skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not just about external factors, you can't let you dev go dev for an infinite amount of time. Task should be done at some point and you should roughly know how long it should take.
Blast from the past! I’m not sure where I saw it originally but clearly remember liking it.
To set expectations (to sales people, PMs, managers, etc), i.e. to allow marketing to be aligned to a feature launch, or contacts to push things backwards to accommodate reality

To ensure alignment and a shared understanding of the scope exists, i.e. to prevent doing more than necessary or less than expected

To hold people to account, i.e. some people really are low performers and seem to evade being accountable for their performance

They shouldn't be deadlines, but it's not unreasonable to expect someone to know how they're going to approach something and what amount of effort and time that may take
It will get scary when that happens _and_ it has continuous learning and better short term memory :)
Right now they models are all quite static.
>If the government wants something to happen, surely they should pay for it?

If an industry is profiting by pushing the cost of their pollution onto society, surely the polluting industry should pay for it?

These (heavily subsidized) profits are not "owed," in reality it's the polluters who are the debtors here.

Here's a friendly reminder, since companies are constantly trying to flip this script around:

Companies serve at the whims of civil society, not the other way around. Society generously allows these companies to exist, not the other way around.

It's not our job to come to these car companies, hat in hand, and bargain for them to please mister please sir please don't destroy our planet! Instead, it's their obligation to not destroy the planet.

If companies prefer not to invest having a future business, they're welcome to cease existing in that future. We call this creative destruction, and it's essential to make room for newer and better companies to take their place.
> Those parties I linked, you could have voted for, but y'all didn't.

I've voted in every national election (primary and general) in the past 15 years, and those parties have never been on the ballot. It takes a massive amount of money to run successful campaigns, and political donors make a big difference in choosing which candidates (and therefore which platforms) people get to vote on. This significantly biases the ideological space and makes it invalid to look at the outcomes of elections and draw conclusions about vague ideas that were nowhere near making it onto any major party candidate's platform.

I'm not a proponent of communism; I'm a big fan of property rights, but in any case, my core allegiance is to the scientific method and to seeing reality clearly. You really want to reach a specific conclusion but the claims you're using to build your path to that conclusion are not factual. You should start from a close inspection of the actual processes and behaviors of systems, rather than starting with your conclusion and trying to cobble together a case for your conclusion.
Cells within cells within cells, interlinked.
A large part of our life is comprised of everyday failures that we encounter. As per Mark Manson, one has to make peace with everyday failure and devise ways to decimate it. What we inadvertently miss out is that it all has to do with a grand cosmic design where entropy rules. In order to understand what entropy is, I wrote a fictional story to demonstrate how entropy could be useful in our everyday lives. What we consider a foe is actually a friend. Read the blog to know more
Create Java Apps with AI (ChatGPT)
Have you ever wished that you could create an app by just writing: Make this app ?
I wonder if Stallman has actually used GPT-4. His opinion seems like a conclusion that a person could arrive at by just reading the specifications.
What? Why do you think HN readers are working for companies impacted or dependent on some way?

I conjecture a huge fraction are entirely independent of SVB FDIC shenanigans.
Because magical thinking and lack of boundaries.
they already have a larger Navy and will soon pass us in aircraft

while we were blowing up the Middle East, they were building shipyards
It’s been an odd struggle, for the last 20 years or so, to get people to “believe” this is real, too.

I once went so far as to purchase really expensive (for the time) noise cancelling headphones and write them off as a work expense. My boss, in a windowless office directly behind me, would slurp and half stop breathing while eating lunch. It was get headphones or check myself into inpt therapy. This was before “wfh” was allowed, too.
https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w13392/w133...
Remember the way Mr. Drysdale fainted when Granny threatened to withdraw all of her money from his bank?
I've used them for keyboard plates. They charge a small penalty fee (it was $8 on $60 worth of plates last time) because you're punching a huge number of tiny holes in, but it's still dramatically cheaper ($70 for five versus $100+ for one) than calling out a laser/water jet cutting service.
They have a bit of history (and a few others do) of putting out garbage articles written by AI and edited by their latest intern.
I found it strange that they are using a ARM Renesas chip instead of your more well known brands such as ST Micro, NXP or Microchip. Renesas was fairly late on using ARM cores compared to the rest of the industry.

Then I read the comment on CNX-Software. Renesas has invested 10 million dollar to Arduino. [1].

Now it makes sense. Gotta follow the money.

[1]: https://www.renesas.com/us/en/about/press-room/renesas-annou...
This is what ChatGPT-4 says regarding this specific case (you can see the prompt used as well, it's just a copy-paste of your comment):
https://pastebin.com/PPy4vMrU

It seems to write code that does the displacement manually "// Iterate over the geometry's vertices and apply the displacement, geometry.vertices.forEach{...}"
I am responsible for telling the person promising how long the work would take as scoped out, given the competing or potential problems which that person is also responsible of informing me exist. It's not that I provide no info - it's that I can't be authoritative about delivery times in an ecosystem I don't entirely control.
What would convince you that it didn’t?
IME a database does not algorithmically improve anything, but it does make at your disposal some very efficient data structures that are definitely nontrivial to replicate. This is especially the case if you have to work with datasets that don't fit in memory!

An added bonus is that you can use SQL.
28nm is good for everything besides mobile, desktop and server which is a huge market.

I guess China will crack EUV in some time.
"Der kluge Hans" is not directly a Brother Grimm title. There is a story "Der kluge Knecht", which translates into "The clever farmhand". The hero of the story is called in the story kluger Hans. There is another story called "Der gescheite Hans", which means exactly the same. Both stories are not fairy tales but droll stories about a simple-minded person.
>Would being the pet of an AI-run civilisation be so bad though?

Only for people with dignity. So, in general, no!
This is a question i have often asked. Just over 20 years ago I was renting a flat in Edinburgh where just opposite a steel-framed office block was being built. The construction really interested me - i saw several guys and a crane operator swinging up a huge horizontal i-bar and bolting it on to the vertical bars, with no obvious problems. Compare that with adding a new interface to something.

And do you think these guys were asked how long the bolting would take? No, they were told how long they had to do it, by the engineer in charge of the site, and they did it.

This is why all software project managers should be highly competent programmers and should do all task (a bad word, imho) estimation themselves. After all. they are hopefully more experienced!
Reminder: when a corporation says “useful” they mean “profitable.” I’m not on the crypto bandwagon, I just want folks to take anything a corp says with a grain of salt.
Well we shouldn't be able to buy Mango in Sweden for a start.

There are things we take for granted that we shouldn't, like using AC all day long to live in barely liveable places by Irish descendants standard like in Texas or Arizona.
That behavior is what power users (read this audience) dislike about Google. They wouldn’t have gotten to be a powerhouse in search and personalized results if the strategy didn’t work for the mass market audience.

The reason sponsored ads are first in the results is because people tend to click the first result without thinking about the consequences of that first result being sponsored.

ChatGPT might not go down this path, but it’s almost certain someone will, and more than likely that Google will do exactly that within Bard.

Do you think that people won’t appreciate an assistant that already knows everything about you and can conversationally recommend exactly what they were looking for? And do you think corporations won’t capitalize on the clear opportunity that’s there?
If it showed full links those would be clickable with cmd+click on fp w iterm or such
Still, some level of estimates can always be given. I have never embarked upon a programming task, even a very novel one, where I couldn't say whether it will take two hours or two years. Now, whether it would take two weeks or two months has sometimes happened.
If the expected ROI on a particular project is so razor thin that accurate estimates are needed, don’t even start. Be sure to do your due diligence and aim for at least 10X (ideally > 100X). If this is provably true, then accurate estimates will not be needed. If this cannot be concluded, simply live with the limitations of off-the-shelf offerings.
No this will be different, more like the Amazon rainforest natives killing anyone who comes near.
Once I learned how to use STMCubeMX, I never went back to Arduino. Comparing STM boards with Arduino in terms of price, RAM, Flash, GPIO, analog, ... and R4 looks like Steve Buscemi doing the "hello fellow kids" meme. I think the big win for Arduino was the ecosystem and simplicity, but the big embedded players have invested significantly in this space with tons of code examples compatible with the arduino add ins (STM boards all have the arduino header).

ESP doesn't scale. Once you start with STM, you can switch to much more advanced boards with ease, ESP doesn't have the range.
I always chuckle when someone claims anything to be good or bad for "society" as if the human experience is somehow uniform across the globe. Oh please
For these I like to say "by the time I can give you an accurate estimate, I will be done with the work."

Seriously though. It's always a time tradeoff. How much time do you want an expensive developer investigating how long this problem will take. Will they learn something they can use during development.

I always follow up my above quote with the unknowns and how hard I think they really are; what are the possible risks; _and_ I include the experience of the developers working on the problem; our ability to bring in other devs who understand this better etc etc. I like to make sure whoever is quoting this problem out understand everything as well as we can in the given amount of time.
The court has already ruled that you can't own the derivative work anyways, because copyright law requires an individual artist. If I ask bob to make a picture for me, bob actually owns the copyright to start (but can assign it to me). I don't automatically get given copyright because I 'prompted' bob with what I wanted drawn (draw me a mouse). Copyright is given to the artist on the artists specific output.

If I ask an AI for a picture, there is no artist 'bob' to be assigned ownership under copyright law and therefor it's not copyrightable under existing law.

Funny how originally all these pro-AI art people were anti-copyright law but I can see them sometime soon lobbying for MORE restrictive copyright law (granting it in a larger pool or circumstances hence making more things copyrighted) so that they can overcome this.
I think you missed my point. Our land is super cheap for LA (hence all the infrastructure work). Even if we built a garden shack on it, we’d have spent $600k. How could a working class family ever afford to build a house like this?

If the goal is more houses, make them faster and easier to build. Less red tape, less infrastructure requirements. Otherwise it’s only well of people like me that can (barely) afford them.

Now I’m sure you’ll say “don’t live in a coastal city then”. That where the work is. And it’s also where 40k homeless people live. Connect the dots. We need more houses. There is land to build them, it’s just insane to do that under current rules.
If a Chinese company isn't directly under US sanctions like Huawei is they can still use TSMC to fab chips.
Here's a casual thought: if you, as a developer, were able to generate code instantaneously, what time would be required to 0) gather initial requirements and create Jira tickets, 1) re-work your code based on changing requirements, 2) re-build and re-package your solution for testing, and 3) have your dedicated QA or acceptance team evaluate your packaged code in a staging and or production capacity?

Because those components are, fundamentally, a significant portion of the time estimate required to make plans from a business perspective–and nearly all of them are largely outside your control. AND-most importantly-your ability to gauge those timelines, without a single Git commit, is what separates highly-paid engineers from n00bs.
Are straight pipes legal where you live? Might consider reporting them if it's truly debilitating/illegal.
Definitely the latter.

There are many of other products which implement "keep track of partial file contents to deduplicate", for example casync borg and restic.

None of them use sqlite for metadata storage, which kinda makes sense - in author's schema, each block uses (fileid, block_index, hash) tuple, which is 2/3 wasted space, as fileids are mostly same (if files are big) and block_index is always increasing. A custom data structure would be both faster and more efficient.
LLMs in Production: Lessons Learned
Is the only common thread between SVB and the haircut that it's inspiring LPs to look more closely at their investments?
It is well known that more teens commit suicide in insular religious communities.

It's not social media it is people driving other people to despair. Ofcourse you can't really fix that.
Because it's assembling data from an enormous dataset with correct answers. It's a language model, it is physically impossible for it to 'think' or 'feel'.
I would assume the individual jobs could be fairly different, e.g. the plumbing doesn't come into the necessary places, shutoff valves not working.
Or until a competitor wins out on this opportunity.
>Westerners deciding in droves that their governments are the worst and Russia is never at fault is suspicious though. I guess if those Westerners equally despised Russia, that would show some integrity

This was the Soviet attitude to dissident Andrei Sakharov. Because he said he did not care about American atrocities, and that he only had an opinion on Soviet atrocities, they used this to try and discredit him.

Do you think the Soviets were correct to vilify him for this?

>Like when there was a post about ICC’s warrant for Putin here, of course the commenters arrived with “how dare the West prosecute crimes”

After the Hague invasion act and the subsequent refusal by the ICC to prosecute western war crimes it kind of became kind of a joke of an institution. Look, all you have to do is threaten them with violence and they back down!

This is why South Africa, for instance, has explicitly refused to respect the warrant.

Russia is now considering cloning the Hague invasion act. As with most Russian evils it tends to treat US behavior as a template for what it can get away with and since US citizens havent been so good at holding their own country to account...
None of this may be enough to match China. Its own surging arsenal now includes “monster” coast guard cutters...
You’re all acting like he does know, he’s just not telling you. Step back for a moment and consider how things change if he actually doesn’t know and not even a water boarding session will get him to tell you how long it’s going to take. Now what? You either live with the uncertainty or fire him and replace him with somebody who can conjure up estimates - which, presumably was what you were trying to do when you hired him in the first place.
Open office plans

Forced work from office

Coworkers who have insatiable need to socialize, look for opportunities to chit chat, party

Meetings where people talk over each other

People who prefer calling to offline async comms

....

On the other side are us introverts who also have ADHD and misophonia
I wonder if they can get the same reaction without the knock part, just with the voice cues.
It says this, is it ok? I can check when I get home

ChatGPT: Below is an AWS CloudFormation YAML template for creating an AWS Lambda function with 16GB of memory:

```yaml
AWSTemplateFormatVersion: '2010-09-09'
Description: 'AWS CloudFormation Lambda Function Template with 16GB Memory'

Resources:
LambdaFunctionRole:
Type: 'AWS::IAM::Role'
Properties:
AssumeRolePolicyDocument:
Version: '2012-10-17'
Statement:
- Effect: Allow
Principal:
Service:
- lambda.amazonaws.com
Action:
- sts:AssumeRole
Path: /
Policies:
- PolicyName: LambdaExecutionPolicy
PolicyDocument:
Version: '2012-10-17'
Statement:
- Effect: Allow
Action:
- logs:CreateLogGroup
- logs:CreateLogStream
- logs:PutLogEvents
Resource: 'arn:aws:logs:::*'

LambdaFunction:
Type: 'AWS::Lambda::Function'
Properties:
FunctionName: MyLambdaFunction
Runtime: python3.9
Role: !GetAtt LambdaFunctionRole.Arn
Handler: lambda_function.lambda_handler
MemorySize: 16384
Timeout: 300
Code:
ZipFile: |
import json

def lambda_handler(event, context):
return {
'statusCode': 200,
'body': json.dumps('Hello from Lambda with 16GB memory!')
}

```

This CloudFormation template creates an IAM role and a Lambda function with 16GB (16384MB) of memory. The Lambda function runtime is Python 3.9, but you can change this to another runtime if necessary. The code block contains a basic Python script for returning a simple message; you can replace this with your own script.
A lot of things would have to change yes.

But saying I need a car because ... shouldn't be fixed by buying said car but by fixing the reasons we say we need it.
Thanks. I didn't know this. Last time I used RSS it was a long time ago (in Google Reader) and at that time it was useful.
Correction: they are commandments their followers are urged to obey. There’s no we.
The people getting paid salaries to have a bird's eye view and veto power over those kinds of changes that could screw with my deliverable should be the ones knowledgeable and accountable for that estimate

But they are accountable to their stakeholders (clients, upper management, etc). They take your estimate and many others from other people in the team and work those into a delivery plan.

A good manager will know how to manage risks and remove blockers in a way that gives a developer the best chance to work within the estimate. A bad manager will usually have no plan and put all the blame on the developers if things go awry.
> I declare your house a public good, it is now mine.

Private houses, when used as a primary residence, are typically closer to the personal property rather than private property realm. There's a very real discussion about how the land should be allocated, but it's more likely that land use becomes addressed via land value taxes rather than by appropriation.

> [Rude remarks re: definitions]. My property is my property. Not yours.

Private property, real property, personal property, public property -- these are all types of property in the discourse. Liberalism, conservatism, socialism, and many other economic theories use these terms, and choose (or choose not to) differentiate between them. Plenty of conservative thinkers recognize the difference between private and personal property, and choose not to treat them differently.

> You're not here for discussion.

I think you'll find I'm very much interested in a discussion, if there is discussion to be had. Despite your hostility, I don't believe I've resorted to any 'punching down', as it were.

> Of course you do, you're a commie.

My personal beliefs are on that side of things, yes, though that's not the language I would use. (FWIW, I would also describe myself as opposed to Soviet style communism. I am not, for instance, a fan of Lenin's authoritarian "Dictatorship of the Proletariat", and I find many authoritarian communists absolutely vile.)
My outlook is pretty different from some of the sources you cite, but I like:

- Eurodollar University / Jeff Snider

- Robert Prechter, mostly for the understanding of money/credit and the fact that asset price movements are an endogenous process which drives headlines, not the other way around. Be careful of the permabear outlook and excessive Elliott Wave woo though.

- Financial histories (essential reading IMO): Galbraith's history of the 1929 crash, Jim Grant's stuff, Manias, Panics, and Crashes, Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, etc

- Naked Capitalism blog

- Karl Marx and Henryk Grossman (the TRPF explains a lot of financial/investing phenomena like stock market cap as % of GDP rising over time)

- Podcasts: Market Huddle, Top Traders Unplugged

- Minyanville used to be a great source, any of the writers who used to be there are worth checking out.
Well it’s one thing to guard and try to prevent thefts. It’s quite another to investigate them and arrest the perpetrators. If there’s some gang stealing trains or truckloads of goods then police could presumably find them and arrest them.
This comment is underrated. Basically what these businesses do is they sell their products at a dumping cost. If that practice is illegal for physical products then so should it be for software.
Sounds like Elon Musk fans.
Because of non-technical micromanagers.
oh they are definitely thinking about carriers - specifically ways to kill them

China has invested rather deeply in the space of carrier-killer missiles, which are cheap enough to build that it will always be possible and economical to sink any carrier, including Ford class
As I understand that is performance in a simulator, and it is unknown what delays are going to be between pipeline stages on real hardware.
I’m a U.S. voter, so yes I’m part of this collective failure to vote well/convince my countrymen to vote well. I’m not sure why you think I’m blaming somebody else?
YES. I experience the same depletion of energy during “rest”. In fact, lots of down time without productivity (doesn’t have to be work!) leads me to depression. Going back to school and taking a single class has made me feel productive and filled me with pride.. with thought it’s not too impressive. Watching Netflix for hours, or browsing my phone, leads me to a bad outlook of myself and the world.
To the types of people who use terms like “lily white” in a derogatory sense, the non-white US citizens who work in the defense sector don’t really count as non-white. I think the term is “multiracial whiteness”.
Very cool and probably a fun exercise, but I would probably put the data on a ZFS volume with dedupe instead, which from reading this implementation is pretty much the same thing to my layman’s perspective. I could also add compression to the same dataset.
I consistently struggle with Notes and iMessage sync issues, and I suspect it’s due to being a customer for so many years and making my way through many devices over those years.

The UX of the Apple ecosystem is so nice but when it goes sideways you’re kind of out of luck, even if you have applecare.

I wish they had some sort of premium “fix my esoteric appleID account issues” service you could pay them for once a decade or so.