skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The primary reason I keep writing is that this, the plain written word, is The Platform to transport ideas in time and space. It has passed the test of time in ways that each of those platforms you mention have not (nor any other medium, e.g. video, etc. at least in our lifetimes).

I think of those platforms more as distribution / syndication mediums, using them for stuff like throwing it out there and reach others (which I somewhat care about because the topics I write about are those I like to exchange opinions about with others, but not obsess in terms of needing validation) and keep some degree of isolation from their policies, relative importance vs others, algorithms, UI/UX choices etc.
>I guess the cost of having to install and run AC is dwarfed by the savings in construction costs?

No, otherwise warehouses would be made of glass and steel (they aren't).

But humans prefer natural light when they can get it.
Meanwhile, the EU is talking nonsense about creating "AI Factories" in a similar attempt.
Although I like the quote I do not think it is good advice for the younger generations. No early 20s to early 30s girl is going to settle for a guy just because he is "handy". It takes much more than that. It is also not fun being with someone who is not into you physically.
Well, this is likely going to be a polarizing topic for a while.

I'll give you an example of something that I moved to LLM code generation.

I have used Excel for probably more than two decades to generate certain types of code structures that are simply tedious to both write by hand and also maintain. One such example are lookup table definitions for state machines. Using Excel for this, once setup, makes it fast and infinitely more maintainable.

Today, I can do this with LLM's in a heartbeat. The code is good and it is easy to maintain.

Over the years I have written custom code generation tools for the same reason. Sticking with the state machine example, if you have 100 states and each state requires entry, during and exit handler functions, well, you have to take that lookup table and write 300 functions. In a language like C this means both the declaration and implementation skeleton. LLMs are good for this as well.

Like I said, it's a tool in the toolbox. It can be used a million different ways.
I remember the times when my monitor stand was "made" out of yet-to-be-recycled paper books - a few thick java references. Later, when I bought a new monitor I donated them to a library. I hope they got recycled, or at least, garbage-collected. Although I can't imagine anyone finding old java books in the garbage and find them useful for anything.
I think it's pretty obvious why this material should be available.

>If there isn't a clear motivation, people will assume the worst.

This is just a weird assumption.
> Check that it's really fixed, check that it's really your fix that fixed it, know that it never just goes away by itself

I wish this were true, and maybe it was in 2004, but when you've got noise coming in from the cloud provider and noise coming in from all of your vendors I think it's actually quite likely that you'll see a failure once and never again.

I know I've fixed things for people without without asking if they ever noticed it was broken, and I'm sure people are doing that to me also.
I’m sure the NSA does their best to make sure the US doesn’t politically fuck that up
If there's a way to identify those incomplete commits, git bisect does support "skip" - a commit that's neither good nor bad, just ignored.
> Keeping track of time and operations order is one of the most complicated challenges of a decentralized system.

Only in decentralized systems. In centralized ones, fake timestamps down to the bit all over the motherfucking space. So, basically, quasi, ultimately, so to speak, time and order don't matter in centralized systems, only the Dachshund does.
I usually just open up a random map and fart around. It's just a fun, chill city builder for me.

The subsequent Anno games are amazing as well, but Anno 1602 scratches the same itch and can run on an ancient laptop when travelling. Also, it's not locked behind Ubisoft's cancerous PC launcher.
This was actually one of the arguments against pornography. Only the top 1% will become a successful porn actor; and even then, it's well known that by the time they hit 22-24, they're probably done - even if, objectively, they are still in the top 5% most attractive people on earth.

This warps men's perception of women in both selecting a wife; and in assessing the beauty of their wife in the long run especially after children. It warps women meanwhile in viewing themselves as less attractive, or viewing the 80th percentile of women as though it were the 40th percentile.

Comparison is the thief of joy; especially when human beings are involved.
they are being taken with full knowledge of this effect as well as many others. climate scientists are not idiots they are also not conspiring, come on
To be fair, it is a really poorly named "process". The computer equivalent of the "everything's ok" alarm.
Indeed.

The problem doesn't lie in detection - the problem lies in poor road maintenance - which is presumably driven by various effects of cost cutting - including outsourcing to the lowest cost providers who have an interest in repeat business rather than a job well done.
They don't really have any interest in social media as we use them. It's likely there will be some other new form of social media, probably something more metaverse like Roblox or Minecraft.

As a kid, I remember we had these things on TV and people would dial on phones just to have messages show up on TV. It seems kind of the same with Gen Alpha and YouTube. There's all these things like Discord, but they feel more like being lonely in a group.
12000 VMs = 800 to 1200 baremetals. Since KVM can run vmdk images, it is more of how to manage all these barementals and VMs from a central place.
Funny thing about all of this is that it's just such oppressive overkill.

Most GUI toolkits can do layout / graphics / fonts in a much simpler (and sane) way. "Reactive" layout is not a new concept.

HTML/CSS/JS is not an efficient or clean way to do layout in an application. It only exists to shoehorn UI layout into a rich text DOCUMENT format.

Can you imagine if Microsoft or Apple had insisted that GUI application layout be handled the way we do it today back in the 80s and 90s? Straight up C was easier to grok that this garbage we have today. The industry as a whole should be ashamed. It's not easier, it doesn't make things look better, and it wastes billions in developer time and user time, not to mention slowly making the oceans boil.

Every time I have to use a web-based application (which is most of the time nowadays), it infuriates me. The latency is atrocious. The UIs are slow. There's mysterious errors at least once or twice daily. WTF are we doing? When a Windows 95 application ran faster and was more responsive and more reliable than something written 30 years later, we have a serious problem.

Here's some advice: stop throwing your web code into Electron, and start using a cross-platform GUI toolkit. Use local files and/or sqlite databases for storage, and then sync to the cloud in the background. Voila, non-shit applications that stop wasting everybody's effing time.

If your only tool is a hammer, something, something, nails...
This is a major annoyance for me with Apple laptops for work: I don't think they typically offer anti-glare screens. The glossy screens obviously look pretty, but an uglier display with anti-glare coating can be a lot better in some conditions even with a less bright screen. At least it's fairly easy to solve at a desk, since you can just use an external monitor.
Exactly. If the special non-merit criteria were instead "likes trains" or "has a monobrow" it would have the same effect. Not because those traits are negatively correlated with being good at the job, but simply because those traits are unaligned with the job, so statistically its unlikely for the best candidate to just coincidentally happen to also have those special traits.
Yeah, you're right. It would fit better but it's too late to edit the comment :/
Exactly, that's the joke. If it had been an issue on Windows the default response from folks here would be to switch to Linux instead of trying to get to the root of the issue. Guess I should have included an /s on my comment.
I guess I see your point.

If we're going to call it gaslighting, then gaslighting is typical dev team behavior, which of course flows back down to support. It's a problem with Microsoft just like it is a problem for any other company which makes software.
So you would prefer I sue the VA?! They tried to preserve my families' privacy and reduce risk to current heirs like me. No, doxxing the dead cause "letter of the law matters" for some stupid side project like this is far from commendable. I will bet those of us with a lot of family in there, especially recently deceased, will feel very different than you or the CEO of doxx the dead.
Yeah it's weird, I have a static wooden one similar to this. Looked good but the incline was so sharp that it was just awkward to use.

Not sure what the thought process is behind the design of most of these things.
It is a difficult question. I personally no longer run anything close to a blog.

That said, in the few instances when I stumbled upon someone's writeup, even when I disagreed with what they wrote I took a moment to appreciate the medium used ( some are into minimalism, some like amusing retro feel enforced by very new framework ). I think I even once reached out to someone to ask what they used to generate such and such effect.

Still.. I am not certain if that qualifies as meaningful connection.
It just means Microsoft has put more emphasis on ABI compatibility. This makes sense. In the open source world ABI compatibility is less of an issue because you can just recompile if there are breaking changes. ABI compatibility is far more important in a commercial closed source context where the source may be lost forever when a company shuts down or discontinues a product line.
Syria flooded with Pepsi and Pringles as rulers open economy
Hey yeah I agree, I just thought OP was being over the top with the moralizing. Like, OK its a bit virtue signal-y but so is complaining about it. And its still better than plastic.

I'm not sure that being shipped is much worse than buying from a store that also gets it shipped and wrapped in as much plastic. And if its a town over, you're driving there which is CO2 as well.

Using nothing at all is better for sure and I said as much. Second hand stuff rules.

All in all though, this sort of individual choice is peanuts compared to taking a single plane ride which is itself peanuts compared to what corporations get away with. So imo. having any sort of strong opinion on this is silly.
I'm starting to notice that the main way for me to pick up on AI written content is the tone! No LLM will give you a heroin analogy unprompted. The AI written version of this press release is a dry desert of weak adjectives, but a bureaucrat that's been asked to "add a little more... you know, zhuzh it up" will absolutely transport the reader into a lush Afghani poppyfield.
I don't think this will happen.
> Nobody likes smartasses that write "accctttuuuaaalllyy" articles.

I have met Ken (around the time that YC received an original Xerox Alto and he was one of the experts who got it working again). Ken may well be the least smartass person I have ever met.

I think you (and of course I don't just mean you, but anyone commenting here) should be more careful about publicly labeling other human beings.
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Show HN: ClyrBG, yours freindly AI background removal
I think there is still some space to be improved in background image removal tools. While our ones might look similar, we are targeting to improve it as and when the product grows.

Looking for your feedback.

Thanks in advance
This is why we use squash like here https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/merge_requests/squas...
This is a bit of an incorrect read on what this leak is. Gravy gathers location data about people from multiple sources but not directly from consumers. Gravy’s customers buy this data.

As far as I understand, this is a list of locations and apps used by a person, but without much context. A typical response to this has been something like this:

> Grindr has never worked with or provided data to Gravy Analytics. We do not share data with data aggregators or brokers and have not shared geolocation with ad partners for many years. Transparency is at the core of our privacy program, therefore the third parties and service providers we work with are listed here on our website.

Note how carefully written this is to imply they don’t share any data at all, but they stop short of saying “we don’t share any data with ad partners”, just geolocation data.

But for companies like Gravy, their whole business is about getting data.

So it’s not at all implausible (or even unlikely) that this represents an event where a user opened Grindr (conceivably sold to Gravy by one of Grindr’s ad partners following an impression), and the same individual’s location was determined by some other method (for example, IP address geolookup, or bought from a company which IS supplying data to Gravy directly and has location permissions).

Take the leak with a grain of salt, sure, but it’s looking reasonably genuine to me.
Fetch?
Amplified by my heavily sweating body in full coding focus mode...
Interesting. My Pixel 8, on Android 15, does not seem to allow broadcasting to multiple bluetooth devices, but I'll play around with it.
A couple of points.

It is not aesthetically pleasing at all, which is important to me, for whatever neurological reason. Also, I consider a laptop stand as just a device to raise the screen to a better ergonomic level on the understanding that an external keyboard and mouse will be used to operate the device.

Otherwise, in a laptop stand, ergonomic keyboard use requirements pull the incline towards level, and ergonomic monitor height requirements pull the incline upwards, so there is no healthy angle for a laptop stand.

As already mentioned by andrei_says_, typing fingers should be below the wrist (as correct piano playing has proved for centuries).
> The government should already be investing in computational resources for a huge number of government projects and services

From what I see, governments are massively shifting to Azure and AWS (moreso the former).
I can certainly see why many commenters here find this many dicks hard to swallow, but when I take them wholly with the rest of the work, I find they come together satisfyingly and rawly defile copyright and DRM.
> the situation is impossible and no plausible human effort could have saved these neighborhoods

Yes. That seems reasonable
I didn't say I've never pushed a major bug to production, I've just never had one stopped by a PR review.
Usability. The use case of GenAI is pretty clear at this point. With blockchain, the big question was, "Okay, we have this cool tech, but what do we do with it now?" If you have to think about what problem a tool solves, it's not a good tool at all.
Interestingly that can be said for offices at all. Offloading office space and occupancy expenses to employees through “bring your own office” min/max’es office space out of the equation. Sadly in business power over labor is often more important than economics, hence RTO is still a thing. The interesting question will be how long taking a structurally disadvantaged position can last, and will it be long enough for us to figure out techniques for turning these glass boxes into useful space.
There's apps like Google Family Link which basically gives you and the child a contract and enforces that contract. Screen times on what days. What they install. The kind of media they can view on the YouTube on the device. Even if you change the policy, the child is informed.
The nano texture in my new macbook pro is game changer for these specific situation. It came out a few years back but I only got to replace my laptop recently and it works great. That said, it only works that don't mind the black contrast change.
Windows' desktop environment is much too lackluster for that. It's uniquely inconsistent (many distinct toolkits with irreconcilable look-and-feel, even in the base system), has poorly organized system configuration apps that are not very capable, takes a long time to start up so that the desktop becomes usable, is full of nasty dark patterns, suffers an infestation of ads in many versions.

Besides the many issues with the desktop itself, Windows offers piss poor filesystem performance for common developer tools, plus leaves users to contend with the complexity of a split world thanks to the (very slow) 9pfs shares used to present host filesystems to guest and vice-versa.

And then there's the many nasty and long-lived bugs, from showstopping memory leaks to data loss on the virtual disks of the guests to broken cursor tracking for GUI apps in WSLg...
Everyone is getting into a "hah, not enough money", or "what about money for this other problem", without keying in on the key phrase.

"Sovereign AI".

That's doing a lot of work. Right now the UK government (HMG), is relying mostly on US companies to provide AI workloads, even the simplest workloads. Across the EU this is a problem to the extent that hyperscale cloud providers are having to address digital sovereignty more explicitly (see Frankfurt region for AWS as an example).

Meanwhile the billionaire owners of these companies are mainlining Snowcrash and making clear that they think they should be in charge, and screw democracy.

There is some evidence of election tampering in multiple countries in 2024, and a suggestion floating in the air - based on recent events - that some billionaires might be OK with that, if it serves them (see /r/somethingiswrong2024).

If you're the UK PM, and you believe that AI is an important technical innovation (i.e. you believe the same thing that many people at Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Amazon, IBM, HPE, all the big consultancies all believe), and you see the people who hold all the cards lining up to a very, very strong hard-line political perspective that may or may not be aligned with HMG interests, what do you do? Nothing? Or perhaps figure out how to spin up a sovereign capability?

It won't be perfect. But, if they can spin this up and be confident that every £ spent, 30% of it isn't being creamed off the top to pay for space rockets and superyachts, and going back into investment, you might get to a point where it's competitive and starts to get to a much better place.

And there are a _lot_ of researchers who don't want to work for a FAANG, who are prepared to work on this. It isn't "the British civil service" who are building this, it's every person at a UK FAANG site and researcher in a Russell group university who is building this, and prepared to do it for a smaller wage as there's no toxicity tax you need to pay them to stick around pushing adverts on a social media website complicit in making teenagers want to kill themselves.

As to the budget situation, if AI meets just 20% of the hype, it could start to pay for itself in efficiency savings across HMG, and then money can start paying for roads maintenance and other aspects of public spending that have been deserted for years.
I don't know if you remember the 2003 invasion of Iraq? That was maybe the last time the US military made much of an effort and it was a scary thing to be on the wrong side of. A bit of video here https://youtu.be/m8KimNtB9HI

Iraq with approx 1.3 million troops and a lot of Russian equipment collapsed in a month or so. The problems there were not that the US side had much problem destroying Iraq so much as they had a tough job rebuilding after. There are probably similar concerns here.
Bringing up whataboutism is even less relevant. Comparisons aren't suddenly bad because of an overused buzzword
It looks exactly like a slot machine?
> Only a few people are legally allowed to hunt for Thames garnets—or even remove them if they find them by chance. Mudlarks are among the few who are legally permitted to remove items from the riverbanks. To be a mudlark, you need a license, and in recent years, the British government suspended the issuing of new licenses for several years following a boom in applications during the pandemic lockdowns, leaving the already tight-knit mudlark community in a holding pattern.

Well, that's something new I learned today. I wonder why they have to be licensed?
> Instead of pulls and levers connected to chess pieces, we have vectors and weights.

And your brain does it with chemistry. The mechanism isn't important.

> I don't need it to reproduce everything. Just show me one convincing non-anectodal evidence that this is not another mechanical turk.

Define your test.

Every single test that existed when I was a kid has been bested.

All the new tests from all the domain experts to measure AI, are getting rapidly saturated.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/test-scores-ai-capabiliti...

Coming up with a test is itself a challenge, these days.
I've submitted many reports through similar apps to my local council and find 25% of them are even acknowledged, 10% at most are "fixed" and the fixes are worthless.

A pothole I reported last October was "fixed" in December, and has already opened up again after the ineffective repair failed to take.
IDK, have you ever seen Smart TVs?

Seems to me electronics hardware manufacturers and subscription internet streaming media services go together like oil and water.
You appear to be conflating two different things: legal mandates and vendor lockdown.

There are legal mandates regarding the sale and use of certain products. For example, you have to be a minimum age to buy cigarettes and alcohol, stores in some localities can only sell alcohol during certain hours, bars have to close at a certain time, you can't drive drunk, you must wear a seatbelt, you can't exceed the speed limit, etc.

But there are no vendor lockdowns in this regard. A cigarette will allow anyone to smoke it, a container of alcohol will allow anyone to drink it, you car still works if you're drunk and don't put on your seatbelt, etc. If your car made you take a breathalyzer test whenever you wanted to drive, or it didn't allow you to exceed the speed limit, that would be vendor lockdown.

I discussed the issue in another comment: "The equivalent would be if you could only use specific brands of replacement chains, blades, tires, or bullets that are approved by the manufacturer, for which the manufacturer gets a cut of the sales of those replacements." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42684134
I would go even further. Trying to develop a “brand” that stands above the noise isn’t worth it.

That’s not saying writing isn’t important. I don’t think I understand a subject unless I can teach it, explain it and argue both sides about why you should and shouldn’t use it.

If I were going to go into independent consulting as oppose to working for consulting companies, I might start a blog a year ahead of time. But it wouldn’t be for discovery. Leveraging and improving my network would be the first strategy and then direct people to it once they knew me.