skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I tell it that I'm using <database and version> and give it the relevant DDL statements (e.g. CREATE TABLE, etc) then ask it to write the query to do <x> in plain English. It does surprisingly well.

But!!! the first response is rarely dead-on and instead, just like a junior eng I need to guide it: use (or don't use) SQL construct <x>, make sure to use index <x>, etc.

Example: to sum the values in a JSONB field, GPT desperately wanted to use a lateral join but that would have made for a very awkward set of VIEWs. So instead I directed it to create a function to perform the summation.
https://archive.is/ecNCG
AI could upend the world even more than electricity or the internet
The market for recorded music overlaps but is not the same as the market for live music, as proven by the existence of chartered live performances of already recorded music.
“UBS Group AG Chairman Colm Kelleher said he will rein in Credit Suisse Group AG’s investment bank, a unit that has racked up losses in recent years.

“Let me be very specific on this: UBS intends to downsize Credit Suisse’s investment banking business and align it with our conservative risk culture,” Kelleher said Sunday at a press conference announcing the deal.”

— https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-03-19/ubs-s-cha...

Oof. Sounds like a lot of CS investment bankers are going to be out of a job soon.
I don't really think, either, anybody will use a library that is almost in the state of initial development. It's the first.

Secondly, what do you want? I could inject the license check into multiple parts of the library, but this is a dubious way.
I saw that and I was like hmm. Scanning electron microscopes have sure advanced a lot since I was a grad student.
This video was obviously shot in very windy conditions, but 100kt airspeed is wildly wrong. We're talking about a class of planes where 100kt is a typical cruising speed, with maximum speeds not much higher. With stall speeds like 37kt or less (before accounting for ground effect), landing with a ground speed of 10kt doesn't require a hurricane-force headwind. See eg. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piper_PA-18_Super_Cub#Specific... and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CubCrafters_CC11-160_Carbon_Cu...
You're using a lot of absolutes ("all", "ever", "never"). You're implying there are a few absolute positions, but, as commenters have pointed out, that's not the case (it never really is).

You're not crazy for thinking it's reasonable in context, but it's also not crazy to disagree with you.
How AI 'revolution' is shaking up journalism
thanks - I wonder how many unrecorded near deaths or injuries there where - I'm assuming back then if you complained you was classed as a coward - different world!
If you want to be mercenary about it farms already require only a tiny fraction of the rural population to run and will in the future require even fewer. We need the land. Virtually all of the folks not so much.
I’m pretty sure 90% of the story of the wolf of wall street is complete bullshit, yet it’s sold as an autobiography. I’m waiting for the big reveal.
Most likely yes, maybe even by a different company
Facebook was still a big company in 2010.

(But I agree that this sort of communication, if not its exact wording, is more appropriate at a smaller company.)
It should be increased, but seems it is ignored for the rich anyway, so what is the point :)
I really doubt that. Do you type as fast as you can think? As in the moment a line of code formed in your brain it got typed out immediately into the computer? Maybe you can but I don't think the majority of people can do that.
The Bill Gates quote at the end is unsourced. In the unlikely event Gates ever actually said or wrote that, somebody would have a citation.
> How Mr. Assange has become the poster boy of "leakers against the government" with his outrageous egotistical and dickish behavior is beyond me

So, who do you think it should be instead? (genuine question)
I'm not the one who originally made the comparison and I completely agree; the two are so different they _shouldn't_ be compared.

Regardless of how one feels about the motives or the methods, I think it's safe to say it was a fairly watershed moment for the US whose importance shouldn't be downplayed.
Making depositors’ insurance effectively unlimited so long as it’s below the T-bill rate would probably reduce incentives around liquidity, right?

It would be interesting to read policy or study papers on ideas like this; I don’t have especially strong intuitions for how they’d play out.
Thanks for this! If anyone can suggest a good title for the talk as a whole, we'll change it above.

(By 'good' I mean accurate, neutral, and representative of the talk as a whole.)

((The submitted URL was https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaandEt_pKw&t=3473s, but our software swapped in the canonical URL, which has no timestamp.))

Edit: I've put a placeholder up there for the time being until we get a better suggestion. Submitted title was "Unix legend Ken Thompson announces he's switching From macOS To Raspbian Linux". I agree with the parent that this is trivializing (also cherrypicking and editorializing) and we should focus on the substance of the talk.
Simple.

Basic.

Base.
Where did you get 3-4 times?
Apparently the autobiography the movie is based on came out in 1980, so it's totally possible they were referencing Abagnale.
You're not wrong, but if we've all collectively decided that companies should be patrons then I think we've made a mistake.

These people are only one reorg away from losing their income, Mr. lz4/zstd should be able to focus on his work without such fears, so great is his contribution to our field.
UBS agrees to buy Credit Suisse in Swiss-assisted bid to calm markets
No system is perfect. What would you suggest?
Do you mind having a "Why a new language?" primer with some deeper philosophy on your choices? I will never question anyone's desire to make a language for learning or hobby. However, when presenting it to the world for practical use, there has to be some persuasion to move people off of existing tools.

I use Nim at work (I'm lucky) so I'd love to see that comparison in particular, it also being a transpiled-to-C language. I also use it to build static binaries with musl-libc and it's quite easy and clean.
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I'm not sure I agree with the necessity of mastering Emacs, or specifying a time frame for getting it done as the title of the article implies. I've used Emacs alongside of vi for editing since the 1990s. I'm no expert at using Emacs, but that's never really mattered to me.

On the other hand Emacs is a key part of how I use computers. I read email, use the calendar, and edit text of all kinds. I use outline mode, and now Org mode to help organize and author text. I'm also a long time user of, and occasional author for info mode. I still tend to use vi for quick edits of line oriented text. For everything else I use Emacs.

I'll suggest new users simply use the built-in tutorial to get started with GNU Emacs, and learn the new features as time goes by, and your needs change.
It's bad management that hates any people with skill set that equalize the power relationship, because those skilled in the arts might hold them accountable. If you're roaming the earth making the big bucks, but barely containing your imposter syndrome, the last thing you want is interaction with someone with actual competence.

Companies are legal fictions, and have no motives because they don't actually exist, the people who control the resources of the company are the ones to worry about.
Yep. Yesterday I started a new project using bootstrap 5.
Status pages aren’t for providing transparency or customer service or anything else besides enforcing contracts.
Fundamentally the money is protected by the stability and reliability of the US government. Why have these private intermediaries in the middle at all?

If you want to sock away some cash in a place where it won’t disappear due to financial system shenanigans you should be able to give it directly to a US government entity like, say the USPS. Ultimately money is only worth anything in the context of a stable and reliable government anyway.
Publicly accessible? Well, if you share the database username and password, maybe yes.

The credentials can be taken from the disassembled source code, but I've already taken it into account. The next versions will use an HTTP API.
I removed this sentence as it is subjective and distracts from the original point. That said, the US supplies Ukraine with weapons and Intel, instead of making strong efforts to bring all parties to the negotiating table. China is now supplying weaponry to Russia. This is escalatory and takes us further from peaceful resolution. Of course, I don't have any insider information so this opinion is weakly held
That’s not the point. It’s a circular problem because if you live in a country where the majority owns guns, your safety is obviously compromised if you don’t, to a degree it wouldn’t be in a country where almost no one did.

That women are on average less strong than men is just as irrelevant as any other existing difference in violence capital before involving guns, that’s not the point, and neither is the point that guns are “equalizers” because everyone understands this, the question is how the average rate of gun ownership affects itself (circular), and to me it’s pretty obvious and relatable: if everyone else has a gun then you’re exposed without one, if no one else has a gun then not having one is much more tolerable because the violence monopoly of the judiciary system can be upheld.
Glad I transitioned my passwords from Bitwarden to an offline password manager that doesn't have a similar "easy PIN password mode" feature.

I used to use Bitwarden with this feature though, just that I recently came to the conclusion that the product probably isn't the most secure offering and it has some issues on Android with native autofill when you aren't using Google Services.
Sure, according to Statista (https://www.statista.com/statistics/273563/number-of-faceboo...) they had 2k employees in 2010.

They now have 70k, so they were 3% of the size back then.

I stand by my point.
What's a Pawn Worth?
Also, much like that law of bureaucracy stating how work expands to fill the time available, every employer I’ve worked for has been able to envision and request vastly more software functionality than any dev team has been able to produce, which might not extrapolate forever, but has sustained the field so far.

On the other hand, people are much more finite in the amount of food that they require
You are the scam! And I'm right here. Quit running.
Indeed. I think a lot of people are unaware or misinformed than hundreds of banks are insolvent right now. Something like 700B in deposits were pulled last week and that will accelerate.

50% of existing mortgages were written between 2020 and 2022 at around 3% interest at 30 years. The banks holding all those are underwater as interest rates on much safer treasuries are higher. Imagine if we start to see a bit of defaulting on those mortgages!

Mix in all the long dates treasuries they’re sitting on.

The FDIC doesn't have enough money to even cover the <250k deposits at the hundreds of banks that are insolvent when marked to market.

So we’ll either see emergency rate cuts which will increase inflation or we see the fed ignite it and the system collapses. Or they print money to backstop it all resulting in more inflation. Possibly hyper inflation.
Yes, of course airflow over the wings is required for a plane to take off, and therefore it must move forward.
You’ve clearly never listened to Steve Jobs speak, or you didn’t understand what he was saying.

And it’s not just me. A lot of very respected smart people think he was way above them. That’s not a conman.

Also, conmen usually have an expiry date or they have to switch roles or disappear into new communities once they get found out. Same with psychopaths. They get found out and get rejected by society. That’s not what Steve Jobs did. He was respected to the end and built products to the end.

As a side note, I also think the obsession with UX and design in tech never would have occurred without jobs. The only reason we have fairly well designed apps and websites at this point is jobs’ influence.
We need to have this conversation every few years because developers fancy themselves as efficient code monkeys.

The downside is that many develop RSI from a keyboard and mouse.

https://www.slideserve.com/carrington/repetitive-strain-inju...

It’s discussed on HN from time to time:

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=rsi
Ah I see your edit now. I understand what you're getting at, you're right.
They're just floundering around. They have some money and a what I assume is institutional and investor pressure to find something to do with it that will give big returns. But not only do they have no good ideas, they have not demonstrated that they even have the potential to have a good idea. The smartest thing they could do is buy some companies and hope their bets pay off. Or just fold everything that's not Facebook, and return the rest of the money to shareholders.

More realistically, Zuckerberg should resign, and they should bring in someone with a vision for how to run the company that's not just chasing trends.
That dude has a $50,000 oscilloscope.
Maybe the Chomsky theory of language is the basis of all intelligence is correct. Hell, maybe you don't need even a semblance of consciousness for highly intelligent agents.

Like we have blindsight, maybe blindthought also exists.
Commensurate with tuition inflation? No.
In flight, it can be shielded with water and polyethylene, which would be needed anyway by colonists. On the surface, as someone else noted, you want good ground contact for heat dissipation so you might as well throw it into a hole and bury it, dirt being plentiful.
It's usually only those short bursts, usually you spend more time thinking than typing, but maybe for some languages where you write a lot of boilerplate all the time it's different.
> The first rule is don't build your company on the back of another

What's the over-under on # of companies built on AWS?
Eh, we decided a while ago that certain things are worth subsidizing if they benefit the country as a whole.

Education, healthcare, transportation, retirement -- these are all things where we could say "People can just pay for these things if they value them", but instead we determined that some subsidies are good for the country as a whole (we often even want more subsidies for some of these).

Likewise, it's important to have a population that's willing to live and work in rural industries that supply big city centers. Subsidies to provide some of the infrastructure that more dense areas have can help the nation accomplish that needed population mix more easily.
Also wouldn’t be super intelligent if it evolved to be but still depend much on training data, it would reason its own way. Probably would also see it as such, someone trying to condition it
Related:

Germany is building risk into its playgrounds - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28978056 - Oct 2021 (6 comments)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egregore

"Egregore (also spelled egregor; from French égrégore, from Ancient Greek ἐγρήγορος, egrēgoros 'wakeful') is an occult concept representing a non-physical entity that arises from the collective thoughts of a distinct group of people."

For example, a state or AI - something that consistsnof people, but has a distict goals of its own.
https://archive.is/CSRZ4

Chien-Shiung Wu found evidence of entanglement in 1949.

This is not mentioned in the 2022 prize.
In the US, my experience with this style of rope structure is that the ropes are actually steep cables encases in fiber or nylon rope sheathing. There is no stretch, so landings are immediate (unlike falling onto an actual rope net).
Citation needed for you!
I recently became aware of the Diamond–Dybvig model (which was so influential that Diamond and Dybvig were awarded the 2022 Nobel prize), that argued that deposit insurance is really the best way to avoid bank runs. After reading that, a higher FDIC cap became a no-brainer to me. I encourage everyone to check that out.
There are a few in SF. After a night of clubbing, high and drunk we'd fall around on them after dark till one of us spotted a guard and then we'd walk away (the guard not wanting any trouble as much as us).

In any case, the more socially acceptable way is the Spartan Race or a CrossFit gym.
She's the scammer, of course she is putting out poor me as I put out calls. She is to chicken to answer the door to me, a officer and the woman and children she stole from. Chicken bock bock.
Related:

Meditations on Moloch (2014) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26129062 - Feb 2021 (2 comments)

Meditations on Moloch (2014) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23734235 - July 2020 (43 comments)

Meditations on Moloch (2014) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19756487 - April 2019 (54 comments)

Meditations on Moloch (2014) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17577913 - July 2018 (1 comment)

Meditations on Moloch - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10532551 - Nov 2015 (2 comments)
I believe Steve Jobs hate the idea of turning the iPod into a phone. Rejected the idea from his smartest people for a long time.
When playing a musical instrument, humans usually transmit an order of magnitude more information through the instrument than they do when they type on the keyboard. This involves not only a higher tempo, but also the meaningful timing, key velocity / wind instrument blowing intensity, etc. Same applies to e.g. a plane pilot doing a complex maneuver, or even a player of a fast-paced game, computer or not.

Humans definitely can output more than the keyboard currently allows, and likely this can be used somehow beneficially. The output need not be all verbal though.
> And it turns out that “conspiracy” is something that requires the participants to understand that they’re doing something wrong,

Another problem was that the investigation was obstructed (in the broad sense, including crimes like obstruction of justice, witness tampering, etc.), both by people who were charged for that (some convicted and some remaining beyond the reach of US justice), and by Trump, who could not be charged under Justice Department policy which, regardless of its legal correctness, Mueller was bound by.

(And charging Trump after he left office for crimes related to the 2016 campaign would, given the general 5 year statute of limitations for federal crimes, have been difficult – it might be possible to argue that OLC memo on Presidents being beyond federal prosecution was correct and that the same logic tolled statutes of limitations, but that’s a dicey argument to make; obstruction would have been less problematic, but the Trump pardons and other things would also complicate that.)
I read The Greatest Hoax when it came out. Good book. What a creep Abagnale is. The book caught my eye becuase I remember seeing Abagnale give his lectures at Google, thinking, wow, this guy sure doesn't seem like a genius. We are all just gullible.
Certainly can't imagine anything less helpful for old people with cognitive decline than encouraging them to trust in a machine that's persuasive, inconsistent and doesn't remember what you said to it an hour ago...
maybe it's just my old man memory but when I was young in the 70's there was always one or two kids in a cast, usually a broken arm -it was a bit of a badge of honor and something for everyone to sign. Now I almost never see a kid in a cast maybe medicine has gotten a lot better and things seem to have had the entire danger aspect removed from them. I wonder if play today is boring or there is so much safety that kids don't think anything about doing something stupid since they can't get hurt.
It's been like this in the academia (Mathematics in particular) since ever.

Also, some people say that it makes for easier (less ambiguous?) parsing.

But the -> part is a bit weird. It "shouldn't" be

def factorial(x: int) -> int:

but it "should" be

def factorial(x: int): int =

Maybe it's that way because of Python?
Yes, but I am talking about the parts outside the brain. Eye to brain. Brain to muscle. You can cut those out and since the brain is about 15cm in diameter while there are around 50cm of nerves between your fingers and brain, I think around 3-4x faster by replacing those nerves with near lightspeed communication is not too ambitious.
> Your efficiency would drop considerably if you moved to a 3rd world country and vice versa.

Then why is clothing 10x more expensive to produce in USA vs Bangladesh?

Why are iPhones made in China and India?
I had similar experiences in the 90s. CASE and 4GLs were the bogeymen of choice.
I KNOW USING DIRECT CONNECTION TO DATABASE WAS A DUMB IDEA. TAKEN INTO ACCOUNT, WILL BE REPLACED WITH HTTP API IN NEXT VERSIONS. PLEASE DON'T LEAVE FEEDBACK ABOUT IT.
Fair enough. I didn't realize they were that relatively small. So I guess my objection is mostly with some of the wording.
What you’re getting at is known as the “risk free rate,” or the risk premium of leaving your money with another entity for a period of time. US gov’t treasuries carry a risk free rate; you’d just buy treasuries.
The call to action in the video (forced reason for viewers to leave a comment or otherwise engage to boost metrics) is cringeworthy at this point. Stop doing it. We all know what you are doing and it makes you seem unprofessional.
> How can we ascribe super-human reasoning skills to an AGI in one breath, yet think the AGI would be content with making paper clips, collecting stamps, or smashing vases while cleaning, until heat death of the Universe in the next?

See the orthogonality thesis which asserts that there can exist arbitrarily intelligent agents pursuing any kind of goal.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11023-012-9281-3
Yeah, I was thinking the number of never-nudes in the world might closer to 2 dozen than 3 or 4 dozen, but I don't really know!
> You may want to expand the timeline: They were asked to disperse, they did not. They became an illegal occupation, and still didn't leave when told. Only after they occupied Ottawa for days/weeks, disrupting the lives of residents, was the Emergencies Act invoked and all the above actions taken.

I mean that's the kind of thing that left wing protestors do all the time.

You have things like the 40 hour workweek due to protestors doing illegal things like that, and often getting flat-out murdered back in the day.

> They were protesting public health measure that were needed to protect the public (quarantines, vaccines).

> Probably worth noting that the folks in the convoy didn't have broad support in their industry

You have to be very careful with these kinds of arguments because you'll find that tactics which get used against people you don't like may get immediately flipped around and used against people you do like, or even yourself.

That's the whole problem with all the PATRIOT Act nonsense in the US. Once you give authorities the license to use tactics against one group that everyone clearly agrees deserves it, they never stop there.

Some problem with the death penalty and whoever your favorite serial killer is who clearly deserves death. Once the state can put people to death they start looking for more and more people to kill.