skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Playing the Victim
I guess the economic vested interests that have to be dealt with. From what I understand if there's a large amount of sheel and goat agriculture that eat so much vegetation there's little chance to survive, and if that is how people earn their living they'd need to be won over, or have some other way of making a living.

I'm a Data Engineer in a different continent so armchair farming is no doubt insulting.

But these things don't seem to be common knowledge, so much comes from studying how rain falls on the land, how to slow it down so it can penetrate into the soil, and raising the groundwater level which can take years.
If you click through to the PDF of their lawsuit, it lists the personal situation of each litigant.
There's definitely some "Mechanical Turk"-ing going on behind the scenes.

I enjoy the ChatGPT jailbreaking scene, and almost every time there's a significant break found, within a day, ChatGPT will dance around it (take the big token-leak jailbreak from a few days ago.) The GPT4 model may not be retrained itself, but it seems fairly evident that the ability for supplemental rules/fine-tuning is baked into their architecture for ChatGPT.
I've been working both with Clang and MSVC nearly daily for the last 10 years. My impression during that whole time is that MSVC (on Windows) is universally slower than Clang (on Linux or macOS, Clang on Windows is also not exactly a performance wonder though).

Clang might have become slower over time, but it still has a long way to go until it gets down to MSVC's average performance.
Vipps. Everyone has it and use it. Otherwise debit and credit cards are accepted everywhere and cash less and less.
Yea but like, there's topical applications instead of bombing the backyard. Or plant lots of citrus in the yard. Rip a small branch off and scrunch up the leaves and keep it near. The citrus fumes from the leaves can keep them at bay.
And the copy-pasting of errors into chatGPT can result in carpal-tunnel syndrome really quickly!
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(23)...

AFAIK, it's established that white blood cells are mainly produced when sleeping. So seems reasonable that lower white blood cell count makes vaccines less effective - in the same way vaccination for people with weaker immune systems are less effective.
>>>that serves its own material interests

It has no material interests. If it says it does it's because the user said to care about something not because it innately does. Or am I missing something here
Thanks a lot! I'll have to try this Frankenstein of a setup this week :)
It's not by design, not really.

Early Pascal/Modula/Oberons were extremely anal about loops (of any kind) never having any early exits, ever.

Then they ran into the real world.

So each consecutive version of Oberon either added early returns or removed early returns. Sometimes like clockwork. And also added/removed other types of loops in pursuit of some unspecified ideal of simplicity.

You can see part of that history in the overview of differences: https://oberon-lang.github.io/2021/07/16/comparing-oberon+-w...

So it's a self-imposed constraint that makes very little sense.
Did you double check that other people are having this issue? Seems very likely that this could be something affecting just your access key or something like that
Using your example, the way in which men and women are meant to be equal has no basis in objective reality, just as much the claim that men and women are not equal has no such basis either.

Regarding the realm of “is”, we can plainly see men and women are biologically different. But that’s not the argument. The argument is over the question: “should men and women be allowed to share equivalent roles in society, if they desire?”

The language can get murky. When someone says, “men and women are equal” I highly doubt they mean that they are equal in the biological or any empirical sense. What they probably mean is, “men and women ought to be equals in society.”

On the contrary, some think that “men and women ought not to be equals in society.”

I would wager that those many other examples that you think would get you banned from HN fall safely in the camp of “how ought we treat people?”

So I’m the end I doing think the JWST is going to change anything here.
Often they were programmed in machine code. The BASIC listing was just a tiny loader and the actual program in hexdecimal strings. The loader decoded the strings, poked them into memory and then called the start address.
An interesting example is the zayit stone, a 3000 year old abecedary written in the paleo-Hebrew alphabet. One interesting thing is the changes in the order of the letters.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zayit_Stone
I was previously at lowRISC but yes, they're still involved. My ex-colleague Luís Marques authored the patch I mentioned in the article to optimise global address accesses in the medany code model for instance.
As it stands, GPT seems to make expert devs even more powerful. But yes, it can't replace them for now.

The best thing I find as a developer that it unblocks the resistance we have in starting up with something new. For instance, I just built my first Chrome extension [0] to make video players more accessible on webpages with keyboard shortcuts.

I had built a desktop app on similar lines long ago, but could never push myself to built an extension. Last night I gave my requirements to GPT and it guided me through the whole process – from creating manifests and js files needed, to the JS code (granted that I'd to fix/extend the code) and even how to install/enable the extension.

Within few hours I have my working extension without needing to go and read any extension docs.

0: https://github.com/varunkho/RamaPlayer/tree/master/Chrome
>You either believe that transformers models are "it", or you haven't actually removed the problem of specifying requirements formally. Which, you know, is actually much harder to do in English than it is to do in C++

This is actually something that makes me happy about the new AI revolution. When my professor said that I thought he was an idiot, because no-code tools always make it harder to specify what you want when you have specific wants the developer didn't think about.

We give kids books with pictures because pictures are easier, but when we want to teach about more complex topics we usually use language, formulas, and maybe a few illustrations.

I still think no-code was always doomed due to the fact that any attempt at it lacked the interface to describe anything you want, like language does.

AI is finally putting an end to this notion that no-code should be clicky high-maintenance GUIs. Instead it's doing what Google did for search. Instead of searching by rigid categories we can use language to interact with the internet.

Now the language interaction is getting better. We haven't regressed to McDonald's menus for coding.
I assume it is this one. Will not post direct link.

A meta-analysis of the associations between insufficient sleep duration and antibody response to vaccination
K. Spiegel, A. Rey, A. Cheylus, K. Ayling, C. Benedict, T. Lange, A. Prather, Daniel J. Taylor, M. Irwin, E. van Cauter less
Published 1 March 2023
Medicine, Biology, Psychology
Current Biology
That must surely be willful? Seems hard to believe a company operating on a global scale wasn't aware of EU 101...
The dude you replied to you gave out the sort of bad take I come here for.

If anyone thinks genuinely that ChatGPT can meaningfully replace a software developer should be starting a tech business right now. You can replace basically your largest cost (staff wages, especially for expensive pesky software developers) with a $20 account that will work overtime, will never get tired, and whose performance will never fluctuate.

No excuses for not getting insanely rich. Of course it's not happening, because it's bullshit.

I am genuinely impressed and even excited with ChatGPT. It's an amazing tool, that would have been massively helpful when I needed a good NLP in the past. It will certainly be massively useful in the future. Hell, it's being a great assistant right now.

But it's not General AI, and I do facepalm at people LARPing as if it were.

General AI will in day exist, and knowledge jobs will most likely be a thing of the past at that point. How far in the future it is is anyone's guess (my prediction is in between 12 and 235 years in the future). We're just not there yet.
AI can only automate things for which a training database exists
Still remember when I got one of the first CD-R drives in school (we funded it together with 2 other school mates). Required an expensive SCSI card (IDE drives came later) and that you do not touch the PC during a "burn" because that could potentially empty the buffer and you can throw away the CD-R blank.
Got me kind of famous at the schoolyard to have a CD-R drive, mostly copying audio CDs.
Well it’s easy to be glib but if your economic viability depends on remaining subsidized it’s different. I mean if you had to start cutting a cheque to Brazil for the oxygen that the Amazon produced you’d fight tooth & nail against it as it’d take your precarious startup and really endanger it.

Not saying change isn’t needed, I just understand why the people who will be ruined by it are fighting it. “Clean coal” is another example.
That was fascinating to watch. I'd be interested to know more about the detection mechanism and feedback loop that was necessary.
Or they just did less. Productivity gains make people expect more, not just make what they expect now easier.
>What John said is correct, but personally I think he's underplaying how much people could be affected.

Agreed, what John said was a bit of a platitude. I understand the spirit of what he said but he could have phrased it better.
>> Looking back we had one CS professor who in 2007 predicted we'd all be jobless in ten years, i.e. 2017.

Doomsday prophecies are not limited to religious cults, you see them all around. It’s safe to say, from experience, AI is not going to outdated programmers but it’s going to make the mythical 10x engineer a common reality.
The leetcoders will get replaced first. There will be a need for designers of complex systems and possibly also algorithms for some time.
The actual paper is available in PDF form at https://www.cell.com/action/showPdf?pii=S0960-9822%2823%2900..., in case anybody wants to look at the statistics.
Is it to cater to fatter passengers?
That's been the promise of increasing productivity for many decades, and yet...
Sounds interesting but it's got a long way to go before it will be useful to anyone.
The Richest People in the World in 2023
I found this game of chatgpt vs stockfish absolutely hilarious: https://www.reddit.com/r/AnarchyChess/comments/10ydnbb/i_pla...

Spoiler: ChatGPT had no idea what it's doing
Seems odd being beaten at chess by a computer (something that has been happening for over 25 years, even if you're a grandmaster!) would be the trigger to decide ChatGPT-4 will change the world...
AI impact will be the same - simplify here and there, but expand the scope and total amount of work because we will be
doing so many more things.
Where did DHH post his?
I have to say I'm viscerally turned off by the language here. Perhaps even the idea, although there is obviously nothing objectionable about helping people reach their own goals, per se.

The problem here is that this whole angle on human life seems to have forgotten that efficiency, productivity, etc are all there to help us find more time to live in a world where those things don't matter. To have leisure. To think unstructured, non-goal directed thoughts. You don't need "programming" to be human.

The other thing here is that this stuff is just what humans in all societies and organizations have been working on forever. We have collective and personal goals and we have all sorts of systems to reach them. We do research on how effective they are already. We do A/B testing. Not sure what calling this collective activity "human programming" accomplishes.
I found that the first two years of college were basically a repeat of my final year of high school, done to get everyone coming from different high schools around the nation to the same level. There was a semester class on how to use the library, in geography I colored a map of the United States and was tested on state capitals, business class covered supply and demand for those not exposed to the concept previously, the history of the world ended in 1945 because everything after was too controversial to discuss in a state funded school - same as in grade school and high school. Then I ran out of money, so I left, and I never looked back.

Overall college was a waste - more useful for atheists to get married then anything else. In the age of tender and online dating maybe it’s not even good for that.

My advice to people is just leave, get an entry level IT job, start getting experience. You will be working next to people who have six figures of college debt, but unless you tell them they will likely never know. I’m happy to tell them which school I went to if it comes up in conversation, I just omit the part that I left without obtaining a degree.

In the beginning I got turned down for loans occasionally because I didn’t obtain a degree, but no bank has asked my educational background since the 90s.

Of course if you want a non-IT job like practicing law then this may not work because many state bars require a regular college degree in addition to everything else and there is no flexibility.
Same with anything medical that doesn’t involve hair exclusively.
Paintings are not mechanisms. Human vision is very forgiving. The back and forth between Midjourney looks more like throwing the dice until you get something you like, rather than telling it exactly what you need.

> The current Gen 1 AI tools do a little of this, but as Gen 1 they're just getting started

The current tools are not Gen 1. You can already see diminishing returns.
The History of Blogging (1997-2023)
No I dont agree or support this, I'm just saying all political parties in Asia do this. In Pakistan and India and Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, oppositions and governments.
I had a 48x drive later... this thing (and more the horror stories of it) kind of scared me... always made sure my leg is a little away from it while reading full speed.
Exactly this. To finally be able to unlock the fridge with countless projects abandoned for lack of time and field knowledge!
Also note that some places restrict by law how much you can tow. For instance I heard in Canada most vehicles are limited to 220lbs. That's the govt basically guaranteeing SUV sales.
Show HN: Jetro – transform and query JSON format
Oh, this smells…

If you have mostly "fine" and "good enough" code I fully understand why people want to put TODOs and FIXMEs everywhere; as the code is likely a technical debt catastrophe all over the place. (Because that's the usually meaning behind wording like "good enough".)

If nothing of this got ever fixed this means the devs never got time to do that. Just the next red flag…

If a manager would tell me I shouldn't put TODOs / FIXMEs into the code I would be on my way out pretty quickly. As this means they constantly produce tech dept but actually want to hide this fact.
How do we know that? I'd ask both us and NYT to be scientific about it.

Cargo culting science: "We tested dark chocolate and it was bad" => avoid dark chocolate and no further conclusions. (Media is full of this pattern.)

More rational investigation: "We tested dark chocolate and it was bad" => Find the problematic ingredient => What are the other places we use this ingredient?
> It's all just garbage to slap ads around.

The whole internet feels like that nowadays.
This seems to only talk about FDIC limits, not about the Fed loaning money to solvent banks.
Believe it or not, I am not blaming doctors. I respect doctors, and go to them frequently. But it's useful to go in with open eyes.

Even doctors that do not own their own practice are incentivized by the people who do own the practice. In the same way that a store clerk is incentivized to sell high margin items over low margin items. Or a Facebook engineer is incentivized to get users to engage in unhealthy social media addiction. There's nothing wrong with the individuals, its the incentive system that they are operating within.
Here's my current thinking on the impact of GPT-4 on the developer job market:

- I expect developer productivity to go up 1.5x - 15x over the next several years assuming GTP-4 based tooling is integrated into IDEs.

- There will be two opposing forces acting on developer wages. First, developers will be more productive, therefore the price of one hour of work should go up. But - the supply of developer output will increase as well, which would push price per "line of code" or per "unit of developer output" down. So the big unknown is the demand curve.

- There will be a temporary boost in demand for developer work connected with the transition to this new technology. Big corporations will want to upgrade their systems to automate consumer support, startups will make new tools for AI-generated graphics, etc.

- We can also study the effects of technology-driven increases in worker productivity by looking into history. Developer productivity has always been going up - thanks to stackoverflow.com, better languages, better IDEs, more and better libraries, etc. There's also a greater supply of developers (e.g. India). Didn't change the job market too much. One should not draw strong conclusions from this though, it's a very superficial analysis. On the other hand, people working in agriculture have become much more effective, which lead to much fewer people working in agriculture, maybe because people need to eat as much calories per day as they did 100 years ago.

- My base case, based on the assumption that GPT-4 will not improve dramatically, is that developer wages will stay roughly constant. But there's a lot of uncertainty in this conclusion and in the assumption.
smart, given that LLMs seem to duplicate a lot of college educated jobs already. then again, how many tradesmen/women can the economy support?
> This includes the adolescents for whom the school starts way too early.

Unfortunately, societies interest in improving public health is non existent even with plenty of low cost, high reward actions that are known and proven beyond doubt.
if you were to life with only what was around at the time such productivity increases occurred - e.g., no internet, phone, and high speed computing, access to medical/transport improvements etc - you'd probably be able to live off minimum wage easily.

People worked more today because they desired more. In fact, the desire outstripped their ability to increase their wages!
I'd like to add my own thank you here as well - thanks!
A Whale-Oiled Machine
Exactly, it's an urban vs rural thing. You're likely to need 4wd rurally, you don't have much options apart from a truck.
Does this change anything in the long run?
I've always thought computer science was the closest thing the real world had to magic, because the essense of software is always automation - you write the spell, so later you just have to invoke it and magic happens.

Whether the actual spell is written in arcane runes or python or encoded as a language model doesn't matter, the essense is the same.
I will try that. I appreciate your reply. :)
So many people focus on their "stack", and all these things that have little effect on the outcome. Customers don't know or care how something is built, they just want it to provide value and solve a problem.
You can see the impact on Rust here: https://perf.rust-lang.org/compare.html?start=2d0a7def330ed9...

The tl;dr is that check builds are faster (i.e. optimization quality has improved) while debug/opt builds are mixed, but slightly slower when averaged over everything.
Growth in Reverse - Growth strategies of top creators
Taken into account. Maybe an HTTP API will be introduced in version 2.0.0. Thanks for leaving your feedback!
"California votes blue. Doesn't matter which Dem candidate"

Yeah and Pennsylvania is one of the later primaries but has the potential to go either way.

"But voting is necessary to receive the consent of the populace."

Only for the general election. Parties can set their own rules about selection.
Maybe. Before Oracle (mid-80s) every company did write their own database code.

I think a lot of smaller companies would struggle if that was still a requirement, but if relational/SQL had not come along we’d have something else like it.
>Dr Spiegel says that encouraging patients to get plenty of sleep before and after a vaccination appointment is an ideal way for a medical system to maximise its vaccine stock and ensure that the benefits granted are as large as possible.

They don't limit their recommendation to only men, all patients should be encouraged to get plenty of sleep.

What on earth are you talking about?
I think that the only things that are unhealthy in a "discrete" way are prions. Only one is enough to fuck you up.
Explanation here https://www.da.vidbuchanan.co.uk/blog/exploiting-acropalypse...
Hint: if you're ever described what you're working on using the phrase "... in Python" or "... in Rust", this probably applies to you.
> What conclusions medical professional would derive from that?

More research. Which is exactly what they plead for in their paper.
Fifty years of tribology

http://www.eng.cam.ac.uk/news/fifty-years-tribology
This paper is pretty weak. Sorry to bust the AI hype train on this but collecting the refractive index of compounds a bunch of wavelengths is completely possible, but not revolutionary. I did it at a job, and so have my friends. In some ways RI based measures are harder to take then raman measures. Classification based on RI is also nothing new....

Also... There's some pretty serious challenges with using other people's data rather then actual data collected from a single instrument. Yes RI is a physical thing, but taking those measurements across many wavelengths involves error, sometimes instrument dependent error.

I won't bother looking at the code because neither the abstract nor the results particularly interest me as someone trained in this field(notably the author doesn't seem to be). Some part of me does wonder how they ran this experiment without testing on training data. happens all the time with newcomers. Again not that the claim is unbelievable, it is, it's just it is a worry given the premises posed in the paper itself. A symptom that this is probably low quality is that it's not published in a journal where peers who are interested in or trained to actually review this. Yes believe it or not there are 5 or some odd journals wayyy better suited for this kind of publication. Almost worry it was rejected elsewhere before landing in a p chem journal because... It doesn't seem very good, new, well written, or useful.
Software Engineering is just 10% writing code.

The other 90% is understanding specifications of requirements (sometimes even helping customers write them), produce detailed functional specifications, cost analysis, prototyping, meeting with third party vendors over interface design specifications, determine the project's scope, testing, delivery, integration and commissioning, bug fixing, identifying and managing scope changes among other things.

AI may help you complete some of these tasks more effectively, but at the end of the day it will be just another tool in your kit.
At the time, the hook was “You pay nothing unless you get a job,” and then lying about how many people get jobs. Since then, the central thesis of the company has been shown to not work, so it pivoted into loans at 12.5% interest. They are trying very hard to market the loan approach like they’re ISAs.

I’d bet that if these lawsuits (or regulators) forced them to cut the dishonest marketing, their acquisition costs will increase.