skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your concern is valid, as AI-generated feature images can indeed affect the perception of technical posts. The use of AI-generated images can lead to a subconscious assumption that the text is also generated by an AI Language Model (LLM) rather than a human expert. This can undermine the credibility and authority of the writer, potentially diminishing the value of the content.
One way of understanding the philosophical concept of Determinism is that we can't create anything new - it's an illusion that we do. Philosophy has largely taken a backseat to science for the past 100 or so years, but I think AI is going to bring it back into the forefront.

https://pressbooks.ccconline.org/introtophilosophy/chapter/5....
Yeah, and they suck. I have a folder on my iPhone called "iCrap" as most of Apples native apps are hot garbage.
They can tell you aren't a curious person from your use of punctuation. This is why I always add ;`'([] at the end of every sentence ;`'([]
> I sympathize with the situation that Zed developers are in. They are thinking of the user experience first and foremost, and when trying to distribute on Linux, faced with an overgrown, chaotic landscape that utterly fails to provide the basic needs of application developers, such as the ability to distribute a binary that has no dependencies on any one particular distribution and can open a window and interact with the graphics driver, or the ability to require permissions from the user to do certain things.

But Linux does provide a very simple and easy way to do this — Flatpaks. They're completely distro-independent, allow you to package up and distribute exactly the dependencies and environment your program needs to run with no distro maintainers fucking with it, allow you to request permission to talk to the graphics drivers and anything else you need, and you can build it and distribute it directly yourself without having to go through a million middlemen. It's pretty widely used and popular, and has made the silent majority of Linux users' lives much better, although there's a minority of grognards that complain endlessly about increased disk usage.
> When you account for medical costs, rent (especially compared to the localities in the USA that provide these huge salaries), extra vacation time, and for those with children, education and child care, this gap narrows considerably.

That's what Europeans generally say to justify or cope with their low salaries, but it's not true. After accounting for all these, an SV, NYC, Seattle, etc., engineer ends up with far more disposable income than their EU counterpart.

The US has the highest average disposable income worldwide; the rest almost don't come close [1]. That's why it has much more entrepreneurial activity.

Yes, the US isn't perfect, but the EU doesn't come close to the US in terms of money for highly skilled professional workers.

1- https://www.statista.com/statistics/725764/oecd-household-di...
I’m still not really getting used to the whole theme of engagement hacking comments but great example of using the Streisand effect to boost replies on your comment by incorrectly labeling it a. Perverse incentive. Bravo.
We've all been there.

It's all about probiotics and plant fibers.

I found out personally that pill form probiotics don't work for me at all. But, real fermented food like kefir and sauerkraut do wonders. On the other hand, plant fibers can be used in pill form and they work great (I'm using Psyllium Husk Fibre Supplement 700mg daily).

My personal solution to this problem: sandwich with flaxseeds (linnseeds) and peanuts in the morning every day, anything for lunch/dinner with the addition of that 700 mg plant fibers and sauerkraut as a salad, and 1/2 liter kefir for super every day. No more problems whatsoever.

If you ask any proctologist, they will tell you that you should NEVER sit on the loo for more than 3 minutes. Everything longer than 3 minutes is slowly but surely hurting your body and will lead to all sorts of complications eventually.

Also, get one of those Crouching Toilet Stools which help you get in the right anatomical position for offloading. Human intestines system was designed for crouching in the field, NOT for sitting. But, with the addition of this simple, cheap, plastic leg support, you can have the best of both worlds.

Good luck!
Something similar hit the news in Spain recently:

https://cadenaser.com/castillayleon/2024/03/15/el-candidato-...
I don't see anywhere in your citation how much of that money has been dispensed, or for what milestones. $2.89 Billion would have paid for exactly one shuttle launch (https://www.space.com/11358-nasa-space-shuttle-program-cost-...). Sounds like a deal to me.

> That's still suborbital flight

You're just making yourself look silly here. Folks who regularly report on space like Scott Manley have spoken at length about the difficulties in achieving orbit and consider Starship to have done so: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8m0TY6i1Kuo An orbit regularizing burn is not a large obstacle compared to achieving orbital veloticy. The delta-v involved is minuscule.

> Project Apollo was way further by their fourth flight

Project Apollo operated under different engineering principles which emphasized extra expenditure prior to flight to attempt to ensure successful flights. Starship is being engineered through flight-testing which is closer to how the Russian space program did things. Flying rockets is less expensive than spending endless engineer hours testing on the ground and for something the size and flight profile of Starship, no ground testing can ever fully simulate the forces involved.

You're either ill informed, or starting with a conclusion and reaching for things to justify it.
As a Zed developer, our killer feature is the parallel programming that our software enables. It's like pairing without the terrible parts.
The problem with the current crop of projectors such as LLaVA is that as far as I know do not take the previous conversation into account. You only really get zero shot responses. This means that you cannot steer the model towards paying attention to specific instruction related details. The projector simply creates a token representation of the visuals (not necessarily human language tokens) and the LLM just processes that as usual.
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very nice!! I've had trouble working through AlphaFold in the past so this is going to be very helpful...
Defeated by A.I., A Legend in the Board Game Go Warns: Get Ready for What's Next
Sounds like a mechanism to test for bad hardware (akin to memtest86) and find compiler bugs =)
This is a fair criticism. You kind of hit why we don't - established firms list them all. We're not established yet, we're a baby deer trying to take a few steps through the forest. I would like to say that "not actively calling attention to our weaknesses in a way that is detrimental to users on both sides" is different from lying, but I think you could reasonably think differently.

Since you asked: we have two roles currently hiring, and one with a contract out (although I think it's <50-50 to actually get signed, they've been extremely difficult to get responses from). We work primarily with engineers and roles in the US (both because that's where we are located and because that's where the revenue needed to make this model work can be found. However, we're not closed to engineers abroad. One of the roles hiring right now is open to remote in most of the world (they prefer not the EU for time-zone reasons), the other is in-office in New York City.

If your criterion is "I don't want to sign up for this unless it'll get me a lot of jobs right now", well...don't. It won't, not yet. The pitch right now is "if you want to see this thing exist and would like a job if we can find you one, give it a shot, you've got nothing to lose".
Well, the brain is a physical neural network, and evolution seems to have figured out how to generate a (somewhat) copiable model. I bet we could learn a trick or two from biology here.
I think pretty soon in the future your LLM writing(prompting) style will be a differentiator.
If you notice that they are AI images, it means that there is something distracting in the first place.
in other news, vision models are bad at things they aren't trained to do
We call them 'multibuffers' :D

https://zed.dev/features#multi-buffers
> Nvidia also spends a metric shit ton of money to make sure professors use and teach on their platform.

Nah. People teach what they use because that's what's easy.
You won’t need to update ANY part of this for 10 years? Right.
You can however down the extension from the website and install it from the terminal.

codium --install-extension {path to .vsix}
> New Horizons was the closest attempt at what you are suggesting in that they were able to aim for another body after the Pluto fly-by, but that was just luck in the alignments.

An orbital mission to Pluto would be amazing. Maybe we can get its planetary status back. It is interesting and important to note that New Horizon's computers crashed for a bit as the probe was nearing Pluto. During the time the computers were down Horizon was scheduled to be scanning for as yet undiscovered moons of Pluto. If it had found a bunch more, perhaps Pluto would have already regained its rightful planetary status.
;) i'm not sure some folks got the joke
True, but when you point out practical realities like this to monopolistic institutions, they don't have to care.

They will instead ask "well why isn't the connection good at the concert? What can we do to fix that?" (ie. "we don't have to change when we can make you change")

It IS true that if you don't have to verify the ID of the ticket holder then admissions will go much faster. So long as they can make that plausible sales pitch, they can use it as justification for whatever byzantine DRM system they can dream up.
My question is why they didn't just make a Flatpak. Then they and their users wouldn't need to go through any of this hassle and distro fragmentation at all. Even if they didn't want to publish it on Flathub, Flatpak supports single file packages people can directly install as well.
For me, this framing is backwards: git cannot achieve what I can with jj. jj has everything I love about git, is more powerful, and is more orthogonal (read: simpler).

I loved git. I now love jj more.
True indeed, but it's important to not lose the uncertainly they had at the time, and the degree of o-ring failure being not so binary.

According to what I recall of Allan McDonald's version of things, they had a good amount of data that colder temperatures meant worse sealing performance from the o-rings (soot making its way past the first o-ring and in some cases damaging the second, basically). Like you said, it was a well-known issue in some circles. They also knew the Challenger launch the next morning would be very cold indeed, something wild like at or just above freezing, I think.

The engineers at Thiokol raised their concerns and were asked what a safe temperature to launch is and said something like 53F, basing this on the fact that a previous launch at that temp was successful. NASA (and Thiokol) management balked at this because the booster's certified minimum launch temp was something lower like 30 or 40F. Then they basically asked them to prove it would catastrophically fail at the temperatures expected the next morning, which they couldn't conclusively do since they didn't have the data to back it up. Management reversed the no-go recommendation based on this.

So yes, the o-rings performed as expected insofar as colder = worse, but it was a matter of how much worse at temperatures lower than any successful previous launch.
Got a 404
Or the role of the script doctor will become the new hot spot. Someone comes up with a script that's not good but has a good idea gets sent to someone else to take the good idea and rewrite around that. This is pretty much just par for the course in development.
Ok, but most of the data is just captions for images. You're going to have to invest some time into building this dataset at your own expense.
I slack myself for this purpose.
I don't really like it when it's obvious. Many of them have the same style, which gets tiresome.
Yes. Any technical post with an irrelevant image indicates a lack of real results.
Mine almost never shut down once I disabled the throttling. Maybe once.
Check out our troubleshooting page, you might not be utilizing the GPU!

https://zed.dev/docs/linux#troubleshooting

If that doesn't work for you, please file an issue, and let us know whether you're using Wayland or X11 :)
What I'd love (and what has been on my to-do list of things to write) is an app that I can literally text, which takes my notes and collects them somewhere. Would love to get some real searchability, etc while still not needing to launch something seperate to send notes!
I believe affinity of boys for interacting with "things" and affinity for girls for interacting with "people" has been demonstrated pretty well in studies.

(This falls into category of "something I read on the Internet")
Or the devices are just lasting longer.
The dataset most likely contains chart descriptions that describe the raw data, but not the visual interactions of the individual pixels.
(Otherbranch founder)

The privacy thing is a legitimate criticism. It was not my call (I wasn't part of the leadership at the time) and I disagreed with it both then and now. It was a screwup, and it is a big part of why I want to make aggressive honesty one of our major cultural points - because I think once you start with spin it's easy to roll down a slippery slope to "well it's in our pragmatic interest so sure do whatever".
Interesting. Do you know of any built products that use the approach you are suggesting ?
>I keep seeing this argument that there is value out there

I am sure that every person with significant hearing problems greatly appreciates auto generated subtitles. Surely some people enjoy having access to voice commands. Having translation tools which are reasonably good at inferring context is a great help if you want to communicate with a person who has no shared language. Having the ability to do some automated screening for abnormality can definitely help in manufacturing, same for medical imaging where a computer might point out to a doctor that something warrants a second look can be helpful. Cars being able to detect pedestrians and cyclists, surely has saved many lives already.

I could go on, but this is what I mean with people conflating "chat bots", with the entire range of applications for neutral networks.

Neural networks are currently the best way for a computer to infer human like knowledge about the real world. To make distinctions and to detect things which might be hard for a human to detect.
I don't judge the book by its cover - I'll give an article a quick skim to decide if I want to read it. if it seems useful, I'll read it more carefully. if it's rubbish, I'll close it.
You mean except for all of the good plugins. Or the ability to use a custom plugin store. Last I read, the open builds struggled with removing all of the MS telemetry and some may still be leaking.
I think its that most animal bodies are horizontal and thus float in a way that makes it trivial to keep their heads above water; in contrast to humans which have a bodyplan that requires constant stabilization to stay vertical, both on land and in water. It's the same reason baby animals can usually start walking minutes after being born while human babies require months to learn how to stand and walk in a stable manner
>I don't want to end up with 15 different third party apt repositories

I would love to add 15 different third party apt repositories, I wish more projects used them, you're running whatever binary they give you anyway

I guess this is just another example of how hard it is to please all linux users!
We have a few words on this in our troubleshooting guide:

https://zed.dev/docs/linux#troubleshooting

Let us know if that doesn't fix it!
I was wondering. Trouble is, you can't see a cheeky grin in someone else's writing, so the alternative is that it wasn't a joke but a bot.
Yes, dystopian soulless vibe of AI images is unpleasant.
> "fix"? What is there to fix? AMD has been simultaneously fighting Intel and Nvidia, two MUCH larger companies, and it's been winning the fight against Intel for close to a decade now.

There's everything to fix. AMD is sitting on a gold mine and is squandering massive amounts of money every month that they don't just get their shitty software stack in order.

AMD could be as rich as NVIDIA. Instead, Lisa Su for some insane reason refuses to build even the most mediocre ML-capable libraries for their GPUs.

If I could ask anyone in the ML world at the moment what the heck they're thinking, it would be her. Nothing makes sense about AMDs actions for years on this topic. If I was the board, I'd be talking about her exit for wasting such an opportunity.
> There's a lot of Men-in-Teaching advocacy

There are pundits saying this should be supported. Are there programs with real dollars behind them making actual changes?
Good question! It's certainly not a favorable environment to be founding such a company, although we are seeing some signs of a change in the weather over the past six weeks or so. That's not a huge surprise, one of the optimistic cases for how things might go was "we spend time doing all the awkward experimental stuff while the market is bad, so we're positioned to ramp up when it improves".

Certainly the market is one likely cause if we do fail, though.
I am not sure Andy is very present on social media. He would probably appreciate a comment.
Agreed, position 1 sounds like the best option for gaining hands on expertise and experience with stacks that will still be around in a few years. You'll still be able to learn concepts / architecture etc along the way.

Position 2 sounds more like a path to product or project management if that's a goal.
I asked ChatGPT to develop and image of the founding fathers, and it was strikingly similar to the image on the Wikipedia page. Same color scheme, same layout, it was clearly directly encoded into the network or whatever. So for one, I just think either it’s not tuned right or there’s not nearly enough data in there, but 1. I think that creativity is not quite as mechanistic as people may imagine in their heads.

And like maybe creativity is really ultimately just curation, and like how does AI/LLMs sell people on their vision. chatGPT can’t just library of Babel their way to creativity.

I don’t think that AI will never be creative but I think it’s a deeper philosophical question then yes/no.
Perhaps they had an advanced notice and have made changes, but the pre-print was published only two days ago. I'm guessing they asked for only a single result, got the female one and called it a problem.
We have a flatpak build! It's not on flathub yet though :)

https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/blob/main/docs/src/dev...
Here is .tar for correct way: https://zed.dev/api/releases/stable/latest/zed-linux-x86_64....

And here is even more correct one: https://zed.dev/docs/development/linux
I think camilla dsp works for windows.
To save you time: If you're on macOS, you can install with

brew install --cask zed

The docs don't make it very clear that the cask is available via homebrew.
I love the US/Pacific IST difference two windows for interaction each day. On the other hand Europe is very hard to work with.

And the actual reason to hire in more cities is to find the precious resource of brilliant people. Cost savings is prima facie short term, but the folks who can solve hard problems with beautiful code is worth a lot.
>get an official replacement

How? Apple doesn't sell spare parts. I went through two battery replacements on my iPhone SE 1G, after the original battery died. One from iFixit which was terrible. Battery SoC and performance was always wonky with that. Another from a reputable spare parts seller here, which had Apple branding on it, and it started good, but soon developed the same problem as the first.

Given Apples hostility toward repairs, it's obvious they'd rather you throw your device into the ocean and pay for a new one.
You'd expect them to be trained on simple geometry since you can create arbitrarily large synthetic training set for that.
> Startups ship more per person than big companies – everyone knows this

The post starts out by assuming this but I am not convinced this is true along the entire graph, if the x axis is amount of people on a team and the y axis is amount "shipped". As a company scales output, at some point in this graph the output per person from the large team should overtake the small team, otherwise why do we even have large teams in the first place? How do large teams form if not from necessity? Seems they are advocating for small one pizza teams working together in tandem at scale? Because that's essentially the way I've seen it done everywhere I've ever worked and it isn't a new idea, and what you have at the end of that is a larger unit that definitely constitutes a "department" and a "large team" even if the large team consists of several small teams. The communication overhead there can get extremely complex as well.
A timeless classic! This is the first thing I always recommend to anyone interested in real-time audio programming.
I wish Kagi could downrank results that use genAI for text, images, or both.
Anthropic have some interesting cookbook examples that provide advice on using their multimodal models here: https://github.com/anthropics/anthropic-cookbook/tree/main/m...

I've assembled a bunch more notes here: https://simonwillison.net/tags/vision-llms/
Previously

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40873471 (151 comments)
Any effort by Congress to police itself is really just political theater for consumption by the unsuspecting voter.

How to sidestep this ban? Setup an anonymous trust or holding company in Wyoming or overseas.
Yes, I think so too. People peddling neural networks as being the end of the world mostly just want an advertising machine for their chat bots.

Neural networks do not need to prove themselves anymore, for a vast amount of problems they are the single best way to approach them. Even if chat bots never get better from here on, neural networks aren't going away.
soullessness

that's ai generated content main trait
So the reason we don't do a quiz (I assume that's what you're referring to) is just that GPT makes it way too easy to cheat. GPT would've gotten almost the entirety of the old Triplebyte quiz right.

I have thought about having one available just for nerd-sniping growth-hack purposes, for the exact reason you say, but using it as a filter feels like it's just going to select for what is now very easy cheating. (Not that cheating on the TB quiz was that difficult, but it was nonzero effort.)
No not really, they definitely increase the risk of slop but not by _that_ much in my experience