skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> From a worker's perspective, the automation is coming from "the outside".

Not, if the worker is an engineer or similar. Some engineers built tools that improved building tools.

And this started even earlier than the industrial revolution. Think for example of Johannes Gutenberg. His real important invention was not the printing press (this already existed) and not even moveable types, but a process by which a printer could mold his own set of identical moveable types.

I see a certain analogy between what Gutenberg's invention meant for scribes then and what Stable Diffusion means for artists today.

Another thought: In engineering we do not have extremly long lasting copyright, but a lot shorter protection periods via patents. I have never understood why software has to be protected for such long copyright periods and not for much shorter patent-like periods. Perhaps we should look for something similar for AI and artists: An artist as copyright as usual for close reproductions, but after 20 years after publication it may be used without her or his consent for training AI models.
How comes that the stable diffuse model helps here? Does the fact that it knows what an astronaut on a horse looks like have effect on the audio? Would starting the training from an empty model work too?
The jobs computers do today used to be done by "Human Computers". The same arguments were raised when these jobs were mechanized. It's the same cycle over and over.

AI/ML is no silver bullet. It's just another abstraction. It will create new types of jobs. Most likely coordinating/choreographing AI/ML agents in new yet to be discovered applications. It's all part of the endless march of technology. You don't realize how little you are actually capable of until you get the new set of tools that bounce you up to the next level.

Take the tools we have today and present them to some chump shoving punch cards into an early computer and watch their brain melt out of their ears. We can do things with a wristwatch they would have thought impossible. The people that will get burned are the ones that want to stand still. Always be learning.
LibsofTikTok should be banned then. The problem with this "rule" is it's only for Elon's location, not everyone else. It's okay if you harass people at an adults only drag show but you can't harass Elon.
>Okay, so where are the people who don't hate me and respect my rights? I don't see them anywhere.

GOG, and plenty of indie devs and smaller devs. There's a whole world of games out there beyond $FlavorOfTheMonthFPS. Or you could just continue your preferred method of "Don't question, just consume product and then get excited for next product."
> FAANGs have people who can deploy this sort of tech, who can solve the problems is generates

I think this is an important point.

> That said, its likely that the job of being a dev is going to be largely debugging generated code in the future no matter where you work.

This and formulating the right prompts, i think.
I said it's purely political because it is. What about "Transitioning to a new epoch might also coax policymakers to take into account the impact of humans on the environment during decision-making" sounds scientific to you? The motivation is to persuade based on opinion, which is not science. Geological evidence (in the loosest of terms) of a single species makes a new epoch not.

One of the paleontologists quoted in the article describes it perfectly:

> “There is no geologic record of tomorrow,” she says.

That's irrefutable.

The very fact that this is being pushed by a group called the "Anthropocene Working Group" is reason enough to be skeptical of the very concept they are pushing. Their agenda is not based on science, but theology.

> “We were starting from scratch,” says Jan Zalasiewicz, a geologist at the University of Leicester who formerly chaired the AWG and remains a voting member. “We had a vague idea about what it might be, [but] we didn’t know what kind of hard evidence would go into it.”

Again, not science. In fact, that's the antithesis.
Can’t we rely more on Rust’s Pattern Matching and it’s strong type system?

Reflection seems more helpful when the programming language is little unsounded.
4. Use a local http cache in front of stripe's api. This is basically "external materialization".
The latest large language models can do that for some tickets. The only big thing missing is the ability to see and interpret application screens and maybe a memory limitation for many things.

Considering how fast technology progresses we should all be worried and adjust our plans.
But what was the JVM tuning? Thats the most interesting part!
emudeck alone makes the Deck worth every penny. playing ps2 games on a handheld is friggin awesome.

my biggest complaint is the battery life but the device charges surprisingly fast.
The thumbnails-in-filepicker feature branch was merged recently: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/merge_requests/5163

The rest of your complaints, which I share, remain unfixed.
It’s such a cool experience - actively disregarding well-established principles that have been in place for 20 years…only to have it fix nearly everything that I hate about CSS.
I think this is called polymorphic recursion in Haskell circles.

In C++ you can monomorphize as long as you can somehow prove the recursion terminates at compile time (for example by threading a static recursion counter).
What role exactly is it going to take? The role we currently have, where the vast majority of people do work not because they particularly enjoy it but because they’re forced to in order to survive?

That’s really what we’re protecting here?

I’d rather live in the future where automation does practically everything not for the benefit of some billionaire born into wealth but because the automation is supposed to. Similar to the economy in Factorio.

Then people can derive meaning from themselves rather that whatever this dystopian nightmare we’re currently living in.

It’s absurdly depressing that some people want to stifle this progress only because it’s going to remove this god awful and completely made up idea that work is freedom or work is what life is about.
But plugged, at times.
Who was Mansa Musa, the ‘richest man in history’
I have nordic dev chips, esp8266's, esp32's, etc.

I have some zigbee stuff with HA, and I have made some custom sensors with esphome. I'd like to try some thread stuff.

How are you currently using thread/what are you using it with? Do you have any recommendations for how to get started with it now - I've been rather confused as it feels like its in limbo right now.

How do you like it compared to zigbee and wifi?
>NiMH batteries seemed to come out of nowhere.

My initial thought when I saw your post was "weren't these just a relatively contemporaneous improvement on NiCad batteries?"

Checked Wikipedia and nope:

NiCad - Invented in 1899 and commercialized in 1910.

NiMH - Invented in 1967 and commercialized in 1989.

I had no idea there was such a long gap between the two.
The species has no obligation to Musk.

The future of work will not be decided by now 60+ year olds in another 10-15 year; Millennials and Gen Z are not growing conservative as they age into and through their 30s as Gen X and Boomers did. Generational churn is a huge wildcard.
You have my sympathy.

I think you need to see there are 2 types of people:

- those who want to generate results ("get the job done, quickly"), and

- those who enjoy programming because of it.

The first one are the ones who can't see what is getting lost. They see programming as an obstacle. Strangely, some of them believe that on the one hand that many more people can produce lots more of software because of AI, and simultaneously expect to keep being in demand.

They might think your job is producing pictures, which is just a burden.

I am from the second group. I never choose this profession because of the money, or dreaming about big business I could create. I dread pasting generated code all over the place. The only one being happy would be the owner of that software. And the AI model overlord of course.

I hope that technical and artistic skill will gain appreciation again and that you will have a happy live in doing what you like the most.
I'm confused, I searched for both "crypto" and "web3" on that page and there are no results?
That site is getting confused by New Zealand's Antarctic Scott base.

NZ proper is about least 1,500 miles from Antarctica.
Now imagine what it would do with the actual, poorly specified projects most programmers are subjected to rather than these basic problems with fixed outcomes that have easily quantifiable metrics of success.
how else do you add a backdoor?
> My experience is similar, though I would personally attribute it at least partly to stupidity

Every company has suffered from the decision, in my experience. Never has it destroyed the employer, but I have heard stories about such eventualities.
More than 8 million people die every year from breathing polluted air containing particles from fossil fuel emissions. What would you put the cost of that at? Until we factor that in as an a cost for carbon emitting power generation, we cannot make a fair comparison of the cost of nuclear.
That's... not relevant? OP was talking about a system that requires tapping phones to connect and using friends of friends to form secondary connections.

This is why I have a burner sim for online accounts requiring a phone number. (Looking at you Telegram...)
Alright everyone it's time to unionize
I'm actually a bit surprised at the naiveté.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-12-13/sam-bankm... explicitly says

> “Bankman-Fried, his parents, and other FTX and Alameda employees used FTX customer funds for a variety of personal expenditures, including luxury real estate purchases, private jets, documented and undocumented personal loans, and personal political donations,” the CFTC said in its complaint.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/12/technology/sbf-parents-ft...

> The couple’s careers have been upended. Ms. Fried, 71, resigned last month as chairwoman of the board of a political donor network, Mind the Gap, which she had helped start to support Democratic campaigns and causes. Mr. Bankman, 67, has postponed a Stanford class he had been scheduled to teach in the winter, and he’s recruited a white-collar criminal defense lawyer to represent him.

My guess is that the idea of complicity must not sit well with folks who rub shoulders with criminals.
Look back in the article at what she was sacrificing in order to avoid potential problems. She had Stevie Wonder and George Harrison in her house and couldn't make herself walk down the stairs to meet them. When she did meet face to face with people, she pasted on sideburns and dressed in a suit to appear as a man.

I mean, think about that last part for a moment. Gender dysphoria caused distress in Carlos. Transitioning eased that distress for her. Then she was dressing in drag to present publicly for her career-- dressing in the exact way which previously caused her so much distress that she decided to transition in the first place!

Those practices are almost certainly the "monstrous waste of years of my life" she's talking about.

Anyhow, both things are true. First, the public was vastly more tolerant/indifferent than what she was protecting herself against (and, therefore, the precautions she had taken turned out to have been too extreme). Second, transphobia was so common during the time that even well-known feminists could spew forth with literally no repercussions for decades (and even then, no discernible repercussions AFAICT).

In short, Stevie Wonder and George Harrison are pretty cool guys. :)
Maybe the issue doesn't have to do with winning or losing the case, but with being sued at all (which implies some defense costs, of course)
By the way ChatGPT is not even the best model OpenAI has for writing code.
Yes, entirely, after very many years. Doesn't worry me mutch.
I have made most of my money as a freelancer making weird integrations between legacy systems, migrating data that no one knew anything about, building or designing systems people weren't even able to formulate in any coherent way
to me as a human and without having to change all the things they were certain they needed, when they found out that they really did not.

Building the thing right vs. building the right thing.

I am not saying that AI will not be able to revolutionize a lot of areas, but solving well known coding competitions are far removed from where a large portion of coders and technical people make their money.
it was trained with leetcode data though?
> Reading the article one finds that they only created very small cathodes rather than anything close to a 'consumer sized' battery

There are few articles on 'consumer sized' 18650 sodium-ion (Na-S, Na-ion) battery (aka NIB):

October 2019: Developing O3 type layered oxide cathode and its application in 18650 commercial type Na-ion batteries[0]

May 2022: First 18650-format Na-ion cells aging investigation: A degradation mechanism study[1]

August 2022: Remaining useful life prediction for 18650 sodium-ion batteries based on incremental capacity analysis[2]

[0] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/336562138_Developin...

[1] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/359078973_First_186...

[2] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/362754837_Remaining...
Nice try NSA, that’s exactly what you want us to believe!

jk I’m sure it’s fine… probably
The question is more how many kWh can you store and extract over a lifetime at a given cost rather than how many cycles can it take.

If the 5999th charge is only holding appropriately 60% of a LifePo4 battery you don’t get 6,000 cycles * full battery capacity.
There is no indication that we don’t have enough images already available and training time is the main bottleneck. Also openai clear showed that DALL-E could generate avacado chair even though there is nothing like that in the dataset.
This shows an "NA" for every crime stat, including murder, in Capitol Hill.

If the estimates on this page are right, Capitol Hill has 3x national average, and national average is 6 murders per 100k. So this is estimating Capitol Hill has 20 murders per 100k per year. If you assume that all 32k people in the neighborhood were in CHAZ then to get a per 100k rate we would say 2 / 32 to get murders per thousand, multiply by 100 to get murders per 100k, then multiply by 35.6 to convert the ten days of CHAZ to a year, and we get an estimated murder rate of 223 per 100k, or 37x the murder rate estimate for Capitol Hill from this website. And, of course, not nearly all 32k people were in CHAZ. And, of course, the four separate shooting events within 10 days lends credence to the notion that CHAZ was extraordinarily violent.

Or, practically speaking, if you live in Seattle, then you just know that shootings don't happen in Capitol Hill every night, because you hear about them when they do happen.
> I don't see how this can signal criminal intent

It's hard to imagine a legitimate reason for lowering the landing gear if not landing. On water, as the article explains, that would make things even worse.
In our game studio, engineers are creating lots of developer art on their own. But the real productivity booster is coming from artists using language models to generate entire art pipeline scripts. Several Python scripts to automate Blender3D and offline asset post-processing. Many artists are also changing shaders by asking language models to modify existing code.
In that case you can just camp outside it and wait for his plane to land, which a determined stalker would do.
>This is what I fear about AI making our jobs superfluous; it will also make our hobbies or anything we enjoy doing superfluous.

Mountain climbing is superfluous by this logic- why would you bother climbing a mountain when you could just take a helicopter to the top? Or even more accessible: why would hike to a lookout when there's a road to take you to the same spot?

There is still joy and value in doing things the hard way, even if an easier way exists.
^ This. There is just a backlash on HN with Elon hurting so many people's feels about Twitter & having an alternate political view, that everyone is seeing him in a negative light.

Tesla helped push ICE to EV even though technologically some of the efforts may have been done at other companies and products before - yet Tesla pushed the experience mainstream.
Where do you find meaning in life today? What do you do on weekends and vacations?

Another place to look is the financially independent. What are they doing with their time?
You can use text-davinci-003 from the API now and it works better for many things.
i think you're correct about option c, primarily because we could never force everyone to adopt the other 2 options.

option c makes me nervous, but right now I can't see an ai correctly dealing with the ambiguity of the data sets i typically look at.i do a lot of "asking for clarification."
i % 3 is three-valued: 0, 1 or 2.
I've been following this blog since someone posted it a few weeks back. Aweosme reads imo, satisfies my childhood curiosity of Antarctica and I appreciate all the photos he includes.
>gone forever

yeah, lazy devs or they're just herding everyone to their own servers where they can mine data for more profits? Either way, looks like a prime business opportunity to test out a recent addition to DMCA exemptions to allow supporting "abandoned" servers. If the users are there and willing to pay.
Parasite

Out of curiosity, what is his perspective? How does he rationalize trying to do this and the purpose
I wonder if there was some kind of economic inflection point — it felt like that in my memory, too, where it felt like NiCad was advertised more as new thing in the 80s before getting replaced with NiMH. I wonder how much that perception was steered by what was common in the car battery space since that was probably the most known rechargeable battery for a long time.
The recent electricity issues are because Putin invaded Ukraine and reduced the gas supply. Which is nothing to do with sustainable energy.
Enveloop: API Messaging Service
Yes, I guess it would be possible to works with generic REST APIs - ones that all conform to a similar model.

> generator, where you plug in your API, it pulls and parses the JSON, then you can select the fields you want and it generates the wrapper

Probably on this one the wrapper could use an OpenAPI spec
Websockets are still a niche needed by very few websites. Which niche are you building websites in, may I ask?
Who says that person will work for you, or that it will be free?
Someone please train it on John Coltrane.
> I am happy if gender therapy helped you

It did thanks.

> I think it is fine for society to be critical

Of course. Critical in the sense of skeptical. However a lot of "critics" of trans people act much more like schoolyard bullies or people worried that rock 'n roll music will make the children worship satan than people with fair concerns about the wellbeing of others.

> I don't want to see documentaries in 20 years about people having regrets

There isn't any decision that people can make that will leave 100% of people satisfied. Gender therapy has existed in its modern form for about 100 years now and in that time study after study shows that people who go through with it are happy with the results 90%-98% of the time. This is higher than most treatments of any kind.

You'll find that almost every commentator who talks about detransitioners or trots some out for a political show has the end objective of ending all gender affirming care for all people and replacing it with conversion therapy due to their ideology. In the case of someone like Janice Raymond that reason is radical feminism. For someone like Matt Walsh it is traditional Catholicism. In both cases they are misleading the public by insinuating that gender therapy is some sort of factory process where hapless victims are swept onto a conveyor belt and mutilated haphazardly.

People who transition and then regret it will always exist. Just like people will regret getting any sort of elective surgery. Just like people will come out as gay and then later regret it and then later regret that they regretted it and so on.... It's a story as old as time.

This study tracked people over a 50 year period and found a regret rate of 2%.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/262734734_An_Analys...

> The FM:MF sex ratio fluctuated but was 1:1.66 for the whole study period. There were 15 (5 MF and 10 MF) regret applications corresponding to a 2.2 % regret rate for both sexes. There was a significant decline of regrets over the time period.

The worrying thing is not that 2% regretted their decision, the worrying thing is that the people who are against trans people would be LESS happy if the figure were to be 0%. They want 100% of trans people to regret transition and repress because that would make reality conform better to their ideological leanings where "men are men" and "women are women" because God made them that way.
We are big believers in Nuclear energy, and it's part of the RFS.

But many other sectors need to be electrified for nuclear power to have its decarbonization impact: buildings, industry, transportation etc.
The linked blog post has some details: https://lichess.org/@/thibault/blog/lichess-on-scala3-help-n...
OK, quick experiment:

If you are friends with a dev in this list on a firsthand basis, please vouch for them below.

https://github.com/iondodon/manter/blob/main/package-lock.js...
I don't know why we keep framing artists like they're textile workers or machinists.

The whole point of art is human expression. The idea that artists can be "automated away" is just sad and disgusting and the amount of people who want art but don't want to pay the artist is astounding.

Why are we so eager to rid ourselves of what makes us human to save a buck? This isn't innovation, its self destruction.
I wouldn't say it's a completely different skill set.

You still want to have people, who actually understand what a piece of code or program does.
A magical black box to throw prompts at, might be nice for simple settings, but potentially can cause major fuck ups for complex systems.
Lol that is nothing at all the same.

First of all.. you realize we are talking about GPS of a plane. So yes, you know where they are in the air, and then you know what city they landed in. That's it. You know the city. Whoopdydoo. It's not like someone is pushing out Musk's position at every point on the ground.

But you are comparing public air traffic GPS to someone walking next to me and specifically giving my location at every point? Those aren't the same thing.. at all.

I think you are the one that has to read up on doxing.

And anyway, don't even bother replying with more of your silly examples. Plane GPS data is public information. End of story.
Do tell!

What sort of job leads you do design algorithms?
I didn't say anything about roads or school. The Smithsonian actively executed aviation research by physically building and flying powered aircraft. These experiences were among the information sent to the Wrights. The Wrights' work was directly informed by government experimentation at the Smithsonian. I don't understand how better to communicate this, and I don't understand why you got weirdly personal about it. I hope things get better for you.
This is the play that Terraform Industries is engaging in as well. Cost for synthesizing a unit of methane from atmospheric CO2 and water using solar power is set to drop lower than the cost of drilling it out of the ground.

https://terraformindustries.com/
I just wanted to say you guys did an amazing job packaging this up. I managed to get a local instance up and running against my local GPU in less than 10 minutes.
A brand new Linux DRM display driver – for a 1992 computer