skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've spent most of the last 20 years working with JavaScript, and as ridiculous as it sounds, I never quite got the hang of it. Meanwhile other languages clicked within a few days.

I had a similar experience with e.g. Flash vs GIMP. Even after a decade of not using it, I found that the Flash shortcuts were intuitive to me, but GIMP (which I use every day, several times per day) never quite "clicks".

I'm not exactly sure why this is the case. Another example is that I rarely use Python, and yet find myself vastly more productive in it.
I'd challenge you to expand your understanding of disability and ability.

Small and Medium businesses "waste time" on all sorts of things, one anecdote that might help your libertarian leanings is that majority of disabilities are age related, and the majority of the wealth is controlled by older folks who are far more likely to just not spend money at said small/medium business without providing any feedback to said inaccessible business.

In general, I might look at the "curb cut effect". Curb cuts are those things you see on sidewalks that let folks roll bikes, carts, strollers, walkers, and even wheel chairs when cross streets. You might take for granted that the build environment for folks is far more accessible than it was in the 80s pre ADA.

My philosophy is well designed systems fully embrace the constraints and benefit everyone.
We can make more, in different ways. There are lots of modern digital or screen printed versions, but they're printed from photos of existing original versions so are more like a photocopy. There are a few modern woodblock woodblock prints. But the original impressions have that special something about them.
To avoid copying all over the place: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35992109

Transformative refers to how the work of art is used not produced.
Ah censorship, something that much of the left and the right can agree on although they quibble about the details of exactly what and when to censor.
A phonetic/phonemic script would be worse for mutual intelligibility for those privileged enough to know written Chinese, which is notoriously difficult to learn.

But it might be better for literacy in general because it would be much easier to learn. And, though it is a comparably much more trivial issue, better for creating something like a morse code.

That said, I know there are many other issues apart from simple ease of learning that figure in to what language people learn or want to use. Written Chinese has a rich history and culture, and it's tied to people's identity so of course jettisoning it for something arguably more practical with the added downside of loss of mutual intelligibility among those who know written Chinese would likely result in strong opposition.
Consider podcasts. Most of them are (by contrast to audiobooks) low-effort and depend on a kind of parasocial relationship with the listener. You can listen to Joe Rogan or instead listen to a well-researched audiobook on modern maritime piracy or Byzantine history, for example.

But if we're to listen to something more literary or more technical, I find myself joining company with you.
And why should people who choose to be in an ecosystem that doesn’t suffer from those market conditions be forced to use a substandard component?

I’m not saying that USB C is inferior. But if Apple did want to come up with a better port it couldn’t.

This goes back to when Apple was moving to Lightning, the EU wanted to mandate micro USB.
"We value your privacy" is usually a true statement about the monetary value a company places on exploiting your privacy, masquerading as a moral value statement.
> Have other people observed the sentiment the author observes around hackers being less common?

I've seen it as well.

I don't agree with what the author says are reasons for it. They just don't fit.

From what I've seen, hackers (in the truest sense) don't advertise. They have deep knowledge, but you only find how deep when you get into discussions with them, and most of the time they have no goodwill to engage in that because of two things, people who are dunning kruger; and social media.

Many of the learning paths have also been removed and are harder to find, the internet used to be freer than it is now. You have companies that dictate what stays up simply by using the court system as a coercive measure. The recent Quad9 thing shows just how bad this is getting across the board internationally. Copyright is being used to coerce, compulse, and limit actual innovation.

Hackers used to get by with their skills via certifications and jobs, many times they can't get certified now that only a single company handles testing in most places. I can't tell you specifically how they fail you, but its certainly not based upon whether you just have the knowledge.

The number of real hackers out there are significantly less because there has been less opportunity, and less resources that are easily found to get into it.

Many have worked very hard for their knowledge and some volunteer and help others, but there's an active trend to harass those that contribute like that, and volunteer psychology says you stop giving when it starts costing you. Dealing with a high number of deceitful people leads you to test them before providing any goodwill. If the hacker's don't like what your response implies they don't engage, and you are none the wiser.

Its not about life grinding them down, there are a lot of intelligent people who have stopped giving back because they see what providing that support is doing for society in general, its going in a direction that will inevitably fail because life will be intolerable, and volunteering is at a much higher cost to them personally than it ever was before.

Its like that adage that most people know, what you do in small things that don't matter shows what you will do in large things that matter. If you lie cheat and steal in friendly games, do you want them managing your company's finances? A smart person wouldn't.

There are also a lot of crazies out there that are really indoctrinated now too and they don't even realize it. They like the idea of something, but ignore everything else that would be needed to make it work. Completely irrational in some cases and can't even reason or think critically. Its sad.
Right. Wu Tang Clan showed how this can be done in the modern age with their Shkreli album.
> represent the repressed views of "real" people

This seems to have at least some basis in fact, given that the polls have missed the mark when Trump is on the ballot. Pollsters are already grumbling about how they're going to get any sort of accurate predictions for the 2024 election.
Clearly it's residual radiation from the collapse of the wormhole to the sock dimension.

/s
As someone with limited vision, I agree. The actual solution is enabling system-wide tools to work around the non-accessibility-aware applications.
In Manchester, there isn't even a date given for Openreach to lay fibre, there is a private regional ISP that has done it though.

I currently have FTTC. I'm either going to switch to fibre with the regional ISP or cancel my landline and change my FTTC contract to just rent the copper pair. Will use my mobile phone for voice calls.
This is horrifying. If you are looking to improve your skills in detecting deception and lies Pamela Meyer's Masterclass is a great way to start! https://pamelameyer.com/masterclass/
Firewire drives in 2002 were a minimum of $400 and generally closer to $1000 for 10GB range.

Licensing fees were $1 for historical legal reasons per SKU, for the first unit sold, and then 14 cents for each subsequent unit.

Still stupid, but nothing like what a lot of this thread is condemning.

.07 percent is not remotely close to "several" percent

We old people remember $5000 for first generation IBM PC.

So get off my lawn ;)
Yeah, youtube is the new boobtube and it's become somewhat of a mild addiction for me. Maybe if I start seeing these 30 second unskippables it will help in the cure. There are so many more productive things to be doing than watching youtube.
Congrats on the launch! I'd love to see: "here's what was uploaded, here's what you can make with blend" comparison images front and center. I think it would inspire me to try it out!
Am-I the only one that finds is odd how the British government brags about Alan Turing after what they did to him? Having a government research center named after him seems particularly strange after what they had him endure.

The state forced him to undergo chemical castration because of his homosexuality. Same state kept his achievements and contribution to the war effort a secret up until after his death, so they could persecute a war hero without the public knowing about it.

Crazy to think he was convicted in 1952. Same year Elizabeth became Queen and head of state. She could have simply overturned his conviction. The man saved women, men, children, of all races and orientations from an horrible end. Had he not cracked the enigma's cryptography, there would most likely remain nothing today of the crown that persecuted him. Blown to dust by the Luftwaffe.

If only the British government had extended the same humanity to Turing himself.
Off-Boarding Employees: Cloud Security Challenges
TL;DR: Off-boarding employees, particularly those involved in building and securing a company's cloud application ecosystem, poses significant challenges for HR and IT teams. The risk lies in API keys, users, roles, and service accounts that connect disparate systems. When employees leave, it's difficult to track and revoke these access credentials effectively, potentially compromising sensitive data. Similar concerns arise when sales team members leave, as they may take valuable information to direct competitors. To address these risks, security teams should maintain comprehensive inventories, establish baselines for normal behavior, and develop real-time indicators of suspicious activity.
One obvious problem is that that isn't what `make clean test` does.

Order isn't guaranteed, and most clean targets won't have any dependency relationship with test targets, so it could test and then clean. Or interleave them (clean between test dependencies). Or run them both simultaneously if someone has set the -j flag, and then who knows what happens. It does often work out, but it depends on a lot of things.

It's a consequence of make making things, not running tasks. You've told it to make two things that you've said are completely unrelated to each other. Order doesn't matter there, so make is free to do whatever it wants.

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Other than that, make's behavior when a target updates dependencies of another target which do not share dependencies can get extremely complicated, and often depends on execution order. Clean generally affects many/most, so it's sometimes very problematic to run with any other.

You might also have computed test dependencies at parse time based on what's on disk, which have changed unexpectedly due to clean deleting those files. That can cause `make clean test` vs `make clean` and then `make test` to behave completely differently. The latter is the only consistently safe option, and the only one where your intent will always match what make will do.
> Or how about search a pdf on my phone?

Open it in iBooks, which also runs ocr on the pdf, and hit the magnifying glass.
That has nothing to do with anything. Think of this as a password, except the password is autogenerated and stored on the device itself. And you can have multiple passwords for the same account.
The article mentions that SAT and ACT scores are now mostly optional, is that really the case at most universities/colleges?
But "don't try to codify 'insight' into the process" seems to suggest "don't try different approaches". I'm not sure how people can at once trot out the "Bitter Lesson" and interpret it as it is written, but still say "We're not saying not to think about new approaches".

Is the idea then to work only on methods that allow for faster compute of more data?

FWIW, the Transformer works faster on current methods of parallelisation, allowing for dramatic scaling that RNNs will find hard to compete on. But we do pay for that in terms of what can be computed (https://arxiv.org/pdf/2207.00729.pdf - TL;DR: Transformers are limited in the types of programs/functions it can compute because of parallelism).

Scaling, ironically, does seem to be the 'direction of steepest descent' in terms of what will bring the best performance (for now). Gradient descent does find pleasant local optima that may keep us happy for a while.
Generative AI isn’t doing anything at all like what Warhol was doing here, and there is nothing new in the terms of broad rule in the decision as to what is “transformative” that would signal much as to how the arguments relative to training and use of generative AI might play out.
Well, Cambridge Analytica has been disbanded since 2018 so there would be little use in banning it.
How doesn't it help artists?

It seems like the photographer here is pretty happy about her copyright.

I love SCI-FI thinking about a world without copyright or patent protections, to wonder what it would be like for humanity after a couple centuries. But I can't help but feel artists not getting credit for their work, would at least hurt them on the individual level.
Sotomayor didn't consider the artwork transformative enough to warrant fair use. The Supreme Court is stacked with idiots across the political spectrum.
San Francisco and Los Angeles could be the worst-run cities in the US (and spoiler, they’re not— as someone who has lived / still lives in both these cities and in red cities and in suburbs or towns), and they will still be desirable to live in.

People forget what drew (and to a lesser extent, still draws, despite the valid complaints) people to California is the weather and climate, the nature, the mountains, the desert, and the ocean. It’s objectively one of the most gorgeous and geographically diverse states (and I don’t say that lightly, as a Texan myself).

There will be a devastating earthquake here sooner than later, but after what I imagine will be a particularly devastating 3-5 year initial adjustment period where certain segments of the media will be jumping at the bit to say “California is dead” (remember NYC and Covid?), I have no doubt people will be flocking back in greater numbers than left, likely looking to buy at a significant discount before prices inevitably shoot up again.

Because, despite it all— People want to live here.

Look at Santa Barbara, for example— it has almost no corporate presence yet some of the most expensive real estate in the state and nation. Yet it’s not a summer destination like the Hamptons, but a year-round thriving city. That’s not an accident, but because Santa Barbara is situated on one of the most beautiful coastal inlets on one of the world’s most desirable coasts, georgraphically and weather-wise.
If I was expecting a call, then no...I would not be pissed. If they explicitly said I would be receiving a call from an AI customer support person, then no. If I was expecting a human and got an AI, then yes. I think it is about user expectations in this situation.

But, I am not sure this is what the OP was hinting at.

Also, if you are going to use an AI to help me with an app, why not just deliver the help...through the app? Why the extra step?
Although small businesses didn't really shut down, at least that I could see. Pubs sold delivery beer, restaurants went full-on collection and delivery, coffee shops turned into walk-throughs.

Tougher time absolutely, but almost all the visible small businesses in my area survived lockdown.
I like your point of view (and very much appreciate your comments by the way).

By your definition, I would definitely count (as would, say, my cousin who is buying laptops for her kids to take apart and homeschooling them and taking a hacker's approach to parenting or the one who got really into theology for about ten years or my uncle who was obsessed with cameras or...), but I think the prevailing view sees hackerdom as tech (or at the very least mechanical) related and I also believe that hewing closely to a community's default understanding of a term is useful for communication, so I still wouldn't claim the title on HN. In an anthropological/historical/sociological exploration of hackerdom, I probably would. :)
Go back to the ancient world and they don't care about your magic steam engine because it uses too much resources? Make one gun and they'll want to get better at extracting resources quickly.

James C Scott chronicles in his various books about how most people do what they can to avoid top-down control. Before such weapons of coercion, it would have been much more difficult to enforce the hierarchies suggested by industrialization.
Having taken a job at roughly that paycheck previously, I can tell you exactly why: my rent at the time in that area was $700 a month for a 4 bedrooms apartment.
Ask HN: What (programming) skills will still be relevant in a year?
I am data scientist who also has some intermediate knowledge of front-end and general application development. Always wanted to get more into the latter and become a better programmer. However now I feel like whatever I invest time in learning right now is quite likely to be "useless" due to AI in less than a year.

What would you focus on learning if you wanted to work in the computer / AI / data science world for at least the next five years?
>"Based beliefs"? But they are so clichéd, so mainstream even.

That's what's so funny about the modern generation of redpilled alt-right iconoclasts. They're literally just regurgitating beliefs that were banal in their grandparents' time. You're not radical if everything you believe was already being lampooned by All in the Family back in the 1970s.
While I think his terms “Soil” “surface” and “atmosphere” are kinda cute, I don’t understand the need. Each of these already has a very clear established term.

“Soil” = Implementation
“Surface” = Language/Syntax
“Atmosphere” = Community

Often when people talk about a programming language they mean a combination of these, but it takes very little to clarify which specific part you like or not.
Although I more or less agree with you, in general, how complex would the AI have to be before you can consider it aware?
Based off of current copyright statutes, nothing about generative AI creating stock photos by being trained on stock photos would violate copyright law; only if it was substantially similar to an existing work and was not transformative of that existing work. Just because the AI (read: the human) has seen work doesn't mean that creating a photo with the same subject and even with the same framing and techniques is inherently infringement.
This is actually a wider issue with live photos IMO - people often share them not remembering or noticing snippets of private conversations can be present. I have live photos enabled by default and have to remind myself to check the audio before I forward a picture quite often, or remember to turn it back to a static image. Sending your mother baby pics while your spouse moans about the mother-in-law in background, that kind of thing...

I'd actually probably get a lot of use from a feature whereby live photos displays a quick transcript of any words it picked up in the recording over the top of the image, or in a prompt, any time you try to share one with clear button to remove it. Similar to the local voicemail transcription feature, then I wouldn't have to waste time playing the recording. You could probably add the same detected words to the photos search index too.
While that’s a valid point, the Citizens Advice Bureau survey (which was conducted via an agency called Walnut Unlimited) asked follow up questions about negative consequences because of cancelling broadband and it was somewhat clear people’s quality of life suffered (12% of people said they cut back or cancelled broadband and experienced at least one negative consequence such as finding it harder to manage bills etc).

https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/wales/about-us/about-us1/m...
Apps can open faster than a webpage, for one thing, which is convenient for a tool you're using all the time.

(I say this as someone who resisted making an app for AutoTempest for years based on the same logic, but finally caved to the fact that a lot of people just prefer them. Something I'm now coming to understand as I wait eagerly for a ChatGPT app...)
> The evil westerners

Never said that.
The Unholy Saga of Phoenix Hyperspace
And moreover, this is more than a philosophical difference. As our understandings of AI and neuroscience improve we can now talk about "world models" as something almost tangible and constructible. Complex animal nervous systems build and use embodied world models to interpret the senses and allow for tractable future prediction and action generation. Yann Lecunn's paper on AGI from August 2022 gets into defining computational equivalents, and multimodal AI models like PaLM-E are taking first steps toward explicitly tying LLM-style text prediction with collections of perceptual observations about the environment.

So it's not that artificial systems cannot, as a category, have models of their environment and the actions they can take within it, this "cargo cult AI" concept comes up when people jump the gun and see those capabilities in much simpler systems, even including ChatGPT-4. And it's disheartening to see narrative on the subject driven more and more by people who have not taken the time to learn about the subject matter, for all the interest they seem to show in talking about it.
It’s a Raspberry Pi, a BlackBerry Keyboard, and a Battery: It’s the Beepberry
From 3000 year old universe to this blasphemy
Thanks, our fans do vent out of the apartment, at least. Our setup looks a lot like the janky ones you hear about that just vent into a wall, but when you open the cabinet above the microwave there's a duct that merges with the dryer exhaust on the way out of the unit to an exterior vent. It's a bit annoying to hear it running every time I'm cooking, but I figure it's worth it to be inhaling a bit less toxic fumes.
Don't worry about the Deleware franchise tax, what you should be worried is the US federal corporate tax which is significantly higher than that of Singapore. Cayman Islands? Good luck finding a credit card processor to process your customer payments.
Yep. And anything that makes a website easier to use with a screenreader, also makes it easier to write addons that enhance the UI for everyone.
How does it encourage public access? The artist is dead for 70 years when it becomes public domain

>a lot of work would never be available to most people

This is the situation right now because of copyright.I don't see why it would be worse without
"Not available in your country", as usual.
Really beautiful article.
This book

http://wilhelm-research.com/book_toc.html

claims that fumes from gas stoves cause color pictures to fade more rapidly.
> What redeeming quality does copyright have in light of the intellectual damage and huge amount of unnessecary bureaucracy it causes?

it enforces the existence of a market of royalties dues. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royalty_payment

I agree, the digital technology changed things so much that it no longer makes any sense. but tell it you the king of the UK? (or some other country with "kqweeng")
When we left, the community had a pretty good yard-sale culture. We won't make back anything like what we paid for the stuff or the storage, but we'll not have to deal with the storage costs any more.

Otherwise, the tools, books and toys will go to the local thrift stores. And the crap goes to the dump.
Maybe research has shown the adverts get less engagement with longer, more predictable scheduling. Technology these days makes it relatively easy.

Most people won't bother getting up for the shorter adverts - so whilst on mute - the advert will get your attention visually.

Win-win in the eyes of the advertiser.