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Can’t GPT—4 replace a middle manager today already? Why aren’t useless ticket pushers afraid?

“Reformulate this problem statement for a programmer to implement” straight from executive’s mouth and then “given these status updates, tell me if we are there and if anyone is trying to bullshit” is a perfect thing for an LLM.
I think you need a SharedWorker for that rather than a service worker https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/SharedWorke...
You've made an incorrect assumption - I'm a developer. I work remotely. If my company had an office nearby I would gladly go.
You just had a Show HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39571074

You can repost after a year or so with some exceptions but two weeks is too soon. Take a look at

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
Is vulkan strictly a rasterization library?

I thought you could also do numeric calculations with compute shaders.
SSE isn't really more complex than long polling. The only difference is the server don't close the connection immediately after sent the response. Instead, it wait for data again and send more response using the same stream.
this isn't just letting people use their twitter pic everywhere, it's allowing twitter (and whoever else) to query their email server for an image to represent the user.

services shouldn't leak user email addresses or that those users use that service.

users shouldn't have to juggle different email addresses to maintain distinct identities on different services.

with gravitar, the user is opting into losing pseudonymity, seeing as it's pretty trivial to take lists of email addresses you want to hunt down, md5 them, and then check them against places that user gravitar comments to identify comments are made by someone specific )

with this suggestion, every user on every email server that supports it, which would likely include all the common large ones if the author had their way, would fall afoul of constant identity leakage across every service they use.

an adversary need only crawl different services and hash the user avatars, spam email servers with requests for addresses dropped in leaks or otherwise available publicly, and match them up to remove privacy from the internet
This is probably naive, but it seems like assuming HTTP/2 or better, an EventSource combined with fetch() for sending messages should be just as good as any other protocol that uses a single TCP connection? And HTTP/3 uses UDP, so even better.

(This all assumes you only care about maintaining a connection when the tab is in the foreground.)

I’m wondering what problems people have run into when they tried this.
The Martian does indeed have charm. I wonder if things like charm get lost in translation a little though.

Thanks for the thoughts. I hate to generalise, but I have noticed that media from some other areas just isn't up to what I consider to be modern standards of views on gender, roles in society, and the role of authority. I say "modern" not because I feel some places are stuck in the past, but because I've seen these change over my lifetime where I grew up. It's one of the reasons I don't particularly like older media, The Andromeda Strain was a hard read/watch for this exact reason.

I expect Netflix may have a better take on it, so I might skip straight to watching it instead of reading it, based on these thoughts. Thanks!
Is this the striesisand effect for Don Lemon, or was this a a clever trick by musk and co to get more press over this?
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It is as possible as walking in the same place, unless we talk about some kind of super steep hill where would just push the bike.

Very likely issue here is that people who are used to cycle for sport only are not used to bike for transport. They don't do equivalent of walk, they do equivalent of run. So they get sweaty, because they race.
True, I don't. I recognize that driver and pedestrian culture are very different indifferent cities. However a significant number of cyclists seem to hate pedestrians everywhere I've gone.

To the other responder, I agree that cars are frequently assholes to cyclists, but how is that relevant to cyclists abusing pedestrians?
This and the sibling comment both show a pretty big lack of sympathy or empathy. Maybe you've never been in a situation where the line is blurry between dangerous/not-dangerous but maybe just assume everyone besides you isn't a moron and it's not as easy as you're saying
Horrible people can create great things.this does not mean society should chancel great things or their makers.the moonlanding was an archievement for all mankind. Even though nazis built the rocket.
Should also be obvious that it shouldn't be a platform for the monsters to propagandize there believes.
I updated my M2 MacBook Pro and the USB-C hub on my Dell U3219Q monitor no longer works... it's been a substantial disruption to my workflow with external peripherals and I don't have a USB-A to C converter to even partially get back on my feet with my external mouse/keyboard (that was the monitor hub's job!)
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I like how confident the model is when you provide an anime image, the model always thinks it's AI even though I only provided images created by humans, I don't think I've ever seen a worse AI detector in my life. I hope that this is not a real demo of the product.
I can't identify your point. Studies that show harms/benefits of processed food are good, because they let us make decisions based on facts (as opposed to emotions). Of course there are tradeoffs involved.
#1 on ASPCA's list of common toxicoses in cats: https://www.aspcapro.org/sites/default/files/zl-vetm0606_339...

Study of 286 cat/permethrin cases in London: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1016/j.jfms.2007.05...

Study of 750 cases in Australia: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1016/j.jfms.2009.12...

...we don't track this stuff nearly as well for pets as we do for humans but seems to have pretty robust evidence of toxicity.
I disagree with this take, most app frameworks do accessibility mostly right out of the box, it's just most developers never enabled voice over in their life, so they keep modifying the UI and messing up accessibility out of ignorance.

It's not that hard, and if every developer spent an afternoon looking into things, they'd realize how easy it is to get it right if the team is aware of it.

I'd not mind if like developers need to go through security and privacy training, they'd also go through accessibility training. A little investment would go really far.
Are you able to use the image upload box to select a file or drag-and-drop images?
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"made using AI" is such a fuzzy all-encompassing term that this feels like it will turn into another California Prop 65 warning scenario. Pretty soon every video will have a disclaimer like:

WARNING: This video contains content known to the State of Google to be generated by AI algorithms and/or tools.

Ok, beauty face filters are not included. How about character motion animations? How detailed does the after effects plugin need to be before it's considered AI? Can we generate just a background? Just a minor subject in the foreground? Or is it like pornography, where we'll recognize it once we see it?

I fear AI tools will soon become so embedded in normal workflows that it's going to become a question of "how much" not "contains", and "how much" is such a blurry, subjective line that it's going to make any binary disclaimer meaningless.
Thanks! I was not aware that SQLGlot has this functionality, let me give it a try.
I have up one 3rd of the way thru the first book. I loved all of Weir’s books and Vonnegut’s Sirens, but this 3BP was dragging too much…
I think that pointing out there are easy (read: cheap) ways of baking in accessibility is a valuable thing Jacob, and, there's certainly wisdom in baking some of that in as part of your development process. Nothing's worse than pushing something into alpha for QA and immediately having it tossed back to the dev team because they have to rework something obvious. Big morale hit all around.

I wasn't really trying for pedantry, but, if the check's in the mail, thanks for 0.666% of a coffee ;)
One thing that bothers me about this sort of "Europe / Asia" division is how anachronistic it is when we talk about events in deep history.

In Antiquity, this division would be unnatural. Asia Minor was an integral constituent part of the Mediterranean civilization, unlike, say, contemporary Germany. The ancients would be fairly confused if we told them that we now put dividing lines between North Africa, Asia Minor+Levant and so-called Europe. For them, it was a bigger civilizational unit, a maritime continent so to say. And the idea that Asia Minor somehow belongs to the same unit as India or China would feel positively weird.
You're right, the timing belts were initially 80k, but they got better, and the replacements then last 100k.

All of that is basic European/German car ownership... it's definitely not for everyone. But to me, these cars are a lot of fun to drive, and tinkering on them is a fun hobby. To me, the driving experience on any of the low maintenance Japanese cars isn't even in the same ballpark, but not everyone notices or cares about that.

I drive a TDI Touareg right now and it is 10x the cost/hassle of those ALH TDIs... it is funny hearing your perspective about the ALH being too much hassle.

I don't think it's illegal to turn down the EGR- I'm not talking about turning it off. The system still reports its settings and passes emissions tests. I think the clogging rate is accelerated by driving them too gently... mine wasn't that clogged yet when I took it off to check at 150k miles, with the stock EGR settings.

Not singling you out in particular, but these cars are so well made and hold up so well, that lots of people seem to complain that they need start to need a few $k of work at 150-200k miles when most other cars would be headed to the crusher.
Great news, friend is currently dealing with asbestos remediation headaches. Can't imagine having to deal with someone so dangerous every day.
Study finds excess ventilation may counteract public health interventions
It is done in the shared code, see https://rustc-dev-guide.rust-lang.org/backend/backend-agnost... for details.
The other explanation for the mysterious presence of sprawling low-value business premises in extremely high demand neighborhoods is that planners zone for them explicitly to take up space so yuppies can't have it.
In my opinion the story the books tell is excellent, after having been pulled in by the story, I would read it in stenography if necessary. I was blown away by the ideas brought forward by the books, but I was a bit surprised to find out that not every person who likes to consume sci-fi is automatically a fan of three-body problem.
For the last 12 years of his life, my father was in an electric wheelchair as a result of a stroke. Prior to that, I was vaguely aware of ADA compliance - basically because there were posted signs everywhere about parking spaces and restroom stalls.

It was only after seeing the ease with which he could navigate the world in spite of his chair that I appreciated how important that law was, because I also saw so many things that he wasn't able to do even though there was a law. Our entire world is built around and for people who see, hear, speak, walk, climb, and crawl.

As developers, I would say we're second only (maybe) to government in the ability to make the world accessible. I'm as guilty as anybody at this. Please make the effort to make your work as accessible as possible to everyone.
Bad analogy.

Preparing food unhygienically is bad for everyone at the picnic.

A more appropriate analogy is disallowing watermelon at the picnic because one person can't eat watermelon.

> Please go play badminton.

Love the irony of including this comment in a post about making your app inclusive
Why are you spoiling the book like this?
We need to fix the title. It's not just AI -- it's any realistic scene generated by VFX, animation, or AI. The title of the blogpost is "How we're helping creators disclose altered or synthetic content" -- it shouldn't say AI on the Hacker News title.

> Generating realistic scenes: Showing a realistic depiction of fictional major events, like a tornado moving toward a real town.

Does the Wizard of Oz tornado scene need a warning now? [0] (Of course not, but it may be hard to draw the line in some places.)

[0] https://www.grunge.com/486387/heres-how-the-tornado-scene-in...
I think it is safer to say that accessibility is an one of many edge cases. Not important ... until it suddenly is.

I had many tricks to "sell" accessibility to the various clients and one of them was "What percentage of your potential users would you like to immediately piss off?" "How comfortable are you with random lawsuits? [Then you have to talk about the Target lawsuit]"
I have Crohn’s disease and while there’s still a lot that isn’t understood, it’s clear that it’s linked to highly processed food. Crohn’s is more prevalent in western populations and it’s rising in places that are adopting western diets. There are studies showing that patients who don’t see results from medication can still achieve remission through a strict Mediterranean diet.

Obesity is a huge problem and the spotlight on it is warranted, but it’s also a very simple issue to understand and deal with. The effects of ultra processed foods are more complex and far less understood.
this leaks the identity through the services. you can't normally get an email address or verify who someone on twitter or whatever is unless the user specifically chooses to share it.

you could use this to query the email server, and to crawl various services to match up identities across them.

most users do not own their own domains, and this would have to be implemented on the major free email providers to be useful, offering up every user on them for casual identification via any service that displays their image
Yes the books are excellent. I am American but lived in China for a while and my wife is Chinese so I've seen a lot of Chinese media so familiar with many tropes. It is definetely Chinese, but it is not generic scifi with the usual tropes. I gave a copy to my dad and he read the whole trilogy faster than I could finish and was fascinated by the Chinese perspectives and the fact that it was critical of the cultural revolution. I typically prefer good characters over hard scifi, and my main criticism is the characters are not well written, they are mostly walking tropes, so it should speak to the quality of the books that I loved them despite that.

They are good, the themes are fascinating (and I actually disagree with many of it's viewpoints, but still love the books) and the scenarios are really well written with it sounding too wild and crazy but once you learn more about what is happening it makes sense. The alien world is like something out of Stapledons Star Maker.

I'm very picky about scifi, but this is highly recommended.
I think you naled it in the head. I would say the book is quite familiar to Asimov's writing in the Foundation trilogy.

Trying to explain and explore concepts where the Characters are just talking carriers of ideas. It's b
Not everybody's cup of tea but I loved it.
Spacex has really brought the cost down to get to orbit and so you can throw up 100s or small satellites for that amount of money probably. Unprecedented levels of coverage
He shares a great bit of this on Conan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBLkX2VaQs4
https://archive.is/ATAkf
Exactly, and many have done exactly the same kind of video using VFX. What's the difference?
These kind of reactions remind me of the stories of the backlash following the introduction of calculators in schools...
I was the same way, until one of my dogs got Lyme's disease. It is so, so bad.

We've also had a few warmer than usual weeks this winter, and deer ticks have been out for a month now, if not longer.

I'm at the point where I'm probably going to have them on something year round.
Adobe Stock Plunges as Investors Grouse About Lack of AI Lift
I have to fight with this sentence since 2010. It is often overseen and startet in the public sector
The power performance area tradeoff is 4 E cores fit in the space of one P core. Some newer laptops use Intel 2P+8E or 2P+4E.
Most software is already as bad as this, though. And managers won't care (maybe even shouldn't?) if the execution fairly delivers.

Think of this as Facebook page vs. WordPress website vs. A full custom website. The best option is to have a full custom website. Next, is a cheaper option from someone who can put a few lines together. The worst option is a Facebook page that you can create yourself.

But the Facebook page also does the job. And for some businesses, it's fairly enough.
To this day I still dont know why WebSockets and SSE dont support sending headers on the initial request, such as Authorization. Leaving authentication on realtime services entirely up to whoever is implementing the service.

I may be wrong here and the spec suggests a good way to do it, but i've seen so many different approaches that at this point might as well say there's none.
Asbestos is a two-faced material.

On one hand, it really helped to reduce frequency of devastating fires in the late 19th and early 20th century. Many lives saved.

On the other hand, especially for people working with it, it is a harbinger of doom.
Studies on EMF Health Risks
Wait… you can undo an update on macs? (I don’t use macOS).
Does it apply to someone just releasing an open source app under an app store for free?
> “For too long, polluters have been allowed to make, use and release toxics like asbestos and PFAS without regard for our health"

Criticizing politican-speak about science is almost pointless, but this is a ridiculous conflation of two wildly different things: asbestos, which is a specific mineral, and for which the link to lung cancer in humans is indisputable; and "PFAS", which is a hazy conglomeration of things for which the scientific link to harm is weak, and mostly based on animal studies or bad observational data.
To me, that seems like Apple clearing out leftover inventory of machines they do no longer sell themselves.
The outcome would be much better if the law explicitly stated that the initial cookie banner must have a "Necessary cookies only" opt-out one-click option. And that this option means truly necessary, not the Internet Explorer is needed by the operating system 'necessary'.
But they lick each other.
Disability accommodations tend to also strongly benefit everyone else. I know this isn't a code thing, but the most useful one I can think of is curb cuts.

All of this affects all of us.
While I agree there is not evidence of a weapon, I am not buying hypochondria. The amount of reports and the peculiarity of the hearing symptoms don't add up to hypochondria. Local environmental pathogens or chemicals could be a cause. Also, our ability to detect such pathogens or brain abnormalities is still very limited, so finding no abnormalities is not surprising.
Society is simply revisiting a conversation about doctored photographs, videos, and audio recordings.

The last word on this subject was not written in the 1920s, it's good to revisit old assumptions every century or so, when new forms of media and media manipulation become developed.

The first pass on it is unlikely to be the best, or even the last one.
How to turn a pit of misery and doom into an exciting challenge that
makes you want to jump out of bed each morning?

Talk to your bosses.

Explain the situation (as above is perfect - keep it short and sweet)

Suggest that if you leave they won't find a better replacement because
the problem is structural. And that if you stay you'll probably burn
out soon and that won't help anyone.

Ergo: the project is doomed every which way.

Except for one hope:

Ask permission to rebuild it from the ground up using modern tools and software
engineering. Ask for one or two additional helpers to build a small team
to do:

Full system analysis of what it's supposed to be doing

Requirements finding to identify what needs removing or updating

Building a POC replacement alongside the legacy

Implement using all the fun things, including AI assisted code translation

From this system's POV you're probably the last hope. If they say no
then;

You tried

You can quit with a clean conscience and escaped a slow miserable death
I don't know if the ticks would consume the drug on clothing. It is meant to be consumed in a blood meal. That said, it is largely well tolerated in dogs and cats.
WriteFastAI
Have been super useful for me to reply on Twitter/LinkedIn. And in my day job responding to technical support queries. I usually draft a basic response and then turn to this tool to make it sound more polished and friendly for the user.
Thanks a lot for these! As someone who grew up watching How It's Made, I found it surprisingly difficult to scratch the same itch since.
You can get around that limit using domain sharding, although it feels a bit hacky.
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38407851
Can you point me where he actually promoted that theory? Or is it just some meme?
spoiler

Also, "The Dark Forest" could've been shortened to a chapter if Ye Wenjie could have been bothered to just tell Luo Ji what she meant, saving a couple hundred years, hundreds of trillions of dollars, and untold human suffering in wasted efforts.
This is great. Really well-thought out policy, in my opinion. Sure, some people will try to get around the restrictions, especially nefarious actors, but the more popular the channel, the faster they'll get caught. It also doesn't try to distinguish between regular special effects and AI-generated special effects, which is wise.
You can replace greater fool theory with any sort of investment strategy and your sentence is still very valid. The key is to just not over leverage yourself where you will get burned with one strategy. Never invest with money you can't afford to lose.
Behold! The Twenty-First Century Trabant !
Another cool tool for this is: https://kanboard.org/
Though not if they're impoverished and miserable, so if an extra 8 billion suddenly appeared in random places by magic I tend to think that would be a bad thing.
Without enforceability it'll go the same way as it has on Pixiv, the good actors will properly label their AI utilizing work, while the bad actors will continue to lie to try to maximize their audience until they get caught, then rinse and repeat. Kind of like crypto-scammers.

For context, Pixiv had to deal with a massive wave of AI content being dumped onto the site by wannabe artists basically right as the initial diffusion models became accessible. They responded by making 'AI-generated' a checkbox to go with the options to mark NSFW and adding an option for users to disable AI-generated content from being recommended to them. Then, after an incident of someone using their Patreon style service to pretend to be a popular artist, selling commissions generated by AI to copy the artist's style, they banned AI-generated content from being offered through that service.
I think by hard sci fi people mean that faster than light travel doesn't exist (aka the warp, tacheon drives, space folding, etc. etc.). I agree on it mostly being fantasy (and reading it just this year you can see it was written when string theory was hot)
Man, I don't get it. Was I the only one put off the video game portion of the story? It seemed so out of place and enough for me to go "rubbish" and toss the series aside