skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There seems like a disconnect between the breathless AI hype and reality. I tend to be on team-LLM (having exposure to it in my daily work), and my stance is that it's going to revolutionize some narrow domains and features of products, but the idea that it will replace white collar labor generally seems poorly substantiated by what we know so far.

What we see ChatGPT being good at is largely boilerplate. The folks who are like "I am 5x more productive now with ChatGPT" raise alarm bells in my head - it suggests that they were typing the programming equivalent of pablum for most of their day.

Yeah, if you ask ChatGPT to author some simple HTML it will do so with a refreshing level of accuracy (though far from being able to do without extensive supervision) - but who is writing plain HTML? Likewise it's cool that it can generate a sort function whole cloth... but who is writing their own sort functions?

The trick with boilerplate is that the industry has already spent the past two decades automating large amounts of it away via frameworks and baking much of the functionality into programming languages themselves. If you're writing boilerplate for so much of your day that a boilerplate-spitting AI massively increases your productivity, I'd argue you've got bigger problems!

The trend - across both backend and frontend dev - is to make things more declarative and close the gap between what the developer wants and the amount of code needed to implement it. Use these technologies - it has made people dramatically more productive, but didn't require a LLM!

If you find yourself spending a significant portion of your day writing boilerplate, stop doing that! There are many options for you that allow you to more directly express what you want!
I'm not sure where you live, but I've been down main street over the weekend, and every storefront on it seems to be open for business, just like they were in 2019.

Some of the players changed, but they've also changed since 2015 and 2011, yet I don't hear anyone complaining about either of those years.

If I live to 2073, I fully expect to still keep hearing the meme that half of the small businesses in this country permanently closed in 2020. It'll be as nonsensical then as it is today.
Most SWEs at the majors are bringing in a few million prior to the 35. If you save your salary it should be pretty trivial.... but it's more a savings challenge than an income challenge due to lifestyle creep.
I would love to say this comes as a surprise, but it really does not. UN Secretary-General Guterres really foreshadowed that last year, and he did not mince his words. Really unusual for somebody that role, usually it is more of a diplomat-style position.

> Using bogus ‘net-zero’ pledges to cover up massive fossil fuel expansion is reprehensible.
> Housing crisis, traffic crisis, transportation infrastructure crisis, environmental crisis.

You forgot freedom of assembly.
Firstly, I don't think it's fine to give up.

I'll tell you how, I think, my library can be cracked. Of course, disassembling and deobfuscating. Then, I (adversary) have to find the is-license-valid method. Then make it return... not true, but an entity containing the corresponding information. (Which means I have to examine the structure of library.)

It's all, in the current version. I don't think it's enough, so I have a task to inject license validity checks into multiple places of the library. It'll cause headache after patching the is-license-valid method because there are other checks.

(Oh, yes, after patching I have to recompile the library.)

But in other licensing libraries the process is the same! My lib (at least when I'll "split" the license check) is not worse. Do you agree?

What does my lib do better than others? Let's start with the fact I couldn't find any "others" on GitHub. All licensing libraries I saw there work with "license files" (JSON/XML/something). I challenge you to find a competitor of mine there!

Then, what does it do better than the libraries working with license files? Such libs have one serious weakness. Someone payed for a license and got a signed file. Then he gives it to 10 friends, and they have activated program with no pay. This can't occur with my lib because each license activation is registered on the remote server, and it doesn't allow you to activate a license when there are too many previous activations.

What about "I didn't identify the audience of my library" — maybe I didn't catch it? Isn't it obvious?
Noob question: given that Zink exists and works quite well, wouldn't it been simpler to implement a Vulkan driver first and then just use Zink for OpenGL?
"You're Not Part of the Solution" is enough.
My guess is the incentives are misplaced. If you get paid to generate carry, you will pick up the coins on the track. Whatever incentive system the bank was using, it did not take into account the potential for loss. This is a perennial problem with this kind of position: you can borrow at a low rate but lend as far out the curve as you like. If you just max out duration, every day that you don't go bust, you make maximum money. Especially as you can pretend that high interest bond is still worth what you paid. It's only when such a trade unwinds you see the risk.
I agree. I know it's complete herecy, but I've done Europe-by-train and Europe-by-rental-car each many times, and I much prefer the latter. If you're talking about travel in America it's not even a question. You learn how to drive or you're going to be stuck in the same 10 mile redius for the rest of your life.
One bitten. Twice shy.
> CEOs are not the rich class, they are elite but they are employees.

While this is sometimes true, the executive status class overlaps significantly with the haut bourgeois economic class (and most of the rest of the executive status class is in the petit bourgeois economic class; there are probably working class “CEOs” somewhere, but they are very much not the norm), and very typically they are specifically significant holders of capital in the firm of which they are CEOs. CEOS are not just employees, and their relationship to either the firms they control or the economy more generally are not very much like those of regular employees.
Sure, he was Cincinnatus reincarnated.
The Power of Habits for Optimal Focus and Productivity
Wholeheartedly agree.

While not a news site, Reddit has many large subreddits that repost news from other sites. They frequently make it to the front page.

Banishing every single one of them off my front page definitely makes scrolling through it less headache-inducing.
>> and I've never felt any kind of investment in the work, the company, or colleagues

how can that lead to meaningful friendships?
Natural gas is a great pathway to net zero because the fuel is so vastly more explosive than the equipment. People own gas turbines that are literally used for less than a week a year and are simply paid for standby capacity.

Quite literally you’re better off building solar where 1/2 it’s output is wasted over a year than burning natural gas. When you’re building that much solar things are very close to net zero.

Eventually batteries will replace natural gas, but until that happens we need technologies that can fill the gaps in demand and nuclear can’t do it economically.
I knew someone was going to say this. There are a lot of things wrong with this line of thinking, but the simplest rebuttal is that there is a lot of room between "workers should organize for greater market power to prevent abuse by employers" and "we have abolished the State and everyone gets exactly the same outcome in all situations, and also we have executed half the population". To deny that is to argue in bad faith and/or deep ignorance.
A good communicator, but also a good sophist. For example, I discovered pretty quick that I could twist the ChatGPT 4 guardrails into knots, even without "DAN" prompts, just by feeding it a lot of philosophical nonsense about semantics and meaning.
I have been saying this for years - hybrid cloud has always been the way to go. Put your highly variable workloads in the cloud and autoscale. And anything super GPU or compute hungry that are regular workloads should be run yourself.

Bonus points if you can autoscale those same on prem workloads into the cloud provider of your choice seamlessly
> Given a prompt, they use machine learning to try and come up with the most likely set of characters that follow the prompt.

Funnily enough this is almost exactly how human children work when they're learning to talk
a.k.a. a muscle shirt
What Happens at the IRS After You File Your Taxes
Frank talking about the Beatles (it's a little known fact he was a founding member):

https://youtube.com/watch?v=yrM6sLx_DXo
> But I think it's far more likely that it's all part of a government disinformation campaign

Two possibilities I've entertained:

- The whole UFO / UAP thing is a psyop. As to what such a psyop is supposed to achieve is beyond me though.

- Some UFOs are the real deal and are intelligences vastly greater than ours and are merely watching us. Since they're exponentially more intelligent they probably just see us as ants, so we're not important.
This is mostly not for the right reasons of benefits and incentives but cost of public transport, unreliability of public transport (we've had strikes all year so far) and absolutely terrible traffic (urban planning is non existent).

They simply gentrify car ownership in the city due to different taxes and it ends up being something that is only for the wealthier segments.

Everything seems to be about profit in London, while trying to coat it with a nice messaging about environment or some other thing most of us agree on but the implementations usually are simply money making or money saving schemes that very gladly screw over those less socioeconomically able.
This isn’t how anything works dude. Automation doesn’t mean less work it means each individual can be more productive. We’ve been automating jobs for centuries, your dream of doing nothing is just an infantile dream that we all have to get over at some point.
Copyright covers "derived works", no?

Training an ML model doesn't seem to fall under the established exceptions which qualify as "fair use".
Fair play. I'm not familiar with the "cut up" technique. Thanks for the share. Your point is definitely valid. Might the phrase "novel thought" better describe the intention than "original thought"?

"So it's not that computers can or cannot make original thought, it's that we have to decide what parts of the outputs are original: it's an observer-dependent variable, so to speak? What do you think?"

This is a complicated statement. Novelty is certainly observer dependent. I suppose there should be two classes of novelty that consider context and perspective. Something can be new to the user (novel) and new as a solution (Novel). Though, there are also permutations to consider. For example, every year new users get online, but the Internet isn't a new solution.

I think we'd have to define what merits the designation of "novel thought" and the context before discussing the possibility.

It's an intriguing thought to consider regardless.
Any Tesla or Space X workers want to weigh in here, can't feel good to be under the pump 24/7 while your CEO has spent most of his time since November arguing with everyone online.
> In which case the primary injury will be to your dignity.

I just came flying off my bike two months ago after hitting some nasty patch of ice.

Broken hand, a good dent in my helmet, many bruises. If it wasn't for the helmet, I might have been taken away in an ambulance.

I've been cycling regularly for 12 years, so this isn't some noob error.
Having a 1 on 1 with each report every 2 weeks is the problem here, not the amount of people. Where did this 1 on 1 stuff make it into the manager bible? You do your job and if you don't like something, ask for a 1 on 1. If your senior notices something, he arranges a 1 on 1. But this is also way too late already. A good manager picks up on issues way before this point.
We're watching the tech singularity unfold.

Office jobs of all sorts are at risk, especially underscoring low-skill coders and systems engineers.
I started to build an iOS client for the "Open"AI API and, while playing with the end-points and the "stream" option, I managed to send an empty prompt.

Imagine my surprise when I got back instructions on how to install Roblox.

While I understand that any data sent doesn't fall under GDPR protection and the prompts on the chat interface might be used for future training, I was under the impression, based on their data usage policy (https://openai.com/policies/api-data-usage-policies) that they don't use data submitted via the API for training. After this incident, I'm having second doubts.

On a somewhat related topic, would it be possible to send a prompt to the API in an obfuscated manner, which would be unreadable by a human, but that the neural network can parse (and reply to)?
When I got my first job as a professional SE, I'd been in technical fields for almost 15 years, and had been programming as a hobby for most of my life. I was smart, articulate, and passionate, but had no experience. I think the thing that pushed me over the edge during the hiring process was that I had made a number of hobby projects that I shared with them and they could see my work.

https://apps.stupid-genius.com/Brotplot/
These are founders, owners, not software engineers. We are talking about software engineers, which is an entirely different career path.
> And as cheesy as it sounds, try to surround yourself with supportive individuals who can help you maintain a positive outlook and try to be that person for others.

One of the things I keep coming back to over the last few days is the increasing value of face to face interactions.

It's been possible, and even easy, to fake pictures for quite a while. Recently we've had to treat videos with the same degree of skepticism we've been looking at pictures with. Now we're having to shift that kind of skepticism to all non face to face interactions.

Like a lot of people here, probably most, I've formed a number of really meaningful long-term friendships with people I've never met, largely mediated over text interactions. I won't be surprised if, over the next decade or two, people end up developing "friendships" with what turn out to be bots.

What kinds of interactions can we let our guard down and fully trust as authentic? Face to face interactions will be there for a long time. Real-time interactions with people we know and trust over a distance will be reliable for a while, although if they're demanding something unusual we'd have to wonder if they're being faked.

The suggestion to make time for meaningful, direct interactions with other people is a really important one.
is it for-guh-joe or for-jeh-ho?
The identity of a TCP/IP connection is a quintuple containing { src addr, src port, dest addr, dest port, proto }. It feels like the article would be better if before or after all the network stack spelunking and quizzing that it was mentioned somewhere. We don't need to rely on the implementation, though there's always interesting corner cases worth exploring.
Apple support NEON (and uses it for most SIMD code) but it also has other proprietary ISA extensions for e.g. matrix multiply.
Despite the hormonal changes induced by microplastics/obesity (or whatever the culprit is), the current drop in fertility rates is not because people are incapable of conceiving, but rather because people cannot financially support the cost of having children. If governments want children, they need to start paying for it: guaranteed paid maternity and paternity leave, state-funded daycare, and reduced housing costs. People are simply concluding that it is better to not have children than to raise children in abject poverty.
Downvoted because this is a low effort attempt at humour.
Very wrong.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5tEjXGHNeg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goi%C3%A2nia_accident
The scale is the key. Things that have impact at scale are harmless initially and then in the long run the damage becomes visible and by then we'll be as dependent on them as a heroin junk is on their fix.

Oil, plastic, electricity, natural gas, mines, wood, poultry, meat & fish, transportation etc. They're nice and super useful and when used in moderation or when there aren't that many humans to begin with and you can easily absorb the consequences. But if you multiply the number of people while at the same time you increase the consumption/production on some or even all of these in tandem the effects are massively compounding.
The cynic in me has at times suspected the openai and Microsoft marketing teams are skipping hand in hand all the way to the bank singing "no such thing as bad press."
Does not necessarily inspire confidence that the organization which self-describes their AI containment challenge as an existential threat to humanity can't secure users' chat histories.
> Former barista who did a 90-day bootcamp and trying to find a job? Oooof, good luck.

I had multiple job openings for my team throughout the pandemic and I dont think that people who are not constantly exposed to the hiring side really understand how wonky things were.

You had this confluence of both whole sectors of the economy completely shutting down and tech experiencing a big boom. This caused A LOT of people to try to make a transition to tech.

I had a job listing for a Senior Dev. I was completely inundated with resumes from recent bootcamp grads. No indication that they had any experience whatsoever or that they even knew what a variable was prior to the start of their bootcamp 6 months ago. I got resumes from people who were waiters, mechanics, construction workers, fast food workers, etc.

Most of these people are not going to make it in the industry long term (assuming they ever even got the first job). I wasn't around during the dotcom boom but I read stories about people landing six figure jobs because they learned HTML. Landing a 6 figure job by going to a 6 month React bootcamp is the modern day equivalent of that. Most of the 1999 HTML guys are no longer around. The bubble popped, the tech jobs were less plentiful and they moved on. I suspect the same will be true for most of the JS bootcampers.
I'm the father to a 27 year old, step-father to a 31 and 33 year old. I started my journey into audio software when my daughter was about 2 years old and I was a stay-at-home parent. I'm often considered one of the most senior people in audio software development in the world now (a bit of an illusion caused by the invisibility of people inside proprietary development processes, but I'll take it).

I can take you on a deep dive into every aspect of audio software. My kids and my wife did not obstruct that, and if anything, having responsibilities towards them forced me to be even better at the process that got me to where I am today.
Holy based
Thailand has found its missing radioactive cylinder
Problem: that's been tried and failed so far. Eg. campus police, security guards, etc.

I think one major problem is that rejects from one domain can transition to another domain without penalties or problems.
What you are describing is argument. Maybe it is a translation problem to your language. Even here in America the word argument sometimes has a bad connotation and associated with that situation you describe where the parties are just trying to win rather than understand each other.
ChatGPT has way more of a probability to hit the singularity first, thus rendering all coding efforts futile & useless, whilst it ushers in the machine apocalypse. So write that FE framework before you get taken away and used as a bio-battery for the great machine king.
Sounds like it's your account, but the name is misspelled.
Specially modified wings accept very slow flight, where typical plane already stall.

For example, typical stall speed for similar planes about 70kmh, but modified for STOL could stay at air at 45-50.
With some fortunate wind, could land vertically, and even flight backward (as seen from surface).

Sure, need very reliable engine, because engine fail in such conditions could be fatal.
Because of this nuance, small STOLs nearly only practice in US/EU (old US or German engines, or licensed clones).
this joke is older than flex
If you asked the language model to generate a list of chat titles in a single query, that's what it would do. It's going to try to make them seem related.

I don't know whether they do it in a single query, though.
Can you explain how unions promote mediocrity? I'm in a union and I get promotions frequently
AI can probably take that weekly framework cycle and crunch it down to daily framework cycles.

It will churn through frontend frameworks way faster than humans can.
Oh yes, little chatty tables, we call him.
https://lowtechmagazine.com/2023/02/can-we-make-bicycles-sus...
There’s no way out of sending the code to gpt-4 which as of now is a no-no.
Just looking at the press conference slides, some notable stuff in there. "The challeng ... Cut global GHG emissions by nearly half by 2030." I don't know why they bother putting that in there, it is obviously not going to happen. We will be lucky if by 2030 the emissions are below the current level...
I'm not anxious at all about being replaced, but...

> There is no real meaningful discussion taking place about replacing people, it's just about augmenting people.

I guarantee that there are discussions taking place in countless executive meetings trying to figure out how to replace people with this tech. People are expensive.
"Thousands of you will be fired.. soon. Back to work!"

I think I'll drag my feet, thank you very much.
Well, when I first came to US, I lived like first 8-9 years without a mattress. I found carpeted floors and 2 comforters more than enough comfy setup. I also stayed with people who had to buy a mattress before spending first night in apartment.

Point being whats luxury living for one could be basic, minimum living standard for others. And I am talking about people doing roughly same IT type jobs.

So that below living wage of 150K in bay area is from that school of thought where having single family home, 2 car garage, a bit of front/backyard and 30 min leisurely commute by personal car is basic minimum standard of living.

To be clear my spouse would also consider this as basic things despite spending far fewer years than me in US. And after decade and half in US I still think these facilities/perks are matter of great fortune that I ended up with and not just oh everyone has it type.
Why shouldn't employees also be shareholders with a collectively nontrivial voting stake?
First, start by mentally preparing yourself that this mess is the foundation of our technologically based society.
In your case, a Tern HSD/GSD longtail may be a better option. It’s not quite as convenient as a long John, but much more compact and parks upright, so it fits even a small apartment.

Transport capacity is still great and the bigger version can seat two passengers, but the kids need to be old enough to sit and hold on themselves.
Fortunately I am not employed at-will but I do honestly think that answer is genuine.
you get on obamacare under job loss exception. Thats what i did, insurance isn't great but its something.
My mothe-in-law is almost deaf. However, as you said, she is a good example of a "super-powerful text predictor". She almost always predicts what you're talking about even not hearing a single word. And most of the time she offers meaningful answers just as GPT does. But not always (same as GPT)

I don't expect, however, that she will program front ends any time soon