skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Possibly. This is certainly a pattern that works in other industries.

I am aware of a local glass company with about 50 years of operation under its belt. They have tooling, but the process is heavily manual; no aspect of it is end-to-end automated. Their primary customers are those requiring high precision for industrial applications (electrical, aeronautics).

They are forever capacity-capped because their model doesn't scale; the benefits of adding labor are sub-linear, so there's a "healthy size" for them and they leave money on the table if they scale in either direction from it. But they have their niche, they fit it nicely, and they continue to operate.
"We find it's always better to fire people virtually. Studies have statistically shown that there's less chance of an incident if you do it online."

Office Space needs a remake.
Americans are too divided to organize against something like this in any way.
Yup.

FWIW, I keep thinking about some kind of dual licensing, FOSS and something-something-royalties. (Sorry, IANAL, so haven't gotten any further.)
Bingo - that's what Im talking about.
That was something Luque was being accused of before using AI though.

Using a machine to work more efficiently is not bad.
Those that aren't browser specific, unless this is some kind of trick question.
You have to know what you're doing to install it, which is a moot point if it comes pre-installed.

That's even less true these days, now that there's an official installer, and variants like Manjaro exist.
I’m not an artist so I have no problem with being able to generate almost free quality art on my own within minutes.

Before those AI if I ever wanted something specific I had to go see an artist and ask (prompt) him for the art I want. If I ask him to draw Andy Warhol Marilyn with my face on it. Can he charge me for it without copyright infringement ? Maybe nobody cares and no one is going to do anything about it but still, his style is specific right ? My face or my dog’s face makes the drawing completely different.

If AI is just « an other form of intelligence », why shouldn’t it be subjected to the same laws ?

If it’s just a tool and not an intelligence, why would openAI wouldn’t be subjected to the same rules ?

If all you do for a living is painting, if I wan’t a unique painting that fit your work style I have to ask you to do it.
Now I can ask an AI to paint exactly that but you are not in the loop anymore but your work has been used to train this AI and no one will ever ask you to create art because they love your style and can have it for free.

I mean, I’m all in for free stuff and I’m not an artist but what does artists feel about it ?
You mean beyond the 2014 Maidan Revolution and restoration of the 2004 constitutional modifications that began the process of moving toward the EU? Or the 2019 constitutional amendment that placed joining the EU and NATO as a strategic objective for Ukraine?
Yeah you can. One of the dumbest things I did was spend too much money on a nice pair of 4k@60hz monitors for computer, then mount a 4k@120hz OLED TV right next to them for couch gaming. The quality difference is staggering. Even on games that only run at 80-90fps.
Not sure if there's a more specific word for it, but it's basically just a straw man attack: constructing a single "opponent" from disjointed pieces of information. As such, you could also classify it as a hasty generalization or a composition error.
There's a lot of work happening at the moment around self-reflection and getting LLMs to identify and correct their own hallucinations and mistakes.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2303.11366.pdf
I've always struggled with Safari for it's terrible WebGL implementation. Even had to globally disable anti-aliasing otherwise the app would be unusably slow!
Insurance would work if the e-scooter companies paid for it. You can't however use a trawler as that would be counter-productive if the concern is ecological damage, so it would need to be commercial divers which is quite expensive when dealing with low visibility canals. The insurance premium would likely be quite high. The companies can naturally try go after the criminals in order to recover the costs.

The two issues are however related. Commercial operations need to pay external costs imposed on the city from commercial activity, be that parking issues or water pollution. If companies refuse to do so it will be up to the citizen to decide if they want those costs be paid through taxes, or issue regulations that may force those companies to go out of business. Either way someone will have to pay for cleanup. Right now no one is doing that in Malmö and other Swedish cities, which is not sustainable.
Sorry, I misphrased that. The hardware might be fine, but the OS will not be. Re-installing windows every year is basically a must. Same for restarting every day.

Linux or OSX? Leave them running for a year and nothing changes. To be fair, my last experience with Windows was 3 years ago.
Even Russia and China didn't sanction the US. Does that make them vassals too?
It doesn't matter if it's been available for 10 years on Chrome—if it's not reliable on other platforms, don't use it. And you absolutely CAN and should detect implementation bugs in the API. At the very least you can throw CompressionStream's entire compression/decompression process behind a try…catch block, and fall back to the older method on an error.
John Henry beat the steam powered drill after all!
Ask HN: What's the best course of action to fight against upwork
Hey HN community

I'm not sure if this is the best platform for asking questions like these, but I didn't know where else to go.

I'm relatively new in Canada, and in the past I used my Upwork account a lot, but not so much recently. Then I decided to revive it to make some extra bucks. Upwork asked me to verify my identity, and I submitted my driver's license, they sent me an email telling me that they are suspending my account permanently due to falsification of information. I'm pretty sure that's this is a false positive, but no matter what I say, all I get in response is "Our decision is final".

I don't want to lose my 10 years old Upwork account which has thousands of hours on it. I wanted to kind of force them so that a human can verify my documents. How can I do that? Perhaps I'll a lawyer, if anyone who had similar experience before, please recommend one.
See for example how there's a Safari 16.4 update for Big Sur and Monterey but not for Ventura. That's because the macOS Ventura 13.3 update includes the latest Safari, just like the iOS 16.4 update includes the latest Safari. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201222

The separate Safari updates are only for back support of older macOS versions.
While there can be some price discrepencies between legacy full-service carriers, usually it's not too big. Low cost carriers will definitely offer flights at a huge discount but the experience is so awful that I refuse to fly them.
Oh, I don't disagree. I wasn't necessarily (always) agreeing with it. As with anything it's a matter of degrees.
Instant CRUD Dashboard App (TypeScript)
CASE is full-stack framework built on top of Angular and NestJS. With the CLI you can create resources and properties to create any kind of CRM, ERP on dashboard app in minutes.
I can not think of a single song on the radio that doesn't use it

Do you mean that literally, speaking about FM or maybe even DAB, and if so: may I ask what region you're from that you have no access to radio stations featuring something else than only such songs?
Not exactly, it's a little more nuanced than that.

I've done demos using our EKS provider to spin up a cluster, outputting a kubeconfig property and plumbing that into a Kubernetes provider to deploy a Helm chart to the cluster. It's 3 resources and fits on a single screen in most of our languages.
Never played this myself but it does seem very Warcraft-y. Wonder if any inspiration or even developers came from this team.
Is your home furniture from an artisan craftsman, or from Ikea?
Tractors and policy favoring bigger scale agricultural production.

The US is profoundly inefficient at utilizing land for agriculture. The “miracle of the desert” and emptying a giant, un-renewable aquifer has been carrying us for decades. In my lifetime, we’ll be relying on small garden plots just like the Soviets did for vegetables.
Embracing genuine deadlines as software engineers
Yes indeed, it is 100% percent traceable, but many black market organizations are not taken down, not because they avoid detection, but because the leaders of the operation are untouchable in some way or another.

But i think you are referring to BTC, and BTC is not Bitcoin. Btc doesn't support small enough transactions for it to function as a market of information, let alone black market of information.
It is a good thing I was in Paris recently and those things are littering sidewalks (sometimes by piles of dozens all mangled), and people are driving them recklessly. Really a big annoyance.
That's not necessarily true. For instance snapshot testing, although there may be edge cases missed, the cases cannot be correct or incorrect.

Or you could have the AI write test cases (writing them out is often the most laborious part) and then validate them by hand. That'd be little different than writing them yourself, though again edge cases may be missed. You just skip the un-fun part of repetitively typing out the code for each case.
Started with some open questions about the most frustrating things about the computers/apps, then leading into "show me, on this PC", so I could see which of those complaints I could do anything about.

Then a tally at the end to see what was practical to fix, commonly disliked experiences across users, etc.

The one thing I'd do different is ask for maybe 2 rounds of interviews, or longer interviews with 2-3 people to start with. The later interviews I did better, since I understood base concepts better. So I probably missed good info from the people I talked to earliest.
Steam Deck is great device but it saddens me that it has a very poor game catalogue for kids (~5 years). Either the games are not there or it is very hard to find them on Steam. I wish they introduced some separate section, similarly as Netflix or Youtube Kids to solve this issue.

Obviously Nintendo and mobile phones have that sorted.
IMO M2 came in way too fast. I use MacBook Air M1 i.e. the worst M1 chip and this machine is still blazingly fast. There just is no reason for me to upgrade much less upgrade to some M2 pro machine.
I feel like Apple is shooting themselves in the foot with app developers. First you make your system a complete walled garden, you need Apple hardware to develop MacOS/iOS apps and there is no alternative. It would be one thing if you had a walled garden + affordable hardware but that's not the case, you have a walled garden and you have prohibitively expensive hardware to develop apps for that walled garden.

Hell even when it comes to development, you can't just build your iOS/MacOS app on a regular Linux CI machine, no you must have MacOS machines for building, so you need that special hardware on top of all the other expenses.

I almost feel like Apple setup the developer program with the idea that it's just going to be 15 year old prodogies making apps on their parents computer, their whole stack just seems incompatible and PIA to work with when it comes to actual software development. It should be a sign when you have popular products like CodePush that were designed specifically to address the shortcomings of developing iOS apps.
i would not say life has become any more car dependent than it was in the 90s, if anything, public transport where i live has improved dramatically.
They went after enterprise market willing to sacrifice their main base of individual/small clients.
Never, my hearing is too messed up
Agree with this sentiment. Many years ago I bought a maxed out MacBook Pro for about ~ $3000 CAD and now the prices go up to ~ $6000. Technology is supposed to get better and cheaper over time. They really are trying to squeeze every cent out of consumers they can. There’s also another side to it. I think a big “buyer” of apple hardware were startups and tech companies that were providing these machines to their employees. With the tech layoff and freezes in hiring this should impact the number of Macs purchased, I suspect.
I am aware of that and did not state otherwise, I just had to point it out.
I even said "even if this is unrelated to the story"...
I used to make similar computers: wire-wrapped things that I'd never do today - 8086, 80186 and twice 2900 bit slices. I was never able to purchase a set of 432 chips. No one had any for sale, or perhaps not for sale to me.
Biggest distraction I see in companies that want to act like they have a mature software engineering culture but don't actually have one is to focus on the process. This can range from sticking with traditional waterfall to voodoo agile with "scrum" and daily standups that are really just status meetings for PMs. Often I see companies using Jira or whatever and PRs for being really particular about how work is logged and tracked. Moving stuff through the stages and merging PRs quickly becomes the goal, because to management it looks like stuff is getting done. Actually releasing working features to production is, at best, an afterthought.

All that process and ceremony distracts programmers from doing the job of, you know, programming.
Yes but an alternate view of the copyright is that a person get a degree in English literature and carefully reads all of Shakespeare's writing, and then goes onto write a screenplay which thematically derives from Hamlet.

Obviously you get the Shakespeare influence, but the bar on copyright infringement is very high for a reason — we don't want to sue artists for being influenced by another writer.
It's been a while since I saw wrestling but I remember the Undertaker throwing Mick Foley off the top of I think a 12 foot high cage.
The headline is a pithy statement that those who ignore AI will be left behind, just as those who ignore automation were left behind. I don't think it means what you seem to think it means.
What your comment and others are missing is: The problem here is that the fluency in English, seems to be the main obstacle, to the speed at what he can publish novel research.

Maybe if he would be a English, Oxford educated scholar, would not need ChatGPT. Could then maybe do a paper every 4 to 8 hours?
If you're one of the upper-tier non-US nationalities concerned about a strengthening dollar, that sets up some behavioral and policy incentives that could have destabilizing effects.

Like, Russia's purported election interference and general political destabilizing activity starts to sound like a (ethically awful but) economically sensible move. In the extreme, the US falling into a civil war would ease that pressure on BRICS etc.
Western Digital Network Security Incident
This seems willfully antagonistic and simplistic.

There are degrees of effort in any lifestyle. Degrees of 'veganism', or 'anti-AI' use.

Is there _really_ cognitive dissonance of someone doing some action to reduce their impact on animal welfare? Doing _more than most people_ to reduce their impact on animals? I say this as a regular meat eater, not a vegan. Your point comes across as bait-y for the sake of being bait-y, rather than contributing anything meaningful to the conversation.
Their My Cloud product is also offline https://status.mycloud.com/os4
I think it’s absurd as well. Jobs won’t be stolen, different jobs will be created. At a certain point we will move past scarcity, and maybe we won’t have to labor to not die. What’s so important about a job? Humans need meaning, but meaning doesn’t have to be delivered by PayChex at the expense of the human soul.
> Can they even license those works to train a model?

Adobe is already creating such AI with these kinds of partners, so yes

> And if they can, then everyone can. I can buy the rights to a single photograph of Darth Vader and create an entire series TV about his life using AI.

No because a single image of Darth Vader alone won't work. You need a pretrained base model, trained with millions of images. Only then you can feed such base model a single image and get something decent.
My hot-take is that people trying Arch derivatives as their first linux has and will continue to hinder linux desktop uptake.

That being said I believe the Steam Deck OS is an arch derivative. I will allow this one to be the exception to the rule.
Yeah my first reading of that title caught me off guard. "I don't think anyone needs that much, but you do you and also why is this on the HN frontpage?"
SD card is kind of niche these days - it's really just for people with a camera and most people just use a phone at this point. HDMI out though is definitely still useful for regular people (presentations, conferences, TV, etc...)
I think this is like people in the 90s saying they'll never use a mobile phone. Or that they didn't want this newfangled 'internet', because their desk phone, written letters and books are fine.

Sure there's some people still living like that in modern society but they are really rare. Yet in those days hearing this sentiment was really common.
This is important. Our relationship with those who pay is for labor is indeed “sold” as “do something you love and …” and frankly that does help people over time.

I love coding. Enough that I don’t want to age into being a director/manager, etc.

But what is important to understand is that from the other direction the owners of business only care about profit - they don’t care abt your love for parts of your work, except when they can gaslight and use it to keep you working. For them.

Remember when Dwight Scrute got 13 “employee of the month” awards in a single year because he got 2 in February in lieu of a raise?

That’s what I mean.

AI will be used by owners to either gaslight your love into using it for them, or possible remove what you love to be replaced by AI.

Which, for the record, is not “intelligent” any more than anything else in code.

Anything implemented is either to gaslight our love for this industry for profit, or to replace parts for profit.

It is no surprise at all.
I'm trying to point out the flaw in your argument not the real possibility of a human doing this. You have unrealistic expectations of AI art and such a lawsuit against a human would obviously not go in your favor. 5 seconds of google will tell you that Style is not copyright protected so your entire premise is flawed.
What point does it miss?
A lot of Ukrainians and former Soviet republic countries' citizens would disagree.
That is of good intent but i can think of two reason why this didnt work for some:
- Kids will know what to do if they like the material. When we condition them to "chase a carrot for no reason", they look confused because they may have few reasons for doing the work
- kind of the same as above : starting very early, we remove independence from kids. They must do what adults say, without questioning. There's nothing special about high school that will introduce self direction to them, it must come gradually
As often as people put in incorrect values. As often as someone goes beyond the range. Always when someone tries to add yellow to blue. Often when the wrong formula is used.

And in this case you don't get to put in the formula.
> I can't count the number of times I've listened to someone argue their answer must be right because they got it from the calculator.

Answers from calculators are always right! But the human may have asked the wrong question.
This article reminds me of SSLeay by Eric Young which openssl is based on. Without his effort we'd all still be digging in the dirt with text in the clear. Open source is in the debt of a few gifted altruistic hard working people.
Exactly. I am absolutely no fan of the new AI products, and the only question you have to answer for yourself is: can you leverage this technology for what you are trying to do? For me the answer was "yes", and I now enjoy having copilot around to dynamically type boilerplate I'd need much longer to type and fill out myself.
> Android was just an abysmal experience from my perspective.

I'm always amused by this kind of comment.

I have been from ios to Android back to ios in the last few years. The two of them are so similar nowadays it's laughable. The UX is nearly identical.
It is an actual athletic event. People come at pro wrestling from the wrong angle. It's a stuntman exhibition show.

And no one is going to say that it doesn't take athleticism to be a good stuntman. That it's not dangerous. The difference between the WWE and professional stuntmen is that the professional stuntmen have guidelines and rules about safety. The WWE, less so.

On a movie set, if you were going to dangle a person 100 ft in the air, then every possible landing surface would be covered in padding and foam. Then about 10 yards further out just in case. In the WWE, Owen Hart hits the concrete and dies live on Pay Per View. And then they continue the show.

These are real people, doing real stunts, with real danger. The only thing fake is the outcome of the match.
I understand your stance on the use of artificial intelligence and how you hope to differentiate yourself from AI users by focusing on excellent software and support.

However, AI has the potential to enhance efficiency and accuracy in many cases, which can be beneficial for both the company and the customer. Being able to adapt to emerging technologies is a key component of business success, and completely rejecting AI may limit your ability to compete in the future. Of course, the implementation of AI should be strategic and balanced with the need for personalized human touch
I recently switched to the corporate side of my job in a new position 3 months ago and my process has been to ask a ton of questions, take notes, try to understand the problem, the pain points, and where else I can add value to the company.

While I could work almost fully remote and come into the office 1 time a week, I opted to work in the office 5 days a week because I know personal connections with people matter, especially when trying to ask questions or figure things out.

Review the notes you take! I use Obsidian, but there are plenty of other applications.
This is a more extreme take than I would make, but I largely agree. I think the real-world capabilities of current AI are vastly overestimated. Are there areas where it will create new possibilities? Absolutely. Will it make some workflows faster? Yeah, probably. Will it make software development faster? Maybe the really common stuff that "generic". I think in reality we'll see small marginal gains in a slightly better autocorrect for all but the most basic of CRUD and web dev. I just haven't seen the level of correctness and higher order understanding that's necessary for real software engineering. I keep seeing people saying they use it to generate tests, but are they also using it to generate the code under test? I'd be highly concerned with people relying on a tool that is inherently unreliable to do the majority of work. Human brains are bad interpreters, but AI is an even worse one. Maybe it will get there eventually, but I don't think GPT3/4 is it.
The problem with socialism is that it kills individual initiative and individual liberty. This has been demonstrated in all attempts to implement it.

Any system that does not accept and positively use the fact that individuals do things for their own benefits and have a built-in, evolved, sense of fairness in the sense that they are sensitive to each individual benefiting in fair proportion of the contribution they made is doomed to fail.
There's a lot of crypto shills that want to scare people into thinking fiat will inevitably fail, so people buy their imaginary currency.