skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a huge industry of ghostwriting bad children's books based on what's popular. Zoe Bee did a great video on her experience writing unlicensed Minecraft stories[0].

But the point is that these are basically paying humans to churn out low-quality cookie cutter stories in a time frame and compensation rate that hardly permits for any real creativity. This is an obvious example for something GPT can do well, but that's just automating garbage production.

Automating Terry Pratchett on the other hand is impossible without "genuine" creativity: his stories work not just because of the technicalities (a fleshed-out world with consistent rules and characters) but also because he had "something to say". He had personal and political views, experiences and opinions that influenced his work and world building.

In essence, works like OP's and the similar ones others have linked here remind me of Hayao Miyazaki's infamous reaction to machine learning driven animation[1]: it's an insult to life itself. It's a soulless approximation of the trappings of art that doesn't understand what it supposedly attempts to capture and can say nothing about it because it doesn't have an opinion on it.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1aqLLiIjgA

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EvnKYOuvWo (tech demo and reaction starts at 1:25)
Yeah I actually feel bad for the regular people who have no support.

It’s hard to feel bad for people who make 300k plus tc because I know what’s it like to have money and savings after having no money prior to getting into tech. I was living with my parents til 25 for example and when I got a tech job suddenly I could afford a car and my own place. And savings.

I’m sure google pays even more, so I feel cringe there. I don’t feel solidarity with most tech workers who barely work and goof off (personal experience) while maybe 20% actually do the heavy lifting.

Workers should actually you know.. work.
Did I miss it somewhere or you don't actually make physical copies for these? I would love that; I know the perfect people to gift that subscription to. Let them generate a few stories and maybe once per month select a book to get printed and delivered. This is a genuinely exciting product.
I have some Azure services that are not able to consistently make outbound HTTP requests to my heartbeat monitoring service so I'm getting alert after alert this morning. This is just the nudge I needed, and I'll be moving the whole thing to Linode later this afternoon.
Yes

"that contains both unencrypted data, such as website URLs, as well as fully-encrypted sensitive fields such as website usernames and passwords, secure notes, and form-filled data."

https://blog.lastpass.com/2022/12/notice-of-recent-security-...
Being able to walk for 3-5km, maybe with a little incline, play with your kids, do a few chores, is important. A 25-30 minute jog every now and then or 10-15 minutes of light cardio/HIIT mixup can help with this, no need to go full endurance.

Furthermore a more proper fitness regime will fix your posture and improve your quality of life immensely. Things like a flight of stairs, getting in and out of the car, carrying a couple bags of groceries, or just getting up from the floor will become much easier. Again, not going into hours of training, but to 15-30 minutes a few times per week. Your kids can watch. :)

I don't challenge the research results. Just saying that there are more upsides than just cardiometabolic health, as someone who has seen this first-hand, going from couch potato to a little more active lifestyle.
> Wirth was perhaps too ascetic

Maybe too ascetic in terms of getting the most adopters, but a wonderful reminder to designers of development tools that most designs are probably far more complex than they need to be, even when optimizing for non-simplicity criteria.

So not a wasted effort!
That’s not how courts have ever interpreted things and this isn’t just my opinion.

One of us is running into a brick wall in this conversation and that brick wall is “has read related case and statutory law”.

What I’ve been doing is pretending we’re having an objective conversation about copyright so logically I’m treating this closer to a mock trial. I’m not actually sure what you’re doing but I would recommend referencing, you know, the extensive evidence you have to support claims of what is or isn’t infringing.
300+ is still an enormous team.
The key point that needs to be related to the public is that the reactor is turned off while in Earth's atmosphere, and a reactor poses very little danger when it's turned off.
No-one is going to tell you the truth, but it's because the US so successfully turned workers against unions, that's why.
>People get hungry after exercise and automatically eat more to compensate for the spent calories.

This isn't universally true.

Exercise significantly decreases my appetite for about 3 hours post exercise. And for me, it's not just a barely noticeable decrease - it's an extremely noticeable long-lasting appetite decrease where I'll often end up skipping meals.

Do a quick google search for "exercise decrease appetite" for supporting evidence.
That’s like telling me to remove the front door of my house rather than letting me have a key to unlock it.
The CSS at w3.org is gone
"Defence in depth" is a term with obvious military origins.

You have a relatively thin front-line of defence, with orders to fall back if they are in danger of being overrun. Then you have a very strong second line, manned with assault troops. As the first line falls back, the second line counterattacks.

This strategy was developed by the Germans in WWII, and adopted by the Russians.

I disapprove of it's use in computer security. There, it means something different; it means basically having multiple lines of defence, without any notion of counterattack.
Man conflates "being fired with cause" and "performance review" with "layoffs".
All advances in creative tooling are automating creativity. What are you on about? Look at photoshop color selector automates mixing paint, digital filters for audio automate analog mixers. This attitude towards AI creative tools is gatekeeping.
Show stopper for me, but can I just say what a fantastic product and the article introducing it kept me hooked to the end!
Unpredictability. ChatGPT writes stories like children do. Very wordy and boring. Then this happened then that happened.

Interesting stories have a set up and when you think you know what's going on, they switch, otherwise it's not a story, just narration.

The trick is those bait and switch differ culturally, depending on language of the reader, even the tastes of the reader, otherwise you don't get that "I was NOT expecting that" joy.
Might be wrong, but the left turn I believe you’re referring to happened when the plane left its planned flight path, at which point it descended to 23,000 feet and flew over land.
For me personally I would put it a few orders of magnitude of a surprise above satoshi being alive.
Kotlin Refactoring: Tips from Practice
Google plans to demo a version of its search engine with AI chatbot
I can totally see why. It's a lot of work maintaining these sorts of features, and sometimes they're made irrelevant in one way or another by some other feature.

There's also a good reason not to document them too well, since documenting them is a weak promise that they'll stay around and keep working the same.
I've pondered going all SCSI and using a SCSI emulator... Summer project perhaps :)
>In conclusion, if you're out of shape, you can improve a limited number of fitness measures just as much doing 3x8 minutes of higher intensity exercise as much 3×45m less intense exercise over 12 weeks

This seems like a pretty negative reading. How about:

Sedentary people (who have the most issues and highest healthcare costs), can see significant improvements in health by exercising for a fraction of time normally recommended.

Sounds like wins all around.
Please don't shift the goal posts, the argument I was responding to said that continuing to smoke is merely a choice. I'm not arguing that smoking should be allowed on submarines or anything of the sort, just dispelling this one specific falsehood that attempts to paint addicts as lazy or otherwise inferior just because they can't wake up one day and quit their addictive behavior.
I’ve also wrote a comment on the context of how these ugly programs got adopted on [0].

To quote myself…

> Everybody knows that the systems are absurd. This is basically a countrywide legacy that we’re figuring our way out for ~30yrs.

> When the idea was first proposed, it was when IE didn’t have a yes/no dialog to ask whether to load native code or not.

> When IE first added ActiveX confirmation dialogs, banks instructed customers to press yes. When IE deprecated ActiveX, banks didn’t remove their 20-yr old code straight away; people were advised to turn on ActiveX support from advanced settings (they added step-by-step instructions to help people). When MS finally ripped out ActiveX, banks copied their ActiveX components into a separate executable that runs a localhost server.

I’m sure that if it wasn’t iPhones, South Korea would have been locked into this legacy for a lot longer. (In fact, we once had versions of these programs for Android as well! iOS didn’t allow this (thankfully).)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34313137
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Yeah, I'm currently missing it very much running .NET on AWS. It's insane how much it gives you for "free". CloudWatch feels like weak tea in comparison.
Crossfit is bad for most people for other reasons as well. For example, look at how they do pull-ups [1]. It's basically a fitness meme at this point - they use form that doesn't encourage general strength, just swinging around and putting pressure on the arm/shoulder joints on the way down, for the sake of increasing competition rep numbers. This seems utterly pointless unless you really care about winning Crossfit competitions [2].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PWvepZMZ7E

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEe-loVKOOM
They have been working on Fuscia forever and no signs of shipping, one of many projects that seem to be designed to entertain very expensive talent to keep them busy.

Part of me wonders if many of these projects really only exist to remove potential competitors from the market.

Anytime some engineer seems to be capable of building an Android opportunity; hire them on a make work project to keep them busy which will never Be launched, and they know it will never be launched.

Terrible for the industry . If that’s what happening it’s a form of cancer, preventing the best people not only from advancing themselves and taking risks in the real world but also consumers.
Oh a plug-in, ha, for some reason I read the title and thought this was a 'just to show I can' type implementation of all those things actually in Excel, 'Doom in Excel' sort of thing.

This seems far more useful!
What kind of projects do you want to be able to do with it? Not just for learning, but eventually I mean. Which field, if any?
The Future of Thunderbird – Modernizing an Ancient Application
The encrypted phone services mentioned in that tweet have been breached by the police and thousands of arrests have been made.

In the case of encrypted phones the current laws are working.
Right, but the value in "site:reddit.com" is the human nature of the content: we trust that a human wrote the Reddit comment in good faith, and we trust that it was upvoted by people who are knowledgeable in that area of expertise. I fear we are losing that important element with ChatGPT; or worse, it will create a feedback loop where Reddit comments are "enhanced" with ChatGPT snippets and fed back into the system, and we're back at square one trying to find a way to cut through the noise.
Is there a technical blocker on macOS Excel side that prevents you from implementing it, or is it just a matter of priorities?
`pass` is lovely, but don't you need your passwords on your phone when you're out-and-about?
> (Java is the big one)

Fuchsia is orthogonal to Java. They could switch the runtime to anything they wanted without going down to the OS if that was the priority.
I am not American. I never read one of two words before. yes, guess I think this in my whole life...
>>WFH will be a privilege that one would have to reduce their salary for in the medium to long term.

I don't think that will come to pass... I've been 100% remote for 20 years, and it gets easier/more socially acceptable every year.
What is the best fruit? The best song? I couldn't objectively tell you.

Which are commonly introduced to beginners? I'd say JavaScript and Python. For JavaScript, JavaScript.info [0] seems to be a favorite. For python, I believe that title goes to "Automate the Boring stuff" [1]. I think FreeCodeCamp [2] has courses on both. Take what I say with a grain of salt though, I haven't been a beginner for a decade and I'm just basing this off of other recommendations I've seen given.

[0] https://javascript.info/

[1] https://automatetheboringstuff.com/

[2] https://www.freecodecamp.org/
Here's a great example, no need for a custom-made refine and Map component document because with refine's headless approach, you can use Map components as you please.

https://github.com/refinedev/refine/blob/next/examples/finef...
Well there is a condition called vesicoureteral reflux where pee from the bladder flows back to the kidneys (it should not) and that could be interpreted as IPinside...
this looks interesting, but no mention of price, which makes me think its expensive...
It's a win _if_ the barrier to getting sedentary people to improve their health through fitness is time cost and not all of the other costs associated with habit formation. My guess is for most sedentary people the biggest thing is that they manage to talk themselves out of doing anything, or once they start, talk themselves into allowing cheating/skipping rather than drilling in the habit.

(Not that this is bad news regardless, it's good to have tools in the toolbox and some people might prefer lower time higher intensity stuff, but I do think the result is pretty limited)
Security is only partly about the threat model. The other part is the failure mode. If your failure mode is “our company goes out of business if our code ever leaks out” then you’re probably too heavily invested in security by obscurity.
If you look around on Amazon a bit for books, you'll find a lot of low quality, high volume, and highly formulaic stuff aimed at different types of readers. Basically authors are churning out masses of stories with relatively simple, predictable plots with a lot of action/sex/intrigue/whatever geared to readers that gobble that stuff up as fast as it can be produced.

With AI you can improve the quality of the writing, tweak the style of delivery, add detail to story lines, and deliver stories faster.
1, Sure. The most worrying part would be to have other people's plane tickets being added into my calendar without me asking for it.

2, I'm not sure there is a technical reason, maybe just people with similar names.
I hate the fact that "developer relations" is so cargo culted that someone calls it DevRel unironically now.
I love my job because I’ve taken projects at work from git init to becoming full blown products that make hundreds of millions of dollars a year.

From emptiness to something.

It truly feels divine, like I am a creator. It’s a wonderful experience.

Any job where you build things is a job I would enjoy. To take something from nothing to something that people love and tell you is making their (work) life better is quite humbling.
>Here’s a video made by Eliud Kipchoge‘s athletics team that talks about the benefit of long runs:

Is there any science here, or just anecdata from elite athletes, who are often terrible judges of their talent? It's really hard to judge this stuff.
Duplicate
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34516952
came for the nethack reference but was not disappointed
True, but giving us a key might jeopardize future revenue streams where we have to pay for the privilege of developing software on Apple platforms. You already get a degraded developer experience for iOS if you don't bribe Apple with a Developer Program subscription.
Not just that, this drip feed of information makes formulating a proper response very difficult.

If, for example, you deleted your account after the first report in August (a rational decision), you have no way of checking what iterations setting you had, now that people are talking about it.

It's also unclear whether you will receive any data breach notifications detailing the exact impact to your data, since your account is now deleted - do they keep a history for "post-fact" situations like this?

And of course, if you didn't keep a backup of your passwords before deleting your account, you'd have to reset everything to be sure.

Terrible, awful company with no respect for their users.
I use iCloud keychain - has there been any reason to suspect this is an idiotic move, especially when coupled with twofactor auth on important sites?

Really important stuff is of course handled in other ways..
This is pretty mad.
A related thing I’ve been wondering about — I have thousands of bookmarks and saved PDFs etc and I would love to have a way to scrape all the content from the URLs and PDFs and then ask questions and get answers along with links to relevant docs. Now that would be a killer app.

EDIT — answered my own question: there is indeed an OpenAI Embeddings API :

https://beta.openai.com/docs/guides/embeddings

That plus a vector similarity engine (FAISS for example) is the key to these types of apps (Thanks to Simon Willison’s blog, which he pointed to elsewhere in this thread)
This is a good place to remind tech workers that they should not get comfy in big tech.

Older workers are a massive liability. They will try to get rid of you and they will prefer foreign replacements on the younger side.

They will also claim that they need to increase diversity while doing it.

Everyone is celebrating the fact that most big tech companies are no longer run by Americans. It’s because the system is designed to discriminate against you and get rid of you.

My personal theory is highly liberal tech workers are going to turn into the new “Dey Terk Ur Jerbs” flyover country citizens they spent the last 20 years laughing at.

“Look at the racist losers who hate immigrants! What morons voting for repuvlicans.”

Look in the mirror at 45, it’s you now. And watch how you get laughed at next.
The problem is that they are sending gzipped css without specifying Content-Encoding in the response headers.
I feel this at my current job. I’m currently tearing down a “well abstracted” api and instead exposing the underlying tables more directly because no one knows how it works and adding new features to it is a PITA. At a glance it’s a lovely api but the implementation is so full of neat magic and layer upon layer of abstractions that it’s impossible to follow what it’s actually doing.

This is no fault of the original authors, they are great devs and tried their best but even they now recognize that it’s not working out.

I still think you should write good abstractions for any large project, the thing is that they are very difficult to get right from the start. And as OP says, it’s easy to get lost in elegance-creating busy work, especially if you enjoy it.

I’m terrible at it so I always build things as barebones as I can get away with. If I try to abstract it there’s usually been a new usecase 6 months down the line that completely breaks the abstraction anyway.
Public companies have an incentive to focus on the short term (quarterly reports). This really makes a difference in management behavior. Bill Clinton and Warren Buffett have both talked about this, and presented regulatory approaches to fixing it, but here we are.
Just got mine in the mail a few weeks ago but only after ordering it last year. I don’t really game anymore so it just collects dust. It is beautiful though.
As long as there is a shortage of talent, companies will do what it takes to attract them. If company A can't get people, because everyone is going to company B for WFH benefits, company A will offer it too.

And there is still a shortage of people... The recent layoffs will result in resources moving around, not a severe shortage of positions.
What idiot keeps all their money in a bank instead of securing it themselves?

Sometimes it’s preferable to pay the professionals, especially if you’re not an expert. I’ve recommended LastPass to my grandparents for years because it’s better than using their grandkids’ names as passwords everywhere.
I also thought this was going to be an article about implementing a C# compiler in excel! This on the other hand seems like a very neat product.
It really is logically two streams indeed. In an alternative universe…
Windows Terminal Preview 1.17 Release
What is the outcome of consuming AI work?
And what is your solution? Keep paying people until company goes under? I'm not saying boss is competent, but these posts where worker whines at boss and offers no solution is just stupid. Keep paying dead weight employees, make other useful employees work to make up for the incompetent ones' incompetence and create more problems?

There's never a solution in these whiny posts except "omg i found the bad guy and it's this evil boss" - well find the solution too then, how do we move from keeping everyone employed and company afloat.

But no, that part we won't read about. We'll close our eyes to Hanlon's razor and attribute to malice what should be attributed to stupidity and incompetence.
My point is if you are the user/owner of a device capable of killing (huge car, cigarettes) there’s a big responsibility on you to prevent harm on others.

There’s always a grey area, but generally I’d say in a public space it’s the smoker who should actively move to avoid non-smokers.
The economy, consumer confidence and investor mood changed. The way you make investors richer changes depending on inflation.
I once ordered something online from an EU country. I entered my phone number (from another EU country) in the international format (+xx xxxxxxxxx).

The website silently mangled my phone number into a local number.

I had to e-mail them and tell them "hey, this is not actually my phone number, just some number from your own country that may or may not exist."
I kinda like the layoffs of late. We are incredibly spoiled - anyone in IT born past 1985 barely knows what making less money than the previous year is. It will trim the fat, push away people that are in the industry because of the money.

I think it will be ok.
Thats four whys.
> Android or IOS smartphones

Not only that, but typically also their device ID features. So, for example, your banking app won't work on LineageOS with some free re-implementations of GApps.

https://wiki.lineageos.org/gapps

https://www.reddit.com/r/degoogle/comments/h06x5i/bank_app_w...

For me, mandating a mobile app is a deal breaker.
Doesn't seem so, classics will probably not have dedicated chapters for showing how to control motors with Arduino and such. I think it is nice to know the differences between different motors, but I would rather read an article about this instead of buying a book.
What does creatine have to do with it? If anything, creatine seems to reduce the risk, by reducing the amount of muscle damage:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5371628/#:~:tex....

"Overall, the available data strongly suggest that creatine supplementation prior to an endurance exercise challenge reduces muscle damage and inflammation in athletes, both of which would predict a lower risk of rhabdomyolysis, not a higher risk."
Can sometimes be scaling/monitoring loops. i.e. cluster comes up, provides some limited service, gets overloaded and drops below required performance metric, gets killed by monitoring/scaling system, repeat...