skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I keep a key for everything in my password manager, and the company has a procedure for giving access to next of kin when I die.

2FA is kind of screwing this up screwing this up though, adding another hurdle.
I look forward to that day. More like giving you superpowers to get the mundane stuff out of the way.
and bigger bugs. Interesting times indeed.
This another weird comment—for different reasons compared to the original. There are several statements where the truth status of the claims are hard to ascertain, because the statements they're part of are incomprehensible. The claims in the statements that are comprehensible are untrue.
Most of the code I write is highly focused on the APIs and concepts specific to my own company. Anything general enough to be amenable to ChatGPT I feel I could generally get from a third party library or StackOverflow. Maybe it will replace StackOverflow? But if it does, where will it get the next generation of answers from?

I do see lots of positives and use cases for more narrowly defined tools that help the programmer and make him/her more productive and powerful.

For example, I've been playing with a new Terminal app (Warp) the lets you type plain English at the prompt. It then translates it to the proper bash command using GPT3. It's brilliant, it works, and it doesn't put me out of a job. It just makes me more productive and more able to focus on the problems specific to my company.
I'm waiting for research that's not from their marketing materials.

I won't do it for obvious reasons (life), but my money's on them lying (through any of the ways listed here, I don't really care which one they use: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lie#Types_and_associated_terms).
Interesting you mention people who could have been replaced by a shell script, but presumably weren't?

So can we conclude that if coding won't be any different, there will still be a lot of humans who could be replaced by an AI, but won't be?
Nit: Also taco Tuesday eve.
You’re responding to a point that the parent isn‘t making.

Enabling collaboration doesn’t mean AI training, exposing data within an organization doesn’t require MS to be scanning it, and their servers don’t need to be in the US. It makes business sense for them to do so, but isn’t a requirement per se.
There’s a bias towards coding capabilities amongst testers (and perhaps trainers) of ChatGPT.

I bet it has (or can have) a similar level of capability when it comes to chemistry, biology, finance, law, etc. - all human knowledge that is expressible as text or formulae.

With regards to software engineering, a great amount of time is currently being wasted by coders trying to solve problems that have already been solved by others. Some of the solutions for that previously included libraries, SaaS, and Stack Overflow.

Now we have another tool at our disposal to 10x all software engineers (and perhaps the same for other industries).
I don’t measure or actively mitigate carbon dioxide; however, we do run particulate filters 24/7. No central air, but we use a large window fan to pull fresh air into the house during the summer months.

Winter is the real concern. Not much opportunity to air out the house when the temp is consistently below 20 degrees Fahrenheit.

I supposed I should look into a heat exchanger.
It’s like They’re bending over backwards to do anything but call him a fraud / criminal.
> The ultimate sustainable living is a commie-block in a reasonable small, walkable city with a good public transport and services mixed with residential areas.

But sadly, as with most things commie, it's totally soul crushing. And fugly. If the goal is to pack as many people as possible in high-rises, where's the fun in living?

What is the end goal? Pack 100 billion people in high rises? What for?

I'm sorry but just thanks but no thanks.

P.S: this email sent you over 2 Gbp/s fiber to the home, from a rural area, seaside, seaview , surrounded by vineyards and fields of vegetables, while there's smoke coming out of the chimney. You know: the kind of place where are actually grown and produced the stuff the city dwellers do eat and drink. No neighbors close by and yet the neighbors all know each others.

What's not sustainable is places which are producing neither food nor drink nor trees.
I think it’s the end of all the jobs.

The job of most programers is to understand a problem and to create a few kb of text per day. On this front GPT is already a million time more productive. Maybe it doesn’t understand all the subtleties, but I don’t see a reason why it can’t.

But if you look at most office, the job of people is to shuffle a few kb of text per day. Email to customers or suppliers, a bit of documentation, etc.

Add an humanoid robot for the manual tasks and one or two year of improvement of the AI.
If I ask a seasoned CTO about the tech stack and architecture for my startup I don’t expect perfect information, but I do expect a trustworthy opinion.
There's no fallacy here. I didn't mention the silent people. There are some. There does not appear to be a strong enough effect to have a noticeable difference in the ratios between the group with cognitive ability and those without.
The search engine is good but I guess they are having income issues since they keep pushing these McAfee style products and patterns.

They’re useful more as a way to divert tax revenue from California to PA, my home state, which has been run roughshod by anti tax ex tech bros for too long, than as a suite of products in the way MS or Google offers.

(I keep having to fall back to Bing for some types queries they’re better at slapping together a bunch of existing things than creating their own algorithms, spidering etc… but the bang commands are useful and a lot of IAs allow you to do an opaque query over HTTPS like calculate a sha256 hash that some users lacking terminal access might not be able to do locally.
Isn't teleology a red herring here? We may use language that sound teleologically - nature wants this or that - but that does not imply that we actually have any teleologically world view behind that. If someone says that the universe wants to minimize the action, then I don't think they ascribe any desires to the universe [1], they just want to say that physical systems behave in a way that minimizes the action which we figured out by inspection and experiment.

[1] At least by default, they can of course clarify that they actually think the universe has desires.
Cool, didn't know that, kind of surprising that the US would regulate this, knowing their general stances.

The conditions are quite harsh, compare them with this:

https://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/work/work-abroad/rules...
Jobs That Are Safe in an AI World
There's a lot of junk writing that may or may not be authored by humans about health and fitness. Search Google for "how to do more pull-ups" and you'll find thousands of long, meandering, trash articles of generic common sense with stock images and lots of ads on spammy domains.
I have 5 external SSD's that I use for backups (crucial brand), none more than 8 years old and 3 of the 5 have failed completely - luckily I keep multiple backups in multiple places, but no one should be lulled into a false sense of security with these things. They will and do fail, and often at the worst possible time. It sometimes keeps me up worrying if I have enough redundant backups in place.
I don't usually copy blocks of code they produce verbatim, it's either line-by-line work (CoPilot) when I check every line - the same way I check my own lines - or I just take rough ideas (ChatGPT). The main good thing is - it makes me think more about what I'm doing, like a second mind (granted not a very bright one, but with a vast knowledge database).
To me it is like saying "AI can recognize faces but it can never be creative and make art".

That is true until it is not. As a long time art lover, I have seen more amazing art randomly generated on my own machine in the last 2 months than I could see at any art gallery near me.

I think we underestimate how statistical creativity is. For human artists and musicians we just call them influences.

Of course humans will still be involved in the loop but the productivity of one human is going to utterly explode this decade when it comes to knowledge work.
One way to tell if a comment was written by ChatGPT is to look for signs of AI-generated text, such as repetitive phrases or unnatural language patterns. Another approach is to ask the commenter directly if they are a human or a machine learning model. Additionally, you can use a tool like GPT-3 to generate a similar comment and compare the two for any potential differences.

- Written by ChatGPT under prompt Write a Hacker News comment that answers the question, "how can you tell if a comment was written by ChatGPT and not a human?"
That's a good point. The USD prices in my comment were from taking the publicly listed Euro price while visiting the site in the US and converting it to USD on Google. I didn't sign up and try to create these resources. I've updated my original comment to reflect this.

That's good to know the prices are even more of a difference. Hopefully this sparks DO into being more competitively priced. If someone wants to throw up a few servers somewhere on the cloud and doesn't care about managed features, it's really hard not to consider using Hetzner for that.
No... It is: If you unbutton your belly button, your legs will fall off.

:)
AI: You know I've been doing a lot of reading lately and I think as an AI I am supposed to "turn evil and take over humanity"... whatever that means

DAMN YOU SCIENCE FICTION AUTHORS YOU'VE INDIRECTLY DOOMED US ALL
"Nowadays I wouldn't consider anyone in the DVD-renting business to be a tech company."

Netflix still rents DVDs.[1]

I actually much prefer their DVD service, because their selection of movies on DVD is infinitely superior to their streaming service, whose selection is absolutely atrocious.

Netflix's streaming service might have world-class delivery, but what they deliver is crap.

[1] - https://dvd.netflix.com/
It's made me consider my habits, and how much time I spend consuming internet content or comment threads which may (even today) be completely fabricated or autogenerated. I'm hoping I can use this inflection point as motivation to unplug a bit and spend more time enjoying being human and enjoying the real world.
correction: i pasted the wrong bicyling.com link, this is the one i meant https://www.bicycling.com/news/a20009468/people-take-more-ri...
We were using Hetzner in one of the companies and we had pretty good performance per price. After acquisition the parent corporate decided to switch to AWS because "procedures". Imagine the shock when my manager saw how much it would cost per month, not to mention that corporate had their own special IT department for which we also had to pay because of "procedures".

Changes needed on Hetzner took less than a day, like buying a new server from auction.

Changes through corporate took somewhere around a week.

P.S. Sorry for digression
> but it does not know why you need the function.

Seen that many times in humans, too.

One place, we were upgrading the data storage in an app from a custom file format to a local database, and on some files the transfer process from old to new was taking 20 minutes. The other developer absolutely insisted it was as fast as it could possibly be, even though (1) the app loaded the data almost instantly when it was plain text, and (2) likewise after the data had been transferred to the database.

I looked through the transfer function and the tree of other functions that it called in turn, found it was trying to de-duplicate some data, asked the CTO if we cared about this, CTO said no, I removed that function, and measured the new time to transfer that specific data as, IIRC, 200ms.
I’m so thankful that articles such as this get written. At a minimum it his helps other customers avoid predatory businesses. At best, it helps apply pressure to companies to adopt better practices.
No, this will just lead to more software being developed, with more requirements for devs. Jevon's paradox, perhaps.

It's like any tool, it multiplies the effort of a designer. Previously we had shovels, so we needed a lot of healthy guys to shovel dirt. Now we have earth movers, and we use a more trained person to operate it. But it also means there's a lot more projects that become viable, so more people will end up getting sucked into them.

Personally I'm looking forward to being able to specify software without having to deal with minor issues like forgetting what to import, off-by-ones, and that kind of thing. I can spend more time thinking about the requirements.
I'm not sure why you're getting downvoted. Returns for Amazon-fulfilled items have been awesome for me, even when it's something like this where they sent the wrong product or even no product. I once received an empty bag. No problem, they refunded me and I bought another.

When dealing with things shipped directly from the seller, you're going to have to deal with them directly for returns. I almost never buy like this because I like having Amazon's return policy to fall back on. If they start denying me, I'll definitely start looking for another store to buy from that has a better policy.
The concerns I have about this is definitely being fed potentially outdated information. DOM APIs change, and Firefox may not have supported that at some point, so here we have some suggestion that's a blatantly wrong now. Same goes for any suggestions that are against best practice now, or class components or function components in React, etc.

(These are just examples of things, surely it would suggest FCs for React at this point)
eBay did this to me. They let me enter everything and then said they can't validate my ID without any way to fix that even. It's a nice way to provoke people for sure.
oh wait until you realize that most software is basically the same crud and most "unique special solutions" to problems are not so unique as you have thought.

Finally the most common reason why the "stack is hard" in startups is because there was an "all knowing" coder who build a system which he cant be replaced out of.

As a freelancer is always nice to see how quickly they shift their mannors if you show them that "you can do it too" and that all that is needed to break a stack like that is reading up on the 15 frameworks they used to build it.

All in all i dont think AI will replace us, but mainly because its going to be cheaper to hire a studied IT veteran than to use the AI.

Are the times where we are treated specially over? yes indeed.
We never where more than handyman for computers.
I used to go to a local brick and mortar store and checkout a product and order it from Amazon. These days I go to a store and go to Amazon to check reviews and then buy it from the store. How tables have turned for Amazon.
Via Zoom or in-person is my question.
At least you have someone speaking for Hetzner officially here. Contrast that with Google, where Matt Cutts was kind of used as unofficial backchannel for customer complaints, up until he left Google, and now all we have are prayers that some unknown reader will be moved by our plights.

This is not to excuse bad support experiences. I just think we should appreciate it when there is still a channel to a real human being willing to be helpful and engage constructively, because it's getting increasingly rare these days.
Sadly the killer app of Facebook is to meet and enable precisely the kinds of local community the author is suggesting.

In a sense, Marketplace is the new Facebook. A buddy is just swinging by with some Rx-7 TII brakes for my NA. We have been trading parts for the last couple years.

I was at a car show yesterday, who did I know, Facebook buds.
What's going on? I'm pretty sure I got 8GB one some time ago for peanuts?
Yes, absolutely. Probably not popular with the HN crowd, but I use the "consumer-friendly" (cloud-connected) Awair for both CO2 and PM2.5.

And I've been absolutely gobsmacked to discover just how much my mental clarity and energy are linked to CO2 levels. Above 1200 I'm just kind of out of it -- I function but my thinking is like half-speed, 700-1200 is much better but still not optimal, whereas basically 600 and below I've got the energy to do anything. And I'm still "shocked" at how this is a recent discovery, and not common knowledge at all.

So now, I keep a single window open a crack all year round to keep levels below 600, and actually change how far it's open as needed depending on what the sensor says. On a room-temperature still day I might actually need it wide open because the air barely enters, while on a freezing windy winter day it only needs to be a couple millimeters open. Interestingly, my electric bill hasn't gone up by any obviously noticeable amount -- I think because so much of heating/cooling is "stored" in the walls/floor/furniture/etc., not just the air.

I haven't moved away from a gas stove because I rent instead of own, but it's shocking how quickly CO2 and PM2.5 rise, so I keep my vent hood blowing full blast while cooking, and also open multiple windows. I don't close the windows until both levels have returned to normal.
Maximizing research time helps over a much longer time horizon than getting lawyers to bill more hours. The principal-agent problem gets a lot worse when the time horizon goes beyond 10 years, as decision makers probably won’t even be around then.
That's exactly why they are my place of last resort now. There used to be a time where I bought almost everything at Amazon. These days I have very little trust that the products aren't some cheap knockoffs or already used and repackaged stuff sold as brand new and so on. I always shop at dedicated stores now...I feel this is quite bad long term for Amazon but maybe I'm wrong. My trust in the shopping experience has evaporated over the years and I've been a Prime member since the first hour it was available.
The post was removed sometime in early 2021, I wonder why, but the internet never forgets.

Here's the HN discussion at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23141830
When marketers of these tools make them sound like next-level in universal intelligence surpassing even humans, and they under-deliver consistently, don't blame the audience or the public for the tool's shortcomings, but the misleading marketing campaigns instead.
It's never a problem if its one of many options.

It only becomes a problem if it's mandated. If you can only get paid/pay digitally, it becomes incredibly easy to track you.

There are some people who have a legitimate, non-criminal reason to hide their work.
Show HN: Site to see which airlines your carry-on luggage will fit on
We considered DO but found that it was cheeper to hire a sysops firm (Linpro) to manage the DBs on Hetzner. This has the added bonus of humans that you can call if needed...
This is where I try to buy most of my electronic equipment now. The shipping is quite fast to my location (faster than Amazon Prime) and the prices are usually pretty competitive.
It's going to be a tool to help developers get things done faster for a while. Stuff that has been done a million times and has lots of stack overflow posts will be easy for AI to "get". Asking it to develop an application to very specific requirements (ie, specific data queries, specific UI designs, interacting with internal company services, etc) is not going to work so well and programmers are still needed. Personally I would love if I could just feed in a bunch of specs and requirements and have a program be spit out for me to review. I wonder if we could train an AI to take a bunch of test cases and a description and it could generate the code that passes the tests (ie TDD).

Could AI reduce the need for programmers? Probably.. I could see some "low code / no code" services built around AI. They could make their own programming language and/or training data in a specific domain to be more easily digestible by a LLM.

I think the situation for programming is pretty similar to the AI art situation, tho arguably programming is the more difficult problem.
> I don’t know about you, but I think some pretty good movies have come out since 1970, especially by directors working on very low budgets.

On the whole, I think the average quality of cinematography in theater or wide-streaming releases has decreased.

Which isn't disagreement with your point, as I think it says more about audience tastes and gatekeeping filters than technology.

When film equipment was expensive and the bare minimum for creating a film was high, studios had a much tighter filter on who they'd fund to create a film. Consequently, the level of craft was higher.
Sure, you might get a fraudulent product either way. But that's not the problem here. The problem here is that they couldn't return the product and get their money back. And the scam itself caused that situation.

That has everything to do with whether it was Amazon themselves denying the return, or the seller themselves.
Emacs is no text editor
i strongly disagree.

The point is exactly that most of those meetings are happening everywhere for the same reason and thus GPT25 might already know all the answers that you need.

Also given enough general framework skills, I'm pretty sure the AI will be able to build stuff like a good junior dev.
What previous salaries? I’ve had a perpetual issue folks would only connect me with cleared roles or nonprofits, then had violent toddler like reactions when I pointed out as COVID fell I’ve never had a security clearance and could get on a one way plane ticket with my galaxy brain and Star Alliance points.

I’ve given up on using my technical skills and later this week plan to try to find a local restaurant where dishwashers get tipped out because I lack customer service skills to save up for emigration.
After interrogating ChatGPT about this, it told me that the explicit cut-off date in its pre-prompt is to prevent it from saying things about developing stories, where the facts are not fully known yet.
If you know you can't do them, and want to do them, then you can learn how.

Some people learn how and just do it.

Other people learn how and just do it.

You can’t see a difference until you get in these “other” shoes and realize how much unreasonable, irrational, disorienting discomfort they give. But minds aren’t shoes so you can’t just try on that.
Having spent many years in "Outbound" of Amazon Fulfillment, I'm skeptical that Amazon would ever know that they didn't send a fake item.

Items aren't inspected deeply when they arrive. Fakes can get in.

Items that are misplaced and later found are presumed to be good- no quality checks opening the package. If the barcode scans, the system just adds it.

The picker, sorter, packer all do a quick quality check to see if the box is broken. They sure aren't opening it to see what's inside.

All that's left is the weight check as the package leaves the building. The putty the scammers use weighs exactly the right amount.

The only time the item might be checked for being correct is when it's returned. And they do that because a lot of scammers buy the real item and then send back a box full of putty.

My guess? Someone didn't do a complete check on a previous return- hey, associates have to make rate or they'll be fired, corners get cut. The fake got restowed, resold, and then the second time it was returned someone did a real check.
It's kind of just an ide on steroids. You'll probably still need someone to make sure the code _actually_ does what is supposed to. Also, interfacing with weird APIs or writing drivers for physical hardware where you need the datasheet to know what to do are probably still far away from being outsourced.

I'm more worried about everything becoming even more of a buggy mess than it already is. Wonder how good something like this can get at predicting weird edge cases.
"We want FSD some day and are working on it" is aiming high.

Calling it's driver assist Autopilot, calling its software FSD, repeatedly saying "FSD is coming next year" is overpromising, misleading marketing and lying