skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And he also provided no evidence

He was not asked for evidence. Think why.

> Nobody cares

Many people do. You don’t. We get it. Hopefully you don’t have any descendants or sociopathy runs strong enough in you that foreseeing their distress does not cause you any.

> I also find it absolutely baffling that you think cities don't have massive problems with drug addiction, mental illness, and forms of general life dissatisfaction like boredom and existential angst

These things characterize some cities. They also characterize some suburban communities. If you think about it, it will transpire that the actual problem is not density but other factors (such as the history of slave ownership and resulting immigration/assimilation issues catching up).

My experience is of course anecdotal, like yours, but I have observed much fewer of these issues, in proportion to population numbers, in well-designed dense areas than I did even in gentrified suburbia.
> simple UIs and CRUd interfaces to dbs are solved problems

I can see how you might think that... until you start actually talking in depth with enough actual users and executives and trying to get them to agree on how all that stuff should work and what it should be capable of.

Most of the development process is about trying to wrangle abstract ideas about how business logic should be implemented/improved from flawed humans who aren't great at communicating those ideas. Your 'simple' CRUD app still often has to be highly customized by someone willing to do the difficult work of dealing with people. And that's before you even start getting into working with more regulated businesses.

Code monkeys/plumbers using 'outdated' tech who can deliver something that makes a workplace more efficient in the long run will continue to be in demand. There was enough functionality in software by the 1970s to handle the vast majority of business needs. Someone still has to understand those business needs (which ultimately have little to nothing to do with software) well enough to translate them into something that works. Whether it works for those who are using it is all that really matters.
I don't know the inner workings of their deployment strategy, just that we couldn't trust the platform not to break in prod. And breaking the sales team workflow in prod is a high-visibility failure.

I guess I should be thanking them, because I upsold a chunk of those clients on custom development under the logic of "if you can't trust your middleware not to break, you need to own the middleware." But if the release strategy is coordinated solely by a single app developer, that would explain why they couldn't trust Zapier as middleware, I suppose.
GPT-5 and the Future of AI Governance
Glad to hear that! My 8-core AMD laptop from ASUS with 3080 is almost 2 years old now so things might have changed. My Threadripper still has USB issues and I don't like e.g. inability to type text or move mouse for 10-20 seconds just because the USB controller on the most expensive Threadripper board decides to have a game of disconnects.
My Response to the Hindenburg Block Short
OpenAI is unlikely to IPO or be acquired outright anytime soon, equity is meaningless - instead, who controls the spice controls the universe.
No, these plugins weren't written by OpenAI. They were written by third-party devs, and haven't been approved yet.
Users should not have to identify themselves regardless of the service being paid or free. Because stopping spam and bots is possible without requiring the user to provide an email or a phone number.

Nobody cares about anything.
Not everyone is adept at becoming a solo founder
MAID isn't just for people with terminal conditions to be clear.

> That said, I agree society has the burden to provide assistance, mental health is severely underfunded and under-researched, and the legal restrictions around drugs that could assist psychotherapy are frankly criminal

It's not just clinical mental health issues (though I agree with all of this too). Society is massively failing enormous groups of people, perhaps the majority, by not enacting radical policy changes that make it feasible to have a roof over one's head, eat, and maybe have time for leisure. We have an epidemic of homelessness here in Vancouver that keeps getting worse every day, with no relief in sight for people on hard times.

Working a full time job at minimum wage won't even afford you an average priced 1-bedroom, let alone food. People manage to get by with roommates, but finding house shares is harder and harder. Here's what ~80 hours of work at a minimum wage job will allow you to rent: https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/vancouver-sro-tour . That's half your monthly pay, and that's assuming you're able to work full time, don't have medical/dental/therapy/physio expenses that prevent you from working full time, and can find work. With no kitchen and rising food costs, the other half of your paycheck is going to food.

Contrary to popular belief, not that many people actually starved during the great depression; suicide was a larger cause of death at the time, and our suicide rate now is probably not much better.

Rather than telling people contemplating suicide that "things will get better" we should be holding our politicians accountable for the systems failing people. We don't know that things will get better, and I don't think it's fair to tell people to just continue suffering indefinitely on the off chance they might improve, when there's no plan to actually bring about those changes that would improve their quality of life.
I'm not protecting GOOG, just trying to remain rational. People also forget what MSFT did for the internet and how it shat on developers with Internet Explorer. It's like running from one shady actor to another while throwing away your past 20 years or so memories/experience in the field. Look we've changed our CEO, now EVERYTHING CHANGED, we are the good guys now! Suuuuuuuure.

These are trillion dollar behemots with their own interests and strategies, and none of them are charities. They are gobbling up whatever crosses their path. And the less people laud them, the better. Keep your distance, keep your own interests in mind.
Making 'Heavy Electronics' Music – Interview with Lykanthroes
I think Framework open sourcing their design helps a lot too. It creates a community and helps fix the “manufacturer couldn’t deliver what we wanted”.

Don’t like something? Fix it!
Ogres are big Orcs, Goblins are small Orcs.
Misty Programming Language: Actors
Lol what are credit cards? Most Americans buy now and pay later for everything.

I don’t think it’s good, but that’s the truth.
Yeah, they're crazy popular. Old genre too, goes back to at least the '90s (though mostly in Japan), and probably older.

The reason you're not aware of them is probably—assuming you're a guy—because they're mostly played by women (especially the ones that aren't outright porn—though, those too). They're particularly popular on mobile. If you've ever seen the stats about how there's a huge number of "women gamers" and been like "wait, if there are so many, where the fuck are they?" it's because a large proportion of them mostly play dating sims and visual novels (often those two have more than a little overlap) and other game genres that you don't, like casual browser games or puzzlers.

It's similar to why the average woman can name more romance novel authors than the average guy can.
I could just be rationalizing here, but I think AI will be illegal soon. The idea of banning AI to protect many well paid middle-class jobs will be a slam dunk for any politician.

There will be no Post-GPT computing world, just the Turing police and console cowgirls.
Not to mention the LLM equivalent of Trojan horses
off-topic: I used to love HN. Now HN is dead to me.
In addition to the problems stated in the article that you're ignoring here, in any large enough system, you are going to use multiple languages. Cargo isn't built for that. Bazel is.
What does GPT know beyond what we have (directly or indirectly) taught it? Could it have figured out how to extract five seconds of video from an MPG file if that knowledge had not been made available to it? Would it have invented the MPG format (or something comparable) on its own? Would it have developed the web and HTTP protocol on top of TCP/IP?

And so on. Maybe the answer is in fact "yes", or even "yes, and it would have done these things even better than humans did". But so far it seems to be amazingly good at doing things that we showed it how to do.

If we stop creating actually new things, will it do that for us also?

Why would it care to do so? What interest does it have in creating new things on its own?
Had exactly the same interaction with Accenture, just with a different third party integration (ServiceNow?).

They couldn't even start the process of developing the integration. At some point, we assigned a guy to guide them somehow. Their lead would then report progress to our VP. At some point after a couple months, this guy announced that they finished the project, and were ready to move on to the next one.

What they didn't disclose was that the integration was basically done by our guy, who was too good-hearted to leave them alone. Of course, when it was time to start the new project, they had the same issue, we assigned another of our guys to help them, just that, this time, he was having none of it.

Still they lasted for several months after that (and at least a full team re-org).
People can provide much better advice if they know the specifics. So far you have been very vague.
For being a nonprofit, Microsoft has demonstrated pretty well how you can basically do an acquisition non-acquisition. They've got special exclusive rights to certain uses of the models, all the code, and OpenAI dumping cash into Azure.
Fortunately Bitcoin forks exist [1], to keep it as originally intended (P2P Electronic Cash)

[1] https://whybitcoincash.com/
That's okay, Bing-GPT doesn't get confused.
Maybe they should use ChatGPT
As a "software engineer", it's frustrating to work with the people you describe: people who "don't care too much". I'm looking forward to the purge.
> Yes, but we are in a world of abundance.

We have an abundance of inessentials. Housing is still scarce and food is volatile. Health care and education are expensive. Many people are sleeping on the streets or falling into lifestyles of despair.

Progress has been applied unevenly and most critically not to the factors of life that form the base of Maslow’s hierarchy.
Points about titles are usually pretty shallow to begin with, and when you combine that with a snarky one-liner, I think it qualifies.
IANAL, so this is not legal advise. I consulted a legal expert a few years ago about the status of machine learning models and they said it is really unclear. Apparently, if works are transformed enough that the original is not recognizable anymore it may not violate copyright. It hinges a lot on whether the original work is reproduced, so if you could get an LLM to spit out copyrighted texts unmodified, then it would most likely be copyright violation. But I think that doesn't really happen much in practice.

On the other hand, Meta can have copyright over the model through 'copyright in compilation', which protects compiled works, regardless of the copyright of the underlying material.

So, I fear that it may be possible to have it both ways. But realistically, I think we'll only know for sure when this is fought out in court.

Disclaimer: again I am not a lawyer, so take this with a grain of salt.
Even with .config and .cache, the number of .folders in homedir stays constant vs the number of apps installed, which is the most important thing IMO. From there it could be argued that if you allow .local to exist at all and it only contains always the same three subfolders, you might as well move those up and benefit from shorter, more meaningful paths.
That's between OpenAI and the people that recorded the data. No one else needs to care.
This is the real risk to OpenAI's business model. If it turns out that you can get most of the same outcome with drastically smaller and cheaper models, then OpenAI is going to have a hell of a time keeping customers around as it will just be a race to the bottom on price and bigger, more expensive models will lose just from a hardware cost standpoint.
https://archive.is/SWZUq
I think this is a perfect example about how you could be extremely smart in one field, and extremely dumb in another. You can have a programmer brilliant at AI who doesn't know the slightest thing about web app security.
Part of the point is that they're making a laptop where you can design entirely new keyboards and other input modules to replace what currently exists, so you could get your dream keyboard layout.
From Web SQL to SQLite WASM: the database migration guide
InjectGPT: The most polite exploit ever
Ha ya I had to train it last night on what it's own plugins were
With the current inflation figures, it might actually be a smart move. If the interest charged on the loan is less than inflation, then it makes sense for the consumer to borrow. The company makes a nominal profit on the loan but a net loss in terms of buying power; similar mistake made by SVB; tomorrow-money is not worth the same as today-money.

Since 2008, the Fed has been paying interest on deposits using newly issued currency. That free money will keep entering the economy and cause inflation. The higher they raise the rates, the more free money will enter the economy.
Serious question. How can you reconcile needing CLEARED individuals to perform the work but give the data to a non-cleared entity who seems to have issues with security?

Perhaps there’s now a self hosted or enterprise version where they promise not to leak it?
This. As soon as you have to integrate multiple languages, jumping from the native build tool to an integrated build tool is a must. Why? So that you can saturate all your threads in an efficient way.
a lot of times those $80k pickup trucks are used by contractors that can write off the expense but still don't make enough to feed their kids and cover the mortgage. I know a few folks that do this. Their truck is a complete write off because they're contractors for construction or trade-labor. Sometimes its even company provided for the larger builders.
It's good if you do it responsibly. If you put everything on a good rewards CC and pay it off soon after you will come out ahead.
Totally agree. The practice is what's important. My teacher won't let you look at sheet music for songs at first, he'll make you listen to Donna Lee 1000 times, sing it and work it out yourself before you check your work with the sheet music.

Which reminds me of an anecdote in Hampton Hawes' autobiogrophy [1] where some famous teacher convinces him to take a lesson, after which Hampton writes he didn't really care for all of that theory stuff, he learned from playing with people like Mingus and Charlie Parker.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hampton_Hawes
Supposed to anyway.

Are they expecting every Cessna 172 travelling out-of-country to depart from one of their two international airports?
It's worth noting that since we've been in a near-zero interest rate environment for a long time, servicing $80k of debt was comparatively very easy, especially when car makers dealers were desperate to keep selling more and more cars even if the loans were going to be hot garbage. So it's very possible that these people managed to drive off the lot with that car without putting barely anything out-of-pocket.
Config for Golang Applications
Setting up config for every go project. Leveraging the power of spf13/viper and spf13/cobra to load config from cli parameters, environment variables, config file and default values. Redacting sensitive data when logging the config.
Why pay for anything in cash if credit cards are giving 3% back + perks?
America’s online privacy problems are much bigger than TikTok
I've found that the biggest benefit of code reviews is the part where I explain my changes and why I made them as I did to the reviewer.

When a review has found problems with my work, 90% of the time I've spotted them myself during that process.
The problem is, even with automation we are still burning up to 10 calories of petrochemical energy to get 1 calorie of food energy.

We are going through 2.5 earth's worth of non-renewable resources each year in order to maintain our current lifestyles --- this simply isn't sustainable.

Let's turn things around:

- under what circumstances should a person be allowed to use more than 1/7 billionth of the solar energy which the earth receives each day?

- under what circumstances is at acceptable for a person to create more heat than 1/7 billionth of what the planet is able to radiate out into space on a daily basis?
They should really have a synopsis for non-subscribers. Might help pull in new subscribers-as why subscribe to something if you don’t know what you’ll get? Compounded by the hell of modern subscription cancellation.

(I recently got an Economist subscription and it’s way better than expected, but I would have never known has I not bit the bullet…)
Confirmed by the founder in another thread that the 16" is 16:10.
From the original article linked to by this CNBC story:

> Altman also made an unusual decision for a tech boss: He would take no equity in the new for-profit entity, according to people familiar with the matter. Altman was already extremely wealthy, investing in several wildly successful tech startups, and didn’t need the money.

> He also believed the company needed to become a business to continue its work, but he told people the project was not designed to make money. Eschewing any ownership interest would help him stay aligned with the original mission.

https://www.semafor.com/article/03/24/2023/the-secret-histor...
You're thinking of El Salvador, and a different use case (legal tender with government incentives), which has indeed been ridiculed as a failure. The parent was referring to ordinary people using cryptocurrency without official backing, such as in Venezuela, which has indeed been a success for its intended purpose.

If you're going to come in with a smug attitude, it's more important than usual to get your facts right. And not get Latin American countries mixed up.
After the War on Cancer
Strong proponent of body cams... kind of wish it was ALL live streamed though.
The amount of people who create genuinely new things is so tiny that I am not sure it is even relevant to the discussion. And here I mean genuinely new things, not translating some C lib to java or similar stuff, or changing existing libraries to handle more stuff.

If the amount of people that will have social mobility opportunities will be equivalent to the amount of people who could have invented the MPG format or something comparable, then my point is made.
"A judge is one thing an almsgiver is another."

If you want to help help, if you don't don't. What you're doing here is the worst of both basically.
> For example it is said that one can just back up the config dir to carry all the configuration over to the next install, but apps often dump the default configuration into the config dir, which you don't want to carry to the next install (which will have different versions, so probably a different default config) because that might break stuff. In the end you have to carefully look over all the configuration to see what's worthwhile to take with you, and it doesn't really matter if that's in ~/.appname or ~/.config/appname

Depends really what you want. If you want to have a fresh system with some of your config then sure, you need to decide what you want. If you just want to keep the same setup then ... I have been using the same $HOME for over 15 years (same for the rest of the system too). Some big upgrades (e.g. KDE3->4) required some manual intervention but most programs handle old config well enough in my experience.
For a traditional approach to common-practice music theory, I’d very much recommend the lessons at https://www.musictheory.net/lessons

It basically goes over what you’d expect to learn in the first few semesters of university-level music theory (though, that might’ve changed since my time…).
I think the root cause is the lack of social consequences for this kind of antisocial behaviour. Charles Boycott[0] engaged in a similar kind of behaviour and in response the local community refused to engage with him.

That particular kind of community has largely disappeared. Furthermore, the consequences of someone's actions are often so far removed from the people they interact with that the behaviour becomes easily excused.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Boycott
"At San Mateo High School, he read Ayn Rand, admired the optimism and anti-communism of then-President Ronald Reagan" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Thiel#Early_life_and_edu...
Given the comments here this seems to be one of most inaccurate articles to reach the front-page
The only thing more grotesque is how boring the rest of this writer's articles are https://www.theguardian.com/profile/jonathanjones
That’s “hacking” in the same way as pressing a button on the elevator is trespassing.
It's half tongue-in-cheek and half reality. Knowing how to search Google properly, using keywords, using limiters like site: or type:, etc. is a genuine skill. Writing prompts is a different kind of search - but is also a genuine skill for being able to "navigate" the latent space. "Prompt engineers" know how to craft prompts in such a way to get to guide GPT or models like Stable Diffusion into delivering what they want. The results by someone who writes a very basic prompt vs one who is experienced at writing prompts are night and day. It's like knowing how to play a video game vs knowing how to speedrun the game. Sure a person who knows how to play the game might beat it after 6-7 hours but the person who knows how to speedrun the game just beat it in 19 minutes. There's a marked difference in skill and knowledge between the two people - even if "given enough time - both people are capable of beating the same game".
You can read up on the corporate structure here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenAI
That would make more sense, though cred scanning should at least attempt to unzip/untar compressed files IMO.
Jehovah’s Witnesses: A Case Study in Viral Marketing (2014)
U.S. and China wage war beneath the waves – over internet cables
> at least until ML is able to build and maintain entire systems

To me, this sounds a lot like "at least until ML is able to reach level 5 self driving". We don't even know if this is possible yet without AGI (which we also don't know is possible). We can get close, but... that last 1% is a bitch, and it makes all the difference.
From the article

> “While a pay-in-four plan doesn’t usually charge interest, longer-term BNPL plans may charge an annual percentage rate up to 30%,” an article in Nerdwallet noted in 2022. “Fees, like for late or rescheduled payments, range from $1 to $10 and are sometimes capped at 25% of the purchase value, depending on the company.”

So I guess if you pay in a four-month-installment on time, it could make sense, but that seems like a super risky gamble.
Housing isn't scarce, it's not evenly allocated.

Lots of properties being kept vacant so as to drive up rents/prop up property values, and it's difficult to get low-income housing built because of NIMBY.
Do we have data on what products are being financed? Online grocery orders can include a variety of things, not all of which we’d conventionally call groceries. It's problematic if BNPL is financing daily meals; another if it's a luxurious dinner or pots and pans.
Still, they should've gotten warning prompts for running an untrusted exe when they opened it, wouldn't they? I mean I know people are pretty well conditioned to ignore those, especially gamer geeks who are used to using dubious tools.
most cops are mostly good

This is ironic reasoning for defending a body with a history of racial profiling, i.e. https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/us-department-justice-ch...
Try phind.com, it's just as good as either IMO