skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I appreciate someone actually putting an argument for this, just so we can tease out what's wrong here.

Customer support is one place where I don't want to just "send information". I want to be able to "exert leverage". I want my communication to be able to impel the other actor to take action.

The thing with hn comments is that the guidelines are flexible, even things that violate the guidelines are a kind of communication and play into the dynamics of the site. The "feelings" of hn have impact (for good and ill but still important).
IMO, only in the sense that many languages feel like a modern C. The differences between C and the Zig code are much more than just syntax.
They keep confusing regular old customers with the stupid masochist enterprise customers they also sell to, forgetting that the experience of spending your own money on a poop sandwich is something entirely else than spending your bosses' money on one.
I would like to see this esport succeed, because I think the numerical skills they're showing off are very commercially useful, and getting more people interested in them would benefit us all.
And install door plugs (or not, as the case may be)
Half-OT: can I shard Llama3 and run it on multiple wasm processes?
There's a current AI bubble centered around LLMs. Eventually it will probably crater out, but the next wave will probably be built from derivative technologies (multi-modal transformers or their successor, whatever that might be)

I think its a precarious time to be in tech. Generally in the labor market, you want to become as much of a specialist as humanly possible. But inevitably, most software jobs will be outsourced or replaced by AI over time.

I think the ideal is to be a specialist in some intersection of technology that requires human oversight.

Like front-end engineer with experience with FDA regulated x,y,z. UI/UX engineer for automotive interfaces.

If you want to jump on the next "AI" wave, I personally would love to jump onto robotics, but there are way more qualified folks in that domain :)
Nope, sorry! The other American dream - that everyone who already owns a house in a decent-ish area automagically gets rich via skyrocketing home prices - takes precedence.
"David Ricardo [1772-1823] introduced the term 'rent' in economics. It means the payment to a factor of production in excess of what is required to keep that factor in its present use."

After additional economic theory development, "People are said to seek rents when they try to obtain benefits for themselves through the political arena."

"But why do economists use the term “rent” [for a market benefit that is being sought outside the market mechanism]? Unfortunately, there is no good reason."

[all] https://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/RentSeeking.html

Once those two terms are understandably conflated, and a commenter showed you their example of inheriting the right to some rental real estate, the terminological clarity in the discussion is more or less gone.
Uncanniness is mostly about misrecognition, bound to familar concepts. Something that is familiar to us will get processed lazily by our brains. We trust it in a certain sense. Things get uncanny when it is just at the tipping point of being a new thing that we understand as such and a familiar thing that we know. And because it is at a tipping point this can chaotically oscillate back and forth between familiar and unfamiliar within a short timespan. The resulting overlap of emotions feels "spookier" than a unfamiliar thing alone would feel.
I'm neither of those things and Windows 10 Enterprise is working fine for me. Many of us (for now) are still able to corral our OS.
The replies to this make it pretty clear that no “single” hard skill or really even set of hard skills will remain defensible indefinitely

Adding my own anecdote as an employer, I mainly hire engineers based on their demonstrated ability to efficiently identify practical solutions to problems, and to self manage the translation of those solutions into maintainable, production systems (tldr, ship shit that works and that others can work on with you, all in a reasonable timeframe)

That being said, I can tell you it is extremely hard to find an experienced cryptographer, and I expect that need to grow over the next several years (though it’s very niche and your options will certainly be limited, if lucrative)
I've always felt like H.264 hit a great sweet spot of complexity vs compression. Newer codecs compress better, but they're increasingly complex in a nonlinear way.
Not sure about realtime voiceover and not in emergency services myself but having an LLM fed the call audio to generate supplmentary summary of what was discussed could certainly be beneficial in situations where the operator needed clarity or there was a mistaken address or important detail that needed double-checking after the call.
i hope at least they embed in proper positions not awkward interruptions. also i hope it's not those 90 second ads. brainwash me quickly please
Not feasible outside the metro areas of only the biggest cities in the US. I can tell you're from one of those cities because you act as if most people have a choice. We don't.
If you can get these in a place with a high Asian population (SF Bay, Seattle, etc.) they are delicious. But they're hard to find.

There are other Asian cuisines with delicious wide noodles too, like Thai food's Pad see ew (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pad_see_ew) and Pad kee mao (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drunken_noodles). Highly recommended <yum emoji/>
There's a much more mundane read:

They invested a bunch of effort into a product the market loudly rejected.

They're now withdrawing the product while they figure out what they can salvage from the effort.

Key stakeholders may have a few ideas about how to proceed (ranging from "try again later" through "repurpose it" to "forget it"), but enterprises of Microsoft size make decisions very slowly so of course it's vague about what's next. Collectively, they almost certainly don't know!
If they're not careful, then the neural processor and even Pluton become a badge that the machine runs Copilot Windows, and new machines not meeting those requirements just run Windows.
People have been saying this every few years for decades. First it was RAD, project managers are going to take your job. Then it was outsourcing, India is going to take your job. Then it was wfh, some slacker anywhere in the world can take your job. Now it's AI, ChatGPT wants your job.

There's always a kernel of truth to things -- if you are counting on some bare minimum tech skill like knowing enough HTML to make a small biz web site, or coding carefully specified mocks into JavaScript, you're going to be vulnerable to these kinds of disruptions. But real software engineering is a lot more than that -- you need to be the bridge between people and problems and the technology that can solve them. When AI can do that on its own, we'll be out of a job but so will everyone else.
I'm a bit confused by the headline chosen for the submission (but the update doesn't do much to clarify).

The original is this:

Update on the Recall preview feature for Copilot+ PCs

> Recall will now shift from a preview experience broadly available for Copilot+ PCs on June 18, 2024, to a preview available first in the Windows Insider Program (WIP) in the coming weeks.

To be clear, it may be delayed for public release, but it is still shipping to Insiders (possibly on June 18, 2024 but in the coming weeks indicates later).

> With that in mind we are announcing updates that will go into effect before Recall (preview) ships to customers on June 18.

Further...

> ...we plan to make Recall (preview) available for all Copilot+ PCs coming soon.
Adding additional meta-data (like subtext to the raw text) is a good idea - however rewriting and automatically transforming behind the scenes is a fantastic way to create an even larger potential miscommunication gulf between two parties.

Even an individual extension or system that automatically transforms data into your desired content risks creating an artificially imposed echo chamber.
Google just fired the Python team, though that of course might also have political reasons. I don't think that Google or anyone else is prepared to use PyScript.

I would not either, given the attitude of Python core towards security and correctness.
Adobe just forced through a EULA update (for creative software tools) that was at least somewhat widely interpreted as practically granting Adobe ownership of the work product of their users and their stock is (/checks notes) up 14% today.
Show HN: SHAllenge – Compete to get the lowest hash
I've always had an appreciation for the properties of hashing. I especially like the concept of Proof of Work, so I tried to make a little competition out of it.
I really just wish groups would train a llama 3 model and have AI assisted answers pulled directly from source code. Like if this project made https://docs.effect.website and I could query it directly secretllama.com style.
HN's new AI makes angry commentators' comments sound calm.

Wonder how people here would like that.
It's not as stupid as you're making it out to be.

For almost all tech companies - hell, almost all companies in the modern world - customer abuse is a first-class strategy. Some push it further than others, some are more blatant than others. It's probably not about them being insanely out-of-touch with what people want, but about them miscalculating what people will tolerate. Microsoft seems to be willing to push things a little further because, why wouldn't they? They got people to install Vista, then 7, then 10, then 11, all increasingly abusive.
Annoying, but fair. Unlike almost every other ad supported service, YouTube has an easy and fairly cheap way to eliminate these ads.

So it’s really just a test of whether people hate ads or just want everything for free.
Way back in the days of video recorders, analog TV etc, I remember hearing talk of trying to detect ads on broadcast TV to either pause recording or maybe provide some sort of skip functionality on playback.

I think they did something looking at the horizontal sync signal. The was a clear discontinuity when the station switched from program to ad and back again.
And let's not forget - bands. Very versatile. They saved me during early COVID. But if I were - unwilling to gym it - I'd buy a few bands and use them for all sorts of push and pull exercises as well as mobility, stretching. Highly recommend.
Relevant link: https://www.wired.com/story/microsoft-windows-recall-privile...

TL;DR: Recall's DB can be accessed by any malicious app running with user-level privileges. =)
Whoa, so you have code running in AWS making use of your local hardware via what is called a reverse SSH tunnel? I will have to look into how that works, that's pretty powerful if so. I have a mac mini that I use for builds and deploys via FTP/SFTP and was going to look into setting up "messaging" via that pipeline to access local hardware compute through file messages lol, but reverse SSH tunnel sounds like it'll be way better for directly calling executables rather than needing to parse messages from files first.
404 on the article, pretty sure it's this one?

https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/11/24176006/solar-geoenginee...
Observation of Earth's rotation with quantum entanglement
If you're really concerned about your valuables, wear them under your shirt, like a passport and card holder against pickpockets. If you're worried about losing data on your devices it's an easily solved problem to start backups today. I've had luck travelling this way against theft.
Interestingly enough, Vanguard voted against the package originally in 2018, and Black Rock voted for it (according to nytimes https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/12/business/tesla-elon-musk-...)

Tesla’s second-largest shareholder, Vanguard, voted against the pay deal in 2018. BlackRock, the third largest, voted for it. Both declined to say how they were voting this time.
When I call my insurance company and their sound recognition is so sensitive that if I make any noise at all it starts over and says "i'm sorry I don't recognize that" and then it takes me 10 minutes to get someone on the call, all while I'm paying them $25 every day of the year (it will rise another 10% next year), and the call center is in another country so it's hard to understand them and the call quality is shit, it's not other things in my life.

It's a broken system to divert money to executives and shareholders (most of whom have done zero work for the company), resulting in shittier service and anger for all of us.

BTW, I don't abuse the representatives with cursing or name calling, but I can get upset and I do let them know it's not their fault.
This is only needed until the AI is good enough to totally replace the human customer service agents. And that probably isn't too far off. The AI won't care if the human on the phone is angry, since it doesn't have emotions.

There could be a silver lining. A big part of the reason that it's so hard to talk to a person when you call is that people are very expensive. If the AI is cheap enough, everyone will be able to speak to a "representative" without waiting on hold or navigating a menu. It can just answer immediately and say "how can I help you" and have a conversation. And if the AI is helpful enough, fewer callers will be angry, because their problem is being solved and they aren't spending hours on hold or being asked inane questions from a script.

Silver lining for everyone except those employed in call centers, of course.
> Does Microsoft think consumers are stupid masochists

Microsoft thinks their product has no agency (and they are mostly right, just not always)
So it will be either watch the ad, or wait until the ad is over.
I would think calm and casual support is probably the best way to deescalate.
I'll assume someone will figure out a transcoder plugin to mux the video and remove the ads on the local system in-stream, which if you've got a hardware gpu that can, why not?
It's a system microsoft designed that took regular screenshots of what was happening on the desktop, stored them in a sqlite database, and then allowed people to ask their "AI" questions that would take into account literally everything they user has ever done on their computer.

People pointed out that this would record things like people watching porn, typing in banking credentials, viewing bills, filing taxes, etc etc. The thread of having these sqlite database leaked, combined with the amount of malware and randomware already out there, made a lot of security folks get very very concerned.
> There are extremes on both sides

I agree with this. I may not 100% agree that the extremists on both sides are as extreme, but for the sake of argument I'll fully grant you this point.

My issue though, is that I don't feel that anyone can say with a straight face that the extremists on the left/liberal/Democratic side have has much influence and power with the party apparatus as on the right/conservative/Republican side. Sure, Alex Jones and his small faction of followers are about as extreme as it gets, but then I'd like to think you'd see Republican leaders up and down denouncing him and distancing themselves from him. Instead I see influential figures on the right like Steve Bannon, former chief strategist in the White House, defend him:

> Republican strategist Steve Bannon suggested Jones and his supporters surround the building, requiring anyone attempting to kick him out to “come through a chain of patriots.” - https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/2024/06/06/...

The reason I can't stomach "the other side" is not that they have insane grifter extremists like Jones. It's that so many other more folks on that side with real power somehow and for some reason defend Jones.
This is only the beginning of AI-centric offerings that were oversold and will be delayed or quietly abandoned.

LLMs are nice for simple things, but they’ve already reached their limits. No amount of data will solve the iteration and complexity problems.
Washing Machine Energy Estimations
If you want to reduce maintenance costs, yes. Javascript is a shitshow of constant breaking changes left and right, whether it is in your runtime framework, or your build system like gulp or more prominently webpack. Try maintaining 10 projects with these frameworks. You'll quickly look for something that is not as maintenance intensive.

No, you can't stay on Webpack version X, because (real example) it turned out that version of webpack relied on md5 which wouldn't work in newer node.js versions.
It's possible, however most people I knew in this scene mostly did longer usernames that represented the handle (mine included) that the person desired, mine was 7 characters in length that I requested. I don't remember many people asking for 3chars, however there was a lot of cracking, many of them had mind-blowing easy passwords that I did not even need a large password list to break into just a handcrafted one. I still have a list of 3 chars somewhere in my archive depot that I acquired, only 1 was contacted by the owner from a new account asking for their username back which I relinquished.
"you don't ask your manager what accommodations are available,"

"And you absolutely tell HR so that you avoid exactly what you are describing, of it becoming an informal thing that one manager has negotiated with you."

I didn't ask. I provided the document from the medical provider to HR. HR is the one who said to talk to my manager about accommodations because HR only handles stuff like "providing extra breaks or ergonomic equiptment".

"If you can't do the job, disability compensation comes in two forms - SSI, which is granted if you can not hold any job (after tons of paperwork), and disability insurance, which may or may not exist depending on your benefits package."

SSDI doesn't cover most autism. The disability insurance is only all short-term. Even "long-term" disability insurance typically ends (or can be terminated by your employer) after 1 year if you're not able to return.

I don't really want to contact an attorney, but if they put me on a PIP I guess I will then.
This is not a must have feature for me, but I am interested to see how it unfolds and I can definitely see it being useful in the future.

I do think they bungled the launch by not thinking through the security implications, and particularly how many sensitive threads this crosses.

That being said, they took a risk, it did not go over well, and they’re adjusting. I am sure I will get flamed, but I appreciate the approach.
If enough people do that, they will try counter measures.
> just strings of words.

How did every non-inherited national leader, both democratic and dictatorial, both Roosevelt and Stalin, manage to become leader in the first place? Convincing people with the right string of words.

How does every single religious leader on earth, big and small, from the Pope to Jim Jones, get that power? Convincing people with the right string of words.

What is a contract, what is source code, what is a law? The right string of words.

There is no "just" when it comes to words.

That why they are important to protect, it is why dictators are afraid of them, and it's why it matters that we don't treat a magic box spewing them out faster than a machine gun does bullets as harmless.
> The article feels like it was written by an MBA, not an engineer.

I'm trying to come up with a name to describe this style of writing. The key components are how hyper-confident the author is in The Future and how everyone who has even a day's more experience than the author is old fashioned and will certainly be roadkill this time next week.
> The U.S. military is prohibited from targeting Americans with propaganda, and Reuters found no evidence the Pentagon’s influence operation did so.

The US military should be banned from using propaganda in any form. We're not in a war. There's no justifiable reason to spend US tax payer dollars to actively lie to the rest of the world.

What a shameful and tawdry use of our institutions.
There was an ad-skipping feature of early DVRs that reacted to a sudden increase of volume. Yup, TV stations would broadcast the ads louder than the shows.
Idk what you mean by the link, or the 
, or what you don't know anymore, or what we can decide in this matter, or really what the matter at hand is, at all.

Focusing on the article:

Is there something I missed? Or did I get it right after reading 2x, and it really is just a random blog from 2 years ago advocating for bigcos to reduce headcount? If so, is that related in any way to Vercel cutting their sponsorship program for hosting for open source projects?
As a former two-year old who underwent a manual version of this process, I recommend it.
It is for sure the most widely utilized functional coding environment on the planet.
Can still be beat with SponsorBlock I suppose, but someone will have to submit the segments to skip first.
I really like the point about getting AI to ask you questions.

The focus in the AI tutor world is basically a chatbot to ask questions of. But if you're trying to learn something, it's really helpful to have targeted questions asked of you!
Our Linux devops engineer, who had not used Sentry before, set up a self-hosted Sentry in a day.
Oof this looks awful and I pity anyone who started projects on this. It’s so far removed from regular JavaScript you should have just written your own language. If/when this project goes under, whole codebases need to be binned.
Does sponsorblock block these?

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sponsorblock/
I think there is a more interesting (and longer scale) trend that is less talked about, that the last couple solar cycles have been overall less intense (less activity/spots at the maximums)-

http://solen.info/solar/images/comparison_recent_cycles.png

I wish that chart went further back to see if there is a greater cycle at play. At a glance it looks like this cycle is a slight rebound over the last.
It absolutely is. You have not seen the evacuation slides in person, they are NOT the fun water slides that you have in amusement parks.

You probably will lose grip on the backpack if you just carry it in your hands. And if you have straps behind your back, it's even worse because you can get tangled and delay others' evacuation.
No need for personal attacks. I still stand by my opinion. Without a project template, you would be in the dark to set up a project. .sln files and .proj files are arcane and I might be dumb for not being able to create these by hand but I think most people would agree it is arcane hidden XML and a pain.

I need to reorganize the generated project template because it's not actually up to common standards of what a project directory should look like. As a newbie I would never know that I need to find David Fowler's gist[0] to have a project that makes sense.

Good luck trying to change the default .bin folder without aid from a third party's script or Visual Studio.

It's not obvious how to create a project settings JSON file. There are entire paid video workshops for this task alone. This kind of code should be pre-generated in the template.

This is all stuff that should be handled before a user even touches the environment.

[0]https://gist.github.com/davidfowl/ed7564297c61fe9ab814
I expect it to emerge as an accessibility feature for cognitive memory loss. Imagine not remembering the name of your email client or the color of its icon, but Siri With Screenshots can pull up an important email thread.
Google Cloud Run also has PR previews

Fly.io has a GitHub action to make it pretty easy
I use my mac mini exactly as described by the parent post but using ollama as the server. Super easy setup and obv chatgpt can guide you through it