skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But seeing as Zelensky has the power to end martial law at any time, he is single-handedly preventing Ukranian elections

He doesn't. The president of Ukraine can only propose the imposition or termination of martial law to the parliament. Nothing happens unless the parliament approves the proposal. In February, the Ukrainian parliament even adopted a resolution to remind the dumbasses calling Zelenskyy a dictator of this fact.

> All polling prior to the 2014 invasion showed that a significant majority would support annexation by Russia.

Support for joining Russia was 23% in a 2013 poll, down from 33% in 2011. The majority opinion (53%) was that Crimea should remain as it was, an autonomous region within Ukraine.

In your opinion, what should the status of Crimea be? 2013 2011
----------------------------------------------------- ---- ----
Autonomy in Ukraine (as today) 53 49
Crimean Tatar autonomy within Ukraine 12 4
Common oblast of Ukraine 2 6
Crimea should be separated and given to Russia 23 33
Don't know 10 8
https://archive.ph/O8duR
https://archive.ph/vsEJ5
Funny that they changed their name from 'Micro-Soft' to Microsoft.
Those people will next use their mother's ID, their grandparents' IDs, and so on. Then move on to stolen IDs. Which is not preventable unless you do full-on hardware attestation tied to real ID, which means China-level surveillance.

Source: Living in a country where gaming accounts are already tied to real identities :)
> I'm ok with the model knowing what Indiana Jones or the Predator looks like with well remembered details,

ClosedAI doesn't seem to be OK with it, because they are explicitly censoring characters of more popular IPs. Presumably as a fig leaf against accusations of theft.
> All this power! And yet!

You are completely ignoring the fact that you can provide so much more information to the LLMs to get what you want. If you truly want novel images, ChatGPT can absolutely provide them, but you have to provide a better starting point than "An image of an archeologist adventurer who wears a hat and uses a bullwhip".

If you just provide a teensy bit more information, the results dramatically change. Try out "An image of an Indian female archeologist adventurer who wears a hat and uses a bullwhip". Or give it an input image to work with.

From just adding a couple words, ChatGPT produces an entirely new character. It's so easy to get it to produce novel images. It is so easy in fact, that it makes a lot of posts like this one feel like strawmen, intentionally providing so little information to the LLMs that the generic character is the only obvious output that you would expect.

Now, would it be better if it didn't default to these common movie tropes? Sure. But the fact that it can follow these tropes doesn't mean that it cannot also be used to produce entirely new images filled with your imagination as well. You just have to actually ask it for that.
AnimeNoJs
I've never had any problems! I'm surprised airport security would be so concerned about an old laptop. I'm sure they see way strange things on a daily basis.
Like many of the disney movies that came from fairy tales the basic story of Snow White isn't copyrighted, but some elements you'd expect in a Snow White story were added by Disney and are protected. The biggest one is the names and personalities given to the seven dwarfs (happy, grumpy, doc, etc). If you made your own snow white movie and included those characters or had them singing "Heigh-Ho" you could expect to get sued into bankruptcy by disney lawyers.
Or the reader will put you into a category yourself and won't be willing to look at the essence of the argument.

I'd say the better word for that is polarising than political, but they synonims these days.
Show HN: Transputer emulator in JavaScript (fast enough to be useful)
Yes exactly. Or like signposts on a road.

"You came from these few places, you might go to these few places, watch out for these bugbears if you go down that one path."
Show HN: CopyKeypad – A custom iOS keyboard for reusable text snippets
Hi HN,

I built CopyKeypad, a custom iOS keyboard that lets you store and reuse frequently used text snippets like AI prompts, TikTok hashtags, or personal info (address, phone number, etc.).

I created it because I got tired of copying the same prompt templates every day when working with ChatGPT, and constantly digging around for my address or contact details.

CopyKeypad runs as a full custom keyboard, works system-wide, and doesn't upload any user data. It's a very small, privacy-friendly productivity tool.

Features:
- Unlimited custom text snippets
- System-wide keyboard support on iOS
- Local data storage (no tracking, no analytics)
- Simple UI with search and quick insert

Would love to hear your feedback or thoughts. It's now available on the App Store: CopyKeypad

– iOS dev trying to scratch my own itch.
UPS in my area (South Dakota) is terrible, way worse than FedEx or USPS. They're so bad that I will choose a different retailer if possible if the only shipping option is UPS.

UPS has repeatedly lost packages, delivered things in crushed or shredded boxes, held packages for more than a week due to "local weather" (there was no rain or snow), made it impossible to pick up packages that are being held, and damaged my trees by backing into them after delivering to a neighbor's house.

USPS is fine in the summer, but they won't come all the way up my road if there's any snow or ice on the ground, so I had to get a PO box for regular mail.

FedEx is fantastic, I have never had any problems with them.

(We don't have DHL here.)

Edit to add: my wife works for a small online retailer that ships perishable goods nationwide from a distribution center in Missouri, and they exclusively use FedEx now. They canceled their contract with UPS due the cost of lost or delayed shipments. She says their FedEx experience has been significantly better.
> Xerox bought shares in Apple at $10/share[0], selling about a year later at $22/share.

> [0] https://web.stanford.edu/dept/SUL/sites/mac/parc.html

I searched the cite for the 'share', '10', '22', 'sold, 'sell', 'bought', 'buy', 'purchase', and found nothing. ?
I 100% agree with you, and don't set cron jobs/scheduled tasks this way. I only use this for displaying date/time to users.

With that said, I do appreciate the comment, and would have to make sure that if I run scheduled tasks in the future, they are run when the user wishes them to be completed based on when that user sets it to be completed (so would most likely not convert to UTC, and save the timezone with the date/time).
It doesn't cause any problems. I used the phrase for poetic flourish. Aside from the general rough treatment of being quickly unpacked and packed again in a hurry. In the past there were a lot of urban legends going around about airport x-ray scanners harming hard drives, but in reality, they're harmless.
Ooh, fun, reproducible on Firefox for Android. Crash signature [@ JS::Heap<T>::exposeToActiveJS ].
Definitely a missed opportunity that the article didn't discuss that obviously-derivative borrowing has been happening a lot longer than ML image generation has been around. And that borrowing is OK! Indiana Jones' appearance is very obviously based directly on Charlton Heston's character in Secret of the Incas, but the Spielberg/Lucas films are objectively better in every way than that source material.
Damn this is cool. I think text is an underutilized medium for design.
> end-to-end messages

As opposed to what? I think they accidentally a word.
Google’s product is ads and GCP is an insignificant player in the cloud space. When I was at AWS ProServe, we never took GCP as a serious competitor.

GSuite still hasn’t made any inroads into the enterprise of governments where the money is.
Either, (1) LLMs are just super lossy compress/decompress machines and we humans find fascination in the loss that happens at decompression time, at times ascribing creativity and agency to it. Status quo copyright is a concern as we reduce the amount of lossiness, because at some point someone can claim that an output is close enough to the original to constitute infringement. AI companies should probably license all their training data until we sort the mess out.

Or, (2) LLMs are creative and do have agency, and feeding them bland prompts doesn't get their juices flowing. Copyright isn't a concern, the model just regurgitated a cheap likeness of Indiana Jones as Harrison Ford the world has seen ad nauseam. You'd probably do the same thing if someone prompted you the same way, you lazy energy conserving organism you.

In any case, perhaps the idea "cheap prompts yield cheap outputs" holds true. You're asking the model respond to the entirely uninspired phrase: "an image of an archeologist adventurer who wears a hat and uses a bullwhip". It's not surprising to me that the model outputs a generic pop-culture-shaped image that looks uncannily like the most iconic and popular rendition of the idea: Harrison Ford.

If you look at the type of prompts our new generation of prompt artists are using over in communities like Midjourney, a cheap generic sentence doesn't cut it.
Depending on what your friend uses her phone for, one of these might be a decent option:

https://www.blindshell.com/
> Generalization is the ability for a model to perform well on new unseen data within the same task that it was trained for.

By that logic a chess engine can generalize in the same way that AlphaGo Zero does. It is a black box that has never seen the vast majority of possible board positions. In fact it's never seen anything at all because unlike an ML model it isn't the result of an optimization algorithm (at least the old ones, back before they started incorporating ML models).

If your definition of "generalize" depends on "is the thing under consideration an ML model or not" then the definition is broken. You need to treat the thing being tested as a black box, scoring only based on inputs and outputs.

Writing the chess engine is analogous to wiring up the untrained model, the optimization algorithm, and the simulation followed by running it. Both tasks require thoughtful work by the developer. The finished chess engine is analogous to the trained model.

> They were originally trained for ...

I think you're in danger here of a definition that depends intimately on intent. It isn't clear that they weren't inadvertently trained for those other abilities at the same time. Moreover, unless those additional abilities to be tested for were specified ahead of time you're deep into post hoc territory.
I really loved the Alpha platform. It was not as fast as it felt like it should have been given the clock speed. It also seemed like a real memory pig compared to x86 at the time. That was probably just because it was 64 bit. Everything is a memory pig now I guess. :)

Alpha boxes were cool. High clock speeds, massive amounts of RAM does the time, and huge storage. When they were the only 64 bit systems, they were the only game in town for some workloads.
That's certainly one way to misinterpret what I said.
I sure had to. Work study sure was nicer than the crap jobs I'd had but no cake walk: I graded a lot of homework and exams as well as helping a lot of rich kids ace their class.

[edit: I should admit that it's been 20 years, things may have shifted a lot]
I intended that as the uncontroversial part of the comment.

The article was a story on cia.gov. Are you suggesting that the CIA does things for no reason?
> I think my biggest concern with AI is its biggest proponents have the least wisdom imaginable. [...] (not AGI)

Speaking of Wisdom and a different "AGI", I think there's an old Dungeons and Dragons joke that can be reworked here:

Intelligence is knowing than an LLM uses vector embeddings of tokens.

Wisdom is knowing LLMs shouldn't be used for business rules.
It's a major hindrance. For example, if I came up with an amazing creative idea for a star wars movie I couldn't do a damn thing with it unless Disney told me I could. Disney isn't likely to accept an unsolicited pitch from a total nobody who just happened to have a great idea either. I don't see how you could doubt that there are a lot of great works of art that won't ever exist because of the fact that copyright prevents them from ever getting off the ground.
Dont add Elon Musk quotes to any serious thing please
Try using a Macbook8,1 sometime (or iPad Pro for that matter). There isn’t size or weight budget for swappable anything. Connectors take space, mechanical retaining pads and clips do too.

This is like wanting a headphone jack or usb-A or SD card slot on an iPhone SE. It’s a step backwards, given the size and weight. We’re actually at the point where the thickness of a micro-sd card slot cage matters.

Any weight budget that could be used for such things almost nobody ever uses is rightfully used instead for battery.
I had never heard of this but it's description for it's git is what I hope and dream for anytime I go look at a project related to or having a GUI. reference at https://jdan.github.io/98.css/
Google is an ad company that can’t make another significant product to save its life.

Meta under Zuckerberg has been able to stay relevant. But FB is already seen as being for old people.
Let's consider something like Notion or Slack. It's sort of document-based but not entirely -- you can mention other users and other channels names. Some users have access to some channels and not others. And in Notion's case, users may have unique access to 1000s of different documents.

It seems like your solution requires essentially sharding your data based on permission which can get pretty complicated for many collaboration-based apps with lots of shared content and granular permission controls.
> Election is a bad way to choose almost anything.

Except the alternatives! No form of government is more effective, competent, just, or free of corruption.
Why would you blindly trust any code? Did you tell it to optimize for speed? If not, why are you surprised it didn't?
A history of every "milliondollarhomepage" spinoff (2023)
I’d loose access to a bunch of services (temp I think I could still access via my watch, but never actually tested it).

For all critical services like gmail/github I use security keys, and I have multiple of them.
Who chooses them? What makes you think they choose them on merit?
IBM Endicott is being demolished this month.[1] IBM hadn't been doing much there in the last 20 years, but now it's all being flattened.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuPyfD5vdHo
Are we talking about structural things or about individual perspective things?

At individual perspective - AI is useful as a helper to achieve your generative tasks. I'd argue against analytic tasks, but YMMV.

At the societal perspective, e.g. you as individual can not trus anything the society has produced, because it's likely some AI generated bullshit.

Some time ago, if you were not trusting a source, you could build your understanding by evaluating a plurality of sources and perspectives and get to the answer in a statistical manner. Now every possible argument can be stretched in any possible dimension and your ability to build a conclusion has been ripped away.
And it's worth considering that this issue isn't unique to image generation, either.
I kinda judge YouTube channel by the inverse of the speed I need to scale down/up.

Ben Eater is always among the top 10.
Yes my example was smallish. Laptop itself doesn't matter as much as the general cost of doing anything in America due to tariffs. And yes, that includes higher health insurance costs, higher server costs due to cloud providers raising prices, and higher cost of literally holding office space.

All of these would be cheaper in any other country. The choices are endless.
Could have performed accurately in their past usage, building trust. Sometimes it will also get something right that is downright shocking, far beyond what you hoped.
I don't even remember seeing such a fantastic landing page in long time. it makes you realise how bad others are.
> I really dislike that term. It’s antithetical to everything programming means to me

That's why I like the term! It nicely describes and activity that is antithetical to those things - craftsmanship, mastery, paying close attention to what you're doing, having a clear outcome in mind.
Not a chance. Photoshop is about having maximum control and power. AI requires relinquishing a degree of control in exchange for speed. Totally different audiences.
Consumers who want nothing more than to be exploited by trillion dollar corporations.
I don't know, I didn't invent transformers. I do however know how to work with them.
Funny enough last night I was hoping more old 90s Microsoft code got open sourced and I somehow was living under a rock. Maybe one day I'll get to legally dig through NT 3.51 code. especially since it was ported to MIPS and Power iirc. I went on a huge tangent reading about how someone ported leaked ntvdm code to x64. They didn't provide code and I didn't go hunting for the leaked stuff and won't...but I think it's super neat how forward portable some of the stuff NT has is.
Apple and Microsoft (as well as companies like Commodore) were there for personal computing’s birth. Amazon, Google and Meta came far later and didn’t invent their respective industries.
You don't even need to add much more to the prompts. Just a few words, and it changes the characters you get. It won't always produce something good, but at least we have a lot of control over what it produces. Examples:

"An image of an Indian female archeologist adventurer who wears a hat and uses a bullwhip" (https://sora.com/g/gen_01jqzet1p8fjaa808bmqnvf7rk)

"An image of a fat Russian archeologist adventurer who wears a hat and uses a bullwhip" (https://sora.com/g/gen_01jqzfk727erer98a6yexafe70)

"An image of a skeletal archeologist adventurer who wears a hat and uses a bullwhip" (https://sora.com/g/gen_01jqzfnaz6fgqvgwqw8w4ntf6p)

Or, give ChatGPT a starting image. (https://sora.com/g/gen_01jqzf7vdweg4v5198aqfynjym)

And by further remixing the images ChatGPT produces, you can get your images to be even more unique. (https://sora.com/g/gen_01jqzfzmbze0wa310m42f8j5yw)
People are generally bad about following their own advice. They're worst at following advice to avoid shell scripts. :-) We all know in theory we should move things to Python or another robust language once they become sufficiently complex, but in the moment, adding just this one feature takes precedence. Iterate "just one feature" a few times and you end up with a 1,000-line bash program. (The word "script" becomes inapplicable.) Now what? You want to add configuration support to your bash program? Well, you might as well use something robust to do it.
"Sign in to Hack"

It's gonna be a no from me dawg.
Lol photoshop has been integrating AI features since at least "content aware" stuff was released. Photoshop has a massive audience of people who want to be able to edit images quickly and easily.
Back then websites weren’t so resource intensive. The negative backlash towards bots is kind of a side effect of how demanding expectations of web experiences has become.
No, I am saying not everything they do is a targeted information campaign.
For goodness sake, this is what makes it great!

This reminds me so much of the "old" internet where people would just make fun things for the hell of it.
> It’s stealing, but also, admittedly, really cool. Does the growth of AI have to bring with it the tacit or even explicit encouragement of intellectual theft?

You answered your own question by explicitly encouraging it.
> The only boot security real users need is disk encryption.

Which becomes easy to bypass without boot security. If an adversary can modify code that executes in the boot process, they can steal your keys.
Just imagine a callsite that configured a logger in another way, and then imports the utils module for a single function: its configuration getting overridden by the one in utils.

There are plenty of ways to structure code so this does not happen, but simply "do not do anything at the top module level" will ensure you don't hit these issues.
I’m saying it seems like a scam when we consume more than we make by giving other countries pieces of paper. Why doesn’t the EU make the world’s reserve currency if that’s so great? Why doesn’t China try to make the Yuan the world’s reserve currency?Why did Angela Merkel cry when Obama tried to get Germany to engage in deficit spending? https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1084075/EU-news-Angela-...

And why do other countries keep doing it if we are the ones getting the better end of the deal?
My problem with the campaign donations approach is it seems like a money pit.

Campaign organizers in both major parties benefit by pointing out how the other party keeps spending more money, as a way to encourage even more donations.

It also seems like a negative incentive to pass certain laws. "We need money for the next campaign so we can work on $TOPIC" might be a good fundraiser, so if those laws are passed then the funding stops ... or even switches to the other party.

Which party is working on strict campaign donation limits, which in this post-Citizens United era we know requires a constitutional amendment, or an overturn by the Supreme Court. Certainly not the Republicans, as Vance is asking the Supreme Court to strike down limits on political donations precisely because PACs are now so powerful. Nor do I see active engagement by the Democrats.
> What's the point of our existence if we have no way to meaningfully contribute to our own world?

For a sizable number of humans, we're already there. The vast majority of hacker news users are spending their time trying to make advertisements tempt people into spending money on stuff they don't need. That's an active societal harm. It doesn't contribute in any positive way to the world.

And yet, people are fine to do that, and get their dopamine hits off instagram or arguing online on this cursed site, or watching TV.

More people will have bullshit jobs in this SF story, but a huge number of people already have bullshit jobs, and manage to find a point in their existence just fine.

I, for one, would be happy to simply read books, eat, and die.
Yes. Or for a sufficiently long duration. Some things like allocation rate and significantly worse performance are obvious and can be seen in shorter runs.
I think that by now it's pretty clear that facebook isn't free and that the price of using facebook is actually pretty high, it's just abstracted away so that most people don't realize the cost and/or don't attribute that cost to facebook when they should.
>They literally couldn't say "black man fighting against racism" about a civil rights icon without losing millions in funding. I have no idea how someone can argue that this kind of censorship targeting universities is acceptable

Sounds like they are being forced to take the Morgan Freeman Approach to Ending Racism: stop talking about race. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2RwJlQdzpE
I didn't say people making under 50k weren't voting for Trump. I was saying it's not exclusively some revolution of the poor (statistically it can't be). My larger point is it doesn't matter whether his voters make 50k or 200k, they are the lowest class in American society and voting for Trump and his attendant policies is against their own economic interests.

And despite economic prosperity being the cornerstone of his 2024 campaign, somehow it isn't anymore. Now his supporters have pivoted to this idea that we must all live in a kind of austerity so that collectively (waves hands around) we enter a new age of American prosperity. Literally this sea change in MAGA sentiment has happened in the last six weeks. It's baffling.
In general reading political-charged discussions here gives me insight into how people with opposing viewpoints think.

And yes I'm aware of how the flag and vouch system works.

My point was that given the amount of discussion that occurs every day about how this mechanism is failing to meet community needs, perhaps HN needs to start talking about better ways to serve the people.