skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This. It seem the situation is controversial now because of the beloved Studio Ghibli IP, but I want to see the venn diagram of people outrage at this, and the people clamoring for overbearing Disney chatachter protection when the copyright expired and siding with paloworld in the Nintendo lawsuit.

It seem most of the discussion is emotionally loaded, and people lost the plot of both why copyright exists and what copyright protects and are twisting that to protect whatever media they like most.

But one cannot pick and choose where laws apply, and then the better question would be how we plug the gap that let a multibilion Corp get away with distribution at scale and what derivative work and personal use mean in a image generation as a service world, and artist should be very careful in what their wishes are here, because I bet there's a lot of commission work edging on style transfer and personal use.
Cursor Tips Directory
I want to share with you a little personal achievement. With barely any coding knowledge (I only learned the basic syntax of Python, but it wasn't used at all in this case), I built and launched a website directory from scratch. This is how I made it:
- Asked Claude to design the site and add features, generate the various coding files, and provide the general architecture
- Ran and tested the site first locally on my desktop server
- Imported the files to GitHub
- From GitHub, deployed the project to Netlify hosting
- Connected the Netlify address with my custom domain

The entire process took me about 5 to 6 hours cumulatively and it only cost me the monthly $20 for Claude.

The site curates a list of tips, tutorials, and how-to advice about using Cursor for coding. I tried to find the most relevant sources from Google, YouTube, X, and Reddit of various people who have used and tested Cursor and shared their experiences, tips, and recommendations.
>Why would you blindly trust any code?

because that is what the market is trying to sell?
> $30M ARR biz

Unlikely
Why is that a problem? For some critical goods (Food, Medicines, Defense) it's a security risk to not have a supply. But for flip flops and umbrellas, no country is somehow better off by having thousands of factories, instead of doing what the US does: selling high value goods and services and importing the low value goods.

In fact, it's the opposite. Those industries are much more polluting per dollar GDP created, and that externality is something you are happy to not have on your own soil.
> So if I want to make an ad for a soap company, and I get an AI to reproduce a likeness of Harrison Ford, does that mean I can use that likeness in my soap commercials without paying him?

No, you can't! But it shouldn't be the tool that prohibits this. You are not allowed to use existing images of Harrison Ford for your commercial and you also will be sued into oblivion by Disney if you paint a picture of Mickey Mouse advertising your soap, so why should it be any different if an AI painted this for you?
BASIC was written as a team in Albuquerque. Altair had good reason to support their efforts. They then purchased DOS from Seattle Computer Products after they made a deal with IBM to sell it. To be fair Xerox gave away the office suite and the hardware to anyone who asked.
Truth is so overrated these days.
> It is neither intended nor suitable to implement a compiler based on it.

I guess you could make the same argument for C++...

(In case you're wondering, just as an example, you might start implementing garbage collection).
Cops have no legal obligation in the US to protect people from crime. They can watch you be mugged without lifting a finger. They might be fired, but the victim isn't entitled to protection.

It basically comes down to positive and negative rights. Someone is at fault if they harm you, but nobody is required to help you, even the government.
The phrasing threw me off too. I've usually heard of the OP's topic referred to as "local first software", not development.
In the 1960s a Canadian research expedition collected soil samples from Easter Island which led to the discovery of rapamycin (aka sirolimus).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sirolimus

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9634974/

(Full disclosure - spent my PhD working with macrolides including this one. It's an amazing origin story for a compound...)
I think people don't consider that because the usual criticism of television and video games is that people spend too long paying attention to them.

One of the famous Greek philosophers complained that books were hurting people's minds because they no longer memorized information, so this kind of complaint is as old as civilization itself. There is no evidence that we would be on Mars by now already if we had never invented books or television.
I think you mean "20 years after you die". That seems like a perfectly rational way to deal with people who want to be buried in their gold and jewels in a pyramid.
Naive question here: Why can't new antibiotics be developed by just spraying fields of mushrooms or petri dishes full of fungi with antibiotic resistant bacteria and seeing which ones come up with novel ways to fight them?
Why is this flagged? Regardless of the side you take on Andruil (or the war machine in general), this is a relevant piece of news.
The least plausible part of this is the idea that the Trump administration might tax American AI companies to provide UBI to the whole world.

But in an AGI world natural resources become even more important, so countries with those still have a chance.
> What if I had trusted the code? It was working after all.

Then you would have been done five minutes earlier? I mean, this sort of reads like a parody of microoptimization.
Nah you are getting it wrong the issue here is YOU NO LONGER NEED TO LEARN RUST thats why you are learning it slow.
If US companies can't train on copyrighted material China will.
No, it first generates the image and then another completely different component checks the image for adherence to the guidelines. So it's not your prompt that violates the guidelines, but the resulting image (which is different every time for the same prompt)
Stopped reading after

> We predict that the impact of superhuman AI over the next decade will be enormous, exceeding that of the Industrial Revolution.

Get out of here, you will never exceed the Industrial Revolution. AI is a cool thing but it’s not a revolution thing.

That sentence alone + the context of the entire website being AI centered shows these are just some AI boosters.

Lame.
I'm mixed on the "craft" aspect of it. I don't hate coding, but there's definitely times where it feels like it's just some time plumbing. I don't get satisfaction out of that kind of stuff.

I'm pragmatic and simply don't trust current LLM's to do much in my domain. All that tribal knowledge is kept under lock and key at studios, so good luck scraping the net to find more than the very basic samples of how to do something. I've spent well over a decade doing that myself; the advanced (and even a lot of intermediate) information is slim and mostly behind paywalls or books.
Same for me. The lack of effort to get started is amazing, as well as the ability to farm the parts I don't like out to the AI. (As opposed to me, it's actually passable at graphical design.)
Not enough virtue signaled?

https://www.cnn.com/2017/04/05/us/stanford-application-black...
> It's not wild to speculate that a ticket I buy for an event 600 years in the future might not be honored. People get screwed over on pre-orders with timetables far smaller than that.

I think you're framing this in the wrong way. Anyone buying a ticket knows there is no guarantee that this finale will occur, or that even if it does, that whatever entity in is in charge of it by then will honor the tickets. They treat this as a donation to something they care about, and the ticket is a cute gift of appreciation. And on top of that, the descendants of the ticket-purchasers may have lost the tickets generations ago, not even know about them, or not even care.

Suggesting that people are getting "screwed over" is unnecessarily dramatic.
I have just checked my article — the word "expert" isn't in it, so not quite sure where you got this from.

I'm working in the field professionally since June 1998, and among other things, I was the tech lead on MyHammer.de, Germany's largest craftsman platform, and have built several other mid-scale online platforms over the decades.

How well I have done this, now that's for others to decide.

Quite objectively though, I do have some amount of experience — even a bad developer probably cannot help but pick up some learnings over so many years in relevant real-world projects.

However, and I think I stated this quite clearly, I am expressively not an expert in Python.

And yet, I could realize an actually working solution that solves an actual problem I had in a very real sense (and is nicely humming away for several weeks now).

And this is precisely where yes, I did experience a 10x productivity increase; it would have certainly taken me at least a week or two to realize the same solution myself.
Yes, same guy. He wrote a list of all his accomplishments, whining about his college rejections. Painfully pretentious individual.
>The anticipation was palpable, with at least six other tourists wandering the cold brick hall, there to hear the final hours of this loud and, after a time, torturous sound.

Just reading that line alone brightened up my morning. You can admire something and still find it a bit silly.
Location: Bratislava, Slovakia (comfortable with different time zones - partly overlapping etc.)

Remote Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: html/css(sass, tailwindcss), Javascript(jQuery, vanilla), Wordpress (twig, acf, php, custom theme development), NextJS, ReactJS

Resume/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZIP2zktpY6GkBbez2xrcCzB_-3t...

Email: gio97niko@gmail.com

About me: Hi I'm Giorgi. I am a frontend web developer with up to 4 years of professional experience. I've been freelancing as well as working with a team (US based digital agency) in past years, so I'm comfortable working individually and in team environment. Most of my career I've been working in Wordpress development (been also workin on NextJS projects past two years). I'm open to similar opportunities but would be even more excited for a change (app development - React/NextJS). I adapt quickly and most importantly work hard. Outside of work I love working out and spending time with my friends :) PS: Past year I've gained a lots of knowledge in web accessibility and have been leading the way in this area for a team that I work with currently. It is something that I constantly improve in and enjoy
> My criteria were subjective but simple to understand: the language should introduce new concepts (as Principia Discordia puts it, ’tis an ill wind that blows no minds) [...]

I wonder how many people share this opinion. I derive as much if not more value from the refinement of existing concepts than the introduction of new ones.

Wanting new concepts just for it's own sake is wild to me.
Birds, mostly
What struck me most in this piece wasn't just the milestones or big product moments, but how human the journey was. From someone getting hired off a newsletter in a Honda Civic to negotiating with the Rolling Stones, or building a global business with zero prior international experience. It's a reminder that behind all the megacorp mythology, these were regular people taking huge risks.
How does this compare to other pg-backed python job runners like Procrastinate [0] or Chancy [1]?

[0] https://github.com/procrastinate-org/procrastinate/

[1] https://github.com/TkTech/chancy
Jesus, maybe dial the cynicism down a bit. This is not that serious. It's a fun thing where people get to donate to a bit of art they care about, and get a token of appreciation in return. I doubt any of these "purchasers" really care all that much if their descendants actually end up able to go to a finale in 600 years, outside of the "wouldn't it be cool if..." sense.
Trademarks are very different from copyrights. In general, they never expire as long as the fees are paid in the region, and products bearing the mark are still manufactured. Note, legal firms will usually advise people that one can't camp on Trademarks like other areas of IP law.

For example, Aspirin is known as an adult dose of acetylsalicylic acid by almost every consumer, and is Trademarked to prevent some clandestine chemist in their garage making a similarly branded harmful/ineffective substance that damages the Goodwill Bayer earned with customers over decades of business.

Despite popular entertainment folklore, sustainable businesses actually want consumer goodwill associated with their products and services.

While I agree in many WIPO countries copyright law has essentially degenerated into monetized censorship by removing the proof of fiscal damages criteria (like selling works you don't own.) However, Trademarks ensure your corporate mark or product name is not hijacked in local Markets for questionable purposes.

Every castle needs a moat, but I do kind of want to know more about the presidential "Tesler". lol =)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFZUB1eJb34
Do you think humans are less likely to be wrong or just less likely to apologize when they are?
> I dunno, that seems like a pretty good distillation of what moving the goalposts is.

Only if you don't understand what "the goalposts" means. The goalpost isn't "pass the turing test", the goalpost is "manage to do all the same kind of intellectual tasks that humans are", nobody has moved that since the start in the quest for AI.
Millimetre-scale bioresorbable optoelectronic systems for electrotherapy
> Google's image generator that generated black nazis.

Didn't see this one, but I've certainly played around with Dall-E (via MS image creator) and had things like "You wanted a picture of a happy shark, but we decided this one needs to be an asian woman frolicking in the sea" or "You wanted a picture of Beavis doing something so in one of the images we made him a pretty racist middle-eastern caricature"

> (though I find it funny that the same people that would boycott Disney for suing a fanfiction author are now on the side of copyright holders)

Is that a contradiction?

Certainly some of the hate comes from the fact that they take from small producers just as much as from large. I have an author friend who is annoyed at present to find out that facebook slurped up his books as part of their training set without so much as a by-your-leave or (as far as he could tell) even purchasing a copy.

As such, the people on the sharp end are often the underdog, with no way to fight back.

When it comes to the properties mentioned in the article, I think it's very different from fanfiction or fan-art - that's a labour of (nerdy) love, rather than wholesale, automated rip-off for profit.
He's given a TEDx talk so I should listen to him, right?
> I apologize for such a long letter - I didn't have time to write a short one.

- Twain

It seems unfair to compare Rowling with Steinbeck to aid in making their argument. A writer's intended audience ought to be considered.
I'm very much in the same camp as you. I'm having the time of my (professional) live right now.
> Or, you mean if the artist doesn't have a license to produce and distribute Indiana Jones images? Well they'll be in trouble legally. They are making "copies" of things they don't own and profiting from it.

Ok, my sister can draw, and she gifts me an image of my favorite Marvel hero she painted to hang on my wall. Should that be illegal?
Haha. Tucson.
That's such a great story and such a classic case of being just ahead of the curve but in the wrong corner of the world.
A friend of mine build a similar app last year (https://joineat.app) and it didn't go anywhere (even though it is objectively the nicer app). So there's a lot of luck involved here as well (or maybe he was too early).
Tucson :)
The flagship product may no longer be the main revenue driver, but it still defines the brand in people's minds
Not quite. Alexander Fleming was growing cultures of staph bacteria, went away for some time, and when he came back, found one petri dish had been contaminated with fungus, and that the fungus inhibited the growth of the bacteria. It seems to be unclear where the contamination came from, but the fungus itself was already known to science at the time.
Human appearance does not have enough dimensions to make likeness a viable thing to protect; I don't see how you could do that without say banning Elvis impersonators.

That said:

> I'm looking forward to all of Hollywood joining the cause against the rampant abuse of IP by Silicon Valley.

If you're framing the sides like that, it's pretty clear which I'm on. :)
why, seems sick!
> They get lazy if you don't explicitly ask for well-written code (or put that in the system prompt).

This is insane on so many levels.
Withdraw and watch Russia start a war with Europe.
Because you'll end up finding bacteriophages and wonder why we're wasting so many lives and much money on antibiotics.

Antibiotics are lazy. Sure, some people have to die, but at least you didn't have to spend any time taking samples of the actual infection.
Well, precisely. What then is the AI company's justification for charging money to paint a picture of Harrison Ford to its users?

The justification so far seems to have been loosely based on the idea that derivative artworks are protected as free expression. That argument loses currency if these are not considered derivative but more like highly compressed images in a novel, obfuscated compression format. Layers and layers of neurons holding a copy of Harrison Ford's face is novel, but it's hard to see why it's any different legally than running a JPEG of it through some filters and encoding it in base64. You can't just decode it and use it without attribution.
We should never have accepted the term "intellectual property" at all, if this is the mindset it leads to.
To start with, security of "secure boot" there is a joke because anyway all os have to be signed by Microsoft itself. So anyone with they certificate key can do whatever they want.

And btw, not that long ago it was released by researchers than more than 200 platforms from diverse but main laptops and servers manufacturers were still using leaked keys for signing their boot loaders...
He should have just written #BLACKLIVESMATTER 100 times, because that's apparently all it takes to get into Stanford. Honestly though college essays are a bit of a joke, reviewing hundreds of them sounds like torture. The lack of rigor is probably the point though, since it gives the admissions process flexibility to ensure that legacy students get in and they meet their DEI targets.
why no draid?
They never give up. Nor will any other government. Specific people are judged to need non back-door crypto. That's not ordinary people.

No amount of input from the wider community changes posture here. The people involved accept the political reality in the moment but they never give up.

This won't stop. They only have to succeed once. When they succeed, using a crypto system without a back-door is by definition a crime, and so the statement "only criminals need a crypto system without a back door" is a truism.
I'm absolutely not educated in the world of antibiotics, but i can imagine it might be very difficult to monitor this kind of complex behaviour in a (hopefuly) very secured controlled environment.
Yes, this is what I wrote: The price needs to be competitive and the car needs to fit on European roads / in European cities.

The point is exactly, that Americans are more than welcome to sell cars in the EU, if they can satisfy that.

It is not that Europeans categorically don't want to drive American cars.
The Ben Eater computer is an interesting starting point. With a few modifications, such as an extended program counter / address bus, a combinatorial ALU programmed in flash, and a few more registers, it can be upgraded to a more powerful, if slow, computer.

Further, these circuits can be directly simulated in an FPGA if you want to teach yourself an HDL like VHDL or Verilog. You really want to learn better and faster ways to organize a CPU, but it's a fun way for a beginner to bridge into this kind of work.

At the local hackerspace, we actually taught a class that assembled a hybrid 8-bit / 16-bit variation of this computer with 1MB of RAM, an 8-bit ALU, a 16-bit data bus / registers, and a 20-bit address bus. With this additional capability, we could program it over serial with a very basic bootloader, and it was powerful enough to compute pi to 1000 digits. Granted, this took about 18 hours, but it could have run faster with a printed circuit board and a crystal oscillator. We just never really got to that point.

As for how powerful such a computer with discrete logic can be, consider that the KB-11A CPU for the PDP-11/45 was built using 74-series logic ICs. It wasn't until after this system that DEC moved on to VSLI. So, this is a way to play with technology found in computers in 1972 / 1973.

As a stepping stone to digital logic and FPGA work, Ben Eater's tutorial isn't bad. Just get yourself a copy of Don Lancaster's TTL Cookbook or CMOS Cookbook to bring his tutorial up to best practices.
Only three patches and shell wrappers, this should get Daniel coding. Imho this should definitely be in mainline curl.
you’re allowed to tie your income to creating systems precisely because you’re not allowed to copy them from previous companies or other sources

selling software isn’t much different from a musician collecting royalties, especially now when everything’s shifted to a subscription model.
it lets us keep pretending we’re adding value, even though most of them often stays the same for years
To my knowledge this happens when that single frame is overrepresented in its training data. For instance, variations of the same movie poster or screenshot may appear hundreds of times. Then the AI concludes that this is just a unique human cultural artifact, like the Mona Lisa (which I would expect many human artists could also reproduce from memory).
Supervisors might let it slide if the organization's rules (that they didn't make or don't necessarily agree with) are broken.

Supervisors will care if their own unofficial rules are broken.

If you have a supervisor, pay attention to their own personal set of rules more than the org rules.
ClickHouse: Query Condition Cache
>But it's still a great idea.

Define "great".

It has $2m revenue, so it's clearly a great idea (at this stage?) financially and 'people love it' (30% retention)

Technically it's a garbage idea, and I'd say they could get class-actioned without good T&Cs. It's literally impossible to determine the sugar and fat content of a meal.

I'd never make it for the latter reason, however you clearly need to believe in the former to make it big haha.
I agree 100%, but in this very specific case, I really just wanted a working one-off solution that I'm not going to spend much time on going forward, AND I wanted to use it as an excuse to see how far I can go with AI tooling in a tech stack I don't know.

That being said, using AI as a teacher can be a wonderful experience. For us seniors, but also and probably more importantly, for eager and non-lazy juniors.

I have one such junior on my team who currently speed-runs through the craft because he uses AI to explain EVERYTHING to him: What is this pattern? Why should I use it? What are the downsides? And so on.

Of course I also still tutor him, as this is a main part of my job, but the availability of an AI that knows so much and always has time for him and never gets tired etc is just fantastic.
Discussion (412 points, 1 day ago, 314 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43560885