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popalchemist commented on Show HN: Twick SDK – an open-source React video editing toolkit   github.com/ncounterspecia... · Posted by u/anujkanojia29
popalchemist · 12 hours ago
This looks like a solid start. The solutions in this space are really lacking.

I would say that you should look at existing competitors' offerings - https://rendleysdk.com and https://img.ly/products/creative-sdk

You should consider adding a live demo to the docs. You should also consider shipping a fully-realized UI component so that it can be adopted out of the box with just a few lines (or perhaps even just a single line)

popalchemist commented on AI tooling must be disclosed for contributions   github.com/ghostty-org/gh... · Posted by u/freetonik
aspenmayer · 3 days ago
> No more so than regurgitating an entire book.

Like this?

Meta's Llama 3.1 can recall 42 percent of the first Harry Potter book - https://news.ycombinator.com/context?id=44972296 - 67 days ago (313 comments)

popalchemist · 2 days ago
Yes, that is one of those works that is over-represented in the training data, as I explained in the part of the comment you clearly did not comprehend.

Dead Comment

popalchemist commented on AI tooling must be disclosed for contributions   github.com/ghostty-org/gh... · Posted by u/freetonik
alfalfasprout · 3 days ago
> Courts (at least in the US) have already ruled that use of ingested data for training is transformative

This is far from settled law. Let's not mischaracterize it.

Even so, an AI regurgitating proprietary code that's licensed in some other way is a very real risk.

popalchemist · 3 days ago
No more so than regurgitating an entire book. While it could technically be possible in the case of certain repos that are ubiquitous on the internet (and therefore overrepresented in training data to the point that they are "regurgitated" verbatim, in whole), it is extremely unlikely and would only occur after deliberate prompting. The NYT suit against Open AI shows (in discovery) that the NYT was only able to get partial results after deliberately prompting the model with portions of the text they were trying to force it to regurgitate.

So. Yes, technically possible. But impossible by accident. Furthermore when you make this argument you reveal that you don't understand how these models work. They do not simply compress all the data they were trained on into a tiny storable version. They are effectively multiplication matrices that allow math to be done to predict the most likely next token (read: 2-3 Unicode characters) given some input.

So the model does not "contain" code. It "contains" a way of doing calculations for predicting what text comes next.

Finally, let's say that it is possible that the model does spit out not entire works, but a handful of lines of code that appear in some codebase.

This does not constitute copyright infringement, as the lines in question a) represent a tiny portion of the whole work (and copyright only protecst against the reduplication of whole works or siginficant portions of the work), and B) there are a limited number of ways to accomplish a certain function and it is not only possible but inevitable that two devs working independently could arrive at the same implementation. Therefore using an identical implementation (which is what this case would be) of a part of a work is no more illegal than the use of a certain chord progression or melodic phrasing or drum rhythm. Courts have ruled about this thoroughly.

popalchemist commented on Zedless: Zed fork focused on privacy and being local-first   github.com/zedless-editor... · Posted by u/homebrewer
popalchemist · 4 days ago
Would be wise to not invoke their name, which is trademarked.
popalchemist commented on When did AI take over Hacker News?   zachperk.com/blog/when-di... · Posted by u/zachperkel
gsf_emergency_2 · 7 days ago
By no means trying to be charitable here, though:

AI seems to be a attempt to go beyond Jane Jacobs', to go beyond systems of survival (commerce vs values) as vehicles of passion & meaning

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

It's made more headway than scientism because it at least tries to synthesize from both precursor systems, especially organized religion. Optimistically, I see it as a test case for a more wholesome ideology to come

From wiki:

>There are two main approaches to managing the separation of the two syndromes, neither of which is fully effective over time:

1. Caste systems – Establishing rigidly separated castes, with each caste being limited, by law and tradition, to use of one or the other of the two syndromes.

2. Knowledgeable flexibility – Having ways for people to shift back and forth between the two syndromes in an orderly way, so that the syndromes are used alternately but are not mixed in a harmful manner.

Scientists (adherents of scientism) have adopted both strats poorly, in particularly vacillating between curiosity and industrial applications. AI is more "effective" in comparison

popalchemist · 5 days ago
Interesting link, thanks.

Perhaps it is true that one ideology can be more wholesome than another, but it is definitely true that no ideology is without its poison --

An ideology is an incomplete mythology; only a mythology is capable of orienting us toward all facets of life, as life intrinsically and inextricably involves a mysterious aspect -- the domain of all that which we don't and may not ever understand. Ideologies reduce the territory (of reality; of lived experience) to a map which excludes that.

popalchemist commented on When did AI take over Hacker News?   zachperk.com/blog/when-di... · Posted by u/zachperkel
ryandrake · 7 days ago
Weird what counts as "negative" on HN. Question something politely? You're being negative. Criticize something? Negative. Describe it in a way someone might interpret badly? Negative. Sometimes it seems like anything that's not breathless, unconditional praise is considered being negative and curmudgeonly. It's turning into a "positive thoughts only" zone.
popalchemist · 7 days ago
Most people do not realize it, but the tech industry is largely predicated on a cult which many people belong to without ever realizing it, which is the cult of "scientism", or in the case of pro-AI types, a subset of that, which is accelerationism. Nietzsche and Jung jointly had the insight that in the wake of the enlightenment, God had been dethroned, yet humans remained in need of a God. For many, that God is simply material power - namely money. But for tech bros, it is power in the form of technology, and AI is the avatar of that.

So the emotional process which results in the knee-jerk reactions to even the slightest and most valid critiques of AI (and the value structure underpinning Silicon Valley's pursuit of AGI) comes from the same place that religous nuts come from when they perceive an infringement upon their own agenda (Christianity, Islam, pick your flavor -- the reactivity is the same).

popalchemist commented on The Palantir Mafia Behind Silicon Valley's Hottest Startups   wsj.com/tech/the-palantir... · Posted by u/giuliomagnifico
popalchemist · 8 days ago
Nihilistic accelerationist fascist fucks. This is a who's who of the worst of humanity.
popalchemist commented on Occult books digitized and put online by Amsterdam’s Ritman Library   openculture.com/2025/08/2... · Posted by u/Anon84
popalchemist · 9 days ago
For those who don't know, this is the best digital library of Occult/Alchemical texts in existence.
popalchemist commented on Show HN: Kimu – Open-Source Video Editor   trykimu.com/... · Posted by u/robinroy03
popalchemist · 15 days ago
Can it be installed in an existing project as, say, a react component? Or is it standalone only?

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