skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Alan touches on critique versus creation. He almost but not quite get at the core issue when he evokes that, in those old glory days of comic fandom, fans were creators too. This is a strong observation but not explored in the article.

As communication technology improves, we get better at making copies of and making searchable the most resonating works. This means that new creators face bigger and bigger barriers to resonating. Most people give up.

To adapt, People have become critics rather than creators - consumers rather than producers. This has a deep effect on our culture.

This might explain the malaise of inaction - that we don’t feel we can accomplish much and that we’ll more readily point out the flaws in an action than encourage the action in others.

As alluded to in the article, it also might increase the tribalism wherein we have one super-creator and their followers.

The act of creation also deepens understanding. The creation process creates a more thoughtful person as much as it creates the work itself.

How do we bring back a culture of creation?
It is weird he doesn’t think of AI as deep thinking tool at all.

Sure some will thoughtlessly copy and paste but for many AI helps to structure their thoughts and they think clearer as a result.
Are you really dissing the entire English indie music scene? You might not like it, but England has been creating musicians and defining whole genres non-stop since the 1960s (Beatles, Led Zeppelin, heavy metal, punk rock, psychedelic rock, jungle, the entire rave scene, The Prodigy, dnb, uk garage, the whole 2010s indie rock, dubstep, UK drill, etc.)

Japan seems to have a lot of small, very talented indie bands that basically are emulating and/or fusing Western genres together (jazz, funk, metal, etc.)
I think this is a bit too simple. Some people might be good at thinking (e.g. in math) but bad at writing. AI can just help them to do their job better.

I am for example very good at math and reasoning etc. But when I write something I tend to construct long complicated sentences (probably because I think that way^^) and the result whould often be considered badly written.

Now of course you can feel superiour, for your better writing style. If it makes you happy ;)
That to me feels too dangerous. You'd need to sandbox every piece of config file you use.

I've been sketching on a shell/scripting language/system for a while and I've been thinking of it being in-effect three sub-languages, one nested within the other. At the lowest level: pure data, middle level: pure functional expressions, top level: imperative commands. I'd think that most use-cases for a configuration file would be satisfied by the lowest level, and some by the middle, but absolutely none would need the highest.
Then a config file would be "sandboxed" by the language syntax, with very little risk of it breaking out.
Same, I get to a certain stage in the game (usually the first big factory 'refactor') and find myself thinking that the exact same effort I'm applying to the game could be applied to any number of work-related things that would be just as fun and much more beneficial.
This is correct and Trump said that himself in 2016. According to him, he would spend a lot more time and money campaigning in California and New York instead of battleground states if the system was different.

And we would then see the very issue the electoral college tries to fix: small states wouldn't matter. It would be a lot more efficient in terms of vote acquisition to put in place policies benefitting Los Angeles than Green Bay, WI. Los Angeles is already extremely powerful as it is; the electoral college shifts some power away from huge cities.
They supply their paper in the Git repo, here:
https://github.com/usefulsensors/moonshine/blob/main/moonshi...

The section "3.2. Training data collection & preprocessing" covers what you're inquiring about:
"We train Moonshine on a combination of 90K hours
from open ASR datasets and over 100K hours from own
internally-prepared dataset, totalling around 200K hours.
From open datasets, we use Common Voice 16.1 (Ardila
et al., 2020), the AMI corpus (Carletta et al., 2005), Gi-
gaSpeech (Chen et al., 2021), LibriSpeech (Panayotov
et al., 2015), the English subset of multilingual Lib-
riSpeech (Pratap et al., 2020), and People’s Speech (Galvez
et al., 2021). We then augment this training corpus with
data that we collect from openly-available sources on the
web. We discuss preparation methods for our self-collected
data in the following."

It does continue...
RDX: Replicated Data EXchange Format
Absence of something surely was a known concept. Zero..., that is reified absence by itself with no relation to a thing being absent, most likely not.
You can print things off the web.
Maybe your browser has fingerprint mitigation techniques?
Every time I hear a story like this - "management says 'no'" - I wonder if anyone cared/dared to ask follow up questions.

Why was PostgreSQL not an option according to management? I would not take their dismissal at face value. I'd want to know why not. But that might be Dutch culture.
Yet, we take great care in our own society to ensure people higher up in the food chain don’t take advantage of those below them—so much so, in fact, that the declaration of human rights declares we’re all born equal. If we sort ourselves in a hierarchy with other sentient beings, why doesn’t the same concept apply to them too?
Personally prefer Dyson sphere but to each their own
It's basically the same size as an F-150. It has a crumple zone although it probabl only activates for hard car collisions. I've seen no evidence that it is significantly worse for pedestrian safety than an F-150. Which is not good at all, but it is still a bit pretentious to paint it as a horribly dangerous car when there is no evidence that it is worse than one of the most common cars in the US.
Insurance. The piece of paper that states who the buck stops with when there's a claim or lawsuit.
What would even be the point of this?
I guess he'd been hoping his audience (his readers) would have been more like the pigs on Manor Farm, and is a touch disappointed that the majority audience (his fans) are running around bleating the equivalent of 2 legs bad: "you're locked in here with me!"
I don't think GitHub, or any other git host, will have objections to using it once it's part of mainline git?

Also, thank you for the TLDR!
You have not provided enough info.

Selling out at s-a normally implies leverage and it sounds like you don't have any which is an oxymoron.

You could have sold pari passu if the round was oversubd etc
Can't a JS engine keep track of what data comes from the canvas (directly and indirectly), and refuse to send that back to the website?
People are much more likely to approach you to say something positive than to say something negative.

There’s almost no precedent for a “hit” vehicle at that price point. Toyota stopped selling real Landcruisers in the US because Americans won’t pay that much for something with a Toyota Badge (hence the current real Landcruiser is sold as a Lexus in very low volume).

Tesla are claiming a hit after making people wait 5 years for a vehicle they couldn’t see and then shipping preorders. The preorders have been massively less than they claimed and now the vehicle is with people it is being shown to be of low quality and low capability. Unable to manage tasks Subarus and much cheaper vehicles can.

The proof of its success will be in the coming year. Now buyers are walking in to buy a real vehicle at a real price. The current owners bought a paper spec sheet at a fantasy price and are a self selecting group happy to pay 2-3x over what they were promised.
How to distribute content is a protocol level concern. Whether/how to rank it is a question for the user agent. The Loops client will likely at least have an option of a ranked feed.
> A good example of this may be https://joinmobilizon.org/en/, which I haven't heard of a non-Fediverse alternative for.

The landing page of that service says that it is: “an ethical alternative to Facebook events, groups and pages”.
Paul Graham proving himself wrong....

He didn't need to right that article. He is already rich. So why did he do it?

Everyday hn is full of articles where people have some some amazingly complex thing, entirely for fun. Then they have written a blog about it entirely for fun.

Then we get one of the familiar detachments from reality

> In preindustrial times most people's jobs made them strong. Now if you want to be strong, you work out. So there are still strong people, but only those who choose to be.

Except for all of the people whose jobs still make them strong. Scaffolders, tree surgeons, bricklayers, carpenters, et al.

I need to write a document next week. I have begun to analyse a complex system that chatgpt will not be aware of. I need to apply my specialism to it, to decide what to do with lots of steps. Writing it will test my understanding of the system, and encourage completeness. It will allow others to know what they are expected to do. It will allow a constructive discussion of the choices and reasons. ChatGPT wont help me, except perhaps in layout, rephrasing a sentence, something like that. My job will keep my writing muscles strong. Paul Graham has lost touch with reality.
Same, but not necessarily due to nationality. It very much depends on the company culture and interpersonal relationship in question
> I'm hopeful that LLMs can provide guidance in removing useless tests or simplifying things. In an ideal future they may even help in formulating requirements or design documentation

I am very sceptical here as well. The biggest problem with formulating requirements or design documentation is translation from informal to formal language. In other words... writing programs.

LLMs are good at generating content that doesn't provide useful information (ie. have low information content). Their usefulness right now is caused by the fact that people are used to reading lot of text and distill information from it (ie. all the useless e-mails formulated in corporate language, all multi-page requirement documents formulated in human readable form). The job of a software engineer is to extract information from low information content text and write it down in a formal language.

In this context:

What I expect in the long run is that people will start to value high information content and concise text. And obviously - it cannot be generated by any LLM, because LLM cannot provide any information by itself. There is really no point in: provide short high information content text (ie. prompt) to LLM -> receive long low information content text from LLM -> extract information from long text.
The most annoying thing about the page is that the before and after are not presented side by side making it difficult to see all the changes at once.
I run a SaaS company as well. We are outliers, especially if you are selling to other tech people, who are technically proficient and don't value their time very much—they'd rather spend hours writing their own half-arsed solution than paying someone else $5/month. I know how hard it is to sell to someone that believe your product is nothing more than "a shell script written over a weekend" (paraphrased comment from my Show HN)

Outside of tech, that's not how it works. They don't have in-house developers. They don't read HN. When they need a database, they ring up a large vendor and spend hundred of thousands a year for Oracle, when a PostgreSQL container would do just fine. They often don't even care they could pay zero, simply because PostgreSQL doesn't come with a phone number to call when the DB crashes.
The idea that there will be a "middle class" that relies on AI to churn out missives without much thought scares me a lot more than having people who don't write a lot, honestly.

I'm seeing that happen today with corporate documents (there's always that one enthusiast in each team who says "oh, let me improve that with [LLM]", and it's a slog to go through pages and pages of things that could be a bullet point). Quality has been trumped by mediocre quantity, and the cluelessness of the people who do this willingly baffles me.

As someone who's been writing pretty much constantly for over 30 years and both uses AI code completion to speed up first drafts (of code) but switches off everything except macOS's (pretty good) word completion for prose--and absolutely refuses to use AI to generate work documents or even my blog post drafts--this post was a bit of a "oh, so this would be the ultimate consequence of keeping all of it on" moment.

Accelerating writing (with simple word completion) is fine. But letting the AI generate entire sentences or paragraphs (or even expand your draft's bullet points) will either have you stray from your original intent in writing or generate overly verbose banalities that only waste people's time.

I use iA Writer to draft a lot of my stuff, and its style checks have helped a lot to remove redundancies, clichés and filler, making my prose a bit more cohesive and to the point. That's been around for ages and it's not LLM-style AI (more of a traditional grammar checker), but that sort of assistance seems to be missing from pretty much every AI "writing aid"--they just generate verbose slop, and until that is fixed in a way that truly helps a writer LLMs are just a party trick.

Edit: I just realised that I wrote about this at length in February - https://taoofmac.com/space/blog/2024/02/24/1600#the-enshitti...
The website is nearly a decade old. presumably folks did still care about IE5 in that time period.
Web "typography" is so awful I had to disallow web fonts a long time ago. Now its time to write some greasemonkey lube to fix line heights and font weights, as thin fonts are nonreadable and finally somehow fix gray text low-contrast nonsense.
Hm, the most popular book in the 19. century was probably still the bible.

And in a list I found here, I would say the majority is still quite concerned with the real world:

https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/6.Best_Books_of_the_20th...

Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter just replaced the bible in my opinion, but the people in the 19.century had reasons to flee into imaginary worlds as well.
Elephants are social beings that live in groups, mourn their dead, raise their young, and care for their elders. They show emotions like anger, joy, boredom, and can be playful or even cheeky sometimes.

That you don’t take a second to consider they may have a subjective reality similar to your own, and instead ridicule the mere thought that these animals deserve some kind of protection, leaves me troubled.
Linux took off when PCs were finally able to run operating systems with virtual memory. All of a sudden devs did not need to pay for licences for C/C++ compilers and other dev tools, but most importantly they no longer had to pay tens of thousands of dollars for Unix workstations or servers. It coincided with the commercialisation of the Internet (it started as a non-commercial project funded by DARPA).
You can change some metrics that contribute to the fingerprint between sessions, that the fingerprinting party assumes are stable over time.

There is no utility for the fingerprintor of getting your unique fingerprint, when that fingerprint wont be registered ever again.

If you use Firefox, look up the CanvasBlocker extension. It can even make the fingerprint appear consistent when first party domain is the same.
I think it will take way more than political will.

The USA is enjoying the wealth they gained in both world wars and they also kept their defacto colonies in the South America and Pacific.

Europeans destroyed their wealth in the world wars and they lost their colonies. Of course the end of the colonialism has ended some of the human suffering but it has a cold-hearted economic impact.

The American venture capitalists are all coming from the industries that got stronger at and after the world wars. They invested silicon and then the tech industries that built the wealth exponentially. The Europeans had to rebuild their countries until 70s and the investments they made are smaller. Similarly the US spent its government money to nuclear and space programs that further strengthened the economy. EU spent its surplus to improve post-Soviet countries which may or may not pay dividends in the future.

It may require significant reallocation of resources from certain places to tech. It may require diverting the resources spent on old pensioners who are the biggest voting block. It is not a simple lack of political will. It requires reshaping a century of decisions.
If you want to go further, it's because division is defined as the inverse of multiplication. It doesn't really have anything to do with:

> it doesn't correspond to any useful pattern in the parts of reality we typically apply arithmetic to (accounting, estimation, etc).

You can of course re-define it, but then we aren't talking about the same thing any more. The operation of inverting multiplication, is not defined for zero.
How Google Is Killing Bloggers and Small Publishers – and Why
We ended up here after years of trying other things, following scientific method. We've tried various plant based diets, and they did not work for us. Going to a non-plant diet was a radical change for us, having literally tried everything else.

In case you're interested, here's something to watch that will tie in what we're doing and the success we're having with the article.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVJM_0XEiBI&pp=ygUPZmF0IGRvY...
Every major city has tours in tunnels and are usually pretty cool. The one in Rome is good. The one in Turin is just amazing, shows how the Italians used the tunnels to defend against the French army.
Size doesn't matter, it's how you use it (no invalid diffs on paths sharing trailing part).
I don't know about cheapest but Modal is quite convenient code-wise
The rest of us understood it
>And it may well help launch it, but that’s where its relevance ends.

You can expand in parallel. If Starship works you can launch 100 spacecraft instead of 1, or in other words, you can expand your system by a factor of 100 "in parallel" and hence increase whatever you get from that small payload margin by a factor of 100.

Besides that there are other approaches like laser array + photon sail which more directly benefit from mass to LEO.
Why do you disagree with the basic premise, can you elaborate?
Same. In my case I have real world problems that need my attention and I struggle to justify playing games while those problems loom. Only exception is playing games with my kid, but that is time boxed.
But can it also take you back to 1955 or 1855? or 2020...wait... wtf wants to go back to that year...lol
I like and believe too the notion that writing IS thinking and that cultivating this skill helps you form clearer thoughts.
One question about this: I'm trying to engage more and more in writing for this reason, but I seem often not to know what to write about. For example, as PG has a lot of experience when it comes to startups, I feel I don't have as much knowledge to share, or if I have some opinion, I don't feel as confident in sharing it. Any tips on how to cultivate writing as an exercise in thinking in this situation?
People foolishly thought the G in GDPR stood for "general" when it's actually GIANT.
What about religious text? They were always very much concerned with other planes of existence. Places outside of the real world.

Nonetheless, I don't think it's necessarily a bad thing to have stories set in their own worlds, separated from reality. Maybe it is inevitable. In previous centuries, the world itself was largely unknown. Most people never left the city they were born in until they died. Reading something set in a different real place was in many ways the only way to experience it.

What is the first noteworthy piece of fiction set in a fictional land? "Alice in Wonderland", perhaps? Maybe in a world that was becoming a tad less mysterious (we already had telegraphs, trains, steam ships and so on), some started to look toward fantastical, fictional world to have the illusion of an unknown world.
> c'est en forgeant qu'on devient forgeron ("working at the forge is how one becomes a smith")

I don't know if there ever was a culture of creation (have you any examples?) but I wouldn't say that there's any lack of opportunity for people today to create for themselves and their friends. Even the super-creators spin off their own opportunities for subdemiurges: recall Bowsette.

Lagniappe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-FDFsHA20w
Hey Bence, this is great. I’ve seen a few cloud exits done pretty badly and part of that was because for those teams and orgs it was something that they’d not really done before.

I like the listings of alternative technologies especially.

Well done!
I and many I know have Gb fiber in the UK
Also, allowing unquoted names.
Ask HN: Why is Heztner suddenly rising in popularity across the dev community?
It seems they have been around for a long time but during the past months they seem to be receiving more mentions on HN
If the point of writing is to share your precise thoughts, there is no use of an LLM. Your prompt would be become equivalent to the writing you wanted to share in the first place.

If on the other hand, you need to generate a bunch of content for a school paper, blog or etc then its immensely helpful.
Let's say that is the reason, then that seems a very valid reason, right? Accountability is important, especially in large organizations.

I guess what ticks me off a bit is the trope of dissing on management for saying 'no' but leaving out all the relevant context that might show management to be right.

Don't get me wrong, I've seen my own fair share of bad management. But it's not so black and white when it comes to grand sweeping decisions like "should we invest in PostgreSQL or keep paying Oracle big license fees?"
Note, the article says “DragonRuby Game Toolkit is free the next few days” - but this article is more than the few days old; the product page states:

> This sale ended October 10th 2024.
Can you expand on that? I can't see any sense in which an LLM improves the structure of the user's thought process
I agree. See also my comment in a sibling thread about using LLMs to write tests: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41961214
People still do drugs but they do it behind closed doors because otherwise they would be immediately caught and sent to prison for a long time. Because drug use is forced into private spaces, the rest of society is able to maintain strong cultural norms against drug use and the system maintains a steady state.

The west's approach is kind of the opposite: actively go after the sources of drugs, and to leave the users relatively alone. On a moral level this is appealing because the users are victims. However on a practical level it doesn't seem to work as well because it's swimming against the economic current.
Business Idea Evaluation: shopping list app with optimal route planning
When doing in-person shopping at walmart, I often find myself unable to locate items and walking repeated distances because of bad route planning. The walmart app is useful, but if my shopping list is long, searching each product in the app gets inconvenient.

What I've created is an app where you only need to input your product search queries, and the app:

automatically populates product information such as prices, picture, aisle, and title

reorders your shopping list in a way that minimizes walking and saves time.

Obviously ordering pickup or delivery also saves time, but compared to in-person shopping, I'd say both have pros and cons. My app basically enhances the in-person shopping experience but doesn't save as much time as ordering delivery because at the end of the day, you're still walking around in the store.

To publish the app, I'd need to add a lot more things such as a landing page, error handling, server configurations, etc etc etc, which all goes beyond the scope of my personal use. So before I do all that, I'm trying to talk to potential users. I appreciate your feedback!