skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
as someone who has used copilot/chatgpt since they became available, I must say we are still a ways off.

Mainly, as others have pointed out, only a small % of coding is typing out code.
Also, re: the amount of money - you're absolutely right. 5m at the 4% safe withdrawal rate is 200k a year which would be way more than enough. I'll start the bidding at 2.5m for those aformementioned tech billionaires (what a steal! this deal won't last! act fast!)
Once someone has a home, they're no longer homeless, so it's a good strategy in some circumstances. Even where that person has other 'issues', it's a lot easier to deal with those once they're in a stable location.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/14/headway/houston-homeless-...

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/01/homeles...
And earlier than that in the 'teens: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committee_on_Public_Informatio...

“[George] Creel urged [Woodrow] Wilson to create a government agency to coordinate "not propaganda as the Germans defined it, but propaganda in the true sense of the word, meaning the 'propagation of faith.'"”
Have you uploaded the image? That should stop the cycle for anyone with the old web page still open.
I wonder if this stuff will ever be applicable to a person and a laptop (or if it is now?).

Ie this seems like such a cool area to be in but the data volumes required are huge, complex, etc. Code is simple, cheap, lean, etc by comparison.

Do we have any insight on how this area of research could be usable with less hardware and data? Is there a visible future where a guy and a laptop can make a big program? (without depending on tech getting small/cheap in 50 years or w/e)
Would it make sence to use it on large code bases - i.e. not AI data?
Yes. This is a very, very good answer when it's available as an option.

I do think, though, that if the best answer to "YouTube doesn't let me do <x>" is "pay an alternate service provider instead," it might suggest a market opportunity for YouTube to provide the same service with much less friction.
> YouTube Originals flopped

Maybe as a whole, but Cobra Kai was excellent and very popular!

Also, in the long-run, will having "missed" streaming & shorts necessarily be a bad thing? Time will tell.

I wish they never introduced shorts. Why do all platforms need to be everything to everyone? Why can't they focus on just being the best platform for user-created long-form video? I probably know the answer, but it makes me sad that that's the reality we live in.
> there's no feasible way to simulate the physics of a useful size quantum computer without using one.

What do the diverging growth curves look like? We probably could brute force simulate the exponential states within a small-n using conventional computing, just by paying for more parallelism and time. At some point that doesn't scale (more computers needed than atoms on earth, for longer than the heat-death of the universe or whatever) but surely there are interesting problems we can model before whatever inflection point exists? If so - what kind of scale is that?
Email is a decentralized, protocol-based communications channel. Anyone can send you an email. Getting some spam does not mean that everyone who sends email must therefore be a spammer.
The author begins by giving a number of test cases, like f(35)==6, for which the AI provides a candidate f, but the author doesn't actually implement the test cases, is surprised when the AI is wrong, and laments the resulting burden of proofreading.

Just implement those tests, for heaven's sake!
Me too, but the future is coming to push the druids and the old gods into the shadows.
Programming AIs worry me because I think they can get better at programming faster than I can get better at programming
If they had built this so they handled the SaaS part, but could persist the data in your organization's own AWS / GCP / Azure blob storage, would that be enough to get the solution past the line for acceptance? I'm in security, but in tech, where SaaS solutions are usually much more accepted.

The challenge with on-prem software of course is just how much support it takes to maintain. At my last gig, we deployed new microservices every 5 minutes; I can't imagine how much it would have sucked to worry about maintaining on-prem installs.

I'm wondering if this kind of shared model could make it workable.
I've primarily worked with Software as a Medical Device, so recalls generally involve a config tweak, upgrade, or downgrade.
It's a bit of a semantic play here. But there's a difference between it might happen and things actually happening. Tesla has had several safety related "recalls" in the last few years. All of which were fixed without much hassle via an over the air software update. And of course their record on safety kind of speaks for itself. Not a whole lot of bad stuff happening with Teslas relative to other vehicles that are facing issues related to structural integrity of the car. Like wheels might fall off with some Toyota's. Or spontaneous combustion of batteries because of dodgy suppliers (happened to BMW and a few others). Which is of course much harder to fix with a software update and would require an actual recall to get expensive repairs done.

The headline of that many cars being "recalled" is of course nice clickbait. Much better than "cars to receive minor software update that fixes an issue that isn't actually that much of an issue in the real world so far". One is outrage-ism fueled advertising and the other is a bit of a non event. It's like your laptop receiving some security related update. Happens a lot. Is that a recall of your laptop or just an annoying unscheduled coffee break?
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Not OP but IMO, nothing on earth would compare to another planet.

I'm not into space exploration but sometimes I look up at the moon and it blows my mind that we actually went there. Almost feels impossible even. Mars is that x100.

I personally wouldn't want to die on Mars but I understand the appeal.
> n'ah

I don't think I've seen an apostrophe there before. Was that intentional?
Identification missions are supposed to also photograph the target though, presumably with an appropriate telephoto camera. No need to rely solely on the Mk I eyeball. But admittedly that’s not trivial either at high relative velocities.
Is there a book or a movie about an immortal person who is sentenced to an extremely long prison sentence and actually serves it, baffling the rest of the world in the process? Or about an immortal person sentenced for life who eventually becomes free again because the country has collapsed after 10,000 years and there is no one left to guard him?
Completely possible technologically, though.
> In the UK if a radio device is 'inherently incapable of transmission', you do not need a licence to install or use it.

Oi, you got a loicense for that television receiver, mate?
Where are the women that used to do all the hard paperwork silent and efficiently when the poor lads need them most?
I feel like it's confusing to talk about gun deaths and focus on homicides when the biggest contributor to gun deaths (in the US at least) is suicide. As far as I've seen the biggest thing to prevent suicide is delaying and eventually the feeling generally passes. Owning a gun just puts you at a higher risk of killing yourself, and the chances of using it to defend yourself are so slim it doesn't seem worth it to me
Exempting infill housing from CEQA is on the YIMBY agenda. That said, CEQA only applies to discretionary decisions, so if permitting residential development is a ministerial decision (i.e. anyone who meets certain criteria is approved), then the CEQA review for it is incorporated into the Housing Element. That is itself a huge step forward.
I'll throw it out there: You sound stressed and burned out.

... Please talk to someone and get some help.
these balloons are too high up sometimes to get in cannon range. then there's the question of where the bullets fall after they rip through the balloon, hopefully not on anyones house.
> but quality of life is worse

Care to elaborate on this a bit? I imagine things like bad traffic are due to poor urban planning and lack of transit-oriented or walkable/bikeable design.

I imagine a lot of misdirected blame towards the economic boom instead of NIMBYism.
It's getting worse...
A few decent places to start:

https://www.ycombinator.com/topcompanies

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/linkedin-top-startups-2022-50...

https://www.glassdoor.com/Award/Best-Small-and-Medium-Compan...

all subjective of course as different people look for different things but it can get the ball rolling. best of luck every1
I'm looking forward to seeing how AI manages accounting, that's a field that requires even more creativity than programming.
It's like the friendly, patient forum poster who answers your questions and explains things in a "how to make a peanut butter sandwich" manner we all wished we had but are hard to come across.
spousal hires exist in academia
Seems like a decent short-term plan, if it were to be properly funded and actually run like a hotel, minus the profits.
> I like being an IC and building what I'm told to build; I have no idea how to decide what it is we should be building and don't want to deal with customer demands.

To be honest I'm kind of surprised programmers like this work at frugal
I'm talking about standard speed limit signs. You're talking about the signs that warn about sharp turns and advise maximum speeds. Yes it would be good if the software understood those signs, but that's a different issue.

Teslas definitely read speed limit signs. I've had mine correctly detect and follow speed limits in areas without connectivity or map data. It also follows speed limits on private drives (if there is a sign) and obeys temporary speed limit signs that have been put up in construction zones.
x86 software runs fine on Windows for ARM nowadays. I've been using it on Parallels for the last year and it has been working great (I don't do any high performance stuff on Windows though).
My main fear of this tech is how people are reacting to it.

> customer support, answering phones, taking orders

My secondary fear of this tech is that it will be used for these purposes. Especially support.
Wow! The last 4 would have been my entire list. I'm unfamiliar with the first four, but given the end of your list, I have to imagine we have really similar opinions about documentation. I'll definitely keep that git book in mind should I ever want to learn more about git.
I’ll assume there’s law controlling animal welfare, pollution, building codes for fire, water etc. hazards, but without zoning laws are there grounds to control noise, smell, traffic etc. ?
Other than calling "nonsense", you haven't really made the case against for something that has precedent. Care to take another whack at it?
butyl acrylate has a higher toxicity to certain animals like fish
Nexium, or esomeprazole, works well, or better than Zantac, and can be purchased OTC (at least here in the UK). It’s pricey but usually lasts a couple of days or more so it stretches further.
What does "zero waste" even mean? No wasted time or energy? No wasted packaging?
Finally! Can’t be more excited if not that it’s super hard for the common user to add web apps to their homescreen. I’m against an install prompt api, the web is already a shit show of banners, like other commenters pointed out. But something like a little badge on the address bar that once tapped tells you the web app is installable would be great imo
it's like alexa, siri, etc. I'd rather do the stuff myself than talking nonsense with an "ai"
Thankfully it's not quite that level of anarchy,
it's just that new housing can be built without local governments saying "no". It isn't the case that heavy industry can now be placed next to an elementary school.
If you think about it for a few seconds, quantity is the important factor here.
City Skylines is great, but if it's not SC2K enough for you, checkout Theotown which is on steam and android/iOS.
Its rare to get walked out, even if going to a competitor.

And unless the OP was on a performance plan or in a lower bucket of ratings (which doesn't sound like it's the case as they're being asked to become a TL), they would not be counted as "unregretted attrition".
Actually it would be a lot of work doing that. Even if not just work on the software itself. Something like that would cause a lot of work in literally all over the company.

Also, they don't really have an inattentive to do that, so why should they.
> Programming literally should be as easy as talking to the computer and telling it how to shapoe and change the software and it should happen right there in real time on your screen.

Kind of like what the intention of Smalltalk was, minus the verbal part. You modify a live image like sculpting clay, except now you have an AI generating code for you. I wonder what Alan Kay thinks of this approach.
Show HN: I made a CLI link manager with Git storage
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I've tired of saving useful links to messengers like telegram because links get lost and it is hard to search them, so I made a simple tool to insert & retrieve links with FZF and git.
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It indeed amazes me how screwed up the big dogs' web apps are. The web & phone version of MS-Outlook was notorious for about 2 years. They did gradually mostly fix it, but it was a painful journey. The limits of current web standards have to be part of the cause for this gap; otherwise having a mound of money to throw at a site would work. There are many other corporate apps I could make similar complaints about.
> People keep saying a lightweight craft under six pounds poses no threat to commercial aviation, but is that really true?

Most likely.

Even more so for lighter than air aircraft. An airliner traveling at Mach 0.8 would most most likely push this tiny thing out of the way like a feather even if it was in the flight path.

Note that, regarding your pitot tube example, they are _pointy_. And heated. Assuming the balloon would even be hit and have its fabric intact, it would still be punched right through.

Remember, 90000 pound aircraft traveling at Mach 0.8 (for an average 737) against a lighter than air balloon where the most rigid components are small circuit boards and thin solar panels. There isn't even an electronics case in most instances.

Maybe engines would ingest it, but they wouldn't even notice.
Legal isn't ethical. Musk is recklessly gambling with other people's lives.

I don't have a choice not to use this feature. The person driving their Tesla death machine on the roads with me already made that decision for me.
Yes, but you also don't want to have to deploy in the middle of the night in order to avoid downtime during peak hours.

Not only is that a pain for whoever is monitoring the deployment, but now if the deployment breaks something you're going to have to go wake up all of the relevant stakeholders, if you even know who they are.

Not to say late night deployments are never justified, but definitely not something devs want to be doing regularly.
Think I'd still go with Rockefeller on that one.
Claim verification is currently an open problem, as OpenAI admits to in their own promotional docs for ChatGPT. Issue number 1 here seems fairly thorny. And the second statement reveals the real problem: Even if the model was only trained on truths, would tuning it not to deviate from truth make it less able to answer questions?

> ChatGPT sometimes writes plausible-sounding but incorrect or nonsensical answers. Fixing this issue is challenging, as: (1) during RL training, there’s currently no source of truth; (2) training the model to be more cautious causes it to decline questions that it can answer correctly; and (3) supervised training misleads the model because the ideal answer depends on what the model knows, rather than what the human demonstrator knows.

This is definitely not my area of expertise, but intuitively, it looks like increasing the complexity/varying the training techniques can increase the likelihood of correct answers, but I think the need to give the model leeway to let it work means that ultimately, either human or automated fact checking will need to be incorporated when using this kind of model for fact-finding questions.
The rumor is that it's because Microsoft has an exclusivity deal with Qualcomm [1].

[1]: https://www.xda-developers.com/qualcomm-exclusivity-deal-mic...
They could move the store. Like Homebrew.
Just because the issue can be solved by an update ( and lately some recalls actually have been - see Huyndai GPS debacle ) does not mean it is not a recall. It just happens to have a different means of correcting it. In other words, update equals recall.

And that is before we get into whether it is appropriate to update something that can move with enough kinetic force to have various security agencies freaking out over possible scenarios in the future ( and likely cause for some of the recent safety additions like remote stop ).

In other words, just because he may be a hater does not make the argument not valid.
Tell HN: Fired after 7 years during maternity leave paperwork filing
My wife is an employee (s/w eng) of a company of seven years. She's been promoted several times during that time and works hard. She's a few months away from having the baby and was in the process of filing the paperwork.

Today she was just fired, due to "restructuring". There are plenty of other US-based employees still working there. Her manager didn't even show up to the meeting.

I am livid. The company is Reputation.com.
Dokku allows for deploying apps from images built in CI - which is quite effective if you also test your image artifacts in CI and don't want to build twice.

If you are using our Nomad or Kubernetes plugins, you can also run the apps on servers other than the one you are building on.
Soon after I click the button, my receipt gets emailed. Before late last year, I was traveling more for work than personal.
I have worked at a place which had a library (maybe still does). It was great to go and sit there reading a journal or borrow one of their copies of Horowitz and Hill. But also I can understand why these days companies probably shouldn't have libraries. They should instead simply have quiet reading places and allow people to go off and research topics without pressure.
Thanks! We like it too :)
Downloads and no ads on my mobile device (so I can listen while running) and on Roku on my TV. It also allows you to play videos with the phone screen off, which I don't think the free plan does.
I feel like I have a lot of fun programming to solve business problems.

The OP should not underestimate the value of having a voice in the room when business decisions are made. A lot of programmers have to implement systems specified by MBAs they never meet.

I hate meetings and prefer to spend all my time coding, but having a great working relationship with management allows me to steer my projects in a direction where I will enjoy building them.

You are dead right about code quality, nobody in the business world cares.
But people have been doing it for decades and most people didn’t even know about them so maybe everyone’s making a deal of a non-problem?
It won't be that everything in the car is connected on one bus. What is more likely is that you have a zonal ECU that controls a group of a few sensors and actuators. That zonal ECU will likely be connected to other parts of the vehicle through more traditional Ethernet. The 10BASE-T1S standard requires that it can support a minimum of 8 nodes on the bus although you can support more but you aren't going to be hooking up absolutely everything together on it.

>Would one single broken wire disable the entire car

Not in this case but try shorting the two CAN bus wires together in an older vehicle.
El Paso, Texas, 2006. NTSB report DFW06FA056.

https://www.ntsb.gov/about/employment/_layouts/15/ntsb.aviat...
Implementing a correct and comprehensive set of test cases for code is more time consuming and often more difficult than writing the code itself. (The comprehensive part especially - how do you prove to yourself you've covered all the necessary edge cases?)

"Reading code is harder than writing it"

"Debugging code is harder than writing it"

These are pretty common statements, going back years.

They should make the lack of a silver bullet here very obvious.

(Yes, most software is already broken in various ways - my worry is that this will just make it more broken, e.g. non-technical management saying "why do we need to do as much QA, we have AI writing the code now!?")
What could the argument against seeing more things, and thus more ads, possibly be?
this is the crux of my issue with the term "compression" in this context: Is it a smaller version of the data?

Yes, the model is smaller than the total input data. But when it comes to recreating a single image, how many of the weights must be configured 'just-so' recreate an image enough to call it the same image? I'll admit ignorance here - but I also don't think that this is a thing anyone knows for sure. We can only just extract othello piece colors from a simplified, othello-specialized model designed to recognize two colors.

How much of the information from other images must be present to perform this task?

My instinct, given my understanding of how these things work, is that to replicate an image with any recognizable fidelity, you have to overtrain the model enough that you've affected a set of weights much, much larger than the pixel data. The internal representation of these images is concerned with much more visual information than just 'this pixel is this color' - by looking at layered outputs from the inverse type of system (image recognition, which is the core component of these models), you can see that they're encoding layers of shading, lines that map to brushstrokes or object boundaries, foreground, background, all kinds of stuff. A direct representation of an image with all of these would be necessarily huge - and we know this because we have them. Artists use layers in all kinds of image-creation software, and they're always way bigger than the JPEG itself.

I get that this may sound pedantic, but the term 'compression' doesn't seem, to me, that it fits here. Compression, by definition, makes stuff smaller
Other Minds: The Octopus and the Origins of Intelligent Life by Peter Godfrey Smith discusses the unusual sensory/brain organisation of the Octopus in interesting and readable detail
Let us know how that goes and if there is anything we can help with
median residential home prices in Solano County (just north-east of San Francisco) went up twenty one percent over one year in 2021. The county overall lost population (again) primarily due to residents moving out of California.

source: Solano County Govt. Economic Report 2022
Inflation? Monopoly?
Bullets fired still land somewhere and are difficult to stop once they leave the gun.

The F16 and F22 are somewhere in the 110 to 160 knot range for stall speed. The balloon, for all practical purposes, is 0 knots. Shooting at something straight ahead that isn't moving while you're moving at 160 knots may pose some more challenges than locking into it with a missile.

A zero pressure balloon ( https://www.nasa.gov/scientific-balloons/types-of-balloons ) is roughly equal pressure on the inside and outside. These balloons do not "pop" as such when punctured and may cause additional hazards as they descend uncontrolled.
What is your company doing for new compute?
My friend, half of software engineering is handling complexity created by other developers. If you're implementing a Mastodon client, you don't get to just refuse to deal with OAuth because its design offends you on a philosophical level.
The solution being (supposedly) easy doesn't discount the severity of the issue. Owners must be informed and aware.