skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m leaning in this direction too. I saw someone on Twitter phrase it quite well: “You can believe that most jobs are bullshit [jobs]. And you can believe that GPT-4 will completely disrupt the job market. But you can’t believe both.”
Yes but if it's a fair price there's every chance he'll buy from some other guy selling the real deal.

Now if you definitely (and you're taking a risk with the shenanigans you need to go through to get/setup this fake item so you want to get paid) want to sell it you need to undercut the fair price. How can you explain a low price? Well, the easy way is to convince the mark that either the two of you are in on a scam together or that the mark is the con.

Personally I don't really agree with that statement, "You can't fool an honest man." but I can see the logic that drives it. Generally it seems like the honest people who get scammed are the ones who are trying to help someone which makes the people running these scams see even more pathetic.
One thing not mentioned but important is that superglue is very strong against tensile loads but not shearing ones. You can lift a car with six drops of it on the roof of it (see Myth Busters et al), but you can’t glue a 40 lb weight to the wall.
Buy some spanners, watch some YouTube, learn how to fix it yourself. You'd save a lot of money.
It's been a while since I read Lee Smolin but from what I can remember he was saying that: Time is real and fundamental. It's not reversible. Everything changes in time, including potentially the laws of the universe.
The California Condor was down to a population of 27. We've managed that one pretty well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_condor
Yeah it seems natural to divide the credit evenly, just as midfielders and strikers and coaches get equal credit for winning a game.
As a self-taught polymath, I did a lot of research many years ago on how good teams create good products. I reached some unusual conclusions at the time, but they've stood the test of time.

The main one in regards to John's tweet is this: desired behavior has to "force" out code and architecture. Typically teams and individual developers carry a lot of presumptions and assumptions into their solution space. They probably pick this kind of thing up from reading HN, Twitter, and the like. We all do this.

It's these "things you do but don't really think about" that are so pernicious in technology development. Guess what? Looks like AI is going to master that kind of thing since with each social media post we continue to train it on "How things are usually done"

By taking an extreme "force me to write code" approach, you end up developing a wide range of skills: DevSecOps, analysis, database design, and so on. In fact, you don't really know what you're going to develop when you start working on it.

That's the point. That's the job. Always has been.
They should. However that doesn't mean we should spend a lot of time entertaining theories with no opportunity for evidence.
Indeed. It seems there's some mounting research that the universe may have always existed, and this awareness calls into question our physical and philosophical notions of nothingness (or lack of absolute nothing in the universe).
Robots didn't make car assemblers obsolete. But it did reduce the number of workers needed, and raised the qualifications you needed to have to work on assembling cars.
Curious about how licensing will play out.

What’s stopping OpenAI from claiming copyright on everything produced in the last X years?

Will every company need to be running their own GPT4 model to be safe from this?
The kernel's extended BPF is in fact an entire virtual machine and so necessarily has a virtual machine language. Arguably it would be better if that software was written in a language intended to be translated into eBPF rather than in C, C++ or Rust compiled for the eBPF virtual machine.

EtA: Also, while the kernel does have some mechanisms which exist elsewhere, the kernel also has its own memory model, distinct from the C++ (and eventually C) memory model, because Linux has been here a long time and needed a model before C++ had one. So this means there's a conflict between what the ISO document says (based on its memory model) and how Linux works (based on its memory model).

So it might be easier on folks if the Linux memory model wasn't just a different memory model for the C language which already has a memory model. That applies just as well for Rust.
Indeed - the Vikings (Danes) brought their language to the north of the British Isles and it spread and persisted to today.

As I can no longer edit my comment above I should mention that the original text by Bede was written by him in Latin circa AD 731, but the O.E.D. references version translated in early | middle English by other authors in the centuries that followed.

It's from one of those that the OED quotes the first written use of Swind | Swynde in <cough> "English" </cough>.

( not so much a language as a kitchen sink full of dregs )
in my experience no one doubts that the debt exists, rather people just don't see the same value in addressing it, and aren't easily convinced by arguments they've already been ignoring for years or decades

i'm one of two feature devs on a team of four. over three years the team wrote a few hundred tickets for debt. when the client was acquired and we finally got space to address debt, non-technical stakeholders asked us to nuke the list and write a much shorter one that we can prioritize by complexity and customer impact. the debt is now being addressed in the same way as new build, because that's how we treated it; much like new build, it won't be completed to our satisfaction

in my experience the only thing that works, short of a major incident that devs forecasted and offered to prevent, is buying time--either to just write better code up front, or to use on _undirected_ remediation
The funny thing is that I don't think anyone has ever had to pay a Linux distribution for hosting packages of their open source software... :thinking face:
It's foolish to believe it will improve indefinitely or reach human parity.

Wasn't AI driving just few years away for 5 years?
A sales tax of any form has the property of catching and taxing almost all economic activity. That’s a major advantage to fund government spending.

This broad taxation is bad when it taxes staple food items. It is good when it taxes spending sourced from the underground economy. If you want to cover for the first case, I’d rather see us give direct cash transfers to the poor and then let them (and everyone else) pay the tax.
Triplebyte is extremely hostile to disabled people who are experts in their field.

After aceing their Linux kernel screening test in 2019, their model of “we will call you, you cannot contact us” have made it nearly impossible to work out physical scheduling for an interpreter to sit alongside the conversation.

After all, one does not need a voice to do professional “bit arrangements”. We all have IM, texting, email, and fancy transcribing machines.

There are many forms of vocal disabilities.
the C64 didn't ship with it, but there were Forth systems available, notably "64 Forth" which was a superset of Fig-Forth
> Keep your eyes on the delivered value, and don't over focus on the specifics of the tools.

Sure, but the aspects of the job that some people enjoy may be closely linked to the tools. If software development becomes less about coding and more about creating prompts, test suites, or specifications, then some may lose interest in the work.

At least for me, it was never really about delivering value. If I am honest, I was completely indifferent about some of the industries I worked in. It was always just about solving interesting technical problems, learning stuff, keeping my brain active.

It's easy for me to imagine that software development may someday become the province of people who are more like designers.
Alternative facts: How the media failed Julian Assange
You pay tax based on your consumption, it makes a lot more sense than paying income tax if you ask me...
The article explained it?

Oxford scholars were literally above the law, and used their protected status to abuse and demean the townspeople, up to and including the mayor.

After the riot, the king cracked down and reasserted the arrangement, which apparently continued in some forms for another 500 years.
https://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/30/books/review/tool-for-tho...

> There's a fundamental difference between searching a universe of documents created by strangers and searching your own personal library. When you're freewheeling through ideas that you yourself have collated -- particularly when you'd long ago forgotten about them -- there's something about the experience that seems uncannily like freewheeling through the corridors of your own memory. It feels like thinking.

Has anyone applied a local-only LLM to their personal library?
The correct answer is “switch your major to electrical engineering or industrial engineering."
Educators, generals, dieticians,
psychologists, and parents program. Armies,
students, and some societies are programmed.

by Alan J Perlis, the first Turing Award recipient.

Managers, CEOs, Department Heads...are already 'programming'. As the abstraction moves higher up, some people that have excessively narrow expertise will be made redundant.
It’s not like the legacies that get in are unqualified. You can look at any of their resumes, they still have stellar grades, standardized test scores, extracurriculars and more. Legacies aren’t just dumb rich people, their parents just went to that top tier school (and I’m sure you can imagine just having parents that highly educated can be a leg up in how they raise you their entire life). In fact, legacies can often be overqualified and should go to a more competitive school but are guided into the legacy school by their parents / guidance counselors.
Microsoft is testing a built-in cryptocurrency wallet for the Edge web browser
Yes but even in that case The role will be of a "AI Prompter", it will not be done by the managers because of the time factor. Even though AI can give you the result much faster, building upon it and testing/verifying, then coming up with the refined prompt is a time consuming thing. Only the Write part of the write/eval loop will be faster but not neccesarily easier.

Especially the "debuging" part will be much harder. Noone can look under the hood to understand what is wrong and all you can do is shoot random prompts in the dark hoping it will create the right result.

It is scary right now how confidently and spectacularly wrong the chatGPT is and it will create disasters.
More tips:

* Don't get it close to your eyes while it's drying, the fumes will HURT (ask how I know). The fumes also stain white, so leave it to dry somewhere outside.

* If you get a cut, you can pinch the skin together and use CA glue on it to keep it there. I've done this many times, hopefully it's not any kind of harmful, but a paramedic friend agreed that it should be OK.

* The article is right about using a tiny amount.

* I never managed to use a tube more than 2-3 times without the glue drying up. The only packaging that keeps going is a Loctite bottle I got. It holds 25ml, but it's better than buying 3ml at a time, using 0.5 and throwing the rest away.
The EU doesn't mandate any rate of VAT, just how it gets applied if you do have it. Governments are free to exempt classes of goods from VAT (except on the basis of national origin, as that would go against the EU free trade rules), and could even set the headline rate to 0 if they wanted.
Just seems like stealing peoples joy.

Suffer from "car brain" is a great way to write off and invalidate the opinions of a large swathe of people who enjoy or have cars as a hobby.

I bet you'd crack the shits if people started talking about banning GPUs cos they use too much power and anyway, they're only used to play games.
This is true for any glue, btw. It gives the glue more mechanical anomalies to "grab" onto.
Yes, and was, to be quite honest, not quite impressed. They lay a foundation stone, but don't actually go that much further.
Ken Thompson's 75 year project: A century of popular music in a jukebox [video]
Show HN: Llamero – GUI app to download and run LLM models on your MacBook
As an engineering manager I’m usually more concerned with those engineers that tend to spend all their time fiddling with IDEs etc, so that they will some day (that never comes) be soooo productive.
Have been reading "What's Our Problem?: A Self-Help Book for Societies" by Tim Urban? I've been loving it, and he talks about the importance of 2 counterparties identifying what _is_, before distinguishing what _should be_.
> It's a neural network at the end of the day... it can compute any result or "understand" any system if properly weighted and structured.

That's not even remotely close to being demonstrated.

For one thing, neural networks can only approximate continuous functions.

For another, the fact that in principle there exists a neural network that can approximate any continuous function to arbitrary precision doesn't in any way tell us that there is a way to "train" that network by any known algorithm. There isn't even reason to believe that such an algorithm exists for the general case, at least not one with a finite number of examples.
I know there's the common view that "any publicity is good publicity" but I struggle to think who would view this article while unaware twitter and twitter blue are things.
GET for creating access tokens seems like the incorrect request type.
HN discussed desertification about a week ago here, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35100771.
The programmers back in the day were pretty good, i think a decent programmer from 30 years ago would be better that the average today.
There are only ~290K Twitter Blue subscribers in the whole world, ~110K outside the US. https://www.engadget.com/twitter-180000-paying-subscribers-u...

You could say that Twitter Blue is a "small business" in Europe.
Cool story I'm sure the children will love riding their bikes in driving sleet through the snow at night on the way home from the supermarket.
It's not just writing code, GPT and GPT-based tools can help with fixing bugs, solving configuration problems, understanding existing code, suggesting variable names, etc.
If the businesses are in a consumer's supply chain, wouldn't VAT apply?
The horse population has decreased by half or so since the early 1900s. And horses have stayed pretty valuable, too. Most of them just don't have to work as hard anymore. The horses used for sport never went away, only the horses used for labor or transport. So if your horse analogy is accurate, then maybe half of software engineers lose their jobs and the industry stops growing. Those that keep their jobs keep their salary and have to either be very fast or very good at jumping over artificial obstacles. Seems accurate. I should probably stop beating a dead horse.
Is that truly fair though. I have no exposure to MBAs and it may be all the negative talk about them is based on the conspicuously bad ones. I'm speaking as an IT person with very little experience of running a business, and it may be that a good MBA could be a great asset. I genuinely don't know.

I'm reminded of reading about a Lisp machine company that ran into the ground because it was managed by techies. Their tech may have been great but their marketing and business skills were very arguably what killed the company.
Oddly their docs use GET though https://developers.facebook.com/docs/instagram-basic-display...
The "technical" aspect of djing will never be as important as the sense of what song should go next, and there's no shortcut for that.
No problems, they almost work the same I think.
Oh, another bunch of small tools to help yourself:

- entr. It runs a command on file/directory changes.
- spt. Simple pomodoro technique. A good timer to help yourself to work and take rests.
- herbe. It works great as a notifier for spt. Add "play" from sox to write a script to both
notify and play a sound in parallel.
- sox/ffmpeg/imagemagick. Audio, video and image production and conversion on the CLI. A must have.
- catdoc/antiword/odt2txt/wordgrinder+sc-im+gnuplot. Word/Excel/Libreoffice files reading and editing on the terminal. Gnuplot with help with sc-im. This can be a beast over SSH. With Gnuplot compiled with sixel support (and XTerm) you can do magic.

- iomenu

- cat bookmarks.txt | iomenu | xargs firefox. Pick from a list of items (one per line) and choose. I think it has fuzzy-finding matches.

I have several more. Simple battery meter (sbm), grabc to grab a color from the screen,
pointtools+catpoint to do "presentations" over a terminal, nncp-go+yggdrasil for
ad-hoc networking and secure encrypted backups between devices...
Payday lending, forced storage charges upon eviction, low take-up of available benefits, using the tax code to assist the middle class instead of direct spending to assist the poor, lots of these seem uniquely American.

I’m guessing you haved lived in many places outside the US? Those are common in a lot of countries.
Has there been any indication that it's better at designing models than its designers?
> Usually the fundamental laws are regarded as time symmetric already.

Well, in addition to time reversal, you also have to mirror the universe and replace all particles with their anti-particles.
No, it's just something the 95% of the world outside the US does.
Yet the government builds the roads that these things put pointless wear and tear on.

Wear and tear on roads is exponentially related to the weight of the vehicle, a 9000lb hummer should be taxed appropriately along with requiring a different class of license for the danger such mass presents to other road users.
Are there any good resources to understanding VAT as a non-EU company? So many resources out there just want to sell their VAT-related services or assume we're a megacorp, but I've never had an EU client complain that we're not charging VAT (small shop, b2b only).

edit: thank you for the responses!
This is true, but detecting and omitting code hallucinations is (functionally) as hard as just not hallucinating in the first place.
There's an expression "I would have written a shorter letter but I didn't have time." - that's what websites are ideally trying to get at.

Information dense is the goal but a poem can be very short and very information dense while a poorly written novel can take 80,000 words and still not convey the same information as that poem.
The Illusion of Free Will
Time zones matter, not everything will move to EU or South Asia
Patreon shows VAT and total price in the checkout page, I've yet to use a service that didn't. (EU person here)
Interesting, where I am I see crows chasing hawks a lot

A tiger can take/kill a human, especially a smaller human (eg a child).

But if even a larger human or two see a tiger, they can easily scare it, and chase it away.

Predators don't want a fight, they want an easy and fast kill.

So I suspect the same here. Adult crows chasing them, because they know their young are at risk.
Same with Australia, the UK, New Zealand and every Asian country I've been to with small kids. This article confused me so much. Parents aren't strapping their small kids in the US? Wild.
For a success story take a look at Jordans neighbour, Israel. The pioneers there planted millions of trees in the semi arid wasteland and it is today the only country in the world where desertification is happening in the reverse. What was 120 years ago rocky hills and barren wastelands are now covered in forests and fields.
> “It leads to a new philosophy of physics that rejects the idea that the universe is a machine governed by unconditional laws with a prior existence, and replaces it with a view of the universe as a kind of self-organising entity in which all sorts of emergent patterns appear, the most general of which we call the laws of physics.”

Is this distinction as meaningful as it first seems; my assumption was that all 'laws of physics' are in essence only ever an expression of our current best understanding of these observed 'generalised patterns'?

By talking about the 'laws', it's easy to start treating these as though they are firm, a-priori rules, but my assumption was that - to physicists - these were always simply a short-cut way of describing a set of common, repeated and testable observations about the universe. Iow they were never 'rules' in the sense that they existed independent of the phenomena they were describing? I'm not a scientist, btw.
I agree with your characterization in general. If all someone has is an idea and no relevant experience to back it up, run. I can’t stand people like that.

But there’s one type of ideas person I’m thrilled to work with. Someone with deep and successful experience in sales. The head of sales at my company is also relatively product oriented and boy, he just has a knack for what customers want.

In general, I think many engineers can do some product management. We can figure out basic accounting and finance. But the idea of making a cold call to sell dental software, or chasing down school principals at an education conference is almost as foreign to most software engineers as CS is to most sales folks.

Salesperson + engineer = superpowers
They don't need more horsepower, they need smaller caravans. Caravans small enough to tow behind a bicycle on the way to buy a Xmas tree.
Every one I've ever travelled outside the US.
That’s not quite true, the PVD very much intends to set a minimum rate of 5%, zero-rating is considered an exemption / derogation, and usually only allowed for continuing pre-EU zero rating.
I'm very skeptical of any bombshell theory that's debuted in a book with a pre-release publicity run.
I mean if I have a NonEmptyArray say xs, and I then xs.map(x=>2*x), will the result of this expression be a NonEmptyArray ?
Wait until managers realize that their jobs are a lot easier to automate away with AI than the jobs of software developers.
I’m in my 40s - one of my high school jobs was working at a photo lab and studio - I even became a photographer there, taking kids photos and whatnot. It was fun - I almost considered a career in photography.

The truth is, had I done so, I’d feel a lot like you described.

As things get easier, true craft and skill are less appreciated and lost as the application becomes more democratized. From the perspective of the expert/skilled individual, this is terrible. On the other hand, it’s amazing what happens when everyone has a mindblowingly good camera on them almost always. In the end, we are collectively better for it, but individuals absolutely do see their value diminished.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biotic_pump

"The theory predicts two different types of coast to contentinental rainfall patterns, first in a forested area one can expect no decrease in rainfall as one moves inland in contrast to a deforested region where one observes an exponential decrease in annual rainfall."

https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/article/59/4/341/346941

"Life depends on Earth's hydrological cycle, especially the processes that carry moisture from oceans to land. The role of vegetation remains controversial. Local people in many partially forested regions believe that forests “attract” rain, whereas most modern climate experts would disagree. But a new hypothesis suggests that local people may be correct."

Mainstream or not ... people are right, and recent droughts seem to confirm this. The theory may not be right or wrong entirely, however continuing with discounting the role of vegetation will be done at our peril.
Cool tip thanks for sharing! I love letting process crash *when possible* on failures so the OS restart them for me versus trying to handle it manually at process level.
I feel your pain. I worked in a furniture warehouse and delivered furniture, summers, in Phoenix.