skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Last month here in UK. After a package was stolen from my doorstep but the delivery driver said it was handed to receptionist. We don't have a receptionist, or a reception!

I'm a "high hitter" customer. I have prime and spend a hell of a lot of money with amazon every year so they tend to do what you ask eventually. But if you're a new customer or low value one your customer experience will be very very different. I know several people buying 1-5 things a year who have been told to piss off.
We as humans have had this argument with automated manufacturing, its a good reference point to predict human behavior.

Second is art itself. We have high quality art prints that a large portion of people are happy to buy. Artists themselves are happy to sell prints of their own work. That product is entirely machine made except for the initial knowledge work by the artist. I'm not making a art, not art argument. I'm saying, people are happy to consume manufactured content, companies are happy to generate it for them.

The argument that 'humans will stop producing and things will stagnate' is totally non-serious and doesn't even deserve a retort really..
> As far as I know nothing consumes rocks

Rocks do turn into soil which is then the basis for stuff to grow on it.
NPM Request Library SSRF Cross Protocol Redirect Bypass
I get the concerns with AI, but this kind of thing has always looked odd to me.

Like imagine a label on a thing that says "Made without CNC machinery". So instead of finishing the thing on a CNC mill, they instead stuck it on a Bridgeport manual mill, and finished by hand. Or somebody finished the cast with a file.

Okay, and so? In the end, a hammer is a hammer. If it hammers well, what difference does it make how it got that precise shape? It's not like some inherent goodness is being imparted by a hand file.

Now I get some methods have flaws to them, and some form of associated harm. The problem I see with blaming specific tools is that it's simplifying the problem too much. Eg, if the problem is taking jobs, then picking up one particular tool to blame for that allows manufacturers to use a different tool and cause the same sort of issue. If the problem is say, pollution, then it's not at all a given that the replacement method will be ecologically friendly.

IMO the better thing to do is to target the underlying problem. If say, your issue is ecology, then you want to certify that the manufacture is as environmentally friendly as it can be, not that the thing isn't made from plastic, or there exists the chance that the non-plastic thing will even be worse for the environment.
Ask HN: Which AI Can Create a Series of Drawing Illustrations from 1 Source?
Is there an consumer-friendly AI app that can:

1 - create a drawing illustration based on a specific illustration style source that you feed it.

2 - once you finalize the new drawing to your liking, create more illustrations from the same original illustration style source and/or the final one?
Creativity is not equivalent with digital output volume.

I think we’re going to see an explosion of waste.

We are information processors. The input makes the output. What happens when you close that loop?
> Local backups shall be stored in different locations (depends on importance) not reachable by network

This is basically you signing that we have failed as an industry.

No other industry expects it's users to operate with tbe diligence of a bank.
Then does it matter?

But I’m confident that no amount of AI will make the expert obsolete. Like Photoshop, it’s going to be a complex tool you have to learn to master.
This is going to look very quaint in about... 3 months. I mean, it's already quaint.
I dunno, I have a friend who has effectively automated her entire job at this point through ChatGPT, and her role would almost certainly disappear if her bosses were aware.

Netflix also infamously used AI to generate background images for an anime, which is work that previously would have put food on the table for illustrators.[0]

It's hard to look all of this and think that all the jobs are going to stick around. I know at least 5 copywriters who have made their entire living as adults writing banal junk for small companies. All 5 of those careers will vanish in the coming years.

[0] https://www.cined.com/netflix-uses-ai-to-generate-anime-shor...
Unfortunately no (reason why they are the biggest server on Discord with 13mln users)
Would you be happier if your car / bicycle / city bus was produced entirely by hand, with no tools or automation?

Labor will shift. Bemoaning new efficiencies and new empowerment because they reduce the need for meaningless labor consumption is backwards. We should be sensitive to those whose lives will take an unexpected turn (I may be one of them!), but we should do so in the context of celebrating greater individual leverage to create and produce.
I would be surprised if it wasn't already capable of that (doesn't even require AI, basic heuristics would be enough), but I guess that outside of a full-on war, they'd rather not disclose that capability even if it means losing a few units here and there.
Ask HN: What reactji would be most useful for code review?
GitHub offers the following reactji:

- thumbs up

- thumbs down

- smiling face

- frowning face

- party popper

- heart

- rocket

- eyeballs

Personally, I would love to see a set of emojis that's more relevant and specific to code review.

I'll post my own preferred reactji in the comments, and I'd love to see other people's recommendations as well.
> I have a long history of depression and anxiety and ADHD.

So you basically confirmed this has nothing to do with COVID and there is no such thing as "Long COVID". Nobody denies whatever you feel, but trying to link it to COVID is just latching on buzz word.

It's interesting people with history of depression, anxiety and other mental issues are much more likely to report long COVID than people without such history , it's almost as their condition had nothing to do with COVID. And we can take it even further, prevalence of Long COVID with drugs/shrinks addicted US is much higher than anywhere else in world, while in most of the world they don't even hear about some "long COVID" cases, because people can't afford "long COVID" over there.
I am outright stating that issues immediately affecting physical well being, e.g. starvation in France before the revolution are way more important than preferred pronouns.

I am outright stating that issues affecting the majority are more important than issues not affecting the majority. If you disagree, check which production issue your PO/director prioritizes next.
This isn't some dipshit enterprise running LOB software. This is OpenAI. These are all giant multi-GPU nodes getting slammed all day with machine learning jobs.
Love the connection to home studios. Everybody was able to make more music much more easily - but it also inflated the music industry with a lot of mediocrity. So some will find ways to use AI for greatness, but most won’t.
I'm sure you know already but Russia consistently not only approaches, but violates the airspace of neighbouring countries.
Mentioned here:
UNIX: A History and a Memoir
https://www.rulit.me/data/programs/resources/pdf/UNIX-A-Hist...

5.3 Early Formatters

The problem was that there was no interactive
computer system like CTSS at Princeton; there weren’t any computer termi-
nals either. All that was available was punch cards, which only supported
upper case letters. I wrote Roff in Fortran (far from ideal, since Fortran was
meant for scientific computation, not pushing characters around, but there
were no other options) and I added a feature to convert everything to lower
case while automatically capitalizing the first letter of each sentence. The
resulting text, now upper and lower case, was printed on an IBM 1403 printer
that could print both cases. Talk about bleeding edge! My thesis was three
boxes of cards. Each box held 2,000 cards, was about 14 inches (35 cm) long
and weighed 10 pounds (4.5 kg). The first 1,000 cards were the program and
the other 5,000 were the thesis itself in Roff.
I don’t think OP is suggesting tech has been an unmitigated negative. I think most of the things that were positives were invented 1995-2008. Beyond that major tech companies seemed to transform into whores to the advertising industry, privacy was destroyed, and for this we got social media, poorer search results, constant communication, etc etc - mostly negatives.
Java had green threads in Java 1.1 (February 1997), C# 1.0 was released in January 2002...
"Yes this AI generated forgot password flow is great, but it doesn't have soul."

I like it.
> Whoever has emerged victorious participates to this day in the triumphal procession in which the present rulers step over those who are lying prostrate. According to traditional practice, the spoils are carried along in the procession. They are called cultural treasures, and a historical materialist views them with cautious detachment. For without exception the cultural treasures he surveys have an origin which he cannot contemplate without horror. They owe their existence not only to the efforts of the great minds and talents who have created them, but also to the anonymous toil of their contemporaries. There is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism.
I have one of the original ones, and I will admit: for a dev-focused person, you could see A LOT of potential. But, now it is quite an ordeal to get things up and running... if you want to experiment with that kind of interface, something tells me you are better off buying an nreal or something like that and having an actual functional and supported device + something you can potentially hack on.
Still several times better than before...
> Soon, many digital image editors will incorporate some simple AI-powered features to detect edges, faces, various objects, etc. Are content-aware plug-ins to Photoshop AI?

This happened years ago. Agreed with the first part though - there is almost literally no possible route to avoid AI on consumer phones.
Thunderbolt is quite different at the lower layers. It's more accurate to think of Thunderbolt as its own connection technology that can carry both PCIe and DisplayPort data packets multiplexed on one cable, with the DisplayPort packets getting priority.
Nice, but ... I wanted an article about old school WordPress, way back in the day. Wasn't that saying part of the Admin interface up until they added pages?
>from being handled

I see what you did here
We need to send a swarm of drones using dressed-up Russian-level technology for them to down over the Black Sea and waste their resources recovering. Or not. Putin is 70.41yo. Russian life expectancy is 71.34 years. I expect we can wait him out.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqsSYp-51Hs
Thanks for your reply! I will need more research to reflect on the examples you give.

I discovered the concept from books and documentations, for example:

- https://learn.adacore.com/courses/intro-to-ada/chapters/cont...

- https://www.eiffel.org/doc/solutions/Design_by_Contract_and_...

and it seemed to me the main concern was program correctness/consistency.

Maybe I mix up different concerns and good interface design is more about
satisfying use case?
I wonder if people have actually tried prompting chatgpt for lists of creative things.

make up a list of fictious creatures and describe them. make sure the names aren't reused.
Is Theseus' ship new? This question is where humans and AI are roughly the same. If you could look into an artist's brain (or anyone's in any field) and trace the influences back you would probably start to wonder if the number of truly original ideas had by all of humanity is actually quite small.
An example showing hands in basically the easiest, “flattest” pose you can get, still failing.
I’ve wondered how much of our homelessness crisis is due to psychotic breaks from marijuana. It’s a small fraction of users which have psychotic breaks, but our homelessness population is similarly small.
> I don't think people care enough about SLAs to pay a premium

Huh? People specifically pay for cloud to not lose their data. Before that my parents used to copy photos from laptop to laptop, and lose them when a hard disk failed.

Now if cloud loses your data, they might ask wtf am I paying for.
Yeah, sure. I'm not saying quantitative methods are not useful. Just that checking the field's SOTA and theory is an important first step that facilitates hypothesis making, even if those hypothesis are an alternative to what knowledge already exists in the field.
> I guess it's useful sometimes to know how to engage the 40wpm "actually get every character exactly right without even looking at the cursor" mode to transcribe documents.

Just thinking about this makes my spine straighten and my fingers "get ready" to go to the home row :p

We must have used the same application at my school. Though I think I eventually got to 75wpm with no mistakes (or whatever was allowed by the program--three mistakes a minute sticks in my mind but who can remember). It served me well. I live-LaTeXed my lecture notes and homework in college.

I unlearned the habit of backspacing to my mistake, correcting, and retyping. That has served me well.

I wish we had spent more time on accurately typing \ | ( ) , [ ] { } etc.† It would help me now as I still make simple mistakes with that. On the other hand, it only would've been useful to a handful of us.

† In fact, thinking about this brought up the very nostalgic memory of buying C++ for Dummies and the first program listing in it having a vertical pipe character. I had never seen it, and thought it was an ell at first. Well, that didn't compile, so maybe it was a 1? I didn't know! And the listing in the book had an unbroken pipe but my keyboard had a split one, so I couldn't tell these were the same character.

Eventually, I hit every key on the keyboard and then went back through them pressing shift until I found the right character! That was a feeling of enlightenment!
The Swiss neutrality to not take part in a conflict started during the mid XVI century. It was formalized in 1815 but it was already the normal policy before that.
Of course the issued correction was rather new in 2017, the report it corrected was what was 103 years old. But I guess only overly pedantic souls like myself get bothered by stuff like that.
Robinhood backs down over bearish Signature Bank bets
Install iCloud app locally and sync them. Then backup your local folder to another device or cloud. Backblaze B2 is a great cloud option for raw storage.
The problem you've identified is that using a skill is available only to those who have bothered to hone the skill. Why should we have to bother learning something? It's simply not fair. If I want to be an artist I shouldn't have to practise or educate myself. The simple desire to be an artist should be enough!

Note: I don't really care if people use AI to generate anything but they should be forthright about doing so.
Can you share some of the reasons you don't like it?
Review: The D&D movie is a blast – and a surprisingly faithful adaptation
SpaceX Starlink rolls out $200 per month ‘global’ satellite internet package
"Found the facts unpalatable, and thus widely ignored them" seems a better description of the Roman situation - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead_poisoning#History

Sounds darn similar to what modern humans are doing, eh?
Case in point, from six days ago: "The uncanny failures of A.I.-generated hands" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35108726
These seem pretty creative to me? are they? I'm not a fictional guy so I don't really know?

can you be extraordinarily creative and unusual?

Sure, here are five highly creative and unusual fictional creatures:

Crystalline Leviathan: The Crystalline Leviathan is a massive creature that lives deep in the ocean. Its body is made entirely of iridescent crystals that refract light in all directions, creating a dazzling display. The Crystalline Leviathan feeds on deep-sea creatures and can grow up to hundreds of meters long.

Plasmic Shapeshifter: The Plasmic Shapeshifter is a shape-shifting creature that can manipulate its own plasma to take on different forms. It has no fixed appearance, but usually appears as a mass of writhing, translucent tendrils. The Plasmic Shapeshifter is highly intelligent and can mimic the voices and mannerisms of other creatures.

Quantum Butterfly: The Quantum Butterfly is a tiny, delicate creature that flits through the fabric of space-time. Its wings are made of pure energy, and it can move at incredible speeds. The Quantum Butterfly is believed to be responsible for some of the most unusual quantum phenomena, such as entanglement and superposition.

Cosmic Serpent: The Cosmic Serpent is a serpentine creature that lives in the void of space. Its body is covered in shimmering, rainbow-colored scales that reflect the light of distant stars. The Cosmic Serpent feeds on cosmic radiation and can survive in the most inhospitable environments.

Dream Weaver: The Dream Weaver is a mysterious creature that lives in the realm of dreams. Its body is made of ephemeral, mist-like substance that can change shape at will. The Dream Weaver is said to be able to influence the dreams of mortals, and can even enter their dreams to communicate with them. It is rumored that if you catch a Dream Weaver and release it, it will grant you a wish as a reward for sparing its life.
Sorry, yes, at that scale I agree backups are worth it.
Forget about creating AGI -- the most amazing and unpredictable thing about the success of Midjourney is its success despite having the user interface of a 1998 DALnet xdcc warez channel.
Weakness in Signal's Sealed Sender (2022)
New Features in Castle Game Engine 7.0
Ahh, seems I was a bit too quick.
Non-legal Cannabis in Germany is a surprisingly low margin product; profit is made through volume, which increases risk exposure. So it's not amazing for dealers, despite the large demand.

It's abundance leads to a very competitive market (in Ballungsgebieten), like in other markets substitution though home production is always looming.

For dealers in Berliner parks, there's also always competition with more reputable informal suppliers as well as medical trickle downs or substitutes.

This leads to the incentive for dealers to steer consumption towards products with higher margin (or an increase of margin through lesser quality product).
I’ve had good support experiences at amazon actually
Since you mention Thinkpad, here is a personal pet peeve.

A company called StarTech makes ExpressCard devices and USB devices. They make:

* An ExpressCard HDMI capture device (no longer manufactured) that sits flush with the body of the Thinkpad. [0]

* ExpressCard USB3 peripherals that adds one or two USB ports to the Thinkpad and sits flush with the body of the Thinkpad. [1]

* USB3 to HDMI output devices that leave an unsightly dongle protruding from the Thinkpad. [2]

So, what StarTech does not make (and my pet peeve):

An ExpressCard device that adds an HDMI output port to a laptop and sits flush with the laptop's body.

Note that such a product would seem to be a trivial combination of their existing products. I would also expect that such a device would be cheaper to manufacture than the equivalent capture device.

[0] https://www.startech.com/en-us/audio-video-products/echdcap

[1] https://www.startech.com/en-us/cards-adapters/ecusb3s254f

[2] https://www.startech.com/en-us/display-video-adapters/usb32h...
> Maybe we don't want to produce autonomous intelligence but only human-prompted intelligence.

Why wouldn't we want these, if we could achieve that?

I've only ever heard FUD arguments against it, and all of them would apply to your suggestion as well.

Heck, I'd say true AI is safer then a highly effective autonomous bot that only does what it's told. You'd always be only a single command away from accidentally wiping out all organic life by ordering something like "get some iron"
I am not equivocating between the two at all. I’m stating it’s very clearly the latter and because it’s clearly the latter, illegality is not a question. It’s obviously legal for Russia to take action against military assets that are participating in military action against it.

The whole legality question is a red herring, as your comment clearly articulates.
Ask HN: Anyone use an external tool to maintain contentful?
I'm finding the way our contentful environment has been set up to be less than enticing, in fact it feels like an unmaintainable swamp. This is probably our fault but we have a bunch of content that is simply 'boilerplate' to put other content together. I would like to do something to maintain this boilerplate outside contentful and wondering if anyone has had to do something like and written up their experiences, what tools were used etc.
The military spokesman basically said that it did and that they used it.
Area 120 is almost completely dead as of the layoff.
Yeah, Edison's gramophone sucked because there were no records at the time.
Huh, thanks. Seems like a weird moat to hide it behind but I guess they know what they're doing..
I tried it as a replacement for Picasa, but found it underwhelming.

It was slow processing the images, so took very long after adding new pictures to them turning up in searches.

One of the main attractions, searching geotagged images by location, wasn't smooth at all and quite clunky to use.

Tried it a few times last fall but gave up.
Why don't the producers just add a physical button you have to press in order to open the car? It sounds like much less hassle than remembering to store your keys in a proper container always. It looks like it's just marketed to lazy and uninformed people.
As Károly Zsolnai-Fehér of Two Minute Papers[1] fame consistently likes to point out (paraphrased):

> "Don't look at the current state, just imagine this 2 papers down the line".

[1] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbfYPyITQ-7l4upoX8nvctg
‘Thimble printer’ is the generic term; the NEC Spinwriter series is the primary example.

https://typewriterdatabase.com/197x-nec-spinwriter-7720.7239...

https://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/input-output/14/3...
No, as I was trying to imply I don't particularly care about the use of a given technology per se, I care about the consequences of its application to labor.

"Labor will shift" makes it sound like a smooth and automatic process but it is not. People will lose jobs with no equivalent replacements, families will fall into poverty and misery when they hadn't before. In a place like the US with healthcare tied to employment, people will die. And eventually, it will reach a stable equilibrium with fewer jobs that can support a reasonable quality of life. That's what labor shifting looks like, we know because we've seen it over and over again.

The changes might ultimately be net positive for a great many people, but that's small consolation to the people whose lives will be made much much worse during the transition. None of this is inevitable, but historically it's the path we've chosen and we seem even more dedicated to this outcome now than at previous times of change in the relation between labor and survival.
probably a 5-10% error rate. C'mon, you have to be impressed though compared to where we were only a few months ago
Silicon Valley Bank and the Politics of Digital Casino Chip Insurance
You can get automatic takeouts from Google, might have to find a way to automatically download them when they send it to your email
I took my own advice. The credits for the film The Day After Trinity (1981) mention NBC which my fuzzy memory told me was the original interviewer. Further digging led me to this source:

https://www.historyvshollywood.com/video/robert-oppenheimer-...

which claims the interview was aired on NBC television in 1965.