skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Below is a video of a simple CAD project. See if you can do it in your head. I think my spatial reasoning is decent, but I needed to learn how to visualize objects to help me reason about, e.g., what a specific extrusion would result in. If you find it easy, then great!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muq7YUH8tao
That only covers for profit software.
Reminds me of that old tale about a lady whose phone would not ring, and her dog would bark before the phone rang.
In theory, yes.

In practice, OpenCL became a giant mess. Some vendors put speed bumps by not supporting the transition from 2 to 3, or having shitty drivers for it.

It also sat at the wrong level of abstraction for high performance compute, which is why CUDA ended up being used.

Vulkan would have been reasonable to write compute shaders in, if there wasn't a ton of alternatives out there already now
No silver bullet was published 1986 advocating for incremental software development. Feedback cycles in development were always a target for optimization, but often had technological roadblocks.
> Apparently they encrypted customer passwords instead of one-way hashing [1].

Pretty incredible, I use one way hashing for my own sites and I don't even have customers, just a couple of accounts I use when I want to demo something.
> My thesis is not a forecast but an argument about what is possible: AI, if used well, can assist with restoring the middle-skill, middle-class heart of the US labor market that has been hollowed out by automation and globalization.

> The unique opportunity that AI offers humanity is to push back against the process started by computerization

Yes. More automation and computers will clearly solve the problems created by automation and computers.

I can't find where he probably says something like "outsourcing of these jobs will also improve middle class outcomes" but I assume it's in there through some kind of weasel-wording.
I’m definitely in agreement that GAD results from awareness but in the case of doomerism (maybe a bit reductionist), I’d like to also argue it stems from a lack of awareness. Why be afraid of a future you cannot control just because you and everyone you know dies in it? This has been the hand dealt to many groups of people in human history, and they all lived it. This time might be the worst but for us as individuals it’s all the same.

Unless we want to genuinely enact change then just breathe. Enjoy your life and don’t be afraid of the things you’re aware of. Take strength in the billions of humans that have gone through the same thing, having their lives cut so short. It’ll happen, and then it’ll be over (:
https://github.com/tg12/sentiment-sleuth
I brought this up in an earlier thread and got heavily downvoted. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39878227
You’re saying that you didn’t understand that place was badly managed until you experienced good management elsewhere? I can see that as a young employee. I have trouble believing you had no motivation to be a kind coworker after being mistreated, though, since their behavior repulsed you. Thanks for sharing in any case. 90s computer repair shops were a bit Wild West!
I also don't have a dedicated key, I share it with Alt. I use it when I write SQL sometimes, or other miscellaneous reasons.
I imagine the U.S. Intelligence Community played a large role in preventing 9/11 style terrorism in the last 23 years. I sometimes worry about some of their actions, or rumors of their actions. I do think their north star is in the countries' best interest.

Edit: 12 -> 23 years. Wow it's been a long time.
I think I answered my own question. According to https://bun.sh/guides/ecosystem/nextjs Bun does not yet support NextJS.
do you pay equity or just the cash?
Lead in drinking water is still a problem in the U.S. – especially in Chicago
That is a problem for next quarter, not this one.
> they aren't all colluding

The world is mostly inhabited by people who work for a living but mostly run by people who own things for a living.

These two sources of income (or capital gains -- heaven forbid we tax our rich like we tax our plebs) lead to highly distinct and often directly opposed objective functions. The extent to which this leads to a self-serving policy spiral for the rich is a function of the degree to which the inhabited-by/run-by distinction is true: with a steep enough wealth distribution, yeah, it's fair for people at the bottom to say that people at the top actually are all colluding.

The self-serving policy spiral doesn't look like "Lidl hikes prices and Tesco doesn't, so you can just shop at Tesco," it looks like "merger approved between Lidl and Tesco, now listen to the surviving PR department tell you how this will surely save you money."
In most modern health care settings, yes.
I also found them easily recognizable due to the random artifacts.

My favorites are the nonsense ones that kinda look like other elements in the art but have no connection to reality regardless of how abstract or impressionistic it's supposed to be.

A couple of these containing buildings had things that looked like roofs, awnings, doors, etc. in the middle of a lake or jutting out from a wall or obscuring another feature just like it.
> Delivering precise exceptions that the operating system can resume from would be a ludicrous waste of precious logic. Instead, programmers should be honest about the storage their programs need, and get good at their job.

ah the days of yore
That's true for every floating point number in every programming language you have ever used, though.

$ python3
Python 3.10.13 (main, Aug 24 2023, 12:59:26) [GCC 12.2.0] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> 100000.000000000017
100000.00000000001
> But it seems we agree that my highly generalized social construct wouldn't invalidate the biological factors at play

There are always biological factors at play, but this premise of "race" as applied by anyone ever is always basically mythological and not related to biological differences in a meaningful way that isn't (at the risk of sounding dismissive, for which I apologize up front) racist. Sickle cell is actually the perfect example of this. The people of Namibia and Angola look the same to me. They're even from neighboring countries. And yet their cultures are very different certainly, their languages are different, one has high sickle cell prevalence and the other does not... So are black people from Namibia and Angola the same race if they don't have that genetic variation in common? What about other genetic things they don't share? What about the genetic things they share with white Americans? Are a black person from Tamil Nadu, a black person from Ethiopia, a black person from Mali, and a black person from Papua New Guinea the same "race"? They don't look the same to me aside from having dark skin. Are my black neighbors the same race? They also don't look the same aside from having dark skin. Probably none of them are carriers of sickle cell trait. Is there something identifiable they all share that they don't also often share with white populations?
Based on what? All the evidence I see suggests there is no clear path to full autonomy. It's within the realm of possibility, but certainly not inevitable.
Nitrogen Fixation
That's an interesting take considering I read the old CDC brochures and docs, and wrote the article using the equivalent modern terms.

For example, what their training manual calls "third-order conflicts" are called WAR (write-after-read) hazards today. "first-order conflicts" mean either a functional unit is busy or a RAW hazard.

I hope people in the future will not default to assuming everything is AI generated, and instead do due diligence by looking at the sources and what's written. I took a lot of care to understand the original docs and reframe it in modern terms, even though it's an April Fools joke.

But if no one cares maybe I should try using AI to generate stuff sometime.
Yeah...

So what? The image used is of just her face. We are all naked under our clothes, is it inappropriate to be naked under our clothes at work? You said it yourself, it was cropped, so as to remove the inappropriate nudity. Problem solved.

Your arguments are not very compelling.
People say the same thing about any new tech. Look at solar when it first came out.

Technology advances. Manufacturing costs go down, generally.
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But it's nice when your init knows when a service is ready and can start the other stuff that depends on that one… Otherwise you're in retry hell.
This is very well put, especially the point about certain people only start caring about federal debt right before elections.
One new job which I believe will be high paying and lot of people will be able to do, in the post-AI world => Content verification and moderation. With so many bots and fake content, I don't want to waste my time on low quality stuff. I want other humans to verify it, test it, validate it etc. and then only it should see my eyes. Those platforms which will employ this approach will have better content coming to timelines and will attract more users.
I admit that my gut reaction is that there's something fishy about selling notes about someone else's book, but thinking about it more, what's the harm?

There's nothing deceptive or sneaky about it. There's value in distilling information from a bloated book down to its useful ideas.

There are lots of books that are just existing ideas repackaged for a different audience. For example, Atomic Habits is basically a repackaged version of BJ Fogg's research papers. And people see value in that, so why isn't it okay to do that in a more 1:1 way?
There have been studies conducted on this phenomenon. Unions apparent weakening are also due to the way our economy has changed. Big production centres went through a phase of either decentralisation, or delocalisation. The former having for consequence that it's way harder to organise many smaller independent and geographically distributed locations than one big factory.
Grist has the ability to create forms that are automatically connected to their spreadsheets [1]. Though it doesn't seem like you can create sophisticated forms (with some logic in them for example) just yet.

I am thinking of moving my volunteer org away from Google forms towards Grist.

[1] https://support.getgrist.com/widget-form/
Sort of, but then philosophers have certainly discussed the topic of why would there be conscious experience if it didn't serve any function. It would be cruel irony if consciousness was a vestigial appendage of the cosmos, an unempowered observer. Not a proof of anything just something to think about.

For me, the real driving idea is that what we call physics is the aggregate behavior of conscious entities making choices, rather than being this framework that consciousness can "override" or worse, something that consciousness is forced to sit and observe. That idea simplifies a lot of the mysteries for me.
I'm not alleging collusion, I don't believe there is any active collusion at all. These things are possible through just incentives. E.g. consider a hypothetical streaming providor; compute is cheaper by the year, cost of owning your datacenter goes down by the year, your customer base grows by the year, the amount of money you return on investments like productions continues to pay out by the year, yet your shareholders expect you to raise prices by the year as well despite productivity increasing, customer reach widening, and your costs lowering. Imagine a CEO arguing they don't need to raise prices like the board wants in order to see a bump in the speculative markets on their investments, they'd just sack that CEO for someone who will.

That's just for the hypothetical streaming agency. When you add up all these little increases of just about every good and compare that to wage growth, you see that wages are stagnating relative to other metrics like cost of living or business/national productivity, in the US or the UK or just about anywhere with these sort of metrics available. You can raise minimum wages to fend of a total economic collapse every now and then but these increases find their way to these other hands reaching into your pocket before long as well. A constant sucking noise and a march to what, I'm not sure, but it won't be pretty I expect.
Traffic deaths rise in U.S. cities despite billions spent to make streets safer
> On both plots, the horizontal axis represents time. In the bottom image, the vertical axis represents frequency and pixel color represents intensity.

The author criticizes the Wikipedia article on the subject being too complex, and yet dives straight into the spectrogram of the audio signal as the first picture on the page! And the first equation is the complex exponential representation of the Fourier sum...

The Digital Signal Processing book of Proakis and Manolakis does a perfectly good job of explaining what DFT (and everything else around this matter) is. But there are no shortcuts around it; you still have to understand the Sampling Theorem (aliasing), Fourier series of continuous periodic signals, frequency-domain sampling of Fourier transforms, etc.

It took me a while to (somewhat) understand all the nuances of Fourier series and transforms of continuous and discrete signals. And the DFT is a whole layer of theory on top of that. I don't imagine a simple explanation of that begin feasible. However, a more readable or coherent explanation is, of course, always possible.
That is unfortunate. Does anybody know what options are open after the main acceptance window?
How many people hire education consultants these days, especially for the competitive schools? And at what age? College applications seem like an arms race that is quite unhealthy for the mental health of students or their parents.
Scope fine print details are still being negotiated.

Second HN story from the link above, Dec 2023, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38787005

The Debian project has completed a general-resolution vote, adopting a statement expressing concern about the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) pending in the European Union.

Even if only "commercial activities" are in the scope of CRA, the Free Software community - and as a consequence, everybody - will lose a lot of small projects. CRA will force many small enterprises and most probably all self employed developers out of business because they simply cannot fulfill the requirements imposed by CRA. Debian and other Linux distributions depend on their work. If accepted as it is, CRA will undermine not only an established community but also a thriving market. CRA needs an exemption for small businesses and, at the very least, solo-entrepreneur.
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People aren't even 100% autonomous so I wouldn't exactly be holding my breath here. Personally, I don't expect the expect operators to just go away given how terrible even professionals are at asking for and specifying what they want. I'm not sure if it that would be called optimism or pessimism but specifying stuff properly to anyone or anything is hard, and AI won't spare you from the burden of clarifying your ideas any more than outsourcing did.
My recent version: I was playing a pinball game in an arcade. One particular ramp shot was registering earlier in the day and then stopped working.

Eventually I realized that the sensor is an optical beam, and the receiver happened to be in direct sunlight coming in through a window! So it was continuously receiving infrared and would never report the beam being blocked by a pinball. Sure enough, it started working again once the sun angle changed by a few more degrees.
thank God for the essential workers risking their lives for 6 bucks an hour. bless their hearts
Gabriel is a conjunction of gabri- (heroic man), and -el (god), roughly translating to "man of God". -el is just a generic proto-semitic word for god that long predates any sort of written language. gabri- is likely related to a well known Aramean king named Gabbār, documented in the Kilamuwa stela alongside his (honorable) god Ba'al SMD. It's entirely possible that there's some recursive etymology here though, as is common with dynastic names.
Reading that link, it seems like the vulnerability is that a file name gets printed, so you can add terminal control characters in a file name and have it printed.

https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/pull/1609#issuecomm...
> The entire bill seems predicated on nonsense masquerading as science.

Is this a cynical lie or just a reading comprehension fail? The bill isn't "predicated" on this comment. It's one comment that was made about the bill on the floor. Not the text of the bill. Not a comment by the author of the bill. Not a comment by a co-prime sponsor of the bill. Just one politician speaking in support of the bill.

The purpose of the bill is to ensure that consumers aren't unknowingly putting vaccines into their bodies. Do you think it is unreasonable to inform consumers about what they are putting into their bodies?
http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/cdc/cyber/books/DesignOfAComput...
I haven't really considered architecture, since from my decades of software dev, I have seen the term 'Architect' as more of a label for detached past engineers who want to justify their existence by setting out rules and strategies etc and who want to avoid hands-on work. I have a passion to solve interesting things, not write documents etc. Maybe I've been missing something.

I'll check those acronyms you mentioned earlier though. But I would really prefer to stick to Android development or as much application development as possible. Or maybe product management, tech lead, code reviewing...

I somehow hope that this AI phase is just a bubble that will burst and increase demand for senior specialized application developers again.

I actually don't mind less influx of junior developers or fortune seeking non-technical management. When my interest in software began decades ago, tech was cool and skill was highly valued. Today it feels like a race to the bottom with more low-code and hopefully temporarily less demand for problem solving and intelligent development. I think people really need to stop putting too high hopes on AI and start realizing AI is more of a tool than a complete replacement of a (senior) developer. Eventually reality will catch up...

Still, I haven't found what I have to do to get my freelance business up and running and architecture doesn't feel interesting enough. Cyber security seems like a lot to get into and I will not give up software development just yet. I don't want to get back to employment...
I was using shitty wifi provided by the hotel for free, and was a bit mystified as to what the fuss was about. Turns out they were fucking with the replies, because of course they were.

Trying again on a network thats well setup lets me actually see the proper replies.
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Decorators don't have to return functions. It's just nice to. The result of the call is bound to the name
Progressive social policies, better voter representation, and strong unions can restore middle class jobs.
AI art is made by humans. Everything an AI model produces is made by humans. Taking a great big dataset of art made by humans and producing a composite work using code written by humans, on hardware made and designed by humans, to a prompt decided by a human, it's humans all the way down.

At some point maybe we'll make an AI that can make it's own creative decisions for reasons other than a random seed.
Also people can come and immediately undo whatever you did if it's not authenticated.
This is great as long as you always make clear which value is pre post encoding. I remember one of my first production bugs was giving users 100 times the credit they actually bought. Oops.
This seems to be the author's main point:

"Recall that the advent of pre-AI computing made the expert judgment of professional decision-
makers more consequential and more valuable by speeding the task of acquiring and organizing
information. Simultaneously, computerization devalued and displaced the procedural expertise
that was the stock-in-trade of many middle-skill workers.
But imagine a technology that could invert this process: what would it look like? It would support and supplement judgment, thus enabling a larger set of non-elite workers to engage in high-stakes decision-making. It would simultaneously temper the monopoly power that doctors hold over medical care, lawyers over document production, software engineers over computer code, professors over undergraduate education, etc."

"Artificial Intelligence is this inversion technology. By providing decision support in the form of real-time guidance and guardrails, AI could enable a larger set of workers possessing complementary knowledge to perform some of the higher-stakes decision-making tasks currently arrogated to elite experts like doctors, lawyers, coders and educators. This would improve the quality of jobs for workers without college degrees, moderate earnings inequality, and — akin to what the Industrial Revolution did for consumer goods — lower the cost of key services such as healthcare, education and legal expertise."

"Moderate earnings inequality" means "fewer high-paying jobs", as someone pointed out in another comment. From where does the pressure come to raise incomes across the board?
That's what unions were for. In the US, the unions were crushed. The whole idea of paying people more than they are worth as an economic unit, a key goal of the union movement, is almost forgotten. Yet that's what this paper assumes will happen. Somehow.

This is "trickle-down" economics with an "AI" label pasted on it.

The author has better papers. His "Why are there still so many jobs" (2014) [1] is worth a read. He makes predictions one can now check.

[1] https://economics.mit.edu/sites/default/files/publications/w...
Not in all conditions. The devil really is in the details.

A truly 100% autonomous vehicle requires a much higher level of intelligence than a self driving vehicle with a driver able to take the wheel when necessary.

Take the case when some work is happening on the road and workers make signs with their hands to tell you to go this or that way. But on the same road there is also someone who is dressed up as a policeman cause it’s Halloween, and he’s waving at some friends.
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