skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I dont understand why some people online want to take every opportunity to defend class traitors.
Now we just need to replace the user with ChatGPT also
Running on Windows/Linux/Android fundamentally does not matter. Market share does.
Yes, and apparently it's impossible to post the status link on HN anymore. If you post it directly, you get an 11 month old thread about slack being down. If you post it with an edit to make the URL unique, you get a "dead link" error.

I particularly like:
* Threads, direct messages, and channels are currently not loading

.... what else do I use slack for?

I am also amused that they have "100%" uptime for this quarter, and all services report green, while my Slack won't load at all.
i love you guys
TeXShop[1] has been my editor of choice for years.

1. https://pages.uoregon.edu/koch/texshop/
Web Game Dev Newsletter – Issue 006
Every country has its flaws.
A good trick is to ask it to translate the request into commands of your choosing. Like ask it to generate python code to make the calculation for example. Another thing that works well is to turn it into a command extraction problem, give it examples of the kinds of commands you want, and build an interpreter for those commands.

I agree, we’re not far from that, or we’re there now.
well, they knew most user would addicted to it (and would likely smoke while using them), so they chose to protect their hardware by providing a safe place to dump the ashes
This is pretty directly relevant to the article.
Looking forward to seeing Tyler1's reaction.
> there should be a path for machines acquired legitimately to be unlocked.

There is exactly that pathway. If you have the consent of the original owner, which I think is an important and required quality of "acquired legitimately", you can have the original owner remove the device from their Apple account remotely, or to wipe the device and reset it while logged in prior to physically handing it over to you.

If neither of these things have happened, on what basis do you believe the complaintant has "acquired legitimately"? Is consent of the original owner not important in your view?
If you are in favor of Chrome on iOS, then you are in favor of a Chrome monopoly, or you don't understand how browser monopolies work. Or maybe you weren't around during the browser wars (a lot of < 30s on HN).
Can also get a little weird in interviews.
Yes, but it still seems disproportionate to the losses those going through layoffs must suffer. Especially when it was shareholder agitation that led to the overhiring policies that put those workers in that position.
Having played with several PWAs on Android and Windows where support is better, I’m not sure that they’d be any more popular even if Safari filled those feature holes. The average PWA experience sits somewhere between underwhelming and uncompelling, primarily because SPAs in general are anything but consistently good. For PWAs to not be bad, SPAs need to stop being bad first.
> I meant it more like “but you’re not in prison, because you’re distinct from those who are”.

This is a wretched assumption that dehumanizes everyone in prison by implying that they are a part of some lesser subspecies that does not deserve humane treatment.
I thought about that too and they are all not watertight. There are Swellpros that are, but they are not hobby drones. And their specs are no match to current hobby drones.
I thought your mental faculties peak in their abilities in your 40's?

I don't have a specific reference but if you google it, you should find what I mean.
A human powered backend would be better for certain systems where the data source isn’t digitized. All you do is make an API call, then a human goes to look up the data, comes back, writes the response according to a spec, and delivers it back to you.
I have been exploring this realm of SIEM, XDR, NDR etc. Sure, all proprietary SIEMs are expensive. But what is not clear is how you are going to price it. Security teams have dedicated budget. If you are coming cheaper than them, they you are destroying your TAM because I know customer would not mind paying those license fees. OSS GTM might work but might against your TAM.
Double spaces after a period is a holdout from the typewriter era, designed to improve legibility with monospaced fonts.
Actually it's the other way around.

Those pushing the concept of "AI-Free" have yet to nail down what amounts and types of automation may be used in the production of a thing before it can no longer be labeled "AI-Free".

On the other hand, "Organic" is very well defined at this point. In the US there is a whole legal framework around labeling foods, drugs, and cosmetics.

https://www.fda.gov/food/food-labeling-nutrition/organic-foo...

https://www.ams.usda.gov/about-ams/programs-offices/national...

There is even a training and accreditation system in place for qualifying people as certifiers of organic practices as well as an application and review process for farms and manufacturers to be certified to use the label.

https://www.ams.usda.gov/services/organic-certification/beco...
Startup founders are certainly a minority of HN visitors.
You may enjoy this and it's followups: https://aphyr.com/posts/340-reversing-the-technical-intervie...
You can run dyndns yourself if your dns provider has an API (e.g. cloudflare). Mine is a ~10 line bash script.

Basic idea is `curr_ip=$(curl ifconfig.me | grep smth)`, then `curl -X POST https://your_dns_provider?dn=vpn.jtode.com&new_ip=$curr_ip`.

Run it as a cron, on a schedule that's kind to your IP identification service and kind to your personal SLAs around uptime (mine's set to every 5 minutes).

Verizon changes my home IP every couple weeks, by my latest log check. No need to pay for dynamic dns.

Self-hosting is a long journey of solving such trivial problems. But it's pretty rewarding when it all fits together. :) Good luck!

I have a setup like the one you desire. Some of my services are port-forwarded to the public internet (i.e. the ones with a login screen) behind a local nginx instance. Others are only available on a "local" network, i.e. at home or via a VPN tunnel advertised at secret-vpn.{}.tld.
Google's in California, so it doesn't have non-competes like Microsoft or NY hedge funds. The question for Google isn't "what are they worth to us," it's "what is it worth to keep them from going to Microsoft."
The world changes and so do procedures.
Apple Patches WebKit Code Execution in iPhones, MacBooks
There are some in prison that screwed up and want to change.

Many in prison would slit a throat, scam, mug, assault, rape etc without any kind of remorse. These people are not like you and I.

Some of these do some variation of “find Jesus” and try and change.
Many do not. Or they take decades to change ways.

At Some point dangerous people need to be locked away.

Fear of punishment is the only thing that keeps a small percentage of the population from doing these things on a regular basis.
Think how people act in real life vs being Anonymous online.
Right, but you're not in prison either making you distinct from those that are. You're painting with a very large brush assuming that the only possessions a prisoner might have are contraband. If you think they don't have pictures of family or notes/letters/drawings from kids, you'd be sorely mistaken.
What's wrong with pornography?
also posted dozens of times in various forms
I think it does not make sense to write them down as comments or in the pull request or anywhere else. It makes sense to talk about them during review process where reviewer might have different opinion - or might think the other option is better because reviewer does not know about the issue.
You're making the same mistake as I sometimes do, thinking in terms of "object shape" or "functionality". Here, I use "subset" in a sense of "all values that belong to Sub also belong to Super", in line with a set-theoretic view of types in the post. Also see subsets on wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subset

Try this one: A is subset of B iff all the values that belong to A also belong to B. In your example (and in real life), every dog is an animal, so dogs are a subset of animals.
> carefully thought-out code

Let’s be honest, it’s not.
"I'm a Software Developer at MindGeek, a prestigious global industry-leading information technology firm."
My own personal method is to assume anything News is actually just marketing trying to fight for my attention. I still scan through the corporate marketing sites to see if there is anything interesting and if sites in multiple countries can vouch for their story. None of them appear to have investigative journalists any more, just reporters on the ground at times.

There is also a lot missing from the news. For example, there is talk of a Russian destroyer 24 miles off the coast of Hawaii and another one 24+ miles off the U.S. Eastern seaboard right now and I can not find a single news story about it, just some youtubers that are into tracking vessels on marinetraffic.com but I can not figure out how they are identifying military vessels. I think that would be interesting but the corporate news sites are silent so maybe it's all fiction and fear porn to get clicks which the corporate media are often guilty of as well. Either way there have been a myriad of occasions where some random youtuber finds something and the news does not pick it up for a week.

That's another thing. There are many Youtubers that have 10x more viewers than the corporate media sites. But most of them just add commentary and do not have investigative journalists. Where did all the investigative journalists go?
The main problem is that, if you don't know enough details about the domain, *you can never be sure that the response is correct or not*.

So, if you are using it as a “personal assistant” and “supervise it” is a big (very big) deal since it's going to save a lot of time.

There are also some unknowns related to the cost/time needed to train and run the infrastructure behind it that could change a lot of things.
Transfr both of us a fivr and we'll badgr and pestr him in tandm!
Wow, I wonder how many "bytes of state" ChatGPT must have internally to be able to do that transform. Or does it guess from certain sequences and just writes something plausible?

It would be interesting to test if it can solve "memory hard" problems, like repeated obfuscation or hashing, that would require large internal state. Then you could map how large the equivalent memory would be.
Not PD, but we've had good results otherwise with an Orancgeck i10. However probably what you're getting at is that the total power output of these devices is quite limited, the i10 only gives 60W in total, each port can do 12W but it will have to limit some if everything tries to draw at once.
Maybe I'm dense (or just American) but what is the connection between 'too much TV' and 'soda'?
Because you are a developer. Replace yourself with a product manager, and maybe you will start seeing things differently.
I think in the long run LLMs will enable the real-deal NoCode solutions. You would probably need to write an essay to get it right, but you will just need to know a human language understood by the LLM and the business domain.
Turd.ly
Harry Frankfurt (a philosopher) wrote a fascinating essay back in 2005 "On Bullshit" that defined Bullshit as different from a Lie. A lie knows its a lie, and knows that there is a truth out there, and that fundamentally, truth matters. Bullshit, on the other hand, does not care about the truth, is orthogonal to the truth.

At present, GPT3 and the rest of the language models generate bullshit: they have no understanding or care of whether the words they put together are true or not. We will need to see if future work can overcome that problem.
They’re not a troll and this is an increasingly commonly held take. Chill.
It's like you have never been in a coffee shop. A coffee shop needs good vibes, a good coffee supplier, and a cash register. It doesn't even need an espresso machine. The best coffee shop in Oslo only uses aeropress. But it also needs baristas who like coffee and appreciate the chemistry of it.

You seem to have created the anti-human coffee shop.

You don't need my number to sell me coffee. Asking for it is an invasion of my privacy. If you insist on an awards program of some kind, it already exists in it's ultimate form, the stamp card.

Customers should not be tasked with evaluating employees. They have no expertise in the matter.

Employees should not have wages effectively stolen from them under the auspices that "good work is rewarded". You know how you reward good work? Raises, profit sharing, more responsibility, benefits programs, you know typical things employers do for employees in a worker centered environment.

All this also assumes anyone uses these systems as intended. I doubt customers will select ratings in any meaningful way and you will have no way to ground truth if they do or not. Nobody will ever care enough to sit through customer interviews to evaluate whether your one question survey is valid or not. Certainly not for a cup of coffee.
No one on HN understands reality. The name of the site should be False Consciousness.
Yes, I think you basically have to use a DirectX swap chain to get vsync presentation.
Internal Comms for Executives
I maintain that React is the single worst thing to happen to front end development. Certainly for the poor end user.
I dont think so. The "do other places in code use the same tactic" especially not. This is something ideal reviewer would check, consistency is important. But it does not make sense to write it anywhere.
Ok, lets try to extrapolate the main points:

just, lets be sloppy

less care to details

less attention to anything

JUST CHURN OUT THE CODE ALLREADY

yeah, THIS ^^^ resonates the same
The web is the only credibly neutral platform humanity has. If you get rid of the web then all software that humans interact with will be controlled by one of a small handful of giant corporations which I think I can speak for nearly everyone here would be a Very Bad Thing.

No more porn. No more innovative experiments. No more kids making dumb little things to learn programming. No more freedom to set your own app policies.

The web is the only platform keeping user and dev freedom alive and it's imperative that hackers like us fight for it.
In 2 billion years, the 2200 km outer core will completely solidify, with the magnetic dynamo halting sometime before then. The solid core is growing/solidifying a millimeter a year.

With no magnetic field there will be more harsh radiation at the surface. Plus the solar wind may erode away the atmosphere as has on field-less Mars.
You have an incredibly dim and pessimistic view of researchers and scientists. They could all easily double or triple their salaries by moving to standard industry but decide to work in Academia or Research Labs. These people on average predict AGI within ~30 years with more than 50% probability. Not sure how that prediction benefits their salary in any meaningful way.

If Astronomers were predicting a mass-extinction level asteroid impact for the year 2050 with 50% probability I doubt you would be so cavalier.
For me, why I have all my servers in colocation running FreeBSD. Is for the reason that it's not Linux.

Even though I am Linux Engineer by job title, I've lost the sticky from the adhestive that Linux used to give me. It feels now more of a pressured big-corp grab then an OS that made game-changing moves. It's made it's comfort zone.

I am cynical and that when one thing gets popular I tend to shift. So when FreeBSD becomes the next glory, I'll probably jump to Solaris or something; that and bHyve.

That hypervisor has never let me down. With ZFS Snapshots and bHyve writing directy zvols, is just too tasty to turn down.
I was replying at that level to echo the other comments. It's reacting to the "they merely chose to do so" part. It might not be the best parent to reply to, but it's what spawned a whole thread I wanted to sibling.
Apparently TikTok confirmed the "heated" viral button: https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/20/23564242/tiktok-heating-v...
I doubt it uses reveal.js under the hood, but, yeah I think they can effectively do all the same stuff! I just like it because I tried reveal.js (disclaimer, a while ago) and found it kinda fiddly whereas the macOS-native UI of deckset was nicer to use
I believe the data gets trained by human rankers, and it should therefore regress to their mean. That said, if they train it to seek approval, I suppose we could teach it like any other student.
Agreed. While I read javadoc for the core SDK and other common libraries, it's very rare that I need to read it for my own (or company's) repositories. Instead, I'm just reading the source code and the javadoc embedded in each source file.

HTML inside of javadoc is very awkward. I hardly ever use it unless I know I'm going to be generating javadoc for a published library. Instead, I'm just already putting markdown-like formatting in the comments already.
Yes it is. Result are way off in Greek though. Much higher % of getting a totally wrong answer compared to English.
I'd highly recommend https://i.reddit.com for mobile. Significantly better experience for me.
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My personal excitement about language models is based on what they can do today.

I'm a big believer in the "capability overhang" idea, which is that the existing language models still have a huge array of capabilities that we haven't discovered yet.

That theory seems to be proved correct on a constant basis. Even the classic "let's think about this step by step" paper came out less than a year ago: https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.11916 - May 2022.
I understand the first part of the claim - many people indeed do consider porn immoral, for whatever personal reasons they have. I may disagree with them, but your statement is still valid, and more power to them as long as they keep it to themselves.

I do not understand the second part of the claim, that "most porn has connection to sex trafficking". This seems a fairly strong statement (there's a huge amount of porn, so "Most" is gonna be a very large number), and have never seen anything remotely accurate supporting it (occasional allusions from those who consider porn immoral, but with no meaningful statistical significance). Not to say there isn't a considerable Venn diagram, and that Venn diagram should be reduced through strong law enforcement, but "most" seems wildly inaccurate.
> I'm wondering if there's anything I can contribute to that field as someone with general programming capabilities.

Oh there Absolutely is!

In general, there are four really high impact areas for computer folks - automation of lab equipment allows for scaling the number of experiments and the data that can be gathered by orders of magnitude; data science and engineering to sort, catalog, and investigate that data; building and scaling scientific computing systems to run analysis repeatably at scale; and even standard application building to manage and improve the overall process of tracking experiments and coordinating between groups.

The scientists and bioinformatics folks are very good at what they do, but someone who really understands how to build, manage, and scale software systems is an enormous force multiplier. If you're interested in the field, I really strongly recommend it.
Helicopters -- hold on -- and light general aviation are our best extant examples of flying cars. Here's what we should learn from them:

- at current traffic levels, accidents are rare

- but fatality rates are high (20% of helicopter accidents)

- the commercial carriers have much better accident statistics than general aviation

- commuter and on-demand flights are much worse than commercial scheduled flights

- rather more than half of all accidents have a root incident near an airport - taxi-ing, departure, initial climb, approach, landing.

My conclusion is that mass adoption of flying cars (as in, millions of people piloting small aircraft with varying levels of maintenance, safety inspections, training, and traffic control) would be a terrifyingly foreseeable disaster.

On the other hand, I hold out real hope for fully autonomous vehicles being potentially safer than a distracted teenager on the road.
Why do you guys think such things happen ?
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Is AI the solution to search's problem?
Using OpenAI to research and learn faster online
The average take here is prob to laugh at this, which is fine - but maybe consider, for a moment, there is something to this.
Could langchain do that?
The thing isn't that you don't have a number of problematic employees, as you correctly pointed out you most likely have them in any sufficiently large organization. The problem is that you can't find a static number for them.

It's quite easy to see this, actually. If you let the bottom 5% go, stack ranking now dictates that you still have 5% problematic people. Repeat this cycle a few times and people previously considered perfectly average are now problematic. This obviously doesn't make any sense.

In reality, some companies might be super lean and only have 1% bad performers (as in negative business value), while some companies might be 90% overhead. For some companies the bad employees might be spread over all teams, while in others some teams are incredibly efficient and others are completely worthless. Coming in with a 5% brute-force hammer just doesn't make much sense in general and comes with all the morale and infighting drawbacks mentioned sufficiently in this discussion.
> what if Apple allowed Firefox with its free extension model - what argument would you come up then? One can easily use ublock origin with Firefox, a thing Apple fears quite a bit

It can’t be that afraid, because you can use the Firefox version of uBlock Origin in the WebKit-based iOS browser Orion[0] right now.

[0]: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/orion-browser-by-kagi/id148449...
I don’t come to the same conclusions you do.

I’m ok with things being useless if they are stolen.

That has nothing to do with repair status.

If something is stolen, I think it’s fine for it to be a brick.

If you find my old laptop when I’m gone, I’m fine for it to be a brick.

If I want to sell it, I can unlock it.
I was kind of thinking about this.

Let's hypothetically assume we have some sort of AGI and we can ask it to write programs and text and nothing else.

Is there anyone on this planet who would think that they don't need to look at the generated code? I mean imagine a manager simply feeding in tickets and getting a finished application out without ever knowing how it was produced.

The application is business critical and any kind of mistake could ruin his business which puts the manager at complete mercy of the AI.

Now you might say that this happens with humans as well but when humans cause problems we let other humans review and test their code.

AI causes problems? Let's add more humans. Wait a minute...
I use Calibri in my LaTeX resume for this reason.
walking the engineering lattice allows for way more vector intersection considerations.
The article is about prison mail. It has nothing to do with police officers and does not mention the "government monopoly on violence."
I decided to test future dates on my VAX, running NetBSD, of course, after replacing the battery-backed Dallas DS1287:

https://twitter.com/AnachronistJohn/status/12198307902357954...

Hopefully people will fix 32 bit Linux soon. Band-aids are always less painful to remove than waiting until it's too late.
I'm not sure it's the best policy, but I tend to represent every counter, of anything as usize. It doesn't matter if it's a memory map.

I imagine that applications with less addressing space also have less of every other resource, and can count less of everything.
How so? The article is about prison mail. It doesn't even mention police officers and police officers have nothing to do with prison mail.