skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, maybe they might have been slower to innovate in software, but I think a middle way between their conservatism and the free-wheeling ways of Silicon valley would have served the industry well. Imagine if software engineering was approached in The Toyota Way[1].

As it is now, software engineering us not respected as real engineering because we neglect to apply general engineering principles. We throw away battle-tested solutions and learnings very few years in favor of shiny brittle toys, in the name of "disruption".

I guess the only thing that would change things is something I call some kind of consistent regulation. Too much gate-keeping like in traditional engineering or medical fields can stifle innovation. However, software used by a certain minimum number of users, and software used in certain fields like medicine, transport, finance, need to be subjected by regulatory agencies to certain objective (hence automated?) tests to ensure they meet some minimum reliability, usability, security, and performance requirements. In this regime, small-time SaaS software, or hobby projects, would not need any regulation, but flagship software products of Facebook, Google, SAP, Oracle, Tesla, etc would need it.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Toyota_Way
Mastodon made their decision to ideologically ban political opponents. They eliminated their chance of remaining decentralized and politically neutral. Therefore they can never be successful.
Pairings or Bilinear Maps (2022)
> For instance did the UK become a Software behemoth ? France ? Germany ? Brazil ? India ?

Other than Brazil, all of these countries have dozens of tech unicorn startups, and numerous established success stories. The UK has nearly 50, India has over 100. Germany and France have somewhat fewer. But those countries may have a more cautious VC style, with less American influence.
I sometimes omit the /s. I said the state will set the 'minimum' for public defenders, not 'maximum' for 'general AI attorney'.
Probably for a good reason? I was browsing thru their AI responsibilities page and was pleasantly surprised how comprehensive and well thought out it is.

Not sure if OpenAI and with the release of chatgpt has fully implemented their own call for responsible ai
Personal anecdote: I'm around the same age as OP and until recently also felt like my thinking was slowing down over the years.

I went for many years without an exercise habit. About 5 months ago I started lifting weights. The transformation has defied all my expectations and the biggest unexpected benefit is that my mind has become sharper, faster and more focused. I essentially feel like I've reversed a decade's worth of brain and body aging by going into the gym and lugging some iron around a couple times a week.

Around the same time I started cutting back on alcohol intake and cleaned up my diet a bit. So it could be any of these factors but I think it's a combination of all of them, as you get older, you need to maintain your body or it'll deteriorate and take your mind with it.
What TOPS means exactly in "... TOPS*|(INT8) 404 ..." ?
My nutritionist recommended to eat the three meals at the same hour. She even told me to separate them evenly thru the day, e.g., breakfast at 10, lunch at 2 (4 hours later) and dinner at 6 (again 4 hours later).

This is pretty similar to sleep advice, go to bed and wake up at the same time, every day.

I read somewhere that when you do things at the same hour every day your body prepare for the activity. I can't find the link, but might be curious to know if there's any study to back it up.
> [0] Which are not necessarily competitors, but might also not be friendly towards MS.

Until not that long ago, Microsoft considered open source licenses a "cancer". While they have changed their stance since then, I'm sure they did some major risk assessment and have safeguards in place of the kind a company like Paizo simply isn't capable of. More importantly, the core MS line of products isn't licensed with a license they don't control.

"Not necessarily competitors" makes all the difference here! This is not a minor detail, but a major one. Look at how Wizards of the Coast is framing the issue, and I quote them [0]:

> “the Open Game License was always intended to allow the community to help grow D&D and expand it creatively. It wasn’t intended to subsidize major competitors, especially now that PDF is by far the most common form of distribution.”

and

> “OGL wasn’t intended to fund major competitors and it wasn’t intended to allow people to make D&D apps, videos, or anything other than printed (or printable) materials for use while gaming. We are updating the OGL in part to make that very clear.”

[0] source: https://gizmodo.com/dnd-wizards-of-the-coast-ogl-1-1-open-ga...
There is no scenario in which rolling out AI will be safe. As soon as someone sees it can be done, they will do it, copy it, or acquire it. Acquisition by the unscrupulous is practically guaranteed because AI is practically guaranteed to be extremely profitable, and there are several unscrupulous entities with tens of billions of dollars.

The only force guiding us into the future is the economic force of the free market, and while that has worked very well in many domains, it is now showing that it can also guide us towards destruction. We already know technology is addictive, and this is the first step to taking it to the next level and taking us away from being human.

Just think about this for a moment. What are some of the most rewarding interactions you've had with people in the past year? Do you think very advanced AI (such as the next generation after ChatGPT) would have affected that?
I once bought something to be delivered by fedex in about 10 days. Two days later they sent me an email that Good News Everyone, your package will be there tomorrow! It then sat in the next state over for 7 days, and showed up at the original estimate.

They went out of their way to lie to my face about delivery time.
The most stupid things are probably that:

- the employee might not even work there, so the email not being valid anymore, the security argument looks lame

- contributions were used to be done by email, so the email address will be public anyway
Closest you can get is probably with Google T5-Flan [1].

It is not the size of the model or the text it was trained on that makes ChatGPT so performant. It is the additional human assisted training to make it respond well to instructions. Open source versions of that are just starting to see the light of day [2].

[1] https://huggingface.co/google/flan-t5-xxl

[2] https://github.com/lucidrains/PaLM-rlhf-pytorch
I'm becoming convinced that the "Microsoft is a good guy now" narrative was just a narrative, they still are the same company they always were.
Since Android was first adopted and modified by OEMs, Google has had a problem with keeping the end user experience consistent and up to date.

This is part of their solution at the app developer level, and has evolves from previous SDK layers that provided compatibility for older OS versions.

At the OS level, Android has been modularized to take parts of the OS out of OEMs' hands to enable Google to add and update features with OEMs' intervention.

OEMs can still opt out from all of this and do as they please with the Android Open Source Project (AOSP). Amazon isn't constrained by Google for their Fire OS, for example, other than by competitive imperatives. It is aimed more at Samsung and other OEMs who have modified Android to make their products distinctive in some ways that make life difficult for Google when Google wants to propagate new Android features into the installed base.

Partly due to their own early decisions (that are difficult to second guess) Google has always had a much more difficult time making Android a consistent end user experience than Apple. It has harmed Android adoption. Google has put in a lot of effort, more or less effectively, in multiple dimensions, to fix that.
Two issues here with the comparison. First Coinbase isn't just an exchange in the sense that the CME is an exchange. Coinbase is an exchange, a clearinghouse, a custodian, a broker dealer, a prime brokerage, and a user platform. When you want to trade on CME, you don't just go to CME dot com, open an account with them, and have them hold your money. There's layers of other service providers, with CME itself basically being a B2B platform that also offloads much of the banking and custody to other institutions.

Second, Coinbase has ambitions beyond just being an exchange and that's driven a lot of hires. It runs Coinbase Ventures, Coinbase Cloud, an NFT platform, develops tooling (e.g. Coinbase Wallet), and contributes to crypto protocols. A lot of the recent hiring was driven by these "other bets".
Maxima should also deserve a mention I think
The kids I see are done with Roblox and actually gone back to Minecraft.
I didn't say it was weird :(

Just was curious if it was one of the commonly encountered things (which you listed) or if there were some other limitations I wasn't aware of.
CBDCs are a digital equivalent to cash more than currency as a whole - they are something you hold yourself in a "wallet" instead of existing as bank deposits, and in fact they could end up reducing the need for current accounts by providing digital and automated payments directly, although banks will still serve other purposes and most will likely still not want to hold all their own money for security and just general change aversion.
Are we short on good words to describe the moving parts of our systems? We use so many synonyms for "thing" that then get overloaded.

Do we not just need to invent some new words with specific and useful meanings?

I'm not sure where the different lines would be drawn. Perhaps thinking about a specific program might be helpful. This can't be new thinking can it.

What naming conventions do people use that aren't obvious but are useful?
None of this is a tangible product. It’s just talk from google. The research is real, but they aren’t translating it into anything useful
> it is still a good deal

In my mind that is debatable, unless you sell it after a few years to take advantage of the market price for used ones.

There is no doubt at all that it is a durable and dependable vehicle. But you're discounting how good everything else has become, with lower operating and repair costs. My parents used to be die-hard Camry fans and just wouldn't consider anything else. I totally understand how this fandom comes about :)

The Land Cruiser moved to an 8-speed transmission 6 or 7 years ago. Lexus is chock full of reliable, highly-advanced engines and hybrid drive systems. With your Colorado elevation and joke 85 octane gas, you really need the modern tech in your cars. You'd have much improved performance and dramatically lower running costs.

Toyota is taking advantage of you.
I think that's the problem with "what I read". I think the "man on the street" would probably agree but not necessarily from hard data, just from the fact it is easy to blame inefficiency rather than structural or human problems.

"The NHS is full of bureaucracy" but it is a bureaucratic system so of course it is. People to charge hospital costs back to GPs, people to investigate trends and make sure that some GPs are not under-referring people to hospital, etc. but when I worked in the NHS many moons ago, it didn't seem particularly disproportionate to the size of the organisation. There were many more problems with people not doing their jobs properly but that was everyone, not just this nebulous "middle management" that everyone likes to cite!

Certainly, some hospitals under-perform and have issues with culture and discipline but that's the same as any business.
It's still all access control, I don't really see a difference. Yes SSH access could perhaps give you access to more things, with less fine-grained permissions, but it just depends on the replacement(s).

The overall point should be, figure out what your needed access control permissions are and then find and use tools to meet those needs. SSH might be the tool, it might not be.

Shifting from tail -f <logs> to any web UI doesn't remove the access control for logging, it just shifts it into the fancy web UI. That may or may not be better, it's just different. One could certainly argue the fancy web UI is a better UX, but that's a totally different reason for selecting that tool or not. Access Control happens either way.
It seems to me that you have bigger problems than nomenclature. Do you add comments to your code? That's because you're part of a team. When you add function it should go in a separate package. Again, you're part of a team.
Still more open than Google, Microsoft or DeepMind
for me the biggest difference is the fact that the AI can be commercialized without the need for any acknowledgement.
It could not exist without the "inspiration" as you call it.
But at the same time its throughput allows for massive gains of the person owning the model.
So i would argue robots.txt is the wrong analogy. We rather need a licensing system for content.
Apache, MIT, GNU etc for Blogentries, Pictures, Videos etc
The results described in the article talk about weight loss mostly in overweight and obese individuals. The other health benefits are improved blood sugar regulation and insulin sensitivity when eating in the morning rather than at night.

The book “How Not to Diet” by Dr. Michael Greger has a section about this, referencing similar studies.
>The AI firm is currently raising funds at a $29 billion valuation.

>The tech-industry giant is ready to pay upwards of $10 billion for the acquisition [49%]

So Microsoft is undervaluing them, and also soaking up 75% of profit until their investment is paid back? Seems like a bad deal.
postgresql can work with psycopg2 but is not the same performance as psycopg2cffi , i will integrate some databases to PyPy, and also HPy project will bring any Cython library to PyPy with basically the same performance or better.
This is nonsense. Obesity doesn’t cause health issues because of crash diets - the link between obesity and several bad health outcomes (insulin resistance/diabetes, hypertension, joint damage, to name a few) is extremely well established, and has nothing to do with diet and everything to do with the accumulation of superhuman levels of fat relative to the conditions in which humans evolved. You’re right that there is some controversy about where exactly the line for “overweight” should be, but there’s no question that when you get into the obese category (41% of Americans) it is extremely bad for your health, irrespective of what diet you’re on - humans simply aren’t designed to handle the amount of fat we now routinely accumulate.
What tech does OpenAI actually have? I thought GPT was most of the smarts and the website was just VC money to burn through cloud resources.

I'd think Google can do the same but realize the compute costs just make it too expensive.
Yes, that is what I tried to convey: The emergence of the classical reality from quantum effects. Sorry for not having been clearer.
I really hope that ChatGPT maintains a free option. I'm sure that they are burning through server processing power and cost like crazy, but it would be a shame (albeit an understandable one - no free lunches) for it to become paywalled.
As far as I know it's rare for vaccines to actually prevent transmission for viruses. This is why quite a few vets were extremely cautious about the covid vaccine. I think we got lucky that it didn't turn into a marek situation with covid. And it still could.
> Yet another "X faster than Y" where inside X all hot jobs are done by really good-tuned C or C++. Facepalm.

This is the case for basically every programming language or performant library that exists. Yet, I never see this when discussions exists about node libraries or other languages for that matter. I mean you could argue that node itself is just a thin wrapper around fast C++ libraries.

Who the fuck cares if the request goes down to some compiled C++ library? I still write my logic in Python and get this benefit anyway. This is what makes it great.
A lot of roads are runways for JAS Gripen in Sweden/EU :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-2Xde54xz4
People who thought AI would ever be "open source" and not "stolen from the labor of millions or even billions in order to replace them" are fools.
100% in your camp. Microsoft Research publishes fantastic things, windbg is amazing, and the security ecosystem is really pushing the envelope for an open platform. And as someone working in the Kernel, I enjoy it alot more than Linux. I think there's just not as many influencers working on this side, so they get alot of fake news that's not true. And nobody is there to correct the record. And it's really easy to see that, since alot of the "facts" are hidden in deep documentation, or just plain undocumented to the point you have to work with it daily to know about it.
The issue is, if you create an internal tool that allows you to order printer paper for your departments printer you might name it "PaperSupplier": https://papersupplier.acme.com. If it doesn't work, just send a mail to papersupplier@acme.com!

And it works so well, the company now also wants employees to order staples and hole punchers through it.

What do you do now?

Are you going to rename the tool, change the address, change the e-mail?

Or is your company now going to have you order your staples through "https://papersupplier.acme.com"?

We all know it's the second.

My strategy would be to go for very generic names: even though it (initially) only allows you to order paper, name it "Internal Supply Portal" or something.
WhatsApp is the one that should adopt it.
BigQuery and Postgres are both sources and destinations in Airbyte, the data can flow either way.
Every time I've been asked to do this, a simple "I don't have any social media accounts" has usually been enough.

In the old days I kept a few BS accounts around so that I could demonstrate posting company stuff, but I don't do that anymore and the accounts are long gone anyway.

At the end of the day, I won't make a social media account, and even if I did, it would never get used for anything personal. If pressed, explaining that a social media account that posts nothing but company PR would actually be detrimental to the company, should be enough to make them drop the idea. If not, there are plenty of other companies out there that will accept non-social-media types.
I sat on one and thought it would be good at 350. Everyone is different.
Names are super hard to change. They end up everywhere, service directories, URLS, DNS, infrastructure, package names…

It might take a months of work to change a name, just to fix the name of a service which is no longer accurate.

Instead most companies will say something like “that is the translation-service, it is 10 years old. It doesn’t translate anything anymore, but provides load balancing and Auth”
"Crypto winter" doesn't refer to the fact that half of the world is in the "winter season" climate currently but rather a time-period (traditionally lasting longer than a climate "season") when cryptocurrencies prices are at a downturn.
The cat thing isn't really used anymore. The cat isn't going to be in superposition. All the things that could have been in superposition will have already collapsed including the cascade of things that lead to a dead cat or an alive cat. A tree falls it makes sound. It doesn't need an conscious observer. They universe has plenty of 'observers' that are just plain matter.
Would golang interfaced with the C++ implemenation be as fast? IMO one of the nice features of Python is being able to seamlessly drop to numba, or a C++ module when you need an optimized fastpath, but the rest of your application, the bulk of it, need not.
I went through the checkout flow earlier, it was 1,995$ pre tax.
Why is it a sham? It's useful to know that x is faster. As a user of x I don't really care if the reason it's faster is it's C++ under the hood. That's really an implementation detail for me.
You mean profitable?
I sometimes feel like that, but I don't think it's anything to do with age.

First factor: having kids (or replace with any other adult stuff). It takes a lot of mental and physical energy I could just use for other things before.

Second factor: As Oscar Wilde said, "I'm not young enough to know everything". Many years ago I would have an opinion, off the hoof, about everything and everything seemed simple. Nowadays I tend to think things are rarely as simple as they appear.
“I’m getting it for the kids” doesn’t work for a $2,000+ PC that can play the latest games, and that has always kept PC gaming niche in Japan.
It's a company built on fraud and abusive tactics - from QDOS to Mosaic to ActivePlatform and Blackbird.

God help us when they get a near monopolistic position in video gaming and large-scale AI.
‘Films are vulnerable’: The battle to preserve Eastern Europe’s analogue movies (2022)
Ask HN: Going back to college part-time for CS after taking another path in life
I dropped out of CS during my freshman year due to bad grades. I have not kept up with programming ever since (except for Excel, if that counts), and tutorial loop hell with Python.

A couple of months ago I got an associate's "kinda" degree in Logistics, and got a hybrid job with a terrible commute which pays very under-average.

I struggle a lot with depression, failure, comparing myself to other people (people my age, 23, already have masters in very respected fields). Bad enough that one day it made me post this on Hacker News: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34003857

I like tech. I like talking about tech. I like optimizing processes. But it seems like I don't have a knack for programming, at least naturally. I've told by some people that I might have ADHD, though my psychologist doesn't think so. I've done some online IQ tests with scores of around 97, which is less than from what I've googled on the average IQ of a coder being 120.

I'd like to have a degree in CS by the time I'm 30. Maybe a career change would be nice (I have a terrible commute right now). But my main drive to do it is... all my life I've been an introvert, I've used Linux, I've been in the "tech-space", but I feel like my natural abilities do not commensurate to my interests.

I'd like to prove myself wrong, and I'm afraid that I'm already 23 years old, and if I wait more time to do it, I'm gonna regret it a lot. I already regret a lot.

I'd take 18 credits (3 subjects) for my initial semester. They'd cost me 800€, which is almost a month's salary for me. This is the main reason why I do not know if to try to go back to college or not. I'm afraid of making the same mistakes I did 5 years ago, though I've matured. And this time, if I fail, I'm paying out of my own pocket.

Has anyone faced a similar situation?
> You know how it is, code calls other code, and logically it forms a tree of calls and return values that often goes several layers deep. I struggle to hold more than about 2 levels of this call stack in my head. By the time I'm down in the weeds I've forgotten what I'm doing, what the purpose of the actual API call is.

I also had that difficulty when I was a younger developer. The difference now is that the novelty of learning how to program at a professional level, learning a new language, and learning a new framework, isn't there.

Instead, the novelty comes from convincing others not to make the mistakes I would have made 20 years ago; and not making those same mistakes myself.

I was in your shoes, things I'd find frustrating are:

- The original version was working fine; a rewrite just isn't justified.

- Some team members are writing poor quality code, and I just can't convince them to do it right.

- The original version has style / habits that make it fragile or hard to understand.

- The original version has behavior that's generally not understood.