skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I am now able to create, rig and animate a character thats spit out from MJ in 2-3 days. Before, it took us several weeks in 3D

Sounds like one artist in that studio is being let go, considering the studio is now getting work done dramatically faster. It'll probably be the guy with the (IMO understandable) "poor attitude" about what the job has become.

Even if you think the studio will simply output more art, they either need to find financially-viable uses for six times as much art, or let go of an artist - because if they just start using three times as much, that's still only enough work for one of the two artists.
But they lump them together to contrast an American-centric viewpoint with what the author perceive as Taiwan/TSMC rigor/gentleness/focus/invisibleness. Which is interesting imo, though maybe a bit overdone, but given the title...
I wonder if it's not also the comment format, that is not a full retranscription of the discussion they had, that brings this "ask" to an autoritative verb. The discussion may very well have been "I asked her if she wanted to get off the pill", and the parent took a shortcut on writing.

I did this, and I'm now vasectomized, but even without this operation, the deal was always "I think this may be harmful to you, I would suggest to stop taking it, but that's your move. If you're taking it for contraceptive reasons, we can figure out something else". But this makes for a way longer comment, when you are replying quickly to a topic to provide an opinion on a subject.
“Softerware Engineer”
This kind of bureaucracy and the mentality of public sector employees is more of a southern European phenomenon, not just Italian. I've spent most of my life living between Italy and Greece (being 50% both in heritage) and the past 7 years in Portugal, and it's all the same down here. It feels like the public sector is holding those states hostages in the 1970s. This is of course in stark contrast to the experience that I've had while I was living in the UK for a few years in the late 2010s.
At this point I simply equate Bard with Russias military: much fear for nothing. Still not beaten, but totally useless and laughable either way.

If google intentionally released such an inferior thing while already in panic mode against an existential thread to the company, those deciders must be fired on the spot. Didn’t happen yet, search stopped growing and is _shrinking_ now, and no deciders fired yet, soooo
I am also approaching my 40s, but really, it is true that when one ages, so many uncommon things failed spectacularly, after that, one assumes everything behaves like that. But I try to keep a fresh mind and kind of brainwash myself to think positively first. Played out very well until now. (Because a lot of young developers fresh out of uni are taking with them the conservatism of the professors or mediocre student teams.)
I'm a developer and a hobby artist. So I could br a bit off on the art front.

For development: it's helped me adopt new libraries a bit quicker.

It also helped with generating a first draft of documentation/comments, or to help me iterate on the phrasing of some stuff I over explained, or not explained well enough. It's kinda made me a better writer as a result, since I learned phrasing techniques that I previously didn't.

It's helped me with boring stuff like converting data type syntax between languages.

It's good at doing autocompletion of lines or short snippets. This is a godsend in systems programming, where you type a lot.

It also helped me go from "blank page" projects or task by generating the boilerplate or scaffolding.

It's often times wrong (and sometimes in funny ways), but it's allowed me to focus on the problem domain rather than the supporting and often boring grunt work.

I think an artist probably has similar situations on the job. It wouldn't be a job of everything about it was rainbows and unicorns. Sometimes artists do boring stuff. Why not get that out of the way.

Or if working with really poor requirements on something that's not super interesting to them, maybe they can do rapid reference generation or brainstorming through the theses AI tools.

Or you realised you want to change the colour palette for a part of the scene. Instead of manually fiddling with thr the selection tools, and curves/HSL/filters, just ask the AI to retouching it. Then correct a bit, since it probably won't get it right. So just quicker iterations. I don't think it necessarily hinders the creative process
When deleting a 25k-file node_modules folder on windows, I use the built-in rmdir, as it is much faster than the GUI. I do not know how it compares to robocopy.
Funny thing: the raw GPT4 is incredibly well calibrated. If it gives you an answer with a 40% probability of being correct - it knows that it's 40%.

After reinforcement learning on the other hand it copied the human fallacy: it's very sure when it's very sure, but after that it's stuck at "yeah, it could be true".
The Nemesis System is similar.
The first three sentences:

> 1. “We have to have a business with some inherent characteristics that give it a durable competitive advantage.” Professor Michael Porter calls barriers to market entry that a business may have a “sustainable competitive advantage.” Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger call them a “moat.”
Yes, women are treated as a subspecies in some of these countries listed, what a poor article!
Sorry, but this is just not true.

1) She was already correctly diagnosed with the first issue (babesiosis), which causes anemia.

2) As a result of the babesiosis, she developed a secondary complication (immune disorder), which worsened the anemia. Note that this can also occur as a standalone disease, which is actually the google result you're getting.

3) You would have had to google "secondary complications causing anemia as a result of canine babesiosis", and at this point, google stops helping you. Not that I would have known to google that anyway.
It's in the first point: "durable competitive advantage, or moats"
Your example is not a reasonable approach. Also, why the need to introduce relative importance between "metrics"?

Let's circle back to the context of the article, which is about how easy it is for a foreigner to settle in a foreign country. The article doesn't specify who is this foreigner, and so the only reasonable approach is to assume it must apply to every single human being.
No, it's talking about housing units, which includes both single- and multi-family construction.
The main issue is that old people and young people have very different interests and concerns, and demographics put young people at a disadvantage. Politicians can win elections by just targeting people over 45, which mostly don't care about the housing, wage and employment crisis, and care mostly about paying less taxes on wealth and retirement.
> Since Linux uses UTC and not TAI

Unix, not linux. I don’t even think they can track TAI, but I definitely have never seen one which does, they all define unix time as 86400*days since epoch + seconds since midnight.
Show-HN: X - Solve complex tasks (eg writing and testing code) using LLM-Chains
React is hostile to the outside world
The age of Digital Walled Gardens is nigh!
Why didn't it work? Was try 2 ionice?
Immutable mappings make this cheap.
Discussion on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35302767
I searched "dog anemia" and got this as the first result:

https://vcahospitals.com/know-your-pet/anemia-in-dogs

Right there on the page: IMHA. If you add just a couple keywords from the large input, you likewise get more direct IMHA results.
I agree with you, logging calories manually sucks, especially if you’re preparing whole foods. But how does adding AI into the mix solve the issue? E.g. it seems unlikely to me that we’ll ever get to the point of snapping a picture of a home cooked meal and getting accurate calories, maybe that’s where I’m being shortsighted?
What does it matter whether it has more than 5 million accounts? Why not 50K accounts?
It hasn't been in your lifetime. The rest of us have been watching and shaking our heads for ages.
Corrupt government?
You must be living in another Germany.
Because the failure mode is gentler. With swap, once you start a process that needs more RAM than you have, you enter a swapping death spiral, the system becomes completely unresponsive and you have to hard reset. Without swap, you only get one process killed.
Apparently videoconferencing with kids is AOK while chats are not?
I think Google has a weird pathological case maybe. So, I'm not sure I would use them as a forecast.

I think R&D is good in any company. Sure, the nature of R&D is that most of it is failure; that's just the way it is.

AI makes the R&D iteration shorter and cheaper, IMO. The more you try, the more likely you're to succeed (aside: I should listen to my own advice sometimes lol).
I think lat,long is the way to go
… diapers, laundry detergent, etc. are stolen because they’re as good as currency. Anyone who lives in a poor area can tell you there is someone reselling these for a bit cheaper.
Not everyone, not if you have an eye for identifying discount grocery stores with clearly grey market goods!
I really like standard ML. Modules are great but type classes would be … more pragmatic?
Italian here; for whatever it’s worth, I myself feel more at home in a number of European countries, for example in Spain (especially in Catalonia) and Portugal, but also in Denmark and Sweden…

I would recommend foreigners to move to Italy only if Italy is very strong in their field of interest, for example in fashion, food, wine, art o the opera.
Ask HN: Load balancer that inspects response payloads?
One of my small projects runs Apache httpd as a load balancer in front of two web servers which produce XML. I got a new requirement that the load balancer should look for an element in the response XML and, when present, consider the web server that produced it as overloaded and throttle requests to it. Available options are augmenting httpd's configuration or replacing it with a new (open source) Linux software LB. Traffic is <100 reqs/sec and less than 2MB/sec, latency is not an issue.

Having a software engineering background my instinct is to program an LB of my own and be done, but supporting that would require upskilling my team (who are not software engineers). With respect to existing LBs/API gateways, what are my options?
This comment has some great recommendations: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25388091
Indeed. Lots of noise in communicating exactly what we mean. That is why it is futile to compare to a human. Most people don’t even know how to describe the qualities.
On my personal computer and projects I always use Podman. There is even a fancy web app if people desperately want a cool icon on their menu bar, though it pales in comparison to Docker Desktop in features. (For instance, it's not able to search for images, whereas Docker Desktop can).

I do not miss Docker at all considering that I can copy paste almost every docker invocation I see online and have it run flawlessly with Podman. Unfortunately my workplace will probably never even consider trying out Podman as a replacement to Docker. I wonder if someone here has a nice anecdote of using Podman successfully at their workplace.
I would say in an exaggerated version of the Haskell mindset, the most important thing is to prevent the program from giving wrong answers. The archetypal Haskell program is a compiler, and having it generate wrong code that gets deployed on a space mission is disastrous. Having the compiler crash with a memory leak is merely an annoyance. You would not write realtime code in idiomatic Haskell, if you would write such code in Haskell at all.
The AVM was not resource hungry. It was the bad SWFs that ran on it which were resource hungry.

Guess what? It is now bad Javascript code that is resource hungry.
You know everything needs maintenance right? That is something everyone seems to forget.
Yup, it’s a dog eat dog world when you’re ripping off everyone’s stuff and branding it as your own!
> I'm interested if you could expand on how they're not representative?

This is going to be very hard to explain, but basically imagine when you read something written by a Chinese newspaper about your country, it's just off, like focusing on the wrong issue that isin't really seem as a problem, or interviewing people that aren't really important.

Like this one: https://www.thelocal.dk/20230324/why-are-waste-containers-ov... if you read the Danish sources, it is about work hours yes, but it is really about avoiding traffic in the city at later stages of the day (I picked an article at random)

> Are there better English language equivalents you know of?

with today's AI, I think translating is doing a great job tbh
https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=gurwinder.substack.co... - it's been posted few times already FYI
Show HN: I made a non-trivial iOS app with GPT-4 in just a few hours
After being inspired by your responses to the Ask HN thread yesterday (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35299071), I decided to see if I could use ChatGPT to make a functioning app. I picked a random project idea out of my Notebook of Amazing Ideas, and spent just a couple of hours using GPT-4 to build it. I've never built an iOS app before, and even if I made something like this as a web app (my usual job), I would expect it to take at least a week. My process was basically 1) Ask ChatGPT to write some code 2) Copy and paste the code into the right files (this took a little bit of React knowledge on my part). 3) Run the code and paste any errors back to ChatGPT and ask it for suggested solutions. 4) Repeat.
These concerns will be rendered meaningless, because there's really no point in having a company when you have no customers. If anyone can use an AI to write useful software then software development is kaput.
I feel like Chinese films are regressing. Their cinema is nowadays filled with so much jingoism it is like the worst US films from the 20th century.
And just like SEO we will have people tailoring their code to fool the AI.
Will AI grow food at scale enough to support billions of people?
It also lists cancer, parasites and a whole bunch of other stuff.

As a guy who knows nothing about dogs, Chatgpt seemed to zero in on this 10x better than that very long VCA page.
I've been programming full time for the past 5 years.Am I a senior engineer yet?
Richard Stallman's thoughts on ChatGPT and it's effect on humanity
Asked via mail.
Here's the response:

I can't foretell the future, but it is important to realize that
ChatGPT is not artificial intelligence. It has no intelligence;
it doesn't know anything and doesn't understand anything.
It plays games with words to make plausible-sounding English text,
but any statements made in it are liable to be false.
It can't avoid that because it doesn't know what the words _mean_.
Another entire class of compounds that are not usually called "NSAID" but that you could arguably call that, are 5-ASA/mesalazine and many of its related compounds.

Although I think this would be more controversial than the inclusion of paracetamol. Personally, I think many DMARDs might be considered NSAIDs as well (except by somewhat arbitrary-seeming exclusion).

When I really think about it, I think the nomenclature might just be conventional and not necessarily make much sense.
You are not wrong but also forgot the reasons…

Most stuff you cheer here is basically a few tech giants out of Silicon Valley. The science kickstart for all that came from a bunch of scientists (like Von neumann) you got when winning WW2 from europe. In a time when many potential competitors were still rebuilding from ruins.

This is over now, europeans tend to no longer go to the us but still produce excellent scientists, Asian countries catched up and both continents start to leave the US behind in most aspects as a desirable place to live, except for 2 things: Military power and billionaires.

Enjoy your 5 tech giants while they last, but also keep in mind that these are international now and draw from nonamerican intellectual power also.
Understanding Immutable OSes
The Yesterweb Ring Is Shutting Down
Everyone deserves to eat. If state fails to feed the masses this is what happens.
I understand what you’re saying but I don't think it’s so simple when you involve human lives. When you have shareholders and a board demanding profits, fucked up things happen like you don’t get the new MRI machine because it’s bad for the bottom line. Or you pass on the state of the art surgical robot because it won’t pay for itself quick enough. Both examples would increase outcomes for patients but don't happen because the board chooses profits. I am from a family of primarily doctors for multiple generations so I have 2nd hand experience with this crap.

I think as a society it would be totally reasonable for us to say “we don't want profiteering in healthcare”. If you set out to take care of people then your business may only cover costs, which includes reinvesting into the business and your employees. You can never be in a situation where you’re weighing profits against patient care because the conflict of interests is considered unacceptable. I would love to see more people advocate for that stance.
There are still companies which provides you consistent, quality nails. Just ordinary nails without niche design. They still have to use manual labour to check and investigate each nail one-by-one. Of course, you won’t get those in your local hardware shop, and they are terribly expensive. The difference compared to old times is, that they still sell the cheap Chinese nails, they just add a layer of very expensive quality control.
> music should be a tool of expression, not one to gain fame & social acceptance

I don’t get it then why you care, let alone care enough to make you feel sick. Nobody is stopping you from using music as a tool of expression. You do you, yam in your basement or wherever you want. I bet that you will find like minded people who appreciate what you do, but even if not you yourself are saying “music should not be a tool to gain fame and social acceptance”.

So why do you care what other people do?
ChatGPT lists multiple things too.

Also this ignores my original comment where I just typed the keywords from the vet notes and got IMHA right on the first result.

That'd be about 100x faster using Google.
According to this [0] page, the most commonly shoplifted items are "apparel followed by cosmetics, alcohol and electronics," so if true, then it's not primarily a matter of essential items. It goes on to say that "incidents peak during December," which I think would tend to imply that people were taking advantage of product placement during Christmas season as opposed to stocking up on food and staples for the winter. (Of course it's possible people in distress are stealing luxury goods to sell at a discount to then acquire necessities.)

Purely speculating but I think that to some extent advertising has been a victim of its own success in convincing people that their self-worth hinges upon their ability to consume goods and services. If you can afford it, buy. If you can't afford to buy, borrow. If you can't borrow, steal. Just don't be poor and get caught. (Being rich and getting caught usually isn't a problem.)

[0] https://blog.gitnux.com/shoplifting-statistics/
How many times do we have to try socialism before we're convinced it doesn't work?

Or maybe you mean something like Nordic countries that are capitalist but tax more heavily and redistribute wealth more?
I was going to suggest HAProxy, but here's your AI generated answer, which is more comprehensive than what I was going to say, but still includes HAProxy. https://sharegpt.com/c/B7pZlA3
I have seen at least one outsourced programming job slow down to the point where it’s effectively no longer outsourced. Previously there were two engineers working, and now there is one as the work isn’t needed anymore.

That in a very real way is a replaced job.

The remaining job is running large scale data loading for a startup and really now is just eyeballs to make sure errors are caught. No longer requires much skill either.

I think some degree of low end engineering work in the outsourcing world is at risk.
Finite sphere packing: Sausage catastrophe
> single purpose solution

You can't be saying this with a straight face.
systemd project subsumes functionality of

- device hotplug

- user session manager

- cron

- logging

- network management

- time zone management

- time sync

- cgroup manager

- deleting /tmp files

- DNS resolver

- UEFI boot manager

and also dozen other things I've forgotten.
Longer/larger according to what ?

If its according to cardinality then no, they have the same cardinality, same number of elements, presumably letters. If its according to a measure, then sure, one can be longer than the other -- the subset of [0,1] of the real line has the same cardinality, same number of 'points' as [0, 100] but the latter is longer when you compare according to the Lebesgue measure, i.e. 'length'.
I’m curious what you mean about Teflon? Because it’s flexible?
Free advice, feel free to reject it as the trash four a.m. writing it is: I want you and your wife to write two sample stories using each of your unique voices. I want you to snapshot your writing process in respect to the various features of your product. I then want you to lay that out as actual examples of what real people do with your product and its relevant features.
Maybe you can sue them for copyright violation?
Time to Stop Using (and Recommending) Solus as a Linux Distro
Yeah, you loose control, the code doesn't feel yours anymore, and it's difficult to track changes. In the end i just let it go in the hands of other people
They are not designed to protect kids. There is always campaign designed to elicit fear and contempt and then they take controlling laws.

Talking about it as if safety was a goal instead of control is just falling into their lie.
Are you aware that is not the rich people who sustain the state and thus 99% of its income, but the middle class right?

That's why politicians who campaign with ideas like "taxing the rich to fix X problem" are pure populist bullshit. You are the one who is gonna end up paying more.

First there are not enough rich people compared to commoners, and second, they can and will hide their money if possible and worth it.

So in the UK as in any other state, what did and is providing "free" education is your money and the money of the ones like you in the middle and upper-middle class.
Seems that forums are exempt, look:

content that is generated by an account holder, or uploaded to or shared on the
270 platform by an account holder, that may be encountered by another account holder;
Some countries (eg. Thailand) have a centralised government system for managing this.

On every receipt, by law, is a unique barcode encoding the shop and purchase value. That barcode, when scanned, leads to a government webpage (and doing your taxes involves scanning each barcode for anything deductible, so many of the receipts get scanned).

On that webpage, occasionally they ask for a photo of the best before label of the goods. The best before date usually includes the lot number.

Now, the government has a list of lots of serial numbers and associated retailers. They can now easily punish those who regularly sell stolen goods.
Update: Thanks your your responses. They inspired me to create an app from scratch using GPT-4. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35312404
>>Capitalism brought us children working in mines 6 days a week, company towns, and extreme poverty world wide.

Do you really think children in feudalistic, communistic and pre-industrial societies didn't work.
Children only stopped working when we as a society became rich enough they didn't have to anymore not because it was outlawed.
He is not an artist he is an operator.