skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Only 15 years

Was hoping it was much sooner, but at the same time a lot of my php backend code will break when this happens.

What are doing about this?
That's astonishingly optimistic given the current state of both.
> but I get the impression that theirs is a profession where you must constantly revise in light of new evidence

We call it “science”.
Until we don't
Those lending to the US government are doing so by purchasing US Treasury bonds, which have due dates and earn interest.

Based on the credit rating of the US government, they will certainly not end up with less in nominal terms.
The 70,000 are all forced into #general. However it's a moderated channel of dubious utility.
What eInk display are you using and in which case?
It’s been my experience that journalists often cherry pick questions from employee Q & A to generate a story. This seems to be a series of 3 related questions from one employee.
What kind of ad campaigns are you running?
Some abbreviations and acronyms I didn't know and had to google:

i18n: short for internationalization

URN: Uniform Resource Name, a specific type of URI
I assume this works for push-ups too? Lower yourself then reset and lower again? That’s amazing. I guess it makes sense. If the research in the article holds true this makes strength building much simpler and a lot less grueling.
News of the day: slim majorities in a legislature are hard to work with because it gives fringe members of the majority party more power.

This has been demonstrated with Sinema and Manchin on the Democratic side. Now we are seeing it on the Republican side. It's also been seen in pretty much every coalition government that has ever been negotiated in a parliamentary system. Israel and Spain make Americans look like amateurs at this kind of intra-party stunt.

If the Republican party had won like 5 more seats, in a body with over 400 members, this never would have happened. In the UK, the people who resisted the leader would have been expelled from the party. Here in the US, if you call yourself a Republican nobody has legal standing to say you aren't one.

This really isn't that interesting, other than as a general observation about how having a slim majority makes parties weak.

Also, there was no other plausible candidate. Every other potential contender would have faced a much harder, and longer, election process. The most obvious result is the one we got, even though it gave the talking heads on the TV news something to talk about for several days. What other outcome was possible?
Please don't do this—it just ends up adding noise to the thread once the original comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34285208 in this case) gets vouched for.

Instead, just vouch for it and trust your fellow community members to do the rest of the work; or, if it's particularly good and worth the effort, let us know at hn@ycombinator.com so we can make sure it's unkilled.

(In this case the comment was killed by a software filter. Those are tuned more tightly for new accounts. I've marked the account legit so this won't happen again.)
You can use ChatGPT to write code – Santiago
365ppm atm
not sure I understood that. what do you mean?
It’s not hypocrisy, you’re just powerless
I am a 3rd generation programmer, my grandmother programmed with punch cards, my father on mainframes, I do things now, and my child looks to be a 4th one. When we came here my father brushed off his COBOL skills during Y2K stuff and made some excellent money working at some hospital chain fixing things. Right before New Year 2000 I ask him half in jest - "so hey, should I be sick on New Year"? He looks at me, smiles, and says "you can, but not too sick, ok?".

I am wondering if I'd be recompiling int32 to int64 out of systems and changing database datatypes in 10+ years and answering similar questions from my kids
sure if that's a technicality you want to call out. What I meant is -- go down the grocery store snack aisles. Look at the chips, popcorns, cookies, etc. Anything in a brightly colored box in those snack aisles. 100% of the things I'm talking about have seed oils in them.
I've seen threads involving Gary Marcus on twitter, and when people provide concrete evidence that his point of view is wrong, he just stops replying, then proceeds to continue to spout the disproven claim in other places.

Just the other day, when he claimed that GPT was literally just doing memorization/word statistics/syntax and has no grasp of semantics, some folks demonstrated that GPT can literally act as an interpreter for arbitrary code.

(there are some tricks involved here, you have to get it to interpret the program "with pen and paper" by getting it to record all the state updates / variable mutations that happen in the code, this can be done by inserting copious print statements)

He then claimed that it was only able to interpret this program because it must have seen it before in its vast training data. He accused a commenter of not understanding how big the training data was.

It was then shown that GPT can interpret a python program that is operating on two randomly chosen large integers, the combination of which is certainly not in its training data. This shows that it must be "understanding" (for lack of a better word) the semantics of the program. Gary then stopped responding.

I don't think GPT on its own will lead anywhere close to AGI -- and I don't think anyone serious thinks this. But GPT combined with a sophisticated pipeline of wrapper scripts to feed its own output back into itself in clever ways and give it access to external data sources and tools? Possibly!
Brick-and-mortar clothing outlets.
us old folks have a priceless property - experience. ignore this at your peril.
It's something you might look back and ask what if, so better not skip it and he can always concentrate on building stuff while doing college.
ChatGPT Will Disrupt the Creative Sector, But
https://rogerclark.org

Built with a simple static site generator in PHP:
https://rogerclark.org/website.php.txt
Where in the house is the safe located? I saw a video some years ago that made a fairly compelling case for locating the safe in a pantry or laundry room or anywhere other than the master bedroom, master closet, master bath or home office.
Really? Given the progress in the past decade, I'd place AGI about 15-20 years from now, with immediate civilization-threatening consequences. By then climate change will certainly be bad, but nowhere near an existential threat to humanity yet.
they are cheap due to the scalable industrial processes than enable seed oils to be extracted from comparatively cheap raws (seeds vs. olives/avos) and it's this process that contributes to the negative health outcomes associated with these oils. The extraction process oxidizes the oils and makes them essentially rancid.
In my country, a frequent call-in request to the radio DJ was something like "please play the entire song, because I would like to record it".
In the Netherlands, rapeseed oil is invariably sold as 'saladoil'.
This is true of several sub-genres of jazz, but there are many musicians who play a genre that they call jazz who do not worship this canon, do not follow these song structures or instrument combos rigidly, and cross these lines with abandon.

I'll go as far as to say that the entire modern jazz movement recognizes earlier jazz (swing/bebop/cool/funk) as seminal to the art form, but deliberately experiments and takes risks away from classical jazz forms.
The university experience is whatever people choose to make of it. The people who complain most loudly about how college was a waste for them tend to be people who took no initiative of their own and expected to simply be spit out of some pipeline of courses into a top tier job. OP is clearly not one of those people, and has an internally driven passion for learning, pursued of their volition. That doesn't mean OP is somehow beyond college, it means they are an excelent candidate for it.

The combination of breadth and depth of knowledge and experience available at universities is unmatched anywhere in the world. OP may find themselves more interested in developing neural interfaces, working on processor hardware architectures, designing next generation microscopy systems for biology, or a hundred other things. It's true that there are other entry points into those areas that don't involve being on a campus, but a good university provides efficient entry points into all of them. This is especially true for students who set up independent study courses for themselves, start/run student organizations, talk to professors about their research, and seek out research and project opportunities during summers.
Yes once you reach a certain size, predictability >>> everything else. This trickles down, and risk aversion becomes the name of the game even at the individual level
The feds are possibly sabotaging up their case by acting so fast, not even waiting for the alleged perpetrators to spend their money, which would confirm intent. If I were the defense I would make a case that the money would be returned eventually and the project was cancelled and that the aparent laundering was moving the money to a safe location.
I've seen ones where the number is written on it somewhere.
USB is obsolete?
Can someone explain why, if the start date was 1970, why is it rolling over to december 1901? Why wouldn't it roll over to the start date in 1970 again?
There is nothing wrong with this article in trying to paint a realistic picture of what is expected of a software engineering nowadays but man am I getting tired of this one sided culture of professional responsibility.

I just don't vibe with this advice anymore, like all the same with me but I'm gonna call myself something else then, you can have it.
I've seen an example where asking the exact same question word for word lead to the opposite outcome (one was a really racist rap, the other was a really good rap against racism).

So, how do you know that posing that problem N times will not lead EVER lead to a solution like "it would not more appropriate to chop up the owner and THEN clean the room, since people living in them is the main source of dirt and disorder in apartment rooms, resulting in less frequent need of cleaning"?

Because it's looking okay-ish so far, most of the time, or because you know for a fact that it's impossible to get such an answer?
I’m all for saving money. But it’s a stretch to say it’s particularly interesting news. But my wife gets excited about credit card point promotions, so I guess some folks are excited to save a few bucks and would find this thrilling. But I will always remember this article as the most disappointingly boring article, other than that one my wife sent me about Hilton Honors points.
What in the world is going on in your house that requires 7 loads A DAY? Is everyone in your house a germaphobe? Do you run a hotel?

It just blows my mind. I run maybe 1 load/week, tops, sometimes every other week.
there's this concept of jazz "as a verb" vs "as a noun."

musicians back in the day were limited by the technology of the day, so they played things like horns and upright basses. the thing that made their music "jazz" was the improvisation. the jazz was something they did, not an objective genre standard.

if monk or miles or coltrane were alive today, their music would be way different. they'd probably take advantage of samples, synthesizers, maybe even AI? i don't know. but the key to their genius was the intent behind their playing, the way they bent harmonic structure in service of their improvised melodic ideas. this is jazz as a verb.

as soon as jazz became "america's art form, now playing at the lincoln center and available as an honors track college major" it wasn't actually jazz. so many people are doing it wrong. welcome to america!
Very cool and well done.. is this retarget-able to the 6502 ?
It's like "Norman Elevators" as it were.
> It may or may not be overcome by additional data and compute.

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

> Deciding is a computational activity, something that can ultimately be programmed. It is the capacity to choose that ultimately makes us human. Choice, however, is the product of judgment, not calculation. Comprehensive human judgment is able to include non-mathematical factors such as emotions. Judgment can compare apples and oranges, and can do so without quantifying each fruit type and then reductively quantifying each to factors necessary for mathematical comparison.

> The book caused disagreement with, and separation from other members of the artificial intelligence research community, a status the author later said he'd come to take pride in.
Some more:

The worst are when you run into code that’s been around for a long time, but obviously doesn’t work, but which have stuff built on top of it relying on it not to work.

When two bugs manifest together in one symptom, the engineering approach that you have learned about breaking a problem down and testing one thing at a time, might not be enough to find the issues.

All projects are chaos, learn to accept that and to navigate it.

Centralising things into common classes, methods, functions, libraries, modules or services, for reusability, and for less redundancy, also increases risk, as it is now even more important that that stuff works.
Yes, that's the inherent tension within jazz. It's pure freedom, but it's also inseparable from its history, the people who play it today, and even the audience.

Disclosure: I'm a performing jazz bassist. I'm at a level where I can collaborate with bands, but am not good enough to blaze my own path, except to the extent of having a playing style of my own.

The canon of tunes, and the "standard arrangement" are both a blessing and a curse, and are hardly worshipped. Those things make it easy to assemble a band and perform with no preparation, but get boring after a while.

At least one of my bands plays virtually none of that stuff. Another plays complex written arrangements. A third is mostly old tin pan alley material, but raucous and fun for the audience. It's all jazz. I've noticed that audiences respond quite well to the variety, including my long solos.
Danger.systems
Playing games with AIs: The limits of GPT-3 and similar large language models
New York City schools ban AI chatbot that writes essays and answers prompts
> But maximizing log-return was proven by Kelly to be optimal, and you don't need to further penalize volatility.

Unless you are risk adverse.
Which it's probably rational to be.
Haskell. Since functions are pure, you can jump straight to the function that gives the wrong output for some input, skipping the part where you have to get the program into a certain state for the bug to be able to manifest.
Seems like this 11 blade propeller -- might make a great rear propeller for the Celera 500L:

https://ottoaviation.com/
Why can't debugging be tested?
Geneva Towers. Oh wait, that was so dangerous they literally had to tear it down.
There is only a marginal benefit in using "urn:foo:..." over "foo:...", namely making it clear that it is only intended to represent a name and not a locator. That benefit is marginal because without knowing the spec for foo, you can't really do much with the knowledge that it is a URN. Without knowing the spec, you can't even compare URN values to check if they represent the same name (e.g. ISBN URNs may or may not contain hyphens, and there are equivalent ISBN-10 and ISBN-13 numbers).

Conversely, there are non-URN URI schemes that still represent only names (like doi), and there are URL schemes that, despite the "L", are also used for non-locator names (the http scheme in particular, e.g. in RDF and for XML namespaces). So it's all a wash.

In either case (URN or non-URN), you would have to register the URN namespace or the URI scheme, if you want to use it publicly. Often http is used instead, where the domain name serves the role of the namespace, because usually a suitable domain name is already registered. Of course, this latter practice has the drawback that one has to infer from context that it is a name and not an HTTP web resource.

Unfortunately, dots are not allowed in NIDs. Otherwise it would have been possible to introduce the free use of "urn:<domain name>:..." (for non-TLDs that otherwise don't conflict with the NID naming rules).
yeah, it's pretty sad, right? but that's what they do.

mostly it's subsistence farming - e.g. they raise enough food for themselves. and of course, every able bodied family member works for minimum wage somewhere, when they can. but that does NOT make it a hobby farm.

yes, in fact people in the US make the equivalent of less than 10K a year and still live.
Do note that GA pilots skew way older than motorcyclists.
My mom worked on Y2K at citigroup: she said it took a while to fix but wasn't the end of the world. What was more challenging was when they spun off travelers and switch from the old logo [0] to the one used at present. Apparently it took over 2 years to fully replace the logo because the old one was hardcoded in so many places.

[0] https://s.wsj.net/public/resources/images/OB-AH222_Citi_2007...
SCIP optimization suite relicensed under Apache 2.0
Assuming I understand your question correctly: If the counter is stored as a signed int32 then the rollover will be to the smallest representable signed 32 which corresponds to the 1901 date. It's stored signed because software (particularly old software) wanted to be able to manipulate pre 1970 dates.
Slack also has Enterprise Grid, which super-huge companies use to divide into not just separate channels, but separate Slack "servers" entirely.

When I was at IBM, they had...uh...a lot of them.
I’d guess that it’s because it’s a signed int? So the value can be negative. Probably depends on the library implementation though.
It’s worth considering that the statistics are heavily influences by demographics. GA pilots are mostly rather old dentists and the likes.
Geez. I was thinking about picking up his book, but if it’s filled with stuff like that, I’d rather not. He seems rather narcissistic. And being a great leader means walking away when nobody wanted to follow your leadership and when you didn’t want to adjust?

Honestly, the Nest is an overblown product. Did he really need 120% (how is that possible anyway) to build a product that’s effectively worse than what it replaced?
Why there should be one? Just read your contracts.
How Forum 2000 Works
Here’s a great story about the ongoing impact of those decisions. https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/06/16/my-first-billg-rev...
Wow, America made it again. I thought I know all the esoteric units, and still here I am. For all poor souls like me: one acre-foot is 1233 cubic meters.
If provide a text-processing problem I will try to provide a solution.

Meanwhile here is one. Insert stdin or a src file at the top of a dst file.

test ! -h $1||exec echo $0: error: symlink
case $# in :)
;;1) x=$(sed -n '$=' $1)
test $x -gt 1||exec echo usage: $0 dst src
sed -i -e1r/dev/stdin -e1N $1
;;2) printf '0r '$2'\nwq\n'|ed -s $1
esac

For example,

1.sh 1.c < 1.h
echo 93.184.216.34 example.com|1.sh /etc/hosts

or

1.sh 1.c 1.h
1.sh /etc/hosts map-ip-host.txt

How is this done in Python.
It's a signed integer. The overflow will make the number negative, not zero.
I guess I'm in the minority here as a SWE but I find all this ongoing documentation about engineering expectations, culture, processes, etc. exhausting. I would not be excited to be onboarded somewhere that spends so much time and energy thinking and talking about a _proposal_ to document best practices and industry standards.

Perhaps I'm missing context but it all sounds so vague and low-impact that I just can't imagine spending so much time and energy engaging in these thought experiments on documentation improvements.

I understand the repo is for developer documentation but it took a long time of poking around to figure out what the product even was. Eventually I stumbled upon this blog post which seemed to anticipate my confusion and flat-out said: "For those unfamiliar, Artsy is a fine art marketplace." All the meta analysis is striking me as very distracted. Maybe its just the nature of the content but it seems like an inordinate amount of engineering resources are spent on process management, planning, and iterating on documentation thereof.
Children need bedrooms but don't generate any income, the typical adult who moves here can barely afford their own bedroom, so of course most people will have to leave when they have kids. It's not a revelation about the kind of people who move here or why, it's just a mechanical consequence of high prices.
> While he noticed the telephone wires running alongside the highway, Peters said, he did not realize until later that there were also wires crisscrossing the highway every few hundred feet, and that somehow his small plane must have slipped between them without him even noticing.

> “Honestly, I didn’t see them. I think that was divine intervention, moving those wires away from me,” he said.

If you read the article, he explains the reasoning.
Related:

Always Bet on Text (2014) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26164001 - Feb 2021 (338 comments)

Always bet on text (2014) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10284202 - Sept 2015 (69 comments)

Always bet on text - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8451271 - Oct 2014 (196 comments)
For someone totally outside this space I had assumed concrete is rigid and brittle and rebar reinforcement allows for it to bend and flex without breaking. But your comment makes it feel like it keeps the concrete in tension with compression forces to make it sturdier. Can you ELI5 what the rebar does to help?
Agreed. There is a shortage of _low-cost_ housing. This isn't because of "zoning", it's because low-cost housing became considered undesirable. Think housing projects, SROs, "flop houses", etc. As gentrification occurred and these were closed (and some refurbished into upscale units), their occupants-- and their future occupants-- became homeless.
Devirtualizing nike.com's bot protection
> 1. Threads for everything everywhere, always. People are practically afraid to not use a thread, even in team channels.

My new(ish) employer does this and I absolutely love it. Channels are not a constant stream of interleaved noise, and when I want to dive into a particular conversation it's incredibly easy to follow.
Sean Riddle posted but it was killed by machines probably. He wrote.

Cool to hear from someone who was there! (re Walter)

If anyone is interested, here's a link to a bunch of dieshots and PCB scans of various Rockwell games and calculators: https://www.seanriddle.com/rockwell/
The article suggest you should have kept doing eccentric pull-ups.

I’m going to re-add eccentric focused movements back into my pull-up routine.
I'm unfortunately not in a country with good privacy laws, would love to be able to do that, though.
Explained at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308