skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These both look like reasonable thoughts. Person 1 either sincerely believes it was written by GPT-3, or they are simply using the comparison as a sarcastic remark (they should have made it more clear). Person 2 reasonably took the latter meaning.

Edit: I should say mostly reasonable. Person 2 ended with uncalled-for snark, and as I said, person 1 potentially was being unnecessarily sarcastic. But I don't think this interaction is a good example of "bullshit".
Worse yet.

When confronted with truth and reasoning, people reject them without engaging...
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I think that we agree mostly, but I just don't think Lebron's individual skill is that inherent. If you compare high school lebron to now, obviously there are tremendous differences. The amount of "what ifs" that show up indicate a tremendous amount of luck.

There are plenty of "Most insane athletes we've ever seen" coming up from High School that never turn into anything, or don't turn into the greatest players of all time. You can't just say "Lebron was more talented and worked harder" when things like car accidents, illness and coaching can all ruin a player's career.
I feel like there should be funding devoted to scientist just starting their career so that they can prove what they're capable of.
What facts specifically are you referring to when you say it's "factually untrue"?
You think that's bad? I've met more than 12 people who believe humans were created by an invisible space alien who reads our minds and will punish us if we think the wrong thoughts. When I was at school, we were encouraged to engage in group chants begging the space alien not to punish us.

Religion is the elephant in the room. There are more people who believe God wants them to kill gays and Jews than believe in any internet conspiracy theory.
> They can perfectly (at least very soon) approximate the behavior of "Joe". But they get nowhere close to even touching anything like the Einstein's of humanity.

This is profoundly underestimating the intelligence of 99.999% of the human race. GPT-3 is doing nothing even remotely close to 'approximating the behavior of "Joe"'. It's not even close to approximating the behavior of a rabbit. It doesn't have goals that it tries to achieve, it doesn't understand its environment and formulate plans for achieving those goals. It can't look at its past and distill some events into a life lesson, or teach you how to perform a basic skill.

The only thing that GPT-3 is good at is producing output that looks like what humans produce when they close down their minds. Yes, GPT-3 is as good as a human at making up stories that don't mean anything, or arguments that go nowhere. It cod probably even produce decent elevator music. But that only shows how mind numbing and devoid of creativity some tasks that we force humans to do really are.
poor guy ,from ballon dor contender to jail cell
I have to admit I don't use node REPL a lot but what issues are you having ?

Once they added await to REPL I didn't really have issues with testing async code, but again I only did small projects with node.
This is entirely speculations but I think that may come from a very interesting factor - it's not what the engineering team views as a core competency. There may be a big divide in how the business is perceived between marketing and devs and optimizing Ads (this throw away side-component) isn't viewed as a tech priority by the team.

A more reasonable reason might just be that trying to be a platform of everything is a complex proposition and they've accepted so much complexity that all their labour at this point is being poured into maintaining that complexity rather than making improvements.
> It seems that there are certain "neo-Malthusian" individuals high up in the chains of command who simply have no interest in implementing low risk, low cost measures that prevent loss of life, and instead use their power to further cater to the already privileged groups of people they deem fit for life.

Especially the push for new expensive drugs like Remdesivir--by people who stand to profit from the sale thereof--over existing safe, effective, and cost effecient treatment protocols like HCQ-Zn-azithromicin[0].

0: https://hcqtrial.com/
Depends on what you expect. I've gotten priceless, career/life-changing help and advice from HN because I come here to expose myself to conversations from people with more or just different experience in something I'm interested in.

In addition, it's also a big deal to me how rational and objective commenters on this site are in comparison to most other websites these days. As a hardcore free-speech fan and proponent of objectivity, it's a nice a breath of fresh air.
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In my experience chat buttons are close to useless. First of all that's usually not a chat at all at first, there is some bot with a series of dumb checks and links. And if you manage to get a human on the other side they usually have a timer and if you dare to type your reply longer than 30 seconds they will just drop your session at any arbitrary moment with a comment "user didn't respond".

My internal ranking of contact options is like this:

Email - completely useless, won't even try. Nobody ever replied me on my email sent to the contact listed on a company website. (my address is my first plus last name at gmail, so nothing "weird" there)

Chat bubble - almost useless, will try only when desperate, like when other channels don't respond or gated (e.g. phone number gated by ten layer deep voice menu)

Telegram/Whatsapp chat associated with work number - almost always work and quick, but rarely made available for customers. Or available only after you've already contacted them some other way.

Phone - always works but needs a lot of attention and interruption from both parties
Even less data if you use uBlock Origin and possibly uMatrix (which is very high maintenance, but also reveals the utter insanity of the web).

Without an adblocker the internet is such a slow heap of trash that I'd never go back to not using one. This is also one of the main reasons I use my iPhone so little, since it doesn't really have any way to adblock.
Ask HN: How should I start building projects with C++?
TL;DR: What are some good materials a C++ novice can follow to build their first few non-toy projects?

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I am mainly a front end programmer, and I know how to build front end projects, no matter it's writing business logic with frameworks or making a small library. I know how to "deliver" a product. In other words, I know what a decent GitHub repo that's not a toy would look like.

Now that I have spent a few months reading books on C++ (A Tour of C++, Effective C++ series, etc.) and practicing with short problems (from Leetcode, Codewars, etc.), I wish to put my knowledge to test, by making side projects. However, for C++, I'm unsure what are some classic or interesting things for a beginner to work on and where to start. That is, I do have some imagination:

- A ripoff subset of STL (containers, algorithms, smart pointers)

- A memory pool

- An RTTI library

- Server back ends

But I feel like I need more resources (blog articles, tutorials, sample repos, etc.) to help me get started.

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Similar posts, but not C++-specific:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22299180

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13660086
> Discussion about Trump or US politics in general

What HN do you visit? Any time anything remotely touching politics shows up here it gets immediately flagged, removed from the front page, and the level-headed comments you speak of get downvoted into oblivion.
Yeah, I think so too. I'm sure the conference will be great and the speakers all excellent. The not-a-good-look part is whether or not that 7% is helped or hindered by this kind of line-up and whether or not it should be. I certainly wouldn't have expected close to a 50/50 gender split, but 1 / 15 is pretty low.

It's fine to disagree, finding and approaching good speakers is hard, especially during a pandemic I imagine. But then again the organizer Code Intelligence has 'driven by our passion for challenging the status quo' as one of their company values, so I think it's fair enough to point out?
They explain it in some subsequent page. Also computed goto is not really performant enough for fast scripting languages, it's essentially a switch (indirect func table) without range check.

The performant variant is to squeeze it to have room for other code, keep important registers asis, and jit the bytecode array into sequences of static calls.
They next best variant is to call the next op statically. Indirect func tables are hard to predict by the CPU.

They explicitly removed tailcall for better user experience, as it messes up debugging and stack traces. Maybe it could be added back in perf mode.
> Eighty-two percent responded either "very well" or "somewhat" when asked whether they believe that their patients understand that only a doctor can decide whether a drug is right for them.

That's a huge negative in my mind. Blind faith in doctors is terrible for health.
I agree to some extent, but the whole "culture war" dimension of this question is far less important than people think. It has much more to do with corruption and broken incentive structures than with the identitarian critiques being pumped out by poorly-funded humanities departments. Until getting so much attention recently, they were at worst a minor check on what really has been an undeserved intellectual hegemony of STEM. Sticks and stones really. There are certain critiques that have been accurate enough to stick, and STEM should learn from those. The rest are noise.

I think even now the Confused Critique Industry is largely just a distraction from the deeper, internal issues: No jobs for new graduates, abuse of grad student labor, no innovation, too many labs lazily churning out incremental work just to secure their own careers in a climate of precarity, and so on.
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Except it's not that simple - - the difference is that, in the real world, there are no scores associated with your negativity or 'going against the grain'.

You can disagree in whatever manner you want, as long as you are oblivious to the obvious social cues of the people around you.

Whereas on HN, there is a score to tell you that you've committed a social faux pas. It's more immediate, so it's a little easier to figure out.

I've often thought about ways to integrate the scoring feature into real life to help folks on the spectrum learn to communicate with neurotypicals. Haven't squirreled that one out yet.
Ask HN: What Masters should I get to get into SpaceX?
Hi there. I'm from Germany and just finished my Bachelor's degree in IT Security. I have always been fascinated by the incredible work companies like SpaceX are doing as I am a huge space nerd. I have recently come to terms that I definitely want to work in that field and help humanity achieve multi-planetary life.

So my question is about which Master's degree would make sense for this goal. I am currently looking at some Computer Science degrees at TUM (Germany's top technical Uni in Munich) and other places, specifically for artificial intelligence and robotics.

Does it even make sense to get a Master's?
> probably because it makes people feel smart, even though it's not accessible to like 99%

Yup, count me as one of them. Hask me anything.
People seem to underestimate how important a name can be. "Instagram Reels", "Reels", "IG Reels"... they have no buzz, they're clunky to say, and like you said, it already implies ancient uncool tech. The marketing people must have been phoning it in when they named this.
I feel like those are way over-engineered though. I don't need a whole tablet with games and videos of the specials and the full menu. I just need the equivalent of a flight attendant button. That's it.
There is nothing wrong with the tone of Person1. Every aspect of their statement is true and correct, not exaggerated, and gives due respect to both the OP and the reader of the comment.
It's been a solid year since I messed with Node, and I refuse to use it again, so don't have anything concrete.
I check Instagram most days and I had never heard of Instagram TV before this post. They can't possibly have been shoving it down everyone's throats that aggressively.
How much money was Vine losing or making? I honestly am not aware of their unit economics prior to the shutdown.
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> You need somebody to find edge-case bugs? I'm your stooge.

I feel like you've just described my life. I don't know if everyone feels like they fall just off the happy path for everything or if I really am this cursed. It's exhausting sometimes.
It’s the free market working as intended - if most people cared, the first site to stop doing auto playing videos would get more traffic and other sites would follow. As of right now, the benefit of auto playing videos outweighs the cost of pissing off the few users who care.
You're arguing against a point no one made. I never said said Lebron was all luck. I said that the luck was Lebron having his genetics and mindset combined with the year he was born, the circumstances with which he was drafted and the coaching and teammates he got.
But vitamin D almost certainly does help with certain conditions. For example, I have psoriasis and can develop awful (painful, itchy, ugly) plaques on my knees and elbows, as well as painful skin nodules on the palmar surfaces of my hands and feet and dandruff. I had seen a dermatologist who prescribed some cream that sort of worked, and she recommended I expose the surfaces to 15 mins of sunlight a day. Those kind of worked, but the plaques and dandruff remained. I started supplementing Vitamin D on my own (my PCP recommended it since I'm slightly deficient), and the plaques disappeared within a few weeks. The nodules only rarely appear when I'm having a stressful time. If I forget to take vitamin D for a few days (or, in the case of the pandemic, when I run out of it and can't get a timely resupply), voila, the plaques reappear. Now that isn't a peer reviewed, double-blind controlled study or anything, but the signal is extremely strong that vit. D supplementation fixes the bulk of my psoriasis symptoms. Skepticism is warranted about all vitamin claims, but my priors for vitamin D are that it may actually be effective even when the peer reviewed research isn't out. My only caution to people is that since it's fat soluble, people should try to determine the right dose before gobbling it down.
Gmail. They have all my purchase history, finances, real estate details and what not. Updating emails across all third party services is super painful. If only there was an easier way.
This is cool, is the traffic curated in any way? Like if the database isn't initialized, do you start with create requests before moving on to GETs for those IDs? Also does this only support HTTP or does it support other protocols as well?
I would sometimes listen to New Dimensions radio very early in the morning on NPR on my way to work. It's a show about new age spiritually concepts, typically with interviews of new agey book authors. I eventually had to turn it off, as while the dialogue was grammatically correct, it was repetitive and basically incomprehensible. It was like a stream of consciousness that lacked substance behind any of the words being said.
You could put a little bit of effort into showing why it reads like regurgitated nonsense, for example.

It's your choice if you want to invest that time and effort, of course. But you can also choose not to leave low-effort comments. Brandolini's law comes to mind.
Isn't "ED" a made up marketing term? We don't call having normal muscles "steroidal dysfunction".
I am a full-stack dev, I write enterprise applications. Using SQL, DB2, .Net MVC5/Core. Reversing a string is trivial but honestly I have not used linked list in a while, and I probably would have a hard time answering that question. I can do the job, I can quickly debug and find errors.

This is what sucks about software, you can have many years of experience and fail a question about a linked list, if you have not utilized it in a while. I solve business problems, read documentation that is my age to work with legacy systems, etc. I keep up to date with the web dev area I'm working in but this is much different than college data structure and algo knowledge.
I have no more evidence than you do, so take it with a grain of salt; but I think you're mistaken on the intelligence axis. As in, I think the distance from GPT-3 right now to average human, is way larger than from avg human to Einstein. And I agree we're not that far from replacing the work of an average human.
The fact that you liken Google to the interstate highway system with 0 irony just shows how far we've fallen from not giving a shit that Google is a natural monopoly in this case.
> That's because it's a marker of frailty, not a direct cause for most of these diseases.

Do you actually know that?

> In other words, correlation does not imply causation.

Sorry, but just because correlation does not imply causation doesn't mean that Vitamin D deficiency isn't a cause.
There's other studies cited in this discussion. Those are peer-reviewed and do back up what the post is claiming.
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The last time I looked into this what I got was that there'd been a statistical error made in the process of determining the RDA, and it was just never corrected. The RDA is the amount that guarantees that only a certain fraction of the population has a deficiency, if everybody eats that much, but they calculated it so that only a certain fraction of population studies would find a deficiency on average. Furthermore, dietary vitamin D is absorbed rather poorly, so the amount of it you have to eat is immense compared to going out into the sun, resulting in really high "recommended" RDAs---it's the blood concentration divided by sensitivity but the measured sensitivity is surprisingly low. [1]

[1] A Statistical Error in the Estimation of the Recommended Dietary Allowance for Vitamin D, Paul J. Veugelers* and John Paul Ekwaru https://dx.doi.org/10.3390%2Fnu6104472
That cover photo though, it looks so much like a flying hot water heater :-)
Did they also remove the MAC address info off the back of everything because spoofing a MAC is fairly trivial.
It wasn't. For a given architecture you can enable/disable extensions via +sse,-mmx,+avx,-avx512 etc. Certain enables or disables imply enabling/disabling others. How that was being computed was accidentally quadratic, and further could be memoized.
Would these unexplained glitches have anything to do with Trump requiring less reported Covad cases?
>Node is somewhat usable except for the "REPL is not async context" which leads to annoying tricks

What do you mean by this ? It's been a while since I was able to use await in REPL, maybe you are referring to something else ?
It's changing people BRAINS!!!!
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But if you are using iOS, aren’t you already trusting Apple?
> Not to mention Firefox is usually brought to its knees when trying to delete large segments of History/Cookies at once.

Nine year old bug related to this: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=734643

The 'Library' window in general is clearly neglected trash. For instance it still doesn't get themed like the rest of Firefox.
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If you pay just a little attention, you absolutely can: GPT-3 is not saying anything. Even the 'lowest' humans are usually trying to communicate something when they are telling a story, or teaching you how to do a basic skill, or giving you directions.

GPT-3 can't do any of that. It can pick up clues from the text to produce incredibly realistic sentences that are related to the broad topics of some text, but it's all smoke and mirrors in the end - there is no model of the world getting expressed in communication, it is just mindless aping of similar speech.

And yes, this basic skill that GPT-3 has is enough to replace some human tasks, like inventing plausible sounding stories for a recipe or perhaps even taking news from one site and writing them on another with slight alterations. Perhaps it will even be able to take some facts and weave them into a speech about that topic.

But it is not even close to doing something like real journalism, even at the level of a car mechanic telling you what happened down at the mall.
I think if we have a US sphere of influence and a Chinese sphere of influence, within a few decades, that's where we'll end up.
>They do explicitly yield

Arguably, virtual threads also explicitly yield by calling one of the blocking methods in the JDK. This is very similar to putting all the bottom-level suspendable functions into the Kotlin standard library.

>virtual threads, which behave more like Go's goroutines or Erlang's processes.

I think this can be summarized as "Kotlin uses colored functions and Loom uses non-colored ones". This is a well-established core difference, I thought you had something else in mind with "explicit yield".
To provide you another point of view: I can not tell if they are being snarky/sarcastic, or if they are being literal.
You've got it completely backwards. Invert your questions: What cookies shouldn't be deleted, and why shouldn't they be deleted? The continued existence of a cookie requires justification, not the deletion of a cookie. Only a small minority of cookies exist for the users' benefit.
We had one of these at an old office of mine. I actually think it's really cool.
Also, how long was it #1, and how much meaning should be ascribed to that? I visit HN typically several times a day, and haven't seen that blog before.
You're simply restating jfengel's 2nd 'graph.

Domocracy is resilient against simple ignorance. It is susceptible to overt manipulation.

Even manipulation often reflects a balance of interests, though shifting the margins can have profound effects.
I often find the value of HN is less in the links and more in the comments. I went to check the article mentioned [1] and many of the higher ranked comments are simply using the article as a jumping off point. The top comments starts out with "A little tangential, but..." which is pretty common to see on HN. The quality of the writing of an article is mostly irrelevant in that instance because the value being generated is from the topic itself evoking conversation and the topic was provided by the human prompt.

Also 2 of the 22 top level comments mentioned GPT-3 and several others are clearly just riffing off the headline. I think the percentage of people who actually read the article and realized something was off about it was higher than the author is implying.

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23893817
What if cookies were opt in? E.g. blocked by default everywhere unless you decide to allow them, same as access to the webcam for example.
I heard of tailoring findings to the preferences of the grant giver (advocate a wrong view and kiss your grant good-bye). This is very worrisome as a lot of experimental science labs are so grant dependent.

I actually think this is partly a self-inflicted wound -- a large fraction of major grant givers want truth and can stand findings that go against their beliefs, but given the heavy dependence of labs on grants there is a tendency to sugar coat findings to the taste of the money source.

Which is totally, completely and absolutely against the spirit of real science. My 2c.
I think in software engineering, the answer to almost everything is "it depends".

Strongly typed languages increase productivity if the cost of a type mismatch bug exceeds the cost of defining and specifying the types. That's true for some programs, and it's not true for others.
The answer to all clickbait titles that are questions is no.
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