skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We don't have to make these changes all at once. I agree doing so would be somewhat disruptive. We can roll back the aid over a period of say 5 or 10 years, giving workers (and companies) time to figure out what to do.

We don't need to give companies time to figure out what to do. We already know their solution, because it's the same playbook they've always used: change no business practices, and spend a fraction of that cost on lobbying (bribes) and propagandizing for the change to be reversed. A tiered rollout just gives them more runway to do this. And more time when workers suffer.

Instead of trying to predict what will happen based on your ivory tower economic theory, try predicting what will happen based on what has happened, i.e., reality.

Your opinion continues to be a horrifying, compassionless take: you openly admit it would "be somewhat disruptive", but the suffering of workers is a sacrifice you are willing to make for your pet ideology.

More to the point: why would we even want to give companies time to figure out what to do? They have had plenty of time to do the right thing and they chose to do the wrong thing. I'm not for punitive justice, but I'm also not particularly concerned if the solution to the problem harms those who knowingly and intentionally caused the problem.

> I agree it may not be tenable in a representative democracy, but my point is that means the democracy is too powerful and encroaches on fundamental liberty. Government should not have the power to redistribute assets in pursuit of the "general welfare", and indeed it did not until US v. Butler (1936) gave the government sweeping power to do basically anything.

Fundamental liberty applies to humans, not corporations. Corporations do not have fundamental rights, period. And just as fundamentally, when government does not limit the power of corporations, corporations step into the power void, gain too much power, and take away people's rights and liberties. Being for corporate liberty is being against human liberty, it's as simple as that.

Yes, I understand that the SCOTUS ruled that corporations are people: the SCOTUS is wrong.

Yes, I understand that corporations are made up of people. But the actions of corporations are chosen by a small, small fraction of those people, and benefit that same small fraction of people. That small fraction of people disproportionately get to exercise any rights that are granted to a corporation, often at the expense of many more people lower in the corporate pyramid. Granting freedoms to corporations is effectively the pigs in Animal Farm saying "you're all free, but some of you are freer than others" because you're granting those rights to the decision makers in the corporation and not to the workers.
What is real anyways?

Title is a little misleading: looks like some people see “real” as “no AI components at all” and others as “not generated by AI”. Some countries (like Norway) have required disclaimers whenever Photoshop was used - seems like similar thing.

> As PetaPixel reported last week, Meta seems to be applying the “Made with AI” label when photographers use tools such as Adobe’s Generative AI Fill to remove objects.
While Meta hasn’t clarified when it automatically applies the label, some photographers have sided with Meta’s approach, arguing that any use of AI tools should be disclosed.
Interesting way how to remove copyright from pictures.
Right, "struggles" implies bad performance when in reality it simply doesn't work. Windows' translation layer handles user code, but not kernel drivers.
I stand not corrected, but reminded to spend less time on Internet. My comment was entirely based on the parent and now yours and now this very comment in a chain are nothing but a waste of time which could have been better spent.
> the backend serves data, the client renders it

SSR does this as well. The server serves data (HTML), the client (web browser) renders it.
My step father and father died before I turned 15. I was an emotional train wreck, I never had a support system around me. I never had a chance to grieve in way to heal the pain. A tattoo was my attempt to heal. I also adapted work that my step father created and decided that would be my first.

My subsequent ones were in my travels, a replacement for souvenirs. I have tattoos from Antwerp, St. Louis, NYC and LA.

There is also a rush of adrenaline during the process and after that can be addicting.

If you have no interest, I highly recommend not getting one.
I have a https://www.birdie.design/en-us (I think it was previously called a Canary) mounted in my living room, and it's a great lil device! Overly dramatic, fun, and easy to know whether air quality is good or bad - would recommend!
That 40% off is a bit misleading, more like 10% off, as you've been able to get them for ~$165 on Amazon forever.
It seems like these and other restrictions would be a natural partisan issue for whichever party to adopt.

Think a lot of younger people feel that the government is treating them like infants with their recent forays into social media regulation. I’m surprised the Republicans don’t view this as a chance to pick up votes.
That's the thing I always wonder about these things.

It's fun and easy to provide visibility into whoever called out an issue early when it does go on to cause a big failure. It gives a nice smug feeling to whoever called it out internally, the reporters who report it, and the readers in the general public who read the resulting story.

The actual important thing that we hardly ever get much visibility into is - how many potential failures were called out by how many people how many times. How many of those things went on to cause a big, or even small, failure, and how many were nothingburgers in the end. Without that, it's hard to say whether leaders were appropriately downplaying "chicken little" warnings to satisfy a market or political need, and got caught by one actually being a big deal, or whether they really did recklessly ignore a called-out legitimate risk. It's easy to say you should take everything seriously and over-analyze everything, but at some point you have to make a move, or you lose. You don't get nearly as much second-guessing when you spend too much time analyzing phantom risks and end up losing to your competitors.
I am truly distressed and angry that Mozilla is doing this. It feels like a final betrayal.
I think it is inextricably linked in the boomer mind to “success” and “honor”. Likely growing up in the 50s and 60s where their parents felt pride in suburban home ownership.

Among young people, I do not see anywhere near the obsession with manicured lawns (in general, obviously).

Whenever I see someone out spraying dandelions with a cancer causing chemical, it is always a white haired person.
I tried LangChain a while ago for a RAG project. I liked how I could just plug into different vector stores to try them out. But I didn't understand the need for the abstractions around the API calls. It's not that hard to just call these APIs directly and its not that hard to create whatever prompt you'd like.
I imagine they still have the physical books and just stopped sharing the scans.

Not a big loss IMO - they should have ever embraced DRM in the first place.
It's also worth noting how the o-ring story was made public. There is the famous testimony by Richard Feynman[0], but the secret was that astronaut/commissioner Sally Ride leaked the story to another commissioner, who then suggested it to Feynman over dinner[1].

Neither Ride nor Kutyna could risk exposing the information themselves, but no would could question or impeach Feynman.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raMmRKGkGD4

[1] https://lithub.com/how-legendary-physicist-richard-feynman-h...
Canada's consumer watchdog has ideas about how to crack down on greenwashing
You don’t, but people do. And even if they “shouldn’t,” the cost of contracting HIV—which very few people set out intending to do—adds up to an eyewatering sum over a lifetime, no matter who’s paying for it. Not to mention rendering someone, often young, dependent on heavy drugs to stay alive. Forever. Assuming the drugs remain effective.

What other risky lifestyle decisions do we advocate to punish that severely? Especially when the technology exists to ameliorate the risk?

Wouldn’t it be cool if simulated guns were as fun as real ones? Then your hypothetical person could get drunk and shoot guns all they want, and there’s no problem anymore! So what’s the virtue in leaving the real loaded gun lying around to test their willpower?
Can't we apply the same logic to the current Starliner situation. There's no way it should have launched, but someone brow beat others into saying it was an acceptable risk with the known issues to go ahead with the launch. Okay, so the launch was successful, but other issues that were known and suspect then caused problems after launch to the point they are not positive it can return. So, should it have launched? Luckily, at least to this point, nobody has been hurt/killed, and the vehicle is somewhat still intact.
I once had a financial bin packing problem at a previous company. Rather than going down a dynamic programming route which was highly exponential, we decided to use a combination of monte-carlo simulation and a very basic genetic algorithm to try and find a solution. This made use of the fact that we could try solutions extremely quickly, and also timebound the overall time taken (something that was important as we had a limited time window). We'd still be able to run 1-2e6 different approaches in under a second.

Although we couldn't guarentee the "best" approach possible we generally came up with something good enough, often in many orders of magnitude less time.

A good example of the performance improvements you can make when you move from thinking of what the best solution is to what a "good enough" one is.
Such a timesaver. The scissors, old newspaper and glue thing is so tiring.
How would "dealing" look like?

Russian Federation still maintains freedom of travel with most of ex-Soviet republics. Good luck entering Britain without visa being a former colonial subject.
Having ended up with a critical bug in the SAT solver I wrote for my undergrad thesis, it really can be a challenge to fix without clear logs. So, always nice to see a little love for contribution through issues and finding minimal ways to reproduce edge cases.

While we do mention how good issue contributions are significant and meaningful, we often forget how there's often more to it than an initial filing, and may overlook the contributions from those that join lengthier issue threads later.

(Oh, and yes, that critical bug did impact the undergrad thesis, but it could be worked around, however meant I couldn't show the full benefits of the solver.)
Why do people persecute city pigeons?
Programmers write incredibly wasteful code
So, I generally agree with you, but my question to you is how do I square that with thinking this technology is legitimately amazing and I want to see more of it and use it? Do you forsee any future in which creators are happy and this technology gets to exist?

You mention getting paid, this might be part of it, but (a) how do you manage payments when so many sources contribute such a small proportion of the input and (b) would this actually solve the problem or would creators continue to object despite getting paid according to their representation in the dataset?

I imagine that you will answer that (a) is "their problem" so feel free to focus on (b).
That would seem to imply that for A =/= 0, C/A is irrational. This seems counterintuitive.
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%203-m&ge...

Taylor Swift is far beyond household name level of fame, she is likely among the most recognizable names in the world if not the most recognizable name in the world right now. I use google trends quite frequently, I have yet to be able to find a name that eclipses taylor swift
I'm pretty sure there are places in Europe where the AfD equivalent doesn't get 15%.

Trip to a holocaust museum is nice and all, but it probably fails at making people understand the problem. They'll kind of nod that yeah, Nazis were bad but then happily go and blame others for their bad decisions and vote for populists with easy solutions.

Somehow half of Germany thinks Russia is OK, because they "saved Europe", hammer and sickle symbols are still not treated the same as swastikas and, of course, the main outcome of the kind of education you mention is that Germany is basically freeloading wrt defense and very unwilling to do the only reasonable thing, i.e. help prevent another genocide as it unfolds in Europe.

Hopefully something has changed in the last 2 years, but the preceding decade, spending over 100 million euros daily on Russian natural gas is hard to undo. And that's with pre-war historical minimum prices. Since you all didn't get the memo that you need to stop buying Russian stuff until NS2 got blown up, the flow of money for natural gas from Germany to Russia in 2022 and 2023 is likely several times the pre-war annual number.

And then you have people saying shit like "we have spent enough on Ukraine" or "Ukrainian refugees are coming because of our social safety net", not even from AfD politicians (I think some CDU idiot, lol). Yeah sure, but you gave 100x the money to Russia, who of course spent it on weapons because they don't give two fucks about their own people.

Being sorry about things from the last century, while failing completely to judge the situation in the present doesn't really help. Not to mention Poland still didn't get the war reparations for WW2 last I checked. They probably don't want to shake the boat too much and just hope Germany will at least stop being useless.
Looks like they've parlayed it into some kind of business https://www.langchain.com/
Those are the times one gets the opposite of imposter syndrome.
>> Why is it that innovations require heroics to occur in our organization?

Why do we immediately assume that innovation = progress? Sure, the things that SURVIVE are useful, but that's just the tip of the iceberg. The vast majority of ideas are just like mutations in evolution more likely to be at best useless and probably damaging in various ways.

You see, social constructs are not as dumb as they appear to be to the armchair intellectual. "Why, we should embrace innovation and immediately adopt any idiocy that Mary from accounting is suggesting as our global company policy". I assure you that by natural law, if "random idea from random guy" were profitable on average, we'd have a system that would encourage such ideas. The sad fact is that they aren't and will never be.

Friction (named in the article as "Dysfunctional Organization") is an unfortunate but necessary process which ensures "survival of the fittest", even among "innovation". It's as simple as that.
Unless of course you are not based in a US-allied country, as stated very explicitly in my comment.

Ah the neverending American centricism on this site.
I agree with many things. But:

> Maybe it’s because Angular was no one’s first choice — even though it came first.

Actually ExtJS was the first real framework. Angular was just one of the new kids on the block.
I worked for a large company and started seeing opportunities for automation immediately. I proposed some solutions to my boss, and he told me that he agreed that these tasks could be automated, but that we have 10,000 other tasks that could be automated, and each one takes a few months to get the resources provisioned and also set aside developer (me) time to get it done, which could be spent on other projects.

What was interesting to me was the self-fulfilling prophecy of dysfunction: because there was so much manual process and red tape, the cost of fixing a particular problem is larger than than the benefits (i.e: time spent on the task exceeds time saved by automating it).

But because the tasks do not get automated, the amount of time required to fix things increases bit by bit due to the processes in place. The cost of fixing a task increases marginally every day, and so the cost/benefit ratio increases every day, becoming further justification NOT to fix things. At a certain point you have to look at the bigger picture and recognize that there is a much larger problem in your company than a few excel spreadsheets that could be better automated.
Can someone explain the game theory of a "pure free market" where the second a competitor gains any advantage, how wouldn't it mathematically imply total domination of the market?
"...it was based on a USB product we had already been making for PCs for almost a decade.

This product was so old in fact that nobody knew how to compile the source code. "

I think you mean "Management was so bad, nobody knew how to compile the source code".

There are plenty of systems out there that can and and plenty that cannot be reproduced from source. The biggest difference is the card taken to do so, not the age.
The Switch is bucking industry trends until the not-so-bitter end
I never learned of these formal definitions in high school mathematics. Nor in the lower level college ones that I took. There’s a beauty to this perspective— irrational numbers are what rationals are not.
We need to bite the bullet and start building out district heating systems. Use waste heat from industry, use heat directly from nuclear sources, build solar concentrators with huge thermal batteries. There's no shortage of available heat energy, the problem is just transport.

If we can just pipe steam or hot fluid into houses, we don't incur any sort of losses by converting the energy to electricity first.

This results in a lower net energy consumption because we're using heat that would have otherwise been rejected into the atmosphere to heat homes.
> A new wireless mouse with a dedicated AI button that launches Logi AI Prompt Builder

Whenever I think we've reached the pinnacle of AI hype, something new comes along that makes me think we're not done yet.
What's the median? The median excluding NYC, LA, and SF? Why is freakonomics using average? They know that's a 'manipulate public discourse' number not really a useful one, especially for something that can easily have 1 or 2 9 to 10 figure net wealth individuals in attendance.
This python code looks fantastic. Worked right out of the gate. Thanks!

Also I was not aware of the Aranet Radiation sensor. There goes some of my fun budget towards picking one of these up.
And what happens to creators who use an "unapproved" camera or photo editing app? Are their works automatically illegitimate?
> Saying "no" is easy and safe, but at some point, one needs to say "yes" and take risks, otherwise nothing would be done.

Saying "no" is easy and safe in a world where there are absolutely no external pressures to get stuff done. Unfortunately, that world doesn't exist, and the decision makers in these kinds of situations face far more pressure to say "yes" than they do to say "no".

For example, see the article:

> The NASA official simply said that Thiokol had some concerns but approved the launch. He neglected to say that the approval came only after Thiokol executives, under intense pressure from NASA officials, overruled the engineers.
> at some point, one needs to say "yes" and take risks

I'm wondering how the two astronauts on the ISS feel about that while Boeing decides if/when it is safe to return then to Earth.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/18/science/boeing-starliner-astr...
The same reason why not everyone drives the safest car: cost and other negatives.

In case of a pill perhaps negative side effects.

I have no clue how often a person in high HIV risk has sex or behaves.

It should be fine to ask that question
Live Types in a TypeScript Monorepo
Multiple Regions, Single Pane of Glass
Take a look at this video from 4 hours ago. You'll like it, I promise.

It validates your opinion. React became an insanity.

Just note all the nuances and minefields they are adding to an already bloated tech.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXugpgknScY

For one, it's 2024 and React still has this infinite newbie trap of double rendering. [1]

But, it's perfect for job security.

"Nobody ever got fired for buying solutions from IBM" became:

"Nobody ever got fired for choosing React."

[1] https://chanduthedev.medium.com/why-react-app-rendering-twic...
the cybertruck is such a failure. the US truck market is gigantic; the F-150 is the single best selling vehicle -- not car, not truck, but ALL consumer vehicles -- in the US.

There is a massive demand for the F-150 Lightning and a very pragmatic part of the US wants rechargable trucks esp. since they're more often than not commuter vehicles. Like, gas for these trucks is expensive. There is a market segment he could totally grab, and all he had to do was make a knock-off Nissan Titan with batteries and then dominate.

The rest of the market is saturated and is now competing on price, and Asia will dominate there. If you can't compete on price then you compete on image, reliability, safety, etc., but their poor QC, combined with Musk's increasingly unhinged behavior, suggests that the brand is of dubious value.
I have two tattoos. One I got for complicated emotional reasons (I'd say as a commemoration, but that implies a celebratory aspect that it doesn't have).

The other I got as part of a worldwide art project.
Last year I left a job that was about to give me the maintenance of a poorly implemented kafka system. I'm so glad I left before I really had to work with that system.

Since then I've been reading about async and await in the newer versions of javascript and it really threw me for a loop. I needed this to slow down some executing code but as I worked through my problems I realized "my god! this is exactly what we could have used for pub/sub at my last job".

We could have replaced a kafka system as well an enterprise workflow system with javascript and the async/await paradigm. Some of these systems cost millions per year to license and administer.
My knee-jerk reaction is "you shouldn't; we churn enough resources as it is", but if I broaden the scope of "product" to include elements of culture, for example the idea that it's okay to not have everything we want, then your question is interesting.

I would promote birth-to-three (or six or seven) programs for everyone, so that children have a better chance to grow up in a nurturing environment, one in which the adults don't shout or act violently towards their children and generally minimize trauma, which I think would go a long way towards children keeping their curiosity and intellectual humility and gaining emotional awareness rather than have these good things suppressed by fear. As this increases, I would guess we'll see less capitalism, and less need to sell my cool product.

The more we can do with what we have around us, including using our bodies to do more of the work of living, the better. If the land can't carry us, don't live there, at least not until it recovers.

This may be a foreign concept to many? I find a sense of peace and purpose going out each day to these few acres and picking an increasingly varied collection of plants, as I learn from public library books what is edible. This is a cool product I picked up from books in childhood and have revisited and expanded during my second childhood (parenting).

I'm curious to read how others respond.
I admire what the Langchain team has been building toward even if people don’t agree with some of their design choices.

The OpenAI api and others are quite raw, and it’s hard as a developer to resist building abstractions on top of it.

Some people are comparing libraries like Langchain to ORMs in this conversation, but I think maybe the better comparison would be web frameworks. Like, yeah the web/HTML/JSON are “just text” too, but you probably don’t want to reinvent a bunch of string and header parsing libraries every time you spin up a new project.

Coming from the JS ecosystem, I imagine a lot of people would like a lighter weight library like Express that handles the boring parts but doesn’t get in the way.