skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For everybody working as a programmer, this should be blatently obvious. Who hasn't experienced a non-programmer manager without a clue telling them what to do? I'll never ever work again for a manager who couldn't do my job, at least in principle.

Ideally they stay in touch with the programmers by continuing to program, occasionally but regularly. To not have their knowledge frozen in time the day they became managers. And to keep feeding their flame.

It's a necessary qualification, but not a sufficient one. The manager also needs to be a people person. Lots of programmers
are not, and that's ok, they can be excellent programmers. Just not managers.

In summary, a better title would have been "Turn the people persons among your best programmers into part-time managers".
But then you're back to the original question: is eradicating all poverty even possible?

A tech like AC is not available to everyone all at once. It starts out very expensive and gets cheaper over time. It may end up cheap enough that it can be ubiquitous, but before that point there must be a time that only most people can afford it.

If you then include it in the must-have category before the point of ubiquitousness, you will never get rid of poverty. Whereas if you include it after the point it's a pointless exercise, because everyone that wants one already has it.
I think solving this inaccuracy will be openai's biggest challenge. The web is safe for now. Once they do fix it it's basically game over.
I did use the very first PCalc. I even wrote something that would translate a formula to PCalc's programming language. After switching to OSX, I never looked at it again, though. It may sound petty, but it was because of the price. I still think $10 is too much for a (fairly simple) calculator app.
It's not just the expense. Backwards compatibility is only guaranteed up to the last two generations of tape media. If you hold onto these things for decades, you might find the drives required to read them no longer exist.
> ChatGPT will not result in a trillion dollar business. In the event that a paid ChatGPT for say, $5/monthly resulted in a 10+ billion dollar business, Google would within the same year simply do the same with Meena or Lambda (make it paid and copy whatever UI/UX ChatGPT or other are using).

So you are saying that Google Search (+ads) could be disrupted by an "only" 10+ billion dollar business.

Googles revenue in 2021 was around 256 billion dollar, replacing all the search revenue with a $5/month subscription with lots of competition sounds painful, from a business POV.
Then you are doing this wrong. It's in your hands how you fill the role.

Don't try to learn from people who are also doing it wrong.
Author here. Thanks for your comment. You are completely right. I will add a remark to the article regarding this.
Yes, but with the difference, that this website will be now always open and able to track and send data wherever, even when you don't use it.
I feel is missing a clear way to identify self rewind tapes,otherwise you may be reading the first file multiple times.
Above didn't say that, everything someone planned for is "not unexpected" to some degree, but doesn't make it less an emergency or deviation from normal operation or how you want to call it?
In electronics military grade means it works over a wide temperature range. That's about it.
> While the codebase is critically important, the most important aspect is how that codebase translates into user experience.

I'd agree to this, if you include the individual contributors in the set of "users".
Is it an improvement to get stuff for free without having to work for it? Sure, why not. But that's not how a society can function.
Don't agree with everything, but the opening for sure:

"People Who Make Software Happen (you may know them as “programmers”) should have the option to progress their careers without leaving the code face."

I was promoted to CTO of a quickly growing company some years back. At some point I had so many offsites, strategy workshops and generally low value meetings (that the other C levels loved), that I got somewhat out of touch with what's actually going on in the code base and with the people. I was both frustrated and ineffective. Ever since I've made sure I spend roughly half my time in a CTO role reviewing/writing code or pairing.

It's not about all good programmers being managers, though they should be given the opportunity if they want it. It's about all (technical) managers being decent programmers.
I'm a human.

The model needs to reply with something and here it tells the user the assumptions it made. The only alternative I can think of would be to arbitrarily choose two Bostons but my guess is it is more likely that people making this request would intend to include the same location in both.

One use for ChatGPT is to give a prompt with lists of data. It is convenient if ChatGPT handles the trivial edge cases correctly so that the user doesn't need to do preprocessing.

"Can you give the distance in miles between a list of pairs of cities? Want the output formatted like this:

city a, city b, 10
city b, city c, 100
...

The pairs of cities are:

New York City, Los Angeles

Chicago, Los Angeles

Chicago, Paris

Chicago, Boston

Boston, Boston

Boston, Los Angeles"

Response from ChatGPT:

"Sure! Here is the list of pairs of cities and their distances in miles:

New York City, Los Angeles, 2,798

Chicago, Los Angeles, 2,054

Chicago, Paris, 4,973

Chicago, Boston, 1,099

Boston, Boston, 0

Boston, Los Angeles, 2,905

Please note that these are approximate distances and may vary slightly due to factors such as route taken and Earth's curvature."

me again: if it asked you to clarify exactly which city you are referring to for each without making assumptions, making requests would be pretty tedious. Sometimes, you are processing data that starts out ambiguous to you anyway.
I don't see the potential (yet?) except that it's fun.
Why not? I have a security background. I see nothing wrong with that statement. Although what he actually said was:

"Initially I imagined I was targeted by a 0day or rootkit"

which actually does not make sense, because it implies he thinks those two things are fungible. He's obviously not a security expert, but he's also obviously not totally technically incompetent.
Only one of those two countries has used their espionage agencies to perform a soft coup where I live, so I'm not really seeing the difference.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year :)
Huh, not seeing the difference really, expectations there were also usually not a whole winter-long event but contained events? Or otherwise then totally the same though to the planned load shedding SA is running on now on different levels for some time? Doesn't make it better..
"And doesn’t the government have covert influence operations?"

I would assume that shady illegal operations are not really affected by regular laws.
> If it’s enough calories and roof other your head… Then we have very few true poor. Especially if we don’t include those who are there due to choice and/or mental illness.

I mean if we are only using the most convenient definition it's easy to say we have few poor people. If you are eating only rice everyday in your rusting trailer somewhere in the Midwest, you're poor.

And yeah, when that happens, your mental health is not going to be great.
Yes, I love it and plan to use it. I asked it for a recipe for a twice baked potato where the first part of the bake is in the microwave and was not disappointed.
When money is redistributed, two things happen:

- The recipients get a greater share of existing resources.

- The changed demand changes supply accordingly. So there might be fewer private jets produced but more food produced, for instance. Thus future production changes too, and the economy is reshaped.

Why do you imagine these things wouldn’t happen?
Indeed! Merry Christmas all!
Unless I misunderstood you, the article directly contradicts your point:

> Password managers [...] In this case, however, the user is on both endpoints and is the only person with a key.
On early IBM PCs (up until around the introduction of the PS/2 anyway) there was a key sequence to boot direct to BASICA, and it was always about as fast as the 8bits were - except that most of the 8bits didn't have the slow memory check that IBM insisted on.
Nitpick: "weary" == "tired", "wary" == cautious
They discovered the flaw late in their process. Since they discovered it so late, the had to base the iPhone 14’s GPU on the iPhone 13’s. Because of that, the 14 only delivered small graphical improvements. According to benchmarking firms, prior generations showed major leaps over their predecessor.

That’s the unprecedented part - the 14 only showed small gains whereas previous generations all showed big leaps.

In a case like that, unprecedented fits. It’s not hyperbole.
Same for French:

- Acteur

- Actuel

- Adéquat

(we don't have anything like actorness to my knowledge though)

What did they think if actual does not come from German nor French? :-)
For non-francophones, GPT sounds like "J'ai pété" (I farted). Now that I think about it, the term seems quite appropriate given the occasional brain farts produced by ChatGPT.
pdfcpu is the reason I stopped using pdftk.
> A good counterexample is the Manhattan Program. Sure, Oppenheimer was a great physicist. But was he as good as, e.g. Teller, Fermi, Feynman, Szilard, Von Neumann, etc? No, he was not.

All I know about this is what I read in Richard Rhodes' The Making of the Atomic Bomb but....the impression I got from the book was that Oppenheimer was probably as good as most of those but that he never achieved quite the same level of academic fame due to a combination of continually shifting interests (i.e. never staying on thing long enough to go deep enough to become "the guy" for that thing) and losing a huge chunk of his most productive years focusing on being a manager.

Luis Alvarez said of Oppenheimer "It was amazing to see how rapidly his mind worked, and he came to the right conclusions"

Alvarez also "believes Oppenheimer would have won a Nobel Prize for his astrophysical work if he had lived long enough to see his predictions concerning exotic stellar objects—neutron stars, black holes—confirmed, as they have been, by discovery."

Segre called him "the fastest thinker I’ve ever met,” with “an iron memory . . . brilliance and solid merits"

Bethe compared Teller and Oppenheimer "fundamentally . . . very similar. Teller had an extremely quick understanding of things, so did Oppenheimer. . . . They were also somewhat alike in that their actual production, their scientific publications, did not measure up in any way to their capacity. I think Teller’s mental capacity is very high, and so was Oppenheimer’s but, on the other hand, their papers, while they included some very good ones, never reached really the top standards. Neither of them ever came up to the Nobel Prize level. I think you just cannot get to that level unless you are somewhat introverted"

I also have a vague understanding of an anecdote from the book of someone saying that whenever anyone talked about their work on the Manhattan Project, Oppenheimer always showed an astonishing depth of understanding but I can't find a reference to it.
hm... Could it be related to malware? If there's a malicious device in network, it would need a proxy configuration. With a transparent proxy back-connecting to attacker would be easier

On the other hand, attacker could probably always send messages out via DNS tunnel

Please someone more knowledgeable do enlighten us
> You can see their server and client code here: https://github.com/bitwarden

But in the case of the mobile apps, downloaded from their respective platform's app store, how can you guarantee the code you see on github is the exact same code you're running on your device?

Admittedly this supply-chain-verification is an issue for all mobile app store apps but seems particularly important with something like a password manager.
> They need to walk the genba, the factory floor, and see firsthand what the state of things is.

> With software, the genba is not the office. It is the codebase.

Amusing aside: my dictionary includes "scene of the crime" in the translations for "genba".
Nobody tests end to end any more. The write a patch, run some unit tests, deploy to production, and stuff like this breaks and stays broken without anyone noticing. There's a web shop I like that now literally renders as a blank screen in my firefox setup. I have to use my phone to access the site. I emailed the shop owner and he said omg he'd get after the site builder (it's a shopify site). Nothing has happened at least so far.

Also there is the one where they make you identify pictures of street lamps for N iterations before believing you are human. Hey I want to give you money. Robot money folds in the middle just like human money, so shut up and take my money ;).
Merry Christmas and happy new year to all.
Agreed.

There are only two windows machines in my house.

1. work laptop

2. gaming machine

I tried converting the gaming machine over to Linux, but it's just not there yet. It's making huge strides and I'm super happy about it, but claiming that most or all games run on Linux is waaaaay overstating the reality.
So did I but I had the bad luck of choosing Ubuntu so I lived in self-deny for a while before having to switch again.
The hunt begins.
Joking ability is lacking, but I also suspect it was primed to think it has no humour. This one worked (with some luck): https://sigmoid.social/@maxy/109480669994012863
Happy holidays all!
Not every game is on steam..

Modern titles with heavy handed anticheat don't work well on Linux (and likely won't ever). e.g. Modern Warfare 2 is classed as "borked"[0] in proton.

0: https://www.protondb.com/app/1938090/
I love this community. I have been on here years and it became one of the very few forums where I decided to finally stop lurking and make an account. It is extremely well moderatet, the discussion are on an amazing level. Topics are fantastic.

To all of you: thank you so much and a very merry christmas! I hope you are doing fine.
Water is the best option for being driven from a heat pump over a few days in most cases. Phase change materials like sodium acetate or thermochemical systems like NaOH + water seem to work well on paper for long term storage, but haven't received much attention for some reason.
Merry Christmas and happy new year everyone !
Physical SIM cards don't make me contact my carrier when I get a new device. What does eSIM offer that beats that?
Palantir lands 75M pound deal with British military
It's because the developer of the browser needs fingerprinting for their ads.

I don't think Chrome accidentally exposed data that Google wanted.
https://www.perplexity.ai

This augments ChatGPT results with Bing results to provide references you can look up.
ChatGPT has a long way to go though and it's a quest of how long it will take to get there, although I am sure it will get there.

Add ChatGPT to a voice assistant and that's it, you can have an actual conversation with an AI bot that can give you answers to anything you need to know, like having a personal mentor with you for whatever you need.
For backups I'm using BareOS, which is a fork of Bacula. For archival... We wrote our own software, which is mostly free (AGPL3). I should give our github some love though :)
https://github.com/Intellique
I guess parent is focusing on the point, that PDFs can render as perfectly human-readable documents, but can be completely non-machine readable at the same time.
Most hackernews readers will have left LastPass after the amount of times LastPass has been in the news over the just 5 years wouldn't they? Genuinely interested if phone is still using it - by choice that is.
The best cup of coffee is the one I got right now.
As long as you like your coffee brewed and served in the way _we_ decide, then we’ve got gallons of coffee for you.
This is not correct. M1 is designed to take advantage of being RISC, but that doesn't mean it was fast because it went RISC.
M322y Ch2157m45 4nd H4ppy N3w Y342!
Merry Christmas, let's hope for a better new year.
Merry Christmas, all!

Have some wonderful music to carry you through to New Years!

(Twisted Sister - A Twisted Christmas) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJ1P5UKlHAs&list=PLe7ia_jeVG...

(TSO - The Lost Christmas Eve) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLfNgYF1h-Y

(TSO - The Christmas Attic) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bT4ruFp5U2w

(TSO - Christmas Eve and Other Stories) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJXQYx7j_3I

(Mixed - We Wish You a Metal XMas and a Headbanging New Year) - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLR8eBg1AtyjDQU-RaeVIz...
However the levers do physically move forward and the EPR indication should spool up when the TO/GA button is pressed. Many moons ago, one of my instrument instructors was insistent on physical verification of control status even in light(er) aircraft. You didn’t take your hand off the gear lever until you saw 3 green. On takeoff or go-around, especially go-around, you kept one hand on the throttle levers until after positive rate of climb was achieved. Had the PF here had that practice, the accident would not have occurred. That said, if the TO/GA button is unavailable in a given flight mode, a more obvious verbal annunciation of that mode should be made by the aircraft.
Happy Christmas and Merry New Year xo
The single best manager I've ever had was completely non-technical. Some of the worst I've had were very technical.

The difference between them is who treats me with trust and who doesn't, the technical/non-technical divide doesn't matter.
Happy Christmahanakwanzika!
"Facts" from Google are often wrong, and dangerously so. Most of the time it feels like a simple algorithm read the first search result for the question and then attached the first number it found on that page.
It's quite unlikely someone would risk burning a viable 0day without either going wide (and then we would've heard from a few more people) or going after a well outlined target that would be guaranteed to be worth more than the 0day itself.
What are some examples of good coders that turned Managers successfully?
I think what potentially makes it worse, is that humans will be tempted to just start the personal tailored AI ad helper and not feel as responsible for it, as if they would have written it by themself.

The way it is easier for people to not know, what is going on in a conventional slaughterhouse and meat factory and just enjoy the meat. In theory they know, but they choose not to know the details.
Leak: Chinese health officials estimate 250M Covid-19 infections in December
I agree that the title is clickbaity -- I expected something much worse and more intentional than some obscure integration bug between Asus routers' DHCP server and proxy-auto-discovery.

Why our industry typically fails to agree to formal standards is that it takes time and effort to agree upon standards. The W3C is a good example: browser vendors move faster than the W3C could keep up with, so they decided to bypass them.

I don't fully share your negativism towards this: the ability to innovate quickly is important, and even when things get fully standardized, there is no guarantee that every vendor implements them correctly (again, see HTML and just how different things can behave with different browser vendors that all use the same standard).
A few weeks of iPhone inventory is going to be in the tens, if not hundreds, of millions.
From a very long time rubyist: if you care a lot about code elegance, I think you could like ruby/rails more. If for you it's more important that there is only one correct way to do things, then probably sticking with python /Django makes sense.
He was the lawyer for Stormy Daniels, the media saw him (and the Daniels case) as a way to finally take down Trump, so of course they didn't look any deeper into who he was than necessary.
Io Saturnalia!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturnalia
>And yeah, you may be Athens with all your philosophy and fem lit universities up north, but before you go threatening war, remember which part of the country is Sparta.

There is just so much wrong with this statement I don know where to begin

First off the Athenian league Won against the Spartans... so Ok we are agreed that the south is Sparta in this analogy.

Also you do realize that the southern culture and spartan culture are completely opposite on everything but slavery right?

Sparta had institutionalized Pederasty and post-birth abortion and encouraged homosexuality in the military none of which are thing liked by the south.

secondly Sparta went into decline as it increasingly focused on suppressing the helots (slaves) the the exclusion of all else destroying there society. as Sparta militarized itself to the point that spartan men spent most of their lives living in their barrack away from their wives dropping their birth rate.

as for "fem lit university" spartan women were some of the most independent and educated in the ancient world.

as for claim that

>State has every right to throw off the shackles of friendship and loyalty. We united our states out of a common interest, but we _never_ signed away our rights to a federal government.

you did. what you are talking about dates back to the articles of confederation which was superseded by the US constitution which was ratified by all of the states the south included, and provisions a strong federal government.
“Everything not impossible is trivial.” - Mathematics.

That said, yeah, it’s frustrating the percentage of code which simply doesn’t matter as long as it works at all.

Although the point about mediocre engineers making things way harder than they need to be gets exponentially worse as the decisions get earlier in the process. So many times you look at implementing something and ask yourself why we’re even doing this at all.
"most of the projects are boring CRUD apps". This is often repeated but to me it indicates that something is wrong. As soon as it is boring, it no longer is programming. If they are so boring why isn't it just done by a configuration file that anyone could type?
It's very different in Belgium for non-terminal patients, quoting Pieter:

"I am, finally, so glad I never quit Belgium. This country allows for death on demand, for patients who are terminal or have a bad enough quality of life.
*It takes three doctors and a psychiatrist, in the second case, and four weeks' waiting period.* In the first case, it takes one doctor's opinion."
Merry Christmas, I hope this community can stay healthy for many years to come!
This. Why would we be critical of LastPass being secretive and/or wrong and then take a tweet at face value?

From one of the tweets:

> I did not download anything. My machines are clean, and I have physical 2fa on everything. None of the links or contracts I interacted with were malicious. Nobody else had physical access to my PC.

Yeah sure. Sounds like my aunt when she messed up her PC and loudly claims "but I didn't do anything!" Surefire sign that she did. Turns out it's true, every time.
Maybe this is off topic but how this algorithm adapt itself to time series?

I mean you want to cluster data which might be autocorrelated...
Does this case is taken into account or do you need to preprocess your data beforehand?
I use kagi. I reluctantly paid the monthly fee, but by Jebs it's worth it to get pure accurate results with no ads and filters.
"If a business is successful, anyone who enjoys receiving salary from it, is also entitled to its shares"

Actually I think this IS a possible solution. For every dollar of wages an employee gets they should also receive a dollar of equity.

"People give and receive what they had mutually agreed to give and receive without coercion."

We see how rabidly Starbucks, Amazon, and Musk fight Unions. They do this because they know exactly how much harder it is to exploit workers who are unionized.

"you will start a business and split shares among employees,"

I would feel like a complete piece of shit if I got as rich as Musk or Bezos off the backs of my employees like they did.