skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> but automation replaced humans in all those industries.

So? To the extend that people are still involved, they are typically paid - unless it is slave labor, that is.

This is not an automation vs manual labor debate. Creators will use any technology that helps them create something worthwhile. It may even involve algorithms in various ways. Generative art was a thing way before the AI bro invasion.

The question is about provenance, attribution and remuneration of whatever human work and creativity is involved in producing unique pieces of work. Work that is used as input for the algorithmic production of infinite variations and replicas.

The AI crowd simply wants to devalue that human input (while pressumably charging for API's or whatever comes on the other side of the meat grinder).

Which I suppose might happen in an increasingly dystopic world, but they seem to also believe that people will keep embarking on literary studies, movie or music making studies etc. as some sort of non-remunerative hobby, just to keep producing useful inputs for the AI models.

Its not going to happen. The golden goose will be dead before you can spell "AI".
Yeah what's the point of extorting a company that can't pay. You're just risking getting stuffed in the trunk of a car and driven to some place with an extradition treaty.
California certainly does not require employers to cover commute costs.
Wow, there are even a bunch of tools/frameworks under the Tools sections for creating your own games. I would love to create my own simple DOS game and distribute it for free. I've been restoring a 486 DX2-66 box as a side project, so it would be an excellent platform for writing and testing on. :)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31284419

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28743687
Our state does - we did not take it, because the money comes with enough strings to make it distasteful.

We homeschool to keep our kids out of government schools. Inviting that same government into our home for a bit of money would make no sense whatsoever.
We lack a single world government.

You can make your own TLDs, like the Etherium folks do, but you have to convince other people to trust the name resolvers.
> Our ancient ancestors got it for free, and I wonder if they thought anything of it.

Not sure what they thought of it, but I think it's telling how aware they were of the night sky as an active environment, e.g. the movements of the planets, and the relationships between events in the sky and our seasons (even though the their explanatory models were wrong).

On a clear night - especially in winter - before the invention of fire, it's all you'd be aware of. No wonder that they made patterns (constellations) of the brighter stars.
This is probably an unpopular opinion in tech circles, but perhaps the goal of top tech talent shouldn't always be centered on amassing the most money?

I get that the pay scales don't hold a candle to private industry, but they aren't pauper wages either. They're in the top 10% of the US as a whole. I suspect if that isn't sufficient, it might indicate a difference in value systems.
Now if only they would do so for expenses from going to the office: gas, tolls, car maintenance, time, etc
Growing up, when going to restaurants when in the US, I loved the ones serving so-called ‘Continental’ food. The Haute Cuisine pretensions, puddings on fire, coq au vin, old-fashioned service and the rest—all wonderful!

I LOATHE these newer restaurants with casual service yet high prices, garlic aioli, Sriracha sauce, and ubiquitous and awful comfort food. I also loathe the new breed of garish, high end restaurants.
Mux (YC W16) is hiring a Sr Platform Engineer for distributed, scaled video infra
Class A.

Possible to use less-expensive tubes if that's all you've got.

Part 1, 2:28 - finished amp, it's stereo.

Part 1, 13:00 - audio schematic, one channel only.

Part 5b, 3:55 - hand-wired power supply. No circuit board needed.

Part 8, 10:49 - final hand-wired circuit. No circuit board needed.
> Ordering from your own country maybe ups the ante from a civil court perspective if you have money to sue a registrar and the time to go to court for it.

Yes, that’s my point. If your local government and associated court system is completely unworkable for you (corruption, onerous fees, etc.), then some other TLD might be preferable. But a local citizen will almost always have a large advantage in a dispute with some foreign entity. Therefore, you should almost always try to get this advantage by using your local ccTLD.
It's like the orange man and whether you take him seriously or literally argument that many of his defenders used.

When the defund movement had people marching with ACAB & abolish posters regularly, it's hard to argue it meant anything else.

A thought exercise for the word re-definers defending the term:

If your CEO walked on stage and said "we are defunding __" where __ is the division you work in.. would you be like "oh good it means I'm going to work on better stuff now" or "oh shit let me get my resume up to date".

We can make lots of arguments like "they chose the wrong word" but I don't think we should argue that the word means something else just because it helps the slogan make more sense.
Threads user count immediately completely dwarfed any other Twitter clones. Same with number of active users, which is already half of Twitter's count, according to one article: https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/26/23890592/threads-meta-mon...

Even if these numbers are moderately inaccurate, Threads is still a smashing success given the time frame. The copying seems to have gone very well. Don't forget they were piggy backing off their own successful social media app, Instagram.
It's pretty weird because of how maladaptive it is, practically?

On the other end could just be a really good chat bot. It may feel good at the time, but what future does it hold, and/or what useful feedback are you getting from it that isn't just a mirror of yourself or someone similarly disconnected physically?

Dissociative Identity Disorder is a problem for a reason. At the end of the day, real life/our physical selves do matter.
That's like $10M monthly recurring revenue. Easily enough to pay for a 100 person team working on the product. Good job, I'd say.
I'm afraid, you are wrong, criminal gangs or masterminds are not that organized in Nigeria
//my life would get notably better if a few different VC-burning silicon valley companies would hop in a deep fryer

how?
The truth is that this was always the case, no change happened. All that happened was that a known anti-china fake news "reporter" associated with the falun gong cult was spreading lies on twitter. See for example here: https://twitter.com/CurtExplores/status/1719334699599122690
> And so if a "peer" of theirs were to explain the method to someone who didn't purchase it then it would be viewed as a dick move since it is affecting the livelihood of a fellow performer.

Yep that's exactly how I interpreted it ... not because people are adhering to some sacred oath given deep in cavern in a secret location ... just that someone invented something new and unique, they are rightfully earning some money from that effort, and you could potentially destroy the whole thing simply by posting too much information about it. As you said, that would certainly be a "dick move", and since a lot of people don't want be that, they don't do that. In the end it seems to be pretty effective.

I still want answers to some of the tricks that I've seen on Penn and Teller's show. Some of them do come across as impossible no matter what way I try to think about it.

Dani DaOrtiz comes immediatly to mind ... no clue how it's done but he's pretty funny. This particular routine has various elements that each seem to be impossible.

And honestly, I don't want to know how it's done. It's magic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_KcQt0z-eE
What does an employer reimbursement of remote worker expense have to do with a standard deduction?
110% with you on this. In fact, even if they hand out your data, against any agreement you had with them, the worse they would face would be a pittance fine.

There is no situation where they would put people over money and DNA is immutable.
This is fabulous work! Really excited for this release! Can't wait to get into all the details and see how I can use it in my organization.
My mistake, Io is volcanically active with a possible ocean of magma, Europa has the possible subsurface liquid ocean. Edited to reflect this.
>Take, for example an old video game that was fully debugged and released on physical media

A bug free game? I wish.
We're around there (hand-waving here about exchange rate) in Scotland. What's fucked up is that most of the UK's power is generated in the north and yet electricity rates are based on how far you are from London.
> So you're blaming victims for being mugged -- or worse? Because they weren't "prudent" enough?

Of course not, I am merely pointing the fact that the feeling of safety may not be actual safety. Changing the environment alters the behaviour of criminals and potential victims.

You also ignored that in the same sentence I blamed perpetrators: imprudent drivers.

> The lower rates of crime in Japan are due to cultural factors. And lighting doesn't change cultural factors.

That's basically where I was going with this.

As if the Japanese had always been tidy, the Dutch always fervent cyclists, the Italians smug about their food quality, etc. Culture shifts.
> You gain temporal querying with a history/audit table that mirrors the main one (or not -- if you prefer not to, and instead want to cram everything into a jsonb column).

I rather liked that MariaDB has temporal tables out of the box: https://mariadb.com/kb/en/temporal-tables/

I think for PostgreSQL there was an extension last I checked: https://pgxn.org/dist/temporal_tables/ (edit: this doesn't appear very popular)

Pretty nice, when the database does the heavy lifting and you have to do a bit less work yourself.
I agree the machines have been good to run various ML models that aren’t running on other PCs in their category. (Though, shrinking the resource requirements seems like a never ending exercise.)

Apple likes to wait until it can announce something with a most around it. In this case, more compute isn’t enough, I don’t think.
For a concrete example, someone could infect an image storing service with code that encrypts (and silently decrypts) the data when it's stored / retrieved. When the hacker removes the decryption key from the running service, the backups will also be inaccessible because they are also encrypted.
Agreed. I prefer proper packaging and a clean system. I remove any flatpak services that get installed. So far there is a total of two AppImages that I've ever needed to use and those ran inside a firejail sandbox.
> EU regulations supersedes even constitutions of member countries.

On paper that is the idea politicians had, but they don't always have the final say in practice. For instance Germany's Federal Constitutional Court reserved themselves the right to make decisions superseding EU regulations, however re-affirming the authority of the European Court of Justice "in the general case", since it is compatible with Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany. Neither court is explicitly considered to be higher and their stance is cooperative.

So far, as far as I know, no EU regulation was struck down in Germany, only parts of various laws implementing directives.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maastricht-Urteil
See also a more skeptical take, emphasizing all the expensive studio equipment involved: https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/31/23940060/apple-event-sho...
Only because fake users didn't receive the update.
Yes, although it is pretty good. My gas currently costs only 14 cents per mile so the other 51.5 cents needs to cover the cost for insurance and maintenance and the purchase price which can mean that you could come out ahead or behind depending on the situation. The company isn’t required to pay the full cost of operating the vehicle if they are more than the 65.5 cents so from that I am extrapolating that companies aren’t going to be paying the full price per employee just some averaged price. It will be a help to those who are currently paying out of pocket costs and will hopefully not be an undue burden on employers or employees.
Employee rights don't benefit you, said the businessman.
There’s quite a few metro areas where “money” is not enough to live near where the office is. Manhattan, Boston, I imagine large swaths of the bay and valley. Even having a 250+k salary does not afford a convenient house for commuting especially if school districts are a factor.
Yet no information on what the licensing issue is... This is ridiculous.
> Does anyone actually care about loading speeds (apart from the necessary ad blocking)?

It's kinda like money imo: You think you don't care about it until you don't have it. The only time I've ever cared about loading speeds was when I stayed on LTS Firefox for 2 years to avoid switching to WebExtensions, because I wanted to keep using several addons that were discontinued in Quantum. And near the end...yeah I cared about loading time. Felt amazing when I finally did upgrade (although I'm still pissed af that they never re-added the ability for extensions to access tab-specific history & will never get over this unless they do one day add it).

So I do think it's important to pay attention to even when no one cares, just to make sure that no one starts caring.
Eh? I don't feel clever. I feel tired.Some of this is personal experience. It's the same every time. Including "but this time it's different".
>> The belief is that because policing began with South Carolina slave patrols

Yes! This one always cracked me up and is so American centric. As if history began in 1776 or 1492 or 1619 or whatever date people want to use. No other civilization in the history of humanity ever had law enforcement? We had to invent it, and of course the bad people invented it.
Is it not myopic or selfish for my neighbors to insist that I shouldn’t be able to afford a home because of their precious investment?
> worth of equipment that makes it hard for the average user to replicate similar quality.

Define quality. What I take away from the documentation is that you can replace iPhone's in workflows that would have traditionally used a heavy and expensive film grade camera. The gimbals, rigs and software used the video are actually quite normal for professional video shoots and you'd see them in use with more expensive cameras as well.
The US military is also proudly and resolutely apolitical. Unfortunately, the culture wars in this country are getting to the point where people look at "apolitical" and see "supporting the other guy because they aren't doing exactly what I want."

Look at the beating then-Chairman Milley got from both sides of the aisle at different times. Some of that he brought on himself, and he explicitly apologized to the officer corps and the military in general for the Lafayette Square debacle. But then he turned around and caught it in the face from the right, both for apologizing and for having the gall to (checks notes) work for the Biden administration per his job description after the inauguration.
https://www.eia.gov/electricity/monthly/epm_table_grapher.ph... “Average Price of Electricity to Ultimate Customers by End-Use Sector,
by State, August 2023 and 2022 (Cents per Kilowatthour)” — according to this, both $0.42/kWh and $0.06/kWh would be outliers, relative to any state-wide residential averages.
So some asshat will be in charge of IT at [poor hospital], some rich people will foot the bill, and somehow that will improve...what? What is "global security?"
Not sure if you're aware, but ransomware insurance is already a significant industry, and the contracts usually stipulate that the client company undergoes some type of regular auditing.

From what I've heard, insurance companies are actually kinda souring on the business because it's incredibly bad from an actuarial perspective: many of those targeted are SMBs (i.e. they're not paying the kind of premiums that would make it worthwhile), but even for large corps as time passes the odds of a ransom event approach 1. I mean, can anyone think of a large non-tech enterprise that doesn't have that doesn't have that one load-bearing Windows Server 2008 machine in a closet?

So to an extent, this seemingly represents the industry collectively declaring that even massive monthly insurance premiums are insufficient for companies to get their security posture together, and so they're trying to cut it off at the source by making ransomware as an endeavor unprofitable.
But at least it can use a dongle to utilize 2 or more external monitors. The point is the base M1/M2/M3 cannot use 2 external monitors. At all. No matter how many dongles you buy.
Why would you think that? Rust is certainly a little bit slower than C/C++
I really thought this was a done deal in 2023, but nope, lots of firms still don't use CI, particularly for webapps.
They've been around for almost 1000 years.

Germany and the Netherlands are close to Italy though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_leaning_towers
wow didnt know that, thats really cool, ill have to play with it
I got these on Brave on two different computers. Disabling hardware acceleration fixed it. Both had Intel graphics.
Adding text to a blacklist is also trivial and scalable.
I want a really nice macro assembler for people who love assembly language (not gas!) tied to a theorem prover. It runs into the problem though that you kinda need portable code in 2023.
I trust the Firefox team knows what they're doing and came to the right conclusion re: performance.

That said, I have a small nit. I would have liked to see how performance changed relative to the same time last year, to control for seasonal effects. Image 1 is showing changes on the scale of 1/100 of a second. I'm not an expert in the field, but when you'r looking at signal of that magnitude controlling for noise is more relevant.

EDIT: I should add, I am a satisfied user of FF.
That would be an acceptable outcome. There's no need for politicians to have genuine discussions with constituents on private social media platforms. They should use more inclusive channels and public forums.
A lot of people were asking why yesterday's keynote wasn't just a press release instead. I wonder if this was the actual point of the presentation.
> For example, one court found that when an employee had to use his personal cell phone to make work calls, his employer was required to reimburse him for a portion of his phone bill even though the employee did not incur any additional expenses because he had an unlimited data plan. The court found that any other interpretation would result in an unfair windfall to the employer.

I don't necessarily disagree with the principle, but this seems like an accounting headache that's more trouble than it's worth.

Especially for bills that are at a fixed monthly cost - I already am paying for internet, the marginal cost to me is nothing.

And furthermore, if I knew someone who was so insistent on penny pinching their employer in such a way, I would ask if they really want to give their employer such "hooks" into their personal life and finances? Do I really want to be in a situation where I go to my employer and say "as you can see, 40% of my time online was spent working" and then they get to audit my records and find that 50% of the time I was spent working was also on Netflix? Is that change in precedent worth the few bucks you save?
I was honestly curious about that myself, I have generally just used the stock one but I am now curious if that one works better or has some better features.
Whoa now, whoa now, that would be bad for collaboration. They've done interesting things with plants, walls, and sunlight.

He has his own office, of course.
The ultimate bottleneck is information a.k.a. training data. Nothing can learn with nothing to learn.
Vincent is an awesome guy - I met him when I was a manager on Aperture, and sweet-talked him into being my wedding photographer.
I mean "people still keep hiring me, even people who have a policy of not negotiating" is a pretty neutral take.
The other problem, though, is sometimes-unrealistic medical standards which can't be waivered.
As a father of 3, I can tell you elementary school teachers negotiate with terrorists on a daily basis.
I switched to Firefox from Chrome for personal browsing several months ago, after the Manifest v3 debacle. So far, it's been good!

Very few sites only work on chrome. Firefox is fast, and the auto tab discard works better for me than Chrome's equivalent (or the Marvelous Suspender), I really like container tabs, and the whole experience feels pretty snappy. There are some product affordances I don't get with Firefox (ex. being able to run math expressions in the address bar), but it's small potatoes.
I think what this shows is that it's capable of being used at all for pro-level work. No, I don't have all the nice gear that Apple has, but I can have the same camera.

It's similar to how they show MacBook Pro users making movies, doing AI work, processing huge datasets, etc. The message is that I don't need to do all those things. But if I did, the computer would be good enough to do them.

In the context of the iPhone's camera, I'm not going to shoot an ad on one, but it's clearly going to be good enough to take pictures of my vacation.
From your own logic it sounds like Apple decided the bar was $999.
I can imagine people who like open-plan offices instead of WFH. It may be commentary on how poor their home environment is for work. It may be that they're extroverts. And it could be that their work involves collaboration more than focus time. Or maybe they enjoy slacking off at the office and chatting with their coworkers, but it FEELS like they're working because they're at the office. There are lots of possibilities.
It might be beneficial if there were people who were able to reasonably and cogently argue for alternative foreign policy views/strategies, as opposed to this kind of mendacious and lazy drivel. His good points regarding the Israel-Palestinian conflict are unfortunately undermined by how much he discredits himself in the run-up.

> The Biden foreign policy has always been a shambles. It has been based on military domination, economic coercion, and ideological arrogance which has swept up in its maw the Democratic party. The war in Ukraine, for example, meant to weaken Russia, has strengthened it economically and politically at the cost of the lives of 350,000 of the flower of Ukrainian youth.

I don't see how we have any evidence that Russia has been strengthened in any fashion, and also that war was not initiated by the US. The US didn't decide to invade Ukraine.

> t bears reflection at this moment that some of the same individuals, including President Biden, who led us into the disastrous Ukraine war

The US is not "in" the Ukraine War. His framing it that way makes it sound like we have boots on the ground at the same level as in Iraq and Afghanistan, which is obviously not the case. Moreover, again, unlike Afghanistan and Iraq, it was not a conflict initiated by the US.

> before that into devastating wars which killed over a million people in Iraq and Libya,

Same thing with Libya. It's just total bullshit to compare Libya with Iraq.
I've been getting these but I hadn't figured out what to blame yet. I imagined it was one tab doing something bad.

I'll have to pay attention now to if it's happening on all my machines. it for sure happened on a Windows 10 machine
Yeah I don't see how the Kotlin example is any better than plain JS or Kotlin/Js.