skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not being afraid of AI is not necessarily due to the lack of empathy. It could be due to acceptance: perhaps AI will make programmers obsolete. That is fine, programming is really boring most of the time, when it's just cobbling things together. Even if it will be to the short term disadvantage of some people (including the speaker), AI taking over tedious programming tasks will make humanity richer.

It's up to us to distribute those gains back.
If tracking license plate movements has been shown to reduce accident rates, sure, that seems reasonable compromise to save lives.
I work for a US company in the EU. Our team is shocked by the US teams’ idea of quality tbh

(They view us a little bit like the outsourced hired help)
people are allowed to take a walk in the park, so why cars or tanks or bulldozers are not?
It's certainly not dead. Unix workstations are still really popular for general purpose use. You can go in a local retail chain and buy an Open Group certified Unix 64-bit RISC workstation for £639 here (Argos)...
What's disturbing is the numbing effect it seems to have. Bad behavior is increasingly on display for all to see -> We're all slowly realizing it's always been this bad, it's just more visible now -> We're kind of just becoming OK with all the noise.

Cf. blatantly wrong statements divorced from reality from major figures on social media, etc.

That said, I'm not sure whether OP is really in that weight class. It's just a "did direction change with a leadership change?" question that can be answered in a straight-forward manner by closer observers or those with first-hand experience. The danger is that others take a possibly wrong narrative forward by taking the question and ignoring the answer, in a "Have you stopped beating your wife?" sort of way.
I recommend reading the part in Capital where Marx makes fun of them for being opposed to productivity.
How long before seeing a comment like the next two paragraphs?

Substack lived long enough to become the villain. It was honestly quite the heel turn, but they’re all in.

As far as I am concerned everyone should just move to ${random_new_platform} at this point.
All Human Conflict Is Ultimately Theological (2019)
No doubt that mining lithium has negative impacts, but those negative impacts feel localized in a way that can in principle be mitigated and cleaned up, and though bad for local communities, it doesn’t pose existential risk. This is in stark contrast to the fossil fuel cycle which distributes pollution globally into the atmosphere, and will be tremendously difficult to undo.
yea no, the difficulty in programming as a career is interaction with other humans. I would like AI to reach the stage where it can comprehend solutions that stakeholders don’t know themselves.

Because in my time the stakeholders in companies have never actually been decisive when scoping features.

Co-pilot is indeed the endgame for AI assisted programming. So I would say for art, someone mindful could train an AI on their own dataset and use that to accelerate their workflow. Imagine it drawing outlines instead of the full picture.
Things are significantly better now, I can't comment on how good the aid is if you are under attack since we always had a team ready to handle DDoS, however, their follow-up has always been fast.

Regarding security features, if you are on a cloud such as GCP, AWS or Azure things are complicated since you can't easily route the traffic elsewhere(you can have BGP connections to DDoS mitigation inside GRE/L2TP tunnels only when attacks occur and it would be cheap to rent on a monthly/yearly basis). Voxility is an example that comes to mind and they are very affordable in general terms.

HTTP or HTTPs attacks are easier to handle with Cloudflare, however, there are other interesting solutions such as Stackpath.
You are assuming that AI will always be "open" and accessible to anyone.
Gear browser – the iOS browser supports Userscript
I agree that it would be better if we just stopped issuing building permits, but a lot of people are more into "progress" and vote accordingly.

Also, in argument of fairness, many places have laws on the books guaranteeing that you can develop private property to a level commensurate with neighboring properties.
Show HN: Open Hardware Outdoor Air Quality Monitor
We have spend the last couple of months to develop an accurate, highly functional open outdoor air quality monitor measuring PM2.5, Temperature and Humidity.

We got inspired by the popularity of our indoor open hardware monitor [1] that allows makers around the world to build an accurate monitor that gives you full control on your air quality data.

The build instructions for the new outdoor monitor contain all required information: components, firmware, gerber files for the PCB and 3D files for the enclosure.

Today we also started to offer this as a pre-soldered kit for pre-order which includes a professional plastic injected enclosure that we specifically designed for this monitor. More information about the rationale of the outdoor monitor can be found on our landing page [2].

Very interested to hear your feedback and suggestions.

[1] https://www.airgradient.com/open-airgradient/kits/

[2] https://www.airgradient.com/open-airgradient/outdoor/
These AI models are closer to Google in that regard, yes, you can instruct them to generate a Mickey Mouse image, but you can instruct them to generate any kind of image, just like you can search for anything on Google, including Mickey Mouse. When using these models you are essentially performing a search in the model weights.
We managed to get it to build I think last year. https://github.com/ahgamut/php-src/tree/cosmo_php73 See also https://github.com/shmup/awesome-cosmopolitan
Oh don't worry, they'll learn empathy real fast when Co-pilot becomes just Pilot and they have to take a passenger seat.
This is painful to read because I'm guilty of it. I left an SGI Onyx, a Sun Ultra 80, a Sun Ultra 1E, and a Sun A1000 JBOD in the basement of a house I was renting in 2003 because I couldn't be bothered to hump the gear up a flight of stairs.

I would love to have some of these in my office now, and once in a while hear the Onyx starting up and see that "Welcome to Reality" boot screen. Good times.
Is there a running total and cost of totally failed projects hosted on the Sun Java/Microsoft Windows stack that rarely gets media scrutiny?
I think that programmers are safe for now - because of the law of leaky abstractions. And there is hardly bigger and leakier abstraction than AI generated code.
Somebody should tell Charlie so he can finally get off of the train.
Seems an odd choice for a developer, for sure. I'm with all those who also have pointed out that self-hosting is the better route. Heck, as mentioned here, a compromise for this particular user would be to host the code on github and then use github pages for a nice companion site.
I think it would be the other way around. A lot of movies(and tv shows) have games these days. You can already experience Star Wars in VR with “Star Wars Squadrons” and I’m sure we will start to see a lot more games with VR support in the future, many being based on Movies. MNCs are there to make money and they will just license it.
The Common Good as a Legal Concept
You know what is the saying popular with skippers?

"If you buy your own boat you will only be happy twice in your life. On the day you buy it and then on the day you sell it."
I am basically a long-time lurker, and recently decided to make an account here.

Basically, for me, i just wanted to have the ability to kind of 'boost' posts i thought were interesting / informative and i want those posts to be seen by more people.
Technically two other companies also did:

- Kuznetsov Design Bureau, now JSC Kuznetsov, designed the NK-144 which powered the Tu-144S

- Kolesov Design Bureau, now NPO Saturn, designed the RD-36-51 which replaced the NK-144 in the Tu-144D

Both are now under the UEC state-owned group.
It's just more science by press release. Wake me up when there's a real manufacturing process developed.
"They" would figure "it" out even without the code, if they really wanted to.
>is the results page a possible liability for Google?

That's actually a tricky question and lengthy court battles were held over this in both the US and Europe. In the end, all courts decided that the image result page is questionable when it comes to copyright, but generally covered by fair use. The question is how far fair use goes when people are using the data in derivative work. Google specifically added licensing info about images to further cover their back, but this whole fair use stuff gets really murky when you have automatic scrapers using google images to train AIs who in turn create art for sale eventually. There's a lot of actors in that process that profit indirectly from the provided images. This will probably once again fall back to the courts sooner or later.
Cosmopolitan Libc uses a musl-cross-make toolchain. https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/tree/master/third_party... Its primary developer also runs Alpine. Cosmopolitan is closely related to Musl as far as C libraries go. You could think of Cosmo as a Musl that's twice as fast on x86 and runs on more than just Linux.
Integrate with Paaster
How does DNS handle RtL languages?

Are palindromes they key?
The Dawn of Artificial Imagination
Li-S is already 2.5x the energy density of TNT.

Before you say "petrol", petrol is typically not carried in the form petrol/oxygen fizz and its energy density is therefore zero.
I hate whatever built in prompt they are using for chatgpt. You have to add so many caveats in a prompt to counter-act their bullshit
https://archive.ph/FfBG8
https://archive.vn/iNrIc
U.S., UK export controls hit China's access to Arm's chip designs -FT
I mean sure things will get harder for some artists but what is to be done about it? What will feeling sorry for them accomplish?

The job market will always keep on changing, you have to adept to it to a certain degree.

Now we can talk about supporting art as a public good and I am all for that but I don't see how artists are owed a corporate job. Many of my current programming skill will be obsolete one day, that's part of the game.
It doesn't matter, the point is that relying on autopilot will open up crash risks that do not exist with manual flight controls
How can this question be serious? Across the street from me there is a 20 story building made with concrete that was hauled from dozens or hundreds of miles away, food from a thousand miles away with cars parked in the parking lot made with materials strip mined on the other side of the planet.
> On 1, human artists are copying copyrighted pixel data into their system for training. That system is the brain. It's organic RAM.

They probably aren't doing that. Studying the production methods and WIPs is more useful for a human. (ML models basically guess how to make images until they produce one that "looks like" something you show it.)
I think the correct way to get empathy is to use an equivalent that technical people understand, like Copilot:

* Can a Copilot-like generator be trained with the GPL code of RMS? What is the license of the output?

* Can a Copilot-like generator be trained with the leaked source code of MS Windows? What is the license of the output?
Of course, the culpability in acts of stochastic terrorism is measured as so many milli-Henry.
Now we are in Ship of Theseus territory. If I downsample an image and convert it into a tiny delta in the model weights, from which the original image can never be recovered, is that infringement?
That we need them back. The only ‘Unix workstation’ brand available right now in large quantity is Mac. Up until about four years ago was actually wasn’t a bad thing but with glued together parts, declining operating system quality, apple’s war on ports, in general obsession over stupid features with quality becoming a second rate citizen, and alternative is needed and people would actually buy it.
We shouldn’t move to substack it’ll for sure just repeat history. Just make your own minimal site, especially if you have things worth reading and draws attention
I think for the vast majority the upvote button functions as a highlight. In other words, everyone who says they want to see this post in the front row presses the upvote button. Compared to other platforms, I think this is healthier.
Companies are constantly redefining what things mean. “Buy” is just a license to use as long as the company likes. “Unlimited data” means 30GB data. “Made with mozzarella” means that something is made with something that remotely tastes like cheese.
Is there any reason to believe this has been changed from the 5 years or so ago when overdoses were not the #1 killer?
He’s signaling that he’s deployed anti-leaking software and sees himself something of a KGB mastermind.

He wants to try and make these less binding agreements more binding so he can find a way to inflict punishment on anyone who disagrees with him.

AKA neo-conservative ‘freedom’
Totally understandable. They violated Mediums terms if use. If you don’t like their business model (and you probably shouldn’t), put your content somewhere else.
The irony is that accusing your political opponents of stochastic terrorism is, by its definition, also a form of stochastic terrorism. Someone goes on the attack? Well, they were just defending others from terrorism.
Of course an event like this would cause me to rethink my position. But I don't think I would wait until it actually happened to my child.

People have been raising these kinds of concerns to free speech absolutists like Musk for a while, but until it impacts him they are theoretical concerns that aren't as important as his principles.

If he uses this personal experience as an opportunity to empathize with others and reconsider how Twitter handles speech which is legal but poses a safety risk to an individual or group then that is commendable.

Or, if he maintained his commitment to free speech in the face of personal danger to his family I would respect such a principled stance.

However, if he only bans those who might cause him (or people he likes) harm while allowing and even encouraging those who use free speech to incite harm against others then that seems hypocritical.
The Law of Stretched [Cognitive] Systems
I don't know their motivation, but most of the tech companies have their own blogs, and I just parse their RSS feeds. I'm leaving rating of the content quality to a reader.
What is your comment actually adding?
Not just artists, also product designers like Jony Ive.
Statistically diverse groups are more likely to be be optimal than narrow groups if we assume a uniform distribution over ability.

As a personal anecdote I worked on a hard-ass backend team of pushing 40 people and I was one of two of my ethnic background, and one of one of my socioeconomic background: but me and the other person pulled our weight while also profiting tremendously from the folks of different backgrounds.

A belief that diversity is bad for achieving outcomes is basically synonymous with racism or classism or sexism, and despite the moral failings of those isms, the more empirical failing is worse outcomes.
It’s interesting to me that entire genres of games were created because private dedicated servers were available and bored teenagers could create a TC and play with their friends. Also the technology was such that assets and game scripting were accessible Team fortress, counter strike, Dota, plenty of examples. You bought half-life so you could download and play the mods. I guess that niche is filled by Roblox now? Or maybe Minecraft?
No one is in programming to "do programming". They're in it to get things done. I didn't learn C++ in high school to learn C++, I learned it to make games (then C++ changed and became new and scary to me and so I no longer say I know C++, possibly I never did).

If an AI will take care of most of the finicky details for me and let me focus on defining what I want and how I want it to work, then that is nothing but an improvement for everyone.
> It’s completely wrong. Balloon framing was eliminated because the voids extending between floors are fire hazards. Modern homes usually use platform framing… each section of the house is essentially and independently framed box that’s bolted together.

That's explained in the article, with a drawing even.
Highly nutritious meat substitutes cannot be absorbed by the human body
Direct link to the published study:
https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/14/19/3903
GP's point was that HOAs are often more responsive to "nuisance crimes" than the local police. Why not address that with your response? Are the police more responsive where you live? Why do you think that's the case? Obviously HOAs aren't the only way to solve a problem, but they do work for some things.
I always said Starcraft Broodwar Got big in spite of Blizzard. The way they locked Starcraft 2 made it clear it'll die sooner than later, now the moment they decide to plug the plug on the SC2 servers it's gone.
I think poetry is emerging as a consensus somewhat, and it’s been the most reliable tool in my experience
Many skilled and talented programmers work on open source software for the explicit purpose of allowing it to be copied and extended in any fashion.
Building an image processing service in Go
There also seems to be a scam industry forming to take advantage of those quick moves plus remote work. If one such scam employee makes it to the first salary, it already more than paid for the few hours spent on interviews and communicating excuses why he doesn't get anything done. Also interviews and pretending to work can be spread out to specialists within a team.

Now do the math for multiple interviews per working day for someone who is decent in interviewing...

We had the same guy show up to scam interviews under different names twice! LOL
It is not just nostalgia. I recently bought a dual core Pentium 2.2Ghz motherboard with a cpu and ram plus a half height desktop case(with an itx PSU) from the same era all including shipping for $15. Out those $15 almost $10 was shipping.

Why? Because the motherboard has sata ports and I needed a cheap, low power dvr for my security cameras. I then got a 1tb sata drive for about $12 including shipping(shipping is all within one EU country so it is pretty cheap).

What does this have to do with retro computing? Well, if retro enthusiasts didn't exist those parts would most likely go to be recycled already. They all came out from a decade old business PCs and I remember the time when people would pay me to take them away.

In some sense it is a result of raspberry pi shortages and resulting exorbitant prices that people are much more likely to use old pc hardware for stuff they would use a raspberry pi before. Before anyone comments on power consumption let me say it is possible to run a lot of pc hardware under clocked and undervolted to reach some really low power consumption levels.
That's not what's being discussed here though.
Those modals are infuriating. Every time you go to SS for a different article, it will nag you.

Does anyone have a uBlock rule to drop them all?
s/theological/tribal/g

Then I would agree with you. “Them” is independent of religion as coreligionists easily find reasons for conflict.
tl;dr ~15M worldwide
Very interesting! Signed up for the free plan for now.
Adding new features to a Mojolicious web service is quite painless, at least compared to CGI, Mason and other Perl stuff. Also a lot of code reuse is possible. Now we also have Mojo.js, brought to you by the same authors. It's basically the Perl framework with the same name rewritten in TypeScript.

https://mojojs.org/
Ironically I actually worked for one. Operations team were windows only. Software team were java only. $12.2m wasted on not delivering an ERP system which was eventually replaced with SAP which cost twice as much and run on some Oracle stuff. SAP got replaced last year with custom software on .Net on AWS by 4 people in only 9 months.

On the original project I was the Unix expert and not needed at all so I played Solitaire for 6 months and got paid for it.
No, it would not. Odds are there is something on your hard disk right now that could be classified as child porn, if the accuser was motivated enough.

And imagine you wouldn't get to defend yourself, and no one would speak up and say "Hey come on, obviously that's not remotely CSAM" because they hated you for being a "traitor".

It doesn't take a conspiracy at all, all it takes is a handful of people willing to say "So what, I don't care what happens to such people". Which, you'll notice, is what you're saying right now.
To quote another comment but "Instead of replacing crappy jobs and freeing up peoples time to enjoy their life, we’re actually automating enjoyable pursuits."

I think this isn't just a simple discussion on competition and copyright, I think it's a much larger question on humanity. It just seems like potentially a bleak future if enjoyable and creative pursuits are buried and even surpassed by automation.
If you find everything incredibly depressing, that may simply mean you have depression, not that it's actually objectively bad.
Steam doesn't feel anti-consumer to this consumer.
Which is also what the GitHub co-pilot suit is about: https://githubcopilotlitigation.com

If you have views on whether they'll win, the prediction market is currently at 49%: https://manifold.markets/JeffKaufman/will-the-github-copilot...
Why the ‘Twitter Files’ Are Falling Flat
In most markets everyone is bothered by competition and tries to eliminate it.
Well they removed distutils from the standard library so I guess the consensus is that they gave up?
Ah, fair enough, I generally don't play the MvM mode. Strange that they allow community servers for the matchmaking service on that after pulling it from the standard mode.

In my experience with Valve's servers in the eastern north american region, while the bots aren't completely gone, there are far fewer of them. Online discussion has indicated this isn't necessarily the case for non-NA regions.

I saw the vinesauce bots. It's my understanding that Valve bans any account kicked from an official server from rejoining that server for half an hour or so. Game harassers run small fleets of their bots. It's likely just another same-named bot joining rather than the same one rejoining, no?
With the precedent for coups in Turkey I don’t think there’s that much planning involved for the strengthening of control afterwards. Erdogan purged the army ruthlessly and declared a state of emergency, pretty par for the course after an attempted coup.

He definitely widened the net of his purge and take out some political enemies, but I don’t think Erdogan reacting fairly predictably to an attempted coup is proof that he knew of it before hand, or planned it.
While young, workers can endure more hardship. When older, they have a lot invested in their job and changing may be difficult or impossible. Companies do not make it easy for workers to change their job, especially if the worker is already working full-time + on-call. There are only so many hours in a day.

And sick days are not so much of a problem for the young, so in their twenties, workers are only looking at their paycheck. That changes when they're 60.

IMO it's cruel and ridiculous to tell people they can only have sick days on certain days of the week. Whoever heard of that?
Have you been to the internet?

High-quality content rarely rises to the top. The internet as of 2022 optimizes for mediocrity: the most popular content is the one which is best psychological manipulation using things like shock value and sexuality. Just take a look at Twitter, Facebook, or Reddit: it is extremely rare to see genuine masterpieces on there. Everything is just posted to farm as many shares and likes as possible.

If anything, this will result in the cream getting drowned in shit. Not to mention that artists do not get the space to develop from mediocre to excellent - as the mediocre market will have been replaced with practically free AI.