skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think that this is a fair comparison because at some point the nature of the craft actually does change.

To give an analogy, a carpenter might be happy with hand tools, happy with machine tools, happy with plywood, and happy with MDF. For routine jobs they may be happy to buy pre-fabbed cabinets.

But for them to employ an apprentice (AI in this example) and outsource work to them - suddenly they are no longer really acting as a carpenter, but a kind of project manager.

edit: I agree that LLMs in their current state don't really fundamentally change the game - the point I am trying to make is that it's completely understandable that everyone has their own "stop" point. Otherwise, we'd all live in IKEA mansions.
People are not talking about how revolutionary this is. This isn't AI generating content to compete with artists. This is software running on standard hardware that turns electricity into material more illegal than cocaine. Just think of how that would impact the market for cocaine if suddenly everyone could make easily it at home from common ingredients.

We are spiraling very quickly towards a "media creation box", standalone software that will generate whatever content a person might want without any external connections. There will be huge societal ramifications. We think media bubbles are bad now, but just wait until everyone can live inside their own bubble filled with locally-generated content to match their increasingly warped world views.
That, too, would constitute a new edition if the updates went into the work itself. Otherwise, the previous work is still a thing—you're just pretending that it's not and the new thing was the thing all along. That's harmful and dangerous and unnecessary.

What you want doesn't necessitate changes to anything except maybe the reader software. Annotation and commentary has been around for millennia. What you want is for the reader to inline the commentary. That's fine.
It’s about the line between what gets protected by patents and what gets protected by copyright. The rule is basically patents protect function, copyright doesn’t.

If the specific design of a windshield wiper blade was protected by copyright then its patent would be pointless. Therefore patents essentially invalidate copyright where they apply. People often hate software patents, but a 20 year window expires on anything built before 2004.
Deepfake porn of real people is already starting to be criminalized, children or not: https://www.criminaldefenselawyer.com/resources/is-deepfake-...

I think that's a good thing, though the law obviously needs more time to catch up.
I guess renders or cartoons of child pornography is equally banned, so I guess that's not a defence here, as the law stands.
Thanks! This is exactly what I was looking for.
side note: (assuming you are the author) could you please add RSS feed to your blog? thank you!
> Is it really child abuse if no children were involved?

How can you prove that zero children were involved at any point?

How does the model generate CSAM without it either being in the training material or fed to the model as an input?
The frequency with which compiler implementations functionally diverge from language specifications is dwarfed, by many orders of magnitude, by the frequency with which LLMs generate provably nonsensical code in response to a prompt.

To wit, a compiler diverging from the specification is so relatively rare that people will get angry about it and demand that it be fixed, while an LLM spewing creative nonsense is so accepted and par for the course that complaining about that fact is met with a shrug and "well, what did you expect?"
> great example of the unreasonable effectiveness of branding

It is indeed.-

Unrelated to "will it run Doom?", of course. What someone here has called "The Carmack Principle" :)
Seems to me like art is art if the person who made it feels that it's art, and that may or may not be a component of the process that went into an apparently artistic product. Artistic products seem more likely to be "art" of there's no specific value to them, and they exist to exist or to add some abstract element of decoration to world. A former theatre friend of mine once got mad when I described art as having no intrinsic value, but that doesn't mean it has no value, and I don't think it fundamentally changes the non-art noun of what's produced; a painting/print can be just a decoration, and/or it can be art, but the fact that it's art doesn't change whether it's a painting or a decoration or the type of object. That may not be the case of course if the resulting object is an artistic illusion, such as a table that's not a functional table because it's made of cake, but again I don't think it needs to get that deep for the point to be true.

Likewise, software that was produced artistically may or may not be better, or more valuable, or distinguishable in any way from other software products, but if the author feels like it's art it may be art. That may be because there's no tangible reason for it to exist other than a creative endeavor, in which case maybe it's not actually software.
This might be the most "zoomed in" take on programming I've ever read (where a zoomed out take understands that software usually just enables a business to do business). I almost thought it was satire.

I feel like you have to drop this kind of thinking to get anywhere past intermediate, not to mention you become a nightmare to anyone who has even a touch of pragmatism about them.
As long as the industry try that there is only one kind of banana both journalists and fungus can be successful.
Another fun thing is that some countries that celebrate Ramadan may change back to normal time during Ramadan. So you can 2-4 DLS changes per year depending on when Ramadan falls. Luckily most time systems don’t really care, but it’s still a fun edge case. You really can’t hard code anything.
It would still be an issue. Even countries with socialized or heavily subsidized healthcare systems tend to have long waiting lists for therapists and strict limits on the number of sessions. Services are rationed everywhere.
At the risk of whatever, I believe we do have good data on this sort of thing when it comes to adults.

It's often noted, if not utterly established, that "internet access" (aka porn access) strongly correlates with (and thus, perhaps causes) lower rates of sexual assault.
The times when #codecrafters will be as valuable as gold coming... I would prefer to rock into this times.
The challenge isn't just "figuring it out"; the challenge is also actually putting it in place even knowing that. Because, astonishingly, there seem to be actual people against the concept of air purification. (Just read through this comments section.)

There were doctors and surgeons against the concept of handwashing, too, but fortunately they lost. Unfortunately, it took a long time for them to lose, and a lot of people died as a result. How do we skip that part?
Except that there is a good bit of data suggesting that access to porn does reduce sexual assault.
I always sucked at math, even though I did it in undergrad. I basically did this over the course of the last five years to try get better. It went something like this:

Spivak - Calculus. This was a bad idea. Got maybe 30% of it. Gave up at Taylor series.

Hammack - Book of Proof. Finally understood how to prove things, and induction arguments.

Abbot - Understanding analysis. Got far, things fell apart around the Gamma function.

Apostol - Volume I. Got better at calculus. Also trigonometry. Exercises were easy. Skipped differential equations. It was too hard.

Hoffman/Kunze - Linear Algebra. Gave up after a few chapters, too hard.

Friedman/Insel - Linear Algebra. Much better, got to the Spectral Theorem and gave up.

Rudin - Principals of Mathematical Analysis. Absolutely brutal, probably got 30% of it.

Abbot, round 2. Much easier this time, got through the whole book.

Spivak, round 2. Much better, got through the whole book. Actually found it easy.

Hubbard - Vector Calculus. Gave up early, it was too hard.

Apostol - Volume 2. Much better. Stopped somewhere in the middle when it got too focused on differential equations and physics stuff.

Back to Friedberg / Insel - Made it through the spectral theorem.

In between I was doing a lot of mathematical statistics and probabilty stuff like Casell-Berger (I did this book twice, each time going back to the math where I floundered). I’ve worked through just about every exercise in the above books and watched YouTube video lectures where they exist (there is a good one for Rudin). Solution manuals sometimes exist, sometimes you have to find university courses based on the books and look for homework assignments where they have posted solutions, Quizlet has ok solutions, some are buggy. Apostol volume I some dude worked through and posted online.

Anyway point is I refused to accept how stupid I am and I brutally forced myself to become better at math. My attitude was I don’t give a fuck how long it takes, I will keep going until I get better.

I think I’m better now, although I’m still shit. It’s true what von Neumann said: In mathematics you don’t understand things, you just get used to them.
It's whatever these luddites dream up in their intelligence-stricken skulls. It also changes depending on the day of the week and the direction of the wind.

For example, our current credit system is much closer to "mark of the beast" level stuff than a society where everything is paid for with physical cash, but the same people who are afraid of the mark are fine with credit cards because it keeps undesirables away from them. The truly destitute are not going to have a credit card most of the time, and if they do it's because they're cashing checks through a payday lender who keeps 3% of their income plus a service fee in order to keep their account.
OVH is a joke (their data center burned because they had wooden roofs), Gandi is no more, and Scaleway gave up. There is no French host anymore. Only Hetzner is left in this business.
If you bothered to look, you would find that both of the examples given are open-source servers. You might then deduce that you misunderstood the comment to which you replied.
Ask HN: Do you use cursor for coding?
There's a huge craze about Cursor for coding, I'd love to see how much of HN actually uses it.
Lessons from the Trenches: Shutting Down My Startup Loominex
The author simply hasn't learned anything at all about the art of typography and typesetting.
Microsoft sells security software that is using kernel modules. Some years ago in a anti-trust thing they agreed to let other security software vendors use kernel modules too so their own product wouldn't have an unfair advantage.

They now claim that if that hadn't happened they would have banned their competitors from using kernel modules and thus crowdstrike couldn't have fucked up kernel code. What they don't mention is that they could have made it possible to implement such software without kernel modules, like other platforms do, and banned everyone (including their own product) from kernel space, leading to both "no security software in kernel" (not even Microsofts) and "Microsofts security products do not get a special unfair exception", but of course there is a crowd loving that argument as broken as it is.
Entering the US with a foreign passport and US birthplace can lead to a bunch of questions from US CBP as US citizens are required to reenter the US with a US passport (helps the IRS).

A number of provisions in the US Immigration and Nationality Act, INA, whereby somebody born in the US could lose citizenship have been repealed or declared unconstitutional. Lost citizenship was not automatically restored when the INA was amended. You would have to apply for reinstatement.

But the obligation and accounting fees to file tax and FATCA forms with the IRS are a major deterrent if you are living outside the US.

I had a long conversation inside a border post on this topic until suspected consultation with higher-ups at the Port office clued in the local officers and they suddenly said "Have a good day!" without further explanation.

Since then I've carried a copy of the State Department 7 FAM 1200 APPENDIX C, but haven't seen further CBP curiosity about my possible US citizenship; I suspect there is now a note in my file entry that I am not a US citizen.
I wonder about this as well. Go has 26 keywords. English as 170,000 active words.

I don't want to code in English.
Should call it Lidl Cloud :)
Getting sick to stay healthy. Makes sense to me. Now will you be exposing yourself to zika virus or HIV? Seems like those would exercise your immune system quite a bit.
I don't understand why anyone uses Telegram if it there is no proof that it is secure. Their code isn't open source?
Lol, yeah I was being cheeky here but when I see so many spelling / grammar related mistakes, I wonder can they not at least put the text through Microsoft Word or something?

Do we have grammar/spelling checkers for markdown editors or whatever most are using to write their blogs?
I'm with you. Unfortunately. The older I get, the more I realise just how hard, far and pointless existing beyond the Earth's atmosphere will be, for the most part.

Certainly the next few hundred years. There's just no real point. Ten thousand years hence, who knows?

I'm absolutely rapt following SpaceX's journey, but then when I mentally scale that up to 'something useful' for localspace living (eg. a useful percentage of current daily aviation volume), I realise how utterly unsustainable it fundamentally is.

The older I get, the less of a Paradox Fermi's idle thought becomes. Sadly.
Both of those have clear harms, namely increased risks of traffic collisions.
Cool story.

What are you actually arguing for/against here?
Download CapCut for free, drag both videos into your media panel, now click + on them both to drop them on the timeline. Make sure the ratio (under the preview window) is set to 9:16. Click on each video and move it around until you have it lined up where you want it. Export.
I've lost over 150 pounds from the time I last had a photo id taken, mostly due to illness. I've grown facial hair to hide some of the lines in my face so that I don't look as sickly, and it is incredibly hard for me to get around. Should I be denied the right to vote because I don't look like the fat man in the picture?
Police believe they can rob you by charging your stuff with a crime, because stuff doesn't have rights.
There's not really much point in trying to convince flat earthers of the truth.
It is totally possible to have a robust social life and keep up with friends and family without Social Media. OP just needs to put in effort and not hide behind all those excuses. I burned my Facebook account at least 10 years ago, maybe 15... I can’t remember when, it’s been so long. Yet the people who are actually important to me stay in touch. I don’t consider someone an actual “friend” if they are unwilling to even communicate with me if I don’t use social media. These people aren’t actual friends.
Google no doubt has staff lawyers whose job it is to advise them in such cases.
> That fancy encryption system is worthless when someone can hijack the session of any of the users in a chosen group

what do you mean? user sessions are remotely hijackeable?
Still a problem: https://inews.co.uk/news/measles-parties-risk-children-life-...

Vaccine misinformation has been a disaster.
I think you can consider a few extremely common crates (serde, tokio, etc.) to basically not be "third-party". The risk that dtolnay will randomly break serde_json is not meaningfully different from the risk that the rust core team will randomly break the standard library.

> requires yet another approval for upgrade

Approval from whom?
No, they did so yesterday, and we‘ve had a dozen submissions on HN already, with two front page stories.

It‘s not exactly breaking news.
> anyone who thinks these goals are reasonable should apply them to equivalent services to realize they’re bad

AFAIK these goals _are_ applied to equivalent services. It's just that twitter, FB, Instagram, WhatsApp, and all the others _do_ put in the marginal amount of effort required to remove/prohibit illicit activity on their platform.

Free speech is one thing, refusing to take down CSAM or drug dealing operating in the open is always going to land you in hot water.
>> Why are these service providers being punished for what their users do?

Are we 100% certain that this is only about Telegram? I want to see the allegations, not the vague charges, before pontificating about ISP liability. These charges might be more straightforwards.
The signature part is problematic. Many (most?) of us don’t have a need to use handwriting in our day-to-day lives. I rarely even need to endorse checks. And my official signature on either my license or SSN card are from years ago.

While my signature is fairly consistent with key parts looking similar, I almost never end up with duplicate looking signatures. An expert could probably identify them as being from the same person. A layman could almost certainly challenge the signature and win.
Why I Work on Ads at Google
Below you'll find the fixed version an LLM provided. I simply asked it to add uppercase letters where appropiate and split up sentences where needed. You are welcome:

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As LLMs get better and better at writing code, more and more people, at least on twt, have started to incorporate LLMs into their workflow. Most people seem to agree that LLMs have been a game changer for coding. They praise them for how much they have improved their productivity. They also mention how much easier it is to write code. Some claim that programmers who refuse to use them are "not using them correctly" and will eventually get left behind.

In my opinion, the effectiveness of LLMs in coding at their current state is vastly overblown. Even if LLMs were as good as what avid users of them claim, I still won't see myself using it in any meaningful capacity.

## The art of programming

Programming can be broken down into two parts. The first is solving problems algorithmically, breaking problems into steps that computers can follow within some constraints, thus forming a solution to the original problem. The second is expressing the solution in a way that the computer can understand.

Both parts provide the programmers with an infinite canvas on which they can express their creativity. There are practically limitless ways to approach and solve a problem, and a practically infinite way to express a solution to the problem. Hence, programming is a form of self-expression - it is an art form. What is produced through programming is a kind of art - an art few appreciate.

## I am a programming artist

In that sense, I see myself as an artist, one that expresses his creative self through programming. I enjoy creating programming art, because only through it do I find my true self, one who has a burning passion to create and build things.

## LLM is not for me

Using LLM to write code is like asking an artist to paint for you. If you only want the end result, by all means! If you are like me who enjoy the process of painting, then why would you bother automating the fun part away? One may say, "But I am only using LLM to write code. I am still doing the problem solving myself!". To me, programming isn't complete if I don't get to express the solution in code myself. It isn't my art if I don't create it myself.

## A sad reality

It is sad to me just how much people are trying to automate away programming and delegating it to a black box that can't even count letters in a word sometimes. They are even going as far as trying to emulate a software engineer on top of the black box. Does no one not find programming fun anymore? Does no one care enough about programming to go further beyond getting things working "well enough"? Is this just another case of availability bias?

Please don't take this as a judgmental piece to anyone that I am alluding to. It's fine to not find programming enjoyable. It's fine to just want things to work. I am just disappointed at how the ones who care appear to be an ever dying breed.
the german federal cartel office forced for example amazon to change their terms and conditions so that they may no longer arbitrarily close accounts. account closures also must include a reason. further german users can now sue against closures in germany.

so yes, companies can not arbitrarily ignore due process in their term and conditions
Five ways the brain can age: 50k scans reveal possible patterns of damage
Running state of the art LLMs for programming is nowhere near project management. At least in my experience, all LLMs are really good at is dumping plausible tokens quickly. They can't think, design, or handle tradeoffs intelligently.

They help me with the keyboard work, not any of the actual programming.
Ok I gave it a try. Ran into a number of bugs. But good start! Keep up the good work and best of luck.

User test: https://www.loom.com/share/a6918da39aed468ca28a84be0cd2ca0f
> (which is a rather cringy term imo, as it implies that something as big as the EU isn't sovereign) angles to this.

How will the sovereign EU stop the US from exercising the CLOUD act over the data stored in AWS in Europe?
I was involved in an EU funded software research project related to air quality [1] around ~2008. The bureaucracy was very real, we had to produce a boatload of paperwork (including a literal, on paper, printout of the source code, for some reason?). But aside from the weird paperwork overhead, we were fairly free in how we approached the project, and we got a lot of shit done. This was software R&D in the true sense. I don't know what happened to the project after I left, but I suspect the universities involved benefited from the research and some of it was probably spun off.

That is to say: it's not all just paperwork and paychecks, it can be greatly rewarding work.

[1] Strangely enough I was just talking about another aspect of air quality in another HN thread. Never noticed this was a theme in my life before.
Fascism is rising.
> legged vehicles have many downsides but one big upside is that you can theoretically avoid the rubber/microplastic particulate emission associated with tires and wheeled vehicles if you can make legged vehicles as good as wheeled ones.

How do you square this idea with the fact that my running shoes wear out? I'm a legged vehicle, and it's clear that the soles of my shoes wear down over time and the lost mass of the rubber went somewhere.

Whether legs or wheels, there are going to be contact patches that have to endure some quantity of sheering force when the vehicle is doing anything other than remaining stationary. It's this sheering force that grates the particulates away from tires, and I presume a legged vehicle would need a tire-like compound on the surfaces it uses to contact the road. So why would legs be different in this regard?
Not sure where LLMs will be in 5 years, can only talk about today and make some guesses about the future.

I use LLMs cause it takes care of the syntax and leaves me more time to think about the logic and how everything is connected together. LLMs still lack in the latter category.

For one-off tasks, it's truly a time saver. In the future, I see people trying to do more complex stuff with chains of LLM calls (already happening but it's still a WIP). Break a complex task into sub-tasks, then solve them sequentially to achieve something non-trivial in the end. I'm a bit skeptical though - not so much because of my skepticism of LLMs in general but more about humans not being good at maintaining code bases they didn't write (often even with code that wrote). You cannot trust LLMs to also maintain the codebase. There's too much context about the life of the code, all the dependencies, and even business logic, that is missing.