skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
dang, I think perhaps a rule should be added for users to not engage in "guilt by association", e.g. tptacek elsewhere made a comment that they flag posts simply because they're afraid there will be low quality comments in them, rather than discerning. Good idea, bad idea, maybe idea?
Right. But first the Germans were defeated totally. They were forced to surrender. Imagine if the war was halted with massive German casualties but with the Nazis still in power. Which option results in more radicalization?
> In this case, downloading the Stable Diffusion model over the Internet probably creates enough of a hook

A prosecutor would say yes. Would a court?
The FBI has a maritime security program and this is quite literally a hit to critical infrastructure.

https://oig.justice.gov/reports/FBI/a0626/exec.htm (2006)
If you entered academia in 2000 when this became the newly accepted wisdom you'd be around 50 now.

Face it you're just old and still think 2000 was four years ago.
Somewhat OT but still related - I am using less AI in the last few weeks. I pay for ChatGPT but I barely use it. I sometimes use Perplexity but then also verify the response using Google search, which means I don't use Perplexity often.

It's certainly early but as a consumer I feel the AI hype is just that.
> Science is based on the hypothesis that stuff that worked yesterday will work the same way tomorrow

If you believe this assumption, you're believing a statement on faith and faith alone. I agree with you. I absolutely believe stuff will work the same tomorrow as yesterday at some level of abstraction.

> science should be able to detect that, too

Hmm... it might. It might not. For example, if 'god' (for lack of a better term) decided to make all spin states that he was going to make spin up instead be spin down from here on out, we would actually have no idea, despite those two 'states' of the universe certainly being different.
Ivan Boesky Dead: Disgraced Financier Who Inspired Gordon Gekko Was 87
"if my app is so simple that it can be made using htmx, then isn't so simple that it can be made without it?"

Great point and something I am looking at myself. With libraries like Alpine that gives you powerful JS capability to sprinkle in server side code, I am trying to see if I can get away with vanilla JS for what HTMX is doing.
Smalltalk and as a particular case Pharo is an example of this for me. (https://pharo.org/). When I was in uni a paper that I always came back to was Licklider's 1960s paper on human-computer symbiosis.

"[...] to enable men and computers to cooperate in making decisions and controlling complex situations without inflexible dependence on predetermined programs."

Experimenting with Smalltalk (and also with Clojure and Emacs) was one of the things to me that genuinely felt like that vision of programs as living, interactive, organic things rather than the formulaic, static and low level programming that I was used to learning. I think it's still such a shame that in daily jobs it's so difficult to convince people of trying these technologies out because it requires such a big shift in how people think about software.

https://worrydream.com/refs/Licklider_1960_-_Man-Computer_Sy...
> The founder got to keep the IP, ditch the founding employees

What kind of ungodly sh*t is that...
> Structural unemployment happens when the skills of the work force don't match the needs of employers

I know someone who was laid off from an AI group at a large chipmaker last year- his group was eliminated. But because he wasn't doing LLMs, he was doing CNNs for vision, it took him about a year to find a new gig teaching Machine Learning classes - not his preferred gig or level of pay. He could easily have transitioned from CNNs to LLMs but the algorithms sorting the resumes didn't seem to think so.

Personally, I've worked on optimizing code to make machine learning algorithms run faster/more efficient - also compiler/LLVM work. When I was laid off over a year ago I'd apply for things and it was mostly crickets - had a few interviews which often ended up in ghosting. I gave up looking and am working on a startup with some other who've found themselves in a similar situation - no pay at this point, only equity.

Anyway, I think your premise is flawed: AI/ML skills are in demand, but even people with those skills are having a hard time getting back into the industry. Maybe the companies doing AI/ML are spending so much money on GPUs now that they can't actually afford to hire people?
Pointing in the general direction of "communists" and shrieking like that guy at the end of Invasion of the Body Snatchers[0] has been an effective backdoor into the American zeitgeist for almost a century. It doesn't matter what rights need to be compromised, what morals undermined, what transgressions done, Americans will do anything, permit anything to quell the Red Menace, whatever form it takes. Only their collective fear of the Angry Black Man is more primal.

[0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEStsLJZhzo
Disagree, the power series Mac’s were in the verge of not being able to run photoshop on par with windows. The last core group to keep the Mac alive was designers. If Apple had stuck with power series they wouldn’t have survived.
> What's frustrating about that is that a lot of the US's early efforts to not get involved in the ICC was to protect Henry Kissinger from prosecution

No, it wasn't; the ICC (which the US had a lead role in negotiating and initially signed despite never ratifying it) was never going to have retroactive authority, and the US knew that was not an issue long before it “unsigned” the Rome Statute.

Both the unsigning and the “Hague invasion act” were in 2002, during the runup to the 2003 Iraq War; it was about protecting people then in office from consequences in the war of aggression they were about to launch, to the extent it was about protecting specific people and not just the broad idea of American exceptionalism and opposition of the US government of the time to the idea of international institutions not fully subordinated to the US.
It was iPhone 12 mini and iPhone 13 mini. OP is N-1 on his model numbers.

I had the iPhone 13 mini. It was a great phone, but interfaces aren't being designed for that small of a canvas any more. It increasingly got cramped over time, I gave up in futility and joined the big phone club.
Exactly, cost of doing business.
- Two days before the GPT-4o launch, they contacted her agent and asked that she reconsider. (Two days! This means they already had everything they needed to ship the product with Scarlett’s cloned voice.)

New voice mode is a speech predicting transformer. "Voice Cloning" could be as simple as appending a sample of the voice to the context and instructing it to imitate it.
See the preceding comment, "after WW-II".
> Hamas's messianic nutbag leader genuinely believed that he was ushering in the end of days

This is more or less why Israel has so much support between Evangelical Christians. A relatively large number of these people actually want the world to end because they really believe in the Rapture and that they’ll be saved.
Its not unprovoked because its an ongoing conflict and occupation, it cannot be viewed in isolation no matter how horrible it was.
NixOS fits the mold. The confidence it instills feels similar to when I moved from Windows to (Ubuntu) Linux.
> I'm less sure about the customer facing value of a lot of these products.

I agree, but mostly due to the fact that there are no "products" yet.
Been seeing rather a lot of "don't panic!" in the opposite direction in the last few weeks ... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cl5k58x9g83o
> “Here’s a simple database that doesn’t support indexes. We’re going to query it and it will be painful. Then you’ll extend the database with a b-tree index.”

Because this is in my opinion a too complicated project for many computer science students (of a non-elite university). In other words: this looks like a great project to "weed out" students who should better not study computer science. Lectures/projects to weed out unusuitable student seem not to be accepted in the academic environment in the USA.
> What is your reference to "Israel is fine with killing up to 15-20 civilians for every lowest-ranked Hamas member"? I've never heard of that.

https://www.972mag.com/lavender-ai-israeli-army-gaza/

It's been pretty widely reported; I've seen it repeated in every publication I follow.

(Don't forget that Israel triple-tapped an aid convoy because someone thought that a Hamas militant might have contacted them.)
I think most people thought he was a fraud before the trial. This should stop him sueing people in bitcoin though. I doubt it'll stop him going on about being Satoshi.
Combined with Murati’s reaction when asked if they trained Sora on YouTube videos, it’s obvious that OpenAI has trained their TTS systems on a whole bunch of copyrighted content including the output of professional actors and voice actors who definitely weren’t compensated for their work.

Altman and Murati are world-class grifters but until now they were stealing from print media and digital artists. Now they’re clashing with some of the most litigious industries with the deepest pockets. They’re not going to win this one.
There’s still a Sky option but the actual voice has been changed.
Feel like corpspeak given the vast majority of their products ship on x86. You don’t want to come out and say your current and future products are garbage. Apple could do that because the own the whole stack, but not Microsoft.
Normally I'd agree if this were some vague "artist style", but this was clearly an attempt to duplicate a living person, a media celebrity no less.
> That's insanely good compared to every other platform I've seen for any type of commerce

I think Patreon has better rates and now they have commerce.
It could be trained on Scarlett's voice though, there's plenty of recorded samples for OpenAI to use. It's pretty damning for them to take down the voice right away like that
this is correct. in fact the fcc has already clarified this for the case of robocalls. https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-makes-ai-generated-voices-r...
"Dual Antibacterial Properties of Copper-Coated Nanotextured Stainless Steel" (2024)
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/smll.202311546 :

> Abstract: Bacterial adhesion to stainless steel, an alloy commonly used in shared settings, numerous medical devices, and food and beverage sectors, can give rise to serious infections, ultimately leading to morbidity, mortality, and significant healthcare expenses. In this study, Cu-coated nanotextured stainless steel (nSS) fabrication have been demonstrated using electrochemical technique and its potential as an antibiotic-free biocidal surface against Gram-positive and negative bacteria. As nanotexture and Cu combine for dual methods of killing, this material should not contribute to drug-resistant bacteria as antibiotic use does. This approach involves applying a Cu coating on nanotextured stainless steel, resulting in an antibacterial activity within 30 min. Comprehensive characterization of the surface revealing that the Cu coating consists of metallic Cu and oxidized states (Cu2+ and Cu+), has been performed by this study. Cu-coated nSS induces a remarkable reduction of 97% in Gram-negative Escherichia coli and 99% Gram-positive Staphylococcus epidermidis bacteria. This material has potential to be used to create effective, scalable, and sustainable solutions to prevent bacterial infections caused by surface contamination without contributing to antibiotic resistance.

- "This modified stainless steel could kill bacteria without antibiotics or chemicals" (2024)
https://phys.org/news/2024-05-stainless-steel-bacteria-antib...
It is incredibly disheartening to see what was born a non-profit dedicated to guiding AI towards beneficial (or at the very least neutral) ends, to predictably fall into the well-worn SV groove of progressively shittier behavior in the pursuit of additional billions. What is victory for Open AI even supposed to look like by now?
Enthusiast gets Windows XP running on an i486
Apple does have the iPhone SE, which is smaller. I don't know how it sells, but it's been in their lineup for a while, so I assume it's doing fine. I personally own an iPhone 13 mini and I love it. Hope I don't have to upgrade for a few years.

That said, Apple is not necessarily the best example. A phone that does $1B in revenue might be a big failure (and a distraction) for them and a huge success for a smaller company.
This seems like some sort of polarizing issue for some, but the reasons "why not" are totally unclear to me. I'm a regular advocate for detailed and self-explanatory code change "commit" descriptions, and I feel as if I'm in the minority trying to advocate for (at a minimum) proper bug tagging and context links in description for PRs that I come across.

This gets omitted sufficiently often that I have largely given up on requiring it except for noteworthy code changes that I am a reviewer for. It's a very hard thing to get consistent adherence to in my experience. I highly recommend others in a similar boat to at least lead by example and annotate your code changes consistently so you can at least identify relevant changes that you wrote. Getting everybody else to is another story...
I'm curious, why install windows on the deck?
Crazy story, I wonder what kind of ripple effect this will cause in that region.
We can seriously say that, yes. The courts have been saying this in the US for over 30 years. See Midler v. Ford Motor Co.
The room is still there. There may be a need to log in however https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/64083/discussion-on-ans...
The State of Palestine is a State Party of the Rome Statute but only a non-member observer state of the UN, so treating the parties to the Rone Statute as a subset of the UN members is not quite right.
People overindex on this. Israel enjoys overwhelming support in both parties, and, for those unfamiliar with US politics, evangelicals belong overwhelmingly to just one of them.
Yeah this explains why most of my interviews with startups haven't gone well. I've even had friends ask me to do PoC work for them for equity, and they still get all bent out of shape when I'm not instantly smitten by their one-sentence pitch, and instead ask for more details about their business plan.

If I thought I had a great idea, I would want people to try to poke holes in it. Yet founders often universally seem to be the incredibly sensitive and insecure about their idea.
I don't believe AI-generated content will destroy the web, but I do think it will significantly reshape and disrupt the content landscape online in the coming years. The proliferation of AI tools that can generate increasingly sophisticated text, images, video, and more at massive scale and low cost is poised to flood the web with AI-created content.
Yes, it’s time for a successor format designed from the ground up based on 35 years of lessons learned.

For example the DOM scares the shit out of people. If you want to identify cowards have them write simple DOM traversal without query strings. I have an idea how that should work a bit more elegantly and simultaneously increase performance.

Secondly, almost nobody can write HTML correctly, considering accessibility and SEO. HTML should be replaced by markdown extended with identifiers.

Visual rendering should not redraw the entire page when layout changes. All that should rerender is the modified node and its containing tree.

Oh this list could go on and on.
It's even better with paragraph breaks!
I didn't say DKIM was flawed. I wasn't complaining about DKIM at all. You may want to re-read the comment I was replying to. I'm well aware of the consequences of a DNS compromise.

I simply said, twice, that DMARC forcing both SPF and DKIM to align and pass doesn't add anything of value; if you are capable of subverting one of them, you are almost certainly capable of subverting both of them at the same time.
Citus, Persona, TimescaleDB?
> The "dimensions" of intelligence, while hypothetically separable and distinct, don't actually appear to be so in practice.

Circularity. People have normally distributed IQ test results because the numbers are sent through a process that makes them normally distributed.

If this was true then the actual raw test results wouldn't come in different categories. (And there wouldn't be "autistic savants". And being a grandmaster chess player would transfer to other fields instead of coming entirely from practicing since age 5.)
> which has explicitly declared that its objective is to destroy Israel

This is not a serious argument. Israel has arguably the strongest military in ME. Forget the ragtag Hamas, no country in ME - including Turkey - can destroy Israel. Israel has nukes and Hamas has hand gliders for airforce. Hamas rockets are like glorified firecrackers.

There are crazies all over the world with all kinds of crazy manifestos. That is not a license to kill and starve civilians en masse.

Oct 7 was a serious security lapse on the part of Israel. It is clear that the guilty are busy distracting the population from an objective investigation and trials to punish people who are responsible for the lapses, just like what happened after 9-11. Doing that improves Israel’s long term security. But it is unlikely to happen.
Scarlett Johansson has just issued this statement on OpenAI and Sky
They’ll settle as soon as they figure that out. Idiot tax.
"Scientists create virucidal silicon surface without any chemicals" (2023)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39196781#39196822 :

"Piercing of the Human Parainfluenza Virus by Nanostructured Surfaces" (2024) https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsnano.3c07099 :

> We used reactive ion etching to fabricate silicon (Si) surfaces featuring an array of sharp nanospikes with an approximate tip diameter of 2 nm and a height of 290 nm. The nanospike surfaces exhibited a 1.5 log reduction in infectivity of human parainfluenza virus type 3 (hPIV-3) after 6 h, a substantially enhanced efficiency, compared to that of smooth Si.
SpaceX has grown to 87% of the tonnage to orbit
Markov Unchained
The executable has to be 64k or less and has to run by itself on a clean install of your OS of choice.

There may be "gigabytes of external libraries" included in the OS, but these are necessary for using current-gen hardware. Libraries and assets that are not just for interfacing with the hardware and basic stuff like opening a window are rarely taken advantage of, except sometimes for text rendering. System decompressors used to be used, but nowadays, productions come with their own specialized unpackers (ex: kkrunchy) that are much more powerful yet smaller than anything that comes with the OS. EDIT: I see MIDI being mentioned, and it is indeed still used. But for 64k, there are softsynths that sound way better than system MIDI and only take a small part of the size budget, sometimes going as far as physically modelling instruments. 64k is crazy.

These 64k intros could be made run on the bare metal with not much difference in size if there was hardware for it. But the way modern hardware is designed, it is impossible. If you really insist on going "bare metal", try an Amiga ;)
> OpenAI yanked the voice from their product line.

Still live for me? Unless the Sky I’m getting is a different one?
Ongoing discussion [0] (231 points, 1 hour ago, 131 comments), related OpenAI to Pull Scarlet Johansson Soundalike Sky's Voice from ChatGPT[1] (69 points, 12 hours ago, 99 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40421225

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40414249
Absolutely. Good for Scarlett, and my gosh Sam and that org need to learn a few lessons. What were they thinking?? So gross.
The section "Forget the Theory of Computation, AI will Soon Replace Programmers" feels as if it's missing a practical slant that explains this trend. I think approaching it from a purely theoretical perspective misses the relationship between real software and real problems.

First: most practical problems are computable, and most practical programs do not run forever. Even if an agent had to run a program to termination, it could still use the feedback gathered from running it to make modifications.

Second: an agent with a sufficiently good intermediate representation _which is computable_ doesn't need to actually execute a program to model its behavior. Humans do this all the time--we can read code and understand its approximate function as a means to edit it. I don't want to claim that LLMs have a concept of "understanding," but they definitely build an intermediate representation which, when combined with external input (e.g. having to kill a program, because it exceeded a timeout), can be used to modify the program.

Now with all of that said: I don't feel confident about whether or not AI is actually serious risk to programmers, I just don't feel as if this argument is sufficiently compelling.
Rockstar ninja Not Invented by Me syndrome. Implements new tech stack, uses obscure technologies, or redoes things in nonstandard ways (usually with lots of patches and hacks but without documentation) to create a platform only they can maintain but then move on and sticks everyone else with the "check" of support and extensibility.
I want to thank wmii for being a vanguard force in illuminating the path before me, by being both a fine tiling window manager, while also showing it's guts, exposed as a 9p file-system.

Being able to craft together super crappy shell scripts to monitor and manage my windows was amazing. It was a huge turn on to feeling like someone who was really communing with the computer at it's deeper level, rather than just surfing above the application's crust. This feels like the real enlightenment goal: bringing forward the (ab-)natural philosophy that underlies each bit of software, rather than crafting facades of interface atop the core.

I have high hopes that general systems research can one day again spark an age of revelation & understanding, that we can form better more earnest symbiosis with machines. wmii was a good example of one way to let bonds grow close & strong.
> Let us suppose some AI came up with an algorithm A to solve a specific problem P. To ensure that A solves P, the AI has to execute A to test its functionality.

Not necessarily. It could (in theory) prove through formal methods that A solves P.
Yes, but the output is only one third of the data. You also need the input and the annotations.
It is not true that China increased the standard of living of its people despite sanctions: they did it because the US removed the sanctions: restrictions on trade started to loosen in 1972 (after Nixon's famous trip to China). By 2000, China enjoyed what Washington calls "most favored nation" status, and its only been in the last 7 years or so that Washington has started to restrict Chinese trade again.
Thanks for the info, though I’ve been interested in Dieter Rams’ design most of my life I just watched that documentation for the first time.
It was some time well spent.