skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This type of flip generalization is exactly the type of “I’m going to tell you how it is” that might drive someone away from Reddit and toward Twitter.

I’m not talking about /r/politics or any of the other massive subreddits, I’m talking about tiny subreddits like /r/bikewrench or /r/hats. Subreddits narrowed to the point that conversation is actually reasonable. The discussion in /r/neoliberal and /r/socialdemocracy both have me subscribed.
Converting Streaks Apple Watch App to SwiftUI
I wonder what the minimum volume of a pound of feathers is in relation to density of brick.

Can feathers be compressed past the density of brick?
It really depends on the community you are involved in.
Conscious experience is evidence that the brain doesn't something we have no idea how to compute. One could argue that computation is an abstraction from collective experience, in which the conscious qualities of experiences are removed in order to mathematize the world, so we can make computable models.
I'm sorry; I didn't know memes are considered bad things. I'm experimenting with "facing" pictures and haven't found my style so far.

What kind of image would you suggest I have on posts like this?
The islandic government is apparently partnering with OpenAI to "preserve their language". I suppose they have a GPT-4 customized for that language.
Languagetransfer taught me Spanish about 10 years ago, really excellent approach.
I haven't used CircleCI in a while, but it was really nice. Everyone copied them, unfortunately for them. At work we mostly use GitHub Actions now.

I also appreciate the transparency we're seeing here. Certainly exemplary, and befitting given their product space.
the impressive thing is that GPT has unexpectedly outgrown its use case and it can answer a wide variety of puzzles, this is a little mindblowing for language research
Solving puzzles seems kind of close to their benchmarks, which are standardized tests.
And Reddit will be fine, just like Twitter.
Alright, that’s fine. Change it to:

You aren’t thinking, you are just “generating thoughts”.

The apparent “thought process” (e.g. chain of generated thoughts) is a post hoc observation, not a causal component.

However, to successfully function in the world, we have to play along with the illusion. Fortunately, that happens quite naturally :)
If the server does nothing but run Docker containers, maybe that’s not so bad.
You think you're helping them but the people you're arguing with
believe they're helping you.
not a joke.
This is what I saw on a variation of this trick:

(me) > What weighs more, two pounds of feathers or a pound of bricks?

(GPT4)> A pound of bricks weighs more than two pounds of feathers. However, it seems like you might have made an error in your question, as the comparison is usually made between a pound of feathers and a pound of bricks. In that case, both would weigh the same—one pound—though the volume and density of the two materials would be very different.

I think the only difference from parent's query was I said two pounds of feathers instead of two pounds of bricks?
The state of the game, not the behavior of playing it intentionally. There is a world of difference between the two.

It was able to model the chronological series of game states that it read from an example game. It was able to include the arbitrary "new game state" of a prompt into that model, then extrapolate that "new game state" into "a new series of game states".

All of the logic and intentions involved in playing the example game were saved into that series of game states. By implicitly modeling a correctly played game, you can implicitly generate a valid continuation for any arbitrary game state; at least with a relatively high success rate.
So let me get this straight:

- Russia invades Ukraine in 2014 and takes Crimea
- Ukraine gets aid and training and weapons
- Russia goes for an all-out invasion in 2022

But the US is the guilty party, as:

- the US convinced Ukraine that it could actually beat Russia in a conflict
- forcing Russia's hand to intervene

What is this? Geopolitics amateur hour?

I guess the ideal world order is one in which Russia is free to annex neighboring countries with no consequences, otherwise 'they'll be forced' to do even worse.

As a former resident of a former communist country (which has been invaded by the Russians 13 times across its history), I am appalled at the level of discourse I sometimes find on Hacker News about the (more recent) Russian invasion. I really hope these are puppets or bots or something.
50/50 are not good odds for Homo sapiens, not good at all
many people seem to not have clarity on what a distributed log is and in which architecture its useful and in which not.
if you are abusing a distributed log as a message queue, you are most of the time creating a mess.
I'm sad we 'lost' /. to the morons. I think a lot of us gave up at some point and moved on to kuro5hin, reddit, hn, etc.

It's too bad the content of a site is tied to its moderation system. It would be great if you could, say, use reddit but abide by a completely independent way of moderating.
Is there any progress on podman for Windows or any other way of running containers on Windows? I cannot wait for the day theejder development community doesn't need to rely on anything from this company.
How tied are you to the name, it's almost Nambla.
Seems like this is where centralized countries like China can get a significant edge over the U.S.
Wonder if it's related to the AWS issues?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35157388
And go for mqtt instead? Not a smart choice. Look, it’s going to work for a few hundred, few thousand topics. But as soon as you need resilience, replication, or you outgrow that one broker… good luck. Mqtt is awful to scale horizontally.
i am still bot sure / convinced that it is any better than old-skool eliza from mit (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA)
I agree. But in my opinion, that's the perfect kind of company to start your software engineer career in.
They should fix it by reverting back to 'old' reddit; probably less demanding on their infra :P
> As a professional...why not do this?

Because your clients do not allow you to share their data with third parties?
Since when was "design and implement a practical self-improving AI architecture" on the same level as knowing "the requisite concepts for getting Transformers working"?
I wish it was only about avoiding unpopular topics. You get downvoted even for asking what makes a good coffee or any other questions that people will happily engage with in real life interactions.
> It's in part the upvote / downvote, an horrible gamification of online discourse triggering your need to win the "spectators", even if you end up not having any vote at all because no one cares.

Not everyone plays that game. I upvote all of my opposition in reasonable, heated arguments on Reddit to give them an advantage. That way, if my ideas truly have merit, the wisdom of the crowd will let me know. It’s a way to check myself and call BS on my own ego.
Our current so-called Healthcare system monetizes treatment, not cures. They make their money on treating you, not on getting you well, keeping you well or preventing problems. Unsurprisingly, we have a lot of chronic ailments -- because that's where the money is.

The wounds that don't want to heal for diabetes patients grow out of a general deterioration of the body chemistry generally. If we had a clearer idea of exactly where things go wrong, preventing the chemical states which foster wounds that don't heal would be a superior method.

Once the general body chemistry has deteriorated that far, fixing the current wound is merely fixing the presenting problem. It points to a much larger problem, one which will likely keep fostering new wounds that are resistant to healing and this general deterioration is likely to eventually kill them.
I don't think it's quite the same though... or at least I can make an argument for learning about ways not to do programming tasks because it generalizes.

There are patterns between ways not to do programming related things, e.g. use the single responsibility principle, use pure functions.

There are also so many ways to accomplish programming tasks, it's useful to be able to filter down that multitude of ways or notice "this stack overflow post has 5 bad patterns, maybe I shouldn't use it".
Write a Medium article about your color preferences and link it. You might even make a few cents!
What are platform fees?
(I havent read The Diamond Age)

The eventuality I see is everybody talking to each other through LLM's, and the world ending up in some kind of tower of babel situation. You wear an AR/MR headset, and all conversation is dual translated, with some kind of bytecode intermediary. Each persons language evolves to be incompatible with anyone else's, and only your LLM can understand you. The power goes out, and nobody can talk to anybody.
Except AWS is experiencing issues now.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35157388
The "almost unreadable" tags near the bottom of this page reminded me of the Visual Contrast Test, which is said to be an indicator of mold issues in the body: https://www.vcstest.com/

For example I couldn't tell the text at all in any of the four tags, including the "hard to read" or "quite unreadable".
Bing/GPT-4 gets the answer right if you rewrite the problem in way that doesn't make it biased to common priors

Or just tell it it's making a wrong assumption.
It’s no longer possible at all on Windows 11, so it’s good to know.
My life improved when I learned to detect these situations and walk away.

A good sign that I need to is if I am upset and a particular comment keeps popping back into my mind.

The best way I've found to walk away is delete all my comments and close all the tabs. If the thread is gone, I can't respond to it. If the tabs are gone, I won't have any reminders that the discussion existed.

Possibly I'll be perceived as losing the argument, but my pride is not more important than my mental well-being.
hey Jamie, I just received a notification from F5Bot about you mentioning Squeaky on HN (I'm one of the cofounders) and thought I'm come and say hello ヽ(∀ )ﾉ

We are indeed cookieless, and don't use IP-based tracking either, though we do screen IPs if you're using our IP-screening functionality to keep your teams internal data out of your analytics (optional). We also suppress data capture of sensitive data client-side by default, particularly helpful to ensure session recordings don't accidentally scoop up personally identifiable text-based data, and there are lots of other ways to fine-tune which data you do and don't want to capture.

If you'd like a demo some time feel free to get in touch via hello@squeaky.ai :) Also happy to chat about alternatives and their pros and cons, the privacy-first analytics space is heating up nowadays!
Thank you very much for your comments! I appreciate that!

So far, I see that N+1 is a "measurable" problem that doesn't have to be removed with an additional layer of hidden complexity.
Last time I could checked you could install stuff during the initial deployment.

Not sure what your point is though, a default install of Linux is far better than a default install of windows.
> I for one haven't touched any official Docker stuff for a while now, free alternatives fill the gap pretty well.

DockerHub still seems to have the most images out there and is what many people reach for when they need to run some pre-built image.

I have my own Nexus which acts as a caching proxy and is also where I upload my own custom container images to use on my own servers, but that sort of setup probably isn't for everyone.

Also, Docker Desktop still seems to be the most popular way to run containers in Windows, unless something like Podman Desktop or Rancher Desktop seem stable enough for you.
But... we aren't in real life. We're on the internet. I'm probably a bot. You're probably a bot.

You're way, way, wayyyyyyy too emotionally invested in the comment box.
As far as I know, while they might be using a botnet to geo-unblock streaming sites (which is what many VPNs do, and at least somewhat shady/ethically dubious if it happens without explicit user consent of the users whose devices/networks are being used), there isn't any evidence for NordVPN users being used as a botnet.
> 1) Will FAANG+ companies hire college interns this summer?

I sure hope so. I've signed an internship offer for this summer but I am very anxious about it being reneged on
It depends on who you ask. What would a dog answer if it could contemplate the question and say its piece?
Some sort of meta moderation of subreddit moderators could be such an improvement over there if well implemented... I miss the old slashdot system as well.
Good point!

We use Phero extensively in mobile apps projects, so we know the pain of maintaining API versions and backward compatibility hell.

Phero generates a declaration file with all functions you expose, and bundles dependent domain models (interfaces, type aliases, enums, etc) with it. Currently there's only one version. Our plan is to let users pin versions of this declaration file (we call it the manifest file).

Then we build cli commands to compare them and actually tell if they are compatible. This way you know if it's safe to deploy a new version of your API without breaking existing clients. These are all future plans of course, but in the scope of the project.
Something I don't understand:

Why is it important that storage/compute be in the same box? Isn't it desirable for there to be a "service boundary" between block storage, file storage, object storage, etc, and the consumers?

If that boundary is desirable, why would it matter where the storage resources are located? Wouldn't that be an implementation detail?
To add on a little: There are tiny subs that feel like HackerNews, but all the giant subs that the app and the normal site (not https://old.reddit.com ) funnel you into are complete cesspools
> I hire 10+ Python developers per year. You're wrong.

I've been hiring roughly the same amount for 10 years. I'm actually really extremely good at modern python. My skills with python syntax are so good that I can do in 1 line exclusively with generators what a junior programmer probably needs 10 lines and twice as much mutating state to pull off. My code is also likely more modular and neater then a junior but you have to realize none of this matters that much. My skill level with python is beyond the curve of what is necessary and so is any other developer that goes beyond 2 years with python.

In the end every programmer I ever hired exclusively for python will hit this tier within 1 or 2 years, very few exceptions. Roughly half of the junior programmers I hire are actually already within this tier upon getting hired. Literally before hitting there first job. After two years the only thing left to pick up are some more unique patterns and tricks but that's it.

I am 100% talking from experience.
It seems like GPT-4 does something that's similar to what we do too yes!

But when people do this mistake - just spit out an answer because we think we recognize this situation - in colloquial language this behavior is called "answering without thinking(!)".

If you "think" about it, then you activate some much more careful, slower reasoning. In this mode you can even do meta reasoning, you realize what you need to know in order to answer, or you maybe realize that you have to think very hard to get the right answer. Seems like we're veering into Kahneman's "Thinking fast and thinking slow" here.
>dismantled by Fed’s using obscene methods, like getting suspects pregnant

do you have a source? this sounds nuts
You should have been here before the "unvote/undown" links (which, BTW, might be what you're looking for: it's on the same line as the comment header). "Apologies for the downvote, on mobile", "why isn't there undo for votes?", etc. A lot like discussions when a paywalled article comes up. :-)
The difference is that I have better arguments on my side, both from a health and from an environmental perspective, than the vegans do.

I get that some people think Trump won the 2020 election and some people think he lost the 2020 election, and so faux-sophisticates will just throw up their hands and say “who knows who is right?”, but I am of the camp that believes in reason and evidence.

If you think the vegans have the better argument then you are free to eat that way and further the destruction of the planet while rationalizing away your ill health, of course. Bummer for you, but it’s a free country.
God I wish. Then I could wean myself off of there too.
TBH Wayland is rocky on linux too from my experience. It's really hit or miss with applications especially electron ones. I think electron natively supports wayland without adding a flag now? The issue is most applications don't use that version yet. Both me and my friend installed wayland on a fresh arch install and we both had issues with random "black boxes" on electron applications.

Games are also very hit or miss.

IDK it's just felt very half baked. And this was with Gnome which my understanding should have very decent wayland support?
This seems to be related to GPT-4 and other big stories all landing today.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35157344
The point is, chatgpt isn’t doing math the way a human would. Humans following the process of standard arithmetic will get the problem right every time. Chatgpt can get basic problems wrong when it doesn’t have something similar to that in its training set. Which shows it doesn’t really know the rules of math, it’s just “guessing” the result via the statistics encoded in the model.
If Twitter is the frame of reference being used, then Reddit wins out by virtue of layout and content allowances.

Trying to cram context and nuance, about topics that can be very big and complicated, into 280 character text bites is not the easiest task.

While the character limit for a Reddit comment is 10k.
Or possibly, you are missing something?

I have a lot of experience in JS - even contributed to MooTools back in the day, until the team left to create React.

I run node on one server, Nginx with Php on another, and have plenty experience with many of the front end frameworks.

Try designing a web page - say the product page of a shoe store - multiple times. First try as though you have React (or Vue, Svelte, Angular, etc.), but never heard of HTMX, then try with HTMX as though you never heard of React, etc.

OK, its a bit of an apples to oranges comparison, especially if you would use hotwire or whatever.

Now, test those pages for responsiveness and ease of maintenance.

I did that, and the HTMX version won hands down. I was pretty surprised. You should try it; then comment again.

I now use HTMX extensively, and avoid frameworks unless they would really save time and effort.
This is how blocking works now. They changed it sometime relatively recently.

Utterly deranged.
I lost power due to wind (SF Bay Area) right around when the site went down. I wonder if some of their remote developers are in a similar situation?
Joking aside, old reddit always had the same issues
Why not SmartOS with bhyve VMs running inside secure zones?

With this one could even go #vmless and use native SmartOS zones or lx zones for linux compatibility and more efficient use of system resources.
> I'm a proponent of letting people do anything that isn't illegal...

> Who is anyone to define what harm is?

Well, your government is "anyone" to define what harm is, it seems, if you care about what's legal... Do you think that government is perfect? And that what can cause harm will never change through the years?

As far as "what doesn't kill you makes you stronger"... I think the past speaks for itself on whether or not discrimination and abuse, say, has historically resulted in more strength and success or less. The folks dishing it out weren't doing it for fun or to build strength in others, they were doing it because it advanced their own interests.
Writing Compiler Front-Ends for LLVM with Lua Using Mewa
Python Insider: Python 3.12.0 alpha 6 released
In fairness to duolingo, nearly everything duolingo does is like this. They are extremely metric and process driven (for better and worse of actual users).
If you weren't looking at it, then how would you know it was there? I never ever see that stuff on Reddit, because I never look at those subs.
What's the difference between entering in an anonymized patient history into ChatGPT and, say, googling their symptoms?
That is the statement there... and some of the other material on it.

--

https://digitaleditions.walsworth.com/publication/?i=758312&...

> Suicide rates among dentists and a perceived elevated risk for suicide have been debated in academic publications worldwide for decades.

> A 2011 study of the Danish population published in the November 2011 issue of the Journal of Affective Disorders found that dentists had higher age and gender-adjusted rate ratios for suicide and risk for suicide compared with the general population. It reports that dentists held the highest suicide rate at 7.18 percent for men and women combined, and that these suicides rates are much higher than the national average. The national average for men and women was reported as 0.42 percent. Male dentists held the highest suicide rate at 8.02 percent. Female dentists held the fourth highest suicide rate at 5.28 percent.

> In 2017, the British Dental Association found that 17.6% of the dentists they surveyed have seriously considered committing suicide.

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Dentists and Suicide: A Look at the Numbers - https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/health/dentists-and-suicid...

> The Center for Disease Control’s most recent report in 2016 on “Suicide Rates by Industry and Occupation” does not list dentists separately, but rather groups them in with other healthcare workers, ranking eleventh. And yet, despite the lack of any hard evidence, the myth regarding dentists being the number one suicide occupation stubbornly persists, casting a negative light on the profession. Not only can this affect the well-being of practitioners, it can also negatively influence perceptions by patients and by students considering dentistry as a prospective career.
Django Developers Survey 2022 Results
iOS is always first with new features in Duolingo. And from what I've heard from other sources, iOS users are more willing to pay $$$.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35086920

Dupe
No. When the reception asks if you want to check in or the shopkeeper asks if you need a bag.. you won't get that from Duolingo. You'll learn the word for an apple though and if your memory is good you'll be able to recall it when needed.
There’s nothing inherent to the world we have built that’s stopping deaf people using the Internet in their own languages. Yet there’s no ASL Wikipedia. Why not?
You can get a "high score" in any community that keeps score by repeating its tropes and doing stuff to signal you're part of the in-group.

Beyond a certain size all communities harbor this behavior.
Amazon is interviewing interns.
It does not surprise me at all that performance ratings are correlated with office presence, but not for the reasons they imply. The performance evaluation system at Meta is heavily biased towards political visibility and grandstanding and these are simply much easier to achieve in a physical workplace.