skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just some links for the lazy:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/informati...

https://www.howtogeek.com/779095/what-is-microsofts-pluton-s...
It means we are coming full circle.

At this point, SO has been scraped and repackaged (poorly) dozens of times, and SEOd to the top of search results. Even some "tutorial" sites are just repackaged SO answers.

It is only fitting that the automated SEO websites get fed automated content.

In a way, this makes the real humans, particularly the ones who know actual things, more valuable. It may so much noise that only a skilled human could decipher a real question and a real answer or solution from something similar but wrong.

To be fair to GPT, many human answers are sub-par and should be filtered out as well. Perhaps that's the real test: what percentage of GPT answers are decent vs human answers? Here I might bet on GPT.
Good: At least Florida didn't take the path of Missouri, my home state. [1]

Bad: More "complimentary credit monitoring". Ugh.

[1] https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkpmj7/this-is-the-hacking-i...
Here's a fun website that follows that train of thought to its natural conclusion:

https://exterminism.com/
Right now? No. But pretty soon there will be much less space for your everyday codemonkey. The takeaway is that you will need to provide a significant value-add over just banging out code. You need to provide value at the level of strategic decision-making, leadership, communication, etc.
Yes, it seems useful for advanced learners who might actually have questions. It probably can't teach you from scratch yet.
I expect Google to be irrelevant soon enough.

ChatGPT already does a better job of finding answers to a lot of technical questions than Google.
You’re saying that Webkit hasn’t been updated on the 5s?

How do you know?
> I would not be surprised if it is already here, but has been sidelined by the mods

I can virtually guarantee you that there's been a nontrivial amount of GPT-generated content on HN that has not been caught by mods since ChatGPT, and likely since GPT-2/3, as well. Dang (and the other one whose tag I can't recall) already have their hands full trying to keep the tone civil across thousands (tens of thousands?) of comments a day - it's impossible for them to catch every ML-generated comment (some humans actually do write like these newer language models, after all), and more than likely they're missing a decent number of them - through no fault of their own, it's just an extremely hard problem.

The three solutions that I'm shilling for this problem are (1) invite-trees for HN (like Lobsters, which makes the community much less open but also much more resistant to abuse) (2) webs of trust (not cryptographic, just databases of how much you trust users) overlaid onto HN and other places and (3) people actually reading the content of comments very carefully and upvoting logically sound arguments and downvoting illogical and emotional/manipulative ones, but all of these require a lot of effort and social buy-in.
Not exactly 'true'. Check this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33852383
My personal opinion is reading about coding does nothing. Its like reading about math without doing the exercises. You need to work on good codebases, and have your code reviewed by people who are good.
So, effectively the status quo?
I am not expecting it to do novel research. It seems to yank out algorithms explained to it in plain text as good as I would write them in 30 minutes.

In the hand of a newbie programmer with like one week of learning experience this thing will allow them to make usable programs. I don't think this thing will hit us with years of experience in the short term but entry level programmers might be in real danger of being flooded if OpenAI makes some "low code" IDE that just works and parses the whole set of code in the project when evaluating queries.
It’s a bit of a paradox. While a lot of Gladwells work is a broad brush and not generalizable, it has opened people’s minds to a new way of thinking. I have found those people are open to discussions with more rigor, but it’s possible that is selection bias at work.

I also don’t think Duke is saying all disagreement is good. She specifically says you need a small trusted circle of people who agree to basic rules. Even then, it’s difficult to keep people inside the lines. That’s why her recommended way of rigorous thinking wouldn’t work on Twitter or in a general public sphere, for instance.

It’s not that people are dumb or willful, it’s that our brains are wired for different circumstances. And it takes constant effort to swim against the stream, which is tiring and not scalable.

In the end, I have concluded that humanity is better off for having a Gladwell - someone who can connect and clearly communicate with the masses. We need these mass communicators, even if they aren’t precise, because they open people’s minds to alternative ways of thinking.

It’s like a funnel - gladwell gets more people to the top of the funnel. You end up with folks who take pop music conclusions, and some percentage will dive deeper. Without Gladwell, I would have never discovered Duke or been receptive to the message.
> SEO pages

I think GPT could improve things in this regard. It's already a huge garbage pile, so we might as well go all in and at least generate better garbage.
Woah that’s really cool! I like how they both start the same way, somewhere it must think the King James Bible loves the phrase “and lo,” haha
A Philosophy of Software Design

https://web.stanford.edu/~ouster/cgi-bin/book.php

Righting Software

https://rightingsoftware.org/
It's worth understanding the community and org better, and their reaction. Relevant links:

- https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/421778/how-do-you-p...

- https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/412696/is-it-accept...

- https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/384355/could-chatgp...
I could argue European's have very low IQs relative to access to resources/wealth - it would be equally stupid and racist but I would have better evidence than you to back it up just by looking at how much they get outcompeted by their Indian origin fellow citizens.
This is going to lead to more people being saved, but also more people taking large risks that wouldn't have otherwise, good luck.
The IBM info on that wiki page may be fine but at least one of the cards listed as a clone is not.
I am suspecting that you are holding assumptions which are not the case. So, let us be clear:

-- yes, you are supposed to be «nice and warm» only in case this is genuine. If it is not, just behave appropriately. "Respectful" does not imply «nice and warm». Also: since «nice and warm» does not imply "respectful", and on the contrary it may suggest the opposite if patently constructed, I would be very careful about any temptation to think that some coating "will do";

-- when suggesting the idea of people «employing... hypocrisy», it is very advisable to avoid the term 'you';

-- teaching people hypocrisy, idea which may appear from your text, would be criminal. If you had to orient them, it'd better be towards the substance.
Will the replacement for PFC be something very similar that is equally dangerous?
I have all of these on my shelf. Fantastic reads.

* Extreme Programming Explained by Kent Beck

* Clean Code and The Clean Coder by Robert C. Martin

* Soft Skills by John Sonmez (1st edition)

* Pragmatic Programmer by Andrew Hunt and David Thomas

* Working Effectively with Legacy Code by Michael Feathers

* The Mythical Man-Month by Frederick Brooks

(Selfish plug) Additionally, I wrote my own book concerning the entire industry, from just starting out to becoming a self employed consultant when you get sick of fulltime work - all soft skills from my decade or so of the industry, as well - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B43V1JJW
This is also an interesting read https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/ibm-and-quot-death-s-ca...
I think the Tellitubbies features some similar acid-drop music and visuals.
Nobody needs to conscript CNE operators. Students compete to get slots in these organizations.
And yet you can be jailed for a mean tweet and can't own firearms more or less. You have barely avoided (for now) a backdoor being forcibly installed onto every chat and messaging service, though you may still see required snooping on semi public platforms.

It is the tyrants favor to be seen as useless and weak.
"You're Not Listening" by Kate Murphy.

It's not at all software related but it will make you a better teammate, partner (i.e., client relationship), manager and/or leader.

Technology is the easy part. People, that's the difference between average and above.
I wouldn't even mind so much if the answers were right. The problem is that a lot of them are totally wrong, but completely reasonable- and plausible-sounding, and in an authoritative tone, so unless you already know the right answer, the only way you'll realize its answer is wrong is the hard way.
Gotta love it. Akin to Silicon Valley-ites ensuring their own children don’t have access to the technologies they go into the office to create and propagate every day.
Okay, be real for a second -- Apple doing manufacturing in China benefited the common Chinese factory worker by driving up wages.
ChatGPT can display rudimentary color/visual reasoning
I've pointed out logical errors in your discourse, using your own words. I haven't offered any solutions, nor attempted to. You haven't provided any redress to the errors I pointed out.

Edit: and added further errors along the way, like ascribing all kinds of things to me I haven't said nor implied.

Edit 2: let me just call it out, you called me a bigot for pointing out a logical error. Addressing the error would have been a sufficient response.
What Euthanasia Has Done to Canada
I'll take the under.
Unless someone waves their magic wand and makes it to where manufacturing microprocessors requires nothing but sand and electricity, things will go whichever way those with capital want them to go.
The precedent was set when gun manufacturers started getting sued for the actions of their customers. It was all well and good then. Few bothered to express any concerns about where that kind of thinking would inevitably lead. Anyone who did was accused of being antisocial or worse.
> increase circulation of old movies

> compells us to rewatch movies

Yeah, I always wonder why people have to always watch the latest (and not greatest), while 100 years of cinema have produced great wealth. IMO people have so much easy media to consume these days, it is almost impossible to convince them if they are not already fans.

Also, it is not just libraries that are deacquisitioning back catalogues. Majors streaming services have less and less of these old movies. It is mostly a financial decision (in both cases)

So, these are the dynamics in play IMO. I don't have any solutions for the public in general.

However, if you are already always "compelled to rewatch", there are "official" options like the criterion subscription [1]. Otherwise, You can always find it somewhere online.. (To try before you buy...)

[1] https://www.criterionchannel.com/
10 years is nothing.

ARPANET was 1969. CYCLADES was 1971. Things take time. It took till 1989 for the web to be proposed on top of it. That took another 4 years to come to fruition. XMLHttpRequest didn’t ship until 1999. That puts the modern web around the year 2000, over 30 years after the internet started.

A fundamental rewrite of accounting practices will take even longer. A conversion from double entry to triple entry accounting will take a generation or two. And who knows, something else could pop up instead and solve the same problems, obsoleting it before launch.
If that was the case expenses would never be rejected. The truth is more complicated than that.
Why Teachers Do All That Annoying Stuff
Get back to me when they upstream their drivers.
Do you think the next version of GPT can't do "semantic" deduplication of these repositories? It can look at the available repositories and "think" that they don't provide enough novelty or don't explore new search spaces. So discard them.
Cyberpunk: Edgerunners and CP2077 are heavily inspired by the Neuromancer trilogy. Together they are probably the most realistic and “right around the corner” vision of the future IMO.

Highly recommended Edgerunners for fans of the genre.
There’s no need for name calling. It may come from frustration but it sounds childish and reduces the quality of discourse.
Curious what the problem is? Animals with bones have existed for hundreds of millions of years. The environment knows what to do with them. PFCs by contrast do not exist naturally in the world and they act as a toxin in the environment.
Consistent with many of my own experiences: https://jakeseliger.com/2011/01/24/why-dont-students-like-sc...
Getting a root shell on a VTech Storio 3S tablet
Wasabi is a service this is a filesystem
Would have to be an Asian airline given the western response towards wearing masks.
One thing that helps -- besides the Google translate app -- is to learn Katakana and Hiragana before you leave. There are only ~48 characters in each and they match each other 1:1 (think of Katakana as "printing" and Hiragana as "cursive"). Each character represents only one sound (unlike English) so it's easy to learn the symbol-to-sound mapping. Most signage and menus include one or the other and being able to sound out the phonemes dramatically increases one's feeling of being able to read. You can learn either from its Wikipedia page:

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

Kanji is a whole different deal: That's the writing system with tens of thousands of characters. It helps to learn the most common few of these, but it's completely unnecessary to learn more than that to have an enjoyable time as a tourist.
If you use Excel's import wizard it lets you choose how to format the imported columns. Older versions of Excel supported this. The most recent version, the Office365 desktop app (but I don't think the web app) has a checkbox to turn off automatic data type detection.

You can also export CSV data as ="2-9" to force Excel to interpret it literally. I do that with US ZIP Codes to prevent the conversion to integer, i.e. 02134 turning into 2134.
Woman tries to smuggle 202 Intel CPUs hidden inside a fake pregnant belly
I loved 'Joel on Software' - I got a heap from it (I was a PO but attempted to be as technically aware as possible).

Taught me so much about all the things you mentioned
> Why do you bring this up?

One, because it is a much more immediate issue than hypothetical digital access restrictions to the "wrong" books. These books are being made unavailable right now.

Two, because the FSF/GNU, as usual, has a huge blind spot for who they should advocate for. They always seem less concerned with a wide range of people having access to books or code (i.e. the supposed 90% of smartphone users) and more with _them_ (on a decade old libreboot laptop running linux-libre - something only a very dedicated individual will build or comission and accept the inconveniences of) having access to books. The book bans in, for instance, Texas are much more easy to circumvent, but affect many more people. Suppressing access to queer literature (for instance) for 80% of the population right now is much more dangerous than a hypothetical technology that could censor 99% tomorrow. Those 19% are probably not even worth chasing, because you already convinced a majority that this material doesn't exist.

> In any case, the last 3-4 times I looked into one of these cases, the "ban" was actually just removing the book from the mandatory curriculum.

"especially on those from historically marginalized backgrounds who are watching their library shelves emptied"

https://pen.org/report/banned-usa-growing-movement-to-censor...
I found this a very fun read a while back. Haven't been in a place where this would actually pay dividends versus using a mutable implementation, sadly.

In particular, if performance is a concern, I found it almost inevitable that I would reach for mutable options.

Would love to hear examples in the wild of this.
You know the real issue there? In 5 years that kind of company will be using only CodeGPT instead of hiring humans.
> You only ever see that take on Hacker News (or similar tech forums) where people who are vested into this world defend their decisions.

Outside of places like HN and similar you get blank stares if you ask the question of what people think about the closedneas or openness of their device. If you clarify that (say) they would perhaps like to use an app from a different source, it’s again blank stares.

I of course wouldn’t actively mind if it was much easier to sideload an app on iOS, but if there was e.g some openness push that required multiple app stores to not just be available but also that all be equally prominent (like the browser or media player thing in Windows) then I’m completely convinced that it would be a disaster for users. More freedom, cheaper, but fractured and insecure. I’m not sure it’s a net positive. And I’m sure my dad would be more confused.

> the concept of a general purpose laptop is going to slowly die off and you are going to find yourself with fewer and fewer options that cost an arm and a leg vs. the ridiculously cheap alternative devices that will start to have better hardware or different design tradeoffs and you are also going to switch.

I believe this too. And while I don’t much like this future, I don’t really have a good answer. I don’t think the answer is to somehow require any appliance to be more open. It seems misdirected.

That PCs will be expensive and niche is probably true. They’ll go back to where they started before the home computing revolution, to be professional tools for content creators, developers, scientists and similar. It’s not the PC that’s threatened, it’s the cheap home PC that’s threatened. Not the workstation or video editing rig.

But the thing about the cheap home PC for web browsing, photo organization and light word processing is that it was never really a good tool for the job. It was a malware ridden crash prone slow machine that we (the HN people who now tell our relatives to get iPads or ChromeBooks for browsing) had to fix around the holidays.
Ask HN: How do you see tech like ChatGPT changing the SWE profession?
The frontpage is full of examples of ChatGPT and related tech being able to implement code that is well beyond simple completions. As this tech progresses, how do you see the software engineering profession changing in regard to what the job of a SWE is and how you see yourself fitting into that? Are you worried about your job at all?
I would expect most automotive engineers don't let their children drive the cars they go to the office to create and propagate every day. Because... they're children.
Apple will make iphones in india with great working condition, reasonable zero-covid policy and great compensation. All the problem will be shifted away by moving the factory to India. (Smile)
Natural things usually decay quickly though. Often they involve some kind of biological factory that continuously grows new biomaterial
Whose wealth is based on fraud? Are the Tesla Q crazies back? I thought they all went bankrupt.
I'm starting to believe that it's now a lot harder to reverse engineer the outside context that openAI supplies to the session (or get it to break character in other ways). Many tricks that worked for me 2 days ago now trigger the censor almost all the time.

Likely openAI are putting the clamps on the model...
India has never been a democracy in the sense that the Westerners understood it. India is also a fucking land grabber. It has land grabbed every single of its neighbors once the British left town. You never hear it in the West because it doesn't fit the narrative the West has on India.
A bigger deal but it doesn't make sense to me to lump Indian food together with other "Asian" cuisines -- Thai, Chinese (and multiple flavors of that), Japanese, etc. Kind of useless, like awarding a prize for "best fish" or "best meat."
You get at least 5 years of security updates with a new Samsung flagship[0]. During those 5 years, you'll use 4 major Android versions (there's a new one each year, like iOS). The last year of support is essentially security patches for the Android version released in the previous year.

On top of this, since Android 10 (2019), some security and feature updates come directly from Google (delivered via the app store) and continue after the brand stops supporting the device.

These security updates Apple, Samsung, etc, release years after the phone reaches end-of-life are a bit misleading. The update for the iPhone 5S fixed an exploit on Webkit, but everything else remains unpatched. Same with the update Samsung released for the Galaxy S7 (released before they had a 5 year support policy)... it fixed a GPS bug. That's it.

So while these updates are better than nothing, it's important to understand that the device is not up-to-date or secure.

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[0] The 50-100 dollars device sold in low income markets won't have the same level of long term support as $500+ devices. We can't compare them to Apple here as Apple doesn't compete in that market.
Apparently "snowmachine" is what they call a snowmobile in Alaska. I was confused because I thought that was a device that makes fake snow at ski slopes.
It is, and you’re totally correct to point that out. Also “you know what he meant” is not a good reason to downvote you, because no, nobody knows what is meant by “chemical” if it isn’t literally “chemical”.

One could guess that they meant “synthetic chemical”, as if that was somehow meaningfully different than a “natural chemical”, but it’s not and it’s just as wrong.
Rather just how superficial and stubborn imitation and arguing work.
People always have the power, but it requires the sacrifice your life for change, we are lucky we had our ancestors do that.
Is there any good architectural breakdown of Mastodon software?
>it's extremely difficult to run a business or service online if your views/product/service is despised by a large enough percentage of the population

Well wait a second, is that really censorship? "Censorship" implies to me a small group of powerful and unaccountable people tinkering with the information flow, quite probably in secret. That's not the same thing at all as being hounded out of town because everyone thinks you're a piece of shit.
Here's ChatGPT own answer:

> ChatGPT is very capable at producing working code that would usually consume a lot of time for a human software engineer. What role does the human engineer have in the future as technology like ChatGPT progresses?

As technology like ChatGPT continues to progress, the role of the human software engineer may evolve and change. It is likely that ChatGPT and other advanced AI systems will be able to automate many of the routine and repetitive tasks that are currently performed by human software engineers, such as writing code, debugging, and testing. This could potentially free up human software engineers to focus on more complex and challenging tasks that require higher-level thinking, creativity, and problem-solving skills.

However, it is important to note that the development and deployment of AI systems like ChatGPT also requires the expertise and guidance of human software engineers. AI systems cannot design, build, or operate themselves, and they rely on human engineers to provide the necessary knowledge, skills, and oversight. Therefore, the human software engineer will continue to play a crucial role in the future of AI and software development, even as AI systems become more capable and advanced.
And it's the EU laws that are retranscribed here in France so what's your point exactly ?
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/11/twitter-claims-n...
My guess is it varies per person. Reading still helps spark some ideas for me, though without exercising what I've read it the learning doesn't stick.

Even better is learning from people better than me. Video tutorials can help too, especially where seeing output is important.