skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> [...] Gen Z cannot go online or be a part of a social setting without being exposed to the sheer amount of horrors happening around the globe. You can’t turn on the television without being shown the terrors of school shootings, the sorrow in the faces of refugees as they flee their county’s with nowhere to go, and all of this happening while our political structure crumbles.

Susan Sontag wrote about this in "Regarding the pain of others". Basically as soon as we had the means to know what is happening around the world almost instantly (at least as soon as the information is properly formatted) we opened this exposure to the collective suffering of the entirety of the human race. It is not something one can run from and everyone will eventually be exposed to it. The article goes more into detail of the naturalization of suffering and the ideia that knowing the horrors by recounts and pictures we think we know the horrors themselves. It is very well worth the read.
This is an centuries old argument.
Most people don’t create to make money, they create because they __have__ to.

If those motivated purely by money stop creating little of value will be lost
> Clojure is 16 years old, how is that hipster tech?

Common Lisp is 39 years old and it’s hipster tech. APL is 57 years old and it’s hipster tech. You can be a hipster at any age. (And it’s not a bad thing.)
German kite sewing community recommended vintage Singer 404G Slant-O-Matic.

When the needle is slanted it prevents wrinkling of thin fabric. Better than Walking Foot even, which I also have as on add-on.

Also it has the super-zigzag, when means that it makes extra stitches between zigs and zags. Very durable stitch for stretchable fabrics.

It seems to be crazy expensive on Ebay: €250. Good reputation I guess.
So one of the interesting things that a lot of commenters seem to miss:

Its not the choice of technology, its the deliberate limiting to those choices. The team have said ok, we are choosing these things, and nothing else. This means that yes, some things are harder to do, but it also means that there is less shit to maintain.

If we built bridges like we built tech, we could see the silliness of choosing the components for the developer rather than the product:

the start of the bridge will be made of steel reinforced concrete, the hand rails will be made of carbon fibre, but they are taking too long, so the team switched to wood.

The middle of the bridge will be made from just steel, because one of the developers wanted to learn how to slip weld.

The tail end of the bridge is a suspension bridge, because one other developer decided that they looked cool.

That's not to say that developer efficiency doesn't matter, but efficiency is very different from "that looks cool, lets do it like that" Limiting choice is good, but when you first start, it fees like a straight jacket.
The resources you linked seem interesting enough on their own, but your own elaboration was even more fascinating and exciting! Thank you.
You understand that this article wasn't meant as a serious attempt to broaden understanding, but instead as a "game" to see what LLMs can do? The author explicity mentions that in the article and highlights that they would have read the source material if it had not been for the self-imposed constraints of the game...
But OpenAI is not selling the rights to any images, or are they? When I pay for Dall-E, does the contract give me any rights for a work? If not then there is no issue.
I think it became yours when you copied it :)
They will once people start talking about an AI gap with China.
> serializing the PRs, i.e. only have one PR outstanding at a time, which increases your development latency

I don't see a significant downside to this. It doesn't affect my development latency - if the commits depend on each serially other then you have to wait for them to be reviewed in order whether or not they are separate PRs.

I do agree that GitHub/Gitlab don't support dependent PRs very well. You pretty much have to wait for one to be merged before submitting the next. Not a big problem in practice but it could definitely be improved.
I clicked on the YouTube wikipedia article. TIL that that is the 2nd most viewed website in the world! Crazy
There is a huge amount of copyrighted material in the world and these tools let you create a lot of content in a short time, that would imply an increased risk vs slower, more manual approaches.

What I am also wondering is, if for some things copyrighted material could be somehow dominant in the output (beyond prompting more or less for it).
A lot of newer (last 15 years or so) apartments in Oslo have a mixture of ‘natural’ ventilation through vents that let in cold air and mechanical ventilation in wet rooms, and even newer builds are starting to use ‘balanced’ ventilation that heats up cold outside air using heat from air that is being blown out https://www.byggmakker.no/rad-og-guider/kjokken-og-bad/vet-d...
It's not like you can hide the web from OpenAI. They could just use a secret crawler. Or buy the data from a third party company.
Most journalists halucinate at least as much information as LLMs. There is a small number of publications that try to do reasonably well, but most have enganged in such a race to the bottom that I'd expect a current generation LLM to produce more accurate articles if given the same sources
Lots of words, but the ssl on the website is broken. After all, it is a bank.
The important point: it’s a good thing to choose a strong stack of a few tools and avoid adding more languages and tools as much and as long as possible. It’s true in every scale, 600 or a single developer.
By the end of the day, Clojure is their Cobol and it will stay with them for as long as they exist. Everything else is just how they reason around it.
The specific technology choices they made are a mistake, IMHO. But it doesn’t really matter.
Is there sci-fi series that's pro war, militarism, collectivism, imperialism?
They built ceritifcation specials to pass tests. Which means the devices under test were not representative of mass produced examples.

Specifically they flashed some custom ROM on a airbag computer so it auto-deploys at scheduled T+ time from the beginning of a test run. That's kind of a huge deal because we wouldn't know if airbag is going to deploy in real crashes.

Other tampering includes ignoring requirement that crashes must also unlock front doors, reporting numbers from a note hidden in palm while the test is running instead of from gauges, so on and so forth.
It's plagiarism (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDp3cB5fHXQ).

It's not the same situation. You can't possibly expect someone to be exposed to the entirety of the internet like ChatGPT is. It is a matter of scale. If you still think they are the same thing, the industrial revolution was about scale and had transformative impacts in the society.
Science journals are mostly under copyright of a few big publishers who are extremely hostile to any kind of ML being performed on the content.
Simple fix (at least for ChatGPT): ask it to avoid drawings with similarities to copyrighted characters.
Yes, you mean Visual Lookup right? It's using similar images found on the web. I don't think iPhone Photos feature comes close to this Ai model.
I have a similar feeling. I've got quite a bit of experience and battle scars after 25 years in the field. I've got technical knowledge at different levels: from jr to staff/architect level to CTO.

However, I've never liked writing. First English is not my first language, so I barely managed to write my PhD thesis in that languages, mainly because I had to. But in general I've tried several times to write some extensive piece about something that I am passionate about at the moment, and although in my head the blog post sounds good, once I start writing, I just get lazy and words don't flow.

What has worked for me is mentoring. I am advisor for several startups at different stages. I have weekly 1 hour meetings with their CTOs (sometimes the CEO, depending on the startup). They aske me questions of things they are struggling with, and I give them my POV, ideas and sometimes more questions.

So far that has been very nice. People have appreciated it a lot (I've even been referred as advisor to new founders) and in addition I usually "charge" 0.5-1% equity instead of money, which is a good way to have some stake in projects I like.
In the late 90s I used notepad. Mostly writing plain html. Then in the early, 2k I wrote php in Crimson. http://www.crimsoneditor.com/

When switching to mac in 2009, I used Smultron. https://www.peterborgapps.com/smultron/

Followed by sublime text. Then when I started writing typescript in 2016 or so, I switched to vscode.
A reminder for people in wet climates too.
In an ideal world, I'm sure what you say is true, but in the real world of publications and incentives for journalists, I doubt that's what happens.

Anyone reading news media recently will have noticed the vast amount of badly written/researched articles, often with click-bait headlines. Recently I've even noticed that sources considered "high quality" like the Times in the UK are heavily using click-bait techniques.
But does this actually matter if the people are only generating images for their own use? Does Photoshop prevent people from making drawings that look like Mickey Mouse? Of course not.

I think it will be easy to prevent the obvious copyrighted stuff via the method I mentioned. People going around those restrictions are subject to the same rules as someone drawing the copyrighted image from scratch.
> what's so different about having an LLM generate that image?

You don't have to pay 20 bucks a month for a private company to reproduce Mario manually at home for a start... you also can't reproduce Mario in many poses at an industrial scale solo. The list can go on, and we have seen OpenAI change their license agreement, so the risk can change over time.
What about a dense ui is intrinsically more difficult to implement on the web? Doesn't dense just mean lots of buttons/fields and small margins between them?
Your example looks very challenging indeed, but it was probably not trivial to implement either way.
We have a CO2 level at home, so I can validate my personal observations and those of others. But I don't even need to go to personal anecdotes, everything you can read on CO2 levels indicates that people notice.
I remember the guy who did it from IRCnet #hax.

He had many nicknames, but the one I knew him by was three characters long.

I lost contact with him sometime around 2004-2005, and I occasionally wonder what happened to him and if he's still alive.

I hope all is well.
What Are the Influences of "Starship Troopers" on "Ender's Game"?
Thanks for clarifying and apologies for misunderstanding.

I'm pro-sex-ed but not sure what that looks like in your locale.
Isn't Clojure dynamically typed by default? That would seem like a major difference to Java.

Or is enterprise Java effectively dynamically typed as well, so that the language-level difference matters less? I had only very limited exposure to JEE, and was surprised how much that was nominally unchecked at the Java language level was effectively type-checked by the JEE platform. But maybe this falls apart for non-toy projects?
Journalists with articles and Politicians with laws... yep.
Did you read TFA? That is a core part of it.
Hi, unfortunately this is caused by Maptiler map tiles prefering Wikidata
over OSM. More info here: https://github.com/zbycz/osmapp/issues/221

You can find the "correct" OSM entity here: https://osmapp.org/way/94708772
That's where I'm at. Dall+E spitting out C3PO should be entirely ok, unless I'm making money with the output, Disney should pound sand.
If the models weren't just doing massively complicated interpolation then this would probably work.

Honestly the only way to deal with this is to change the training data and retrain everything (probably at the cost of performance).
We need stories to be able to imagine and build the future.

I empathise with the author but he doesn’t really offer an alternative
Oh yeah, I forgot artists are spiritual creatures who don't have to eat. It certainly isn't the only reason to create but a necessary condition to actually be a professional artist, no ?
The talk in office restrooms about using Koka gets a new twist.
One very curious thing I ran into today: this morning I woke up and when I checked my phone, the (Spanish) Wikipedia page for Cleopatra was open on my browser. I didn't myself open that intentionally, but I thought I must have accidentally tapped on some links while I was asleep, and ended up there.

But now I see this website and it turns out that "Cleopatra" is consistently one of the most visited pages in the Spanish Wikipedia. Odd! I googled and it turns out that it's because it's one of the example queries in Google Assistant (source, in Spanish: https://www.elespanol.com/omicrono/software/20230118/cleopat... ). I must have tapped on it without realising. And like me, thousands of others, every day! Fascinating
If you ask a human to draw "videogame plumber" they will correctly infer that you mean Mario and draw that.

The model isn't doing anything deliberately evil. It's doing exactly what it has been asked.

The problem is people are expecting it to have detailed knowledge of trademark law and avoid infringing trademarks, which it hasn't been even asked to do.
Moving large stones with primitive tools is much easier than you might have thought [1].

We also know obelisks were built on their side because we have an unfinished one that was abandoned when it was revealed to have a large crack [2].

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5pZ7uR6v8c

[2]: https://mymodernmet.com/unfinished-obelisk-aswan-egypt/
What breaks the validation for you? Looks good here.
Retrieval augmented generation, apparently.
You're not supposed to ask it to implement something novel or large scale. You ask it how to use an api, or to refactor some code with a new class you made. You stack these up, and you can be way more productive than the person doing the equivalent of manual labor.
It's curious that so many tech billionaires are the type that don't recognize that Starship Troopers is supposed to be a satirical depiction of a dystopia and that's why they poorly choose which SF to make real.
but then no one can stop national intelligence agencies to get these "random" influencers narratives under their control, am I right?
> It is not something one can run from and everyone will eventually be exposed to it.

Oh you can. Just don't visit news sites or watch news TV channels. Paper news papers are way better and don't shove stuff down your throat the same way as rage baiting "this just in" news outlets -- who talks for a day about vague rumors.

I think people zoning out from the spam one thing news cycle is the reason The Man decided to start pushing propaganda in the Windows start menu and Facebook feed or whatever.
> On Debian you can have `/bin/sh` be any POSIX shell, on Arch you're forced to have it be Bash.

AFAIK you can use any POSIX shell as `/bin/sh` on Arch Linux. By running `sudo ln -rsf /bin/dash /bin/sh`, dash works well.
I had a feeling from the article and your comments, which is why I mentioned the hosted service. :)

From their website[0]:

> Preset was founded by the original creator of Apache Superset™. Our team of experts contributes over 75% of all commits to the open-source software project.

I'd be interested to see your blog post, regardless of tool.

[0] https://preset.io/
An argument I've seen made in pro of AI in past threads about this is that "scraping is legal."

Yeah, downloading the content of a webpage may be legal, but redistributing it isn't.

I wish people stopped trying to make these things seem more important than they really are just because IT people call them "technologies". Blockchain isn't a technology. HTML isn't a technology. React isn't a technology. And AI is now not a technology.

When I see ChatGPT or OpenAI, I don't think of "technology". I think of a program. Software. Because that's what it is. You don't say "none of the laws that exist in this world apply to this" every time you release new software.

I bet many people can't tell the difference between a quick answer from Google and a text generated by ChatGPT on Bing. They just see the output.

All that amazing capability of generative AI? That got old fast. It was groundbreaking for one instant. Now it's just an app that generates images. Just another piece of software. Nothing special about it.

Torrenting and other p2p file transfer protocols didn't get a pass for inventing groundbreaking ways to break the law. I don't think OpenAI will get a pass for doing the same.
Most people who create for a living aren't motivated purely by money, but are driven by the necessities of capitalism to do so. You're presenting a false dichotomy, pretending to care about the quality of art, but really like everyone, you just want other people's work for free.

Great art - especially in modern times when that art involves expensive education (which if you're American must be paid for with interest) and the incorporation of technology and equipment - takes time and effort. If that time and effort cannot be paid for, then no matter how passionate an artist may be, unless they have sufficient personal wealth, that art must suffer.

Even the great artists of old needed patrons, because they needed to eat like anyone else. Michaelangelo didn't paint the Sistene Chapel ceiling for the love of the game, nor would he have.

I guarantee you that the working artists who have already lost commissions and work due to AI care about their craft.
treesitter[1] is one behind the scenes approach to 'blocking' text to reduced/hi-light what is under review.
VSCode is one program that makes use of treesitter. Related alternate discussions of editors using treesitter aerial.neovim[2] / outline.vim[3]. One can setup voice equivalents of macro's to do the verbal equivalent of regular expression(s) to search/sound out tagged list of sections of interest to further voice in detail.

Cursorless[4][5][6]

AI assistant with jetbrains[7]

speach related editing sources:

"Ask HN: What are the best / most accessible languages for blind programmers?" covers some ideas.[0]

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[0] : http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37926926

[1] : http://tree-sitter.github.io/tree-sitter/

[2] : http://www.reddit.com/r/neovim/comments/qzp4as/aerialnvim_ou...

[3] : http://www.reddit.com/r/neovim/comments/mx6lfh/symbolsoutlin...

[4] : Cursorless talk : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcUJnmBqHTY

[5] Cursorless : https://github.com/cursorless-dev/cursorless-talon

[6] : cursorless examples : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hPwfBCtXws / https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEDIiJd7rwE

[7] : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NnYtfzO7qU
You're only reading that as a political jab because you're too entranced in American partisan politics.

Americans are a minority among the portion of the world's population that can read English easily enough to consult the English language Wikipedia.

When doing so, the rest us can use a brief reminder of what's ultimately a rather quaint aspect of the US: The fact that healthcare costs are a significant concern of employers.

The source cited for the paragraph you're picking apart is an article that's contrasting US automakers and their international competition.
I think in more simpler terms, I think we're looking at the dip after the hype. This is the peak for this generation of proto-AGI and there's not much to lose from over-regulatuon(put quotes around "over").
I disagree with all three claims.
Ask HN: What would a world without copyright look like??
EDIT: Maybe instead of copyright I actually meant intellectual property.

I think copyright is fundamentally absurd. It is the ownership of information, and that can work in a world where most business happens on a physical level and the production of information can be separated from the usage of information. But this stops making a lot of sense in the limit as we go towards further digitalization of our lives. Think, for example, if a brain implant meant to help people with aphantastia with visualization would be legally permitted to visualize copyrighted works. Essentially, the limit of copyright in its totality is thought crime, which we probably don't want to be a thing. Generative AI is starting to expose the cracks as traditional notions stop making sense (Are models learning like humans? Eventually they will.)

Therefore I would like to have a discussion on how a world without any copyright, any ownership of ideas or information, would look like. Would it be bad? How bad? How would industries adapt?

For example at a first glance it looks like all big budget art production would collapse to indie level plus a few kickstarter projects.

Perhaps industries would reinvent copyright themselves by entering large shared contracts where they promise eachother not to infringe on their rights, i.e. fast food joints create a cartel which shuns brands that don't follow the rules.

I think traditionally when laws which society thinks should exist did not, then soviety created paralgovernmental institutions that... enforced these laws. Like local militias to prevent crime.
It's its own beast to maintain. A lot is hiding behind your "just".

If the use case is single user wiki and the user is technical enough, MediaWiki requires more resources and is also more work than Git + Markdown + a static site generator if you are already comfortable with static site generators. No specific web server config, no tricky configuration files, no database to maintain, not difficulties to upgrade the server…

Now, one could argue that "single user wiki" just means "regular website" because the essence of the wiki is gone. Wiki means "quick" (friction-less?) edits by multiple users, possibly anonymous [1]). What the author of the post did is convenient handling of internal links. Which is still a good idea, but I would do it differently: I would not create a <a href="..."> tag for missing pages, that not very nice to users. If you do this, you are intentionally creating broken links that can only be distinguished with styling, which is not very accessible. Red links are useful in an actual wiki where users can actually create the page, but on a regular website, I'd use something like <span class="missing" title="Dedicated page coming"> or so (+ whatever is needed for the title text to be accessible).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki

> A wiki is a form of online hypertext publication, collaboratively edited and managed by its own audience, using a web browser
Two questions:

(1) Do you think "developing AGI" a realistic, achievable goal? If so, what evidence do you see that we're making progress on the problem of "general" intelligence? Specifically, what does any of that have to do with Large Language Models?

(2) Are there any "national security" applications of Large Language Models that you're aware of?

It seems to me that it would be a very difficult case to make that the national security impact from allowing the rule of law to erode would be somehow outmatched by the (speculative) wager that somehow LLMs have some relevance to the national security. It would be an even harder case to make that any of this has something to do with "general" intelligence.
Actual title is "Tech Billionaires Need to Stop Trying to Make the Science Fiction They Grew Up on Real"
Being Mac only can be an advantage - I’ve been on both sides of trying to maintain & use non-trivial dev environments and the more OSes you bring in for people to work on, the harder it gets.

Bringing in Windows or Linux has a set up cost and a maintenance cost that may exclude it from even being considered.

Edit: plus, Macs are ARM, other options are inevitably x86. So it’s also two CPU architectures to maintain support for, on top of OS specific quirks - and even if you use eg Docker, you still have a lot of OS specific quirks in play :/