skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Art is primarily a means for one human to convey emotions to another human, but for something to be art, the artist must also have invested some skill/effort into the artwork(1).

AI-generated art may have a bit of the former (assuming the human had enough control over the details of the final output), but has practically none of the latter.

Hence, AI-generated output is not art. But art can be produced using AI tools somewhere in the process.

(1) When I look at art produced by one of those "artists" that commission the actual work to someone else, it's similar (I don't recognize the "artist" as the human I'm connecting to, ideas are a dime a dozen). However, it's still art because I can connect with the anonymous human which actually implemented it.
70 USD for 100 W seems pretty bad? Especially given the low efficiency.
The softwaaaaareeee...!
Your comment seems to presume that the line between what a human is and what an AI is will stay clear. I'm predicting that this line will be increasingly blurry. Some people see smartphones as cybernetic extensions. When I call someone across the globe, did I do that or my phone? Is that a capability I posses or my phone? Does it make sense to separate the two?

Even if AI gets way better, the one thing that I don't foresee changing is what makes things valuable and or desirable. Sparsity. If everyone has it or can create it, it's not special. I think the GP was referring to this sparsity.
Okay that was hilarious
> won't be snooped on by any of the other parties involved in transporting it.

There was a time, long, long ago, when mail from your email provider to your recipient's provider would often go through other providers in transit. Nowadays (and for the last 20 years) all of the intermediary mail-servers in the Received: headers belong to either the sender's provider or the recipient's provider. They're usually spam-filters, application gateways, secondary servers.

I guess the major exception is people who use gmail or Mailchimp as an outbound relay. But that's deliberate, and entirely under the sender's control.
> One was Radu Dogaru, whose mother claimed that she burnt the paintings in her

> stove in order to hide the evidence. The Irish Times reported Forensic

> investigators tested the remains of the ashes and made a surprising discovery

> They found wood, canvas, staples, and paint fragments that support her

> statement. This meant that the forensic investigators would need to test these

> remains further.

No, that means the painting was burnt. This is a very peculiarly written article.
Yeah, LZB internally is based on fixed blocks - but on a system with block lengths down to 50 meters (as in the Stammstrecke München [1]), the difference is negligible.

Crazy to see that SelTrac was actually developed in Berlin, failed there, but is still in widespread use across the world.

[1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stammstrecke_(S-Bahn_M%C3%BCnc...
To clarify: use the email address in the 'contact' link in the footer of HN pages (hn@ycombinator.com)
Do they smell like normal Petunias?
>These laws are also pretty much never enforced in UAE, as far as I understand.

They are never enforced, until you become a target, then you're arrested and charged with a list violations.

I mean, we do this too, to some degree. But this is naive.
That wasn’t even the Family Guy sketch I was thinking of!

“Red-headed lady, gonna eat an apple. She breathes on it first, wipes it on her bloooouuuuse…”
> would rather discuss the merits

There are none and as such there is nothing to discuss.
Adobe is buying videos for $3 per minute to build AI model
I think that distinction only makes sense when the hardware executes instructions directly. Like a microcode processor or one that uses jungle logic. But when you decompose optimize and cache the instruction steam on the fly, there is little meaningful difference. Offhand comments from friends more involved in that lead me to think that architecture caught academics flat footed.
Show HN: Cascade – open-source alternative to paid SaaS boilerplates
Hey! I recently got laid off from my comfy engineering manager job and decided to go full-time indie hacking. I’ve built around 5 side projects in the last 3 years and have much experience in launching and getting sales. However, at this time, I need a way to do it faster as I am bleeding money.

It usually took me more than 3-6 weeks from idea to shipping the MVP to the first users as I was busy setting up the typical flows like payments, analytics, error tracking, and whatnot. Usually, when everything was ready, I was not motivated to launch.

I built Cascade to solve this problem! The idea is that the whole setup takes as little as 30 minutes, and you are ready to start working on your actual business logic. Most of the tools I chose are battle-tested and are either open-source or self-hostable.

On my journey, I will fail at some things and learn some things as well. This will be reflected in the boilerplate to ensure I can save time for other future founders!
Location: Prague, CZ, Europe, Earth, Solar system

Remote: hybrid?

Willing to relocate: maybe

Technologies: QA management ;)

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/karelochman/

Email: karel@ochman.info

Over the past 25 years, I've traversed through every stage of the software development lifecycle. Eventually, I gravitated towards QA, where I could leverage various perspectives. While nudged towards people management, I discovered my true vocation.
So glad people are adding some spicier genres than ballad. This is so much more dramatic and funny. I can barely stand human ballads lol
Why should a service for publishing keys host manuals for GPG? The manuals are available at www.gnupg.org, where they belong.

https://www.gnupg.org/documentation/index.html

Also, why would that be grounds for shaming people who use published keys in a way it was designed for? I don't get your point.
But that would only make sense if most people lived in a line city.

There are much more effective ways to achieve population control than building line cities and moving people into them.
Boycotts are largely useless. What's useful is technological alternatives.

You can thank all the engineers and business people working on batteries, electric vehicles, and other petroleum alternatives.
Like another commenter I also use it for initial exploration in uncharted territory.
For coding only helpful with autocompleting error strings. Even then, it messes with normal auto-complete, might get rid of it.
If you are arguing that non-competes shouldn't exist therefore patents shouldn't exist — I think you're framing the issue too broadly.

If a professional joins an organisation, creates something novel and valuable, and then is poached to another organisation to do the same thing — that's exactly what patents are there to protect.

Say they spend 5 years developing a nice kind of lubricant — the company can patent that lubricant. Then if the professional goes and joins another company, even if they have that knowledge, they'd have to conduct new research to find a new approach which doesn't run afoul of the existing patent. That's the point — patent's don't protect your market dominance, they just protect against imitation/copying.

Now say the work of that professional is systems architecture for some Google project, and they leave and join Facebook to build the same systems architecture for Facebook's project — of course that shouldn't be patented (although sometimes it is, and that's a different issue.)

A "restraint of trade" agreement in your employment contract (a "non-compete") is intended protect companies from others copying their product when other IP rights don't exist — and I agree that it shouldn't exist. It quite literally prevents new invention and done through an imbalance of power. But, organisational already have plenty of mechanisms to mitigate that risk — pay the person more, better working conditions, or just pay them a long gardening period.
In America a black man driving a clean car can be pulled over and shot dead by police

In many American states a raped woman has to carry her rapist off spring to term

In America black people are significantly over represented in jails, poverty, illiteracy, single parent families.

I’m sure the 5 largest western democracies have similar issues
RFC 2616 as gangsta rap: https://suno.com/song/97f9445e-a411-49ca-b13f-29c14ec747a7

This is like any other AI content: pretty funny the first few times you see it, then boring when it's no longer novel.
He was purging family members who were more loyal to CIA than the kingdom. He did that and then pivoted to China and Russia. (Bandar Bush ring a bell? )That is why he is vilified. Otherwise, he would be yet another Arab autocrat and US never had any problem with those, no matter what they did. This guy is guilty of being headstrong and independent..
I feel like that defeats the purpose of the validation. If you're storing the keys in the same place as the code, it would be very easy if someone gained malicious access to the repo to change the key and sign it with the new key.
If you have a requirement to build a city where everyone is within 1 mile of virgin forest, say, then you end up with something much like a line. You could circle it, but that's just another form of line.
Humanity lost some things when it gained recorded music. It made the profession of performer less valuable, and diminished the number of performers who could make a living. But humanity got something very valuable in return — the ability to record and play back music. The same goes with the tradeoffs made for photography and motion pictures.

I see little value to humanity in tools that are able to generate an endless amount of music derived from existing music, specifically designed to neatly slot into the place of human artists. We gain little in return from that.

Some people will make an argument like, this lets people generate lots of low-quality music for use in elevators or grocery stores. Well, there is already a massive oversupply of completely free music which can do that. Do people pretend to not know this?

The other weak argument is that it lets people express themselves who haven't studied or practiced music. But, it doesn't, because the interfaces (text prompts or "upload an existing file") are designed to take the place of a human being given instructions for criteria to fill, as if they were a worker, not an expression of the person giving the instructions. If the person giving the instructions were expressing themselves, most of the AI tool would not be redundant. It's as expressive as telling another person to write a song for you with some instructions. Hardly expressive at all.
> The UAE is safer than Switzerland.

And so is Hong Kong and a few other places. The question is, is that worth the cost? A cost that's mostly hidden from public view and scrutiny?
Apollo was a national vanity project that has been rationalized by exaggerating the spinoffs.
Grant money is not profit.
I personally use a dictionary generated from a wikitionary dump. I used to use a script [1] to generate it, but some are now already available and linked in the KOReader wiki [2]. I found a wikitionary-based bilingual dictionary is quite good!

[1]: https://gitlab.com/artefact2/wiktionary-to-stardict
[2]: https://github.com/koreader/koreader/wiki/Dictionary-support...
Official NixOS Wiki Launched
The announcement on discourse can be found here https://discourse.nixos.org/t/wiki-nixos-org-is-now-live/425...
The article is a bit one-sided: it reviews the topic only from the aspect of rendering PDFs using a copy of pdf.js embedded in a web browser. However, this is not the only copy of pdf.js. It would be interesting to check software like NextCloud or its proprietary workalikes (e.g., PCloud) for their handling of untrusted JavaScript in PDF files shared through these platforms.
Actually Biden is worse on Saudi than Trump.

Mainly because when Trump was in power the democrats and media would keep pressure on Trump. Whereas now, as a genocide is happening the media isn't providing as much pressure as it would of Trump was doing it.

Also no need to regurgitate old irrelevant news, the complete 180 from Biden is the biggest slap in the face for people who were fighting for gender/human/civil rights.

Also, Biden is yet to go after Kushner for that $2bn bribe/corruption payment.

Realpolitik is a meme used to excuse bad behaviour.
That's actually enjoyable haha. Now im scared.
Hollywood's Slo-Mo Self-Sabotage
Laravel relies heavily on Facades. Some might think they are anti-patterns, but I believe that if they are used correctly, they can result in clean and testable code. Let's see how.
Didn't the US president Clinton sign the security assurances to Ukraine in exchange to their nukes?

And btw, Americans are not fighting there. Sending weapons to Ukraine creates new working place in USA while weaken army of their enemy. It is obvious win-win for USA.
| Who in their right mind would think that video could be a productivity tool!?

I use videos when I make a front end feature PR. One video can clearly show the flow and behavior of some new feature in an information dense clip. Often with more clarity than a stack of 3-4 images.

They are also good for some classes of front end defects. Easier to see it in action some times.
unfortunately, drug designing is special condition here. the experiment of drugs spend cray amounts of money.
>The Gulf countries have more than enough expertise to manage and run their wealth for the foreseeable future

There are all kinds of promises when times are good, that change as soon as the economic winds change. This project is more evidence of that.
How so ? How is hating 20 million people for your view of their government reasonable
Students Are Likely Writing Millions of Papers With AI
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39993441
This won't be even remotely bright enough to work as a night light. Think worn out and old glow in the dark chewing gum sticker rather than night light.
It will let you express yourself in precisely the same amount as giving those instructions to a person to create a song for you. Very little.
You could argue that conspiracy theories are falsifiable, and it's just that conspiracy theorists won't accept any proof. The flat earth theory for instance is easily debunkable: just take a flight from Auckland to Santiago de Chile.
If the collective financial portfolio of the Gulf countries goes away, you’ll have much larger problems to worry about.

This project was a side project and always has been. Its success or lack thereof has very little to do with the overall financial position of the country.
I'm aware how package signing works. What does any of that have to do with my comment?
This is a really interesting point that I don't think gets enough attention, so I'll call it out: in general, it takes less energy to air condition than to heat because the differentials are greater -- meaning: it's easier to air condition from 45 to 25c than it is to heat from -5 to 25c, simply because 45 - 25 < 25 - -5.
Thanks for confirming you could see this - this is the first time it has happened, though, as previously, I would ask colleagues to check if they could see my post, but they couldn't.
Give Aïkido a try, for the physical and mental equilibrium it brings you.
Oh I'm not saying that having a relationship with an AI is a bad thing per se. I actually enjoy the discussions with the LLM models, even the small ones that I run locally, in a way superior rate than the conversations that I often have with human beings, and pretty sure I'm not the only one. I didn't create yet an "entity" with some kind of persistent memory which will turn into my personal daily assistant (my personal Jarvis) but that's definitively in my to do list.
Related discussions:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39942122

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39918245
Thanks to the both of you. Since you were able to see this, I assume my posts are now visible to the community.
Yes, that's an interesting problem — the more capital you have to invest, conceptually, the more you can invest in talent and the faster you can research compared to smaller competitors.

Great for the rate of technological advancement, not so great for fairness.
The WASM component model looks like it wants to free us from the "C ABI" (yes I know technically there's no such a thing) and give us a "high level language agnostic ABI", but when you take a closer look it's really just a hodgepodge of base types from the Rust stdlib in a trenchcoat, so it basically replaces the "C ABI" with something that's a bit friendlier for Rust coders to work with, but that's about it (at least that's the gist, of course there's a lot more than the ABI spec, but that's also a problem of the Component Model: it lacks focus)
Is it the House who refused to send 20+ years old heavy weapons to Ukraine since 2022?
So that means, let me get this right, the real you is the one that likes to make cruel remarks and practice being hurtful any chance you get? Do I have it right?

I like to think I can be decent even when not required to, even when it won't come back to me.
Conscientious Unbelievers
As @jna_sh mentioned, they are working on a 2.0 release : https://chaos.social/@blinry/111011979500389143

I won't even comment on the rest of points.
For the first 200,000 years of human existence, hardly any technological development happened at all relative to the last 600 years (though I am doubtful how much patents contributed to that development). The rate at which technological development has continued to speed up is part of what's causing problems here: patents last ~20 years, which is an eternity in IT. The other problem is granting patents on software at all - the USA is unusually permissive in this.
that’s their lottery win, might as well be jealous of the 60 million millionaires on earth
WTF, this is a banger. I'd play this as a DJ.
Everything You Know About Fitness Is a Lie (2017)
The rate at which innovation has happened since Constantinople fell is also many orders of magnitude higher than the rate at which it happened before. More evidence is needed to assess how much each event contributed to this innovation rate.
Apparently they allow guest article (read: blogspam pr)
I would expect the price to decrease over time given perovskite solar cells are currently not yet mass produced and still actively being researched.
The theory of Proximal Policy Optimisation implementations
The second best art of this time will always remain "who's afraid of red, yellow and blue?" after it inspired such fear in someone that they sliced it up with a knife.
USPTO keep granting software patents despite Alice SCOTUS decision.

This is a corrupt administration, that like the European Patent Office, finance itself over the amount of patents it grants.
"mediocrity will be even more available" - so basically all the stuff that is in the top 100 charts will be more available
Well, yes, because they are literal criminal prisoners, and exempt from the 13th amendment.

The workers in SA aren’t criminals being jailed for some crime.
I feel obliged to point out that neither of those sound anything like a Gregorian chant (though still impressive for a model that is obviously not specialized in classical music).
Tufte would be proud.
> Despite what people may believe, there is freedom of religion here, women aren’t oppressed

Does this only apply to rich westerners though?
That would be 15-year-old Alexandre Robert, in 2007

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_of_Alexandre_Robert

A number of particularly nasty elements to the response—including that the authorities knew that one of the rapists carried HIV, and had previously segregated him in custody to prevent him spreading the virus to other prisoners, but they fabricated medical tests to the contrary and lied to the boy’s family.
All software patent litigation is trolling. The patent system is broken.
The rap style has an element of proclamation sometimes, that fits with the license text to some extent.

IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM!
HTTP decision diagram: https://github.com/for-GET/http-decision-diagram and Know Your HTTP Well: https://github.com/for-GET/know-your-http-well
What’s the value of that statement, do you dream that people working in retail are sharing the wealth with Hermes
The perception might be that air conditioning is used excessively and the same arguments are used for excessive heating. I know 2 countries in Europe in one winter heating targets 23 Celsius inside for outside temperatures of 5 Celsius in average and in another winter heating targets 19 Celsius inside for outside temperatures of 10 Celsius in average.

Governments try to explain everybody they should use less heating, and I personally find comfortable (and reasonable) smaller differences between outside and inside.

Now, when I was in a country with what I think is excessive air conditioning (not middle east, but no use to name it) it annoyed me the huge difference, 38 Celsius outside and 21 Celsius inside.

I will complain about large differential no matter the country. Of course it might limit the activities I can make in some parts of the world (skiing in the desert anybody?), but that's what I find reasonable.
It is not, it is just the last one.

Artillery was a hack against cavalry. And cavalry and the carriage was a hack against infantry. It is said that Archimedes used mirrors to burn the enemy fleet.
Ships with metal plates were a hack at first like putting inside cannons or flamethrowers.

The first repetition gun was a hack. The first gun that could pass the plane propellers was a hack. The detonation fuse(with radar) was a hack. The first radar detection systems of Germans and English were hacks. They came after the sound detection of planes hacks.

The Chinese used kites with children in war in order to see the enemy from above, certainly a hack. Later people used hot air balloons.
The first planes were hacks at first, throwing bombs with your hand and photographing the enemy side or damage reports or correction for artillery kilometres away from sight.
To be a great dad: first be rich.
As I understand it, reconductoring main benefit is it allows you to fit more aluminum in the area. NEC specifies conduit has acceptable % fill value that I could see this optimization having for retrofits, but long haul transmission lines are not underground - they're dangling in the air where it doesn't seem material if the wire is a bit bigger on replacement.

Am I missing something?
It should be tangibly 10x—100x better than what's already out there for people to switch. If you make something marginally better (and by default anything unknown is much worse than what everybody knows already), nobody will bother.
They made it illegal to produce exact replicas of Frozen at the push of a button; they could make AI illegal too. Except, the only reason it's illegal to copy Frozen is that it gives rich people less money. Generative AI gives rich people more money, so if anything, it'll be illegal not to use it.
Internet rule: if a comment starts with "So" it's going to be the least charitable version of what you said, haha.

Nah. If I were reviewing something without having been given the instruction "please be truthful, I need to make this perfect" or similar, I would default to encouraging the skill rather than trying to help perfect the output. In doing so I would overlook minor issues that will iron out with experience across multiple works.

If the person was submitting the result to a competition or something and asked my opinion on that specific work, then my approach would be different. Not cruel and hurtful, course not, I'd just mention things that would otherwise be annoying and petty to bring up.

In the case of pre-sapient AI, it won't hurt (and may even be helpful to the relevant dev) to point out where it's tripping over into uncanny valley. There's no benefit to encouragement in this situation as it's not learning a skill, it is trying to replicate the output of one.