skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Yeah, ChatGPT spits out hallucinations and downright wrong answers for some technical questions but it's only GPT3.

No, its GPT-3.5.

> Ridiculous amounts of funds is getting redirected to this space. They're gonna improve these models, they always do

And it almost always takes decades longer than people expect in the early hype.

Really, aside from seeing “prompt crafting” as an additional important tool in the programmer’s toolbox, and opening up a whole range of new possibilities incorporating new technologies into apps, I don’t think it changes things for programmers that much in the near term, and even in the lo g term, while I’m sure there will be big changes, I think we’ll look back at “LLMs will eliminate the need for specialized programmers” the same way as the same thing being said about 4GLs and associated low-code/no-code tools.
True, I was surprised [1] how many offended, negative comments this article got.

I automatically read it with a bit of tongue-in-cheek but with some valid points, not as "this is the ultimate life advice".

[1] well not really. Times truly have changed.
Which of these basic hypotheses supports reparations?

I'm pretty sure there needs to be a 3) blacks are poorer as well.
I did the same, around the same time in my life, but I found that my print writing couldn't keep up. Hence my desire and effort to switch back to cursive once I left school.

One of my engineer friends has picture-perfect print handwriting, like a gothic sans serif font. It's very impressive at how fast he can write and still have each letter look tidy and uniform.
Learn with this tutorial to steer your ChatGPT API outputs with ChatML
There's tons of people from fairly modest backgrounds in the legal profession, including ones who went to elite law schools. (E.g. Lawrence, Kansas, of all places, is the hometown of not one but two prominent south asian lawyers, Kannon Shanmugam and Judge Sri Srinivasan.) That's the direct result of the LSAT democratizing the legal profession over the last couple of generations.

I suspect you're correct, though, that if Harvard closes those doors, talented people will go to the University of Iowa (my wife's alma mater) and do fine.
Is there a link to the article in question?
It’s paranoia when it’s not reality, which it isn’t based on your use of the future tense.
Something life or your friends should have taught you long ago:

If you want to break cycles of abuse in your life, you need to realize and accept that you are not obligated to participate in anyone's redemption story arc but your own.

There's a whole subclass of narcissists who play at being victims while controlling everything. Get out. Run. Do not look back.
I don't know if they've evolved their approach, if my local store is an outlier, or if yours was an outlier, but I live near an Amazon store and go in a few times per week: the experience you describe doesn't match my experience. Over maybe 100 visits: there's usually a few people in there at minimum, the food is pretty good (as far as convenience food store goes) and prices are the same as similar stores. I sometimes have to dance through a crowd of people struggling to get in.

I wouldn't say the concept is a huge success because... it's a convenience store, and location is far more important than anything else, so there's a pretty low ceiling on what a convenience store can achieve beyond being in a good location, but it is certainly convenient.

(As far as business goes, they seem like a cute experiment that has escaped the pointless novelty stage but hasn't reached the industry disruption stage ('cause there isn't one) and so is floating aimlessly in the middle space where they probably can just about justify keeping them around.)
You're right, but it's weird for such a tech-focused company to close stores in such a fashion, because we're used to the giant margins of tech. Apple has never closed that many stores that quickly.
A motorcycle is too heavy to do this so you you counter-steer to overcome the gyroscopic stability and change the angle of the bike. Essentially you are attempting to destabilize the bike, in a controlled manner.

The same physics apply to a bicycle.
That’s is what I’m referring to. There are specific rules and expectations that exist in some places, but neither these laws nor the associated consumer expectations are global in scope.

Re: Champaign: it was long used as a descriptor of a style of wine in the US and consumers are familiar with that usage here. And to this day, it is still used that way on wines that are on the shelf, and aren’t made in France at all. Politically, there were some concessions made, but it wasn’t anything to do with consumer protections.
Yes. Japan lost WW2, and was forced into said agreement, and then the US went to war in Korea.

That doesn't mean that dealing with the US isn't better than dealing with China, of course, but the US military bases are there to ensure that the empire stays intact, both from external attacks and internal division
Loving the "just right" labels. How does n8n compare to Activepieces?

Also those who are looking to dive deeper into self-hosting should join us at /r/selfhosted on Reddit.
Because 14 wasn’t enough.
https://xkcd.com/927/
I wonder why they don't just allow both
A lot, I'm sure. I have no experience with Japanese but my wife is a native Chinese speaker.

1) In a language like English if you know a word and are faced with it's written form that you do not know you can probably figure it out. In Chinese knowing how to say it gives you no guidance in figuring out the written form, literacy takes years to learn. I have watched two literate Chinese speakers stumped by an unknown character and not even realize it was actually Japanese, not Chinese. (I knew because of the context, not from being able to read it.)

2) It appears to take my wife longer to write something in Chinese (and she's not a word-processor idiot by any means, when she's putting something into the computer she uses handwriting recognition, she's never learned the new ways) than it would take me in English--more strokes and they are less connected than even printing, let alone cursive.

3) Chinese lacks the concept of alphabetizing. I've watched her with her dictionary (we've been together since the 80s) and it's a process of looking stuff up in tables to get you close to your target and then a manual search once you're there. I can find a word in an English->Chinese dictionary far faster than she can find one in a Chinese->English dictionary.

That being said, I'm not going to call someone a word processor idiot because maintaining a skill like that costs time--it simply isn't worthwhile for most people. Many years ago I chose to abandon cursive when I realized that if I wanted to be able to write it decently I would have to deliberately practice--and I would say I write maybe a dozen words a month. Practicing would be a time sink, not a time saver. (Not to mention most of those words are on a whiteboard, too large to do in cursive.) Look it up is a perfectly good answer in most cases, only an issue for emergency type skills.
I think the ELI5 version is - if you are doing complex things with math, 0 and 1 probably have weird properties so you should avoid those numbers. If you're picking a key you should generally do it randomly as certain numbers may have special properties that are exploitable, but the chance of getting such a number by chance is basically zero.
Note this excludes the for-profit models like Raspberry Pi 400, which tends to be the best rpi atm, as the whole keyboard acts as heatsink.
Ah, the average Eve player. One day they'll even realize it's a game and not an accounting job
I'm in non-FAANG tech (biotech, DoD) and no one does take homes or live coding, even for code heavy jobs. Our comp isn't in the 200k+ range, mostly due to location, but it's pretty good all the same (120k+).
Although they've added self-checkout lanes to Whole Foods, human interaction is in its DNA and you pay for that premium.

Amazon is only able to capture your order details if you use the app at checkout.
Every successful founder I've known cannot stay away from starting another business or following a new passion creation.
> call it a day, finish work early and go to the beach for sunset.

That's great, except if you're on call, responsible for your own and your team's code. Hopefully, there are no NullPointerExceptions, ConcurrentModificationExceptions, not to mention the odd race condition or two. I appreciate a language that can eliminate the majority of these cases at complie time. I'd rather sort these issues out on a Tuesday morning than get pulled off the beach by PagerDuty.
UnderWare was way better https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/underware
Thomas Jefferson and the smoothening of the American mind
I'd be interested in reading this study, because for a long time it has been conventional wisdom in this country that problems with a family's financial situation is the top cause for divorce.
It’s as if you didn’t read my comment at all.

> If you need an app to enter that store and you need to enter the store to return an item, then it’s pretty clear you need an app to return an item at that store.
Inclusive hiring practices, in my experience, strive to have a diverse funnel whereby under-represented groups get to be in consideration, but you still hire the best out of the pool. It may take longer to fill that pool, but many agree that it is worth it.
Which is a factor that really does not matter for a test server
I always liked that they had Ride Of The Valeries as an alternative. Complete with lyrics. Da da d-da daaa da...
I live in the southeast of the UK and my daughter took the 11+ and passed. She also went to a private prep school.

Private schools don't give as much 11+ help as you would think - if a child passes the 11+, the private lose all the potential senior school fees.

Tutoring for the exam definitely helps, but it's mostly exam technique and practise on those types of logical reasoning questions. They can't do the questions for you.
Their web site describes this as a Real Soon Now thing:

"We eventually plan to have these available every day, once Louis’ staff has completed their full move to Texas. For the time being, check back this page regularly for availability, as the schedule is subject to change!"

No useful stuff like an equipment list, policies, current wait times, stuff you'd need to know to use the place. Do they sell parts, for example? What's their parts stock?

How useful this is tends to depend on little stuff. At TechShop, they had a hot-air rework station. Those need a set of nozzles which fit various part shapes. I had to get my own set of nozzles. At TechShop, to do electronics work you needed your own set of all the small hand tools.

If you're going to repair surface mount electronics, you need to practice first. There are surface mount practice kits, where you solder parts on boards that don't do anything. I did three or four of those before attempting a real board.

None of this stuff is inherently difficult, and there are YouTube videos for technique. But it takes training and practice.
This is also the basis of an emergency swerve on a motorbike - if you need to turn left suddenly you push the left handlebar hard.
I have a dumb question. I tried to get into this on a long intercontinental flight, but couldn't figure it out haha.

Anyone have a guide that teaches the basics?
Yah, but the Toblerone packaging uses an image of the Swiss side.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weak_key#Weak_keys_in_DES
300ms latency spikes on a particularly pathological production workload are irrelevant for the stated use case of a test email server.
How do you prevent people from entering in the wrong address, and thus a random person receiving your emails?

If it's just a one-off receipt, I'll delete it. If that business I never had any business with starts spamming me, then I mark it as spam. Second receipt, pisses me off, a third receipt from the same company gets marked as spam etc. If you want to send more than one email, ask for permission.

Unfortunately I have a few technology-challenged acquaintances still using my common-ish firslast@ gmail, but once I get them switched over, everything that inbox receives will automatically be marked as spam.
1. I have negligible chance of understanding your abstract algebra and 2. I'll never, ever, get to use it in the real world.
> It is more likely that the interview process is broken and missing the right candidates, than it is that the interviewees are all mediocre.

Here's a thought experiment for you: if the interview process is so broken, why hasn't some tech company succeeded and become famous for an improved interview process, e.g. "Moneyball style"? My guess is because the process is not actually that broken, at least from the employer's perspective. I'm sure the interview process could be changed to be less regimented and more "inclusive", but that's also likely to reduce it's predictive power (i.e. you're more likely to make bad hires, and from a company's perspective that's almost always worse than missing out on a great hire).
The problem is that those are f**king difficult problems to solve. Regardless of how you approach them. No tool or paradigm will make them easy, it may make a part of them easier (at some other cost somewhere else), but by no means will make it easy.

Building large scale, low latency systems is really hard. Handling concurrency and shared state is hard.

Heck, even functional programming is hard to grok for most people. The evidence is in its popularity (or lack of it).

There's no large mystery why we all are not using functional programming exclusively: because it's hard. Imperative, with all it's drawbacks it's easier to grasp and closer to how hardware works. Most people find it more natural, there's no big conspiracy.

But (there's always a "but"), the functional paradigm is essential to solve all those hard problems. It provides many tools where many common pitfalls are essentially avoided, but gaining a comfortable grasp of those tools takes work and it's not easy as many claim.

They seem easy after you've had the "aha!" moment, but it's like advanced math, getting there takes time and a certain proclivity to it. Once you develop some sort of intuition, you tend to forget the effort it took to gain it.

In any case, I love languages and new ideas, so I hope he succeeds (or fails in an interesting way where we learn something new).
In the sense that saying "leave me the fuck alone" to someone and punching them down and kicking them are both "aggresive"...

So, yeah, they can keep this "analytics".
From the examples they gave it’s clear you wouldn’t use python.
AI tools like ChatGPT could play role in government, science minister suggests
We have to remember that Rob Henderson is a performer running his shtick. At first I really liked him, and in general agree with his assessments of things.

But he's just another guy that has to turn tricks with some new variant of "durr hurr liberal plan for X is elitist and a luxury belief."

It's a little personal with him, because right before the 2020 election he posted something pretentious like "In 2016 I bet and won a lot of money on the outcome of the election, and I bet even more this time" (Implying his non-elitist background gave him the clairvoyance that Trump would win. I asked him who he bet on this time. Then the results came in and Trump was clearly losing in 2020, and then he blocked me.

In the end, even if we agree with him, he's just another culture warrior that whose livelihood depends on feeding the angry masses outrage at whatever Team Blue/Team Red is doing.
I’m really not impressed by hacker new’s scholarship on this. Here’s a paragraph from one of the papers cited here. Basically one of the key arguments in this paper is that basis might be justified. Ignoring for a second that biase in real humans is much strong than differences between races, it also is beside the point. Race isn’t something people can control. If people at large are classifying people based on it that will legitimately act to keep the situation locked in place. If I think everyone with red hair is a criminal and act like it people with red hair will have pretty bad lives and a lot more of them will end up turning to crime

> Cultural knowledge and accuracy as sources of implicit associations.This analysis has akinship to that of one of the earliest critiques of the IAT (Arkes & Tetlock, 2004). They argued that,rather than reflecting prejudice, the race IAT might reflect knowledge of cultural stereotypes. Our argument, however, goes further. The associations tapped by the IAT may reflect not just cultural stereotypes, but implicit cognitive registration of regularities and realities of the social environment.Consistent with this analysis, IAT response times were faster when stimuli corresponded to ecologically valid base rates (Bluemke & Fiedler, 2009). Even evaluations of groups may come from knowledge of those groups’ social conditions (Payne et al., 2017). For example, groups disproportionately living in unpleasant conditions (such as poverty, crime, rundown housing) may be associated with “unpleasant” more than other groups
As I said in my other comment:

“The creator of the course was a research engineer at DeepMind and now works at OpenAI. Several people at those orgs have acted as facilitators for the course since its creation.”

The course is an intro to AI risk. Nobody acts like an AGI safety researcher when they finish the course with no ML experience. The majority keep skilling up for a while, which includes replicating ML papers.

Me personally, I started doing ML in 2015 and got into AI alignment in early 2022.
https://archive.is/bTVNu
Some anecdata: I've seen a big increase in pro-Chinese commentors on the internet in the past year or so. HN especially. It keeps popping up in subtle ways. I'm not saying it's necessarily propaganda or psyops, but we'd be fools to believe China isn't doing that quite extensively. Hell, America does it; we just had a scandal where the military was doing that when they shouldn't have been.
Confounding factor? They are not submissed into wage slavery, to fight for a marriage which is not working.
Not at all! If anything GPT has uplifted me and now I can focus on the meat of my problems and not remember what this specific incantation looks like in this specific framework/language.

It's been a force multiplier for me, across the tech stack. Database, backend, frontend, edge, infra - you name it.

It's a great product.

Engineers who don't integrate this into their workflows will probably be left behind as much as we left behind engineers who manually manage their memory. (hint: not too much but their scope of work dramatically shrunk to specific nitches)
"creative coding" usually refers to a framework where a developer/artist can code up nice things quickly

for example https://github.com/nannou-org/nannou/blob/master/examples/dr... gives this funky rainbow sine wave (which seems to change as the user moves the mouse): https://camo.githubusercontent.com/edb74faf7b0d79c9e1918335e...

this seems to focus on iterative visuals (basically it's a rendering loop), there are a few music oriented frameworks too
Yes it is violating the law. 100% US made and it has a Swiss cross in addition to the word Swiss in its logo/name.

https://www.kmu.admin.ch/kmu/en/home/concrete-know-how/sme-m...
I have fond memories of that as well. I think I first played it on a holiday on my dad's black and white PowerBook. Those fast enemies with the blade-like front were terrifying.

What's the spiritual successor?
I was searching for a Rust tool like this not too long ago, very excited to see this and try it out!
I think something like this works well:

0. 45 minute homework/prescreen. Provide an (optional) pre-setup environment so it's mostly about coding and not about building/installing deps.

1. on-site where you chat about your solution, mostly an ice breaker/introduction to the team.

2. pair-programming to extend the homework or work on a simplified but real problem encountered day to day, open book

3. design review

4. code review

5. behavioral / case study

All of these can be pretty objective and don't rely on any memorization. All this should be pre-canned so individual proctors don't come up with their own questions and you're comparing candidates around the same prompts. It's amazing how few companies even manage these basic steps. I think most importantly the hiring should be done by a committee of actual practicing engineers - that means if you have checked in code in six months you aren't a vote on the committee.
> It also mentions that the OpenGL implementation in Voodoo cards was incomplete and only enough to run Quake

That brings back some memories... I remember having to pick the rendering pipeline on some games, like Quake.

I also remember the days of having to route the video cable from my graphics card to my 3dfx card then to my monitor.
This same phenomenon is present in western languages. Except instead of being unable to write difficult characters, the sufferers are just generally idiots.

They have no knowledge of navigation in the citries they grew up in, they have reduced ability in face-to-face human interaction, they suffer major inability in understanding that the physical world is the universal host of all of their "virtual" reality including the corporate products they concieve of as "community" and the chatbots they think of as "friends".

In general, the internet idiot...
80% of the time the answer is "find out if the owners of the code are supportive of improving the code", and when the answer is "no", just put in your hours and collect a paycheck.
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The image is a link, I missed that at first as well.

https://www.science.org/content/article/do-no-unconscious-ha...
While Corona was a major cause of deaths in the population up to Omicron, it wasn’t in general as bad as it was reported on the news and definitely not as bad as modeled/predicted(talking here about the majority of the population).
A lot of errors occurred in reporting and collecting data, and this contributed decisively to those errors.
People en mass will always have the gullible. It's either "allowing a system that amplifies such misinformation", or "the actors exploiting it", that deserve blame.

Why would you care to blame the gullible who don't know any better?
That's not quite true. We are only rendered inferior by capital, or by athletic ability, a skill, a talent. I was responding to the prospect of something all encompassing which to me is what man-made genetic superiority suggests.
> When I hire, I choose a trusted colleague's referral over the candidate who happened to cram best to do binary trees on a whiteboard

I love it that you make your candidates go through binary trees questions on a whiteboard AND are totally dismissive of it at the same time. That's totally not a waste of everyone's time.
If you look at the photo at the top of the first link you can very clearly see that almost every single row has different size package footprints, not only from row but even between packages in the same row. There is no uniformity present. Further from the second link, there is no uniformity from machine to machine which is fundamentally no different the variation and shelf configuration from from shelf to shelf or aisle to aisle in a traditional brick and mortar retail store.