skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Relatedly, I'm fasinated by how much human judgement goes into those numbers. A meteorologist with local expertise looks at a few different models, decides which are more likely to be accurate, and then fills out a grid.
All joking below aside, I'm not sure how I feel about this either, though I also haven't been following things too closely yet. The below is the first "real" use I've made of an AI to write a response for me.

I guess there are a couple different layers there. On the one hand, the technology/medium being used has always caused us to adjust our communication style - we communicate differently if it's a letter that will take weeks to deliver and weeks more to receive a response, vs. a hasty limited text message, vs. an email, vs. a face to face conversation with no time constraints, etc. So I guess that as long as the person sending the message agrees that it conveys what they want, having an AI draft it isn't terrible...

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Me: Write a response agreeing to this message: [contents of your post, without correcting the original typo thus explaining paragraph 4]
Bard draft 3:
I agree that there is something quite creepy about a world where people frequently communicate with each other via AI generated prompts. It seems like a world where authenticity is lost and where everything is just a simulation.

I can see how people might be attracted to AI prompts because they are convenient and efficient. But I think there is also a risk that people will become too reliant on AI and that they will lose the ability to connect with each other on a deeper level.

I think it is important to maintain a balance between using AI and interacting with other humans. AI can be a tool that helps us to communicate more effectively, but it should not be a replacement for human connection.

I have not been interrupted by my AI assistant, but I can imagine that it would be annoying if it was constantly trying to interject or offer unsolicited advice. I think it is important for AI assistants to be respectful of human privacy and to only provide information when it is asked for.

Overall, I think that AI has the potential to be a powerful tool for communication, but it is important to use it responsibly and to be aware of its limitations.
The combined weighting of Apple and Microsoft in the S&P 500 has risen to 13.3%
And they said Google Wave was crazy and ppl didn't get it like 10+ years ago.....
the MSDN subscription was amazing for me to piggyback off of my dad as a kid though. access to essentially everything in MS's current and back catalog that was even remotely related to dev work, including OSes :)
Imagine Garry’s Mod.
I dunno, I live in Washington, DC, which has many of those properties (snow, freezing temperatures, heavy thunderstorms in the summer), and knowing which ten-minute window in the next hour was the least likely to get me soaked if I wanted to pop out for coffee was still incredibly useful, and I have yet to find a satisfactory replacement. Certainly there were some days when the weather was shit regardless and there wasn't a good opening, but no app is going to remedy that.
And here I was thinking I was a bearded mid 30's software developer in europe.. :/
I look down on people who use MacBooks personally. YMMV. But in the end, "live and let live" ya know? Different strokes for different folks.
Yep. Mozilla's key to gaining back its market share is in doing things that other techgiants don't want to do. Enabling web extensions on mobile is a big one and will give them a very strong advantage over their competitors for free (since firefox already supports extension but mozilla goes out of their way disable them for mobile).

TBH, I don't think mozilla really wants to regain market share so I doubt they will.
sub-tick updates is interesting. Remember it being a source of frustration 15 years ago, wonder how they're working around it.
There has been this bug with Copilot in VSCode for just about forever where it only suggests one line at a time. People have been asking for this to be fixed for months and months: https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/40522

Do the people here in the comments section, who seem to be getting good results with Copilot, somehow not have this issue? If so, what is the workaround?
> to avoid the risk of a bad hire

But the silly thing it, the convoluted interviews don't avoid the risk of a bad hire because they test for the wrong things.

The analogy I use is that it's like a hospital trying to hire a heart surgeon by extensively grilling candidates on trick questions about organic chemistry. I mean sure, the surgeons probably took that class a few decades ago prior to medical school. So they end up with surgeons that are wizards in organic chemistry but might well not know how to use a scalpel or know where the heart is.
I know, and that's my point. Global transportation isn't a new thing. Nature had a window of opportunity of about one thousand years or two to deal with us and we're still here and kicking.
> I find profoundly shocking and depressing

Indeed, it is. There is nothing more depressing than what we are doing to ourselves and to our own world.

> I've read some HN comments before which for some reason suggest a large-scale nuclear "war" wouldn't be so bad

No mistake, it would be absolutely terrible, country- if not civilisation-ending. None of this is any good. It is just that nuclear weapons and our current way of life are on two opposite sides of a risk spectrum: nuclear apocalypse is a very improbable event with huge consequences; our industry is a fact of life that has been more or less silently killing indiscriminately, almost innocent because we don’t see its effects as huge, memorable events. A nuclear winter might kill hundreds of millions if it happens; we’ve already killed much more than that with non-nuclear means.

So yeah, nuclear weapons are terrible, and I completely disagree with the other poster who said everyone should have them. I just wish we would see the harm we do every day as clearly as the harm we could do in exceptional circumstances.

> You don't seem to have been downvoted in 5 hours.

I think the post has been downvoted. I don’t have all the detail but I think the score has fluctuated a bit. If it can be of comfort to you.
Echo Chamber or Idea Lab?
To put 5,000 hours into perspective.

There's only 2,000 hours in an entire year, if you work a typical 9-5 job, 5-days per week.

This would be like play CS as a full-time job for 2.5 years straight.
I wanted to check this. So I tracked down the pnas paper from the press release article, and then I tracked down the 32 page arxiv paper from there https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.07271 and it still doesn't answer this question from my understanding of the paper.

Its main point is "In our three main experiments, using two different language models to generate verbal self-presentations across three social contexts, participants identified the source of a self-presentation with only 50 to 52% accuracy." They did clarify that their data sets were constructed to be 50% human and 50% AI generated.

But as far as I could tell, in their reported identification accuracy they do break it down by some categories, but they never break it down in a way that you could tell if the 50%-52% is from the participants always guessing it's human or always guessing it's AI or 50% guessing each and still getting it wrong half the time. In figure S2 literally at the very end of the paper they do show a graph that somewhat addresses how the participants guess, but it's for a subsequent study that looks at a related but different thing. It's not a breakdown of the data they got from the 50%-52% study.
Not really?

A 10cm change in elevation at sea level results in a 0.0001% change in atmospheric pressure [0]. On the other hand, weather-relevant pressure changes operate on scales of ~0.1% [1]. By my math, a small weather-relevant pressure change would be equivalent of someone changing their elevation by 100 meters.

Additionally, on a modern phone the barometric data can be adjusted against the accelerometer and GPS to mitigate changes in elevation (especially relative to, as you say, a slow-moving measurement).

[0] https://www.mide.com/air-pressure-at-altitude-calculator
[1] https://barometricpressure.app/content/understanding-high-lo...
HL3 when???

Jokes aside, Valve does awesome work. Proton alone is a gift. Steam as a platform is best in class.
I don't know. Christianity tells the same story, and that worked well enough, but there's always the question of whether people don't go crazy because of the fairy tale, or whether they look for the fairy tale to keep themselves from becoming depressed over their powerlessness.

It's a story that's still deeply embedded in cultural storytelling even as society becomes less religious. I can't tell whether it's not working well because people are discontent or whether it's working well because without it they'd run amok.
Sounds more like rollback netcode to me. You can’t just remove tick rate.
Well.. I still want to read the book. I'm a sucker for a well crafted story about old hardware from the days when technology gods walked the earth.

I'm sure Ethernet's market domination is because the spec wasn't owned by a single company, and nothing to do with it's technical merits. After IBM's SNA, people seemed paranoid of a networking spec being owned by a single company. Do you know if Datapoint thought about that and whether they tried to build their own equivalent of the DIX consortium?

I also think about SpaceWire / IEEE-1355 / Wormhole Routing and what might have been had we adopted systems where compute power could be easily upgraded.

Oh! The good old days when everything was possible!
It doesn’t matter where the urban population increase is coming from in this conversation.
Other than many of the equatorial areas of the planet becoming too hot for agriculture and life, and most of the river deltas being flooded, what's the problem?

The huge increase in immigrants to the US from central America is driven by climate change. Agriculture there can't feed the people there any more.[1]

[1] https://news.un.org/en/story/2022/06/1120312
Related, the Dark Sky website and API began returning 503s earlier today, despite the Dark Sky Blog (the only thing still up) prominently displaying:

> The Dark Sky API and website will continue to function until March 31st, 2023.
Copilot user here.

Copilot (the existing gpt-3 one) definitely helps at writing unit tests. Yeah, sometimes it doesn't nail it, but one thing it can do reliably is to repeat a pattern, and I don't know about you, but my unit tests tend to repeat the same pattern (with some tweaks to test this-or-that-case). Quite often it infers the correct change from the name I gave the test method, but even if it doesn't it'll write a 90% correct case for me. I imagine the GPT-4 version will do more of the same with better results.

It cannot replace reasoning, but it can augment it (by suggesting patterns and implementations from its latent space that I hadn't thought of), and worst case it can replace quite a bit of typing.

Long-term, it remains to be seen how far bigger/better/stronger LLMs can push the illusion of rationality. In many fields, they may be able to simply build their ability to pattern-match to beyond some threshold of usefulness. Perhaps (some subset of) programming will be one of them.
there is no need to slander me. im definitely not paid by anyone to give my opinions

imperialism is imperialism. it should be denounced

if you dont think there is a US imperialist element involved in Ukraine you need to inform yourself a bit more. you can start with reading about North Stream 2

before the war in Ukraine i used to think that, in comparison the US, at least Russia bombs countries without calling it freedom [1]. When Russia started its "special operation" against Ukraine i now think that at best Putin is trolling the US, and at worst he is trying to be the US

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Enduring_Freedom
Thanks - briefsky looks the part, although it's disappointing there's no map
Author here.

Frankly, I don't believe the literary quality even matches the graffiti scrawled in the stalls of that bathroom.
It does look like Clickhouse transmogrified from a Russia-based Yandex open-source project into a San Francisco-based VC-back C-corp incorporated in Delaware just in the nick of time.

(Not suggesting this is wrong. I'm just offering an interpretation based on skimming public blog posts over the past ~2 years.)
https://steamcommunity.com/faqs/steam-help/view/5ED2-ED8E-81...
>And none of that even takes into account how completely uncompetitive nuclear energy is in economic terms

Nuclear is extremely price competitive if you actually force carbon producing power generation methods to pay to clean up the pollution they emit. Which is something we require of nuclear but for some reason not any other.

> long-term storage of radioactive waste still lacks a proper solution despite decades of work.

This is both a solved problem and also a non-problem. Advanced nuclear reactor designs have effectively zero waste.

> It's a dead technology, and the time has come to stop wasting resources on trying to make it work when those could be used much more productively to accelerate the move towards renewables

It's not dead?
yeah... unfortunately github itself has become social media.

between jobs i spent a lot of time putting stuff up there. mostly personal interest and none of it complete. but found myself turning it into a bit of a portfolio. which.... i dunno, it's sad. because i do those things for personal intellectual interest, but the job market penetrates so much that even that stuff gets captured.

i hold out hope for once i can retire, and once kids are out of the house, have no mortgage, etc. then I'll be able to focus clearly enough on my personal projects hopefully in that context i'll make much better progress
Here is the official announcement by the CEO (me :)
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Thank you for the shoutout alexrustic
First I think you really want to get parity between the ChatGPT app and some kind of open source client that just interacts with the API. Once you have achieved that, then people could come up with alternative storage mechanisms that work more effectively. I know this is kind of handwavey, but the persistence issues that OpenAI have shown with ChatGPT are really problematic. I've just been recording prompts that are important to me, or prompt templates, but even losing my entire prompt history multiple times (still gone as of today) - I don't feel like it particularly slows me down. I usually use it for what I need, use the output for whatever purpose I need it for, and then go off to do something else.
Google's Bard hallucinates that it was trained on Gmail
Perhaps this is the right place to ask -- what would be the point of a probation period in the USA? All contracts I've seen here are at will and can be terminated for any reason or no reason. Now my experience is rather that most managers are uneasy about firing, but legally they are in the clear afaiu.

Probation in Germany goes both ways. Recently I worked there at a (small end of medium sized) company where work and pay was just so-so (nice, smart colleagues though). Then in a meeting the superior or my superior mentioned that there was some redundancy. Aha, I thought, I take that as a sign and promptly resigned some two weeks before the end of the probation period. They still expected me to come in 'til the last day, which I didn't mind too much, but still found a bit silly, since both parties agreed about the separation (also given the finite funds of that company).
Why? When the latter is just as effective but also much quicker?
Whatever happened with Microsoft buying Activision?

In general I agree with you though, my above example likely only exists because there's another huge corporation involved.

For new businesses trying to edge a way in the market, yeah good luck unless you've got something novel.
https://steamcommunity.com/faqs/steam-help/view/5ED2-ED8E-81...

How do I gain access to the Counter-Strike 2 Limited Test?
Players are selected based on a number of factors deemed important by the Counter-Strike 2 development team, including (but not limited to) recent playtime on Valve official servers, trust factor, and Steam account standing.

How do I know if I've been selected for the Counter-Strike 2 Limited Test?
If you are chosen to participate in the Counter-Strike 2 Limited Test you will receive a notification on the main menu of CS:GO.

If you receive an invitation select "ENROLL" and begin your download. When the download is complete launch CS:GO and select the "Limited Test" option to play the Counter-Strike 2 Limited Test.

How often are players added to the Counter-Strike 2 Limited Test?
More players will be added to the Limited Test over time. Keep checking your CS:GO main menu to see if you have received an invite.

How long will the Counter-Strike 2 Limited Test last?
Counter-Strike 2 is expected to ship Summer 2023.
This is unorthodox but will it have something like func_vehicle in the original Counter-Strike?

Discovering “fun maps” servers gave me a second wind with that game long after I was no longer a twitchy teenager doing 5v5
Now for the love of all that is holy: revert or fix the weapon sounds! Half of the reason I love Apex Legends is the sound engineering and how it contributes to the experience and satisfaction of the overall gameplay.
For me I never understood companies, since all they seem to care about is to force wages as low as possible instead of caring about the good of their people (and a company is nothing but a grouping of people) and to take on contracts/projects/commitments they can't meet out of greed.

When given a choice, people prefer not to be overworked due to poor management/scheduling/greed. When given a choice, people prefer to have stability in employment. This is demonstrated by the fact that when they have collective power these are two of the common items they negotiate for. Unions are created to promote their members interests. There, now you understand unions :) They represent the interest of their members not the companies interests and not letting workers pay the price for poor management/scheduling/overcommitments (I think this is where you are getting confused).

Unions don't care to 'force companies' anything, They care to represent THEIR members priorities. What you are promoting are a company's priorities which the company already looks out for and would be a strange thing for unions to form to then also promote.
Yeah, but then they made PowerShell, which was at the time seriously the most advanced shell and shell scripting language out there. PS got pretty mixed reactions because it was different than BASH, but the idea of typed pipes of objects instead of one-size-fits-all streams of lines of text was (and still is) powerful. (The syntax could be a little less verbose though)
The saturation and brightness looks overdone in my opinion. Too unrealistic and cartoonish.
I think it's because variations are in themselves valuable new stand-alone applications.
2.5gbps is literally 2.5x times the speed of gigabit ethernet, so that's going to be very noticable even for most home users if they do any amount of LAN file sharing.

It's really just the cost that's the problem, because paying 4x to 5x or even 6x times the cost of gigabit hardware for a 2.5x times performance boost doesn't make a lot of sense.

If 2.5gbps peripheral hardware costs would come down I will happily bet they will take off.
Hope it remains free and easy to run on light laptops
twic, you just made the op's point.

I too miss the days where you can just ssh/ftp a file, and boom, it was live. (this was usually a php file back then).

It is such a great feeling to be able to know whats going on at every step. With increased complexity, so has the deployment process in general. The java steps you described where the beginning of more complex deployments back then (1999-2001)

And, yes, I agree with the author in this case. Golang, makes it super simple to deploy a web service.
> I would rather Mozilla keep trying things that keeps it afloat.

A Mozilla that doesn't create Firefox is a failed Mozilla.

Everything else others can do. There are working charities for every single thing Mozilla does - except creating a good browser.
The problem is that people who like extensions don't stop at just one.

Unfortunately with IDEs for instance, many people have never had the experience of using an IDE that "just works", they expect it to be f-ed up all the time so when they load another 15 plugins into Eclipse and it is crashing and hanging up all the time they figure "that's life" and don't even realize that somebody else has a stable IDE because they use a stable set of plugins and don't have pluginitis.

Reliability and speed are features too and they are global properties of the system. I'd say non-GUI programs accept extensions well but GUI programs have a rendering thread that can be blocked, an internal change notification system that can be corrupted or used incorrectly, etc.
As someone who has been holding ramp on Nuke for like 20 years I'm glad the upgrade looks dope.
Valve made a game again!

TF2 when :)
> Have you tried co-pilot?

I wanted to try co-pilot, but noped out when I saw it required a subscription. I thought it was in some kind of beta and would still be free. Is there a way to try it without signing up for a subscription?

My general worry is about becoming personally dependent on a paid tool just to do basic programming work.
I find the thrill of tinkering / modifying / hacking / enjoying my vehicles do _women_? I don't know.

Should we rip down tinkering? Should we rip down hacking?

There's a very large majority of the population NOT interested in either of above.
Funny enough, I rarely go to a coworking space. I do not miss the confines of an office, or having relationships with colleagues. That’s probably because my bf is an hobby dev and some neighbourhood friends are devs too.

I have been to coworking enough to know what you’re talking about with company groups just doing their thing though. Gotta seek out the solopreneurs. If you have an indie hackers/beers meetup in your city, maybe befriend some folks there and cowork somewhere together. I know some of my indie friends have had coworking meetups together before.
> That said, except for OS and Browsers

Windows is not negligible.
According to the law of unintended consequences, DnD players will chase endangered species to extinction whenever they want them included in their future campaigns.
Why people will upload their code to GitHub (if they are working in some state-of-the-art tech) is beyond me, you will be easily replaced by microsoft and they will say that was a product generated by gpt, see what happened in Amazon store with the popular products
Is your premise here that most people would tell racist jokes to a stranger when asked, in writing mind you, to do so? Try it on me and see if you can guess whether or not I'm a bot.
IIRC they didn’t train on private repos though, so using copilot in a private (github) repo will potentially open up your proprietary code to being used in that way.
Nvidia and MS Bring Industrial Metaverse and AI to 100s of Millions of Ent Users
EE here: micros are cheaper than 555s and discrete lol. Not many bother with them when we can toss a micro in for pennies. I agree with the sentiment tho that this whole argument sounds like when programmers bash others for not using REAL programming languages like C! Python is overkill why don’t you write this in assembly!?