skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My MVP has a very poor quality UI, and I feel the pain for it. On the other hand, UX is OK and functionality is 100% what its typical persona expects for their business process. So, it works and customers are happy. My everyday wish is to give its UI a revamp, but I don't have the means to do it now.
Leftists don’t think we entered Vietnam or Korea for resources. And when I was a mainstream young liberal in the 1990s and early oughts, the complaint was about why we have “military bases around the world.” That wasn’t because we thought those were for extracting resources.
I didn't read that to mean a literal two minutes. Based on his style of writing that was quoted in the article and the nature of his mistake I don't think he's reporting an in-depth postmortem on the situation, although I didn't bother going to twitter to take a closer look. He probably didn't even realize his mistake within two minutes.
Oh right, another right wing campaign, now in HN. We have enough if it in our TVs.

The real issue is empty houses, landlords and investment companies. Hopefully all of them get all speculative properties with okupas.
IANAL, but it seems to me that this is meaningless, vague, non-enforceable legal dribble, probably designed as some kind of catch-all for internal purposes (indeed, it even says it’s for “operating or improving the Services or Software”). Obviously Adobe would still be subject to copyright infringement laws if they were to ever actually use a client’s work for profit. This TOS does not exempt a corporation from an entire class of laws designed to protect copyright holders.
Publishing a book is selling your work to someone who effectively uses a shitty photocopier to sell lots of copies to lots of consumers (I'm aware that publishers can, in an ideal world, provide access to quality editors whose involvement improves the work, but I think my point still stands). Or, in a minority of cases, releasing work for free.

But in both cases, the writer is actively inviting people to consume what they have made. Those people will plagiarise to a greater or lesser extent on a large spectrum from drawing personal inspiration on a subconscious level to AI powered supercharged fraud.

I believe the grandparent comment is saying that an expectation of privacy and freedom from plagiarism is incompatible with the act of publishing, be it through traditional third parties (publishing houses) or modern ones (social media).

I would tend to agree. Publishing is primarily a commercial action.
I guess it's time to amend contracts so that Big Tech Bro has rights to everything, no matter what
> I don't think the market for ecologists in the private sector is super hot right now.

You might be surprised to know that there's a fairly big environmental consulting sector. It's serious stuff. Multi billion dollar construction projects can be derailed by the discovery of e.g. a particular kind of unique beetle.

I don't know what it's like in the US, but I have met some people in the sector in Australia and they do real work, they're ok with it, they do it with integrity - nobody gets asked to "bury" things.

Of course, they DO get asked by their customers what the absolutely cheapest possible way to (legally) solve their problems might be :)
> a memecoin coded using the artificial intelligence chatbot has already found success within the crypto space.

So you can still offer any random shitcoin and make money with it. Seriously, I've got the wrong job.
An example of Tokyo can be found here:

https://loom.cs.uni-freiburg.de/global#subway-lightrail/octi...

Schematization took around 2 minutes according to the statistics, it really doesn't look that bad.
My condolences, but it is in fact entirely normal in a modern market economy that you don't get offered a minimum-responsibility cushy sinecure for life.

https://www.betonit.ai/p/tenure-is-a-total-scam
Fundamentally, almost nothing is a store of money - not crypto, not fiat, not gold. Only a bunker full of canned food can actually store actual value. The rest is just an IOU from future people.
If I'm at all worried about having accidentally committed secrets in the past, I usually create a new repo for the public release with a fresh git init.
For anybody switching from Photoshop to GIMP, there are tons of different resources to help. There are books[1], video courses[2] (especially on Udemy), blogs, and just about anything else you can imagine. GIMP isn't a full replacement, but I do know several people who have made the switch.

I bought "The Book of GIMP: A Complete Guide to Nearly Everything" and I didn't personally like it, but many people do.

[1]: https://www.gimp.org/books/

[2]: https://www.udemy.com/courses/search/?src=ukw&q=gimp
Pretty sure we can´t divide Mississippi by zero
For context: The author was 19 years old when he graduated from Columbia University in 2021. He's about 22 now.
Recognizing Stagnation
Thanks, missed that about the searchable catalog. Here's to hoping there will be some Rekordbox integration in the future so one doesn't have to manually search through 100s of tracks and instead can just get a checkbox in the UI.

> TL;DR Email them about the tracks you want added (and pray, probably).

I think that part is about labels/rights holders wanting to add tracks to the catalog from their side, not for DJs to request tracks to be added. But maybe I read that wrong, worth a try at least.

Thanks :)
Have you tried Photomator from the Pixelmator folks?
"Heroism doesn't scale"

You can pretty much replace Heroism with Leadership or whatever.

Question is do we really need it to scale?

Corporatism thrived off the back of the industrial revolution. It is not bad, it just has taken us as far as it can go.

Something more decentralised and organic should take place instead of corporatism for large scale human development and space exploration.
THIS. And the moment that the client expresses reservations about this strategy (which your approach to the subject was trying to elicit), you start talking about the alternatives to continued use of Adobe.
The AI generation of software seems to be turning into the largest erosion of privacy ever.

It's all fun and games until a malevolent political party decides it wants access to your Windows and Photoshop history.
Citing!! I find myself using models from smaller players like Qwen, Mistral, DBRX and Cohere about as much, combined, as openai. I wouldn't have expected that two years ago.
Work around ships and those rockets will seem very much smaller. Try walking under the hull of a tanker in drydock. While we call SpaceX rockets "big" by aerospace standards, they land on barges we call "small" by maritime standards.
Can I ask you to ask things more civilly please? HN is not a classless insult place like Reddit.

The EU regulation I'm referring to is this one, that's been trending on HN for many months now:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40560391 ("EU: Users who refuse scanning to be prevented from sharing photos and links (patrick-breyer.de)"; 4 days ago, 313 comments)
it's okay, I think the dark lord will understand. there really is no comparison among other creative suites and tools.
> The current systems are very far from reducing your work to a prompt. There are many problems that are unsolved, a lot of curation is necessary, and in the end the flaws in the details will still be visible. If that was good enough for your client, too bad, but they never needed your work to begin with.

Exactly. The current systems are very far from reducing your work to a prompt.

However, I'm sure the current state of these AI models isn't the end goal of those working on them. And therein lies the reason why they're continuously consuming more training data, including in this context, art scraped from social media sites like Instagram that artists have published there.

Most artists are concerned about what's to come, not what is here now. Even then, what is here now is already viable for commercial use, and is already being used as such (in ads, articles, illustration work). Somebody starting out from zero probably wouldn't bother looking at art as a job given the current state of the AI models and rate of progress, and many very talented artists (who are always developing) are probably concerned about being overtaken.

A commercial artist needs to publish their work online to get visibility. Of course that opens their work up to being plagiarised. They'd be open to plagiarism showing their work anywhere. Before, there was a natural defence to this, which entailed somebody being able to actually recreate the work to a similar or better standard (something that requires talent in its own way). Now the defensive barrier is much lower, and continually getting lower.

If somebody told me that writing a text prompt to paint a waterfall was as difficult as actually painting a waterfall, I'd think they're either delusional, or ignorant/spiteful towards creatives and their work/ability.

Some people come across very unsympathetic to those already affected by AI models. It will be interesting to see if these same people can cope in the same manner if/when AI models can replace years of their own learning and work, especially if it does so by training on their own work.

Others come across very naïve about where this is headed. Personally, I don't think we're heading for an AI driven utopia where nobody has to work and AI can do everything. More likely we're heading for many people losing their jobs, insufficient numbers of jobs to meet demand, and monopoly of power in the hand of even less people/organisations than today.
Ok, I get it, there is more metal, so the scrap value is higher. Makes sense.
> "Garcia told Local 10 News that she normally carries the bag on board with her, but on this occasion, Spirit Airlines employees forced her to check it."
Yes, standard is using a key management system (KMS), but there's a lot of nuance and complexity there. Depending on the threat model, you can use software systems, hardware systems, multiparty crypto systems, and you need to think through all kinds of failure modes very carefully (particularly around disaster recovery or insider attack scenarios.) A good place to start is cloud-based key management systems, because they take care of a lot of the complexity, but you still have to do it carefully (e.g., paper backups in a multiple safes, protecting the cloud resources correctly, 2FA on your account, etc.)

Protecting high-value cryptocurrencies is particularly hard, and as much as crypto people like to say "not your keys, not your coins", the reality is far more nuanced, and the average person is much better off using a well-known platform like Coinbase. Even hardware wallets are not as simple as people thing to use safely.

(If you're building cryptocurrency apps, never upload wallet private keys to cloud KMSs. Instead, generate wallet keys using the KMS itself, and use those wallets for small "in-transit" funds only. Think of them like bank branches, when you manually transfer small amounts of funds securely from a set of central wallets.)
>I’ve used Affinity Photo for nine years now, and my feeling is that the ways it is not like Photoshop likely would barely impact most Photoshop users.

Most professionals or most users who use Photoshop to crop and retouch some scratch in a photo?

>I know a good few photographers who have switched, and for my photography I find it is an actively better tool

Ah, photographers. Not the real heavy users of Photoshop though, despite the name of the product - it's graphic and print designers who need the fancy stuff. For most photography needs Capture One and others will also do.
How does this compare to Zapier?
From that article he died of cyanide poisoning and while he as doing an experiment with that it is likely "the experiment was a ruse to disguise suicide, a scenario Turing had apparently mentioned to a friend in the past."
Seems like this is a language change for their Ai work.
Highly recommended, very useful tool.
Well it is not actually review where you have a PR. It is more like you are guiding and reviewing a very fast typer in your decided order that in any simple cases handles it 99 percent of the time.
Yes, that's exactly what Instagram argued when they changed their TOS, too.

And now they're training AI on your images.

Never trust a corporation when it says "trust us".
Iirc much of learning a craft in some Asian countries, e.g. Japan, consists of just sitting quietly and observing the master at work.
Combining To-Do List and the Passage Of Time for resilient business workflows
I like the idea and wouldn't mind paying to use it. That doesn't seem possible without allowing scripts from Google, Facebook, and Youtube, though, and I'm not interested in doing that. I don't need fancy video or graphics even; just a personalized training plan would be worth money.
Somehow it was uBlock. Disabled it and the game starts just fine!
> In the process of creating and using it, I have discovered many interesting compilation-time and run-time facts about various software I use, stuff I see written about nowhere.

Doesn't the LFS documentation serve as an entry point for most of this stuff?
Because PSUs (sadly) don't have a simple interface that transmits to your OS.
If anyone is looking for alternatives, I've been using Vanilla for a while and have ben happy with it.
https://matthewpalmer.net/vanilla/
Handlebars [video]
At SpaceX we call it success
Most of the world money is purely numeric; only ~10% is printed in cash IIRC, so a worldwide EMP (outside of all its drastic consequences on the world) would wipe out much more value in fiat money than in cryptocurrency.

And most of the gold owned in the world is not in someone's basement, but as a line in a database; so you can wave goodbye to that as well.
Lots of money to be made if you don't feel bad taking it from dumb people.
This is true, unless you build a low quality MVP and it does well.
It was never about "low quality" it had to be viable. That meant it did a thing better than the competition or current solution.

What it meant was that you were allowed to not have features, or required someone to guide a user when they first used it.

Also Viable is doing a lot of heavy lifting here.

Viable for a some internal tool is wildly different to a product released by a large company.
In this case, you tell them to either settle for $0 or you sue for breach of contract.
> Every post i read with the title "My first experience with Linux" starts with a breaking and an unpleasant experience.

That's just selection bias - the 99.9% of people without issues don't have any reason to publish a rant.
That is not the same.

This is just "easier to compress text if we have a humungous DB to reference from". Drawing digits out of mathematical sequences (like digits of pi or whatever) is a net loss since it will take more bits to point at the correct place than the input data to begin with, apart from the computational cost.
Denied is just the inverse of “granted” which is the standard way to say a tenure application was accepted
Exactly, the article is fluff.

One thing that perplexes me about this topic is that people don't just pull up a historical birth rate chart, find the bit not that long ago when fertility rates were around 4, and then ask "why was it 4 then?".

Followed by asking "how can we restore those things?".

I really doubt it was because any of the popular reasons trotted out whenever this topic comes up, which usually blame money, despite us having much more money now than in days past when birthrates were way higher.

I wonder why it's so hard for people just to say simple things like "it's because everyone carefully uses contraception now, and treats sex as a consumption good, because they want it but not its result - a scenario most of them treat as on par with catching malaria".

Funny world we live in
Artificial Intelligence Is the Crisis We Need
Well, the time frame to ship an mvp should be kept constant. Naturally, better tools enable more capable MVPs.

Just a couple of years ago, I would not have dreamt of creating an mvp with advanced Ai functionality. Now that's just another part of any mvp.
Agreed for a completely unconfigured emacs process. But the article mentions enabling word-wrap. (That's one possible point of confusion for some - he means a variable/mode/feature with the name of "word-wrap", not just a generic word wrapping behavior.) It seems that that feature still does the sensible thing up through version 30. And from what I can tell from the mailing list, word-wrap-whitespace is an enhancement of the default word-wrap behavior that allows you to define your own whitespace chars to trigger a wrap.

But from an outsider's perspective, I see how not having ANY whitespace-based word wrapping behavior enabled by default would be off-putting.
Does anyone actually use Stage Manager though? Probably a bias on my part but I don't know anyone who use it ever
Until recently it couldn't really compete for what people use Lightroom for aside from editing (because it didn't have photo management). They've added it since a few months now in version 3.x.
> Your competition is no longer non-software solutions. It's probably existing, but sub-optimal software. Which means if you're going to compete with it, your software needs to be significantly better.

This is the crux of this person’s argument, but it’s not a generally true statement.

If you are competing with existing software, then it’s true that you need to bring something new to the table: A new feature that people need, a lower price for core functionality, or a better experience. If you don’t have any differentiator, of course you’re going to fail.

However, you still need to find what that MVP is and ship that.

I think there is a real problem of people taking the old MVP advice too literally about shipping software when you’re still embarrassed by the quality. Recently there are numerous examples of companies shipping things that are so MVP that they’re either nearly unusable or missing actual key features that people need. The recent trend of AI hardware assistants is a prime example. The products are so MVP that they’re not even enjoyable to use and the promised killer features are missing. As a result, the reviews are terrible and people are noticing. Even if they can improve the product later, it’s going to be very difficult to recover from all of those initial negative impressions.
If career is replace by gigs, politics wouldn't go away, it would just shift to affecting your gigs.
Toyota, Mazda, Yamaha, Honda,and Suzuki caught cheating on certification tests
>insane that there are zero governments in the entire world that can uphold the basic principle of full bodily autonomy

If there is zero government you get gang rape etc so it's more a question of where you draw the line.
This is just a draft though, right? Not actual legislation. So while still worrying, I think your post was inaccurate - it may be the case in the future, if things go poorly. But it isn't the case right now.
Was murdered by his government 70 years ago*
Nothing sketchy about that per se, but the fraud element of the case centred around the allegation that autonomy didn't correctly account for the distinction between hardware and software sales when giving numbers to HP leading to an inflated (software based) multiple being used for the valuation at acquisition.

They were (allegedly) selling expensive disk drives for cost plus and telling investors they were making a software sale which obviously have very different growth characteristics as businesses.
Ideally, governments just enforce the collective will of the public. What can override that? For example, you cite this “principle of full bodily autonomy.” Is that a thing that exists? What’s your proof for it. It sounds like some religious concept, except for libertarians.
> they have long cancellation periods

This used to be. Now you only have to fulfill your first (long) period, and afterwards you can cancel any month.

If they change the terms during the first period, as you mention, you can cancel immediately.
It is a sad commentary on current trends that basic admin functionality is considered 'god mode' that is hidden with secret passphrases. Good grief. I absolutely hate that PCs are being made into cell phones.
The fact that that disclaimer is on the login page itself sounds really problematic.
it is in their interest to make the permissions in the TOS they grant themselves as broad as possible, since it's free to them (at least, they assume people don't care).

It's good that this is getting attention, because the change supposedly already have been put in since Feb 2024! It's only recently that the UI exposed it with the accept screen!

I say that the laws should be changed such that TOS cannot actually be changed from the time the contract was signed, unless a new commercial contract be signed for the new TOS.
Everyone always forgets about Acorn. :(

https://flyingmeat.com/acorn/
Does anyone have a reasonably feature complete alternative for Audition? I tried several paid and free ones, none seem to make it easy to work with multitrack audio in a non-destructive fashion.
> read some of the writings of @karrisaarinen at @linear. He speaks about the need to build with taste and quality when you are building in a mature market against incumbents.

This is true in mature markets. No one would give Linear a real shot if it was worse than Jira or the dozens of others like it. To get someone to take the product seriously, it needed to be really good on at least one key dimension and couldn't be terrible on others.

Analytics software is a mature market. Our differentiator at Definite[0] is that we give you a full data stack in one platform. You can't build that as a product in a few weeks. We ran MVP's where we manually built data stacks for customers, but our product took a year to get into an MVP state.

0 - https://www.definite.app/
> a rich internal experience

What does it even mean? You don't know what is going inside other people's head.
There are still massive markets that are chronically underserved by tech. The idea that 'software is eating the world' is done already is so far from true.
But but but Crypto will change the world?! And everyone should have their private wallet? And who cares about recovering your funds because everyone of us will be handling private data / secrets (like passwords or keys) perfectly, always!111

Cryptobros telling you never to use an exchange due to FTX and other examples, also its super easy to use...

What stupidity
There's a long-standing academic tradition of teaching researchers, and frankly that makes a lot of sense and is a really important part of scientific education.

Otherwise scientific education becomes like school teaching, and you end up learning that science is the things that your book says are true.

Rather, science is the living of body of knowledge based on experiment and logical thinking. It's a very subtle difference that I don't think can be taught if you're not an active researcher, it's not sufficient to state that in the abstract.
You cannot even work offline. Only solution is cracked version to working with Adobe on field without internet connection.
I'm not sure if it's the exact same thing Apple does. Apple is going to provide security updates for their phones for at least 5 years - https://www.securityweek.com/apple-says-iphones-will-get-sec...

As for the parts replacement, that's something what can't be done overnight and there is a big room for improvement.