skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The end goal of this based on what I've seen from Open AI examples and related beta projects is more high level language -> code.

"Write a standard sign up page" -> Generated HTML

"Write a unit test to test for X" -> Unit Test.

It's more than just syntax completion - I'd argue that's the beginning of a new layer of abstraction similar to previous new abstraction layers. The demo on their main page is more than syntax completion - it writes a method to check for positive sentiment automatically using a web service based on standard english.

This is extremely powerful and it's still super early.

I saw one example that converted english phrases into bash commands, "Search all text files for the word X" -> the correct grep command.

That is a big deal for giving massive leverage to people writing software and using tools. We'll be able to learn way faster with that kind of AI assisted feedback loop.

Similarly to compilers, the end result can also be better than what humans can do eventually because the AI can optimize things humans can't easily, by training for performance. Often the optimal layout can be weird.
> So someone who isn't you should pay for its development cost, manufacture, quality control, shipping, storage, and distribution?

Did these costs double between 2012 and 2016?

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-healthcare-diabetes-c...
Hardware Memory Models
USDC is not audited, it issues attestations, which is much less important stuff. It more like a self report which is verified somehow.

Anyway, tethers are enough to crash market without other help.
What problem did TikTok solve? There was enough throwaway nonsense entertainment prior.

If I had to come up with an underhanded way to analyze or weaken another population's mental constitution it would definitely be via distractions like TikTok.

You can observe and control what users see and by extension think or how they react without accountability.

American-bred social media does this for (presumably mainly) monetary gains; with TikTok I'm not so sure...
Haha. You failed. I can feel the judgement from here. Sounds like the classic preconception of the socially-challenged developer. I thought that meme had died years ago. I promise you I am nothing like that, and not very blunt when communicating either. My role is at least 75% teamwork/management, not development.

As someone else mentioned, there is most likely a cultural divide here. I know you’re not “just checking in”. If you were truly worried about my well being, you would not be mixing that with a progress update. “Let me know how I can help” is also just a backhanded way to tell me something is wrong.

What I would like is a professional conversation (not a blunt one). “Look, X, I’ve noticed you didn’t deliver Y and Z on the agreed timeline yesterday. If you need it we can offload some of the tasks to ABC. As you know we need this live by X because [reasons]. Let’s schedule a call if you’d like to discuss how we can get this back on track. Cheers, Your Manager”

None of the “checking in” bullshit, just honest and direct, but also not offensive or judgmental. A more personal talk can be had f2f or over a call.
As person with poor vision I would love digital menus to stay. I could not count how many times I've struggled to read a badly designed menu in a dim dining room. On my phone it is always bright and I can zoom.
It may reduce the demand for the rank-and-file grunts, though.

Why would an architect bother with sending some work overseas if tools like this would enable them to crank out the code faster than it would take to do a code review?
Most of it can run locally?
Please point me to a trained gpt 3 model, probably the main brains of this tool.
> are ostracized

That sounds like hell.
Sure, I can do that. The problem is what to do if I want to mass update the metadata across an entire set of documents. It's just easier to do that with a DB.
Virtual Platforms and the Metaverse
I think this kind of attitude is exactly what OP had in mind. There are tons of central databases you are already registered in, all available on demand. They detail your life in more detail than you know about yourself at this point (certainly when all data are combined).

To be not aware of this on place like HackerNews is... not very believable, we discuss this all the time, every day.

"last bastion of freedom" - there are places like Switzerland which have more of freedom than any place in US. There is no power nor amount of the money in the world that would force me to move from here to police state like US where everybody talks about freedom but only top 0.1% enjoys some of it.

This might be hard to grasp, but it should be generally true also in US - your freedom ends where other's begins (ie transportation, coming to any work/office). With Covid, this is valid 1000x more. Freedom and anarchy are not the same as some hardliners would like to believe.
I have thought to myself a lot recently that creating a reliable form of digital trust is probably one of the most important endeavors of this decade or future decades. Otherwise, as more things go digital, there will inevitably be more orchestration of the digital world for evil purposes.
Don’t drink the water – it’s been hacked
That's a scenario I do plan to add support for, actually.
Same! Even though I knew the words palisades, impale, the phrase "beyond the pale" (beyond the fence).

All the same derivation.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pale#Etymology_2_2
The linked article mentions Type I specifically also: "The annual cost of insulin for people with Type 1 diabetes in the U.S. nearly doubled from $2,900 in 2012 to $5,700 in 2016, according to the most recent data available from the Health Care Cost Institute."

Insulin of this type is used primarily to treat Type I diabetes.
I would imagine that a lot comes down to maintenance, especially roof and siding maintenance.

If you keep the water out, there's no reason why 2x4 and sheetrock shouldn't last a good long time.

I live in New England, and there's plenty of old post-and-beam construction that's held up for a couple of hundred years. Some houses still have their original interior trim and softwood floors, and if that holds up, I can't think of any reason why 2x4s shouldn't.

But old New England construction lasts because it's maintained. New roofs, new clapboards every 50 years, regular painting, interior repairs and renovations. With land costs what they are in many regions, it's cheaper to take care of a good house rather than just letting it fall apart over 50 years.
Steel rebar doesn't crumble. Rusting steel expands, causing more cracks, which then allow more water intrusion and more rust.
What is that knows that which is material?
On reflection, “many” wasn’t the best word to use; “some” would be better.

In the past, I believe that most or all browser implementations used array-like structures to do various things like this, and so removing the first element entailed shifting all the remaining elements, whereas popping from the end doesn’t require shifting any elements.

More recently, I believe that most or all browser implementations have shifted to linked-list-like structures, with bad patterns like this being a cited reason. (I don’t know the full story by any means, but I’m inclined to be disappointed by the switch, because for most access patterns arrays aren’t a problem at all, and use less memory, sometimes even being a smidgeon faster. But although I suspect they’d have better typical performance and certainly better memory size, they have vastly worse worst-case performance, being approximately O(n) instead of O(1) for some operations.)

Remember also when talking of NodeList like this that it’s a type for JavaScript to consume; what browsers use internally for representing their DOM is an implementation detail. A leaky one, certainly, in performance details like this and types like HTMLCollection and NodeList (especially live NodeLists), but an implementation detail nonetheless.
This feels like a tangential point about JS dev culture or engineering skill level rather than a point about the technical merits of React vs Svelte or whatever.

> As someone who has written fiddly DOM manipulation code, no its not my preference over React JSX, but having the level of understanding TO write surgical DOM manip code should be a basic floor of ability for any web developer using react or otherwise imo.

I'm not sure I agree with this. Basically, it requires a much higher degree of experience and skill to write DOM manip well. There aren't really great resources that I've seen, because it's all very context dependent and something you learn over time. We used to send people straight into the DOM when they wanted to make a simple app, and the result was a lot of huge unmaintainable messes, security nightmares, and poor performance.

The value of React is that you can just follow the docs on reactjs.org that will give you a mediocre default. If your needs go beyond that, you can get a more skilled person to come in and improve the critical parts. The world's need for web apps outstrips the supply of highly-skilled, highly-experienced developers, so it makes sense to have libraries that lower the bar.
It's not your business to police this and that's not how it works in the United States. It is not anyone's business to demand a confirmed clinical test. Florida and other states have been open for a long time now and their covid numbers are declining same as wherever there are attempts at more mandates. What use is a confirmed clinical test there?

We are not a collective. We do not have these types of arbiters who will police and decide what is best for everyone. We are a nation of individuals and if you cannot trust people to "pinky-swear" on this matter then how can you trust them to do anything? Including vote on anything? Or reason? Who will make all the decisions for them?
Disney used cutting-edge robotics to make Spider-Man soar over Avengers Campus
Here is the thing (and that's something that people with kids might relate to) -- we already know that covid is not a danger to kids, and that there are potential side effects involved when vaccinating kids. There is no way in hell I would vaccinate my child because "it is good for the society as a whole".
I've been playing around with the idea of "Google Docs for Plaintext" and have a working (but ugly) version using the CodeMirror 6 collaboration protocol using a Elixir-based server I wrote.

The idea is to have either single pane docs for just a plain text editor or split pane docs for Markdown, AsciiDoc, Latex, etc with the editor in one pane and the rendered version in the other. Doc editing/viewing would be collaborative with sharing similar to Google Docs.

I've done some research and I haven't seen anything like this which means either I have lost my Google-fu, it is a dumb idea or nobody has thought of it (in descending likely-hood).

Anyone have thoughts? Does this seem interesting/useful?
For a long time now I've thought that AI would have a really interesting role to play in developer experience, though this isn't really the form I think it should take.

I think it would make the most sense as a really advanced static-analysis tool/linter/etc. Imagine writing something like C where whole classes of errors can't be checked statically in a mechanical way, but they could be found by a fuzzy ML system automatically looking over your shoulder. Imagine your editor saying "I'm not sure, but that feels like a memory error". And of course you can dismiss it "no, good thought, but I really meant to do that". Imagine an editor that can automatically sniff out code-smells. But the human, at the end of the day, still makes the call about what code to write and not write; they're just assisted with extra perspective while doing so
Time is what you are made of. Money is a number in a database. Your sentence makes no sense to me. You have no idea what will happen because you almost touched the butterfly in your garden, or struck up a conversation with a stranger at the cafe. Your life is just process, just pure flow. Each moment lives on its own.
Ask HN: Best tool to manage capitalization tables?
Like my immune system.
Reading this makes me think of the quite "If you're so smart, then why are you unhappy?"
Can you test the search results without signing up?
I’m willing to dismiss their “problematic views” because the only “problematic views” they were harassed for in that thread was being “a troon” and “extorting” Null, and now that all hell broke loose, they’re suddenly a “Pedophile”. You can name all the victims of ‘cancel culture’ that I don’t know of, it doesn’t change anything here. You guys harassed them and cheered when you were blamed and now you’re justifying it. You’re no better.

Kiwi is back up, you might as well give up on this account and head back now because this is not the hugbox you expect it to be.
> Absolutely. In this case however, there were multiple waiters refusing eye contact while passing right by our table and there were also other tables right by ours that got there after us and was being taken care of. It was as if we weren’t there.

I would just leave to be honest
Probably by changing your license to not allow use in commercial products.
The whole point of that case begins with the admission "yes of course Google copied." They copied the API. The argument was that copying an API to enable interoperability was fair use. It went to the Supreme Court because no law explicitly said that was fair use and no previous case had settled the point definitively. And the reason Google could be confident they copied only the API is because they made sure the humans who did it understood both the difference and the importance of the difference between API and implementation. I don't think there is a credible argument that any AI existing today can make such a distinction.
Nice try Satya Nadella
If you're retail, it goes down after xmas. If you're a tax company, it goes down after may. If you sell a product, it goes down when you go long enough without releasing anything new
The real magic of writing code is the compound interest it pays - if you structure the lower level components well, then they can be combined into ever more powerful components, saving time and effort in an exponential way.

This product seems to encourage the complete opposite - hack together stuff without thinking about how it could fit into your accumulated Baukasten of components.
That's very true, thanks for explaining.
Would it not be possible to have another network device before the edge router that encapsulates the packet to 1500? And vice versa for inbound packets?

I have a rack in a DC, I've always wanted to configure jumbo frames between the host and VMs. However I haven't because I am not sure of the recourse when serving traffic.
The Crew That Never Came Home: The Misfortunes of Soyuz 11 (Part 2)
A quick reminder that the Fediverse is not a new concept at all - it recently celebrated its 13th birthday:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27201389
This superficial dismissal doesn't even make sense. Google didn't control the disclosure timeline here. The people who found these vulnerabilities could have published on T+90, or, for that matter, T+1. Meanwhile, the norm that does exist (it's a soft norm) is that you respect the disclosure preferences of the person who reports the vulnerability to the extent you reasonably can.

I'm not sure I even understand the impulse behind writing a comment like this. Assume Google simply refuses to apply the P0 disclosure rule to themselves (this isn't the case, but just stipulate). Do you want them to stop funding Project Zero? Do you wish you knew less about high profile vulnerabilities?
Editor war commence!

Joking, but as someone that has mostly used vim, I have the feeling that emacs is trying to do everything within emacs while vim are supposed to be used in tandem with other unix tools.
The Left’s War on Gifted Kids
Thanks this is really helpful information. In your experience, is it a waste of time taking magnesium oxide for sleep?
As usual "it depends".

Basically rust is the problem, so if you are scrupulous on upkeep (read, spend money) it will last much longer than if not. How long is also enviroment dependents (temperature swings, salt air, emiisions etc. can make it worse)
Is there any comparison available? I've seen concrete and masonry houses built, and while the concrete has a greater carbon footprint, there's little waste compared to wood houses with drywall: wood treatments and coatings, insulating foam, materials wrapped in disposable plastic sheets, etc. Modern wood houses are far from just wood.
If the people who reported this vulnerability had wanted to disclose it on P0's timeline, they were presumably free to do so.
1.

5 solar masses is 1x10^34 g.
1 g of mass is roughly 0.9x10^14 J (mc^2).

So, roughly 1x10^48 J.

1 ly is roughly 1x10^16 m. Surface area of a sphere with r=1 ly, is 4πr^2 = 4π x 10^32 m^2 or roughly 1x10^33, so each m^2 of surface will receive 1x10^48/1x10^33 = 10^15 Watt, or about 10^12 x brighter than our Sun on Earth in sunny day, but for 1 second only.

2. Spacetime is 4d array: [x,y,z;t]. Warping of spacetime means that a scientist applies a mathematical formula to the array directly, like shader in OpenGL. It has no physical meaning. It just a quick way to simulate unknown physical process, to make a prediction.

3. No, it doesn't. Our local group of galaxies is expanding, but this is a coincidence. Actually, we are falling into a black hole. Nearest big black hole is in the center of our galaxy, then Great Attractor, then Shapley Attractor.
Plain text without some sort of markup makes little sense. (Even the usual punctuation is, in fact, an ancient form of markup.) So why deprive yourself of the convenience of an existing modern standard, such as HTML or XML. (Unlike various markdowns these ensure a clear separation of content from, well, markup). You retain full control, and, at the same time, you can add as much structural and/or semantic complexity as you like.
It's kind of incredible how even this "too vast to imagine" amount is 'just' a few large mountains.
> we already know that covid is not a danger to kids

We don't actually know this. We know it's less dangerous to them thus far. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-56696907 https://www.statesman.com/story/news/politics/politifact/202...
>One thing I know is that if you want to do great things, you'll have to work very hard.

Says the guy who made it big in his 32th year by selling a company he had just founded 2 years before.

An aspiring message to single mothers working two jobs and barely making rent and all other kind of working stiff working their arse off to keep the lights on, the buildings clean, the power running, the cables installed, the food served, the minerals for the PCs mined, and so on, in the backbone of the "digital" economy...

>Bill Gates, for example, was among the smartest people in business in his era, but he was also among the hardest working. "I never took a day off in my twenties," he said. "Not one.

Well, that's because he never "worked" the way 99.9999% of the people he is lecturing do: he did what he wanted to do, running his own company, bossing other people below him, and making billions whole at it.

If Bill Gates tried working as an employee on someone else's business, with BS bosses and middle managers running you around, and not making anything to write home about, we'd see how fast he would have wanted a day off...

(Not that there's any reliable way to cross-check whether he really "never had a day off" in his 20s, or what his work day actually amounted to)...
Existing religions have inertia. Parents naturally indoctrinate their children, and certain religions like Christianity expend lots of resources to convert non-believers (missionaries, community outreach, etc.). Religions have the ability to adapt, through reform movements, to better match modern values. It's also very tough for new religions, as they often rely on claims of miracles. Nowadays with cameras etc. it's hard to believe anyone's claims of miracles. Even Christians are often skeptical when another Christian claims that some miracle occurred in the modern day.
Hmm, forgot about that style. Where you only have prefix await, .then() can end up nicer (though I might split it into `const response = await fetch('/my/url'); const data = await response.json();` as yet another style), but if you can have suffix await, I reckon it’s much nicer. Goes well with fluent API styles.
While the tools were available earlier, I think it's fair to say that GMail was most folks' first experience with a functional (while the content of the emails was still present, the point of GMail was reading and managing emails, rather than displaying their content) web app, rather than an informational one.

It seems a valid milestone, if not the first example.
If I have to do math and input in dollar, I do 10%, which is easier to calculate
Although emergentism doesn't solve the hard problem.
The correlation between working hard and being successful is a necessary but not sufficient cause.
Doing this requires fragmenting at the IP level, which is notoriously unreliable over the internet. The other option is to send PMTU exceeded messages telling the sender to drop their MTU for the path, adding significant overhead for every new connection (assuming the sender even listens to such messages).
> "Having your own stuff yourself should be the default, should it not?"

I don't think it has anything to do with internet speeds. Self-hosting is simply too complicated, not just for non-technical users, but for many developers too.

Compare the simplicity of installing a desktop app. Click to start the installer. Click next, next...finish. Done.

Self-hosting in the cloud is ludicrously complicated in comparison. Docker, Sandstorm, Cloudron, your command line script - these are neither simple or easy. (A developer's definition of 'simple' and 'easy' bears no relation to the real definitions of these words).

It's also one of the reasons why SaaS, for better or worse, is eating the software B2B (Business-to-Business) and B2C (Business-to-Consumer) markets. In comparison, the self-hosting market for web apps is negligible.
It is a cultural difference, but it's fairly clear it wasn't always enjoyed. People in some parts of Europe really appreciated fast food places when they first started appearing, as it gave them an option that cut out much of the restaurant meal time expenditure.
The US has the 4th highest wealth inequality of any nation:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_wealth_...

The #1 rate of incarceration (by far):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_incarcera...

The #1 healthcare costs (by far):

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_h...

There are a lot of problems here that you are glossing over.
I think you're setting two very different concepts at odds with each other

Many startups aim to become acquired, because there is no alternative. It's the only viable route to success. Continue 'feeding the beast'.

This isn't a desirable scenario though .. we all know that there are political, social and economic consequences to allowing monopolistic behaviour to carry on unchecked.

The best reason for introducing legislation is to improve life for a huge amount of people.

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> Also keep in mind that a more fragmented digital ads market without the total surveillance from monopolies might not be very profitable at all.

Then we should fully do away with those markets.

Regulation sets a bar. It stops the worst problems associated with unregulated capitalism from taking root and prospering.

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> I don't think a disaggregated private sector is capable an entirely filling big tech's vacuum. I also don't think that is a reason not to break up big tech.

I agree, it's not a reason to _not_ break it up.

I also agree it won't be business as usual; nor should it be.

There's a pragmatism to open standards and free software that works well with capitalism.

We will need to embrace open standards to provide interoperability between products once they're split.