skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We've had boilerplate generators for a long time. Sometimes they avoid some mundane work when you're first setting up. That's a good thing. Sometimes you end up changing a lot of what they produce because it's not exactly what you need. That's less good. But they can never do anything truly innovative because ultimately they are based on work that was already done before. And those creative steps they can't take are where most value is added.

> Programmers who can understand a real problem and come up with a good way to solve it using software will still be needed.

This keeps coming up in my own circles, including with non-technical folks. The best way I've heard it put is "you know, these AIs only know what we've already figured out."

The newest contingent of AI technologies is impressive for what they are, but what they are is both somewhat inevitable and not truly intelligent in the way most businesses require of their technical people in order to succeed. Of course we can automate away the basics, we've been doing that with successive technologies and challenges for a very long time.

Someone up-thread mentioned AI replacing automation folks as an easy example, but I don't see that happening so quickly. I do a lot of automating, and for a start there's so much automation "left to be done in the world" that there are no shortages of hard challenges left that AI couldn't (yet?) crack. There's a huge amount of business<->technology synthesis that has to happen to automate beyond the basics.

But more expansively speaking, writing off humans being in the loop is ridiculous on its face. Humans will _always_ be in the loop somewhere, unless of course we take EM Forster's _The Machine Stops_ as an instruction manual rather than the warning it is. I don't mean that in a doom-and-gloom way but rather that I just don't think humans will ever give up enough control to enable something like that. I don't think that's such a bad thing, either.

It's as ridiculous to say that human programmers are obsolete as it is to say we're that we're anywhere near computers developing complete, new computers for other humans to use.
For one, you can't get a phone number in Germany without showing strong government ID.

Phone number requirements in apps mean that you basically can't use consumer apps without doxing yourself.
Yeah, I'd agree with this. Of course, both the 'brilliant jerk' and 'incompetent but nice' folks are a liability in the long run (they both drive away genuinely nice, talented contributors), but the jerk tends to drive them away more quickly, and they also tend to discourage less competent people from getting better at their job too.

And that eventually leads a team or group to stagnate. The only people who will stick around are either jerks themselves, or generally lack a back bone.
Ungrateful nerds. This is capitalism, hence how we only give out scraps to beggars. It's like a beggar getting 10 cent coin and looking spitefully at the donor.
I know you're /s but it's not even about privacy, it's the cost of mitigation after $cloud_service_x has a data breach and we then have to assign resources to account for _our_ clients data etc.
It is interesting you cite that the cost has went up for lighting. Where I live the government owned utility often raises their rates per kwHr. One of the reasons they cite is the increase in efficiency leading to a drop in revenue each year.

The same utility pays for those efficiency projects.
We need global regulation and treaties regarding AI, pronto.
The "artificially determined goal" here is not roasting ourselves alive in 50 years, which I for one think is a better goal than "satisfying consumer preferences."
Students in school also will not never learn to read without being exposed to text. Does this mean that teachers who write exercise sheets and school text book publishers now own the copyright of everything students do?
Interestingly, the portion of people who value fighting climate change so high that they'd be beneficial to that end is so vanishingly small on the scale of the entire planet that if they decide to have fewer children then they're probably making things worse by letting themselves get outbred by people who care more about other things (first and foremost, improving living standards).

And no, young people in general do not care that much about the environment compared to much more immediate issues such as poverty. Young affluent people in rich countries do, but then it might also be that we've spent the last decades literally telling them they'll die burning at 40 and they might not have understood that was hyperbole.
I've been saying it's more like the Watt steam engine. Which led to physical labor being cheap. Leading to railroads, cars, tanks, planes, drive bombers, battleships, tractors, the end of subsistence farming, people being forced to migrate to cities, child labor, 80-100 hour weeks, and so on. Maybe indirectly leading to things like the violent rise of communism, Cold War, and such.

AI will lead to attention being cheap. AGI will be a wrecking ball to the education system. And it will mess with the creative industry who are suddenly realizing they were not that creative in the first place.

I don't expect things to be as rosy as when Google and iPhone came in.
Right? I think understanding, or perhaps a better word is representing, the internal structure is also best left to a machine to extract. If it can categorize/cluster into various neural neighborhoods then we can feed that output (or perhaps many outputs from different runs) into another system that is responsible for explaining to humans.
I wonder how much of this attack on "AI" is directed by China. Slowing down AI development in the western world until they can catch up seems like a big win for China.
Traditional incandescent bulbs were not immune to planned obsolescence, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoebus_cartel

“The cartel lowered operational costs and worked to standardize the life expectancy of light bulbs at 1,000 hours (down from 2,500 hours)..”
That's what tig is for.

https://jonas.github.io/tig/
Opiate addiction is not nearly as big a problem as overdoses though.

It isn't the end of the world if someone becomes addicted to opiates. There are pathways to recovery and one can live a relatively normal life while addicted. What makes it exceptionally harmful is the amount of fentanyl in street drugs, the legal ramifications of use, and the lack of realistic treatment.
Exactly! I am annoyed at this move to toss bricks on the road to hobble a clear leader
Remembering Gordon Moore
I would argue that there is a difference between:

(1) indexing public content with the purpose of referring to the source in a search result and

(2) ingesting content (no matter the license) to train models that can reproduce smaller or larger chunks later on.

Google and others might be doing this with data from their crawlers already, but that is besides the point. I think these two uses of publicly available data is fundamentally different and that a distinction should be made.
And XML xsd's where fertile, fertile ground for architecture astronauts building Ivory Towers and Pristine Jewels. Oh, almost all the fields in the xsd are optional? No bother!

Also the acronyms oh god the acronyms. Xsd; xml to define the xml schema! Xpath; xml to query xml! Xslt; xml to transform xml! Excuse me while I go puke.
I'm only seeing two negative comments among like 15 positive ones. Maybe you jumped the gun a bit with the flaming.
Gdpr means data out of my control is someone else's liability. If they want to play fast and loose, that's their look out.
> Sounds glorious.

It is, but also I really miss having lunch with them. And definitely get a little stir crazy if I forget to go outside now, so I usually take a 20-30 minute walk around lunch time.
single boiler, vibratory pump, temperature surfing, bad OPV.

it's definitely good, but needs love to become "really good"
Nothing is stopping you from buying and reusing paper bags until they wear out. They cost like $0.05.
Have you had any lifetime issues with these? I bought a dozen and a significant number started emitting warm color while at full brightness instead of just dimmed.
Revert is normally extremely safe, I’m curious why it’s ‘monumentally’ stressful?

The best thing to learn about git is what the safety nets are, what commands do destructive edits, vs what commands do things you can undo. Once you know how to recover from all the non-destructive commands, you never have to stress about them again!

The reflog is weird and confusing at first, but once you know it’s here and a little about how to use it, all of a sudden you realize it’s pretty hard to lose things, as long as you commit them.
This is cool and all and I hope people enjoy your project. But, for me, if I'm using a tool like git, I'd much rather use the native commands so I don't forget them if I'm working on a box that doesn't have other tools installed.
> Technically it's not, which is why there is private company collecting it.

Technically it is a "öffentlich-rechtliche, nicht rechtsfähige Gemeinschaftseinrichtung", and not a private company.
90% of 'improving' your average setup is just grinding the beans right before you use them

Roast level is also a big deal. Dark roasts have a much wider sweet spot on the grinding dial. The beans are brittle so they tend to shatter and produce a lot of fines. As long as you don’t grind too fine that the machine chokes during the shot, you’re going to be able to find the sweet spot.

The lighter you go in roast, the more challenging everything becomes. Lighter roasts are less brittle so the grinder tends to cut rather than shatter. This often allows you to grind way finer on the dial. It also makes the coffee much more difficult to extract, requiring higher temperatures and a narrow grind sweet spot. Loads of people complain of sour, weak extractions with no body. This is where you can get into spending loads of money on a high-end flat burr grinder and a pressure profiling machine with PID temperature controls (and even temperature profiling during the shot).

Light roasted single origin coffee beans can smell absolutely amazing, so people know there is potential there for unbelievably good coffee. All of the disappointment in the cup is what leads to the big spending (or giving up and going back to darker roasts).
Don't many grow lamps emit UV? I would be slightly concerned about potential eye and skin damage over time.
I think it does? I go into a home improvement store, grab a dimmable bulb on the warmer side, and screw it in. That's pretty much the sum total of my dealing with LED bulbs.
> a lot of life necessities like getting health insurance and a mobile phone number.

For the mobile phone number you must identify yourself, the pretext is terror-prevention, not sure how true this really is. But usually they just check the passport, the address is not really relevant.

> If you are in Germany and run a website, you need to have an Impressum on your website that states your address.

You need an Impressum if you run a business, meaning you earn money with it. This could already be the case if you have ads. For a purely private site, an Impressum is unneccessary.

> There is a "Stop and Identify" law (Personalausweisgesetz) that requires you to be in possession of an identity document, and hand it over instantly when asked to by any authorities, with substantial fines for noncompliance.

This is a bit misleading. You need to be able to identify yourself, but not instantly. You can have your documents at home, and they either will ignore you, or drive you home, depending you their reasons and the moonphase, and so on.
Quadrants are useful to visualize the problem along a couple binary spectrums, but the process shouldn't stop there.

A more evolved process would avoid using such vague words to define problems that are complex, dynamic, interdependent, social, and psychological. Performance and expectations are wicked problems.

Determinations of performance and expectations are often closed and siloed as opposed to being open and transparent. That's a cultural problem arising from "difficult conversations". Organizations often make the mistake of over-simplifying these conversations.

I can think of few chasms between performance and expectations in twenty years that was reflective of reality. Organizations make sense of those situations slowly, poorly, and privately, if at all.

Why? Because if their cultures were reflective, protean, or sensemaking at all, they were closed conversations, ill-defined, informal, and not repeated on a regular basis.

A few examples I've sampled from my work:

- Numerous individuals suffered from self-medication while receiving little care or concern.

- Founders copy emotional traits of Jobs, Gates, Musk, and Torvalds not the intellectual ones.

- Trauma: ill-defined roles, changing expectations, and stack ranking.

Personally, I'll take competent but rough-around-the-edges because my experience has been that my most talented coworkers all fit that description no matter their education and experience while realizing that the edges are where the most important insights occur.
This is one of those cases where I think we should treat the symptom (first) rather than the problem.

Teach them basic pharmacology, dosage calculations, and give access to free test kits to know how strong the stuff they're about take is.

This doesn't solve any societal problems at a grander scale, it doesn't improve the mental health of teenagers, and it won't eliminate overdose deaths entirely...

But it will save the lives of some children who haven't had a chance to really live their life in the first place. It will give them time to look for help they didn't know they needed.
author is being polite, its even worse

javascript jobs will probably pay less than go jobs

javascript jobs will more likely tend to be viewed as "junior" relative to go jobs

I tell people to not become js devs if they don't want to be locked into a "junior" cycle of lower pay

there's no real reason for this, it just is

go will also eventually become a junior/low-pay skill, probably within five years
I think a moratorium goes too far and is not effective. What we need is a commitment to use AI responsibly and to the benefit of everyone.

I asked ChatGPT for ideas and it suggested this AI Manifesto for Humanity (prompting and visual highlights by me).

https://gist.github.com/miraculixx/b24c84a0c253183206cd6ec37...
Let's just hope it's supposed to be pronounced as the German "gut" (as in good) rather than the English "gut" (as in curve)
FWIW, most people at OpenAI do believe GPT5 will achieve AGI. Of course, it's hard to define precisely what that is and where the line is from an AI system to an AGI one.

GPT5 will complete training in December of this year.
this is a terrible argument. Would you enjoy going to the toilet when a certain group of people (like your neighbours) could watch you doing your "business"?
this is fucking fentanyl

how are you going to get children to measure micrograms
What bothers me about this is that, yes, moving too fast with Ai to the point of disruption or where society can't keep up is a problem.

Yet, restricting OpenAi on the other hand won't prevent other big companies from building their own in-house GPT-4 (or GPT5) level model. We're going there whether the government likes it or not, At the very least OpenAi is transparent (more than Google or facebook at least).
Rerun: Visualization Infrastructure for Computer Vision
I like the sensible names. It would have made it more easier to grasp the basics and recallable.
It’s not about the lack of ice, dingus. the danger is in climate change shocking ecosystems such that they trigger a systemic collapse that we can’t contain or manage. there’s basically no timeline where food supply wont be impacted and I’d like to hear your cavalier attitude about climate change then.
there is more to diversity than the colour of our skin, but yes I would expect the more we're all crowding in on this mudball with lots of free travel between boarders or bluring of borders the more we're going to all end up looking much like each other.

Space may change that. we may end up with some very strange looking sections of humanity once we get into space.
Treat people as being smarter than you give them credit for, and more able to see through BS. There's a reason scammers try to put time pressure on you - given time, lies are easy to spot.
Heh there's a speed check story in this article too with different numbers: For the F-18 Dusty 52 it's 525 vs 620 knots and for the blackbird it's 1742 vs 1842.
The poster literally copied only half the quote. The second half of the quote is “But they’re a critical part of the many different interventions that need to happen.” Does the original comment really seem accurate to you?
So does the Sun.

Also, you never look at the light directly.
You're kind of repeating the same thing here.

Government isn't a big slippery slope, it's a balancing act between the people and the government. Law represents where we stand on that balancing act.

It doesn't matter really how the government tries to shift the status quo. If things get out of line with the will of the people, and they notice, change will be brought to a halt.

This is a common fallacy, especially with recent talk of the "Overton window" that's convinced people it's a good idea to be as extreme as possible instead of approaching the middle ground.

Your party and it's positions do not determine the average person's point of view. They determine what positions you can sustainably maintain, and wherever you move you will see raising or dropping support based on that.

The government won't just slide on over to some crazy extreme. This is why Russia, despite all their bluster, is still not managing to pull a draft. The people don't want it.

And this is why TikTok is so dangerous. By getting into the minds of the people, they threaten to undermine the foundation of our political process.
This is going to make searching for ML things like converting LLM or transformers for "metal" a wonderful experience.

The Metal framework that was announced at WWDC 2014 for iOS and at WWDC 2015 also for OS X and tvOS. Metal is an interface for programming the Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) in your computer. The main advantages of using Metal are:

- provides the lowest overhead access to the GPU, hence it reduces all bottlenecks usually caused by data transferring between the CPU and GPU in other frameworks.

- provides up to 10 times the number of draw calls compared to OpenGL. Metal, however, is not cross-platform like OpenGL is, so it is not meant to be a replacement for OpenGL.

- allows to also run compute applications with performance levels comparable to similar technologies such as CUDA or OpenCL.

- has a custom shader language that allows shaders precompiling so they are a lot faster at run time.
has built-in memory and resource management particularized to these platforms.

https://github.com/MetalKit/metal

https://github.com/MetalPetal/MetalPetal

https://github.com/tlkh/tf-metal-experiments

https://github.com/alexiscn/MetalFilters

Etc.
They help with the Great Pain of Space, though.
> Most important reason XML was replaced by JSON for the majority of use cases was the parser had a lot of complexity and wasn't implemented as well for other languages...

I think it had more to do with:

1) An advantage of XML was supposed to be that it was human-readable, which meant it would be easier for developers to work with and debug. The problem was that many XML documents were so bloated with tags within tags within tags and redundant attributes all over the place, that in practice it was extremely painful for a human to read. JSON is better, in practice.

2) For better or for worse, JavaScript became ubiquitous, and there is a simple, clean isomorphism between JSON to in-memory JavaScript objects (obviously, since that's what the JSON name means).
More recently Philips has started selling the Dubai-style bulbs worldwide, branded as the "Ultra Efficient" range. They're expensive though, as you'd expect.
Do you have a source? That would be fantastic
DC actually tends to be more efficient at long distances at the same voltage. DC lighting does exist in the commercial space where lighting costs actually start to add up more than household use. The main barrier to DC systems in homes is simply that it would require houses to be rewired and a whole new standard for plugs and such. The benefit is also hard to describe to the customer.
And your source for that is?
Bloomberg is hardly the heaviest user of foss tech out here, and so far contributed 10k more than nearly all others.
Yes. Elon Musk has killed more people with his AI than anyone else has with theirs.
I've found the color/brightness of the GE Relax HD (Yeah, they go one step further and label the color temperature as "Relax HD") to be pretty good. Lifespan has been hit and miss in semi-enclosed fixtures though.
Warner Music Group to Cut 4% of Workforce
"It really isn't my fault Mr. judge, this evil virus downloaded the second volume of 50 Shades of Grey totally against my will!"

Are you actually being serious?
> but in continental Europe there is absolutely no option to have a case against a corporation judged solely on its merits as the judge will be immensely biased to favour the larger, more "respected" entity.

Your sweeping generalization is especially ironic here, as the parent finished their comment with the example of Axel Springer losing to AdBlock plus...
> It doesn't "understand" anything, it just compares weights internally and spits out the most probable result depending on what you asked for.

And humans are different how?
I've trashed over 30 flush-mount LED lights in my house and its 2018 construction. It wouldn't be so offensive if we didn't buy into our own marketing bullshit so much. Pretending like 20 years is a realistic timeframe for a semiconductor to survive in that kind of environment is fantasy, but then you go about constructing homes and businesses like it's true.

This kind of scam is getting really old for me. LED lighting isn't the only one being pushed on us.
In this case it honestly seems like they have just gotten lucky.

Same could be said for companies like AMC, whose stock meme rally allowed them to pay off significant company debts through no achievement of their own.

It's just a rare/lucky windfall.
matters a lot if they accidentally pass the thing.
Lots of people here are arguing about whether LEDs actually look worse. Who cares? Even a modest environmental benefit is worth it. If you want nice-looking light, just go outside - it's free.
The Snowden affair was the first time I've seen the mainstream news outlets do a complete 180 on its coverage in the span of hours.

Initially, the serious (non Fox News) outlets were concerned about the overreach by the government and seemed supportive of the leaks. By afternoon, they were all attacking Greenwald, Poitras, and Snowden on national security grounds.
I wish they did reviews, but if half of the NPM packages are spam, that's still 172.000 legitimate NPM packages - per WEEK. That's not feasible to review.

Are these new packages or version releases of existing packages as well?

I think there's a market for a verified nodejs repository, where every package is reviewed, scanned and approved by a human + a heap of security tools. It wouldn't accept all updates of packages, because the volume would be too high. It would have to be a paid for service though, aimed at enterprises.
And they also buy up inventive companies and kill them. So?
robots.txt does nothing for helping search engines understand what a page is about, just how to crawl. How do you see this aiding GPT?

You're probably thinking of JSON-LD, which obviously already exists, but is not some golden truth. Search engines have been using machine learning to understand the content and topics of sites for a long time.

GPT is token prediction, you still want to do all the same things for your website to aid discovery and understanding.