skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Despite all the modern materials available steel still holds a special place in the hearts of hobby machinists.

That a material like silver-steel[1] you can turn pretty easily on a small lathe and then later harden with just a blow torch to make a new useful tool is a little bit of magic.

Steel’s still real.

1. I think what we call silver-steel is roughly similar to some of the US “drill rod” grades.
That's what freedesktop is supposed to be for, figuring out common standard so that multiple desktop environments can work together cleanly.
The $350/mo plan includes 20 stories! Will look into clarifying the wording of our pricing table, as well as adding what extra usage costs. I'd love to hear more about your use cases though, if you'd like to get in touch at daniel at instorier.com
No I don't have any idea. I just didn't know what I was supposed to do with that information so I was trying to keep the conversation going. Looks like you got some good comments though, hopefully that's cleared up your lack of understanding.
A bit tangential, but still worth asking since I haven’t seen it addressed anywhere else:

When I type a query into Google, it returns results almost instantaneously.

With ChatGPT, it has latency PLUS it writes out answers annoyingly slow.

Does anyone know why that spell out every answer like that? Is that a UX gimmick or related to the latency?
If we don't need to click a link does google receives less revenue? I think including more direct answers from a search query would require changes to Google's business model.
Might not be the worst way to explain how GPS works, but definitely up there.

You'd be better off just saying "it uses satellites and stuff".
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> this is probably appropriate for explaining things to 5 year olds.

I feel it's appropriate in terms of simplicity, but I think providing a simple wrong explanation is really only worth it when the more accurate explanation is substantially harder to simplify, and I don't think explaining how GPS works falls into that category.

Something like this I think is more accurate without being any more complex:

> Imagine you are standing outside and you see lots of stars in the sky. Well, GPS works kind of like that, but instead of stars, there are satellites orbiting the Earth. These satellites are way up high, so you can always see some of them.

> When you have a GPS device, like a phone or a car, it can look for these satellites, and if it sees enough of them it can use math to figure out where you are.
Also notable that this is a beyond extreme treatment. Incredibly stressful on the body, a method of last resort. Through, it has had a few high profile success stories.
Oh c'mon. There is a stark difference between optical limitations, artifacts, or color balance and machine learning enabled post processing.
> can the women in Afghanistan identify out of their oppression by the Taliban

Obviously not. (a) The Taliban executes trans and gender-non-conforming people. (b) Can't get facial hair without access to testosterone. (c) Even if the act were successful, one false move could still mean death. (d) Still wouldn't magically raise OB-GYN healthcare standards.

If you want to learn about this, maybe read an actual feminist, or maybe a journalist, rather than just some rando in a comments section. Better still: donate to a charity that does humanitarian work in the area, and be objectively more moral than me.

> Then how do you explain this:

She's not a man? Also: I was describing common social attitudes; they're not universal ones.
Absolutely, I totally agree. I edited my comment to add in more as I realised I'd not addressed that. It's surprisingly good right now, and given that it's useful that feeds into even more attention and money being spent on making it better.

Anyone not looking at chatgpt and thinking "what if this was even just a bit better? Or had better iterations or lookups?" is missing out on what I think is a revolutionary change coming probably sooner than people expect.
On a laggy/slow ssh connection, if you don't notice the encryption prompt, it is quite easy to just try the exact same thing again.
Personally I’d like to see more stouts that aren’t super heavy dessert stouts.
> The best treatment remains not starting in the first place.

This is not shown. Many many people try drugs like speed, marijuana, cocaine and do not become addicted, many only do them a handful of times.

Absolutist policies are the ones that encourage draconian laws and responses because by the very nature of your statement, the first time is the worst time.

How about a recreational drug driver's license? It is how we respond to a situation that matters, not getting into the situation in the first place, esp when that situation is so easy to get into.
I remap `<space>` to save because I like to obsessively spam it after every couple edits.

Fun fact, ZQ quits without saving, like :q!
Recording an album is a totally different experience with a Kemper. No more anxiety about how the tones will sit in the mix... If it's not working, you can re-amp it.
Two of the three companies being sued are based in the USA.
Of course- it makes sense to run ChatGPT free now (reminded that it's an experiment) for training & betatesting. But running it even larger, and on a search engine ? It's a magnitude of difference imo, and totally different than a short-time bill for an experiment.
in the short term yes. in the long term I think SEO will disappear. my buddy who works in the content creation space for indeed is telling me that they are already starting to use gpt to replace content creation, but know that it's a matter of time before that won't work.
I'm not sure how well that would work or not, but in cities with a housing crisis, the issue is not really people having acreage, but that they have a single family home or some other low usage building on the land at all in a place where there is demand for a lot more housing than what there is.
This is actually a fairly reasonable theory given the information we currently have access to - not "spores" per se but rather by amino acids entering our atmosphere. Check out the "panspermia theory" as well as the "Murchison meteorite", I believe there may have been amino acids found on other meteorite samples since and perhaps one within the past 5 years or so.
It's possible though our planet is very "ripe" for harboring life and there are multiple avenues through which it has evolved over time.
Well first of all, my point was that over the last decade Google has likely paid more individuals 7 figures than JS or Citadel has. Obviously this is subject to the risk of stock performance, and if your point is that cash is better than stock, I agree with you 100% (especially today when tech stocks are still arguably over-valued).

On the other hand, this, my friend, is absolute nonsense:

> Anyone with a base salary of $300k can obtain a similar payoff structure by taking out a $550k loan to invest in GOOG, and taking out additional smaller loans at each stock refresh.

This is only equivalent if you ignore downside risk, which in the case of an average young professional with no significant assets could ruin you. The RSUs give you significant upside over 4 years with absolutely zero risk.

Also you said this:

> The fact that a particular investment decision (GOOG) can accidentally push the individual's yearly increase in net worth past $1M

This makes me think you might not understand how RSUs work. They are W-2 income at the valuation at the time of vest. What we're talking about is 7 figure annual income. Not investment gains over time.
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If you ask any data analyst which language they use on a daily basis, they will not say Python or R. They will certainly say SQL.
Transformers (the frontend in GPT at least) are autoregressive i.e. they require previous state.
User experience is fleeting. I like the user experience of manual transmission cars but >80% of new drivers today would scream user experience if you gave them one. Perhaps the complaint here comes from these types of users who expect novelty to their liking.

There was a comical reference to Tesla. If you’ve only experienced the user experience headache that Tesla forces on you every time they have a major software update (at least 2x a year). The muscle memory has to adapt.
Show me the literature, nothing has true lifetime immunity. You get close to lifetime immunity but the curves will continue dropping.
check out hyperswarm/holepunch: https://docs.holepunch.to/

or urbit: https://urbit.org
I do think there's a limit to how much doom and gloom an individual can productively handle and I suppose this also applies to society as a whole.

People seem to accept that it's all downhill from here, and sometimes even cynically applaud it. Like with the male sperm story. It's catastrophic and accelerating, yet got near-zero attention. The few responses to it seem to celebrate it.

Humanity lacks a story for the future. It can't just be "it's going to get so much worse" nor can it be "if we try really hard, we may slow down the decline, but a decline it will be". Those stories just aren't good enough. Nobody invests in a sinking ship.
But when you show the CICO cult people this they put their heads in the sand and shout about thermodynamics
The rash of "no way" responses makes me wonder: what note taking system(s) have you encountered that actually work for you? (And why, if known.)

From someone who episodically takes notes in haphazard fashion and very rarely looks at them again, and thinks he's probably woefully working harder than he should as a result.
We circled back from replacing everything with our smartphone to realizing that phone cameras don't perform as well as purpose built photography gear.

This was always going to be the case because no matter how good your software is, phone cameras will never have the optics, and probably not the sensors too, of a DSLR camera.

To cover this, manufacturers employ all sorts of clever post processing, which in turn make it so that your final image is different from the preview you're seeing (which is also heavily altered from what the sensor is seeing, probably).

With new tools such as AI introduced into post processing, we are just seeing more artifacts in what has been a fairly extensive process already. You can only push the tiny sensors and lenses so far but every manufacturer still wants the public to perceive their latest release as if a lot of progress has been made.

Perhaps people expect too much from their phone.
Locating yourself on a map while stationary and locating yourself on a map while operating a 3 ton vehicle at speed and looking for a particular turn are quite different things.
> And as a logical aside: if AI can't be trusted, we shouldn't trust AI's recommendations for reliable sources either.

Don't think that's automatically true though: an AI can be consistently excellent at retrieving reliable sources and still get a lot wrong on its summaries. Also humans have their own opinions on sources even when they're not familiar with the detail, and finding out if the AI reads Nature or 4chan is part of the debugging process...
Hey! My friend linked me this comment. This is super dope, I used to RE more dynamically and knowing about monitor() and debug() would have helped me a lot haha.

Also the memory snapshots, I've used that to try to debug memory leaks in the past but never thought about using it to RE. Super cool that you can also get the string that way.

You can definitely get the same results a lot faster via dynamic RE for most obfuscation methods, but what attracted me to Kasada was the challenge of writing a disassembler from a static RE perspective. I also don't think dynamic RE methods are super easy to apply here once you get into the VM logic though, as I've discovered while working on part 2.

If you want to chat with me about this more my socials are linked in the post, or you can message me on discord (umasi#3301) :)
Here's it's reply to me:

Ian Calvert
Computer, please find out how GPS works and explain it to me like I'm five years old

Sure thing! GPS stands for Global Positioning System. It's a way to find out where you are on Earth.

GPS works by using satellites that are way up in space. There are lots of these satellites orbiting around Earth, and they are always sending out signals. Your GPS receiver is a special device that can pick up these signals from the satellites.

The GPS receiver knows how far away it is from each satellite because of the time it takes for the signal to reach it. By figuring out how far away it is from a few different satellites, the GPS receiver can figure out exactly where it is on Earth.

So, if you have a GPS receiver in your car, phone, or on a special device like a watch, it can use the signals from the satellites to tell you exactly where you are and how to get to where you want to go. Does that make sense?

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I was also able to ask it to make it simpler and simpler and it did so pretty well.
MIT license, so shouldn't be too much problems.
You know there's this going where people are starting to realize that extensive/fancy note taking is a gigantic waste of time. The only thing it needs to do is to offload cognitive thinking onto something external while you're learning so you can hold ideas. Most learning comes from recalling, not having beautiful notes.
You can just as easily ELI5 this without spreading misinformation, though. Just change the third paragraph to:

> The satellites all broadcast a special code saying where each of them is. When you have a GPS device, like a phone or a car, it can listen to these codes and find out where and how far away different satellites are.

(Actually, this would be a fun thing to do with a class. Have a few kids march around the edges of the playground, saying things like “I’m next to the swingset now!”, and then ask one one kid to close their eyes, put them somewhere in the middle and ask them to guess where they’re standing.)
Yeah but in those days you could call up the local video store and ask the clerk that question and he or she would tell you it was Donnie Darko.
I'm in Thailand. Same should be applied with "tropical climate" countries. Basically it's hot and humid. Cloths are usually not thick as it's hot, so 2-3 days per laundry for 2 people is ok. It's only annoying when there's not enough favorite cloths.

Smell of sweat / odor happens very soon than those who live in cold+dry area.
We shut down a large swath of the global economy for Covid, and emissions only went down 4.6%[0]. We then faced shortages that are in some areas still ongoing today, not to mention inflation.

I think if there's any technological hope of fixing the problem, damaging the supply chain through some sort of degrowth strategy will create a large obstacle to getting there. I also think that if you tried to do this in a democratic society, your party will be voted out in the next election. To me it doesn't seem like lower consumption is the solution given all of this.

[0] - https://www.imf.org/en/Blogs/Articles/2022/06/30/greenhouse-...
it was just an issue with your phrasing of 'anti climate change'. I think you meant 'climate change denying' or something like that, then it makes more sense. Being 'anti climate change' to me means that you try to stop the change, and by your comment I read it as the US being more advanced in that regard.
Ok so for example I deleted a confirmation email that Delta sent me for a flight I had yesterday. Suppose for some reason the US Govt opens some investigation into my travel, should I be charged with conspiracy to destroy evidence since I should have "known" that I "might" be investigated.

No that would be silly and there would be no way to prove malicious intent. You could make a million arguments for a canary in the same way.
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When interviewing for a SWE role, what are some informative/telling/interesting interview questions you've asked or been asked?
Thank you for the kind words!

I find the Goodreads UI _incredibly_ busy. Here's what I saw when I logged in just now: https://cdn.zappy.app/76d7cba6b409f0aa9310214401d11db9.png

It's nice to see what my friends are reading, but it's always trying to recommend me books, sell me things, etc. It makes sense (it's why Amazon bought them) but it I found it mostly got in the way of what I wanted out of it- a spreadsheet with pre-filled information. Also it's dumb, but I wanted to rate books on a 4-point scale, and theirs is out of 5.

I used to use a gSheet for this (with columns for title, author, day start/end, and review), but I wanted a way to source rich info. So I combined Zapier, the google books API, and an npm package I wrote to count the words in an epub (https://github.com/xavdid/epub-wordcount/) and fed all that info into Airtable. It sounds like a lot of work, but I set it up years ago and it's been happily humming along.

Now I have exactly the tracking system I want, and it's not at the whim of decisions on any product roadmaps.
> Speedometer does not help you there.

Oh but it does! A blind corner will kill drivers going by feel alone, who don't have experience on that particular stretch of road. Feel alone doesn't inform you that you're in a school zone (until catastrophically too late). Remember, the driver isn't just a hazard to themselves, they're a hazard to everybody in their path.

How do you propose to limit licensing to experienced drivers in such a way that inexperienced drivers are capable of gaining the experience necessary to drive?
Agree. ChatGPT is how I imagined the internet would be back in the 90s (without having the foggiest clue how it might get there). Your questions are similar to the types of searches that people really want but have to translate to 'GPS simple explanation' or 'COVID in <town> this year' while hoping for a set of relevant pages in the Google return.

I've gotten it to fail on some word problems, but even then it was impressive to see it try to come up with a solution. More humorous were requests like 'Create a post for ycombinator about ChatGPT in the style of Chris Farley'. It's surprising and quite welcome that it even attempts that.
That is now, we were talking about when GNU/Linux started to be relevant and what triggered language choice, versus what was happening in the desktop PC world.

The latest version of the GNU coding standard is much more permissive.
You can just use your personal card on the big ticket items (flight and hotel) and use the corporate card for the small ones, if you’re worried about forgetting something. And you can get 5% points for those expenses (with either airline/hotel brand loyalty cards, or something like Amex Platinum that works on any brand). If you’re traveling a lot and flying business class for work it can add up to thousands of dollars and pay for your vacations.
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The reputation is a real thing and it's why the only people who are choosing to use GTK for new projects are people who are already pretty deep into the gnome ecosystem (they've probably been to at least on gnome conference).

You can see this kind of effect by looking at toolkit preferences in things like the stack overflow surveys.
I think it would be a bit odd to see a school district suing drug dealers. Seeing as weed is legal in Seattle, could/should the Seattle public schools sue local [state-]legal weed stores for selling product that will inevitably find their way into the hands of teenagers? I suppose they could, but it would be surprising to see.

This said, I have a special hatred for TikTok so I wish the Seattle schools good luck in their crazy endeavor.
Unless you're in a <10 headcount everyone-does-everything startup, by the time work reaches software engineering it's already been determined as having good business value. It's rarely a software engineer's job to challenge that determination unless new information emerges that wasn't factored into the original decision.

Also, maybe my perspective is skewed from only ever working at gigantic companies but what usually grows a career is making your manager's life easy - becoming someone who reliably gets shit done on time and without drama.
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Sorry we're not all living up to your expectations.
I think that assumes AI makes any difference to the self-certainly of humans.

My mother was into all kinds of new age and supernatural stuff. You may think you can see where this anecdote is leading, and oh boy I could go there, but instead prepare for a twist! One of the stories she had was a client saying "It is not possible, Susan, it is not possible that there are beings out there that are cleverer than what we is".
I write low latency C++ for a living. Read "A Tour of C++", focusing on the STL and the basics of the language, basics of templates. Anything else related to STL, look at cppreference.
It's only hard now because we've spent 100 years fighting discrimination. Back in the 1920s land deeds would have restrictive covenants on them that explicitly spelled out that only white Christians could buy that land.
> Antibiotics kill bacteria, across the board, indiscriminately.

That is not true. You're probably thinking of broad-spectrum antibiotics, which are not the only kind. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broad-spectrum_antibiotic
Thanks!

To run multiple lines of code, use the editor, not the shell. If you only see the shell, it's because it's hidden at the beginning of the course for beginners. See the table of contents (https://futurecoder.io/course/#toc) and skip to the page "Variables > Writing Programs" or after.

Or click the 'fullscreen' icon in the top right to enter 'IDE' mode in which everything is enabled, as the debuggers are similarly introduced gradually. Equivalently, go to https://futurecoder.io/course/#ide, or click "Just code" on the homepage.

The issue for tracking multi-line input in the shell is here: https://github.com/alexmojaki/futurecoder/issues/268

It's something I'd like to have, but it's not a high priority, and I don't think it needs to be.