skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I completely understand the point you're arguing, I'm trying to articulate the problems inherent in the system and a way forward. Nobody would starve, they'd just switch to healthier foods. This would be a good thing.

America has a crisis of obesity. Our life expectancy is actually going down despite amazing medical advancements. Our food system today incentivizes horrible health outcomes, we should be looking at cheap soda, fries and burgers as akin to cheap cigarettes, cheap vodka and cheap opium have done to populations in the past.
I've always taken it to (also) mean that one ought not expect rebirth in enlightenment, or some instant transformation of one's condition and even of one's spiritual (if you will) practice. It's not like graduating from school and moving into the workforce, where you stop going to classes and your life shifts radically in a short span. One day you're not enlightened, the next you are, and... that's the whole thing, congrats, you did it, now life goes on surprisingly-similarly to how it did before.

"Oh, you're enlightened? That's nice. Now, on with what we were doing...."
They burned off the vinyl chloride because the combustion products are relatively benign, it was much safer to remediation personnel to ignite the chemicals in a controlled burn vs having them work around flammable chemicals for weeks, vinyl chloride is quite volatile and acute exposure to high concentrations of vinyl chloride vapor is dangerous, and they wanted to get everyone back in their homes (and yes, get the railroad back up and running) as quickly as safely permissible.
I agree that almost no Software 1.0 will be effected by this. Software 2.0 will start doing the jobs humans do now because Software 1.0 can't, e.g. security guard, customer support, as well as your examples.

The real interesting things will be Software 1.0 and 2.0 working together. You use 1.0 to run and validate the work of 2.0 that is guided by prompts. An example of this would be using prompts to generate source code that is compiled and tested. The real TDD is only writing tests and letting Software 2.0 create the code for you. This extends to other work like engineering as well.
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> Chatgpt for drones. “Fly to [address], make sure to take a discrete route with low traffic, take a few pictures on each side of the house. Scan for people near by, make sure people are no closer than 300ft”.

"Then set the house on fire."
So thats I guess exactly my point. The text-to-accurate-SVG is much closer to the "solve a math problem for real" side of the spectrum than other prompts. And it does it correctly. In a sibling comment it turns out it doesn't work for other company logos. So my guess is either that the corpus happened to have this data already, they purposefully fed it additional Microsoft-related materials so it has a better basis of generation, that they regenerated it multiple times until it got it, or that theres an entire previously-undisclosed layer of processing being added to this version vs other ChatGPT.
> Not very toxic outside of high dose acute exposures

Such as when your well is contaminated...
It used to be any railroad that wanted to carry US Mail, so all of them, was required to hitch at least one passenger car onto their trains. The railroad executives insisted that this was so burdensome it would put them out of business so the law was changed. But before that change you could take a train to literally anywhere in the USA where freight trains go, which is basically everywhere including many small towns.

E.B. White wrote a marvelous essay on the subject called The Railroad.
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Yep, we do use the Bing API.
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Ketamine can be mind-altering, and getting it has become much easier
I'm the exact same way and wondered if it's the fresh air and nature that causes that. I can operate on 4-6 hours sleep camping or at the cottage for as long as a week and it's so refreshing. And it's the most refreshing sleep I experience.

I try so hard to replicate it in my normal life because I feel so accomplished when I wake up at 6am and walk down the road to shower and get ready for the day.
> yes, current AI is not even close

This is really my main argument currently...

> but it will improve

With this being the "if" question. Improve, but improve to a point where we can trust it to do the things with the level of correctness actually required? Unclear so far. GPT3, the state of the art, can't be trusted to answer basic questions correctly (yet).

I also don't personally buy into the other notions in these comments that "the future is probabilistic software". I think that's wishful thinking outside of some specific domains and an attempt to bend our actual requirements to meet the capabilities of AI software, rather than the opposite.

> pass the human written test cases

I'm not super sold on this idea either. It seems reasonably possible that writing the test cases to a level of specification necessary to ensure that correctness we're after is just as much effort as just writing the code.

But, time will tell with everything.
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... all the way to slaughter.
I would bet the same way.
This begs the question: what data is going to be used as a training set? How do we make sure our black boxes don't become just echo chambers giving us answers we already know?

At the end of the day it is always: garbage in, garbage out.
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I'm surprised that they are only getting 500ish submissions. Seems like all you need to really jam up the review process is an unbound while().
Yeah that's fair feedback. At this time, we consider ourselves more of a Bazel-lite than an actual Bazel replacement. Once we support more languages and features, this may change in the future.
Maybe, if you are lucky. Not so sure you will be running MacOS though, max version support seems pretty arbitrary with Apple historically.
They do it too sort of argument. They do a lot of things. Like stoning women for adultery.
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Well, that's as may be, but it says on the tin "malware and porno" and weed is neither, eh?
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I also believe that and it's something I'm looking for in general (as a technical person), even if not actively at the moment.

There's always the trope about the "ideas guy" out there that wants someone to build them the tech for free or for equity. So far I have yet to meet such a person, but if the idea is good and interesting I'd be more than willing to give it a shot.
I get that technically this is correct (the best kind of correct).

But the UX of the site is basically "post a question, get modded to shit" now.

I don't think the original author is complaining about the functionality, or even the community (though debatable). I think they're complaining about the UX. And that's not something we can argue with - they think they're posting valid questions, and their experience is that their questions are always rejected. This is true, and it remains true even if technically their questions should be rejected for valid reasons.
What makes yaml not generatable?
Being a night owl is artificial. It's virtually impossible for most of human existence because for most of human existence we didn't have strong lights at night.

The most natural thing to do for a human is to sleep when it's dark and get up when it's light.

The second best thing given that nobody does the above anymore is to sleep late and get up late.

But make no mistake it is more "healthy" and "natural" to have classes early in the morning.
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you need some ego. otherwise you won't know where to point your fork to eat.
Japan privatized their railway in the early 90s. It's really good. This is not an endorsement of privatization just a counterpoint to the argument of national vs privatized transport systems. What it means is leadership and management has to be truly held accountable.
>the combustion products are relatively benign

Who told you that? Phosgene and dioxins are "relatively benign"? Dioxins might more properly be called forever chemicals, and will contaminate the soil and water of five states for decades.

I understand they were trying to avoid a bleve. The solution they chose was not based principally on minimizing citizen harm though
> The number of annoying conversations I've had about converting people to using it make 0 sense.

It's network effects. It's not about convincing one person, it's that they need to convince all their friends. Who need to convince all their friends. Who need to convince the entire country.

Because what's even more annoying than missing the features from WhatsApp, is having to remember which app to use with which person and with which groups of people.

Hopefully that makes more than 0 sense. :)
difference in theoretically versus practically.

Bigger vehicles have bigger engines, frame rails, and suspensions. Some of these for cost, some of these for towing performance.

An example being a truck, bigger frame rails that will crumple less, leaf spring suspension that will crumple less, and a high rake grill that will capture more force, and a higher mounted engine and higher mounted passenger compartment that makes separation less ideal.
These days, the hardware of the laptop rarely matters for me. Battery life and screen legibility is what matters above all else because I do little to no compute on the actual device itself. To that end, I like the Mac M1 Air and the Framework laptops.

Nothing beats the battery life of an M1 Air that I have found. What really sold me was my first trip with it, flying from Amsterdam to SFO. Left hotel 3 hours early, 2 hours in airport, entire plane ride (10 hours), uber 1 hour home. Constant use, 60% battery life used.

However, my usage is probably atypical. All of my machines, even my phones, belong to a big tailscale vpn. That means everything is accessible everywhere, no matter where I am. Remote development is a simple as VS Code Remote SSH. Files/media/etc are also readily available.

This is a thin client approach, and really opens up my options.
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Research questions: Are instruments taken to Mars sensitive enough to find life?
Surely you would volunteer to drink low doses in all your drinking water for the rest of your life then?
No, it's actually improving and innovation is rapid. Must have been a lot of people coasting on a big salary.
Keep reading:

> and asked for other concrete examples.

It's explicitly asking for an open-ended list.
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Ask HN: Resources for Writing Fantasy/Fiction
Any good blogs, books or videos on how to get started with writing novel style texts/books?
I found out you can be banned by proxy. Post a comment on one sub that the moderator or another sub doesn't like and your get instantly banned off that other sub. I posted some comment on a covid related sub about a year ago and got instantly banned from 50+ subreddits, most I've never interacted with before.
I agree completely with this sentiment. I don’t want to create great new works of literature, I just wanna label some text with metadata and learn the bare minimum about some random tech I’m supposed to use next quarter.

I predict the next year will be companies promising AI will fix everything wrong about my life, and approximately zero will deliver. The companies who will do well will be the companies who don’t even advertise their AI use, but incorporate it into their existing value prop.
Well all I can say is that you and your wife must be really poor teachers.

Here you have a child who knows nothing about history but has come to a realisation all by themselves about people in the past, and instead of praising them and saying, "here's where you can learn more" you decide to deride them for their ignorance.

That's not ideal.
Interesting, so does it keep all the intermediates from previous builds and then does an incremental build on top of this? Like doing a local dev build but in the cloud?
That’s what I meant by “self-fulfilling prophecy.” High performers are given preference for the “better” times and teachers while low/struggling performers are not.
in cases like that: if the owners are still around (meaning: not deceased) the courts should be able to pierce the corporate veil and go after the directors for unlimited amounts
Or the contemporary version: after enlightenment, the dishes.
It is nitpicky, but the fact that these classes deal with decision problems and not general problems is something which feels like should be mentioned more often.

Of course this ends up not mattering in practice since we can convert a problem with arbitrary (bitstring) output into a decision problem. To do this we just include a index n in the input and make the decision problem about whether the bit at given index n is 1.
It really REALLY depends on how you use SO and what "sub overflows?" you're using.

Some of them are quite active and fun to work with, others are brutal. And it also depends on how much effort you put into your questions, also.

But any complaining that goes beyond "googling my question doesn't get me my complete answer anymore" should include examples of when it failed, because often people complain who just wanted SO to do their legwork for them.
>and even several states in the windshed to the northeast (PA, NY, VT)

My understanding is that contemporaneous weather radar[0] put the plume southeast at the time of the burn.

[0] https://www.wdtn.com/news/ohio/east-palestine-train-derailme...
Do you ever find yourself without reliable internet connection and unable to develop/watch media/etc.? Any issues with data caps?
In my experience, I've found that plans and estimates (whether in software or life stuff) are always more accurate if you just use the higher number in the range. If anything, it still won't be high enough, especially for software. And even if you overshoot a bit this way, it's a lot better to miss high than miss low.
Lang's ideas were Self-indulgent hippy stuff back then. His idea of schizophrenia being a journey, well psychiatric nurses I know have no patience for that.

> And more generally, we shouldn’t forget that schizophrenia is mostly social and psychological in origin, rather than purely biological

I'd be curious if you could provide references for that.

> ECT has always served to remove symptoms or “normalize” people by just frying them until they’re a hollow drone.

ditto
I had a lot of angst against stackoverflow for years. Eventually I had to come to terms with the fact that while I hated how I was treated there, they did somehow manage to create an incredibly powerful tool that helped me in my career. I had to come to terms with the fact the policies I hated somehow also helped make top-quality answers instantly accessible.
It means he's desperate for cheap conscripts, people nobody will miss.

But there is considerable support inside Russia for this war. They may not be thrilled when they run out of conscripts and have to draft other men, but they've built up an image of this as a great patriotic duty.

It's often compared to World War II, where they fought off Hitler. It's why the "Nazi" rhetoric lands so well. The comparison seems absurd from outside, but it's entirely believable to them.

So he's happy to dump prisoners while he can, but the war won't end when the jails are empty.
That's how it starts, isn't it?
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Most of the time 'availability' means network connectivity. Most of the time you can throw resources in the processing.
Project looks great.
Some feedbacks -
1. Some template that the user can directly use would be great.
2. Also is there an option to show the interdependency of tasks on each other ?
>Parts, firmware updates, repair manuals...even warranty extensions for 5+ year old Thinkpads is totally normal.

They still have the hardware maintenance manual online for my 30 year old Thinkpad 350C.
> This is a completely broken system though.

When "the system" is working properly, hazardous waste is contained and disposed of appropriately, and sites don't become polluted. The Superfund program exists to remediate situations where that system failed.
> CSV is ubiquitous but has no singularly well-adopted standard

RFC4180 exists regardless of adoption level. In a way, the simplicity of the spec causes the proliferation of grammars. No one thinks they can just yolo a PDF by hand in a text editor. Ok, maybe PDF is a bad example. But CSV (as specified in RFC4180) is so dead simple that people take shortcuts.
It might be. I used to order them for the business I worked for with 5 years on site warranty. Where I live that transfers with sale. T480 was sold into early 2019, so that would end the last warranty around early 2024.
Indeed... the EU has a similar network size and there it's less than 100: https://twitter.com/HerrNaumann/status/1626342809438502918

Edit: less than 100 (Entgleisungen).
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I'm not very familiar with Buck. But I'm assuming it works the same way as Bazel's Starlark?

I can see the benefits of "generating code" within the BUILD file, but honestly, we haven't required it yet, and have been able to do most things with explicit configuration. Our token syntax helps with some dynamic aspects of this.

Maybe in the future we'll revisit this.
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I think this is the reason why the site is found so useful now. The meta board is a good read for anyone who wants to understand more or find out how to resolve their issues with the site.
US military investigating leak of emails from Pentagon server
Fines need to start being paid in company stock, its the only thing companies are beholden to. Everything else is just a price to wreck havoc.

The more the company purposefully puts people in danger, the more nationally owned they are. Especially when it comes to infrastructure like this.

"Sorry, you've been nationalized due to your continued efforts in proving you cannot be trusted". Fines large enough to matter would arguably hurt infrastructure and safety. Start taking shares.
> I'm not sure I like this future

Me too! But to allay our fears I think that the OP here is saying all programming will change to some NN powered large language model. That is not true. There will still be "manual" i.e. not NN powered programming and I suspect that it will be the case that type of thing is the majority for the rest of my career.

Good luck to the poor sods in 100 years time arguing with a poorly trained LLM to output some unit tests whilst a virtual chatbot runs the standups.
> interpret all past human beliefs through his own worldview rather than seriously considering that his worldview may be the one that is flawed rather than the most intelligent humans of the past

You're saying it's irrational to assume that smart people with the accumulated knowledge of nearly all of humanity at their fingertips, backed by hundreds of years of the most effective method for knowledge collection humanity has ever known, analyzed by incredibly sophisticated statistics, pondered by a network of millions of specialists, distributed and digested and re-interpreted and challenged by literally billions of literate humans; versus smart people with much less efficient means of knowledge collection, an extremely low literacy rate, no effective methods of statistical analysis, poor data collection measures, no scientific method, and only a handful of knowledge specialists ... it's irrational to assume the former group has a better understanding of the world than the latter?
Bazel has a heavy focus on correctness (pretty much to the exclusion of everything else). Where does Moon fall on the correctness gradient? Does it enforce hermecity or deterministic builds or give me tools to accomplish it?

In the same vein as those questions how does caching work? Is it content based like Bazel or mtime like Nx et al? If there is no sandboxing does it do input tracking or is there manual "cache key" shenanigans?

If the configuration language is YAML how am I expected to implement new behavior? Is that in Rust? Is there a plugin architecture? Do I need to rebuild the tool itself and redistribute it to my build machines and developers? The main appeal of Starlark/Python in build systems is ability to create macros or in many cases define entirely new rulesets to support new tools and languages without needing to modify the complex and performance sensitive core.

Sorry for the skeptisicm but build systems are very complex beasts and new entrants like Nx don't measure up to tools like Bazel very well.
Russia to launch mission to give stranded space station crew members a ride home
I got a few reddit is down a while back, but it's back now
Well, jobs vs classes are very different. I'd also probably leave a job that gave me arbitrary assignments and tests and made me pay to be there, too, but that's generally fine in a classroom setting.
> ... the union of wisdom and emptiness ...

Ah, the extent that some people will go through to avoid acknowledging God. It's like some people take stubborn pleasure in being purposely nihilistic and strenuously denying all that's good about the world. How this can be part of a supposedly spiritual practice, I just can't understand.
one of the reasons Bazel needs BUILD files with explicit inputs /outputs defined per file is to do fine grained incremental builds and test runs. so if i change say foo.c, i only need to recompile foo.obj and run ‘foo-tests’. Moon seems to take globs as input. Thus modifying even a single file inside ‘src’ dir will trigger rebuild/retest of the entire ‘project’
That is good info, thanks for sharing.

Here is the model that NOAA created - and which has not been officially released to the public yet: https://twitter.com/FalconryFinance/status/16258723275684208...
As a counter point, I spilled a gigantic can of energy drink on my t420 and my fix was literally doing jack shit, not even shutting down the computer because the laptop had drain holes. A key was sticky a bit I guess.
Do people really drop 8 bucks every month for things like this? I'm not trying to be hurtful or condescending to the authors.

I just feel like there is such a large disconnect between me and the people I know vs these new SaaS products popping up everywhere, each asking for 5-15 dollars each month. ~10 years ago I was totally on board when these same products where a one time AppStore purchase in the 1-5 dollar range. I wonder what changed.

Maybe it has something to do with me earning 1/5th of the average SV salary.
This is a shame. I used Starry at my old apartment and it was great 99% of the time. Weather would occasionally take it down, but the speed and ping times were very good.

That they were giving people a year of free service to try it out probably didn't help their financial situation.
I don't see the word citizens mentioned anywhere.

As a parallel point, there were no immigration laws at all until a hundred years after the constitution was ratified. Anyone could come to the US.