skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> No one has made the argument that suffering racism isn't awful.

gp I responded to stated:

> When the “debate” includes some form of how racist or transphobic, or hateful, or privileged I am, then anything after that is going to be ignored

So being called racist or hateful is enough to cancel their dialog, but those suffering under racism or hate must allow the dialog to continue

> You can do any number of things, but one of them is not what amounts to a heckler's veto of a federal judge.

They can, and they did

> Judge Duncan is not my cup of tea, but this illiberal strain of "progressivism" is certainly not it either.

Judge Duncan represents hate against women, gays, and transgender citizens

https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/politics/articl...

> He’s built a lengthy and high-profile record of battling against gay, transgender and abortion rights, including defending abortion restrictions on behalf of the state of Louisiana. He also defended highly controversial voter ID laws in Texas and North Carolina and fought against gay marriage.

We already know what he is going to say. He’s been able to argue in front of the Supreme Court. He can’t be cancelled. His words are literal law. He gets to say whatever he wants from a lifetime appointment to the federal judiciary.
The problem is that find first, find last, find all, filter, map, flatmap, and reduce all look pretty much the same when written as loops, and writing and reviewing any of these more than once is a poor use of time.
Boomers are still retiring, trading in larger family homes for smaller ones in places they want to live, and paying cash.
Who is "we"? The rich will decide, and probably that they can do without most of the "we".
> draconian content blockers

most school content blockers were pretty easily bypassed in my experience. i was in school relatively recently, my highschool had fortinet which sucked (sni blocking + blocks a bunch of protocols), but tor still got through if i used a bridge. i probably could've used a vpn but tor was easier. before highschool there wasn't anything more than dns filtering (and briefly http host blocking but not sni blocking) which was bypassed by approximately everyone (who wanted to bypass it). most people used random vpn apps, i changed dns, both worked fine.
Or the timezone the sole user is primarily located in.
> I don't see how business structure affects my suggestion at all. The main tax would be on fuel purchases.

Including fuel used by trucks when the same fuel could also be used in planes? If you tax it, businesses that operate both trucks and planes are at disadvantage. If you don't, you create opportunities for tax evasion.

> So make it an EU thing. And the US can do pretty well by itself despite that.

The EU has to deal with major hubs outside its regulations in London and Istanbul. As for the US, Toronto is conveniently located for many domestic routes.

> And you can charge planes at landing based on any fuel they recently used that wasn't taxed enough.

Assuming that you are allowed to do that, according to various tax treaties and free trade agreements you would like to keep.

> Nah you don't have to do that. Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good, and don't try to make taxes too complicated.

Unfortunately it's 2023 and not 2003. The window of opportunity for a good outcome has already closed, and even an ok outcome requires understanding the difference between carbon neutral and climate neutral.

And as I mentioned, there is an alternative to making taxes too complicated: banning activities that are obviously wasteful.
I think that goes to jurisdiction, which is a different issue.

The sibling comment by dragonwriter (which I missed somehow when posting) is a better-worded version of my point about interstate commerce.
Yep I agree that a large contributing factor in all of this has to do with location.

The shortage of skilled labor is another instance where we need to ask why supply is not meeting demand. I think in the case of the supply of skilled construction workers it is not difficult to come up with a plausible explanation that doesn't require any malicious actors.

Anyway, I'm not really trying to make a political point or give everybody my own pet theories as to how this happened. I'm mostly just trying to make the point that the way this issue is generally discussed in the media is economically illiterate at a pretty fundamental level.The observation in the media that supply is not meeting demand is worthless on account of that not being a meaningful statement.
Jobs change and hopefully peoples’ skillset changes and gets better when they do.

This job was different 5 years ago and this entire animation process would be unrecognizable 50 years ago. Tweening didn’t ruin animation it just lowered the barrier of entry. This too will lower the barrier of entry so our future will be more high quality animation. Some of it will be lasting and some of it will be appreciated for mere seconds for throw away content such as ads.

Maybe when everyone gets home from their boring prompt engineering jobs they can go back to hand rolling animation stacks or whatever other workflow is currently getting destroyed by AI for the “fun” of it.
Reminds me of a saying about GaAs semiconductors - “they’re the technology of the future, and they always will be.”
I welcome it. Breaking the way the internet is used these days would be a huge win for society as a whole no matter how painful it might look at first.
Possible for Docker to die as a company; VC's lose their money; the technology survives and is still the mainstay?

Yes, this is the default assumption.
Basically every negative aspect of modern gaming at once. Loot boxes, exploitative use of user-created content, unmoderated interaction between adults and children, free-to-play treadmilling to peer pressure children into spending money, etc etc.
Apple's money can buy relationships to line up the ducks in a row but true genius is willing to work for $1 a year and be rewarded for the upside when it comes, see SJ.
Nice straw man, but I’m right here. Go see what I’m actually objecting to after reading my post a little more critically. Read the other post in this thread while you’re at it.
Redux is so painful to refactor, it makes my head explode. I don’t trust any tech that makes refactoring so painful
What's the solution when so much knowledge work is upended at once? When manufacturing jobs were lost, we callously told people to go to college to learn to learn IT. Whether it's art, code, marketing, or other applied knowledge work, there's a mad dash to reshape all of those. And the sales pitch isn't that it's going to let us work less and equitably reap the rewards of productivity (well, I suppose if you lose your job you get to work less). It's that as a business you can do more with less to increase profitability. Quality might take a hit, but there's an inflection point for that. If sales drop but you reduce your labor costs enough, you still come out ahead.

What field are all of these nail makers supposed to switch to this time?
I don't think you actually need copyrighted data to train AI to compete with artists. The argument over copyright is interesting but kind of a sideshow. We already know that copyright protection is not a prerequisite for creativity - as it currently stands copyright only protects the rich.

The real reason why AI is going to kill DA/NG/SF/GH/etc is because of spam.

Let's say, for every piece a 100% human artist can do with no AI assistance, another artist using AI as a tool can make three. They start off with a prompt in DALL-E, SD, or Midjourney, and then tweak the output with prompts and so on to get exactly what they want quicker.

Now imagine a non-artist using the same technology. They don't care about the touchups. They just want to churn out lots of pieces all at once. So that would be nine times more output compared to the unassisted human - three times three. And there are plenty of them doing this, because they all watched the same video on how you can hustle T-shirt and poster stores by submitting lots of AI-generated pieces.

The reason why you are seeing art sites ban AI art is purely a matter of practicality. Many of those spaces are able to provide free promotion to people who post quality content because quality is itself a limited resource. Now the human trying to make their magnum opus - AI or no - is going to be buried under lots of low-effort garbage from zombie modernist grifters.
This is what people said about Levittown (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levittown), the archetype for postwar suburban housing developments in the USA. They did wear out, but the owners fixed them. If the housing is still needed, it will be maintained and repaired and improved.
Java is ultimately worse. It's old. It's gone through A LOT of change over the years. How does it even tell what's good and bad? Java also has lots of convention over configuration and "magic" in most frameworks, which it doesn't exactly understand.

When I tried it I'd often have to go back to it and keep telling it to use a different way of doing things because the world moved on. By that time there wasn't much point.

I see praises by those that have never coded in a language. They try ChatGPT, see it produce "ok" output and call it a day. If that's where we're going the web will be even more bloated than Electron and everything will be 10x worse. It's like low code but even lower (in quality).
VoA isn't an algorithm that can manipulate you into making purchases you otherwise wouldn't. Those in Eastern Europe are probably thankful that a short wave radio program existed in the 1980s, before the Wall fell. If your point is that America broadcasts propaganda, then yes I'll concede the point. But it's entirely irrelevant.
Yeah I've been thinking a similar thing since joining a startup and researching for https://github.com/Jeadie/awesome-chatgpt-plugins
>ChatGPT is already good enough to produce something close enough to fool venture capitalists

VC funding is centered around making high risk/high payout bets in quantity. If they took the time it would take a functioning prudent investor to carry out due diligence, the startups would have already used up their runway and died.

VCs trade risk for reward, and make it up on volume. Fooling a VC isn't a high bar in the eyes of this Midwesterner.
Think about the implications of it. Don't just take it at face value.

How much longer will he be able to KEEP his job.
Attention ladies and gentleman: this is your (Microsoft) Copilot pwning you
The above, of course.

The DNS related issues seen (have they now been resolved?) where it takes over the DNS resolver functions and refuses to honor what you have put in e.g. /etc/resolv.conf ; a web search for "systemd breaks normal dns resolv.conf" will give you a lot of results ; unsure if this is now fully fixed.

Strange things with LXC based VMs moved/migrated between hosts, even if an offline move; I think in 1 case I just ended up creating a new VM from scratch; then rsync'ing everything over from the host node into the VM's directory.
My favorite example is the compiler for a really strange architecture where everything is 24 bits

DSP? That's the one example I can think of where 24-bit architectures are in active use (and many of them are not Von Neumann, but Harvard with separate data/program memory.)
Can you give more info on "algebras"? I think I have heard the word used in this way before, but I don't exactly understand the meaning.
This actually gets at the heart of the problem with the current batch of hype around LLMs.

The people writing this kind of blog either don't have the ability to understand, or didn't bother to check, that they just fired their software development team and replaced with with the software equivalent of a cargo cult. Just because the code highlights in the IDE does not mean the revenue will come.

The crazy thing is that this is super common in many posts about LLMs! Here's another example that was recently on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34473783 - as called out here https://buttondown.email/hillelwayne/archive/programming-ais...
This looks very similar to mem.ai — how are you differentiating yourself?
It genuinely amazes me how few (even among those working in the field of "A.I.") appear to understand this basic detail, and how many actively want to swallow the bullshit click-bait about AGI. It's kinda scary, because it's gonna cause some very smart humans to do some very stupid things, I'd bet. Far more dangerous and scary than any "A.I." right now is the humans misunderstanding and using / abusing / trusting the technology foolishly.
For the same reasons or different 1s? Could be cost, accessibility and others.
A very tortured, not-quite-explained redefinition of "technical debt."

Graphs of complete imagination, not based on any data at all.

Comparisons of apples and exaggerated notions of oranges.

Ungrounded, magical claims about LLMs.

This is unhinged fantasy.
Elon Musk Offers Employees Stock Grants Valuing Twitter at About $20B
> More generally, I think the point of the original post, and the original comment, are that verifying that something was communicated successfully requires out-of-band actions. Physically demonstrating something, or watching someone demonstrate something, are both out-of-band: neither work over all communication channels, like user manuals, or phone calls.

Of course? That's the implication of not just taking someone's word for it in the context of an office environment.

> Even in-person communication is often restricted to make verification difficult: imagine if you're in a water-cooler meeting with another developer, and you mention that you think they should take a different approach to a certain problem. Are you going to follow them back to their desk to verify that they really choose to do so? Probably not: it's both incredibly rude, and a bad use of your own time. But there is nothing in the water-cooler conversation that you can really do to check that they'll take your advice.

That would be the case if it was a trivial matter. But for really important things, then I don't see a problem?
It turned OP from a craftperson to a machine operator. Their less-skilled colleague (either due to lack of talent, experience, or application) is now cruising past them them because they don't care as much as OP did about the work itself. OP is still employed, but now some of the necessary grunt work has become the main task. And that, too, will be easier done by machine before long.
Wrapping Socket/NetConnection in WebSockets requires a cooperating server. Same for PeerConnection, which will also need all-Ruffle swarms or some kind of peer forwarding protocol for mixed Ruffle/FP swarms. So we'd have to have some kind of config option for "route this Socket endpoint to this WebSockets endpoint".
This process has been happening for at least a couple decades (arguably more) without any AI, though. The entertainment industry almost ran itself into the ground that way, long before those things emerged. Or rather, the demand made it to.
Yeah I think the HN crowd is vastly overestimating how much people care about rates. Most people are not perfect financial optimizers - they’ll just pay whatever they can maximally afford per month for a house that most closely matches what they need for their present life. Few people are coldly rate rational.
You only have to look at what people pay for car loans to confirm this.
Surprised to see that no one mentioned https://vespa.ai/ the best alternative to vector DB imho
It specifies so much less, precisely to allow it to be usable on such weird architectures.
>They have no concept of truth

1 - They aren't optimized for truth, they are optimized for best appearing answers.

2 - What things do you know that you are willing to state on HN without being fear of being contradicted?
https://exfatloss.substack.com/p/ex150-diet-macros-2294kcal-...

I'm pretty sure, having seen that, that this is just a really elaborate troll. I stopped engaging after seeing this.

His chosen method of achieving caloric restriction is to get 70% of his nutrition from cream. The amount of cream isn't even defined; it's just "I have some amount of coffee a day and this one time I measured how much cream I happen to put in it". If for whatever reason one day Starbucks changes their coffee and he ends up having 8 instead of 5 the whole thing will change arbitrarily.

If this is real then the guy needs psychological help.
Reminds me of the old days of concatenating strings (including unsafe user input) in php to generate queries.
> If you have thoughts on how to use our SWE experience to navigate this exciting but uncertain landscape while maintaining a sense of self-preservation and helping others as much as possible, I'd be interested in hearing your ideas.

Sell magazine subscriptions door to door?
I personally had to do this at least three times in 25 years [...] So to me it's pretty normal

Very relatable, but it seems unwise to just consider it normal. If you find yourself having to retool 3 times within 25 months, you'll be well on the way to burning out.
Funny thing about that, COVID has removed a lot of people from the workforce and will continue to do so for the next few years. The billionaires at the top of all the tech companies will live to regret allowing the activist investors to spur them into laying off people.
No one will pay unless you force them. We can wish all we want that the world is different but I've seen this over and over. You need to hold something back from day one or you'll never make money.
Just remember to explain to your 2-year-old not to put any of the chips or flakes in their mouth and it's all good.
Why are LGBT youth for some reason the special subgroup of people against whom every concern about rights being tested against? More so than anyone else's rights? It's like they somehow occupy a privileged position in your mind that everyone has to watch out for this group. Why is that?
Why would running mv before rm be faster? On what file systems is this true?
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It seems unlikely to me that this technology has plateaued. The gains have been exponential. It strikes me as prudent to at least consider its continued improvement a possibility and try to work out what that means for society. The best thing on the table so far is people lose jobs and business owners make more money. Some amount of that is unavoidable and maybe even beneficial, but too much of it is unsustainable. Better to have a plan and not need and all that.
Looking back on my youth, I think these age verification check boxes were my earliest disregard for authority. I understood the checkboxes were there because there was a law that wanted to prevent me from accessing an online service. I thought the law was stupid, and after contemplating it for days decided to ignore it.
You absolutely can use these tools for this. There are stable diffusion plugins for photoshop that allow far more control over what is generated where.

https://youtu.be/nnyjQkgccnA
I was a kid before 1973 and grew up within 100 miles of a couple of air force bases. I heard sonic booms almost every day. We'd be out playing in the yard and hear a kaboom sound, look up and see the contrail of a fighter jet. (It was always too high to hear the engine.)

It was just a normal part of life. Everybody was used to it and I never heard anybody complain about it. I've been in thunderstorms that were much louder.

Granted these jets were very high. If they had been going Mach 1 close to the ground, people would have complained about broken windows.

And I'm not suggesting my experience was the norm. Just that in some cases sonic booms were a part of life that nobody really paid much attention to.
From the USDA source I cited:

“While recreational hunting for feral swine is popular in many states, it is generally not considered an effective management option. Significant population reductions typically do not occur and feral swine behaviors or movements may be altered such that they impede other removal operations (e.g., trapping). Hunters usually target large males instead of females, which has little impact on overall population reduction. Additionally, recreational hunting creates incentives to maintain feral swine on the landscape and move feral swine to new areas for increased hunting opportunities, which has largely been attributed to the expansion of feral swine across the United States. Although controversial, several states have outlawed hunting in attempts to better manage feral swine populations. Research has shown that feral swine removal via hunting is often negated by the use of bait to attract feral swine. The supplemental food source increases fecundity and population growth despite hunter harvest.”
>police has existed in every form of society

"State enforcers to protect the politicians and people in power have existed in every form of society" * yes.

>its like being against roads, or hospitals, or public transportation

Yes.
Personally I don't give a shit if people can sit on their house forever at -5% real interest rates or whatever. Just let me build a shack out of chicken wire, 2x4s, and tin roof. If you get to rig the game to get a house the least you can do is let me build something with whatever scraps are left in the financial system.
Pinecone offers a free managed tier, which was quite nice until it lost my data last month. They did eventually recover it a few days later, to be fair to them.
And your argument is that you’re ok with the general harm these cause to most people for the marginal possible benefit for a very small minority.

Notwithstanding the fact that many so-called marginalized minorities are also terribly bullied online.
Very true. Much as I like AI on the technical side, I also look forward to the howls of outrage when some large model comes for the smug squad. coding, trading, management are all eminently replaceable skillsets.
Children are not entitled to autonomy - they do not have freedom of movement in general, freedom of employment etc...

Privacy, like any other form of autonomy, is in control of the parent and should be given out as part of the educational process.

18 perhaps is too old for the state to grant independence, but that's a problem in general and not restricted to privacy.
Right, and further not being perfectly financially rational is quite fine! Finances aren’t the only factor in any decision, nor do they need to be the primary factor.
I’m gay, so it just hits more personally.
> "Soft skill" jobs like executives and managers are definitely on the chopping block first.

Wouldn’t that be some delicious irony? Never gonna happen but it would be quite funny if it did.
There are a lot of good points contained in this post, if a bit basic. The Munger quotes are mostly fun and reasonably illustrative.

But the poor organization and the repetition were very frustrating. The lede is buried in about half of the numbered points, obscured by increasingly repetitive connective tissue.

It started out as an interesting read and ended up quite annoying.
Nah, fuck that. Give me a code problem any day, and stop asking me to pair with someone else.
gonna be a surpise when society finds out about the bamboo ceiling. and people aren't rushing to promote asian american ceos
The game stuff was truly neat. But flash was also used for tons of things like bank websites or other government stuff, employment stuff or even credit card payment system. Flash never worked well on anything but windows on x86 (32 bits). And it often burned CPU (and battery life) like nobody's business. Many ads in flash would just burn your CPU. It also had tons of security issues.

I remember being on Linux x86_64 and I couldn't load flash websited I had to use for some legal documents and feeling stuck.

So as much as the flash games aspect was neat. When flash died suddenly the web was more interoperable. Nowadays I never need to worry that I need Microsoft Windows on a specific hardware to navigate the web.