skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a (non-serious) conspiracy theory that the reality of AI is exactly counter to what we think. Once AI takes hold, we will no longer see such extremes of income inequality.

With that being the case, there's efforts underway to stifle AI. It looks like big business hasn't been the quickest to adopt. It's been full steam ahead on things like self-driving cars, even though at times the level of safety has been exaggerated (at least in the early years).

P.S. This is probably a load of nonsense, as evidenced by the many people working on AI, and all the money going into it but it seems like business hasn't been the most enthusiastic. It's never because they truly care.

P.S.S I also don't know how that would work exactly, but I could see things looking different with everything working fine and "employees" now having free time. Not having money to give them, and time to think "hey, why does that guy get all the stuff while we starve, maybe we should find a way to fix".

There's also the reality that while proprietary AI models could be bad for workers, AI could also be bad for big business. Highly disruptive if this can't be controlled. It's not always material costs, sometimes the issue is just that you could never staff teams of engineers to work on problem. Or you have a staff of engineers and need artists... here it seems the artists could actually have the upper hand, which is nice to see :)
Turbo cancer is not a thing
Same. Applied to dozens of positions, and only got rejects. Not even a screening interview... Weirdest reject was when I applied to a position where I had 100% match with all the tech requirements (including niche ones), had relevant soft skills and had an industry experience. I highlited all of it in my cover letter, and still got a rejection.
Puritans are taking over.
This, but I would not be dismissive towards him. Let’s not say that entrepreneurs know how to take risk, and straight up admit that some entrepreneurs are often reckless. For me, it was because I was a cultural misfit in companies. So I didn’t have a choice and nothing to lose. Getting paid 1100€ per month for 3 years? I loved that. Compared to being bullied in a corporate.

So yes, some category of us tend to underthink things a tad too much, and sometimes tend to be in the right spot by chance. It’s not grit. It’s just because we didn’t have a choice.

So maybe he still has a profile of entrepreneurship even if he’s risk adverse. Just, another kind of entrepreneurship.

But for him, if he’s comfortable as an employee, please stay there. Entrepreneurship is romanticized quite a lot.
Depends maybe on your idea, but: why can't you start your idea part-time? Work on it evenings and weekends, or maybe drop your employment to 60% or 80%?

FWIW, I count as a failed entrepreneur. I had a hobby system that I worked on part-time, and had a couple of happy customers. I decided to go full-time with it. Turns out: most of the work you have to do has nothing to do with the product or your idea. It's networking, sales and marketing. If that's what you want to do, go for it. For me, nope, not my thing.

After making the decision, it did take me a few months to find the next normal job. I don't thing that was because of trying my own thing, but because I was in my late 40s at the time. Age discrimination in tech is real.
...unless we change our socio-political systems. A complex endeavour but worth remembering.
The article you linked is from 2017. 80% of Australia's solar was installed after that came out. Hard to argue that it's somehow responsible. Seems like your knowledge is a bit outdated.
This doesn’t sound like that new of an idea. I’ve read about the big 3 having various sub components assembled and brought into the final assembly factory decades ago.

On a smaller scale, I worked in a factory 20 years ago making some automotive components. Even for that part, there were parts they were made on the side, that were assembled, and those assembled parts were used as inputs to the main production line.

I can’t read the whole article (the archive link wasn’t working), so I’m not sure if I’m missing something, but this seems pretty normal, unless Tesla is taking it to a new extreme in some way.
I think this is your best piece yet, but it doesn't do what Ben does so well, which is describe how the aggregators' strategy might evolve. What do you think Google will do, for example, to preserve revenue in this changing landscape of losing ad eyeballs? What would you do if you were in the CEO seat at Google?
Yeah, I'll happily take GUIs written in a fairly fast and memory efficient language that are using a full GUI toolkit. It beats Electron, Python, Java or Go programs any day.
This is basically already how it is.

This is also why nobody ever wants to cut the DoD budget, it's basically the backbone of American manufacturing for everything. All the stuff our company makes for the military needs to be US made, despite us being able to get the same stuff from China for 1/10 the cost.

It's also a kick-your-door-down-and-go-prison offense if you try and skirt this. My company knows that first hand (unintentional, but the DoD doesn't care)
> I'm not saying it can't be done. I'm saying it hasn't been done yet.

So, what point are you making then? That because it hasn't been done it shouldn't be done?

In any case, there's a perfectly fine explanation about why it hasn't been done: people largely can burn cheap fossil fuels and not have to pay for the negative externalities that imposes on the world.
Where have you been living for the last 30 years? Most major tech companies have similar policies, for better or worse.
Not all. The need for a placebo control is weighed against ethics and whether a placebo is even realistic.

Chemotherapy drug trials often just use standard treatments as a control group. They’re likely using placebo here because there’s no other drug in its class yet. Normally emergency life or death trials don’t have placebos unless the treatment is the first of its kind.
The consequences of running out of money are real.
The US could have required stock in Intel instead of taking nothing: Intel gets money, US gets influence over Intel. Just like it works everywhere else.
> All of these companies have shown repeatedly that they will cut off your access with no notice for any or no reason and with no recourse.

The average user isn't aware of this. This kind of stories usually do not emerge in mainstream, or user-exclusive spaces.
> People don't have to "do their part" when they benefit from a subsidy (like vote for a specific party because they subsidized the price of gas), and usually neither do companies.

This is typically false, usually the subsidies are in the form of tax credits that are only awarded once you perform the desired action, or at least have to be paid back if you fail to do so. They don’t just cut a check and wash their hands.

This is true for individuals as well as corporations. When you do your taxes this year, take a look at credits like the renewable energy credit. You have to actually purchase insulation or solar panels to be eligible for the credit.
I got my Commercial Driver's License and am going to start driving a Semi-Truck. I aged out of the Silicon Valley crowd years ago, even though I still have technical chops.

Zed Shaw points out that coding is a "super power" that can be used outside the tech echochamber to great effect: https://learnpythonthehardway.org/python3/advice.html
I had a feeling like that ~6 years ago, took the plunge and failed (with the tiny startup idea that I had).

The only damage this might cause you is that you'd not be accumulating any new money (or there will be less of it, when working part time) during that time. Other than that, it has many more positives than negatives: you will appear as more of a "doer", someone who can think outside of you narrow tech area of work, and you'll also have a stories to tell of how you failed or succeeded. And if that itch is strong enough, you will take take more chances like that and will in those later attempts worry less as you'll know it'll be alright. :)

Just make sure how you will fund the time you are trying to start a business, discuss with people who need to be onboard with this, and also plan the date/time you will start entering the job market should things not work out.
Because every job that gets automated creates massive unemployment for those who were skilled in it

what do you think will happen to us devs if AI gets good enough to do our jobs? Do you think our companies will keep us around because we're just so darn smart?

What do you think is _already happening_ to in-house artists, content/technical writers, marketing analysts, and other jobs that are directly impacted by LLMs in their current form?
Yes, those are the the proximate causes. I'm worried about the effect these causes will induce going forward. With enough time, this expanded hypersensitivity will move out of TikTok and into wider culture permanently.
I once had an executive tell me I had been “out of the game an awfully long time” after 2 years doing something else.

This is an idiotic take.

Expect idiots.

But “irreparable damage” it isn’t.
Because people have other goals. Doing Turing-complete pattern matching may not be desired, or someone might want something even more powerful (…or just different) than this.
Yes, both things are reasonable, neither makes the other untrue.
It was the same in here. I needed to accept a job with over 1 hour commute; but hey it's a job.
You are only charged max once per day under the plan.
Not to pedestalize tech workers, but in my view we are still closer to say a carpenter, we accomplish things, make things, and the great ones also have an ethos, an aesthetic etc. as a bonus. Just like a great carpenter can also built a beautiful home.

The problem is the huge amount of people educated or nepo babied into positions with no actual foundation of "work", only fluffy business PDF's, design docs, leadership philosophy and endless workshop with no connection to the actual product, the actual user or the market, instead they float around in high society and write talk in endless streams of consciousness and do performance arts and rituals essentially.
How about "no"? Does "no" work for you, NIMBMs? It works for me.
If someone can cut down an entire forest then I say let them. What a fantastical technical achievement that would be.

If someone can melt an entire ice shelf then I say let them. What a fantastical technical achievement that would be.

If someone can frack an entire country then I say let them. What a fantastical technical achievement that would be.
> The pacific northwest had major issues when OSB met the concept of "air tight" housing. No airflow in/through walls leads to condensation, mold and collapse of many "engineered" wood products held together with glue.

These are not indicators that air tightness is bad, but rather that people don't understand building science. Washington state (for one) has mandated air tightness levels (§R402.4.1.3) and testing (§R402.4.1.2):

* https://sbcc.wa.gov/sites/default/files/2023-04/2021_WSEC_R_...

Air tight passive houses are built without issues in the US PNW:

* https://phnw.org

* https://hammerandhand.com/high-performance/passive-house-bui...

* https://asiri-designs.com/f/how-to-design-an-energy-efficien...

The province of BC is mandating near-passive house levels of air tightness:

* https://www.energyadvisor.pro/airtight-energy-advisor-contac...

* https://energystepcode.ca/how-it-works/

* PDF: https://www.bchousing.org/publications/Illustrated-Guide-Ach...

Build your structure according to how physics works and it will work just as well from the tropics (IECC Zone 1) to the arctic (IECC Zone 8):

* https://buildingscience.com/documents/insights/bsi-001-the-p...

* https://basc.pnnl.gov/images/iecc-climate-zone-map

Air tightness is coming to building codes everywhere, and if you can't make it work then you shouldn't be building because you are incompetent:

* https://www.iccsafe.org/building-safety-journal/bsj-technica...
You are unsure because you are making both a strawman argument and historical inaccuracy.

You don't go straight to gulags most of the time. Most of the time the officer screams at you and takes your books and notes your name.

I also don't claim that this is the same as being sent to a gulag. This is just suppression of speech and mind control.

It's going to be so much fun when those in power lose power to those they hate. Then they will be introduced to the value of privacy and freedom of speech.
If there's iron there, then there's the potential for Low-background Steel ...
"getting married and suddenly husband finds out wife is not that keen about having kids"

Yes, stuff like this. It seems many people avoid topics that could be uncomfortable, so rather smile and go along and hope for the best ... until reality hits them hard. And then some decide to do stupid scheming how to still have babies. And this is then a really bad foundation.
Query

AI domain generator

domains

1. AiGeniusHub.com

2. IntelliAiWave.com

3. AiMasteryNetwork.com

4. SmartAiForge.com

5. AiSavvyLab.com
C# enums are strictly worse: they’re C enums, meaning they’re no safer than integers, but they don’t tell you about that.

Go at least does not pretend it has anything like enums or sum types, and that is to its credit. You create a Go integer type, it’s flagrantly shit, but it’s not subtle about it.
This describes me as well. I’m almost to the point of grinding leetcode and learning react or some such front end. I have no AWS-esque type skills or anything scaling/web related.

My last pref. review I was told “you’re the guy we ask to solve problems 10x harder than the other devs. Anyone can patch a bug, we always ask you to figure out the things nobody else can.” Which unfortunately doesn’t translate well on a resume or in an interview.
Yeah, I should be clear that I don't use the word "monstrosity" to suggest that all AI-generated images are ugly, but rather that they're inherently, viscerally disgusting regardless of their visual appeal. No amount of progress in the visual quality of their output will change how I feel about it.
I mean. For a time, I couldn’t use discord for game parties cause 99% of the time, it was just man-children yelling n-bombs.

I can very much see why people might’ve wanted some clean up.
from my exp. hiring for ages, they interview lots of people, then it goes quiet - nothing comes of it.

6 months later you hear some nepotistic hire takes the position.

maybe companies prefer people they know rather than 1000s of applicants.

also a toxic culture of seeking perfection and a cargo culting attitude prevalent among many senior/lead engineers and managers. maybe justified, i dont know and i dont care anymore.
I get very poor results from this. I get much better results when I just use chatGPT directly with some custom prompt that asks for good domain names. Here is just one example

> trading investment prestigious innovative fund quant

< trendtrackersite.com

< buzzviralnetwork.com

< chatterwavehub.com

< trendsnetworking.com
Judging by the parent comment, the dark part is the fact that it might be fake pressure. As in - it's true that it will arrive tomorrow if you order within the next 2 hrs, but it will actually arrive tomorrow even if you take 4 hrs.
Do you have a resume?
My advice: if you're not applying for a crypto job, scrub all crypto terms from your resume. Most people aren't going to understand what it is beyond criminal activity (scams, drugs, money laundering), HR might think you're a liability. People who don't assume it's criminal activity will most likely be confused about why you applied to a non-crypto job and find it an irrelevant useless skill they don't want to pay a premium for. In the last year, public opinion on crypto has tanked, so there is incentive to pretend you were actually doing AI or anything else the whole time. Having a hole in your resume is a bad idea though. Most likely you can describe crypto work in non-crypto terms.
Laws only matter within a state. In the international realm, there is no common judge and no binding law. Nations exist in a state of nature.

In other words, ownership of the moon won't be determined by technical legal questions about Armstrong's flag, but rather by a stick-measuring contest among the interested nations.
Ontario school boards sue social media giants for $4.5B
continue to follow this thread. you might discover something new.

"there is a huge problem when we think or believe we know what is presented.", said by someone from /dev/null

Off topic.. I watch this documentary how American treated American's Japanese during WW2. The one fxxk1ng question remain in my head, "who's idea is concentration camp!!!??".. who from which organization which get American and German to setup these horrible places for WW2 people.

we know it all? really?
It's weird and paradoxical isn't it? I have no idea what this lady was writing, but smutty romance novels and horror novels with weird sex scenes have been sufficiently acceptable to "community standards" all over the US to have been available in grocery stores at least as early as the seventies. Not so frequently seen anymore, but that's a death-of-brick-and-mortar-and-print-media problem. You could leave one on your desk at work without a visit from HR (just don't leave it open to a spicy page or read aloud from it). But share similar material from your google drive? I don't know! I really don't.
I'm just impressed by how people are willing to, out of ignorance or... whatever, write things that obviously not true and then caricature other commentators as communists. I imagine this level of dialog exists on Fox News websites or something, but you should try harder here.
I may have mixed it up with “The Kingdom of God Is Within You”.

Some of the big ideas in there:

1. Nonviolence as a Principle: Tolstoy concludes that the core of Jesus’ teachings is nonviolent resistance to evil. This was a radical idea at the time, influencing figures like Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. later on.

2. Rejection of the State and All Violence: He argues that all forms of violence, including state-sanctioned violence (like police and military), are fundamentally opposed to Christian teachings.

3. Critique of the Church: Tolstoy is critical of the institutionalized church, asserting it has strayed far from Jesus’ original teachings. He believes the church supports violence and coercion, contrary to the principles of Christianity.

4. Personal Morality Over Legal Systems: He suggests that true Christian ethics are based on personal morality and conscience rather than legal systems or government decrees.

5. The Kingdom of God Is Within: Tolstoy interprets the Kingdom of God not as a physical location or afterlife promise, but as a state of being one can achieve by living in accordance with Jesus’ teachings.

6. Universal Love and Brotherhood: He emphasizes the idea of universal love and brotherhood, extending beyond one’s community or nation, challenging prevailing notions of nationalism and tribalism.

7. Civil Disobedience: Tolstoy advocates for civil disobedience as a means of opposing unjust laws and government actions, prefiguring many 20th-century movements for social change.

8. Simplicity and Asceticism: He also extols the virtues of a simple, ascetic lifestyle, free from the pursuit of wealth and material excess.
It's a little unsettling to see so many people argueing that mass corporate censorship is desirable, especially back in 2015.
At the risk of being out of topic, there is a more complete way to think about it.
What do you think will be the most painful in the long term: having tried, failed, and suffer the consequences, or having renounced, and regret it for the rest of your life? That second part can be awefuly costly for you own wellbeing.

I'm self employed for 10 years now (one startup, one limited company, then freelance - if that's sounds like a failure it's because it is a bit). 10 years ago i realized I couldn't live with the regret of staying employed. It did not turned out as I wanted to, but I'm better off as things are now that if I hadn't tried (in terms of mental health).
> Who gets to own the moon?

The United States of America currently owns the moon as they are the only country to put a flag into it.

(In case anyone can't detect the joke - theres a treaty from 1967 that says every nation hsa equal access to the moon)
Search engines manipulate results way less aggressively than LLMs do.
I've worked in startups and tech recruiting for startups and whether I was hiring, or hiring on behalf of someone else, I don't think I've ever heard of an entrepreneurial stint as a negative when considering employment history.

Often it's a huge plus as it tells you that the candidate has, at some point, had to think holistically about a business. Doesn't matter if it succeeded or failed so long as you can speak to the experience and the lessons learned.
It was less the users, and more hitpieces from censor-happy journalists.

Kind of forces your hand when journalists are digging up relatively obscure discord "servers" with edgy jokes and racism, or trying to get 'activist' discords they disagree with banned, or finding leaked military documents and framing them all as Discord's fault.
Or, presumably, Office 365 (does Office still have a pure-offline mode?). What's an aspirant writer of Naughty Literature to do? Or, as you say, really any writer who might at some point add a sex scene, which is fairly common.
I think like most jobs, it really depends on the thing you started and how it goes

At my previous company, we had a founder of a mobile app startup become a pretty high level PM because his startup gave him very real leadership experience he lacked at his large tech company job previously. But he also had a giant team he built under him, a real product, revenue, investors etc. All that he and his fantastic founder team made happen.

If companies see that, it shows that you can deliver and make things possible.

I have another friend who struck out on their own to be a “Marketing Consultant” and got zero clients, posted some pithy statuses on LinkedIn, and has nothing to show from it except a depleted savings account, and nobody on earth will call him back for job interviews.

It matters what you did, not whether you did it or not
That's reasonable, but a non-sequitur here surely. The author's account is not suspended, they have not lost data, and any heuristics were clearly correct in that they were publishing sexually explicit material.
Ha! Just got rejected from a process in the EU (not desperately looking) cause of a super nit picky coding challenge project. The project worked exactly to spec, I just overlooked the use of a third party package on a (Django) DB model to replace the "created_at" field.

Oh well! My 4 hours of coding was not totally a waste.
It sounds like you did not read the article.

It's not for phones.
> or other relationship of trust and confidence

It seems the SEC is going after him with the latter clause. His long time business contact gave him sensitive non-public information, and he should have known better than to trade on it, because it was so sensitive and who it came from, a long time relationship of trust and confidence.

FTA:

> We allege that Bechtolsheim, while serving as the chairman of a publicly traded company, abused the trust of a longtime business contact who had shared highly sensitive information about an imminent corporate acquisition," said SEC market abuse unit chief Joseph G Sansone.
When YouTube Gaming was doing livestreaming, people who posted in stream chats also risked having their entire accounts flagged.

In the EU, Google now offer the option of separating your Google accounts from each other (Gmail, YouTube, etc), but someone warned me that it broke a lot of stuff for their friends, so it sounds a little like the usual malicious compliance with regulators we're used to.

Has anyone in the EU actually taken Google up on the offer and split up their Google/Alphabet accounts, and did you live to tell the story?