skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Montessori educational method establishes a "positioning schema" which very much is used to make tidying an engaging play activity.
I agree. I didn't understand the big deal that it passed a google interview either. IMO, that said more about the uselessness of the interview than the 'AI'.

Co-pilot has been semi-useful. It's faster than search SO, but like you said, I still have to review all the code and it's often wrong in subtle ways.
This really drives home how "design by committee" often ends with awful results.
Elvish: Multiplatform shell with clojure-like programming language written in Go
Is there a threshold to get these kinds of questions? I've never had to explain where I got a ratty old $20 bill from. I'm also not trying to replace $4,000 in old bills either.
Because they are all ill defined in the manner they are used in common language. Hell, we have trouble describing what they are, especially in a scientific fact based setting.

Before this point in history we accepted 'I am that I am' because there wasn't any challenger to the title. Now that we are putting this to question we realize our definitions may not work well.
Tourist 2 weeks into 6-month 2k-mile journey across Australia on child's scooter
This just wouldn’t work in the US. The regulations vary greatly from state to state and even city to city. Choosing to employ a person in a state for the first time can be a very costly decision (in both time and $$$) for a small business. The second, third, fourth, etc. employees are marginally less expensive but “breaking the seal” and hiring that first employee in a new state isn’t something that every business takes lightly.
Cost of Labor vs Cost of Living.

Sounds like your interview at companies who employ the former, not later.

https://www.zenefits.com/workest/cost-of-living-vs-cost-of-l...
I meant to say that it’s common, and very amusing, to see top comments on HN coming in with, to paraphrase, “I work on the thing you’re all commenting on, and you’re very wrong.” I say amusing but it’s fairly fucking sad to see how often that happens. I work in tech hands-on across many domains and the shit that people spew here with apparently credible tones behind the words is worse than any mistake ChatGPT has made so far. If I can’t trust this place with tech, what the hell can I trust it with? Nothing personnel dang you can’t really control the misinformation at this scale.

As for what subreddits are worthwhile - I don’t follow any of them religiously, usually the good stuff is cross posted and even HN has its fair share of good Reddit links much to their chagrin lol. You can often start at the top of the list of popular subreddits as the good stuff is also often cross posted with attribution to the original subreddit. So pick what you’re into and go down the rabbit hole.
I don't wholly disagree with you, but do think it's probably several things based on things I've seen (my n=1 experience is no more important than yours). I do want to make it clear that there is no good data on this.
Wait the thing the article proposes might displace google is... _Microsoft Bing_?

Absolutely ludicrous.
Treating AI Like Nuclear Bombs
I luckily was not affected (yet) but also keeping an eye on people's tips.

Consulting shops seem to be hiring

Govt. agencies, especially at the local level

Universities are hiring (STEM profs in the US are flush with grant money it seems)

Mom and pop-type local business seem to be growing their small teams. This is the hardest nut to crack as I doubt they use recruiters, LinkedIn, Indeed.

In terms of sectors, most things seem to be negatively affected but some sectors less so. This may also be influenced by your local area.

Best of luck and stay positive!!
lol, y'all have some high standards for some dude tinkering on a bike in his garage.
Show HN: Scrt – a secret manager for the command line
I know plenty of them.
"The find is just the latest in a series of interesting space observations thanks to the capabilities of the James Webb Space Telescope."

How has this anything to do with the JWST? That telescope would be ruined instantly if it were pointed at the Sun.
It reduces the severity of flu outbreaks for a population by reducing the likelihood and severity of infection for individuals.

Just like covid vaccines, flu vaccines also protect unvaccinated people by making it less likely for them to be exposed to the virus in the first place.

The critical thing that antivax people miss is that they are both individuals and members of a population. Reducing the odds of infection for individuals has an exponential effect on reducing the odds for a population.
I’ve seen this in use a couple of times, it’s surprisingly fun to play with and my kids love it. I had no idea it was an open source project.
I find the dead time is shared and my employer frequently benefits.

For example, I sometimes lay off work but remain in my home office, and lightly task switch between personal stuff and work stuff.

By this I mean I answer some messages, mind some not-very-engaged, long-running tasks, or scratch some itch not on the schedule. Sometimes I reinstall a system.

Without the physical toll of going to the office in person, there are frequent opportunities to catch up, or get ahead at work.

On the other hand, if I go into the office, I do it the other way, doing shopping or running errands before or after work as I usually pass by locations that I wouldn't make a trip for if I was totally home.
I usually link in comments to Goodreads instead of Amazon to make it seem less like an ad.
As was Forth – it indended name was “Fourth”.
My personal journey out of burnout: Stop chasing ‘latest new tech’ (where that be node packages, gadgets, or whatever) and social status. Sell things you don’t actually use and refuse to buy more. Listen more than you speak. Assume good intent by everyone. Assume individuals (differentiate this from the opinions on popular media however) are right and you are wrong. Finally: volunteer, in person, at a charity of some sort. Helping people in need does a lot of things, including resetting perspective.
Outstanding book. It took me way, way too long to figure out the pun in the title.
Why the obsession with AGI? The point is that ChatGPT is already useful.
https://archive.ph/u9NvV
The problem with LLM in my view is that they're capped at what already exists.

Using them for "creative" things, is that they can parrot things back in the statistically average way, or maybe attempt to echo it in an existing style.

Copilot cannot use something because it prefers it, or thinks it's better than what's common. It can only repeat what is currently popular (and will likely be self reenforced over time)

When you write prose or code you develop preferences and opinions. "Everyone does it this way, but I think X is important."

You can take your learning and create a new language or framework based on your experiences and opinions working in another.

You develop your own writing style.

LLM cuts out this chance to develop.

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Images, prose, (maybe) code are not the result of computation.

Two different people compute the same thing they get the same answer. When I ask different people to write the same thing I get wildly different answers.

Sure ChatGPT may give different answers, but they will always be in the ChatGPT style (or parroting the style of an existing someone).

"ChatGPT will get started and I'll edit my voice into what it generated" is not how writing works.

It's difficult for me to see how a world where people are communicating back and forth with the most statistically likely manner is good
I have no problem with noting that it is written in Rust. But why name the app after the language?
I experienced this in first hand when doing some contracting for a lifesciences company.

Many of their researchers weren't using R or Python, rather VB, as they were already quite skilled in VBA, so having IT giving them access to VB.NET was a natural evolution.
Comments written for optimizing votes from the consensus filter are boring, the top comments on reddit are almost always bland jokes or someone quoting the democratic party position on something totally uncritically. I can get all that from mainstream media but with better production values.

"I have the correct opinion™, please validate me with upvotes", "Can you believe that some people have the wrong opinion™ They are dumb!" over and over again gets old fast.
I wrote it in past tense, it's based on actual situations :) If you don't believe what I write, I guess it doesn't matter what I write now. Regardless.

One simple example that I've had to reject more than once.

- Function 1 does something

- Developer needs something like Function 1 but minor change

- Developer starts typing name of function which has a similar name to Function 1, but again, minor difference

- Copilot helpfully suggests copy-pasting Function 1 but with the small change incorporated

- Developer accepts it, commits and sends the patch my way

Rather than extracting the common behavior into it's own function and call that from both of them, refactors which Copilot doesn't suggest, the developers is fine with just copy-pasting the function.

Now we have to maintain two full slightly different functions, rather than 1 full functions + 2 minor ones.

Obviously a small example, and it wouldn't be worth extracting it the first time it happens or on a smaller scale. But once you have entire teams doing something like this, it becomes a bit harder to justify copy-paste approach, especially when you want the codebase not to evolve to complete spaghetti.

And finally, I'm not blaming the tool, it's not Copilots fault. But it does seem to have made developers who rely on it think less, compared to the ones that don't.
The people I know that like it use artificial and the people that won't try it use fake.
AlphaGo as well. A few years back people were saying AI could never come close to beating a human at Go.
Its the next hype train since the blockchain/crypto/nft's hype train. The crypto train has arrived at its overheated, decentralized set of train stations that all have remnants of fraudsters, high end GPU boxes scattered about, torn up flyers with the promise of untold riches, people scampering about in the shadows muttering "defi" to themselves, people getting carted off in handcuffs.

Where will the AI hype train go? The internet as we know it already has so much SEO engineered content and content producers chasing that sweet, sweet advertising money that they could all be replaced by mediocre, half-true, outdated content created by bots. So do we have to wait until our refrigerators are "AI powered, predicts your groceries for you!" in order to see the usefulness?
I used to write agent-based simulations for science education, and one of the main libraries was AgentScript, which I believe is now SimTable [1]. They had developed their own sand table with an agent-based model running on top, and used it to create wildfire models to help plan and train firefighters. I think they also would do modeling of defense scenarios. It was pretty interesting stuff.

1. https://www.simtable.com
Burnout compounds and is hard to come back from. I’d be very careful. I’ve seen a couple of bad cases over the years, where these people really aren’t quite the same as they were.
Russia already had no leverage anymore. Shutting them down was their "all in" move, but that clearly didn't cut it, so no, there was no point anymore.
For Russia there were more upsides to this however: Getting out of contracts (since they can only halt deliveries for so long before fines kick in), solidifying internal positions, sending a message (since it happened 1-2 days after the opening of a Norway-Poland pipeline; also it was less than 500m from a sweden-poland undersea electrical cable), sewing chaos in the west.
Not that there is any more evidence that they have done it than for the US..

And the rest is all putting the cart in front of the horse.
Would it look any different if Russia (or anyone else) were the culprit?
No, it wouldn't (since otherwise the fact it's classified itself leaks information).
Maybe the investigation just yielded nothing conclusive?
Which given the location and event (big explosion and lots of gas output making sure everything gets nicely distributed elsewhere) wouldn't be that surprising?
Off topic. Do you have any movie suggestion close or related to this book? I've seen The Martian, 2001 Space Od, Interstellar, and Event Horizon.
I think this sentiment that this will happen in the "near future" is the cause for exactly the sort of fatigue the author is talking about.

If you mean in the next year or two, I hate to disappoint you, but barring some massive leap forward, you are going to be wrong.

If you mean in the next hundred years, or maybe sometime in our lifetimes, sure. The chances it looks anything like chatGPT or GPT3 now though is laughable.

This isn't the future. This is a small glimpse into a potential future down the line, but everyone is talking like developers/designers/creatives/humans are already obsolete.
Can I use this to control a Chromebook?
This piece posits a “crank theory” of Seymour Hersh:

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2015/05/seymour-hershs-u...
So this the result of an overzealous marketing campaign for Hail Mary?
It is always nice to drop links to something other than the local monopolist that pops up on the top of search results. Like the original publisher, Wikipedia, or default to a search on bookshop.org

https://www.randomhousebooks.com/books/611060/

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

https://bookshop.org/p/books/project-hail-mary-andy-weir/186...
Like others have already mentioned, _usually_ programs written in Rust are far more stable than their respective C/C++ implementation.

One impressive data point (for me) is this:
https://youtu.be/GtRo-eF8-TE?t=671
Easy to use, easy to integrate, perfect to store your secrets securely, without the need of a dedicated system. Love it.
Perhaps a more interesting question is "how much better do we understand what characteristics AGI will have due to ChatGPT?"

We don't really understand what intelligence means -- in humans or our creations -- but ChatGPT gives us a little more insight (just like ELIZA, and the psychological research behind it, did).

At the very least, ChatGPT helps us build increasingly better Turing tests.
BTC had always been a means of avoiding regulations, and that's fine imo, because let's be frank... US regulations are on par with the CCP in execution with stupid rules like double taxation and mandated rules for foreign banks not in their jurisdiction.

But they control the loud speakers and have much stronger global enforcement, ie they are the biggest gangsters around so they set the rules.
No. Because in your made-up equal productivity scenario we can just as easily make up the idea that people are less happy working remotely.

The reality is that some people like remote work and some don’t. Some organizations have chosen to be remote and some haven’t. Nobody’s right or wrong. They can make the choice that they believe is best for them — sometimes that choice requires trading off things they like for things they don’t. For example, I work for a remote company and I really dislike remote work. But I really like the company I work at, so I choose to work there.
Do we have any self hosting or other services that create movies with photos and music if provided? I have synology photos that solves backup and a decent portal to view and share, but cannot find some service for automatic movie generation based on events wrt time and place
Good times. I never had the experience of being the one showing up with the cash, which would put a whole other level of paranoid fuck on the situation, but I was aware of people posted at the doors to keep an eye on me when I received it. Once you've done it once or twice with the same trader it gets easier...
Is this the new “I’m on Arch btw”? The comment you’re replying to doesn’t say anything about memory safety or C++
There's a fellow that kinda predicted it in 1950 [0]:

> These arguments take the form, "I grant you that you can make machines do all
the things you have mentioned but you will never be able to make one to do X."

> [...]

> The criticisms that we are considering here are often disguised forms of the
argument from consciousness, Usually if one maintains that a machine can do
one of these things, and describes the kind of method that the machine could
use, one will not make much of an impression.

Every time "learning machines" are able to do a new thing, there's a "wait, it is just mechanical, _real_ intelligence is the goalpost".

[0] https://www.espace-turing.fr/IMG/pdf/Computing_Machinery_and...
Man, if this were 1800 you'd be stating that man would never fly and the horse would never be supplanted by the engine. I honestly don't believe you have any scientific or rational reasoning for the point you are attempting to make in your post, because if you were you'd be stating that animal intelligence is magical.
> and only 4 days a week

Is that very common?
argh, what’s the pun???
If people didn't just upvote things based on the headline due to confirmation bias, and if this[0] didn't exist, then sure.

Flagging exists for a reason, doesn't it?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusory_truth_effect
I really enjoyed the first "part" of Seveneves. I felt the second part went a bit off the rails and was almost _too_ out there for me (at least as it compared to the first part. Love Neil Stephenson though (Cryptonomicon was amazing and Diamond Age / Snow Crash hold a special place in my heart).
This story supports my personal theory that royalty is a form of human cruelty.
It no longer changes system configuration on the master branch

https://github.com/rustdesk/rustdesk/pull/3002
Libtool.. yeah, that's evil. Was it ever really helpful?

At a former job we supported Linux, AIX, FreeBSD, Solaris, Mac OS, and Windows. One of the best things I did was rip out libtool, as it was totally unneeded. And if we didn't need it when supporting all those disparate platforms, I really cannot figure out what purpose it serves.
It's very much the new blockchain. For the next year or so everything will have "AI" in the description because it produces a pavlovian response in VCs, then it'll move onto something else. So goes the tech industry.

None of this is new; there's a special magic phrase to attract VCs that changes every few years, and for now AI is it (we've actually been here before; there was a year or so a while back when everything was an "intelligent agent"/chatbot).
> AI is great. ChatGPT is incredible.

Imagine how the HN users who disagree with that feel. It is beyond fatiguing. I’m frequently reminded of the companies who added “blockchain” to their name and saw massive jumps in their stock price, despite having noting to do with blockchains¹.

¹ https://www.theverge.com/2017/12/21/16805598/companies-block...
I don't really think of ChatGPT as AI at this point, just an incredibly useful tool.
Not very anonymous unless you're really careful about it and never fail once. The localbitcoins person is linked to everyone they interacted with, and the transactions are public and timestamped. Unless you use a new address every time, your identity can be deduced fairly easily from your other activities.

The probable result is that the police nab the localbitcoins person, then pressure them to explain who they were doing business with, and go from there.

If anything it's worse than buying drugs in a dark alley because there's a permanent record of your activity.
When seen at a distance, it can trick people into thinking you have a perfectly manicured lawn. But you're just lazy/evil/it's a holiday house. Deception!
No, it isn't a programming language at all. But it can copy/paste stuff that looks like programming code and perhaps that's helpful.

The best use case for what you're talking about is to have it write pseudocode that you have no intention of running. For example, if you're trying to figure out how to architect or connect some things and you haven't done that before, a conversation with ChatGPT might help you see how to put the parts together. This method has the advantage that you could ask for the example in another language, or have it explain some parts of the syntax to you individually.

However... the code it gives you will not be the real parts and will not really work. So not only is it not a programming language, it really isn't even a great tool for teaching programming. I would say GitHub Copilot is a better "buddy" to have on your arm if you're learning programming. (And even better if you're already good because it frequently suggests the correct code completion for what you're already typing.)
I almost always turn autocomplete off except in circumstances where the API has bad documentation. I also found that copilot was an aggravation more than a help after using it for a couple weeks.
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The idea is simply genius, no way to compare the product to the real thing, even the few that actually may have tasted tiger or lion meat, how often did they eat it, maybe once in their lifetime.

Next step could be synthetic meat of extincted animals, even more failproof.
JSF is not my favorite, and I probably wouldn’t use Java for front end applications.

That being said, I think that there is a great ecosystem of great software and tools written for Java. I like learning new languages and techniques, but I find Java is suitable for many things today.
Sometimes I don't really know what exactly to type into google because its only something rough in my head. It then takes like multiple try&research iterations on the topic I have in mind until being able to formulate the actual question, at least if I wasn't derailed in the process (monkey brain). A Chatbot is a godsend for me here and I will happily pay money for that alone.

Another point is that I am either creative or productive at a time, but never both... at least aware of which state I am in. ChatGPT has proven to take over the other part surprisingly good. ie:

- when I am in a productive mood and stumble upon a thinking problem, generative AI is like on-the-spot creativity for "good enough" solutions, like naming a programming thingy or write some filler text around a few keywords instead of me looking for words.

- when I am in a creative mindset, I increasingly feed some code snippets into the bot and ask some questions to "fill in the gaps", like writing a specific function using library X, then to write a documentation explaining how it works, then to also write some unittests, and sometimes I even derail a bit or let the bot explain parts that stand out in some way so I can maybe learn a trick.

... And i used ChatGPT already in kinda emergency situations, like when I know 5 minutes in advance that I have to speak in front of a crowd/in a meeting and it gave me extremely useful outlines to quickly adapt to even when in a panicked mind state - calming me down through a given structure that sounded okay-ish, and it doesn't matter if the response is right or wrong.
This is like complaining that your computer isn't able to toast bread. It's a language model based on multicharacter tokens, outputting grids of single characters is not something you would expect it to succeed at.

If you explained the rules carefully and asked it to respond in paragraphs rather than a grid, it might be able to do it. Can't test since it's down now.
The reason it triggered my question is they had to do something similar to get the exploit to work (add +ssh-rsa to putty). Thanks, though, for the thoughtful reply.
> old tasks could've all been run in the first 16 megs and clean apps run anywhere else. It's a shame Apple didn't do this.

It would not have been feasible; RAM was expensive back then. Most of Apple's 68020 and 68030 machines only shipped with 1MB of RAM; it was not until 1992 that they started shipping machines with 4MB.