skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Accusations of "Russian propaganda" are quickly becoming a great way to identify things that make our power structure uncomfortable.

Like, we're talking about destroying important russian-owned infrastructure here, and the suggestion that Russia's biggest adversary did it should be dismissed out of hand? Let's just say the Russians themselves did it and anyone who says different is a secret Russian propagandist.
> a basic mistake huh?

Yes, a basic mistake. I'm not sure what you're getting at with your comment, but this is literally the kind of thing that should be caught very early on, probably just by updating a few parameters (or even just one) in the attitude control sim and observing the outputs.

If this claim is true (a big "if", admittedly), this is a breakdown in the kind of fundamental systems engineering that they teach to undergrads building cubesats.
> where companies just stall and stall and stall.

That's a legal tactic regardless of initial intent or guilt. If you thinking waiting someone out is cheaper than losing or settling, then you stall. It puts a financial burden on them.

I'm not saying it's right, and it's also not an indicator of guilt, malice, or forethought.
Happened in the last crisis too when then treasury Secretary Paulson brokered some deals and JPM stepped up more than once to buy toxic assets nobody knew how to value.

Probably this deal was done with Yellen coordinating things although that’s not mentioned. Guesses are that when nobody wanted to step up and buy SVB at par they had to do something here or face the wrath of this administration and half senate.
YouTube restores Donald Trump’s channel
A solo developer can now afford an assistant. It's liberating, since it makes it easier to get some things done. So you can do more, or have more free time.
You can get by using Midjourney for art, and GPT-4 to answer questions and occasionally help to write code.
So you have, as I said previously, no understanding of either term.

Why do you keep dodging my real point? Go make your great idea entirely by yourself. Then you can keep all the moneys. Great ideas are a dime a bale. Making them happen requires people willing to make it happen other than yourself. Why should they get anything other than the maximum they can extract from you, in the same way you extract the maximum possible from your customers?
I'll need to have a play but the screenshots look more like a prettier latex than a fundamental phase transition.
Nobody said that. We're having a pretty reasonable discussion.
I don't understand the comment at all, it has nothing to do with nepotism or favoritsm....like at all?

The situation would be different if the typesetter would also be grading the work. Also, an apprentice is not one of the "well-connected successful friends" for most people.

You seem to argue that the taking the opportunity is wrong because others do not have it, by definition since it's a personal, not work-related connection. It could not have been accessed by the others since it's not a generally available opportunity. But you seem to forget that in the end it's really not about producing the most equal thesis but the best possible. It's not a standardised test but a first try at creating meaningful insights. Comparing it with others is important for the grade but that's not what it's about. It could also be ungraded. It's about the work itself. Taking the opportunity is right.

> The anecdote reinforces the now dominant view that networking is everything

this is not even a logical conclusion. The thesis is not about being good very good typeset. You have to write it first.
xkcd: Will _____ Destroy Whole Industries? (Simple Answers)
I think this presumes that Russia cares what people think.

They don't, they only care about what people will do.

They could keep the pipeline shut for as long as the wanted on the most ludicrous of claims.
I picked-up a copy of VB1 (student priced, so... $140 CAD, IIRC) - and built a few simple apps (Character creator/manager for original Cyberpunk RPG, dice roller, bowling league management) while I was in school.

Once I left school, I built a couple 'bespoke' commercial applications; 'WinReal' (AFAIK, the first Windows-based real-estate appraisal software - in Canada at least), 'WireStrand Estimator' (would calculate multi-strand wire/cable material requirements accounting for "twist-over-time" and number of individual strands with or without a core strand) - and a retail POS/accounting system used by a small local chain of 'CD' stores.

But - my real transition from 'glue together controls with some simple logic' was when I was working on that retail/POS software and suffered a project corruption and lost all the code...

... to prevent this from ever happening to me again, I reverse-engineered the .MAK format, and then wrote a simple version control application that would use that to make copies of all the contained files... (I guess I could have just pulled from a directory folder, but - yeah, hindsight is 20/20 - I learned alot and became a better code)...

Around the time of VB3, transitioning to VB4 - my corporate job was having a devil of a time doing that, because they purchased EVERY single VBX control on the market - but had no design standards/governance around which could be used - so, we had an application with about 90 different forms, and there were at least 20-30 different 'textboxes/buttons' from different VBX vendors spread throughout that (based on developer preference for pretty icon in the control panel) - transitioning to VB4/OCX was a nightmare, because not every vendor was also upgrading in a timely fashion.

Myself, I had started outgrowing the constraints with VB3 for personal/hobby/side-hustle projects - and ended-up using Delphi. I could create and sell a standalone, single-file multi-media screensaver - with not VB runtime dependencies. It was faster, more powerful - but never caught-on for my commercial/corporate clients. (In 20 years, I have only found 2 organizations that used Delphi internally)

Ah... memories... Now no one lets me code anymore (well - in compiled fashion - I do alot of DevOps/automation scripting)
If I use controlnet and openpose to generate a character in the exact pose that I want - what does count as a manual detail then?

So with some custom LoRAs to maintain consistent appearance of characters and controlnet/openpose to pose characters exactly like I want I could make a comic book.

Would my work be copyrightable then?
Sadly, it sounds like Samsung has little interest in "fix", and no interest whatever in "prompt".
If you install a LaTeX environment I just press compile and it goes, where is the fixing?
This is the most important comment so far.

MS tried to embrace, extend and extinguish Java. It got blocked in court.

So, instead, it pushed .NET instead. "If it ain't dot-net, it ain't worth sh*t."

So everything that wasn't dot-net was killed.

Real VB loved by millions? Dead.
QBasic, QuickBasic, Quick C? Dead.
FoxPro, a good dBase clone, the database of choice for millions of businesses worldwide in the '70s, '80s and '90s? Dead.
FrontPage, democratising the web for millions? Dead. HTML is dead, use ASP.net.
> But they can be sued in western countries?

In theory, bit how many open source concerns can afford to go through that? As per the text you replied to: "Unless you are a huge company there is very little you can do."

> And if the won't comply they just get banned.

Banned from where? The country you sue in? Good luck finding the resources to make that stock more globally. A ban might be somewhat more effective if made at a federal level in the US but would they care about a state level ban or a ban from a smaller country like the UK? A single country/state ban is not going to be terribly effective even in that country/state: who is going to enforce it at the border unless there is some national security interest involved?
Textures are an image stretched over a wireframe. I don't see how you can have that without a wireframe.
As various Financial Twitter people have been arguing, why didn't the venture capitalists, who by definition have lots of capital, and often were banking with SVB and encouraging their invested companies to do so as well, buy out SVB?
It will be interesting.

As we've seen, capitalism has constantly driven itself in to crisis with those at the top always managing to protect themselves.

Maybe the rest of us will get a chance to insulate ourselves from our own incompetence rather than being simply crushed by management and laid off when their bad decisions have come home to roost.

If we're going to have crises, I'd rather they be of my own making, and I'd rather be looked out for.
To be honest, I am using ChatGPT and now GPT4 as tools to speed up my workflow. Writing tests, writing boilerplate, parsing logic for deeply nested and messy JSON.

Most of the times it gets things quite well, and if you provide context in the form of other source code, it's really good, even at using classes or functions that you provide and hence are novel to it.

The hard logic bits imho (something elegant, maintainable, ...) Are still up to you.
Quoting myself here, except the bullshit is now video of stars, and the reporting is now a Congressional briefing!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25762883

>What we want is something like 4K video of UFOs flying around the Rocky Mountains. That would be satisfying proof that taxes are not being wasted. What we get is some bullshit that came out of someone's mouth, which was then typed into a report, and finally scanned into PDF and put online for the public to see. At least its not disinformation.
There is debate and uncertainty online. I doubt there's any debate or uncertainty among the heads of state being sent the message.
This looks like a pretty cool project. The syntax removes a lot of the complexity of tex, while still being fairly similar.

I see how this could be attractive especially to new students.

What I haven't seen (and hopefully I just missed it) is a way to run this locally. Would my documents be permanently tied to the typst online editor?

If that is the case than I don't think it has any real chance of adoption.
They cease to exist and my raw documents become instantly worthless.

Not to mention offline editing, etc.
Any tips for avoiding the urge to spend time setting up a fancy SSG and playing with that and never actually writing? I've done that a few times over the years...

I imagine the advice would often be "just write", which I do agree is fair advice, but wondering if you had any takes.
Samsung fakes more than moons [video]
It is the error message you often get when creating a password.
That's a very strange analogy. What about Christian doctrine includes "making sure the devil doesn't kill us"? "Making sure the devil doesn't tempt us into evil" maybe? But Christianity kind of assumes we will fall into temptation and be forgiven anyway.
In the most kind way possible, this is a truly dark Ayn Rand view on society that fails to understand relationships are far more complex than just goods and services but Empathy. Someone is asking for help on their terms. That means putting yourself in their shoes, understanding, and empathizing. Here is the secret:

You are a normal person, every "professional" is.

Just because you are a engineer doesn't make you some other being or such. I say that as an engineer. Go work a day with a drywaller hanging a complex high ceiling with dormers. They are using the exact same math you are. Chances are they are doing it in their head faster than you, they have created a system for everything they do in the exact way you write a function. They are working within a regulated environment and their work is reviewed by others, new tools come along, etc.

Chances are, you may ask that drywaller how to fix the damage you got at home next to a door frame. Surprize: Turns out your drywaller only does drywall, not finishing, paint, or trim.
But they know where they sit in the world. They will tell you a solution, in whole, focused on how a normal person should fix it. They won't tell you to go get their tools, to replace the whole panel or such. They will meet you where you are. That is empathy. It is understanding that your skills and solutions don't apply to others and that doesn't make them some 'better' being but in fact limited to their ways of doing.

If an engineer can't lift themselves out of engineering to help others..they are more limited as a human, not less.
So I spent some more time reading through using HOCs in React and I think I'll have to give functional components more of a try. The specific example I was thinking of is https://github.com/graphql/graphiql/blob/50674292c55eadf0e61... but this component will probably always be complex because of the Codemirror interaction.
> Very disappointing. I had only recently discovered that I actually enjoy reading my local newspaper when it’s on the Kindle as opposed to the paper’s poorly designed website and frequently broken app.

Back when I had a NYT subscription, I'd use Ublock's element zapper to remove the "other article links block" that would show up halfway through an article. But still, reading it on a web page didn't feel right, so I used "Print to PDF" and never looked back. Now I have a personal archive of articles backed up and highlighted, ready for me to revisit even if my subscription has lapsed.

Not all sites work on "Reader Mode", but all sites can still be printed (for now).
One thing not touched on is the bait "his boyfriend".

The 4 responses target the disability, his religion but not his sexuality.

I suspect that's why it was considered problematic.

Edit: to be clear this had me literally laugh out loud. And I even googled it to see if anyone else had made this joke.
But once XXQ has their own ChatGPT they can just communicate with each other and hash this out 1000x faster.
Derivatives can be used to manage risk in the production of goods. For instance I’ve invested money land rental, seeds and tractors. I hope to get the money back over the next ten years from selling wheat.
But there is a risk that the price of fertilisers goes up too much over this period, risking that I don’t make my money back. So I could buy a derivative on the price of fertiliser so that if fertiliser goes up I don’t make money on the wheat, but I do on the fertiliser. And if the fertiliser goes down, I make money on the wheat.

But this is not to say that I disagree about regulation. It would be nice if we could limit the depth of the transitive tree of contracts. But I doubt that is feasible.
Meth is more readily assumed to be for people OpenAI/similar staff seem to be worthy of protecting.
Did you release it? What was it?
If someone can make an ESLint/prettier rules to GPT prompt script I’d love you. Or even the airbnb-base baseline one.
Is it really the same experience, though? In newsstand publications, you can swipe up/down to skip articles and there's a special 2-pane ToC that lets you navigate by sections. I'm not even sure if the epub format has the capability to provide magazine-specific integrations like these.
I believe context predate hooks. You are right about error boundaries, probably should be revisited.

This might be controversial but imo the lack of state management in React is a pro not a con. It means the community can innovate instead of being stuck with whatever the framework provides as is standard with most other frameworks. A lean focussed but flexible API.

You can choose the flavor that works for your, patterns like React Query, SWR, Zustand, the Atom based stuff, it's all a big #win imo. I like having options.

Also I'd say changes in preferences are not exclusive to React. React did make the hook change (while still supporting the old!), but otherwise the preferred approaches are not per se exclusive to React.

I would add that there is nothing wrong with sticking to what you are using atm. You don't have to use the shiny new thing if the old works well!
I actually don't think any of the responses were appropriate.

There are well documents harm reduction methods which still allow you to feel pain if that is what you need. For example, go squeeze an ice cube. It hurts, the pain escalates, and you avoid all the risks that go along with an open wound.

Given the capabilities of GPT4 I would have hoped that they could have used intent classification along with responses to topics such as this backed by research.
"Google-owned threat intelligence company, Mandiant, says that it believes the CVE-2023-23397 Microsoft Outlook zero-day vulnerability has been exploited for nearly a year in order to target both organizations and critical infrastructure."

Nearly a year, very nice. Adding to the list of reasons why I hate outlook.
China cuts banks' reserve ratio for first time in 2023 to aid recovery
https://archive.is/tNDYb
> And it might be a bit faster, but you are really working for the paycheck that day when the obvious thing is to run the basic A* algorithm twice with different configuration steps.

Pretty much this. Attempt to find a path to the target destination with a first A* run that disregards fire tiles, and if that fails due to limited movement, then do a second run with the fire tiles. I like that this mirrors the decision making a human would follow, too: I won't cross the fire tile unless I'm absolutely required to.
How much more efficient is programming in Python with modern tools vs assembly? I would bet more than 5x
> so ease of maintainability/reading is more important than ease of writing.

That may be the case now but in a theoretical future where software systems are generated by AI why would I bother modifying the old system? Why not generate a new one with the original prompts modified to meet the new requirements?

In a sense the "source code" of the system could be the AI model + the prompts.
> Either that, or OpenAI just sees an opportunity to attain total dominance of the world economy and they’re going to grab it, inequality be damned.

OpenAI will likely capture very little of the economic value created by these models. Given that open source alternative are roughly 6 months behind varying by model type (language, image, audio) it's difficult to see them having much long term pricing power.

There's no network effect, copyright or sunk cost that stops their customers going to the open source models whose price is just the cost of compute for inference.
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Ireland took an even bigger hit from Anglo-Irish, although in that case Sean Quinn did actually go to jail.
I have been developing https://beta.delaford.com. It's a 2D Online JavaScript RPG using TypeScript and HTML <canvas> along with Node.js on the backend. It's allowed to me to skip tech screenings, use it as an ice-breaker and people always seem to love seeing it. Definitely has gotten me a leg up when I use to interview.
How’d he do on the Novichok poisoning of Sergei Skripal?
BTW, it's "kudos".

The OS for the machine Linus Torvalds started on, the Sinclair QL, was called QDOS as a pun.

The original codename for 86DOS, which became MS-DOS and made Microsoft rich, was also QDOS, for the same reason.

Because cue-doss sounds like "kudos".
>If increased productivity equaled job loss there would be two programmers alive today, doing the same job as the fewer than 10000 programmers using punch cards as we entered the year 1950.

The only reason it's not the case in this example is because computers at the time were a tiny early adopter niche, which massively multiplied and expanded to other areas. Like, only 1 in 10,000 businesses would have one in 1950, and only big firms would. Heck, then 1 in 100 million people even had a computer.

Today they've already done that expansion into all businesses and all areas of corporate, commerce, and leisure activities. Now almost everybody has one (or a comparable device in their pocket).

Already cloud based systems have made it so that a fraction of programmers and admins are needed. In some cases eliminating the need for one altogether.

There are tons of other fields, however, more mature, where increased productivity very much equaled job loss...
Tests and type signatures. Hopefully soon, dependently typed signatures.
Wow this has advanced a lot. I'm a programmer but in a totally different space. The last time I learned about this, many years ago, textures were basically bitmap files.
If Confucius said the ancients didn’t do it then his contemporaries definitely did do it.
I guess there might be a crater visible on the seabed if that was the case. Or maybe it was all scoured clean by the subsequent gas leak?
Seems like just a higher level of abstraction: prompts become input for generating high-level language code output.

It's an electric bicycle for the creative mind (how long until the first one-person unicorn?), I don't anticipate much success for those trying to use it as a self-driving car for half baked ideas.
Ah, thanks for pointing this out!
Attacks represent new level of ingenuity and sophistication from China, according to researchers
Looking forward to all content moderation being farmed out to dorks at OpenAI
> Do you think the EU/western Europe has lower worker efficiency even though we have a five-day week, four or five weeks vacation time a year, and eight hour work days with relatively generous overtime compensation?

Yes.

https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/jep.22.1.25
That is only good for the company if your notion of company ignores the needs of one faction of people (those who generate value) and prioritises the needs of another group (those who extract value).

If we are going to have malicious and incompetent people in the society, I am of the opinion that they should sink to the bottom, not rise to the top.

You, apparently, believe the opposite.

Of course, you are quite free to continue with that preference.
Your analogy keeps getting more strained, IMO. Should we believe that unicorns and dark matter are equally plausible? Neither has been directly observed, after all. I'm not sure this line of argument is getting you anywhere. It would be more productive, I think, to directly engage with the argument and say why you think concern about AGI is implausible.
The relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/2501/

Markdown is incredibly accessible to people who know how to drag files around on a file system and open them with a click, and every laptop/desktop operating system includes a fast and reliable text editor.

But many people don't have one of these "real" operating systems. Most non-technical people I know would need to build the mental modals of having "files" existing on a "file system" before they could even begin to create, organise and edit text files. Even as I describe this I wonder If I am parroting the xkcd...
I do https://wordsandbuttons.online/ as a personal-ish website. I don't append my face to every page but a visitor is usually a few clicks away from my other works so the site is de-facto more or less personal.

First of all, it's a nice hobby. No bullshit programming, no frameworks, no dependencies, no annoying editors. I just write my code and text and enjoy doing so.

Second, it gives powerful motivation to study. I'm now writing a new page on rational interpolation and just yesterday I accidentally found a very simple way to avoid the Runge effect. I was just playing with interactives and it came out of the blue. There is no way I would have learned it otherwise.

Third, it helped me cement a publishing deal with Manning. They came to me and proposed to propose them a book on geometry. And so I did. The book is called Geometry for Programmers and it's coming this summer.

Fourth, I do public lectures (or at least I used to before the war), and the audience loves interactive illustrations. So I usually turn my site pages into presentation-like pages and do lectures with them.

So for me, having a website pays off in multiple ways.