skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Ex-Twitter employee sent it :) I think they're hoping to get support through referrals with things being slow over the holidays (and also why they blurred everything).
The Dawn Project's mission is interesting; addressing the threat of critical software written in unsafe ways. Their first target is less so: "Our first campaign is targeting Tesla full self-driving cars." Why? Just for the press coverage? Because it's an easy target?

Seems like plenty of other much higher impact places to try to get leverage on the problems of unsafe software, like encouraging and improving safe systems programming languages or retrofitting / improving safety systems for legacy code. Compared to the safety discussions at the C++23 meeting (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33762154), this seems like pure theater.
> The only valid criticism is the lack of strong typing.

What? It at least much stronger typing than JS. Having a separate concatenation operator already helps a lot.

Or do you mean, like static typing? Here PHP has the best gradual typing story of all the dynamic backend languages.

TS is super complex and needs an additional compile step. Python type declarations are a lie and can not be trusted as they are not enforced in any way by the language and different type checker will give you different results.

PHP enforces types at runtime and static type checkers are fast and reliable. Dynamic productivity with static safety when needed.
As a tax payer you wouldn't overpay for anything since this has nothing to do with the bidding process.
> The change will not be driven by animators, but by people hiring animators that decide to cut costs by not hiring them.

I have no doubt that management hopes that they will be able to cut costs through AI! My doubts come from the fact that the people most certain that this possible future will come to pass seem to be armchair experts outside the industry where people in the industry seem mostly excited about new tools and bemused with the IP issues around AI.

It's not like the last 20 years have been free of disruptions from software tools? I have no more of a crystal ball than anyone else, but this is only one of many confident predictions about AI killing human experts that has not yet come to pass. It's certainly possible, but I wouldn't invest based on it.
Did the company's name sound like something a baby would make up and did they use a lot of primary colors?
Capital will just push for ever bigger immigration to counter labour.
> My complaint is that plumbers frequently do poor work for the money.

Hehe - now you can feel like an IT customer. I think most people feel the same about IT but the domain is just more wide and prone to excuses.
Well this isn’t anything new.

When the auto industry faced problems of pedestrian deaths in the 20’s it was pedestrians because they were being shifty jaywalkers causing accidents so naturally pedestrians were criminalized. Then cars took their rightful place as the paramount concern in city planning.

How is this any different? These kids need blamed and shamed for impeding progress in 2020 just like 1920. Cars are the number one priority, not people.

By the way this is sarcasm. Hopefully history does not repeat.
actually... maybe 2 figures: 300x
There are also plenty of these “80 20” inventions in software (modern IDEs, higher-level languages), but it’s never actually resulted in fewer jobs.
In my experience it just gets really dirty when you want to work on a single data structure (like a vector) in a threaded way.
As it has been with every technology. Sure, the dynamics and specifics change dramatically, and maybe there are less people doing the work, but the idea that those workers are somehow not needed doesn’t make sense.
Sounds like a mild frat hazing.
We're using Multipass + Bravetools (https://github.com/bravetools/bravetools) / Docker to build system/application containers.

I believe multipass uses SSHFS (https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/how-to-improve-mounts-perform...) to mount filesystems between the host and the VM. Performance has been excellent.
Only a fraction of the people being referred to as Nazis in contemporary, largely-online discourse are saying anything close to this though. It's a routinely misapplied term.
What happens if your Mastodon instance closes down?
Thanks to Twitter recent storms, many people are migrating to Mastodon. As the Mastodon user numbers go up, many servers will have to face the question of how to pay the bills for hosting and other costs.
>Of course—not being plumber—it often happens that when I urgently need PTFE tape I cannot find it

Ahh, young padawan, the way of the elder is to buy a roll every time you have a project to do until you have achieved saturation...where there is a lightly used roll of teflon tape in every drawer and on every surface of your workshop and garage.
I don't think motorcycles are a great analogy. They're way more dangerous for the driver than a car and you have to be constantly vigilant about your surroundings.
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Looks like the quotes were stripped on HN.
Thank you! There's been a couple of posts:

- https://www.reddit.com/r/NixOS/comments/wzqv2v/mynixos_alpha...

- https://www.reddit.com/r/NixOS/comments/ys0tad/mynixos_alpha...

Trying to not spam in order to keep the signal ratio decent, however this new set of tutorials might make sense to post :)
The examples you're using have always been illegal. Threats, libel, slander will get your speech removed from any platform.

I don't know too much about their correlation with Nazism though.
I found a few things a little difficult. First, the compiler is not actually as smart / accepting of valid borrow patterns as should abstractly be possible. Things like borrowing different subfields of a struct in different and nonconflicting ways to different subroutines. This got a lot better in recent memory with non-lexical lifetimes but I think is still a problem.

Two: splitting mut borrows. It’s reasonable to take a mut borrow of some resource and divide it into two independent borrows of exclusive components. Think non-overlapping subarrays, or independent struct members. The language does not really provide this for you, but it is safe. (There are some APIs like this but last time I checked they didn’t cover all usecases.)

Structs containing a borrow are just weird and annoying to work with. Lifetime parameterization everywhere is verbose and it’s difficult to determine where you’ve made a mistake. The syntax for describing lifetime relationships is non-obvious to me.
Please don't be snarky when evaluating someone else's work. Your comment would be fine without the opening swipe.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I recently watched jurassic park 1 and jurassic world 1 back to back, it's the perfect example of that
I have an irrational fear of it because of the days in the late 90s/early 2000s when Windows desktop software would sometimes require booting a Java VM which guaranteed two things: the UI would be weird / not native, and the boot time would be super slow. I'm still scarred.
Exactly this. I now think that my first therapist had experience with NPD and was treating it without me realizing that. But then I felt the progress was too slow so changed the therapist to someone who I now think did more damage than good. During this time is also when I had my collapse. Due to fortunate circumstances I’m now finally going to a therapist who is extremely experienced with NPD and does not let me fool her or myself. So to your point, yes it’s very tricky, and @zwkrt comment above is very accurate.
The idea animations will get easier to make means more human time can be spent on the creative composition side and less on the production side. It's still ultimately a big win for art and consumers.
NeRF only works with static scenes, requires perfect camera pose, clean scene with clear edges and low exposure. For outdoors any tree with leaves is going to add a lot of noise and blur. For a natural scene indoors the camera exposure is going to be too high. While it is certainly a breakthrough, even “just” static scene reconstruction is still not solved, given the limitations above.

Note also, NeRF is not an “AI” model, it is more of fancy compact storage for objects, images or scenes.
Agreed, I landed on a stack that just works and I've been rinsing and repeating ever since. Laravel, InertiaJS, Tailwind, DigitalOcean, Ploi. I've shipped several projects, have a starter template that I've used to build entire very complex financial systems to simple couple page apps. Made my millions and furthered my career. Not to mention how automated I have stuff setup to handle dependency and package upgrades [1], everything logged to appropriate slack channels [2]. My main income nowadays is just maintenance and that is almost no work. Love php [3].

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33613037

[2] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22345150#22345721

[3] - https://levels.io/how-i-build-my-minimum-viable-products/
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If Google can just stomp on anyone's name and that's fine by you, then what does it mean to say that hobbyists "deserve" to name their projects? What you're really saying is that whoever has the loudest voice backed by the most money gets claim over the name, regardless of who had claim to it first. In that world, hobbyists get whatever is leftover by by big corps, and don't really "deserve" anything.
I believe Musk is starting to loose its shine unless gets another rabbit out the hat. The Tesla Bot may be a such attempt but it's a hard sell because it's not really something new(i.e Boston Dynamics have been trying it for decades)
I wish every time someone writes a "AI will kill X in 5 years" they'd take me up on a 500$ bet that it won't. If they did I would have been able to retire by now. Anyone remember the "I wouldn't train radiologists any more" arguments from like, ten years ago?

computer tools already dominate the animation industry and have for a long time. Lots of that already is AI if we hadn't started to redefine what the word means. It's not going to cause unemployment, it's going to give animators more tools, and it will make animation more accessible.
If you work with mostly tabular data, never deploy anything and don't need any deep learning, then it's fine.
I think you misunderstand. Their families are already in cities. (And "cities" includes suburban areas)

This isn't 1800's America where most families are on rural subsistence farms.

People can choose to stay wherever they want, but the networks that make up the economy have to physically exist. Factories, warehouses, etc...look at a satellite view of the Chicago River from Goose Island down to Midway airport. It's a bunch of physical industrial infrastructure: warehouses, factories, railyards, etc. Do you propose these all instead spread out and get located in random middle-of-nowhere places where there are no employees, shops, restaurants, schools, etc?

Even data centers need to be near population centers. Why put us-east-1 near Roanoke and Lynchburg, VA instead of Roy, New Mexico?

We can't all just become remote knowledge worker hermits. Heck, we all saw how terrible remote learning is for children with the pandemic. [1]

[1] https://apnews.com/article/online-school-covid-learning-loss...
Credit scores based on credit card use seems fundamentally broken. Having had a good salary and paid all your bills on time for decades should of course count as being financially responsible and creditworthy. Luckily I think only the US has this system?
>The biggest thing I've learned from being part of this process is that co-ops vastly destroys competition among peers and replace that we the mindset of "what's the best way to benefit the collective".

Sounds like a recipe for disaster.
Seems you could use a second pole (and a helper) in place of the hook, for 100% ladder-free.

Of course this all will increase pole-related accidents...
Related:

George Saunders on the art of the short story - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33155945 - Oct 2022 (13 comments)

Ways of Thinking about Endings - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31596997 - June 2022 (9 comments)

George Saunders: what writers do when they write (2017) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29450033 - Dec 2021 (11 comments)

How George Saunders Is Making Sense of the World - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27858976 - July 2021 (9 comments)

George Saunders on Story - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25769590 - Jan 2021 (1 comment)

George Saunders: what writers really do when they write - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13818706 - March 2017 (10 comments)
There are likely several hundreds, if not thousands of companies already offering a 4-day work week or something similar.

For example, I work at a company called Forestreet (https://forestreet.com) and we already offer a 9-day fortnight.

The idea is that you condense your work week into 9 days, and take the 10th day off.

There are pros and cons to this model, but overall it's working very well.
Thanks for doing this! Nix has been one of those tools that looks so cool, yet the instruction manuals are akin to the "...draw the rest of the fuckin' owl" meme whenever I look into it. This gives me hope to give it another go!
If the dinosaurs hadn’t gone extinct..? Why our world might look different
> s/much less skill/different stills/

Much less skill and different skills. Declaring that it will take the same level of skill (measured in mean amount of training and practice to do the job) in order to make a finished product is an appeal to the law of averages. It does not take the same amount of skill to typeset a book well in InDesign as it did to typeset a book in e.g. the 1930s.
This article was brought to my attention thanks to pessimizer's comment:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33763198

I thought it is too interesting to be just a comment
How complex of a project? I'm currently refactoring an analytics application with the same dependencies. Would you recommend making something of similar complexity?
That's not how the argument goes. If you don't let Tesla run down children today, the blood is on your hands for preventing the development of L5 which would have saved infinite lives in the future.
They think it’s fun and can’t understand why a person wouldn’t want to have fun. Don’t you like fun?
It’s hard to imagine this not being abused for other nefarious reasons.
Yeah. If you start to get a bit too confident for your level, you'll just get yelled at by the compiler instead of ending up in the ER (if you're still breathing).

But I suppose the analogy is more along the lines of "it can be intimidating at first, but you can quickly figure out how to use it reasonably well".
>Why does it make total sense that people are interested?

Because that way you can finance a bunch of useless moochers who "administer your coop". Smells like typical rent seeking.
That's what they said github copilot was going to do for coding, but I haven't heard of anyone using it to replace developers.

Prediction: It's going to run into all sorts of copyright issues, wouldn't be perfect and make mistakes that a human would never do and end up being just another tool for Animators to use to create rough drafts that they can refine further.
I was thinking about this as well.

In short, spending time alone could also have to do with being beat down by work. Long hours, lower pay, worse benefits. Statistically, America's lower class is getting poorer.

I have to think it's easier to get together with friends and family more when you have more free time and disposable income.

But even this speculation is a jump to conclusions. I am very wary of articles like this that are quick to assign cause.
The AI War and How to Win It
Coming from working class you should recognise that agreeing for a pay cut also means that you will be avoiding paying tax (that you would have paid if you had not agreed to a pay cut) and thus depriving public services of funding, for some sort of weird corporate virtue signalling.
When one says they would happily take 20% pay cut, they are being selfish, because they also take money away from nurses, doctors, police etc...
1000 years. And they didn't have AI robot dogs and surveillance devices in every pocket.
But What Is a Convolution?
Tesla/Musk are very convenient targets for political reasons. The most glaring one is Tesla's refusal to be a part of the UAW. Musk also is problematic because he personally has done more to help climate change than democrats, and he did it with 1/10,000th amount of capital.
The difference between the artist and the 14 year old is the former has artistic vision and style. If a 14 year old can master prompt engineering, so can the artist.
"Every other week" or "twice a week" is much more understood, even if it's a bit wordier. Fortnightly is nice if fortnight were a real word, not some made up british thing.
I have similar thoughts, but I actually think if our society continues in the way that it is going that narcissism will become more common, and the types of things that are labeled emotional abuse will go to encompass actions that make narcissists feel uncomfortable.
Is there an actual new source on this, beyond the Bezos Gazette?
So it sure seems like Tesla is still stuck on the premise that obstacles won't need to be avoided if the computer can't tell what they are from a single-view camera feed. It's hard to interpret all the failures differently.

I'd love for someone inside Tesla's self-driving division to show up in these threads to explain that they know their fundamental model is bad but are forbidden from even using stereopsis.
Name but one widely used coin which is not a negative sum game. (nano and iota are hardly widely used.)
Next timestamp that jumped out at me as around 3:45. The camera pans around within the forest showing that all the leaves are also now translucent, with the result that shadows suddenly become more accurate. Wow.
Diving with a buddy (which you should absolutely always do) in good weather basically reduces risk to zero as long as you don't get too far away from each other. The chances of four regulators failing (two main, two octopuses) are close to nil.
You mean as in robot armies? Because somebody still have to program and control those.
Is it time to thin the unicorn herd?
How many Fortune 500 companies were founded in the SaaS era?

I'm going to guess that the 5% that don't use Azure/Office 365 represent newer entrants to the Fortune 500.

71% of Fortune 500 companies use mainframes [3], and yet they are considered a dead technology with essentially no future. Do you know anyone or anyone who knows anyone who learned how to develop on mainframes in college in the current millennium? It sure wasn't part of my CS curriculum!

Small businesses represent almost half of US economic activity [1] and represent 99.7% of firms with paid employees [2]

[1] https://advocacy.sba.gov/2019/01/30/small-businesses-generat...

[2] https://cdn.advocacy.sba.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/0609...

[3] https://www.precisely.com/blog/mainframe/9-mainframe-statist...
Nice work! We are putting up our lights too. I like the bulbs on the string lights to be regularly spaced and oriented. One can buy plastic clips that latch onto roof gutters or shingles to hold the cone bulbs in a fixed orientation and spacing

Unfortunately, I can only hang my lights around the facade made of plaster (stipple), brick and wood. I don't want to tarnish the facade with hooks or nails and want a solution that can be reattached each holiday season without effort. I tried positioning the bulbs with removable clay/putty, hot glue but none of these temporary adhesives worked well.

The solution I settled on involves driving (permanent but relatively inconspicuous) threaded inserts into the facade at wide spanned intervals - tee-nut inserts [1] for wood and molly bolts for stipple/plaster surfaces [2]. I ordered aluminum bars ($1 per foot on Grainger) that will screw into these inserts during the season. These bars will let me use shingle clips to hold the light bulbs in the desired fixed span and orientation. For Halloween, I can attach led light strips to the bars to give more custom lighting effects.

[1] https://www.mcmaster.com/tee-nut-inserts/
[2] https://www.mcmaster.com/molly-bolts/
He clearly states in both the quote and the BBC article you posted that Israel's actions are motivation. You're arguing semantics when the point is that Israel is a liability to US citizens and nothing you posted contradicts that. The parent that I was responding to said that it's not debatable that Israel is of strategic value to US citizens and both of our posts show that it definitely is debatable.
When what you need is just to build a web product.
> This doesn't need to be "norm" worldwide or even company wide for you to start doing it. All it takes is for you to have the will to decide that this is something you want and are going to do.

If the (overwhelming?) majority of staff in the company are at work on Friday, every Friday, and they can't ever reach you on a Friday, isn't that pretty much guaranteed to be a [potential] source of friction?
The Washington Post could have used a better headline that more accurately defined the level of harassment. His coworkers weren't calling him stupid names.
Most modern software design involves emotional and psychological manipulation now more than ever.

Because of the nature of how much social media and software drives our lives now, it's embedded deeply into emotionally manipulating people more than ever, and it complicates human psychology greatly. The best treatment for some afflictions is often to disconnect from toxic Internet resources rather than taking a pill. It's evidenced by Trump being off of Twitter for example, as the entire tone of the platform and even Trump changed when he was banned... As you can see though, people who want to profit off his narcissism work hard to try to drive him back to wild public statements and towards posting on Twitter again. Profitmaking drives a lot of negative behavior and toxicity these days in people, and often the things that drive harmful behavior can't be fixed with antidepressants.

The mental health industry should be making serious moves in countering and calling out the negative aspects of psych manipulation like that more than ever.
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"if Apple hadn’t already ransacked my pockets for subscription fees to maintain my ever-expanding photo archive, and to insure and finance “care” for my ever more expensive assortment of its products; if Microsoft hadn’t insisted that I subscribe to its word-processing software; if so many talented, enterprising friends and acquaintances didn’t now depend on Substack and Patreon donations; if I didn’t have to rent my music library from Spotify instead of owning my own records; if I didn’t have to fork over Prime fees to Amazon for my packages and to watch professional tennis; if I hadn’t been obliged to maintain Netflix, Canal+, and AppleTV accounts so that my children would sit quietly on airplanes; if Elon Musk hadn’t promised to render my tweets invisible if I didn’t pay him in monthly $8 installments. By the time those damn Gmail requests became unignorable, I had long since reached the point of peak micropayments. I was drowning in subscriptions."

Really agree with the sentiment but then I also wonder why the author didn't just download an archive/takeout before deleting the inbox.
Sure, but not if you don't live in Kingston itself but go to school there.
Sounds better than carp guts.
You are right, I should have found a better one. I was between "bicycle" and "motorcycle" and I felt that bicycle would imply that learning is a breeze, so I went with motorcycle.
hope you don't use github (which discloses all users keys, attached to their usernames there), and/or the same username in multiple places.

SSH also leaks the keys it'll accept, it doesn't use a zero knowledge proof to first determine if the client and the server have mutually acceptable keys.