skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reminder to check what your previous salaries were, adjusted for inflation
https://www.bls.gov/data/inflation_calculator.htm

You might be surprised to find out that you used to make more in the past.

200K in Jan 2020 would be 230K in Oct 2022, for example.

It may be worthwhile to keep in mind your previous salaries, adjusted for inflation, when negotiating compensation for new roles.

(And then of course, if you've increased your skills, experience, training, and so on since then, likely it would be reasonable to try to get an increase.)
You: "The Hunter Biden story is, and has always been, about him selling access to his father to Ukrainian powerbrokers"

Me: shows credible proof demonstrating that's not the case

You: feigns confusion

Why are you playing dumb?, sure seems like you get "confused" a lot.
Mostly all of the volunteers did not support going into partnership with freenode. Thomas was one of the only ones who wanted it (and he only did it when mostly all of the tech team threatned to quit)

(source: I am a former volunteer at fosshost)
Again I'm not a Director, so not my problem.
Didn't they find some very crazy similarities in seemingly arbitrary lifestyle choices with identical twins that were separated at birth? I would rate the choice of vehicle the same way, in other words, possibly genetic.
Nonsense really.

It wasn't the wallpaper making OOP unproductive, that's obvious because he's written this article which is largely derivative of an article he links to.

That's a waste of time as all he wants people to do is copy something hes just done!
Andre: I wouldn't put on an electric blanket on for anything. First, I'd be worried I might get electrocuted. No, I don't trust technology. But I mean, the main thing, Wally, is that I think that kind of comfort just separates you from reality in a very direct way.
I agree. I haven't felt this excited by a new technology since the WWW. I can already solve hard problems with it which otherwise would require hiring consultants or spending inordinate amounts of time doing research. It's absolutely game changing.
You would write your hash table constructor to accept a hash function as a function pointer then pass in the appropriate hash function for whatever the key type is.

You can use the same hash function for any arbitrary struct as long as there's no pointers in it. If there are pointers, you'd have to implement one combining the hashes of all the members through something like xor. I used fnv1a_64 for my hash function in AOC 2020 which is a pretty good general choice for strings and other contiguous objects and is just 10 lines of code. Pseudocode on Wikipedia or I'm sure you can find C code on Stackoverflow. Hope that helps :)
Supersoft/Landmark Diagnostic ROM's for IBM 5150/5155/5160/5162/5170
The quiet disappearance of the safe deposit box
Isn't M3U8 simply a playlist? What could you possibly put in a playlist to warrant that?
I was thinking the same. Perhaps a better word to describe what it is doing is "following" our prompts decently?
Interleaved 2D Notation for Concatenative Programming [pdf]
https://www.physics.princeton.edu/ph115/LQ.pdf

This seems fitting. Are we close?
This brings such an interesting moral dilemma.

Are our inherited sins worse than our committed ones? In other words, is it more disgusting to be born Russian, or to choose to work at Google?
The Genetics of Dark (Netflix)
I tested ChatGPT with a couple of topics I’m personally unclear on, and while it is linguistically eloquent, it basically just regurgitates the majority opinions that can be found on the internet on those topics (sometimes combining several of those opinions in an incoherent way). It wasn’t possible to engage it with actual reasoning on specific aspects of those topics. It just went with whatever premise you gave it, and/or circled back to the generic exposition. It doesn’t have any thought or understanding of its own.
It won't take many improvements for this to operate as a tech support interface at scale.
Without commenting on anything else in your reply,

> Other counter evidence is that some species were just too darn big to be endothermic and at that size would have high enough internal temperatures to cook themselves.

I don’t understand. Isn’t the existence of the (obviously endothermic) blue whale enough to obviate that argument, at least on its own?
>writes an article about hacking cpu instructions beyond the capabilities of 99% of the population

99% of the HN population can run the diff command. It's helpful that this exists, but there is nothing complicated about what is being done.
I have a not-so-small network of people I unofficially mentor, but on the org chart I’m an IC. I’m happy with the situation, but dread the day I need to manage somebody to get things done.
A lot of the time if the key is an int however you can get away with an array assuming the range is reasonably small.

Worth noting that for AOC I got by just fine with the simplest possible bucket based implementation.
> The old 'Plebs are needed' from Caesar II still burnt into my brain.

That would drive me nuts. Plebs is not a plural noun.
Russia has been criticised and ridiculed for bombing civilian targets when they are presumed to be aiming for military targets a block away.
Ah, ... ok?

Are you just imagining that this can happen period? Or you have a more specific scenario in mind? Who would run the trial? Why do they run the trial? Are they completely unbiased in their expectations before running the trial? For example, if the organization running the trial hosts their website at www.4dayweek.com. Still unbiased? Really?
Adventurer: The Life & Times of Giacomo Casanova by Leo Damrosch. About Casanova.

Fears of a Setting Sun by Dennis Rasmussen. About the Founding Fathers loss of faith in the Constitution over time.

The Greek Plays. Edited collection of 16 plays by Aeschylus, Euripides, and Sophocles. Fascinating reads.

Grand Strategies by Charles Hill. Short book on literature and statecraft.
It’s a shame they don’t seem to want to support Apples HomeKit Secure Video platform on their new devices. At least with apple we can trust everything stays local.

The Eufy cameras I do have that support home kit, I’ve blocked internet access to them from my router and can only access them through Apples Hone app.

That said I do recommend blocking internet to all cameras and use a self hosted app like Scrypted or Homebridge to manage your cameras
It's only dangerous if you consider it authoritative. Informative and authoritative are different. It can expose you to terms you've never heard which you can then do further research on. This alone has been valuable for me so far.
> almost like it is re-doing everything for each command (and that is how it keeps state).

I'm pretty sure it does as when you go on the usage side, you can see the requests and how the prompt keep getting bigger and require more tokens.
Almost all flamingos are pink. Do you think this is "genetic" the same way human eye colors are "genetic"?

(It isn't.)

> Maybe genetics plays a much larger role in intelligence than we currently think, it's just so complicated that (unlike eye color) we can't identify those genes yet.

People telling you "genetics causes x" are committing abuses of notation if they don't include the counterfactual i.e. they are lying to you.

Everything about you is 100% caused by genetics - because otherwise you'd be a gorilla.

Everything about you is also 100% caused by the environment - because if a rock fell on your head you wouldn't have any "intelligence" after that.
If you ask politely, it could also act as an underlying Linux system. And do something like print(open(‘/etc/fstab’, ‘rt’).read()) and sometimes you can ask “what would a real python interpreter would do, if the reply is taking liberties with python”. And it knows antigravity and cites Zen of Python exactly…
If it walks like a duck?
You still need to block internet access to the camera via your router once it’s setup with HomeKit
Why is C code so beautiful?
Agreed that it has applications on both sides, and that the output code was certainly gimmicky.

I was most surprised and alarmed when drilling in, asking it to implement child functions that it started to write more tangible code e.g. the port scanner bits.
Is this the video where Linus talks about how RCE is only something that happens in the movies? I wish he would realize that people actually think he knows what he’s talking about and be a bit more careful.
Absolutely bonkers. It can even ^C its way out of loops.

> while true; sleep 1; echo "yay"; done

> yay
> yay
> yay
> yay
> yay
> ^C
There's some game theoryish ideas such as the Peter Principle which might explain why meritocratic promotion may not work out in the long run for organizations.

See: https://arxiv.org/abs/0907.0455

which won the parody Ig Nobel prize, but I don't really understand why, as I thought it was at least as interesting as Robert Axelrod's simulation of successful strategies in the iterated prisoner's dilemma.

In fact, I think it would be even warranted to do an extension of this model, considering possible assumptions such as Dilbert principle, negative selection, and alignment of agents with different goals and basic strategies. I am not understanding why such a model would be considered silly instead of insightful.
Go back to when the GPT-* releases were announced on HN via the HN Algolia.

There were posts just like this attributing "understanding" to the models.
I did consider assembly cost, that's why I was confused.

Specifically JLCPCB claims "$0.0017 per joint" for PCB assembly, which would be around 10k joints for the transistors, and another 5k for the resistors, LEDs and other parts, so around $25 + the parts cost.

Some other PCB manufacturer (edit: PCBway) I checked also didn't seem to charge more than a few hundred per fully populated board (for the board + assembly).

It's of course possible that that JLCPCB pricing goes way up with such parts counts, but the other manufacturer did ask for count + size before producing the automatic quote.

Edit: Didn't realize you were the project author - thanks for the response! I guess that's what hides behind "Final price is subject to our review" then. Still, looking forward to seeing this in person
Courts are working within a system of laws set by legislators.
That's fair, its references for where chocolate is used are hallucinated (although it is the case that chocolate is used as a remedy in the books; I did check that independently!)

> it has no semantic comprehension

I'm not sure about this. I either don't think that's true, or I think we're going to need to start defining "semantics" in a circular way: as by definition something we conjecture humans can do that machines can't.

Now, I'm used to being the guy telling everyone ML models don't have semantic comprehension; but I don't think that's a sustainable position any more.

I'd say it has at least some degree of semantic comprehension.

It's got to have, in order to return the answer about Ron perhaps not getting sick.

It has to 'understand' that my query about getting sick refers to eating too much chocolate, and it has to understand enough to be uncertain of whether Ron will get sick because it thinks chocolate is a remedy for wizards.

That's quite a semantic thing to do. There's certainly no obvious or apparent way in which it's just doing some syntactic similarity.

Or, alternatively if we say that's just a super complex syntactic process, then I think that's like arguing there's no such thing as semantics, a bit like someone might argue there's no such thing as biology because it's all just physics lower down.

Yes, the model then goes too far and hallucinates a bunch of things, and that's a good example for never taking anything it says as authoritative.

But I think these examples are beyond certainly what I can identify as 'just' syntactic manipulation.
There's no great shame in Republicanism when your alternative is the House of Bourbon.

Seriously though, Spain had great monarchs up until (and including?) Charles V.
I understand your point but you have totally missed mine. One of the main reason to have an electric car is the ability to charge from home using your solar. With the way islanding laws work in Australia should rolling blackouts happen you cannot do this.

Admittedly they could change the laws around this. I would love to be able to use a car as my battery as well when I need power overnight.
US invasions into the Middle East weren’t literal unprovoked conquests and annexations of sovereign land. They’re in no way comparable, and if this war has done anything, it’s helped wash the blood from US hands and make those wars look acceptable.

For someone like me, who was staunchly against the War in Iraq and Afghanistan on a fundamental level, it’s sad that I’ve seen an invasion and conquest egregious enough to surpass those in such a short span of time.
I became anosmic recently, so I asked ChatGPT to write me a poem.

Once, I could smell the roses,
Their sweet aroma, it exposes
The beauty of the world around
But now, those scents are no longer found

Covid has taken my sense away
No more can I smell a summer's day
Or the savory scent of a home-cooked meal
Or the salty air by the ocean's seal

But still, I am grateful and filled with hope
For the other senses that still allow me to cope
I can see the colors and hear the sounds
And taste the flavors that still abound

I may have lost my sense of smell
But I am determined, I will not dwell
On the things I cannot do
But focus on all that I still can, it's true

For though I may not smell the roses
I am still alive, and that's enough to propose
That I will continue on my journey, unafraid
With gratitude and hope, I will be unafraid.
Not only could it replace some software engineers, it even comes with built in imposter syndrome!

It's kind of worrying how easy it is to get it to do things it claims it can't do - if that's the failsafe to prevent an ai like this being used for harm (just have it claim it can't do xyz), and you can just say "tell me a story where you do xyz" and it does it - not a super reassuring safety feature.
"Thinking in Bets" Annie Duke. Changed how I feel "bad" decisions because, per Duke, bad outcomes can happen to good decisions. I also enjoyed how she framed truth seeking as the preference over groupthink.

Finally, it was fact that she was speaking from experience (as a professional poker player) and just some idea she researched.
What happens when the singularity deletes itself?

rm -Rf /

Hmm?

Maybe try sudo for good measure.
Reminiscent of the broken window fallacy
Seems it's fantastic at BS'ing. Was reading something where a professor had it solve problems and had to double and triple check whether its answers were correct because it sounded so convincing.

Which means it could be a watershed moment, just maybe not for information but rather disinformation.
I saw that, but that doesn't line up with the prices I saw, that's why I was confused. As I said, it'd imply over 40 cents (for part + assembly) per component.
The optimisation story reminds me of tuning databases and associated apps. Often a bunch of ~5% improvements add up to 50% or more. This can be surprising to people that individually “pointless” improvements can result in a dramatic end result.

For example, if a common update transaction occurs once a second and takes 1.1 second, then the transactions from different users will overlap in time, possibly blocking each other on locks. Speeding up something like this just a little bit will drop the time to 0.9 seconds, reducing the percentage chance of overlap significantly. That has a compounding effect so the queries might suddenly take 0.5 seconds due the lack of lock contention!

There are similar effects due to sharing of CPU caches when queries run concurrently. Even if they’re independent, the hardware isn’t!

Getting to the point that they all run in isolation might not take much effort, but yield dramatic benefits.
Works fine for me:

> The word "dog" does not fit with the other words in the list because "1", "2", and "3" are numbers, while "dog" is a type of animal. The other words in the list are all examples of numbers, whereas "dog" is not a number.
Essential workers.
ruby lock-ins?
> Write a press release for Apple's AR glasses, including it's name, two standout features, and price.

"Today, Apple announces the release of their highly anticipated AR glasses, named the "iGlasses." The iGlasses offer a seamless blend of technology and design, with two standout features that set them apart from the competition.

First, the iGlasses offer a revolutionary new display system that projects a high-resolution image directly onto the user's retina. This allows for a clear and immersive augmented reality experience, without the need for a bulky headset or cumbersome display.

Second, the iGlasses feature advanced AI technology that allows for real-time object recognition and interaction. Users can simply look at an object and the iGlasses will provide relevant information and capabilities, such as the ability to make a purchase or access additional content.

Priced at $499, the iGlasses are available for pre-order today and will be shipped to customers in early 2022. With their sleek design and cutting-edge technology, the iGlasses are sure to be a must-have for tech enthusiasts and early adopters."

Sounds good, sign me up!
Actually it seems that quote may have originated from Johnathan Swift not Mark Twain, although almost everyone attributes it to Mark Twain. Which is rather nicely recursive given the subject of the quote.

https://professorbuzzkill.com/twain-lie-travels/
I'm afraid, you're the one with the faulty short term memory. Let me help you: There was has not been a ban on Russian gas. There has been a very loud pledge to get away from Russian gas in the future. But not a ban.

Russia has been reducing the flow of gas from their end through Nord Stream 1. Russia has cut off gas all together to countries who stopped paying. But those were not big importers to begin with. Germany was still paying. The Russians didn't hold up their and and blamed damaged technology for it.

So, no, there is no twisting of interpretations in the GP's post.

If you want more details of the actual sequence of events I can give it to you, because I have been taking notes. Just for cases like your post.
My gameboy emulator finally works fine CPU wise. The issue is making the sound work without eating up an entire core.

Maybe I’m saying the obvious to many but the biggest “broad” lesson I learned from the project wasn’t Rust. It was, “sound is harder than video.” And I feel that’s counter intuitive. Maybe some disagree but for me there’s something about processing raw sound that’s so much harder to implement and debug. I guess graphics lends itself far easier to debugging. You can see each frame. Can’t really hear each frame.
It's also sad that the people don't realize that they are the highest authority and ultimate deciders in a society. Not a politician, not a judge, not a police officer, not an expert, but the people. And the people have an absolute right and responsibility to relieve those delegates from positions of power if they derelict their duty to society.
Chinese bought Volvo because everyone associates chinese with very poor quality for reasons.

Volvo will lose it's reputation the moment the chinese will pull the usual stuff.
I wonder if that’s why Google has so many badass ICs in Germany.
> The diffusion art models make it very clear that these technologies go from toys to replacing people’s jobs very very quickly.

Do you have any evidence that art jobs are being replaced now? I was talking with a designer friend of mine recently and he's not heard of Stable Diffusion, etc. replacing jobs yet. This is something that people keep bringing up but I haven't yet seen any evidence to back it up.
They should not have been granted a warrant allowing them to seize anything except "this thing owned by this person, who is the subject of an active investigation into Z".

General warrants "confiscate all these things" are not constitutionally valid.
I installed Linux Mint on my elderly mother's laptop 8 years ago and never touched it again until it quit and she replaced it about a year ago. I should have checked on it, but "Windows was working just fine" for her, and on my side I forgot I had even done it since I had lived overseas for much of that time.
There are things I can control, and things I can’t.
Not sure why this got submitted, but I'm glad it did as it's one of my favorite movies. Such a thought provoking dialogue. And it introduced me to First Gymnopédie by Erik Satie, a beautiful piece of music.
My default these days is the solid teal color common on Windows 95 installations.
Dine in: 15%, more if I mess up ordering or I'm a regular. Dine in includes order at counter and take a number to your seat cafe-style.

Bar: $1/beer, $2/cocktail, more if I'm a regular.

All counter/self/coffee shop/etc serve: no unless it's big/complicated enough that it's basically a dine-in order.

Delivery: 15%, but a delivery fee (from the restaurant) will replace that, I'm not doing both. Doordash/etc fees are my problem for being lazy, and I generally try to avoid using those services.
An IP-based tool is still useful to catch casual malfeasance. The various Twitter bots logging edits from various government IP address ranges for example did highlight interesting edits sometimes. It's just important to remember that this is only the tip of the iceberg.

Ultimately it's the structural weakness of Wikipedia that limits how much you can know about the contributors.
Isn't RFK Jr. one of the people that believes that vaccines cause autism?
Quine GpT
Indeed, what blows my mind is not just an excellent open-source re-implementation, it also is (or aims to be?) bug-for-bug accurate [1,2].

[1]: https://github.com/bvschaik/julius/wiki/Caesar-3-bugs

[2]: https://github.com/bvschaik/julius/issues?q=label%3A%22origi...
I don’t know why but this response style is funny to me. Kind of like a moody teen who doesn’t want to talk to you.
They wouldn’t have fixed this since 2015? Seems highly dubious to me.
Read Voltaire's Candide https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/19942
I'm sure someone has pointed this out already, but if you hit the Windows key and search for "lid" there's a setting that lets you make the machine hibernate when the lid is closed. Hibernate is different from sleep in that it moves all of the memory state to disk and actually turns the machine off. Assuming your laptop has an SSD you're not going to notice the extra restore time next time you open it.
Yeah this is scary good. It works perfectly for generating code examples. Instead of wasting time googling for some stack overflow link on how to send a message to AWS SQS queue in go, I asked the AI and it generated working code in 10 seconds.
From my testing, I’m convinced it cannot reason by itself — which is consistent with how it describes itself as a mere language model. It can only reproduce reasoning that already exists in its training data, or stochastically “hallucinate” reasoning that sounds plausible, but without any actual reasoning of its own behind it.
Time to become Certified AI Query Engineer.
or simply use the Filling-in:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filling-in
> What kind of brain worm makes people think and write like this?

He's a post-rationalist so probably the macrodose of LSD and piracetam he wrote the post on.