skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I recently asked chatGPT for the best bánh mì restaurants in a particular city, and it gave me a great list of answers... except half those restaurants weren't actually in the city.
The next wave of print journalism is upon us. Soon we will gladly companies to get access to their organically created and edited content slathered in Ads and DRM.
Once TikTok realizes you like young girls, it'll show you more young girls. If it realizes young girls is all you care about, it will literally show you nothing else. That's a pedophile's dream right there. Chances are higher than we'd like that some of these girls are vulnerable and might mistakenly build contact with a predator which might lead to sexual exploitation.
The "Fuck Cars" crowd often really seems to get upset when you tell them you prefer the personal autonomy that using a car offers even at the expense of walkable cities. And they often seem completely baffled when someone actually likes the suburbs, having a yard, not living like a sardine in a highly taxed and regulated municipality, etc. So is it really a "conspiracy theory" to be opposed to the sweeping changes they want to make to infrastructure and society?
Searching this thread for the string "just because it only uses some basic math, it cannot be sentient/conscious/intelligent" I can only find it in your comment. That's your interpretation of what the OP said, not what they said, is that correct?

I think you should not try to interpret in that way and only stick to what the other person has said, otherwise we will all lose the thread of the conversation.

In any case, nobody here has said anything about brains having, or not having, to do something with matrix multiplication, except for your comment, so I still don't understand what you are saying.

Are you saying that the OP's brain is doing "something that couldn't be done with "matrix multiplications", or are you saying it isn't doing something like that?
Code can also be debugged and fixed. AI needs to be retrained and retested - probably multiple times. Each retraining may cause a regression in any area.
If you're OK with not having exclusive art there's also the option of paying a few $. I've seen huge packs of RPG pixel art on itch.io for instance.
"If I ever go back to PC-land, it'll be to an underpowered device from a business-oriented line."

If I ever need a PC again, it'll be by running Parallels on a Mac Air.
I'm seeing a lot of Indians replying to this post's point about sex discrimination, but I'm assuming they're men. Are there any Indian women on HN who can sound off on their own experiences with sex discrimination?
I have used Airflow as a product for over a year and I can say for sure that Airflow sucks for orchestrating ML.

The ability to pass state in Airflow absolutely sucks. It's interesting that Metaflow is trying to compile into Airflow but I am skeptical about it's scalability on Airflow especially with DAGs that have a larger task footprint.
Yes, and people like Bret Weinstein say this is a massive problem and why there’s heart inflammation, if the mrna enters heart muscle your immune system might well attack it, the problem is - heart muscle does not get remade.
Schools in my part of California have been starting later. The kids are just as tired at early classes, they're staying up later.
Probably also correlates with stress, which is a major contributor to cardiovascular disease.
Gotcha. You want code. I want tools.

So a tool that helps me make tools is a lever.

But a tool that helps you make code is not a lever, because “good code” is your goal.

This explains it perfectly! Thank you!
Racket has easily the size & complexity of Common Lisp.

https://docs.racket-lang.org/reference/index.html

I would think that it has roughly 4000 identifiers in the Racket language.

See the index: https://docs.racket-lang.org/reference/doc-index.html

Common Lisp has <1000 exported symbols in the "COMMON-LISP" package.

> when Common Lisp was being planned they needed to accomodate many features from many different Lisps before it

Common Lisp is mainly a slightly modernized & portable version of Lisp Machine Lisp, the feature influence of other Lisp dialects is not that big. The main difference is that Common Lisp provides lexical bindings and lacks a few features.
Getting the applications started and see what happens seems like the best thing to do. It's just that when every now and again I used to open up HN, I would see these clumps of articles filled with Dall-E, ChatGPT etc. and these interesting new innovations, I managed to convince myself that everyone but me now knows everything there is to know about these fancy technologies and that made me a bit worried. But my worries are very likely misplaced.

Thanks a lot!
Home sales sank in January for the 12th straight month
Well then you have to pay for the convenience. Can't have it both ways.
this is what happens when you make an OO language without interfaces... Oh how I miss Java et al. in situations like reading this blog
Ai vs Human needs to compete at 20W light bulb rate of power consumption.
> It's code. No one is going to read it. It will be replaced next year.

Then it truly is awful. Deeply awful. It sounds like you've never progressed past dealing with terrible code, so you have my condolences. Good code is read. Good code is not replaced in a year. Even most bad code is not replaced in a year. Truly you live in a world of absolute shit code.
At this point, after 30 years of the internet, we should all know any big social media platform with kids on it is going to be a vector for these kind of things. This news article was closer to saying the sun will rise again tomorrow.
Like I said, growth is hard.

My brother is an attorney in a small practice of 6 attorneys. They are all partners, share ownership, and rotate who the managing partner annually.
I've had Lenovo send a tech over within 24 hours and do a repair on my kitchen table. The several day wait typical of Apple in-store-repair is glacial in comparison. And that's assuming the Apple store doesn't ship it out to the depot for a repair where the reimaging-happy techs are likely to impose a couple extra hours of restoring from backup when you get your machine back in your hands.
Please let someone proof read the Readme, it's embarrassing
Nobody knows. Find out.

Apply for a bunch of jobs. Let's say 30.

If you get no responses, things are bad, maybe "start again" via a a bootcamp.

If you get responses but no interviews, try to get some feedback on why not and work on whatever the problems are.

If you get interviews but no offers, remember each interview makes you better at interviews and it's only a matter of time. Keep applying for jobs and working on any weak points which are revealed.

Good luck!
why can't the model do those things? As someone said, it's like Google-foo. It used to be the case where you had to give Google some context to disambiguate certain queries but now it is really good so I don't have to write anything crazy like site:wikipedia.com etc
> 1. What should I do to get to a point where I feel confident enough to actually send in applications? (I have never really been any good at LeetCode-type problems and have no personal projects to speak of.)

It's unfortunate that the LeetCode type problems are an issue, because it's those types of companies that ignore gaps on resumes and other signals as long as you can pass the technical interview.

Have you built anything in the last 4 years, even if they weren't work related? Are you familiar with the latest trends and technologies? I think work on filling those gaps if the answer is no, if nothing else it'll dampen some of the imposter syndrome you'll be feeling.

In your situation I would apply to the Recurse Center: https://www.recurse.com/

I'd spend my time immersing myself in something I found interesting in tech, get depth, and utilize their connections to see if I can land a job in a related space.

Best of luck.
We don't write formally verified code because writing the code to pass the verification is annoying and hard. If we're only writing the formally verified spec and a program or AI generated the code, that's a bit easier, though it may have to get easier still before it becomes mainstream.
> Honestly just interview around. Worst case it’s some practice and interesting conversations.

They'd have to stay strong and not take the failures to their heart; otherwise a lot of rejections or no replies could lead to moral destruction.
> You can do light meditation and even take an intellectual interest in the deeper teachings without seriously triggering anything.

Our fears can dominate our reality, and you are tritely recommending a possibly harmful path without knowing anything about them . . . like recommending eating a peanut to someone who knows they have a dangerous allergic reaction to peanuts. In the context of the article, your advice is especially egregious.

Please tread carefully in the world, effortless advice can cause long term harm.

Sometimes it is good to listen to our fears, sometimes not. Hard to judge others across the vast distance of a few sentences.
Tried it once. After 2 days it gets easier regarding hunger.
Downsides: my jaw began to hurt because I wasn't chewing anything. I was more aggressiv, mildly, but who am I to judge that.
My mouth tasted funny.

After the fast I ate a huge meal. You are not supposed to do that but I was irrational.

It did nothing on the scale.

I don't know what people get out of this and to anybody who feels compelled to do it because of someone on the internet is telling you it's a great experience: I have done it for you. It's not great. You are free to try it yourself but now you don't have to anymore.

PS: maybe I have done not eating wrong. Please enlighten me.
Yes, exactly. “Bake your mocks into your third-party library implementations” is an interesting idea and might be a useful thing to do, but it’s certainly not “testing without mocks.”
> If you ever ask a question online about trans ideology, such as a basic question about biology like "do trans woman menstrate?", a lot of people will say things like "it's not my job to educate you."

That surely can't be a question asked in good faith though? Both the asker and the answerer will know that it is impossible for transwomen to menstruate, because they are male. So such a hostile response must be a slighter politer version of telling the asker to quit with the bullshit questions and piss off.
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Possible to test, but not likely.

What often divides the excellent engineers from the poor ones is how well they can think about corner cases, and tests are mostly about writing down the corner cases in a sustainable way (vs half-assedly writing down half of the corner cases and writing 0.5% of tests as asserting a bug.)

The main problem I saw with DevOps and QA automation was that if people don't write code all day, having them write code that gates release of software to production does not result in good outcomes. Sooner or later developers have to inject some engineering practices.

If the engineers are running AI generated code, nobody knows how to do that job, and you will get a long string of permanently damaged brand names in the aftermath.
No, its not a joke. The fed can screw up and cause inflation but they can't screw up the other way and cause a deflationary death spiral?

It will be the single biggest fight ever of every central bank to stop the death spiral that shows up on the back of their forced recession in the name of fighting inflation.

They will go negative and QE much larger than pandemic.
I don't know why this is getting voted into the ground. This advice would seem to be a way to keep motivated while interviewing, keeping sharp through actual coding, and getting up to speed with any changes in general software engineering in the last 4 years. Even if the coding projects go nowhere, motivation is king.
That's very similar to the boddhisatva vow many Buddhists are required to take.
> do your own research

Sure, yes do that, but that doesn't address the issues brought up in the article ( "3. We are all conspiracy theorists now." and "4. Actually, we’re all cultists now.") how to ensure you're not just being sucked into an info-cult, an echo-chamber?

The answer in the article seems to be more "analog" friendship - I'm assuming he means actual in-person interaction. And while that's important, I also like _why the lucky stiff's recommendation: "when you don't create things, you become defined by your tastes rather than ability. your tastes only narrow & exclude people. so create.” Make stuff.

In addition, given the firehose of information we face daily, doing your own research easily could become a full time job.
The game seems to have an arrow at the top middle of the screen pointing you in the direction to go. This is basis for a lawsuit.

Video on the subject: https://youtu.be/EmyCy5pRMSg?t=520
The patent in question: https://patents.google.com/patent/US6200138B1/en
If you have that much runway, you should apply to Recurse Center https://www.recurse.com/ which will give you a chance to build up your skills, your confidence, and your network.

> Will the 4-year gap and my choppy CV be a major hindrance to my hirability?

Yes, so spend some time thinking about how to get a hiring managers attention. If there's nothing separating you from someone with more recent experience you're going to struggle and get filtered out before anyone talks to you.

Ideally you can find a way to have conversations with a hiring manager or someone on the team you'd like to join vs emailing in a resume that a recruiter is going to toss. Find or create a reason for them to want to talk to you.
What is too much, and why would such introspection be a bad thing if it consistently leads to improved mental states? But I think more importantly, “looking inward” is not really the primary focus, but a technique to help one realize what is (and is not) already there.

At one time I think I would have written a comment similar to yours, because I had not yet experienced the difference between the perspective-altering practice of “looking inward” through mindfulness and the lost-in-thought version, which looks a lot more like rumination and just experiencing the thought loop without perspective, which can be deeply painful.

These practices are full of paradox. This isn’t to say the practice is invalid, but to highlight the fact that such practice is not intuitive or obvious. Evolutionary psychology is helping us unpack the illusions that lead to such apparent paradox.

One such paradox being that looking inward through the practice of mindfulness is the thing that enables someone to look outward and actually see. Most people struggle to describe this in words, but it starts to emerge clearly with practice.

Put another way, the premise is that we are all so lost in thought by default that we don’t even realize we are thinking. To claim that we can see outward in this state is to remain unaware of the possibility space of what is available to see, and to remain controlled by thought. You’ll still “see”, but this seeing is distorted by evolutionary reward systems, and what you think you’re seeing is still suspect.

But seeing the truth about one’s own mind changes how one sees other people in deeply impactful ways.

For me personally, my internal anxiety and self talk was so dominant that it made some outward pursuits feel nearly impossible. Once my relationship with thoughts/feelings started to shift, it didn’t just help with the anxiety in the sense that it subsided, it fundamentally shifted my relationship with the concept of anxiety, and made it possible for me to examine it from a broader perspective instead of just experiencing and being swallowed by it.

You go from knowing that anxiety (etc.) is a feeling to experiencing that anxiety is a feeling, and one that appears alongside everything else in consciousness. The difference between these states is enormous.
It's an interesting question.

In US I find gang-active areas there is far less police hassling as they are focused on either severe crimes or just fucking off doing nothing. I've lived in several semi-dangerous cities and police do not enforce traffic laws (like at all) as they have bigger fish to fry. Your odds of getting shook down are practically zero. Whereas in bumfuck US you get pulled over all the time for practically nothing, "civil asset forfeiture" (aka shakedown) cuz a dog looked at you wrong etc. I will admit my basis for comparison is a bit different though as I don't worry at all going into even the most dangerous parts of US because here I can legally have a gun, in Mexico all I can do is run.

I suspect based on my other Norte Americano experiences the police in Mexico would be even worse without the cartels, but I'm not sure.
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90 day fiance exists yet the most common way to get a green card is not... What ever happens in that show.
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Not sure if that's the case anymore. Had various Apple laptops in the last 15 years and palm rejection worked great. Not so with the 16in M1 MBP. It has trouble with it especially when I wear sleeves. The trackpad might be just a bit too large.
> enforcing planned obsolescence and creating e-waste on scales that are beyond comprehension

Last time I saw someone study it, the average ownership time for a Macbook was double the average for a PC laptop. Anecdotally, I spend a lot less money on electronics when I'm in the Apple ecosystem (phones & laptops) than I do when I'm on an Android/PC kick. The mild savings in capital outlay is quickly dwarfed by the absolutely abysmal resale value and quality.
Thanks, but it came late in the game (end of 2021).

I think there was also a open source Covid vaccine from MIT but I can't find a reference.
Or even Shays' Rebellion. The utopianism of the Anti-Federalists faded pretty quickly once it went up against the realities of running a newborn country.
Depending on your coursework you could also be closing down the library studying organic chemistry for example. Its almost a rite of passage to do that while taking that class.
scary burbur thiing
It's capitalism + government working together.

The assumption of many anarcho-capitalists is that government is the antithesis of capitalism, that it's somehow encroaching on a pure version of it ('laissez-faire capitalism').

But I'm saying the opposite, if you click the link. Government ENABLES capitalism. Government protects property rights, and passes laws, and enforces them with force. It is the one that enforces victimless intellectual property violations with force. It is the one that chooses to evict a tenant, or have an eviction moratorium. It is the one who chooses to bail out the markets and the big corporations. It's the one who prevents regular people from filming the horrors on factory farms. It is the one which gives Big Ag or farmers water, but regular people have very little. It is the one which lets corporations put high fructose corn syrup into everything. And it is the one which does nothing while Coca Cola and Snapple switch to putting out metric tons of non-bioldegradeable plastic. But the individuals are told they can somehow recycle and vegan their way out of it. It's all a scam, they shipped it to China. They don't want you to wake up and hold the corporations to account, so they'll tell you that the real problem is plastic straws and bags.

For every socialist government failure (like Holodomor or Great Chinese Famine) there is a capitalist government failure (Irish Potato Famine or Bengal Famines).
Just a few days ago, I thought to myself... "We are in 2023 but still no smart mirrors" like in "The 6th Day" Arnold Schwarzenegger film. ^_^ Very cool project.
Hmm, a little frustrated because I feel like a lot of comments here are missing the forest for the trees.

For example, as someone who works with financial software, I don't see Karpathy's "Software 2.0" replacing, say, account ledgering software anytime soon. "Yeah, we calculate our clients' balances correctly 99.9% of the time!" isn't going to cut it.

But I don't think that's what Karpathy is arguing. There is a large set of problem domains where Karpathy's Software 2.0 is a much better solution than what he calls Software 1.0. For example, even in finance, stuff like fraudulent transaction detection, or financial security software for intrusion detection, is very well-suited to Software 2.0.

So yes, I think Software 1.0 will always be around, but I don't think it makes sense to use it for domains where Software 2.0 is a better fit. What I feel like Karpathy is arguing for is really now a recognition that Software 2.0 really is a whole new paradigm shift, and we need better tooling (he uses "GitHub for Software 2.0" as an example) to support it.
> Once every 3 years isn't going to break the bank vs. like $50 for an X220 battery.

My Apple laptops haven't gotten frustratingly-low battery life—but, hell, still better than any PC laptop I've ever owned at purchase, even when "degraded"—until ~5 years, historically. Including the Intel ones. IDK what Apple does with their batteries (extra, "stealth" capacity? Just way, way higher-quality batteries than any other laptop or phone manufacturer I've ever used?) but they hold up better than any others I've seen. I expect the Silicon devices will fare even better, having truly stupid-long initial battery life (people who are like "LOL who the hell needs 14 hour battery life?"—this is why, if you want 8 hours of battery life after owning the device for five years; it's not just some niche oddball thing, it's about device longevity, in addition to being handy surprisingly-often in the meantime)
In Britain, Russian gangs have been spying on cops with CCTV for 30-odd years.
It's crazy how good apples are. I have a 2013 MacBook Air which I replaced batteries now after 10 years. Still as fast and snappy as day 1. It is crazy.
100% this is my experience. I don't ever go to the tourist towns so maybe police are less hassling there.
"half of a data professional's job" ... you mean like 90%
This thesis seems very credible, but it misses one downside of his "software 2.0" definition: you need significant amounts of data to train the neural networks. Most problems do not have this amount of data. Not even close.

So yes, this will revolutionize and enable unseen performance in the few areas where there is significant data. For all the rest it'll be business as usual.
> lots of jobs and low competition?

You can't have both!
And we wonder why the modern business environment is so toxic, broken, and self centered.
We need to train people to write specifications since they seem to be the best way to fine-tune the AI performance for the task without changing the enormous dataset. Reinforcement learning methods can be used to tune the model in production under pressure of failing tests (executable specifications). Writing specifications to evaluate outcomes should be a better use of domain experts time than dataset cleaning.

As for formality, real formal specifications are very hard, and LLMs are close to understanding natural language anyway, and 1000s of 90%-strict specs are better than 10 provably correct ones. So, some sort of legalese for machines will evolve.
It would have probably caused a civil war itself. Commodus was the accepted heir, I doubt Marcus Aurelius could have chosen anyone else as long as Commodus was alive. All of the previous "good" emperors had no male heirs to pass the empire on to.
My argument with my wife was not about the duration of sleep (nor has this anything to do with the schedule) but at what time a kid should go to bed. The reasoning behind this is that if a child goes to bed later it would be bad for brain development (or something) even if sleeping the required hours.

When I said that most studies are from the USA I was referring to studies in general (and about the children in particular) and not on the one discussed here. I confess, I might have been carried away a little because this has always been my pet peeve.