skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You could probably invent a kind of ketamine that does absolutely nothing interesting and yet still has the benefits.

Maybe it can be done but the real reason that the companies are working on this is that they can patent these new drugs, and that would increase patients' costs (see esketamine vs ketamine). A better use of money might be to do larger studies of existing psychedelics/dissociatives, since these side-effects (psychedelic experiences) are enjoyable for most and we won't know long-term effects of new drugs and whether they do much besides what they would get potentially approved for. These companies would then have a big incentive and money to lobby to keep the existing psychedelics/dissociatives illegal.
the whole idea of search engine is that you only go to one place, so, what that one place is gonna be?
I think I agree with you, but I'd take it a step further. The plan from management may in fact be various projects in development, few of which will see the light of day. Those few pay for all of the spent effort on the others.

This is no different from VC behavior. It's unfair to label the shuttered projects as not contributing to the bottom line, if they were part of a pool of investments.
Nice.

But the other cool thing about crypto is that it's programmable, so you can arrange 100s of transactions between parties. Micro finance loans, royalties and distribution, etc etc
It's been YC's thing for a while now: have startups goose their financials by selling to other portfolio companies to give the appearance of traction.
As does Putin or Xi. And they are good at it. But that does not mean the people under them are free or able to influence resource allocation in a fair equal manner.
Form matters a great deal.

Microplastics of PTFE, particularly fibers, provoke the same sort of response as similar asbestos, for the same reasons. A smooth PTFE surface, e.g. in a surgical implant, evokes a completely different response.

So, no: PTFE can be safe, but is not necessarily. Convexity matters.
> ...The only reason social media exists is really to keep your eyes on screens to sell you stuff. That’s the model.”

Basically the same model as commercial television (broadcast, cable, etc.) and radio, but with more intrusive tracking and skinner boxing. Otherwise it sounds similar to ad-supported print media such as magazines and newspapers (though I generally prefer the advertising in the latter to most online ads.)

It isn't the primary model of HN, although HN does have its own skinner boxing including feeds and scores/responses/upvotes.
Hi Stefan, thank you for sharing.

I would love you honest take on ROS as an operative system platform for robot development
What websites are you working on that have 10+ people? In my nearly 25 years working as a web developer, I don't think I've ever worked with more than three other developers at one time.
He'll be ok. His new sailing super yacht launches soon.
For sure; by the late 2000s I was still seeing it, but it was fairly uncommon by then. When I said "considered a bad practice since the mid 1980s" I was specifically meaning since Grampp & Morris 1984[1]. It definitely continued to be common for decades after that. I remember lots docs that told you to run "configure" where now they'd tell you to run "./configure", but the docs tended to lag behind the actual change to the default PATH.

[1]: https://people.engr.ncsu.edu/gjin2/Classes/246/Spring2019/Se...
Nokia and RIM got clocked by the iPhone. I don’t care who their CEO could have been, these companies were on the downward trend and headed for tough times.
Why Not Skip Sprint Backlogs Completely?
The php docs are themselves a public GitHub repo, so it's a bit sad if insightful comments don't affect change in the docs
I think you might be giving PTFE a stronger pass than it merits.
But that's the thing... if the bank gets hacked, there are laws, regulations, and protections in place to:

a) try to prevent that happening in the first place
b) at least give you a strong chance of reclaiming your money

While with crypto, as I understand it, you are SOL.
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The fact that you can imagine something will happen doesn't mean it will happen.

Who says the AI will "know the intention of all the code, all the data models, know how users use the application intimately"? Are you aware that language models do in fact have token input/output limitations that will not go away? Are you aware that there is such a thing as diminishing returns when it comes to improvements due to increased number of parameters/training set size that are already evident? Are you aware that the training set of codex pretty much includes all available public code, so it will be impossible to scale it by a factor > 3 in the next several years at least?

Your assertions are full of wild assumptions backed by nothing.

As for photography, the fact is there has been no job apocalypse because your "friends and family" are "pumping out photos". And the point of your initial post, even if it was implicit, was "you are going to be unemployed in 5 years". This will have an impact on your dev flow and will be used by managers to try to reduce salary premiums for software engineering but your wild assumptions stated with so much confidence may never happen.

P.S: At this point, I find Intellicode actually slows me down, that's why it's permanently turned off. Current copilot will at most save me 2-3% of my working time each week if I am coding in a language it can actually do something in (it's worse than useless for Scala).
Central bank digital currency cast aside in Japan
We have to keep in mind this was trained on art. Artists are people that sample the probability distribution of human experience and record it somehow. An AI trained on that art is a snapshot of the human experience. Without artists continually feeding the model we will collectively get bored of its output very quickly as it gets out of date and our human experience moves forward. It will be a useful tool as an augment to human technique. But, we will still need a lot of artists feeding the model on a continuous basis. If anything it may increase the demand for artists.
"As a matter of fact, the feeling of witchcraft that has hovered over umbral calculus is probably
what kept it from dying altogether. ... At long last, it was realized that umbral calculus could be
made entirely rigorous by using the language of Hopf algebras, and this was done in a lengthy
treatment. However, although the notation of Hopf algebra satisfied the most ardent advocate of
spic-and-span rigor, the translation of 'classical' umbral calculus into the newly found rigorous
language made the method altogether unwieldy and unmanageable. Not only was the eerie
feeling of witchcraft lost in the translation, but, after such a translation, the use of calculus to
simplify computation and sharpen our intuition was lost by the wayside." (Gian-Carlo Rota,
1994)
Radiohead - Weird Fishes
I like it, although raises the bar for contributors to join.

Also does not help that enough percentage of repo owners would accept then signed PRs to their projects.

The fake accounts can be created with gpg signed fake commits too.
a lot of us use multiple tabs on multiple browserwindows (I'd rather not say how many)
FYI, I couldn't immediately tell from the medium url but this is from Wise.com, formerly TransferWise, a large online money transfer company.
What evidence do you have to support those claims about causes?
Go is more difficult to deploy than php? php.ini files and php extension installations to get to production is what I remember
From the paper[1]:

> The family of CODEGEN models is trained sequentially on three datasets: THEPILE, BIGQUERY,
and BIGPYTHON.

> The natural language dataset THEPILE is an 825.18 GiB English text corpus collected by Gao et al. (2020) for language modeling. The dataset is constructed from 22 diverse high-quality subsets, one
of which is programming language data collected from GitHub repositories with >100 stars that
constitute 7.6% of the dataset.

> The multi-lingual dataset BIGQUERY is a subset of Google’s publicly available BigQuery dataset, which consists of code in multiple programming languages such as C, Python, Ruby. For the multi-lingual training, the following 6 programming languages are chosen: C, C++, Go, Java, JavaScript,
and Python.

> The mono-lingual dataset BIGPYTHON contains a large amount of data in the programming language,
Python. We have compiled public, non-personal information from GitHub consisting of permissively
licensed Python code in October 2021.

[1]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.13474
7-Eleven displays hacked in Taiwan
I think this is a fair analogy, but maybe I'd add that LiveBooks uses MarkDown markupfor the non-code part of the notebook, make it far more readable, and with more visualizations coming in.

For example, recently an addition to add automatically generated sequence diagrams to Livebook Kino (https://github.com/livebook-dev/kino/pull/165). So generate code which shows a supervision tree, and automatically create a visual diagram of the code in one place. Pretty great for learning and explanatory material.
You can have a look at https://embassy.dev Rust+async on embedded
i am going to be extremely butthurt if clients start showing up and asking me to finish an ai's homework for them.
The last paragraph is orthogonal to the problem that an npm install poses here, wherever your repo is.
ASCII includes a number of characters that can be used to render the outlines of boxes: https://theasciicode.com.ar/extended-ascii-code/box-drawing-...

https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc describes how you can use a code layout (aka monospaced font) by adding an indentation of two or more spaces before your text.
I work for a company that does predictive maintenance on wind turbines. E.g. “we think you need to look at this now rather than leave it 6 months because there’s a high risk that the fault progresses, and the turbine will be offline for 9 months”
No, it really doesn't. Your denial that Westerners, and especially Americans, get paid more than people in the developing world is western privilege.
How does this solution solve the problem?

You're just adding an extra step that's hardly going to stop someone.
Did a reverse image search on the logo and came across this oddity: https://www.knowasiak.com/i-vulnerable-dall%C2%B7e-2-to-gene...

Generative ML is going to destroy the internet one day.
I'm currently reading an Elixir Patterns book (https://elixirpatterns.dev) which releases a side-by-side Livebook for the material with each chapter.

It's a fantastic way to learn and a huge advantage over other languages, I think, to help build up the Elixir community.
I did that too and you’re spot on about how addictive it can be. But I looked at my wins and realized that I had no real thesis and was essentially gambling. Had to quit at that point.
The certificate for douglasfugazi.co expired on 21/3/2021.

Additionally this domain appears to lead to a porkbun parking page
I've worked on and off for climate for about a decade, starting from student sustainability jobs to now solar manufacturing (as a front end dev supporting our web services).

Is my job making a difference? Well, more than if I did nothing at all. Enough? No. Honestly, I think it's all too little, too late. But what can one man do? Even Elon Musk can't singlehandedly prevent climate change (though I do thank him for trying).

At the very least, it's better than working in fossil fuels or speculative crypto. Shrug.

As a senior programmer, you can decide whether you just want to be another invisible cog in a relatively benevolent machine, which really won't change anything but might you feel better about your life choices, or whether you want to gamble everything and try to actually make a difference by coming up with something really novel and scalable, maybe some sort of market mechanism for carbon that doesn't involve government oversight.

My undergrad was in environmental science and I spent the last decade working in renewables and climate adjacent nonprofits. To be frank with you, I think humanity is doomed if we keep using the existing "solutions" that are merely bandaids.

We don't have a solution in sight. At all. Not even over the horizon. There is no way our current trajectory is sufficient, and it's actually getting worse. So if you actually want to make a difference, eh, I would encourage you to think drastically outside the box and not just slide into an existing industry like I lazily did. Because I can guarantee that won't be enough, however well-intentioned. Sadly.
MIT invents $4 solar desalination device
If you're in Australia, check out https://www.climatesalad.com/jobs-in-climate-tech-australia
I'm sure something like this exists in the US as well.
Show HN: A bash-like new tab page for Chrome
why would i need to do that instead of Jupyter Notebooks?
A comment below mentions those details are in the paper:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32328168
if they had written this in the landing page, i would not have written my rantish comment.
> So far found in projects including: crypto, golang, python, js, bash, docker, k8s

Huh? What does that mean?
It would only allow commits signed by me to be pushed under my email.
Github uses the email as the "proof" of commit ownership. By only accepting signed commits a user would not be able to push a commit impersonating me.
Functional programming is at last mainstream. The most popular JavaScript frameworks React and Vue has adopted functional rather than OOP approaches.

Before long we will see how functional programming fares when applied by average programmer under real-world constraints and the consequences for long term maintainability.

Like when OOP hit the mainstream, I predict we will see some disappointment set in. Due to the laws of the hype-cycle, this will lead to embarrassment and backlash, but in the end expectations will stabilize, and functional will be considered a tool in the toolbox rather than a panacea.
Up to a certain stage in your life everyone in a position of power is a moron. Some people evolve past that line of thinking, some don’t.
Somebody should DDoS ovz1.j19544519.pr46m.vps.myjino.ru... (mostly kidding)
> Should the manufacturer of the camera be held responsible because they did not verify the purpose of the buyer and consequently allowing them to produce illegal material?

I don't think this is a good analogy as Visa does operations and it's quite reasonable to require safety during operations.

> PornHub should be forced to verify its content not by Visa, but by the government

The problem with this is, which government? We don't have a world government or harmonised regulations but we have an international network.
Maybe. But someone can cut themselves on glass shards, too..
I think that (maybe) a possible better way might be, instead of such cookie popups, to have:

- Needing writing a documentation (which is viewable even if cookies, CSS, and JavaScripts are disabled) about what each cookies means. (This includes both necessary and unnecessary cookies.)

- Writing a better web browser(s) with more user controls, and can more easily modify it and recompile, etc. (This way, you can more easily adjust individual cookies more finely, including which cookies are enabled, duration overrides, values, etc.)
Reading these comments make me sad. It's like everyone has forgotten the cookie cutter server architecture pattern.

https://dzone.com/articles/monoliths-cookie-cutter-or

I really don't understand microservices for most businesses. They're great if you put the effort into it but most business don't have the scale required.

Big databases and big servers serve most businesses just fine. And past that NFS and other distributed filesystem approaches get you to the next phase by horizontally scaling your app servers without needing to decompose your business logic into microservices.

The best approach I've ever seen is a monorepo codebase with non-micro services built into it all running the same way across every app server with a big loadbalancer in front of it all.
TFA makes no mention of async/await, only asynchronous programming. Specifically, it says:

> The traditional way to do this is to write non-blocking code so that the loop() function can run as fast as possible, updating state variables and calling the millis() function to ensure proper timing

Indeed, that style of programming is nothing at all like async/await in, say, Javascript.
Banks can get hacked, but are insured and have ways to prosecute fraud and reverse the transactions. Crypto can be stolen anonymously and irreversibly from you.
Honestly logos are currently a very low entropy art form, much lower than graphic design which is already quite low compared to many forms of art (obviously my subjective opinion, but I'd like to think I have strong reasons). If anything, I think logo design is one of the first things ai can achieve human parity on. Obviously the style in this post was unorthodox for a logo, so I wouldn't even rule DALL-E out, with the right prompt engineering.

However, once you reach a certain budget, it's much more involved to *choose* a logo that "fits" how the company wants to present itself, than it is to generate candidate logos of sufficient quality. I can assure you that the "many-chefs problem" for a high budget design project is very real, and the major cost driver. You have a mix of "design by committee", internal politics, what designers wants on their portfolios, etc etc.
It's a bit silly to frame a Congressperson visiting Taiwan as merely "visiting a country" given the known sensitivity and the near military standoff over its political status. She has more responsibility than that as a representative of the U.S. She should not be willfully undermining U.S. foreign policy for any reason outside of the legal mechanisms available as a member of Congress. The fact that there was no real purpose to the visit aside from political grandstanding just makes it so much worse.
Thought I'd expect to see that here, FortNine has excellent content, and this video is one of his best.
Ask HN: Why has quality of YouTube reduced drastically?
Seems like the quality of youtube suggestions & shorts have been spammed by bots & other people hacking the system. Why is Google not doing anything about this?
Tinder Hearted: How did a dating app become my longest running relationship?
I have chosen the freedom to get my objectives done and get on with my day. The Apple ecosystem is unrivaled in letting me do that, and I never see an ad or have my tracking data sold on a daily basis.
No, it's not, because it's absurd bullshit that makes absolutely zero sense if you think about it from one of at least the different directions.
Keyhole (which became Google Earth) was one for me
Offtopic question : broadcom doesn't want to open source the driver because of the red tape and ton of legal work required Or is there another reason ?
I will also note that NREL, the National Renewable Energy Lab, often needs dev support and hire for it. They don't pay well but they do a lot of really good research work, if that's of interest.

I keep wishing we had a Manhattan Project of climate, but that looks less and less likely as the years go by.
> Sad: This type of social credit score system seems pervasive and will no doubt be here soon.

Where is here? If you mean somewhere in the western world: are you willing to bet on it?
this is exactly what clip already does, and there will be massive improvements in this area in coming years, I promise.
If you're interested in learning from the issue, ask "what's wrong with X?", not "who did X?"

In which case I'd recommend jerf's post at http://www.jerf.org/iri/post/2955, or my comments at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30804253, or even just reasoning a bit from first principles about how intermediate slices would perform given Go's memory/execution model.
Yeah that would work. I'm talking about LLMs, DALL-E and diffusion image generators specifically.
> Defining service boundaries and APIs with clarity around backwards compatibility is a good solution.

Can't you do that with one big database? Every application gets an account that only gives it access to what it needs. Treat database tables as APIs: if you want access to someone else's, you have to negotiate to get it, so it's known who uses what. You don't have to have one account with access to everything that everyone shares. You could
In Rust there is https://embassy.dev which is an async Rust framework for embedded. It has been shipping in products for years. Can be made real-time (for some definitions of it).

There is also RTIC https://rtic.rs which is a concurrency framework for real-time systems using interrupts. IIRC the car industry is interested in it.
This reads like a religious pamphlet and not an actual argument.
And this is why we live in a boring, most stupid dystopia with bullshit tech. People exchange the walk in part in the war for a lead role in a cage, and it's rarely a lead role, too. I guess that's what you get if your paperclip optimizer is geared towards manufacturing consumption. It's just very sad to see all the potential just ... wasted.
How would that work for past commits? Would people be forbidden to mirror a project to git just because it contains an unsigned commit of mine from 2007?
Nah, remote work isn't going anywhere—it's here to stay. I know management doesn't want to believe that because they want to count asses in seats, but the collaboration issue has been solved by Zoom/GitHub/Trello/Slack &c.
They could sell some of their holdings in these huge companies they have 7% of but basically they are saying everything is screwed right now and they expect a decade or more of depression.
This is clever and reminds me a bit of Nintendo Labo.

I wonder how responsive and durable the controls are?
The Turkish school preserving culture of young Uighurs in exile
I think even people of good intent get stuck on blame-shifting and hindsight.

I opposed Torness (UK) in the 70s. I now would not protest an AGR, I think we need more nuclear not less. But, the time has passed where its economically viable in the necessary time window, for Australian power needs. LCOE, and time to construct has moved to wind, wave, solar and storage.

Some people can't get over this, and are stuck on energy density and scale.
Those are not engineers then, they're managers.

It's strange to see this confusion when it comes to software. Any other discipline and you wouldn't say engineers that don't do any engineering are the best engineers.
If the registers are abstracted away, you're left relying on other people's code. I suppose learning microcontrollers can mean different things to different people, but as for becoming a professional embedded developer, micropython and Arduino are dead ends. There is no transition to truly understanding the hardware.
Not compromised, just created by the attacker.
Something something stupid games something something stupid prizes.
Balance Lock – Fixes audio balance bug in macOS