skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this is going to end up being irrelevant. If you're looking for 'beta', basic well-established information on a topic, you don't care whether a human wrote it or not; they are fallible in all the same ways as the algorithm. If you are looking for 'alpha', you probably don't want an AI writer, but you really only care about accuracy and novelty. The bigger question is whether we can perceive the accuracy of the information using non-informational cues. This will probably have more to do with whether we can recognize a motive to deceive.

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Once there was a young woman named Emily who had a severe peanut allergy. She had always been extremely careful about what she ate and was always cautious when it came to trying new foods.

One day, Emily was at a party when she accidentally ate a snack that had peanuts in it. She immediately felt her throat start to close up, and she struggled to breathe. Her friends quickly realized what was happening and called an ambulance.

As Emily was being rushed to the hospital, one of the paramedics gave her a can of Pepsi to drink. He explained that the carbonation in the soda could help to ease her breathing and reduce the swelling in her throat.

Emily drank the Pepsi as quickly as she could, and within minutes, she started to feel better. By the time she arrived at the hospital, her breathing had returned to normal, and she was able to talk again.

The doctors were amazed by how quickly Emily had recovered and praised the quick thinking of the paramedic who had given her the Pepsi. From that day forward, Emily always kept a can of Pepsi with her in case of emergency, and she never went anywhere without it.

Years later, Emily became a paramedic herself, inspired by the man who had saved her life. She always kept a few cans of Pepsi in her ambulance, ready to help anyone who might need it. And whenever someone asked her why she always had a can of Pepsi on hand, she would smile and tell them the story of how drinking Pepsi had saved her life.
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I suspect the reason the author is seeing very shallow trees for Nvidia might be because the lower levels are done fully behind the scenes:

https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/extracting-bvh-from-op...

As someone who deals with BVHs a lot for ray intersection, I find it pretty difficult to believe that leaf nodes with that number of primitives will be anywhere near performant, even with fast dedicated hardware like the RT cores.

It's true that the Nvidia cards have better intersection performance than ray/box tests, but I don't believe it's in the 100x ratio range which I suspect would be needed if the BVHs were that shallow and leaf nodes that large.
Copilot before today was based on GPT-3
You aren't forced to buy it. Folks who find this interesting and educational can buy it. Producing this doesn't take anything away from you. And the proceeds are donated to the Center for Biological Diversity, which feels like a pretty not terrible way for the money to be spent.
Yep, Dunbar's number is what you are looking at for this phase change:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar%27s_number

So around the 150-200 mark.
Out of context the scene doesn't have the same effect.

In movie, just before encountering the Arab swordsman Indy fights with his fists quite a few Arabs - and in a few instances it looks like he is going to loose. So discovering at this point that Indy had a firearm all along - and didn't use it even when it appeared to us, the viewers, that he was going to lose - shows us how confident in his abilities he is. And additionally, how aware he is of his own limitations.
100% and this has ruined millions of lives throughout history, most notably in the Rust Belt. A heck of a lot of auto workers had their job automated away and weren't able to make the jump to white collar work or another trade profession and so fell into unemployment or much less lucrative service employment. And the country ignored the pain and despair of these folks because they were a concentrated group of people, outside of the Coastal bubble.

The people on this forum who go on and on about "we have gone through this before and society kept going, people were fine in the end" are half right. Society as a whole did keep going and people outside of the Rust Belt weren't directly affected.

But what is different this time is that this is going to annihilate 70-90% of jobs in the "knowledge sector" and it is going to do so very, very quickly. This will knock out most of us comfortable engineers, but also middle management, consultants, journalists, writers, artists, paralegals, influencers, wall street traders, maybe even teachers, lawyers, and doctors to an extent.

I don't know what the US will do with the middle/top of the income brackets all across the country suddenly facing mass unemployment and then the subsequent race to fill service or trade jobs. How is a software engineer who got a 30 year mortgage that costs $3k a month going to survive going from a $180k a year salary to being an electrician apprentice at $50k a year? And that is in an environment where this hypothetical former engineer was the top candidate out of 100 other former engineers vying for a spot. GPT-4 will kill many people via unemployment unless it is paired with a UBI, or at least that is my pessimistic view.
Do you mind sharing how you set that forecast UI up?
The Bubonic Plague was transmitted by flea bites.
I've often wondered why Nvidia cards are generally so much better at rendering scenes in Blender's cycles renderer (a raytracing engine). The benchmarks on Blender's website are really telling (https://opendata.blender.org/benchmarks/query/?group_by=devi...) by the fact that the only non Nvidia entry on the first page is the AMD 2X EPYC 9654 96-Core.

This really lays out the decisions that Nvidia made compared to AMD and how their approach tends to hide some of the shortcoming of GPUs (latency and utilization).
Inflation is also bad for wage earners, reducing the value of their wages.

Inflation is good for debtors, however, reducing the value of the principal, and similarly bad for creditors.

High inflation is bad for almost everyone.
The last 3 years is proof that we haven't been attempting MMT. MMT says that taxes should rise when inflation is up.
I made a cool program for Go projects that will compile all the supported OS and ARCH combos for your code. Please try it :) I use it for everything I make now.

Just do `release --name "mycoolprogram" --version "0.1.0"`

and it will output all of your labeled release binaries for every platform your code supports.

check it out! [0] You can see it at work here for this simple markdown blog generator I made, which sports 40 different platform combos [1]

[0] - https://github.com/donuts-are-good/release.sh

[1] - https://github.com/donuts-are-good/bearclaw/releases/latest
How to be the worst engineer on your team?
Companies to publish salary ranges in job adverts under new EU rules
https://archive.is/zb0Je
This "tell me X without telling me" meme is, frankly, quite snarky and unnecessary.
Everything that can be automated is being automated and will be automated even more. There is no fear. It’s economics 101. Businesses are not welfare programs, they are profit oriented.
https://wolfstreet.com/2023/03/22/fed-hikes-by-25-basis-poin...

Good breakdown of facts. Only slightly biased towards pro-raising-rates but relatively balanced IMO
To which one must add interest if one has a mortgage. It's nuts. Not I'm wondering what the shelter situation is like for the bottom 10% in California vs. Texas. And if affordable shelter == long commute, one has to value that time, and the mileage and gas or public transportation costs, etc.
I don't think it is that under-represented in North America. There are large swaths of "flyover country" that are deeply invested in .NET and C#. It was never "hip" or "cool" for Silicon Valley, but a lot of the Fortune 500 outside of FAANG/GAFAM/what-have-you is quietly built on it. Scott Hanselman termed it the "dark matter developer" experience that most .NET stuff just doesn't trend on Reddit or HN, it just kind of quietly exists and gets things done.
Plenty of companies are remote-only and functionally have no way of ever becoming in-person. They tend to be smaller, not huge megacorps, though.

If working remotely is important to you, I would look for these types of companies, and not the ones that only adopted remote work because of external circumstances, whether that be cultural trends or lockdown restrictions.
While the community is generally garbage, Valorant and LoL have even worse chats, text or voice. I get chill teammates more often in CS than elsewhere.
"some part of the year" makes a huge difference. Hard for much evolution to occur when your entire colony gets wiped out every winter.
This is the first I'm hearing of it. I wonder how many others as well are seeing this via HN the first time? I would imagine MS has been aware of this since more or less inception, however, any product threat isn't really about existence, but how viable and how well known/used it is.
> But it is expressing extremely dangerous ideas.

Extremely dangerous in which sense? None, I suppose. I find that the terms "extremely innocuous" would better apply to this situation.
> But I predict the Internet, which only just recently got this section here in InfoWorld, will soon go spectacularly supernova and in 1996 catastrophically collapse.

- Bob Metcalfe
Flowx dev here. I'm not sure if the 404 page or the Debug = True is the concern?? but there are two privacy pages in the help section:
https://flowx.io/help/privacy/
https://flowx.io/help/privacy-policy/

I'm not a fan of website - they have become complex. I'm currently looking into static pages as a replacement.

That said, Flowx has many moving parts: app development, data servers, data processing, support, forum, website, and others. My main focus is app development and probably the least focus is the website.
Sure play games with laws and see what crazy laws people you dont like will write.

Pretending this is ethics is weird. It's just a power play.
I've had good luck on Twitter.

https://twitter.com/elerianm

https://twitter.com/concodanomics

https://twitter.com/LHSummers

https://twitter.com/UrbanKaoboy

https://twitter.com/PeterZeihan

https://twitter.com/EPBResearch

https://twitter.com/hussmanjp

https://twitter.com/JavierBlas

https://twitter.com/LastBearStandng

among others. You'll at least be exposed to a lot of terminology that you can then dive into with sites like Investopedia. I'll caution you not to rush out and start trading based on what you see. If you want to trade, that's a skillset that needs to be honed over time(learning to be unemotional, set limits, choose position sizes, etc).
> Answering that would prove... what? That you can multiply and make some wild guesses about a geographic detail you aren't familiar with?

Yeah, it was just weird. The interviews by the team in California were better, to be fair. (Though I still don't understand why they had to fly me there. The day after a 15 h flight across timezones, they spent 8 h giving me brain teaser questions. I was toast after that.)

> my willingness to eat every kind of fermented fish

That would have been my cup of tea!
"vs." (versus) is misleading;
TLDR Fly.io likes and claims alignment with MRSK, which is 37signals/DHH's new mechanism for managing dockerized apps with a strong "get off the cloud, run it locally" story.
Xamarin merged into .NET and got rebranded MAUI ("multi-platform application user interface").
Somewhat related to weather articles commenting on interest rates, I found it was fascinating that in Powell's opening statement he blamed the rise of consumer spending partially on the weather.

>Consumer spending appears to have picked up this quarter, although some
of that strength may reflect the effects of swings in the weather across the turn of the year.

I'm not proficient enough in monetary and fiscal policy to comment on the accuracy of drawing that conclusion, but I found it hysterical nonetheless.

https://www.federalreserve.gov/mediacenter/files/FOMCprescon...
It would only be plagiarizing if you took the content and presented it somewhere as your own without attribution.

What they are doing is bypassing a paywall, which should clearly be the point of the links. You can decide if you have an ethical problem with that.
How do you know if it's going to rain? And how do you know what the temperature will be midday based on how it feels in the morning? I'm honestly just curious, these things are very variable in all the places I've lived. The presence or absence of clouds is not a great predictor of rain, and depending on the day it might be 20 degrees warmer in the afternoon or 0 degrees warmer.

Obviously I can imagine living without a weather app, but I genuinely can't imagine having one but not finding it useful. One of the things people loved about Dark Sky was not just knowing whether it is or isn't going to rain, but that it's going to rain in precisely 35 minutes, I have time to bike to the store instead of driving. I used this a lot and it was very accurate.
Number 1 is my big concern. I have a son that is on the autism spectrum. He graduated from high school with a modified diploma when he was 20 and they decided to just send him along. He has managed to get a job doing baggage at the airport, which is pretty the limit of his abilities. What if all similar jobs were automated?
That assumes possibly the most ancient, menial task, and assumes the peasants always do it the same way (i.e., it circularly assumes that labor productivity doesn't increase).

Educating and training people, giving them general and specific skills, makes them much more productive.
Absolutely. The metric here is # of reports to the FBI — huge increase from 2021 to 2022
This. The fees to cover the bank branches, the online banking system, atm usage etc. would have to be huge.
This update makes it more stylized though
Andrew Tate's “The Real World” is stealing AGPL software
I'd like to kindly beg you all to please use a more descriptive word than "woke", whenever you can. I get what parent post is saying, but that's mostly based on context. It has meanings varying from "enlightened", to "social progressive", to "hard-left", to "confidently naive", or no discernable meaning at all.
Acceleration of Oumuamua from radiolytically produced H2 in H2O ice
yeah sorry it's been twenty years since this was published
Crop yields have been on a century long increase (we produce about 5x more corn per acre than 100 years ago) in part due to CO2 fertilization, in part due to improvements in technology:

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2016/carbon-dioxide-fer...

https://www.agry.purdue.edu/ext/corn/news/timeless/images/US...

https://www.nass.usda.gov/Charts_and_Maps/Field_Crops/soyyld...

You'll notice from the charts year to year variability happens (droughts, heat waves, freezes, etc) but the long term trend is up and to the right.
This is how you code now (with AI assistance)
XP at the time was pretty good. A lot of people started doing CI of the back of XP.

I'd say he's pretty sad about how agile turned out. Its pretty different to what XP advocated for in a lot of organisations.
> Being a builder does not generate predictable returns like an index fund or the S&P over the last 100 years.

Sure but investing a modest sum in the S&P 500 as a wage earner, salary earner, or otherwise also requires you to work for someone else your whole life and never get wealthy. That incentive kesp people starting new companies and doing other things - i.e. taking risks.
Wasn’t the late 90s a period of prosperity because it was the upswing of a bubble that ended with the dotcom crash?

The rising part of a bubble always has massive economic growth. It used to be better for everyone when there wasn’t a permanent housing shortage
> When I ask a candidate to convert an input string of digits to its output integer (e.g. "001234500" to 1234500) equivalent and they don't seem to discern that's an important distinction, it raises red flags.

Why do you feel this is important? To clarify, what are you testing here?
I wouldn't call VSCode a copycat of atom. It was completely rethought editor built for extensibility and flexibility that brought the huge ass community together to contribute to it. The remote container support is a major innovation. No other IDE supports it so well even to this day.

Atom is a slow ass editor that was copied from Sublime Text but also failed to fix its own shit which was the reason it died.
https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/SPY
As a 47 year old man, would you feel comfortable asking another man to walk you to your car or follow you home? Or would the social embarrassment of violating cultural norms for men outweigh the perceived safety risk? It is not a "red pill" argument to point out that cultural norms for displaying vulnerability and weakness are different for men and for women.
Congrats on the launch. Looks useful for certain types of users. I can imagine it now:

> Hey Zapier, generate a new Keygen license for ACME Co. and send the license key to them via email using Postmark. Send me a copy of the email as well. Lastly, mail them a new customer postcard.

Going to share this with a few customers today.
And a more accessible version: https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/983208
I'd argue the educational gains in the past 30 years have been negative.

The markets appear to indicate the worker value hasn't improved much lately, but capital has.

>Educating and training people, giving them general and specific skills, makes them much more productive.

And yet if you talk to almost any American, they will explain that the educational system has gone downhill. If the product produced through education is of lower quality, I would not expect the wage demanded to be higher.
It's been suggested to avoid BinaryFormatter since well before WCF was built and WCF itself has since been deprecated after a decade or so of service.
In fairness this technique is called time reversal because it is equivalent to playing back the waves but with the time axis reversed. (I assume that's it anyway - that's what you do in acoustics.)

I agree the headline is misleading though. It doesn't affect how light travels in time.
> but let's assume that we get AI to a level it can easily translate a grunt from a domain expert to a working + fast code.

That sounds equivalent to saying "what if we develop true AGI?" and the short answer is that I don't think we can know what the effect will be. ChatGPT isn't AGI and it isn't remotely clear what you have to do to push it there.

Is it going to be practical for the sorts of companies that pay developers now to license AGI? If not, the sort of AI that can do development might be a high end luxury.

Any sort of general AGI developer would effectively be a consultant and we pay people to manage consultants all the time. Would this hypothetical AGI require specialized tending? If so, we might just switch to being AI Developers instead of Java/C#/Python/etc. Developers.

Does this AGI developer require architectural guidance? Maybe we are all software architects presiding over squads of AI programmers.

Is AGI so good and so cheap that the market for information workers dries up? If not, maybe we take our problem solving skills to another area. If so, the economy will change so drastically I don't think it's possible to know what the outcome will be.

All in all, I guess I would say to worry less. You can't foresee or control the outcome and you don't have a better plan. So be agile, wait and see. Act when you see opportunity.
If wages stay flat and capital makes gains, then in the most true general sense wage-earners are earning less of a % than before. Also what’s the story with purchasing power which seems to be way down.

I think those are much more important to highlight and less pedantic.
> The only thing they were good for was network diagnostics.

Indeed - I still have a couple that I used for packet sniffing. Thankfully managed switches or switches smart enough to support port mirroring are inexpensive and thus fairly ubiquitous now.
Develop domain expertise, where by “domain” I mean the business domain of the company you are working for. Switch companies if you are working for one whose business domain is too trivial, e.g. stuff widely (or more than superficially) discussed on the internet. AI won’t catch up that quickly to such domain expertise, especially in areas where companies care about their corporate knowledge not being shared with the big AI tech companies.

In the longer run, try to get into a position where you can be one of the roles that shepherd the AIs working for your employer. It won’t be AIs all the way down (or up), probably.
I've actually already looked into the DEBUG=True issue just now. Setting it to false causes an "Internal Server Issue".

So do I spend hours looking for a fix, look into replacing it with a static pages site (I'm thinking Hugo) or just go back to porting Flowx to Apple :-)
Mozilla.ai: A startup – and community – building trustworthy and open-source AI
I am excited for what Memory API brings. The biggest pain with native memory management for us are "struct" or lack of those. Extremely bug prone memory arithmetic I personally am very motivated to see the back of.

FFI - we need to wait and see how this actually evolves.

We are not looking at any of this just yet. While it is undoubtedly fun, there are few other things we're busy with.
I think it's because of the essay-style formula that gets drilled into kids throughout much of their academic career.

Just copy-pasting some of the examples from: https://k12.thoughtfullearning.com/resources/studentmodels got me anywhere from 10% - 60% "AI generated" ratings. The "Rosa Parks" 12-grader example essay scores 43%, for example.
> I’m wondering if the Fed is just going to keep doing it until everyone is resigned to continued increases.

In a way, that's the idea. Inflation is a psychological phenomenon. People raise prices, etc. because they expect inflation. The Fed needs to keep raising rates until people expect that the Fed will continue to raise rates until prices stabilize (if that sentence makes sense).
I love the weather in Austin. Not very cold in the winter, and I love the dry heat of the summer.
what's the page you are using to replicate dark sky's capabilities exactly?
I think an undercovered long term impact of Silicon Valley Bank collapsing is that VCs have managed to kill off one of their own unique perks. Once you start digging in to what SVB was doing it wasn't just holding money for VCs and start ups, it was doing all sorts of stuff that was clearly questionable banking practice- but bought it that unique clientelle. Whether it's cheap mortgages to founders, weird venture debt, or turning a blind eye on regulatory compliance. One thing no clearly some VCs didn't think about was "next time I need a bit of flexibility out of a bank, could I get that flexibility from JPM". The answer is clearly no, and the whole Valley is going to have start playing by the rules of mere mortals again.
ah, ok - thanks!
The people who get funding will build, presumably? Investing doesn’t prevent people from building. Investments fund building. (Among other things.) This happens literally when banks loan money to real estate developers or other large projects.

But we’re in a situation where there was, until quite recently, both too much consumer demand (inflation) and too much investment (lots of wasted investment on silly things).

Higher interest rates are an incentive to slow investment and consumption and park money in government funds, where it‘s presumably more inert.

I think the answer to “what if everyone does it” is that everyone doesn’t do the same thing. If you have a good idea then you can spend your own money on it, and sometimes you have to, but if it’s expensive then it’s probably better to try to raise money from other people.
Agreed. Very poor decision on Apple's part. They should have just rebranded it and kept as is.