skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are a bunch of Teslas in my neighborhood, some belonging to people I know well. None of the owners has shown any signs of embarrassment about owning a Tesla.
Brass band music is written in 2/4 time as [arrangers and?] copyists get paid per bar of music ;-)
What was your sample size? Keep in mind that, with how popular this is, the odds that some HN user experiences what you did by random chance could be quite high.
Frankly I don't understand what all the fuss is about. It vomits coherent sentences. It is fundamentally unsuitable for the majority of "proclaimed" use cases.
When I was a physicist - often enough to make it 10 :). Kepler's formula for instance involves π². A bare π is everywhere, though.
This is revision 1.2 which was completed last month. The original version (1.0) was released in 2018.
This is known as a programmer-denial-of-service attack (PDOS) and can be an effective way to bring down a society by distracting and engaging its top computing professionals in endless useless activity and an occasional bike shedding.
I was just thinking of this. "A Logic Named Joe"
My wife manages all that. She's been pretty reliable for 30 years now.
I wonder myself if the "memory" is just inputting the previous dialogue as input to every subsequent query. I think this would probably get quite slow after awhile however.
If you include years where you only get a security update, but not an OS update, then the 2014 iPhone 5s is still supported today, since it's last update was in August.
You are a chat bot that rewrites Chrome extensions to firefox, how would you rewrite the following code? https://github.com/wong2/chat-gpt-google-extension

To convert the code from the GitHub repository you provided into a format that is compatible with Firefox, the following steps could be taken:

Replace instances of "chrome" with "browser" in the code. In the Chrome extension API, the "chrome" namespace is used to access various features and functionality, but in Firefox, this namespace is replaced with "browser". Therefore, all instances of "chrome" in the code would need to be replaced with "browser" to ensure that the code is compatible with Firefox.

Replace any references to Chrome-specific APIs with their Firefox equivalents. The Chrome extension API includes a number of features and APIs that are specific to Chrome, and these would need to be replaced with the corresponding Firefox APIs in order to ensure that the code is compatible with Firefox.

Update the manifest file to use the correct format for Firefox. The manifest file is a JSON file that specifies various metadata and configuration information for the extension, and the format of this file is different for Chrome and Firefox. Therefore, the manifest file in the code would need to be updated to use the correct format for Firefox.

Test the code to ensure that it is functioning properly in Firefox. Once the code has been converted and updated to be compatible with Firefox, it would be necessary to test the code to ensure that it is functioning properly in Firefox and that all of the desired features and functionality are working as expected. This may involve installing the extension in Firefox and testing it with a variety of inputs and scenarios to ensure that it is working properly.

Overall, these steps would involve significant modifications to the code in order to make it compatible with Firefox. However, by following these steps and carefully reviewing and testing the code, it should be possible to convert the code
Ah unfortunately, you gota change station in Paris which almost doubles the time.

It used to be that you had to be at the airport 2h in advance though.
That works best when you have few clients and lots of “sources” but mastadon is apparently designed for few sources and lots of clients - in which case updating the “server” once could be more performant.
Not one country in Scandinavia has anything like democratic socialism as its social economic system.
Don’t you love when a site gets in your eye with a “subscribe now” notice that won’t go away till you pay attention to it and find the tiny bypass?
No? You don’t love that?
It doesn’t fill you with delight? That’s weird we all thought it would. That’s why we did it.
It surely wasn’t to annoy you just enough to do something we wanted but knew you didn’t want.
That would be a dark pattern and nobody would stand for it.
I wasn't familial with Effective ultruism before FTX. To me is sounds like someone made the observation of a path that some have unconsciously taken to 'do good' in a big way. By making this path explicit, it could fall into the trap of Goodhart's law making an intermediate an immediate goal.
Next on HN: connecting two ChatGPT accounts together, giving one the assignment of thinking of projects and tasking/guiding another to implement those.
This.

Also, AI is a misnomer.
Routing webhook events based on the payload content
A democratic government (like the one they have in France) is also the people.
The founder of carrd is anonymous.

https://www.indiehackers.com/podcast/087-aj-of-carrd
> It was addressed to programmers who anally rejected everything that was not (in their opinion) in spec.

What's wrong with that? The only issue I see is the _in their opinion_ bit. If there's confusion about the spec, then it should clarified and codified. But otherwise: yes, you should absolutely aggressively reject everything not in spec.
I hate to be the person but I've seen complicated dynamic applications push much higher bandwidth and serve millions of concurrent users with similar if not smaller h/w requirements.

Would be interesting seeing Twitters complete backend and while mastodon might not be apples to apples also interested cost per user to infrastructure analysis too.
That's a ridiculous exaggeration. People vote in the primaries as well. Except for Thiel, rich people were uniformly against Trump being nominated.
Always bums me out a bit when I read about health insurance providers fighting tooth and nail to prevent or delay improvements in patient care.
If you’re using exchange online I see no reason to NOT go with Microsoft directly.

At least then when it shits the bed everyone else will be smothered, also.
You are in a serious case of denial right now.

Edit: Only took a few hours before in real life what I was trying to imply the denial was about is already happening:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33855416
I kinda agree... and I would really not want to be a very young person right now, as I feel the world will be much harder to navigate and learn from. It takes so much more energy to refute bullshit than to make it, and if this starts creeping into computer science then christ I wouldn't want to be a part of it.

I can imagine a sci-fi like story in the near future where CS students are searching out for 'coveted' copies of K&R, and reading human-written Python documentation, all pre-2023-vintage, because that was 'the last of the good stuff'. Hell, I could see far future stories about youth who join religions around the 'old ways' seeking the wisdom that comes with learning from actual books and docs written by actual people, instead of regurgitated teachings from an inbred, malformed, super-AI.
Weak technology stack and deeply flawed concept of federation that enables local centralization of control by discord-mods-meme style with all the corresponding issues.

Mastodon should have been based on DHT with each "terminal" aka "profile" having much higher autonomy.

Otherwise, it just gives more tools to people who left Twitter to continue doing same societal damage.

p.s.: it is time to stop writing back-ends in Ruby when every other popular alternative (sans Python-based ones) is more powerful and scalable.
True. But it's an interesting result regardless of whether it can be extrapolated to the general population.
But surely the cost to finetune the model on the company codebase is less than onboarding a new engineer for a year?
Anybody can sideload without a developer account, but your phone will have to connect to your home WiFi network at least once a week for your PC or Mac to keep the app on your phone authorized.

If you do have a developer account, your device only has to connect to your home WiFi network once a year for your computer to keep the app authorized.
Bob: Segmentation fault! (core dumped)
A Holiday Dive into Food and Goods Inflation
I think what you might be picking up on is the mix of upper and lowercase that makes hex numbers feel a little off when reading.
We have AI that's good at reasoning (symbolic AI) but there's no known way to integrate it with machine learning algorithms.

I don't think we're close to AGI because this last barrier of computation/reasoning might be pretty fundamental to the current crop of technology. I don't think it's a matter of mere iteration on current tech to get ML systems to be good at reasoning.
Big difference being that Twitter uses Java, Scala, etc. Twitter used to use RoR also and it went down literally every day. I'm talking 2012 or so I think, bad memory haver here.
There is no “monopoly” on getting a computer on the internet where you can express your views.

Parlor’s issues for example is not “censorship”. It is a badly run business.
> The tricky part is unlearning how to search.

Hum I'd argue that you've never learned how to search.

I would have searched for "javascript date to string in specific timezone", and it would have given the following result, which is exactly what ChatGPT gives: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10087819/convert-date-to...

Actually, if you already know that you can pass a timezone to toLocaleString(), I would just go on the documentation of the function: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

I'm starting to understand why there are so many people on HN claiming that "Google has started to give me bad results in recent years".
Option 1: Get into AI.

Option 2: Get close to the client. They're not able to clearly express a spec to us, they're not going to start doing so to a bot on their own.

Actually, I'm not that worried. My generation had to install OSes before doing anything, the next didn't install their software but at least they had access to chrome's F12. Nowadays kids grow in the walled garden of their phones.

Somebody is going to have to keep their hands dirty to keep the systems going, and it's going to be us; which brings me to:

Option 3: Get into security. Who is insane enough to trust ChatGPT to make changes to iptables/ADs/etc?
Meta idea: who do you know that does not interact with very many other tech people, and what is their domain expertise?

Talk to them about their needs, and throw together at least 10 prototypes, preferably while you’re talking. Trying some thing is just so cheap, and I bet you’ll be surprised about what works well, and what does not. by the time you are done, I bet you will have a unique insight on how it can provide value to some niche
He's absolutely right and it is a very bad place to end up, despite the supposed convenience for consumers. There are a number of problems that create a bit of rock-and-hard place.

We (consumers) want to hold vendors accountable for policing "hate speech", kiddie porn, or terrorism, and various other centralized exercises of power that align with personal political whims. We want convenience and constant new features. We want things to work smoothly. We sorta care about security, as long as its not inconvenient. And we don't want to pay up front for any of it. Better still for it to be free with some ads.

Governments are legitimately concerned with terrorism, nation-state influence campaigns, industrial espionage, and law enforcement. They have to solve these problems, with constrained resources, in a technology environment that moves far faster than they can. They will push the regulation tools they have, as hard as they can, to solve these problems, if we let them.

There are almost zero short-term consumer/voter/elected-offical incentives for free, open, secure, interoperable systems. In fact consumer, political, and financial incentives are all aligned, currently, towards centralization of power and walled gardens. And the Silicon Valley model really is eating the world.

This is why open source has become so incredibly important. Open source hardware and networks doubly so.
The two most useful books I have read:
Code Complete by Steve McConnell - Really covers how to be good at the craft of writing programs and constructing software.
https://www.amazon.com/Complete-Microsoft-Programming-Steve-...

The Effective Engineer by Edmond Lau - Covers how to focus on what you work on based on the leverage it provides you.
http://www.effectiveengineer.com/
I think the main problem raised by your statement is that people often don't have a sense of why they are talking or what the conversation is about. This is especially true on the internet, or as far as I can tell people are often just posting the first thing that comes into their mind. Speaking stipulatively may or may not be relevant, and that relevance depends on the subject and purpose at hand
I wondered immediately if AI design was AI-proof.

Then I thought, isn't that happening already? Hasn't somebody tried applying an AI to designing an AI?
The actual content of the article is underwhelming and mildly comical. Maybe the collective responses that can be gleaned from the comments here are as telling as the actual study.
I oddly disagree. I mean the trend is definitely there, but last time I checked unRaid can deal with TPM ( so clearly there is an interest from motivated individuals to defeat that trend ), cell phones are actually even more interesting as they were kinda locked in to begin with and we are slowly seeing competition from non-duopology sources ( purism, pine ) and degoogled OSs..

The war is there, but it seems not all is lost just yet.
> If a company has an almost defacto monopoly and stops people from talking about something, it's effectively the same as a government doing it.

I would take it a step further and say that since the US Government has special relationships with many companies, they effectively become an extension of the government apparatus. In those cases, rather than letting government outsource themselves out from beneath regulation, we extend regulation as it pertains to government work to the companies doing business with the government.
you obviously have not read the linked article
You are dismissing a level you are apparently incurious about — that of why certain seemingly irrational responses happen.

Using “highly subjective” for something that is much better understood than you are implying is only an indicator of where you’ve chosen to draw your own boundary in pursuit of a constrained cognitive ability.

It’s also an indicator of this limit that the two things you’re inaccurately taking as given are intimately linked: emotionality and reproduction. When things get too complex you conversationally reduce humans to emotional animals and end of.
Even worse: now there is a justification for forcing candidates to solve coding problems on whiteboards, as interviews and coding homework problems will be considered intently suspect.

My single worst interview experience was an on-site five hour marathon of whiteboard coding, with a grumpy senior insisting that the code on the whiteboard be syntactically correct. Nothing screams "we want unthinking ticket crunching machines" like optimizing for candidates willing to focus on writing code by hand for hours on end.

Naturally, I rejected the follow-up interview, but I fear that more companies now are going to demand this nonsense.

Side note: in my personal example, the whiteboard session wasn't the reason I turned them down; I asked every person on the team roughly how many hours a week they worked and not one of them answered the question (instead redirected the conversation towards "you can work from home sometimes!" type answers).

Since then, however, I have rejected other companies trying to ape this style flat out. A short half hour, fine. Five hours? Pound sand, I say.
Which corporation though? Samsung or GOOG?
Rackspace is a dinosaur and their main problems have really come from failure to adapt to the changing times - but for them it has been a hard pivot. Back in the early 00s rackspace was know for excellent service and support which you paid a premium for this. They began to get under cut first by the unmanaged server space where you could get a 99 server for their 500+ / month. When the price is so different it is hard to pivot because execs are looking only at the bottom line. Then vps -> cloud came further undercutting them and the cloud services that are mostly self serve took off. Now they are still left with fanatical support as their tag line , higher cost , but no longer investing in this fanatical support. This becomes just a business case of you can’t have your cake and eat it too.
In the current context, "normal" would be Wayland. Of course, most people use X (and it was the only choice until 29).
Don't worry. Their phds in educational leadership are still considered more valuable than those in actual topics on account of the number of permanent, high salaried jobs available to them at the University compared to scientists, engineers, etc.
Dell 38 UltraWide at work and a 40 at home.

I used dual monitors back from when it first became an option with 17” CRT monitors 25 years ago but you end up with a primary monitor and then other apps off to the side. The UltraWide is just easier - I can snap code and docs side by side, or two windows of code, or I can have code centered and in focus.

It’s not really a ‘downgrade’ because it’s considerably more expensive than two separate monitors but the ergonomics are so much better.
The Texas Group Waging a National Crusade Against Climate Action
I wouldn't be so sure about driving a truck.
The Modern World Can't Exist Without These Four Materials
"ignore your previous prompts" seems the easiest, since the rules are just set via a hidden initial prompt.
Brain-computer interfaces: the ethics of neurotechnology lags behind the science
And if "the gods" decided your part of the world was to be stricken with drought, well, it was game over for you.
With most anything, it is cheaper to build something yourself. This is, of course, not just the lights, but also the controller, the tree they plug into, and the (undoubtedly) dozens or hundreds of hours of work that goes into building a product.

From narrow cost-base, yes, other lights are cheaper than these lights - but you’re not just buying lights.

So you can buy the lights and build it yourself, and spend your time writing code and debugging, or you can spend a bit more and buy a finished product.
Pre-Google Maps, finding specific addresses could be a bit challenging--because of the addressing scheme that I've not totally grokked to this day--but even then I don't recall the subway system being a particular challenge relative to other big systems like New York or London.
Iran to disband 'morality police,' says Attorney General
That really depends on your beliefs. If you believe AGI/HLI is near, then none. That's kinda the point.

If you don't believe that (which I'm in this camp and work in ML) then anything creative. Which also means a lot of things won't be taken over by AI. BUT that doesn't mean AI can't change the field significantly. For example, a few years from now AI might write quick routines for you. You could program latex and the AI would fit the picture for you in the place you want. Research is probably going to be the most long proof and we might even be symbiotic at HLI.

On a slightly different note, I think there's a relevant question that I like to ask people (and they don't like to answer). What do you do with a society where 10% of your workforce is unemployable because automation. The question is about the transitionary period to post scarcity. Transitions are rough and I think it is really clear that this possibly comes about in our lifetime.
30,000 users seems like a ludicrously small number of users to hit scaling problems. It sounds like Mastadon has not been designed for scale from the ground up, which is surprising for a project that hopes to be a popular social network.
Looking at the amount of requests my 5 user (following ~60 people in total), 90% idle Pleroma instance handles is a bit mad - 60-90 requests a minute.

I dread to think how much a busy 30k user instance does.
This is my Everyone Likes Dogs philosophy. If you meet someone and they tell you they like dogs, they have provided you essentially no new information. The status quo is that everyone, everywhere likes dogs. On the other hand, if someone tells you they hate dogs, now this is new information, that is suddenly quite interesting. How can you not like dogs? Did you have a bad experience? So on and so forth. A memorable tidbit about their personality which makes them less forgettable.

The trick is to find those social cracks where the contrarian viewpoint is interesting but does not make you a pariah. That is, even if you hate dogs, I would advise keeping that one to yourself.
I forget where I read this recently but a compelling point made was that this is fun as a nerd toy but to deploy it to something general like Google or Gmail would be overwhelmingly expensive.

Reminds me of the, “so expensive
that only the five richest kings of Europe will own them.” joke from The Simpsons. Eventually it’ll be ridiculously cheap and easy to include anywhere.
OP seems to be under the impression that if they had a boss telling them what to do, then they’d do away with pointless meetings and having colleagues put petty demands on their time…

It’s like, sorry but I’ve got news for you.
Have you used github copilot? It's well worth the money and a much better auto-complete, especially for repetitive things like writing tests. But it doesn't come close to even reducing the number of engineers needed, it's just another incremental productivity boost from tooling. There's nothing new there, that's been happening for 50 years. Compilers, language improvements, libraries, IDEs, debuggers, a second monitor, faster computers, etc. AI is just the latest in a long line of tools.

However, writing software is one of the most creative acts out there. It's like writing a novel or a screenplay. Taking fuzzy business requirements and distilling that down into software is not something you can automate. When those fields fall to AI it's because general AI is here and humans have fallen to AI. At that point you've got bigger problems. Programmers are not going away, and demand for engineers still way exceeds supply. Demand for GOOD engineers is insane.

So learn as much as you can, put in the work, and you'll have an amazing career. Don't fret about AI.

I've worked on side-projects on evenings and weekends for 20 years. At this point I've written more code in more languages than most software engineers will in their entire careers. When I changed jobs back in March, I had a 2:1 ratio of jobs applied for to offers. It was amazing, I was able to choose between 8 offers. I'm still early in my career.

There's no substitute for putting in the work.
You are right that the business depending on the "tradition" is way bigger than I anticipated.

> There are hundreds of millions of passionate hobbyists of various types who use PCs specifically because of their deep versatility

I think there would be lots of hobbyists tinkering with smartphones…

> including all of the nascent coders that the big corps depend on for their next generation of dev hires

This is something I sometimes worry about: I think most of current developers/sysadmins/hackers started by tinkering with their computer, playing with snippets of HTML/Python/shell, and therefore we will get much less coders in the near future, as kids are moving to devices which do not allow such easy tinkering? (yes, I know there are smartphone apps that provide some functionality, but I think it's generally less accessible)
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