skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nobody. Does it move your soul? Does it feel important that it exists? Does it matter if someone destroys it? These are answers nobody can collectively make, and that is why Art is simultaneously a grand fraud and the frontier of human reasoning. It cannot be defined because it exists on the edge of reason. The moment it can be created without a human communication behind it, it ceases to be Art.
You are.

Each person is individually.
Interesting (and very pleasing aesthetically) post.

Very interesting comments thread (as usual here).

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How likely is it that someone can convince a judge that an ML-generated image is not a "creative expression" but a "mechanical translation" (or whatever distinction works)?
Sure!

So we should probably focus on making things people need to do in their car as quick and intuitive as possible to limit the distraction.

We put radio controls on the steering wheel to make it easier and safer to do things like adjust the volume. We don't just tell people "set your volume before you get moving and let the speed dependent volume control take over from there".
Marc Andreessen is the epitome of hypocrisy on this topic.
Why would anyone trust Sean Parker with their money after he ran a music pirating service, got hooked on drugs, acted crazy, and burned out? Well, it worked out okay for Peter Thiel.
Xamarin/MAUI doesn’t get the buzz/love from HN audience that React Native and Flutter get. I think there is a lot of historical bias here.
My company has found success with the dotnet stack. We are able to keep a small team of 5 developers that maintain 3 mobile apps (Xamarin), 2 desktop apps (WPF transitioning MAUI), and 1 web app (Blazor) all sharing about 50-80% of the code base. These are apps that bring our company about $7+mil in annual revenue if you include the associated hardware which dotnet/C# is well suited to interact “natively” with.
if it's an endurance thing, mounting a Segway would be easier. if it's a dexterity thing, yeah, Segways wouldn't be safe.
Finding Persistent Invisible Systems
Were you in a band?
I wish the current detractors would look back at this.

The options with life cycles are either huge life cycles with interspersed features OR super painful composition. I've been in big codebases with both and it was absolute hell.

Hooks aren't perfect or pretty but the fact that they can encapsulate AND compose makes them a million times better.

Those codebases are much easier to deal with now. Again, not perfect, but much better.
The thing about Marc Andreessen is that of all VC-types of people he seemed like one with a modicum of tech legitimacy, given his history/role in the development of the web.

Unfortunately it seems to be quickly evaporating.
0-60 is 3.4s for challenger, 3s or less for the hummer.
Is anyone else in asshole mode like me where I'd rather see all unsafe plants replaced before breaking new ground? This, let's ignore our ticking time bombs approach doesn't fly with me, lest we forget Fukushima is still a thing.
LOL. I couldn't get Spotify to work correctly on my Tesla, so there is no plus there. I have Netflix, Youtube, Hulu, etc, on my phone. Arcade games are cute for the kids, but hard on the tires and right along with fart noises pretty useless and not interesting after the first day or so.

Apple always pushes service upgrades? I can't remember the last time it pushed any advertising like that at me. If it does happen, it's an offer as part of a major OS upgrade that includes the new feature.

> I suspect CarPlay and Android Auto come with strings attached from Apple

Doubtful. Adoption by manufacturers is what Apple and Google want, so you'll stay in their respective ecosystems. They're not doing any more walled garden or tracking than they do when you use your phone normally, so I don't see the problem. Tesla tracks you with their system, too, but as a corporation they have a much sketchier history with their customer relationship. There's no way 99% of cars would come with support for CarPlay and AA if there were strings attached.
Must be nice to be able to not care about those things.
Nord et. al. Yes, they should have been calling themselves "anonymous proxies," but either way, that's the service they promise.
Living in a 3 bedroom apartment is a luxurious experience in much of the world and preferable to homelessness or extreme precarity, imo. 3 bedrooms doesn't have to mean cramped and miserable, it only means that right now because we don't build enough and landlords in cities frequently split up 1 or 2 bedroom apartments into 3 with architectural slight of hand (or just by lying).
Kemeny ruined Dartmouth College and BASIC was far behind the state of the art in programming languages at the time.
He turned 22 Billion of funding into a 4 Billion market cap.

My read is he turned something into almost nothing. Or maybe you can say he scammed long enough for a few to profit off of later suckers. But I'm not seeing value creation at all.
That's effectively what carplay is though. There are no smarts in the car, just some protocol to display video output and communicate back touch inputs. All the presentation, etc. is on the phone so that when you upgrade your phone you get the latest car interface as well. The protocol is stable, so your car can be stagnant but the experience still continues to improve as your phone does.
>It’s just mindboggling that HN prop these charlatans up like gods

Link to some examples? My impression is that many HN users are associated with the startup community, and therefore like what Andreessen or PG is doing, but I don't think they prop them up "like gods" or even demigods for that matter. You can like what someone is doing in one area (ie. startups/VC), without thinking they're gods or blindly believing whatever they say.
In multiple successive waves, each adding further detail.

eg: Radiometric K-U-Th urface layer contour maps are still being composited for complete coverage of some continents.

[1] https://www.usgs.gov/maps/aerial-gamma-ray-color-contour-map...
Suburbia is overrated for families “soccer moms” exist because otherwise the experience for kids is being under house arrest until you get your car.

In denser countries you can take public transit/ walk yourself to places you wont to go long before you get a drivers license.
This will change. Hopefully soon!
Very handy.
Interesting connection considering that some of the Pinecone founders are ex-Yahoos.
I remember talking to that guy who started watch simpsons online in 2009, 2010ish. He was sued to oblivion just because he linked to video hosts. A couple years later Megaupload was raided.
No. They simply do not have the manufacturing capacity/ability.

Also Rivian only seems interested in manufacturing luxury vehicles.

FWIW I own some Rivian stock.
They could've easily added useOnMount, useOnRender, etc

It doesn't matter that they are sugar. Just like useState is built on useReducer, it would be massively helpful to simplify and clarify what's going on.
I see it playing out this way too. Technology at societal scale is "and" not "or", and computers have long been cast in the scapegoat role because of a basic principle that is not unique to them, but is made all the more clear by their existence: it's easy to get wrong answers infinitely fast.

When sampled digital audio first appeared in music, it went from experimental to pop hook(e.g. Paul Hardcastle "Nineteen") and then to the subject of court cases that clarified IP law for samples over the span of maybe 20 years. In the middle of that period one can find scare pieces about pit orchestras being replaced by synthesizers and so forth.

The articles tend to be correct in that the same jobs don't exist when they get automated, but you get new jobs instead. And so the panic, where it exists, is tied to whether you specifically are on the chopping block. For digital illustrators who are focused on a high degree of finish and polish, AI art threatens because it's so good at replication of a high-effort stylistic mode of production. Cartoonists are much less impressed since they are already in a streamlined, symbolic mode, so the net savings of AI is harder to come by. With a few years of traditional training, most of it just focused on the core "you can draw what you see" skill, you have what you need to build up a library of reusable visual language for your work: an arm seen from various angles is still an arm, you can add more anatomy to it or stylize it, but it has a symbolic function tied to particular shapes. And an AI can bring out more detail from the symbol, just as when an artist follows a reference more closely and renders it more carefully, but it isn't creating novel representation. That's still coming from the illustrator operating symbolically.

And when you lean into that, it's like, OK: presumably the AI will be able to do some style transfer and turn a crude cartoon into a fancy painting. That levels the playing field a lot but it doesn't change the nature of what makes an illustration good: having a sense of composition, storytelling and so forth. A lot of cultural context things are in there that will evade automation.
Yes, in the industry Euro engineers are considered to be generally high quality and underpaid. A good value. The danger being there are awful ones too that are hard to fire. In my experience Euro devs are really good though if you interview well. Individual contributors from Europe are generally a great value.

Euro managers however are generally thought to be of extremely low quality and unreliable as well as 20-30 years dated in terms of running an org. Except at the top, never rely on senior or middle management in Euro to be much more than followers. Never let them run an org unless you really know them as their management techniques do not apply to modern software companies. Managers from Europe are generally of poor quality.
If you are early, there is tremendous value creation. Greater fool theory.
It'll be good for accessibility too; if you can make a text-to-image model then you can make an image-to-text model, and now you have a screen reader.
The thing about grey is that it is easy to paint over to get a decent effect.
probably codex was trained on lean code too.
Creative work is out of reach of AI. There can be no art without intent, and AI is nothing more than proverbial monkeys with typewriters in fancy wrapping. The artists in the equation are whoever gave input to the tool and whoever created the works the tool trained on.
Just got rejection letter from a16z and I feel that I dodged a bullet. US security laws is probably the least of his worries atm.
> The story here is one where the public finds a man who claims one thing publicly and but does the opposite privately.

They say things to sound they are challenging Status Quo but behind the scenes - it's business as usual.
> The only reason the system doesn't collapse in an afternoon is that we're indoctrinated into bourgeois false consciousness.

The reason is that very few people prefer farming over their current jobs. No need for the poor-vs-rich demagoguing. What does "bourgeois false consciousness" even mean?
A skilled user of such tools will also likely be able to produce content at a much greater rate than a skilled artist that uses more traditional means, so the demand for skilled artists will likely still be lower even if those artist all become skilled users of these tools.
I'd add - treat people with respect, the RV world is smaller than you think, and the people you saw yesterday on one side of the country likely will be seen later on the other side.
I use ubuntu LTS to ease software build with android, yocto, some vendor's SDK,etc as they're all tested on ubuntu LTS, so do many other projects from github etc.

Every few years I do a full re-installation (instead of dist-upgrade as I have quite some local installations that made things complex).

How Arch cope with that? I like the live-update-never-need-full-reinstall side, meanwhile I don't want to spend time to fix those tested-on-ubuntu-lts-ready-to-go third party software package when Arch is used.
Yeah the fire thing isn’t ideal. Buy hey Toyota has wheels falling off their ev so yeah…
>I’ve been trying to compare an offer in the US and one in Montreal. The raw number for the US blows Canada out of the water, obviously, but adding in healthcare and childcare really starts to close the gap.

The disposable income figure that boc quoted includes things like healthcare.
Or just honesty.

I frankly don’t want housing the kinds of people who can’t afford houses anywhere near me. I don’t say this publicly, but the council candidate who “protects home values” has my vote.

I agree housing affordability is an important problem. I am not willing to have so much as ruffians in the nearby grocery store to fix it though.
The speculation was that we'd all have to become artists or poets, since, obviously creative work would be out of the reach of AI.

It's debatable--it goes back to Barthes's "death of the author", whether art's value and meaning resides solely in viewer perception or also in author intention--whether AI art will be "true" art, but it will very soon be good enough to replace artists who work in subordinate contexts (which is, unfortunately, generally a necessity if one wants to survive within the reigning corporate-capitalist totalitarianism).

AI is not going to force us to "become artists and poets", because it will make it even harder to earn money (i.e., the stuff most people have to earn through humiliating subordination) at these things. It will force us to become dependent, in the way artists (in practice) already are. This isn't as horrible as it sounds. The rich are already dependent on the state, which enforces their so-called "property rights"--this fact being something so-called "libertarians" are too stupid to realize. The middle classes are already dependent on employers, which turns out to suck a lot more than being a rich person dependent on the state. We already depend on complicated supply chains and national defense practices; it is simply the case that we'll soon (a) be dependent on AI, as it increasingly excels at the menial subordinate work we once relied on other people to do, and (b) be dependent on intelligent management (first coming from nation-states and UBI; later, one hopes, coming from a global entity that can eradicate poverty worldwide) of this weird quantity called "money", because we will no longer be able to reliably earn it through work, machines having taken that over (and thank God).
I thought the waitlist was over. I didn't even join the waitlist and was given access a few weeks ago. (I already have/had an active paid OpenAI account.)
>Yeah I guess so but we (americans) also have to worry about healthcare

The disposable income figure that boc quoted includes things like healthcare.
If you’re using WSL 2, but your project files are in windows-land and vscode is reading them via the mnt path (like /mnt/c/code/myproject), then you’re going to have show-stopping performance problems.
Wow so arch works on thinkpads
I’m pretty sure “the public” knows that the giant blue (not gray) wifi icon and bluetooth icon in control center means wifi and bluetooth are still working when you press the airplane icon.
Most tech companies here have 3-4 months of parental leave and have free or nearly free healthcare.

High value workers in the USA are the best compensated in the world by a wide margin. Other places are better for low value workers.
I know they're not stupid, but it's still very frustrating when you have to go and use anything such offices produce. So many unnecessarily cut corners and penny wise, pound foolish decisions.
Lit, 5KB Tiny Web Components Library
Look at the economics that a16z needs with fund sizes in the billions. Funding small companies won't do it for them unless they invest in a lot, probably more than they can manage duedil or spend time on; they need investments who can deploy a lot of cash. With, obviously, some chance of success.

Hopefully for their LPs Adam learned some lessons.
I wasn't even aware such a metric existed. You've saved me countless frustrating conversations where I am trying to articulate something that's plain as day but difficult to find citations around (why would that be).

And #27 is worse than it sounds, because most people know there are ~200 sovereign states in the word (195 at the moment I believe), and the WEF only has data on 82 of them for this metric (I'm willing to assume that the "no data" ones wouldn't score highly in most cases). So that's "a bit better than halfway up the list", not "clearly competitive with the leaders".
This all seems like fantastical ramblings that really don't mean anything. The Indian government is the British Raj and the Hindu nationalist CCP which will end democracy but democracy apparently already ended?

I propose an alternative hypothesis, that in fact what we're looking at here is a small minority of people who are full of hate and rage because democracy has not gone their way this time, and they are incapable of accepting that. And that not every ill that has befallen everybody in the country is because of some big conspiracy theory about the end of democracy or the government out to get them.
I am in this camp. I want a "modern" nuclear design that isn't rooted in what the previous regime considered "safe".

I want near 100% fuel consumption so there's no or far far less nuclear waste. LFTR allegedly does this (allegedly can use old solid fuel rod waste too)

I want meltdown-proof design inherent to the reactor. LFTR has a self-moderating design and has a plug leading to a pool that separates the fluid fuel so it no longer is fissile.

I want is scalable in size.

And it has to be economical with solar/wind.

LFTR probably has materials problems, but the chinese are giving one a go. We'll see.

I don't think nuclear will cost competitive without a new round of approaches/designs. I don't think any current design will cut it, economically, safety in operation, safety in waste reduction/no transport, etc.
That's a lot sources and I appreciate the effort, but also r/japanlife is a cesspool of people who basically have difficulties to adapt to a foreign culture.
It's not a phenomenon specific to Japan, in any country there will be a pool of foreigners staying within their community and sharing/taking advices internally instead of participating in native communities.

Tales of the NHK guy coming for subscription is a good example of that spirit. Every soul in Japan gets NHK visits, just tell it to your friends. Why does that need to end on reddit.

On the "gaijin in Tokyo" experience, I was in an US firm and fucking meeting hell with 20 people in the room and no decision taking within weeks was par for the course. That guy came to Japan for a startup gig, did he even work in the same kind of setups in his origin country ?

I had a look at the rest of the blog, and that's just basic culture shock. Sometimes I feel we should stick a name to it, like we did for the "Paris Syndrome"

From your intercultural consultant quote:

> What’s really important is understanding the different styles of communication that different cultures have.

PS: I kinda love the view from the other side, where accepting foreign workers is basically a long road of training them to fit not just in the company, but in society in general

https://www.yume-tec.co.jp/column/その他/863
Haiku Discusses Carbon
AirTags don't have built-in connectivity, but rather use bluetooth to run off of other devices' cellular connections. If no compatible devices are around, they won't function as intended.
As can be expected, a one paragraph summary of a 91-page decision necessarily glosses over almost all the complexities involved.

Among other things, the court highlights an analogy of a google search to a librarian retrieving a book for a patron, including bookmarking relevant passages. And it's noteworthy that the librarian could in fact be guilty of publishing defamatory material, because “publishing” is a technical term.

“It was not suggested by the courts below that the appellant, as an internet search engine operator, actually communicated the defamatory material. It is of course possible that search results may themselves contain matter which is defamatory. This was acknowledged in Trkulja 35 . But that is not this case.

The question which arises here is whether providing search results which, in response to an enquiry, direct the attention of a person to the webpage of another and assist them in accessing it amounts to an act of participation in the communication of defamatory matter.” [¶23-24]
Would this one bit processor be a precursor to a simple microcontroller today then?
> I won't engage with "what people actually want" except to point to sales figures, I guess.

I'd say that a person's first purchase of a Tesla only signals what they think they want. If they buy another one after the first then I'd agree it is actually what they want, or at least they like the other benefits of the Tesla enough to outweigh anything they don't like.

I believe I fully understand the new paradigm. I had a 2018 Volvo XC90 and it's sort of a hybrid between the new and old paradigm. They have a fairly large screen (not as large as Tesla) and then a handful of buttons for functions that are fairly important if something is wrong with the screen (front window defrost, rear window defog, etc). I sold it after a year because I did not like it.

It also supported voice control for all of these features, as did my BMW before that, as does my current vehicle. Voice control sucks to varying degrees on all of these vehicles, and if someone in the car is talking or you're on a phone call, you can't adjust things with your voice. I'd rather just have buttons and knobs with tactile feedback that are always available.

But it's true, maybe other people don't want tactile controls. I mean, UX in general tends to disagree with this notion, but the iPhone beat the blackberry so it's possible that my in vehicle preferences are not what everyone wants.

Either way, the automakers win with lower costs.
My own view is that we should build more, and that new buildings should be of a higher quality than existing buildings in the area. The exception is if the existing buildings is very new, in which case equal quality is acceptable. Furthermore, there's absolutely no lack of low quality areas to upgrade in US. Is the difference between NIMBY and YIMBY simply that YIMBYs disregard quality?
> Non tesla fast charging is an absolute disaster

Doesn't seem to be. Tesla's chargers have been behind the curve versus others with lower speeds, still only 400 volts, and only supporting one brand of car. Tesla is at least slowly starting to support other brands:

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Y33AArvMUQ

But Circle K, Gridserve, Ionity, etc. are better charging stops with faster chargers:

- Circle K: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TVohXHjLro

- Gridserve: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoN4WCpuxHY

- Ionity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UAttTG03WA
Not only this but ppl simping Brian Armstrong at the height of Coinbase's stock price .... who didn't own any coinbase shares
- YTP (YouTube Poop) -> I look at it as memes + video remixing.
- TAS (Tool Assisted Speedrun) -> I love watching video game bugs leading to fast gameplay.
- Standup/Parody -> I need to laugh at stuff.
- Technology Conferences -> I like to see demos and explanations.
- Fixing/Restoration
- Thrifting -> Learn what stuff is worth before I chuck it.
- Smelting/Recycling -> If I chuck it then it might be worth recycling for cash.