skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not an iTerm2 user and the attitude of the developer in the response has certainly convinced me to never become one. I understand open source developers get burnt out, particularly with backlash from demanding users who contribute nothing in return, but the contempt for users with very valid concerns about AI and data leaks is not a healthy sign.
Seems about right to me, if not high. Keep in mind that this isn't the number of Americans that consume alcohol, but the number of Americans that consume alcohol on a daily basis. People that drink on the weekends, or a few times a week after work, don't qualify. 1 in 20 seems a bit high to me, but within the ballpark.
My bad yeah mobile is broken rn, working on it now.
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> If I'm not around, then all those things either don't get done

That suggests at least one of:

1. a need to delegate more so that reports can be more autonomous

2. a need to groom replacements internally

If someone has a well-managed team, they should return from vacation with individual people having missed them but the company as a whole being unaffected.
I don't think edge in this case mean browser. I think edge in this case is more similar to a CDN node.
Seeing that made me worried but when I checked it was opt-in with an option to add an openAI API key, still this is better long term IMHO.
The stars near us in the Milky Way are tens of light years away, and we’ll have to do some incredible science and technology to visit them.

How much worse would it be if you were an intelligent life form on a planet orbiting one of those orphans, and the nearest star was a thousand, ten thousand, even a million light years away?
Is JS on the server still a thing?
Sounds like a defective unit.
> I don’t think the mannerisms of a performance something that’s copyrightable though.

Yes, this discussion is about right of publicity, not copyright.

Copyright is not the whole of the law.
I'm also curious if it's actually rare to stumble upon glitch tokens that work across different LLMs.
I don't know what it is about this website that makes discussion of legal issues so frequently poor as it is here right now.

>She absolutely is being deplatformed and her rights are violated.

No. And 'deplatforming' isn't illegal last I checked, whatever you mean it to be.

>If every customer who hires her gets sued, that is basically the same as making it illegal for her to be a VA.

They aren't getting sued because she sounds like ScarJo. In fact, its not clear they are being sued at all. What is illegal, that you do not seem to appreciate, is that regardless of whatever a particular individual looks or sounds like, it does not create a right in others to profit over this similarity in likeness. You cannot hire a Harrison Ford impersonator, to pretend to be Harrison Ford and promote your products. That you re-contextualize this as to Harrison Ford look-alikes being deprived work is just your own sad confusion.
They keep the instances in a "stopped" state, which means keeping the EBS volume around (and paying for it) but not paying for the instance (which could be another machine when turn it back on, which is why you can't load it into scratch space and then stop it).

What's on the EBS is their docker image, so they don't have to load it back up again.
Great to hear that!

> I’ll work with them again if I ever scale past a $10k/mo Heroku bill (post enterprise contract) with another team.

We built Porter Cloud so you can just start on us from day 1 and migrate to the Porter you're used to when you're ready, without spending much effort on the migration :)
That seems like an extremely generous interpretation on OpenAI’s behalf especially the timing of when they first think of the movie.

Personally there’s many ways they could have been less suspicious from my perspective. Have a large number of voices or the ability to tweet them in many ways and no one voice seems important. Contact many famous people and it would have seemed like a promotional rather than a reference. Have someone lower on the totem pole than the CEO of a multi billionaire dollar corporation trying to make the deal. This not being about an actor playing an AI assistant in a movie vs the voice of an AI product. Not actually making the reference in a tweet.

The phrase ‘the preponderance of the evidence’ comes to mind.
People are making their whole personalities about being anti-AI. I'm personally a mix of skeptical+worried about AI; but at some point just being a reactionary ninny makes people tune out on whether there might be some truth at the core of your concern.
Thank you for explaining. As a Web dev, who's using PHP since version 4, I'm still very confused why someone would consider running a CMS like WordPress on the client side, or at the "edge". I guess the good thing here is that someone spends (a lot of) energy in giving PHP new ways to get used by developers.
A versatile recipe: you can use it for your dish and bring it along for a voyage on the high-seas to combat against scurvy.
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Amazingly, the human record is only about 10 times this (!).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speedcubing

Way to go, humans!
I'm sure he's tired from the horde of idiots angry that he implemented an entirely optional feature.
I can't imaging having alcohol every day, let alone getting high.
> Ford gave explicit instructions to imitate a copyrighted performance.

That case isn't copyright law, Ford had obtained rights to use the song itself.
I keep all my old Apple devices. They’re great for testing on.

But I’m also still using a 6th gen iPad. I’ll upgrade eventually.
You are right that this is unsupported by the current law. It's mostly due to lobbying by car and fuel companies. They invented the concept of jaywalking and threw money to promote it until it stuck.

Personally I don't care as much about law as about being a moral person. Law doesn't absolve me of responsibility I feel and of guilt. If you killed the guy with your car you might find out that you don't feel entirely absolved as well. I just drive accordingly. I am aware that I have it easier because I don't live in US and infrastructure where I drove ao far wasn't horrible. There are no such things as stroad here.
The comments are such a facepalm.

> Increases the attack surface

No it doesn’t. It fork/executes the plugin in a different process AND verifies the signature. If an attacker can replace the binary and do things with it, you already have a much larger problem. Even if they do, all it does is pass JSON around, it doesn’t allow you to execute anything from within iTerm (afaik)

> It can be called by any process

It’s not like they were storing your OpenAI API keys in some encrypted format in the first place. If you’re that paranoid, you aren’t gonna be using the AI feature in the first place.

One valid concern I can think of is TCC escalation on MacOS since fork/exec is executed in the context of iTerm. I don’t know if signatures are verified before or after running but the binary probably won’t even run without being signed by a paying Apple Developer anyways.

Edit: commenting on the change, I think it was just fine as is. AI is annoying but it was off by default. Based on the author’s comments, they don’t seem to intend on pushing it in people’s face, just something fun and optional
I mean, it's true. The issue was full of people supposedly reporting that iTerm would be banned software because.... ???

I'm not sure what the matrix of organisations is that would ban a sideline feature like this through policy only, and not through technical means like MDN.
The article says it sounded "somewhat similar." It doesn’t sound like anyone mistook it for Johansson, or thought it was the same voice:

> The new personas for ChatGPT are named Sky, Ember, Breeze, Juniper and Cove. Each of the personas has a different tone and accent. “Sky” sounds somewhat similar to Scarlett Johansson, the actor who voiced the AI that Joaquin Phoenix’s character falls in love with in the movie “Her.” Deng, the OpenAI executive, said the voice personas were not meant to sound like any specific person.
Funny, someone linked me here. I just posted a project that got a bit of traction related to this: papertalk.xyz
Nvidia's future in scientific computing hinges on a melding of AI and HPC
> Voices are not trademarkable

But they are subject to right of publicity in many US jurisdictions.

Which, while more like trademark than copyright (the other thing that keeps getting raised as if it should dispose of this issue), is its own area of law, distinct from either trademark or copyright.

> The ONLY way they get in trouble is if they claim to be Morgan Freeman.

That’s…not true. Though such an explicit claim would definitely be a way that they could get in trouble.
How does that work for people traveling in groups such as couples or families? The reason that airlines have assigned seating is that people want to know before they get on the plane that they’ll be seated together.

Especially for families you don’t want your kid sitting next to some random person because you missed a notification on an app and ended up boarding last when only middle seats are left
That sounds false to me. When was this era and what exactly did it look like? React has been dominant for around a decade, but Angular and Vue still see wide usage and Svelte is somewhat on the rise. (Although retention/interest in Angular has been going down.)[1]

Highly anticipating State of JS 2023 data though...

[1] https://2022.stateofjs.com/en-US/libraries/front-end-framewo...
> In practice I have heard on podcasts based in places like Washington and California where hosts say they almost can't leave their home without being hit in the face with the stink of weed.

These podcasts are meant to scare people to farm engagement. I live in WA and barely smell weed (except when I myself am smoking it.) And when I do, it's usually just the scent and not clouds of smoke or anything.
Seconding this, I love HN because it gives a wide gamut of exposure, it's a glorious nexus of information, however as a MolB I'd love to have something more narrow when it comes to narrowing things down to academic work.
Ask yourself: is this really a productive comment?

You've got an open-source author that has put a lot of effort into providing something people can use, for free, and your comment above is the toxicity they get in response?

Are you really helping the world of open-source with this type of response?
Yeah, doesn't appear to support iOS, at least not in the app store.

Once Alt stores show up in the US I suspect we'll get a lot more of these browsers showing up on iPhone. My last experience with Android was awful so I went crawling back to iOS, but I think that I just got a bad physical unit more than anything else.

I did see that Kagi's Orion browser allows you to install extensions, though I had issues with stability when I tried it a year ago, but a lot can change in a year so I should probably give it again.
He actually was a joy to work with. George is an awesome human.
Yes, I totally get the distinction (and I was among those amazed by BeOS back in the day - I still show the old demo videos to friends who haven't seen it). I hadn't considered the container formats used by media, but in my head it would be the other way around - each file would be a sqlite file first so that they all share some commonality around access and inspection (I'm assuming in my ignorance that the media container formats are different).

Are there any database filesystems today? I haven't really looked, but the last one I heard of was the one that MS abandoned years ago. Actually I suppose Haiku probably still has one? I can't imagine how difficult it would be to get a DB Filesystem as a mainstream choice on Linux, let alone across OSen.
Show HN: Recreate Images with Emojis
This demo allows you to recreate images using emojis. You can provide images or emojis to paint with, and it will attempt to recreate images using emojis.

Much of the code is adopted from the Paint Transformer (https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.03798) paper. In this code base, I treat emojis like “brushes”, and use a Gumbel Softmax-based lookup to choose an emoji to paste to the canvas during training (similar to how attention uses a softmax to select keys during training).
I was always surprised car thing didn't have an aux out, it would have made it so much more useful for older cars.
They may or may not have done anything illegal. I think the facts in this article help their legal case significantly!

It is a bad life strategy as an individual to worry too much about the judgement of others.

But marketing and PR are important parts of running a business. It may be annoying that your customers care about things that you see as silly PR stuff, but it still matters to the business.
I want to play games on it.
Looks like a Starlink launch is the most likely candidate: https://www.spacex.com/launches/mission/?missionId=sl-6-62
not sure where you saw $30/month minimum! There's no minimum spend on Porter, and you just pay for what you use as low as a 0.1 CPU and 1MB RAM. We do not have a free tier however.
The relevant point is that the illegality of those actions themselves only help if you manage to catch someone in the act during the few moments they're performing them.

Vs trespassing when you can exclude people with alarmed fences and can catch them during the prolonged period when they're on your property, even preventing them from getting sight of whatever they might choose to steal or vandalize... it's an orders of magnitude difference in costs and effectiveness.

> Good thing is that it anyone is hurt in this scenario it's the idiot. Why worry about it?

Because they can sue. Often successfully, but even where they would not ultimately be successful they can cause enough costs to extort you for a settlement.
> given it was written in 1901

Some of it could probably have been written at times earlier than 1901 as well, but:

- the 1823 Monroe Doctrine was sold as being anti-colonial rather than pro-slavery (cf Congress of Vienna 1815 anti-slave-trade language)

- the 1846 Mexican-American war was sold as being pro-Manifest Destiny rather than pro-slavery (cf Texas' secession from Mexico)

whereas:

- the 1898 annexation of the Philippines* had no such idealistic covers (being neither anti-colonial nor anywhere near an "American hemisphere")

> It became necessary to destroy the town to save it —reported by PGA (1968)

* in connexion with the Spanish-American war; I find it amusing that the local Manila term "trabajo" is a loan word.
Agreed it’s obnoxious. It also shows the balance of power between consumers and large businesses internet companies.

Best of luck safe travels buh-bye!!
$899 mini PC puts Snapdragon X Elite into a mini desktop for developers
Oh I'm sure there's lots of systems where CAS is very useful.

It's just that a backup tends to have mostly immutable files sitting around, so it becomes more niche. It's awkward to do a lock but you don't need a lot of locking.
Their concerns aren't really valid. It's an entirely optional feature. There is no functional difference between being in the core and being a plugin. Someone who wants to violate exfiltration policies can still do so with maybe one extra step.
Yeah it was surprising but this is from NIH, they didn't have a stat for daily drinkers so I took the most extreme.

According to the 2022 NSDUH, 16.0 million adults ages 18 and older reported heavy alcohol use in the past month (see glossary for definition of heavy alcohol use)

Heavy alcohol use (or heavy drinking):

NIAAA defines heavy alcohol use as follows:
For men, consuming five or more drinks on any day or 15 or more per week
For women, consuming four or more drinks on any day or 8 or more per week

https://www.niaaa.nih.gov/alcohols-effects-health/alcohol-to...
You won't use iTerm2 because the dev made a joke about some companies' overly-restrictive IT departments?
Those words were definitely written through gritted teeth, but it seems to me he's being very literal. The second point in particular is exactly what the anti-AI-feature people seem to be asking for (and they are reasonable for asking for it).
I feel really sorry for the developer. I've only been a casual observer, but from my view point the community's reaction was... not great, to put it lightly.

I get that a lot of us are tired of 'AI' being shoved down our throat at every possible turn. I get that a lot of us have privacy concerns. I get that maybe you don't want it in your terminal emulator.

But iTerm is a free (both as in gratis and as in libre) open source project. The developer released a feature that they were probably happy and excited about. It was off by default and didn't siphon data or do anything malicious. And a ton of reactions were as if iTerm had just added the devil incarnate or attacked people personally.

Disliking the feature is fine. Voicing your concerns and feedback is fine. But it should always be gracious and in good faith. I think this is a good change, if only to pacify the masses, and I applaud the developer for taking these steps, but I don't like how we got here.

EDIT: gnachman, if you're reading this, thank you for your tireless work on iTerm. It serves me extremely well whenever I'm on macOS and holds a special place in my heart. I bought a MacBook in 2013 and it was the first *nix system that I daily drove as a desktop for a long time. I installed iTerm 2 in my first week and it was a constant companion for many years.
>very valid concerns

The AI stuff is disabled by default, the concerns are unfounded.
couldn't that be said of farts?
There are two things the general HN sentiment genuinely believes is impossible to build unless you have billions of dollars:

- Search Engines

- Browser Engines

I don't quite understand how we got there because neither of those things are impossible. Both are achievable with a small team and a couple years of runway. As proved by Brave and Ladybird.
Because you just said:

> which is considerably faster than on docker

And we are curious why it is like so because we not only understand how to do stuff without containers, we also understand how containers work and your claim sounds off.
Weird, because I completely agree with FridgeSeal.

Decent performance is table stakes outside of very special contexts, and software that can't manage it is bad.

Finding an exception doesn't make that stop being true in general.
Interesting, I always had the impression they had their own index. Shame.
Steam sells an ecosystem, really. To developers they're selling a CDN with integrated cloud save, cross-platform multiplayer, community management software, Steam Workshop tooling and a designated support channel. To users, they're selling a well-designed interface with the ability to modify and add games to their heart's content. If either side is upset, they can avoid Steam altogether and still distribute their app as freely as their OEM allows.

I use Steam because they care about Open Source. Not many "ecosystem" hustlers ever give back to the community they take from, but Valve does, and I appreciate the work they do as a non-Windows user. Were it not for their efforts in DXVK I wouldn't be able to play Indie games at all, Valve-published or not. The "community attitude of Gabe worship" largely springs from the fact that the guy still answers emails, manages his business, and keeps Valve private to avoid shareholder intervention. A lot of the current Valve "spirit" is associated with Gabe Newell's dedication to avoiding venture capital and supporting Open Source appropos of nothing.
There are ways to make a dark background that looks inviting, but this is not it. And it has enough bright highlights to make it uncomfortable when you actually like to have a dark screen in a dark environment, so it’s also not a particularly good dark-mode background.
Say they introduce a bug, that will try to call that API even when there is no key.
After Cars there’s:
- Ratatouille
- Up
- Inside Out

In your opinion, which movie has a better story than any of those?
I mean I’ve gone through parts of my life where I’d have close to 10-12 beers a day over the course of the entire day… womp womp

Long distance binge drinking
Let me try to understand this "Edge" thing:

- The user sends an HTTP request to somesite.com
- Their DNS query for somesite.com gets resolved to some datacenter near them
- The HTTP request arrives at the datacenter where the PHP in WebAssembly is executed at half the speed of native PHP
- The PHP in Webassembly sends database queries to a central DB server over the internet
- The PHP in Webassembly templates the data and sends it back to the user

How is that faster than resolving somesite.com to the central server, sending the HTTP query to the central server where PHP runs at full speed and talks to the DB on the same machine (or over the LAN)? Even if PHP ran at full speed at the "Edge", won't the two requests over the internet

user --1--> edge PHP server --2--> central Db server

take longer than the one http request when the user connects to the central server directly?

user --1--> central PHP+DB server

In reality, the PHP script on the "Edge" server probably makes not one but multiple queries to the DB server. Won't that make it super slow compared to having it all happening on one machine or one LAN?
A bit ironic, but I think he would have had more success if he had turned it into a paid feature.
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At least you can replace it quickly if you find it broken. Back then, we could only afford to make an update once. When you mailed out the update disk, you had to charge for it ($10 or so, disk, mailing container, printed instructions, postage, and label); if you sent out 100k bad disks, you had to eat $1M. If it was version 1.0, it went into a box and was shipped to distributors, retailers, and mail-order, and you might never even know who the end user was.
> To allow developers in restrictive but technically incompetent organizations to continue to use iTerm2

I mean sure it was a brash way of putting it but he's not wrong. I contract with an org that basically shuts off access to anything that is in any way related to AI, we can't even visit the OpenAI website on our computers. If this feature was part of core iTerm2 then 100% they would have banned the use of iTerm.
A grizzled veteran, bemused at the irrational inanity of the world around him, yet still highly effective, listening to his users, and shipping software used by millions.

I agree, as long as you're not incompetent, I bet he'd be a blast to work with.
It's meant for direct usage, not just for developers.

You can deploy apps on the Wasmer Edge cloud, and also host things yourself if you want to, though in the later case the setup will be non-trivial.
>In practice I have heard on podcasts based in places like Washington and California where hosts say they almost can't leave their home without being hit in the face with the stink of weed.

that's some severe hyperbole. you'll probably smell it on the bus if you use the bus, but weird smells are part of riding the bus. I rarely smell it at the grocery store unless someone's carrying flower in an unsealed package, it's pretty obvious in those cases
I'm also considering a Server/Service that has a web ui component, where it's shared server resources... yeah, running a search on a local ssd/nvme is crazy fast... now do it when there are 100k other users on that filesystem.
> It was not claimed that they cloned ScarJo’s voice.

There were some claims by some people when the issue first arose that they had specifically done a deepfake clone of SJ’s voice; probably because of the combination of apparent trading on the similarity and the nature of OpenAI’s business. That’s not the case as far as the mechanism by which the voice was produced.
Say they introduce a bug, that deletes every file on your machine.
I understand the frustration. But they should have just closed this issue to begin with. Waste of time.
That's a good thing. I don't drink everyday because I'm happy and well adjusted.