skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I say singularity, I mean “changes the nature of human life irreversibly and to a greater degree than any prior technology through a rapid progression of self-reinforcing growth.”

That rapid progression can be modeled with an exponential growth curve, like Moore’s law, even though nothing material can have a sustained exponential growth. Regardless of how the curve is modeled, the steepness is such that it serves as a step function in evolution.

With that clarified, there is first the question of “is the technological progression going to level off soon?” And I think the answer is no. The second question is, “how are we going to deal?” And the answer to that question can only be addressed once we answer the question: “what kind of world do we want to live in?”
yep, even though it seems "can't find their own mouth" level incompetence to try to raise cash through equity sale (which prompts everyone to think about their situation) instead of getting a loan, but they may have already exhausted that option.

... though finance is very much about connections, charisma and acting tough, and backchannels. aaand sometimes fundamentals. it's very hard to know if they could have organized/coordinated/managed to put together a rescue package.

there was a 15B liquidity hole after all.

https://blogs.cfainstitute.org/marketintegrity/2023/03/13/th...

by forcing a bank run and crying about payroll they managed to get the government to step in and basically undo SVB's bad deals, at the cost of sacrificing SVB itself. but VCs are happy now, they had the opportunity to both enjoy SVB up to now and have a financially zero-cost exit.

if the fallen SVB management gets the same treatment as the fallen WeWork management their egos will be fine at the golf courses.
I started creating a website builder full time around 16 months ago, and haven't launched yet.

The number of times I've felt like "WTF are you doing...", "Who is even going to use this?".

I track my time and typically only actually spend 2.5h coding a day - sometimes more, sometimes less. I wish I could spend more time on it but it honestly just feels like a slog, and I kinda feel like I'm still recovering from a deep seated kind of burnout.

So, I do what I can and try to be kind to myself.

I love that I'm able to have the time to be able to work on my own creation, to learn new things and am excited for how it'll all turn out.

I decided when I went all in that this was my decision and I would see it through - a kind of ultimatum to create my own business or shut it all down and go to work and forget about building my own stuff. If I go broke in the process, so be it.

This process has given me a lot of respect for everyone else out there that has ever started their own business.
Which are also just sugars for creating setter callbacks.
If I read a book I constantly jump to the same line. With adjusted fonts, font size, line spacing I do not have these issues. My kindle is jailbroken and runs KOreader. Even more funny the lowest brightness setting 0 would still have backlight on (stock FW - Kindle PW3). This isn't the case anymore. I read in bed on the sides and nothing is more annoying than a big book to hold.

If I want to read fast I prefer one word on the screen at 250-450 words per minute.
Isn't this a strawman? Are you sure somebody is making that point (I sure am not) or is an impression you get from reading isolated individuals using Rust for perfectly valid use cases.
Microsoft shares script to fix WinRE BitLocker bypass flaw
"Microsoft has released a script to make it easier to patch a BitLocker bypass security vulnerability in the Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE).

"This PowerShell script simplifies the process of securing WinRE images against attempts to exploit the CVE-2022-41099 flaw that enables attackers to bypass the BitLocker Device Encryption feature system storage devices."

Informative explainer here from Bleeping Computer on WinRE Bitlocker bypass flaw fix
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There are several approaches to building Delphi for the web I talk about here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35046667
So we need a generic artifact repository (containers are just one type) that also maintains an SBOM (with a machine readable format, eg SPDX) for the artifact content.

Is anyone going to fund that?

We have a way to do that with git (and signed commits) that covers source code.

Is there something that someone can build out of P2P/IFPS/? that would allow that to happen, including some form of search/identification?
So basically they're transitioning to the "extinguish" phase of their business model?
it's thanks to you and and the whole team that i have a career! i started learning vb late (early 2004), but soon enough i had a small job writing custom software for small business with a couple of friends -- that lead me into actually finding my passion.

honestly, i kind if miss vb6's simplicity: you could create a "proof of concept" in the matter of hours, without having to bother with compiling tools, libraries or anything like that. everything just worked.
I was a Summer of Code student back in 2009, and it defined my career in software engineering, and completely changed the way I looked at building real world software.

Not directly, but being a GSoC student led to some interesting international travel and freelancing opportunities. I met many senior engineers who'd spent decades more than me (at that point) and was able to sit in on their discussions and meetings. I wasn't even directly involved or responsible for anything, I was still a student... but just by osmosis, it shaped so many of my thoughts and opinions.
Lots of companies offer "low code" or "no code" tooling nowadays. Only no company has market monopoly power anymore to be a focus point like Microsoft was in the 90s.
there's a bit of confusion when people say it's not going replace programmers because they all have tricky things to do in their work week.

This is not how it's going to happen : if your boring time-consuming tasks take virtually 0 time thanks to gpt, and let you focus on the 1% that's hard, you've suddenly become 100x more efficient, and can thus accomplish the same job as 100 you. That means the company can now fire 99 coworkers, keeping only you, and end up with the same result.
This article was really, really well written and researched. Cudos!

Even the bridge at the end back to their product was well done (they're usually abrupt).

Excellent piece of journalism and content marketing
Realistically, AI is not going to be policed. Especially not by a bunch of people who've not managed to solve the "bank alignment problem".

The reliability of AI output is not guaranteed, which may limit its non-nefarious use cases, but the nefarious ones are simply too valuable for people not to try. It's going to be like spambots: so long as the economic incentives are positive, somebody will spam any and every service.

Everybody wants this thing leaked and unleashed. It's like a crime caper with a dozen different factions trying to grab the same bag. Free-text libertarians, email scammers, SEO writers, media, programmers, middle managers who want to automate away their employees, CEOs who want to automate away their middle managers, and the Chinese government.
Does it follow that every permutation of a rubik's cube can be achieved in 20 moves or less?
I don't think it actually, meaningfully diminishes "actual labor struggles". The working class is not going to have a harder time organizing because some tech workers did it first.
Ima stop you right there and ask how you made the bullet points.

• Is it just a pasted character?

* Is it a markdown thing?
* Is it?
decent carriers just send you an audio message via RCS
Could you point to relevant research anyway? I'd be interested and maybe it's possible to "find" it somewhere.

This doesn't reflect my personal experience (anecdata I know) or those of any of the people I know.

I'll think I'll ask around because now I'm curious about the distribution. If a few people here are bombarded with spam calls it would average out the 1-2 a year me and my family/friends get on average on their mobile numbers.
If you click the feedback button it lets you make a correction.
The GPU version of libNC is available as a free binary, and you can find MIT-licensed source code implementing (training and inference of) transformers using libNC at https://bellard.org/nncp. (nncp was meant to be a submission to the Hutter Prize, which would have required open-sourcing libNC too, but it didn't qualify due to using AVX2 and too much RAM. At least the CPU version binary is MIT licensed since ts_server is.) I think it wouldn't be that big a project to support LLaMa starting from that code, although it is dense code.

Edit: licensing
As they've put them in the comments on the document then can you get someone senior enough to simply say "That's a small issue, we can accept the risks around that". If you can't get them accepted as risks then they probably do need considering.

One thing to bear in mind is that you're far better off with a colleague who points out all the problems they see, even if some of them are tiny, than you are with colleague who sees the problems and doesn't say a thing until after you've hit them.
The UK has a limit on the number of machines per shop which means the shops just fill the high streets with four machines in each one. It would be preferable to just have places with rows of machines.

The starter tax rate is a clear incentive for every venue to have a little gambling room upstairs. No getting away from your impulses if you like to gamble.

Nice to see they got covid relief too.
Just come to Europe ;)
Right, and how is policing between meatbag large language models going?
Interesting how more deficient designs are promoted as better alternatives just because the author is used to their ineffectiveness

Like the cli example "explain how simple it is to just convert -density 300 input.pdf -resize 50% output.png, and I'm met with a blank stare"

Why would an unsuspecting user ever need to remember (or worse - look it up) that density is "-density" and resize requires explicit % when a GUI app can show the most common flags right there, with in-band help and validate your input (was there a typo in a file name and inupt.pdf doesn't exist?) in real time?

Or the markdown example with tables, which are especially painful to edit one you add just a bit of complications like formatting, which break your tabular alignment, practically requiring you to use both md and formatted output
Why would you wish regular users this pain?
I love Friday humour, this single-worded answer made me chuckle :)
> I really am in awe of how much work people seem willing to do to justify this as revolutionary and programmers as infantile [...]

Well it is revolutionary. And it isn't just where it is today, but how fast these models are improving - with no saturation in ability evident at this time.

On the other hand, I am not sure anyone is saying programmers are infantile - although poorly written software is as at least as prevalent as poorly compensated or managed software development positions.
As an avid reader, I'm disappointed by Amazon's decision to discontinue individual newspaper and magazine subscriptions in favor of Kindle Unlimited. This change reduces my ability to support specific publications I value, potentially leading to less variety in the market.

It diminishes my sense of ownership, as content becomes more ephemeral within a subscription service.

I really can't wait for competitors to shake down this predatory monopoly.
bold assumption that the scammers aren't using compromised pbx systems.
The Visual Basic language always seemed weird to me, with two ways to call a method, setting the return value using the equals sign, the = and <> inequality operators, and other confusing syntax bits.

> They didn't lament the lack of operator overloading or polymorphism in Visual Basic 6, so they didn't say much.

Java still lacks operator overloading to this day. Also, VB6 had properties, something that Java lacks to this day (and no, Lombok doesn’t count).
VW beats Tesla to the punch and unveils an affordable electric vehicle
CO₂ can also be removed with mechanical ventilation, of course. Preferably heat- or energy-recovery ventilation to pre-condition the outside air being brought in, so you're not just dumping the air you expended energy heating or cooling straight out!
But then competitor company B will keep its 100 devs and be that much more productive than your company, running you into the ground.
There you go: https://news.social-protocols.org/best-upvoterate
Not sure what the point of this is other than a suggestion that 20 mph zones are increasing journey times significantly?

The author acknowledges that 20 mph limits are rarely enforced and mostly ignored; and also concedes that congestion has remained the same despite efforts to reduce it.
OK, so why is this bad? Once you remove the "prompt" words like "extremist". And how is it linked to Marxism?
Excel is another amazing piece of software, that is almost universally looked down upon by programmers. Why make complex calculations in a GUI if you can just write a Python script with numpy and pandas!?

And yet, so much of the world runs on excel spreadsheets being sent back and forth. Why? Because 1) it has a low skill floor and very high ceiling, 2) everyone uses the same tool (or at least it's backward and forward-compatible), and (critically) 3) it has a "programming model" that actually makes sense to the vast majority of people.

Same with Arduino, by the way. I think Arduino is a masterpiece. It allows people that don't even consider themselves programmers to write code for embedded systems with ease (traditionally a very hard thing to do). They go to the Arduino website, download a program, open an example, click a button and it works.

Also, the libraries are designed to be used by non-experts. That's so rare in the software world (and I don't know why*).

* I have some guesses but they are not nice to the programmers that make and use trendy software libraries.
What happens to people's back catalogs of old magazines? Can they still read those or is Amazon laughing all the way to the bank?

When i was a kid i lost my music collection to the yahoo music store shutting down, and it's left an impression on me even though it wasn't a very large collection. It's the reason why ive held out on buying an ereader until they drop the drm.
Some good piece of high-level code is an accurate impression of the logic and theory for moving some bytes around, so it is most human-engineer-parsable by design. Parsing it with GPT creates even higher-level abstraction, much like trying to explain some code to a kid – I think this can be somewhat good for an elementary school application - but it's not serious to use for a developer or a business owner - who would rather be equipped with N language syntax dictionary and business context to parse and understand a piece of code than rely on a probabilistic machine to chew it for him.
Well, I didn't say a brain is just an LLM. It's more complicated than just this. But what LLM showed is that it works using the same simple building blocks + specialised parts of the brain: memory, constant relearning and world input, etc.

So in this particular case of LLMs we've managed to optimise our way around having specialised brain structures using a powerful enough math function. Next steps require improvements in how the model is trained, how we can reduce the amount of training data, what additional machinery might be necessary, etc...

But, damn it, this very thing that makes humanity possible - our language - is solved now. Natural language is a solved problem now. That very thing that makes complex societies possible - it's done. This is the fact. And it is crazy.

EDIT: typos
Yes, all positions that can be reached from a solved cube.
televisions are cheaper, food, housing and healthcare are more expensive [0]

I'm pretty sure the latter 3 are more important to standard of living than the former.

Ergo, I believe your claim that standard of living is superior to 1970 is false. Having a shiny iPhone to distract you from the fact that you're homeless, sick and starving is not a step up.

[0] https://mpost.io/wp-content/uploads/975d2151-7def-45a4-8c52-...
There is one at my university. It's custom software and it breaks all the time, such a waste of energy because no one reads it!
While maybe not what GP was getting at, it sounds like you're frustrated that they don't offer a format, not that they don't offer a DRM-free version. That sounds like being frustrated your owner only gives you dry kibble.
It's been a while since I've last used FTP, so it might be just a generational thing. I for one have no idea how to connect to a BBS.
The headline based selection process you describe has been going on for over a decade now. And yes, the damage has been bad.
In the UK the gambling companies funded a campaign "when the FUN stops, STOP" with a nice big FUN the size of a bus.
Thanks for the motivation
The problem is mainly one of discoverability. The non-programmer in the examples says "simple" when they mean "discoverable". The programmer says "simple" when they mean "not much code complexity".

Of course you disagree.

All the examples - installing and using a package manager, running a command line program - are "simple" from a software point of view, but they're not at all "discoverable". To understand the steps you need to memorise a seemingly meaningless sequence of text.

Of course, the programmer has a very strong underlying model of all of this, and so these commands seem straightforward. But even for a programmer, this stuff isn't very discoverable. I'm frequently stumped by man pages, and end up having to hunt down an example of how to use a particular command line application on Stack Overflow. I've been using linux for decades and I still often can't find where an applications binaries or config live, and I still very often have to type some magic incantation I found on Stack Overflow into the command line, because my mental model of some subsystem of Ubuntu isn't complete enough to know it. None of these things are discoverable - I've got more patience than most in searching Google and Stack Overflow, but it's not exactly a desirable way of using a computer. I would prefer it if there was a nice button in the system settings that did what I wanted.

When things aren't discoverable, they become hard. And people don't generally like doing hard things. That's not exactly a revelation.
Detailled London transport map (track, depot,)
GigE not being achievable on low-end FPGAs explains it really well, thank you.
I don't know where your downvotes come from.

It's a different paradigm, and twisting hooks to behave like classes clearly doesn't work. I partially blame it on React not properly updating their hooks docs in time (they're 2.5y late, ffs).

Hooks are the way to go, class components should have died a fiery death back in 2018, and at this point any other opinion is just wrong.
It works (very, very slowly) on my Intel Macbook. Very impressive indeed. WebGPU has a ton of potential.
Whether you manage an organization's financial department or are a member of a finance team, you may have been asked several of these questions. These are important considerations that must be addressed as soon as possible to ensure the smooth operation of the contractual processes.
Not contradicting you. Just adding this famous case of using Excel.

> the median Excel user probably completes this task quicker and better than the median pandas user

Some might complete it with catastrophic effects.

> A million-row limit on Microsoft's Excel spreadsheet software may have led to Public Health England misplacing nearly 16,000 Covid test [1]

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-54423988
It reminded me of this fascinating map: https://cartometro.com/cartes/metro-tram-london/
Democracy's global decline hits “possible turning point,” report finds
I think the implication was that his radical puritanism left him unemployable except as a literal bus driver.
I don't think the blue whales are "mostly extinct".

Per their Wikipedia article, they are "endangered".
Except you can now buy a used Tesla for around the same price and know what you are getting. The days of a VW badge being an assurance of quality and reliability are long gone.
I'll take an uneducated guess here: this works best for small and clearly defined tumors. You would have a hard time causing electroporation of cell membranes farther away from the electrodes without damaging too much healthy tissue.
Yeah, the idea of mounting them on top of vehicle seemed a bit strange to me too, given how the particulate sensors work. Perhaps they could use the GPS and just sample for a bit when the vehicle has been stopped for a few seconds?

I didn't think of the temperature issue - that does seem like a tricky problem too...
Looking for a student to add OpenWRT packages to OpenSuSE build Service (OBS), so that you can host your own packages:

https://projects.freifunk.net/#/projects?project=openwrt_ppa...
As a point of comparison a recently inherited a ton of Apple gear and I've been swearing at it in a similar fashion fairly regularly.
> in the paper...they specified it was their red team pretending to be a TaskRabbit worker

Where in the paper did they specify that? I read the paper and was still led to believe that it involved a real TaskRabbit worker on the real Internet.
There is no NO2 sensor in the BOM.
I used the Remarkable 1 for many years, until recently I got bored of hum converting hum my kindle library to epub to read on the remarkable.

I switched to an Onyx Boox Tab X (effectively an android tablet with eink screen) and wouldn't go back.

I have the Kindle reader app and can read very comfortably all my books, with the same comfort as with a Kindle device.

But I can also take meeting notes, brainstorm, etc thanks to the writing capabilities similar to the Remarkable.

As a bonus, I can also use it as a whiteboard in video calls.
Apps called cashback apps reward you for daily activities like sending SMS messages or shopping. Although cashback applications won't make you rich, they do allow you to easily create a decent side income.
Type Speed test using ChatGPT
I forgot briefly that Dolphin refers to GameCube/Wii and was very curious about what a "dolphin emulator" would be (and how it would differ from a dolphin simulator)
> if you have a lot of money there is a bank willing to work with you

That's how people think it works but it's actually not the case, and one of the reasons why SVB ended in disaster. Read those threads and you'll see complaints that SVB was the only bank that "understood" startups, because they appear out of nowhere with millions of dollars. The word "understand" is euphemism for "startups trigger AML filters" because if you show up with lots of money from a single source, that looks like it might be corruption or drug dealing to the automated systems banks use. And then individual bankers aren't allowed to override the checks because they might become corrupt, and it's not just their lives on the chopping block if that happens, it's their bosses lives too.

SVB was built from the start to bank this sort of clientele, so their AML software was configured to allow it, but this led to a huge over-weighting of startups in their depositor base which then led to massive influxes and outflows of capital that they didn't manage properly. Other banks don't have quite the same sort of instability in their depositor base.
I don't pay much attention to all noise about generative AI (although I must admit, I'm so impressed with chatgpt). This might be wishful thinking but I do believe AI has looooong way before it will be able to fix bugs in existing systems.

When I feel like loosing motivation I go and play a few clashes [1], this always cheers me up :)

https://www.codingame.com/multiplayer/clashofcode