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That was one of the first books on computer graphics. I loved it.

I will admit that as a software dev and a former 3d modeller and animator I may be too close to how the digital paint and canvas are made to get excited. Another reason is the infinite number of works that can be produced by machines running the same algorithms, which has an unfortunate effect of turning artworks from an event to mass-produced objects (or renderings on LCD screens). That mass-production aspect removed barriers to entry to become an artist, see the deluge of "abstract art" on Etsy and hundreds of tutorials on how to produce it on YouTube. There just isn't anything special about it. I understand that this is not new, painters are still salty about photography and photographers are not happy about digital distribution of their works on a mass scale without compensation. And I know that mass production of artworks is not new; in the past, master painters or engravers ran workshops that produced works "in the style of" too. Still, there was some effort required to produce such works. I think the perception of generative art suffers from the same thing that makes it possible: ease of access to a lot of compute power for next to nothing.

I spent over 10 years of my life working with 3d graphics and finally went back to photography and recently to film photography. I feel more involved in the process of creation and there is a physical artifact at the end of the process. Once it is produced it needs no power to enjoy it unlike generative art that needs a screen to be seen (some of it can be printed in 2d or 3d).

As for AI, I see it as a threat to all who invested their time and effort into creating business models that support them in the digital domain. That value is being taken away from them now. Technology applied to the creative space has always been about improving efficiency of the creative process and offering new tools, but this time round there is an assumption that all that we create is fair game for the AI companies and that we should accept it while they monetize it. There is no model for the creator to make a living from his creations in the AI space and I think that's dishonest.
I have an ad blocker, so they decided to "punish" me by not showing me recommended videos anymore. It was a blessing!
It is only unpredictable if you confine yourself to a single branch. If you embrace Many Worlds and simulate things accordingly, creating branches as needed, the result of such simulation is consistent and reproducible.
> It's the world you live in.

Where have you lived for the past... well, forever?

> while we are not sure that it is the right decision today, we believe that the AI community will eventually need

It's a lot of grandstanding about nothing, amounting to the same thing: "our only modus operandi is being as closed as possible for as long as possible"

> And apparently either fail to spot how I was using an ellipsis,

I can also put ellipses everywhere. You know that their "open research" is rarely reproducible? That they keep deprecating and removing the completely closed proprietary models they "open" to the public? That...

Follow the ellipsis

> You sure you're not looking in the mirror when you see grandstanding?

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grandstanding /ˈɡran(d)standɪŋ/

noun

the action of behaving in a showy or ostentatious manner in an attempt to attract favourable attention from spectators or the media.

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No, definitely not I. There's a certain "Open" company in the AI space that does exactly that.
Love the spirit of this project! Helping small creators and businesses without ads or tracking is a win. Plus, $1/month is a steal. Linktree better watch out! Sign me up for the Discord – excited to see where this goes!
Just wanted to say I really enjoyed your write-up and certainly feel for you. It seems you did everything right.

Possibly the sign-ups were generic bots, trying unsophisticated contact-form spam. I can see how a wait-list and contact form look similar to a bot, especially one which is optimized to treat basically anything with an email address and a text field as a contact form.
Three counter examples against literally millions in common use, including how the countries involved refer to themselves.

> This isn't exactly an obscure question. I'm not sure where you got the idea that Spain might not be part of Western Europe, but it wasn't by contact with reality.

I take it you did ask your social circle and didn't get the response you wanted, as you're right that this isn't an obscure question.
Energy can't be destroyed. That's basic physics. Work of any kind is just turning usable energy into unusable heat. If you would have such device which can take heat and turn it into usable energy, then you would just need to take a system, charge it and it would be working forever. Unfortunately this is some Clark-tech level of magic technology.
Probably because there would be a way to exploit such a policy. You’re a normal, honest person, so you think “Why wouldn’t the bank believe me? I would only claim I lost my money through fraud if it were true.”

But the bank also has to deal with dishonest people who might make fraudulent claims about being defrauded.
Reminds me of the “Chase your reality” commencement speech by Christopher Nolan at Princeton in 2015.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoWEhQlS9yY
I've got a whole list of books like this sitting somewhere on my hard drive called "Well-Argued Ideologies Very Different From My Own". Covers the whole gamut, from anti-natalism to Z-theory.

The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life would be my go-to. It's all about how people's motives are a lot more self-serving than you might think, including your own.

If you liked that, and then really want to go off the deep end, try The Enigma of Reason.
Wow, so they actually got bullied into removing the voice? What a world. I actually liked that voice or at least didn't find any issue with it, they are all perky assistant type voices, but why not? Adding extra choices is fine if people want it, but removing the voice due to loud minority effect is just sad.
If you think about the bread example, what you do is to follow a very well known recipe even if you don't understand yeast.

In case of consciousness, we lack both types of knowledge:
- What consciousness is - To use your example we don't know what bread is
- How to create conciousness - To use your example we don't know a recipe for bread

To make this a bit more like a story, imagine we all got to a new place and tasted a thing called bread. We are not even sure we all tasted the same thing, nor can we agree on how to describe it, except we call it the same "bread." we don't have any recipe for it or know its ingredients. To make this even stranger we are not even sure bread is something that we are supposed to eat or it is something that we wear. Maybe it was some kind of cloth that as a strange experiment it was given for us to taste.

And now we are trying to create it. It could be that taking enough time and energy and people that are trying to create this thing called bread, we might, in the end, arrive at something that, when tasted by everyone, we can agree it is bread, but that seems less probable until we agree on a description of it.
Yeah. The difference is at one point in time we didn't pretend, now we do. And therefore the lie we tell ourselves is more obvious. Many people will see through the lie.
Sorry to slap this on your comment, but it seems a good place to put it.

We don't know who Jobs or Woz are.

At best, even most people in the field are using 3rd or 5th hand information. Quotes from Jobs or Woz don't show even the tiniest real glimpse into who a person is. Stories about persons, especially those with significant media presence, are often tailored, and invariably seen through the optics of the author of the article. Certainly, anyone who has been through an interview knows that what they say is cut, altered, quoted in partial context, etc.

Only people who have actually worked with Jobs and Woz know them. And even then, they often only know them at work. A brief interjection into a work day once a month isn't "knowing someone" either. Sitting in a room of 1000 people for a company wide meeting isn't knowing them.

My point is, these sorts of deep thoughts aren't something we can gauge from 2nd party discussions about someone. You need to know a person, personally, to actually be able to gauge what they actually believed.

I've always been sort of... sad that so much of the world looks at people from so far away, and then takes stock in what they hear/gleam. Quotes from figures religious, from every religion, are a popular theme here. "Some guy said something 2000 years ago", filtered through a half dozen translations, and church dogma, are taken as if a person had known the person for 20 years. Meanwhile, we literally haven't a clue what was said in such cases.

Yet the same is true of all hearsay strewn about all such figures. It's just word snippets taken out of context, of a single hour in a person's life.

For example, if I asked anyone here the same question 10 years apart, would the answer be the same? Would the response even remotely resemble the prior? If the answer is "yes", then the topic isn't complex, or the person hasn't learned anything in their life.

So to this I would say, irregardless of how many dislike Job's work ethics re: employee interaction, what would a 70 year old Jobs say? And say in person, without being "on"? Or worried about a quote in the media, where single words uttered could shatter or change the image of a cult icon?
> Similar to the AI girlfriend/boyfriend tools

i think this is different - the chatters are effectively committing fraud, where as the ai bf/gf tools are not lying about what they're selling (so presumably, the buyers of them are not being defrauded).

So unless it can be shown to harm third parties, these ai gf/bf tools should be as free to exist as any other legal service that has the consent of the involved parties (such as drinking, gambling, prostitution etc). People's feelings of ethics should not immediately be the reason to deny anything's existence - harm must be first shown, and the harm must be on third parties unrelated to the first party involved.
Indeed. It's entirely arbitrary.

I think, in using terms like "rational" the grandparent is confusing
AI with science and presuming some kind of objectivity. One cannot
make any sensible claim about what is "more superior" (the "more" is
redundant by the way) since quality of art and meaning is not arranged
on any cardinal scale. Humans get to define what is better, and that's
the final judgement. And should they choose to define AI as
"meaningless", then it's meaningless.

Now as to whether it will be "more prolific", that's a another matter.
Cockroaches are already far more prolific than humans.
Free Software Cooperatives Redux
Should the definition of generative _art_ include music and sound?

If so, there's several ideas at NodeMusic.com
Show HN: My Fourth Project – AI Manga Translator, Seeking Your Valuable Feedback
Show HN: My Fourth Project - AI Manga Translator, Seeking Your Valuable Feedback

Hello Hacker News community,

I'm back with my fourth project, and I'm excited to share it with you all. It's been a journey of learning and growth, and I'm eager to continue that path with AI Manga Translator. This tool is my attempt to bridge the gap for manga fans who want to read their favorite series in different languages.

Project Overview:

Easy Image Upload: Users can effortlessly upload manga images.
AI-Powered Translation: Our AI works to provide quick and comprehensible translations.
Expanding Language Support: Currently supports a range of languages, with more on the horizon.
Why I'm Seeking Feedback:
While I've gained some experience with my previous projects, I know there's always room to learn and improve. I'm particularly interested in:

Feedback on the UI/UX and how it can be refined for a smoother user experience.
Insights on the AI translation performance and how it can be optimized.
Suggestions for additional features that the community might find valuable.
Engaging with the Community:
I'm looking forward to engaging with seasoned developers and fellow enthusiasts on:

Strategies for scaling the application as the user base grows.
Best practices for maintaining and updating AI models.
Ideas for community-driven features or collaborations.
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Ok, I think we're past the misunderstanding now.

I don't understand why this makes it hard to compile Bel. Application code won't check the first two elements of the list to determine if a term is a function. Instead it will say ((isa 'function) ___). It seems fine that a program using the former approach will run slower.
If you believe in that, you're also likely to believe that consciousness is not a static trait but rather a process. Thus integers themselves are not conscious, but a process that produces a sequence of integers may be.
Maven: Follow Interests, Not Influencers
This is an interesting story. It definitely contradicts both current medical findings and anecdotal evidence that repeated exposures and repeated reactions generally worsen allergy to poison oak (and insect bites/stings, and other things). But there is a lot that is unknown about the immune system and it's not impossible that there could be other unknown factors that when combined with exposure could induce tolerance.

What does the military do for treatment of the rashes?
> Yt for example deletes your 720p after a while and replaces it with a potato.

always bugs me to hell when i encounter a "high definition" video that has worse quality than pal/ntsc
They have what's called Google cache in every country. In some of these countries, and in many places, ISPs are allowed to connect to the cache for free, including at IXs, which are basically internet exchange hubs around the world. Google has its own fiber, so they do not pay anyone for transit in many places. Additionally, because so many people watch YouTube, ISPs are motivated to connect or peer with Google's caches on their own. This arrangement means they also don't need to pay for traffic. So streaming is extremely cost-effective for YouTube, making it hard for others to compete with them on streaming costs.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1WKHbT-7KOgjEawq5h5Ic...

tingrad.org bug bounties
Thank you, that is much easier to follow indeed! Very elegant, I agree :)
I guess I went a bit far with my comment. I don't think one needs to restrict the voices to be only gender-neutral.

But I think the default voice and your first public demos could be gender-neutral these days.
Oh, thanks a lot for this.

I was just vaguely remembering that there might have been a whole BYTE issue about it, not just an article, like there were whole issues for Lisp and Smalltalk, but was not sure.

Very good to know. Will check those articles out.
Happiness comes after financial stability.
"The brain is the most important part of the body", the brain said.
They supposedly also got SwiftUI working on windows. I’d be curious to hear more about that, cause I believe the article doesn’t touch on this one.
I have extensive experience in watching LTT's jank cooling videos, and I think water cooling with a big relatively big reservoir would be able to keep the temperature at a chosen temperature. I found someone who has done it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBNSbzTzfSE&t=20s using this kit: https://www.seeedstudio.com/High-Performance-Liquid-Cooler-f...
my guess is they did something to cut costs by making each search less ressource intensive. I would pay to have google search behave as it used to. nowadays it seems to ignore most of what I try to tell it to look for, and instead shows what it "thinks" most other people probably mean.
> This vigilance means that I seldom lose myself in the story, which is the devil’s bargain I made by becoming a professional reviewer.

A trade I find hard to imagine. In books (as with films etc), I have little care for the craft of making my experience, only that I am immersed and kept within it unaware of the "Real World".
>SpaceX doesn't really care about the moon.

SpaceX is a business, SpaceX doesn't care about the Moon because there are no customers interested in going to the Moon.

If market forces shift and companies start wanting to go to the Moon, you bet SpaceX will care about the Moon because there's money to be made.
> 80-characters-per-line is a de-facto standard for viewing code. Readers of your code who rely on that standard, and have their terminal or editor sized to 80 characters wide, can fit more on the screen by placing windows side-by-side.

This is one of the silliest practices to still be enforced or even considered in 2024. “Readers” should get a modern IDE/text editor and/or modern hardware.
Cool project using Processing, I’ve always wanted to play with that.
getting closer to mythical storytelling of old every day
Then the triffids came.
>Even my mum sent me a Guardian article about it on Whatsapp.

I'm assuming you're trans and you follow or know people who seem to really care about these issues. I think you might be deeply biased, I search for the ChatGPT voice on Google and no one really seems to care about it in a negative way, if there was an actual backlash I would be able to find it easily.

>In my opinion, they should have hired a trans person, created a gender-neutral voice, and used that as the default.

I think the vast majority of the population would find it more natural to have a female or male voice. I also believe that people should be hired for their skills, not their gender.
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I guess that was what you did?
Even with GPT4 the most useful usecase are to generate stuff that are so repetative and daunting to type and refactor code that interns wrote.
And making it write documentations.

What i love most is to draft out project specs from user's requirements and to generate user stories.

Or let it write leet-code like problems that is too boring to do manually.

The actual layer of coding is still best done by experienced engineer's biological brains.
My 4-year-old son didn't give our toaster a name, but he did give our robot vacuum a name. And it's just a moving gadget with some prerecorded voices.

ChatGPT, a system designed to deal with human language and answer in a way similar to a human, will surely be anthropomorphized, and many people will want it to have male or female voices.

Gender neutral should definitely exist as an option, it makes a lot of sense, but I don't see why it should be the only option.

They would have annoyed less people if the accents weren't so American and quirky. Google Maps has had a female voice since like forever and I don't remember any outrage.
One really embarrassing problem of Xcode is cold start time. It takes around 15..20 seconds on my M1 MBP for Xcode to start into a project. Followup starts are faster (about 3..5 seconds), but come on, on such a machine it should start instantly, and it's a really bad look when a "bloated Electron app" like VSCode starts in a second.

The next problem is that some important areas seem to be abandondend. For instance the debugger variable view panel is so extremely bare bones compared to a "proper" IDE to be hardly usable, and nothing has been done about in at least a decade.

Next we have that weird 'scheme model' for setting build target options. No idea how any software engineer could come up with such an awkward and unintuitive system when there have been plenty of examples around how to do it better when Xcode was created.
I'm using modern IDE and 32" 4K display yet I still support this rule. One example where it's particularly convenient is 3-way merge. Also if we're talking about IDE's, they often use horizontal space for things like files tree (project explorer) and other tool windows.
I mean, Detroit ceded “basic transportation” to the Japanese decades ago, because they suck at making it compared to Toyota and Honda. Comparative advantage is the only thing saving them.
As per usual nothing about average charge/discharge cycle count which for sodium batteries is relatively low amount compared to lithium ones.
also with adblocker but i do get recommendations, though the quality/relatedness has gone downhill.

i suspect privacy legislation and this cohort thing to be at the bottom of this
You really need a study to prove that touching grass is good for you?
The part you quoted has the one argument against yours right at the end. It's not about hardware or IDEs or text editors, it's about workspace layout.
A note, if you don't want to dry your skin out by removing your own body oils (after you've cleaned the offending substance off, of course!)... use a hair dryer.

Same result, without having to get wet. Can spot-kick the "too hot" -> remove the itch phenomenon any time, any place.
Nice! Pretty amazing that ChatGPT can do that. I'd be interested in what prompts you used, and what you had to specify e.g. did you have to tell it to use Tailwind and localStorage, and what font and colors to use? Did it generate the text also?

Criticism: at 3.3 MB it's pretty large for what it does (though most of that is Tailwind, the rest is pretty lean).

Suggestions:

1. move the text to an overlay or a separate page — it's pretty verbose and makes the page cluttered.

2. make the + and - signs in the buttons bigger/bolder (and make the minus sign a true minus instead of a hyphen-minus, so it matches the width of the plus sign).

3. the buttons are off centre because of the reset/delete links, which feels a bit off. Maybe add some equivalent whitespace to the left to re-center them.

4. the privacy page mentions Google Analytics and cookies, but there's no GA on the page and no cookies set.
From Logic to Functional Logic Programs (2022 Paper)
Background:

While predicate logic (first-order logic) provides the logical foundation for logic programming (Prolog etc.) and databases, functional programming is based on the different formalism of the lambda calculus.

There are proposals to combine functional and logic programming paradigms into "functional logic programming" languages, but these involve mapping between the two rather than being purely based on predicate logic.

Abstract:

«Logic programming is a flexible programming paradigm due to the use of predicates without a fixed data flow.

To extend logic languages with the compact notation of functional programming, there are various proposals to map evaluable functions into predicates in order to stay in the logic programming framework.

Since amalgamated functional logic languages offer flexible as well as efficient evaluation strategies, we propose an opposite approach in this paper.

By mapping logic programs into functional logic programs with a transformation based on inferring functional dependencies, we develop a fully automatic transformation which keeps the flexibility of logic programming but can improve computations by reducing infinite search spaces to finite ones.
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This is also why credit card companies refuse to work with porn - there are an immense number of people who charge back porn purchases almost immediately.
The History and Evolution of WebAssembly in Kubernetes
This AI safety hand-wringing is getting reeeaaaally tiresome. It's just a less autistic version of that "Roko's Basilisk" cringefest from 10 years ago. Generating moral panic about scenarios that have no connection to reality whatsoever. Mental masturbation basically.