skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Art has always been open to the masses. Poor people could already access tools to create beautiful art, they do so all the time.

You're just venting your anti-leftist prejudice, I get that. Finding a way to work an anti-leftist rant into the subject at hand is practically a pastime around around here. But your thesis that only the wealthy and privileged were capable of creating art until generative AI came around is absurd. We've literally been in the midst of a global creative renaissance across every creative field, AI wasn't necessary for any of it.
Props to you for having a sense of humor about it. :D

If I could put in one request...a video which describes what it is and how to use it would make it easier for me to understand.
"Cheated" how?

You & others may not like it. It may not align with your ethos or your peers' norms. But I see nothing ethically, morally or legally wrong with parent's comment...
Wait, a new architecture, again??
> If that's a problem, why does the progressive point of view typically argue in favor of giving more power over our lives to the ruling class?

You've literally reversed the meaning of the term "progressive" by replacing it with the meaning of the term "oligarchic".

Progressives argue for less invasion by government in our personal lives, and less unequal distribution of wealth and power. They are specifically opposed to power being delivered to a ruling class.

> The problem isn't the money. The problem is the power

These are nearly inseparable in current (and frankly most past) societies. Pretending that they are not is a way of avoiding practical solutions to the problem of the distribution of power.
Love how you describe your kid as not a nerd and then mention he bikes and goes to circus school :)
Do you understand the difference between training and inference?

Yes, it costs a lot to train a model. Those costs go up. But once you trained it, it’s done. At that point inference — the actual execution/usage of the model — is the cost you worry about.

Inference cost drops rapidly after a model is released as new optimizations and more efficient compute comes online.
"stuff online" is an exceptionally course filter to deem something worthy of saving.
Nope, fish still new
Since you're here, I wanted to say that the css transition on readme's login has stuck with me as the strongest branding element I can recall. Kudos to whomever came up with that because it is just excellent
When the “tools” are built from countless lifetimes of blood sweat and tears dedicated to mastery and bottled by mega corps to siphon all of the value and sell it back to the people by laundering their intellectual property, your angle falls flat. The “poor” can’t eat art. They used to be able to sell their art to buy food. Now 5 tech bros are seizing all of that food money, artists are starving, humanity is being regurgitated into slop, and you’re cheerleading for molloch.
It’s not like you currently go to a webpage and save all the images onto deep storage for archival… I’m not sure what relevance things being digital has on identifying noise.

If the ancestor before you is hoarding anything that comes across their path, be it digital ads or every physical greeting card they’ve ever gotten, the problem is with the person’s collection habits, not the medium.
The game development connection seems very interesting:

"Not only does it provide seamless interop with the existing C++ engine/game code, but the REPL-driven workflows it supports will allow you to spin up your game once and then send code to it, get data back, and continue iterating on the code and data shapes without ever restarting your game."
Hollywoodgate documentary: Taliban take possession of the weapons America left
A painting is actually painted with pigment on something. An LLM by itself cannot grab a brush. Maybe with something else.
> If people don’t care who the artist is but like what they hear, that seems great.

the confidence made in this statement is jarring
> Many NGOs are skeptical about the effectiveness of Apple's control mechanisms. The UN Group of Experts on the DRC has revealed that gold mined in the country is illegally routed through Rwanda and Uganda before being exported.

I completely believe this. Doing the bare minimum for plausible deniability seems exactly like what a powerful corporation would do. Instead, Apple should be using its resources, connections, and influence to help bring security to the region, instead of leaving the poorest to fend for themselves in the face of armed groups.
Many people have accounts worth hundreds of thousands of dollars of non crypto assets but are relatively safe with the same level of security (or even less) than what crypto demands of its users.
It is not really. If you show hidden files there is a ton of junk folders above your non hidden folders. along with more junk like folders generated by the system. I can't be arsed to go look up ways to keep them from returning or manage when I can just have my stuff reside in my own organization.
Windows user folder isn't better and Microsoft also adds tons of junk folders (3D Objects, Contacts, Links, Favorites, Searches, Saved Games)
This argument merely serves to justify murder and is inhumane, in and of itself. Please re-consider your position on the subject of the wanton and willful murder of your fellow human beings.

Genocide is not a matter of scale, it is a matter of intent.

The definition fits: the people of Palestine are being genocided. The Nazi’s took years to murder 6 million Jews and other classes of humans they deemed undesirable - should we just wait until Israel catches up in terms of scale of magnitude, or should we stop trying to justify their actions and do everything we can to make sure the scale of the atrocity does not continue to sky-rocket, as it has done for the past 15 months…?
Really enjoyable overall.

As a noob, I did feel like I spent the majority of my time just running around trying to figure out what to do.
Albania to close TikTok for a year blaming it for violence among children
I mean spammers can (and do) get more fancy with e.g. detecting the source AS and its owner for cloaking, but I guess the spammers here are using geo location for a veneer plausible deniability that they're not specifically targeting Google.
This is wrong in many ways, and is a "talking point" I really hate. I'm not a fan of military detention without trial, but it is time-limited and has to be proven to an Israeli court to be necessary for security reasons.

> They're hostages too, which is why Hamas has been able to occasionally exchanged hostages with Israel.

So first of all, they're not hostages. They're maybe temporary prisoners of war, though really they're security detainees. They are largely treated far better than the hostages that Hamas holds are treated, and are eventually released if there is no real reason to hold them. I don't think there are many that are held for a year.

Secondly, even if you disagree with all the above, that has nothing to do with why Hamas is able to exchange hostages with Israel. Hamas is able to do it because they have leverage by taking hostages. That's the whole reason. The people Hamas wants freed are not the security detainees you're talking about - it's the people serving life sentences after being tried and convicted on terrorism charges, usually people that have killed many civilians.

This is literally a big part of the negotiation - Hamas demanding "worse" offenders be released, Israel trying to have veto so it won't have to release the worst offenders.
Dividing unsigned 8-bit numbers
Google had it years ago!
http://s2geometry.io/devguide/s2cell_hierarchy
> - Most of the big name stars are constantly injured, which doesn’t help sell seats/get people to tune in.

Or are worried about getting injured, leading to "load management."
It certainly was cool and expected to get “too drunk” when I was in high school and college. It was really not cool to have zero drinks.
Twenty Years of Home Lab
http://www.supersimplestorageservice.com/ exists and calls itself S4. It's a decent gag and the immediately came to mind when I heard S2 vs S3.
This is a misunderstanding of Marx. Marx would have loathed AI, because it it the ultimate form of alienation ("Entfremdung") of people from their work.

He would have loathed the industrialization of art and the concentration of the means of production in the hands of huge corporations.

Marx proposed the equality in the access to the means of production. He never said that everyone has the right to "be" the greatest chess player by using Stockfish. He never said that everyone must be an equally great mathematician.

The empty claims about equality are from the huge corporations who hold the means of production and steal from the original producers.
I expect it largely has to do with "scale"

We have an enormous amount of high quality programming samples. From there it's relatively straightforward to bootstrap (similar to original versions of alphago - start with human games, improve via self play) using leetcode or other problems with a "right answer"

In contrast, the arc puzzles are relatively novel (why? Well, this has to do with the relative utility of solving an arc problem and programmer open source culture)
Not with the same depth. I might ask a friend to drop off a letter and I might verify that they did it, but I don’t have to verify that they didn’t mistake a Taco Bell or a dumpster as the post office.

It’s very scary to ask a friend to drop off a letter if the last scenario is even 1% within the realm of possibility.
Google has the worst managers and leadership culture among the big tech companies, so not much was lost probably. All that you hear about promotion oriented culture, repeated product launches that end in shutdowns, the lack of accountability, and all that is because of weak leaders. The company has continued to grow because of various monopolies or similar situations without meaningful competition. And capital.
https://archive.ph/6TmKa
It looks like we were successful at removing murder hornets in the US so that's nice:

https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/18/us/invasive-murder-hornets-ar...

Where I live in the NW rocky mountains we've lost the battle against Tanzi sadly.

People who talk about 'our betters' destroying things, in the Rockies we've ended up with a ton of 'transplanted' plants at our campgrounds (we had enough out of area people introduce poison ivy with their camping gear the parks had a campaign to eliminate it, at least our 'betters' brought something they thought worthwhile not introduce friggen poison ivy) because of lazy/nasty people who can't be bothered to keep their camping gear clean. Our lakes are devastated from non-native species spread by lazy recreational boaters who again can't be bothered to clean up. The 'just living life' type roamers bear quite a bit of blame for the modern spread of damaging non-native species (this coming from a Santa Cruz hippie kid that moved to the mountains).

Come on people, clean your camping/boating gear when going out of your normal area!
Thats the whole point of llama index? I can connect my LLM to any node or context i want. Syncing it to a real time data flow like an API and it can learn...? How is that different than a human?

Once optimus is up an working by the 100k+, the spatial problems will be solved. We just don't have enough spatial awareness data, or for a way for the LLM to learn about the physical world.
Recreational drug use implies some vitality. Teenagers increasingly being depressed social media/game addicts sitting alone in some room don't do recreational drugs.
Why not just use SS? There can’t possibly be any negative connotations there.
PrepPear - Extract recipes from any site and create meal plans
Cooking is hard and even harder when you have to deal with ads and slow pages. Presenting prep-pear, a no fuss site that attempts to solve just that! All you do is pop in any recipe link to strip out the essential details minus all the other fluff. You can then use those recipes to auto generate a meal plan for the week! Hack your kitchen!
I noticed a web clipper was just released for Obsidian last month. Maybe that'd cut down those two minutes for you.
Sadly I can't get this working. It just throws up the view into a file called buffered for whatever reason and exits immediately :(
If you do any software engineering all, you would know that a 1k LoC reduction to achieve the same functionality at the same/better performance is non-trivial.
> For saving a webpage you have open

There's also print-to-PDF that most OSes now have.
This is one of the first holidays where I don't feel an urge to program. Feels strange. Guess I'm getting older?

Reading: The Snows of Kilimanjaro

Project: Logic Gate Editor + Simulator (but I can't really bring myself to work on it much)

Frohe Weihnachten!
man, that's a really good point
"It's the denominator, stupid" (Groking Bitcoin's inexorable rise)
It's pretty hard to generate formulaic Go code while ensuring that, for example, methods don't conflict with exported member names, or in cases when you're making identifiers from multiple words, that the identifiers for `FooBar Baz` does not conflict with the identifier for `Foo BarBaz` since both of these would naturally be rendered in Go as `FooBarBaz`. Or even how you model an optional type: in Go, an idiomatic optional may use nil for reference types, -1 for nonnegative integers, an empty string for nonempty strings, or a `(T, bool)` tuple. You can definitely make a code generator that does a decent job at modeling all of these things, but I've never seen one--they usually try to pick a rule that works for all cases, like `Foo_BarBaz` or using an extra indirection for optionals, which means all cases are not-idiomatic.
Government spending is not a panacea for structural economic issues
I like it. I see it as ostensibly a product for engineers and so when I see a name like S2 it's immediately clear that it's a product led and conceived by engineers.

I also see that on your pricing page -

"We are building the S3 experience for streaming data, and that includes pricing transparency"

Love the simple and earnest copy. One can imagine what an LLM would cook up instead, I find the brevity way preferable.
Requires sign-in the moment you want to explore. Hard no from me. Cooking is even harder when you have to deal with mandatory sign-ins.
Rocket Lab launches sixth Synspective radar imaging satellite
> So you come up with a new test... but you have the same problem as originally, it seems like anything non-human completely bombs and an AGI would do well... but how do you know the thing that solves it will have been an AGI for sure and not just another system clearly unrelated?

We should skip to the end and just define a task like "it's AGI if it can predict, with 100% accuracy the average human's next action in any situation". Anything that can do that is as good as AGI even if people manage to find a proxy for the task.
Surfy – A Surfing Website
The Evolution of AI-assisted coding features and developer interaction patterns
Maybe you should have lead with an IOS RSS reader :-)
The article is about the Author's UK experience.

Also.

USgov has credibility?
For one because it would be quite abusable. Get a user account to trusted status and then sell it. This is in addition to any scalability issues.
The "rules" you think are being violated here probably never existed. In the last decades, this kind of thing was called disruption.
Looks like a shader doesn't support your GPU. Sharing what GPU you have might be helpful. I'm not sure if it is in the logs somewhere.
> It is not really.

Yes, it is. It takes only a few minutes to comply with the XDG spec. If an author can't be bothered to do that, he probably hasn't bothered to make his program secure, stable, or extensible either. XDG non-adherence is a strong negative quality signal.
Singlefile: A web extension to save a complete web page into a single HTML file
Appreciate it! That was one of the first parts of ReadMe I built… and when it got somewhat Twitter popular, it’s how we ultimately ended up launching!
ChatGPT Wrapped: Spotify wrapped for your ChatGPT conversations
(S2 Team member) As we move forward, a Java/Kotlin and a Python SDK are on our list. There is a Rust sdk and a CLI available (https://s2.dev/docs/quickstart) . Rust felt as a good starting point for us as our core service is also written in it.
They called from Bahnhof Viertel ;)
I think I just discovered supernormalcy
the first 1,000 digits of 17^(1/7) after the ones form (not verified) a perfect de bruijn sequence. no other irrational number i have tried comes close. possibly applicable to number theory et al. any mathematicians here care to verify or comment? etcetera.

(opps. it looks like claude was hallucinating. i was trusting it to detect this feature and not hallucinate. my bad for trusting.)

((just looking at the sequence, the digit '7' seems to have non trivial occurance patterns. can anyone maybe try some statistical analysis on the regularity of this to save this thread posting etc?))

(((etcetera.)))
That would be important, but as far as I know it hasn’t happened (despite how often it’s intimated that we’re on the verge of it happening).
We replaced the linkbait "you" in the title with a nicely first-person phrase from the end of the article. If there's a better* title, we can change it again.

* better = more accurate and neutral, preferably using representative language from the article

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Feedback: Got this error after pressing Play Now https://imgur.com/a/VCzACsF
A curious case of O(N^2) behavior which should be O(N) (2023)
Adblocking google's ad ecosystem so the third-party scripts don't load in the first place should still fix this, if I read it right?
(S2 team member here)

> I suppose the writers could batch a group of records before writing them out as a larger blob, with background processes performing compaction, but it's still an object-backed streaming service, right?

This is how it works essentially, yes. Architecting the system so that chunks that are written to object storage (before we acknowledge a write) are multi-tenant, and contain records from different streams, lets us write frequently while still targeting ideal (w/r/t price and performance) blob sizes for S3 standard and express puts respectively.
Does this require you to run a virtualized apple OS in order to keep track of your tags?
Just checked how many tabs I have open in my phone out of curiosity.

2083 tabs. (In Chrome Android, tab view -> Select Tabs -> Select all)
I think you have a warped view of antidepressants, it's not a sad thing, kinda the opposite actually. Medicating with drugs and alcohol is the much sadder timeline.

Pre-antidepressants my life was fantastic on paper: stable job, close friends, good family, strong relationship, perfect health. But none of it mattered, there was no happiness, no sadness, no fulfillment, no contentment, it's hard to convey the total absence of literally any feeling at all toward anything. And I had no other frame of reference so I thought that's just how life was. I even went to years of therapy and that didn't help either. Eight months of antidepressants and I was a different person. I can't tell you how much regret I feel that I could have been happy for all those big important life moments— my first kiss, my first dance, my prom, winning states, graduating college.
Omer Bartov is an Israeli-American Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies. He is considered one of the world's leading authorities on genocide.

Here is a 15-minute clip of him explaining that what Israel is perpetrating in Gaza is systematic genocide: https://x.com/amanpour/status/1869818758501675259
It reminds me of Mitki[1]. Their way to go to the party is to bring a bottle of vodka and drink it in one go before knocking at the door. Such a guy would seems ok and would be welcomed by the host, but in a 10 minutes he would become really drunk, while everyone around him is still 100% sober.

Completely non-gen-z way to behave, I suppose.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitki
Reserved by GM for the Super Sport
haha. nice :)
> most myth pushing content

Care to elaborate?
You could even make the s look kind of like a lightning bolt to emphasize how fast it is
By the same metric c++ qwidgets is amazing to write UIs and by keeping everything in c++ there is easily less abstraction, I can easily navigate my code, not jump between two different systems. There really is no great reason why qml objects couldn’t be c++ classes/functions. Decoupling does what for me, but introduce more syntax, documentation, and learning curves. You should give writing a Kde6 Kirigami app a try and experience the absolute pleasure of adding another abstraction layer onto qml, c++ to muck things up. Qml is the cooler brother of Uic, but at least uic was optional.
I suggest you expand the scope of your reading in that case…
The help you’re seeking might be in the things or concepts you consider so absurd
I think you overstate this effect. At least in CS, it’s better to get a strong letter from a good (but maybe not superstar) researcher than it is to get a lukewarm letter from a Turing award winner.

reputation is a currency in academia, and even people in prestigious positions arent usually going to spend it to get someone mediocre into a top position.
Quasi-government incompetence, mostly, though caused by government cowardace: they more or less just shouted "smart meters, do it!" at the energy industry and let them try to sort it out amongst themselves, which means they had several false starts of crap impementations (the first generation didn't think to allow them to be transferrable between providers! The issues in the North are basically because they decided to go for a low-power mesh network, which is a plan that has basically never worked), as well as the fact that the government hasn't made it a requirement for homeowners, but has made it a requirement for energy companies, so they basically just beg the current holdouts (who have little reason to want one) to let them install one.
Mine takes around a minute, so this sounds normal to me. Are you using a blade grinder?
I need look inversion. I can't play it this way.
Show HN: Mea (Make Easy Async) provides Rust runtime-agnostic sync primitives
I use https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile

I set it to tolerate longer processing times, and to open the file after saving so I can sanity check that it got everything. Works great at faithfully saving a page with images as it appears in browser, and saves so much time.

You might also have a look at https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox
Clicked "Play Now", made my little avatar, and it immediately told me to pay money. Not a great first experience.
You pretty much listed all the examples where that’s done (x-ing is also a big one, on signs), but there are way more cases where no one would ever use the letter X like that. I think parsing that kind of “syntax sugar” takes more cycles than a lot of people care to spare just to understand what a stranger is saying online. It’s too loose to be commonly applicable. Things like “Xmas” are accepted on a case by case basis.

The argument wasn’t made out of principle, either. If it were more widespread, it would be worth the potential confusion. It’s just not. I agree with that.
Nix Is a Build System
SingleFile can make a snapshot with just content/styling
I'd call it piracy in a way. Ads are how that specific piece of content is made available - whether it be for paying file hosting costs, creator living expenses, video production, etc. Consuming media without providing compensation for it (through ad views in this case) would meet my definition of new-age piracy.