skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Carpeting and nursing looks safe for now. Most other jobs are not. Some are very competitive already, like painting, writing, all sorts of design. Without AI it will be hard to find a job there. Driving, piloting will be mostly automated soon.

Rather then leaving it's better to adapt. AI is just one of technologies in the list. They come and go, that's the specific of IT. Except AI will stay, it will change with the time, but will never go away. Besides, it's the coolest thing right now. And will create new jobs around itself.
https://nathants.com

making all the things easy.

aws, dist sys, security, data, frontend, backend, desktop.
Yeah I think it's helpful to recognize that this isn't always obvious to people, even folks who seem like they'd instinctively do so–I had a similar experience a year or two into being a professional programmer, despite being someone whose first experience with dependencies years beforehand was downloading Perl files and directly editing them.
I'm seeing decline in ChatGPT virtue signaling in my Linkedin feed too.
https://nutcroft.com/

Software, society, philosophy.
> The flip side is that R&D is a lot easier and cheaper when you don’t have to worry about accidental infringement.

Not when you're a hardware company. You typically rely on external vendors and long feedback loops between iterations for development and have to pay people along the way and in-between. Your remark that someones is morally obligated to give their innovation away before R&D costs are paid for, or really at all outside of a licensing model, is so far left field it might have a seat with the cars.
Humanity has more than one alignment...
"I'm part of the reason you can't find what you're looking for but I'm getting richer for it, and for now so can you, until the whole of the internet is garbage meant for robots with no value to humans."

Yeah. Not my style.
https://michaelcarrano.com

Haven't blogged in a while, have a bunch of half written drafts that I should just finish up.

Mostly blogged about Android, programming, tech, or just general life stuff.
In my experience (Japanese, only have local phone numbers), registering Weibo was really difficult (maybe in 2022 IIRC). They refused registering by error for unknown "security" reason on website and mobile app. It's same for other Chinese services like WeChat. I don't see many Japanese moving for them.
Wow, your website is excellent and FAST. Good luck to you.
Why do people gloss over the fact that they signed a contract stating their employment is “at will” meaning they can be let go for a multitude of reasons outside of being in a protected class.

This person’s entitlement is on another level. They aren’t guaranteed a job and insulting high ranking officials will get you sacked 99% of the time, on top of the thousands of other reasons your employer can let you go.
Apple has little to no competition so they price their devices high and use high quality parts to justify it.

Windows laptops have much competition and is difficult to break even. So they use what ever works and give great value.
Fun way to decompress at the end of today. 788 moves. At least I didn’t give up :)
Big spreadsheet advocate. I use spreadsheets for everything, basically my entire life is organized in a big excel file. All my finances, to do lists, notes, calendars, etc. Excel is flexible enough you can build almost any "app" inside it. Relevant to the OP, I'm using a CSV file right now to hold/organize the content for a website I'm building (it's highly templated, and in-framework templating seemed like a nightmare...easier to just generate the files out of a spreadsheet).

Similarly, I have known many people who use powerpoint for design work. UI design, interior design, even blueprints/architectural drawings. It just works, everyone already has it.
No.

If you're looking at building a bunch of nuclear-powered desalination ships - and you are not a Hollywood script writer, nor trying to fleece a bunch of stupid VC's - then why not just build some cheap water-hauling supertankers instead, and fill 'em up in spots (mouths of large rivers, etc.) where fresh water is ~free at scale?
https://benkettle.xyz

It is a work in progress, but I’d like for it to be a place where I can write about projects and anything that interests me. Will primarily be a combination of computer science and urban planning topics, maybe with a little cooking and hiking mixed in.
I would imagine cost is the main differentiator. I don’t see regulation limiting the number of options any time soon, (this is why OpenAI wants licensing/regulation) so I am assuming prices will continue to fall.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/ontario-new-nuclear-bu...
This display looks great, but I'd be lying if I said I wasn't jealous that you acted on the idea first (; Best of luck, I think the future of e-ink, edge computing, battery efficiency, etc. will only make these types of products even better down the line!
At the end of the day, the question remains : do we want local news?

Meta and Alphabet are not gonna run news room in Manitoba and Northern Ontario.

If we don’t, fine. Local news can die and be replaced by influencer I guess ?

Then if we do, who is paying for it.

In your analogy, Meta & Alphabet are installing a patio in front of the coffee shops, and offer samples of the most popular latte of the day for free and you can get as many as you want.
This. PC vendors generally assemble parts made by other people. By and large, their trackpads can only as good as the best one available from third party vendors. Since PC vendors just assemble parts, it creates a race to the bottom scenario because that's the only way they can really differentiate an amalgamation of commodity parts. Also, PC's are usually sold on spec and it's difficult to quantify how good a trackpad works.

Since Apple designs their own stuff, they aren't reliant on other people to make a good trackpad, and they charge a premium for it.
The biggest plant in the US, near San Diego (Carlsbad), cost $1B to build and produces 200,000 m^3 per day. Israel's biggest desalination plant, Sorek, cost $400MM and produces over 600,000 m^3 per day, so 40% the cost and 300% the water. So I assume a large part of the cost of the Carlsbad plant is just all the usual reasons everything is insanely expensive to build in California.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_%22Bud%22_Lewis_Carlsba...

https://www.water-technology.net/projects/sorek-desalination...
The moat is popularity and name recognition.

Highly personalized/flavored chat services like character.ai or even WolframAlpha have existed in various niches well before GPT 3.5.

Additionally, OpenAI's moat is that GPT4 is SOTA in many niches... for now. And also very accessible, since its API is so popular.
For those that don’t know, this has been a meme going around where people use AI tools to remix scenes from TV shows or interviews with Ballenciaga runway shoots
Milgram experiment debunked too

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/01/rethinkin...

https://www.psypost.org/2019/11/unpublished-data-from-stanle...

https://www.bps.org.uk/psychologist/why-almost-everything-yo...
What makes you say it's a downgrade?
I don't understand why Voyager benefits from being an LLM, vs a "normal" Neural Net. It's not talking to anyone or learning from text.
I would start by blowing insulation into the exterior walls (assuming they don’t have any), and insulating the attic. Also, upgrade the windows to double paned or better.

Fixing unintended holes in exterior walls is probably also reasonably safe.

However, randomly plugging intended leaks without understanding how the house is supposed to breathe can lead to condensation issues (mold and rot), carbon monoxide poisoning (if you have natural gas) and radon poisoning (if that is a thing where you live).

If you want to do more than I mentioned above, consider hiring an architect, or reading up on house ventilation designs.
I like Zizek's take on this, being happy is overrated and most people are actually pretty happy with not doing anything other than watching YouTube and playing video games.

Plus, I don't see any way to prevent technological progress. It has a "will" of its own and will continue to advance. Jaques Ellul has already written about this but I think Heidegger and McLuhan are also in the same camp with similar ideas.
Smelling is not strong enough.
People get enough from headlines.
I would say “free sample” like those tiny bits or minuscule shots at Whole Food.
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This reminds me of a job I had 15+ years ago where we did code reviews by emailing files to one another with our changes. It worked like this with the first part of the file being a script and the end of the file being a base64 encoded zip of the changed files. We had tooling that would pack them, but unpacking was done by execution.

What could possibly go wrong with emailing executable scripts?
Note that the large increase in the graph predates seawater desalinization. If you start at 2005 (first large seawater desalinization facility per wiki) and assume all the increase is due to desalinization (definitely untrue, but simplifying), the difference isn't so large.
Maybe a gentle reminder that automated surveillance happened to us first, by our own kind nonetheless. It's now a norm in the industry.
So you're saying you've heard of people who quit and were successful and you've heard of ones who graduated and pivoted and were successful, but not ones who graduated and weren't successful. It's almost like when you hear of someone it's more likely because they were successful in some way and the unsuccessful ones you hear less often.
most people have a finsta at this point
This comments section is a perfect example to show why conversation over a distance doesn't work and will never work.
An area ripe for gradient descent
I only want a handful of "apps" with windows I open. But I also want a little wifi thing in the corner I can click on. I want a spotify thingy in the topbar with the current song title and a pause button. When I hit the volume up button on my keyboard I want a little thingy to pop up to graphically display how the level is changing. And so on ad infinitum. Oh an I also don't want to configure the custom optimimal indicator for each case.

I tried a few stripped down options but it turned out a full GNOME environment that I barely use works best.
Ask HN: What do you think about a simple password manager?
Recently, I've been helping my parents, ages 50-60, with resetting their passwords as they constantly forget them. They used to have simple passwords, think (Apple1) until we had the 'talk', now they use more secure passwords but imo not good enough. They're reasonably tech literate, enough to know how to google, PowerPoint, Word, etc for their jobs, but anything beyond that it becomes a phone call.

I tried to set my dad up with Bitwarden, and while I find it simple enough, he had a lot of trouble grasping its concept, nonetheless the UI. There was confusion with how it can be a webapp, browser extension, phone apps, desktop apps, etc.

I know there are a plethora of password managers out there.

The idea I had is simple, another password manager but:
- no browser extension
- only webapp and phone apps
- no autofill
- deadsimple UI
- no tags or folders, just search
- can be managed by an admin account (like a child)
- The user just copies and pastes
- secure default settings (vault lockout timing, etc.)

The password generator is just 1 option, there are no settings like length, special characters, etc. If the website does not accept it, then when the user revisits the dialogue again, another option will appear giving the user the option to regenerate simpler.

Even though it's not a perfect solution, and the enforced defaults might be opp sec 'bad practice'. It's still better than nothing.
Have ideas from programming helped us create new mathematical proofs?
Alterations in immunometabolites in individuals with severe psychiatric disorder
this is so deep it reminds me of seth godin marketing blogspam
> the best defense will be having the technology available to everyone rather than a small group

Proliferation of a dangerous technology is the best defense?

Sure, it's a libertarian meme, but it wouldn't work for nuclear weapons or virus research. Maybe that would make sense, but the argument needs to be made.
The largest cities have the greatest need. Small towns that aren't high population centers aren't so strangled by traffic hopefully. And also hopefully are made to be more walkable and not spread out so unnecessarily.

Rural areas are rural. One car or truck every mile or so isn't the problem we're talking about here. It's the hundred cars per mile chokepoints that are the issue.
Using ChatGPT-4 like this seems like most insane example of curl | sudo bash - imaginable. I can't believe people actually would hook it up to their GitHub.

One thing I really dislike about this ChatGPT-4 plugin model is you have something like this, working on your behalf, often in secrecy.

A guy a work was using ChatGPT for everything (he claimed) and now people think he is a crappy coder and ChatGPT is doing all the work (even though I don't actually think this is the case). Just no one knows anymore.
https://vladimirzdrazil.com
You're forgetting the interconnects, the buses. Now, make a topologically-parameterized bound model ;-)
RSC is broken if your library mutate the DOM tree after mounting.
focusing on failures neglects the fact that even those shoddy projects build institutional knowledge. It's funny that there's one place in the US that works the exact same way, the VC/tech industry.

The wins pay for the failures ten times over. And while everyone laughs at ghost cities, with what people learned there you can build the next real city twice as fast. Effectiveness, getting things done, is more important than efficiency. In the EU and NA we now routinely need to bring military, nuclear or civil engineers out of retirement, because we've built so little that we've lost generations of knowledge.
Someone has to come up with that headline, the contractor in the Manitoba newsroom office is doing it.

The shooter is usually dead, should be link to the victim’s obituary comment sections instead of a local news article ?

But someone has to write those too? LLM to the rescue!

Why is asking Fangs to give an obole to local news so insulting ?

Until those articles are writing themself, they don’t.
> And it still didn't take off the way Threads did.

> Isn't the whole point of Mastodon supposed to be a privacy advocating and decentralised alternative to Twitter?

Yes. Whereas Threads is privacy destroying and centralized.

> Threads's launch is just going to centralise Mastodon to the biggest servers

How so?

> and onto Threads itself

How so?

To be sure, if and when Threads supports ActivityPub (it launched without such support), it will immediately become the biggest ActivityPub server in the world. On the other hand, many Mastodon instances are vowing to immediately defederate from Threads, and other Mastodon instances may be forced to defederate because of spam and/or traffic. So it's not clear how long that Threads will even last among the ActivityPub community at large.

On the other hand, it's unclear whether Instagram/Threads users are even interested in communicating with Mastodon users, and vice versa, so maybe they'll coexist on the ActivityPub protocol while largely ignoring each other. The fact that Threads shipped without ActivityPub support shows that ActivityPub is not essential to Meta's plans. (That feels like a bit of a relief to me.)
Threads has passed 2M sign ups in the first 2 hours
Corporations like Saudi Aramco are already doing that. You don't need a superintelligent AI, corporations that maximize profit are already sufficient as misaligned superhuman agents.
> Someone asked me 'hey, you have a CS degree, tell me how ChatGPT works.' I couldn't answer that.

Did you mention to them that they're a clown?
Yup! PYREX = good and Pyrex = sub-par.
Smart Things Smart People Said
People can do both, though: drop unnecessary rides and also have the safest seats.
I love the conversational overview, one of the clearest ways to introduce a complex system I've ever come across.
Robert Moses famously got shit done. The problem is, everyone is a special interest to someone. Moses’ favoring automobiles and limited access highways over public transit within NYC limits in retrospect was idiotic.
Burning man oughta hire you to build their titular straw man.
Tell HN: Nearly all of Evernote’s remaining staff has been laid off
Its acquirer (Bending Spoons) has taken over operations. They’ve also hiked subscriptions prices and told customers they intend to use new revenues to pay for new features. How they intend to do that without any staff is something I would like to know about.

If you’re still using Evernote, probably a good time to stop.
We need a John Henry moment pitting our best human translator against the best LLM translator. This way, we can show the world the "aha moment" spark of creative ingenuity of our exemplar human geniuses which the unimaginative cold unfeeling robots will never capture or even approach.
Briefly, because I initially looked at ripping out LZ4's, but it just skips chunks in the middle of the compression algorithm, so it didn't come out easily.

So I just tried using LZ4 as a first pass, and that worked well enough, with a high false positive rate, so zstd-1 was duct-taped onto it.

Trying to just glue an entropy calculator on is something I want to try, but I haven't, because this worked "well enough".

As far as why not do it in just zstd or LZ4 proper...well, this works very well for extremely quantized chunks, like ZFS records, but for things with the streaming mode, it becomes more exciting to generalize.

Plus it's much nicer for the ZFS codebase to keep it abstracted.

Also, as far as using it for, say, gzip...well, I should really open that PR from that branch I have, shouldn't I? ;)
Look at the sheer amount of permissions the app requires on iPhone. Health data? Go fuck yourself.

Threads is in the same bucket as Facebook: hard pass.
You don’t need to dilute a gallon of sea water at all, it is perfectly safe to dump it back into sea as is.
The worst is when you rent. I live in an area that doesn't really expect much cold or heat. All the windows are single paned. The sun beating on the roof raises the top floor to the outside temperature plus 5 degrees. I can't fix any of it because I'm only here for a few years.
I appreciate the correction and reference!
This is mega awesome, nice work!
Ah, a perfect exemplar of the kind of independent journalism free from corporate influence as stated in the bill.

> Act provides that any such agreements must not allow the freedom of expression and journalistic independence enjoyed by news outlets to be undermined by corporate influence.

https://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/csj-sjc/pl/charter-charte/c18_...
Unless the installer was ripping you off those were not comparable units. I've seen the manufacturer MSRP sheets and the cost difference between heat pump and non-heat pump for the same unit is small. Nowhere near enough to account for $11k.

It sounds like they quoted you a bottom of the range 11 SEER A/C vs a top of the line multi-stage compressor variable speed blower 19 SEER heat pump system. Those are not the same thing.
an actual explanation: https://www.best-microcontroller-projects.com/ppm.html
Their draw knives are crap.
Batteries are a mature technology that must work under the constraints of a)safety , b) cost, and c) energy density. With all the money and time put into battery research it is highly unlikely that a radical new battery technology that is cheap, safe, and energy dense will be discovered. Battery advancements are in the incremental phase.
Is anyone using Gitea or Forgejo? (the latter is a fork, I believe) They both seem like interesting/lightweight alternatives to GitHub/Gitlab.

https://about.gitea.com/
https://forgejo.org/
Are the plastics in your blood responsible for the content of this post?

I think there may be an angle here, but it’s distracting to so drastically minimize the environmental impacts
The author typically ends their articles with "what changes came about because of this type of crash, or exist today that would have prevented it", after describing all the factors that played a role.

E.g.,

https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/system-of-denial-the-cra...

> Following the crash and the publication of the NTSB’s damning final report, substantive changes were finally made to prevent similar accidents from happening again in the future. The FAA launched an industry-wide campaign to root out the myth of “ice bridging,” and it became standard practice to activate the deicing boots immediately upon entering icing conditions. The FAA mandated that all EMB-120s and several other aircraft types be fitted with automatic ice detection systems; Comair increased its minimum speed in icing conditions to 170 knots; and the FAA required all manufacturers to provide clear minimum maneuvering speed information for flight in icing conditions. The FAA also established standardized communication channels between FAA experts and POIs stationed at airlines; created a new database to more carefully track airworthiness matters involving foreign manufacturers; and most importantly, launched major research initiatives designed to ensure that the requirements of FAR Part 25 Appendix C were realistic and covered all ice shapes that were likely to form in flight, including thin layers of sandpaper-type ice. These resulted in a series of revisions to FAR part 25 to reflect state-of-the-art knowledge of aircraft icing, which continued all the way through 2016, including via the addition of further testing criteria not originally identified by the NTSB. As a result, it is now known exactly how every aircraft currently in service will react to all the types of in-flight icing which are likely to occur, and limitations exist to ensure that controllability is not compromised.
And paved the way for the DVR.

Without which almost nobody lives today.

I picked up a Panasonic ShowStopper 2000 (30 GB installed drive, it was a rebadged ReplayTV 3030) in ~2003-4 for $75, bought a 120 GB HD (biggest it could take, 127 GB PATA limit) for it separately. Installed it in the house when it arrived, gave my wife the quick tour of how to use it, and her immediate reaction was "what have you done to my TV". Three days later, the bigger HD arrived and I told her to watch all her shows, as they would be lost. She delayed my install for a day to catch up.

The base drive could do 10 hours in full SD quality, 20 in VHS quality, and 30 in terrible quality (for most shows, but it was fine for low-change animation like Simpsons or King of the Hill). I got four times that with the new one. It completely changed how we watched TV, and I say that as someone who had dedicated "crap tapes" for my VCR to record some daily shows before that. Watch a recorded show while a live show records (it had only one tuner)? Even that was a big step up from VCRs.