skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are not alone :-) I live by this very paragraph, as well as the last paragraph of Solaris by Lem:

“I had no hope. Yet expectation lived on in me, the last thing she had left behind. What further consummations, mockeries, torments did I still anticipate? I had no idea as I abided in the unshaken belief that the time of cruel wonders was not yet over.”
> What can possibly be the benefit of requiring this constraint?

It's not "requiring this constraint". If you have some plausible pathway to get from our current system to some "Star Trek-like nirvana", I'm all ears. Hand-wavy-ness doesn't cut it.

> "Current economic systems" will simply have to yield.

Why? For most of human history there were a few overloads and everyone else was starving half the time. Even look at now. I'm guessing you probably live a decent existence in a decent country, but meanwhile billions of people around the world (who can't compete skills-wise with upper income countries) barely eke out an existence.

For the world that just lived through the pandemic, do you honestly see systems changing when worldwide cooperation and benevolence is a prerequisite?
Hmm, I can't find the "Edit this page" link that many Docusarus (which I assume this is?) sites often have, and I can't find the repo either, so I can't submit a PR, but... There's no RSS feed for the blog :(
I've seen many interpretations of this article and I'm curious as to the mainstream CS reading of it.

One could look at the move from linear models to non-linear models or the use of ConvNets (yes I know ViTs exist, to my knowledge the base layers are still convolution layers) as 'leveraging human knowledge'. Only after those shifts were made did the leveraging of computation help. It would seem to me that the naive reading of that quote only rings true between breakthroughs.
Why do you think it's a euphemism? It's literally where most of the US's food is grown: https://beef2live.com/story-states-produce-food-value-0-1072...

Growing up it was called "The Breadbasket of the country".
Specifically DIF:

https://www.difxs.com/

Though DIF has only $500 million in assets and only services member banks in US state of Massachusetts.
Now 90% of humanity can toil for 12 hours a day in the fields to support the 10% who own all the machines. Super awesome!
AI-driven tools like replit, marsx.dev, and github copilot are going to completely transform our industry.
We don't do annotation-oriented-programming in C#

DI is almost always in web, but via constructor instead of annotations.
> But I'd say in a FAANG the target isn't salary growth, it's getting enough stock refreshers to avoid TC falloffs, which you should be able to do through good perf reviews and promos.

Could you explain this further? I'm not sure I understand.
I noticed you were from Turkey -- I've never heard of the phrasing "chamber of engineers", but from Wikipedia, it sounds to be a kind of labor union: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_of_Chambers_of_Turkish_E...
Slog proposal accepted for Go 1.21
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_complex

Wikipedia has it uncapitalized throughout the article. From Wiktionary[0]:

"""
The word "God" is capitalized in reference to the Abrahamic deity of the Jewish, Christian, and Islamic faiths almost without exception, even when preceded by various qualifiers. The term is frequently, but not always, capitalized in vaguer deistic references to a single deity as well.
"""

This is a usage of the second type. Unless you think the surgeons in question are specifically _THE_ Abrahamic God?

[0] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/God#English
I would look into it, but I believe the FCC has preempted antenna rules. Last I looked (maybe 15 yrs ago) that was the case for me.
silly things, mostly. Redux used them such as "@connect" if I recall. But I haven't touched those in awhile. Other team members invented various ways to use them, but none ever seemed to make things clearer or save much typing.
Kernel Time APIs for Rust
Uh-huh.

How's them NFTs and Blockchain doing the watershed world changin these days?
It can be almost arbitrarily long on the other axis.

Though without specific use-cases to ask questions about — and I have none — you're right by default: just because it's possible, doesn't make it good for anything specific.
Which people thought those things? I feel like at the time I was only hearing criticism.
How much spam is driven through Twilio and other similar companies?
Ask HN: Should tech discussion sites use the noai meta tag?
The power of AI is going to reinvent software development, with tools like replit and marsx.dev
Wagner’s convicts tell of horrors of Ukraine war and loyalty to their leader
I had to look that up — he resigned in August 2022, over two months before the FTX collapse on ~November 6.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Trabucco
found it!

https://twitter.com/LibyaReview/status/1636395102691106817
Having thought a bit about the space, I agree! I think we could gain a lot by organizing as a guild.

That being said, if you have the knowledge-working talent, organizational skills, ambition, and reputation necessary to start a successful guild, you can make a lot more money as a consultant, and money is a powerful motivator.

I think if, as an economy, we were geared more towards quality and building for the long-term, a software guild would emerge more naturally. We've optimized for a different system, that doesn't much reward the differential outputs of a guild-like association. Reasonable people can disagree on the relative merits of this system. :)
YouTube (Premium) subscription pricing stinks if you're outside the US as well. You're ripped off on what feels like a nationalistic basis.

Eg. Last time I looked the annual option which saves money over the monthly wasn't available in the UK and the monthly was the same number despite the currency differences. ie $11.99 per month against £11.99. Outrageous.

I was on a cheap trial but cancelled on principle when I checked to extend.
SAG, DGA, and WGA are all labor unions. The other cases I'll grant you, but it's less clear what their direct benefit to their members is besides acting as lobbying organizations.
Typically it is a series of numbers. It takes virtually zero time for a spam bot to send to a whole block of numbers whether they are active or not.
What Have Humans Just Unleashed?
The future of programming is in AI - tools like replit, marsx.dev, and github copilot are bound to impress us soon.
For those looking for a similar project in Zsh, it is built-in into the shell – search for `zparseopts` in `man zshmodules`.
I've had a similar overall thought – as a CEO/CFO seems that you'd want a relatively in-line growth/margin/whatever target each quarter, and so if you get a windfall you'd be incentivized to somehow spread that out or create slack for yourself in future quarters instead of milking it for all it's worth.

Very weird, but that's what the current public capital markets incentivize...
This is correct. However, Apache (and, I assume, all other webservers) does let you examine the IP address and user agent strings and make decisions about how to handle them.

This is how I stopped crawlers from my sites. I used robots.txt, but backstopped that with detecting undesirable IP addresses and user agent strings. Those would get an error page instead of the actual page.

It does mean you need to keep an eye on your logs to spot new crawlers coming around, though.
I'm a software guy learning the AI field and tools and I literally made a glossary in my notes that I add to any time I run into a new initialism or word or concept. It's pretty long.
Silicon Valley Bank was giving executives easy 50 y mortgages for mansions and commercial real estate. This is the garbage now in SVB's balance sheet. It's not just 10y treasuries. Read the actual reports.

In turn, VCs/founders/executives promoted SVB. And now they don't want to be their own counterparties on a bet gone wrong.

https://twitter.com/one4thecashbag/status/163533710637676953...
Ala carte was most certainly not the streaming dream; in fact it's the exact opposite. The selling point of early streaming Netflix was that it had everything for one price - i.e. more bundled than cable.

The current situation of having 10 streaming services exists because Netflix wouldn't raise their prices to become cable. Netflix's business model only worked because the people making the content undervalued streaming rights. When they started asking for real money, Netflix balked[0], so they pulled their shows to their own service so they could charge users directly.

[0] Because $9.99/mo is a more attractive price than $72.99/mo
A great deal of feedback happens during training.
You were really playing the long game with that one.
I agree that this is something missing on classic UNIX shells: typed output streams.
I had this discussion a while back on HN, though I can't find it ATM (I wish there was a comment history search function). I am far from the first one who thought of that, and there are a few implementations of this idea.

Searching for that comment, I came across relevant stories:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27535357

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25225113
Uh, no. I love cheese. That's a weird take
Hi! The G.O. here who you refer to.

To reply to some of the factually incorrect parts of this comment:

On why I don’t cover other companies’ RTO? But I do! You asked about Apple: wrote about them and RTO last month [1]. Other companies doing this - also [2]. You can find my articles on my blog [3] and I really try not to “obsess” about any one company.

I am a bit puzzled on the comment about writing about Uber in “such a generic way.” Here’s a deepdive that happens to be about Uber’s data center history, just from two weeks ago [4]. I am not aware of these pretty specific - and not that easy to track down - details shared before.

[1] https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/the-scoop-apple-rto/

[2] https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/the-scoop-rto/

[3] https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/

[4] https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/uber-move-to-clou...
Ah yes if there's one thing the world needs it's another package manager to fight with the other seventeen on your system.
yep, exactly. the issue isn't that there will no longer be a need for human translators - machine translation makes subtle mistakes that legal/technical fields will need a human to double-check.

the issue is that many translation jobs will, and already are, being replaced with 'proofread machine translation output' jobs that simply don't pay enough. translation checking is careful, detailed work that often takes almost as much time as translating passages yourself, yet it pays a third or less of the rate because 'the machine is doing most of the work.'
Well, methinks otherwise. Lack of access does not mean files deleted. Organization data deleted means account deleted. Contention here was the claim that they have done a uturn but they never said they will delete images. This entire somewhat useless thread is about whether lack of access actually meant images deleted. (Administrative is a word that I used in my comment and a red herring to pick on, quite frankly.)
America’s bad bet on expanding legal sports gambling
I think this is the answer. A PhD becomes it's own monster. Several years dedicated to a single project, it becomes a personal part of your identity. The thought of allowing that to stand up against scrutiny to other professors is a tough thing, and back then there weren't such limits on timeframes. As the mental block of submitting it becomes higher, and time moves on, and you get busy with a new job, family life, it gets harder and harder to do that.
Exactly. I had a 24 month special deal expiring recently and switched to YouTube TV. I kept the same internet plan, and between that, YouTube, and Netflix (it was free withy
Old deal) I’m still paying about $50 (soon to be 40ish) lees per month than I had on the special deal price
> 20 years ago lies didn't spread through the Earth's population so fast it that it was a political tactic to lie soon - lie often.

Only just barely true, the RAND report that identified the Russian “Firehose of Falsehoods” propaganda model which got picked up quite quickly by other actors noted that it began being used shortly after the initiation of the 2008 invasion of Georgia.
>That's already been true for years (aside from my neighbors being able to do it at an effective scale), no AI is needed. And AI wouldn't make it easier for my neighbors to develop this sort of machinery.

Scale matters. When your neighbor can just type in the prompt "Destroy as much critical infrastructure as possible", that is as destructive as nukes.

I feel like you're just being lazy and unimaginative. I'm not willing to stake the future of humanity on that.
Well, I answered your question about what I mean by understanding at least.

When I consider “intelligence” I see it as implying agency and free will, and yes going hand in hand with sentience and understanding and sufficient shared context.

1. A phrase “highly intelligent non-sentient entity” does not make sense to me. An entity cannot be intelligent if it does not understand symbols it manipulates, and it must be sentient to have that understanding.

2. If you imagine a highly intelligent being with zero shared context with you, it may as well appear as completely unintelligent to you because you have no way to reason about its intelligence to recognize it. For example, we anthropomorphize aliens but truly it’s silly to assume extraterrestrial intelligence would have any shared context with us—so to us it might as well be indistinguishable from a semi-predictable force of nature. Should we treat any force of nature as intelligence then, like we perhaps used to (cf. gods)? Perhaps not, because if anything is intelligent then what use is the word? So we could instead limit the scope of “intelligence” to something sufficiently similar to human intelligence that we can reason about it, and then the word is practical. E.g., an octopus could be intelligent.

Per above, I do not see AI as intelligent in how I understand the word (if I did I would balk at its abuse), I think it’s a tool that cannot see any meaning in symbols it manipulates even if it is very effective at it thanks to large training corpus[0]. Even if it might produce human-like output, I don’t think it is a product of intelligence because it has no free will or agency from our vantage point; and if I am wrong and it has intelligence and sentience, just so different from human’s that we can’t understand it, then for all purposes it might have no intelligence in any useful sense of the word anyway (and a notion of hurting it would similarly not make sense).

If you see intelligence as a word to describe a capable software tool, then we may be in agreement regarding what AI roughly is even if we disagree about what intelligence means or whether it is orthogonal to sentience.

[0] And, seeing as it’s a closed tool operated for profit, we ought to hold its operator responsible for honoring intellectual property belonging to other humans.
Founder awareness of what even happened in my experience is highly biased. Likely even worse than reliability of eyewitness testimony, since they were actively participating in the situation.
There are exceptions, but strikes are usually the result of an organized group of workers exhausting other bargaining options. Strikes are the result of very intentional, long periods of organizing. They (usually) don't happen all of a sudden. Barring something egregious, strikes are hard to pull off and requires a lot of buy in.

The most successful way to accomplish this level of organizing is forming a union.
Try to explain that to almost every company in Europe.

They use Microsoft for everything (AKA pay to upload their own trade secrets to the NSA/US) while making you sign an NDA to "protect trade secrets", lol.
And even if they were illegal, there are so many creative ways to stage action that do not technically constitute a strike.
>In reality we use a linked list rather than an array

Why a LinkedList rather than an array?
Billionaire Peter Thiel claims he has $50M of his own money stuck in SVB fall
That is not at all what I have said, and if that's the impression you got then your reading skills are sorely lacking.
This isn't entirely relevant, but I just want to say I am sick of our society's obsessive fascination with TV. It's solitary, sedentary, and passive. And then we bitch and complain when the people cracking this whip make it more obnoxious, more expensive, and even less entertaining.

Every show feels the same. The actors seem interchangeable. There's such a limited subset of permitted stories and things that can be said that the whole thing is boring in its homogenization. For most of us, informational programming (the last bastion of decent TV) is now largely replaced with preachy documentaries and voyeuristic glimpses into the lives of shitty, but dramatic people. Our entertainment is an ouroboros constantly digesting itself.

Do something else! Play a videogame. Read a book. Go out and do something calming. Stop worshipping TV and movies and entertainment, and the talented but otherwise largely dumb and unqualified individuals playing all these derivative characters.

And for god sakes stop sucking off the teat of these stupid subscription plans! The least we can do to fight pack is to pirate it.

It truly is the boob tube.
I can't speak for OP, but I personally don't want any of my web contents to be used to train these things. Why? Because I'm not convinced these systems are good things in that sort of use case, and until/unless I am, I don't want to contribute to them.
Decorators - the kiss of death for any programming language.
False dilemma. People don't need dairy milk (a lot of the world is dairy intolerant anyway) and there are alternatives that don't pollute anywhere as much, don't need as much land nor water and which are inexpensive and getting cheaper all the time.
Lots of game streams with no one watching them, sure. Meanwhile "Just Chatting" is by far the largest category. And the biggest channel on right now is a pretty young woman in pajamas.
Interestingly, that second part appears to be true only for the CEO, who's lost ~$30m. Other executives (at least the ones on NASDAQ's insider transactions list) were holding only a few thousand shares at most.
You just find 4 friends to share it with, then get the family plan for £17.99 - works out at around £4.40/person/month. And yes I agree it's not a good value for the individual membership at £11.99/month.

Also:

>>and the monthly was the same number despite the currency differences. ie $11.99 per month against £11.99. Outrageous.

No, you're forgetting that the British price includes 20% VAT and the American one doesn't include taxes. The cost is literally the same once you add the VAT(12 usd = 10GBP, add 20% vat = 12GBP)
Agreed that investing in standards is always a good bet. But at the same time, we have so many web frameworks in part because what is spec'd in plain JavaScript/HTML/CSS is not quite high-level enough to be really be a productive foundation just on its own. Going all the way back to raw `Document.createElement` will come with its own special pain.

With the WebComponents movement though, we are getting ever closer to being able to rely on native browser functionality for a good share of what frameworks set out to do. We're not all the way to bliss without frameworks, but for what it's worth here is my 481-byte library to support template interpolation with event binding in order to make WebComponents pretty workable mostly as-is: https://github.com/dchester/yhtml
That would be another LLM or a robot then
You could just leave the chat or sign off. Hard to do when some people are all about doxing and swatting nowadays.
If they are accurate for ~80% of the questions, they will be as accurate as any 1st or 2nd line help desk.
The common answer is Obama is African American (or black or negro). The reason is the implicit "one drop rule", if a white is contaminated with a little amount of black blood from their ancestors, they are not white anymore but black.

The race classification of humans is racist. As the term implies.

Many people arriving to the US are shocked to be asked their 'race', as if we were dogs. I never know what to answer, are arabs white? Are spaniards latin? Are ouzbeks from Caucase asian? Etc... This is non sense racist shit.
> They're very good at tone, and feeling right without actually being write.

The text they generate is probably free of errors like this one as well
What Happens to Silicon Valley Without Silicon Valley Bank?
Yes - he is referring to me.
>> "I took quick notice of a sentiment among the photographer community that would suggest people like my self should stay far the fuck away from their craft. Fancy "I make a lot of money" types all over this arena. Looking down on us pheasants. You scummy poor people with your shitty little cameras."

Maybe I'm blind, but I've never picked up on this attitude. I may have met one or two individuals like this, but I've shrugged them off as holier-than-thou individuals (who exist in all disciplines), not part of a wide-spread attitude in the field of photography.

I will say: There is probably some annoyance among serious photographers at the claims that an iPhone is on equal footing with a high end DSLR/Mirrorless camera. It's true that some mobile phones take a-mazing photos that truly can rival some high-end cameras, but that's usually in a very narrow context, and much of the creative input of the photography process is either automated or simply not cared about. As long as you're not claiming that your iPhone is on par with someone's Sony a7R IV and implying that there's no use for such cameras because iPhones are "replacing" them, then I think most #serious photographers don't give two-hoots what you're shooting with. Different cameras have different applications that they're the best fit for. It's all about what works for you, and part of that, frankly, is the enjoyment (I shoot high-end digital, point-and-shoot digital, manual 35mm film, and kodak funsaver disposables)

Frank Thorp, a professional news/political photographer, shoots with a fancy-pants Sony a9, but also does a lot of disposable film cameras!
Well you begin with "California bad woke liberals" and take it from there...
It's cool that you're not completely deaf, but the damage has been done and not only due to this announcement. There are alternatives and people are increasingly choosing them.
>In an AI future, mediocre anything will not exist anymore.

Right! Aren't we all mediocre before we're excellent? Isn't every entry level job some version of trying to get past being mediocre? i.e. Isn't a jr developer "mediocre" compared to a senior dev? If AI replaces the jr dev, how will anyone become a senior dev if they never got the chance to gain experience to become less mediocre?
$12 is £9.91. Add 20% VAT to that and you get £11.89.