skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No kidding. I worked for a while at a startup focused on creating robots that can do a fairly difficult, human involved industrial task. The software in question used existing robotic arms and attempted to automate the work.

The challenges associated with that project were some of the hairiest things I've seen in my career, and they still don't really have it working last I heard. If GPT-4 can even _help_ write a system like that in six months, I'll eat my hat.

Seriously, if by 8/21/23 you can demonstrate a robot perform a task that previously took a human to do, which is currently outside the mainstream scope of automation, using code that an LLM wrote, please email me a video to the address in my profile and I will record a video of myself eating my favorite hat. Subject to terms and conditions, etc.
My house costs way less than $3 million.

The restrictions exist because people want to ruin neighborhoods like mine. We made laws to prevent it.

For every sane YIMBY who wants to build livable density, there seems to also be an unhinged person who thinks everyone should be forced to live in tower blocks.

Many such people are in this thread. I used to think it was a strawman argument, but those people really do exist, they really want to take my home from me and turn my whole block into a high rise, and that’s not going to happen without a fight. That’s why the mandates exist.

The biggest obstacle the YIMBY crowd faces is the insane people in their own camp: The crazy utopian socialist weirdos who think it’s morally wrong to live in a house in a suburb and drive a car. Force those people out, denounce them, and you’ll see a lot of the opposition to new housing go away.
Amazon looked deep into the crystal ball, got a shit response from it, and made a colossal one-way door blunder that will ultimately sink the company as they will not remain competitive with younger hungrier actually-day-one companies and embrace modern workplace trends. If I am forced back into the office, I will simply quit and never even consider working at this place again. Everyone is replaceable and I’m no exception, but the slack channel is full of fellow PEs who feel the same way. More than enough reserves to make it to a better market or beyond if there’s nothing compelling in the short-term.
> I would hope somebody sees this now and prioritzes a Chromium bug for it.

Rather, one would hope that Apple sees it realizes that their short-sighted, bone-headed, pea-brained idea to eliminate scroll bars should be rolled back. Of course, I'm not holding my breath. Yet another example of their crusade to prioritize form over function, exemplifying why I find their products to be infuriating to deal with.
A home page that literally just has company name, log in with github, and "learn more about company name" doesn't seem a very convincing pitch.

I'm not going to click "learn more" because you've given me absolutely no reason to. The page may as well just be "log in with github" and nothing else. That'd serve the same functionality, and have an equally convincing pitch to prospective customers.
Whiteboarding stuff in my office at DARPA with Ivan Sutherland is a memory I will treasure always. One of the original giants.
This is an ancient fallacy in economics going back to the mechanization of farm labor. The beauty of capitalism is that what's good for capitalists is also good for everyone else. Jobs will be lost but the standard of living will increase for everyone and new jobs created. Until we reach AGI, at which point we can all collectively retire and just do whatever we want.
Government definitely has secrets. There is definitely compartmentalized projects with weapon systems that we don't know of. X-37B for example spent some time in orbit, nobody knows why.

>The 747 laser was retired 9 years ago.

That you know of. The 747 laser may not be a thing, but a military warplane with the next gen version of that laser may very well be

> Kinetic warheads are not a thing.

That you know of. Putting a rack of tungsten rods with basic guidance's system on a payload isn't really that complicated. They don't really need to be that big for localized destruction either. A 20x1 foot one has destructive power of an ICBM. A smaller one could take out a silo easily as it would penetrate quite far.

>EMP and jammers don't work against nuclear missiles. They are self-guided.

If they use gps for guidance, they can definitely be jammed/misdirected with a strong enough fake gps signal. And setting off an emp that creates magnetic fields strong enough to cause high current in circuitry is not that farfetched - the guidance computer may be fairly shielded, but you still have servos and other parts exposed that would be affected.
Yes. Such is life in a capitalist societal construct:
The crux of the issue is that YC funnels its rejects into "YC Startup School" which gets the associated marketing for "YC Co-Founder Matching". Beyond a basic form, there isn't really much (if any) consideration for matching. I did it and noticed that there were three types of users on the platform:

- Those who had been rejected by YC and funneled into Startup School w/co-founder matching. Not sure what the intent of this was...a bunch of people with their rejected startups all mushed in together?

- Those who never applied, but were under the impression that doing YC Startup School or co-founder matching somehow would increase their odds of getting into YC. Everyone from this group thought of it as some type of admissions process to YC.

- Outright scams and people who had blank LinkedIn profiles and 0 experience (tells me that there is no or very little quality control on who is accepted to the matching)

Everyone I met from the first two groups already had their own startup going and wanted me to join, and also said everyone they talked to had their own startups and were trying to recruit from within the same pool.

I met some interesting people through the process but overall it was ineffective. I would think a more focused search using traditional tools and platforms (LinkedIn, etc) and marketing would be a lot more effective.
I've used NFS over stunnel and I don't see any performance problems, but I do have the perception that it is not a panacea.

I've read that kerberos NFS encryption has performance problems that stunnel solves.

I've never sunk down to ONC RPC, but it does feel like it's a hack compared to QUIC.
1. Android and iOS sandbox applications. But if I grant permission, a mobile app can read files from my photos, or documents, SD card on Android, etc. folders. I can even ship a mobile Safari extension on iOS.

2. Desktop platforms do not universally sandbox applications (though they are trying). You can install a desktop app that steals all the data in your home directory, including your entire browsing history, with no permission dialog whatsoever.

3. That aside, browsers sandbox extensions just like mobile applications. One extension cannot access another extension's data.

4. Furthermore, by default, a browser extension can only access content from its own origin. It is in fact sandboxed from the rest of the sites you visit.

5. If the user grants permission, a browser extension may access other sites.

So in short, browser extensions are in fact sandboxed.

And your idea of mobile apps accessing data is entirely dependent on the qualifier "when they shouldn't", which, arguably if given permission, they should so it's a moot point.
I don't think Suzuki-kun was trained on voice data, they trained a classifier on an annotated text corpus. And getting access to such a corpus is probably much harder than finding voice samples.

https://research.ibm.com/publications/accent-sandhi-estimati...
Right, but it's very hard to disentangle.

Parents are mostly exposed to the hateful heretic-burning historical revisionism, not the careful, constructive, academic approach to telling the full story. When the kids come home saying that they learned X, Y, or Z about a historical figure, the parents assume (right or wrong) that they're being fed the hateful garbage that they see in the public sphere, so they lash out at the curriculum.

Some in the Left use that as evidence that conservative parents are hateful and (to quote OP) "don't want a society that is just", but what actually happened is that the parents were never given the opportunity to engage with the full story: they were taught the saintly version in school and then in later life exposed to the demonic version. As far as they can tell those are the only two choices they're being offered.
Eh not really, we aren’t far off from AI being able to use browsers just like humans and operate in the world like us. There are no reasonable laws that will be able to prevent this
Oh, yeah. That one sucks. But I didn't actually consider it to be in the same category of feature as Apple throws away entire processes and doesn't seem to give a shit, and that's kind of the underlying defense of losing your tab state, as far as I can tell. I meant on desktop browsers.
OP's opening statement was a little off. What OP went on to describe was not "comprehensive documentation" in the Agile sense but merely "documenting progress and learnings as to not repeat mistakes". The "comprehensive documentation" in Agile is trying to avoid the "We have delivered exactly what you asked for even it if is no longer what you need."
> -it has by far the best vertical tab implementation of all browsers (someone please copy this)

Brave is copying it. Still WIP, but it's starting to get really good.

Turn off the tab scrolling flag if you have it set, set the bookmarks bar to be always on so window height is static (otherwise tabs will jump around when you grab them), and turn vertical tabs on in flags. Not quite as smooth as Edge's yet, but it's getting there.
Can’t take this one seriously
I apologize, because I don't know of any off the top of my head.
pure marxism has never tried! if only we try the pure version it will work better! Marx had some good idea, communism stinks. Agile manifesto has good ideas Agile stinks. Maybe not as bad, but let's move on
Darwin was born to a rich family and the book was published when he was 50. I guess I see the point you're trying to make, but his life was very much not like the average person. It was also over 150 years ago; the world he lived in was so far different from 2023 it's absurd. I don't understand why you would use an example of someone extra-ordinary, a geo/biologist no less, in a critique of hustle culture.

Edit: I'd also recommend reading about his health and overwork. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_of_Charles_Darwin
What is even the crime here? "This person requested a torrent link" "This person posted a torrent link". What do they expect to charge these people with, even if they could track them down? It isn't like anyone is uploading torrents directly to reddit.
Unfortunately, most teams wrongly estimate their time requirements and the last 10% is really more like 90% of the development time.
By this logic, no one would be able to serve banner ads on top of copywritten content.

Plenty of existing and historical malware browsers and plugins have injected ads.

Furthermore, because it's a full page width banner, it's not entirely clear whether Edge is rending something next to Google's page (i.e. in MS' browser) or in Google's page (i.e. commingled with their content).
It would be pretty interesting to see super fast growing Douglas Fir used to crank out mass timber.
You can marry exactly as much actual practice into it as you want. Paint with the AI, not just expect the AI to paint for you.

Modern DJ decks have an auto-mixing switch. DJs still exist and use that switch when they need to take a bathroom break, etc.

Prompt-writing is to interacting with AI as the command line is to using Photoshop - an early UI to a new tech.
And its amazing how quickly stable diffusion is advancing past the competition. I tried Dall-e for the first time in months today and its results feel so outdated, and I was dazzled by them 5 months ago.

A1111 and the extensions system they've built is really amazing for putting FOSS into nontechnical consumers' hands.
The usability of advanced type systems: Rust as a case study
> Imagine if folks continue to post ChatGPT conversations, particularly the bad ones, to the point that it starts “learning” from itself.

Seems to already be happening with Bing Chat, except it led to the bot threatening the user: https://twitter.com/tobyordoxford/status/1627414519784910849...
Being a popular open-source project is not a guarantee, it merely lowers the chances and complicates the attack.

Regarding extensions code: indeed, I do read the code of extensions that require some elevated permissions, if these extensions are not otherwise vetted. This is why I avoid installing excessively complicated extensions, unless they ask for minor permissions. Having the list of tabs if no big deal; accessing data in your tabs, even for a particular site, triggers scrutiny.
But probably not.
Your perspective is flawed, it’s about further headcount reduction without severance, making good on tax break criteria, and building up a blind core of missionaries.
So what about streams? Functions? Closures? Call/cc structures?

I understand your point if you are speaking in literal terms about just simple cons cells, but in practical Lisp/Scheme code, you don’t really rely on just the basics to do things.

I think there’s a hyperfocus sometimes on the simplicity of the core of lisp, the apply/eval balance, but it’s quite possible and often easy and convenient to perform normal programming tasks with these languages as well.
Yeah: I do agree with this. I meant the way the feature has been integrated into desktop browsers (or cobbled together with extensions). The lack of regard companies have for the now vast majority of users who either primarily or even only use "mobile" devices is ridiculous.
Had a similar sentiment.

Surprised they didn't come out with government state sponsored actors... Ex china, Russia , and North Korea lol(remember that excuse from sony).
What is a "spike?"
I see. Well, it was definitely helpful for me, sorry it wasn't helpful for you.
The only way to understand different programming paradigms is to learn a little bit about programming. If they insist on remaining "non programmers", i.e. determined not to know anything about programming, then there isn't much hope.

Otherwise, it's like asking how to explain the difference between manual and automatic to non-drivers, or the difference between VFR and IFR to non-pilots, or the difference between assets and liabilities to non-accountants, etc. One doesn't have to be an expert on the topic to grasp it, but one can't remain completely ignorant either.
I just don't think that most people--maybe you ;P--would say the same thing about a book about how to brainstorm with a team better, as that's all you're doing when you are talking to an AI... and yet people buy those books all the time and I certainly read a few of them in my early 20s. Was it a great, earth-shattering video? No. But seeing someone quickly get concrete value from something is still of a lot of practical value for seeing how it strings together.
Require a non-trivial but affordable deposit to review the submission. Refundable if an actual effort was made whether or not it is accepted. If I just spent the effort to actually write a story, I wouldn’t mind depositing $20 to get someone to review it, with full expectation that I get the money back.
If you'd like to watch Ousterhoust explain Homa and his vision of replacing TCP:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2HBHckrdQc

Spoiler: Ousterhout is right, and the data shows he is right. Maybe not everyone knows it yet, or it's the kind of "right" that not everyone will ever get to (and we'll settle for "good enough" for much longer), but he is almost certainly right.

Not to disparage the poster of this article of course -- I always love a good hot take or contrarian piece, but if you can't come with the same amount of data to support your thesis...

Homa is probably dismissable on UX grounds (are people really going to switch to it?), but it's clear that long hard thinking has gone into the case for Homa (and it's implementation).
This is an extension to the idea that automation is a form of "resource curse" that creates social stratification in a similar way to diamonds or oil.

Being able to automate valuable work means you need a smaller coalition of power brokers to maintain the bulk of your GDP, meaning a government can remain in power with the support of an ever-shrinking class of influential people.

This is something people have been talking about for decades, with semi-serious proposals like a tax for robots being thrown around. The people in power have yet to take a hard look at any of it, though -- and why should they? It's a safer bet to curry favor with the ever-shrinking circle of influential people. The core problem in my opinion is how to create an incentive for politicians today to put into place measures to combat this consolidation of power. The longer we wait, the stronger the incentives against liberal democracy become, and the harder it will be to make a change.
Well, you aren't, ChatGPT is. In spirit, it's the equivalent of asking someone else to do a job for you. You wouldn't claim you wrote that article, legal filing, SEO spam, etc, you'd say an AI did it.

If you used Photoshop to manipulate an image over using MS Paint, you wouldn't say that Photoshop made the image for you, because it didn't, you did. Grammarly doesn't write your articles for you, you do. They just maximise your efforts.
Investing in Replicate
It's a matter of tone, and how the question was answered.

I know it could be different. It has been different.

NBD. I won't be going to that drywell for water, anymore, so it's fine.

I was dealing with something, yesterday, that is exactly the type of thing that I would have gone to SO for, in the old days (customizing the Contacts Editor), but I don't really feel like dealing with the agita, for what would really be nothing more than a little vanity chrome on my app. I'll probably figure it out, if I really want to. I always do; it just takes time. What SO has done (in the past), was give me actionable and correct answers, very quickly.

It hasn't done that for me, for a while.
We’re living in an era where people regularly use tracking devices to retrieve their stolen bicycles. If they turn up in a store the owner should run into trouble even without regular checks.

Of course this depends on the police not being lazy which clearly is a big ask but if that is too much any law is pointless.
The next generation of consoles will be in 5-6 years.

Fiber rollout is increasing and Starlink can offer 20ms under good conditions right now and it or competing networks can get lower still.

A hybrid console is also possible it will have enough horse power to run “casual” games but if you want the top tier you’ll have to stream.

Console makers usually don’t make money on hardware so if they can move everyone off it and just stream that’s a no brainer for them.
Do they make laptops with internal USB ports? I've never heard of one, but that doesn't mean much.

I've seen the feature on servers for the same reason they can come with (dual) internal SD cards, but I can't imagine a manufacturer putting in a full-size USB-A port in an ultrathin laptop. I'd really like to see an example if I'm wrong however.
> in some countries it is virtually impossible to fire.

Compared to the US, it may seem to be virtually impossible, but people are fired here too.
Yeah I posted this in another thread but your claim is simply untrue.

There is little to no need for anyone to scrape the web themselves, CommonCrawl does it for free and provides access to all that data for free, they are a charity similar to The Internet Archive:

https://commoncrawl.org/

As for using that data to train a model, I've done it at my own company and it's not that expensive, certainly not the astronomically expensive figures people seem to think it is. Maybe a hobbyist can't do it for themselves, but my small company managed to get pretty good results training on our existing hardware. It's hard to give concrete figures because we manage our own hardware instead of using AWS, but all in we're talking on the order of 100k, as opposed to what I've heard people on HN think it costs, as if it's a $10 million+ enterprise.
Who is going to publish these millions of lines auto generated text, and where is the value in it to the publishers? Nobody is going to find it through Google if we all switch to chat bots. If nobody is going to visit, no one will publish it.
In US, ThinkPads have been especially popular in the corporate world, with some companies practically standardizing on them as business laptops; e.g. Microsoft used to be like 90% Thinkpads early-to-mid 2010s. I suspect that much of the support infrastructure benefits that we get are derived from it being that pervasive. Are they generally less common in Europe?
".. the biggest advantage of FIDO2 security keys is that they are cheaper and more user-friendly.".

Not wrong, but also overselling how user friendly the new keys are.

Somewhat amusingly, the yubikeys also support storing a gpg key. So, most of the old stuff still works with them.
Join the lion crew. We have mobile background playback for youtube and soon vertical tabs.
The root problem in my estimation is that people want a boilerplate bureaucratic process which they can follow and achieve good enough™ results.

A lot of the activities done in agile or scrum or whatever processes are potentially useful tools in specific situations. But people don't want to understand the history and reasoning behind the tools nor do they want to apply them judiciously as appropriate.

They want a one size fits all process that produces results, if not optimally, at least consistently. And whatever Agile flavor of the month is popular is just that, it's good enough. And the benefit is that you get this fun mind trick to deflect blame ("I don't know what happened we followed the process. People don't fail processes do.") or ("I'll tell you what went wrong we didn't follow the xzy process. If we had just agiled a little harder this project would have shipped on time").
If the growth stops the same tactics stop working.
> in the last few years, we’ve gotten...AIs that are superhuman at just about any task we can (or simply bother to) define a benchmark, for

Uh what?
Nice work! My feedback would be: can you make sure it replies in paragraphs, instead of one giant block of text. (FYI, I asked "how to center a div")

Good luck
Saying something failed is awkward as there are plenty of old software projects pre-agile that delivered amazing results, on time, within budget, at extremely high levels of quality.
Is that not the case for all essays?
> hopefully the Chrome store review process is the nanny they need.

This is very disrespectrull.

When you supply exhaustive documentation of your software, how it works, what it does, to users, then you can mock them.
I have a pet theory that it’s not that people are more productive when they work less but that there is less work needs doing but few are willing to say it. You go back in time and a lot of great technological innovations have the inventors talking about how great it will be when we only have to work one day a week thanks to it. All this crazy tech we have nowadays means a lot can be done in less time so more of peoples jobs is just pretending to work or inventing work that needs doing.

It’s about time we reap the fruits of technological progress.