skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People were cheering for automation in the 60s, saying we wouldn't have to work more than 3 hours a day by the 80s, I think people should reboot their crystal balls before prophesying the end of artists
Yes, this is the CEO and I do need you to wire that money. C'mon Frank (from accounting), you need to act more promptly on these urgent requests
I hope so. I’m wondering when the pi5 is due. I thought it was meant to be 2023 but internet says no now :(
Crypto has been running on ASICs for years. The "evil crypto miners make your GPUs so expensive" psyop is a NVIDIA campaign to rise GPU prices.
There's a knock-on effect too. I work for a technology-adjacent company, and the biggest push the company has been making for the past 10 years -- right after being woke and going green, of course -- is implementing a whole bunch of "cybersecurity" measures into our product that feels an awful lot like they're cribbing their answers from Deere, to prevent a handful of people from reprogramming the device. The whole thing is excused with, "But but but the customer may make a modification that we didn't endorse, and we could be sued out of existence!" Fine, then go the other way. Ask your Congresspeople to pass a law that says if you "tamper" with the device, all warranties expressed or implied are null and void, and if it breaks, you can't sue. I don't understand what's so hard about that. I really don't.
Tractor market will soon be geared towards Farming-As-A-Service. John Deere has already bought multiple autonomous tractor companies. The biggest ones at 305 and 250 million are Blue River and Bear Flag,

Also: JV with GUSS automation orchard spraying tech. And Light for some kind of vision AI. There is a ‘startup incubator’ guy sitting in SF and JD is furiously buying everything they can get their hands on. In fact, I know at least two moderately funded startups whose sole aim is to be acquired by JD.

Meanwhile Case IH/CNH is also invested in Raven(that I like a lot actually and can give a good run for JD who hasn’t been lagging behind in the grain/combine automation equip). AGCO/Massey/Fendt is looking at the retrofit sector. Bless their hearts.

It’s time to consolidate just like with the Ag inputs/seeds/fertilizer where I think a few giants control almost all of the market after a flurry of mergers and acquisitions: Dow/DuPont, Sygenta/ChemChina, Bayer/Monsanto. BASF stands alone but they are not big on seeds. Dow/DuPont merged but then spun off Corteva, but it’s still incestous. It’s the Big4 now. Same thing will happen with the tractor and equipment sector with the main players being JD, CNH and AGCO.

It is what it is.

ETA: Let’s not forget how JD almost bought Monsanto before it went before DoJ to stop the sale and Bayer ended up paying 60 something billion for a lemon right before the Roundup trial. JD desperately wanted Climate Fieldview and Monsanto that owned Climate did NOT include it in the sale to Bayer. Fun times.
Maybe it's me but I can't find what is the "messy, secretive reality" in the title nor what is "OpenAI’s bid to save the world".

For me it looks like the same behavior as in any company: It has to make money to be sustainable.
maybe I've seen too much or have grown old and grumpy - but I just can't find any mind blowing articles anymore. most of the stuff I find somewhat boring and/or irrelevant. also reading books more than ever (brb finishing up last couple chapters of 'War of the Worlds').
Do you have sources for the claim that “western kitchens are built incorrectly”? Or are you referring to the same studies as in the OP? It feels intuitive but I would like to see the extent of damage. As someone looking to build a home this could be extremely relevant.
But that only goes so far. Some of the key combination do have a nice mneumonic attached to it. But it definetly can't scale. ZZ is one of those, which is the case with most key combinations :/
One or two papers down the line...
I don't speak Italian ;)
If you want to make clickable links with this code, you can use URL Pages.

https://github.com/jstrieb/urlpages

It's a small JavaScript application to store entire web pages in URLs. I made it after learning that links with data URLs are no longer clickable.
Books are curated content that has been reviewed by editors and are usually well written. Better if the books is printed by a relevant publishing company and even better if the book has been translated which usually means is relevant. Also there are so many books and so many topics to read that is impossible to get bored.

Articles are easy to produce and publish, there's no review and often are just another way to do self/brand promoting without real content. Good blogs are difficult to spot and to keep track. At the same time articles can give you the sense of a trend and what people are thinking, and the point of view of a niche of people.

So to give a time-quality ratio; socials < blogs/articles < books
The Usability of Advanced Type Systems: Rust as a Case Study
Best action movie of all time. Always has been.
So what you're saying is it makes things up.
Chess. Already started.
And that's exactly why she's not the taxi driver of everyone on earth
> WebGPU 1.0 is basically a “least common denominator” of current GPUs. This has advantages and disadvantages. It means that there are fewer choices (and fewer permutations), and that code written in WGSL can run on all modern GPUs. The downside is that there are a number of features that most (but not all) current GPUs have that can speed things further, and those features are not available.

This is really the issue with 3D Web APIs.

WebGL 2.0 give us something like a Playstation 3 (released in 2005).

WebGPU 1.0 will give us the state of the art in 3D API as they were in 2014.

Meanwhile streaming and native will give us the APIs as they are available today.
Open source and developer friendly load shedding calendar
> DALL-E/ChatGPT promises: A statistical model that can generate text and images that are impressive but not always accurate. Also, the tech is not that magical, we just used so much data to train it.

> DALL-E/ChatGPT reality: Wows everyone, people actually use it tirelessly for writing code, creating artwork, recreationally etc.

That's a pretty generous if not biased take, is it not? For me personally, ChatGPT is underwhelming and hasn't done anything remotely impressive when I have used it. And there's a lot of fervor around people using it, but are there interesting use cases outside of advertising? And are there not a ton of harmful use cases? The internet is going to be absolutely filled to the brim with GPT generated junk.
See the Online Medley repo https://github.com/Interlisp/online
No, filling up is a good thing. Both the rail and the highway will last for decades. But the highway will be delivering its maximum benefit immediately. (When the highway is expanded, it will be delivering new benefit to additional commuters.) While with the rail, you have paid a bunch of money up front for capacity that’s unused for years if not decades. (Parts of the suburban Metro network on the Maryland side are 40+ years old and nowhere near capacity.) It’s like building a skyscraper. It’s not a good thing if it’s only 25% leased for years and years.
In my opinion, you should certainly go for 1.0, unless you are planning some breaking changes at this point - which I guess you are not, after reaching beta. My general deduction is that tools with a few bugs at an early 1.0 has a better chance of succeeding than tools that stay too long in beta. It's important to ensure that interest from users, distro packagers and commercial adopters are kept alive while waiting on 1.0. I'm still waiting for pijul to be in the distro repos, though the crates version work satisfactorily. This may turn away many other potential users. Alphas and betas should be time-limited, not bugs-limited. Bugs are what patch versions in semantic versioning are for. Remember: 1.0 is a magic number - it increases the exposure of your tool and potential contributors by a large factor. By your standards, git would have stayed in pre-1.0 for a decade and would not have become this popular.

On a personal level, I use pijul for managing my dotfiles. I haven't encountered any bugs yet. The only feature I miss from git is the availability of tools like syntax highlighters for diff and record and UIs like tig, gitui and magit. But again, those are just features you could add as minor versions. That aside, pijul feels like magic. A handful of pijul commands cover most of the use-cases of git. After using git for so long, I always wonder if I'm using pijul the wrong way, even though I get the expected result. I'm only familiar with svn, git, bzr and hg. Perhaps Darcs would have given a better idea about what pijul really is.
When my brother and I were in college, I worked as a farm hand the same summer he was working a computer engineering internship. His hours were capped at 39/wk and he still made more money per week than I did working 80/wk.

I loved farming, but there is not a ton of money in unskilled labor. (Sure, you can do a lot better if you have skills/experience or own the farm...)
As Peru’s Unrest Chases Away Visitors, Many in Tourism Fear for Their Livelihood
I was under the impression the vast majority of enterprise software is either on a subscription, or you pay for it through their dashboard and then install the app, especially if the alternative means Apple takes a 30% cut.
> Because all calculations are purely algebraic, involving no transcendental functions, theorems are easier to prove. ...

Personally I would have said manipulation of trig identities and such is also purely algebraic.
Something can be both technically incredibly impressive, genuinely useful and yet at the same dramatically over-hyped. That may be the case for AI today although the range of possible outcomes makes the latter point genuinely unclear.

The difference for me is that Web3 was never shown to be at all useful.
It really should use two hands since z is a left pinky key (on qwerty, colemak, workman, qgmlwb) and left shift as well (so you should use right shift with it), but I'm aware many people don't use their right shift key. I only learned to a few years ago when relearning to type anyway.
Programming in D [Book]
so is it not even crab?
Emphatically yes. The most popular UI framework's dropdown component, documentation reads as follows:

"Dropdowns are toggleable, contextual overlays for displaying lists of links and more. They’re made interactive with the included Bootstrap dropdown JavaScript plugin"
Ah, I see. I'm more familiar with the terms "hardware restrictions" or "vendor lock-in" in that case, as I see DRM to be strictly software enforced restrictions, guess the "Digital" in DRM throws me off or something.
I like polars a lot. It’s better than pandas at what it does. But it only accounts for a subset of functionality that pandas does. Indexes are not just some implementation details of dataframes. They are fundamental to the representation of data in a way where dimensional structure is relevant. Polars is great for cases where you want to work with data in “long” format, but that’s not always the most convenient way to work with data. Let’s say you want to get the difference in 15 day ahead temperature forecasts between forecasts on 2 different mark dates, for the forecast days they overlap (say the data consists of forecasted date, country, state equivalent, temp). In long format (necessarily in polars, optionally in pandas) you have to do:

Merge df 1 and 2 on country, state and forecasted date, then create a new column of the diff between the 2 temp columns, then drop the 2 original temp columns.

In a format where your indexes are forecasted dates on the rows and multiindex of country, state on the columns, you just have to do:

df1 - df2

The way I see pandas is a toolkit that lets you easily convert between these 2 representations of data. You could argue that polars is better than pandas for working with data in long format, and that a library like xarray is better than pandas for working with data in the dimensionally relevant structure, but there is a lot of value in having both paradigms in one library with a unified api/ecosystem.
Yeah, it's kind of a joke to say that there's no problem with the "free market" in the American version of capitalism when all the big players collude on the same anti-consumer position, because they all win, and their execs take home more options and pay because of it.
Paperspace (Accelerated cloud computing) hiring multiple engineers
One more step deeper into the post-truth era.
Had he used a translator, it would have been more obvious but possibly had the same effect (if what he had to say resonated with the voters). So what you are against is the idea that it’s not labeled as “virtual translator was used to produce this speech”?
The generated voice has the same creepiness fake AI voice has in movies.
It also has the same monotone tone that there is in some dystopian movies (For some reason it make me remember of Bladerunner, but I don't remember a narrator voice).
archive.org: https://web.archive.org/web/20230108043655/https://www.nytim...
Depends on what you want for asthetics but we wanted the same and ended going for tabletop units. Incredible cheap compared to the consumer builtins.

Linking some as an example but not exactly what we have.

https://www.webstaurantstore.com/avantco-cag-r-2-12-12-2-bur...

https://www.webstaurantstore.com/avantco-ic3500-countertop-i...
Interestingly, the prime example of how much a person's attachment to their voice is part of their own personal identity also comes from ALS... but ironically in the opposite direction. I'm talking of course about Stephen Hawking, who famously rejected upgrading his voice synthesiser when technology improved [0]:

Hawking is very attached to his voice: in 1988, when Speech Plus gave him the new synthesizer, the voice was different so he asked them to replace it with the original. His voice had been created in the early '80s by MIT engineer Dennis Klatt, a pioneer of text-to-speech algorithms. He invented the DECtalk, one of the first devices to translate text into speech. He initially made three voices, from recordings of his wife, daughter and himself. The female's voice was called "Beautiful Betty", the child's "Kit the Kid", and the male voice, based on his own, "Perfect Paul." "Perfect Paul" is Hawking's voice.

[0] https://www.wired.com/2015/01/intel-gave-stephen-hawking-voi...
We all (students and staff) use it a lot. It'll write lectures, help think up interesting worksheet ideas, help students code, help them think of things to write about, how to structure assignments.

I needed a lecture on regex, ChatGPT wrote it for my in 30 seconds. Then I asked it for some problems for the students to solve and it wrote those too.

It may not be relevant to you, but for some of us it is changing the way we work. That hasn't happened since the dawn of the internet, or social media, or mobile phones.

The next generation are using it, and using it a lot.
Can AI predict when people will start writing longer form articles on a platform that doesn't artificially restrict you to paragraphs?
You can use this plugin to get the same mappings in insert mode for Vim:

https://github.com/tpope/vim-rsi
Vasquez*
Linux lost the desktop.

But KHTML - basis for Chrome, Safari and Edge - won the web browser for open source.
>The Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies (abbreviated as FedSoc) is an American conservative and libertarian legal organization that advocates for a textualist and originalist interpretation of the U.S. Constitution.[4][5][6] Headquartered in Washington D.C., it has chapters at more than 200 American law schools and features student, lawyer, and faculty divisions. The lawyers division comprises more than 70,000 practicing attorneys in ninety cities.

You're going to have to be more specific about what you're trying to imply with this comment. Those of us that aren't American aren't really clear why this affiliation is something you feel is worthy of mention.
Or millions of people passively accepted the results of a stolen election. That would be an equally viable scenario with this technology. You just won't know the truth anymore.
TIGR – TIny GRaphics cross-platform library
Most of what AI's produced so far is features. Mostly some thing that could be done before that's now slightly more convenient or streamlined.

I've yet to see any actual coherent products come out of the 2020s AI "boom".
This piqued my interest until I saw the $99 price.
Infections are a stochastic phenomenon, so while keeping your windows open won't protect your loved ones from you coughing on their faces, it may make a difference if you're attempting to isolate properly, or in other shared spaces.
Artist banned from art subreddit because their work looked AI-generated
I’m an artist and I’m not worried at all, because I see more potential in the hands of artists than I do amateurs with zero skill.

AI translation has been around for decades now. It’s pretty damn good these days. But translators still find plenty of work and most of them will tell you that they use AI translation to improve their work efficiency. As with any job, the last 10% of work is always the hardest. AI can get a pretty good “sketch” of what someone wants, but a real artist can polish out the details and make it even better.
I think what you're saying is there's a market for

(1) go and do farm work for a few years, doing anything anybody needs for a few medium sized operations and talking to everybody

(2) pick one product and advertise that you're building a competitor, emphasize that it's maintainable in the field and made from commodity parts

(3) struggle to actually launch or sell it because manufacturing physical stuff is incredibly hard. Take lots of outside investment

(4) ship 100 units and credibly claim to be able to ship many more

(5) Deere will buy you for $1bn and shut it down, which was your plan the whole time
A $5 bill in your wallet is a capability. Capability based security is like handing someone $5, not eternal access to all the funds in your wallet.

Phones don't do capability based security. There's no way to say, here... you can have access to THIS photo, or this location, once, in an easy way.

On PCs, you have to trust the application to do what it says when it uses the system supplied dialog boxes to "open" files, etc. In a capability based system, that's not the case. The OS never trusts the application, ever.
Maybe I slept through it, but what was Web3 in 2021?!
U.S. safety agency to consider ban on gas stoves amid health fears
A few of the ones I visited when my daughter was in the correct age range (about 10 years ago) all have soft tarmac substitute around them that looks like it's made from recycled rubber (this is on top of changes to the actual equipment).
>>Almost more than 2/3rd of Indian voters didn't vote for modi yet his party is doing very well.

Do you understand what is first-past-the-post voting system?
I use zz regularly, especially when taking notes, which tend to move the cursor towards the bottom of whatever you're using to write in. This is bad for your posture, so a regular 'zz' helps to keep my neck from straining. Another nice thing about vim is that it will scroll beyond where there is text. Once you have more than a screen of text in almost any text editor or word processor, it is often hard to get the bottom of the file to the top of the screen.
Ask HN: An article or blog post by an individual that helped you greatly?
I have been doing some Ask HN posts to collect links to good blogs hosted on independent personal websites and written by individuals. Here is one more hoping that this will help me discover some good and interesting content. What I am looking for:

* Share one article or blog post you read that helped you a lot or made an impact on your life or skills?

* The article must not be one of the LinkedIn-style motivational article that is quite common in mass blogging platforms.

* No links to medium, substack, devto etc. please. I am really looking for articles hosted on individual personal websites maintained with love by individual owners.

* The article or post should not be merely helpful. It should have helped you in reality. Do tell us how the article or post was helpful to you?

So I have two hopes from this Ask HN. To get links to good content. To read some interesting stories about how an article on the web made a difference to your life.
I just used HTTrack last week, it still works fine
For another angle what exactly is the source for our distinct voices to begin with? Are everybody’s vocal chords distinct in some way like a fingerprint or something or is it mostly governed by our baseline neural control considering how people can frequently impersonate others ala comedians to some degree of accuracy where it’s funny.
My expectation is that healthy adults should work.
I can hear their voice

> "Dear Fellow Scholars, this is Two Minute Papers.... "
> All the oposite from today's design in which they let people rename everything.

What spreadsheet program lets you rename a row or a column? The pattern I see all around is that you add your own column names as the first row for example, but the actual column doesn't get renamed. Or, you get to define your own "Named Ranges" where you can assign a name, but the row/column identifier stays the same.

But I don't think I've seen any software allowing you to rename column C to whatever you want, for example.
I have never had ChaptGPT tell me anything correct, so consider me "wowed" by it that people are using it to write lectures and test knowledge.
The comparison is between the level of hype not the technology itself. If you take the time to read the thread he is more than well aware of the practical aspects of AI.
This is not a solution, rather it's being part of the problem.

The real solution involves talking it out, revising policies, and changing behaviors
No. Have you?
This and who knows what else as time goes on. It might be a good idea to not talk on phones anymore unless you already know the contact.

In this bleak scrape the bottom of the barrel world, I can't help but think it's only a matter of time before customer service departments start selling voice data to the highest bidder. And to counter that there will be services where everyone ends up using voice changers, except close personal contacts. I want this fiction to stay fiction.
Ok then get rid of all humans, they aren't needed anymore.
Depends how you define "Blog Post". There are web pages / articles I still read - I'll check out things by Derek Sivers, Patrick McKenzie/Bits About Money, Money Stuff by Matt Levine, all by local HN recommendations. Similarly, I find a lot of good one-off recommendations on HN; is the hit ratio 100%, or even 50%, goodness no. But signal-to-noise ratio is still worth my time. I will read Thom Hogan on photography more than weekly. Science Babe's blogs/posts are interesting enough, as well as other more "traditional" science / astronomy bloggers.

I actually read a lot LESS books than I used to. I was an avid book reader; but several things happened: 1. My time is significantly reduced by being a 43year old with kids, work, house, mortgage 2. I've read a lot, so it's.... harder to find a new idea in a book, that interests me, especially one that's worth a few hundred pages or rather has hundreds of pages of (to me) new/interesting stuff. Basically, my attention span / my ability to devote dozen hours / the value I need to extract out of each our has changed.

I agree that there's a lot of useless posts; they've been increasing in ratio for years; and now with AI I'm sure they'll increase that much more. But individuals (and even teams) who produce quality content still exist. Heck, it's not a blog, but I've literally just discovered Tom Scott on Youtube - how did I miss that for the last 5-8 years?? I'm sure there are equally great bloggers out there I've clueless of. There's definitely opportunities in helping us identify them.
Can I just unsolicitedly say that James Cameron is a god?