skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Generally I support parents taking action to protect their kids from the harms of social media; but coming from a state government, and this one in particular, it comes across as a bit draconian the approach being taken. The hidden agenda does seem to be keeping Mormon youth from encountering materials critical of LDS church truth claims. Too little too late, but I'm sure that's one intended consequence.
Question: Adding out of state investors to the demand pool ( that additionally can out bid locals) will likely

A. Increase house prices

B. Decrease house prices

Question 2: adding rent seeking middlemen between people and housing is likely going to

a. reduce costs for housing

B. Increase cost for housing

So there’s a finite supply of house, investors from out of state are now competing, increasing demand but also have deeper pockets. Now the locals who would hav bought are forced to rent, increasing demand for rentals. They investors aren’t going to take a loss so they’ll rent at the rate that gives them the expected return, which they get because of the high demand they helped create, with rental prices justified relative to the sales price that they themselves jacked up
> I'm dismayed at how this sounds like a marxist handbook, instead of looking at how other developed nations do it. I've been inspired by codetermination in Germany, where the unions has like half of the board seats by law.

Guess who's to thank for that German policy...it begins with an 'M' and ends with 'ists.'
I do work in tech. Almost 25 years.

As a traditionally trained artist, my advantage over the years always was the knowledge of composition, color and my drawing skills when producing the visual part of the products.

I focused early in my company (2005) on UX and UCD processes, and with the time realized that people don't care about craftsmanship or maximizing the quality.

We are approaching a time of generative design. Personalization of UX by data based generative interfaces. So even the flow and journey mapping will be automated soon (UX researchers, hello).

For me, this is the end of an era of innovation driven by human creativity. You will have a data scientist and secretary, which will prompt all day the "boss" vision.

A.I. art is not art.
I will give you a simple example: Who will be the creator of the famous David sculpture? Michelangelo or the rich patron who gave the description of the task? According to the definition of A.I. "art" the patron is the artist.

So in this scenario, the art becomes a commodity generated without human touch and personal expression. Just a synthetic membrane of average results trained on stolen data and genius intellectual property laundering machine.

Personally, my decision is to capitalize the remains of an industry and detach myself from any form of metaverse interactions. I started to paint recently again and don't give any F* about commercial viability of the process. If people of the future want to live in A.I. induced corporate coma, so be it.
I guess regular religious fervor just isn’t what it used to be.
Although salary plays a big part in the transaction, it is not everything.

Many years ago I worked as a hiring manager for a PR firm in India, the cover letter is a very good way to sift out the dedicated candidates from the unfocused.

It also provides us with a unique insight into their psyche, using a combination of NLP and targeted interview questions regarding topics mentioned in the cover letter, we were able to discern potential points of leverage when it comes to salary negotiation. For example, an ideologically driven unior associate will accept a lower yearly salary as long as he's personal ego requirements are fulfilled, thus minimising operational expenditure for the business.
Three years ago I had passing interest in GNUstep, and in the past there have already been demos of so-called "Renaissance apps", which can compile against either AppKit or GNUstep. The GNU Mail program is one such program.

Wait till you learn Clozure Common Lisp has an Objective-C bridge and features a Mac IDE written with it. Unfortunately it has bitrotted over time as Apple constantly changes AppKit and some Objective-C internals, but it's able to run on Catalina just fine, and it works even better on older versions of OS X.
That's an interesting point, but I wonder how the cost structure will change as AI becomes a bigger part of the feature set we expect.

The battery is a key part as well. Doing a lot of on-device processing requires a bigger battery and/or more frequent battery replacements.
How often do you hear "As a parent ...", especially used to justify a completely unremarkable statement. "As a mother, it's important that my child is healthy" - duh.
Why do you not believe it?
If your database loses data when killed it is not worth the bits it is made of.
I don't think so. I think in the future we will be living pretty similarly but instead of just doing the work manually we'll be using AI to be more efficient. Just like what the original post on reddit was referring to.

He was not fired or anything, his bosses just told him "now you need to do 10 times the work you were doing before because you got the AI". Although in the past it was okay for him to do 1/10th of the work, now with the AI, that has become unacceptable.

Why would the socio-economic system change? We've been automating work for a while now and people don't really get fired over it; they are just tasked with producing more. Remember that the computer itself was a huge productivity enhancer. When excel came out suddenly one accountant could do the work of 10 but most people weren't liberated from their tedious manual algebraic works, instead, we simply started to produce significantly more than before.

Of course, I would love to live in the world that you dream of, I'm pretty sure that's what post-scarcity communism looks like. I just don't really see any indicators in terms of public policy or business attitude that indicates that will be the case. Seems to me like our societies are more geared towards growth rather than improving quality of life.
This is a great point but do note that it is quite easy to setup [1] a private npm registry as well. Most orgs actually do just that as you really do not want a production build failing if npm goes down.

Either that or you vendor in your dependencies.

[1] https://smalldata.tech/blog/2023/03/17/setup-a-private-npm-r...
Since absolutely nowhere forced vaccination, and the restrictions related to vax status have been gone for quite a while now, it really seems like you’re shadowboxing enemies that don’t exist
Architecture is not about technology. It’s about how to structure a system to best aid a given organization to achieve its strategic goals.
How about striding for one of the core societal values that make many advanced democraties (including the European nordics) so much better/happier than the US? It’s called Equality.

Insert strong progressive taxes, especially on wealth, and use it to fund a strong public sector, so _everyone_ has as access to basic goods and services for free, like education/health/transport/… .

I think you vastly underestimate how much money is the rich have siphoned from society, what do you think that printed money goes to? The change impact would be _massive_, suddenly people would have disposable money instead of crushing debts, nd actually stimulate the economy!
I shed a tear. It's not often you come across a story of end user tech saving lives, let alone a relatively nascent one.

Such a strong girl. Go Sassy!
It sure sounded like a claim about prevalence. I know that some people win the lottery, but I wouldn't say that "plenty" of people win the lottery.
Your reading should be messy
Friend, I understand your desire to promote your website. But the article you linked has not even the slightest relationship to this one.

That's not what we do here. You can expect that your comment will be marked [flagged] [dead] in the next few minutes.

If you ever want to contribute any on-topic comments, I am sure they will be welcomed.
I find Scapple[1] more interesting since it comes close to what I'm playing around with. I've started using Node-RED[2] as a mind-map for my ideas and thoughts. I've created custom nodes to provide a categorization for ideas, thoughts, observations, inspiration etc. As I a see fit I link nodes together. The end result is a chaotic mind-map which I call a writermap since the entire mind-map is executable. Between any two points in the mind-map I can create a document with all the paths that link those two points. The document is just a concatenation of all the nodes visited along the way.

Taking this a step further, I thought about creating a global mind-map whereby everyone contributes their mind-maps into interconnected open mind-map. I had this idea because I realised that I had mapped my information bubble in creating my mind-map. But how do I get out of my information bubble? Hence the idea of an open mind-map[2] to navigate through other peoples mind-maps out of my information bubble.

[1]=https://www.literatureandlatte.com/scapple/overview

[2]=https://nodered.org/

[3]=https://millieons.org/w/mapping-information-bubbles
The Malthusians Are Back
The fact Germany seems to be resistant to use electronic payment options is specially interesting given the neighbours to the North, specially Sweden, are probably the most cashless societies anywhere.
Who else benefits from that?
You reminded me of this scene in Bladerunner 2049: https://youtu.be/vrP-_T-h9YM

and this scene in South Park: https://youtu.be/qj0o5aPS_Ts&t=6m30s
They are primarily for storing wmbeddings for similarity search - not general purpose nearest neighbor algorithms.
https://archive.is/rffp8
Infinity as a concept is not easy to reason about because it’s not something we ever encounter in our daily lives. It leads to interesting paradoxes such as Hilbert Hotel.

Coming to Natural and Real numbers, one way I’d like to think is that real numbers are more “dense” (or continuous) compare to integers which are discrete. A cup full of sugar and cup full of water could be of equal volume but you can count sugar grains and not water because water is not grainy and is “continuous”.
While fundamentally true, this comment is astonishingly tone deaf in light of the entirely unprecedented amplitude and timescale at which the shift is happening this time.

"Just prepare" does not work when years become days.
We need that word now, considering how GPT-4 is performing at major exams compared to human professionals.

GPT-4 is better than the average human professional today. This isn't some hypothetical future we are talking about.
Yes it is.

(London-LA semi-frequent flyer).
A smart company will realise it's better to be 2x productive for the same money than to be at the same productivity for half the money.
they're hosting npm now? i didn't know
It certainly will make the hiring part of the work a little more difficult.

Previously this step could be used as a filter, but now all the letters are going to be good which means the hiring part has just become a little more difficult.

Is this a good thing? I guess?
Can We Stop with Those Horrible “System Overview” Dashboards Already?
> If they have a mortgage on the house, someone gets screwed, and that someone is the bank that issued the mortgage. The mortgage is secured by the house. You can just let them take it.

If you have 25% equity in the house, and something happens that knocks down the value by 30%... the person getting screwed is you.
> That's ironic, considering that in this case it was THE DOCTOR whose advice would have killed the patient, and ChatGPT who saved them.

And surely one anecdote makes a black box AI very trustworthy and reliable against human doctors. /s

> The pedestals that our society has put professionals on are going to start tumbling very soon now.

Nope. Not even close. The OP did not treat the patient by themselves, they reviewed the output with a human doctor.

I don't think even you yourself would begin to follow ChatGPT's advice and treat and inject yourself without input from an experienced human doctor based on ONE statistic of it saving someone's life especially them going to a second human doctor.
If home prices are going up everywhere that means demand is exceeding supply everywhere.

Only if the houses are selling at the higher price. There are a lot of empty, unsold houses where the owner is refusing to reduce the price. Property economics is weird.
Thats nice!

I have been in the situation where you can see even fresh to the workforce that everyone is doing something inefficiently. So you come up with an idea.

In my case it was more prosaic than compilers: they were assigning “pages” to devs to rewrite in .net, but clearly the pages had similarities and it made no sense for different people to be building the same thing in parallel their own way. I was simply suggesting to do some design worm upfront!

But it is hard to be listened to when either young or new to a company. Glad they have you a chance. Lesson for companies: give anyone passionate a chance to experiment!
I’m talking about an individual home’s value. The sort of thing that leads to bitter zoning fights at the local level.
Anecdotally, I've had many Uber drivers who are engineers/software developers
Largely because of infrastructure. You could get animal feed in places you couldn't get gasoline and oil. And horses don't need smooth roads.
> I started to paint recently again and don't give any F* about commercial viability of the process.

That is an affordance a lot of people have to be granted now.
That is my point. In the case for FSD, the driver must be attentive and behind the wheel at all times.
No. God no are you kidding? Subsistence farming? We did that for thousands of years it was horrible.
podman runs or builds containers? as far as i understand it docker desktop does 2 or 3 different things and i haven't managed to untangle that yet because it hasn't fully broken my workflow yet. getting more and more tempting to remove it but i need something for my weird windows+wsl setup
I definitely think a lot of people here are missing the forest for the trees. A lot of the arguments seem to boil down to “it cannot do this now, so people won’t be able to make it do so later”, which seems naive. Look at what Microsoft is investing in this tech - is anyone actually thinking that they won’t be able to figure out how to add structure to the output, or better train the models, integrate it better with stakeholder requirements, or whatever else? HN loves being contrarian, but in this case I think it’s more curmudgeon than contrarian.
There is a similar problem with Dublin timezone in Davx5 / iCal4j: https://github.com/bitfireAT/davx5-ose/discussions/265 (and noone cares)
It’s curious how adding civil liberties to the list of criteria would dramatically change the rankings.

For example, is Saudi Arabia still in the TOP 10 countries if I’m gay, a woman or trans?
> If the prices were very high due to excess demand, probably not because there is enough demand to absorb those 10k units without meeting all the demand, so prices won't drop.

Supply and demand aren't quantities, they're functions. You may be trying to say that demand is inelastic around the present point, but I suspect it actually isn't.
This is childish. People are starving more in non capitalist societies.
Ah, for specific examples castle crashers, samorost, battleblock theatre, super meat boy all came from the flash developers initially I believe.
You don't see any benefits of AI?
Could you instead use AI to reduce drudgery in your work, or to iterate faster between ideas until you settle on a final peace? What if you have something in mind that is hard to prompt for, or the tool just refuses to generate what you had in mind? I would try to lean into it as a tool to speed up some of the tedium, instead of fear it, if possible
> Sitting on a home with 2-3% interest is all well and good, until the value drops and you’re sitting on a much worse asset.

What is the mechanism of action that causes the value to drop?
>against whom every concern about rights being tested against?

because they're often the first group these legislations aim at. It's no coincidence that the state in question is Utah, effectively run by the Mormon church with a strong interest in censoring youth access to the internet.
Uh, yes, this is why I said "many of us" not "most of us". (not sure why i need to repeat this...) Of course I know people who are in 20s are not necessarily the absolute majority of HN. But there are still many of them.
One positive thing I can say about Weaviate is that it's incredibly simple to get started with it, as it handles talking to the vectorizer(s) for you, and they provide many out of the box container images for them. With that we were able to integrate a similarity search into our product very quickly.

From what I can tell, its competitors generally don't do this, and you have to handle generating the embeddings and all the back and forth with the embeddings yourself, setting the barrier for integration much higher.

If you are at a level where you want to get a lot more control about embeddings, I agree that there it will often be better to just use the vector search capabilities that your existing solution like Redis/Postgres are getting.
So from mathematical logic we know that if you take a simple statement you can have a formal statement equivalent to it[0].
For example, 'not all frogs are green', or 'quadrupeds are four-legged animals'.
For the logical form there is a mathematical procedure that let's you verify its meaning (reduction in lambda-calculus, or equivalently a proof tree). However, these statements are not very interesting![1]

So what are 'interesting statements'? That would be something that has some deeper meaning, philosophical ideas (let's call them 'general ideas').
If we wanted to use the same approach, we would need to encode all the necessary concepts through predicates or compose them in logic functions or formula fragments.
Of course, to arrive at a concept such as 'philosophy' the endeavor would be enormous.
Even if you managed to do it, would your encoding be recognized as 'philosophy' by everyone else?

Instead, we communicate with these general statements that requires that you reduce them to simpler statement that actually mean something. Let's take 'the early bird gets the worm'. You need to take some examples to think 'what does it mean in this situation'?
You can try to falsify and work with it like a hypothesis. You get some understanding from that process and not from the statement itself. Can it be called the meaning of the statement?
Not really, because there is no way to associate to a simple mathematical process, it depends on each individual's mental process.
And given that, how can you be sure of what exactly is the idea that you're communicating?

If you understand these general ideas, and that you cannot communicate them except to people that already understood them, these statements are meaningless in a certain sense [2].

You can say that "but we communicate about these things all the time". But how well?
There's a an anecdote due to Lucian about two people talking to each others without really understanding anything, so he went to them and asked "doesn't it seem to you that one is trying to milk a billygoat and the other is handing him a colander?".

[0] you just need to provide a precise definition for all terms and associate a predicate for each property of interest. It's a slog to do but it's something that is done, for example in engineering when you need some safety properties.

[1] That was identified as the inanity of mathematics; you can only prove tautologies. In a way what you can salvage from this procedure is that some statements are meaningful, whereas some are not (e.g. Russel's paradox)

[2] A concept that helps is Quine's "indeterminacy of translation"
You fail to understand how copyleft works. The whole point of licenses such as GPL for example isn't to allow the user to do anything with the code. Doing so would allow ruthless businesses to immediately take advantage of that uncontrolled freedom because all patches, forks and derivative works would become closed in no time. The point of such licenses is rather to give more freedom to the majority of users by preventing others from restricting how software would be distributed.

> This is the true spirit of free and open source software. Sharing code with the world for the collective improvement of software everywhere.

Did whoever took your code share their bug fixes and updates with the community, so that the original code could be improved? If not, that would actually be against the true spirit of free and open source software.
It’s nice that the barrier became lower but people still need jobs to afford food and rent. I doubt that UBI will come anytime soon so less jobs that pay enough is a serious issue.
The people that fight hardest against this are the ones that crow loudest about fair and affordable housing, ironically enough.
So many random personal insults in the article. Why? They certainly don't make the article better
Moby doesn't seem excellent either. at least the tickets I've stumbled into the stewards have not been very receptive
True, it's amplifying Google results BS to incredible levels.
Writing a spec is a problem that can be broken down into sub-problems and so on. It’s not magic, and while the LLMs of today may do it poorly, there’s nothing special about the task that would prevent better models from doing a decent job. I’m sure if someone posted on here 5 years ago that they were building an AI that could at an image and tell you what’s funny about it, people on here would be foaming at the mouth to explain how impossible that task is, that only humans possess the subjective viewpoint and je-ne-sai-quois of human… and now here we are.
> Despite the US's deficit in housing ever since, many millions of houses houses have in fact been abandoned. Please explain.

Sure. No one wants to live in those areas where the houses are being abandoned, or government regulation makes bringing them up to code financially non-viable.
How much of that do you think is due to laziness specifically and not GC?
Same in India. And not just when speaking or writing English, but in some the regional languages too.
Epsilons and Deltas
I guarantee that there are more than 5 million bot accounts alone.
Maybe that's actually why such a person will take "an emulation of the apparent behavior observed in a leaf cell record" for a full scale forest ecosystem?

No one is exempt of blindspot. Including myself of course.
My old interval ear training music theory program finally works, off the demo on their site.
https://trainear.com/trainear_binaries/trainear.com.swf

The menu is super twitchy on the form data, but it works in default settings. Wow!!
Better readability -

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1639716822680236032.html
At my university we had 2 courses. One was focused on parsing and type checking, and one was focused on code generation and optimization.
Amazing professor! Best class I ever had was his embedded systems assembly/cpu course. Great guy and awesome in person. Throw this man some subs!
Bill Gates published a 7-page letter about AI and his predictions for its future
Almost everywhere in the world, yes. There may be some localized falls, but those are temporary and as long as there's people having to live in a place, prices will keep going up, the whole system is built for making that happen.
No idea if that is correct, it is conjecture on my part. Quick look through the Show page shows no posts without a vote. Karma may play into it as well, posters with lower karma needing more votes to get on the Show page. HN seems to purposefully avoid giving away the specifics of such things, which I think is a good thing.