skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> it ignores the fact that new jobs are created precisely when old ones become redundant

That did not happen after the electronics revolution changed manufacturing starting in the 1970s. Factories that needed thousands of workers to manufacture a certain car model for large regions started to be run with only a few hundred workers. Same for other manufacturing fields.

The Western countries directed all the resulting excess workforce to sectors like finance, law, tech and services, but with AI and the zero interest economy ending all of those sectors are also coming crashing down.

So no, technological advancement and automation really reduced the workforce need and did not replace it with new jobs.
BDS Calls for Boycott of Microsoft Game Pass, Minecraft, New Xbox Consoles
No joke, I used to work there until they went RTO. But I liked the product. It's crazy that our politicians can trade like they do.
So, I dug into this somewhat deeply, and it's true that there's some case law which would make an outright ban of commercial advertising difficult, however:

The law is pretty consistent about the idea that any paid endorsement has to be "truthful". And as we've learned more about sociology and advertising, we've realized that things like paid endorsements are fundamentally not truthful, because they are misleading the public to believe that some figure or trusted source (even if only at a subconscious level - which is still enough to change consumer behavior!) is in favor of a product or brand.

So maybe if you could argue that paid speech is inherently untruthful (which I believe that it is!), then you could make legal policy that bans paid speech complaint with the First Amendment! (caveat: I am not a lawyer, I am not a legal activist, etc)
Yep. OP fell into the classic trap of making generalizations across two COMPLETELY different fields despite only having knowledge in one of them. I got my PPL nearly a decade ago (obv a far cry from ATP but still) and it's ludicrous to try to compare the skill sets of computer science to piloting.
I actually pulled "the machine" from University of Alabama Greek life, I haven't heard that phrase used before on the national stage or by Trump supporters. If there's an overlap there on my end its coincidence.

I will say, though, that I'm not repeating anything that needs to be acknowledged as fiction. I don't think it is a fiction that Trump and his team learned to move fast and break things because moving slowly will be stopped. That doesn't mean his lessons are learned based in fiction, only that their learning the lesson itself is not fiction.
You may not like billboards, but they are a form of expression and free speech. Admittedly against banning them. Have y’all not learned anything from the last election? Cancel culture and stifling free speech is not a strategy.
https://www.npr.org/2018/04/05/599707003/smoot-hawley-tariff...

TLDR, the last time the USA did this, it took decades and a world war to devastate almost everyone else to undo the damage and rebuild trust in the USA as a trading partner.
I don't think it's a metaphor, I just think it observes a municipality demanding a business tear down and rebuild a facade for aesthetic reasons and uses that as a justification for banning billboards. Ban all the billboards you want, but municipalities should not be enforcing those aesthetic rules.
Let’s strike a deal. Let’s take the current city design boards and repurpose them so that instead of micromanaging stucco colors and setbacks they’re micromanaging visual advertising.

Housing gets cheaper, visual advertising disappears.
> The massive incompetence of the administration is absolutely appalling

Huh? The Biden administration kept all of Trump's tariffs and most of his policies. You people don't seem to know that the US establishment is one single party with slightly different factions...
Not my area of expertise but I don’t think storage is a big deal, relatively speaking. It’s all about the compute
Think you might be undervaluing the fact that securitized capital markets offer much broader access to loans at attractive terms.

Which isn't to say there aren't some parts of the financial industry that produce little real value.

But is to say that the competitiveness, ease, and attractive terms of standard 30-yr-fixed-rate US mortgages don't spring out of thin air.
> No, this is how low info conspiratorial voters think it works, because their worldview is everything is 1. a conspiracy 2. involves "money" in some basic way they can easily imagine.

There's no conspiracy in acknowledging that politicians sometimes use their influence for personal gain, when it's convenient. That's just human nature.
If SCOTUS can develop a test to determine when the government is allowed to violate 1A, then they can loosen that test's requirements. They won't, of course, but I don't see why they couldn't, if they wanted to.
BDS: Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement

> which acts nonviolently to pressure Israel into ending its occupation and apartheid.
> I feel like most computer problems are made up, and so many real-world problems draw in your emotions and senses.

It’s funny, I feel the same but come to the opposite conclusion. I don’t want to look back on my life thinking that I spent all my time chasing fake problems. The calculus is different for everyone though.
Right, but there is past (obsolete) precedent that suggests otherwise. If Valentine can be overturned, then the current way of thinking can also be changed.
Fundamentaly wireless products without easily replaceable batteries are products made to benefit the company more than the user.

Even if we accept that wireless is "better", having the battery easily swappable in a few seconds would cost nothing and make the product much better.

And I don't think cables are that big of a problem on mouse, especially if they are correctly engineered with enough length, you just don't notice them and it's more a look thing that anything else really. This is particularly true if you heavily use the computer and the mouse, the benefits of wireless are badly counterbalanced by the annoyance of battery management.
Freedom has a cost that is not always really worth it.

At least in the MX Master case you can use it wired if you wish, so it's not too bad.
> That might be overstating it, at least if you mean it to be some unreplicable feat.

I mean, surely there's a reason you decided to mention 3.5 turbo instruct and not.. 3.5 turbo? Or any other model? Even the ones that came after? It's clearly a big outlier, at least when you consider "LLMs" to be a wide selection of recent models.

If you're saying that LLMs/transformer models are capable of being trained to play chess by training on chess data, I agree with you.

I think AstroBen was pointing out that LLMs, despite having the ability to solve some very impressive mathematics and programming tasks, don't seem to generalize their reasoning abilities to a domain like chess. That's surprising, isn't it?
Read Va Pharmacy vs Va Citizens Consumer Council to get a sense for how well you're going to fare with "paid speech is inherently untruthful". It's addressed directly!
> Or is it that the atrocity isn’t highly relevant to discuss on a hacker news thread, and also hard to have people follow HN Guidelines? (Much more likely explanation)

The guidelines themselves say posts should be "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity."

No I don't think it's a cabal of Jews, but I've seen posts get flagged for being critical of YC or OpenAI, and just a few days ago PG's essay got flagged seemingly just for vague references to the current political climate. There are clearly people using the flagging system to take down posts they don't like and it's always justified with "the post was off topic" even though there are no objective rules for what is on topic.
I'm pretty serious about it. The world would be a much better place without advertising.
ML Concepts and Fundamentals Test
Discussion (95 points, 2 days ago, 31 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43587420
If your neighbor had planning approval on building that would not shade your yard, and then built something that would never have been approved because it shades your yard, reducing your enjoyment of your yard and the value of your house, what’s your position?
There are a lot of problems with slavery and I am all for it them but this seems like such an extreme response. As someone who has worked for slave owners, without some form of slavery, people would just not pick cotton at all.
>Its a trap.

Trust is efficient. Lack of trust is inefficient. If someone untrustworthy like Musk fired me and suddenly wanted a do-over, I'd counter with a completely selfish arrangement like a $500/hr contracting rate with some non-trivial amount due up front.
I don't know, all the billboards I ever see are for restaurants, concerts, and ambulance chasers. Let's ban Meta and Google instead.
Nope, its just that the current Eu establishment doesnt like how its narrative about the Gaza genocide or the Ukraine War was challenged by including even its own press, so they want control and censorship. The countries that are pushing for this are persecuting people for protesting the Ukraine war or the Gaza genocide. Also there's the thing with the current Eu commission president's secret whatsapp chat with Pfizer lobbyists, which has become a major issue that reached the top European court recently.
I do find billboards annoying, but they're like 2% of the problem.
The difference is that we’re reading these comments willingly. A great deal of advertising is imposed on people who don’t want it.

If I don’t want my behavior swayed by HN, I can stop reading it. If I don’t want my behavior swayed by advertising, I can... close my eyes every time a bus goes by, avoid any public place with an operating television, and never check my mail?
We should simply not support websites that download huge arbitrary programs from a huge number of arbitrary third party domains just to retrieve bit by bit what is in the end a static website and reimplement all kinds of standardized browser features in a non standard way that makes a huge number of assumptions and only targets a subset of people with specific browsers with specific settings using specific input devices in a specific way and just break that functionality for everyone else making the open web very closed by enforcing clients behave and be used in a certain pre approved way, breaking accessibility and crippling all kinds of browser features often with disregard and often with intention.

It's my device and I should get to decide what code I run in it, what software I use, how that software displays content to me and how I interact with it.
Because almost no Apple users use a mouse. How many iMacs does Apple sell relative to trackpad devices? It’d be a waste of R&D resources.
> within a week

How do we know that Gemini 2.5 wasn't specifically trained or fine-tuned with the new questions? I don't buy that a new model could suddenly score 5 times better than the previous state-of-the-art models.
When you seek them out, how will you find them?
I once made a long drive through Vermont and was stunned at the absence of car-culture detritus compared to almost any other freeway I've seen in the US. Without all the gas stations and strip malls you can barely see the highway from a distance; it just disappears into the forest.
Look at how many people believe in extremist news outlets!
We’re just getting started, but would love to hear feedback! Our goal is to make AI agents that can handle the complexity of business travel—booking, expenses, VIP airport services—without the usual manual steps. If you're into AI, SaaS, or just love building stuff, it would be amazing to collaborate and hear your thoughts.
I agree, but I also don't care. A few people are really passionate about this, most people agree but it's just not important. Let's busy our governments with important issues and not your vanity pet problem.
Let’s ban design review boards that mandate aesthetic choices on siding.
Only so much delusion can be supported. I know the market will stay irrational longer than I can stay solvent, but if a war to break out, which seems more and more likely every day, fundamentals represent how many bullets you can actually produce, and that kind of thing does matter, especially for making policy decisions.

Knowing that there is potentially no basis for half of the country's retirement wealth is important because it means it could disappear over night.
I don't think GP was suggesting this a political policy worth pursuing, but was just stating a preference. And stating an extreme preference does not imply that one would not be pleased with incremental improvement.

I, too, would love it if all advertising just disappeared.
I'm actually okay with the things you mentioned. The really salient example for me is: should Disney be allowed to advertise Disney movies and Disney products at Disney world? The answer seems to be a pretty obvious yes to me. If you are at Disney World, you are in the "Disney Ecosystem", and so there's nothing wrong with Disney pushing more Disney stuff at you - that's just part of the experience.

I think that similar exceptions extend to a TV network that's pushing its own products at you while you are watching the station. No consideration has been provided to push the ad, so you are in whatever ecosystem.

How do you know when you've crossed the line into abuse? Well, we have anti-monopoly laws for that. At some point an ecosystem becomes so big it's a monopoly that needs to be broken up, and after it gets broken up it can't self-deal across the broken pieces anymore. So just like we already have good legal infrastructure in place for figuring out when "consideration" has happened, we also have good (well, maybe not good enough lately) legal infrastructure in place for figuring out when a company is too big and too able to self-deal.
Hey don't worry, they're going to rewrite all the SSA software next!
iOS is constantly scanning for NFC tags containing URLs etc., which requires emitting enough field power to allow the tag to indicate its presence.

Apple Pay itself uses card emulation mode, and as such the phone only needs to (passively) listen for a payment terminal's field; that should itself not be detectable without emitting such a field.
> too bad nobody said that back then and were laughed off the national stage

It was a loud and varied contingent around 2000.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_Seattle_WTO_protests#Or...
Does it do it lockdown mode too?
My HOA should let me build a mudhut and a lot should cost $100.

I sound sarcastic but I mean this unironically. This is a model that works in the developing world and what we had before private capital captured the real-estate market.
Awesome. Had a feeling this was going to be a smalltalk thing. Seems to involve/extend moose[1] among other things.

Judging from the comments and such interesting projects languishing in obscurity.. smalltalk / pharo[2] still has a PR problem even though I think a lot of people are kind of fascinated by the ideas of image-based persistence[3]. The typical easy comparisons to VMs, IDEs, and notebooks all seem to fail to capture an important part of the essence. Hence the need for new vocabulary like "moldable development" and "contextual micro tools" which is all part of the appeal and part of the problem. It really is a different kind of thing.

I (still) hope it all catches on a bit more but my sense is that it probably needs to present itself as a bit less academic. Compare the moose touting of "meta-meta-modeling" with something like gritql[4], which focuses more on use-cases, and seems to be gaining in popularity rather than remaining obscure. Seems like maybe it's time for a change in tactics to bring in a wider audience.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moose_(analysis)
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharo
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smalltalk#Image-based_persiste...
[4] https://github.com/getgrit/gritql
Agreed. Another good solution would be for some other mouse company to copy the shape of the MX Master but make a purely wired version, or build it with standard batteries.

Or they could come up with a shape that is similar but fits my own hand even better; that would be cool. The MX Master is the best I’ve found in recent years, but even so it’s not quite perfect.
>If I want a service they provide, I will actively seek them out.

The problem is there are some services you don’t even know exist that could be much better than how you’re currently solving a problem. Think prevention vs treatment of a problem.

For a concrete example:

I learned about a dog groomer that comes to your house this way. Maybe it should have been obvious there would be some that made house calls but searching Google maps for groomers tends to return the ones with locations that you drive to.

Dog hates the car. Problem solved with a thing I didn’t know existed.
Not through ads - you can be sure of that!
We should let Asian countries manufacture things like t-shirts, sneakers, bamboo baskets, toys and so on and sell them to us for almost nothing. If we made those things here, we wouldn't be able to afford them! Consider this: minimum wage in Vietnam is $200 per month!

What we should be doing is not bringing back manufacturing of such cheap things. Instead, we should manufacture things other countries cannot easily manufacture, such as Nvidia chips, Boeing airplanes, GE jet engines, heavy machinery such as from Caterpillar, medical equipment including robotic surgery machines, immunotherapy and other advanced treatments, gene editing and other biotech products, implantable medical devices, DNA sequencing, nanotech, satellites and aerospace tech, telecom equipment and so on. We can charge a premium price for these products because other countries cannot easily copy us.

Let other countries manufacture cheap things like toys and t-shirts. We'll buy their products low and sell our products high.

Now, a fair question to ask here is, what makes us uniquely qualified to manufacture such high-tech products and sell them to other countries for premium prices? The answer is our universities. Our universities attract the smartest students from around the world. And they stay here after getting their masters and PhDs. The answer is also immigration. We are able to attract the best and the brightest scientists and engineers from around the world.

Trump's mistake is spraying tariffs across everything without carefully evaluating what type of manufacturing we want to bring back to the US, and of course, disappearing immigrant university students under various pretexts.
I might be filing for bankruptcy soon so I'm definitely stuck with what I've got.
I choose to buy more expensive clothing produced in places that pay employees a decent wage.

I think the US should pay them more. But the fact of the matter is people really want socks and shirts for a few dollars. People can choose to pay more and avoid sweatshops right now. But the fact is, most don't want to do that, and when given a choice, they won't.
I rarely leave the state, and I'm always aghast at the real world. Shh. It's nice and quiet here!
Compare Image Generators Visually
"Tired of scrolling through endless model rankings without truly SEEING the results, I built https://ImageBattle.ai to visually compare AI-generated images from multiple models. Because seeing is believing."
You create a website and do some SEO.

If you're a brick-and-mortar business, you list yourself on whatever various directories exist for businesses, create a Yelp page, etc. Yes, you might get a slower start, but as more people visit your store and come away with a good impression, they'll tell their friends.

But regardless, I... just don't care. Your need as a new business to find customers does not supersede my need to not suffer psychological manipulation every time I go outside or peruse the internet.
Not just that, but two 1D iterated box blurs, requiring an amount of work per pixel that is constant with respect to the blur radius—as opposed to quadratic for the naive convolution, or linear for the 2D-to-1D transformation with a full Gaussian kernel.

http://elynxsdk.free.fr/ext-docs/Blur/Fast_box_blur.pdf
Billboards are expensive and untargeted, so you need very high profit per acquired customer. Hence: law firms, sports betting, etc. Or you can go the long-term brand awareness route, hence alcohol, fast food, etc.
You know its interesting to know that the people that are in ICE are not smart/competent enough to make uses of these things to detect people and I dont think anything is going to change in the next 3-4 years, its actually bizarre.
> For example if I write a C# function which takes a Goose, specifically a Goose, not a Goose? or similar - well, too bad the CLR says my C# function can be called by this obsolete BASIC code which has no idea what a Goose is, but it's OK because it passed null. If my code can't cope with a null? Too bad, runtime exception.

That's actually no different to Rust still; if you try, you can pass a 0 value to a function that only accepts a reference (i.e. a non-zero pointer), be it by unsafe, or by assembly, or whatever.

Disagreeing with another comment on this thread, this isn't a matter of judgement around "who's bug is it? Should the callee check for null, or the caller?". Rust's win is by clearly articulating that the API takes non-zero, so the caller is buggy.

As you mention it can still be an issue, but there should be no uncertainty around who's mistake it is.
> We’re destroying our environment to store copies of copies of copies of stuff we have no intention of ever looking at again

While I agree that most of the stuff in data centers is probably crap, but that's because most of everything people do is crap. That's not for me to decide though, people save things because they find value in them. Most of what has value to another person won't have value to you. Most of what people treasure in their life is thrown away after they die because nobody wants it, even their closest family members. Who gets to tell everyone the bad news, that objectively their memories are trash and they don't have a right to keep them anymore? Gerry Fuckin' McGovern?

Secondly, we aren't destroying the environment for any of this. Data centers use like 5% or less of the overall electricity use. It's a lot, but we don't have to put datacenters in random locations, we can (and do) put them where electricity is cheap. That generally means that the 5% of electricity used for data centers, kwh for kwh isn't as impactful as an average kwh of end use. Large companies like Meta and Google claim to have zero net carbon by obtaining offsets. So in general we aren't "destroying the environment" to store copies of photos.
This doesn’t match my experience. Are you maybe talking about untargeted ads like in the Super Bowl?

My feed on social apps and youtube is very frequently filled with small businesses near me.
I think that's stating it a big too strongly. You can just run the LLM as an unprivileged user and restrict their behavior like you would any other user.

There are still bad things that can happen, but I wouldn't characterize them as "this security is full of holes". Unless you're trusting the output of the explicitly untrusted process in which case you're the hole.
“The budget” and “spending” are not the same things in the federal government.
How about you stop advocating for using the coercive power of the state to ban harmless speech or things you simply dislike? If a property owner wants to allow billboards on their building, they have every right to do so.
I have plenty of reasons to be annoyed at Apple, but this is NOT one of them. A mouse is a tactile and highly personal choice and F this article for trying to demonize Tim Apple and his preferred input device.
Get a lawyer just in case. How long have you been working there? Ensure your equity is in written in case they want to reduce it.