skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I keep hearing this about abstract mathematics "never" having an impact because it is too abstract and relates to pure mathematics. It's not true. Mathematics is a formal system that provides insights on surprising patterns. Surprising patterns can almost always be applied outside their intended area. And not surprisingly, non-Euclidean geometry and even the inability for mathematics to find certain proofs related to primes has resulted in breakthroughs in other areas. Surprising patterns take time to have effect mostly because they are not generally known until some genius is able to apply them outside their intended area.

I am 99.999% certain that you are wrong to say that "this kind of abstract mathematics will 'never' have any meaningful impact on day-to-day software engineering." I would be less certain if you replaced "never" with "will probably not have a significant impact in the short term".
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Make sure to mark your calendars for two highly anticipated videos: "Google vs Josh.ai ChatGPT" on March 17th, and "Transforming the Art World with ChatGPT + Josh.ai" on March 20th. Don't miss out on this incredible opportunity to see what the future holds for voice assistants!
Setting up the VE was probably part of the "test" and if you took all your time (and failed) setting it up, you failed the take home. You should have asked questions if you were having issues.

Generally [0], people want to hire good candidates, not shit on people who aren't yet ready. Asking questions doesn't mean you're not ready. Not asking means you definitely are not ready.

[0] Yes, there are some assholes out there that love to torture candidates. Seriously.
A coworker joked the other day that GDScript will probably onboard a whole slew of C# developers.

1. Learn GDScript

2. Grow frustrated with duck typing

3. Learn that you can switch to C# and still use Godot

Godot 4 having two first class languages is such an odd paradigm.
As the father of an 11 month old, yeah, I don't see how many human could be a CEO and an involved parent.

Now if twitch were a perfect turnkey operation the CEO could step away for a few weeks here and there... But also maybe that's just not realistic
The thing is what all those spacings are quite consistent for analogue reposition. That is what makes that interesting.
If I was worth ~100 million dollars, I would definitely quit my job to have fun with my family.
Relations between the Soviet Union and America deteriorated almost immediately following Germany's surrender. Or are you talking about Détente or the 90s and early 00s? In the former case, the two sides were still overtly postured for war with each other. In the later case, the apparent "warm relations" were little more than the Russia being in such a disorganized state that the only thing they could really accomplish was the accepting of western investment/bribes. Not exactly a healthy relationship.
An analog to the sudden belated question of the extent to which human language is novel (or not),

is a precursor to a more existential revelation our culture is going to have,

the extent to which the entire precept of the rational self-aware agent that we carry as our model of ourselves, is a confabulated falsehood maintained by our own minds.

Most of what most of us do most of the time is habitual, instinctual, autonomic, pre-conscious, whatever—very few of us are present very much of the time.

Even highly-analytic complex logical reasoning can and does often transpire in something akin to a "fugue state," indeed that is a much-noted aspect of technical work like most here engage in.

That doesn't mean that we are not capable of genuine self-awareness, introspection, and methodical reasoned thought—but I don't think it's controversial (except in our lay conception) whether or not those things are primary or common modes of being in the world.

Record yourself for 24 hours and compare honestly the sequence of your utterances and behaviors with your internal record of agency, and you'll find you are on autopilot in some sense most of the time.

From this I infer that the first "real" seeming AGI will like us be not monolithic capable systems, but relatively loosely coupled aggregates, with many components serving as analogs to aspects of mind and embodiment largely distinct form and only loosely coupled to the "executive" function.
I would agree that making something good, large, and structured is quite hard. I never finished at least two ideas along those lines because I could never decide where to go and how to finish them.

If the muses strike me just right I feel like I could write for ages though. Then it goes in a directory somewhere, never to be seen again.
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Which is probably part of the charm of twitch and part of the reason it stays relevant and people often complain that Youtube's implementation is limited (mostly because of how the chat communities work).

I find it difficult (outside of adding more dev tools and allowing for things like twitch plays pokemon as someone mentioned earlier in this thread) that a corporate implementation of a new "thing" will be as successful, partly because of the vicious backlash against whatever corporate sanitation measures would have to be implemented just to allow it on the platform.

I think there's a fundamental disconnect in what is most fun and engaging about watching and commenting in chats on twitch and what twitch as a company would allow if they tried to invasively step in an manage the product.

A good example of this was a few years ago, there was almost universally panned attempt to create some form of "moderation council" which turned out to be absurdly tone deaf and I haven't heard anything since.
As far as I know, Unity uses C# as scripting language and does the heavy lifting in C++. And the usual way for making mobile builds for Unity games is converting everything to C++ with IL2CPP and then compiling that to native binary.
So the "solution to packages" is to make your own package with someone's else package?

If it's that simple, how come no one already did all that work for us?
> 4. Service changes are accurate and automatically included in the routing

I'm not sure if this is the case with Citymapper. Transit does offer alternatives, but I don't think I've ever encountered this with Citymapper, i.e., you're committed to a particular route once you start. With Transit, I often get a suggestion (while on the train) that I might not make it in time for my connection with X train, and the next Y train leaves in Z minutes. I feel with Citymapper I only get something like this if alternate trains were part of the initial route segment, eg, N/R/Q trains. I also feel Citymapper does a much worse job updating ETAs or arrival times for alternative trains than Transit.
This is why Google Cloud has no chance against the OpenAI and Microsoft partnership. Google kills products randomly, has no clear direction or mission, and it’s business suicide to trust them for any core functions of your product.

Whereas Microsoft will support you for decades and is a very safe bet for your business.
Interesting you’re using discord instead of Glitter. I’d think an open protocol would help your seo footprint.

The only devs I know on discord are crypto and AI generators.
Just say "No, thank you" and move on to the next opportunity.
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In Fortran (which since the 1990 standard has operations on arrays and array sections) the declarations tell you the array ranks, for example

function matvec(a,x) result(b)
real, intent(in) :: a(:,:), x(:)
real :: b(size(a,1))
if (size(a,2) /= size(x)) stop "mismatched inputs"
...

or alternatively

function matvec(a,x,n1,n2) result(b)
real, intent(in) :: a(n1,n2), x(n2)
real :: b(n1)
...
> Should Linux also accept North-Korean patches for their ICBMs in mainline?

While NK is probably not looking to merge their `char/icbm` driver to the mainline tree, what about the NK military fixing a nasty bug in the memory allocator? Should the patch be rejected even if it improves a non-military subsystem, just because of who wrote it?

It's just food-for-thought, personally I do not care one way or the other. As you say, it's all a grey area, and there is not a clear answer, which is where politics and posturing, rather than pragmatism, thrives.
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It's not power users per se, but these sorts of apps are essentially fashion and all the people making them are long time Mac heads. The fancy software startup space is really faddish and incestuous.
Thanks for the suggestion! Just updated: https://www.getsidekick.ai/
Which part are you confused by?
Horrible idea!

By keeping softcore erotica nudge-nudge on their video game streaming site, they allow viewers to tell their parents and girlfriends that they're watching games and chat. Spinning it off would kill the market for that content without doing anything for the video game side of the house.
What is the impact of Chat GPT-4 going to be and what can you build
As we all know chat GPT-4 just came out with a load of new features. Namely,

1. Analysing More text and taking pictures on as the input. It seemed from the demo that users could upload an image and it outputted a rough version of a website.

2. Code - could this fully replace stack overflow or could stack overflow integrate it for debugging. Similarly it could full stack apps from just one command. Where do you guys see this in developing your products?

So apart from being more powerful it has had some major upgrades as mentioned above and I would be interested to see what you guys think the new opportunities will be with this new release.
It shouldn’t. All this will lead to us discovering what is actually valuable.
Twitch's revenue is up 5x from 2015 and 2x from 2019, and generally has been on an uptick since COVID, so I doubt this is anything to do with the companies stability. I think he genuinely was just ready to step down and be with his family/do something else
> Sometimes Copilot will be right, other times usefully wrong

“Usefully wrong” is some audacious marketing.
More people means more people paying VAT, income tax, creating businesses, buying things, etc.

> If you suggest that maybe, you know, a lot of immigration or immigration of uneducated workers is bad, automatically you are somehow far right.

That's because nobody with your standpoint ever has any evidence to support those claims.

Also South Korea (and Japan for example) need to do something about their aging population. Investing in educating migrants is a whole lot better than destroying your economy because you can't pay pensions and don't have enough workers to keep your industry afloat.
> PRC and DPRK don't have nuclear first-strike policies/histories

DPRK does in fact have an overtly stated nuclear first strike policy.
This fits as a "list of links by topic": https://github.com/rust-embedded/awesome-embedded-rust
Depends on the school, but look up your school's accreditation requirements for hours in class requirements.
There's no system to compare against the supposed "easy" system Apple provides because it's impossible to manage your subscriptions outside of that.

If there was some other system out there that was easier to manage subscriptions in and only takes 10% it wouldn't matter because Apple wouldn't allow you to use it.
s/bgp/ebpf/

bgp: border gateway protocol
ebpf: extended berkely packet filter
There's something kind of weird about banks. They get people to deposit money, then they lend that money out, and there's all these weird ways that they operate and make money, but deposits seem to be the weak link. At some point I'd expect a bank like business to exist that just didn't take deposits, but still did all the other bank-like stuff.
I love this! Especially in a professional culture that embellishes, misrepresents, and outright lies about failures and hardships in order to try to appear more attractive, successful, and employable. LinkedIn these days is just one big stream of toxic positivity and Stockholm syndrome. It's great to see people that are willing to be honest and humble.

Granted, you have to be careful to not have a victim mentality or be too self-deprecating to the point that people thing you're actually humble-bragging or fishing for pity/compliments, but this site seems hilarious. Great work.
Reminds me of when the New York Times apologized to Robert Goddard when it turned out that rockets worked fine in outer space after all.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kionasmith/2018/07/19/the-corre...
Show HN: Top Y Combinator Videos, Summarized by GPT
Hi, I'm Alex. You might remember me from the Eightify extension I created a while back. Well, I've been working on something that I think you'll find valuable. I decided to bring value closer to users by providing it without any installation, authentication, and for free!

I've put together a collection of the 250 best YCombinator videos, summarized it using Eightify. Each video summary highlights 8 key ideas, allowing you to quickly decide if it's worth watching or not. I've categorized all the videos into topics like AI, finance, founder stories, marketing, fundraising, and startup ideas & pivoting.

https://eightify.app/summary/ycombinator

I'd love to get your feedback on the interface, the summaries, the categorization, or anything else you think can be improved.

Now, for the most controversial question: do you think reading summaries is valuable? I've watched A LOT of YC videos, and I believe it's important to capture the vibe. However, now when I need to determine if I should watch a video or if I'm already familiar with the topic, I use summaries myself. What are your thoughts on this?

I'm here to answer any questions you have about the YC collection, GPT, or anything else related to Eightify!
All I'm hearing is NATO military good guys, everyone else evil.

Somehow I should be agreeable to US weapons teams mainlining patches say for whatever weapon killed that random.man and his children during the fall of Kabul. But not a nasty North Koreans?
Getting into a position like this (and keeping it!) requires an extreme amount of dedication and sacrifice. People who are willing to go to such lengths are unlikely to be the kind of person to give up all that for their child.

Additionally, you rarely hear the actual reason for someone quitting from a position like this; there will nearly always be a nice cover story. Being honest this time around, especially given the actual problems the company has, seems unlikely.

I'm not saying the child was no factor, but intuitively it seems quite unlikely that this is the full story.
These online gambling platforms have no shortage of money, they were paying out 7 figure amounts to content creators for one stream in some cases. It's possible they can run the whole site through their marketing budget.
Yes and no. Things do need monitoring and support. But hardening is doable, as well. With more and more use solidifying exactly what to allow.

Upgrades and new features often make hardening tougher, due to a combinitorial explosion in exposed surface area.
They prey on poor Indians, Indonesians and Filipinos to advance their economy, just like the UAE. That's how.
Maybe now they can pump the brakes on their unwinnable game of whack-a-mole against adblockers, too?
>We are getting close to the point where there isn’t enough human written text in existence to continue scaling these models.

People say this, but GPT-3 (the latest we know the details on) was 45TB of text, which may be most of the open Internet, but still lacks non-publicly-indexed Internet text (i.e. things behind paywalls, things behind log-in screens like emails), any book outside of Bibliotik's 200k books (remember when Google was randomly digitizing all books it could get its hands on?), and plenty of other non-digitized text.

OpenAI wants you to believe that we are running out of text, but even at Google, there's 100's of TB of text that OpenAI doesn't have access to (Google Books, Google Docs, Gmail, Search Queries, Archived pages beyond what CommonCrawl gets, Paywalled news articles that allow Google to crawl them, etc.).

Now the key question that GPT-4 will hopefully answer is "are bigger datasets really the key, or are larger context windows?"

If you're thinking of investing in/working for OpenAI, you better hope the answer is context windows.
Even if it's not specifically that, if the company thinks you are the best available candidate (by whatever criteria they have) despite your not taking the test, I don't see how it's unethical for them to hire you.
The scale in tensile form was achieved at least 23 years ago.

Now, I know you're going to say "not airtight", and that's correct, I'll get to that:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Eye

Also very nearly that scale 130 years ago:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferris_Wheel_(1893)

Making ferris wheels airtight is somewhat pointless, but would be in certain regards easier in freefall than on the ground as (a) it doesn't need to start off spinning and therefore doesn't need to be stable until it's finished, and (b) there's not going to be the same concerns about metal fatigue because the force isn't going to constantly change direction from the reference frame of any given element.

If that can be balanced against (c) we've barely scratched the surface of space manufacturing and don't know what to expect, remains to be seen.
I've been using it for code and product summaries and recommendations and it works fine.

With what uses did you find it lacking?
There's also GoAWK, which supports CSV natively ("-i csv"): https://github.com/benhoyt/goawk
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Still a more successful launch provider than Blue Origin.
It happens with groups of friends and recruiters that send batches of applicants to the same company too though. They all share intel that's passed on. For example, there's a company that makes you do a command line battleship game, everyone knows this and they expect you to spend a day on it but many of course take a week...
Afghanistan was ruled by a bunch of religio-fascist nutjobs.

Iraq was ruled by a genocidal dictator.

Does that mean those wars were a good idea? By my estimation, probably not, for a number of reasons. But they're not they're same thing at all as Russia's invasion of Ukraine. It's borderline bad-faith to even compare it.

I don't which other two you're referring to, but I'm willing to bet they're not the same thing at all either.
> personal trainer...boot camp

Imagine their disappointment when they showed up in gym clothes ready do to burpees.
I can't speak for the first two, but as for the softcore porn bit - there are a lot of very popular streamers who are just hot women that wear bathing suits or less and either do something mundane while looking hot or "exercise" or something that is also mostly just them looking hot. Maybe softcore porn is a bit much since there is no nudity, but it's close.
The news release from the Via side is a bit more informative.

(More text, less pictures...)

https://ridewithvia.com/news/via-acquires-citymapper-to-expa...

(Edit: When I say informative... it's unfortunately still dripping in marketing-speak fluff).
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This touches on a big reason why it's so hard for me to get on board with generative AI. The hype around it is pretty much the same as the hype I saw with NFTs, complete with a community lacking any awareness of just how uninteresting, if not downright bad, their "art" was. We went from bad pixel art to people making some lame picture of two people holding hands in a foggy cyberpunk setting.

The hands aren't the problem. There, I said it. The hands were never a big deal, just the most visible symptom of the actual problem.

The problem is that AI art sucks and these people are too self-deluded to realize that because they want to believe that they have a shot at making that coveted internet money.

Otherwise, honestly, the tech behind AI art is actually pretty fascinating, it's just that the community is absolutely the worst.
I play the NYT mini puzzle against my dad every day.

We don't really like wordle but this is super fun!
Why? Settling out-of-court is a win-win for everyone.

If it weren't a win for both sides, the side that feels like it got the short end of the stick would opt for court.
Specifically Rust doesn't have implementation inheritance. The fact that [u8; N] and Vec<String> are both IntoIter doesn't imply they are somehow inheriting any common elements of their implementation, just that they both provide means to convert themselves into Iterators when needed.

In Rust we could make a Mimic by composing a Chest, and a Monster, and then implementing any traits on the resulting composite object appropriately, passing through to an underlying object in some cases -- opening this "Chest" ought to cause its status as a Monster to be revealed right?. In languages with single inheritance we need to decide, is a Mimic a Chest? Is it a Monster? Maybe all Chests are Monsters? Maybe all Monsters are Chests? In languages with multiple inheritance we can inherit from both, but we might find that isn't what we wanted either and there are likely to be conflicts from such a web of heritability.
>>I thought this was going to be a story about one of those ridiculous take-home tests that requires multiple days of work to complete.

Every single take home test I have ever taken. It took multiple days to finish. And even after finishing it, you still don't get the job.

In one place I not only finished the test. Their onsite interview was made up of four more rounds. The first two were about implementing two features on the spot where two of their engineers watched as I wrote the code. And then in the third round they review your code. All onsite. I not only finished the original assignment, added the two features requested and substantiated every single query on code they had in the code review round.

Yet in the last round, they rejected me because I didn't read their employee's favorite paper. And therefore must be a bad programmer. And this is the one of the most famous company in Bangalore which routinely brags about hiring programmers only on the basis of take home tests.

The whole take home test thing is a giant fraud. Don't fall for it. They are not serious about hiring you. Serious people know whom to hire after an hour or two of discussions.

Also contrary to whatever people think about the archetype inefficient programmer who fails at fizzbuzz, most people can actually code. This whole take home test thing is a marketing campaign and generally a way for in house programmers to make themselves feel superior by routinely asking candidates to finish projects in impossible timelines and yet reject them like they are gods.
That is sad. I thought the idea of using a 747 as a glorified first stage (or stage 0) was sound as it saved a ton of money.

I wonder why they couldn't make it work. And why does a single failure doom a company after 4 successful launches.
Youtube treats creators pretty well, from what I can tell.

It's just that 'influencers' like nothing more than to complain.

Admittedly, Twitch is a clusterfuck though.
Those are all pretty standard, to be honest. Like madlibs for creatures, but with nothing really new.

This, I think, is the key bit of your comment:

> I'm not a fictional guy so I don't really know

HN (and wider social media) is filled with people who aren't familiar with [field] declaring that AI has surpassed humans in [field]; it's not a display of AI's new brilliance but the old[1] display of a speakers' ignorance.

Most of them don't display the same humility as you.

[1] https://xkcd.com/793/