skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yup, welcome to my neighborhood in Austin. Literally two miles in any direction, and you've got at least three gigabit-class ISPs, but not here. Spectrum and AT&T DSL are it for "broadband" providers.

And I checked, and no T-Mobile and Verizon do not provide 5G fixed wireless service in this neighborhood. That was going to be my backup. AT&T LTE is available here, but it's no faster than DSL and during times of high load, it's much worse than DSL.

FML.
You're technically correct, but missing the point:

When technology destroys menial jobs, it's progress.

When technology destroys white-color jobs, it's a threat.

</irony>
Show HN: Thoughts on Flash in 2023, in Flash, in 2023
Spent the past few days making this - something halfway between a demoscene program and an experimental film. I wanted to celebrate the unique computer-y aesthetics of flash, while showing off some weird and obscure tricks I've picked up over the years since it's been deprecated. (Also, some maybe-not-subtle commentary about AI-art and the tools of the future)
You have the luxury of time. Use it.

Start working your network. Not for a job, but just to catch up. Ask anyone who you worked with to coffee (real or virtual) and ask about what they are working on. You'll start to get a feel for what is happening in their world, and my guess is something will catch your eye. May be webdev, may be fashion, whatever.

My guess is that someone from your network will try to hire you if you indicate you're looking. While the layoffs have impacted the market, senior folks are still getting jobs.

If you want to start a SaaS, make sure you have a lawyer review your employment agreement.
Do you think the problems with scaling (particularly non-uniform) primarily arise because most physics, animation, etc., are biased towards uniform normalized scale? Or is there some other issue I am unaware of that causes the issues?
If Euclid knew css
> Hong Kong

Decades ago I was there for a few months, and it was rare to see somebody’s apartment. Nothing like NZ where you often end up visiting work colleagues homes. Also at that time there were plenty of people that were working there only temporarily.

Can you tell me how the dynamics in HK work out these days? What different things make a middle-class apartment in HK a prestigious item worth competing about, that is visible to peers? Are apartments in HK something that people spend their working lives saving for for status, or mostly for function?

Singapore is weird, because are not the vast majority of homes owned by the state - I know there’s something odd about Singapore apartments but I don’t know the details.

Not disagreeing: I have seen flash-as apartments in London during multiple work-stints and vacations there, and postcode does matter https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boltons

I just don’t know anything about HK.
Given the ability to sustain billions, statistically speaking neither of us would've been born if it weren't for the combustion engine.
“Last nights Phish performance is proof that God loves us.” But in Portuguese.

https://suno-ai.notion.site/Bark-Examples-5edae8b02a604b54a4...
I wish my CGM supported it, I have the freestyle sensors and they do not.
Literally this week Southwest grounded all flights due to IT issues....
Except the assets that maintain the stability of their stablecoin are stored off-chain and we will have to trust someone’s word that they exist in sufficient quantities.
I think we can look at history and see how revolutionary technologies changed the landscape of society.

No one knows really the magnitude of AI, but if we take the two extremes, AI takes all our jobs, and AI is just some stats that has no real utility, we’ll probably land somewhere in the middle.

Personally, I’m trying to learn these technologies to augment my current work. I’m treating it like going from using Notepad to program Java, over to a full fledged IDE. Not a perfect analogy, I know.

Given its inevitability, I think it’s logical to try and use it to our advantage as workers. If it ends up taking our jobs anyways, at least we tried. If it doesn’t take our jobs outright, then we’ll still be behind those that use the AI products as tools that augment their productivity, leading to a game of catch-up.

Even with the 6 month hiatus proposed, AI versions will still be released by those that refuse to follow the agreement. We’re in an AI arms race against the likes of other world super powers. And the morality of some are quite questionable (not that US’ morality is perfect by any means)
if society is going to collapse it is going to collapse. Even if we did pause AI development, bad actors would just ignore the rule and continue anyway.

It's easy for me to say, I am young and healthy and can move away from programming after it bought me a house. Maybe I'll work in a brewery...

Either way, the dirty words everyone seems to be avoiding is UBI and socialism.

If AI sincerely destroys every white collar job, well... that will be interesting.
What would your reply be to the following comment? (Not pasting it directly since it's frowned upon here)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34378139
The Seed Biology Place
I am doing something similar. How well does the search for you? Do you have any best practices for creating embeddings e.g. creating hierarchical embeddings? How much do you clean the data from videos/podcasts?
again, that doesn't mean neurons can exist in multiple states. There is also no also indication higher level computational functions in the brain responsible for reasoning or whatever have you require any quantum computations.
Yes but if you want to know an arrays length you can just put it in a scalar. So you consume some API and want to get the length of the result. You put the array result into a scalar variable. Then what this is not the length?
> within a short drive of other large, rich cities and a short flight of others

Agreed. But if one's job and life go remote only, this ceases to be a differentiator. My entire argument is geography is far from becoming irrelevant. But if someone in Houston takes no advantage of their proximity to said "rich city with a well-educated workforce," they're competing against anyone with internet.
What benefit would that offer?

These towers still need to be manned.
Because Microsoft is the largest software company in the world. Their products are in wide use by virtually all businesses and schools in the country. Judging by the popularity of ChatGPT, these features will be very popular and heavily used.
We can of course also judge the track record on this kind of techno-optimist rhetoric. People expressed all the same lofty ideals about social media, almost all of which have been outweighed by what we really got: anger-driven addiction, micro-targeted propaganda, turn-key state surveillance, and teenagers attempting suicide at all time highs.
What are penetration hockey sticks?
They gave you a chatGPT number: incorrect with confidence
> how people access things in a way that is modern and sane

Unless teleportation is invented, if you want to have access to a large variety of things that are not just generic grocery store/post office/non-specialised gym or similar - you're going to need density.
Are you seriously suggesting humanity would be better off without the combustion engine? Also, presumably an AI powerful enough to kill vast swathes of humanity would be powerful enough to prevent something like climate change.
Google does almost exclusively; it's tied in to TFX.
Reference to growth rate curve. Shape of hockey stick. Up we go.

https://www.iea.org/news/renewable-electricity-growth-is-acc...

https://zenmo.com/en/photovoltaic-growth-reality-versus-proj...

https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2022/05/16/a-fate-realized-1-tw-...
> We obviously understand it can have a lot of beneficial effects in society

Really? Because nobody seems to be talking about them. You talk about how bad things "will" occur. What about bad things that are literally happening right now?
Usually BAAs are required for IT vendors from healthcare companies before they start getting paid. It doesn't mean that they are claiming that their systems are HIPAA compliant
> Houston has a real economy. It is the global hub for petroleum engineering

The example sustains itself. If petroleum engineering could be done remotely, there is no chance it would continue to pay a premium for Houston-based talent.

> I’m not a fan of Houston but I think it has a much more impressive economy than New York

New York's economy is that of control and administration. Houston is to it as Baton Rouge is to Houston.
"Effects of large vehicles on pedestrian and pedalcyclist injury severity" https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36031254/

Just one of many reports from the past 20 years documenting the correlation between vehicle size and deaths/injuries to those on the receiving end. You'll find similar conclusions from IIHS, NHTSA, etc.
If only they’d focus their research on that instead of art and music.
Chromebooks Are Trash (Literally)
What are you talking about, I never use vim any other way!
Got any sources for that? I'm curios now.
A train is approaching on the tracks, on one track you create free energy, solve diseases, create a new dawn for human ingenuity and also some white collar jobs are removed, others are created. On the other track we continue to toil in the dirt.
From a quick Google, these all seem to be cars from the 90s. Did you see any fpr sale that are less than a decade old?
the most sustainable design for a control tower is 8 UHD cameras on a pole. ATC doesn't like it though.
> I don't know how any of the proponents can pretend that this isn't an abject disaster on the horizon for anybody who depends on copyright to make their living.

OK, I'll bite. How is the an abject disaster on the horizon for... let's say, novelists?
If it's a small company I still feel Excel/Google sheet is OKish. How many KPIs and how many teams are we talking here?
'2023-04-19: LaTeX + ChatGPT "Help me fix this..." buttons into our LaTeX editor'
https://cocalc.com/news/latex-chatgpt-help-me-fix-this-butto...
The amount of just totally irrelevant ads we get these days blows my mind, like never before in history have we had this much info about consumers, and yet Hulu chooses to run pharma ads for us all day for conditions that no one we know of have. That, combined with all the ridiculous mobile ads plus complicated cookie BS on the mobile web make it almost unreadable even with aggressive pihole on our network plus adblockers on every device. I don't mind paying for content, but publishers still find ways to punish anyone trying to get any kind of a deal, e.g. Apple News+ subscriptions don't work to log in to actual sites, so you can ONLY read most of those via the Apple News app which of course doesn't allow commenting, and doesn't integrate with my feed reader or browser in a way that lets me actually view articles I come across on those publications via other means, so I must find the name + publication of an article, switch to Apple News, try to browse to find that, and usually by that point I just stop caring and go do something else. Another workaround for places like Rolling Stone is to just switch to private browsing and use the however many "free" article views per month...again as someone who technically does pay for access to this content via Apple News+. I feel like I'm slowly arriving at the conclusion that any in-app browsers should be considered harmful on mobile due to the integration and UX headaches they pose. What's so bad about opening the system browser instead of your app's awful skin on top of mobile Safari, with a window that takes up most of the screen but doesn't have all the features of the normal system browser and might close at any point for $reasons....

Is this really the best we can do in 2023, after investing trillions in ad tech over the decades?
> Meanwhile Motor Vehicle Deaths have not changed significantly in 40+ years.

This is not the win you think it is.
> Americans are exceptionally focused on retribution

What is your basis for this? I thought we're obsessed with incapacitation.
We've had big advancements before that allow people to do more with less, but this is a staggering leap. The jump from "you need to get a whole bunch of people together to practice and play music together" to "one person can make skilled music in their bedroom" isn't even comparable to "Hey AI, make me a reggaeton darkwave album performed by Kurt Cobain and Tiny Tim".

We're not talking just more art here, or some people losing jobs who then have to retrain. We're talking with possibly very near advancements, entire industries completely emptying, with hundreds of millions of people who now have nothing to do and nowhere to retrain to.

Other advancements have caused job losses and opened many more. I'm not understanding where all the potential displacements from AI are supposed to go, or how we're going to balance an economy when you need an order of magnitude fewer employees than ever to pump out more content than anybody could hope to consume.
RadioGlobe
> combustion engines, they will probably send us extinct.

!RemindMe 150 years
Philip Greenspun's blog posts about web development got me into building web applications in college and sold me on the design principles behind ArsDigita Community System (ACS), which ran on AOLServer and Oracle. When I joined Zipcar in 2001, I advocated for building our new web app on that stack. I still think it was a good fit, given our options at the time.
"Every underprivileged child could have a personalized tutor."
Tutor for what, prompt engineering? The impact of this on the kids is hard to fathom and just because "similar" advancements in the past opened up doors does not mean this one will as well.
What are you talking about?

The vast majority of japanese brand cars are manufacturered in Japan and imported in the US.
While the input resolution is indeed high, it's not as if any animal on earth has access to photographic memory of all that data. It is so ephemeral you could scarcely tell me what the last 10 people you passed on the street were wearing, even if it was 10 minutes ago.
Not like AI revolution will be better handled. It will be even worse because there are very obvious economic incentives to handle badly
It needs to be Chromium 113+, otherwise you'll have to enable webGPU in the browser flags like I have for Firefox.
Salt water is bad … evil stuff … they already try to avoid siting on the pad as much as possible to reduce salt spray corrosion from the sea air… even the barge trip back to land is less than ideal… salt water is the enemy of any complicated metal objects… so they are doing everything possible to avoid hitting the salt water and to keep the rocket as far away from it as practicable.
Obviously I'm not condoning clicking on your ads a few times to get the payout. My account got banned and I haven't used adsense since. Everyone uses adblockers anyhow now... But to PERMA ban someone for this small offense (compared to actual fraudsters that use malware to get ad clicks) is insane.

Especially when your company basically controls the internet. I'll repeat what I said before, Google pick on someone your own size.
The answer to this entirely depends on who it is gets to hop on board the “free energy, solves diseases” train. If the tracks continue on the current American path of widening inequality and declining lifespans, I’m sure plenty of people would be happy to see the whole thing derail.
How many jobs lost and how many created?

On this track, we continue to toil in the dirt, unless we figured out how to automate all the farming too. In fact, it looks like we're automatic all the fulfilling jobs and only leaving toil for the humans.
The last time we saw a copyright struggle like this was Napster. After a lot of ire we eventually landed on Spotify, shows, and merch. Musicians seem fine this time around, but graphic designers are in for a world of hurt. Artists and musicians mostly already starve, unless they're extremely lucky and famous.
Related, the Melvyn Bragg podcast on Marco Polo is excellent
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01hxpxh
I am for the jobs that AI will provide!
I wonder why the : symbol between minute and second was so stable?
> what happens to the artists, writers, programmers, scientists, maybe even doctors and lawyers

They find better things. Maybe agitating for a different economic system. Some countries will fail horribly at this. In any case, LLMs aren't coming for most writers or coders or scientists or medical researchers. They will help with our credentialing fetish.
Yeah, AOL was great.
>somewhere, there is a software developer--with a human name--who built this automatic ban system

They built it because someone in Product or AdTech dreamt it up, sold it to some VP or directory, and got some project + product managers to run with it. That's like blaming irresponsible mining practices on the miners and not the people who are actually deciding to mine in the first place, or even where exactly to mine. Even in those cases, if you try to take some ethical high-road that doesn't maximize profits or serve some VP's ego, you'll likely find yourself relieved of your responsibilities in short order.

Chain of command, but also investor pressure to do everything even remotely legal to maximize profits is more to blame. If devs push back, they get replaced with devs who don't. The money is too lucrative and there are too many qualified people to really have much power to "do the right thing" in most big corps. Sure, you can voice concerns and try to change things, but if the decision is between "do a thing users will hate but will make the company 2% more per year" vs "don't do this thing and hope people will like us more for it"...yeah, they're gonna find someone to get it done.
Yes, and certain media narratives reinforce that in people, I'm sure. But the statistics don't always track. Houston has a far worse violent crime rate than these cities (if we say, NY). A city like Tampa, crime wise, is comparable. And fantastic schools are available in every suburb outside all of these major cities - you'll find amazing school districts in the NE, Virginia, etc, so that can't be it. These places are very pricy too.

Most people I know who have moved have all said a similar thing: cost of living is a fraction and taxes are lower. It's not just politics - people aren't moving to Louisiana. Texas and Florida offer economic opportunity.
Arch Linux with no meaningful configuration changes in this area. I understand so.
Banknotes in Scotland are still issued by retail banks. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banknotes_of_Scotland
> quirks

Winner-takes-all popular elections have proven to be naive, but I wouldn't say it's a quirk. It's probably the first election format you'd try.

My point wasn't that you need a coalition as much as that people will change their views to align with their coalition.
I asked this in my appointment a couple weeks ago. Was told insurance won’t cover it unless you are diabetic. I’m based in the US.

I believe they are 200$ without insurance and you have to buy refills every two weeks.
I’m in your same demographic. However I see these technologies as career extenders, not career threats. I can learn things faster than ever and adapt to changes more easily.
Perhaps someone asked Google Bard What should Google do to catch up on the AI race? and this re-org was one of the suggestions. /s
Ah yes - what the world really need is less artists and more activists.
Are as many jobs created as lost? People always assume this because it's been true in the past, but is that really enough reason to believe it will always be true going forward, especially when a technology threatens to upend so many types of jobs across so many industries all close to simultaneously?

And even if it were true, what's the quality of those new jobs? Sitting in front of a command line engineering "prompts"? Sounds more like a particularly dystopian sci-fi story than a bright future.
> we continue to toil in the dirt, unless we figured out how to automate all the farming

Who, on this forum, is forced "to toil in the dirt" for subsistence?
there are more backup plans available with having humans on site, should anything go wrong. an emp or lightning strike could take out that pole.
Humane demos combadge-like wearable with projected screen
If it's so smart already, why hasn't it replaced the most basic functionality in human society yet? Like, can a GPT4 drive a car because most people can drive a car.
We've all seen how responsibly companies act in less-regulated markets, and the FTC is already pretty damn toothless.
If you have a critical bottleneck and you don’t have a spare you made a mistake. A couple.
American innovation, and innovation of all countries flows through the world. Reactor designs, fiber optic cable, the internet, wikipedia. These are a few examples of the old world. The new world will feature new achievements that will unlock more prosperity.
First orbital attempt of Startship got halfway there before exploding
Ask HN: What is the state of the art for visual React design?
Im unfamiliar with the visual UI design scene.
What I’m looking for is the fastest way to prototype UIs for single page web apps.
Right now I manually write them. I’m wondering if there is a visual design tool that exports human readable react code that you can then wire up with hooks etc.
Thanks for the answers!
> what the world really need is less artists and more activists

That's not all they can do. And the line between artistry and activism is blurry at best. But yet, if your art can be replicated by Stability, it's no longer novel.
Tcl is pretty amazing, in my opinion. I have used it since 1995-ish and have always enjoyed it. I worked on code in AOLServer for a while, and it was a pretty powerful tool for dynamic page generation.
Not only that he’s 73 years old. Hard to believe he’d feel this way starting out his career. He has nothing to lose at this point.
Ageed, the stakes of not doing this to appease some short term disruption is not worth the opportunity cost. Some might say we need better social support for lower wage jobs getting replaced by AI, but if we've learned anything from history is that humans (and especially gov) does not act until it was obvious it was needed yesterday.

I'm not willing to pretend that we'll somehow get basic income before the need and economic tradeoffs become very apparent. Democracy rarely ever works like that and the alternative isn't any prettier.

Regardless, like most tech/social evolution, we can't stop it even if we wanted to. Even if we try to slow it down it will probably just slow it down for some and build a bigger moat around the few with connections to power.
Type Punning
> but this is a staggering leap

More than industrialization? Come on. It's staggering because it's impacting us.
I think this was the joke..
it’s great about cutting edge tech and spaceflight, but could do without the needless callout.

i and many engineers i know build, support, and run life-critical systems, emergency systems, flight software, and more.

software absolutely needs more discipline but to be so derisive isn’t ideal.
In other places in the world they can only search room by room so that you can be present and oversee the process.
Yep, the post pandemic cars from Toyota and Honda especially have been having terrible quality and QA issues.

I've seen a new 2023 4runner with weird panel gaps, unnecessarily stiff handling (compared to a 2020 model), and sunroof motors stopped working after rain.
I heard you like Flash in 2023, so you wrote about Flash in 2023 so you could Flash in, well, 2023!
This is great. Without much shame, I will plug my free/open source stretch timer. https://stretchtimer.netlify.app/

This is not as visually appealing but might be nice for people who wish to customise their stretches or do a resistance workout.
That's awesome. That's exactly the kind of thinking that turns L's to W's.