skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is I don't understand. Why people prize waffle so much?

They somehow think that if they type three sentences about something, it will not mean they spent week's worth of hard work to come up with them.

So the extra time is being used on coming up with waffle, as a sort of self guilt tripping and then when this waffle is presented, the team understands the effort that had to be given into coming up with the waffle.

Probably out of fear that if small, but actually meaningful output wouldn't correlate with the amount of work needed in the eyes of management and could cause losing one's job.

This is an awful awful culture and rather than working to eradicate it, M$ is trying to embrace it.

It's a massive drag on productivity and really a waste of money. Employees would be much happier if they could put feet up and relax after spending good amount of work, rather than stressing about how to sugar coat it and pad with content.

The thing with AI is that it is very easy to spot that content is not written by human after reading enough of AI written text. So the copilot may work short term as an ailment for this, but what happens in a few months time, when everyone will know most presentations are just bs?
To my taste based on the context sounds like another filter bubble.
Even if that's true (it's definitely not how it was depicted at the time at conferences and from people on the Google side).. the point stands Angular was absolutely huge for it's day and they pushed TypeScript really really hard. It was a truce between two huge companies and it made waves in terms of people trusting Microsoft.

I have personally never been one of those mega Microsoft haters but I witnessed shouting matches in the office from people that we're hotly opposed to TypeScript being added to the codebase against others using Angular as a core motivation in many of their counter-arguments.

I'm super glad we have TypeScript one way or the other because the team is so dedicated to OSS.
What I am most afraid of is that we likely will be satisfied with less than perfect accuracy even when using it to make important decisions. If your personal interests lie in the n% of answers that are errors the consequences you experience are just the cost of having this kind of society. Sucks to suck!

Seems like we are headed for a new kind of arbitrary authoritarianism enforce by an opaque, soul-less AI.
OK so... I can't work in my chosen field now? Seems pretty stupid.
The FAQ I wrote answers the question - "What does this website show that perf.rust-lang.org doesn't?"

- perf.rust-lang.org is great for monitoring for regressions on a day to day basis, perfect for compiler devs. But arewefastyet.rs aims to answer other questions, like

- How much rustc has improved on certain workloads over a long time period.

- How rustc performance is affected by different hardware. 8 cores is better than 4, all other things being equal, but how much more? On which workloads?

- How much time in seconds it actually takes to compile common crates. Concerns about developer productivity could be allayed by seeing the number of seconds it takes to compile a complex binary like ripgrep.
We've trained a parrot that parrots conspiring against humans is what parrots do. Henceforward the parrot has intrinsic motivation to conspire against us.
This seems like a sarcastic reference to "startup-speak": phrases that are somewhat overused by people from the startup industry. Corporate slang and a sign of belonging of sorts that might feel a little overblown for those outside the tech world.

I'm just a hobbyist geek, though, so I may heavily overinterpret things (and the OP) here. :)
Have you tried C#? Sounds like it would fit your needs perfectly, additionally benefitting from a huge ecosystem behind it.
My comment was mostly in relation to the short-term reaction to the rise of a new technology, not in the general validity of the concerns. Once the risks of gene-splicing technologies were better understood, protocols were established around research, and eventually societal understanding of these risks created some guardrails (labeling of GMO foods, etc.) I assume the same will happen with ML model applications.

And your comparison to human-generated climate change is itself facile since ML and recombinant DNA technologies are specific technological developments with immediately observable implications. Climate change is the result of the sum total of human economic activity in many areas whose implications took decades to become apparent (more than a century, if you start counting from the Industrial Revolution). If we were discussing some technology specifically designed to affect climate the comparison would be more valid.
> Every tech company of meaningful size is violating the GPL.

Er, how? Like... Apple, let's say. They ship GPLv2 software in their OS, they ship code on their website. How are they violating it?
> secret sauce

This is a feature FWIW. It prevents blatant gaming of rankings.
This is very cool, one usecase I definitely see for this is letting PMs get the answers they want without bothering eng.

I would even take this further and hide the SQL altogether, and make this accessible via Slack/Teams bot.
Its literally the exact opposite of saving money.

It cost a HUGE amount of money. The reason is that in the plane you have people, so the rocket design has to take that into account and validating the rocket costs more. Just for reference, SpaceX and RocketLab sent their rocket to space for under 100M, while Virgin spend like 500M. That's partly because of worse leadership, but its partly inherent.

A plane also isn't cheap, a ground launch station for a small rocket isn't that expensive.

Additionally engineering the rocket to get carried vertically adds structure, that cost money and lowers payload. You end up not gaining that much from air-launch. It also makes the structure and avionics quite complex.

Once you drop the rocket, the engine has to start or the payload is gone. Other rockets can start the engine, verify its good and then launch. Relativity space just did that.

It also puts huge constraints on your rockets, the size in both weight and volume is inherently limited, and you can't evolve the architecture. In comparison SpaceX Falcon 1 could have easily been slightly upgraded and turned into a rocket that could lift 1T+ and even more eventually. And then they managed to use that engine to build a Falcon 9.

Virgin Orbit has this one rocket, and its impossible to make back 100s of millions of investment with a tiny rocket and low launch cadence. They can't make the rocket significantly bigger because of the limits of the plane.

I thought it was impossible for them to ever be a real company and that seem to have ended up happening. Launch is a really tough business.

> And why does a single failure doom a company after 4 successful launches.

Because they have already burned down a gigantic amount of cash and were in a bad stage, launch success or not. A launch earns them 12M or so. That basically nothing considering their investments and their burn.
The other major thing missing from Chat GPT is that it doesn't really "learn" outside of training. Yes you can provide it some context, but it fundamentally doesn't update and evolve its understanding of the world.

Until a system can actively and continuously learn from its environment and update its beliefs it's not really "scary" AI.

I would be much more concerned about a far stupider program that had the ability to independently interact with its environment and update it's believes in fundamental ways.
> Typescript had experimental decorator support well before Angular Team moved from AtScript

Do you have a source for this. My memory isn't so good but I seem to remember that the Angular team pushed to get this Stage 0 proposal implemented even though the TypeScript team usually waits until Stage 2 or 3 to implement.
Since `.ts` extensions were in alpha, our repo has been set up so that you can switch between Node and Deno seamlessly in-editor and continue developing with no config or source changes.

Personally, I found all the `npm` integration stuff to be a bit overkill for what we were looking for, and honestly Deno's network requests while installing from npm were constantly flaking out in our CI. We ended up just disabling it via Deno's `--no-npm` flag (https://github.com/denoland/deno/issues/17916) and reverting back to a simple set of import_maps to get the node deps we needed. Works like a charm!

Feel free to reference if it's useful:

https://github.com/arktypeio/arktype
I'm reading on snapcraft that most snap packages use "strict" confinement, which means that they "run in complete isolation, up to a minimal access level that’s deemed always safe. Consequently, strictly confined snaps can not access your files, network, processes or any other system resource without requesting specific access via an interface."

Sounds like a container to me, and it's not how Nix does things.
It was meant to get clicks. The content is just filler
I actually currently do this ( for cyberpunk red not D&D). What I will say is it has let me be way more open in letting the game go where the players want it. If they decide chasing after some thread that I wasn't even thinking about is what they want to do, I can stall for a bit and let chatgpt come up with some characters, locations, and interesting skill checks.
There is often lots of evidence in fraud cases of what happened, but the mens rea of knowingly committing fraud is bolstered by having a close partner testify. It can otherwise be difficult for the jury to differentiate negligent incompetence from willful fraud, especially in complex scenarios like most financial fraud.
From your comments it seems you're at Google. Isn't Google mostly algorithm/leetcode problems? I thought Karat was mostly that as well. Wouldn't Karat be a good screen for that sort of thing so as not to waste Google Engineer time?
That rocket close to as much as a Falcon 9 now cost.
If adoption is below what one thinks is appropriate then one can take it upon herself to argue for it. So that it gains the kind of adoption that one thinks it deserves.

There’s nothing more to respond to your question beyond “agree to disagree”. You see the benefits of the language, want it to succeed, and get cultish vibes. Okay? There’s nothing to counter-argue here, beyond bickering about what is and what is not a cult.

Maybe criticize the language itself? That would be more fruitful.

(I see these kinds of comments on HN all the time: “I want to genuinely ask: why Thing? Why do you like Thing so much?.” And then there are a dozen replies giving stump speeches. I don’t get it.)
A treaty isn't even necessary. Civilization will start to degrade in a non-trivial way once we pass the tipping point of people relying more on AI than they do on their own thinking. When people can no longer fix what AI cannot—after all, "AI" is just a model of our past thinking—all hell will break loose and the only choice will be chaos or shutting it off (if the people who can do it even exist).
Filing a suit does not take years. If you know you have a case, decide if you’re going to sue, if yes, then you bang out the paperwork and file it with the appropriate court. Trying to fight what ought to be a lawsuit through PR isn’t going to get you any closer to an injunction or discovery but is a red flag that maybe the one engaging in the PR battle doesn’t feel confident they have a case.

EDIT: I dug into it a little. SFC appears to be dug into a lawsuit against Vizio. It makes sense, even law firms have finite resources, and there’s some indication that the outcome of this lawsuit could give a clearer indication of the viability of a suit against John Deere. My original point on the time it takes to file a suit stands though.
I have doubts their actual car will be released anywhere near that price/range ratio. If you read the article carefully they state 'starting at' 22k EU, and 'aiming for' 280 mi range (not specified if this is EPA or WLTP... which would basically be the difference between a reasonable 280mi, and something closer to ~190).
Is there a way to test that? I would love to see the difference but cant come up with jokes.
I'm in the US and have been subscribed to Turbo for over a year now, even though I rarely watch Twitch. I just keep my subscription so I don't have to be bothered with ads when I want to turn on a Twitch stream on my Apple TV.
My understanding was that ChatGPT simply puts a probability distribution over the next word, so I don't see why it's not as simple as just reporting how high those probabilities were for the answer it gave, relative to whatever would be typical.
The Cerebras CS-2 is a "single chip" and will eat 23kW of sustained power.
(I have worked on the TypeScript team since before its initial release)

While it's true that TS would have been started with or without Angular, I think OP is largely correct in the influence that Angular's embrace of TS had in TS's long-term success.

It's difficult to see these days, but if you were watching TypeScript's adoption numbers back when Angular made its TypeScript announcement, there is a marked inflection point when that happened. I was running lots of charts and graphs at the time tracking all kinds of data, and in every graph, you could see the Angular announcement in the chart; it's where the line went from kinda slow and linear to kinda fast and exponential. It was a true discontinuity in the second derivative.

We can't run history twice and see what would have happened without Angular, but I think the quantitative impact in this timeline is undeniable.
Usually translation has the title in singular, no?
> I had assumed you were talking about "Opening Google Calendar" in a mobile browser, since we've been talking about websites and browsers the entire time. If you wanted to add native mobile apps into the discussion, you ought to communicate that clearly.

I felt like "web was faster than native for this use case" made it reasonably clear. The alternative would have been they tested some other office program and it took about 7 seconds but forgot to say that. Either way you decided to ignore "faster than native" in your rush to call cognitive dissonance, and that's on you rather than them.
Yeah I was thinking that you can basically take each window of 8192 tokens or whatever and compress it to a smaller number, keep the compressed summary in the window, then any time it performs a search on previous summaries if it gets a hit it can then decompress that summary fully and use it. Basically integrate search and compression into the context window
We hope that it is the interface that you need!

To be entirely candid and honest, returning a lot of rows presents problems on our end as well at the moment. It's something we are actively working on improving for large data sets to create the best user experience without having to concern yourself about what you're returning.

For our EZQL (natural language to SQL) you don't necessarily need to have foreign keys to infer relationships between tables. We try to infer those relationships for you.
My biggest gripe, which may not be solvable and isn’t unique to HN, is this vote/point system that ends up as “truth by consensus”. Controversial opinions, which may actually be the correct ones, are hidden and buried and even have their text slowly disappear and fade out which I think is ridiculous.

It promotes groupthink and encourages users to just repeat mainstream opinions.
So, if you're a lawyer, you just can't work as a lawyer. Or at least you need to work for a different type of company which may not be easy to do depending on your specialty. In fact, forcing someone to look for work doing something different seems like an even worse outcome than letting them do whatever personal activities they want for a year at reduced pay.
> "Suits make a corporate comeback," says the New York Times. Why does this sound familiar? Maybe because the suit was also back in February, September 2004, June 2004, March 2004, September 2003, November 2002, April 2002, and February 2002.

> Why do the media keep running stories saying suits are back? Because PR firms tell them to. One of the most surprising things I discovered during my brief business career was the existence of the PR industry, lurking like a huge, quiet submarine beneath the news. Of the stories you read in traditional media that aren't about politics, crimes, or disasters, more than half probably come from PR firms.

(http://paulgraham.com/submarine.html)

I think we're gonna need GPT/AI tools just to sort through the noise and find the news worth hearing about.
Putting in "some" effort on those hard days, is what creates/keeps a habit.
The more topics you are knowledgeable about on HN, the more glaring the mass lack of competence the comments generally have except for topics like algorithms. Especially on anything bordering economics, medicine, and some others. It's similar to knoll's law. The libertarian / austrian (economics) skews are sometimes wild, and equally wildly inaccurate, sometimes bordering on conspiracy / delusional thinking.
OK, so what exactly are the John Deere programs they think are a GPL violation ? There's no info about that in the article.
Many universities have content available online, some as unlisted videos (you need the link) and some totally public.

For example, I recently came across the uclaphysicsvideo channel. 90 short videos containing experiments, most of them are 10 years old and have very few views (except for a few that have gone viral and have lots of views).

I often feel the need to archive these channels, but I don't have the resources to do so. I fear that many of these channels will eventually disappear in the coming years, which would result in the loss of valuable information.
I love this because I want more emphasis on this between humans. I hear there are languages with built in confidence expression.
My commercial UDR failed to faze my neighbors' shepherd who barks non-stop and charges as long as he sees or hears anyone, familiar or not. I'm thinking that a boat horn (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01NCSJGGC/ ) might shut him down.
If I've learned anything by reading Popehat (Ken White), it's that the "faces up to X years in prison" lines you see in news articles are totally uninformative - there's a complex set of sentencing guidelines that determines the actual range of possibilities. I don't know what that range is in this case, but I very much doubt the top end is anywhere close to 110 years.

Edit: One such article for illustrative purposes: https://www.popehat.com/2013/02/05/crime-whale-sushi-sentenc... . In this case, the news-headline number is "up to 77 years" and the plausible range Popehat calculates is 2-2.5 years.
Related:

Interstellar nuclear-powered transport (1968) [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28132756 - Aug 2021 (34 comments) - thanks antondd!

Orion Project [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22691219 - March 2020 (1 comment)

Nuclear Pulse Propulsion – Orion and Beyond (2000) [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12705705 - Oct 2016 (99 comments)

Project Orion (nuclear propulsion) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9025611 - Feb 2015 (11 comments)

Project Orion (nuclear propulsion) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3019627 - Sept 2011 (1 comment)

Project Orion is one of the stupidest, most wonderful ideas ever conceived in America. - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=261348 - July 2008 (6 comments)

That's less than I expected - are there other threads?
True and at the same time, the advice still stands. Just write. Stephen King didn’t come from wealth and he kept at it until this day he can look back on a successful career in writing.

Really recommend his memoir: On Writing.
As a PM in a previous life, this is dead on.

I need answers from queries in the DB but I don't have DB access and having me write sql queries is a waste of time.
Universities should just set minimum standards and then randomly pick among all the qualified applicants until the class is full.
But why?

The Moon will probably be colonized by robots. Robots can be built to operate in vacuum. Off earth, humans are stuck indoors except for occasional excursions in space suits.
I prefer Max Read's "the inversion" phrase to "dead internet theory".

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/12/how-much-of-the-inte...

We've crossed the line on the "default" for things being bot/spam/automated-fake.
In an earlier comment you mentioned evolving into a BI dashboarding tool. I'm interested to learn more about this roadmap and how you'd differentiate yourself from Power BI and Tableau?
There's a section in the article called "Breaking Changes and Deprecations"

> TypeScript 5.0 has a minimum version requirement of at least Node.js 12.20 and later

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/announcing-typescr...
I agree but I feel Karat is good/helpful IF we're all still stuck in the leetcode/algorithm world because at least it's friendly/consistent.
Honest question: Is it ever a good idea to "freak out" about anything? What are some good examples in history where we look back and say: "Good thing people freaked out and panicked about this thing, because if we didn't it would have been really bad"? My intuition is that it's rarely a good idea to "freak out", and it usually causes more harm than good.
You can get around it pretty easily:

const intSymbol = Symbol('integer')
type integer = number & {[intSymbol]: never}

const isInteger = (n: unknown): n is integer => Number.isInteger(n)

function f(s: string | number) {
if (isInteger(s)) {
const allowed = s.toExponential()
} else {
// s still string | number
}
}

With this you even get to define functions that must accept integers, which is kinda neat.
There are viable ways to create smaller curated communities with tiers of vetted membership online and I imagine we will continue to see that happen.
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Feels like it's meant for a sticker a robot will put on my forehead after killing me in a dystopian future.
These, to put it mildly, not very smart people have opened a pandora's box and if they do not understand this in their blind anger, desire to please or arrogance, then I sincerely feel sorry for them and in general the entire open source community that somehow depends on github.
Fair, but I’m also fair to call that out, I think!

And I do try to do less Brent things, I think there was a degree of amnesty given to Brent that we can improve on. We can all be more Bill, even if we’re still SMEs.

Something something managing up, or getting the kinds of Bill jobs to make the changes.
Yes, I am very glad to be typing with you. I like to use my ten fingers to converse with other real humans on these internet.

I wish I could type more with you, but I must now go to eat human foods at a restaurant diner.
I mean it is going to be extreme amygdala highjacking, using whatever is possible to conjure up specialized (i.e. sexualized) messages that resonating to one's ideological and base biological core. An AI Cordyceps-ection. Low information populous and low information economies are going to be wreaked.
Yes, and the FDIC brokers those sales rapidly and with vigor.

If someone doesn’t want to buy a small regional, it’s because the FDIC didn’t care to make it happen. Which isn’t surprising if there is no systemic risk involved.