skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These MBA thought pieces are so behind the curve its embarrassing if not humiliating.

When your only real job (conditioned over a near-century of industrial capitalism) is to prepare warm bodies to populate stable corporate power hierarchies but society is reeling from challenge and disruption to strife and malfunction what exactly is your reason to exist?

Just take the very first sentence:

> Just as the internet has drastically lowered the cost of information transmission, AI will lower the cost of cognition

Now investigate how the "internet" has worked out for individuals and corporates and apply the same to "AI". What do the authors think about digital oligopolies, surveillance capitalism [1] and all that.

The digital (=information) incompetence of the corporate world is what has ushered the current dystopia in the first place. Business schools have profitably underwritten this gross mismanagement for ages.

Then this:

> The best place to learn [...] is YouTube. YouTube has, oh my God, so many tutorials in so many domains.

Can somebody please pull the plug on this joke? Its too painful.

[1] Zuboff joined Harvard Business School in 1981 where she became the Charles Edward Wilson Professor of Business Administration and one of the first tenured women on the HBS faculty
You are not being serious right? That article is discussing the realities of 90s internet
If you're referring to the "mechanical keyboard" and similar subreddit trends, it's pretty obvious that the fascination is in the DIY and styling aspect.

It's amazing how many switches you can find today, mostly boring variations of the mx types where people post minutes-long videos of sound and smoothness when lubed.

And how it does rainbow. This is clearly what sells.

Ergonomic keyboards are a completely different market. You can't review an ergo keyboard in 5 minutes, or 5 days. The effort required to learn, and then judge the aspect of a different layout is much, much harder and time consuming. I'd argue it takes months by my own experience.

Ergonomic also means something different to each of us. For people coming in with RSI or other issues, there's no single "best" solution.

What I'm quite happy with though is that this keyboard craze has still increased the number of alternative/ergonomic layouts (and somewhat lowered the price) anyway.
It does. They have a lean team, and I believe are bootstrapped.
Controversially, agricultural societies late to industrialization, have more population now and are replacing early industrial societies due to lower birth rates in industrial workers.

So I doubt humans with AI will replace humans without.
What a load of nonsense.

Iterative code refactoring is the only right approach.

Why spend time writing code and then throw it away?? That makes no sense at all.

Best approach would be to spend some time thinking and conceptualizing BEFORE writing the first line of code.
Twitch streamer arrested after ‘inciting a riot' of thousands in Manhattan
If people aren't willing to the nearest bus/tram/train stop while holding an umbrella and/or wearing a raincoat, we're all fucked.
Reminds me I still need to fix my laserjet 1020. No-nonsense laser printer for those two or three sheets I print each quarter, without having 90% of your ink just evaporate or dry up.

It's paper jamming when I insert more than one sheet at a time. I ordered a new pickup stamp and roller already. Unfortunately the pickup stamp was the wrong type and didn't fit, and the roller alone didn't fix it. I just don't print often enough for it to be annoying, but one day this thing will go again. One day....
Or a completely novel AI algorithm.
It's exactly 12 years ago. I started learning JavaScript in summer 2011 and I remember w3school was often misleading.
I'm curious what the "hype cycle" looked like for the discover of electricity, the invention of the combustion engine, or for the invention of the transistor. Who knows if the LLM paradigm will be more like those moments vs the failed hype of something like the hydrogen fuel cell.
>If you need a nanny that bans you from consuming sugary bread, please hire one.

Reading through some of these comments makes me wonder why people still hold this sort of opinion. Companies are actively attempting to screw you over like hiding the functionality of a printer behind a sticker. It's active deception. Are we all to become experts in everything and join all the specialty forums? Where is the time to make an informed decision coming from? Do you think consumer protection agencies formed because consumers were being told all the relevant information to make an informed decision?
The amount of work isn't fixed, but the definitions of useful work have changed.

AI threatens to make all human-sourced work redundant. Because AI is really an automated culture machine - in the widest sense. It will eventually be able to innovate, rather than replicate, culturally ground-breaking work in art, science, engineering, business, politics, and media.

What jobs are humans going to do then? All that's left is manual labour - and eventually that will be automated too.

This isn't exaggeration. It's already happening in a very limited way with today's super-crude AI 1.0. AI 5.0 won't be a step change, it will be something entirely new.
> Did you encourage them or told them not to do it again

Not do what? Shit their pants? I don't need to tell my kid to not shit their pants. Being covered in shit is uncomfortable for them, and it's clear early on babies do not like the feeling of their ass covered in shit. Do you have /any/ experience with children?

> You can't simply embrace and reward everything.

In no way did I say I embraced and rewarded everything. However, negative emotions other than the discomfort of having a shitty ass should not be part of toilet training.

You can't force a child to be toilet trained. There's a combination of factors that all need to be aligned before a child is able to physically control their bowels let alone be intellectually and emotionally ready to stop whatever fun thing they're doing to take a dump.

So no, if my kids "missed the mark" in one way or another on their journey to potty training, I did not scold them "don't shit your pants".
>Isn't that how market economies are supposed to work?

Well people are supposed to be able to vote with their wallet, and reward businesses that supply what the customer wants.

This assumes perfect knowledge from the consumer though. And actionable signals.

The question is, do consumers value a printer with a usb port, how much is it worth to them, do they have a choice in the matter?

You could view your chocolate example the other way. If you do like palm oil in your chocolate, you don't have the option of buying it. 'ideally' there would be a palm oil alternative so that consumers have a choice. But this also highlights another shortcoming of the market economy. There are negative externalities to Palm oil production, externalities that the market seem incapable or unwilling to fix.
I suppose you could argue that is why Germans don't want palm oil in their chocolate, but this isn't an outright ban, so palm oil could still pop up in other things.
As long as they don't take outside investment that's not a certainly. People complain about the prices but it's charging the real cost that let's them be able to offer something good without mortgaging the future.

I concede that if they got big enough, someone would come with enough money that they couldn't refuse, and buy them to try and "unlock vale" by racing to the bottom.
The title mentions "climate change" but then the article says nothing about how Italy is "grappling" with it.
I've become a paid Kagi subscriber because DDG (UI for Bing search, as you would call it) didn't cut it for me. One of the most annoying things was that it often ignored a crucial part of my search query and only delivered very generic results. What kind of searches do you do and in what language(s)?
I took the Frecciarossa twice this May and the ride was extremely enjoyable.

What wasn't as enjoyable were the prices - on order to get a reasonable price, you need to book your trip weeks in advance. For adult business passengers, this is tolerable, but for families with kids ... ?

If the trains are full (and, judging from my experience, they are), there need to be more of them.
I can't justify it - it's pure preference and opinion, irrationally held. A big part of it is probably that type of programming I generally need to do is closer to using an overgrown calculator (with DataFrames) than doing proper Software Development to build a thing.

I much prefer having the code over _here_, and then having the results in a separate pane over _there_. Jupyter style mixing of inputs and outputs tends to confuse me, and in my hands gets very messy very quickly.

The slides in this light hearted talk from JupyterCon in 2018 probably give a better explanation than I could.

https://conferences.oreilly.com/jupyter/jup-ny/public/schedu...
Forgetting so much is my current fear as well. What did you end up doing?
I find this part hilarious:

> For years Unix programmers measured their “age” in the Unix community by the generation of John’s book which they owned. I am proud to say that I have a third generation of the photocopies.

...

> However, some of these FOSS people condone software piracy and turn a blind eye to it.

> I am not one of those people.

Mr. Hall, as a self-admitted proud pirate, what right do you have to condemn anyone else? I myself do not condone piracy either, of course. Piracy is vile and pirates should get many decades in prison. But to say that you are proud of being a pirate and a few paragraphs later condemn the practice... that is the height of hypocrisy!
Automated reproducible VMs are pretty straight forward with vagrant, and "setup the same thing from a defined set of instructions" is basically the definition of docker.

But if you're not happy with that scenario - I don't know maybe your work will be drastically affected if you have two different but identical VMs - tb3/4 external ssds are perfect for storing VMs on, so that you can move between machines at the drop of a hat. I've been doing this for about 5 years as a safety valve to my desktop having a fault: I can just unplug the drive and plug it into the laptop or a new machine and the VMs are all there exactly as I left them.
It's a real shame that Apple is this way (and certain other brands) when there are genuine reasons for why macbooks are pretty darn good (arm, battery life, etc.), of course when you carve out a Walled garden like apple it's no wonder though.
While at some level that’s true (autocomplete) at another level it unlocks a abductive reasoning ability for machines that prior AI failed at. While it’s not reasoning per se, it absolutely makes probabilistic inference over an abstract semantic space that’s remarkable. For instance you can use a multimodal generative AI to take a photograph of a saloon and ask it how to make money and it’ll describe playing poker at the poker table and working at the bar for money, then when prompted describe how to navigate to the table given the objects in the room. This is a remarkable extension to current AI - which could actually perform the navigation and plan routes, even use goal based agents to instruct the generative model to plan a way to make money. I actually am not that worried about the risks of wandering mind or hallucinations, I’ve found ways to detect when it wanders (for instance, creating an api to call including an echo() for textual response and validating the output and regenerating responses until it conforms, then doing domain verification on the API parameters)

But that gets to one of my core beliefs - LLM and other generative models are tools who require constraint enforcement, agents to direct, verification and validation, deference to inductive and deductive systems, optimizers, solvers, etc. The fact they can’t compute primes or solve quadratic equations doesn’t impress me - because we have those tools already. Focusing on what they’re weak at and ignoring what they’re amazing at is foolish and really small minded. It’s interesting that you can train them to do some of these tasks, but trying to use them as a calculator when we have calculators is absurd, trying to use them as information retrieval systems is doomed to fail, trying to use them to be a complete solution to literally anything is simplistic.
>> As for the "new car cost", I suspect Tesla is already at cost-per-vehicle parity with an ICE, but Tesla is keeping a high margin on their cars. <<

You are thinking last year when the auto market was out of whack due to COVID related shortages. Tesla's operating margin is down to 9.6% in 2Q 2023; compared that to Hyundai's 9.5% and Kia's 12.5%.

>> With sodium ion and high density LFP chemistries coming to mass production this year, ICE cost advantage's days are numbered. <<

LFPs are still limited to entry-level, low-range EVs because of low energy density and weight. The cost of LFP's is't that attractive when the price of lithium is above $20K.
Robotics is much more difficult than software. It will be quite a while until an AI can autonomously build a space elevator. Until then, people will still work. And after that, perhaps we can finally sit back and relax.
My grandparents can’t fill in their taxes because they don’t know how to use the internet. That’s the only way you can fill in taxes as far as I know (in The Netherlands). They rely on me to do it.

Some people don’t have that luxury.
A few drops of snake oil
in the diffuser for me tonight then.
So we will become robots in a Ship of Theseus way.
Zoom just told employees to return to the office
Gotcha. I may have to give HTMX a try again. Though, I worked on a HAL-based, full RESTful service back in 2016 and I'm not sure how eager I am to go back.

REST was ok for the read-side of things, but for writing I find RPC/commands to be better than PUT/PATCH. Combine that with the lack of framework for HATEOAS made full REST APIs cumbersome at the time, though things may be different now.
Makes you wish for a room temperature super conductor magnet that could deduce nerves from magnetic fields sensored and induce electric pulses via induction and wave intersection.
> if all emissions stopped tonight, we’d still be on track for temperature rises over the next several decades

Good News Everybody! (hey, every little bit counts) That was the thinking in 2007.

https://www.carbonbrief.org/explainer-will-global-warming-st...

https://climate.nasa.gov/faq/16/is-it-too-late-to-prevent-cl...

However, if we stopped emitting greenhouse gases today, the rise in global temperatures would begin to flatten within a few years.

Temperatures would then plateau but remain well-elevated for many, many centuries.

There is a time lag between what we do and when we feel it, but that lag is less than a decade.
Ask HN: How do you communicate online?
Personally I use different chat apps depending on which friends I am trying to reach. E.g. some of my friends use only Messenger while other uses Telegram, WhatsApp etc…

Even though I rarely use it outside of work, I would like to use email for personal connections. Since everyone has an email, it feels like it would be so much easier than keeping track of multiple chat applications.

How do you communicate with your friends online?
What does the population have to do with the parent's point?
Google is one of the sources for Kagi's results, but not the only one. The results are not the same.
Saying this as a non-Italian, instead of focusing on (presumably) pricey train tickets targeting tourists, they should rather extend the common network which is also accessible and usable to the population without a tourism-adjusted overprice ...
Gold is a lot heavier than iron, so maybe the following does not apply to that but: We can't interpret such cutoffs as being strict.

I would say, reaction speed depends on the gap between energy available and energy required but there's a lot of environments where the reaction can still happen at a fractional rate even if the mean energy level is below the minimum required.

Iron is at the peak but in environments where it could be formed, slightly heavier elements could also be formed at a slow rate.
https://archive.ph/sd1td
Aren't console graphics usually not as good as the PC versions? Even if they have the same resolution, I was under the impression that effects and whatnot were lower. If that's in fact the case, then a 1000 EUR card wouldn't give you the same experience as a console. Hell, my mid-range AMD I bought new for 300 EUR has better graphics than my sister's PS4 pro.
This One Guy Is Responsible for What We Think a Pirate Sounds Like
> Why is producing energy inherently bad if it doesn't put carbon into the atmosphere?

Because it costs money.

Just not polluting in the first place is cheaper.

Nuclear is probably an important part of the future energy mix but now we discussed using nuclear energy to remove carbon from the atmosphere and I believe that would be a huge waste of resources compared to just not putting the carbon in the atmosphere in the first place.

Carbon capture is a scam.
The Book of Kells wasn't made in a printing press, though.
Nice to see that the idea of Richard Dawkins' meme lives on, fittingly enough.
Chome's builtin Bookmarks manager (with lots of nested folders)

+ Notes in Obsidian for more important bookmarks

+ Saving webpages as HTML and PDF into an hierarchy of folders in Dropbox
You clearly did not grasp the full meaning of Free Software.
America’s Most Tech-Forward City Has Doubts About Self-Driving Cars
No paywall: https://archive.is/8hB4t
Even if it were a process as invasive and painful as getting a bank account, it would remain the only technology that enables users to get a search account privately (since Kagi says cash is not scalable for them). Given the level of snark and off-topicness, I presume you don't actually expect me to answer the question with dozens of different methods.

This is a company that claims over and over that they are privacy-respecting, but are running a service that unnecessarily collects your real ID via credit card, otherwise you can't do searches. After seeing what happened to Google, I am shocked that people like you are so dismissive toward me for trying to hold them to account and caring about this issue. Yes I react with religious fervor at this issue - privacy. This is an age where companies are handing over information to convict people for seeking abortions even in the US.

If you have another solution then please share it.
Pro multiplayer Godot dev here.

Account system and matchmaker:

https://github.com/heroiclabs/nakama-godot

Top tier tutorials on multiplayer:

https://gafferongames.com/post/what_every_programmer_needs_t...

Godot 3's browser support is currently better than Godot 4's (it was when I tested anyways, this changes every day and I don't use Godot 4).

Making multiplayer work really well usually requires a dedicated server and client side prediction. There's a lot of complexity to making that happen however.

You can use nakamas' messaging system as a transport layer for a game hosted on a user's device. Or you can use nakamas' match API to host the game in nakama, but then the game logic needs to be written for nakama in go, js, or Lua, which you can't then run locally in Godot.
The correct way is:

1. Use comments to split visual awkward part into chunks.

# a lot of code...

## ===

# more a lot of code...

2. Use inner functions if that chunk need to be reused

3. Only move the chunk to top-level function if you think it's worth to take time to make its required state into parameters/return value
Sometimes the joke writes itself.
Use your fav llm for that
In The Netherlands you can buy it per 0.1 mg. There are 500 small tablets in a bottle.
The problem with the term "silver bullet" when used in these discussions is that it's used to dismiss any proposal for a technological solution. I can flip that around and say "a societal silver bullet would be cool but the reality is that we aren't going to convince people to reduce their consumption." Which I actually sort of believe. I think a technological solution has a much better chance of succeeding than a social one.

I'm not saying there's a silver bullet, I just think it's our decision as a society whether or not we invest in these technologies and do the work of developing them to the point that they actually have a chance of solving the problem. We were able to make rapid progress on nuclear in the 1940s and space flight in the 1960s. We have the resources, but it doesn't seem like we have the political will this time.
French pronunciation has something like this. They can't abide a word that ends in a vowel-sound smooshing into a following word that starts with a vowel-sound. So, for example, the word "suis" is pronounced "swee", unless the next word lacks an initial consonant, in which case the trailing 's' is sounded.

So "Je suis anglais" is pronounced as "Je sweez anglais". Compare "Je suis francais" ("Je swee francais").
I'm the same as you )other than being a Physics graduate). Love Michael Penn. Interesting topics with a good but not pedantic level of rigor.

https://youtube.com/@MichaelPennMath
> The indies I like don't need a serious graphic card. A good bunch of them work just fine on a 2018 i3 mac mini with the integrated graphics decelerator...

Yes, but your console don't run them so you need a (low end) PC + a console if you want to play both.

> Don't you need the 1000+ EUR cards to play AAAs at the same performance as a console?

No you don't. If you want to pay 1000+ that's because you ~~like to waste money~~ want to play at 4K res 144fps with the highest possible setting in the next 5 years at least. You can play AAA titles with the same kind of settings you have on console on a 300-500 euro graphic card. So for the price of the console you get an equivalent upgrade for your PC and don't have to pay a premium for your games and can play all your games on the same device.
Part of the issue with public transport is also very much a service issue.

Switzerland has a fantastic "Easy ride" system where you swipe a button in an app to check-in and swipe it at your destination to check-out. It automatically combines trips and applies any relevant discounts. In The Netherlands you can check-in using a bank card so you don't even need an app.

If we want to encourage people to use public transport more, we need to have such a system Europe wide. Grabbing a train should be more convenient than booking a flight, for a family with kids, making a reservation weeks in advanced , at a specific time isn't always reasonable and it's definitely not convenient.
This is not difficult to understand at all. There's actually nothing to understand. It's facts.

How people will respond to it is where you'll have variety. I don't think it's proper to use a license then add an auxiliary thing that goes against the spirit of the thing. This is my opinion.
No this is just getting started. https://lilianweng.github.io/posts/2023-06-23-agent/
Right, Ukraine pre-invasion was bigger than France without French Guyana, but now they have a tough fight ahead if they want to claim that title again :/
Yeah, that sounds like classic Scouse to me, but you certainly hear it in other UK regional accents.