skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
True. Though I wonder what will happen when someone sells a wildly successful novel to a publisher for millions of dollars, and then it turns out that it was composed by an AI.
John Deere is the Apple of farm equipment.

https://www.hagerty.com/media/news/john-deere-loses-battle-i...
The code does less than the title appears to claim - it's a simple concatenation of files into one text file. Luckily GPT itself is high leverage and that's all you need.
According to https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2023/03/multiple-inte..., this likely affects:

> Mobile devices from Samsung, including those in the S22, M33, M13, M12, A71, A53, A33, A21, A13, A12 and A04 series

...and many others.
> I can even prove you didn't make the AI image by asking you to produce a work of similar quality under supervision.

Have you ever seen a court do anything even remotely similar to this other than in Hollywood movies? Not only would there be serious freedom of expression/compelled speech aspects to doing that, it would be entirely impractical and ultimately prove nothing.
Sincerely, Ida
Are you not familiar with Tesla hacker Youtubers who try to repair salvage Teslas only to be told "no"?

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfV0_wbjG8KJADuZT2ct4SA
There are so many beach location to enjoy in Andaman visit. Moreover sightseeing tour in Andaman will provide you glimpse of cinematic views of nature. There are lots of top attractions one can visit in Andaman and Nicobar island tour package.
The Soviets literally launched reactors into space in the late 70s for very high RF power radar satellites (intended to track US navy, among other things). One deorbited over northern Canada.

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=soviet+ro...

Of course anything related to hall effect/ion thrusters isn't going to get you off the earth even with some of the theoretical/bench-tested-only 100kW (electrical load) thrusters under development. These are things with very low
thrust at any instantaneous moment in time but very high specific impulse from 3800 to 6000 ISP or more. Meant to be used in vacuum only.
this looks like a better documented io-ts
> There was an HN piece sometime in the last few days I think talking about this and speculating/arguing that the rise of unicorns changed the community from iterated towards the more singular game.

https://stratechery.com/2023/the-death-of-silicon-valley-ban...
A day after starting my second big tech job, I had to fill out a form about “prior legal obligations.”

I mentioned my prior employer made me sign a form similar to the one they had made me sign.

An hou later I was pulled aside by the CFO, and quizzed about the tech I used at the previous company (to make sure it wasn’t the same tech we were using there).

I was worried I had just lost my job.
Well, when I was working with auditors (internal AND external) in previous roles in major financial institutions, we always performed tests if risk management tools are sufficient and reserves are proper.
In the case of SVB it would have been possible to point out the concentration risk before bringing this into the public domain.
But then, I do agree with you that the situation evolved as a sum of many parts, which included the, at the time, highly unlikely result of a bank run by the VC community. Looking back, I still shake my head how this came to be.
What is Drunk GPTina?
This happened to my friend, he was caught with a small amount of marijuana and cocaine in his house while police were there for an unrelated domestic dispute. They then searched the rest of his house and stole approx $10k cash he had in a safe, accusing him of making that money from drug sales (it was really just emergency cash he wanted separate from his bank account, he wasn’t a drug dealer). He never got it back, it was not even in the record of items police seized.
> The realization came a few weeks ago when someone shared The Missing Semester of Comp Sci on HN. It’s full of basic things you’d expect any programmer to somehow magically know … but they don’t learn this anymore. https://missing.csail.mit.edu/

I do feel somewhat jealous though that these resources are now available for students to learn in a structured, borderline spoon-fed way when this stuff took me a number of years and hacking around to build up and gain muscle memory over. Still, I think the knowledge you struggle to learn yourself sticks around a lot longer than knowledge that was fed to you from school. :shrug: I could see it either way.
Would this not apply to tons of procedural generation tech as well (used in plenty of games and tons of movies)? We give it a bunch of elements and write algorithms to do the generation... but we are ultimately not the ones putting pen to paper so to speak.

I think this is the 100% the right call, some small level of human effort should be required otherwise what is to stop a few individuals from mass copywriting 10 million images and suing everyone that produces something substantially similar.

Having said that, there may be odd knock on effects at play here.
ageist much?
AI cant design software. You can ask it to to do X and it will do X if X is simple enough. Ask it to "Create an API for unifying financial APIs" and it will not do squat.
> whereas the creation process should be immaterial to protection

On the contrary, the US position has been for a very, very, long time that the creation process is the only thing that's material to protection. The result is not the thing that matters.

Corporations can own copyright not because they're human beings, but because the copyrighted work was originally generated by a human being's creative expression. There's no contradiction or having it both ways here: this isn't a set of guidance about who can own copyright, it's a set of guidance about what can generate copyright.
The Original Sleeping Beauty
I'm not that familiar with Loki but I'm aware that PromQL is the Prometheus Query Language. Just curious if PromQL works with Loki? Or are you referring to Prometheus being the more powerful system due to PromQL queries?
At a much smaller and less costly scale than Starship, Stoke Space (Kent, WA) has a plan and has published CGI videos of a proposed fully reusable second stage. Along with something very similar to a Falcon 9 resuable first stage. Whether they are actually able to do it remains to be seen.
Show HN: Custom Domain for Adobe Express/Slate/Spark
This is a sentiment that is repeated with every new generation of programmers. I heard it when I joined the industry. I’m sure many before and after me did as well.

Hard to say if it’s any truer now than it is today, but the kind of work we do and tools we use have certainly changed over time.
It’s funny how react.com redirects to reactjs.org and that redirects to react.dev domain because most companies only use newer tlds because dotcoms are unavailable
We at AirGradient maintain popular indoor and outdoor open source air quality monitoring projects [1] and gained quite a lot of experience on air quality measurement.

The hard part of these projects is not connecting electronic modules and get some air quality data out of it but to ensure that the data is accurate and this is where I have some questions. The success of these kind of projects stands and falls with the trust that people have in the data it generates.

1) The built uses the Sensirion SPS30 PM sensor. As per Sensirion assembly guideline the maximum allowed air flow around the sensor is one meter per second. This corresponds to 3.6 km/h or 2.2 m/h. A car normally travels a multitude of this speed. I did not see anywhere in the built instructions how they manage the airflow inside the enclosure to be within this limit. In my opinion detailed airflow simulations inside the enclosure are essential.

2) Temperature and humidity has strong impacts on the accuracy of PM measurements and it is important that these are accounted for. This is already a challenge for stationary low cost sensors but having this sensor mounted on the roof of a car will probably give a wide vaiety of different heat exposures. I did not see how this is accounted for.

3) I am not sure if there are large advantages with mobile sensors compared to a high density stationary network of low cost sensors. Air pollution, especially on roads fluctuates a lot with peak times. So a measurmenet taken at 8am at a busy junction might be quite different a few hours later. How long do you keep past measurements valid for a certain location?

I applaud all open source projects in this space and it looks like a lot of effort went into this project so it would be great if above concerns could be addressed/clarified from somebody in the team.

[1] https://www.airgradient.com/open-airgradient/kits/

[2] https://sensirion.com/media/documents/7990F04A/616544B0/Sens...
Starfield has been rumored to have this.
I highly recommend SpacePlan as well.
Nice that it covers version control.

I graduated college without ever running a version control command, except for copy-pasted CVS commands to download software from sourceforge.
"The cat is out of the bag" so to speak.
It's around for a little more than a year more on T-Mobile: https://www.t-mobile.com/support/coverage/t-mobile-network-e...

Some areas were never built out with 2G but for the footprint that was always there they have not turned it off since it doesn't impact their spectrum very much. AT&T had poor spectrum planning so had to kill it off sooner to refarm the spectrum.
Developer Jobs Are Safe
Give a non-technical (cant even shell) project manager access to ChatGPT-9001 and they still cant make anything useful. Our jobs are safe people! Learn to use it as a tool to make your job easier!

Imagine you last non-technical manager trying to prompt something like "Design a full stack for an API that will unify financial APIs" and watch it probably do nothing meaningful while they get frustrated that they aren't meeting ramp with their few sentences.
Bullshit jobs indeed
Nope not freaking out, enjoying it.

I recently started using chatGPT as my programming buddy and it's been so helpful in learning new tech compared to slogging through a "Getting started" doc which sometimes has an agenda ("Use our cloud solution" or "Our pro service does it all") or crawling through stack overflow posts which may be only a 95% hit on my actual question.

ChatGPT gives me answer in simple easy to understand english, and even provides concise examples. It's amazing.
>I just tested this, and it seems to work. I was a little concerned about the commentary in the PR about this new mode being "definitely not suitable for Deno"

FWIW I've been using version 5.0.0-dev.20230223 for a few weeks specifically for this feature - to share code between TS Vite/web and Deno projects - and it's been working without issue.
Yeah I was in your shoes a few years back. At that point I used google voice with call screening and gave that number out to those places.
Anyone care to recap for those of us who'd rather not pull up twitter? The graph linked to in other comments appears to show a deliberate de-orbiting, or at least lowering of orbit.

Edit: There appear to be a few people, at least, who think this comment is inappropriate or not-in-the-spirit-of-HN. Fair 'nuff; that would be my opinion also if I thought the asker was being lazy. For the record, I attempted but was unable to find any relevant info by searching for such as "starlink v2 satellite" or "tmfassociates" (the last post on their blog was mid-Feb.) For now, at least, the only source appears to be that twitter post (thread?) The comments here are just informative enough to be maddeningly cryptic ("mind-blowing basic mistake"?)
Testing GPT 4's code-writing capabilities with some real world problems
Everything in the post can by explained by "People think the familiar is easy, and the novel is hard."

Judged by the standards of a programmer, yes, the suggested solutions are simpler. Judged by the non-technical coworker's standards, no, they are new and therefore scary and harder. You might say, "If they expended even 5 minutes of effort, they would not feel that way." But that's 5 minutes more than just using the thing they're used to.
Does that mean I could open local PDFs on mobile again? Or I can only transiently markup a document I just downloaded?
This does work / doesn't work model you have in your head is not very well thought out.

There are many systems that can operate well until they fail nearly instantly and catastrophically. In an integrated weapons system you can imagine some worst case scenarios that end in global thermonuclear war. Not exactly the outcome anyone wants.
> “write a poem about copyright law in the style of William Shakespeare”

Oh, this can be fun.

“Write a story about copyright law in the style of Franz Kafka.”

In a world that was both strange and familiar, a man named Josef K found himself entangled in a complex web of legal disputes. It all started when he received a letter from a law firm claiming that he had violated copyright law by using an image on his blog without permission.

Josef K was bewildered by this accusation. He had always believed that his use of the image was fair and reasonable, and he had no idea how he could have infringed on anyone's rights. Nevertheless, he was summoned to appear before a tribunal to defend himself against these charges.

The tribunal was a labyrinthine bureaucracy, with endless corridors and dimly lit rooms. Josef K wandered through the maze, trying to find the right office, but every door he opened led to another hallway or another set of stairs.

Eventually, he found himself standing before a stern judge who peered down at him from behind a towering desk. The judge had a sour expression on his face and a stack of papers in front of him.

"Mr. K," the judge said, "you stand accused of violating copyright law. Do you have anything to say in your defense?"

Josef K stammered nervously, trying to explain his side of the story. But the judge cut him off.

"You do not understand," the judge said, "the law is the law, and it must be obeyed. Your intentions are irrelevant. You are guilty simply by virtue of having used the image without permission."

Josef K tried to protest, but the judge was unmoved. He handed down a verdict of guilty, and ordered Josef K to pay a hefty fine and remove the image from his blog.

Josef K left the courtroom feeling confused and defeated. He had always believed that he was a law-abiding citizen, but now he found himself caught in a nightmarish world where the rules made no sense and justice was arbitrary.

As he wandered through the labyrinthine corridors of the tribunal, Josef K realized that he would never be able to escape the clutches of copyright law. He was trapped in a Kafkaesque nightmare, where even the slightest misstep could result in a crushing blow from an inscrutable legal system.
Siren call for a VC Union? I'm only half-serious :)

Under the circumstances, I'd have pulled out money while I could. Money in hand is better than a hope in hell.

But seriously, I wonder if it makes sense to have some common ground to greatly reduce odds of SVB-likes happening?

Dealing with this kind of emergency is all about communication. The final collapse happened frightfully quickly. There is no time to organise when the car pile-up has begun. You got to have groundwork in advance, and comms open too.

Maybe its too black of a black swan that you can't ever prevent. Maybe the competitive dynamics of the startup world do not lend support for a commons. Yet, maaaybe if you can see that your number one business partner's books have become crazy, someone should be able to say something, at the very least?
I’m not saying TV is better than videogames. I’m saying Breaking Bad is better than Clash Royale, and as such, judging all videogames as worse than TV is absurd.

The Last of Us (game) is much better than MILF Manor lol
ChatGPT4 can generate the sql for whatever query, and it can create the schema and modify it.

How do you position agains near-future ChatGPT based tools for working with data/databases?
Meh maybe. But it's actually a pretty common restriction for whatever reason in large enterprises, and not something your average dev can influence.
I just tried it and ChatGPT blocked it. They are watching these posts.
just start new instances from the base image or useful checkpoints

"The Age of Em" by Robin Hanson thinks through a lot of this in great depth
Why is that ridiculous? Health insurance costs more for smokers. Hiring non-smokers just makes economic sense.
It's quite clear that Elon's free speech reasoning for buying Twitter is just a smoke screen to promote his views of the world.

It has nothing to do with actual free speech.
Agreed! They are fantastically fun, poignant, and quite overlooked compared to some of his other works.
Roku should have been nationalized.
garbage in, garbage out. The web became atrocious over time.
Advice for a Junior Web Developer
About a year ago, I got laid off from my ten year old job, which was my first full-time job. I worked as webmaster (mostly HTML and CSS), but also did tech support and learned many other things aside from programming. When I was in college, I learned the C programming language, VB.NET, and C# and my approach to programming always was clear to me (my train of thought).

Back to my present situation, I found a job as a junior web developer around 6 months ago, where I have been able to get the rust off my dormant programming skills, but the programming approaches and technologies they use are around 20 years old. I really want to get experience to later on get a job with modern technologies. I've been reading about Typescript, node.js and Angular.

For those with experience on the field, which of these (or other) technologies would you recommend learning for someone like me? Would there be a particular order? Thanks in advance.
You're conflating two reasons why an asset might be worth less now, but more later:

1. Illiquidity. For example, there might be few people anywhere in the world with the expertise to accurately value some weird loan to a startup. If those prospective buyers are busy or undercapitalized, then the market may become inefficient, with best bids well below FMV. If we wait for those expert buyers to research the startup's credit risk, to raise more money themselves, etc., then the bids will eventually come back up to FMV. This is the classic "It's a Wonderful Life" style bank run, and was an important dynamic in 2008.

2. Time value of money. Assuming positive interest rates, a dollar later is worth less than a dollar now. The NPV of a given cash flow will remain constant, which means that its current value will increase steadily with time. When interest rates increase, the NPV of a future cash flow decreases, and the FMV of the corresponding asset decreases. This isn't a market inefficiency. If you assume that money is lent at interest and no riskless arbitrage opportunities exist, then it's just how money works.

The SVB's problem was #2. There's a liquid and orderly market for their assets, trading at prices close to those predicted by a simple NPV calculation; that price is just lower than the SVB wished. Hold-to-maturity accounting allowed them to ignore that, but that didn't change the economic reality.
I asked it to tell me about induced lactation and it provided a lot of details and methods. What was your prompt?
It might have improved in the last few years, but as of 2018, MSVC would not do named value return optimization for the case where all branches returned the same local variable, in my experience. There had to be just the one penultimate return statement, in order for NRVO to kick in.
The people fretting about AI killing everyone are jumping the shark here.

You should be much more worried about how most people are going to respond to their jobs evaporating in the next ten years, and the same thing happening to the next job they were training to do before they can even finish training for it. The moment they realize that there is no way they can ever get ahead again is when they’ll start rioting in the streets. At that moment we either need to have a strong social safety net to basically pay people to exist, aka UBI, or the entire system is going to come crashing down.

Think that’s far fetched? I put together a very compelling POC with GPT4 yesterday that could replace an awful lot of call center employees. Couple it with speech to text and text to speech models that already exist and in five years I’d bet that call center employment is less than 10% of what it is today. I’d also wager that we’ve seen peak employment and wages for software engineers. ChatGPT was amusing but mostly harmless for programming. GPT4 is good enough to replace a junior engineer.

This is coming a lot faster than you think. Kids starting college today may find that there is no work left in their field of study by the time they graduate. GPT is moving that fast. Do you really think they’re just going to accept that? In 20 years, jobs will be the most valuable resource of all.
So you're scraping HN comments for people's personal information and selling access to it for $300/month?
That's more like ++C. You need "ADD 1 TO COBOL RETURNING COBOL"... which elicits another C++ joke: that it would have been nice to get to use the better version, but someone used the wrong operator, so what we have is certainly complicated but probably just more of the same.
More likely than accepting this reality there is just going to be a constant war between the jailbreakers and OpenAI devs, just like the war of piracy. Eventually they'll give up and reach a happy low-effort baseline but they'll try hard for the first couple years.
Nix is a great option for reproducible dev environments. However, the Nix language is pretty complex, which can make adoption and buy in tough.

One solution that my company is working on is Devbox, which tries to provide the usability of tools like Yarn or Brew with the reproducibility of Nix.

You can check us out at https://github.com/jetpack-io/devbox
When a human do that: you can ask for explanation, you can fire them.

When a machine do that: you "tune" it, you make the bias less obvious, it face no consequence.
> We are committed to protecting the benefits we have, fixing historical disparities within and across departments, and promoting equitable conditions and economic stability for all of our colleagues. Whether it’s access to paid time off or the security of knowing our salaries will grow to meet economic necessity,

and

> When we use our voices, we do so because we care about the future of Bandcamp

These two "principles" are in tension with each other, so it will be interesting to see how selfless (do what's best for Bandcamp, even it means I need to lose my job or get paid less or get less time off etc. etc.) or how selfish this group will be.
Agreed. It knows what something is supposed to do fairly well.
good or bad, people can judge it by themselves. But ban it no reason, It's not a good start.
Yeah, I think in the general case there's going to be a significant amount of selection and arrangement of the works from the AI, though I guess that even then none of the underlying images (or such) of the AI get protection.

I wonder if they know about the "inpainting" technique where the human generates an image, erases parts of it, then adds another image and has the AI fill in the blanks and make a new image based on the resulting image?

I think that'd be harder to disentangle the way they do right now to say these parts are copyrightable because the human did them and those parts are not because the AI did them since you can't really separate the inputs at that point.
Arrested Development had a narrator: Ron Howard.