skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well personally, and this might not be an option for you, I just don't have a TV. I have a laptop for development and a phone, that's it.

I used to have my desktop and big monitor and a studio apartment where my entertainment center doubled as my desk, it was alright. The monitor wasn't a huge screen, but honestly I don't like huge screens. Even had an Xbox hooked into it for the last couple years of game playing, I don't really game anymore. So I didn't have a TV but I kind of did.

Now I don't really watch much, every now and then me and the wife feel like a movie, so we just watch one on my phone in bed together. Neither one of us has had a TV at least as long as we have known each other.

A TV is a lifestyle choice, you really don't need one, everyone feels like a house is incomplete without it but it's not true.
There were many factually correct, and even historically interesting responses. But not a single response answered the question.
Mark Zuckerberg thinks Threads is next social network with 1B users
In theory. In practice things will evolve in subtle ways that will effectively insulate managers - scheduling meetings at unconvenient times, passing rules that allow for fewer and fewer people to make big decisions, etc.

I mean, even regular businesses in practice end up this way - nominally with lots of shareholders, practically run by (and for) a few powerful individuals. That's why we have a concept of "activist shareholder" - in theory all of them should be "active" but in practice almost no one is, so the few who do are labelled (and often "bought" one way or another).
There's some actual detail on the Python -> Elixir move here:

https://medium.com/pinterest-engineering/fighting-spam-with-...

In short, the Elixir is doing something completely different. And they are also not counting some new pieces like the database cluster and kafka based aggregators, etc.
> Adjusting for inflation, $2.98 in 1977 is equivalent to $15 nowadays

And games have substantially more effort put into them - there aren't many developed by teenagers after school in a few months, but by huge teams over many years. $50 for GTA is much better value than $2.98 for the games available in 77.
Almost abandoned, now revived but relatively unknown, one of my favourites is the Mungalalu Truscott Airbase in northern Australia, used during WWII for long range bombing of Japanese oil wells and depots in SE Asia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mungalalu_Truscott_Airbase

Still home to WWII era (well, 1946 to 1951) Grumman G-73 Mallard air boats.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grumman_G-73_Mallard

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqMQWO5ffTA
Obesity can take the form of an eating disorder, but I can tell you that teenage girls aren't "pinning" photos of morbidly obese people and ending up in a spiral that lands them in hospital.

But I hope parent commenter never has to live personally through finding out just how life destroying the predominant cultural attitudes around body form & food around us are. I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy. Obesity is by far the least of concerns.
Doctor, therapist, teacher, coach - and with the advent of private, fine-tunable models those can be private, local and in the hand of the people.
Seems we just can't resist hating on anything new, no matter what it is these days. Drew has some good ideas but they're often lost in his reactionary rejection of anything not his narrowly defined vision of UNIXy enough. His inexplicable dislike of containers being just one example.

There can be nuance to our view of new things. It's important we stress our ability as humans to think this way. LLMs are not all or nothing good bad polarities. They can be just another tool in your toolset. And that's fine. No hatred required.
When you say someone should list all the good world changing benefits to counter your suggestions, it means you're expecting world changing negativity.

That means you're envisioning a future where LLMs are so powerful that they actually cause huge societal impacts but somehow they can't detect spam, or make customer service more effective, make the general populace smarter?

You're asking a for an answer that you by definition wouldn't accept. To me LLMs are like cloud computing: cloud computing technically didn't change the world in that your average person knows what a load balance is... but there was a democratization that allowed many great things to be built at a scale that was previously not possible, and the results of that are what brought value.
I guess that it depends on how popular your thing. If you are doing something not done before or really unique, then hope for useful hints is lower.

If you do something done 10000 times before or is mix of two things done over and over then you are more likely to get advise.
> Nobody wants to live forever on Mars (if you do, you may as well go live in a bunker and never go out, no need to go there). Nobody wants to live forever in a spaceship (for the same reason).

> What does that mean? The goal, what people actually want with the "space quest", is to find another planet.

I highly disagree. After fighting our way out of one gravity well, we shouldn't be quick to jump straight down another (although Mars is certainly easier to get off than Earth).
Workers don’t have capital, by definition. How would they start anything significant, in general?

The current authoritarianism of the capitalist class is what keeps workers from having capital, by not paying workers the full value their labour produces. They enforce this with laws, courts police and armies.

Workers did in fact also start things themselves and got attacked for it. From monopoly practices to starve co-ops to coups, sanctions and wars against countries that collectivise.
The biggest problem that I have experienced with Scrum are the Scrum Masters. They play such a central role in Scrum. I have twice experienced that the role of Scrum Master was given to a 'junior' software developer who had ambitions for becoming a manager. In both case, I left the company. In my opinion, Scrum can only work when you have a Scrum Master that is there 100% for the team. A person who has a sixth sense for friction within the team, either with developers struggling with themselves, among eachother or with people outside the team, and someone that knows what to do about the cause of the friction. And these Scrum Masters should be given enough power to also change things in the organisation. I think that organisation that want to embrace Scrum, often do this for the wrong reasons and do not assign the right persons for the roles of Scrum Master and/or limit their authorithy rendering them ineffective.
Went through the same pain last year setting up a Windows machine for work.

I ended up giving up on native tools and msys2 entirely in favor of WSL2 after several months.

And then finally asking for a Mac after several more.

There are way too many bugs and quirks in every layer of this stuff, from missing features in the 'native' OpenSSH port by Microsoft to data loss bugs (!) in WSL2.
They don’t have to give them bus tickets, tickets are cheap enough on their own, or open tickets are given easy enough. If you have ever ridden greyhound for a long distance journey, you’ll notice they pick up a bunch at each prison, and these people get off at SF, LA, Portland, or Seattle. No surprise, good weather, you won’t die if you live outside.

Self reporting surveys are useless as data. You can ask a guy doing heroin if he has ever done drugs and he’ll say no. It’s like, sure, what else are they going to say?
As someone suffering from severe inattentive ADHD, I can see a great potential in the rise of really smart personal assistants which could aggregate every single data point in my life and throw the information at me when needed.

But that’s the only thing I could imagine and it must be local not to be a privacy nightmare. Because I have no doubt that Google and Amazon are already working on that.

For anything else, I just agree with you and the author. It will just make capitalism worse.
> microplastics will sink to the bottom of the sea

Huh?
It’s pretty astonishing how rapidly everyone in the world went from ‘sky net’ to laughable garbage in a matter of a few months.
If anything and everything you're doing isn't stopping spread and encouraging/normalizing behaviours that promote it in any way, that's where to start. The pandemic never ended.

Not even talking about vaccinations (we can't vax our way out of this, was always only part of it). Masking goes a long way but is also only part of it. Stop moving around. Stop gathering. Take precautions like distancing and avoiding indoor spaces. Stop the spread. COVID never ended and as it's airborne all spaces are unsafe.
A doctor is a lot more than just a black box taking the patients' descriptions and measurements, and running regressions on them. Doctors can touch, feel, understand, comfort in ways that our sensors or tensors (hah) can't.

Same applies for a teacher too, in various other aspects. Reducing important professions into statistical models is exactly the kind of crappification that the author's talking about. The logical conclusion of perfect sensors and tensors is not here, and the lacking substitutes along the way will be profit-driven, not solution-driven.
"The decision to phase out of nuclear was good"

This is not correct and the SDP and the Green Party passed a law to phase out nuclear power in Germany in 2000. It wasn't started by the CDU in 2013.
The hate comes from them hiding where the original content is from. They hijack search results and then pull you into an endless circle of harvested content, making it difficult to find the link to the original source of the material.
My previous company went from very expensive cloud CI/CD servers to on-prem off-the-shelf servers.

The cost and the incredible performance gains we got by moving to a bunch of local computers was enough to make the whole thing pay for itself in about two months. Yep, physical computers costed less than two months of cloud. Plus the gains in productivity from having to wait minutes instead of hours.

Maintenance was never a problem, and we didn't need to hire new people to take extra care of the servers.

My current company is thinking of doing the same for AI servers. It's just too expensive in AWS.
Social media giants urged to tackle data-scraping privacy risks
> It's a tool that can help, just like an IDE, code generators, code formatters, etc

And like crutch for someone who cannot walk without it.

Or glasses (which I use) and allow me to regain almost as good vision as someone with no deformity of eyeballs.
It's not allergies. It's COVID.
I moved from the US to Singapore which uses 230, and that coupled with the humid environment makes things a lot less unsafe. That plus old HDB electrical work isn't always the best. Getting shocked and damaging electronics because a socket is lose is very common here, and can be life threatening. I never had to worry about this (at least as much). Floating ground here on the other hand is device or even life threatening which is a real issue as most chargers especially recent GaN ones do NOT have a ground prong.
Yeah you can certainly make the case for Humanity being at least 100,000 years old, and even make a case for it being 500,000 years old or even a million years old.

Homo was controlling fire probably half a million years ago and crafting stone tools 2 million years ago or more
C++ and Rust don’t really have good semantics for scientific computing (linear algebra). They’re great for many other domains like “system’s programming”, where Fortran doesn’t compete, of course. The only language that’s similarly (in fact, more) expressive as Fortran for scientific computing today, as well as holding up for performance, is Julia
No, it isn't. I think you're confusing contracts (added in Ada 2012) with the entirety of SPARK.
> Starlink, very cool tech, is it really required? I'd say no.

Come back and say this after spending a year living in rural Africa, the Outback in Australia, fighting the war in Ukraine, or countless other places with very unreliable internet. Your whole comment reeks of "I've got mine, so why does anyone else need this stuff?"

Starlink has been revolutionary in rural communities to allow them to access educational/informational opportunities and is only growing in useful and popularity around the world.

Get out of your bubble. It's massively hypocritical to only live in places with great internet and disparage the tech providing it to others who don't live there.
Just go to play.google.com/books/

If you're logged in and have books uploaded/purchased you should see them and be able to read them when you click on a title.
You say the disposable nonsense shouldn't exist, so wouldn't a better legal solution be lobbying to better regulate the facilities where these harmful pollutants are originating from?

My cynical outlook is that the organizational behemoths with millions of funds to throw around buying carbon credits do not want to bolster regulatory mechanisms, even in other sectors, for fear of their own sector becoming more regulated. There is a conflict of interest there.

And I don't particularly buy into the 'let's all individually make better choices' solutions either. Has consumer-side activism ever worked? On the other hand, look at the effects of historic crackdowns like the Montreal protocol regulation of chlorofluorocarbons and The Clean Air Act and its ban of leaded gasoline.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montreal_Protocol#Effect

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_Air_Act_(United_States)#...
The only OEM that does officially guarantees updates support timeframes is Google

Samsung claim a support timeframe but they never released a page like Google's one (https://support.google.com/pixelphone/answer/4457705?hl=en) as far as I know

And even if we use Samsung claims as some sort of guarantee, we also need to take into account that while Google use the "at least" terminology, Samsung uses "at most" or "up to". Which basically means that they commit to nothing since a "up to 4 years of updates" (with one major update per year) could both means 1 or 0 updates or 4 updates
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37201326

"I'll keep saying it every time this comes up.
I LOVE being told by techbros that a human painstaking studying one thing at a time, and not memorizing verbatin but rather taking away the core concept, is exactly the same type of "learning" that a model does when it takes in millions of things at once and can spit out copyrighted code verbatim."
I'm an age-of-AI optimist. Not in the sense that AI will solve all problems, but rather in the opposite. The allure in the promise of so much power, so much profit, will be irresistible to those organizations that are already too big to fail and have the means to pursue the shimmer. But like this article articulates, it'll exposes even more dysfunctions than we're accustomed to. Within the gaps though, there will be opportunities. Particularly for those who modestly want to make a difference in a given community, without necessarily the ambitions to change the word™. The world doesn't get "better" or "worse", it's an ongoing and never-ending experiment. We don't discover the "right" way to do anything. We just try stuff and when it's annoying enough, we self-correct. AI has so much potential for annoyance that we should just rejoice in the resulting opportunities.
I still want a modern TV that goes by the same philosophy as a PC or a Framework laptop - all interchangeable/replaceable screens, speakers, wifi modules, processors, ethernet cards, storage, ports, antennas...

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For example, I was looking at the "new" L series of Sony Bravia TVs that arrived at Sony Store Colombia. None of them has the DBV-T2 internal antenna/decoder which made them incapable of using them to watch the open TV in here. When asking support about when they were arriving TVs that brought it, was told something along the lines of "we don't know, that is up to the manufacturing house at Japan".
I have to disagree. Some things will get crappier, and some things will improve. Yes there's hype, but whether it's the same as crypto hype depends on whether there's actually anything useful behind the hype, and unlike crypto, I think it's pretty guaranteed there's something useful here (purely by getting value out of ChatGPT, infinitely more value than I ever got from anything crypto related).

> Finding and setting up an appointment with a therapist can be difficult for a lot of people – it’s okay for it to feel hard.

Uff, what about crappy therapists? If an AI bot tells you to kill yourself, it's a pretty crappy AI bot. But there are a lot of crappy licensed therapists too. There's also a lot of crappy articles you can find on Google. The world is full of crappy resources. AI can and most likely will be used in all sorts of medical use cases.
Germany has "record low unemployment" because only it only has a 51% labor participation rate.
The Deseret Alphabet Translator http://2deseret.com/ linked in TFA does appear to be doing more than just replacing letters with direct counterparts, turning "advantages" into 𐐰𐐼𐑂𐐰𐑌𐐻𐐮𐐾𐑆 but "advantageous" into 𐐰𐐼𐑂𐐲𐑌𐐻𐐩𐐾𐐲𐑅.
I see the importance of any argument I'm making on being the best bet for 95% of humans. No policy governing humans is ever going to make imperfect humans perfect, but policies can and do go to far to where they're a detriment to a huge percentage

It sounds like your parents were uncool or unreasonable and that sucks, sorry. But I think it's not objective to let it make you think all that was the norm as an adult.

My parents were religious nuts. But as an adult I realized how lucky I was. They actually don't have any personality defects such as powerlusting or being egotistical about respect, so as a kid I very definitely avoided all the worst experiences kids often go through growing up with just the minor annoyance of forced bible studies or church visits (in perspective really an annoyance at worst)
> Unfair comparison, your Elixir example includes a module definition.

Huh? TekMol explicitly points out that the python code also includes a module definition. It's just that the python module definition takes up zero characters in the source file. (Note that this is not always true, but in this case it is.)

It takes more than that, in the name of the file, but the Elixir file will also have to have a name, and the comparison ignores both of those equally.
Show HN: AI Date Ideas Generator (GPT-4, Stability.ai and Google Maps APIs)
Hello HN Community,

I'm Andrei. In my free time, I've been dedicating myself to a project that aims to take the hassle and guesswork out of planning unique dates. The app uses GPT-4, Stability.ai, and Google Maps APIs to generate personalized date ideas, which you can customize based on parameters such as budget, time, interests, location, etc.

While the project is still in its early stages, I've reached a point where external feedback would be invaluable. I'm particularly interested in your thoughts on the concept, user experience, or any other aspects you find noteworthy.

Here's the link to the app: https://myspicyvanilla.com/ai-date-idea-generator/

I would greatly appreciate any insights or suggestions you may have to help refine the app's functionality and value proposition.

Looking forward to your thoughts!

Best,
Andrei
You of course already have this for the most part, it's just "premier support" vs "faq that doesn't answer you question" for most people. It's just the "premier support" providers will be even more thinned out than they already were.
Some allergies are triggered by a disease[1]. It is possible that hayfever is an outcome of a disease which has become common since 1819. The disease may have no other symptoms, and hay fever a symptom in only some people, and therefore be very hard to track.

[1]: https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2023/p0727-emerging-tick-...
If the model of streaming services is anything to go by, the LLM would be offered as a paid subscription with ads.
> that coupled with the humid environment makes things a lot less unsafe

Safer? Why?
this is not an issue in Europe. what kind of plugs do you use in Singapore? the EU plug doesn't let you get shocked when pulling the cord. i am willing to bet it's because of that, not because of 220 vs 110. it has never been an issue in my life and i don't get shocked ... ever.

edit: after a quick research i thing the reason is the socket: https://www.everyworks.com/reasons-why-your-singapore-electr... we don't use this, we have a small hole inside ours and it's impossible to touch the live while the plug is connected
I've been tinkering with a new tool called EmoGen AI. The idea is simple: enhance your content with apt emojis using AI. No fluff, just a more engaging way to express yourself in posts.

Could you do me a favour? Check out the landing page, give it a spin, and drop some feedback. I believe in building with the community's insights.
In a similar domain I'm trying to cygwinify the ssh-agent path with -w.
https://github.com/rurban/openssh-portable/commits/ssh-agent...
but I'm having not enough time to test it

win32: add ssh-agent -w for a windows socket path

-w sets the output format to windows cmd style.
Which is useful if you use the mingw openssh but need your agent in a cmd or powershell terminal.
google collab/jupyter instructions to run a shell command, presumably.
> without any hint what video it even was

I found that the wayback machine is really useful to get the title of the video, especially for songs.
The vast majority of Western academic positions don't let you save up for a sabbatical. Only people with tenure at an Ivy League I would think.
Or Erlang for even less noise ;)

-module(math).

sum(A, B) ->
A + B.
> Mediocre programmers will use GitHub Copilot to write trivial code and boilerplate for them (trivial code is tautologically uninteresting), and ML will probably remain useful for writing cover letters for you

When I read things like this it makes me think the author hasn't used ChatGPT in their job yet.

Here is a really simple example of how I used ChatGPT this afternoon that saved me, I would estimate, about 2 hours of work:

I had 2 CSV files, with different formats but which (supposedly) had the same functional information in them.

I had a very complicated BigQuery SQL statement that worked on the first file format by importing it as a blob to a table then combining it with a bunch of other CSV files. I wanted to know how much I might need to change my query if I started using the 2nd CSV file (which takes much less time to export from the system that produces it).

The query of course has a big complicated SELECT statement, but also several common table expressions and joins, some of which use columns from the CSV file I was looking to replace.

So I gave ChatGPT the 2 header rows, and the big complicated query. I asked it to tell me likely mapping between the 2 CSV files for similar columns, and to give me a list of columns that appeared in one but not the other. I asked it to mark with an exclamation mark those columns which appeared in the query.

It got some of the things wrong but because I'm pretty familiar with the query and the files I was able to pick up on those and it was much, much easier to browse the output and pick out the errors than it was to break down the query and do all that analysis from scratch.

The whole process using ChatGPT took me about 15 minutes.

And I have wins like that I would say about once per day. I mean it: I'm saving probably about 2 hours work per day by using ChatGPT on average, on tasks just like this.

Now multiply that by all the shit that people are doing all the time and think about all the needs that will get met as a result of this increase in productivity that are not currently being met, and you have an idea of why AI is fucking awesome, ESPECIALLY given the fact that we need a decreasing working population to support an increasing retired population.