skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah yeah, it's hidden away a little cause they don't call it TOTP and you need to manually copy codes into your settings app. Gonna see if I can set it up on Mac cause that's where I'll actually maybe need it.
Nothing except their ability to make a living.
Fun fact: -40C is equal to -40F! So you can just say -40 and it means the same to everyone.
Apple Vision Pro hands-on, again
All your points would imply that the original art was degraded somehow. How?
I don't agree that Filecoin does anything to enable piracy. If your goal is to pirate software and movies, your needs were already (and still are) adequately met with BitTorrent and there's no need for a blockchain token. Tokens would just be an expensive distraction to someone like that.
> cheburashka

Thank you this is gold

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Yes, they called it programming not downloading :-)
Yeah and personally I've been on both ends of the spectrum. I think there is something to be said for pre-mature optimization and over-optimization. But I do feel like it's a lost art these days.
It is really hard to read that article on a site where 20% of the page is covered by a cookies warning with only an "OK" button. Talk about hell.
Emacs has a mode called cua-mode with keybindings thats more simillar to ones from other modern gui programms like browser.
> What is the essence of an MBA education?

As the title itself suggests, it is to understand how to run a business. That might not be the outcome for most MBA students, that might not even be their intent behind pursuing an MBA etc. but it is the 'essence'.

> [...] middle management Machiavellianism. Is this explicitly taught in MBA schools?

Short answer: rarely. But is it explicitly mentioned in MBA literature? Yes, if you know what to look for -- as is exactly the case in its real life manifestation.

Source: why, I have an MBA.
Yeah... but I don't think it's an actual list of artists that were used? Here's a relevant comment from the last discussion of this on HN:
"Looking at the source tweet[1], this isn't a list of artists specifically used to train Midjourney, but instead is a list of artists used to pre-render additives that can be added to an existing prompt much faster than an arbitrary addition."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38908079
The Future Is Synthetic Data Engineering
Been primarily on the backend. Last couple of years have been working with Go. Before that, a lot of Python, PHP, Node etc. Laravel, flask, gin, express. The whole nine yards.
Have you ever taken a pencil or a brush to a blank sheet of paper?

Thousands of people do and produce wonderful works of art. Even before the AI craze, not everyone embraced even "plain old" digital art. The physicality of feeling a graphite pencil scratching a blank page is gratifying and cannot be reproduced by typing a prompt somewhere online.
Because we are humans and our capability of abusing those rights is limited. The scale and speed at which LLMs can abuse copyrighted work to threaten the livelihoods of the authors of those works is reason enough to consider it unethical.
Hi, it would be great if your website showed what it was about before asking for camera permissions.

As it exists now, it's a bit off-putting to see a request for camera without any info on why you need it.
This may end up being a place where some of the newish ideas in IDEs can help.

You want the fast machine because you want the code-build-test cycle to be fast, but for immediacy reasons we want a little more hardware than we really need so that we don't get bogged down too badly in worst-case scenarios.

So when we run the software on the machine along side this behemoth, we may or may not see something comparable to the users.

And then we also like for interactions to go faster for us so that we can quickly get to the end of a thought without having to drop everything and fix the slowness first (also, too few of us actually know how to fix the slowness instead of papering over it).

As we lean into multiple machines, or at least virtual machines, I can see a sliver of hope here where we offload rather large chunks of the IDE to resources the application itself cannot 'see', due to partitioning, remote calls, or both. Things like running the language server elsewhere, or the application in a container.
The goal isn’t to generate billable hours?
This one was fun:

> like when searching for the "tank man" prioritized showing a fake AI selfie from the mans perspective

In this case the label is that it's a AI-generated and the source is an article talking about that AI-generated picture.
I like your take on this. I've been in awe of the explosive growth of software developer salaries, college CS departments, "learn to code" initiatives, etc. over the past 15 years and really wondering how long it can go on.

On the other side, my family has started consuming a lot of mental health care over the past couple of years, and it has not been easy to get in with therapists. The trend is for insurers to cover more of it. With that and teletherapy being the norm now, I think a lot more people are willing to sign up for more sessions, and the overhead of running a practice must be much lower (due to teletherapy, not dealing with insurers).
you don't, that's the whole apple strategy lock-in your average younger, non technical person so much that they find it 'an ick' to have to interact with an android user.
Who is "we" here? Are you making a distinction between people and machines? If I built a machine that randomly copied from a big sample of arts that I wanted, would that machine be ok?

OpenAI built a machine that does exactly that. They just sampled _everyone_.
Agreed. Between SSDs, blazing faster home DSL internet, and multicore processors, using a computer is much faster than it's ever been before.

Sure there's more software bloat, and webpage bloat, but if anything the overall user experience has gotten faster. And that's even with resource hogs like Retina displays and 4K video.

Like, go look up YouTube videos of people using older systems (not VM's). A Mac in 1989 takes forever to open an application, open a file, or save a file. The HDD clicking away... Remember how Word implemented "fast save" to shorten save times, which appended a lot of changes rather than rewriting the whole file? Nobody worries about that today.
I wonder if AI shrinks the economy. Not that such a metric is the most important ruler by which to measure goodness, but it would be ironic to have a massive tech company that produces less value than it removes from the world.
we actually get to collectively decide what the future is through legislation, it's kind of the whole idea of democracy, that we don't have to just let the richest couple of companies determine what's best for us
Its not like looking and getting inspiration, its looking and being able to almost perfectly duplicate the style.

Their complaint is not being able to post art for its own sake because it will be hoovered up into datasets to train more AI: They are forced to submit to helping train AI or not post their art.
I'm not sure how to feel about this, ultimately any work you put on the internet can be used in a way to enrichen other people. If you write free software, if you write a poem, if you draw art, etc. People will be free to heavily copy or be inspired by your work (and the distinction between copy and inspire is very muddy/gray).

The real question is about the scale and how "original" ai works are. Does generative ai enabling this at scale make it different than humans doing it? Is there something special about human authorship?

I personally don't care if my open source code gets trained on by AI, but I'm not sure about the social contract around artistic expression.
Any prompt response longer than 30 characters inevitably devolves into verbatim passages from The Iliad.
Doesn't that kind of demonstrate the value being actively stolen from the creators, more than anything? Copyright law killed Napster, too. That doesn't mean applying copyright law was wrong.
> most of Tesla's market cap is hype, and the hype is tied specifically to Elon

What is the evidence for this?

On one hand, he drives retail interest in the stock. But that doesn't alone a $700bn company make. Tesla also has a $100bn revenue book that it turns as a profit thanks to its expertise and operational experience making batteries. To the extent batteries are to EVs what engines were to ICE vehicles, that puts it in a unique position in America and small company globally.

Between the cybertruck and Musk's fring politics, we may be approaching the point where his affiliation flips to liability. (A nested counterpoint being this resilience returning as evidence for his contributions.)
I am yet to to come across a programming task where ChatGPT saved me time.

For a start, most of my work is about using internal APIs. But nevermind. Sometimes I come across a generic programming problem. ChatGPT get me to 80% of a solution.

Getting it from there to a 100% solution takes as long as doing it from scratch.

Just my $0.02
Don't forget that development tools are also comically slow and bloated.
True. That covers galvanic corrosion, but not other corrosive effects.
The understanding you're missing is that artists benefit when they are credited for their work. Let's say you drew concept art for a videogame, and your name appears in the credits. You can now go to recruiters and hiring managers and say "I worked on a game that shipped" and get hired.

Let's say, during hard times when you don't have a job, fans of the game you worked on notice you on twitter and say "hey I loved your work, here's $5 for your patreon." Now you can pay your medical bills this month.

Their livelihood was taken from them. Midjourney is theft.
It’s actually a pretty common practice in the industry and academic. You can change your system block diagram to have the measured value as some sort of rate of change rather than the value itself (this is a non trivial exercise). In return, your system is more stable and you can get rid of the D constant since it’s another value you need to tune and sometimes causes instability in a control sense. It’s a pretty popular technique in high safety applications like aerospace.
I don't think it's just about (or even mainly) functional programmers.

Look on something like java or kotlin, that are inherently slowing down EVERY.SINGLE.VARRIABLE. access by boxing them into objects.

On other hand there is rust, which takes quite a bit of inspiration from fp aproach but obviously still cares about the performance.
That's why I store them in Bitwarden.
English-language literature maybe. But for example it was quite common until recent decades for upper-class French men (even politicians) to have mistresses quite openly and a lot of French literature deals with this.
Graphics software maker Ansys to be acquired by Synopsys for $35B
Simulate a character acting in various fashions and styles and saying the same exact thing. Show off the character in your likeness to other people. Ask them which simulation is best.

Go to the stage acting just like that simulation.
Cheburashka ("Soviet Mickey Mouse")
If the boundary isn't enforced you'll likely see art move increasingly to a patronage system, whereby a select elite will get to choose what art is suitable for your consumption. Maybe you'll like that, maybe you won't.
Then they store your credit card info in a database and leak it some time next year.
Show HN: Generate Cover Art for Spotify Playlists
If they make a model that's good enough to actually take away jobs rather than merely making everyone more productive — is it a tool or a human level AI, I'm not sure either way though I lean toward the latter — the only possible compensation is UBI… which they're funding research into.

> plus, there was no consent.

I agree with you about this. That's a different problem, but I do agree.
yes, but why did Israel and Egypt put restrictions on Gaza after Israel left Gaza in 2005? Why did this happen? Surely, the reasons are extremely relevant for any conversation on this topic.
Total agree. There was a time when the deployment cycle was so long it was painful to ship poorly performing buggy software. Now people let their users do the testing.
In order to learn an object file format, the first thing I'd do is write a dumper for it.
America has too many parking garages. Repurpose them for commerce
> That would be crazy to imagine 10 years ago

We had this in 2013. Would have handled the job with a well written parser.

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/sku/77779/i...
I don't think its fair use.

https://fairuse.stanford.edu/overview/fair-use/what-is-fair-...

There are complications, but google can use thumbnails because essentailly they are used to "review" the website.

Has google sampled and hosted the whole image on their own website and made more iamges in the style of say mickey mouse, they would have been taken to town by the owners.

This is why there are no commercial movies on youtube (without an explicit agreement) and why DCMA takedowns exist.
I use a reasonably beefy machine to develop “heavy” desktop software. It’s definitely the kind discussed in this article. I find it frustrating that it has noticeable input lag even with moderate workloads for exactly the reasons mentioned.

But then you talk to end users and it turns out they work 80 hours on one big document with input lag of several seconds. Some actions can take 15 seconds. It’s mad. It’s larger than anything we imagined anyone to work on. It must be infuriating. And they don’t get beefier machines despite it being an instant cost saving. Because software is seen as magical anyway. They do in two days what would take 50 days to calculate by hand! That’s fast! So when you ask them what to prioritize surely they say “make it faster with heavy documents”?
No, they want more features. Because a feature can save then days or weeks or months. A faster program just saves them hours. So I sort of understand them (and why we build software that grows slow).
>only valuable because of theft

It's not theft though
Docker is slow enough without giving me crippled hardware.
I'm just curious if you believe that physical property or real estate is similarly a form of "thought control" that does not actually exist. "Property is theft" is a common saying in some intellectual-political circles, especially about land.
What about training on art that's in the public domain or that's privately made specifically for training?
And those who are getting paid those great tech salaries, should be willing to send 100% of their paychecks to artists while they code for free.

Because . . . they're not creating value with their code. It took them years to learn how to code well. All that effort should be contributed to the world for free.
Hard drive to SSD was a really big deal for general desktop experience. I used a ~first gen 30gb ssd with an intel atom for a while and that was fine provided I didn't try to compile anything. If your budget desktop has the OS on flash, that would do it.
But today there are thousands of (human) artists who create original works "in the style of" other famous artists, and my understanding is that this is completely legal.

Artists own a copyright to their actual works. Not to a "style". Besides, all artists learned from other artists and borrowed lots of ideas from predecessors.

Why should we hold AI to a higher standard than we hold human artists to?
Thanks, I really appreciate your effort. I suppose it's fair to say your username checks out!
Personally, I think that they simply don't like to be go to free storage for all of our personal or hobby or open spurce projects.

This way, free users are less likely to use github while paying corporations will stay.
Mojave hi-desert dweller here, your description sounds ~identical to mine.

Rattlesnakes and black widow spiders are about it. The scorpions are the annoying but not lethal kind by me.

No deep freeze required... and there's no disease-spreading mosquitoes or tics to speak of any time of year.
As I understood this ruling at the time, one major caveat was that they have to open up payment options but are still allowed to demand 30% of the third-party payments, thus making it mostly irrelevant.

This article mentions nothing about it - was this interpretation overly pessimistic?
Conversely, the simpler the models on a system under attack, the more exploits start to resemble automated social engineering. I can easily develop my own model that understands the victim well enough that I can predict its responses and subvert them.
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No, that's not what bankrupt means. Bankruptcy almost never happens when there is literally zero value left. In the archetype we're discussing, there is enough value in the company to pay the banks and PE firms lavishly and exorbitantly, but not enough to do that and keep the company healthy (or indeed, alive, in countless cases). So the PE firms choose just the first one.

> Assuming the company can pay off all their debts

This, too, seems to be unfounded assumption that turns out to not be correct, as explained above.
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Seems like a huge reach. Chicago, specifically seemed to have some extremely cold weather in the 80s[1] and basically nothing since then until now. From my personal anecdata, winters up in Canada seem milder than when I was a kid - some 30 years ago.

Politically, attributing every instance of bad weather to climate change with no evidence plays into climate change denier narratives and seems like a bad move.

[1] https://www.weather.gov/lot/Chicago_Temperature_Records
This seems like a semi-moot point considering that after you've updated something you (presumably) also run an automated test suite and (have someone) test the application manually.

I've also had various occasions where code compiled successfully but no longer worked as intended.
I learnt about this project with the recent disappearance of one of its creator, Nikaus Wirth. What I found interesting, among other things, is the Text User Interface at the core of the OS. With the rise of ChatGPT and conversational search, I thought it may be useful to revisit such projects in the light of this new era of text and conversations first.
amazing name
That is a non-suitor. A lot of people like hohos and Twinkies.

That doesn't mean they arent stolen and that doesn't mean they are fine cuisine.
I like a good metaphor, so I see your point, though it doesn't quite fit for me.

To me, training a model is less like redistribution and more like reading something and having it influence your thoughts. You may be able to reproduce certain memorable sections of things you've read verbatim (common with poetry, for example) and you may well be able to reproduce a 'style', but you don't have the entirety of the source material memorized in a way that it could be redistributed in full (but if you did, that may be well an infringement at such a time).
Don't guitarists record themselves playing a tune in a hundred different ways before settling on one that is the most appropriate?
Non-paywall link:
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/16/nyregion/mathew-bianchi-n...
Sometimes software bloat is what it is. Poorly written and unoptimized.

Other times, that performance loss was actually an intentional trade-off for accessibility, security, reliability, or other tangible benefits. I'm sure not everyone will agree, but in most cases I will personally prioritize those ahead of performance.

A lot of the older simpler software we think of as being high performance was, or still is, severely lacking in those aspects.
> Progress is more important than your right to...

Hard no. We progress civilization so that we (as humans) may benefit. Progress at any cost is pathological, see universal paperclips as the extreme example.
A friend has an MBA from Harvard. Upon graduating they did their requisite stint at McKinsey for 18 mos, then went to work for a Fortune 100 corp, explicitly hired to be developed as eventual mid to upper management.
After 15 years, upper management shifted and their future prospects instantly dimmed.
So they picked up the phone, called the Harvard Alumni office, which in a matter of days set up interviews for them at other fortune 500 companies. They had another job offer in an entirely different field in about 2 weeks from the initial phone call. This is a recent anecdote, about 5-6 years ago when all the aforementioned problems were already evident.
"Harvard is a hedge fund masquerading as an institute of higher learning" - Scott Galloway (and hedge fund is a euphemism for Racketeering)
Assume there was a law where GPTs cannot train on data from websites that put up a "Do not crawl" notice. If everyone did this, doesn't the value of the GPT diminish?

It does diminish and hence the question, what is the value the website owner is getting by having their data be used by someone else. (others have called out the same concern).

In your case, you seem to be fine with your data getting used for free. Others are not, especially if the art, data etc. on their website is something they want to earn their livelihood from.

Btw if you can't get MidJourney to create anything that looks like this artist's work, it does not mean it's impossible. Perhaps something with your prompt or perhaps it's something MidJourney will fix eventually. Once it does, the artist has simply lost opportunity to get some value from their own work.
This seems like it boils down to "if you can't find someone willing to hire you, start a company and find someone willing to hire it"? Which solves the problem of not having a job, I suppose, but doesn't necessarily solve the problem of not having an income.

Contract manufacturing sounds like a very specific field. Were you working in contract manufacturing before, or did you basically make a career pivot into manufacturing because that's where the opportunities were? (If so, very savvy!)
I really haven't liked the crypto bros == AI bros memes, but in this way I do see the similarity.

As in: we will change the world, all that is required is that we throw away all previous protections! The ends justify the means!

I do see a much more beneficial trajectory for LLMs vs cryptocurrencies, but yeah, this is gross and unfair.

Note: as the days go on, I continue to realize the pitfalls of Utilariansim. I do miss the simplicity, but nope.
Of course they are, they are all about Web Development...
I think google got into legal trouble for doing this (linking directly to the source image, instead of to the site)

Or they were at least threatened with legal action. I remember when it happened many of my friends were annoyed overnight
"Computers are in fact very fast" and "certain programs do in fact demonstrate that" and "the real-world experience of using computers for most people is that performance is largely treading water or going backwards" due to a boom in software inefficiency, can all be true at the same time.
>I don't agree that TinyML is the future, just as I don't think IoT is the future. The future is robot servants. They will be ~human scale and have plenty of power to run regular big ML.

I swear I've read an article on exactly why human-scale robot servants make no sense.

It's something like:

1. Anything human-scale will tend to weigh as much as a human. That means it needs a lot of batteries, compared to e.g. a roomba. Lots more material and lots more weight means lots more cost.
2. Also, they'll be heavy. Which means if they e.g. fall down the stairs, they could easily kill someone.
3. If they run out of power unexpectedly (e.g. someone blocks their path to the charger) then they'll be a huge pain in the ass to move, because they're human scale. Even moreso if they're on the stairs for some reason.
Mind me asking how big your organization was at that point? And were you the one responsible for patching after if something didn't resolve with upgrading libs?