skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Maybe prostitution to the owners will be the only available job.

I wonder, I wonder... I think there is certain prestige companion jobs that might exist. But your AI girlfriends and why not sex dolls with perfect bodies tailored to taste can do lot of the lifting.

Then again, child bearing and rearing might be viable "occupation". After all having lot of kids have been always been popular in certain classes.
That sounds a lot like what we already have, the HN crowd is just lucky to be in the top 30% earners
> short story "Manna" that is very prescient and outlines a few possible alternative futures for the man kind. Unfortunately personally I'm not very optimistic about a "good" outcome.

Yeah, it's a good story and pretty thought-provoking, but it's kind of hilarious how quickly the quality nosedives once it switches to the "good" scenario. IMO you can tell he believed in the "bad" one a lot more and it feels like the good one was just shoehorned in to supply an optimistic option. Which is a bit scary...
> The question is not who gets to do the decisions but how the team aligns itself and coordinates.

...IMHO it's the other way around, somebody needs to do the difficult and unpopular decisions exactly for those hopefully rare situations where the self-coordination within a team fails (and doing that in a way that doesn't piss off people in the team). In the end, contributors to an open source project are also just a very loosely coupled team.

'Unpopular' decisions are much easier to do in projects that have a universally accepted and respected BDFL (ideally the project founder) than in most 'commercial' teams led by random 'management-caste' peeps.
None of what I am about to write is groundbreaking or new thought. More likely than not, it already has been discussed from various perspectives usually when people are accused of being luddites or a question of impact of automation on society comes along.

Industrial revolutions ( as there were several including few not listed in the first wiki entry like green revolution [2] or whatever computer revolution ended up being called)[1] at this core did a lot of things, but in just about every instance the major leap came with a social upheavals[3] even if, eventually, new normal was found. Not surprisingly, related major changes in living conditions also spawned new attempts at governing humans ( socialism and its offspring ).

All this simple background to say the following, those industrial revolutions changed only a facet of the existing social structure. 100% unemployment would likely implode existing social order. The tension resulting from it would quickly become uncontrollable unless quickly channeled, negated, or absorbed..

As you can likely tell, I am pretty pessimistic about our future as a species.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_Revolution
[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Revolution
[3]https://schoolshistory.org.uk/topics/british-history/industr...
Show HN: OpenAI Operator Meets Full Desktop Automation with ComputerX
Introducing the first-ever desktop AI agent that gets your computer tasks done for you. Like having your own AI operator that seamlessly integrates with every app on your computer!
I'd love to learn about PMF and which posts from HN were most helpful. Even a few pointers in the thread here would be awesome.
I'm so so sorry for all your employees right now.
My favourite is Player Piano by Vonnegut. I find it absurd how prescient it is for a novel that came out in 1952.
that's how you get terminators.
> our job will be to be liked by the people with power.

So, for most people, no change from the job they are already doing?
Yes, RPN is easier to implement, and for the same reason also easier to reason about as a user,
Also "Counterexamples In Topology" - same but for topology.
I like, Nix/NixOS, but the very lack of documentation makes me really angry sometimes, I'll admit
I am not suggesting it is easy. I am saying, it is a lot more likely now than 10 years ago.
How does it work with sites which require auth? Demo doesn't show
Oh, if only.

A large part of the issue here was the snafu resulted in Debian users not getting updates for months for a critical fix, and then not being able to mount in degraded mode, and I was the one fielding those bug reports.
there's two ways to face this situation, the pessimistic one is to just die. Futuristic sci-fi stories usually have endangered human or even human extinction aspect in there, with / without harsh climate and / or war / conflict.

The optimistic? Hold out until the chance come. In thousands (millions) years of human civilization, not a single civilization can stay eternal. That kind of civilization will perish too, if not the humanity to perish first, especially because Murphy's law (if something can go wrong, it will, and usually at the worst time).

And IMO that kind of civilization will still have a long way to arrive, and we're more likely already dead before it arrive. Because that one Murphy's law, and limited resources for automation. In an area where infrastructure is not yet sufficient, usually human are the best to handle the job.
DVDs were not that far from VHS, everyone could plug DVD player into any TV and enjoy it. But BD came with HD - new resolution and even aspect ratio required ridiculous amount of investments into new hardware. You'd have to buy:

- new TV

- new BD player

- new discs with probably mostly the same movies at the beginning

Plus:

- HD had lots of weird and obscure formats and ridiculous confusing naming like HD/Full HD/Progressive HD/your mom's HD

- no affordable computer drives at first

- new DRM protection

- and many PC owners didn't even have HD-compatible (e.g. 1280x) displays! Let alone 1920x+.

- by the time BD-RW.. I mean BD-RE drives became afordable, flash drives overwhelmed the market.

So, adopting BDs was generally more challenging than it was CDs or DVDs. Next, they were a bit too late for "just storage media" use case. And finally, by the time people started caring about their personal cold data storage, BD production started shrinking.
Congratulations! You’re the best! It would be a great tradition to donate to a random startup after each exit. Why isn’t this part of startup culture? Any PG-like article about that?
Semantics and language are actually important here, IMHO. Democracy-"the system" saved itself here. This is somewhat distinct from who or what people vote for.
Yes, and it will be
The aftermath post 2008, once the US govt banned anonymous netizens from engaging in heated or sensitive arguments online has played out very much like I'd expected. (With the ban, a lot of discussions corners had to albeit slowly close / fold over a couple of years due to TOS issues the hosting sites inevitably encountered.) Blow Hards have since had a free reign to yap whatever nonsense they please and few people (using their own name) are going to really drill home how wrong or poorly informed someone actually is - some poorly informed might take it as a chance to learn new facts, but more often the popular platforms encourage narcissism and other behaviours befitting personality disorders, as such few have the grit to admit they might have the wrong end of the stick. In tricky hot areas, any one of the true believers might take it into their head to organise something not so good in real life for those who are being a thorn to their beliefs, since they have a valid person's name - so only someone truly courageous or naive is going to persist some days or weeks to post links and do their best to educate or illuminate why certain poorly formed ideas don't pass the pub test.

Having the govt or a third party step in doesn't really work either, yes it stops some things being echoed, but for a percentage of conspiracy minded folks, it just reinforces the idea that whatever was stated or something they already believe in, is actively being covered up.

Ultimately it's best to have the bulk of the general population well educated, esp science ... scientific methods - critical thinking - with some grounding in psychology; even if majority might not utilise much or any of it for their job. However it's hard to undo 30 or 40 years of dumbing down the general population. (I can't really speak for the rest of the world, but IMO that's the situation in Australia (things like setting goal posts lower, replacing all the hard science or technical books with fluffy light versions in local libraries - but perhaps that's explained by a move to meet the lower reading comprehension levels that seem to persist now ... and it seems to be a mystery to some here why certain local jobs can no longer be filled by someone born and educated in Australia.)
g(x) is mind-bending. I can write out a proof that it is continuous at 0 and nowhere else, but it still barely makes sense.

I can understand the reactions of the late 19th Century mathematicians, though I suspect much of it was exaggerated rhetoric, not real horror.
Harvard-trained expert: I have anxiety
Violence can also be taken over by robots, it's another job that they can do better
Ashby's Law of Requisite Variety
I have the same experience but I am still 5 to 10 times more productive using claude. I'll have it write a class, have it write tests for the class and give it the output of the tests, from which it usually figures out problems like "oops those methods don't exist". Along the way I am guiding it on the approach and architecture. Sometimes it does get stuck and it needs very specific intervention. You need to be a senior engineer to do this well, In the end I usually get what I want with way more tests than I would have the patience to write and a fraction of the time. Importantly since it now has the context loaded, I can have it write nicely formatted documentation and add bells and whistles like a pretty cli, with minimal effort. In the end I usually get what I want with better tests, docs and polish in a fraction of the time, especially with cursor which makes the iteration process so much faster.
When everyone is wearing grey, the one guy cavorting around in rainbow pants isn't "just" wearing clothes.
Amazon has been more than just generically horrible - they use blatantly anti-competitive contracts (as if their near-monopsony position wasn't bad enough):

"Amazon fixed online retail prices through contract provisions and policies" that "prevent third-party sellers that offer products on Amazon.com from offering their products at lower prices or on better terms on any other online platform, including their own websites,"

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/05/amazon-sued-over...
Cool, best JS-based backend framework for sure. Much love to this team :)
It's not about military indoctrination but the popularity of the leader. Yoon is exceptionally unpopular. If he had 80% approval, instead, he would probably now be the dictator of The People's Democratic Republic of South Korea.

Without that approval the best you're looking at (from his perspective) is mass unrest which an opportunistic nation like their neighbor could foment, support, and exploit.
It's not common but you'll see it on some trials bikes.

I was always told that that is so you can use smaller sprockets front and rear for the same ratio, giving you more bottom bracket clearance when you're hopping about the place.

Obviously that's a very specific type of bike for a very specific purpose though.
>kids giving up violin because they can't compete with their Humanoid "servants"

It's an interesting situation to consider in a fictional story, except we already have real-world proof of this NOT happening the way some authors envision it. We already have machines that can beat master players at Chess and it hasn't led to people giving up on chess - not playing it, not learning it.
Yes, Some Vaccines Contain Aluminum. That's a Good Thing
Yes, I use those all the time for exactly that purpose. In many cases you don't even need to worry in which order to enter the operands when calculating a difference or ratio, just press negate or reciprocal if the result doesn't look right.
Has everyone just given up on blocking bots?

Not at all. I block them on my silly hobby sites with great success. [1] I've never used a CDN on my personal stuff.

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42792862
Especially since his courses could be replaced by an AI.
I use rhel for the same purpose. Accept no substitute.
It's common for founders who have exited to become angel investors. Donating to a startup probably doesn't make a heap of sense though.
Perhaps down the road, after experimental is lifted. For now I've generally been telling distros to slow down.

For anything this big staging the release is important, we don't need or want to be in every distro right away (the Fedora people were also _extremely_ gung ho in the past and I told them the same thing).

Until every outstanding critical bug report is fixed (and there are still a few), I want power users testing it who know how to deal with things breaking, I don't want unsuspecting users getting bit.
Representational is to do with being able to deal with different representations of data via a media type[0]. There is stuff about resource identification in ReST, but it's just about being able to address resources directly and permanently rather than the style of the resource identifier:

> Traditional hypertext systems [61], which typically operate in a closed or local environment, use unique node or document identifiers that change every time the information changes, relying on link servers to maintain references separately from the content [135]. Since centralized link servers are an anathema to the immense scale and multi-organizational domain requirements of the Web, REST relies instead on the author choosing a resource identifier that best fits the nature of the concept being identified.

[0] https://ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/rest_arch_st...
Wait, don't QR codes have checksums in them? Or do they have some sort of error correction built-in? That's the only way I can imagine it can possibly work with e.g. 85% of one QR-code blended with 15% of another one.
Is this any different from `filter(bool, tokens)`? (similar to the JS equivalent mentioned in a sibling)

If not, I'm now curious why the `None` special case was added to `filter`..
A lot of very good people have crossed that line, and they did so -because- they were good people. They may have done it in defense of loved ones or strangers. They may have done it in service to the nation or community that they were born in.

When having these conversations, it’s easy to stand on the moral high ground and forget that we also live among monsters, and alongside organizations that turn regular people into the instruments of monsters. There are a lot of people in this world that have chosen to be incompatible with coexistence in civil society, or to be part of an organization that has chosen to be so.

These people actively do grave harm to other people. Sometimes, the only way to prevent more harm to innocent people is to remove those individuals from the world.

That said, I don’t know anything of the veracity or motivations behind the allegations brought against DPR in this regard, and for whatever reason, his legal circumstances were crafted so as to make sure that the public would also remain ignorant of the details of those circumstances.

While I do not know any of the details involved, I am deeply suspicious of the manipulations of the FBI in cases such as this, having been in proximity to some of their other shenanigans. It’s definitely inside the realm of reasonable speculation to imagine that they may have created a situation where not only was it convenient for DPR to eliminate his “competitor”, but he would be doing a noble thing in the process.

As an example , one of their “successful anti terrorist operations” a few years back involved a mentally challenged person was manipulated by the FBI into a “terrorist” plot where he thought he was “saving the world”…. So they -definitely-do that kind of thing. The Walmart judiciously wouldn’t sell him a gun (he is obviously and apparently challenged) so they sent him back to buy a bb-gun and arrested him coming out of the store.

Because of this and many other examples of behavior with depraved impunity, I am inclined to give DPR the benefit of the doubt on this, in the absence of much more specific and reliable information.
Except not actually, because even if nuclear power is imbalanced, nuclear war is still too dangerous for anybody who's not as crazy as General Ripper.
RPN calculators have that (swap button).
Yup, that's the litmus test.

Either he's dum8 enough to do it, or dum8 enough not to understand the consequences.

However, I'll stick with my initial diagnosis - a "fck you" act from the mind of someone who has either lost their way, or has always been on the wrong path but has only just found the voice to say it.

What a mess ...
I think my point is that in the majority of cases companies will do both. i.e. (when run "effectively") they will use all available levers.

If they fail to, it will usually be an oversight than a deliberate strategy.

Of course - some companies push harder, overstep more bounds and neglect the possible negative 2nd order effects more. But assuming there's an obvious lever that says "make more money legally" - the vast number of companies will reach for it.
Why would you want to remote start a car if you are a mile away?
Glad you tried it out! Excel triggers recalculation when a referenced cell updates, just like with any other formula. This is also why responses are not streamed, as every update would trigger recalculation. But if the async behavior of responses messes with the recalculation logic I am very interested in looking into it and you are most welcome to open an issue in the repo with steps to reproduce.
yeah south korean president has wild track record given how advance south korea are like they almost turned into "north korea" dictatorship, thats seriously wild things are
:s/VSCode/Jetbrains/
Very informative, I'll be sure to study this to inform my fellow citizens close to me know about these facts
FWIW, Dorsey has been yeeted.
This is exactly what I came here to say as well. Whoever wrote this fundamentally just doesn't get it.

This whole thing is honestly what I've suspected/expected owning this car, but it's somehow still surprising to see. My guess is no car company does this really well right now, and makes me want to drive a 1998 Acura Integra instead.
vim is everywhere. Vim bindings in window manager. If will last as long as we will be using keyboards.
Show HN: Chrome extension that brings back the blue Twitter theme for free
Simple Chrome extension that gives you the blue theme on Twitter for free. Having it behind a paywall while the mobile version allows it is lame.
Simple extension. No signups
talking about E-Waste , why modern tv doesn't have external device for the soc ? why I have to bypass the slow tv using a firestick , but the tv anyway become obsolete,

but the tv anyway becomes obsolete, and lacking security updates also potentially a danger for my home network and for the internet in general? in addition to losing some essential functions that only the soc integrated in the tv system can provide?
would it have been enough to move the computational part containing the cpu, the memory and the sw on an external hw so as to be able to swap it (proprietary or not, but at least upgradable!)
But... that can possibly only make things more expensive than they are now, with dubious improvements in quality?
The only people that I see that are actually blaming it on autism are those that are sky high from smoking copium.

Musk himself is pretty overtly affirming what he did, with his nazi name puns and other tweets.
Do you turn on SQLite checksumming or how do you feel comfortable that data on disk stays keeps integrity?
Some of them exist against the will of the host country's government, for example in Cuba and Iraq, and Iraq's government is even democratically elected (albeit with issues)
Many here say that a political revolution will follow. That is possible, but the oligarchs could equip a foreign legion with no cultural affinity towards the population.

Or those that plunder Tolkien for their company names will succeed in their Skynet endeavors. Anduril currently seems like a joke, hopefully it stays that way. On the other hand, the satellite network required for coordinating Skynet is already operational.
Another word for haters is critics.
If we assume that the country isn't going to become authoritarian and will have some form of democratic elections, if you get rid of the president's post, you need an equivalent person and the shift in responsibilities. If the system changed to not elect the leader directly, but indirectly like in Germany, it wouldn't just change the possibility of someone corrupt getting into power, just the way they get into power. With that in mind, what would you replace it with?
@kristianp Can I ask you about your gpuprices website, did you have any success with it?
We have little reason to believe that intellectual jobs are harder to automate than physical jobs. Consider the Moravec's paradox (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moravec%27s_paradox).
Constitutional amendment to allow Trump third term introduced in the House
This is what I mean by the advantage of the "democratic system." Democracy can always save a country from the mess. As for why it’s in the mess, don’t worry about that.

Presidents may be impeached, removed from office, or even die, but the system will never fail.
I’m confused by this, just turn the network off on your TV and use the external device.

There aren’t any essentially functions of a TV that require a network connection.

My smart TV is only connected to the network to upgrade the firmware, and the moment firmware upgrades stop coming out I’m not going to connect it anymore.
wowww very cool
I kin the US at least, IKEA’s cheapest stuff is usually particle board, not MDF (which would probably actually be a step up). They also have this weird cardboard honeycomb with a very thin layer of mdf on top that they use for their cheapest desktops and the infamous Lack side tables.
I believe some problems in the field are now easier, we haven't made a dent on the truly hard ones, IMO.

source: I work in the field.
Or a used one. I mean if part of the bikes old anyway. I got a used one for ~$250 though I've since spent $100+ fixing stuff.
No, but neither is it necessarily more 'real'
Even stainless steel ;)
It's hard to make predictions for such a hypothetical future, but let me try anyway.

If we ever reach 100% unemployment, the working class (in which I inlcude all that depend on wages to live) will lose its only leverage in today's world: its labor. This is bound to make the situation very dire, very quickly for the vast majority of the population (>99%). I see only two solutions:

* Either the owners push for some kind of UBI to buy social peace, leaving us with just enough that we don't hang them.

* Or they rely on robocops (or regular cops) to keep us in line. In which case it's either rebellion or slow extinction for us.

My preferred solution would be to install a new political system that ensures fair redistribution of products and good management of natural resources, which I think is easily achievable in a world of AGI and robots.
having to work with financial system or payment system really teaches me a lot of correctness

I mean when we talk about money and company can potentially bankrupt within few minutes because how easy today to move money, things can get south pretty quick
Really seems like apple missed this time with their usually "we're not first, but we're the best when we do show up strat" on AI.