skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Also, consider that conservative media has indoctrinated people to think like you do...except in the opposite direction.

I came to similar conclusion by reading conservative media. NOT by reading mainstream media that forever excuse, rationalize and sanitize what is going on among conservatives.

Also, note that he did not just said "they are enemy". He listed actual positions these people demonstrably have. All you have to do is to ... listen to what they say. Oh, and I also tell you some stuff they want for gender relations: they want women completely dependent on men economically, spousal abuse to be an accepted price for keeping families together.

The person you are responded to described really existing value differences. Musks "empathy is weakness" is not some kind of outlier claim, it is something conservatives were pushing on for years already. Especially in its far right circles. Likewise the Trumps "truth does not matter" philosophy.
Unfortunately, Kagi has a similar problem.

Before, I felt it would search exactly the terms I wrote.

Now, it freely ignores some of the terms, and I find myself prefixing most of my queries' words with plus sign (+) so it enforces the search.

_Personally_, I feel the quality of Kagi's search has decreased, lately.

However, I still prefer it to other search engines.
500 is a lot of games. I think mine is around 100-150. Just to get a sense of scale, maybe the reason why I never saw anything get pulled. In fact the opposite, I have received free games over the years.
The nice thing about humans is that not every single human being read almost every content present on the Internet. So yeah, a certain group of people would draw or think of Indiana Jones with that prompt, but not everyone.
Maybe we will have different models with different trainings/settings that permits this kind of freedom, although I doubt it will be the commercial ones.
This reminds me of Adventure Time where Finn (US Government) tells a goose and a fox to "now kiss":

https://youtu.be/XHgyD6UesJo?feature=shared&t=94
Looking at the UI of modern apps and websites, I think we're too late with this.

What the mass user finds "intuitive" is already formed and it's in a horrible place and it's hard to go back.
Do photons and electrons not exist, because we cannot observe them directly?

You can certainly play a recording of the piece at whatever speed you desire, and decide if it has rhythm, melody, harmony, unity, and continuity. Extremely slowing the piece down does not remove those things.
Most people will gloss over the fact you broke a few rules to get there when the end result is good.

Especially in large organizations, all rules exist for plausible deniability.
I don't see this as being better or worse than all the reboots, remakes, and pointless sequels for movies that make the bulk (in financing) of Hollywood's present production: these also make the same "assumptions" of how some idea should look like. In fact, I think they make it even worst.

Give me "An image of an archeologist adventurer who wears a hat and uses a bullwhip, as if he was defeated by the righteous fight against patriarchy by a strong, independent woman, that is better at everything than he is": Sure, here is Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny for you.

In fact, when generative video evolve enough, it will usher an era of creativity where people that previously were kept out of the little self pleasing circle of Hollywood, will be able to come up with their own idea for a script and make a decent movie out of it.

Not that I believe AI will be able to display properly the range of emotions of a truly great actor, but, for 99% of movies, it will be just fine. A lot of good movies rely mostly on the script anyway.
I was not familiar with the term, so I had to look it up. It's about code like this:

a := b

the `:=` looks vaguely like a walrus. The most common reference language seems to be Python [1]. The usage is for making assignment remain an expression, so you can do stuff like

area = (width := get_width()) * (height := get_height())

or something, and have the top-level expression remain valid since the sub-expressions are assignments that remain expressions, i.e. the assigned value is also the result of the expression.

[1]: https://realpython.com/python-walrus-operator/
Ownership of artwork is independent of copyright infringement. Derivative works qualify for their own independent copyright, you just can’t sell them until after the original copyright expires.

Just because I own my car doesn’t mean I can break the speed limit, these are orthogonal concepts legally.
I would argue this is just fitting.
I'm a college admissions consultant, and this doesn't surprise me at all. People don't realize how competitive the landscape has become. His test scores and GPA are average at the schools he applied to. Really you'd need to know how many APs he took and his AP scores to understand how colleges will treat his academic record.

To me, his college list indicates that he was mostly prestige hunting. There's nothing inherently wrong with that, but colleges can tell when a student wants to attend based just on branding. It comes across as if he wants to use college as a resume booster rather than as a place to grow.

The essay reads as a list of accomplishments, with little self-reflection. (Side note: referencing Steve Jobs is way overdone.)

Long story short, college admissions is not a VC pitch. If I had been this guy's advisor, I would have recommended he write an essay about something not related to Cal AI. Colleges will already know about the app from his activities list (and resume and, presumably, recommendation letters). There's a huge missed opportunity for him to write about something else.

The essays that worked for my students this year were often about more mundane topics that gave insight into their character. One of my favorites was from a student who started giving free haircuts to classmates. The essay implicitly shows that he's thoughtful and well-liked—someone you'd definitely want in your college community.
Man catches hawk that attacked villagers for weeks
It’s just funny, because there are hundreds of millions of instances of ChatGPT running all the time. Each chat is basically an instance, since it has no connection to all the other chats. I don’t think connecting them makes sense due to privacy reasons.

And, each chat is not autonomous but integrated with other intelligent systems.

So, with more multiplicity, I think thinks work differently. More ecologically. For better and worse.
Tariffs will probably be bad, but on the other hand the old system didn't really work either in the long run. Perhaps he can bring some manufacturing back and I don't really believe consumer goods getting more expensive will be immediately felt. Could be wrong though.

Well, at least it might get interesting if you like crazy. I don't really believe those crying the loudest that they are particularly interested in combating inequality or are too interested in protecting low income people. Yes, maybe they need industries protected by tarrifs instead of cheap t-shirts. Maybe this perspective is rather stupid though. We will find out if that works or not. Economics projecting the next depression aren't really sources to trust either.
This is a great observation and a beautiful perspective.

Would it be okay for you if I quote this on a revised version of the article (with proper attribution, of course)?
Yeah, something has been lost in current generations. I'm reminded of Asimov's Foundation books where the protagonist dies at the beginning but leaves behind the foundations of a thousand-year plan to rebuild civilisation after the collapse that he predicts including a time capsule that opens following predicted crises.

I feel like such ideas are of a time, namely the 1950s when things were looking up. Nowadays I feel like everyone is aware that Earth is basically finished but we have no way off of it, so they just try to squeeze as much joy as they can before they die without any thought towards the future at all.

This even comes out in smaller cycles like writing software that works today with no thought about how it will look in a decade. I feel like the stuff they were doing even in 90s was done with the intention of being around for a very long time. Now it's like, yagni, just write any old shit that works.
> There are approximately zero people who decide they'll create something if they're protected for 95 years after their death but won't if it's 94 years.

I’m sure you’re right for individual authors who are driven by a creative spark, but for, say, movies made by large studios, the length of copyright is directly tied to the value of the movie as an asset.

If that asset generates revenue for 120 years, then it’s slightly more valuable than an asset that generates revenue for 119 years, and considerably more valuable than an asset that generates revenue for 20 years.

The value of the asset is in turn directly linked to how much the studio is willing to pay for that asset. They will invest more money in a film they can milk for 120 years than one that goes public domain after 20.

Would studios be willing to invest $200m+ in movie projects if their revenue was curtailed by a shorter copyright term? I don’t know. Probably yes, if we were talking about 120->70. But 120->20? Maybe not.

A dramatic shortening of copyright terms is something of a referendum on whether we want big-budget IP to exist.

In a world of 20 year copyright, we would probably still have the LOTR books, but we probably wouldn’t have the LOTR movies.
I didn’t see anything of substance in the article. For example if they benefited from AI just how beneficial was it? Did it shrink their code by any amount or reduce execution time?

No, the article was just something about enjoying AI. This is hardly anything related to senior software developer skills.
Celery also has postgres backend, but I maybe it's not as well integrated.
But I don't want to configure WordPress. I like to write and debug code. If it's not required for the business, I'm not interested in working there at all.
Does it provide fewer footguns for less experienced devs though?
I'll write that down for reference in case I do ever join an organization like that in the future, thanks.

600% improvement is worth what, 3 days of billable work if it lasts 5 minutes?
With AI being weaponized by anyone who wants to make a profit, what do you expect?
Which is a good thing :) I am all in for asking questions. If someone can't answer them, it usually means they have not thought about it and are either ignorant or will learn something themselves :D

(like me for your question, as I never tried TabSub with internet disconnected. Was delighted to see it works nevertheless)
You’re objectively correct in a business context, which is what most software is for. For me, seeing AI slop code more and more is just sad from a craft perspective.

Software that’s well designed and architected is a pleasure to read and write, even if a lower quality version would get the job done. I’m watching one of the things I love most in the world become more automated and having the craftsmanship stripped out of it. That’s a bit over dramatic from me, but it’s been sad to watch.
US has very strong unions, you don't have anything close to SAG-AFTRA in Europe since such strong unions are illegal. European unions are just big, but their are reigned in by laws much more.

So yeah I think weakening the protections unions from workers in USA enjoys would lead to more people joining them, since there is less risk in doing so. Most people don't wanna work in an industry dominated by something like the screen actors guild.
How will arts evolve? By recombining these things, as it always has. I swear, this thread is a collection of the most curmudgeony people. "People no longer use their memory now that all those pesky books are around".

The kids will be alright.
So is the idea of annexing Greenland and absorbing Canada, but here we are
My reasoning for evaluating the relevancy of this app:

1. If the food being scanned has a nutrition label, I don't need this app.

2. If there's no nutrition label, the app can't possibly extrapolate the nutritional information. It can't estimate portion size or the ingredients in the recipe.

3. If the app can't extrapolate nutritional information, I don't need this app.

4. I don't need this app.
Anything's possible if you're willing to fake it!
That world was worse. It wasn't much worse, because we haven't seen most of the benefit of GenAI yet, but yes I would say that it was worse.

It wasn't "so bad", but any history of improvement can be cut into slices that aren't "so bad" to reverse.
I have counterpoints to that, but my main disagreement is where you draw the line. This feels arbitrary. You look at present energy expenditure as waste, if the asset itself is not consumed for an equally arbitrary reason that you approve of, or generates an even more valuable asset or ongoing revenue stream. I view it as all intertwined with commodity economics whether prices are cyclical, seasonal, or permanently bullish. Low float assets aren’t controversial, a small trading or consumed supply dictates the value of the entire supply, for balance sheets, lending, securitization and more.

Thanks for explaining your preference.
> Republicans want to pursue safety from tyranny.

Not true. This is simply not what they want.

> Democrats want to pursue safety from guns. Republicans want to pursue safety from tyranny. Both sides care about personal safety.

Republicans wants to ensure their opponents are sufficiently tyrannized. They care much less about safety, systematically. They even openly look down on those who care about safety, not seeing them sufficiently manly.

> Do Republicans care about human rights?

Not much. Openly not much so, Musk called empathy the biggest weakness of western civilization. Trumps and Musks moves clearly do not care about human rights, republicans stand by them.

> Do Democrats care about domestic prosperity? Yes.

Yup, they do. I am not really sure about republicans anymore, given last moves.

> The real problem is the one you are contributing to: the unwillingness to empathize. Empathy is the only way to come to a compromise. With a little empathy you might even find that you have to compromise less because you might actually convince someone of your argument, for once.

These people vote for Trump and Vance and see empathy as a weakness. That is not compromise, that is capitulation to a lie. You want one side to dominate and have everything they do excused. The other one should be nice, submissive and empathetic. But this is based on lies - lies about what republicans actually do and lies about their motivation. Lies to make them sound better. And lies about what democrats actually do - lies to make them sound worst.
> Well, precisely. What then is the AI company's justification for charging money to paint a picture of Harrison Ford to its users?

Formulated this way, I see your point. I see the LLM as a tool, just like photoshop. From a legal standpoint, I even think you're right. But from a moral standpoint, my feeling is that it should even be okay for an artist to sell painted pictures of Harrison Ford. But not to sell the same image as posters on ebay. And now my argument falls apart. Thanks for leading my thoughts in this direction...
I think with AI my productivity had increased 1% at most. If I measure time saved per week.
"easiest/low tech" would be some sort of unix file-locking and inode. Only works if you are on the same host machine though...AAAND sounds like it would be quite hacky.
You joke but my current goal in life is to be able to wake up somewhere that I can enjoy 4'33" every day. I'm just so sick of the noise.
For me lack of language specification is not a problem and it is good that Rust only have one implementation so I don't have a headache to support multiple compilers like C++. The only problems I have with trait is lack of const function and trait upcasting, which just solved by 1.86 that released yesterday. For iterator type mismatched it does not cause much problem since I can create a dedicated generic function to handle that.

The major problem for me with Rust is deadlock. In Rust it is very easy to cause a deadlock compared to other languages. In other languages you need to think a lot before locking a mutex but in Rust you just `foo.lock().unwrap()`, which can easily cause a deadlock if you have multiple mutexes and someone in your team does not aware the lock order.
Great, let's legislate corporate liability for excessive data use from crawlers. I'm fully there with you.
So they are left out, but not intentionally?
Can an artist be created without using copyrighted content? Raise a child without movies, books, songs or the internet, see how much they contribute to "popular culture".
if someone gets Indiana on the suspiciously detailed request the author provided and it appears they wanted something else, they can clarify that to the chat bot, e.g. by copying this your comment.

I have a strong suspicion that many human artists would behave in a way the chat bot did (unless they start asking clarifying questions. Which chatbots should learn to do as well)
Interesting you should bring that up:

https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/1517ldjmv

Loads of lawsuits have been filed by celebrities and their estates over the unauthorized use of their likeness. And in fact, in 2022, Las Vegas banned Elvis impersonators from performing weddings after a threat from the Presley estate's licensing company:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10872855/Elvis-imag...

But there are also a couple key differences between putting on a costume and acting like Elvis, and using a picture of Elvis to sell soap.

One is that a personal artistic performance could be construed as pastiche or parody. But even more importantly, if there's a financial incentive involved in doing that performance, the financial incentive has to be aligned more with the parody than with drawing an association to the original. In other words, dressing up as Elvis as a joke or an act, or even to sing a song and get paid to perform a wedding is one thing if it's a prank, it's another thing if it's a profession, and yet another thing if it's a mass-marketing advertisement that intends for people to seriously believe that Elvis endorsed this soap.
The customer of the end product? I don't think that marketing budgets work this way.
> Ah, yes, those pesky humans and their cognitive biases...

This is sort of meaningless without citation of the bias you claim.

In case you're being serious: yes; you can find friends who won't shit on you for your views.
The prompt is what's lacking creativity. The AI knows it, and produced the obvious popular result for a bland prompt. Want something more unique? Write better prompts.
Hmm....that's a cool writeup but not really what I was looking for. Anyway, let's take the phone configuration he mentions:

"The A51 featured eight slow cores (4x2.3 GHz Cortex-A73 and 4x1.7 GHz Cortex-A53) on a 10nm process"

Looking at Wikipedia, it also has at least 4 GB of RAM and comes with 4G Internet.

The Alcatel 1 also seems to have at least a 1 GHz CPU and at least a gigabyte of RAM.

I also had a look at the Samsung Galaxy Watch. Lowest spec I could find was 1 GHz dual core + 768MB RAM (bluetooth), 1.5 GB (LTE).

The machine I was doing the web-based Postscript rendering on was a PowerMac G3. Single core 32 bit processor running at 266 MHz and and with 192MB of RAM. Connection was early DSL, 768 KB down, I think 128 KB up.

I did not do any heroic optimizations, it was fast "as-is".

So I think my point stands that modern computers, including low end Smartphones and watches are incredibly powerful and fast, including the networks.

If your tech stack manages to bring that hardware to its knees for basic UI rendering, and requires a lot of optimization effort to run barely reasonably, then there is something fundamentally wrong with your tech stack.
I know that artists don’t like AI, because it’s trained on their stolen work. And yet, AI can’t create a sprite sheet for a 2d game.

This is because it can steal a single artwork but it can’t make a collection of visually consistent assets.
The difference here is that a preprocessor runs before parsing and semantic analysis. In C3 compile time if runs in the analysis step, so after parsing.

So the macros and compile time execution occurs after parsing in C3, but in C everything happens at lexing, before the code is parsed.
So, most low level functions that enumerate the files in a directory return a structure that contains the file data from each file. Including size. You already have it in memory.

Your brilliant AI calls another low level function to get the file size on the file name. (also did worse stuff but let's not go into details).

Do you call reading the file size from the in memory structure that you already have a speed optimization? I call it common sense.
> The current administration refers to inclusion of PoC and women as "DEI", so when they talk about ending DEI, that's what they mean.

I call bullshit on them wanting to ban women and black people from colleges, that is not what they mean when they say end "DEI", you are crazy.

Can you post a single link where they even hinted at wanting to ban black people and women from colleges? That is such an egregious accusation that you need more than just that they took down a page about a black guy.
I agree, but only to an extent. For me, the passion changed over time. I used to love getting an O'Reilly tome and learning something new, but now I don't really want to learn the latest UI framework, library/API or figure out how a client configures their DI container. If the AI can do most of that stuff, and I just leverage my knowledge of all the frameworks I've had to use, it's a huge timesaver and means I can work on more things at once. I want to work on the core solution, not the cruft that surrounds it.

I agree though that the Studio Ghibli trend feels off. To me, art like this feels different to code. I know that's probably heresy around these parts of the internet, and I probably would have said something different 15-20 years ago. I know that coding is creative and fulfilling. I think I've just had the fun of coding beat out of me over 25 years :) AI seems to be helping bring the fun back.
IMO the natural effect of this will be to massively devalue any individual cultural artifact, and that this will also achieve the benefit of defanging the big copyright holders. Is it the right way to go about it? No. Is it an insult to anyone who ever got nabbed for piracy? Sure. But tbh as a pirate voter I'll still very much take it.
> all employees should be pulling in the same direction

This. I've worked at companies where the infra/devops teams were openly hostile to the dev teams. It's incredible that companies like that function, and that management doesn't seem to care, when teams that are supposed to be working together are pointing guns at each other instead.
Syrians are still surprisingly upbeat
Could you create a type around Mutex that enforces the locking order?
> Using pip-installed libraries brings in the famous packaging problems, but you don't have to use it!

These days, with uv and PEP 723 inline script metadata, that's not an issue either.

# /// script
# dependencies = ["numpy"]
# requires-python = ">=3.12"
# ///
import numpy as np

and

uv run myscript.py

will just Do The Right Thing.