Plotly is full of undocumented features. My guess is because they have an entire consulting business helping devs with this

> Not because analysts are getting lazy, but because AI is making the job feel easier than it actually is.

But all the examples feel like people are being really lazy, e.g.

> Paste the image into the AI tool, read the suggested ___location, and move on.

> Ask Gemini, “Who runs this ___domain?” and accept the top-line answer.

I didn't study Engineering. I work in Germany and all my software positions said literally "Engineer" in the contract (both in German and English version). Maybe if it is in English it's not illegal who knows.

IANAL but I actually think "Engineer" in Germany is not the same protected word, thus companies use this, or "Software Engineer".

You also don't always get a say what they put in your sig or on your business card (and I think internal names would not matter anyway).

Since you are switching anyways you could try to adopt local first and that way you make sure you don't have yet another cloud dependency ie political dependency.

I thought this was gonna be about how washing machines always fail to accurately estimate how long it will take to wash

AI voice is literally the only way I have to "read" an obscure article during 1h non-static commutes.

I understand, It can do things that weren't previously possible, but it will also replace things that were done by humans, by artists before. Overall, in my opinion, is still a loss.

I think calling this art is a stretch, as they usually aren’t the author.

By automating it, it lowers the barrier to access this type of audio content for the masses. If you want to choose to pay someone you read something for you, the market allows that. This feels like a net gain.

> I think calling this art is a stretch, as they usually aren’t the author.

I can't even remotely agree.

Narrating a book is absolutely an art. Listen to a book narrated by Stephen Fry, and all other books will sound awful. Considerable care and craft goes into a well-read book.

But this is why I'm actually excited about good TTS tools. Not because I want to displace Stephen Fry, but because there are so many books read by awful narrators and something like ElevenReader would be a huge step up in quality.

I share the parent commenter's concerns about the displacement of artists, but I'm less convinced that TTS tools are a net negative.

If the AI content is good enough, nobody will use it, or at least not in the numbers that Audible et similia had before. It will just be a tiny minority following their principles.

We lived this already with social networks. Initially us tech enthusiasts were all like "it will democratize access to news, it democratize producing the news! curated work will still be there, it's a net gain". And we all saw how it actually developed. As someone on the Internet said, I want AI to do my laundry and repeating task so I can do art or other more interesting things, I don't want AI to do arts and force me to do laundry by hand because due to AI taking my job now I don't have money to pay for a washing machine.

> I think calling this art is a stretch, as they usually aren’t the author.

So I guess in your worldview a concert violinist also doesn’t make art, when they are playing a Mozart composition?

"replace things that were done by humans" isn't a loss by itself, if it frees up human labour to do other things. If human replaced by AI can't find better things to do, such that it makes them poorer, or anti-social its a loss but not necessarily AI's fault.

Doesn't apply to all situations, but "replace things that were done by humans" in arts can absolutely be a loss by itself. Making graphics/speech/video a commodity doesn't replace designers, voice actors, or directors, but we've definitely see it can directly harm them and the people that enjoy their work.

> can't find better things to do, such that it makes them poorer, or anti-social its a loss

I feel like this misses the point a bit - lost income/sustainability for artists is obviously a big issue we'll be facing, but looking for a performance indicator in an artistic endeavour doesn't really get you anywhere. There's more ways to value a painting than "what the market would pay" and "potential heat output as firewood", right?

How do you feel about what word processors did to the typist career?

How do you feel about replacing general labor, period, and doing so for a class that no longer maintains a semblance of a social safety net? Do you think there's a difference between displacing one profession and displacing most professions at once?

Do you people ever step out of the abstract and think about the actual context you're living in?

I will gladly pay taxes directed for retraining artists, but I will not pay to listen to Wil Wheaton narrate another book badly when my computer can do it better.

I mentioned typists, you abstracted it to “most professions at once”, and you give me a hard time for being too abstract?

I agree with your criticism, just not sure you understand who you were criticizing. But I hope you can think about actual context and see if that tempers what seems like a pretty emotional take on AI.

Duckdb can't even hanlde edge cases in a csv (pandas does it no problem) so I wouldn't trust it to do anything useful at the filesystem level

Hi are the ideas supposed to be anonymous? because you are leaking everyone's names, just by opening network tab.

Hey, i didn't decide on this yet. Initially i added the author names on the card so people can see who the idea came from and authors possibly get a little bit of credit.

But then i thought maybe some people are too shy to give their name away so it's best to remove them.

I was still in dilemma, so removed it from the UI but not from the api reponses ( will do it now )

In future, i'll just add an option in the profile, so you can choose to show your name if you want to

For future reference you definitely want to remove PII from the API as soon as it's not needed on the frontend—people, even engineers, naturally expect to be able to visually confirm what information is and isn't public, and you don't want to be that site that exposed data through a side channel.

Pretty sure it's not the real pg who suggested "Venmo for dogs".

Can't wait for Google to release a breakthrough paper in 5 years just for the authors to leave and build OpenQuant

Is it a problem if you need a MRI?

If I knew beforehand I was getting one I would have it removed. If not (incapacitated), someone has gone through an MRI with my same magnet and just felt strong tugging, not even really painful and definitely not ripping-out-of-finger strong. It's a pretty small magnet and I guess human skin is pretty darn strong.