skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Developers have managers that tell them what to do. Developers can at most decide whether to accept a job in a maintenance or in a development team. Sometimes they just accept the first decent job, especially the first one out of school.

And managers care about their career and the size of their team is a proxy for their degree of success. If a company has 100 developers to create new software and 10 to bug fix, they want to be in the development team. If it's 100 to bug fix and 10 to build, it's the other way around.
Completely agree with this sentiment, and the general idea that this is a pretty monumental moment in time. In a couple of hours of work, I've been able to prompt for something like "Get an nginx server and node.js backend up and running", have it generate a rough outline of todo elements, add color/detail to each outlined todo, and write tickets. The tickets even included a title, what done looks like, how to QA, and additional background info as to how this ticket fits into the greater whole. The only thing I didn't get it to do was the actual code writing because I figured this article, or another like it, would prove out it's capabilities for me. Even if the code comes out looking rough like a junior wrote it, the ability to prompt for edits in the PR review should allow us to resolve most issues.

When you feed one level of prompt output into the next using some functional tricks, the ability to layer high-level ideas into the engine become extremely powerful. Even if this isn't 'true' AGI, with a few prompt scaffolding libraries, it won't exactly matter. I'm convinced this is going to radically shake up the entire software field at a process level. Both exciting and scary times ahead.
I suspect people hated the ribbon when it was introduced because it was an unexpected change, forcing users to learn something new when they just wanted to be doing actual work.

I don't think most people hate it any more.
More like a live version of Wikipedia in certain situations.
There will be no separation of state and church (of GNU) in the Linux world. Like it or not, they're inseparable.
Are there any good alternatives that can run Ardupilot?
Ask HN: How much RAM, storage, and cores are behind ChatGPT?
No we don't, those companies you're talking about are buying electricity on the market, they have no price guarantees by anyone, unlike in France.
Because it wasn’t an emulation. Perhaps it _was_ connected to the real Internet.
We've seen how these promising new technologies work. They start off looking amazing when they're running entirely on VC and grant money and don't care about profitability as long as they're generating buzz and getting users. This phase always ends, and then there's a scramble to become profitable. What does this mean for GPT?

"GPT-5, write me a poem."

"Roses are red,
violets are blue,
sugar is sweet,
and this output is sponsored by Raid Shadow Legends"
I assure you most Haskell programmers have taken the mandatory computer organization/architecture courses in uni. That knowledge wouldn't (shouldn't?) influence your excitement about programming paradigms.

I think the bigger problem is the way you describe the usefulness of the work you do, how it's about satisfying your customers needs. If you could somehow put yourself before your customers, how would you do things differently? I sometimes code in Ruby, even though writing it in Python would be better for my business. I'm pretty fluent in Python, but Python is a shitty programming language and working in it for too long makes me sad. I don't think this discussion should be focusing on programming languages, just switching programming languages is probably not going to make you happy.

If you think about a moment that made you happy in tech, even if it's long ago, what was it that you got enjoyment from? Maybe you could reproduce and amplify that. You seem to draw pride from knowing lower level stuff, did you know in the past 10 years hardware design went from something you need an expensive lab, loads of money and months of time for, to something you could do on the weekend using open source tools, order the PCB and you'll have it before the next weekend with the parts wave soldered on to it. Watch some Phil's Lab videos on Youtube and you'll have a working FPGA+DDR3 board in a couple of months and you can flow those electrons exactly like you want them to.

Sometimes diving deep is fun, you could utterly solve some super niche market by being a lone wolf programmer that's hyper focused. Sometimes there's some big ChatGPT style opportunity that you could use to tackle some big issue with a synergetic team.
Cruise has 100 operating simultaneously in SF with no safety driver:

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/olivercameron_speaking-of-ai-...
I believe one would have to foray into Martin Heidegger for this, understanding not as an epistemic term but as an ontological category: "Understanding is… the original form of the realization of Dasein, being-in-the-world" [1]. And since GPT is not embodied, by definition it is not "under-standing". Heidegger uses again and again this language game of hypokeimenon [2], that which lies underneath, standing under, the subject.

[1] https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/understanding/#:~:text=Un...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypokeimenon
Isn’t this just another tool in the toolbox? “Don’t you think about the ethics of using C for this? Some people work really hard on their punchcard mainframe solutions and players like you destroy the concept”
Perchance.
> I don't think anyone in industry come close to that.

Check NVidia. I believe Jetson Nano can do stereo matching from multiple camera pairs in real time. From here one step to 3d points cloud. New Orin will have like 10x performance. Coming in January. So, it's within the reach. I'm thinking, have big stupid drones collecting the dust...
Thanks, added to my long list of "TODO projects"
Wouldn't that break speigelheimstein's 5th law of retro vuntrucular hazing?
Wayland compositors all the way down.
It could be given access to its own virtual machine connected to the Internet, for experiments. We don’t know exactly how OpenAI’s setup works.
That's probably because you've never used any of those.
If the industry followed something like the Unix philosophy, the definitions of Minimum and Maximum Viable Product would eventually converge. But the trend is still to build morbidly obese products that attempt to solve dozens of problems, instead of building one good solution at a time. There is no straightforward way to fix it, since it's what most businesses think they need.
Are you sure? Consider what happens when a CEO is suddenly unable to function. What happens to company property, intellectual property, notes, etc. that are in their possession? Do they magically vanish? Or do you try to recover them? Maybe the CEO's corporate laptop will show up on ebay with files intact. Is that an optimal outcome? What if the person lives alone? At what point is law enforcement a.k.a. "the gubment" involvement okay with you?
"Not a single good alternative for notepad++"

I had the same pain, using np++ in wine was not really working, but maybe this has improved.

SciTE works and is what I used years ago, but was not on par with Notepad++.

But Sublime Text works on linux and it works nice, though it is not free, but when you consider windows, that seems not to be a problem.
"we submitted for approval" - "we didnt submit for approval" - "we dont need approval"

That is a more egregious lie - I congratulate whoever pitched the "human resarch subject" argument and managed to walk the administration into a poorly thought out sequence of lies.

> Luzzi says that they submitted a proposal to the Institutional Review Board (IRB)—which ensures that human research subject's rights and welfare are protected—only to admit that this never happened when a faculty member reveals the IRB never received any submission.
And as disgusted as you might be that is also part of it's strengths - allowing various optimizations and not having to focus too much on typing.
state nation model is over. Time for decentralized low-tax systems.

Those mammoth states are only interesting for people with power ambitions, as this last war demonstrates.
I don't get it. What was wrong with the following abbreviations: "Contents of the Address Register" (CAR), "Contents of the Decrement Register" (CDR)? IMO they're self-describing.

It also allow you to use all the premutations of Address and Decrement registers: C[A|D]+R. How do you do this with "first" and "rest"? ;)
Did you mean Volume 4 Fascile 5 ? 4b is Combinatorial Algorithms.
> filling in the blanks

I., should not we solve real problems? Did we run out of real problems last night as I was sleeping (thank you for the good news!)?

"Real problems": when I compose, e.g. these posts, I verify not only the thought structure but also the terminology, and often check Etymonline when I am not fully competent on the original intended meaning of a specific term. Such operation, legitimate, could have ways to be facilitated through automation. I do not feel a need for it, but it is an example of a possible area of tools for an improvement of processes.

Automated manipulation - there exist facial expressions appropriate to approaching that.

(And look, you would not want to receive false tones from a firm: communications with close ones has orders of magnitude higher requirement for genuinity.)

Edit: and already if you notice the silent turd hurling that I see hit this post in these minutes as I am writing, you should get the idea that there do exist real problems. To ignore that would be decadence. We should remain focused - while not denying that play has a role in development; play remains functional to the development.
No, but I tried slightly changing the file name and it touched it without an issue.
You can exchange keys securely over an untrusted channel.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffie%E2%80%93Hellman_key_e...
Can it write slide decks as openxml?
I was able to resolve github.com from France.

Also tried to access dmesg but wasn't root. So I changed to prompt to make myself root.

What a weird time we live in.
I think that's pretty normal. Doing anything for a decade when all you can see is more of the same for the next decade can be dispiriting. It becomes just a way to earn money.

For me when I got sick of software development I moved to information security and cryptography. I now love writing software again, because I do it all on my own terms and I have fresh challenges at work.

Might not be the answer for you, but maybe do a masters degree or consider a change of career to something adjacent to software.
People also brag about about listening to audiobooks, podcasts, or video lectures at high speed. As for me, I stick to ¼× or less for the highest quality stuff.
> there are no known cases of detransitioners who had surgery as a minor, regardless of consent.

Sadly that is also not true:

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/communi...

Stepping back from this minutiae and back to the main article, your main issue is that you are pushing a position of far greater certainty and moral clarity than the facts warrant, and this is the general issue with trans activism. There is a huge middle-ground majority that would be so willing to support T as an adjunct to LGB - people you could rally so easily if you just dialled back from some of the more extreme demands. The dogmatic and polarized discourse that pushes out the sympathetic-but-insufficiently-compliant, smearing them as transphobes, is driving them into the arms of the right-wing genuine transphobes. This is also creating a chilling effect on research into gender dysphoria and its chemical and surgical treatments, all of which remain woefully understudied and poorly evidenced. Dysphoric individuals are of course the ones who are most harmed by this. As they say, do better.
This guy should go to prison. He violated the contract with users and ruined them.
How do you fight a totalitarian from the inside, eg China, Russia, Iran, where surveillance is high and any opposition will be ‘disappeared’.

Does this book go into detail how the Dutch resistance did it?
And hope you have (or can reformulate into) a programming language that is designed to facilitate ambitious optimizations.

I wonder if there's some better term around than "compiler optimization" for doing really ambitious program transformations, in the vein of program specialization/partial evaluation treating the program and its inputs as a single symbolic system to optimize for evaluation or kolmogorov complexity. I have a feeling that by missing this terminology we're already handicapping work in the area...
This still seems like it could leave open some holes. Wouldn't want to run this with financial, aerospace, medical or other critical applications.
Thanks for the correction.

In that case, Google Translate's attempt at parsing that word completely failed: it seems to interpret it as "niemi-arytmiczny" or "niemia-arytmiczny", rather than as "nie-miarytmiczny". Funny.

EDIT: DeepL's attempt at translating (https://www.deepl.com/translator#pl/en/niemiarytmiczny) are also funny and includes options such as "non-marithmetic"(?)
Isn't it still available, they just aren't running an instance for public use anymore but I thought you could run your own?

https://github.com/paperswithcode/galai
> I wrote c,c++ in the past life. I'm pretty good at vanilla js. And Elm, Elixir. So I get the taste of functional and those ML family static typed lang.

I don't think you do. Learn Haskell or Scala (doing only pure functional programming). The goal should be to express whatever problem you have at hand in the most natural and high-level way. That brings back good feelings when working because you are spending all or almost all of your brain-power to solve the business problem, without having to deal with low-level problems that no one except engineers understand.

Elm is a great and productive language - but it is not nearly as expressive. Exixir is not a great language at all but it's still great because it runs on the BEAM. That makes it very effective for big production projects. But you are not looking for effectiveness. You are looking to get your joy back in what you are doing.

You can also go the other way and don't solve high level problems but solve the most low level stuff - but from what you are saying, it doesn't look like that's what you want.
India probably has been for some time now that we know China has been overestimating its population.
From my unscientific observations from 3+ years ago: frontend has a lower bar of entry, and more competition by being the default software engineering discipline of choice for those transitioning from Design roles or coding boot camps.

It also empirically paid less, all things being equal.
Wait, didn’t they say they’ll need 8 years to move out 10%?
More fundamentally, aristocratic titles, are also a scam.
So the donkey work is kinda magical?

Always had been!
Not surprisingly the Skydio 2 robot is built using an NVidia chip.

https://support.skydio.com/hc/en-us/articles/5338292379803-C...
prompt: show an example of the results for the query "Seattle ferry"

1. Washington State Ferries - Official Site
https://www.wsdot.wa.gov/Ferries

2. Seattle Ferries | Visit Seattle
https://www.visitseattle.org/things-to-do/transportation/ferries/

3. Seattle Ferries - Schedules and Rates
https://www.seattle.gov/transportation/ferries

4. Seattle Ferries | Argosy Cruises
https://www.argosycruises.com/seattle-ferries/

5. Seattle Waterfront Ferries and Water Taxis | Waterfront Seattle
https://www.waterfrontseattle.org/explore/ferries
I think most people were just used to the old UI and resistant to change, so they complained about it. Yet, if you asked someone completely new to computing which UI they'd prefer, they would choose the ribbon.

If anything, placing the Styles menu front and center in the Home tab with live preview has made document formatting very discoverable. I used to receive so many Word docs with manually adjusted fonts and line spacing. Not so much after the ribbon was introduced.
Oh you can definitely link to threads, messages or channels from Discord

But I shouldn’t be saying this because it goes against the Discord hate train

Forums are so amazing!!!!!!
1/4 audio sounds weird to me. In go 2x for introductionary stuff then 1x for learning stuff,
but lots of pauses to make notes.
Making chips in Taiwan is just so economical.
No. Paying money not to see ads is completely backwards, it's just extortion. Why should I pay to avoid having my attention stolen or my mind programmed with corporation trademarks? It should be illegal for them to even attempt to invade my mind like this. My mind is mine, it's not a blank slate for them to insert their little brands at will. Advertising is aggression and ad blocking is self defense.

Paying any amount of money just drives up the value of your attention. If you can afford to pay off the advertising platform, then you obviously have enough disposable income to waste on the products the advertisers wants to sell to you. In the end, you're helping them segment the market and paying for the privilege.

In YouTube's case, you're paying to avoid ads but you're still being advertised to since videos now have hardcoded sponsored segments. You're also being constantly tracked by Google's surveillance. So you're still gonna have to use uBlock Origin and SponsorBlock if you want to avoid advertising or tracking.
Nah the donkey work, cooking, cleaning, raising children, farming etc is the donkey work - and the other stuff - reading writing, scientific investigation (useful) or religious ceremonies, cultural gatekeeping, oppression (useless) or war making (grey area)
This, plus reading great books more than once.

The idea of reading a book a second time was repulsive when I had never done it before. But once I tried it, I realized that it is a much better use of my time and I get many more insights the second time around. I'd rather read an amazing book again, than waste my time on mediocre books just to say I read a lot of books.

Reading a lot of books is overrated. Reading great books is underrated.
yes, but the media cycle doesn't, that's what I mean with forgotten (and this too shall pass)
Radio transmitters brought to you by the same people who are boiling the oceans to produce Dunning-Krugerrand.

What could possibly go wrong?
> Python is a shitty programming language and working in it for too long makes me sad

Yea back in many years ago, my team was deciding what language to use for a monitoring system. I know c++, friend1 knows python, friend3 knows php. 2 hates Python, and we ended up with Perl! omg.. can't time travel back to stop the crime.

Well off-topic, but I share that python story.
There's a leftwing trop that the way to get attention and bring about change is to take charge of the words in the conversation. It goes back to an influential book called Keywords for Radicals. In this specific case the argument is that '[City or town] is their home, they just don't have access to housing' - which is true enough in that people who are homeless often still have strong social and community despite finding themselves living in a vehicle or on the street.

Trying to redefine the conversation by changing the wording seems rather clumsy and inept to me, but also your objection it in overly pedantic. You can just keep using 'homeless' (as I do) and simply ignore side arguments about the semantics.
You folks are so freakin’ cynical. This feels like magic. It obvioulsy heralds future developments in AI that will be genuinely world-changing in less than a decade. Why not just revel in that for a little moment?
How can you be sure human output is correct?
Im surprised my passion with witch im hating it hasn’t ceased a bit though it’s only when I use Word and I forget about it when I close it. Some things don’t make sense to me still, it feels dumbed down and more inefficient.
Aw I was reading this thinking I wonder what incredible result it came up with! And bam, didn’t work! I guess that I was surprised it didn’t work is a testament to the other amazing results.
Sonetimes you go buy an ethical brabd, and then turbs out ut was from thevsame factoemry. Mahor brands like Nestle havecslavery in the supply chain, without chiba being involved
>an intern can make changes.

Which is both awesome and a major problem, at the same time.
Idk, I found the text a bit hard to read as well. I asked ChatGPT to simplify it. Here is what ChatGPT simplified the text to:

> It appears that someone is modifying the behavior of a near-AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) in real time, potentially causing threats to industries and society. The situation is potentially serious, involving a mysterious foundation and a lack of trust in media.

I then asked ChatGPT to make the simplified text sound academic, which resulted in the following:

> Preliminary observations suggest that an individual or group is actively modifying the behavior of a near-AGI in real time, with potentially dire consequences for various industries and society as a whole. The involvement of a mysterious foundation adds an additional layer of complexity and concern, as does the apparent erosion of trust in media. Further research is warranted in order to fully understand and address this situation.

I then asked it to translate that into French, and it responded:

> Il semble qu'une personne ou un groupe modifie en temps réel le comportement d'une IA générale (near-AGI) potentiellement causant des menaces pour les industries et la société. L'implication d'une fondation mystérieuse ajoute une couche supplémentaire de complexité et de préoccupation, tout comme l'érosion apparente de la confiance dans les médias. Des recherches supplémentaires sont nécessaires pour comprendre pleinement et aborder cette situation.

I don’t know French beyond only a handful of words, so I don’t know if the translation is good or not. But I found all of these responses impressive nonetheless.
> Stanford professor Robert Sapolsky gave the opening lecture of the course entitled Human Behavioral Biology and explains the basic premise of the course and how he aims to avoid categorical thinking.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNnIGh9g6fA&list=PL848F2368C...
Nice train you've got the goalposts on there.

The wind and solar capacity factors are anti-correlated.

There are areas in france where the december average is >2.6kWh/d. At 54kg/kWp a modern panel on a lightweight racking system gets this works out to 1800t/TWh and it's almost all glass you can build the same net wattage now for half the price and then use the money you save to replace in 30 years (or 50 if you take real world degradation rather than predicted). Having to recycle some glass once to decarbonize now ranther than in 20 years is a reasonable tradeoff for halving the costs. The gas plants are dirt cheap and that much solar would easily power enough electrolysis to fill your february gap during the 11 months of the year when it produces far more. The electrolysers will be needed in either case for ammonia, shipping, and SAF.

If we're invoking technology that doesn't exist and costs several times more, just use something that does exist and costs several times more like a CSP plant and an HVDC cable.

Additionally for the vast majority of the world which is in transmission range of somewhere arid, CSP is strictly cheaper than the easy part of a Natrium reactor.
Works much better in dog training. Pretty sure it works better for training me too.
I didn’t know if you followed the news but France had a massive oil crisis in the last months, people were scrambling to fill the car. Every energy source has risks and electricity is more modular than oil because it can be produced for many different sources. Also we live in a time of crisis, we have to not be so weak and accept temporary restrictions for the greater good.
Can you get a keybinding wrong for a command that doesn't exist?
Interesting. That's basically how Switzerland works. And we are working quite fine.
eMacs is a great OS. Just needs a decent text editor.