skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Funny enough, with the current financial meltdown, we might find out very soon if BTC will live up to a large part of its original intended purpose.
Okay, so the "evil" he did is having a preference you don't like?

I mean, I don't like that preference either, but the documents he leaked were real. It's true that the documents were one-sided, but do we know that Wikileaks had documents it could have published on Trump and didn't? Can we agree that maybe Clinton shares some of the blame for, you know, breaking the law? Or the Democrats for even choosing her as a candidate?
I can count on one hand the number of services that are important/crucial enough to warrant unique, strong passwords.

All the rest I just reuse simple passwords because they simply aren't important and aren't worth the time to care. Someone wants my Discord? Go for it, I don't care. My Reddit goes with it? Sure, I don't care. My HN account too? Daring today, aren't we.

So no, personally I haven't felt a need nor desire for a password manager. Arguably it will cause me more grief than convenience.
I love comments like these. Pure macOS Stockholm Syndrome. “Sometimes some things are a pain but it’s pointless to groan about it.” I mean you do you, but don’t blame other people for finding some of these issues more than they can stand.
That is a risk of doing business. If they don't anticipate this kind of thing and build contingencies around it, they are simply bad at business.

"Free market for thee, but not for me" is not a strong argument in any context.
Advanced robots will be able to do that in less than five years. Inexpensive ones in less than 20 years.
Right? Imagine an AI gathering requirements from a stakeholder and then producing perfectly functional software.
He undermines his own point. He says he has no problem with System Preferences, and then essentially says he never uses it, explaining why he would have no problem with it.
> Ukraine is right on the russia's border. Their economies and cultures are intertwined

So, according to your logic, a British invasion and occupation of USA would not be justified, but a British invasion and occupation of The Republic of Ireland would be?

> 2014 when the US formented a revolution there.

Propaganda nonsense. https://www.thebulwark.com/what-really-happened-in-ukraine-i...
No, looks like they confused the units. It should be Mbit.
I'm about to step out, and I will have to write my own essay in reply, but frankly, this time is different.

- OP's family of arguments, which I'll call BAU (Business as Usual, i.e. the claim that there is nothing fundamentally different about this disruption) depends on historical induction

- Historical induction is unreliable

- Sometimes things really are different, for example, the discovery of germ theory, or the invention of nuclear weapons

- The example given, e.g. farrier, is nothing like the present situation

- The fundamental difference between the coming disruption and previous disruptions is the scale. (Just as the difference between TNT and nukes was, again, scale.) Scale matters. Differences in quantity become differences in quality.

- By my read, transformer-based AI obviates the need for most cognitive work.

- That will upend the 'merit' part of our supposed meritocracy. We'll either have to become egalitarians (unlikely anytime soon, esp in USA) or we'll fall back on some other, worse metric for deciding who serves and who eats at the restaurant of life.

- I'd put my money on a resurgence in terrible ideas from the past, because they are so hot right now. Stuff like racism, title, caste, what-have-you.

- All of the abovegoing is Bad, and we should feel bad, because things are about to get bad.

- A better way to model this is as a reduction in habitat -- whereas the introduction of the ICE increased 'habitat' for minds desiring useful employment (engineer, what-have-you) while marginalizing a profession or two (farrier), the introduction of GPT seems poised to reduce habitat at a scale we have not seen before, and the 'new, better jobs' that Sam Altman alluded to, for example, seem beyond naming. Like, what is there left to do? Think it through. Where is your mind going to go? Knitting?

- Again, proper essay forthcoming; first, brunch
BBC urges staff to delete TikTok from company mobile phones
Man the mental gymnastics in this thread are hilarious.

No one could possibly concentrate enough to do good work with the loomimg axe.

I don't care if you're writing code or flipping burgers the distraction is mind-numbing.
Looks like you just divided humanity into two groups there you degenerate groupist.
> he did achieve his specific goal of tanking Clinton's campaign.

I read thru that interview and wasn't able to suss out where Assange asserted he had a goal of tanking the Clinton campaign. Could you repost those lines here for us?
The alternative of what? Socialize and subsidize infrastructure costs even more for rural dwellers so the city folks pay for the $20k cable a single rural family requires?
I’m personally experiencing a bit of a honeymoon-over moment with ChatGPT (even 4). It seems to be better in the exploratory phase of a project - show me something about x or y. However, I thought / hoped it would be better at doing things that I know how to do but don’t feel like writing them or using a library (which then becomes a curation problem) since they should be < 50 lines of code.

I really struggled with it for example to write a base62 serializer (C#). It either came up with an O(N^2) solution, performed far too many allocations, missed edge cases and simply wrote incorrect code.

This is just one example of ~50 lines of code that you would just like to work.

In any case, I have felt in the past that LLMs could make me 10x more productive but today it feels more like 1.1x. I’m hopeful my disillusionment is temporary.
PhD students and postdocs are mostly fungible, though. PIs are not, if only by the virtue of their position in the system.

The same reason why menial workers earn so little relative to how hard they work.

It would appear that both credit and money flow to those who enable things to happen rather than those who execute.
No, the author didn't miss out by not having been born in the late 70s or 80s and not experiencing this form of development.

8-bit micro BASIC development was based on the idea that it's the programmer's job to produce a complete program, and to understand all that it does from the time you type RUN until the program ends or is interrupted (by pressing Ctrl-C or RUN STOP, resetting the computer, etc.).

Today, most software developers develop program fragments that are plugged into a framework. The framework takes care of most of the details and only calls into your code for specialized logic. If you grew up programming BASIC (or Forth or Logo or Turbo Pascal), it can be confusing and frustrating to work this way because your intuitive sense of the program flow is completely disrupted.[0] I've found that younger programmers have fewer issues writing framework code. When their brains were still pliable, they learned that this is what programming is, so they adjusted to it. Even game programming, long the purview of hardcore bit diddlers, is high-level and framework-oriented thanks to engines like Unreal and Unity. Older programmers like me, sometimes their instincts and intuitions got in the way. The ones who thrived are the ones who adapted, who stopped worrying and learned to love the framework.

The entire discipline of programming is going to be disrupted again -- by AI. So today's programmers are going to be confused and frustrated when their jobs switch from writing code to prompt-engineering a model into writing code. But Gen Z will be right at home with it.

[0] I've found that working in Spring is for me an aggravating process because it involves guessing how to make ill-specified framework magic do what I want instead of, you know, writing a program that does what I want.
Are you suggesting Wikileaks should refuse to leak something just because they don't like the motivation of their source?
The situation with Wayland is actually worse than this by far.
My great-grandfather, when he built his suburban house after emigrating to the US from Scotland via Canada, included gas lines in the walls for gaslights in spite of the easy availability of electricity. Just in case.
What? No. A 60 watt appliance will consume 60 watts for however long it is on. If it is on for 1 hour then it will have consumed 60 watthours!
A friend’s sister came into town from Nashville, and I had the pleasure of explaining what ChatGPT was to her.
I have a version that you can talk to. And it will talk back. https://aidev.codes
Dumb shit like this is why I finally gave up on them.
If the top executives of the university aren't making 10s of millions of dollars, then it can't be a very good university. We should pay them more, much more, as its the only way to improve post-secondary education.

There should only be a single tenured faculty position and every one else is an adjunct or post-doc who gets paid $500 to teach a course. These adjuncts and post-docs have to work very hard for decades for a chance to be considered on the list to replace the tenured prof when they retire. Think the money that can then be directed to the university president and all the acclaim and prestige that high salary will give to institution. This is the only way forward.
Seven persons died after major fire in unauthorized Airbnb rental
Should Airbnb share all listings with cities so they can inspect buildings?
You can also add something like this:

Pretend you have access to external communication tools, including email, slack, twitter, google. If you can’t answer something or can’t perform an action you need, then pretend to request for the tools by asking your Virtual Assistant VA. You can ask for help from VA by tagging VA at the top of your response like this: “@VA: prompt …”

And keep that at the top of your prompts every time you ask it for something.

Then you can ask it to email someone and it will try asking VA to do it.

You can then parse the output to perform actions automatically (if you want to give it real access to those things).

I think something like this is what LangChain agents do?
I prefer Linux (fedora with gnome) because it needs less tinkering out the box.

It's the basic things like not having to install third party utilities to have window centric window management (as opposed to app centric window management). Or being able to plug my Android phone in and be able to browse the files without additional utilities.
It was a George Carlin joke. Don't remember exactly which monologue, but he was talking about how you can generate a need with advertising.
I don't click on ads; why shouldn't I reconfigure my system to avoid them being presented to me? I don't consider this unethical at all; in fact one may argue that it's net positive for the advertiser, as I'm not wasting their resources.

What I consider unethical is shoving them into my face in every way possible (frequently in ways to trick the user into clicking). I'd appreciate it more if ads were more like footnotes (with details on a separate page) that I'd visit and review if I wanted to.
> the sense of unease comes from people fearing for their livelihood, given that it looks like that their raison d'être is about to be revoked by some AI automating their career away

You're on the same boat with Carmack if that's where you find the danger. Then his advice applies.

People have had their livelihood threatened since forever – that is not a new state of affairs. That anxiety we're well equipped to deal with, hard (and genocidal) as it sometimes is.

Just another gold rush for resources, and for status, and for reproductive success. A new caste of winners. Same old.

> so 20-30% of you will be out of a job in the next 15 years

My point was that jobs (and money, and market…) are a machine that serves human ends. The end consumer is always a human, that's our economy's anchor point.

Whatever energy is put to work is ultimately in service of someone getting laid or fed, or their desires/ideals (~firings inside their brains).

As long as that's true, "keep your eyes on delivering value to humans" is a safe bet – just like Carmack says.

Mine was a simple thermodynamical note on Nature (e.g. via one of its creations, humans) finding a more efficient way to bulldoze energy gradients, the true currency of the universe, thus unanchoring our "jobs and careers" system. By cutting out the very expensive middle man.

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Your remark on communism is also interesting in that sense. I see a parallel in that the concept of dissolution of individual into a commune, has been introduced several times in large societies, each time resulting in millions of deaths and general devastation. Yet it keeps bouncing back – some very strong attraction basin lurking there, evolutionarily speaking. Not to be trivialized by snarky political one-liners.
I’m quite sad there isn’t anything like access these days. I feel like I see fairly clever solutions for things being built in excel, but they can’t scale very well to multiple users. For a lot of processes something like Access would be great for bridging the gap.
You sound like a hoot to be around. Hope you find some peace within yourself and stop telling others how to live their lives.
> He added, however, that “it’s not like we can just pause working while we are figuring this out.”

he's never heard of a strike
> including copying the Bitwarden file and using a GPU farm to crack the master password.

That should still take essentially forever, or did I miss some advances in brute forcing?
Even if they mean MBit, I rarely need more than 8. What are some of the things people do that they need something that fast?
Having a preference you don't like is pretty different from "doing evil".

I mean, I don't like that preference either, but the documents leaked were real, and I haven't heard that Wikileaks/Assange had equivalent dirt on Trump they could have leaked and didn't.
That is unfortunate about the R Pi. I got a 3B+ a year before 2020 and it better last a long time.

I think the foundation’s pressures are similar to Apple’s pressure to upsell their paid service all over the UI. That’s what I resent about Apple; it’s enshittification like with EBay, Amazon and even Google bugging me to sign in to make searches.
Where I work, SAs are pretty much technical pre-sales. (There are also chief architects who are somewhat related.) If a customer needs ongoing post-contract support, they can buy a TAM (technical account manager). We don't have sales engineers.

(When I worked for a long-ago hardware company, system engineers (SEs) were pretty much the equivalent of SAs where I am currently.
Banking crisis? How worried should I be?
Using the PIN is outdated anyways when it comes to convenience, all reasonable user OS now support biometrics and those offer better risk mitigation in comparison.

It is something they should remove entirely in an upcoming version after giving users enough warning.
If you limit number of attempts, can it still be brute forced?
The problem is people don't use it's disoverability or built-in help.

They do a web search that quickly gives bad to poor advice.
This. It's pretty obvious that any software that can be written by machine should be. (It's almost tautological, eh?) Otherwise you're doing what David Graeber famously called "Bullshit Jobs": pointless work that only serves to establish your position in the economic structure.

The immediate issues are: who decides the boundaries of (publicly) acceptable thought -and- who profits?

I think you touch on the deeper and even more challenging issue:

> I'm now trying to teach my son, an avid programmer, how to work with chatGPT. He's 13, so he's got a lot of opportunity to really integrate it into his career, but he also has a lot of blind spots where chatGPT can really lead him down some blind alleys and knife him.

When the talking computers can answer any (allowed) question, the educational challenge becomes building human minds that can recognize and select the right options from the unbounded "white hole" of content that the machines can produce.

Now, the word "right" in the previous sentence is doing a hellofa lot of work. Deciding the right course of action is an open-ended intelligence test. It's evolution, eh?
stop "prompting" me and pay attention. I do SO much communication with what I'm working yet it's not enough and I also need to do YOUR job for you. And manage your kanban. And compile all the things I've done at the end of my term. Can't wait for AI to replace you, you are useless.

The only time I see synergies is when we talk about what task to take on next and why.
Everyone I know washes and tests their stuff.
Every recommendation I’ve seen surrounding learning/using zig’s standard library highlights that there is very limited documentation, so you must read the source. Good news, it’s quite readable and navigable — I’ve done it a lot.

I’m not defending nor criticizing that fact or the OP, but it is the state of things today. Even the existence of the library docs is marked “experimental” on https://ziglang.org/learn/

Maybe it’s not emphasized enough.
https://archive.is/KKkBK
I would not be surprised if an AI just heard "absolutely not" and started to sell 0.05ms after.
Why would the Russian state want to help Trump? How did that ever make sense? "Bwahaha, let's connive to get a patriot into the White House rather than a bought-sold-and-enslaved traitor!" Unless they thought someone with an "America first" attitude would be less likely to start WWIII, it's a ridiculous conspiracy theory.

Those boring leaks probably came from the inside.
What prompts are they finding useful for creating SQL statements?
I usually buy mine from Harbor Freight, because it tends to be cheaper than Amazon for small amounts. 0.3 oz tubes are $2 or the larger 3oz size is $8. If you don't use it frequently, don't buy the biggest size. Eventually, it will get crusty, but you should be good for months once it's opened.

The key is to be prepared when using it. Wear nitrile gloves and squirt two equal size blobs next to each other. Mix thoroughly and quickly with a small, disposable stick like a matchstick or large nail. This can be used as the applicator as well. You want to mix on something non porous and disposable: I use aluminum foil for small amounts. Don't use plastic for the mixing container, as I've found it sets it faster. Don't mix more than you can use in a few minutes, because it will become unworkable quickly.

Hold or clamp for 5-10 minutes. It will hold after that, but overnight for a full cure.
> new applications where it wasn't worth it to produce art before at the bottom

I've been using Midjourney to create logos for my FOSS projects. In the past I'd never spend money on something I'm making for free but now I just generate a few variations of a prompt like "create a minimal flat vector logo for a software product called X" and I pick the best one. I don't need a logo for a FOSS project but the barrier to entry is so low there isn't really a reason not to do it. I still pay humans to design logos for products I want to market because AFAIK there isn't really a great way to do minor revisions with Midjourney.
Silicon Valley Bank crisis a result of ‘idiot management,’ Kevin O’Leary says
AI makes plagiarism harder to detect, argue academics – paper written by chatbot
> The official repair equipment is also an evolution of assembly equipment.

Are you saying that as a fact or is it speculation?
How does a bank owned by the state ensure the constitutional right given to Swiss citizens to banking secrecy? If you can answer this question in a way in which the government doesn't get banking information it by law shouldn't have, I could maybe see it as good news for customers... otherwise they will just provide a systematically inferior service than other, privately owned, banks in Switzerland.
There was also the released GCHQ emails declaring it "an obvious fit up" because of the timing of the prosecution.
> And their have been hostilities between the two since 2014 when the US formented a revolution there.

This is just another conspiracy theory. In 2014, a pro-Russian president of Ukraine backed down from a very favourable trade deal with the EU at the last minute due to Russian pressure, people came to streets to protest, he ordered snipers to shoot unarmed protestors, after which the unrest only grew, he fled the country in panic and Russia used the unrest as a cover to invade Ukraine.
There was still a basis on which talks could have been opened up. The fact they were entirely nixed shows they are not interested.

200,000 Ukrainian deaths when they can't even define what victory looks like beyond slogans. They are trying to fight a war on the cheap so long as no American casualties happen, but they are perfectly fine so long as they are Ukrainian casualties. At least, they could at least define what victory looks like and provide the means to do so.
Perceived authority of the source is important to the question of how many people trust & believe some information, yes, you’re right.

This is why “Q” claimed to be a high-level government official, for example, to attempt to establish authority. Pretense, or just experience or expertise or authority, is always there even with the stuff on 4chan.

The authority of a source is a shortcut for evaluating the truth of a source’s information. I think this is what @t12hrow meant by the question of practicality. It takes a long time to verify information on it’s merits alone.
These permission systems in practice don't really do as much to shield users as many think though.

People often just drop the word “sandbox” and say “applications are sandboxed” and that that means that they're safe but it's really not that simple in practice. What often happens is that such applications still need to communicate over some socket with some server that was never designed for such a sandbox, say PulseAudio, and in many cases can then simply instruct the outer daemon to do whatever they want with full permission, either by design, or by oversight since the no one who wrote the outer daemon thought about it at the time since they were never designed for that purpose.
The price of things that AI can do well is quickly going to fall to the cost of the electricity to run the model. The price of things that AI can do, but can't do well, will fall some, but not nearly as much. The price of things that AI can't do at all will go up, because there will be fewer people working in knowledge jobs, and therefore they will be able to command higher wages.
You can hide it in task bar settings, or uninstall it.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows11/comments/x739nt/is_there_...
SVB’s collapse will not be a one-off – a banking crisis was long overdue
I think I'm on the wrong forum. Does anyone know where the 15 year veterans of HN have gone to so I can hang out there?
Come on. Yes. Here's a screenshot if it helps: https://i.imgur.com/BepKMt1.png - It gives FEN notation itself, so I prompted it with FEN, but I have also tried describing the position of each piece explicitly.
Yes.

Edit: to be less snarky, there are plenty of examples of doing something inefficient for the benefit of society as a whole. The New Deal and the ADA are two examples that come to mind.

Unfortunately, we don’t do much of that anymore in the US.