skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can do all those things, and not get a vaccine, and be in good shape too!
That's exactly my point, though. In the mid 80s there were a lot fewer companies producing software. Nowadays we have many more.

Indeed SQL was not the only local maxima we could have gone for, but the point is that having an easy to use database with a powerful query language did not reduce the number of jobs, but instead increased it. Instead of a few companies hiring a lot of developers, we have a lot of companies hiring a few. The latter will usually mean more jobs.
My first computer was the Acorn Atom. Wasn't as "cool" as the Vic-20 or the ZX-81, but the Atomic Basic language had on killer feature: the ability to embed assembly directly inside a basic program!

Learnt so much about the 6502 that way!
Thankfully that there are people still writing Java to keep the JVM going for Scala users.
I'm definitely not expecting something runnable.

I think reverse engineering the policy from the code will be hard – this is why no one really understands these systems in full.

However I think given the policy, assuming we trust that Twitter does in fact attempt to implement that policy, the code doesn't really matter. We wouldn't be able to run the code anyway, and bugs aren't really a problem compared to what the intention is, as Twitter would supposedly be constantly working to make the code match the policy.
It was implied that we would see another Earth. But that is a science fiction trope.
It's the prisoners dillema. Game theorists would expect them to act the way they did even though it's better for everyone if they just relax.
Have they? I would say the last year has shown “throwing more compute” is not the endgame with Chinchilla, Galactica and LLaMA being some prominent papers raising questions.

Despite all of the (presumed) compute thrown at GPT4 hallucination is still a massive problem (in their technical paper) and “more RL” isn’t/won’t solve that.

It’s hard to believe that a certain number of flops will fix the fact that next token prediction is inherently not factually grounded and can result in very inaccurate outputs.

I think we’re plateauing with current model architectures and overestimating LLMs because their output sounds so much better, chess is a great example. If LLMs of this size can’t come close to stockfish which can run on my 10 year old CPU, how much knowledge is all this compute really encoding?
Well, here is what Microsoft says on the privacy for this service:

> By default, Microsoft Edge provides spelling and grammar checking using Microsoft Editor. When using Microsoft Editor, Microsoft Edge sends your typed text and a service token to a Microsoft cloud service over a secure HTTPS connection. The service token doesn't contain any user-identifiable information. A Microsoft cloud service then processes the text to detect spelling and grammar errors in your text. All your typed text that's sent to Microsoft is deleted immediately after processing occurs. No data is stored for any period of time.

So, they don't keep any data using this.

But it's unclear since they also do text prediction; which can be toggled separately in Edge.

> If the Use text prediction toggle is turned on, Microsoft Edge sends the text in the text box, your top language from the browser setting, and a text box identifier to a Microsoft cloud service over a secure HTTPS connection. The text box identifier is not associated with your account. The Microsoft cloud service processes the text to generate a relevant text prediction. Typed characters and text predictions are cached for up to 30 days, for service quality and performance improvement purposes only.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/privacy-whi...
You can, but bear in mind that an alert will only be issued when the Environment Agency issue a Severe Flood Warning. As they describe it: "A severe flood warning means there is danger to life: you must act now."
Hah, I wish this exploit worked in tournament chess.
I asked ChatGPT “Let’s say I want a program to delete unused files. Can you write a detailed specification that a developer could use?”. I was as vague as possible on purpose.

Here’s what it gave me:

“Program Name: FileCleaner

Overview: The FileCleaner program is designed to identify and delete unused files from a specified folder or directory. The program scans the directory for files that have not been accessed for a specified period of time and prompts the user to delete them. The program is intended to free up disk space and improve system performance.

Requirements:

The program must be able to scan a specified folder or directory for files that have not been accessed for a specified period of time.

The user should be able to specify the time period after which a file will be considered unused.

The program should prompt the user to delete the identified unused files.

The user should have the option to select which files they want to delete.

The program should permanently delete the selected files from the system.

The program should log all deleted files, including their location and name, in a separate file for future reference.

The program should have a user-friendly interface that is easy to navigate and understand.

Functional Specification:

The user launches the FileCleaner program.

The user is prompted to select the folder or directory they want to scan for unused files.

The user is prompted to enter the time period after which a file will be considered unused (e.g., 30 days).

The program scans the specified folder or directory for files that have not been accessed for the specified time period.

The program displays a list of unused files, including their location and name.
The user is prompted to select which files they want to delete.

The program permanently deletes the selected files from the system.

The program logs all deleted files, including their location and name, in a separate file for future reference.

The program displays a message indicating that the selected files have been successfully deleted.

The user can choose to exit the program or scan another folder or directory.

Non-Functional Specification:

The program must be designed and implemented using a high-level programming language, such as Python or Java.

The program should be able to handle large files and directories without crashing.

The program should have a user-friendly interface that is easy to navigate and understand.

The program should be able to run on multiple operating systems, including Windows, MacOS, and Linux.

The program should be secure and not pose a risk to the system or user data.

The program should be well-documented, with clear and concise instructions for use and troubleshooting.

By following these specifications, a developer can create a FileCleaner program that efficiently identifies and deletes unused files from a specified folder or directory.”

This could be improved even more by having it ask questions to narrow down exactly what is needed
In Australia the Nissan Patrol was rebadged as the Ford Maverick in some cases.
Hormone replacement is common treatment for menopause, but indeed for some women it’s not an option due to particularly bad side effects.

Men don’t typically need hormone replacement in old age, testosterone production rarely drops much, if at all. It’s why we grow bald, after all.
I would say don’t be in a rush to build products and be iterative in your approach, learning lessons along the way.

Some of the product companies are very speCIalized in what they do. There is no one size fits all.
My theory is that people want to read about things that make themselves feel better.

Bad news usually does that - in that it helps us reflect that “well at least i’m not THAT guy!”
https://www.keentechnologies.com/

His new startup is literally a consulting / training agency.
Getting Started with Self Hosting
Yes. They have a want. The key is to nail down the need. But they have to be willing.
Speak Native Languages and Smash Colonialism on St Patricks Day
Subjects not as in the formal status, just as in "subjects of the crown", as a ruled class.
> but would probably even rugpull U.S. real estate prices

Good, it's been increasing at an out of control pace for a long time, but especially since the pandemic.

I'm saying this as a homeowner myself, whose home went up in 'value' almost 50% since I bought it five years ago (it really hasn't, if anything it should have gone down a bit from wear and tear, it desperately needs a new roof, deck, fence, and some gnawed up corners of walls and trim patched up from puppies when they went through teething).
UBS offers to buy Credit Suisse for up to $1B
This statement is false. N+1 issues may exist even in that case. It may vary what caused it and what are the options to solve it.
This picked my curiosity, and I made an experiment. Turns that you can instruct gpt to ask questions with it's missing information:

https://twitter.com/bitecode_dev/status/1637420579278954501

Now that's going to be interesting.
I'm a senior developer, and my best developer got hired because she obviously knew how to get things done. Having the ability to program was a requirement, but we actually made room in our budget for an additional programmer because it was so obvious she was going to do a good job because of her attitude and other skills.

Had she applied at the same time as everyone else (she was a week later, IIRC) she would have gotten the job instead of the other person, and we wouldn't have made room in the budget for anyone.
https://archive.ph/ypGnI
Wow, I had to scroll for what feels like the first 100 comments to find a controversial opinion in this thread. Thank you!

Offtopic, but it's scary how HN actually becomes worse than Reddit on these ChatGPT posts.
ChatGPT can in fact ask you questions
The new systems unlike no-code tools support dialogue in natural language though. You don't need to specify it exactly, you give an approximate idea, and then correct, correct an correct until you get what you want.
This comment reeks of racism, I hadn't thought I would have to read these absurdist takes on HN. Would you write the same thing about the civil rights demonstrations?
And the way to get back at PHB is to form a tech lead software company and hire 0 people with MBAs.
I wish I had a chance to do that, but I was born too late. By the time I had consistent access to the internet (and learned English), the internet is mostly ruined already.
Na, it's clearly an escape memetic SCP.
A lot of us are buying this stuff because we never had it.

Most people buy new telephones not because they want fancy gadgets, but because either A: The battery has deteriorated too much or B: Crucial apps demands the phone to be updated. Uber is for example awful in this regard.
Do you think that, within a week, anyone could even understand all the coding problems of a company large enough to employ an SWE today?
What's the singularity?
They use some of this too btw. Also wavelength level routing happens with breakout cables from ToR to Compute.
When I hear "art" I think "scam".

But maybe it's just me…
> The average software engineer would be nothing without a good product manager in my experience

The average software engineer doesn't have a good product manager, he has an average product manager. They still get things done.
In legend, Paul Morphy learned in this way.
> - I expect developer productivity to go up 1.5x - 15x over the next several years assuming GTP-4 based tooling is integrated into IDEs.

Hardly. 10% of the time spent is in writing code and the other 90% goes behind debugging and fixing things.

Even if AI shrinks the time spent in that 10% in writing by another 90%, you still have have to take full time for maintaining that code. Changing, debugging, testing, deploying, profiling, log analysis.

Worse, its now someone else's code you need to understand and debug, and not the one written by yourself.
cf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singularity
found these videos about the plato system https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTmWcGhlXqA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THoxsBw-UmM

also there is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PLATO_(computer_system)

they mention that they were linked by a network, is it known what kind of transport protocol they were using on the CDC systems?
I think you realize how unrealistic and out of touch that is, and just take pleasure in being a pill.
It's also related to food industries using blue sticking plasters: they are made so that they will set off the same metal detectors that are looking for bits of broken machinery.
Ye, often the "creator", the "head" gets credited with everything a whole team come up with. Sure, picking the good and directing it to consistent whole is important but they would be nothing without people that produced that in the first place.
Author here:

Thanks for the kind words! I'm in the same boat as you, profiling is a lot of fun! Yeah, the more you look, the more you realize how many projects have the same or similar problems. Hoping that more folks are aware of those issues and how to avoid them with this series.
> The offer was communicated on Sunday morning with a price of SFr0.25 a share to be paid in UBS stock, far below Credit Suisse’s closing price of SFr1.86 on Friday, the people said

1/7 of the Friday closing price - this is heading into the Matt Levine "we will buy your bank, make sure that all your customers are made whole, and give you a Snickers bar in exchange for 100% of the equity" territory
I keep hearing stories like this so I'm sure it's a common experience. But the one time I fasted for a week, the last 36 hours were a torture of continuous hunger, and my body has been highly resistant to more fasting since. I used to do regular multiday fasts but haven't done any since.

If you try it, it's probably best to follow the advice to stop when it gets bad and don't tough it out.
Shit that sucks. I was rear ended by a station wagon in my my truck when I slowed down at a give way an he didn't. I'm 2300kgs so I hardly moved. He got a nice dent in his bumper from my towbar.

Maybe you should get a truck?

(I'm not in America)
Funded with bloats caused by student loans, many ex-politicians find their job as college administrators.

Cut that lifeline. Then it will revert back to the usual alumni fundraiser cycles for new teaching buildings.
As with many other archaic words in English, I'm guessing that "Swind" and "Swynde" came from Scandinavia and Germany where they've kept their old meaning to this day:

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/schwinden#German

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/svinde#Danish

A modern example is "oxygen depletion" or "hypoxia" in English/Latin which, in Danish, is called "iltsvind" ("ilt" = oxygen, "svind" = depletion):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypoxia_(environmental)

https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iltsvind

It is indeed related to swindle/svindle/schwindeln but I don't know when the two words "diverged": https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/schwindeln#German

If you go back far enough, swind/svind/schwinden may also share a common ancestor with "dwindle": https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic...
Manager would be easier to replace with ChatGPT than a software developer
NO! With lead, there is no safe amount.
I can imagine the conversation:

- So what do you think about the crisis?

- It's going to get worse. That's why I accumulated so much cash the last 5 years.

- What do you think we should do about it?

- Don't bail anyone, or you will have an even worse crisis. And help the people that lead to this situation responsible.

- We won't do that.

- I know. That's why I accumulated so much cash the last 5 years.
In addition the data collection projects made it dangerous to have too much fun on the internet. Sadly, this will never be the same again with ubiquitous surveillance.
This seems to be a common phrasing left over from maybe two or three decades ago. Whenever I see it I assume it's going to be written in terrible non idiomatic c++. Whatever it is, saying c/c++ doesn't not inspire confidence that I'm going to want to learn in that style.
To the best of my knowledge there's no way for branched universes to ever interact with each other again, so why would a layman even care that they exist, let alone be profoundly changed by that fact?
good question. but if you look at the "magic" concept from a higher level then you'll find that this function of course is based on magic numbers as it itself is a _magic function_. it doesn't solve generally equations but specifically _quadratic_ equations. a more extreme and obvious example in the same vain would be:

def print_every_second_for_a_minute():
...

having said that - there are always exceptions.
Tearing down Apple's display opener [video]
Would you please show me a tool with a better UI/UX that can do all the things that emacs can do?

Orgmode
Magit
Dired
EXWM
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.
.
this rabbit hole is an endless pursuit of higher and higher efficiency.

BTW, the UI/UX is quite customizable with basic elisp fu, using say Helm, Ivy etc.
I don't understand the philosophical terminology used here, but I do know QM. I find it highly suspicious that you claim philosophy is useful in QM given that we have contradictory interpretations of QM that all fit the equations and experimental data and provide exactly the same predictions about reality.
In the project I’m on, I’m basically the CTO (sort of meaningless, as I’m the only front end programmer, and also do most of the backend).

I could be a lot more of a pain in the butt than I am, as I have a lot of leverage, but one of my goals is to help others on the team (including a young CEO) to learn how to make ship software.

If I were working on my own, I probably would have shipped, eighteen months ago.

No one is making a dime. It’s a nonprofit effort.
Product owner is the one who analyses requirements, decides what should be implemented, and creates user stories for programmers. Currently programmers can use AI to help implement user stories but in future probably AI will be good enough take and implement user stories on its own. In more distant future it could replace product owner too. So that CEO can just talk AI directly into making a great product without much details, but at that point businesses like this will be less valuable because many can do that and there's no need for devteam and less need for investments.
Investors in shambles, what do you mean by "it can't grow indefinitely?"
Article is painful to read thanks to sentences like "0.8 micrograms in ounce". Ouch.
Not sure if JWST is capable of that but I believe next step in furthering our insignificance will be concluding (due to looking closer and closer to the Big Bang and finding contradicting evidence like huge, very old galaxies) that Big Bang was not a creation event just a "small", "local" annihilation of "some" amount of matter and anti-matter that kinetically blew remaining stuff apart sort of dragging the deformed space-time along. So we can't have any hopes of seeing any evidence of actual beginning of the universe or even any proof that it wasn't eternal.
I see someone who needs a refresher on Bayesian logic.

Apartments are associated with many things, only one of which is public housing.

An image search of public housing, which brings up many apartment buildings, doesn't mean that apartment buildings are only associated with public housing.

Or, to structure it as you did.

https://www.google.com/search?q=apartment+house

What do you see?
The claims that costs can be brought down with better regulations and economies of scale are often made, but the evidence for that is marginal.

For regulations: how does one identify "reasonable" regulations? How is this to be determined? The usual way this is done in other industries is by allowing accidents to happen, then add regulations that would have prevented them. I doubt that would be acceptable for nuclear: unlike (say) aviation accidents, the cost of an individual accident can be extremely large.

As for economies of scale, the evidence for that in nuclear is slight. Maybe S. Korea? But elsewhere costs seem to have increased with experience rather than decreasing. Nuclear involves large units that take a long time to build; there's not much room for anyone to gain much experience over their career. If anything, experience decay (as organizations and individuals age) seems to overwhelm experience growth.

> fast reactors

Fast reactors inherently have this problem, since a fast chain reaction occurs without a moderator. In a LWR, concentration of the fuel in an accident reduces reactivity, as the moderator is reduced. In a fast chain reaction, concentration of the fuel will increase reactivity. Putatively safe 4th generation reactors merely assert that such rearrangement cannot happen. If the analysis that led to that conclusion is found to be in error then anyone who has built such a reactor will be in deep trouble. Perhaps molten salt fast reactors will have sufficiently credible analysis, but those have their own issues (such as need for large amounts of isotopically separated chlorine in molten chloride reactors and exposure of the walls of the reactor to unshielded/unmoderated fast neutrons.)
It’s newsworthy! The current story being told in tech is that we can lay off significant parts of the workforce with no impact. Following this, the resulting failures are generally hidden or otherwise non-obvious.
Dithering is amazing. I built a display to show my calendar:

https://www.stavros.io/posts/making-the-timeframe/

When testing it out, I tried to show a grayscale image, because the display supports four tones, but it came out horrible. Then I displayed a dithered two-tone image (black and white) and it was much, much better:

https://www.stavros.io/posts/making-the-timeframe/dithered.j...

I wonder if there are any arbitrary-palette dithering algorithms that I could try, it would be great to be able to use the other two tones and still dither.
>if you don't see things a specific way you might get canceled for life.

Every time I ask for examples people get angry, or if they're mask-off they reply with a very obviously drug-addicted hyper-racist, hyper-sexist, men's rights advocate who is pretending to be a doctor or guru or alpha male and who is, as part of their "cancellation", raking in millions from basement dwelling losers who like being told that they are special and the world is against them and so it's obvious that the cancellation controversy surrounding them is a grift.
The gun thing isn't a circular problem tho since humans can pose a threat even without a gun. Even the difference between men and women puts the woman at a huge disadvantage. Thus a firearm becomes a force equalizer for her protection from the average unarmed man that could easily victimise her.
How would you define a “magic function”?

Solving equations in general is not possible, so if you're trying to say that this function is too specific, good luck generalizing it.
Win-Draw-Loss evaluation (2020)
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/study-finds-186-banks-vulnera...
In the way that it keeps giving well after you graduate from college.
This is a great guide and summarizes many things I've found through trial and error myself. One thing I would like to add is that when gluing plastics and similar materials, e.g. broken sunglass temples, it can help to roughen up the contact surfaces with sandpaper before applying glue to create more contact area. In my anecdotal experience the seal will fare a lot better this way.