skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well seriously what profession is immune? Robotics took a lot of manufacturing and farming away in the 80s and 90s, AI added to that will kill off swaths of designers.

Most of this country checks out their own groceries and AI has started stocking shelves.

Creative industries are becoming commodities due to tooling.

All I can come up with when I search for safe jobs is athletes, politicians, and live music performers.
And the 'Right'.

I don't think I had ever heard of woke before the non-stop talking points from the 'Right'.

It always seemed like a drummed up issue to rile up their, Christian/Holocaust Denier/Civil War Loving, base.
It's attempting to gauge sentiment through tracking a number of proxies. It's obviously flawed, but it's a reasonable attempt at measuring shifting attitudes in various spheres.
That's not right. They're paying $2.35 to get a $1 per year revenue stream.
> America contains many countries other than the USA.

"The Americas" contain multiple countries. "America" is just another name for United States of America. North/South/Central is used when talking about the continent. But you knew that.

And I get it, it used to bother me when I was a kid too. I resented Americans for taking the continental name for themselves. But then real life arrived and that's just how it works in English and trying to fight is pointless.

Being deliberately obtuse or combative about this usage of the word America is just bad faith and detracts from the point you're trying to make.
Rewriting my "UHF" app — a personal TV channel that plays video content I have on a hard drive to a schedule.

Also beginning to build a piece of furniture for "The Lab" (man-cave?).
This certainly the model that basically all VC funded tech companies use. Though OpenAI is notable, because I don’t think we’ve seen another company burn this much money this fast.

Not a value statement on whether is this is right or wrong.
notebooklm.google.com looks to be an evolution of illuminate.google.com.

Strictly speaking, two-voice conversations are slightly overrated. A single voice, akin to a lecture rather than a discussion, is no worse, and is quite sufficient for conveying information. Either approach does the job.

The downloaded audio file extension is wav, implying that it's not compressed, but this is a minor quirk.
This is my impression of Economist articles in general. They very rarely give you enough historical context (for me) to understand what they're talking about. It's why I ended my subscription with them.
I disagree.

There is a lot of distracting, dividing, and just trash-tier content in social media that society is only worse off for taking seriously.

Politically divisive articles such as ones encouraging identity politics tend to fall in that category. So do articles with emotionally loaded terms like “woke”. Maybe they are loaded not for us, but we all know they are loaded emotionally for many.

And it doesn’t matter much if many other people engage in it, it is likely healthier for you and society not to.

Now, I agree that maybe “irrelevant” should be grounded in context — it is irrelevant to a discerning reader. It is relevant in society and its discourse, unfortunately.
There are plenty of smaller trends, sure. But the larger trend is absolutely overwhelming and, if anything, accelerating:

https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2022/09/13/how-u-s-reli...
They absolutely are. Companies spend huge amounts of time cutting out management fat, as they should.

It's Darwinian. You either evolve or die. It's a good thing.
The main criticism I’ve always had about it is this: that it’s fake.

Take San Francisco as a prime example. It’s a place full of people who style themselves as progressive or “woke” or whatever but a starter home is unachievable to anyone without an exit event or a $400k salary. It has one of the widest rich/poor divisions of anywhere I’ve ever seen in the USA. Major industries include mass surveillance and addictive forms of media, and I have no idea how anyone who isn’t in a high six figure job can live well there let alone raise a family.

SF is not progressive at all, except in rhetoric.
Ask HN: How can I mail snailmail online cheaply? Receiving?
Even in $year I still have to send snailmail sometimes, and it's annoying having to buy stamps, print the PDF etc. What do y'all use to send snailmail which is easier? Also is there any service y'all would recommend about receiving snail mail that will open it and email me the contents? I'm using the USPS informed delivery which is nice, but have to call my fam to open and read it to me.
Ukrainian president was not "forcibly removed", but replaced through general elections by the people of Ukraine. Early elections are a standard attribute of most parliamentary democracies. 55% voted for Petro Poroshenko, who became the next president. His closest competitor got 13%. Turnout was 60%.

This is the opposite of "illegal seizure of power by a small group", as coup is commonly defined.
Don't think you can fault people for engaging in a subject that half the country is willing to sink it for.

Can at least talk about it like "wow, the right is really willing to die for this, what are they on about"
Sweet. Can we link to your benchmark from the main iceoryx2 readme?
Consumerism makes society less conflict. This idea was implemented by propaganda in 30's by Edward Bernays. Propaganda was later changed to term public relations after connection with Nazism during WW2.
You are describing the entire history of the human race.

It's not different this time. And yet, somehow, every century has been better than the last.
Related. Others?

AllSystemsGo: Varlink Now [video] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41670431 - Sept 2024 (2 comments)

Varlink: Interface description format and protocol for humans and machines - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25621936 - Jan 2021 (5 comments)

Varlink – A plain-text, type-safe, discoverable, self-documenting interface - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20950146 - Sept 2019 (10 comments)
This looks quite interesting and promising.
Ala Huxley
Examples of poor polling data for $200
In the early days just before and just after AGI, all of a sudden a lot of games will be changed in a short period of time.
> The Economist originates [...] in the USA

The Economist is a British publication.
was the russian revolution a coup?

Are all subsequent russian rulers illegitimate?
When was the last time you attended church and what was the denomination? You’re providing anecdotal evidence, right?
Web components don't do any JS isolation, right? And when you say HTML isolation I think its probably important to say that any custom element registered is global, so if Web-Component-A uses Web-Component-B version 1 then Web-Component-C cant use Web-Component-B version 2 (unless Web-Component-B includes the version in its name).

If you want actual isolation of the whole web stack (HTML/CSS/JS) I don't think there are any alternatives to iframes.
Working on cleaning up my wood shop and trying to finishing my hand-tool wall.

Also building an easier way to add real-time metrics and monitoring to web applications: https://flexlogs.com

Also, this little side project for less overwhelming weekly goals: https://carpeweekem.com
Atomic vacancies of MbS2 nanoparticles stimulate mitochondrial biogenesis
Couple left with life-changing crash injuries can't sue Uber
Police stop more Black drivers, while speed cameras issue unbiased tickets
Interesting link in the page https://github.com/stared/science-based-games-list
> Can we not put woke in quotes?

We can, but in the sense used here it is appropriate not to.

> And when someone says woke in a discussion, do not ask them to define it.

Given that there are at least three, distantly related, uses to refer to social phenomena in current use, and the single most common or those actually is a simple handwavey pejorative, no, I absolutely will ask people to define what they mean, if nothing else to give them the opportunity to overcome the presumption that they are using it in the empty pejorative sense.
Hi HN,

So, I had a problem... a serious problem.

Like many modern-day romantics, I needed some fresh pictures for my Tinder profile (swiping right is an art form, after all). But after scrolling through my phone, I realized all my photos made me look either like a potato or someone who hasn’t seen daylight in years. And hiring a photographer for dating profile pics? Nah, that’s a bit much.

Being a machine learning guy, instead of spending hours taking new photos, I thought, “Why not use AI to help me generate them?” That’s when I created Mindink, a SaaS that lets anyone generate custom images of themselves in any style they want.

How It Works:
All it takes is 10 photos, 5 minutes, and some AI magic. Whether you want to look like a cyberpunk hero, a vintage oil painting, or just someone who gets out of the house, Mindink generates personalized images of you in any style.

The Techy Bit:
Mindink uses pre-trained AI models that are fine-tuned based on just 10 images you upload. From there, the system creates various custom styles for you in a matter of minutes. You don’t need to provide tons of data or do any complicated setup—just a few images, and the SaaS takes care of the rest.

What started as a quest for the perfect Tinder pics turned into a full-on image generation SaaS.
I figured, hey, if AI could make me look good, maybe it could help other people (or brands) too. Now anyone can create high-quality, stylized images without hiring photographers or designers. Just upload your pics, pick a style, and let the AI do the work.

TL;DR:
Needed better Tinder pics, so I built a SaaS to generate them using AI. Now it’s a full-blown tool called Mindink where anyone can create custom images of themselves or their brand with just 10 pics and 5 minutes.

Would love some feedback from the HN community!
Recently got exicited about transforming my Tensorflow.js Parking mointoring application to a more general webapp that can do many things with Computer Vision, as well as upgrade from YOLO7.

https://github.com/oxedom/parker
Diverse opinions and even conflict in small groups can be productive provided there is trust. I’d love to understand trust better. Got anything to share or places to start?

I’ve been on a deep dive on the philosophy of harmony for a long time. Just submitted my second major article on “harmony of opposites” that deals with the role of conflict/tension in harmony.
Making it easier to name makes it easier to criticise. I think this is your real concern.
Let us know how they sound.

I'm happy with boring old full-range.
> Stand up for what you're doing, own it, and have some courage & stand up for it when someone calls you out as a supporter of it.

Okay. What are you trying to do with this comment? What's the purpose? I honestly can't even tell what your opinion is, or if there's even a specific outcome you want. Your statement is so generalized that it could be said by anyone about anything. So it would seem there's something that's bothering you, but you won't come out and say it.

You did mention having a problem with the idea of "woke" or "woke people", and that opinion tends to carry some significant baggage. So I would tend to assume you're "anti-woke". If I googled that phrase, what tends to come up is a whole lot of hatred. But ask people about specific things about this opinion, and they back away from it, as if admitting to it would get them into trouble.

So what are your specific opinions about ideas related to race, sex, gender, nationality, etc? Do you have the courage to stand up for what you're talking about when I call you out on it?
Sure, and they will quickly discover when the quality deteriorates unacceptably.

But that is no reason to stick your head in the sand and pretend there aren't alternatives.
Trying to finish this ultralight airplane with started to build with my father 14 years ago!
That sounds really worth reading! Please post it on HN when it’s published (or do you have any links / info now?)

I know it’s fiction but the way you phrase it makes it sound like this might be inspired by a true revolution, is that the case?
DEI mentions in earnings calls sounds solid to me fwiw
Bristol Myers Squibb acquired Karuna Therapeutics, the company behind Cobenfy (formerly KarXT), for $14 billion earlier this year so that’s their break even for the drug and presumably what their investors thought was fair. I don’t think Karuna had anything else interesting in trials so they have to recoup all of that from Cobenfy before they’re in the black on the acquisition.

Pharmaceutical companies offload most of the risk onto institutional investors and the public (most biotechs IPO pre-revenue to fund clinical trials) but the flipside is that they have to pay eye-watering sums to acquire promising drugs.
Sounds really cool! Do you have a page describing your project with some pictures? It's funny I checked your post history before asking and found that you made the same comment I'm doing today to someone doing something similar one year ago! Is it what got you started?
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This a 1000%. Go to CivitAI and look up the list of most recently submitted images over the past year. 99.99999% of them are porn or porn-adjacent banal drivel.
A bunch of people are mad that their “white guilt” was weaponized and provided mansions for nonprofits, while doing absolutely nothing to attempt to fix the issue.
Don't wait. Don't wait till the end of college to figure out what to work on. Don't even wait for internships during college. You don't necessarily need a job doing x in order to work on x; often you can just start doing it in some form yourself.

What silly advice. I didn’t even know my “what to work on” existed until I was near the end of my junior year of college. XD
As someone with firsthand experience of a sibling with schizophrenia, this comment comes off incredibly callous and ignorant.

I encourage you to learn more about this disease because you’re gravely mistaken—it is not a transient condition of early adulthood nor is untreated isolation on anyone’s treatment plan. The disease often presents in early adulthood and is a lifelong affliction thereafter. Left untreated, the condition worsens. Drugs are taken for life because the condition is incurable.

Despite the risks, I am extremely grateful for Clozapine because it’s given me time back with my brother from this horrible disease. We’ve been through a gamut of medicines and treatments like Cobenfy are welcome. Like most families, we are jubilant at the prospect of finding better treatment options with fewer risks and side effects.
Personally I would want the purchase to make a tangible difference to my life. If I can't control, communicate with, or see my purchase, that's functionally equivalent to me not owning it
Prompting GPT to do rich text editing.

Instead of replacing the entire document or selection, we want it to create diffs or operations for the minimal amount of edits as possible. This helps preserve intent better when merging the doc later on with OT/CRDTs. (Of course, you could also ask GPT to semantically merge docs for you haha).

So far, it's been harder than plain text or spreadsheets which have an easier position/coordinate system to work with: just line-col or row-col.

Rich text is usually stored as trees with json or html. Have seen a paper (https://www.inkandswitch.com/peritext/) that represents it as a flat array.

Difference in approach would then be: is it easier for gpt to work with diffs or with operations/tool calls?
On With Theo / T3.gg
That sounds potentially really neat for mocking API calls.
Like the film Rashomon, had not heard of The Rashomon Effect.
As a Muslim who also spends considerable time in the Middle East, I am so totally confused by how America decided that wokism and pro-Palestinianism go together. I mean, literally one is in support of a proposed country where they kill gays or throw them off of rooftops, not to mention the religious backdrop that encourages them to carry out such shit. The other is a movement in outwardly strong support for those gays. Like how?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_the_State_of_...
This looks cool. Would be willing to pay for it if there was a RSS option.
I live in a liberal coastal area, and I can assure you it’s not woke.

There are/were attempts, such as thanking the Indians who lands we stole before every Kraken game.
Or just update it at runtime every minute or something.
It's not even "places" -- not any more. It's driven by the extremely online. Twitter, in particular, is a bazaar of echo-chambers, and most of them push their own political and social agendas. (Left and right, the mechanism is the same.)

People get caught up in it, and then think that those opinions are normal. There is no "normative" frame of reference.

This has, of course, infected politics itself over the past 10 years.
I’m working on marketing https://softwareengineeringhandbook.com/

We’ve experimented with various approaches to promotion, including HN, KDP, Amazon Ads, and most recently Reddit Ads. It's been interesting to see which strategies resonate with the audience, but we're still figuring out the best way to get it in front of the right people.

And marketing is really hard!
- browser extension development framework from scratch

- doing a few SQL courses

- NAND to Tetris

- Graphical programming
Indeed. That's our goal :)
Getting a job in cybersecurity again.
How much of the record label's music production is funded by tax dollars?
Management fat? Sure. C-Suite level? Nah. Boeing's last two failed CEOs left with tens of millions of dollars worth of golden parachute; we've seen a massive upwards trend in CEO pay over the last few decades.

Musk got $44 billion for being a part-time CEO at Tesla, even.
edit: FWIW I didn't flag you or downvote you. I upvote you for taking me seriously enough to contest.

> I can practically replace Iran with US here, and this would actually still be true.

That's valid! The US is predominantly bought and paid for by an oligarchy of monopolists who set restrictions on research. Political donations and lobbying efforts significantly influence grant eligibility by shaping the priorities and policies of funding agencies, and that imposes a chilling effect on academic attention.

If you, a cosmopolitan, say that the US' system is less free than Iran's, then I concede. The sanctions are cruel and unjust. I didn't realize that US academic institutions were more stringently curtailed than Iranian ones. I assumed that the Revolutionary Guard would penalize/harass individual researchers or labs for producing subversive research—above and beyond a preferential allocation of funds.

> Kamala Harris which no American has voted for in a primary for - making it undemocratic

This is undemocratic, but not in the way that you mean. Our first-past-the-post primaries ignore second picks, so it's unimaginable that she'd have gathered no votes in a runoff. That being said, you are again correct: the United States' two party system is undemocratic in that these private institutions share total authority over the docket. But, again, I don't think that it's worse than the influence of Iran's clerical councils. Is it?

> Thanks?

I don't know what to tell you. I don't hate you. You tell me what you need, and I'll do it.
I'm working on an online drum machine for https://dopeloop.ai/beat-maker and the web version of a game called Asterogue https://asterogue.space
Maybe, but if the colonists keep sending video diary messages while talking with their mouths full, I vote we just leave them up there.
I'd like to counter this, but yeah... lots of people just throw "woke" and "DEI" around for everything not good, it's extremely painful to see.

- Boeing sucks at building stuff: blame woke hiring

- SpaceX has a landing failure: blame DEI hires at suppliers

I wouldn't be surprised if they shout at the sky screaming about woke clouds when they get caught in rain without an umbrella
Yea definitely a little bit of that from a labeling and demonizing perspective.

I rarely hear moderate or more traditionally Republican/Conservative types rant about wokeness. It's the ones doused in right-wing propaganda.

I'm generally of the opinion most people are decent. We might have differences on things but most people can compromise and find a middle position. Our media and politicians thrive on polarization tho and it's utterly killing our ability to function as a democracy.
Working on book summaries product - https://brieflane.com
A little stable of websites.

www.fpgajobs.com

www.firmwarejobs.com

www.reportCardcomments.com

www.primeribcalculator.com
From that I’m guessing you don’t want to open it to random HN folk, but if you ever do, it sounds a great resource and something I’d love to participate in.
> But when people talk about "fairness", it usually means quality of life right?

Seems you're focusing on the Floor whereas pg refers to a Ceilings?

It's normal that enterprise sales lovers ends up as taller poppies than pottery lovers. You could take it a step further and say: it's normal than Tom Brady and Ronaldo ends up rich but mediocre football players make $0 from football, even though both have interest in football.

That's the typical Ikigai diagram stuff: if someone's "what you love" naturally aligns with "what you can be paid for", pg point is that this person will be richer. (On top of this, if someone's "what you're good at" also aligns naturally with "what you can be paid for", they'll also be richer).

But you're approaching a different question: do pottery lovers have a good enough quality of life? Do they deserve one if nobody needs any of their pottery stuff?

Does everyone's deserve a good quality of life regardless of what their passion is? What about people with antisocial passions (crime, exploiting others etc)?
wow could you please share more of this work? I've been wondering how to make a diff tool / simple text editor for academic writing
Palestinians, both gay and straight, are being carpet bombed in Gaza. The Western left tends to support the weak and oppressed. Being carpet bombed is a form of being weak and oppressed.
The idea that this man's past situation can reduce to "terrible parents" even as passing reference, is a better example than I could ever invent of why this conversation will end fruitlessly for you.

It isn't that I don't see the obvious and honest effort you're putting into trying to have it. I respect that. The problem still is, though, that you don't see the entire world of social support structures that have been so ever-present for you throughout your life that you're unable in any real way to imagine what a life in their total absence even looks like. And if that sounds like a description of a chicken/egg problem, that's because it is one.

For you maybe this is the first time trying to talk across that divide. For someone like me, it's usually anything but. It's hard to fairly blame us for getting to learn some idea of how that usually goes.

(That's why, for example, I know I'm probably coming off pretty harsh with this and am deliberately doing so anyway; if I tried to go easier, we'd just take longer to still end up in the same place.)
Building some prototypes of games with Godot. Mostly enjoying it.

A few gripes with the GDScript language though. Might switch back to C#.

https://godotengine.org/
I think we can all agree on those points but this is a very superficial analysis. Now that the barriers to coding are lowered, will that increase or decrease supply, what types of new tasks (or job titles) will AI create?

Everyone is getting accelerated learning and task completion, but what does that mean for the market? I think there are more fundemental things to this change that are needed to be fleshed out. Pre LLM programmers and post LLM programmers will be very different.
from a someone'S slide from the 1970s:

"Knowledge of origin creates trust.
Knowledge of capabilities creates trust."

I'd add "a mental model of someone's motives creates trust".