skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The current Hamas charter only calls for the destruction of Zionist Israel, not for Israel as a nation"

This is gaslighting. There is no doubt that Hamas wants to kill all Israelis because we not only have the text of the charter, but we have their actions on October 7th and their subsequent statements. Israel does not occupy Gaza, they left Gaza in 2005, you can't just pretend like that did not happen, come on. Israel did not have a physical presence inside Gaza before this latest round of fighting, this is a fact and it's absurd to deny it.
Optimizing performance is very nontrivial and often means writing custom stuff, which will deeply affect TCO. It’s fine for devs to sympathize with users, but in the most ultimate perspective the users are actual or potential customers of the business and not your clients.

In other words, the business should have ultimate authority and responsibility to structure incentives and pursue priorities. Up until the engineer crosses over a boundary and becomes part of leadership.
It always seemed to me MBAs weren't there to add value to an organization, but to extract it. Perhaps now, in leaner times, this is not as sought-after a skillset as it used to be?
One thing I sorely miss with vim (and which sold me to vscode - yes, I know) is editing in multiple places at once (not sure about the correct term). You select some text, press Ctrl+d to select another one, if you want to skip one Ctrl+k d, then just edit in multiple places at once. Simple and sooo useful, because you actually see each selection before you edit it, and you can select them one by one (or skip, or go back). Alternatives with vim that I found were not quite as helpful, but I'd love to learn I missed something.
> can commit sudoku

Autocorrection is a giant pain in the ass.
This sounds similar to how IR35 operates in the UK. It’s a total pain and has made contracting far less attractive for both parties.

I had to explain the purpose of an umbrella company to a client in the US recently. Perhaps that structure will become the standard way for contractors to work over there too.
What would be the difference between an affiliate link program and a web ring?

I don't know if discovery is actually a bottleneck to be automated away. It might be the fun part. I'm thinking back to the Napster approach where you could browse other people's libraries for music ideas.
Some of the public data may still have license attached, so there are still challenges in provenance, attribution, and copyright.

To draw a parallel in software, we have MIT licenses that allow for-profit, private use of source code in the public. The copyleft license might be more aligned to what you are envisioning?
From https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/flsa/misclassification/rule... :

7. What analysis guides whether a worker is an employee or independent contractor under this final rule?

This final rule continues to affirm that a worker is not an independent contractor if they are, as matter of economic reality, economically dependent on an employer for work. Consistent with judicial precedent and the Department’s interpretive guidance prior to 2021, the final rule applies the following six factors to analyze employee or independent contractor status under the FLSA:

(1) opportunity for profit or loss depending on managerial skill;

(2) investments by the worker and the potential employer;

(3) degree of permanence of the work relationship;

(4) nature and degree of control;

(5) extent to which the work performed is an integral part of the potential employer’s business; and

(6) skill and initiative.

The final rule provides detailed guidance regarding the application of each of these six factors. No factor or set of factors among this list of six has a predetermined weight, and additional factors may be relevant if such factors in some way indicate whether the worker is in business for themself (i.e., an independent contractor), as opposed to being economically dependent on the employer for work (i.e., an employee under the FLSA).

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Having read this, I would not be worried? It sounds like they care about you being able to do your job as intended?
This has proven true for a while now. My favorite example is Slack. Slack is solid software, but why do we need upwards of 300MB of memory usage to send text and a couple images.

I know why, but it does seem like an unreasonable usage.

Here's the thing: I'd be okay with my "primary" software to be resource intensive. In my case, that's my IDE and the surrounding tools supporting it. I don't want my supporting software (Slack, Spotify, etc) to be taking a ton of resource. But everyone thinks their software is worth the memory usage. That ends up leaving us with Spotify actively taking 300ish MB of RAM to play music I could play off of VLC instead.

Who this really hurts are the users that's don't want to spend a lot on their machines. A lot of us devs have powerful and nice machines because it's a clear value win for us to do so, but then tons of users suffer because you're not even realizing you're writing insanely suboptimal code.

The amount of times I've seen things that abuse network traffic to is insane. Everytime I see some SQL in a loop that should be a single query, a piece of me dies.

This is probably just a natural thing we're experiencing with software development though, and I don't expect it to go away. The best we can do is to write better software and review our peer's code as well.
I use this executable for Windows: https://github.com/ililim/dual-key-remap
you mean, is the right of an individual human to property and the rule of law be recognized in 100 or 500 years?

hopefully yes, unless you foresee some inescapable transfer to dictatorship, which you'll have to argue for to maintain your argument
Listed status is "experimental" but only two relatively minor commits in the last two years. Maybe it's more stable than that implies or the author is looking to pick it back up?
That's interesting. I had an Axidraw plotter I liked though eventually built my own plotter because I needed a bit more versatility.

Perhaps there are competitors there now, but would love to see a hobbyist level machine with the convenience of 3d printers. I spent too much time with my plotter doing things like formatting svg's or manually homing the machine.
Skylab 4: 50 years since the first 'mutiny' aboard a spacecraft
> there seems to be a lot less interest in people who specialize in “management” vs folks that focus first and foremost on being an expert at something

I disagree. A career in management is very different from a specialist career, and both are essential. I made the switch from an IC (individual contributor) position to tech management about five years ago and received proper training at my company.

My anecdotal experience and consultations with my professional network (from startups to colleagues at FAANGs) indicate that most companies value both management and specialist career ladders (The 'Y career' [1]).

[1] https://hrconsultantuk.co.uk/y-career-understand-what-it-is-...
Please go and do what you suggest for 8 hours a day then come back.

Giving bad tools to any professional is a bad idea for productivity. We have other ways of checking if software is slow.

It is all a question of company priorities as there are no professional standards whatsoever established. And companies ofc go for spend the least they can get away with.
A school yard bully that goes to an art museum, learns how to paint, and then sells those paintings.
Oh no, the horror of the cost of doing business when you can't get away with a get-rich-quick-scheme fast enough to cash out and disappear.
nobody is forced to post to social media
I really liked the book Personal MBA by John Kaufmann as a cheap replacement for some of the knowledge.
AI doesn't get inspired. It's not human. It adds everything about it to its endless stream of levers to pull, and if you pull the right ones, it will just give you the source verbatim as proven by the NYT lawsuit filing where it was just outputting unaltered copywritten NYT article text.
Let's say instead of AI, it was cheap artists in a third-world country reproducing art in their style. How would you feel then?

That's completely legal. Artists don't own a "style". And nobody has the "right" to continue to earn money just because they did in the past.
Architecting a live look at reliability: Stripe's viral Black Friday site
What's interesting about that is every tool I've seen to generate .com files would set SS=DS=ES=CS to the same value.

But, it turns out, this is not necessary. The only thing about COM is that the file size has to be less than 64K. This enables another memory model, where the code seg and data seg are different, enabling substantially larger programs that were still COM programs. This was the Zortech "small" memory model.
> Ads based on your interests are a form of bullying and must be stopped?

These aren't your granddaddy's ads that were printed on the back of a newspaper or on the place mat in the diner. They are the product of invasive surveillance foisted upon the user through dark patters and deception, so I would argue the answer is a definitive "yes".
Show HN: Tool to generate, refine and visualize mermaid diagrams using ChatGPT
All hiring is biased. That's the entire point of behavioral interview questions. To make sure the applicant acts/responds similar to how the company expects/wants. And I've yet to encounter a company which hires without at least one behavioral interview component.
Fair use is not copyright infringement! It’s a limitation placed on copyright to balance the interests of copyright holders with the public interest.
> and without being exploited

This is naive at best.

Even as a kid, I saw horror stories about how badly artists were exploited.

I watched my parents struggle. I never experienced anything near poverty, but I definitely experienced the fear and anxiety of standing on the precipice of it. I remember taking up the responsibility of helping my profoundly depressed and grieving mother sort through the mail of our family business and seeing how far behind we were. This was a few years before we sold everything to avoid bankruptcy, which was also around the time I left for college.

I'm not complaining about this. I think it was good for me. It bred a cynicism and understanding in me: this world isn't fair. It isn't going to get better. You are going to have to fight for the life you want, and you will probably still lose.

I understand the desire to pass gently over the earth. But this has never been a kind world, and has not become any MORE kind since 1999.

This is, I think, an example of toxic optimism. Many people over-estimate the likelihood of a positive outcome.

Not to make excuses for Midjourney. They should have asked permission from artists to use their work.
Bitcoin Developer's Proposal to Stop 'Spam' NFTs Gets Shut Down
> Put it this way - you remove all the copyrighted, permission-less content from OpenAIs training, what value does OpenAI's products have? If you think OpenAI is less valuable because it can't use copyrighted content, then it should give some of that value back to the content

Couldn't we say the same thing about search engines?

What value would google have without content to search for?

Is the conclusion we should make search engines pay royalities? That seems unfeasible at google scale. Should google just be straight up illegal? That also seems like a bad outcome; i like search engines i am glad they exist.

I guess i'm left with - i don't like this argument because of what it would imply for other projects if you follow the logic to its natural conclusion.
> board should say 'no' and counter with stock options

Tesla's Board has eight members. One is Musk. Another is his brother. One is the CEO of Redwood Materials. Two are VCs.

It would take activist pressure to dethrone Musk. Tesla's sky-high valuation protects against that.
Because now any child can create art by typing a prompt, creating more competition for them, I guess. Very selfish thinking imo
Turns out there's not much you can train when like 5 parameters fit into the entire memory of a microcontroller. Oh and you also need to read the sensors and run a networking stack and... yeah.
> possibly a derivative work of all of the works that went into its training.

or… it is possibly a transformative work of the all the works that went into it's training, which would lead to a strong fair use argument. Given how permissive the courts have been with transformative work, this seems like an easier argument to make.
You can check out the public project registry where community shares full projects they've built

You can go ahead and clone any one you like to your account, as well as share a project of your own!

https://edgeimpulse.com/projects/all
It really depends. Suggesting that topics like accounting and finance can be picked "up in a night course" is a bit like saying programming... I know that involves some Javascript and CSS, and couldn't you just pick that up?

I have no formal programming education but started coding 35 years ago. I also have an MBA in finance. For my brain, learning something like functional monadic composition is something I was able to do on my own, but there is no way I'd ever have learned finance at that same level on my own.

It is worth noting that there is a pretty big difference between an MBA in finance, marketing, or operations/supply-chain. As different as developer, tester, and devops at least.
> The cultivars listed in this article may vary in any number of these characteristics, and most can be eaten whole grain or milled (brown or white).

The article you posted backs up what I'm saying. Brown/white is a result of processing, not genetics.
I can't find the video anymore, but there was a team viewer video talking about a performance update on youtube, showing how it went from taking 20 seconds to start up to... 10 seconds.
Agreed its a bit tertiary, but how would that list of artists have any meaning if their work was not included in training?

also the discovery of the list was a strong rebuttal to the (iirc) CEO of Midjourney complaining that finding the source of online images in order to ask permission / offer compensation was just too arduous a task and also that they didn't bother. Well here's a list of thousands of artist styles they bothered to identify.
I mean, I am assuming serious job seekers would only be applying to relevant roles.

I've applied to several hundred positions that are very much in line with my experience and skillset since summer without success - I would assume someone who has never worked in tech would need to be applying for at least as many positions as I have.
Is "hipsterism" still even a thing anymore? It feels like that kind of morphed into the whole holistic/burner culture trend that seems to be growing rapidly these days.
Arguments similar to yours were made by people publishing other owners' IP on the early Internet. What AI companies are doing is the same thing, except they don't care for the quality of the results and keep telling everybody that a system that cannot repeatedly produce the same answer to the same question but keeps trying to come up with something that looks like an answer instead is better and should be paid for and used more. I do hope AI cheerleaders have their prostates worked on by AI-assisted hallucinating robots whose models contain equally weighted text on surgery, anatomical dissection, and meccano assembly instructions.
If you’re using a crypto debit card than you’re layering the cost of a standard bank transaction on top of the cost of crypto. That just sounds like extra steps to do what I just did with my debit card at the convenience store 5min ago - which took seconds as well and required no steps to convert currency or load up from a wallet/exchange. I’m just not entirely sure what using your crypto debit card accomplished beside spending a currency that takes more work to utilize.
But sometimes your work is put on Instagram without your knowledge or consent (eg by an Instagram aggregator account)

And this whole ecosystem of credit (or not sharing credit) is undoubtedly encouraged by Instagram (because it's valuable to me to have an Instagram account with many followers)
i was not very clear. as a lowly developer i am so far removed from the outcome that i have no clue what the impact of my work is supposed to be. i don't know if the bug i fixed affects 1% or 90% of the user base, or if the feature, like that new credit card processing service brings in a few new users, or thousands or none at all.

if there is a story to tell, it doesn't reach our team.
An easy way to tell is to instruct Midjourney to create something “in the style of ______ “

I don’t currently have a MJ subscription or I’d try it.
Niklaus Wirth died on the 1/1/24, RIP!
I firmly believe that training models qualifies as fair use. I think it falls under research, and is used to push the scientific community forward.

I also firmly believe that commercializing models built on top of copyrighted works (which all works start off as) does not qualify as fair use (or at least shouldn't) and that commercializing models build on copyrighted material is nothing more than license laundering. Companies that commercialize copyrighted work in this manner should be paying for a license to train with the data, or should stick to using the licenses that the content was released under.

I don't think your example is valid either. The reason that AI models are generating content similar to other people's work is because those models were explicitly trained to do that. That is literally what they are and how they work. That is very different than people having similar styles.
I've never done it myself, but isn't the stacking connector just as easy as grabbing DF40HC(3.0)-100DS-0.4v (https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/hirose-electric-c...), throwing it into a KiCAD 2-layer or 4-layer board (depending on how complex you want to make it), and then just... that's it?

There's no RAM or other complex signals at play here. I have to imagine that 2-layer boards are sufficient for the vast majority of CM4 board users.

I guess a few elements in the connector (USB and Ethernet) are differential pairs. So okay, you need to know a bit about transmission line theory. But as far as actually running differential pairs with matched-impedances, its just a matter of knowing what a "dielectric constant" is and plugging that into the calculator, so that you know how thick the PCB-trace should be in a stripline.

Which is all nearly automatic even with free tools like KiCAD today. Okay, you need to know what the word "dielectric constant" is and that striplines are an impedance-controlled design pattern wherein the width of the PCB-trace on top is matched to a ground-plane below... and that you need the words "Dielectric Constant" and and "Board Thickness" to calculate the width for the impedance you're looking for.

But bam, now you know everything for simpler signals like USB or Ethernet. But honestly, whatever PCB you're designing is probably so small that it'd still work without needing to know any of this deeper theory.
I don’t think it is. What you describe is similar to any other industry disruption, and I don’t think those are unethical. I’d actually argue that preventing disruption is often (not always) unethical, because you artificially prolong an inefficient or inferior alternative.
Hours of Work in U.S. History
Niklaus Wirth died on 1/1/24 -- RIP!
"no copyright intended" xD
Hydro – stateful and reactive server-side components in .NET web apps
Expense and paperwork. In my experience, you'll be barraged with paperwork that doesn't really apply, but failing to process it results in penalties.
Then nobody will go back to making native apps
eBay did a similar experiment with ZBar in WebAssembly in 2019: https://innovation.ebayinc.com/tech/engineering/webassembly-...
Maybe this is why my Iphone seems to get slower every year.
Fair use is not a copyright violation! It’s a limitation placed on copyright to balance the interests of copyright holders with the public interest.
I wasn’t familiar with cat and girl, so I looked at a few random comics, and stumbled across this one:

https://catandgirl.com/heroes-and-villains/

The universe, I’m sometimes convinced, has a dark sense of humour.
Most Unlikely Comebacks – Using Data to Rank Statistically Improbable Wins
Top Front-End Tools of 2023
I genuinely wonder why HN people care so much about laptop upgradeability.

It is your primary and likely only tool in a profession where everyone makes 6 figures.

Spending an extra 3000$ every 3 years doesn't sound all that bad, as far as professional spending goes.

Consultants spend more on suits every year.
> A valuable company that is built from the work of content others created without transferring any value back to them.

But they are free to use the fruits of the model, same as anyone else. I suppose the difference is they don't care; they already have the talent to transform their labor into visual art, so what use do they have for a visual-art-generation machine?

I find strong parallels in the building of web crawlers and search indexers, except... Perhaps the indexers provided more universal, symmetrical value. It's hard to make the case that someone crawled and added to a search index doesn't derive value from that strong, healthy index being searchable (even librarians and news reporters thrive on having data indexed and reachable; the index is a force-multiplier, it's not "stealing their labor" by crawling their sub-indexing work and agglomerating it into a bigger index, nor is it cheapening the value of their information-sorting-and-sifting skills when the machine sorts and sifts).

So perhaps there is a dimension of symmetry here where the give-and-take aspect of what is created breaks. Much like the rich don't have to care whether it's legal to sleep under a bridge, artists don't have to care whether a machine can do 60% of the work of getting to a reasonable visual representation of an idea. No, more than that: it's harmful to them if it's legal to sleep under the bridge.

They'd be landlords in this analogy, crying to the city that because people can sleep under bridges the value of the houses they maintain has dropped.
Hey, sorry, I read your profile briefly before replying... do you play bluegrass as your main gig or as a side hustle? Your new album is a bop.

Anyway, I don't think there's much I can say to change your mind - talk to other artists, especially those who are artists as their main hustle.
Bulk has bus error detection and so you shouldn't get errors
> owners of an artstyle

I hope I never have to live in a world where such a thing exists.