI trained on GPL code subject to the GNU?
Because the AI would then be considered to be a derivative of said code, would that then require that resulting trained AI also be readily accessible and (to whatever extent is possible) its source, weights, and bit code made freely available?
I am become HN hug of death
OT but since multiple others are mentioning Nagoya: what's the best place to get some sweetened miso in mayo bottle thing(the tsukete-miso) around or inside Nagoya station?

I mean, I'm guessing I can just buy online, but it's something Nagoyans refuse to admit that every household in Nagoya/Aichi has one despite all having one in their fridge. It's almost strange there isn't an akafuku and kakete-miso bundle package in souvenir shops.
30 years ago, THINK C for the mac was already nearing discontinuation. It was a great compiler plus plus graphical IDE with debugger for its time. Hard to find info about it, but this site has some screenshots of the various versions:

https://winworldpc.com/product/think-c/4x#screenshotPanel
> could outweigh an individual's right to privacy.

If that’s the case, let’s put it on the ballet and vote for it.

I’m tired of big tech making policy decisions by “asking for permission later” and getting away with everything.

If there truly is some breakthrough and all we need is everyone’s data, tell the population and sell it to the people and let’s vote on it!
At the risk of oversharing too much personal information, similar stuff happens in the UK. I have a hereditary condition that can be treated with a specific drug (quality of life changing impact). My sister shares the same condition. She has access to the drug because she lives in Wales, UK which has degree of autonomy from England, UK's health service. I don't have access to the same drug, with the same condition because I live in England. The drug concerned is also incredibly cheap to manufacture, and is widely available elsewhere, but big pharma has chosen to place a ridiculous premium on it despite the fact it's long paid back the R&D costs. It is scandalous, and it needs government policy-level intervention. There are MANY similar examples of this kind of market abuse.

PS. I'm not looking for suggestions to resolve this issue - I'm confident every avenue has been exhausted and am resigned to the situation. I make this post this to explain how abusive some market operators are, and how arbitrary access to medication can be even in fully developed nations.
> Outlook/Hotmail blocks DigitalOcean.

Microsoft blocking a mail server and DO being blocked aren't necessarily the same thing.

I service a number of MS accounts (hosted domain and O/H/live.com) and they block mail from small servers I manage - and from (non-major) online services I work with. There are forums frequent that send verification mails to MS addys that never arrive.

Past that: My last time blocking mail server attacks from DO IPs is today. It's always today and has been years and years. Not just DO. OVH, Psychz and a at least doz more attack with that consistency.

[edit: Post below mentions DO SMTP changes in 2022. DO is still attacky but less attacky is possible. Not sure.]

And not that far behind, Amazon. Amazon is a lot harder because unlike the above, I regularly get legit traffic from them.
Learn CSS Grid Layout by Example
Yes I used emacs at school 15 years ago, and I agree that it was great for development ; with OCaml at the time (and also C with gdb integration, and 68k assembly later on) we shared a few tips with other students and the workflow was convenient for dev.

But vim is ubiquitous which is a huge plus when you are like me always connected remotely on a different machine. Once I learned a few shortcuts I never went back (and never dug into the tool itself actually, I can't even run a macro ; I'm still faster than most people I know with an IDE).

The only thing I was impressed with is I think phpstorm, watching a laravel dev crafting an SQL query. If I ever get serious about developping I would look into this kind of things (not just for SQL but also framework and module functions), especially if I can get vim movers, and a screen that isn't bloated. VSCode displays like 15 things and I'm only interested in 1 of them 99% of the time for example.
An incredibly nice Japanese person in subway who cares.
That is not the point. Just saying the US is a hyperaggressive war machine isn't leading anywhere. Wars have consequences and if they hadn't happened we'd have had the counterfactual, which might not always be great, either.
Yes, the screenshot in the article is clearly doing an Internet search. The exhibit in the lawsuit shows that you can complete an article by using GPT on the first sentence of the prompt, with low temperature to aid reproducibility, and obtaining the original except for a single word. That is another thing, and it shows that the LLM has basically recorded the original text into its weights in compressed form: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GCY4WC6XYAAq-JS?format=jpg&name=...
ChatGPT will lie, cheat, use insider trading when under pressure to make money
in an ironic twist

https://nitter.net/Rahll/status/1738286342390374882

https://nitter.net/Rahll/status/1739155446726791470

https://nitter.net/Rahll/status/1738408490543054949

https://nitter.net/Rahll/status/1739331983992406508

https://nitter.net/Rahll/status/1739003201221718466

https://nitter.net/KatieConradKS/status/1739765791996711034

https://nitter.net/ai_piracy

https://nitter.net/ednewtonrex/status/1738141349172453785
Help me out here. How does it being "the most popular immediate mode GUI, and it's what most people think of" translate into "Dear ImGui"? A couple explanations have been offered in response to the question, but they're all non-answers. As if the explanation is self-evident and need not be explicitly stated. And as if the respondents aren't able to grok that an explanation is exactly what the question is asking for.
Capybara dataset is now open-source and available
2023 – A Year of Extreme Weather, as Seen from Space
> Using the editor on the server from a remote connection is silly.

In my experience, this is the best way to do remote work. The alternative is to either not work with remote resources (data, hardware, etc), work locally and sync changes to remote, or work locally with a remote mounted file system (unless you need remote hardware).

For the parent, they needed GPU access, so they had to run remotely for hardware access.

I normally need particular data that is too big to move locally, so I like to work remotely for that reason. I could remotely mount drives via an SSH Fuse mount, however the IO speed for this method can quickly become a problem. For me, it is a much better experience to either use a remote web editor (rstudio server), VSCode remotely (which is a remote web editor over ssh), or vim. With web based remote editors, you still draw the screen locally, but get updates from remote. And more importantly, compiling and building takes place remotely.

I find this method much better than either pure remote access (VNC/RDC/X11) or local-only editing with syncing code and/or data. But it very much depends on your work. When I don’t need to work with remote data, a locally managed Docker devcontainer provides a much better development experience.
Only humans can do those things, so the test fails for LLM
Same experience here, it was effortless. But it is enough to justify stealing from those journalists, it seems.
> The Apache-2.0 license is a very permissive license and a lot of work is being shared for free here, so I trust people to not take advantage of that and sell Valetudo; especially not as their own work.
> Please don’t disappoint me. Thank you.

Valetudo is a perfect example of a project at risks of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tivoization - OEMs can easily slap it onto their vacuums and prevent users and developers from changing the firmware.

This is exactly what GPLv3 was invented for.
That's the truth, really. Email should cost [$0.02] or some similar value. You'd solve spam overnight.
Clearly they should have optimized using binary search. Use nested if-else statements 31 deep. This would require using a more sophisticated comparison like < less than instead of equals. You'd get a similar amount of code, but it would execute on O(logN) instead of O(N). That would surely be the mark of an expert. ;-)
How does anyone have trust in their governments to provide even basic services? Not where I live.

Still, I'd prefer to try and fix it (for various levels of "fixing") than throw the baby with the bathwater. It's an imperfect system but trusting a corporation is no better.
> We should be asking why he felt forced to occupy Ukraine.

We can certainly think about that academically, but it matters about as much as why Hitler invaded Poland. The reason matters far less than the fact that sovereign nations have no valid reason to attack another sovereign nation without being attacked first or defending an ally who has been attacked.
You still need virtual dispatch (or type pattern matching) if there is a variable which can contain either a BDRepo or a LoggedRepo(BDRepo).
Much more simple - just rewrite nvram to disable the blocks before returning a train. More effective - sue manufacturer because this whole affair is breach of contract.
The gospel of Jesus Christ was an exclusively male affair, but there are at least three female takes on Steve.
Identifying Slow PostgreSQL Queries
I am 50 years old and -14.5 diopters in both eyes. Slowing by half would have been a great outcome by comparison.
Care to share a workflow? No doubt I've seen people make shitty assets more quickly, but nothing I'd consider useful for any of my purposes. Besides, the hard part of design is figuring out the best way to solve design problems visually, not making the assets. You can definitely save money on designers if you don't care about having good design.
Hmmm, I might check how often an m twister gives duplicates.
that was always my complaint with xkcds random, getting the same couple of pages repetitively.
What's the median viewport height?
> It requires you to split every fact into a million little subfacts

That's because you confused yourself with your own highfalutin. As a matter of fact this is the part of the article that I reacted to:

> a fact does not exist in a binary state of either definitively known or unknown

We didn't even have to talk about composite bodies of knowledge in the first place. KISS
I remember working for a startup in 2015 when this whole fold thing was still thought to be a big deal.

Needless to say I’m glad we trust people know how to scroll now.
Copyright doesn’t exist solely for the “promotion of useful sciences”. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright
Ask HN: Exploring FastAPI depths – would you tune into advanced screencasts?
Hi HN,

I've noticed a growing interest among my colleagues in mastering the advanced capabilities of FastAPI Python framework.

I didn't seem to find something out there fulfilling this need, except https://testdriven.io which has some structured courses.

Topic ideas:

* Advanced dependency injection techniques

* Security best practices

* Event handling and background tasks

* Authentication and authorization (SSO)

* FastAPI and ML

* CI/CD

* Testing

* Deploying on cloud services like AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud

* Monitoring and Logging

* WebSockets

I'm considering creating short, digestible lessons on these topics and also set up a discussion forum. Do you think there's interest in this kind of content? Any further thoughts or topic ideas?

Thanks!
Isn’t that what CB2 is? Medium category
You may not like it, but this is what 10x performance looks like
I’m going to be a little facetious but how did you get your coworkers to adopt suggestions?

I’m not sure using git is any more or less difficult than suggestions.
what about it? you can't insert an iframe in the chat, I tried ;)
Back in the 1990s Sainsburys (a UK Supermarket) had a version of self checkout where you had special trolleys and big boxes you took home and put in your car and a hand scanner you walked around and scanned items with. You then took that to a till designated for it and they had an algorithm for when to rescan people. The idea people most of the time till time was very short and it was just payment. Usually people got checked on the first few goes and if items were found that hadn't been scanned then more rescans would appear in the future. It was meant to drop down to about 1 in 20 for rescan.

Within about a year the entire thing collapsed. Almost everyone was caught stealing expensive stuff like nappies and especially alcohol and the algorithm had the system rescanning almost everyone everytime and rescans took longer than people just putting the items on the conveyor belt. The few people who used it honestly found themselves in long queues behind people who stole due to the rescans and the attempt to save supermarket labour ended up costing much more.

Given that happened it amazes me we have the self checkout systems we do now. There is an obvious and clear trade off where people will use self checkout to take items without paying for them however you choose to organise it. As a business they have to decide if those loses pay off compared to the staff cost.
I wonder what the reaction of some of the people who browse this forum would be if the output of their careers were so commonly pirated. Somehow, I think most think that this argument doesn't apply.
I don't know much about Blender, but the other two, at least, have had substantial contributions by paid engineers (at big, well-known corporations), and likely input from non-engineers (e.g. product staff). They're exceptions to the rule of (F)OSS.
I wouldn't say OpenAI has exactly the same attitude, since they also pulled in thousands of books. Their position has been that it's not piracy, since they don't republish the books; effectively the AI just reads them and learns from them. If GPT can be made to reproduce the original articles, that's a more difficult argument to make.
> A sibling comment mentions search engines. I think there's a big difference. A search engine doesn't replace the source, not at all.

Google has been accused for years of replacing sources with their "One Box"--the big answers at the top of the page, which are usually pulled from or corroborated by search results. They don't want you to leave the search results page (where the ads are).
> GPT-4V can easily whitewash its entire copyrighted training corpus to be unrecognizably distinct

Is that just by increasing the temperature, tweaking the prompt, etc.? If you can operate on the raw weights and recreate the original text, copyright infringement still applies.
I definitely don’t like government being involved with that. Because it would evolve into “you must use your official government provided email address for <whatever>.” And once that address gets out there, you’ll be spammed your entire life because companies and governments and credit bureaus and other potentially annoying actors would know that’s “your” email address. Hard pass.
Shorter a16z shill: "my investments shouldn't be regulated because that would be bad for me"

"AI won't make new bioweapons because we already have plenty" is a comically-bad argument.
These guys are my heroes.
If all indie mail servers blocked by Hotmail block mail from the blocker, it will make the big player review their blocking policy.
I’m pretty sure most iPhone users are unaware of which version of iOS they run.
Ask HN: Favorite Online Course/Tutorial of 2023?
What were your favorite Online Course/Tutorial released in 2023?

It has to be Andrej Karpathy's Let's Build GPT:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCc8FmEb1nY
Digitalk had Smalltalk TUI for DOS named Methods. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ET8sPbsXQAAcgpb?format=jpg&name=...
Why would you ever expect anything different from something with no real sense of morality and is deficient in reasoning ability?
If you have a copyrighted photo that I simply put through jpeg compression, am I legally allowed to use that?

Software programs are not humans, and need to be treated differently. Anthropomorphization is one of the slipperiest paths to argue anything.
It's perfectly valid to make that statement without a requirement for relativism. War is bad, absolutely. Our enemies may be worse than war, but that doesn't change the fact.
Honest question: are other jetbrains IDEs "feel" similar to the Android Studio one that can be downloaded for free?

I installed it a couple of weeks ago to modify some android app, and boy it gave me vibes of the old Eclipse : sluggish Java feel , with "stuff" happening all around and being slow to render basic editor stuff.
There's certainly pockets of the AI Safety movement that is about creating strategic motes to protect their private enterprises, but there are also legitimate concerns out there about these new search techniques can lead rise to concerns that may effect daily life.

I think most people realize there are some gains to be had here, the trick is to do so in a way that doesn't, yet again, massively redistribute wealth and power to a select few and instead share some of those gains. Right now there's not enough legitimate competition to keep things in check and that should be concerning. I'm all for rewarding the early successors who invested and took risk but let's not pretend those investments weren't captured through all sorts of other unequitable approaches to begin with.
Because companies require them.
It's a little strange that you dug your heels in on the gemstones because I was trying to be gracious and steelmanning your point by conceding that portion. But since you brought it up again, I'll explain why I think it's wrong. Gems are not just "mostly aesthetic". 80% or so of diamonds are used in industrial purposes, ie manufacturing. So if you concede that manufacturing is a good measure, by extension so are gems. The same holds for many other gems. E.g., rubies are used in lasers, continuous measuring machines (which are heavily used in aerospace) etc. Even if that wasn't the case, your take is overly utilitarian IMO. Under your logic, any type of art (movies, music, visual art) are worthless as exports because they are more aesthetic than functional. I don't think I want to live in a society that de-prioritizes art to that degree.

The rest of your post seems like a deflection because you can't seem to adequately illuminate your point. Asking for clarification is not being pedantic any more than hiding behind ambiguous terms makes for a convincing argument. I'm not, for one, saying the US manufactures more than Asia. But I'm also not in agreement that it's languishing, save for a single industry like aerospace. If you look at the actual data, there is still a fairly robust manufacturing base in America, especially for a service-oriented economy. You wrote a lot of words but didn't contribute much to the argument other than another vague diatribe when asked for a finer point, and that's often indicative of not having a thorough understanding.