skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't understand how most of the comments here seem to be along the lines of "these interview questions are useless now" or "we need to rethink education, it hasn't kept up". These all seem absurdly myopic to me.

What we're seeing is the first instance, still very limited and imperfect, of AGI. This is not going to make some interview questions obsolete, or give students more tools to cheat with their homework. It is effectively proving that acquiring knowledge and professional skills is becoming useless, for good. In a few years (3, 5, 10 at most) this is going to defeat the entire purpose of hiring, and therefore of completing most forms of professional education. At the current rate of progress, most intellectual professions will be obsolete before today's sixth-graders are ready to enter the job market.

I can't even picture a functional world where humans are cut out of most professions that don't involve manual work; where any amount of acquired knowledge and skills will be surpassed by machines that can produce better results at a thousandth of the cost in a thousandth of the time a human can. And even if such a world can function, I can't imagine a smooth transition to that world from its current state.

I'm worried, does it show? :)
Agreed completely. This problem borders on that common category of questions which test whether the applicant shares a specific fine-grained flavor of nerdiness as the interviewer, rather than whether the candidate is a good fit for the job.
> It should be noted that, empirically, all other economic systems that have been tried are even worse than capitalism as far as people’s perceptions of their existence.

The modern mixed economy, which has displaced the system for which the name “capitalism” was coined during the early to middle 20th century in virtually every place that it existed at the time the term “capitalism” was coined for the dominant economic system of the industrialized portion of the West in the mid-19th century, has, empirically, not been worse than capitalism as far as people’s perceptions.

If you compare only precapitalist systems and Leninism and its derivatives, you’d be right.

> Compare this to socialist economic systems, where opting out is illegal and classifies you as a social parasite.

The modern mixed economy is the closest (though not a very close) thing to a socialist economy system that has been tried on any large scale basis (its even the closest thing – though again not a very close thing – to a Marxist system, despite Leninists trying to claim the name.)

Vanguardist elite authoritarian state capitalist command economies are not socialist, and not (despite the aspirational claims originally made for them) empirically an effective way of bypassing the need Marx identified to go through a period of private capitalist development on the way to a socialist system.
I tested several AI chats, and none of them could correctly answer the question: "what is heavier, 1 kilogram of nails or 1 kilogram of feathers?". Does this one know? (I don't have openai key, can't test it myself).

EDIT: turns out, the latest version of chatGPT knows the answer. They also fixed the answer to another famous trick question("The son of my father, but not my brother. Who is that?")
Can’t have been that good a bug, if you can’t.

Been close to 15 years since some of the horror stories I can tell. Hell, over 20 years for some of my favorite lessons.

edit: Point is the good shit stays. You’ll remember the best stories, fear not.
Is anyone else besides Apple doing this?
Thank you! This might be a useful term of art to bandy about my current work situation.
That's true if pattern matching specifically is what you want, in practice we don't constructs ADT's for the sake of it and rolls with interfaces that also meshes well with data imported from other sources (ie JSON).

Also while pattern matching isn't an explicit thing in TS you get most benefits from compiler checked accesses that can recognize type-tests in your code and derive types and do property access checks.
Of course we can enumerate all possible theories, in principle. This is a trivial corollary of the fact that we can enumerate all Turing machines.

It's not practical but that's not the point. The point is that if we are free enough to enumerate all possible theories in a deterministic universe, then science can be conducted. Clearly we can enumerate all possible theories, therefore even if our universe is deterministic, we can do science.
Seems like it's a flash of intuition to blame cows for the change in sedimentation 150 years ago and to discount it for the present.
"One time, I was working on a project where the UI kept freezing when a certain button was pressed. I spent hours debugging the code, but couldn't figure out what was causing the problem. Eventually, I discovered that the button's event handler was accidentally triggering an infinite loop that was consuming all the CPU resources, causing the UI to freeze. It was a weird bug because the symptoms were not immediately obvious and it took a lot of digging to uncover the root cause.

I once spent an entire day trying to figure out why my code was behaving erratically when processing a certain data file. It turns out that the file had some hidden control characters in it that were causing my program to misinterpret the data. The bug was weird because I had never encountered a situation where hidden characters were causing issues before.

One time, I was working on a codebase that had been written by multiple developers over a long period of time. I was debugging a particularly tricky issue where certain data was being lost between different parts of the system. After a lot of investigation, I discovered that one of the earlier developers had implemented a workaround for a different issue that involved storing data in a global variable that was being accidentally cleared by another part of the code. It was a weird bug because it was caused by a seemingly innocuous change that had been made months earlier and was difficult to trace back to its origin."

Welp, we're boned
Heh, interestingly I also noticed more problems on my 14" M1 MBP than I had on my previous mid-2014 13" MBP (or more specifically: any problems at all, because the touchpad on my previous MBP was pretty much perfect).

I suspect it's simply because of the bigger touchpad. Even if the "error rate" is the same as before, there are just more potential errors because of the bigger touchpad surface.
I used to use Linux as my primary OS for almost 20 years, but I switched to MacOS recently with my M1. While I wouldn't want to use Linux now on it, and I have to admit I now prefer MacOS a LOT, I am very happy for projects like these because by the time Apple stops supporting my M1 Macs, Linux will probably be very stable on them and will save them from the recycling plant.

(I also resurrected a Macbook Pro 2011 and got it to run about 5 years after Apple stopped supporting it as well.)
ChatGPT provides excellent explanations in multiple languages for all code I've seen it write.
Yes, I understand.

I'm explaining that you need a WebView for basic functionality of many apps.
Why would you need to use docker for a SSG?
Podman 4.4
TurboTax is blitzing Congress for the right to tax YOU
3D Printing RF Lenses and Antennas
I mean... it's not that bad but everyone has gone down a notch in the last 10-20, years imho.

The only people living in 4+ bed detached / semi detached houses are people with inherited wealth or huge joint incomes. Doctors, senior software engineers, people who work in finance. Your average middle class professionals, teachers, civil servants, lecturers, journalists and so on, will all have gone down a rung in the ladder. They're doing OK, but probably living in a smaller terraced house or maybe a flat.
Really weird that a very obvious choice, Medium, did not make the cut. I'm quite aware of how unpopular it is here on HN, but that's mostly a meme.

It doesn't cost anything and there's no ads. Even linking your domain to it used to be free (sadly no longer true). It has a very decent writing experience and the out of the box design is simple but effective. It has a reasonable amount of customization. It has wide support for apps.

It's part of a network so you get functionality like claps, a comment system, followers, the like. Blogging with a "social network" built-in. It has newsletter support.

I think that's a sweet deal for such low (or even zero) costs. Ultimately I'd think your writing is what the value of your blog is, not the behind-the-scenes technical tinkering. Unless that really is your thing.

Should you be paranoid about Medium going under, there's an export option.

Note that I'm the kind of person that wrote my own blogging software in the early 2000s. Tinkered and managed it that way for well over a decade.

I've given up on it. It's time wasted. Nobody cares about your blog design, it's hard enough for anybody to care about the actual text in today's landscape. Hence, pick your battles, keep it simple.
Nobody is talking about recompiling AOSP.

It's a popup dialog.
It used to be a week, but then the queue of unpublished articles got to be around 150. I want it to be around a year, but it was more like 3 years, which I thought was just silly.
Fellow raw HTML writer chiming in. My hand-built little web app for blogging broke maybe five years ago with some OS X update, and I have been too lazy to fix it.
That's actually a great example of why I agree with that person.

It is totally reasonable to say "you may use AI tools in this class", or by comparison, "you must do research in this class, here are some ways you can do research, it is not cheating to use Google".

It is a very different thing to require the use of AI tools by someone who can competently write an essay on their own, or to require the use of Google by someone who happens to have a bunch of relevant sources bookmarked. That's moving from "can you do this" to "can you use this specific tool", and away from the actual point of the class.

Another example of this I can remember was requiring specific IDEs for some courses, which invariably led to a quarter of the class time being wasted explaining buttons in a now long-outdated version of Eclipse in excruciating detail, instead of any actual programming concepts or even Java-specific concepts.
I was just cursing a lot setting up a single node with my default stack.

I’m going to try this tomorrow, because containers are so useful, but I just don’t want to deal with K8s on anything that I run myself.
> Any corporation which fails to extract more value from it's employees than it pays them doesn't stay in business for long.

Same rule applies to co-ops
I don't know if this is an AGI-like experiment, because LLM are trained on human knowledge. I'd expect that real AGI wouldn't need such a thing and would improve on its own. That's the moment where we become obsolete.
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You seem to have created this account 4 hours ago with the sole purpose of lecturing HNers about how their problems aren't real and the solution is for them to be more like you, a generally superior human being.

I wonder, why would an ubermensch feel the need to spend their day doing this?
> there are worrying number of HIV+ men that have stopped disclosing their status to sexual partners because they've heard that "undetectable = untransmissible."

I thought that was the entire point of the “undetectable = untransmissible” campaign — freeing people from worrying about passing it to others and having to live with a scarlet letter, which is an incentive to get treated

> It’s important that people still disclose their status

Why?
> There is no such thing in any deals with China

Tell that to Lithuania ( delisted as a country by China), Taiwan ( a "province"), Tibet ( invaded), Hong Kong ( taken over), ...

Concerning debt trap. Are you aware that Africa is paying off debt for mostly Chinese workers/companies/contractors for those failed infrastructure projects? Bringing in almost no employment to Africans.

https://thediplomat.com/2022/03/how-chinas-ambitious-belt-an...

The thing you're forgetting is that China doesn't care about the countries and their inability to pay them back. They are interested in how they are getting paid back.

Eg. Ports in Sri Lanka, Zambia, Nigeria, ...
https://www.africanliberty.org/2018/09/10/like-zambia-sri-la...

Bridge of 3,1 b$ for the Maldives - https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-52743072

Angola - https://theprint.in/world/angolan-model-viewed-as-early-exam...

I'm willing to wait to see how this all plays out and who is right here.

Are you?

> Angola still owes China more than USD 23 billion, mostly from oil-backed loans. With declining production, this means that most of Angola’s output is going to China, preventing Africa’s second-largest oil producer from selling its major source of income on the open market.

PS. It isn't solely Africa, but also Australia and European countries ( mostly in the east ) already decided that it's better to not be in debt with China ( and they have gotten not pleasant suprises)

https://www.dw.com/en/cracks-appear-in-chinas-new-silk-road/...

PS. Ukraine also had a deal with China, they were even under a nuclear umbrella of China ( lol) during the "one road one belt" project. We can all see how that "protection" turned out.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/under-new-scrutiny-chinas-nucle...

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On top of this, your "links" only name 1 infrastructure project: "the Mombasa railway"...

Dare to do a sanity check?

https://www.voanews.com/a/kenya-wants-to-renegotiate-loans-f...

> "It becomes impossible to be able to pay that loan by revenue that comes from the railways. And even in 50 years, it will not break even if you load the loans to the railways," Murkomen said.

Let's dig a bit deeper in the country.

https://www.wionews.com/world/kenya-discloses-loan-documents...

> any major dispute over the railway would be decided in Beijing

https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/china-may-seize-kenyan-asset...

China is willing to give those countries loans to repay those Chinese loans. But they do have higher interests and shorter repay terms...

Good luck.
Well, it's fine to mention the names of key players. But if you choose to do that, it's weird to not mention the name of the person who started the project and has been driving it.
I think it was always so, ie cliques of power happened almost right away and a de facto power hierarchy manifested organically. This is what I've surmised from ex Valve people but until we have a book or documentary that reveals what really went on we may only speculate.
It's been a few years now but I used to work on research on this particular alternative receptor.

To handwave and simplify a bit CCR5 is the dominant pathway for the virus to spread in a healthy patient. HIV tends to mutate in patients from attaching to CCR5 (called phenotype R5) to CXCR4 (called X4) once the immune system is weaker. Patients with the X4 are not as infectious as a healthy immune system can fend it off.

So CCR5 is more or less the only pathway for the virus to infect a healthy host, as far as I can remember.
...and it did take decades.
Sure, just like how we can end racial disparities in gifted/honors academic programs by getting rid of the programs themselves, right? Reframe the issue and it just disappears!
Is there really a basis for such an assumption?

Don't returns tend to diminish with effort, rather than increase?
Can't wait for stable Linux to run on macOS. Wish I could work on a project like Asahi Linux, it looks a very interesting one.
I mean the first and the third aren't great. So, 33% chance of being boned.
"Having something to do with" doesn't mean explains, and only talking about the US still takes all agency away from other actors.
<head>
<title>Title</title>
</head>
<body>
<p><b>2023.02.20</b></p>
<p>This is the first paragraph.</p>
<p>This is the second.</p>
</body>

Save that as "blogpost.htm" somewhere a web server can see it.

Add stylesheets and so on as you get more comfortable, but it really is that simple. All that matters in the long run is what you put between the <p> tags.
1. That is not what the study found.
2. The reason that there is limited evidence that masks work is that the effort required to collect more than limited evidence that masks work has not been undertaken.
This isn't a particularly new idea - and it does work! Github, Basecamp, Slack, Qualtrics, Notion, Monday, JIRA, and others all followed this approach. Local-first might reduce the startup costs somewhat, though.
? ChatGPT doesn't diagnose and isn't a doctor.
Its always nice how management uses easy-to-remember mathematical principles without considering the shape of their data or the proportion of variance explained by these factors, and if that principle would even be applicable.
I've thought it would be nice to add func to the language. Even if it's just sugar it would help. Type inference + allowing functions to return an anonymous struct or a tuple would be super.
Seems like innocent mistake is most likely.
If there's been an indie/garage wave of music since grunge swept hair-metal out of the top 10 I guess I missed it. I had come to enjoy the reactionary waves of music like folk, punk, college-rock, grunge: the music that often started in small venues or at parties, that somehow broke through to find an large audience that were sick of the commercial dreck that studios and labels were pushing.
I hear that it'll be an app you can run on your neuralink. I'm very excited to beta test it.

Should be any day now just like full self driving.
https://archive.ph/o4ZC2
Even though Go is unlikely to be an ideal choice for a web browser, I had definitely wanted to venture into it just as a toy project. Unfortunately, it's obviously an enormous project, so I am absolutely nowhere on it.

That said, shameless plug: if anyone wants a reasonably complete but immature ECMA262 parser in Go, I did do that. You can see how (un)finished it is here, with the wasm build: https://cleansheets.io/parser/ - source here. https://github.com/jchv/cleansheets

The truth is, I'd like to still work on this and even see if it's plausible to build a decent JIT without going too far into the weeds (I wouldn't tolerate a requirement on Cgo personally) but given that I never even pushed up an interpreter (I had an AST-based interpreter, but it was so ugly that I scrapped it :) I doubt I'll get anywhere near Opossum. Oh well.

It'd still be fun to at least get some pages rendering. Probably no chance in hell I'd ever get over to milestones I'd actually like to (like booting GMail for example.)
I could be wrong but I think a lot of the M1 support being added to linux is around what used to be called the "chipset" of the system and not the CPU itself, which is running a typical ARM64 ISA.

Getting the device tree set up, initializing graphics and all the peripherals, and the boot process is where Ashai Linux has done the vast majority of their work.
Getty Images is suing Stability AI for copyright infringement:

https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/6/23587393/ai-art-copyright-...

It's a bit hard to argue against. Stable Diffusion was trained on Getty's images and it does reproduce them, watermark included.

Getty Images will win the case.
It's not even in their list of things on might have done in the past, they seem to not regard anything other than self-hosting as a blog, which seems a bit archaic. Building a blog shouldn't be about learning a new framework it should be about writing
TLDR: HIV edits your genome to add itself into it.
I own a two year old headless home computer with 256GB of RAM and two 3090s. I ssh into it from my mac to run ML training jobs.
So, what if we give ChatGPT code of ChatGPT, and ask to improve upon it? If it can do that, we are fucked.
Yeah... but Apple Silicon requires firmware for a lot of the peripherals. The upstream Linux kernel will now happily be able to load said firmware into the right place... but it doesn't come with it, so don't expect it to be as easy as rebuilding the kernel and dropping into a generic ARM image.
The nearest thing I can think of in the modern world is game consoles and smartphones. Except they are locked down much much more than an M1 Mac.
Unless they are in a monopoly position in a lucrative business.
Some advice: move to emacs regardless of what editor you use. Evil mode is the best vi clone there is. Use paredit for any lisp like language, you are editing the sexpression tree directly, not it's incidental textual representation. Use the mode for the dialect of your choice. You will never need to exit emacs and will be able to experience the repl as it was it was meant to be.
What is the PaX situation? I tried googling but didn't find it
Bing Chat AI: major quality improvement
That's like a general fixing a lack of rations by taking on heavy losses in the next battle. I'm sure morale was high at that org.
I moved to Melbourne, AUS for a year last year (moved back at the start of this year). My purpose was clear, find people to hang out with, and build a more social life.

I succeeded. It was all with the help of Meetup, just hanging out at bars with groups lead me to talking to more and more people, and usually afterwards, I'd talk to people outside of Meetups at different bars.

This led to gaining friends, and we'd just hit each other up to "hang out". It was the best year of my life due to this "hanging out" so I 100% relate to this whole article.
>What we're seeing is the first instance, still very limited and imperfect, of AGI

absolutely not. language-model text generation is actually about as non-general as it gets -- they are fundamentally incapable of understanding anything at all, ever. they can't do math, work through basic logic problems, or produce any output that isn't just an assumed logical continuation of the input.
The 6.4 that hit the city of Iskenderun was originally known as "little alexandria" or on other accounts as actual "alexandria" (of the infamous library)

So the one thing to look at this, is with a tool such as ImportYeti.com --> You can see who/what/where/when are receiving sea shipments at ports.

You look at who is a supplier in, say the port hit by this EQ - Iskenderun - and it looks like the US Customer of the most shipments of items from that port is Ford Motor Company.

Then you look at the largest inbound shipments to said port - and start to look at the products being brought in.

So this information shows that certain companies relying on shipments from turkey are going to be affected by these EQs. Conversely how many of the 30,000+++ buildings that collapsed were not apartments, but businesses, and what did they either produce or consume.

Further, the fact this basically happened on the visit of POTUS indicates further suspicion...

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So we know that ports are fucked (this port caught fire during the big one)

But now we see that Ford Motor company apparently relies on shipments of something from that port, and they wont be able to get that in a while - so the prices of whatever products ford relied on, also will be affected.

I am shallow in the data now, but it seems that Turkey exports a lot to South America.

Hitachi Energy has transformers made in Turkey for the USA & Canada Market

Furniture for the USA market from 'Nine United' --> 'Design Within Reach' (so https://www.dwr.com/ inventory will be impacted)

Prometeon Tyre Group will be heavily affected...

but this is all based on shipping manifests (boats, not air)

So keep an eye on some of these - I am going to try to work on building something that gives a more broad impact radius...