skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: Would you enter Software Engineering again if starting from zero today?
Given the advances of AI, will SE as generally understood today be a promising field for students starting today?
That would be my approach, but this is a VC site. I suspect most folks here, are looking for big breaks, and sweet VC funding.
Somehow I don't think abolishment of the Johnson Amendment would result in less religious involvement in politics.

It's a very large interconnected system.

The main effect of eliminating the tax free status for religious institutions would be a push toward charity involvement where instead of the charity work being part of the church, the church would be a part of the charity (think basement soup kitchens and the like). Instead of having "St Mary's church and Soup Kitchen" you'd have a big legal shuffle that accomplishes nothing resulting in org titles like "St Mary's Soup Kitchen and Related Worship Services"

Unless they're proposing complete elimination of all tax-exempt status for all orgs including charities and similar orgs. Which would be interesting to think about but probably impractical?
This is the mind boggling part. What were they thinking? Was this copy pasta from OpenAI and didn't proof read it?
Microsoft snatching defeat from the jaws of victory with this. They have momentum and good cred built from their other bets then some overstuffed suit pushes for time to be spent on this.
Oh no not the precious twitter accounts! I thought everyone hated twitter now that Elon Musk took over.
I think this is an under appreciated symptom of a much larger problem, accelerated shit production.

I've observed that markets are really bad at selecting for quality. The "invisible" hand is driven by price and so the production of "equivalent" products at a lower price does two things;

1) It consumes product demand from quality insensitive consumers (the whole 'sucking the oxygen out of the eco system problem.')

2) It takes the margin support that those people provided out of the pipeline, leaving only the folks who are quality focused as the market.

I have complained about this in the past with respect to personal computer hardware. I (and others) have used the term "crapitalism" to describe the hollowing out of the market by the flood of poor quality products.

With technology that is pretty easy to do by substituting "work alike" but less expensive parts, these work in the short time and then fail in terms of lifetime or drift over time specifications.

Now we have "cheap creativity" in the form of prompt directed creative works. I expect that we'll see a flood of self published romance novels on Kindle (even at 0.99/each you need perhaps a dozen sales to cover your time investment) Stories that speak at only one level (the constructions of the plot and the actions of the characters) then swamp the market and more nuanced stories or works will not be sold because of the money spent on these which isn't available to spend on better works.

I think this will be a huge legacy for these technologies and I don't think history will look favorably on it, but one can never know right?
I actually did read through your "Prompt Alchemy to Engineering" link and the reference to Frege took me very off guard. Then I thought about it a little more and decided mathematical platonism felt even more fitting to me now.
I’m so happy that I just skipped any classes that would start early during university. Some of these classes would start at 7:45 am. What a joke.
Very well done. Did a couple of "How to" questions to generate R scripts for basic purposes (e.g. scraping a webpage) and responses were not only descriptive but also covered other nuances like captcha, javascript execution blocking, parallelizing slow responding sites etc. Have not tried with more nuanced advanced questions but looks very promising so far!
It’s too bad the pitch data out there for Japanese is either proprietary or pirated without attribution

Another resource: https://github.com/CaptainDario/DaKanji-Single-Kanji-Recogni... someone made an interesting kanji recognition lib that hasn’t gotten attention
I suppose there's some value in them for supplying some kind of structure.
A personal anecdote, I've had the the complete opposite experience with Asus and Lenovo laptops lasting forever, not even needing any sort of repair, while my 2007 MacBook pro died because of a known flaw on Nvidia GPU after less than 4 year and the fix costed as much as a new laptop
> A single celled organism lacks any sensory perception and so, from its perspective, it has explored the depths of the universe without having to ever even move.

Single celled organisms do have a kind of sensory perception and can react to changes in their environment. Even our own individual cells have this ability (and I'm not talking about neurons, I'm talking about every single cell in our body, or at least the vast majority).

In fact, some single celled organisms (or at least, colonies of them) have even been proven to be capable of certain computations - for example, "slime mould", which is a bacterial colony, can grow in a way which finds solutions to simple mazes.

> That humans can experience a facsimile of something and the "reality" of something differently

That's not what I was talking about. I'm saying that we have no way to directly stimulate our sensory organs with with signals that mimic external stimulus, which would be quite trivial for an electronic brain. Also, I'm saying our memory of direct sensory experience (what I saw when I looked at a red thing) is separate from our memory of more conceptual subjects (what is the square root of 4, who conquered England from Normandy, what I ate this morning).

While it may turn out that this "architecture" is necessary for having consciousness/a mind, it doesn't seem a priori impossible to build an electronic mind that doesn't have these limitations/separations.
haha. Because loyal == high performing. That is how it works. There is absolutely no way that high performing employees that can get a job by crossing the street will ever think about jumping ship because of the shitty manner they are treated.
I'm all for remote work in tech, but I also think it might be difficult to convince a court that "please come to work" is creating a hostile work environment.
1. of all the norm for a couple of years is home office

2. it is an objective benefit

3. the norm is what the majority want it to be
It is used for improvement, but there's a filtering step built in to help prevent abuse.
I'm on a new Windows 11 machine. It seems every other time that I receive a Windows update it resets my browser preferences. Talked with a friend who manages thousands of Windows 11 instances and he says it is a freaking nightmare for him.

I have good friends working for Microsoft and I am generally positive towards the company. But it is stuff like this that makes them rather hard to defend to their critics.
You could be ignorant of copyright law, someone could have provided the material to you and you weren't aware that they didn't hold the copyright, etc. There are numerous ways you can violate copyright without knowing it.
Rant: I stopped flagging content on SO when my flags were moderated "unhelpful". They were not, and the content would later be removed or fixed (presumable after others had flagged it).

I do get it that moderating a site like SO is a massive effort. But there needs to be a check on rouge moderators.
You're rambling and moving the goalposts.

Let's go back to where we started:
>>high fructose corn syrup causing diabetes

Nothing you just posted refuted anything I said, which was that it's the sugar generally and not HFC specifically and that attempting to blame this specifically on HFC is missing the forest for the trees, so I'm not going to address any new points you made here because they have fuckall to do with what I said.

Also, it's a terrible rhetorical technique to tell people what they think in the manner you did but that's neither here nor there.
There's a lot of people in today's lucky 10,000[1]. "Terminal Bell" is a rarely used feature nowadays, because we've grown out of it, and yet - It's commonly supported. Hopefully from this a few young hackers will get the itch to go a little deeper into how our terminals are represented.

[1]https://xkcd.com/1053/
the best way to fail is to not be what your customers want. SO's hostile attitude towards people who ask questions is comical considering the site only existed if people had done so.
https://homesignalblog.wordpress.com/2021/12/27/efficiency-a... for the general issues. Uday is writing a senior thesis on this topic, I believe, which should be a great read.
Nice, going to take a look!
Why does it have to be the norm?

We can't just stick to what's been done previously just because it used to be that way. Clearly, for years, workers have been productive remotely. I get some people like being in the office more than WFH, but the "some" is key here and does not align with an RTO mandate
Life + 70 years for people, Publication date +70 years for non-people.
> We wanted our system to be enjoyable to use and easy to understand, but also solve the same problems as existing systems. For example, configuration is in YAML, not a proprietary syntax

I'm incredibly skeptical of this.

I'm ex-meta and have worked a lot with the enterprise solutions you're talking about and the choice of starlark (originally python) as the build definition language is one of the killer features of the systems.

People want to create macros, target generators, etc. It's a common use case for a lot of engineers and IMO is a pretty killer feature.

Being able to say "This is an X86 Python Binary", "This is an M1 python binary" and then bundle those into "this is how you build either of those binaries based on inputs" without ever touching the internals or anything other than (more or less) a blob of python is why those tools scale organizationally.

It allows the teams that need to do weird stuff to unblock themselves without drowning the tools org. Sure, it has draw backs. Super deep macro layers are kinda a crime against humanity and debugging/evolving them can be quite expensive, but I think that's just the cost of software.

If that logic isn't in the build definitions it'll expand into a meta layer that generates configuration (I've seen giant "Translate this definition into 30 configs to run stuff" systems time and time again).

I may just be super biased from past mistakes and wins, but I think what you're doing is just moving the complexity out of your tool into neighboring tools and selling it as a win isn't really true, it's shuffling complexity around not removing it.
I got that popup after it put a background page into low-mem state. It told me that it had done it and that I can disable it. I think it gave me a link to the settings location.

Most of the people who don't care about browsers will be accustomed to having their state erased anyway when something like a page-reload or a navigation-action has been made, so I think it's fair to enable it by default. The benefit they get by it outweighs the side-effects, specially if you consider your first point.
Also discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34885253
As someone from the balkans, it's striking to me how a Texan named Sterling has such an intimate knowledge of balkan culture. Very good story.
I believe the examples you’re highlighting were acquisitions, not partnerships. This seems more along the lines of https://stripe.com/newsroom/news/amazon-and-stripe
> it's about the actual thinking, iterating, prototyping, etc.

Yes, these are essentially constants that need to be done no matter what the code looks like. Which, again, means that the only gains you might make is in reducing the number of keystrokes. To which, I dare say a lot of those keystrokes can even be done in parallel. For example, writing tests and thinking about the problem pair quite well together, so I'm not sure you even lose an insignificant amount of time on those added keystrokes in reality.

The latter points are also where you can quickly get into time trouble if you do sacrifice your code, which is how it often takes longer if you try to shortcut the code. This would be a worthwhile gamble if poorer/less maintainable code bought you time, but in my experience it doesn't even off the hop.
I really hope this gets circulation in HN. It's a very moving interview and I'm left with the impression that the best chance for a solution is a last effort in changing the minds of leading AI researchers to really engage with and take this problem seriously. I hope they will.
Sure, I'm just pointing out from an environmental/waste standpoint it's not obvious that repairability is a win.
Ask HN: What's going on with T-Mobile numbers and fraud?
Is there a new variant of click/install fraud using T-Mobile?

Some of my clients, largely startups, are seeing over 50% of US users on T-Mobile numbers at a time when T-Mobile's market share is less than 25%. I haven't seen a large skew by demographic, and samples from third-party data brokers don't report suspected bot activity or unusual app registration patterns on these numbers.

Meanwhile Elon is taking international SMS fraud seriously enough that he's killing SMS 2FA at Twitter, and Facebook seems to be following suit to a degree.

What gives? Are other people also seeing strangeness around T-Mobile users?
>Do people, in general, believe that we can revert to whatever we were doing before the pandemic started?

Why not?
I hate to be the party pooper but I think I know when they'll do it. Reddit has been desparate to IPO for years now. They're not going to do anything to shit on engagement in the run up to that, but 6 months post-IPO I think it's innevitable that there's going to be a discussion along the lines of "Why are we torturing our devs maintaining this old interface we can't monetize" and they'll finally can it. Obviously anyone who actually contributes to reddit is using old.reddit and so the quality will go off a cliff, and reddit will slowly slip down the toilet, but only after they've dumped it on the open markets.
Plus, how many ad companies are there? How many different people would we have to pay to browse without ads?

How many companies, once the ad revenue dries up, would charge for content? How many would charge for content AND heavily lace their websites with ads?

How expensive would the internet be if we had to directly pay for every website we wanted to use?

Personally, I think the internet is worth the cost of access. I don't think sites are worth an additional premium on top of that.
> In fairness, they only show the message on their website,

And all of their apps which conveniently "firget" user selection: https://twitter.com/dmitriid/status/1625756307297914883
How many students are actually going to bars and getting drunk? Most students are going to be under 21 for most of their college career. Hopefully by Junior / Senior year students will know how to manage their schedules.
Watching the Tabernacle choir sing at Trump's inauguration was the act that broke my faith in the church. Since then, I've come to see the church as just another corporation. Too bad the corporation isn't governed by their own scripture, what with the "render unto Caesar that which is Cesar's" thing and whatnot.

From the articles of faith (canonized LDS scripture):

12 We believe in being subject to kings, presidents, rulers, and magistrates, in obeying, honoring, and sustaining the law.

13 We believe in being honest, true, chaste, benevolent, virtuous, and in doing good to all men; indeed, we may say that we follow the admonition of Paul—We believe all things, we hope all things, we have endured many things, and hope to be able to endure all things. If there is anything virtuous, lovely, or of good report or praiseworthy, we seek after these things.

Everyone is playing the game of power. Some people are really good at it.
The rail companies are "too big to fail" since they are core national logistics.
There are a lot of checks and balances that break down over time.

(I think of money/lobbying/laws/regulatory capture/copyright/etc)

That said it's amazing that our government was basically architected in the 1700's.

I wonder what the next iteration of government will look like?
The problem with Edge is that it's become loaded with so many useless features. I like Chrome because it's fairly lightweight in terms of design. If I wanted a fully loaded browser I'd use Vivaldi.
Thanks for the feedback! I'm happy it worked well for you. We're working on improving consistency -- one thing to try is simply refreshing the page to get a new answer.
Certainly one can think of obvious improvements - which I generally think is a sign that a tool has a lot of potential. I would put it somewhere between art and educational tool: I hadn't really thought that much about how far a balloon could drift in a given time period and this did kind of make me realize that they move pretty "fast" - around the world in 80 days? How about 80 hours.

Sometimes you just have time to make a think that has the potential to provoke further discussion and interest - which seems like what happened here.
Going places sucks. It costs money and takes time to get everyone there let alone coordinate. Locking yourself in your room works great to get away from parents and lurking on discord is easier than meeting up.
Isn't there encrypted email?
It was rebranded as cancel culture and demonized

Until management can prove being in office drives productivity and all that energy was not merely fueled by lots of people around each other being just as useless, it’s a bias to maintain power and privilege

The economic philosophy of our society is no more a sacrosanct truth than religion

Office life is a social prison that enables their expropriation of agency and outputs
That's probably genius :-)

I mean ... can it be done?

- build a platform (ie the data we care about and are going to build some workflow over)

- have business describe what should happen in english

- How does GPT build something that will run? Can it create the infrastructure? does it speak AWS?

- then ...

OK - I am actually excited by that
It's a great opportunity for employers to pick off Amazon's best developers. Start making them offers!
I said A causes diabetes

You said A is only ONE OF MANY THINGS OF THE SAME TYPE that does

And I responded that corporations and governments have put those other things into your food too, genetically modified, and you can’t opt out very easily.

Also said that diabetes isn’t the only consequence of too much fructose.
That's the only thing they did wrong. Why mention you used ChatGPT? It's like emails that end with "sent from my iPhone" like who cares what technology you used to send an email?
Seriously i can't register new account on Stackoverflow. There're similar sites.

The bug is simple: You previously registered using gmail.

Now you register new account with same email but with password.

Instead of merging my account as before, they said account exist.
Essentially in evaluating an opportunity, looking for something that really captures my imagination.

Think Derek Sivers: When deciding whether to do something, if you feel anything less than “Wow! That would be amazing! Absolutely! Hell yeah!” — then say no.
> https://sive.rs/hellyeah
I shared my tutorial (with code) on the topic before, but here's it again (just sent a PR to this repo too).

https://medium.com/data-science-at-microsoft/building-gpt-3-...

In short, Prompt Engineering is just one of the pieces in building a GPT-3/LLM-based solution. In fact, I'd say a whole new set of Software Engineering best practices is necessary and will gradually emerge. I gave one such approach that has been useful to my related projects.
AI fine art forgery detection is the way a certain important character in Horizon: Forbidden West made her initial reputation and fortune.
your original post did not quote. just wanted to point that out.
This was not my experience at all. I would use google, and would come across a forum topic regarding the subject. Nowadays it's 10% reddit, 10% blog post, 5% old forum post, 75% garbage
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Probable that easy reinstall and mass deploy are the goal as opposed to "less confusing".
I've used it and met some interesting folks; some whom I still chat with. One whom I seriously considered working with.

But ultimately no co-founders.

I think that there are different modalities for the folks on YC Co-Founder Matching and that's OK, IMO.

Like andrewfromx mentioned in a comment below, it would be great to be able to somehow identify and filter by those modalities. My sense is that there are some folks on there who would make great "first hires", but not necessarily "co-founder". There are some users on the platform who seem interested in joining a startup in the early stages (who should probably instead be on workatastartup.com instead) rather than actually co-founding a company.
Yeah it sometimes works but isn’t great for this kind of question it’s absolutely perfect for questions about something you’d read on Wikipedia. It’s like having a subject matter expert with you. It’s sometimes wrong but the value is still immense.
Can confirm. Have been overweight - slightly obese my entire life. My two biggest regrets are

It seems like "slightly obese" describes a lot of people. Maybe this is an optimum for human wellbeing or something. Extra fat provides stores for adversity, but not so obese that it increases risk of heart disease much.
Sadly, I am mainly going on the praise I've seen from Knuth and similar. Use in CAD for circuits is what wikipedia has to say, but doesn't really give any links.

As such, mayhap I am misattributing how impactful they are?
Lanes forking issue has actually been solved via a completely new perception and planning architecture.
imho Amazon has a big problem with its image and hiring. It is literally impossible to find good developers that want to work for Amazon. Taking advantage of the current market conditions to do this is going to spectacularly backfire once the market recovers.
I don't really use laptops so have no horse in this race; but during the pandemic I was forced to set up a separate WFH desk and I used a Windows laptop and an (i7) MacBook Pro side-by-side, hooked up to 2 external monitors and sharing a keyboard / mouse with Barrier.

Despite the machines having similar specs, I find the Windows machine snappier (even with all the Intune / VPN / spyware bullshit built-in) and really only use the mac as a browser box.

Anecdote: browsing was super slow on the mac even though it's sitting right next to the Asus laptop and using the same WiFi network, so I bought a couple of USB Ethernet dongles. I found it surprising in 2021 that I need to download drivers and reboot the macOS machine to install an USB Ethernet dongle; Windows just picked it up in seconds (yes, it wasn't an Apple branded Ethernet dongle, just sorted by most popular on Amazon and with advertised macOS support).

If I ever need to purchase a laptop for myself (though I don't have a reason for it), it will most definitely not be a mac.
I don't want to downplay anything that happened here, but if you said a train of dihydrogen monoxide derailed and the vapors were spreading through the community, some number of people would come forward claiming to be sick. Statistically, someone is going to wake up with a cold on the day of the derailment. And the brain is a very powerful drug, if you scare someone with a chemical spill, they can show symptoms regardless of whether or not some chemical is acting on their body.

This is a risky comment to make, because it sounds like I am supporting NS's cleanup plan, and I'm not. I'm just saying that people saying they're sick doesn't mean the plan was executed incorrectly.
$5M is probably less than what it cost SEC to investigate the church.
I am finding no ARM Ubuntu images on https://app.vagrantup.com/boxes/search that work with VirtualBox unfortunately.
Woe be upon thine fools that change code and database schema simultaneously.