skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Any chance it was https://pomb.us/build-your-own-react/? You can't really have hooks without building an entire framework, because the framework has to have the preserve the execution context between renderings.
A lot of stuff companies are doing is overly complicated because of their legacy. Awful lot of people are doing work beneath their qualifications because this. The AI can remove a lot of complications and do a lot of mundane jobs IMHO.
I almost stopped shopping at Amazon. There is very little reason left. It is filled with no-name crap by companies with auto generated names. I might as well buy it from Aliexpress or Temu, same crap but at a fraction of a cost and the latter is really aggressive about cheap shipping.

For something more serious either buy directly from the brand, or from Costco, Target, Walmart, HomeDepot, BedBath&Beyond, BestBuy, Macy's, publisher's website, some specialized hardware, electronics or hobby shops. There is still a limited number of things where Amazon beats others, but their quality went down, and hassle free return is not hassle free anymore.

On top of that, they exhibit highly unethical behavior when it comes to counterfeit books. Here is a good thread by François Chollet about his book: https://twitter.com/fchollet/status/1550930876183166976. The main takeaway is this:

Q: What is Amazon doing about it?
A: Nothing. We've notified them multiple times, nothing happened. The fraudulent sellers have been in activity for years. The issue affects ~100% of Amazon sales of the book since March or April. That's because, amazingly, since fraudsters are claiming to have inventory, Amazon has stopped carrying its own inventory for the book (i.e. it has stopped ordering new copies from the publisher).

This is mind blowing to me, that they are still in the business of selling books.
And they did not really solve last mile delivery. Yeah, it is still faster, but I can wait for my sneakers for 5 days, instead of 2-3 and many retail chains can now delivery something to you in 3-5 biz days and can beat Amazon on return policy or warranty. It's odd that market forces aren't correcting this for Amazon.
Depends on their goal and inclination. But perhaps this: Learning the basics of the Unix shell can be very useful when wrangling text and data, or for operating on lots of files in a batch.
MJ 6 is only a few weeks old or so though (I think…internet time is weird, but not 6 months for sure!) and is quickly becoming nearly indistinguishable from real photos. And that’s not even mentioning the obvious future v7.

We’re crossing the uncanny valley and soon enough you won’t know if an image is real or AI. The tell-tale signs will fade (already are) and the “authenticity” you speak of will actually be there. So to speak.
Show HN: Uno Online
The path to an authentic life is unique to each individual. It may involve taking risks, making difficult choices, and facing challenges along the way. However, by staying true to yourself and pursuing what is important to you, you can create a life that is meaningful and fulfilling.
Great phrase!
Gary Taubes has written multiple scholarly books on the subject. He has won the Science in Society Journalism Award of the National Association of Science Writers three times. I think a training in one scientific field does qualify a person to go spend their time digging into other fields. How well they do is a matter of personal ability and effort and one would have to read their output and judge for oneself. I have read many of Taubes's book and many of the papers cited in his books and have concluded that he is a well qualified expert in the field.
I think the point of those tools is to abandon the idea that one needs full say over every aspect of a diagram. Or even that all diagrams must be done in one tool - the most flexible one. Having more version-controlled documentation next to code is only a plus to me.
I'd be interested to see Scala (native).
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I am sure this will happen eventually but there is extreme uncertainty as to the actual timelines. Any attempts to aggressively manage it much too early (our current position in the timeline) or much too late will cause extraordinary harm to the entire population.

I would argue that the timing of policy related to this issue can do at least as much damage as the technology itself.
If anything it’s easier. It gives a nice abstraction to capture and transform movement rather than figuring out each frame how to draw everything from scratch
Can someone give me an actual example of what jobs you think are going to be replaced by these AIs?

I feel like these discussions are always so high level/hand wavy
> On a flat surface a truck and a car using the same tire compound should have identical stopping distances.

Well according to the article they don't have identical stopping distances, so let's figure out what would fix it.

> The issue comes when you are going downhill.

That just changes the angle of gravity. Why would it affect trucks and cars differently? I thought the point was that going downhill exacerbates differences in stopping distance, not that is causes them.
Duplication and painful search and information access seems so intentional in tools like Slack and Discord. And these feed each other in a vicious cycle.
Stock imagery is annoying, hopefully AI can kill it.

Maybe we’ll get ubiquitous local stable diffusion, companies can just send the prompts and then we can just skim the text to get the idea if we don’t feel like rendering them.
>Surely the ad needs to be a photo of the actual thing, rather than an approximation?

Have you ever seen an ad for a fastfood burger? Have you ever seen the real thing? The ad looks literally nothing like the real thing.

Off the top of my head: anything related to real estate, food, clothing - if the ad happens to reflect the actual product you lucked out.
> I don't have a solution. I know the basic common theme to this question on HN is UBI. But I have yet to see or read anyone's answer to how UBI solves housing issues. ( Which is a problem slightly different in different location / country / politics ) I guess that is a different topic.

The first thing would be to de-profitize places for humans to live.

Interest rates for humans with 0,1, or 2 homes could be set to low or preferably 0 interest.

Taxes for homes could skyrocket after 2 homes, as to make parasitical rental companies uneconomical.

AirBNB and similar rental structures can be required to business and hotelier standards (aka: make it uneconomical).

Banks can also be compelled to take evidence of "paid $2000/mo rental for X years" as proof of paying same for mortgage.

Companies who want to be in the rental industry must follow stringent cost-lowering structures, like rent control and other de-profiting strategies.

And also, we need to build housing of all sorts, and not just single home dwellings and apartments. We're missing the various sorts of "middle urbanized housing" cause it's illegal.
Thank you, too late to correct now
I think the market already allowed that. AI shitifying everything is just another step (a big one) in the same direction we've been heading anyway.
Think about offshoring support representatives. Instead of someone actually trying to help you get someone bound to a script and following the motions. This infected the entire service culture. And the market accepted.it,because all big companies did the same.
AI in support roles is an obvious next step, now that everyone is used to scripted interaction, a half baked AI solution is not much worse.

AI
Would be interested in sample ETL projects, i.e., challenges, to practice and demonstrate ETL skills.

Something like rosalind.info for ETL.
Not a homemade submarine story but very much related.

When my dad was a teenager he saw a film by Jacques Cousteau, one of the coinventors of the first aqualung and became obsessed with the idea. He lived on a smallholding and had been taught to be self-reliant, so by borrowing his dad’s welding gear he made himself a home-made aqualung. But how to test it?

On the smallholding there was a water reservoir that was deep enough but when he tried it of course he had positive buoyancy so kept floating to the surface. Normal divers have a weight belt, but my dad decided to chain himself to a heavy wooden railway sleeper and just throw it in. So there he was, dragged to the bottom of the reservoir, chained to a railway sleeper with a semi-functioning home-made underwater breathing apparatus.

He must have escaped somehow but when he told the story he would just leave that part a mystery and he’s dead now so there’s no way of finding out.
Most low-paid workers are safe for the time being, since they do jobs that cannot be done by LLMs, for example, cooking, cleaning, caring for children, driving, etc. The current AI wave threatens only mid- and higher-income workers, for example, junior analysts in finance.
I don't see it as a "just so", I see it as a game-theoretically valid strategy.

It doesn't mean any alien race we're talking about will do this (just as we don't currently) but that it probably makes sense to at least one of them.

And that is a good enough a reason to shut up.

----

Alternatively, here's the bet your implicitly taking:

Upside - contact with an alien civ

Downside - extermination
>Quality issues. Mass production haven’t wiped out hand made furniture.

No, but it has turned anything but the very highest end furniture into absolute garbage. It's nearly impossible to find furniture made of solid wood (whether a couch frame or a dresser drawer) unless you're spending darn near 5 figures on a set.
So much of the discussion seems to be along the lines of “yeah it’s broken now, but it’s just the start, it’ll get better”

I can list so many things that were hyped up the same way 10 years ago that still aren’t revolutionising the world today.

Maybe it will get super good really fast. Or maybe it’s the next self driving trucks or 3D tv where solving the last of the problems is much harder than the first 90%.
Reminds me of Vernor Vinge's future human starfaring civilization using kiloseconds, megaseconds, and gigaseconds to measure time. <https://neurocline.github.io/dev/2015/08/13/telling-time-in-...>
Ask HN: Who else is considering switching career from IT?
With the layoff storm that keeps going, the raise of AIs product, the less money in the field due to high interest rates, and the general sense of negativity that is coming from the computer science field also due to large companies taking all and internet lost of the magic and the freedom of some years ago; are you considering a career switch?

I'm thinking that my role in the next 15 years it will not be granted as today, but I may be only to negative about it. I'm thinking to start looking into plumbing or carpentry.

P.S. I'm 28yo
The Nix community can try to boil the ocean, or they can create a platform that can be a stepping stone to better things. With the recent upswing in Nix usage, many new systems and packages are built with Nix and Nix-like declarative systems in mind. It's a positive feedback loop. It's not possible to rebuild literally everything from scratch to work in the "nix way", so older systems are supported with a wrapper layer, and newer ones should hopefully work in a more natural way.

Guix and Hurd and whatnot try to be more pure about things and look how far it got them. There are tens of thousands of projects that would basically need to be redesigned and written from the ground up to achieve what you desire, and I think the best approach is to build the platform and prove its value and create a path and model for new projects to follow. There are only so many open source developers out there.
Excel is a functional programming environment which works at scale. Yes, we hate it. Yes, date handling is a mess. If you learn how to drive excel you can do almost anything.
> The AI can remove a lot of complications

Not the AIs we have today, I don't even think the initial AGI will be smart enough to significantly simplify current processes, it would need to be much smarter than the humans it replaces to do that.
> one truck with a lead driver and few automated ones following it closely.

Bulk freight trains solve that problem already. Simply use flatcars or intermodal containers then use rubber tyred trucks in the last kilometre.
When you have hundreds of millions of clients, there’s a good chance the client thinks it’s sending you the right data (especially when the customer says everything looks right on their end). You need to figure out if there is packet corruption (misbehaving switch), an outdated client, an egress load balancer screwing with packet contents, an office proxy trying to be smart, etc.

This requires looking at what is going over the wire in a lot of cases. It has nothing to do with Postel’s Law, but more to telling a customer what is wrong and making your own software more resilient in the face of the world.
I'll be working on adding oxipng for encoding PNG formats. Thanks for the suggestion!
I doubt that because low income/low skill jobs almost all involve doing stuff in the real world

Cleaning, food prep, labor, retail, etc…

It’s jobs that exist in the digital realm that are way more likely to be automated in the near term
Albuterol doesn’t treat inflammation directly, but is absolutely critical for emergency management. And control meds for children seem to (oddly) have zero actual benefit in controlled studies almost every time. But do seem to work.

Which is pretty odd, no?

There is a lot we don’t know about asthma.

Exercise and stress reduction do seem to help, but also not in obvious ways.
It's easy to explain to finance people. It's a form of commodity speculation. Storage is a buy-low, sell-high business, with a daily cycle. This expansion will continue until peak and valley prices start to level out.
Microsoft may well catch the rabbit that queries schemas and generates valid SQL.

But that rabbit can't understand the meaning of the data just by looking at column names and table relationships.

Let's say you want to know how sales and inventory are doing compared to last year at your chain of retail stores.

Will Microsoft's rabbit be smart enough to know that the retail business is seasonal, so it must compare the last x weeks this year with the same weeks last year? And account for differences in timing of holidays? And exclude stores that weren't open last year?

Will it know that inventory is a stock and sales is a flow, so while it can sum daily sales, it's nonsensical to sum daily inventory?

The real AI magic isn't generating SQL with four joins, it's understanding the mechanics of each industry and the quirks of your organization to extract the intent from ambiguous and incomplete natural language.
Learn how to write in a clear and concise way that is coherent and can be understood by other people.

Learn how to write to different audiences. You communicate differently with programmers than you would executives.
Depends. I already see low quality news sites and stuff doing this, but the images are always a bit mangled.

It’s fine for filler images that don’t serve any purpose. But say you want a photo of a specific street for your story, having a street that looks a bit similar but mostly randomised significantly detracts from the value.
I'm probably missing something, but why would an electric train need a battery?

What would the battery be used for?
Why do people pay premium for "hand made", "artisanal" etc?

If AI is cheap, then by using AI generated content to cut costs, you will cheapen your brand by association. There are examples of brands doing this to themselves already.
> Taxes are returned to the economy.

I hope we don't start dropping bombs on our own cities....
I don't think the AI stuff is oversold. If anything, it's going to hit us sooner than most people expect. Once robots and their AI software are good enough, once self-driving is good enough, it's game over for most manual jobs. And many software-based jobs will be automated even faster (accountants, lawyers, data analysis, etc).
It’s not impossible “grounding” turns out to be a thing, but every sentence of this article reads like hand-wavey pseudoscience.
Be ready for the tax sticker shock. Those fancy public infrastructure systems aren’t cheap.
It’s probably good enough to replace blog post header images that served close to no value to begin with. Everything else is still to be seen.
Nope. Just because the company is based in the UK does not mean that this employee is subject to Uk law. She is subject to the law of the country in which she is based, which is clearly the US. She is taking this far too personally. The whole tech sector is currently undertaking massive layoffs in the face of stagnant earnings and a high interest rate environment. Her firing has nothing to do with her abilities so she shouldn’t take it so personally. I’m just arguing that if she was an over the top stellar employee with multiple closed sales, there would be a need to keep her. In the absence of any overwhelming accomplishments, she finds herself the victim of market trends, a common occurrence in today’s market.
And autonomous rides are already a failed concept as cars do not scale.
I certainly don't disagree that there should be a solid foundation here; I just think this is the wrong foundation, for what I believe to be good reasons (some of which I'll get to below) - mainly, it confuses the concept with the implementation mechanics.

Instead... I find it much more productive to start teaching this with the fundamentals of problem-solving techniques, as follows:

- One method for solving complex problems is to divide them into separate subproblems that are simpler to solve. We call this "divide-and-conquer", as you've seen in [blah, e.g. mergesort]. Observe that this technique decomposes your subproblem structure into a tree. (Draw a picture.)

- Another (more advanced) method for solving complex problems is to find subproblems that might potentially overlap, and then find a clever way to combine their solutions into the final answer. An example here is finding the shortest N-hop path by finding the shortest (N-1)-hop paths, and picking out the shortest of those to find the shortest N-hop path. Observe that this technique decomposes your subproblem structure into a DAG form. (Draw a picture.)

Take a moment to read the above... notice the lack of any mention of caching/memoization/tables, etc.? That's not an accident. It's because those are optimizations to DP, not the core idea! Before you can even start talking about "how do I solve this quickly", the question you need to answer is "what systematic method can I use to solve this at all?" The central idea there is the decomposition of the problem into a tree vs. DAG structure. Once that sinks in, the question of how to make it faster (or whether to use recursion vs. iteration) is secondary, and also far more obvious to figure out on your own.

Moreover, this also lets the student realize that you can (sometimes) speed up divide-and-conquer with memoization, too. Which also hammers home the point that such an optimization is very much distinct from the technique itself!
"Shareholder activists" are just following their own incentives, though, just like the C-suite. At a certain point, you have to either blame the people doing the things or blame it on capitalism in general.
No, the real point of guilds or licensure is to constrain the supply of those that work in the profession, generally to inflate salaries.

Licenses sound good in theory but often that just means you get more "inside the box" thinking (the kind of thinking that helps on the license/guild exams), and innovation will suffer. Would we be better off if the programming industry simply used, say C, for everything since the 70s? Some things might be better, but we'd have far less and less varied of it, I'd wager.

EDIT: I assumed guilds/licenses here are mandated (which is what a guild that issues licenses often wants to do). If licenses can be ignored, it's less of an issue.
It's not the lake that needs to be filled. Just the locks - and the lower ones at that.
Running the LLM application on a host without any inference resources(e.g. GPU)
Amazing #AI demo with
wasmCloud
, you don't have to require any inference resources (e.g. GPU) on the host running the #LLMs application.
No, games are only fun if you get all the achivements and 100% the game and buy every item ever relased in the shop and complete all battle pass levels because FOMO because gaming is not about having fun anymore, its about reaching artificially set goals and collecting cosmetics.
I don't know if this is something that is prevented by our current system. This is more or less what GM was doing before the 2008 bankruptcy (The vague story I remember from the time was that they knew they had to get rid of money losers like Pontiac and Oldsmobile, but decided dealing w/ the dealerships wasn't worth it)
I don't like the music coming out of my studio monitors. I prefer the stereo speakers and a sound woofer, feels more alive.
Agree that Excel is a great tool and can lead to more advanced skills, but what would "functional programming environment" mean to a non-programmer?
And for some reason apple cider vinegar is always the cure-all
Affirmative action also serves as a zero-sum wedge issue amongst the working class, which is great for reinforcing existing political lines and demographics.
The U.S. doesn’t consider Taiwan as part of China.
In Google, we have these things called peer bonuses. When you want to thank your fellow colleague for something nice they’ve done you can send them ~$200. Recently, I started a project where I wspend the peer bonus budget on luciteria.com/element-cubes. The grant approximately equals the average price of a lucite element cube. Soon™ I should have a full periodic table at my work desk!
May be because "change this" is vague and more of a broad function and may need more clarifications. Users may have more clearer commands, like "cancel this", "I don't like this, provide an alternative" or "can you go back one step?" etc. User can just speak those requests out loud since device is listening.
Same here, except with Debian. The Macbook Pro is by far the best laptop I've ever had and MacOS is my preferred OS. Originally I never wanted to use Mac at all but was forced to use one through work and now I'm completely converted.
My dad is 75.. very good ears. He is also an audiophile. Remember, these ears have been trained for decades.
Invest time into learning to get the most out of your (software) tools: keyboard shortcuts, text styles, automation.

It will pay off very quickly.
That's great and you have sent me down the rabbit hole.

So, usage would be something like:

CardPower ← {+⌿⍤2(∘.≤)⍤1⍨⍵}

CardPower cardMatrix
Love this, thank you for compiling and sharing this!
A programming environment that functions, I guess.