skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OK, so this wave of LLMs doesn't eliminate blue collar or the service industry.

That leaves "just" removing white collar jobs, which is estimated at 43% of US jobs!!

https://www.dpeaflcio.org/factsheets/the-professional-and-te... (It seemingly includes nurses and teachers, which may need to be removed)
Also I bet the pytorch training code is written with CUDA semantics. Maybe a JAX version would work without messing with the code.
The specifics are different but the trend is the same. Most HN posts from Reddit are old.Reddit.com, you try and view a Reddit page on mobile? Screw you, download the app.they’re doing the exact same thing digg did, the trends are just a decade later.
Most decent safes are not trivial to pick, often using circular keys instead of the flat ones requiring a different type of pick. Newer safes don't even have keyholes but require that you actually know the combination.

As for drilling or sawing through it, that's going to take hours to do.
I know, you were trying very hard to list a tiny, tiny subset of activities people do with OpenAI’s APIs, so as to steer clear of the vast majority of use cases where you would have to concede the point. And you again avoided answering my points. At this point it’s rather clear you’re not arguing in good faith.

Totally disagree that it is because of how good the content is. I posted the same exact thing twice - one time it got 0 or 1 upvotes and the other time it got 150 and made the front page! Same exact link.

Rather, it is survivorship bias. You see the stuff thag made it. The celebrities on Twitter have entire departments working to make sure their content has likes and comments.

In fact a decade ago I worked in digital agencies thag made Facebook apps and they all bought 50,000 non-organic “likes” to bootstrap the campaign / app. Nearly everyone who is successful does it. Practically any channel or forum that you’ve ever heard of got that way because they started off with some dedicated people / team members hanging out there every day and not behaving “organically”. Even worse, every very successful forum or celebrity got there by leveraging the existing social capital of some network or organization. Most of it is NOT organic at ALL. I am surprised that you would be so naive to think that putting up a forum with no comments is all you need to do to become a well-trafficked forum.

PS: I brought up your concerns, which I share regarding the vast majority of AI applications, in a Discuss HN post. It got 14 upvotes and 7 comments in a few minutes, and then was flagged. Two hours later it was unflagged but by that time all momentum has cooled. I can assure you that far larger business models are at stake and far larger interests do not want this conversation to happen, than my little app. If you actually cared about this issue, you’d care about seeing it everywhere it exists:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35688266
I'm talking about https://search.brave.com/goggles/discover

You need to check out the guide on how to create a new Goggle.
1password 8 definitely feels like a massive UX downgrade over v7. Though I can’t put why into words.
Birkenstock is absolutely a luxury brand, just like Nike.
My question is this: if I was to try to hack up an ActivityPub server in my platform of choice, how would I know how compliant it is? Is there any compliance test suite to verify this?

"Try and load it up in a client app" seems suboptimal.

"load it up and see" attitude is part of what made parsing and renderings HTML so hairy, and compliance test suites helped.
It's all relative. DIS has 200k+ employees. Thousands of employees could quite literally be less than 1% of their workforce.

Is it reasonable for a company to make a change that effects 0.5-1% of their workforce? I think yes. How about 2%? At what point do the lines get blurred in your judgment?
But there exists 100% remote companies, even before Covid. In such companies this “lunch culture” doesn’t exist (never existed). We should learn from such companies because I think remote work is more about finally putting more emphasis on the “life” part of “work-life balance”
How I Use AI to take perfect notes
I think they meant the job doing transcription is dead, not that corporations don't provide the service anymore. In keeping with the topic, AI taking jobs, corporations are mostly using digital tooling rather than people to do transcription.
Your house can act as a thermal battery and draw power to heat or cool it while there is a surplus. You can also have a hot water reservoir as another large thermal battery for showering etc.
The Effects of Noise on Health (2022)
> The web and email got effectively centralized…

Woah there. I don't agree with this. The web is certainly not centralized (this is on Hacker News and not Facebook, right?) It follows a power law distribution where you have some players getting lots of traffic and then there are lots and lots of small traffic sites. But it's definitely decentralized.

_Google_ is something of a monopoly providing some of the features you list for the web at large, but there are others (Duck Duck Go, Bing) that are just a click away.

Gmail took a huge share of the email market by being a better product for the first several years of its existence (and being free also helped). That doesn't mean email is centralized: I've been using Fastmail for the last several years and it works _just fine_. I don't have the problems you list.

Anyhow, I agree with your point that a decentralized _social network_ needs to solve the problems you're listing. I just think the web and email are actually examples of technologies that remain decentralized.
And that’s the naked truth!
Do any developers collect usage statistics by sampling rather than a persistent data stream? I think it would possibly reassure privacy-conscious users that anonymized & aggregated telemetry really is what it claims to be if the phoning home only happens at random intervals. Otherwise that detailed record of usage is too tempting a target for the surveillance capitalists.
Show HN: Share a region of your screen on Google Meet
Most meeting applications like Google Meet, Discord or similar only allow you the option to select a particular window, tab or screen when sharing your screen. They do not allow you to select an arbitrary region of your screen. This Electron application, using FFMPEG as a back end, provides the facilities through which you can achieve this.
Do they employ humans to do the transcription? A look at their jobs page has zero such openings. This points to consolidation of an entire industry into the pockets of a small number of individuals. That's no comfort to the legions of recently-unemployed.
You assert “the brand is in crisis.” Is this your mere speculation? The very nature of a brand involves community reputation.

A gossip campaign of an improperly predicated assertion is called a “wrap-up smear” in some circles. What’s your basis?
I have been semi-reliant on FakeSpot to deal with fake reviews, but I just ran one of the Tom Lesley books through, and FakeSpot gave it a solid A. Looks like I’ll have to find a better way going forward. Sigh…
1) AI is Software. Marc was just a little off on market timing, and the eating starts for real right now.

2) I worked for a large private equity company on contract for a bit. The team I worked on was doing analysis about what the likely impact of AI, robotics, and automation on true unemployment in the US was likely to be as of 2030. Largely due to the impact on food service, retail, agriculture, customer support, and entry level corporate jobs the conclusion was that we'll see true unemployment in the 40% range at that time.
> Do you and people you know have a safe?

Yes. I'm not taking about a safe like you can see in the movies. Just a locked box.

> Where I'm from, we generally don't use safes.

That's on you.

> Do you consider your safe to be... safe? I'd imagine it to be relatively easy to get into, by picking the lock or sawing through the safe.

That's not the point. 2FA is about thwarting password leaks. If someone has physical access to my house and knows my passwords, I'm screwed, yes.

But since I don't live in a Jason Bourne movie, my threat model isn't a ninja who steals my passwords then comes into my house to hack my tiktok account. My threat model is breaking my phone and knowing that my backup passwords are in a minimally safe place where I expect them to be and weren't carelessly thrown away with old documents; and deter casual "attackers" like a niece who could be inclined to plunder my papers for coloring material.

And if I did live in a Jason Bourne movie, I'd expect the ninja to just beat me up when I get home and unlock my safe for him, assuming I had bought an unbreakable safe.
Just keep the backup codes in your wallet - most people protect their wallets pretty well.
Docs say it's just `verified` now, with no distinction in v2. Where should I be looking?
Is this for sale still? It shows sold out on the site.
I have a feeling that My AI's weird avatar is one of the many variables as to why he was pushed back by users. It is a smug looking character with purple skin. To me, the avatar enters the uncanny valley.
Little Big Updates
I've not run the code in a while but you can find a screenshot here:
https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/13253888/166610362...
(nb. isn't of actual display, but gives you an idea of quality)

and a bit of discussion early on about the colour issues:
https://github.com/pimoroni/inky/issues/115
The usual book suggested with many counterclaims which is less famous is "The Dawn of everything". A beautiful read and a lot clearer on what is research and what is opinion.

Not for Harari or Pinker readers, see here: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/oct/23/the-dawn-of-ev...?
The vc funded slide into oblivion started a while ago and continues
It absolutely did happen, and Disney had to alert Twitter about it.
> If you get a pop-up on a website offering you a solution of a pressing problem you have, that pop-up is not an annoyance, but an opportunity.

I'm curious if you have an example of what this looks like done well. I have never personally seen a pop-up that I viewed as anything other than an annoyance, but I freely admit that I'm not a typical user (to the extent such a person exists). What kinds of great opportunities do typical users find in their pop-ups?
You could at least disclaim that you are the CEO, at least on your HN profile.

https://www.invisible-computers.com/imprint.html
Note that there are two kinds of backups possible for TOTP secrets:

1. Backups that are specific to the app that made them. They can be used to restore the secrets to that same app on a new or replacement device, but might not help if you want to migrate to a different app.

2. Backups that can be restored to other apps.

If you aren't sure you are going to stick with the same TOTP app long term this could be important.

Sometimes there are third party tools that can take #1 type backups and give you back the secrets in a form suitable for other apps.

For example, Google Authenticator can export the secrets in the form of a QR code that contains the secrets for multiple account. Another instance of Google Authenticator can read that, but other TOTP apps might not be able to. But this tool [1] knows how to take the information in that QR code and decode it and split it into the individual secrets for each site. It can even generate QR codes of those for scanning into another TOTP app.

If you want #2 type backups that just work with most TOTP apps, there is a fairly easy way to get them. Whenever you set up a new account and a site gives you a QR code, simply take a screenshot before using that QR code to finish setting up the new account.

Store your collection of QR code screenshots somewhere safe.

If you ever want to migrate to a new TOTP app or to the same app on a new device open those saved screenshots and scan the codes.

If you've got an image display program that will let you open many at once restoring can be pretty fast. On my Mac for example I just do "open *.png" in the place I have the screenshots. That opens them all in Preview, with each one being a separate page. Then I tell preview to show one page at a time.

Then it is a matter of scanning one, hitting "page down" on the keyboard, and repeating until they are done. After two or three I'm in the groove and it goes pretty fast.

[1] https://github.com/dim13/otpauth
Will this impact development of Fedora Linux?
That is perfect. Say there is something topical approaching which will might require output of [ A | B | ... ]. Just prompt output for all possible outcomes and press publish on the ones that match the actual outcome (in this member of the multiverse).
Where are those "ridiculous amounts of money"? The price of 1password seems very moderate so they must selling enormous number of licenses to amass so much money.
The problem is that no form of data personal protection is really a good fit for the American (political) system, because the US leans heavily into the fallacy that if it's legal for one individual to do some as private activity, then allowing to be scaled up to mass corporate behavior is inherently reasonable. So telling Surveillance Valley to stop building Stasi 2.0 is akin to telling your friends that they must forget your birthday.

Furthermore, the American concept of "consent" mostly functions as a legal fiction whereby less powerful parties are coerced into signing a bunch of binding legal documents. Hence the desire to copy the GDPR verbatim - because if a privacy law used the American version of "consent", why even bother?

One way to port the overall idea of the GDPR into the US legal system might be to define a non-transferable property right in personal information (information about yourself), which could only be licensed revocably. Those two key bits would be tough though, given widespread deference to the Coase fallacy that has blessed much corporate looting.
You can't point backward on an exponential innovation curve and say nothing will change. Not a compelling argument. Software has already eaten the world. Industries are already getting turned upside down by gen ai.
To receive JSON-LD messages, someone needs to send them to you. Sending follow requests is perhaps the easiest way to do that, but those follow requests do not need to be initiated by the same code that hosts the inbox.

The point is there are several potentially independent layers and modules there: The message pump itself at least can be implemented separately from the decoding of individual message types, and separate from managing followers and following, the same way e.g. a mail server knows nothing about how to follow mailing lists, or decoding email messages past the header.
There's a conflicting forecast here[0], that says it's decaying. The graphic for the "decaying" forecast says it's a forecast for 10am EDT. The forecast linked in OP says it's for 2am EDT, which is before the publish date for that forecast. So something's weird with the publish date listed on the forecast, I'm not sure I would trust that date.

Seems like it's decaying, the decaying forecast is linked on their homepage and other space weather sites are forecasting it decaying as well.

[0]: https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/news/geomagnetic-storm-continues-d...
> Again the same point applies. Either you become fan of low level languages with little-no time saving features, or you are willing to use helpful high level language features (or add your own).

Again, the same point applies. In my experience, macros aren't a time-saving feature in the long run, as compared to alternatives.

Macros are a big time-saver up-front. Obviously. But they make code harder to understand, and in the long run, understanding code is the most important thing in most codebases.

There are exceptions, but those exceptions tend to be the ones already implemented by you Lisp interpreter. Yes, I understand that many Lisp structures are macros rather than core language features.

And I think that if you actually look at the implementation of those macros in production-quality Lisp interpreters, you'll discover that some of them are significantly more complicated than you thought they were, because they're handling edge cases you didn't think of. The benefit of having macros battle-tested by thousands of users in disparate use-cases is that it susses out all those edge cases. You and I aren't going to have thousands of people writing code against our macros in most cases: it's just us and our teammates using the macros, and as a result, we get to find those edge cases ourselves, i.e. we have bugs.

> It seems your point is something closer to how macros are too hard for people to maintain.

Yes.

> That’d be more interesting of a point to make (and details for you to provide if you have any.)

I'm not sure what details I could provide which I haven't already provided.
To me there is a single defining difference between this and every prior revolution: in the past it was the poor people whose jobs disappeared. Now it's the middle class and potentially upper middle class. I anticipate it not actually affecting all that many more people than prior revolutions, but expect it to be far noisier since the people whose skills are becoming irrelevant have much more power and influence than in the past.
Sales and sales development roles are very different, especially if you are in an inside sales role. The number of feedback touchpoints are much higher for those roles. Sales interactions happen very frequently and getting feedback real-time increases the quality and relevance of the feedback.
Libya's Great Man-Made River (1,750mi, 2,820km) [0] would like to have a few more words :-).
[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Man-Made_River
I think your implicit assumption here is that all websites are businesses in some sense? But people often run websites that have no monetary transactions involved (except hosting, domain, etc costs). Since I'm one of these I worry about being forced to delete data just because some random persons who came to my metaphorical backyard BBQ didn't realize there was a metaphorical photographer there taking pictures.

I get the spirit of the law and I'm glad incorporated entities will be regulated. I just anticipate substantial use of the 'Delete Act' for frivolous cases and malicious uses. Much like GDPR. With the good comes the bad.
Getting pure berkelium, faster than ever
I can't speak to what's appropriate in Southern California, but here in the UK I've become a bit advocate of replacing lawns with meadows. The simplest route is to just stop mowing and let whatever comes up after a few years stay there. The hardest is to get rid of all the grass, plant a meadow mix of seeds, and then basically leave it alone. Not only it is better for the environment than lawn, it's dramatically less work as you only need touch the thing a maximum of once a year.
100% agreement from me. People have trouble believing this, but software existed before telemetry existed. We didn’t have trouble understanding where user pain points were back then, because we actually performed user studies, and offered the ability for users to provide feedback if they wanted to.

The field of UX wasn’t born the moment someone wrote the first telemetry library.
Language translation services have thrived despite Google Translate etc because they did so poorly. However the LLM do a pretty amazing job translating idiomatic language, so I think translating text as a career is effectively over beyond editorial revision of the automated text.

Try in ChatGPT asking it to translate some passage of relative complexity into idiomatic Thai. Start a new chat. Ask it to translate the Thai, pasted in, into idiomatic English. This was always a way to test how bad exactly Google translate is. It’s essentially flawless with ChatGPT.

I showed my brother in law, who is Thai in Thailand and who works for an English speaking multinational. It’s revolutionized his job. He struggled to be understood, and struggled with Google translate to make something understandable. Now he’s able to conduct his business without friction.
I think it’d be a little more honest if the first sentence started with „I offer a display with a simple API“.

https://www.invisible-computers.com/imprint.html
I know, right? What a hideous frame.

It somehow makes the screen look worse!

I smile fondly and lightly jab at hackers complete lack of concern for aesthetics.
> left plugged in

Some people do not like the idea of powering a device they are not actively using. If you are not watching the piece, a «bright LED display» seems like a waste of energy.
> I seriously worry about GPT++ setting government policy in 10 years (or, worse, deciding how it’s going to be applied case by case).

Good news! Machine learning models are already doing that, all over the world, with all the problems you would expect (a lot of the AI alignment discussion these days is an attempt by people making money in AI to distract from current AI issues.)
Exactly. Running basics circuits is very straightforward. Why don't we just tier the licenses from super easy on up? Run 110, license A; run 220, license B; install main service from the street, license test C; running three way switch, badge 1. That way you can then get a handyman to do a light fixture change without him breaking the law.
Bad take. Good software has to be used by anti-abortion activists and abortion clinics.
Twitter Backed Underrepresented VCs. Under Elon Musk, It’s Trying to Dump Them
I'd accept making it opt-in, but opt-out is ridiculous. I can't imagine how they're going to get this past EU regulators.

I love (although loved more in the past) 1Password and have deployed it in two separate companies. Between this and recent UI updates (well, over the last couple of years), maybe it's time to look at alternatives.
I could be wrong but I don't remember Apple claiming it was literally impossible for them to open an iPhone. If that were true then Apple wouldn't have had to fight them at all. The government can't force you to do impossible things.

Apple objected to being compelled to create the tooling to bypass an iPhone's security. That implies they can do it whenever they want, they just choose not to.
no, just rebrand as artisanal. there'll be some future designation similar to "organic" for text strings that originated from a human brain.
Real-life system design examples
> your implicit assumption here is that all websites are businesses in some sense

It's not. I'm saying it would be hard for a personal website to accidentally stumble into being a data broker.
What you say is true, but on the other hand remote work (usually) brings benefits to your “non-work” life. I definitely wouldn’t like to trade the niceties of the office (not many, but not zero either) with the niceties of remote work (which are many, from my point of view). So, honest question: you wouldn’t mind trading them?
Articles that start with "why" or "how" and don't answer the damn question make me so irritated. Especially when they just go "nobody knows!"
The problems with live coding interviews
2022: "1Password with $620M Series C, now valued at $6.8B" https://techcrunch.com/2022/01/19/1password-series-c-funding... (following a $200M Series A and a $100M Series B in 2019/2021)
I’ve worked at many styles of company, including 2 that were fully remote pre-Covid.

The secret to success is, we have like a 8-1 senior to junior ratio. That’s the only way they get enough specific attention to stay effective, not get lost in the shuffle, get the training they need.

The company that I worked at which transitioned to remote during Covid… didn’t go so well
Once I get a second passport I’m planning to go to Iran. I studied Farsi in college and visiting Iran has been a dream of mine for a long time. With the second passport I’m hoping it’s accepted so I can travel freely without a tour guide.