skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see your point, but I feel like there's going to be a 'eating tidepods' level societal meme within a year mocking people who fall for AI hallucinations as "boomers", and then omnipotent AI myth will be shattered.

Essentially, I believe the baseline misinformation level is being undercounted by many and so the delta in the interim while people are learning the fallibility of AI is small enough it is not going to cause significant issues.

Also the 'inoculation' effect of getting the public using LLMs could result in a net social benefit as the common man will be skeptical of authorities appealing to AI to justify actions - which I think could be much more dangerous that Suzie copying hallucinated facts into her book report.
Isn't it the same with programming? It seems to me there is one tier -- FAANG, certain well-funded startups, and finance -- that pay $400k++, and everyone else tops out at $180k or so.
> Academics and researchers are not infallible. The current loss of trust in subject matter experts is precisely because they have been held up for too long as paragons of knowledge and judgement.

Yeah, I guess I could have put it better that it should be banned from production use by anyone, and academics and researchers should only be able to study and improve it.
I use it in the web browser
"More than one in five of these students reported attempting suicide in the year before the survey, the agency found."

Wow. Is this out of the study, females, or LGBTQ?

“We need to talk about what’s happening with teenage boys that might be leading them to perpetrate sexual violence.”

Are they all teen boys, or could it be that there older predators at play here?

Edit: why disagree without any response? These are legitimate questions. Are we not curious hackers here?
I love I can just pull in libraries in any language to solve X.

I hate that some builds pull in gigabytes of libraries for everything under the sun to replicate what was done 20 years ago with a few scripts and some HTML.

Yeah, it's a spectrum and not everyone is qualified to make the right call - but their job demands they choose anyway.
Let's be fair, ChatGPT has had issues with being overloaded ever since its initial release, and they're still not entirely fixed.
Or could this be a marketing stunt? OMG we are so popular that nobody can get to our site for the first 48 hours etc. etc.
In America lots of people have died in single stairway buildings. The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire created a political dynamic where buildings are expected to have dedicated fire escape stairs and that remains a strong social contract to this day.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangle_Shirtwaist_Factory_fi...
I've heard that Cloudflare has a mandatory 1 year holding period on their ESPP
I must acknowledge I was very spooked by the 2.0 in there
Sure, insofar as you're defining the term as "you're no longer employed here." But that definition is not really all that helpful, and is equivalent to saying that you're fired because you quit, also.

There's absolutely a difference in widespread RIFs/layoffs and firing an employee, both in terms of how that individual is treated by future potential employers as well as the eyes of the law.
Did't Github just close all their offices permanently? I think this is going to be a crazy push-pull for a while longer.
Thank Microsoft they didn’t abandon age of empires 2
There usually are political discussions about the impact on consumers when tariffs are implemented. They just aren't the only consideration. Often some sort of compromise is the end result.
Up until ChatGPT became all the rage, Sam has been pushing a crypto scam called Worldcoin, which aims to scan everyone’s eyeballs(??) and somehow pay everyone in the world a living wage(???) without creating any value. This while allegedly exploiting people from 3rd world countries.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/04/06/1048981/worldcoi...

So, as much as I am impressed by the tech of ChatGPT, I don’t consider him to be a very credible person.
The first sentence:

> Nearly three in five teenage girls felt persistent sadness in 2021, double the rate of boys
Nah skype for business was the bomb. It worked exactly like 2005 MSN messenger, was simple, efficient, and screen sharing and video calling was hard so people wouldn't start a damn video call or ask me to join a video call for things that should be a damn email.
the solution here is simple: a police officer in your face means that if you disobey them in any way, you could be insta killed with their insta kill buttons. this means that they hold an incredibly dangerous job that you should not allowed to participate in if you're irrational or a self interested coward. any cop or higher up who does this shit should be instafired. a cop who kills someone without a credible threat should be hung (or at least jailed for a VERY long time, remember, these same people would jail you for a hundred years for dealing weed just a few years ago and now they say it's fine). a cop who suffocates someone to death because he wants to look cool should also be hung. the only reason you disagree with such basic order is because you don't actually want order but you are in an us vs them war between cops and so called anti cops. let's face it, a large amount of police, probably 50% or more, are belligerent tough power tripping types, and newspaper consuming cowards that make up 99% of the west allow them to continue to be this way. i am not anti police, but we do have about 100x more policing than we need, and we're forced to pay insane amounts of tax for it too
Of course not everyone wants to work from home. Not everyone wants parental leave either or a good school district to live in, since they have no kids and it would be irrelevant to them. Doesn't mean that things like parental leave or schooling or working from home aren't huge massive factors that a lot of people think about when it comes to choosing where to live your life and how it should look like. Like I said, the cat is out of the bag.

For me, its like the earth has went from a 24 hour day to a 26 hour day, what an invention in human efficiency these two hours have been! When is the last time we gained two hours of free time as a civilization, when we went from animal to mechanical power for transportation?
That’s dumb sci fi logic though. Aliens don’t need deep ocean FTL fuel. If you can move matter at the speed of light, you have the capability to kill everything on earth very easily.
ChatGPT may need a tad stronger infrastructure than a landing page.
There's a very slim chance of hitting the front page on HN (believe me, look at my post history, I tried a couple of times), do you prepare for such an unlikely event...

I mean if course you should, because otherwise why post on HN, but if it's 'just' a side project, I understand why you don't want to spend time configuring Cloudflare.
Thank you for the work on KoWasm

It's been exciting to watch the development of the new K2 compiler and Frontend-IR format

Kotlin is no longer just a JVM language, but more like a frontend with targets that now span everything from JVM bytecode, JavaScript, native code with Kotlin Native, and WASM

I'm really excited to see what the future holds for Kotlin and WASM in particular
Twilio has never made a cent of profit and is losing ~1billion per QUARTER. Not comparable to salesforce in any way.
>we are susceptible to interpreting intelligence where there is none,

I disagree as this is much to simple of statement. You have had near daily dealings with less than human intelligences for most of your life, we call them animals. We realize they have a wide range of intelligence from extremely simple behavior to near human competency.

This is why I dismiss your 'not intelligent yet' statement. The problem we lack here is one of precise language when talking about the components of intelligence and the wide range in which it manifests.
Yes, my favorite font for text editing. Not too unprofessional like comics-san but not dull/sterile like most mono fonts. Not sure why, but it has sort of an artistic personality, if I could describe it. Only thing I dislike is the "k" so I use the non-loop version.
Thankfully Firefox recently changed their stance from "Neutral" to "Positive".

https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/pull/740

> Neutral stance: We're not convinced that the complexity this feature introduces upon the HTML parser carries its weight in terms of usefulness for web developers. There's also a risk that the processing model is not compatible with a future declarative custom elements feature as it was developed in isolation. Having said that, the proposal is a reasonable approach for this functionality that takes into account the various constraints and security considerations that come with changing the HTML parser.

> Positive Stance: This is a reasonable proposal which takes into account the various constraints and security considerations that come with changing the HTML parser.

Hopefully that's a sign of things to come! (Fingers crossed)
The trick to find an article for free by searching for it and having Google be the referral seems to not work almost all the time these days.
How could anybody know what % of the big tech layoffs were software engineers?
Providing "unlimited" is a major competitive advantage. The hard part is predicting the average cost per customer. One can use historical metrics to help. The final price would then be set according to the average cost, taking into account profit + padding for outliers.
LangChain and Chroma
It's not just for commercial buildings, it's requested by fire departments for homes too, and it's in the international fire code https://www.solarpowerworldonline.com/2018/04/know-your-code...

I agree that you could argue a garage should get an exemption if it's under X height and surface area. But otherwise, it seems like a sensible request.

Too bad, I was hoping solar garages and solar car ports would take over the world... Maybe if you build the roof out of structural solar panels.
This has been argument since the 90s.

Once you get over the hurdle of getting someone to pay anything, it’s a lot easier to get them to pay more. Besides, you want the people who aspirational will use your service and don’t. You don’t want them to think about.

What’s the cost of acquisition of a customer who is willing to pay a half a cent? What’s the lifetime value of the customer?

Now compare that to a subscription. I would posit that the cost of acquisition is the same for both types of customers and the lifetime value of the latter is a lot lower.

This is like business development 101. The average Shark Tank participant can do this analysis
Social media and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.
It’s like fire. It’s a tool. Use it to heat your home or use it to burn everything down.

All these articles.. what exactly are you saying that isn’t obvious?

Use GPT for things that don’t have a big subjective bias. Use it for things it is a good fit for.

Also it requires constant indexing. You’re never going to get up to date results unless that technology changes and it can be more real time. That’s why open ai chat gpt says it was trained on data from like 2021.

People who complain about these basic things probably aren’t creative enough to take a technology and run with it.
Being with mostly the same 20-750 kids (depending on school size) in your grade for most of your growing up seems cruel. You're going to change a lot, but the social dynamics can only evolve so much. The lack of ability to reinvent yourself, to re-find place is starkly different than the rest of the world, where that activity & the newness of other people is perpetual.

I've been so thankful that at my high school there was a great open lunch, & quite a few areas where different school grades mixed together. I got access to a diverse range of smart & creative folk.
I am saying that being mad or surprised over a company with significant employee base in Kharkiv not wishing to conduct any business with Russian (Located in Russia, not tested by DNA, mind you) customers whilst their city was literally being bombed by Russia is very tone deaf.

And /on top of that/, the fact that almost a whole year of war later you spread Russian propaganda about "we don't know the whole truth, think about what US did in 'nam!", is just cherry on the cake.
Can you recommend a good YouTube video that demonstrates this? I'm used to writing code incrementally in Python via the IPython REPL. I've also used Twisted's Manhole to get a REPL inside an already-running Python server process. But I believe you're referring to something substantially richer than that.
It does work though, that's what's so crazy
It's not, per se. It's due to rail lines preferring to run longer trains with lower staffing, and the long trains are less safe and operate much closer and even past the physical safety limits of the train hardware and rail infrastructure.

These are relatively recent changes, not something that's been this way for a long time. It's part of the changeover to "precision scheduled railroad" as the rail lines like to call it.

Rail workers being overworked is just another aspect of the this change. The rail companies don't want to maintain FTEs and have cut that to the point where people can't even get unpaid days off scheduled, and are being asked to run schedules without concern to sleep etc. And that has led to some other accidents already.

But the core of the issue is this change to precision-scheduled-railroad, and the longer trains / reduced staffing that go along with it.
I said left of Texas' center.

For example, the biggest ticket article today is titled "The Campaign to Sabotage Texas’s Public Schools." That's not a conservative article by any means.
You shove the whole corpus in a vector db using embeddings, query the nearest neighbors to an input and inject those into a prompt to pass to GPT.

https://langchain.readthedocs.io/en/latest/modules/chains/co...
I didn't realize you could modify the mutability after the initial assignment! Just learning Rust starting a few months ago, thanks for sharing haha.
> It's impossible today to have any sort of major asset without going into debt.

The system is headed for feudalism, where majority of the population will never own land/home, and will have lesser rights than those that do.

People who think this is a fantasy, should check what percentage of the population can afford a lawyer. it's like 20-30% tops
40 miles can be a 4 hour/day transit commute or a 2 hour/day vehicle commute in SFbay, the region of the Salesforce headquarters.
It's insanely easy to use RelevanceAI to upload a 1-column spreadsheet, click the "vectorize" button, and then have something working. The problem is putting the data into that spreadsheet.

https://relevanceai.com/blog/use-all-of-your-blog-posts-and-...

As far as the next step...

Google allows you to export your email data. Ideally, you could download that data and upload it to a service that looked at original messages and your replies (and replies to replies) and trained on that file without having to make sense of what Google gives you.

If that was working, then you could have it reply to emails for you.
I may be an unusual audience but something I've appreciated about these models is their ability to create unusual synthesis from seemingly unrelated sources. It's like if a scientist read up on many unrelated fields, got super high and started thinking of the connections between these fields.

Much of what they would produce might just be hallucinations, but they are sort of hallucinations informed by something that's possible. At least in my case, I would much rather then parse through that and throw out the bullshit, but keep the gems.

Obviously that's a very different use case than asking this thing the score of yesterday's football game.
Sure, but their landing page never goes down when ChatGPT is over capacity, and their over capacity page is a delight of downtime design. It has auto-generated content in different genre styles about being over capacity. They even let you enter your email to get notified when it is back. But I do get frustrated that every time I've entered my email to be notified I've never actually been notified.
I said I’m extremely picky, but the list of things I would be OK using is much longer than the list of things I would not work with unless circumstances forced me to. Maybe I should have also said I’ve learned and/or dabbled in/used Python, Ruby, C, C++, Java, JS (server-side and client-side), CoffeeScript, TypeScript, and Elixir. I currently have a strong preference for working with Elixir (and fortunately that’s what we use at my day job), and on the other hand would actively avoid a job that required more than a trivial amount of C++, Java, or server-side Node.js. I would be OK with the rest (and probably also Rust and Go, although I haven’t learned enough to be sure). For code hosting, I prefer GitLab and am OK with GitHub (for now at least). For tasks/issues I’m OK with Asana or GitHub and only avoid Jira. For IDEs I prefer Sublime but would be OK with whatever. For OSes, I prefer GNU/Linux, can live with MacOS for now (but the experience is degrading rapidly), and only really avoid Windows.

I totally believe we should normalize devs having requirements for what kinds of jobs they will consider (including tech stack and tools, but also industry, company size, culture, location, etc). Especially if we’re OK with companies having wishlists which are often far longer and more rigid.

Also, for what it’s worth, I speak/write English and Arabic natively, and have a genuine desire to learn Spanish, Kurdish, and Japanese.
I use Soulver every day and definitely recommend it
Damn, that sucks. What model are they?
CDC report shows teen girls experiencing more sadness and violence
"A new report finds an "overwhelming wave of violence and trauma" and never-before-seen levels of hopelessness and suicidal thoughts among high school students in the U.S."
No half life is very dumb. The aliens invade using largely small arms weapons. It is called the 7 hour war because a guy surrenders on behalf of earth after 7 hours.

If anyone imagines fighting alien invaders with small arms they’re already stupidly out of touch.
Monogamous Prairie Voles Reveal the Neurobiology of Love
Adding value propositions:

Find a cheaper way to do something
Find a better way to market something

He wasn't wrong. End of the day, these kind of 'businesses' are merely exploiting a market inefficiency that won't last forever.
You know, we tech workers really ought to organize to put a stop to this mandatory return to office nonsense.
Got any good examples?
You think the average engineer making 200k will take a year to get a new job?
ChatGPT is bad...but ChatGPT with a radar is something I'll trust.
I think it's pretty normal not to be "on" 24/7. We run on a circadian rhythm that is diurnal, i.e. has two cycles per day. Most people peak once some time in the late morning and then once again in the late afternoon.

Depending on your chronotype, this might be shifted - a super night owl would probably experience both of them later. E.g. I usually peak late at night, maybe between 8pm and midnight.

These cycles are measurable in things like nervous system, core body temperature, and so on. So it's no surprise that your brain isn't "always on." Nobody's brain is.

You could try finding your peak times and structuring your day around them so you can make maximal use of them.
> Use GPT for things that don’t have a big subjective bias

The Avatar 2 release date being in the past doesn't have big subjective bias :)

https://www.reddit.com/comments/110eagl
>My Dad worked for Swift & Co. for 45 years.

on that note judging by some of the HN comments in general (not this topic) ) overall, it looks like a fair number of HN commenters do not have their dads in their lives.
Let Teenagers Sleep
> I chuckled reading this. It’s like someone landed in 2020 and learned web development while being completely unaware of events in the preceding decade.

Note that they mean SSR specifically here vs. just server-generated web pages. Server-rendering of component updates is a post-SPA innovation (2018?), so it still seems worth explaining for most web developers.
We just slowly moving to the Brave New World, where drugs for "happiness" will be mandatory.
I've been self-hosting a federated Matrix homeserver since 2018. It's small (about 20 active users), but it was enough like Discord and Slack that the less technically-inclined in the group have had little trouble adjusting to it. The main friction points have been the UI changes in Riot/Element over time ("where do I put the homeserver URL thingy again?"), and the fact that my friends seem to constantly forget their passwords and (this is really a separate issue from Synapse itself) setting up an account for transactional emails is a pain in the ass.

Amusingly, two of my co-workers from a previous job also run their own homeservers, one a smaller private instance similar to mine and the other a single-user node that bridges many different chat systems together for personal use. The two of them also interact with the users on my homeserver on a regular basis in various public and private channels.

I should note that only one of the active users in the channels on my server is from matrix.org - everyone else is from the same server or federated instances run by other people. Matrix.org could go down tomorrow and things for us would mostly keep running just fine.

I do wish Synapse had a proper account invite system for private servers, and not the "spin up a matrix.org account and chuck the hapless fool in the hopefully-federated room" method that was there the last time I tried.
Describing a shovel as an "emplacement tool" does not make it not a shovel. Similarly, dressing up a software patent to disguise its functionality as a software patent does not make it cease to be a software patent.
Why are you interested in having a discussion on any of this when you can just talk to yourself (i.e., write your own)? It’s really not that hard.

Yes, Elm and its core packages had bugs and critical omissions that were outstanding for years, many of which affected our app. It was a running joke on our team to try to guess the vintage of the extant GitHub issue whenever we ran into a problem. I consciously fled the ecosystem and community many years ago so I don’t remember specifics anymore. And the repos were scrubbed of all past issues when 0.19 was released so we can’t go check either.

If you appreciate implied threats for creating a package which gives people some (unauthorized!) control over their own destiny, then I can see why this comment wouldn’t trouble you. Have fun in the sandbox.
Uh what? Every "Team" I have on the left side of my teams window has a "X hidden channels" message that I can click and that shows every single channel in the teams, including archived ones.
In the Linux space, it doesn't really bother me... Packages in distros use all kinds of licenses, and as long as you're up front with what you're using and provide the source or license as required.

If "this product is made from a combination of domestic and foreign components" is good enough for physical goods, then it should be good enough for software.

But IANAL. :)