skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is not just those who are working on hard problems who are of that opinion.

Good luck having a ML model understand a 20 year old undocumented dataformat developed inhouse at a specific research lab to be used in their proprietary systems which are also undocumented and are a part of a spiderweb of interconnected systems at that lab (I have worked at this particular lab).

It will be a long time (if ever) until a ML model will be able to handle these situations (and I hazard a guess that most of the worlds active code is something akin to this).

As a supporting tool for the software engineers working there, sure. Just like a linter.
The Big Three automakers massively contracted as the pension obligations the UAW forced them to agree to made their financial positions untenable.
That’s pretty funny. I just bought a pixel 6a with the intent of replacing my iPhone. About an hour of “how the hell do people put up with this shit” and it’s going. Then I wake up to this.
> quite a contrived definition of average

Sure, maybe an argmax mixed with an RNG isn't really an average, but some would say it's quite a contrived definition of forming an opinion.
I'm saving my money, so I can live enough off savings to learn a new profession. I'm not sure if that will happen, but I consider this option as likely enough to affect my life decisions. The world is changing at alarming rate.

Though I think that it's more likely that I'll become shaman who talks to the spirits. Managers hate computers and they'd prefer to pay someone to deal with them.
You seem to be describing an Android tablet with e-ink display. Aside from Remarkable, what else is out there worth buying?
We have more technology and more stuff than ever, yet it seems we've accomplished about zero in solving the human problems of greed and narcissism.

Ted Faro is alive today. We just aren't sure which of the FRANK'S he's at.
Why not just require motion from the key in the past 30 seconds for it to be active? If I'm walking to my car, the key is bouncing around in my pocket, so make it active. When it's sitting in a drawer in my house, it's not moving, so make it inactive.
As per this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35192038, I reckon the whole is “creative enough” and would be protected as the developer only used parts and cherry picked and combined what they needed.
>Not saying it's your case, but I noticed that a lot of people who hate TS like to use techniques and patterns that are usually considered bad practices, which often trigger errors in TS. Mutating an object to add a new property, mutating an array to add an element of a different type, processing apples and oranges in the same function without using generics or the correct union type, etc. Code works but TS doesn't like it and forces them to rewrite it properly and it feels like a hassle with no benefits.

Not sure, people who like TS are usually for large corporate projects with OOP background. Most functional lispish type developer would be fine just using ES6 and above.
In the United States before the mid-1930s, there used to be something called "double liability" where the equity shareholders of a bank could be assessed up to the par value of their stock holdings if the bank failed and needed money to pay depositors. I've always been curious but have never looked into the history of why it was ended at that particular time. Best guess is just that they were desperate to do anything to make it easier for banks to lend money in the 1930s. Or maybe the usefulness of the assessment was called into question when banks failed right after the horrendous liquidation of the Great Depression, and none of the bank shareholders had much of any real assets to assess.
Dinosaurs also survived a very long time, up till the moment they didn't.

And yea you can say that birds are dinosaurs but the transition was very messy.
Before we jump to the cacophony of hyperbolic “quit” replies you will inevitably get, try talking to your manager. This is what we’re here for. Your manager will have context that HN commenters do not and can give you specific advice for your situation.

Voice your concerns and be wary of emotional bias. “I would like to do this, I have suggested it and it seems like the team is ok with it, except for Mr. X. I don’t think he’s being reasonable but I would like your opinion, and I would like a suggestion on how to move forward.”
Absolutely not. For users, yes. For the person uploading/modifying the image, hell no.
Similarly, many non-programmers can do tasks that some programmers must hire a professional for (like repair drywall, install a ceiling fan, basic car maintenance, etc).

Empathy is one of those skills that is as, or more, valuable than any particular programming language.
I’m still waiting to hear who these magical companies who pay well above market comp!
Email Addresses with the Word “Spam”
Keep in mind that "unix knowledge" doesn't mean knowing bash scripting, but understanding a bit about the shell is the key part.

You worked on windows, but you probably know about environment variables, how they are passed around, what PATH is, how to list files in a directory, cd around, copy/delete files, redirect, pipe and how to use git given your profession. Isn't that the case? I've been on Windows and learned all that as a hobbyist (I'm a professional developer, but I work on unix systems)

I asked the company I work for to add as a requirement "familiarity with bash", because otherwise we would get candidates that don't know how to use PATH, or environment variables, and that was a serious problem. It's equivalent to having the requirement "know how to use a computer"
"Hey GPT-X: Can you refactor the codebase in gpt@monkeypatched-crap.git for me? Preferably in the style of gpt@crappycrud.git that I worked on last year."
I agree. This all reads like a solid reminder that two things happen in that realm of highly VC funded systems:

- Investment/money management often happens by people who are very new to this process and make swift sometimes stupid decisions.

- Everyone else is clearly in the “protect profit” game, even if that means ignoring the clearly stupid things svb (and really the entire system) did/does. Mort backed securities, crap from the 08 markets, deregulation.. etc.

A failing bank should not crash the economy nor should a bunch of startups failing as a result crash too. Poor startup decisions are one thing. But “too big to fail” things maybe need to be smaller or nationalized?

I realize the site I’m on, and know I am still learning about this.

I have just, in all my (short 43) years, felt the “too big to fail” reason pop up more than it seems it should because, to me, it means “gov must protect my profit, or I’ll deadman switch the economy.”
Zero chance. Casinos generate taxes and jobs. Online gambling & sports betting generates more taxes and a few more jobs. Lotteries and horse racing too. States simply can't afford to give it up now.
Repeat the experiment in a better way and blog about it then rather than negging in the comments. I'm not the author, but I'll await your peer review.
Foreign intelligence agencies are going to use AI to find exploits. (If they aren't already).

Forbidding our white hat hackers to defend our systems using AI makes no sense.
Because 2G has already been sunset or has date set for sunset by most carriers around the world.
The login with Google made me close your page instantly
Actually we've recreated Roman concrete just recently. It appears a quicklime like substance in the concrete gives it a self healing property l
> won't trade jobs fall as well?

Why won't tradesman cut their prices?
Amazon stops selling magazines and newspapers through Kindle Newsstand
I came up in the 90s, used a lot of dreamweaver to build sites, all my friends thought I was a wizard because I had a website and that required you to program interweb stuff. Then the net became pretty complex, I gave up around dhtml but always really appreciated and loved what folks could do with the DOM. I've been thinking a lot recently that GPT might allow me to build again, I have some of that 90s dreamweaver vibes using it.
Make Bitcoin Fun Again
Use Synvert to automatically migrate jQuery (Part 3)
I don't even think it's useful for the incompetent. I do think the incompetent think it's useful tho.
They need to at least provide an option for other publishers to also get their content on the kindle, other than Amazon’s own subscription service.

Otherwise they are using an advantage in one market (devices) to obtain an advantage in a different market (online content).

The EU will eat them alive if they try that anti-competitive behaviour.
I think all it shows is that GP has never worked on complicated problems that require anything more than gluing libraries together.
Unions have won every cultural battle in the US. The only reason union membership declined is that virtually every industry that they got a hold of went bankrupt or severely contracted. A notable exception is Hollywood, and that's only because the nature of movie projects, which are time-limited, reduces the leverage of unionized workers.

In the government, where taxpayers pay for growing inefficiency, unions have only grown in strength.
And the next iteration of ChatGPT will likely generate a better contract because your interaction with it will be used as training data
Barkley Marathons Has Three Finishers
Absolutely agree on it being poorly communicated, only heard about in this thread!

In terms of alternatives, buying an Android powered E-reader and subscribing to the publication via the app or the e-newspaper service could work, although it will not be as optimized for E ink of course. The advantage of Boox and other Android E-readers is that you can access whatever you want, and the browsing experience for text heavy websites is decent.
Thank-you, that is interesting. I wonder if ChatGPT has been trained on Dramatica. If not, if we teach it that first in a prompt.

The idea of the Storymind is to present a model of a "single brain solving a problem" as a structure of story.

So we wrap conflict in this meta-model as "narrative interactions" among a set of quads, without mentioning antagonist or resistance.

Instead, somehow we ask ChatGPT to pose as philosophers in a dialog, stressing there is no "physical" action taking place.
Breast cancer gene linked to Orkney islands
You also may underestimate how quickly that AI could pass expert level. The experts out there still have many years of life left so they won't be disappearing soon. If we get self improving/self training AI sooner than later then, we'll humans won't be the experts.
I think there are a lot of details missing and presumptions from this model that could change the calculus, and it would be swift and stupid decision to bet that 0 withdrawals in a bank run are going to complete, or that the first actors are expected to lose a significant share of their money if a run is triggered.
The common mistake of attributing to malice what could perfectly be attributed to stupidity.

Sure, not your run of the mill stupidity, but even ML scientists do not understand why would a model make a particular choice.
Problem is reading someone else's old code takes an order of magnitude longer than writing new code
Don't listen to fighter-pilots stuck in busses.

That's such an easy thing to do as a product. All the comments you see are all clamouring for some set of features that will just complicate everything. Yet a majority of the users have absolutely no issues continuing on with what they already have. You need to be able to figure out how many quiet happy customers you have if you want to make any big breaking changes...
I'm not the person you were asking, but levels.fyi is a good resource fyi:

https://www.levels.fyi/2022/

Again, what do you know about Apple's internal culture? Have you actually worked there, or known anyone who has?
If you're doing anything animation related, there is no point in using React's useState because it causes re-renders. The right approach here is to use useRef.
That's why I said it was unpredictable, in both directions.
As long as there's a system to whitelist specified numbers of ahead of time to be free, I think it would work out. Companies would just tell customers ahead of time what number they'd be calling from
"predicting the next word" sounds trivial until you realize the value and complexity of "predicting the next word[s] by a world leading expert in a particular domain".
It took 10 years for WebGL to be widely available, and it is still barely used beyond some niche use cases like 3D models in ecommerce, or Flash's revenge when coupled with WASM.
You missed his point. He's saying "latest is an anti-pattern". Which is correct. Everyone should be pinning to specific versions or semver to avoid being accidentally upgraded to a release with breaking changes.

Yes, obviously making existing tags immutable is bad. Nobody is disputing that.
> Is every authoritarian a fascist?

In principal, no, non-fascist authoritarianisms can exist. In modern practice, they are comparatively rare. Leninism in the narrow sense was internationalist rather than nationalist, but most of its later derivatives (starting, in the USSR with “socialism in one country”) have shaded progressively more toward nationalism. Superficially “left” authoritarianisms (again, largely, Leninism and its derivatives) may have a rhetorical bent toward egalitarianism that contrasts with fascisms elitist/heirarchicalism, but even in old-school Leninism its distinction from Marxism is its adoption of vanguardism which naturally tends toward hierarchy, and that’s even more intense in its subsequent derivatives, both institutionalized with state power and, in many case, in revolutionary movements; the necessity of armed power to maintain authoritarian systems makes institutionalized authoritarianism naturally tend toward militarism even when as movements they might present as anti-militaristic. All of the modern authoritarian movements are corporatist, whether by bringing “outside” groups formally into regime decision-making, or abolishing them and replacing them with formal state institutions, or by assuring that “outside” interests are run by people connected to the regime and informally coordinating power, even if there aren’t part of formal decisionmaking.
OMG your.
There is only 1 such viable product, Xojo. https://www.xojo.com/

I haven’t used it since it was called RealBasic ages ago.
Also if all the company is doing is boring crud app as a service then the whole company is going to disappear once anyone can ask ChatGPT to create a version of the service for themselves
Exactly! Especially since most mobile browsers have a decent reading mode these days.
Because when you commission someone _they initially get copyright_ and then assign it to you.
Such trolls could only get GPL compliance, not damages though? So not much incentive for them to become trolls at all.
The best way to deal with point one – ghosting. Feeling sorry to see 3 greatly ineffective, and 1 desperate method to get rid of the abusive spammer. I had experience with the community-driven portal, and trust me - the best way to exhaust the spammer - hide his posts from others - don't give him a single clue you acted on him, just let him continue posting in a special vacuum prison crafted exactly for him.
Chinese tech giant Baidu releases its answer to ChatGPT
From the email from OpenAi announcing GPT-4:

> ChatGPT Plus: ChatGPT Plus subscribers will get GPT-4 access on chat.openai.com with a dynamically adjusted usage cap. We expect to be severely capacity constrained, so the usage cap will depend on demand and system performance. API access will still be through the waitlist.
The LLM Race
Conservancy have said in numerous talks that we are well past the age of unintentional violations and well into the deliberate violations era, where companies just stall and stall and stall.
> My biggest frustration at the moment is that there isn't an ideal home for my photos.

As a hobby photographer, I share my public photos on my own site [1] and syndicate to Pixelfed, Instagram and Glass [2]. Glass really has potential (photographer-oriented, small fee), but it has yet to stand the test of time.

For my private and "share with friends" use case, I'm still looking for a solid solution. Two options I'm considering are my NAS and OneDrive (where I have a 1TB space due to my Office subscription).

[1] https://photos.darekkay.com/

[2] https://glass.photo/
I has the same problem as outlined higher up: it moves money from the newspaper to the tech moloch, that can then exert control over the news. The paper will be forced to "popularize" its article stream (Did Aliens Invade the White House?) to the detriment of free news gathering and democracy, all for 30 silver coins.
Who's not disagreeing? Singularity feels like "man facing existential dread confuses saturation curve for exponential".
Loved this. I think there are many more characteristic cases of programmer-muggle “lost in translation”.

On a tangent,

> Can you help with my printer?

Related Ask HN:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35165560
And this, ladies and gentlemen, is how consciousness is born. Just like in humans: out of split-brain schizophrenia.
I meant the e reader, not the economist, to clarify.
Remember that these models generate one token at a time. They do not "think ahead" much more than maybe a few tokens in beam search. So if the problem requires search - actual comparison of approaches, and going back-and-forth between draft and thinking through the implications - the model can't do it (except in a limited sense, if you prompt it to give it's "train of thought"). So it's comparable of you being in front of whiteboard, hit with a question, and you would have to start answering immediately without thinking more than you can while talking through your answer at the same time. Doable if you know the material well. If it's a new problem, that approach is doomed.
Given that, I think the language models do remarkably well. A little bit of search, and maybe trying to generate the answer in different order (like short draft -> more detailed draft -> more detailed draft... etc.) will improve things a lot.
I no longer have USB-A, which is the only USB receptacle I’ve ever seen on a plane.
> b) No human has demonstrated the capability of actually understanding/explaining how any of these trained models encode the high-level concepts & undertstanding that they demonstrate. And yet we have so many people confidently providing lengthy lower bounds on timelines for AGI development. The only tool I have to work with, that I do understand, is thermodynamics. There are about 8 billion strong examples that general intelligence requires on the order of 10 measly watts, and about 1kg of matter. From a thermodynamic point of view, general intelligence is clearly not special at all. This leads me to the belief that we likely already have the computational capability to achieve AGI today, and we simply don't have the right model architecture. That could change literally overnight.

Perhaps human brains are more energy-efficient at doing their thing, and if we tried to replicate this with digital computers it would require more than 10 watts.

If that's the case, we have the potential of building computers that are vastly more efficient than that, simply because our computers don't need to spend energy for surviving
> Some points are great and have been taken into account. Others amount to basically concern trolling. How do you deal with these situations?

You said you've made some fixes corrections based on his/her feedback. Are the other comments actually concern trolling? Or did you understand their point in some of the comments and don't yet understand the point in the others?

Have you tried sitting down with them 1:1 to see if they'll explain them to you?
Golf at 3PM Thursday? Sure, It’s the Afternoon Fun Economy
The Little-Known Origin Story Behind the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics
Entanglement in the life of physics giant Chien-Shiung Wu
One of those customers also redistributed GRSec modifications:

https://github.com/jameshilliard/linux-grsec
Propaganda is often based upon very selectives facts. (For a classic ecample stating that blacks are the number one killer of blacks while not mentioning that every ethnicity is the most likely killer of their own ethnicity just because of who they live near and encounter the most.)
Selective accurate facts themselves may lead to inaccurate conclusions. Just felt that should be pointed out because it is pretty non-obvious and often a vexing problem to spot.
For the Economist you should be able to download offline editions through the app-
https://myaccount.economist.com/s/article/Whats-included-in-...
> They bought it over a year ago. Where ya been?

Enjoying my life, working on things that inspire me, not following tedious news about tech industry mergers and acquisitions.

Not dismissing the news as unimportant, it is important. It's just boring and I wish we lived in a world where everything good wasn't subsumed into soulless corporate behemoths.

So far Epic still seems to have a tiny bit of soul. But that'll gradually fade as it does with every huge company and in ten or fifteen years it'll be another Adobe/Autodesk.
I believe switching the "preferred network" back to 3G (in the SIM settings) does this. VoLTE is 4G/5G.
In Germany you move farther out of cities, you are stuck with 2G

[0] https://www.nperf.com/en/map/DE/-/187895.Telekom/signal/?ll=...
I don't get how anyone can build a serious application on vanilla JS. I love vanilla JS, but it would require one to re-invent the wheel to manage all the state. You'll end up borrowing tons of ideas and rolling your own framework. At that point, you might as well have used something like React, Svelte, etc...
Nomenclature nitpick: "deleting images", not "deleting containers". Images are what they host. Containers are running instances of an image.
I've lost 2 M2 drives the first was 2TB Samsung 970 Evo which exceeded it's write endurance limit. Either due to firmware or me writing too much I'm not sure. The other M2 was a smaller Gigabyte drive that had some hardware failure.

My new drive is a 1TB Samsung 980 Pro which has a write endurance of 600TBW so if I wrote 1.5TB a day it would last just over a year. I don't know how much endurance the drive in a Mac Mini has but I can't imagine it is any better than that. I would not want to write so much per day to the systems internal drive if it is not easily and cheaply replacable.
I asked ChatGPT to be my CTO
IMO "public attention and interest" in ChatGPT dissipates at an r-squared rate the further you move out from the tech industry (or the NLP research) bubble.

I'm sure that for the people in the thick of crypto and web3, it would've felt like that was the most important thing on everyone's mind.
Huh. There’s something scary about that in my lizard brain. Not sure what.
If you're wording your CV the way it screams sysadmin right in your face the only offers you get will be sysadmin. Try emphasizing your coding experience more
You can pretty much skip React and go straight to Qwik as it solves N+1 and it fixes the ability for low quality devs ruining perf with useEffect since you have signals ala Solid
Ask HN: What are your favorite examples in history of good user interfaces?
Looking at the title of the recent Hacker News submission "Properly Displaying Ancient Interfaces"[0], I had thought it was going to talk about actually ancient (historically) user interfaces.

Which got me wondering, what are some examples of ancient (historically) user interfaces that are very good?

They don't have to be actually ancient, but I'm curious to hear about examples out there of thoughtful user design in inventions prior to computers. Are there other times in history where UX design was obsessed over like it is now?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35183458
If you do nontrivial coding then GPT wont help you, so that isn't relevant for the discussion.