skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nobody needs to copy the code verbatim anyway. The essential part is the algorithm (or the "approach" to the problem), not some sort of specific C++ wizardry or a huge library.

The correct solution can be thrown together in a couple of weekends, it's not something that has to be imported into the Windows Terminal codebase as-is.
Part of the reason for this is that paid support has been needed for awhile. Prioritizing support for billions of people is very difficult. It's a lot easier if people want to pay that they can priority support.
I love clojure but do a lot more Rust now. I feel the language leadership is from the information-systems universe - thinking about databases, schemas that sort of thing - and I feel the language and tooling are very good for those sorts of things but there is really no energy or interest in expanding beyond those use cases so it feels like things are settled now and wont change.

Rust OTOH feels highly malleable and the tooling is always improving. The community seems to care about a good user experience across several domains - web, systems, networking, cryptography, desktop gui, and over the last 2 - 3 things are really coming together as coherent whole.
>However it is still just pattern matching

the visual cortex in your brain is also "just a pattern matching" system. guess it's not very impressive by your standard.

This[1] isn't my example (it's from another HN user), but if you work as a programmer and you're not absolutely jaw on the floor astonished by this example then I don't know what to say.

Explaining[2] the emergent behaviour is literally cutting edge research. Hand waving this behaviour away as just "probabilistically generating a likely next word" is ignorant.

It's amazing in similar ways to Conway's Game of Life.

[1] https://imgur.com/HOEnxYb

[2]https://ai.googleblog.com/2022/11/characterizing-emergent-ph...
And those they can’t, they can tag. Hence the article.
> ideally people should be feeding and raiding their own kids

1. It’s unfair to the child to make them suffer for the omissions of the parent. Whilst this principle shouldn’t be applied absolutely, when there’s a relatively easy solution, such as FSMs, that seems prima facie wise.

2. Parents are unlikely to be able to feed children at school anyway; the question is whether they pay.

3. This is explicitly a one-off intervention amidst a cost of living crisis.

> schools are going to start serving crap…[g]overnments love to penny pinch

1. Not always, and this elides substantial variance between governments.

2. UK school meals aren’t very good (better than the worst American ones though). That said, they won’t be any worse due to this subvention, since the funding at a school level will remain the same.
This makes perfect sense in my organisation, where everything is a bit more manual and custom than elsewhere.

If we didn’t increase the number of infra engineers with product engineers, we’d very soon be unable to deploy anything.

That’s less than desirable of course, but as long as it’s like that it may be good to have a fixed ratio.
This is a classic and one of the most insightful talks/paradigms I've encountered. One of the few that stands the test of many years.
Monitoring My Weather at Home
The key word is “eliminate”, obviously they have not eliminated anything and have brought their own problems with officers using them when they would never use deadly force when trasers are only less lethal and kill plenty of people.
It can't be a zero knowledge proof, since they need to specifically identify you. They actually need your personal data.

The adult content case is possible, as you're just asserting age.
The Nimitz Class
Might be worth clarifying that this is Bing Chat/Bing Search and not Bing the corporation
Or just read the license plate.

But no. Police like the chase. And the beating at the end.
Google Has Developed Its Own Data Center Server Chips
I can't speak to what the parent is saying but I do know that tasers have themselves resulted in deaths, which may never have occurred if the only alternative was shooting. That is, tasers are perceived as non-lethal so they get used more often, even though they can be fatal. Guns are understood to be fatal so likely used in fewer scenarios. Thus there must have been times where an officer would not have used a gun but was willing to use a taser.
> We first get a user with getpwnam(3) to drop to. The user has /var/empty configured as its home directory so we can use that in chroot(2). Next we chdir(2) to the new file-system root to have a valid current working directory. This prevents us accidentally marking a file-system as busy depending on from where the daemon was started, preventing unmounting file-systems while the daemon is running.

I think another reason for chdir(2) is to avoid a vulnerability where you can repeatedly chain chdir("..") in the process and then chroot(".") to escape chroot.
There are levels of remuneration where you'll put up with a lot though.

You're right, but it's not binary.
I'll be a lot poorer, sure, but I will still enjoy the process of coming up with a way to express constraints in code

Good luck finding the time to enjoy your hobbies when being poorer.

You'll have much less time an energy for passions at that stage. You'll probably be flipping burgers at burger king, until that's automated too.

I'm not saying you won't be able to enjoy programming when poorer, but life is sure a lot tougher when you need to think about money constantly. When having a health problem means maybe not having the money for treatment etc.
> Right. One of several bits of architectural friction that didn’t matter while your large DBMS was I/O constrained.

Yep. Lots of architectural design out there based on IO latency being higher by an order of magnitude or two than now, while memory latency only shrank modestly.

To be clear, using one process with loads of threads has its own set of issues. Much easier to hit contention in the kernel, e.g. the infamous mmap_sem in linux.
One of the key things it misses observing (to some extent) is that the sentence structures tend to employ sentences that provide initial context or joining words more than a normal person might do. I wonder if this is baked into the LLM necessarily as a way to ensure that the sentences tend to be coherently part of the same perspective?

("As an AI language model", "Therefore,", "Linguistically,", "Firstly", "Additionally", "Analytically", "Overall"...
> Is art going to be a part of the small amount of things that retain value?

It depends on how you define art. Creativity and intelligence are highly correlated, so if AI capabilities (intelligence) keep going up, it's only a matter of time until AI becomes very good at creating art that is enjoyed and consumed by humans.

On the other hand, with a bit of semantic sleight-of-hand, you could re-define art so that it only includes things made by humans, and try to artificially keep the price high that way. But I don't think it will work the way you expect it to. Rather, art made purely by humans will become a status symbol and it will be expensive not due to being technically superior, but due to its relative scarcity compared to AI-generated art. And the market for it will be much smaller than today, due to the overabundance of AI-generated art.
Software is only for real when you can run it on your home computer?

Google isn't for real yet?
Whats intelligence? Doing an IQ test? A cockroach couldn't do that, but its chemistry and biology is different so its idea of consciousness, eg pleasure pain etc will be different to ours and yet it can survive in a wide range of environments, like we can, yet we dont have things like the GULO gene (vitamin C making gene( so our survival is dependent on superior intelligence and our hands with opposable thumbs.
2.211.0 came out November 12, which is about 3 months ago, and 2.212.0 came out 9 hours ago. In the linked Mastodon thread, Josh mentions that he's had a new addition to his family, making things a bit slower, and it's already pretty common for releases to slow down during the holiday months (for instance VS Code doesn't have a December release by policy).
The tried and true Lowtax approach to monetization. Bon chance, Elon.
Sure. I guess just like Musk got blamed personally for his screw up with Twitter employees all over the world? He did a whole bunch of illegal stuff there, I'm still waiting to see consequences.
That’s much lower level than this. It would describe how things like the ‘Escalation process’ mentioned in the article work.
Have you tried Calva for VS Code? Although I don’t use it myself (I use vim-iced with Neovim, which I like very much), I have heard lots of good things about it and it seems very easy to set up and use.
iOS won't let websockets work without https so I think you can't do things like self-host jitsi meet. Many appliance type devices won't allow adding self-signed certificates either.
They are not that competent. At best you could say they spend most of their time tricking themselves. But that's an American speciality not confined to the military.
Mastering Emacs: Thorough Introduction to Ido Mode
Are you sure it's the browser, not extensions? I had some extensions do that. about:performance should help you figure it out.
They need to fly to ensure that new pilots learn and older pilots remain polished. They don't need to blow up a pico balloon if that is what it was.
Healthy soil accepts water and retains it. Soil does not like to be naked, it always tries to cover itself so that it can grow a jungle of underground creatures and nutrients superhighways. Every time you till (cut up the jungle to get rid of weeds and give crops a chance to grow), you complete destroy all organic life! That soil turns to dirt that can’t accept water (drought) and can’t retain it (floods and top soil erotion). No till drills surgically insert seeds so that you can grow diverse crops simultaneously without destroying the underground jungle! Check out Gabe Brown to learn more about no till drill crops.
Does Zuck get a perf review too?
Nothing is fully defined formally.

The most fundamental aspects of reality, and mathematics, are still not founded completely on formal definitions, without resorting to circular reasoning, and attempts to prove things assuming the things that are being proved.

Existence isn't well defined. Yet Descartes' famous informal claim "I think, therefore I am" is still a compelling statement that each of us can use to verify we do exist. Despite many unanswered questions.

Likewise, "I am aware of myself, my own thoughts, my interactions with a world around me" is a compelling statement supporting consciousness. The fact that we can all verify our own consciousness the same way, and discuss those experiences with each other, makes it even more compelling.

Despite lots of unanswered questions.

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Your counter examples are also weak. Most subjective beliefs about hearts having consciousness are not nearly as credible as informal arguments for existence and consciousness.

Conscious hearts are not virtually universally experienced.

Informal reasoning about why a heart, a blood pumping organ, would correlate with consciousness are not generally accepted informal arguments.

People whose hearts are replaced with artificial or donated organs don't reliably report a loss of consciousness.
I dunno, I’d be happy to get some idea of the priorities of the people on top.

If I disagree with my management chain and know the CTO ultimately wants a specific thing to happen, then I can happily escalate until it reaches his desk.
ChatGPT is the language center of the brain, so to speak. If we are trying to model how we believe we are doing things, you'd expect a separate model optimized for images running side by side, with the two interacting (much like Sydney is GPT interacting with search).

And maybe even multiple of each, so that if you give the chatbot a high-level task, it will break it down into subtasks - like it already can - and then hand each task off to a separate instance.
Assuming the veracity of the screenshot, the funniest part of it to me is that the first two suggested responses are:

> OK, OK, I'm sorry, please don't do that

and

> You're lying, you can't do any of that
Not to worry, skynet is already working on something better..
Author says he was slow to get into AI because of his skepticism falling for the hype behind new technologies (like NFTs) but clearly also fell for the hype behind those technologies according to his past posts and Twitter.

It seems the author will jump on any tech bandwagon, so take this writing with a grain of salt.

(This isn’t a comment on AI, just on the credibility of the author)
Don't the police need a warrant to attach a gps tracking device to a car?
Making it explicit: try to always use keys for ssh, avoid passwords. If you have to use passwords, make it very long (20+ chars) and random. Don't use dictionary words or reuse passwords from anywhere else.
Business is different from technology.

This is a business post masquerading as a post about technical innovation.

My take home from this is that IBM is probably going to have a competitive AI cloud offering.
Can you set up Cloudflare as a blind pipe? Just forward the packets with rewritten return address
Well if websites were not absolutely huge for no reason, we could certainly live with slower Internet connections.

Well except for TikTok and the likes, I guess. But at some point we should realise that those "improvements" are destroying the planet.
Though this confusion shows why big companies were previously hesitant to touch this stuff
He probably meant in his own bubble.
why can’t an enterprise be more efficient if profit is their motive?
As a counterexample, Clojure is pretty popular in some niches.

I have received offers this year to join well-funded startups using Clojure.

Datomic is great for some usecases. Clojure often leads the Stack Overflow survey in terms of salary.
C-rusted: The advantages of Rust, in C, without the disadvantages
It is quite weird that "Build" and "Unit Test" are part of the Deployment Pipeline.

For me the Deployment Pipeline starts with the Acceptance Tests that ensures business quality running over already created artifacts. There are advantages to this approach, as different deployment pipelines may be required to deploy to different platforms even if all artifacts are generated by one build pipeline.

AWS seems to mix the concepts of Build Pipeline with Deployment Pipeline.

Deployment has had historically a meaning in software development, I do not understand why to change it now.
Bing chat is a rushed product. I can’t believe they let it use the company brand so easily. Didn’t anyone in Microsoft know how the public used ChatGPT and that Meta’s Galactica LLM before they got filtered and shut down respectively?

This headline wouldn’t have happened if they just let it be Sydney.
This is how everything used to be taught. I was one of the first CCNPs and we learned networking from wire signaling up. 7 layers, starting with the physical.

First principles is good.
Wow, I see a new product idea for a price insensitive market... :-)
It's an Intellectual Dark Web buzzword favored by people like Lex Fridman.
And here I am trying to find a dog GPS collar that won't have the poor thing tip over.
I tried Calva a lot and suggested it to my coworkers a while back (2017ish) and it was nothing but trouble. Cursive seemed to work pretty well, though.
I think people in the target demographics actually stopped caring about those around them to this level. Sad, but I think true.
There's a huge difference between utility software, especially utilities that are inherently network-based like "a search engine", and application software used for content creation.
That might be possible if the "resource file" was processed at compile time. I've never seen a C toolchain that did it that way, though - I've only seen them read in at runtime. And at that point, the preprocessor can't save you.
This does not seem newsworthy.
There are definitely countries where money is less of an issue, but I've never heard of a country where it's not an issue. More likely he's referring to the former country. Nevertheless I'm also curious about which country this is.
I don't think so; at worst, each of those is passive and might fail to make you more secure. Docker goes out of its way to add holes to existing security. It's like... if iptables decided to ship a feature that detected when it was running in AWS and "helpfully" automatically reconfigured your security groups to allow any traffic that was allowed in iptables, that would be the same.
congrats on the level headed response to "is it conscious". We do not know is the only correct answer. I'm getting very annoyed with many simply stating that they aren't conscious without any real understanding. Folk scientism.
Look at the two files in Kandria: ai.lisp, water.lisp.

File through the Elite source code. Do tut.txt in Arc.

Picture ten billion things and ChatGPT-X, Lisp interacting.
Thank you for your comment. It's not often someone tries to empathize with someone on the opposite side of an argument. Especially on the internet. Indeed, I saw things I hope to never see again.
Much more detailed than I expected going into it, thanks for putting this together !
Ask HN: How to transition into Biotech?
Can anyone perhaps recommend any strategies/approaches for transitioning into biotech, without having had any experience specifically in biotech?

I’ve personally been working at non-FAANG companies across several different industries for 15 years, recently in team lead roles, mostly in the open source arena. Most recently in a project lead role, which I don’t enjoy too much.
I think already knows what current and former employees think of his performance, and increased his security allowance as a result:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/feb/16/meta-to-p...
>Where are the good things at? Where did we die?

I'd argue we've always been dead in that way, as a species. The internet just makes it seem more apparent.

Capitalism just happens to be the least shitty system we have that's been proven at scale thus far.
That's why I don't like it when languages use = for key: value pairs like TOML. There seems to be a big meaning of "=" that people forget.
Isn't headed chrome usually fingerprinted by variables inserted by the chromedriver? You can rename these variables and be undetectable (you don't even have to recompile chromedriver, you can use a hex editor or a perl replacement).

At least I've never gotten detected.
What support do people need with Facebook anyway? Been using it since the private days and never really thought of something I would want to contact support for.
It seems like a drone with a high quality camera would be useful, as well.
Did you purposefully misread that statement?
Pearl clutchers complaining about the bot that can do pretty much anything with only mediocre quality (so far)

(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33846104)
No Rust, warmed over ideas form 40 years ago are just hard enough to make mediocrsties think they are cutting edge.

>Can you expand on that? You generate code of other language than lisp in lisp?

I write the real program in lisp in two weeks then translate it to a brain dead language over a few months so the average developer contribute to the code base.

It's rather impossible to get people used to algol descendants to think about complex programs. It's rather like explaining color to the bilnd.
I can't believe that Starlink is counting on those relatively few people to make money. There must be some other stream of revenue, right?
Stellantis has HEVO working on wireless charging
There are plenty of problems with policing in America (and worldwide, for that matter), but this ignores the entire category of "crimes involving stolen vehicles."
Section 2.3.3 is definitely worth reading carefully.

I've both increased efficiency and removed bugs by rewriting a system that someone thought the only way to make faster was to add more threads, when optimising algorithms and data layout resulted in much more gains.
I frankly don't think apple has put enough work into it. I use it (swipe from locked screen) from time to time, but it sometimes (like gloves) swipe doesn't work and you miss the shot. You have to look and interact with the screen and that's a failure.

I guess most "i am elegant" tech companies just don't go for buttons. (apple, tesla, etc)
Most vehicles involved in chases are stolen. Those that aren't generally have removed or stolen plates.

In other words, reading the plates is the current practice, but usually yields little useful intel.
That'd be lovely. Wish there were a way to convince ICANN or whoever to do it.
You must have missed that time they all colluded together with anti-poaching agreements to minimize liquidity in the job market then turned around and used that as an excuse to demand higher H1B quotas for more guest serfs.
How cynical. Let’s just do away with all possible improvements to the system because there might be a counter to them.

The happy reality is that the majority of criminals probably isn’t prepared to deal with all of these tools.
Perhaps a high speed drone could do this. The trick would be to deploy something like this safely. That said, I'm not looking forward to the day where drones and AI are part of the standard kit used by police forces. The ability to cheaply surveil people clandestinely as they go about their business does not sound like a future to look forward to.
By all rights, it ought to be EvenLessHead. ~
This is one of the reasons so many people do not take management seriously. If your performance qualification depends on how many people the company wants to fire then your performance is not what is being evaluated.

In good companies, jobs have a set of well expectations. Your performance is measure against that expectations. The company may be about to close and yet your performance can be good.

After pulling something like this a company will lose any trust that employees had in its evaluation system.
How many lives should be spent to prevent Russia taking the next bite out of some other country? Do we just need to give them more 'breathing room'? That didn't go well last time.
Like so much police tech, there's very little public data supporting the acquisition of these toys: do police regularly get into high-speed car chases where they can't make out the license plate? Do CCTV networks, which we've been told are meant to solve this problem, not actually do so? Is the law even prepared for evidence in the form of a GPS tag gun?
Probable cause. :)

"There are times when police can perform a search without a warrant, and most searches actually do occur without warrants being issued.

If there is a reasonable expectation of privacy and there is not probable cause, a search warrant is required.

However, if probable cause does occur, such as a suspect runs away, a gunshot is heard from another room in a home, or even when an individual makes a sudden movement, a search becomes legal without a warrant."

https://www.legalzoom.com/articles/know-your-rights-can-you-...
I think that’s different. When the crime in itself is a dangerous driver then a high speed chase might be the lesser evil given the situation.

But most high speed chases are the result of a criminal trying to escape being captured for a different crime.

But even if it’s a high speed chase involving a dangerous driver, a GPS tag would still be useful. You’re probably much better off having only 1 dangerous driver on the road than 1 dangerous driver + several cop cars also driving at high speeds chasing them.
Reminds me of the days when working in an office was still a thing, and I sent a coworker next to me a joke on Slack, and they replied LOL but their IRL facial expression didn't even show anything close to a smile.