skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I seriously don't know what you meant by the following:

> When everything is colourful you can't use colour to stand out. It's very simple. Obvious even.

My example is clearly a colorful painting, very vibrant, yet certain tones stand out. What you said is literally wrong. It's neither simple nor obvious. Spell out what you meant. Your counter example isn't obvious either.
the idea's that we're so tribal these days (maybe it's always been like this) that it's largely impossible

but here's how we can change that, etc
I wouldn’t call what they wrote as “contempt.” It seems to me, to be cynical realism; something I tend to exhibit, myself.

I like people. I really do. I especially love the users of the software I write, and go well out of my way, to craft the best UI possible.

But I am constantly being blindsided by knuckleheads; some of whom, are really, really smart, educated, and inquisitive people.

I write iOS apps, and spend many, many hours, testing and tweaking. Right now, I am completely rewriting an app, because I couldn’t get the UI right, at the final stage. I realized my fundamentals were borked, and that I needed to go back to the ol’ drawing board, as Wile E. Coyote would say. Many developers would have shipped, but I have the luxury of being able to redo it (I have done it before).

It’s a cool trick, and one that I’d probably use, if I was dedicated to Web design, the way I am, to app design.
And yet NATO countries can leave NATO. Until subject states in an empire countries want to join NATO, not exit it.

But sure, that is the expansive redefinition of the word I was looking for.
Top reply there:

> It sounds like if you want the answers you desire then you'll need to contact a lawyer and figure out if you have any right to them.

What legal recourse would there even be here? Some sort of civil action?
This was decided in court[1] over two decades as acceptable fair-use and that thumbnail images do not constitute a copyright violation.

[1] https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=137674209419772...
I read this when I was younger, but I only now get it, and realize how true it all is.

13) Humans writing code is an inherently flawed concept. Doesn't matter what form the code takes. Machine code, assembly language, C, Perl, or a ChatGPT prompt. It's all flawed in the same way. We have not yet invented a technology or mechanism which avoids it. And high level abstraction doesn't really help. It hides problems only to create new ones, and other problems simply never go away.

21) Loosely coupled interfaces made our lives easier because it forced us to compartmentalize our efforts into something manageable. But it's hard to prove that this is a better outcome overall, as it forces us to solve problems in ways that still lead to worse outcomes than if we had used a simpler [formal] logic.

34) We will probably end up pushing our technical abilities to the limit in order to design a superior system, only to find out in the end that simpler formal logic is what we needed all along.

55) We're becoming stupider and worse at using the tools we already have. We're already shit at using language just for communicating with each other. Assuming we could make better programs with it is nonsensical.

For a long time now I've been upset at computer science's lack of innovation in the methods we use to solve problems. Programming is stupidly flawed. I've never been good at math, so I never really thought about it before, but math is really the answer to what I wish programming was: a formal system for solving a problem, and a formal system for proving that the solution is correct. That's what we're missing from software. That's where we should be headed.
Bizarre downvoting behavior in this thread. One has to ask themselves if HN can handle the news, at this point.
> If you think the piece only really starts when the first note of the melody is played, then you've got problems. Either:

> 1. You hear the first articulation of the melody as the downbeat. But that would mean the first measure is in a disparate (and probably irregular) meter. Radical!

> 2. You hear the incomplete first measure as an anacrusis, or a kind of unaccented lead-in, to the second measure: OMG even more radical!

Why? Why can't you just say the piece starts partway through a bar, and we notate that with a rest for convenience? Just as when a piece ends partway through a bar we would generally accept that it ends when the last note ends (and while we might notate that as being a full bar in the case of a long held note, we don't always play it that way), not after some trailing rests, and we wouldn't consider this as being some kind of radical accented thing.
To be fair, people who post on Facebook get exactly what they were promised. Users of free products generally don't expect a rev share.
Boosting the efficiency of sustainable aviation fuel production
They could fight back with, "We will not accept students from politicians that support anti-education policies". Further they could kick out any students currently enrolled, "if they wrote a college essay promoting their anti-education values, we wouldn't have let them in - so they were clearly lying and we're just remedying that mistake"
You are responsible for the output, just like any other tool.

If I use a copy machine to reproduce your copyrighted work, I am responsible for that infringement not Xerox.

If I coax your novel out of my phones keyboard suggestion engine letter by letter, and publish it, it’s still me infringing on your copyright.

If I make a copy of your clip art in Illustratator, is Adobe responsible? Etc.
You imply that AI model is creating new works and not merely rearranging pieces from other works you never saw and therefore might consider novel. AI model is not a model of a creative human currently: a human doesn't need to listen to million songs to create his own.
Yes, the hard part is convincing owners to part with their wealth in order to fund better pay. This is partly because they themselves are wrapped up in a massive obligatory apparatus; call it "the financialization of the economy." I'm by no measure a Trump supporter, but I do hope that what we're seeing is a proper crash that wipes out some of these folks. Once defaults are rampant, you'll have destroyed a lot of wealth, but also a lot of the obligations that necessitated all of this shifting of wealth upward in the first place. You'd also have a lot of very sophisticated people in the clock-in line, suddenly very interested in pay equity. That's one of the happier scenarios, at least.
The NBA is as talented and skilled as it's ever been. So why all the negativity?
No serious person can argue the skill level of today’s NBA players isn’t vastly superior to those of 10, 20, 30 and 40 years ago.
What are they buying it up with? Their buying power takes the same hit in the crash.
This really gets to an acceleration of enshittification. If you can't tell its an LLM, and there's nobody to verify the information, humanity is architecting errors and mindfucks into everything. All of the markers of what is trustworthy has been coopted by untrustworthy machines, so all of the way's we'd previously differentiated actors have stopped working. It feels like we're just losing truth as rapidly as LLMs can generate mistakes. We've built a scoundrels paradise.

How useful is a library of knowledge when n% of the information is suspect? We're all about to find out.
First 95% AI-Created Anime Releases to Positive Reception
> I thought that my post was very clear. LGBT people do not have any federal protections in many domains (housing for example).

https://www.findlaw.com/lgbtq-law/housing-discrimination-pro...

> At the federal level, you can find protections for renters in the following:

Federal Fair Housing Act
Bostock ruling
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Equal Access Rule
SharePoint is where the real money and fun stuff is at.

How do you think the likes of Delta and McDonalds manage their intranet and document storage? OneDrive is just a glorified SharePoint feature.

P.S. Joking only partially, and not much at all.
An artist is a small manufacturing facility that produces a physical (canvas, print, mp3, etc) product, no?

What is different about the production of Micky Mouse cartoons? Why is it normal for industries to compete in manufacturing of physical product, but as soon as you can apply copyright, now you exclusively have rights to control anything that produces a similar result?
It's not legal or illegal. That hasn't been decided yet. Nothing like this has ever existed before, and it will take some time for the law to deal with it.
+1. In my relatively uninformed opinion what trump is doing is accelerating a kind of global arbitration in which the US is no longer the dominant economic power. We are going to have to share our toys. The “3rd world” is developing and it isn’t as easy to bully the globe into doing all our dirty work.

In my imagination, 50 years from now we will have a quality of life more similar to Central Europe: fine, but nothing special. Most people will live much more simply, rent smaller spaces, drive less ostentatious cars that they share. People will live with their families out of necessity and strawberries won’t be available in December.
Interviewing a software engineer who prepared with AI
If the 1930s are any example, war will follow, then a baby boom after the war
Google unveils end-to-end messages for Gmail. Only thing is: It's not true E2EE
I make that mistake more often than I care to, but you are 100% spot-on. They are sum types, not product types. Thank you for making me walk the walk of shame!
Show HN: Tiny Python+Preact tool for debugging agents
Hello HN,

I wanted to share a project I have been working on recently called "plomp". It is intended to be a drop-in way to gain visibility into python programs which are prompting LLMs many times or using complicated contexts while remaining unopinionated on how you are doing the prompting.

Basically you add some instrumentation to your program via decorators or small function calls and it produces a visualization of the program execution.

Personally, I am not particularly interested in using a heavy-duty orchestration or chaining framework for managing context, chaining prompts (Langchain etc.) and I typically just interact directly with the LLM providers via their clients or standard HTTPS. I had noticed that having this layer for debugging would be useful for some of my other side projects so I decided to pull it out into something standalone.

https://github.com/michaelgiba/plomp

Let me know what you think
Licensing programming tools was staple MS, since it also provided lock-in. The letter comes off as the complete opposite of open source approach to it.
People in the 1960s were murdered for protesting. You might imagine that this motivated an end to protest, and everyone calmed down. But in fact, it didn't. The very best way to motivate increased protest is to act like a bunch of monsters.
I would argue yes, since the output is what you are probably after, when buying access to ChatGPT.
Generate llms.txt files for AI-friendly websites
Let’s say I write a book or record an album and there is no copyright. How do I get paid?

Musicians I suppose can tour, which is grueling but it’s something. Authors, programmers, actors, game studios, anything that’s not performed live would immediately become non-viable as a career or a business.

Large corporations would make money of course, by offering all you can eat streaming feeds of everything for a monthly fee. The creators get nothing.
> Republicans focused on economy

The Republicans focused on sabotaging the economy, which they now are doing. I don’t get why that’s a winning message.
"Did you know elephants have a noise that means 'There are bees here, let's leave immediately'? Why don't humans?" (https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/04/100427093106.h...)

"Yes, humans also have a noise like that. It's the sentence 'There are bees here, let's leave immediately.'"
Building up a full CPU from logic was one of my favorite things in university! The class was digital logic in the electrical engineering department and was a lot of fun. We even got to write machine code programs for it.
How would Bill Gates copy source code from a 36-bit minicomputer with 32 kilowords (no byte addressing) of memory and a time-sharing operating system to a 8 bit microprocessor with a completely different instruction set and 4 kilobytes of memory and no operating system, just bare metal? Even if he and Allen had had the source code for BASIC-10, which you haven't provided evidence of, it would be closer to a reimplementation than a port.

And DEC was in Massachusetts, Bill Gates went to high school in Washington. That would be one hell of a road trip to dig into DEC's trash.
That doesn’t matter. In modern forex markets you can convert 50 million yen to USD. Do a trade with another country for EUR or whatever. Then convert it back to USD the same day.

These markets are extremely liquid and the longer term trends of the USD value are irrelevant because players can move in and out so quickly. They can even preemptively take short positions or buy options on futures markets to completely derisk an event while holding USD.

This is why “petrodollar is good” analysis in modern forex is completely off-base. At this point it’s become a great flag to indicate someone who doesn’t understand forex and trade at all.

Of all of the things valuable to the US, the petrodollar is about as far down as renaming the Gulf of Mexico the gulf of America.
A dumb way to close your laptop's browser from your phone
> I would prefer we have cheaper pianos, samples and microphones instead of worthless music-copying models.

There are lots of ML models that produce instrumentals and vocals that are incredibly useful for practicing musicians.

The popular and well-known Suno and Udio are pop culture toys. They also find use with content creators who don't have time to learn how to make music. (Not everyone can learn and master everything. We have to let some of our creative desires slip or we'd never be able to accomplish anything.)
Maybe now, post-AI.

But if you'd asked this question in 2015 or earlier, everyone would have said Disney -> pro-patent, average people & indie devs -> anti-patent. Microsoft was famously pro-patent, as were a number of nuisance companies that earned the label "patent troll."

Honestly, this idea of "patents to protect the people" would've come across as a corporate lawyer trick pre-2015.
My T420 absolutely cooks my lap. It was retired a couple years ago (alongside my X60 tablet and X200 tablet) and I bought a maxed out X280 used to replace it. I bought it brand new for school but switched over to the lightweight X60 tablet so I could quickly do homework on the go. I upgraded to the X200 when Quartus II stopped supporting 32bit processors. Both were bought for $100 on eBay back when that's all the money I had from slinging pizza after school. I grabbed the X280 for $200 when I realized how chunky, hot, and slow the T420.

That x280 is going to last me a long time. It's a perfectly capable home laptop with an i7 and 16gb of memory. I recently dropped in a new 1TB nvme drive so other than the integrated graphics, it's the best. I'm still able to play games on it, I recently got through Splinter Cell: Blacklist with the specs set at like medium. It's not going to play a modern AAA but anything at least 5 years older than the laptop runs fine enough.
The printout is dated 10-SEP-75 and is labeled "VERSION 3.0 -- MORE FEATURES TO GO".

Curiously this isn't the oldest extant version of the source code. The Harvard archives have a copy of version 1.1, printed on 30 April 75. http://altairbasic.org/other%20versions/ian.htm
It's been less than 3 years, yet this guy is already able to confidently predicting a "collapse of critical thinking." I'm sure that is the product of rational analysis and not confirmation bias...
> I think the tricky bit is that AI companies make money off the collected works of artists,

There is also a chance that AI companies didn't obtain the training data legally; in that case it would be at least immoral to build a business on stolen content.
He's fantastic. I still suck at drywall work, but I suck way less after watching a bunch of his videos.
> You are confusing the actual accounts with the surrounding article.

The first one is hearsay from a dead guy and the other one is a creative writing project. If you had these accounts handy from reputable sources, you would have posted them from the reputable sources. This is not the standard of commentary expected of this forum.

> Look, Trump has been claiming that he graduated first in class, but never provided any evidence.

The articles I have read on the subject suggest that this claim is impossible because he would have been on the honor roll and does not appear there. This tells me that he’s either delusional, misinformed, or a liar. It doesn’t tell me he doesn’t understand economics.
Power. The power to punish. The power to attempt to make people or countries do what you want. It is not economic. It only makes sense if you think like a mobster.
Very few supplier industries run with a 54% margin such that the supplier can eat that and stay in business, so less orders is better than more orders that lose money on each order. For many products the margins even at the end are in the single to low double digits. This means costs go to consumers, which practically translates to inflation and decreased spending, which leads to stagnation etc. The analysis that this will stifle game makers is pretty likely true, and I see no future where the economics of that moves supply chains state side in our life time.
The culture war was over about sixty days into the Trump administration. Lots of people just haven't realized it yet.
You need to enable JavaScript to view this site.

Nope. Why does this page need to be an interactive webapp? Ideally it'd be viewable on the 8-bit computer you built from scratch too.
Brown just got targeted next, after releasing a statement that it would "not compromise on academic freedom". We're about to find out how true that is or not. But if universities don't start fighting back, they will all find themselves in the same boat as Columbia -- and ultimately regret it.

The US's universities are one of its greatest assets, if not the greatest. The repercussions of this are highly damaging.
Is this what happens with Call of Duty? My observation is I would play very good for a couple of days, often 1st or 2nd player in the 12 people group. Then, next few days I am placed with a bunched of assumed cheaters (seemingly seeing thru wall, headshot but not dead, jump slide then shoot mid air with a gamepad...).
I don't think so, products are not the 100% of a business.
Dartmouth's time may still come. Brown is apparently about to be targeted next. Trump is clearly not done yet.
That’s not how copyright law works.

Commissioned work is owned by the commissioner unless otherwise agreed upon by contract.

So long as the work is not distributed, exhibited, performed, etc, as in the example of keeping the artwork on their refrigerator in their home, then no infringement has taken place.
even if you want to accept the ‘copyright is less important than getting to AGI before a government we deem less moral than us’ argument, i find it hard to believe things like emulating studio ghibli art styles, are a necessary part of that path.
If I paint a picture on a physical canvas, I can charge people to come into my house and take a look. If I bring the canvas to a park, I'm not entitled to say "s-stop looking at my painting guys!"

If you're worried about your work being infinitely reproduced, you probably shouldn't work in an infinitely-reproducible medium. Digitized content is inherently worthless, and I mean that in a non-derisive way. The sooner we realize this, the richer culture will be.

Really all content is worthless. Historically, we've always paid for the transmission medium (tape, CD) and confused it for the cost of art itself.
I tried using a hobby servo but it was very loud with a high pitched annoying sound. What servos are better?
Imho it just speaks to importance of first mover advantage, land grab, and most importantly distribution distribution distribution.

It's not fake, it's reality. And things have always has been this way.
> Like vibe coding, it works very well if you know what you are doing (emphasis mine)

This is true of so very many things involving computers (and tools in general, really) and LLMs are no exception. Just like any tool, "knowing what you are doing" is the really important part, but so many folks are convinced that these "AI" things can do the thinking part for them, and it's just not the case (yet). You gotta know what you're doing and how to properly use the tool to avoid a lotta the "foot-guns" and get the most benefit outta these things.
I don't know how to install this.
Anecdotally I’ve heard from professional athletes that steroid use is actually liked by coaches because it gives them better control over the locker room. If someone becomes an issue in the locker room, guess who is getting randomly selected for testing without a heads up warning.
So basically: the solution is "do more of the same".

I suppose that's the point, people were tired of hearing the same old crap by leftists who fancy themselves as smarter, as their quality of life continued to drop, so they figured "screw it let's try the opposite".

Guess we'll see where it lands.
Yeah, Walter provided the ranking. Got flagged or something.
In the mid 70s you got a badly mimeographed copy of the schematics and a bag of parts.

In the late 70s to early 80s you got a programming manual, but you had to save your programs on cassette tapes.

In the late 80s, you got glossy manuals which showed you how to turn on the computer, hook up a printer and load a program from DOS.

In the early 90s, the manuals were plain paper, smaller, and had instructions on how to use a mouse, and explained what a window is. Plus the mail-ins.

Mid-90s (CD-ROM "multimedia machines") you got a sheet of paper which told you to load the interactive tutorial from the included CD.

Late 90s you got 5000 hours of AOL. Plus another CD filled with co-branded crapware like CorelDraw Lite for Dell.

2000s+ crapware pre-installed, driver CD and a warranty card.

So really, the time period with the included programming manual was just a few years. And mostly all you did is print Hello World over and over again on the screen. So don't be too jealous.
That's a fascinatingly obvious idea and I'd like to see data that supports it. I assume there must be some.
There is a solution, but no one wants to hear it. Anonymity is the problem and the only way to curb cheats like these are to have extreme meatspace penalties and some sort of central ID mechanism that requires some sort of real and personal identification
I think the NBA has a sort of social media style negativity meme culture that is just feeding on itself. It's bizarre. It's even more bizarre that the NBA and it's media partners seem to WANT this to continue.

The media meta surrounding the NBA is very negative. Old players hating on new players, new players hating on old players. Media hating on everyone, all with flimsy arguments and sometimes with no argument at all. It's unbearable, and the negativity is unlike any other major American sport.

So it almost doesn't matter what they're talking about it, someone has a lot of negativity about everything.

Orgs like ESPN, and others seem to just feed it as if they don't know what else to do. Draymond Green, a player with some serious behavioral issues and numerous suspensions (and he should have more than that), was made a guest commentator last playoff season ... a completely inexplicable choice, but apparently everyone was ok with it.

I don't know why, but with the NBA everyone involved seems to "WANT" this.