skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was excited to see this. My results were not convincing.

- I used "create voice", and the page refused to allow me to create anything because the big green button at the bottom was disabled. Only 1 checkbox shows up out of the 3 labels, and I was unable to check even the box that was visible. I used console tools to remove the disabled property from the element and it worked. (I'm using Safari so maybe it doesn't work there properly)

- The generated voice did not sound like me (I used my own voice). It did have some familiar tones, but not really.

- I fiddled with top-p, temperature and voice guidance, but the improvement was minuscule.

- Also recording the voice did not work (did record, but couldn't replay it to verify). So I recorded it on my computer and uploaded a file and that did work.
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> but your original claim was that C++ does not seperate allocation from construction.

At least that's how I interpreted it.
I would bet heavily against that any such generated music to become popular (except maybe as bad filler music for video games music etc).

The truth is that classical music fan are very very picky about what they like.

Computers have been "better" musician than human for a long time: a midi file is always played "perfectly". Yet it's sounds horrible, mechanised to our ears. The controlled imperfection of a real human musician is what makes the music beautiful.

I don't see any computer composing anything worth listening to in the foreseeable future (and I'm bullish on generative ai).
The reason is the number of parallel instructions you need to run during training. Let’s say you have a 32 core CPU. Well great. But an A100 GPU has 6912 CUDA cores and 432 Tensor cores.

A 32 core CPU may have more capability per core, but it doesn’t scale to meet the needs of training LLMs
No, you cannot.

Apple does not give you the freedom to use old versions of software. You can't downgrade your iOS version. You can only upgrade apps, and iOS only lets you download the latest available version of an app for your version of iOS.

Need to do a device reset? If you have managed to keep any apps on old versions, you'll get upgraded now. And you can't even save APKs and sideload because of Apple's developer signatured and certs.

Old versions of iOS get some, but certainly not all security updates.

And most importantly... so, so, so many apps, from banking to navigation to music, insist on checking your app version and blocking usage with a massive dialog box if you're a couple of weeks out of date. It's incredibly obnoxious, especially when some of these apps update 2-3 times a week and each update is >100MB. I try to use those services from a web browser these days, but Safari is so limiting you can't even reliably block ironic "download the app" banners.

And that's to say nothing of actual cellular advancements, like new LTE bands and 5G and voLTE, which older phones understandably can't get... but which certain phone providers use to kick old phones off the network. For instance, AT&T no longer allows any activations for phones not on their (very limited) voLTE whitelist, since they shut down 3G.

Like OP, really wish I could just use the 2016 SE for the next 10 years. But even though the hardware is capable the software industry has pushed it into the "legacy" bin.
Better regulate gas stations otherwise they might end up buying into some failed cross promotional scheme putting ads in bathrooms. The horror.
What makes medical profession immune? I see this area as ripe for AI disruption. Analyzing symptoms and providing suggested medicine, tailoring dosage based on your individual vitals, analyzing data/imagery to diagnose you with diseases, all kinds of automation and speed ups for processing patient data, etc.
You have misunderstood: I'm not suggesting childfree people are better than people who have children.

I'm suggesting childfree people have a negligible impact on climate change compared to people who have children.

You can bring "moral high ground" into it wherever it seems applicable, but I have not done that. I've said only that it's hypocritical to criticize a person for their climate impact while simultaneously making a thousand or a million times more of a climate impact.
Yes, it should be possible to revert a device to the state you bought it in. Sure, software support was also included in the price, but there's a reason it's called support and not enforcement.
It's not just phones. Yesterday I tried to dust off a MacBook Air from 2012 so that the kids could play some games. It was used regularly up until 3 years ago, but now pretty much all software is broken, and it won't let me upgrade anything. Hopefully there's a Linux distro that will work on it.
very true. there is almost nothing in the c++ standard library that you cannot rewrite in standard c++. actually, i think nothing.
How and when Facebook decides to break its own moderation rules
How about instead of an AI generating a regex we can't understand, we put energy using actually well developped method for parsing & validating text? Why put code you can't understand in your database?

For complex inputs, use actual peg parsers : https://docs.rs/peg/latest/peg/

For simplet inputs, express your intent with readable methods using a lib : https://github.com/sgreben/regex-builder/ & https://github.com/francisrstokes/super-expressive
These are (most probably) Sanifair toilets. Sanifair is part of Tank & Rast, a monopoly that owns all (ok, not all, only something like 98%) of the locations for gas stations on the German highways.

Fun company 


https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tank_%26_Rast#Kritik
I keep reading how C++20/17/14/11 is entirely different.

I've been programming in C++ since 2004, involved in Boost then the standards committee. For me there hasn't really been such a big change, it's always the same language at core, with a few evolutions, that mostly make it slightly more terse.
Relax, the planet can't be destroyed by climate change. Hyperbole are not useful if we want to have a reasonable debate.
In light of the quote, "Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them," I agree that LLMs will undoubtedly transform the landscape of work. By automating tedious tasks, they'll enable engineers to become vastly more productive (10-100x), allowing them to focus on strategic and creative aspects of their projects while developing larger, more complex systems.

While job losses are a concern, I think the more significant impact will be on the way companies operate. As firms exist to economize on the cost of coordinating economic activity, the streamlining and reduction of coordination needs brought about by LLMs will challenge the very foundations of many businesses. In this new landscape, individuals and small teams might outcompete larger organizations.

Freelancers and solo entrepreneurs could find themselves better positioned to compete in the market, driving the rise of smaller, agile businesses that can innovate rapidly and cater to niche markets. This shift will also change the skills needed for success in the field.

Overall, it's an exciting time to be part of this industry. Far from being a time to quit, it's an opportunity to adapt, grow, and harness the power of LLMs to reshape the world of work.
Yes its very slow.
Fees and Transaction speed definitely - with new upgrades coming out in the next year (EIP4844) L2s can handle thousands of transactions per second.

The UI is really up to the apps, the good thing is there are many teams working on payments so there will be plenty to choose from to find the UI you like, and people will be able to pay via the same wallet. Stripe already has USDC payments on crypto rails and Visa is working with Starknet to integrate with these L2s too.

All the L2s with their usage, security, speed and tradeoffs are at http://l2beat.com
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You could totally run them on an early 90’s PC. Just don’t try to use autocomplete plugins or anything else that needs to hook into every character insertion event. Also I would imagine git (and hence magit) would run pretty slow on an old PC due to all the hashing, but I think it would still be usable.

Also you’d want to avoid loading too many plugins all at once, due to limited RAM, but that should be obvious as well.
The other reason you want to use a function of time and avoid using state for things like animations is that you don't want animation speed to be frame rate dependent.
"I can't recall a time, not even once, when I found pushnotifs in a browser useful or even desirable."

Facts! It always feels intrusive. I have them blocked by default on mobile and desktop. However, I also have all notifications on my phone disabled as well as permanent do not disturb mode.

Property should not make demands for attention.
Now you’ve just rephrased thinking. What is „making sense of the world“?
You're kinda proving my point.

People think kids are too expensive because of the expectation of what kids cost. Not just monetarily but also in terms of time.

You see it especially in Asian countries like South Korea. Kids mean hiring tutors, violin lessons, test prep, etc. Because of course my kid won't be average, he's going to be a next Bill Gates and that costs a lot of money.
Whether you applaud or are disgusted by this, we should all be very afraid.
I was never convinced on bidets as in the UK virtually no-one has them.

But then I heard the line (from a Frenchman) "If you got shit on your fingers would you wipe it off with a piece of tissue, or wash your hands? Why would the answer be different for your bum?".

On reflection, why aren't they everywhere?
Operating losses means that the Federal Reserve is paying out interest to banks in excess of the amount that it is earning in interest. Historically that wasn’t possible because the Federal Reserve didn’t pay interest on reserves. It has to do so now because its balance sheet is so large due to QE that it can’t influence rates by shrinking its balance sheet.

This is significant because the losses are born by the taxpayer which violates the constitutional mandate that all spending is approved by the house. The Fed is sidestepping this by booking the operating losses in an accrual account to be booked against future interest earned.
Let’s look at actual problems with the US healthcare system. I’ll propose ways that if the market for healthcare were actually free, it would be better. It is not actually free because in the US, employers typically provide healthcare, and if you do not have an employer who does, the plans are prohibitively expensive.

Issue: People lose healthcare when they switch their jobs.

Solution: Have people purchase their own healthcare rather than receive it through their employer.

Issue: People don’t like their healthcare plan.

Solution: Allow individuals to choose their own healthcare plans. They know what they need far better than their employer does.

Issue: People cannot afford the healthcare plan they want.

Solutions: Stop throttling the amount of doctors who can attend medical school so that there is a sufficient supply of doctors. Higher supply will lower prices and improve outcomes. Institute outcome-based pricing schemes, i.e. providers get paid when they fix your problem. This will fix insurance companies’ and providers’ misaligned incentives; right now, their goal is to charge you as much as they can for health care and provide you as little as they can. That maximizes their margins. If they were only paid when they solved issues, I’m sure they would prioritize that.

IMO, the debate over “public” vs. “private” healthcare is a false dichotomy. The US does not have a private, free market healthcare system today, but proponents of public healthcare use the current state of it to argue against private systems, since it isn’t public. Proponents of private healthcare ignore anything that could improve the state of healthcare because they do not want to see it socialized and assume all suggestions will come in this form. The people in need of healthcare are left with poor healthcare as politicians fight imaginary healthcare dragons.

There is also a secondary issue in the healthcare discussion: prevention. Why do we have to spend so much on healthcare? It’s not like the human body spontaneously breaks down at such a fast rate. The actions we take as individuals, and as a society, cause a lot of disease. If we are concerned about healthcare prices, it is disingenuous and negligent of us to not look at what is driving our healthcare costs.
Funny, I read the author as saying there are not enough ’new’ ideas.

I find the drive to make it new is a curse on mobile. Many apps have betrayed me (1Password) or threw away best features (WeatherUnderground) or just lost touch (Transit) when they update their products with new features.

IMHO, if you want to make something ‘new’, then take a page from Hollywood and call it ‘2’ or ‘revenge’.

Interesting a later thread about new hardware and old software seems to have the same problem—companies won’t support old software with only a small fraction of users.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35339006
Sure but it did make calculators and computers obsolete.

My mom was a computer in a bank. That was the name of her job.
No more or less than every other social network.
What about Wakame? I love that stuff raw.
Can you download and save the .apk file of the older app perhaps? This obviously would require you to know ahead of time what you were going to potentially use the device for in the future, which is ridiculous.
> And the dismissive tone about donations in general... well, I won't comment on that

Why not?

> Or they could just not bother.

That's true. The creators have the option of creating their own cryptocurrency wallets and accepting the donations without any middleman. They could also choose a more libre alternative to Patreon such as OpenCollective [0][1] or Liberapay [2].

> Ah yes. The great digital system of the future where even such a simple thing as recurring payments must be done manually

I see that as a plus personally. Recurring payments are so hard to cancel at times with credit cards I'm at the point I create a new virtual credit card for every subscription I create. Theoretically you could also setup your wallet to automatically transact, it's just that's not a functionality of your cryptocurrency, just as recurring payments aren't a functionality of the dollar but rather of your bank/credit card provider.

[0]: https://opencollective.com/

[1]: https://docs.opencollective.foundation/how-it-works/financia...

[2]: https://en.liberapay.com/
For ads encouraging you to spend a penny.
The BRICS Has Overtaken the G7 in Global GDP
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/04/an-end-to-extreme-pov...

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/articles/2019-07-...

https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/AFR/africa/population-...
People that post all this sky is falling nonsense about LLMs seem to be working in some alternate reality where all developers do is produce simple code in a vacuum without any external inputs, needing to maintain it, expand it, etc.
Yes, that's why nobody takes you seriously when you finally find something that does work. Magnesium for muscle cramps takes effect very quickly and i don't think muscle cramps are related to Placebo at all. It's very chemical, your muscles lack the magnesium to relax, so they cramp up. No room for your mind to play tricks, really.
Sorry. Should’ve been clear. It’s not the case, it would’ve been weird if it was
Once, while sitting with my accountant, I asked, in passing, the sum of two numbers ("how much is X and Y?").

Without looking up or pausing he responded "How much do you want it to be?"
No, not forced to support.

One should, however, be able to download old software and install it.

This is not currently possible.
> ”iPhones are getting more expensive”

Certainly true in Europe, but remember that the Euro has declined in value significantly relative to the USD in the past few years. If you convert the € prices back into USD at the time of introduction, I bet they haven’t increased any faster than inflation.
You cant. Insane people will always find hidden codes and dog-whistles in your messages.
With the "animation" version, the logo jumps around when resizing the window. Yuck.

I hate these hot takes. Maybe you need state because sometimes things have state.
This reminds me strongly of Absal[0]. Could somebody familiar with both give a comparison?

This looks like a really cool idea, and I'd love to see a GHC backend for it.

It might also be nice to have a brief explanation if an interaction between without just linking to a big theory paper.

[0] https://github.com/VictorTaelin/abstract-algorithm

eta: I only now notice that Victor Taelin is the author of both packages.
If hospital workers spread disease because they could not be bothered to do the obvious things we -know- prevent this like basic sanitation... then yeah, I would call it negligence.

Do not put long lived cryptographic key material in the memory of an internet connected system. Ever. It is a really easy to understand rule.
> Children have a very small carbon footprint, they only have a significant footprint when they're adults so we're talking 20 years from now.

This is the same reason I don’t save any money for retirement. Somebody will surely have figured things out by the time for me to stop working! I can do what I want with no consequences.
I agree in principle but reality is more complex.

I am an android / windows user. After several years I splurged for an expensive brand new iPad specifically to run music apps such as behringer deepmind (which integrates with their synth).

Couple of weeks later iPad silently installed some os update. Half my apps stopped working! They were apparently incompatible with the current OS and I needed to "contact app developer for an update". Which as you point out isn't going to happen.

This is extreme user-unfriendly BS, but apparently par for the course in Apple Land. Eventually I gave the now-useless iPad to my wife. Lesson learned, though not sure what lesson it was. It's hard to run apps?
> It's things like deciphering what the customer needs, it's picking a good architecture for a new module or selecting an appropriate algorithm depending on various trade-offs, and figuring out how to integrate new features into existing in-production code with minimal disruptions.

Such a good description/summary. I’d love to use ChatGPT but the problems I solve on a day to day basis are almost never of the form “write some simple code to solve this well defined problem”
I would love that as well!
I had a weirder issue. When selecting the different tuning options there was no playback so I went to the final step and the voices joined in a cacophony all at once
>Windows 7 and 8 are both EOL by Microsoft. I don't think it's unreasonable of valve to drop support for OS's that Microsoft aren't maintaining

it's not unreasonable until you realize that Valve offers no other method for audiences that may be stuck with older machines to play the games that they purchased, which at the time of purchase they had completely met all of the system requirements.

A basic game should not have a set of rolling requirements that are ever-increasing. Valve decided that they wanted to hold the keys to the kingdom with regards to the games that they sold; thus it's a bit more unreasonable when they decide to nix a part of the audience without any recourse available to them other than "download what you need now, and unplug.".

Leisure Suit Larry required a 286 and CGA graphics -- isn't it a bit ridiculous that a Steam purchased 'Leisure Suit Larry' is going to soon require an OS greater than Windows 8.1? Yeah; I get that it's only by virtue of requiring their portal to download the thing , but they offer no alternative to this .
> It's weird to see a forum for hackers, with hacker in the name, and with a line about encouraging curiosity in the charter, be so hostile to someone who hacked something together.

I guess people are getting tired of too many topics in one narrow space. I come to HN for variety. It does get tiring when every single day I see yet another LLM-based solution attempting to solve a problem I don't think I even have.

Overdose of a certain topic is not good for a general tech forum like this. Everything should be in moderation and all that.
> The European Commission has pledged, however, to create a legal route for sales of new cars that only run on e-fuels to continue after 2035, after Germany demanded this exemption from the ban.

Sigh!
I use GPT4 for Powershell mostly. It does all kinds of gymnastics that I could have never even dreamed of. I am far more Jobs than I am Wozniak.
GPT is like having a WOZ with you all the time. Granted it is one who takes hallucinogens every once in a while.
i doubt that torvalds (or you) has ever written a significant program in c++. if he has, where? and if you have not written a significant program in a language, you do not get to judge it.
> Meanwhile, of course a vegan diet is better for the environment

This is not a matter of course. Humans are part of the environment, and it is not a matter of course that a vegan diet is healthy for humans. The idea (I don't want to say fact, but I believe it) that meat and dairy consumption/industry are currently happening at a scale that is harmful does not mean that meat and dairy are bad for the environment.
Game state isn't usually frame rate dependent either
> Passwords are productivity, not preferences.

Surely passwords are security?
Have you tried GPT4?
Makes me wonder what other types of sites/apps the blind broker might have instructions to buy out.
This is why it’s important to do a culture fit evaluation on top of a technical evaluation. An unpopular opinion here for sure.
This is an impressively thorough and considered response.
Apart from SF, where there's literally a human shit map because there's no public toilets.
How much would it cost to use Cody with Sourcegraph? I don’t see a price in the article
Very nice, it would make a great IOS tasks app too.
Funny. I'm still on a OnePlus 6 and I see similar bizarre freezes as OP when I open the photo gallery. Or just when starting the camera often I have to wait 15-20s before the phone realizes that I have pictures. Sometimes when swiping through the gallery it will become excessively slow and stop reacting to panning / swiping / zooming.

It's what is driving me close to grabbing a new phone at some point this year.
> I don't understand why China is allowed to have web products in our markets but we don't seem to be allowed Google, Facebook, WhatsApp etc. in theirs.

Because we're a democracy with free speech and open markets, and China is not? Banning foreign speech and competition is not the victory for our way of life that some people seem to think it is.

There is a problem with TikTok - like ALL social media it uses opaque ranking algorithms that serve nefarious interests, and like ALL social media it spies ruthlessly on its users. How about we address those issues, thereby indirectly resolving the TikTok issue too?
The best place for bathrooms: Wegmans. Always the pleasant experience.
Or you could just set it once per developer in their core.excludesFile and have it apply to all repos.