skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been thinking about how people working in intellectual fields like art, programming, and writing are starting to realize that their work can be automated, industrialized, and produced in large volumes faster by AI. It's a similar situation to what line workers experienced with the first automated production lines. It's frustrating because the skills and knowledge that people have spent their careers developing are suddenly not as valuable as they once were.

It's easy to dismiss AI-generated content as garbage, but it won't always be that way. Even now [1], some of the MidJourney creations and written text produced by AI are truly impressive. As AI technology continues to improve, we we'll see even more advanced models that can produce meta-articles on par with those produced by organizations like IPCC if feeded with scientific articles.

I'm not sure how to feel about all this. It's happening, it's going to get better, and it's going to change our lives. There's not much we can do to stop it, and I'm not even sure we should if we could.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33752684
Remember the Wordle clones in February 2022, every day a new take on the frontpage?

It's just a high tech news cycle. Two weeks ago Elon/Twitter was hot topic, now it's ChatCPT, in two weeks something else takes over.
More that software that is critical is written with some level of care, and then never touched again out of fear of breaking it. See all the stories of hospital machines running windows xp.
I'm in devices. In pharma you need way more. In devices we do a lot of In vitro work, cadaver work, etc. so animals is just the final stage of that. For drugs you need for more admittedly, but it's usually rabbits and mice you need in high quantities, not monkeys. Usually you do a bunch or rabbits, and then just one or two monkeys to verify. I've never heard of anything close to 1500 monkeys for a product that isn't even on the market.
The blockchain proves that the post was made when he says it was.

Being on avc.com doesn't prove that; he could back-date posts.
> “The low-sleep phase is temporary.” Nope. “Same goes for changing diapers” Nope.

Huh? Does your child have an issue where they never grow out of diapers?

For the vast majority of people, the diaper phase is temporary.
It’s annoying that articles repeatedly wrongly claim that reduced real estate prices lead to reduced real estate taxes. The method of computation of real estate taxes generates a mil rate which is the percentage rate that needs to be charged to generate the current budget’s revenue. This rate is computed each assessment after the property values are adjusted. The government gets the same total amount of money if property values are high vs if they are low.
I’ve felt the same way. After years of patience and practice my kid has become a fantastic artist. I’m a bit concerned that at some point they might think “why bother?” and give it up after they see someone type some prompt in with “pencil, sketch” as a suffix.
> It can be done, it can be tolerated, it's just not a very good or competitive product

I agree with everything you said, just want to highlight that this quote is the classic statement of a business opportunity.

There is a VC pitch here: a company that acquired distressed office space at scale, from panicked sellers, and with the expertise to do these conversions in a systematic, cost-optimized way.

Banks are going to want to unload these properties as soon as they appear, for dirt cheap. Someone is going to make a lot of money by approaching the issue as a tech problem.
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Do you have a model that you can recommend?
I will definitely say that ChatGPT comes up with really good combination of words that can coherently stick together. But, it should be understood that "we" make sense from the sentence it generates, not the Chat software itself, it is just stringing together words based on the patterns it has learnt.

If answering a question was all about generating the correct subsequent/pattern of words based on prior context or prompts, then we can argue that sales consultant, marketing personnel, journalists etc can write and design software or come up with scientific theories? After all, they also can use buzz words they have learnt contextually very well and hence they sell the product, isn't it?
Do you mean that before FTX directed customers to wire deposits to Alameda and then immediately misappropriated the funds, they launched a token? like, one of them temporally preceded the other, even though the actions were unrelated?
The only products you listed which weren’t acquisitions are search and gmail. Search is exactly the problem Google was made to handle and Gmail.. well I don’t love gmail but it is a good enough product I guess?
That's worth more than a side note. When I was non-remote I drove home 2-3 days a week (1hr round trip) when no one else was home to let them out and spend 30 minutes with them.
Actually I had more that one offer for 140k. For example from Magna. But yes, it is not easy. And I have 20+ years of experience.
Note, I do not say they actually pay that, but what they should pay, if they want to find the people.
> One potential danger is that some of the more extreme therapies for gender transition are permanent and work best when used early.

There is virtually only one, and that's puberty blockers, stuff that has been used for decades to treat precocious puberty. We know these medicines are safe and we also know that nature will run its course again all by itself after the medicines are left out.

Genital surgery, the second option, is extremely rare in people under 18, and most of it is done on inter-gender children shortly after birth which is a grave mistake anyway and some countries have banned that as a result [1].

And in any case: Puberty blockers are reversible - puberty itself is not. Some things (e.g. the growth of breast tissue) can be reversed but at a high cost, some like the vocal cords changing for hormonal males cannot be reversed at all. It is way, way better for trans children to not force them through puberty.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-germany-lgbt-health-idUSK...
> I would argue that "context" is intentional misdirection. Most people don't know that synchron is marketing an electrified stent that gives maybe one channel of data I/O whereas Neuralink has a robot that implants thousands of electrodes in multiple regions of the brain and spinal cord. They are different by orders of magnitude in complexity and potential utility.

The literal quote you're responding to says that Synchron's implant is "less ambitious." It's worth noting that being overambitious is often the root cause of fuck ups.
Isn't it simply because it's exported to places where that meat commands a higher price? Lots of veal here in Europe…
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But are there any real blocks to stopping underaged people from having access to adult content?
Unless parents are tech savvy enough to get content controls, which even then suck. Like the parental controls for TMobile has no granularity, Comcast only allows basic filtering on the router level, and very little in logging and alerting.

I feel like this is in keeping with regulation in the real world. A kid needs an id to buy adult magazines, a person needs to be involved selling that item. With the internet, where are those societal safety's? It doesn't stop all, but it would handle most.
I grew up in Houston, Texas. As a kid I remember downtown as being 1. Big office buildings with parking garages. 2. Concert halls & auditoriums. 3. City and county facilities. 4. Restaurants catering to the visitors of the above. 5. Sears & Roebuck department store.

Nobody lived downtown, and most of it was dead after working hours. Most of the office buildings had no street-level retail shops at all – there was no reason to go there except to work, or in the case of 2-3 of them, to visit the observation deck on the upper floor. The small area where (2) were concentrated didn't even have much in the way of restaurants or shops open. If you worked there, you drove downtown in the morning, came home in the evening. If you wanted to a concert, play, or ballet, you drove downtown, enjoyed the show, then drove home.

There was, and is, one unique thing about Houston. The tunnels. There is a network of underground walkways and areas connecting many of the buildings. There are some restaurants and shops, and during the lunch hour the area was packed. But you couldn't get to those tunnels without going into one of the office buildings, and they were only open working hours. Most of the stuff in the tunnels opened at 10am and closed at 2pm.
> no one is saying

That's a rather extreme claim, don't you think? There's been a significant shift in recent years from "gender fluid" behavior being considered a matter of expression, to it being regarded as an almost mandatory matter of identity - either as a sign of identifying with the opposite gender, or as being "non binary".

> Trans healthcare for kids does not involve surgery.

The heavy medicalization of "trans healthcare" creates a rigid path from "affirmation" of the supposedly expressed gender, to puberty blockers/hormones, to surgical reassignment. There are significant social drawbacks for those who choose to stray, since 'community' support is conditional on picking the "right" choices at any given step.

> I can see why people would be upset by your straw man, were it the reality, but trans people are not an abomination

The latter is not something I ever said, of course. You might be pattern-matching my comment with things that are just not there. I agree that most trans people just want to live their lives and not be at risk for violence, but this much is obvious. In general, the most extreme "activism" on either side gets a lot of visibility while being unrepresentative of what real people think.
Binary upgrades on FreeBSD are fine. I rarely compile my own kernel these days, but even when I did needed a custom kernel I never had any issues. It just works, For me FreeBSD and OpenBSD needs much less maintenance than Linux.
Don't fall for the rhetorical trick employed here: just because we can call this "specieism", doesn't make it wrong.
I think you’re missing the point of the comment. They wanted to live in a more walkable, bikeable, human centered environment that doesn’t require cars to get around.

You’re making the statement that Phoenix is a great place, and a great place to drive, if you don’t mind driving for your errands, etc.

They clearly don’t enjoy needing to drive everywhere, and NYC is a great place to be if you don’t want to have a car centric life.
Given the current market I'd say you have to achieve some basic success before hiring anyone, at least if you're bootstrapping. From my experience it's quite difficult to find early-stage employees that are both affordable and good enough to handle the breadth of technical tasks needed in the early phase of a business.

So, yeah, automation can take away a lot of pain, and how far you can get really depends on how well you automate specific aspects of your business. My takeaway after several SaaS products is that you have to optimize for minimal customer interaction from the start, otherwise you'll drown in support requests once you hit product-market fit. Stuff like billing, subscription management etc. should be solvable in self-service processes for customers, and if you see a speficic support issue more than 5 times in a given week you should ask yourself if you can automate it away or change the product so it won't happen again.
You beat me to it. And as far as I'm aware, that finding was legit science. A dramatic decline which is further accelerating, with zero knowledge on tangible causes.

The finding wasn't shared very widely or at least didn't turn a lot of heads. Which is odd given the pretty existential nature of the issue. In places where I saw it shared on social media the consensus was: "good!", but that seems to be the response to any news that hints at population decline/collapse.
While pornography isn't the root of all evil, I wonder if self-denial in general is good for you. Does giving up an arbitrary thing for a month give you benefits just from the exertion of willpower? Has anyone quantified it?

I also suspect the people who take No Nut November seriously include a higher than chance number with actual problem behaviour. Maybe the not-quite-porn-addicts and the not-quite-alcoholics self-select for No Nut November and Sober October because they know they've got a problem, and these months provide a nudge to make a change.
Call me crazy but I don’t need every life decision to be backed by peer reviewed studies. I’m perfectly happy using my intuition to tell me that e.g. yes the more I jerk it to a pixels on screen portraying (often unrealistic) sex the more I’m conditioning myself to have issues with the real thing.

I know a number of highly intelligent people in the sciences who make decisions like this (searching/waiting for Science to tell them what’s right) and who laugh at me when I follow intuition/folk knowledge.

Don’t get me wrong, academic research is an amazing thing. I follow many research backed protocols for fitness, diet etc. But I also think when it comes to systems as complex as our bodies, there’s much collective wisdom in our intuition and societal traditions that science hasn’t and may never catch up to.
Corporations seem to do a good job of avoiding taxes in a way that people cannot replicate. The ultra-rich founders also do a great job of making sure they pay a lower tax rate than the rest of us.

I think Keynes said "The worst form of capitalism is in which the public holds all the risk, and the private sector realizes all the rewards".
Can you expand reasoning or evidence behind this guess that the keys would be stored (only) in HSM?
Ted Kacynski was a deranged murderer who tried to down a commercial airliner and spent the last "free" years of his life, if you can call them that, using a hole in the corner of the shack he lived in as a toilet. He's probably the only person in the history of the country whose own life was improved by incarceration at ADX Florence.

Kacynski is a distinctively stupid person to ask for reflections on modern life. Whatever you think of Stallman, putting him in the same sentence as Kacynski is calumny.
Asking help from a doctor for your ED is different from answering a questionnaire for a study. The former could help you directly, the latter only indirectly (if at all) by maybe attracting attention to the problem from the medical community.

But if you don't have ED you're not likely to either go to a doctor for a condition you don't have, nor participate in such studies.
I think the logical mistake is that I am able & willing to live simpler life in the village. But that won't be true for most.
Paying a wage = sharing your profits, just not on a % base, but a fixed amount. But in the end it's still: less profits for the founder, and more profit for the employee.
> And there is no evidence a basic income would have altered that trajectory.

There's no evidence either way. You're citing lack of evidence on something that's barely been tested, much less had enough time in the wild to have its effects studied.
How about an alternate headline: "remote work revitalizes small towns, allows people to spend more time with their friends and families"?
@lexx, i think most of the things you put in your answer were very reasonable and non-controversial and probably what most good senior-ish engineers do. I think the parent comment is slightly in his "local minima" and he's generalizing his experience to everyone else

>"Trying to persuade people to avoid technical debt at all costs" - put in a linter

This for example does not make sense to me. This would mean all tech debt is just static analysis. There is no linter for figuring out the correct abstraction and using them correctly.
Eg. no linter yet will tell you "hey you should have used a state machine here!"

You need a width range of experience before you can develop "better" taste in what's good and bad in different scenarios. Some of it can be gained from years of
experience, and some from exposure to books/code.
I've been doing this for 30+ years, and I've found the same. It's not just whether the candidate can answer correctly, but how they answer.

Back when I was doing C/C++ interviews, I'd ask questions like:

What's the difference between single and double quotes? A meh candidate answers something about you need single quotes for just a single character. A good candidate answers about how the data type for a double-quoted constant is a char.

If I want to pass a variable into a function, and have its value changed by the function, what do I do?* A lousy candidate says "put an ampersand in front of it". A meh candidate says to pass a pointer to the variable. The best candidate will talk about the difference between call-by-value versus call-by-reference.

People really do reveal a lot about themselves not just in what they say, but the way they say it.
China is a great example too. After they lifted the one child policy there was no change at all. Having lots of kids was a net positive for the family’s finances in an agricultural society but in a modern service oriented society it’s a huge resource drain. Even in countries with free childcare and other policies, you’ll still have to somehow afford a 3-4 bedroom near a big city where your well paying job is and so on.
Yes. It was screamed about being the next thing, every single day. This has happened to crypto / blockchain and Quantum Computers, except that the hype in crypto is over (for now) and the hype cycles are no different to AI and IoT.

If you ask me, it seems that all of them are a hype train to a worse dystopia. Now the grift is continuing on ChatGPT.
I seriously doubt this will ever advance to human trials. It's going to be another Musk fiasco.
What are those obviously more useful domains AND one tech person can have a very big impact in them?
have you considered moving to another country? If the issue is bad housing market and government policies, you'll be happy to hear that there are probably better options elsewhere. The benefits that pay for that free housing comes from your taxes, if the system seems unfair, there is no reason for you to participate, emigrate to Canada/Australia, or even somewhere more exotic if you're feeling brave.
TBH i find the other subjects boring. Just take a look at the frontpage, many of those 'problems' being discussed seem solvable via AI , which makes it a chore to think about them
Not in PNW. All but the most popular and shortest trails have scree, slippery rock and stream crossings/water on trail except for 1-3 months of a given year. Snow too except 3-4 months of the year. I usually wear approach shoes (sneakers with grippy rubber bottom and also waterproof in the lower inch or so) on basic hikes. Half a liter is also not sufficient for most hikes with 2-3k+ gain, unless you want to be dehydrated, and not great if something happens (it takes a surprisingly long time to get someone not capable of walking off even the most basic trail).
What what? So I sign everything so that people know that it was me copy pasting GPT3 content into my own blog? Or are we betting that signing can't be automated?

What am I not getting here?
> potential use cases ChatGPT will solve for as it continues growing in capabilities

I think that's the point. "Maybe it doesn't do anything useful yet, but once we solve the hard problems, it will." Unfortunately, in the AI world, they seldom solve the hard problems - generating hype is enough. Until ChatGPT has some way to determine what's correct and what's not, which is the hard problem, I don't find it interesting.
I honestly misread that as "... kittens."

I still have no idea what that would have meant.
The title needs to be changed, because:

> This isn’t meant as a lens tutorial. Prerequisites are some basic knowledge of how to use Haskell, GHCI, and familiarity of the idea of lenses, if not the specifics.

With that out of the way, it's kind of disappointing that the article isn't a tutorial. As it is, it just lists the lens operators, gives you alternate, but still non-obvious names for them, and foists some exercises upon you. It could have easily given one short example for each operator without adding any significant tedium for those who already have an idea of what they do, and then it would have been a perfectly fine tutorial.

So here's some examples, (Hoogle has some nice examples too; thanks Hoogle):

person = Person {_name = "Alice", _title = "Dr"}

-- get field with magic lens
person ^. title == "Dr"

-- create new object with new field value
person & name .~ "Bob"
== person & (name .~ "Bob")
== (name .~ "Bob") person
== Person {_name = "Bob", _title = "Dr"}

-- create new object with function applied to field value
person & name %~ lowercase
== (name %~ lowercase) person
== Person {_name = "alice", _title = "Dr"}
> There's been a significant shift in recent years from "gender fluid" behavior being considered a matter of expression, to it being regarded as an almost mandatory

Who exactly is arguing that it is mandatory to be gender fluid? I've never heard such a thing.

What I do hear trans people arguing for is that they have a right to exist, that they are under threat of violence, and that the require awareness of their condition and protection under the law as a matter of survival.

> The heavy medicalization of "trans healthcare" creates a rigid path from "affirmation" of the supposedly expressed gender, to puberty blockers/hormones, to surgical reassignment. There are significant social drawbacks for those who choose to stray, since 'community' support is conditional on picking the "right" choices at any given step.

You're just kinda putting quotes on things to make them sound scary. Do you object to surgery, or surgery being performed on children? If teenagers go on puberty blockers, and they decide they don't want to pursue surgery when they become adults - no worries, no surgery was performed. If they become adults, having considered the decision for a long time at this point - by what you were saying before now, that would seem to be okay; you were saying it was an unacceptable to impose a surgery on children, are you now saying that this isn't a choice you're ever okay with? I'm starting to get the feeling maybe you just feel trans people are unacceptable in general and that, whatever they did, you would disapprove of it.

I'm not deeply involved with the LGBTQ community, but I'm confident none of the people I know would bully someone who decided against transitioning. And none of the LGBTQ communities I've ever intersected with have been stingy or withholding of their support; they're happy to discuss my feelings about gender with me, for example, though I'm a straight man with a "by the book" gender presentation (and I have my frustrations with my gender and the expectations that come with it all the same, which I'm sure many men can relate to).

I'm sure there are toxic personalities within these communities, but it is certainly not the norm or generally tolerated, as bullying exists in virtually all communities but generally is not tolerated.
Even if it were bad for Taiwan, geopolitics is about more than Taiwan.

But I’m not sure this is bad for Taiwan: today, China can wipe out TSMC overnight. With these fabs there will be Taiwanese revenue streams coming from mainland US, which streams can support Taiwan government and military.

Walk me through why it’s bad for Taiwan to be more economically diversified?