skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sounds like fast fashion. The thinnest, cheapest fabric, slapped together as fast as possible with the least amount of stitching. Shipped fast and obsolete fast.
Last thread from 2023: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38536778
> Well, let's see you do it!

That's a bit rude to be making demands when I was just trying to provide some helpful info.

If you want to learn more, you can google it. I'm not the person who invented deconvolution. It's not secret knowledge.
Thing is Google does not use commodity hardware for their DCs as far as I can tell. They got famous for that back in the early 2000s but I think they abandoned that approach a long time ago.
Having used lots of different image generators, so far the only one with a sense of humor has been Dall-e3.

https://www.reddit.com/r/dalle2/s/khb5XuNFdl

There’s probably some sort of connection to ChatGPT in there. But, I don’t know enough about how it works.
Because to enable engaging that switch you need to be able to issue global commands. The same communication functionality can be used to engage other functionality. Presumably, the robot can be instructed to do things other than turn itself off.
I subscribe to https://kagi.com/. I use search to find expert and authoritative sources of information with human authors who can be held responsible for their contents, and that I can cite in my own work. I’m not interested in the output of a copy-paste machine that steals others’ work, makes things up, and spits out prose worse than a politician’s.
How long did it take to oxygenate the planet though? Millions of years, billions?

How long did it take to spew enough carbon into the atmosphere to create acid rain? How long did it take to clear cut most of the wester European forests?

No one thinks the earth was perfectly harmonious before man, but in the last 200k years (0.0004% of the earth's age), we have DEFINITELY left a mark that no other life form before had. In the last 200 years, we've probably done more harm than all other life forms before as well (but that I'm less confident about).
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The EKG stress test portion was fun.

"We want you to run until you feel tired." (I forget their exact wording, but that's the spirit)

"Uhm, we're going to be here for hours."

"OK, get it up to 145bpm and then stop whenever you want."

"I never get up to 145 bpm!"

"We'll get you up to 145 bpm".

And indeed they did. An aside: their treadmill goes steeper than mine at home does. :-P
Having opinions is one thing; disrupting a major meeting with an unrelated complaint about your employer (and generating national news) is another.
The craziest and stupidest things I hear regularly are from older people. There are broad swathes of old people that, not having been raised to be skeptical about media consumption on the internet, are entirely credulous about all manner of insane dis/mis-information.

That said, it's also something I'm seeing with younger people as well.
How British 'geeks' launched one of most lucrative gaming franchises of all time
But a banker and an engineer are 2 individual members of the same species. Evolutionary pressure to develop a specific type of intelligence doesn't apply.

But yes, there are of course many different kinds of intelligence.
I don't think it's fair to the candidate to expect them to think that when a recruiter says "suit up" they mean in t-shirt and jeans or cutoffs.
I messed around with Copilot for a while and this is one of the things that actually really impressed me. It was very good at taking a messy block of code, and simplifying it by removing unnecessary stuff, sometimes reducing it to a one line lambda. Very helpful!
One thing jumps out about the person who noticed the AI was wrong on things they were familiar with. It's like when ELon Musk talks about rockets. I don't know about rockets so I take his word for it. When Elon Must talked about software it was obvious he has no idea what he's doing. So when the AI generates something I know nothing about, it looks productive but when it's generating things for which I'm familiar I know its full of shit.
I'd agree with limiting copyrights but would do it based on money earned rather than time, so something like when you make $X million, the work becomes public domain.

As a specific example — _A Game of Thrones_ was released in 1996. It picked up awards early on but only became a NYT best seller in 2011, just before the TV show aired.

It would feel harsh for an author to loose all their copyright because their work was a "slow burn" and 5 years have elapsed but they've made little to no money on it.
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well why would you want to blow up international trade to begin with?
> Also, the ability to work under pressure is valuable skill. If you have a candidate that fails to perform when being in a room with someone else, I doubt you can argue that that's your hiring decision when other candidates are able to perform in similar circumstances.

I'm curious, as a software engineer when was the last time you've seriously worked under pressure? Like, 'do this thing now or you're fired/the company goes under' and so forth? The kind of snap pressure that interviews can push on you.

I haven't been under significant pressure in the past 10 or so years of software engineering. Not when on live ops diagnosing why our server is failing to work in prod, not when identifying critical client crashes.
It's less than 100 days in, and courting Musk turned out to be at least as important. Give it a bit of time. Maybe DOGE-stylists will give API access to Meta and Oracle for whatever excuse they can come up with.
> The moment tools like socket2 or HTTP clients land with Preview2

i'm waiting for that as well. my other options are

- either bind a host function to manage wss connection to wasm. fork a CDP lib to use that.

- create a proxy between http/wss maybe. And then fork a CDP lib to use http proxy i think.
i wish i was not sympathetic to those arguments - and i used to not be, but then i actually worked in the federal government. perhaps local governments can efficiently provision services but the feds are handicapped in so many different ways it would be quite challenging to untangle.

realistically, the workforce that was hired around sorting through hundreds of thousands of bureaucratic paper documents in the 70s/80s is not the same workforce that can really build new products and the feds are mostly the former.
Please provide real metrics to support what you've claimed above.
>AI use makes the metric for success speed-to-production

Wasn't it like that always for most companies? Get to market fast, add features fast, sell them, add more features?
Any european who happened to have become sick once in the US can tell you about that if you will.
Prompt puncher and Luddite come to mind.
I read it as this is the context from which I make the following observation. It's not excluding degrees but certainly not requiring them.
Huh? What stereotype? It was an honest question that I haven't heard a good answer for how black market payments will work as societies go cashless.

In the US, it seems that 3rd party systems like Venmo are lightly monitored when it comes to payments for minor crimes. But I imagine that would change when there is a single government controlled payment system with total transparency.
My MacBook Pro repair on hold "because we need more information."
I sent my MacBook Pro to Apple for repair, and it arrived there yesterday morning. Since then, a whole day now, it's been in a status of "Our technicians have put your repair on hold because we need more information." I asked about it via Apple's chat support, and they could give me no more information than that.

I must admit I'm a bit worried that the information they need may have to do with getting parts from China in the presence of tariffs!
But it’s not copying and reselling — it’s imitation.

Copying is controlled by copyrights. And imitation isn’t controlled by anything.

As for a company: a company is just a group of people acting together.
How do you work around people just pushing clones of existing software to their repos?
But i have said nothing about Bolsonaro's lack of awareness -- his monumental ignorance is a known fact, mind you, and that is not the core of my argument.
Framework stops selling some laptops in the US in response to tariffs
Why the Physics Underlying Life Is Fundamental and Computation Is Not
Yeah, I agree with you here. Most of the people I know in tech got laid off in 2001 due to startups failing. I think the only person I knew that made it through worked for Yahoo.
This article reminds that coding is a minor part of the enitre process and relationship building, mentoring, communication etc - all the soft/social skills - are very important part.

This should be taught in schools and part of onboarding process in teams.

I will definitely mention this article for the rest of my team to read.
Yep. The great thing about the expectation of suit is always knowing what to wear.
> Brazil’s fusty banking

That's precious coming from an US publication, a country where checks are still used.
You are again just thinking from the perspective of a manager: Yes, if these ai jobs need to be filled, artists will be the people filling them. But from the artists perspective there are fewer jobs, and the jobs that do remain are less fulfilling. So: from the perspective of a large part of the workforce it is completely true and rational to say that ai at their job has mostly downsides.
There was a related hashtag that was banned for hilarious reasons.
A Deep Dive into Datacenter and Server Spending Forecasts
The AI code has thousands of licenses but the legal system hasn't caught up
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> So when the AI generates something I know nothing about, it looks productive but when it's generating things for which I'm familiar I know its full of shit.

This is why when you hear people talk about how great it is at producing X, our takeaway should be "this person is not an expert at X, and their opinions can be disregarded"

They are telling on themselves that they are not experts at the thing they think the AI is doing a great job at
Quit the hyperbole.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/IPMAN

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/global-manufacturing-scor...

> Manufacturing constitutes 27 percent of China’s overall national output, which accounts for 20 percent of the world’s manufacturing output. In the United States, it represents 12 percent of the nation’s output and 18 percent of the world’s capacity. In Japan, manufacturing is 19 percent of the country’s national output and 10 percent of the world total. Overall, China, the United States, and Japan comprise 48 percent of the world’s manufacturing output.
My next big LLM feature is going to be tool support, and I anticipate building an MCP plugin on top of that.
Some, yes, but the cause and effect are somewhat blurred because both were happening over a long period of time. They each contributed to each other in a feedback loop, and I don't claim to be enough of a scholar of that period to know for sure which one started first.
> The issue is lying about your experiences

I think the point is that LLMs makes it easier and cheaper to produce a large volume of convincing lies. The candidate likely would not have been able to produce convincing-enough lies to get through the resume screen without LLMs.
My PR is ~3:40, but to do that, I dropped a lot of weight (~30 lbs) and did a lot of dedicated training with a, let's say, reputable marathon coach.

3:40 is slow by "serious layperson" marathon standards, but it was about the max I could get with my at the time 40-ish yo body and ~6 months of serious training, starting from a solid baseline.

I am slow, so my average marathon normally hovers around 4:00.

I am not fast by any measure, but I do have ridiculous endurance.
Well, in a sane world we wouldn't have one man single-handedly blowing up international trade, and thus wouldn't be having this conversation.

Any system will fail if you deliberately put it into it's failure mode...
Replace “politicians” with “billionaires” and it’d be more accurate. Legislation has long stopped correlating highly with average citizen sentiment and has started correlating highly with wealthy and corporate interests.
at same time you don't wanna to ask bank for permission to spend your money every time:

"Can I buy some milk today? No!, let's visit our branch first and give some papers which will require significant time/effort to get for you."

Most just not experiencing things like this but once that happen it is hard to ignore this possibility.
Back with v2! My 9 year old updated The Gamey Game based on your feedback
My son has been learning to code. Today he’s releasing v2 of his math battle game, The Gamey Game. He’s excited to share it with you all!

The Gamey Game v2: https://www.armaansahni.com/game-v2

He’s also written a blog post about how he made this game: https://www.armaansahni.com/how-i-took-the-gamey-game-to-the...

He originally released v1 of the game a few months ago and got great feedback from this community. A big thank you for the feedback, it led to some great conversations and provided a ton of motivation for him to keep moving forward.

v2 was built using HTML, JS, CSS. All written by hand in VSCode. No frameworks, no build steps. He made all the graphics himself and also recorded all the audio.

Note that both parents are programmers so he has lots of hints and guidance along the way. He also leverages Google Gemini to answer coding questions (syntax, how to do something, etc), but the LLM isn’t coding for him and it isn’t available to him directly in his editor.

For the blog post, we talked about the target audience and came up with an outline. He then dictated his blog post directly into Google Docs. Finally, we went through a few rounds of feedback/edits (for more clarity, more words, etc).

Other links:

v1 Game Link: https://www.armaansahni.com/game

v1 Blog Post: https://www.armaansahni.com/how-i-coded-a-game-using-ai/

v1 Discussion Thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42312121
Well, that's not how you implement it, then. Use an air-gap.
Headlines, like most journalism, ought to be neutral. Your reaction is valid; another reaction might be anger, that these CEOs are firing workers in service of funding corrupt (and now, fruitless) ambitions.
>In one such case, Xiaotian Liu, a doctoral candidate studying computer science at Dartmouth College and a Chinese citizen, received an email from school administrators on Friday that the Department of Homeland Security had terminated his student status,

Welp. For decades the US has been a top educational destination. I found myself dating amazing girls from all over the world in college. It was fun.

No more. No one in their right mind is going to want to study here. You spend in holy amount of money to attend, all to risk getting randomly indefinitely detained.

Way to ruin our soft power for the next 50 years. When the children of world leaders are lining up to attend our top schools, that's a good thing.

But the elites of the future are going to study elsewhere. This is also a shadow attack on academia which owes much of its revenue to international students.

Make America Stupid Again!
I didn't know there was a term to it. I wouldn't think of my stance currently as advocating of purposeful scarcity in an anticipation of better distribution. Instead I do consider it critical to "take a step back" and "evaluate the problem statement at hand". Is the end goal more consumption or better living?
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Spent = bribed
> My brother is an extremely skilled machinist, the sort who could build machine tools if he had the resources.

Machine tools are not designed by extremely skilled machinists, they are designed by engineers. Machinists do not know how frames deflect or resonant modes or overconstraint or the other things that are critical in machine tool design. Machine tools are inherently dynamic systems where moving cutters cause feedback into the system. Being able to make something accurate under static conditions is very different.
"Even the US basically didn't get back to where it was pre-2008 till 2019."

Hard disagree. Things went back to almost normal around 2013. Lots of money going around, new startups, and plenty of jobs.
Fees are always paid by consumers in one way or another...

That said the EEA capped interchange with the explicit goal of making these fees painless to business owners, i.e. similar to the actual cost of handling cash, and we have PSPs charging as little as 0.5~0.7%.

While adoption is indeed slower than in developing countries since people are used to card payments (rather debit than credit by the way), the popularity of mobile wallets such as Swish, Vipps, BLIK, ... is actually pretty significant in a good number of countries, and at the same time, an increasing portion of the population uses Apple/Google/Samsung/... Pay and doesn't care about the physical card anymore. Given that the EU has forced Apple to open up its NFC payment feature, we can perfectly imagine a pan-European federated payment scheme take off in the near future, using EPI/Wero in the Eurozone and interoperable local players outside.
I see two main problems with this approach:

1. productivity and quality is hard to measure

2. the codebase they are ruining is the same one I am working on.
If a camera company sells me a camera, I consider it a definite disadvantage, if I cannot open the Raw files until the software companies have updated their products. This is also a great way of forcing customers into the subscription models like Adobe offers.
So as a customer, I do criticize that they don't support more open formats.
> They have underestimated solar for the last 10 years now

That is an incredibly large understatement. They have gotten it shamefully and fundamentally wrong year after year.

https://i.redd.it/zz9p8ekoss7d1.jpeg
My sister worked at IBM and one of my favorite stories is when Lotus tried to pressure IBM to spend millions on licensing, a few engineers went off and built their own spreadsheet application and IBM told Lotus to piss off.
I didn't realize their margins were under 10% on some of their models. They seemed pricey enough in comparison to some of their competitors that I just assumed they had healthy margins across the range.

Economies of scale are a real thing, I hope Framework gets there.

(FWIW, I have a 7640U FW13 and I'm a pretty big fan of it.)
IF your participation & discussion do not cost your employer meaningful time, grief, or resources, then they are probably fine with you doing whatever.

Otherwise - do not be surprised if your boss concludes that your lofty pursuit of high ideals really needs to be freed from the grubby shackles of association with his morally ambiguous enterprise.
> ADHD is just a buzzword to fish attention.

And you’re just now telling me this? I’ve been struggling with it for 40 years - and the last thing I want is attention, especially in that way.
> 4 BRL (aprox 1 USD)

I wish. That's off by 50%
I always assumed game development would be one of the most impacted by AI hype, for better or worse. With game development there’s a much higher threshold for subjectivity and “incorrectness”.

I’m in a Fortune 500 software company and we are also being pushed AI down our throats, even though so far it has only been useful for small development tasks. However our tolerance for incorrectness is much, much lower—and many skip levels are already realizing this.
Who is 'he'? This thread and your comment is for Rumeysa Ozturk.
Knowing that it is possible is different than having the tools, having the expertise, and wanting to take the time to do it for a random HNer.

There are several papers on the topic if you're that interested.
We have a social credit system here in the US too. It’s called LexisNexis, background checks, FICO, and college background. They determine what jobs you can get, the places you can rent from, and what cars you can finance.

What’s your social score?
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It took a truly colossal amount of human time and effort to build AI systems. It takes significant amount of energy to run those AI systems.

I don’t see any meaningful difference at all between the system of a human, a computer and a corpus of images producing new images, and the system of a human, a paintbrush, an easel, a canvas and a corpus of images producing new images. Emphasis on the new — copying is still copying, and still controlled by copyrights.
> " Image generation is likely to be very disruptive in ways we don’t understand right now. "
Is anyone getting tired of these formulations ? When a tech is disruptive, we know it immediately. Uber was disruptive. AirBnB, Gmail, Amazon, even Facebook at one point. You just knew it, nobody was writing long essays trying to justify those products. Robots generating statistically median images is impressive, but not disruptive at all. If something is "likely" to be "disruptive", but in ways "we don't understand yet", how can the claim even be made? What is it based on? If we do not understand it yet, how can we understand if it is "likely to be disruptive".
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I would not expect much, but you'd have to measure to be sure.

If you actually have a million of something you're better off writing a custom manager thing to handle the bulk of the work anyway. For instance, if you're doing a brick building game where users might place a million bricks - maybe you want each brick to be an Actor for certain use cases, but you'd want to centralize all the collision, rendering, update logic. (This is what I did on a project with this exact use case and it worked nicely.)
My wife runs a small retail makeup shop on Shopify, which started before pix and those surprise false fraud claims almost killed the business.

Pix was such a game changer. It is perfect.