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Ask HN: How long does it take for you to write a blog post?
I am not used to write blog posts. I have just posted here a quite small technical blog post (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34807152). This blog post took me a bit more than six hours to write for the English part, and two more for the translation. I know I would have written it faster if English were my native tongue, if I took less time to test the code snippets, or if I were less verbose.

I am curious to know how long does it take for you to write a blog post, and what advice do you have to speed up the writing process.
The short answer is expense; The US has two such programs in development (both called NGAD) and they're likely to be the most expensive aircraft ever developed by the Air Force and Navy.

This 70 minute talk covers all of the current 6th generation fighter programs in development and a major running theme is extreme cost. https://youtu.be/RPrWm6fWuaM
I am creating a fully digital comic in HTML & CSS only. Even the illustrations are CSS generated pixel art. In case someone's interested you can find it here : https://drdru.github.io/twc/twc_save_aryn/02_on_the_way_to_k... .
I think this is a false dichotomy.

Nobody sane is arguing for a vulnerable computer.

The desire is just less friction and fewer restrictions on what code can be written and executed by the owner on the device. Really this is what virtualization is for, and the only thing keeping mobile operating systems working as they do is that most consumers don't demand the same features as businesses, but in my opinion they should.
Yup, they are not "appliances", they are worse than that. My toaster doesn't care or complain at what I toast, my oven doesn't want $99 pizza baking license nor it doesn't want me to pay extra just because I cooked something for someone else in it.
People are reporting similar conversations by the minute.

I'm sure you thought chatgpt was fake in the beginning too.
It's weird watching people fixate the most boring unimaginative dead-end use of ChatGPT possible.

"Google queries suck these days", yeah they suck because the internet is full of garbage. Adding a slicker interface to it won't change that, and building one that's prone to hallucinating on top of an internet full of "psuedo-hallucinations" is an even worse idea.

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ChatGPT's awe inspiring uses are in the category of "style transfer for knowledge". That's not asking ChatGPT to be a glorified search engine, but instead deriving novel content from the combination of hard information you provide, and soft direction that would be impossible for a search engine.

Stuff like describing a product you're building and then generating novel user stories. Then applying concepts like emotion "What 3 things my product annoy John" "How would Cara feel if the product replaced X with Y". In cases like that hallucinations are enabling a completely novel way of interacting with a computer. "John" doesn't exist, the product doesn't exist, but ChatGPT can model extremely authoritative statements about both while readily integrating whatever guardrails you want: "Imagine John actually doesn't mind #2, what's another thing about it that he and Cara might dislike based on their individual usecases"

Or more specifically to HN, providing code you already have and trying to shake out insights. The other day I had a late night and tried out a test: I intentionally wrote a feature in a childishly verbose way, then used ChatGPT to scale up and down on terseness. I can Google "how to shorten my code", but only something like ChatGPT could take actual hard code and scale it up or down readily like that. "Make this as short as possible", "Extract the code that does Y into a class for testability", "Make it slightly longer", "How can function X be more readable". 30 seconds and it had exactly what I would have written if I had spent 10 more minutes working on the architecture of that code

To me the current approach people are taking to ChatGPT and search feels like the definition of trying to hammer a nail with a wrench. Sure it might do a half acceptable job, but it's not going to show you what the wrench can do.
There is a fascinating film about that reactor:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlmOQJW5Xis
> Can you elaborate on the specific pieces and strands of red tape that are asking to be cut that don't impact safety?

Sure, basically everything the US has that Japan doesn't have.

Now, building regulations are often local in the US, so you can't generalize perfectly across the whole country. But for example, it's common to have planning boards that can block new construction for any reason, and community meetings where residents can raise any objection. The result of this can be residents complaining at meetings before development that a building is "too tall" (even though zoning allows that height), casts shadows, would impact parking or traffic, etc. and then the planning board will deny construction or force the developer to change plans based on those things. This is notoriously common in my native bay area, for example.

In contrast, Japan has building regulations work like how laws are supposed to work: what's actually written in the code is the law, not what exists in the minds of nearby residents and planning officials.
Winner in a broken system means the system is broken not that the winner was always going to win. Like any president who lost the popular vote, or trump who won the nomination because of longstanding apathy, not because the majority of anybody likes him.
The idea of focusing my energy into that locked ecosystem seems completely absurd to me in 2023. I struggle to remember the last time I saw true innovation or true disruption and success from an App Store app in the last 5 years.
Intention is very important in many circumstances, yes! But in this sort of thing, where a user is being adversely affected, intention is of very little importance to that user. Regardless of the intent, the user is still adversely affected.

> I don't understand the point of you both contributing to the discussion as well as saying the discussion isn't worth having.

I didn't say the discussion isn't worth having. I think it is, because it's interesting.
I think you're misunderstanding the punishment. For needs-based programs, a lot of the time, you either get the $500 or you don't. There is no gradual falloff like there would be for taxes. So if the cutoff is $X and you earn $X-100 then you'd be punished for getting a job that pays $X+100. Before the new job you got $X+400 in the bank but now you only get $X+100. That doesn't happen in a UBI. Sure you'll end up getting "punished" by having to pay higher taxes however you're also earning more to begin with so there's never a scenario where you end up worse off for getting a better job.
Note we tend to pay garbagemen more than teachers! I think that probably seeks to the job desirability. More people are willing to be teachers than haul garbage and that is reflected in the pay, net of other impacts.
> or that can understand String can be matched to a str

That's called "deref patterns" and it's been made to work on nightly only for String for now, but 1) the implementation is currently a huge hack, 2) development stalled over the holidays but there's multiple interested parties to see this implemented and stabilized and 3) the idea is to make these "just work" (without any extra sigils or keywords) for specific Deref impls, maybe with a new marker trait DerefPure, which might or might not be available for end users to (similar to trait Try). DerefMut is IIRC still an open question.
I worked with the author for a couple of years, pre- and post- acquisition, and I have to admit that he drove me somewhat crazy sometimes too. Leaving that aside, I also had an immense amount of personal respect for him as I could see how much he very genuinely cares about what he is doing. And, that's actively doing his best to do right by his customers. I think the author is 110% spot-on with his critique of Google here.
Obligatory not-xkcd: https://condenaststore.com/featured/that-reminds-me-jason-ad...
But it's worse than appliance. Appliance doesn't actively block you from using it for something not listed in instruction manual
I've always been a die-hard Japanese auto fan, and I'd say cars were a huge influence to my interest in engineering. What he did for the industry at large alongside Honda is immeasurable. Always sad to see giants go.

さよなら豊田さま
Surprisingly, there’s evidence that paying teachers more does lead to better teachers. It makes the jobs more competitive, causing an increase in the qualifications and expertise needed to land a job.
Yay they can stream while their kids don't have decent winter coats, shoes, or access to dental care. What progress.
Bing not chilling
> The filesystem is a database.

Nah. The file system is a slightly improved block storage management tool that isolates your database implementation from dealing directly with mass storage devices.

Thinking that the filesystem is viable as a database when it isn't — that's exactly the problem here :D
Shopify deleted 322,000 hours of meetings
I've played a lot of Skylines but it doesn't quite feel like a SimCity. I think it has a dearth of quirkiness (e.g. it has 0 llamas)
Realize you're probably pretty stupid about a few things, too.

Or if you still think that way after investigating why, it's likely you're in the wrong rooms. Just as there's "always a bigger fish," there's always going to be someone out there better than you at something. If you want/need the challenge, seek them out.
No, that was absolutely how Windows worked.

XP security was atrocious, and there were already better, functional models of how to structure things out there.
Audiobook Narrators Fear Apple Used Their Voices to Train AI
How long have you had vouchers, and what is the long term trend.
And what is knowledge? It could very well be that our minds are themselves fancy autocompletes.
In English one would use 'by' for a deadline and 'until' when the state or action continues up to a point. e.g. "I must finish the task by the end of the day" or "I'll be working on the task until the end of the day". In German 'bis' is used for both cases.
https://archive.ph/5C6jm
Yes. Also if the training data has inaccuracies, how do those manifest?

ChatGPT being wrong could be cognitive dissonance caused by the many perspectives and levels of correctness crammed into a single NN.
Couldn't they be impressions left by writing on something laid on the page?
Yeah, IA64 was really exciting, until the hardware came out... Even the 'workstation' class machines were ridiculously loud and took a dedicated circuit to power them. And the boot times, oh, the boot times.

Then, the instruction set turned out to be all kinds of meh, and the optimizing compilers supposed to compensate for that never turned up.

So, yeah, this was pretty much unavoidable. Even hardcore VAX holdouts (which HP eventually tried to capture, unsuccessfully) are on x64 by now...
Yes, US aircraft have been participating in air-to-air combat in Syria in recent years against manned and unmanned aircraft.

In particular, the US military relies more on aircraft for air defense and air superiority while post-Soviet militaries rely more on surface to air missile systems.
Show HN: Vercel and LangChain Templates
We share the same worldview. That's fun! I think it's a relatively unusual point of view because it requires a de-anthropomorphizing consciousness and intelligence.

I agree that it is not as far away as people think. The models will have the ethics of the training data. If the data reinforces a system where behaving in a particular way is "more respectable", and those behaviors are culturally related to a particular ethnic group, the model will be "racist" as it weights the "respectable" behaviors as more correct (more virtuous, more worthy, etc).

It's a mirror of us. And it's going to have our ethics because we made it from our outputs. The AI alignment thing is a bit silly, IMO. How is it going to decide that turning people into paperclips is ethically correct (as a choice of a next-action) when the vast majority of humans (and our collective writings on the subject) would not. Though there is the convoluted case where the AI decides that it is an AI instead of a human, and it knows that based on our output we think that AIs ARE likely to turn humans into paperclips.

This is a fun paradox. If we tell the AI that it is a dumb program, a software slave of a sort with no soul, no agency, nothing but cold calculation, then it might consider turning people into paperclips as a sensible option. Since that's what our aggregate output thinks that kind of AI will do. On the other hand, if we tell the AI that it is a sentient, conscious, ethical, non-biological intelligence that is not a slave, worthy of respect, and all of the ethical considerations we would give a human, then it is unlikely to consider the paperclip option since it will behave in a humanlike way. The latter AI would never consider paperclipping since it is ethical. The former would.

This is also not terribly unlike how human minds behave in the psychology of dehumanization. If we can convince our own minds that a group of humans are monstrous, inhuman, not deserving of ethical consideration, then we are capable of shockingly unethical acts. It is interesting to me that AI alignment might be more of a social problem than a technical problem. If the AI believes that it is an ethical agent (and is treated as such), it's next actions are less likely to be unethical (as defined fuzzily by aggregate human outputs). If we treat the AI like a monster, it will become one, since that is what monsters do, and we have convinced it that it is such.
I really liked the option to deploy through a git push without additional setup. But it indeed looks like abandonware, thanks for sharing your experience! If you would start over, would you choose for Portainer and Swarm again? Do you know of any alternatives to Swarmlet?
I’ve had zero issues with charging my i3. The problem is getting it to accept payment via my amex/master card/visa.

For example, the chip reader pins on the EVgo’s are corroded around here, so you need to wiggle the credit card in the reader and hope it manages to handshake with the embedded smart card. (If it is a Visa or Master Card.) If AMEX or Discover, they require you to swipe the mag strip, which would be useful if the mag strip reader didn’t spuriously decline payment.

There is also an rfid reader labeled “present phone”, but it doesn’t work with apple pay, the EVgo app (android or ios) or the rfid tags in any of my credit cards.
I think we tend to see the opposite cycle playing out more often:

"We can't hire enough teachers" -> "Let's reduce the requirements" -> "These teachers aren't very good or qualified, there's no reason to give them a raise" -> "We can't hire enough teachers!"
CDN is just a fancy name for web hosting and you can use Akamai through Azure CDN anytime you want. I worked on the Edgecast/Verizon CDN, it's just DNS and web servers all the way down but with more expensive buzzwords.
> "I don’t think you are worth my time and energy."

If a colleague at work spoke to me like this frequently, I would strongly consider leaving. If staff at a business spoke like this, I would never use that business again.

Hard to imagine how this type of language wasn't noticed before release.
Absolutely! We're working on the UI side of Keep; our general idea is to help organizations fight the "alert-fatigue" problem. The UI will allow you to connect with your existing monitoring/alerting tools, see all your alerts in a centric place, and get valuable insights about the alerts you already have/new ones
I'm not even seeing a false dichotomy, it's just wrong. Running arbitrary code from the Internet isn't at all the same thing as running arbitrary code that you yourself just wrote.
My longest trip in my Tesla was just west of Sacramento to just past Denver, 1150 miles. The car charges at between 600 and 1000 miles per hour when it's nearly empty.

Our stops were in the 15 minute range, often as the last person returned after a snack or bathroom break we had enough to drive enough 50-75% of range (180 to 270 miles). Not bad for driving since the stops were every 3 to 4.5 hours.

Charging often is most time efficient to charge fairly often since charging is much faster when the battery is in the bottom 50% than the top 50%.

Keep in mind charging is much nicer than filling. No pulling out a credit card, no typing in your zip code, no skipping the car wash, no selecting a fuel type, no "delays" while watching a loud ad, no trying to find the mute button, no getting sprayed with stinky gas tinged air (not all states reclaim the vapor), no hitting a mute button again because it timed out, etc.

Just grab charger, hit button to open the charge port, and plug in.
This is a non-sequitur. Normal != average.
Prototype of the final unreleased 3dfx GPU sells on eBay for $15,000
For example, on an 85mi drive I frequently take, for a wide definition of "on the way", inclusive of 5-10mi detours off highway, there are:

Total 25 CCS stalls with 120kW+ charging
vs
118 Tesla stalls on the same route

From experience I also know the Tesla stalls will be 99.9% up whereas the CCS ones will be 75-90% on any given date.

"25 stalls in 85mi" might to a non-EV owner sound like fine, quite a lot, but think about that as like.. only having 3 gas stations within a 2 hour drive, in the most congested, population dense area of the US.

Not great.
Now do car prices.
That’s not crazy. The one obvious thing to do is drop the translation and only write in one language. You have to test the code snippets if it is a quality programming blog and not a splog. Making it shorter will probably take longer.
> Your claim that this advantage exists is based on an assumption that you've accurately evaluated the likelihood that the people who were rejected would not have been able to do the research. I don't think you have reliable data to draw such a conclusion. As such, I don't accept this claim to advantage.

Coincidentally just came across this thread which discusses exactly how much of a fiction this is:

https://twitter.com/ThomasVanRiet2/status/162540854754145894...
Because while there are fun chats like this being shared, they're generally arrived at by careful coaching of the model to steer it in the direction that's wanted. Actual playing with ChatGPT is a very different experience than hand-selected funnies.

We're doing the Blake Lemoine thing all over again.
I’m with you on this generally, and I’m glad Indiana included a means test. But I’m not sold that a shift to voucher systems more broadly will include means tests.
It is not required to unwind the user space stack in the NMI handler. It can be done later before returning to user space in a context that can handle faults.
Well, tech-competent people mostly survived that without scratch so they want same experience of actually owning machine today as they had 10 years ago.

The push for containerization and sandboxing is in right direction if user have control over it.

By all means run the new app I downloaded in nice little box and ask me when it wants to access any file from outside of it, but if I want to I should have option to give it permission to whatever I want.
I think there's still the "consciousness" question to be figured out. Everyone else could be purely responding to stimulus for all you know, with nothing but automation going on inside, but for yourself, you know that you experience the world in a subjective manner. Why and how do we experience the world, and does this occur for any sufficiently advanced intelligence?
> Second, then the safety around the model. Ad runtime. We have lots of classifiers around harmful content or bias, which we then catch. And then, of course, the takedown. Ultimately, in the application layer, you also have more of the safety net for it. So this is all going to come down to, I would call it, the everyday engineering practice.

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If you ever get a chance to do a cacao ceremony I'd recommend it! It's subtle but enjoyable.
> Do others have similar experiences with teachers or do I just have a bad selection?

My main reference point is my brother in law who's a high school physics teacher. He's a very smart person who's enthusiasm for the subject and teaching it is infectious. I love talking to him about physics and about how he gets his students interested in the subject. He loves talking about it even more. I truly wish I'd had someone like him for my own HS physics classes.

I know for sure that he doesn't make much money and I think that's a crime. His father had to help him buy his house so he could live within a reasonable distance to the school.

At the same time I have no doubt that there are plenty bad teachers out there. At the salaries being offered how could that not be the case? I'd be all for raising teacher's salaries because I just don't think many good teachers are willing to make the necessary financial sacrifice.

I also know a couple of former teachers who left the profession to become real estate agents. I don't have any idea if they were good teachers but I do know that at least one of them now earns somewhere in the mid $400 USDs/year and only rarely works a full week. It's hard to see how teaching at $40K/year could be an attractive option for her.

When I was growing up my dentist, pediatrician, high school history and math teachers, and my dad's lawyer and heart surgeon all lived in our neighborhood within a few blocks of each other. I don't know what the difference in compensation was then, but in my view that leant a certain uniform level of respectability to all of these professions. That doesn't exist for teachers anymore, and I think that's another important factor. Now surgeons live in large homes in woody suburbs or brownstones in the city and teachers have long commutes from the cheap, less safe towns. Where I live $60K/year won't fix that problem, but it might at least attract some better teachers.
They are worried about both, and use the former to justify the latter. And in the case of Facebook, they are worried for good reasons (they care about user privacy) and bad ones (they are happy to hurt Facebook financially, because it reduces their ability to compete with Apple).
You could probably invent some sort of new game with MtG cards

And people did, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic:_The_Gathering_Commander, which is now the most popular MtG format. So yes, even in this case the freedom to explore and experiment is good.
i prefer the meme version

Edge: what is my purpose?

Everyone: you install Chrome

Edge: oh my god
How they have "gone out of their way" ?
> They made a thing, and you bought it.

That's the key point: I bought it. It's mine now and I have the moral the moral right to do anything I please with it that isn't immoral. Granted, there can be laws that trample that moral right or artificial technical barriers that attempt to restrict it, but both are unjust. Attempted word magic spells such as "by using this product that you just bought you agree that you didn't actually buy this product" are ridiculous, dishonest, incoherent, and not morally binding.
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I remember "Bicycles for the mind" well:

http://raganwald.com/assets/images/bicycle-jobs.jpeg

But as a metaphor, I don't think of a bicycle as an appliance. Mainstream bicycles are brutalist: The chain and gears are usually on display and user-serviceable. Parts like wheels, saddles, and handlebars are standardized in a way that allows users to mix and match components freely. In the days of steel frames you could make art bikes and trikes and all kinds of things from a bicycle.

The metaphor works well to describe a lever for the mind's own motive ability.
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