skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's not an AI, it's not thinking

The correct term is LLM (Large Language Model). There was an article discussing how ChatGPT is essentially like a 'Blurry JPEG of the web'[0].

If it is AI, it's really just narrow AI, nothing more. We project our greatest hopes and desires onto anything labeled 'AI' because we secretly want strong AI.

[0] https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/chatgpt-...
I've definitely seen bitcoin mining heaters on the market. Here's an example: https://bitcoinminingheater.com/

I also saw a post where a guy was using Bitcoin mining to heat his outdoor pool in the winter. Couldn't find that one with a quick search but it's definitely out there if you want to dig.
Not really, the place I work in hasn't announced layoffs... YET!

So each and every new meeting that gets put in the calendar is immediately scrutinized to see what is "really" about.

Got one just now with a VP and six other folks I don't work too closely with, and we're all immediately on Slack trying to figure out why it's been called. Nerve wracking to say the least.
Where "shall" is usually understood as equivalent to "must". Are you going to cite me one reliable source for the adventurous claims you're making all the time, or are you just going to continue putting out blatant falsehoods and strawmans?

> As for soundness, it is C we are talking about here.

Well the only thing we're doing here is trolling, nothing of substance has been put on the plate so far.
All these AIs are doing is sampling from some continuous space. Every answer is a "hallucination".

AIs are useful because many (most?) of those hallucinations happen to be useful.
David Guetta says the future of music is in AI
Would argue that avoiding the cloud is cutting off your ears to spite your face, but you are free to make your own choices.

If you are distributing code, will you share it via tarballs and zip files, or will you share it via a hosted service like GitLab or GitHub? Most people undestand that the latter is superior in every way, and you can still have the offline archives via having a full clone of the repo locally.

I would argue that the same logic applies generally. If you share your resume, it would be smarter to use a static github page tied to a git repo, than it would be to simply email a file. That file may have a typo or become obsolete. And in reality you are likely trusting email service providers anyways... ie the cloud.

Having a full archive of it locally with a local git repo means you actually aren't locked into them. My use of the term cloud was meant to be a fully general concept, and I wasn't advocating any particular locked-in concept. I'm simply advocating leveraging specialization of labor.

If you sew all your own clothing, build you own house, build your own car, etc... then by all means, run your own email servers, send zip files, and write your own operating system. Definitely keeps your trust surface low.
RTO = return to office
Show HN: We made a chatbot trained on YC's YouTube channel
> Sharing a single window makes Teams minimize the window with everyones video camera on it into a small window in the corner of your primary screen. I have a 49" wide screen, I can have that Teams window open (so I can see faces/people) and share a window at full-size for everyone else, STOP minimizing that window.

Took me a while to figure this out, but, and if I understand what's going on and you didn't realize it you're going to smack yourself, but...

Try clicking on that tiny window with everyone's video feed on it. It gets bigger again into a full (and resizable) window with everyone's video feed, while the window you are sharing is still being shared (and outlined in red).

Apologies if I misunderstand or this doens't apply to you (I'm on MacOS), but it literally took me months of being frustrated with that situation before I realized clicking on the tiny window would restore it to a full window, so I figured that might be you too. I forget, maybe it requires a double-click.
Other brands tend not to rely so much on a vision model for their driving assistance features, instead relying more on a variety of sensors, traditional computation, and curated databases.
Don't sell company loyalty if you don't believe in it. Sell mutual self interest. Why should your directs be excited to be there, or at least not actively looking elsewhere? Cool projects, etc., all help -- but the directly experienced "the company is currently and actively treating you well and rewarding you appropriately for your contributions" is point number one. And yes, the implicit message here is that, if the company stops doing its part, your directs should consider looking elsewhere. So should you.
The technology is capable, yes. But as we see here with Bing, there was some other motive to push out software that is arguably in the first stage of "get it working, get it right, get it fast" (Kent Beck). This appears to not be ethical motiviation but financial or some other type of motivation. If there are no consequences then some appear they do not have morals or ethics and will easily trade them for money/market share etc.
Well, technically if I'm not completely wrong the moon's ground track missed the southernmost extension of the USSR by a few degrees of latitude, but that nitpicking certainly does not put your point into question.
Oh I see. Yes does seem a bit odd, but their blog to do what they want with I suppose - they don't need to explain it to a child. Also it's possibly just so familiar to them as that they didn't think about it, don't know it as anything else.
Well I am probably not your normal worker, but for me WFH is soooooooo far down on the list of "must haves" for an employer that it may as well not be on the list

my Top 10 for a new employer

1. Pay

2. Hours / On Call

3. Vacation / PTO

4. Health Insurance quality / cost

5. Team Fit / Corporate Culture

6. Total Work Load / Back Log

7. Tech Debt of the Organization

8. Financial Debt of the Organization

9. How many Layoffs have you had in the last 12 months t0 2 years

10. How many open positions do you currently have organization wide

WFH does not even make the top 10 factors
2200-775 = 1425ft total dive.

At a rate of 8600ft/min, they were in a dive for about 10 seconds. But obviously levelling off means a rate of dive a lot less than 8600ft/min.
A common case of asking a question about the future, even simpler than the weather:
"Dear Bing, what day of the week is February 12 next year?"
I would hope to get a precise and correct answer!

And of course all kinds of estimates, not just the weather, are interesting too.
"What is estimated population of New York city in 2030?"
Unicode has these four: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_logic_symbols#:~:text=...
As a manager, you kind of have to be functionally clueless. If you're honest, you're not a good manager for the company. If you're dishonest, you're not a good manager for the employee.

https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-...
I click on most of those sites from search. So my fix is: cmd+w or ctrl+w.
Teams is just bland. That’s it really. We moved from Slack to Teams and we had a huge drop in inter-team communication to the point we moved back. For remote company it’s hugely important.

A lack of thread conversations was a huge issue too.

The only plus side was video conferencing was rock solid and office integration was good, as expected.
I remember talking with someone, who expected engineers to be proficient in new computer languages "in two weeks."

For myself, and, as some folks here have pointed out, I am possibly developmentally challenged, I've found that I can learn the basics of a language in a short time (maybe two weeks? I've never clocked it).

Becoming good with the language, on the other hand, takes years.

I've been writing Swift, every day (and learning new stuff, just about every day), since it was announced, in 2014, and there's still a ton that I don't know. The language is still evolving, so I'll never know it all.

Also, in my experience, the difficulties are really with learning frameworks and SDKs. I've been learning the ins and outs of the various native Apple SDKs, along with Swift, all that time, and I still have a ways to go.
> You made $882.35 in "profit". Not bad at all, but not much in the grand scheme of things either. But! That's a return rate of 882.35 / 5000 = 18% in just 3 months. If you could turn around and reinvest that money in the ESPP 3 more times (4 investment periods, each 3 months long, for a total investment period of a year), you would get a yearly return of (1 + 18%)^4 = 94%. 94%! Risk free!

First rule of finances: When comparing options, never compare rates. Compare absolute amounts (i.e. Dollars).

Yes, it's a great rate, but there are other investment schemes that can make you a lot more money at a lower rate.

(Of course, I participate in ESPP and am not trying to dissuade anyone).
Ask HN: What's missing in today's crop of todo apps?
You've tried a bunch, I've tried a bunch. What do you really want to see in a todo list app that no one is currently offering?
I had to use Teams at my last job, now in interviews I ask every company if they use Teams or Slack. It's a good smoke test on whether the company pays a slight premium to improve the efficiency and quality of life of their employees, even if it doesn't directly show up on the balance sheet. Of course salary is more important than chat software, but I don't want my day to day experience to be miserable.
Depends a bit on the person but I had new sealants placed when I was 25.
There are good groups but they tend to be people who are already deeply involved in the field. The vast majority of what you find, including discussions about this on HN, are complete trash to be quite blunt and it's very demoralizing.
Record levels of sadness in teen girls, CDC reports
The Basic Principles of War Propaganda
Obligatory mention of Mensch - https://robey.lag.net/2010/06/21/mensch-font.html

Don't know if it counts as "modern" being 13 years old, but it's the best there is.
And that's why traditional search is going to give way to GPT search. It solves this problem more or less already. Feed it web pages and you can talk to it, guide it with a conversation etc. Here is a realistic example for how searching Intranet could look in 5 years time:

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> Employee: Hey CorpGod; where is that document that had some information about our new project management processes? You know, the one I had open like 2 weeks ago

> CorpGod: Oh, you mean the one your boss asked you to read by Friday? It's here [link]

> Employee: No, that's not it. It's the one that we copied and made edits to after that, I can't find it.

> CorpGod: That got deleted after Employee2 made a copy and published it. It's here on the Wiki [link]

-----------

GPT already does stuff like that with data from the Internet.
> I wonder how many of the buildings in Turkey were built before earthquake-proofing was required?

I'm no expert, but when I was in Turkey in 2010 I took pictures of soft clay hollow bricks that were being used in new construction for the bulk of the building. You've likely seen pictures of similar bricks as they are used all over the world, but they are as fragile as eggshells.
"Nope. No layoffs" is to companies about to do layoffs as "It's against the constitution to lie about being a police officer" is to undercover cops doing drug busts.

Companies generally try very hard to limit the warnings that layoffs will be coming. Every time I've seen layoffs it's a week or so after the "macro is tough, but we're still strong" meeting.

Ultimately this is the hardest part of layoffs: the uncertainty and lack of control.

You can't really know layoffs are coming until the day you get that email, and you also can't really do anything to save your job no matter how much you would like to believe you can.

It's a stressful season in tech to be sure.
I wonder what percentage of people will go a whole lifetime without seeing a bolide, or even a shooting star. Dark sky areas are harder and harder to come across as well, and I bet looking up at the sky for a few minutes is becoming more of a rarity as well.
Ask HN: As a technical individual, how did you learn to become a manager?
I thought it was the usage of a completely discredited economic theory to support their argument, but we can both be right!
I don't understand this take. These LLM-based AIs provide demonstrably incorrect answers to questions, they're being mass-marketed to the entire population, and the correct response to this state of affairs is "Don't use it if you don't know how"? As if that's going to stop millions of people from using it to unknowingly generate and propagate misinformation.
you just have to ask it weird stuff to get stuff that's never be seen before.

I meant that could be used by AI chatbots

Oh, I see! Here are a few SaaS ideas that AI chatbots could use:

A natural language processing (NLP) platform to improve the accuracy and efficiency of chatbot conversations.

A platform for managing and analyzing chatbot data, providing insights into customer interactions and feedback.

A platform for integrating chatbots with multiple messaging channels, including popular social media platforms, messaging apps, and websites.

A platform for building and training custom AI chatbots, allowing businesses to create their own AI-powered customer service and support solutions.

A platform for managing and deploying chatbots at scale, providing tools for monitoring and maintaining multiple chatbots across different channels.

A platform for automating chatbot deployment and updates, simplifying the process of deploying and maintaining chatbots across different channels.

A platform for enhancing the user experience of chatbots, including tools for personalization, gamification, and voice and text-based interactions.

These are just a few examples of the types of SaaS solutions that could be used by AI chatbots to improve their functionality and user experience. By leveraging the latest advances in AI and NLP technology, these solutions could help chatbots better understand and respond to customer needs and preferences.
We're just seeing the standard hype cycle. We're in the "Peak of Inflated Expectations" right now. And a lot of people are tumbling down into the "Trough of Disillusionment"

Behind all the hype and the froth there are people who are finding uses and benefits - they'll emerge during the "Slope of Enlightenment" phase and then we'll reach the "Plateau of Productivity".
I haven’t had a manager in three or four months so I don’t have 1-on-1s.
I don't have 1:1 meetings, nor do I ever get reviews of my work, but I get things done and I'm still tasked with stuff, so I must be doing something right?
But realistically salary budgets are in-fact a zero sum game.

Departments have a budget. If someone else is unfairly getting paid more, it definitely means that you will be getting paid less.
Re. abstraction weight - You're right, it's true that the program is less inspectable than before, and that it adds more distance between programmer and metal. We're aware of the issue and have already begun – we landed async stack traces a while ago (which works about the same as in React.js).

And yet. It's also true that HLL (high level languages) like C, Java, Python all faced the same issue. The benefit is a huge gain in terms of ability to reason about ever larger programs. Java gave us garbage collection. Not everyone liked that; C++ developers want to manage their own memory. But at what cost?

Our thinking is: first get the semantics right. Then polish the experience (today we are here). Then add observability tools. Then make it fast. And if we've screwed up the semantics, then the project will fail for the reasons you describe.

The saving grace is we're seeing 10x LOC reduction (18k to 2k) in rebuilding Electric's sister project, Hyperfiddle (a spreadsheet like tool for robust UI development), as well as massive gains in performance.

Re. offline-first - we think the model can be extended to that but this is a blog post for another day
Why would he miss the best of all? DejaVu Sans Mono. This font is the only thing I come back to decade after decade. There's too much good to say about it.
> When code calls for a maximum distance between electrical outlets, that's partially for convenience, and partly because of unsafe practices with extension cords, so there's some blood there, but if you miss the mark by a foot, it's not disasterous.

I mean, it could be disastrous, couldn't it? That foot could be the threshold of someone saying "Aw screw it, I'll just use my parent's frayed extension cord from the 70s."
> Your managers know nothing. There are 3 things you can do if you are paranoid about being laid off.

Work at a small company. My manager was the CTO for 7+ years, it was great. It was quite a shock moving to a big company where my manager really doesn't have any more information than I do.
Ya, at the rate described, it would have been more like 10 seconds of dive. Pretty scary if you are looking out the window I imagine. I mean, at the rate given, they were about 5 seconds from the water. I think that would have felt plenty dramatic to me.
I have a feeling we will see a resurgence of some of the ideas around expert systems; current language models inherently cannot provide guarantees of correctness (unless e.g., entire facts are tokenized together, but this limits functionality significantly).
MNT Reform: The Much More Personal Computer
Yeah it's frustrating but good to remember this (middle management not having much sway)
I work in the industry and ad blockers are not a significant concern. It's a cat and mouse game for sure, but the vast vast majority of traffic is doing nothing to block ads.

I guess an immeasurable userbase's potential spend is hard to measure against total realized ad spend, but in my corner of the world traffic, users, and revenue are only increasing YoY.
It's bad if your coworkers are drastically overpaid because it will bleed the company dry or prevent the company from hiring other coworkers to help lighten the load. In practice, it's not even about the CEO being overpaid or anything like that, it matters what budget out of the total revenue is allocated to your department. If the department/team isn't adding value, they will be walking around with targets on their backs.
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#4 - if you are in an environment that’s causing layoff paranoia, look for another job.
Wikipedia 'intentionally' distorts history of the Holocaust, study claims
I'm a manager and I refuse to sell loyalty. This is a business arrangement, loyalty has no place in it, but integrity does. I tell it straight and when I can't share some details I'm honest that there are things I can't share.
It probably also helps there's more easy access to infrastructure for all of this: servers and sysadmins. Ignoring everything else, that's much harder for your more classic volunteer effort open source project: servers cost money, and maintaining them costs time (usually better spent on actually writing code and such).
So you're going back to URL firing mode, instead of making clear statements that are reasonably backed up?
Likewise, I don’t particularly like it but it’s fine. My biggest gripe is nonexistent official Linux support - I hate having to use a package maintained by one person on GitHub to get a desktop application for Linux, when this application is so critical for my day to day. But besides that it works fine.
I was glad to see this article actually mention societal and tech factors that could be behind this rise. It is rare to see the mainstream discuss the upstream factors for ADHD, Depression, Gender Dysphoria, Diabetes, and much more. Especially in kids and teens.

“Kids are now vulnerable to cyberbullying and critical comments, like ‘I hate you’, ‘Nobody likes you,’” he said. “It’s like harpoons to their heart every time.”
Minitel?
Nice to see, but I'm still sad Clojure is a hosted JVM language. I find it unwieldy for a lot of things where Go, Python and Chicken Scheme shine, and wish someone got ClojureScript to run natively in things like Bun or Deno so I could have one fast, small runtime.
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I agree with you. I started self-hosting Miniflux recently, and the HN feed (just for the frontpage items) was sending me about 100 items everyday. I felt that was too much and removed the feed.
Why no Comic Mono? https://dtinth.github.io/comic-mono-font/
NLL certainly wasn't around in 2015 because it was only added after I started paying attention to rust in... 2017? 2018? And since it is only an improvement to the parser and wouldn't break code in 2015 mode I'd assume every edition supports the update to the parser.
They were weird the first couple of weeks, but now it's back to how it was. I had spent the last ~4 months or so going through the acceptance phase of being laid off, and now that I haven't, I sort of wish I was? I could have used the time off.
Be a financial insider, be subjected to black-out periods. It's typical.
Tossing this one in here as it's a combination of Isoveska & PragmataPro: https://github.com/shytikov/pragmasevka

Been using it for a bit and I've really fallen in love with it.
Whew - we really got 'em this time! They nearly got away with putting a bunch more housing near us. Now where do they think they're going to spend that Billion Dollars, huh? Take a hike! Good riddance!
You're welcome to retroactively apply a test for whether you find something interesting. I wasn't talking in that context, though.

I just took the statement as written and wrote a brief comment on it, without reading anything else into it.
My immediate first read of the title was acoustic side channels a la https://www.cs.tau.ac.il/~tromer/acoustic/ec04rump/
I think the former leads to the latter. I can't count the number of times I set myself up to do a ton of different projects at once, only to end up slowly paring it down to just whatever the most critical project was and spending more time than the entire estimate for the rest of the projects on that one thing. If that happens to you enough times, you'll start to extrapolate the pattern to long-term estimations of what you can do and it can really mess with your self esteem.

Interestingly, I find this only happens with personal projects. At work I just overestimate everything to protect myself. So, it may also be that for things outside of work I simply underestimate how many of my life resources (time, energy, willpower) are eaten up by work and that confounds my estimates. I'm honestly not sure which thing is the bigger factor.
Relationship building is certainly useful, but how useful depends on context: in the recent layoffs at my company, the only person who might have been able to influence whether I was cut or not was four levels above me on the org chart. My manager, my manager's manager, and my manager's manager's manager were not even aware that layoffs were coming until after decisions had been made.

For various reasons I don't think measures of my own performance would have made any difference, so I conclude that my project, however non-central to the company's business, was central enough.
As a manager I feel responsible for knowing this at all times. I don't want to be sold to. Just give me consistent work at the expected quality at whatever pace you can sustain.

Perhaps I'm fooling myself, but I think I can definitely tell when people are burning the candle at both ends to compensate for any perceived shortcomings. That doesn't really impress me. In fact, it worries me, as I want consistency and sustainability. Don't burn out or begin making lots of mistakes.
- keep your resume up to date and maintain a list of contacts (for referrals) just in case. It's important to realize that you can do everything right at your company for decades and some invisible hand can still put you on a layoffs list. The only thing you can really do is be prepared for that eventuality.