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Ask HN: Has your technical blog seen a drop in traffic since Chat GPT released?
I’ve noticed a fairly clear drop in traffic to my most popular articles related to Jenkins since ChatGPT launched. It has made me question whether there is any point writing a blog anymore if LLMs will just consume it and feed it to users in its own words. Is there a point in writing for robots?

I’m curious if others have noticed this, and if it’s a wider trend.

If this is a wider trend, how will this affect the proliferation of new tech information, guides and tutorials? Will this affect the future of LLMs if there is less source data to train on?
Well, if we now consider videogames a form of sport called esports, I don't see why we can't do the same for competitive programming. But I think OP was referring more about the competitive side, regardless of whether it qualifies as a sport or not.
> In contrast, when I searched about whether Code Jam was a significant part of Google's recruitment strategy, one of the top results on Reddit on r/cscareerquestions really underplayed the recruitment part

Google has a very standardized recruitment procedure. Once you're in the pipeline, you're judged with the same standards as everybody else (algo interview, system design...). Whether you're a Code Jam champion or not. Where Code Jam could help is to get contacted by a recruiter, but a simple referral could be enough for that, so it's not that hard to enter their recruitment pipeline.

Also, Code Jam problems are much harder than what you'd get in a coding interview, so it's not the best use of your preparation time to land a job at Google. Leetcode problems are more similar to what they ask.
To be clear, 150,000 certificates are affected. I assume that most sites rolled back fairly quickly after deploying an affected certificate, so the number of sites presently affected is certainly lower. The post is meant to help operators understand why they need to roll back their certificate.
It's worth saying that GitHub also has GitHub AE, which has some requirements (e.g. 500+ heads) but is a lot better for paranoid administrators, offering stricter audit results (FedRAMP High is no joke), data residency, stricter auth requirements, etc etc.
I'd _imagine_ that such an environment is deployed as an isolated managed GitHub Enterprise instance, and at the very least in that environment I'd expect all data to be secured encrypted at rest.
For anyone who's reading, the recent SVB chaos must have been a bonanza for them. There was a massive flight-to-"quality" from USDC and DAI into USDT, which led to a massive premium the latter. That premium still hasn't gone away, and is only down to 0.1%. During the chaos it traded for as much as $1.10. That should have been easy money for the company.
> There were also nowhere near enough staff to lock the phones and provide pouches, nor to unlock phones. It was chaos.

That's crazy. I went to two Yondr standup shows and it was no real added delay at all. I assumed it would be on the way out, but unlocking took about 5 seconds per person and there were more than enough attendants to handle it.

They were both large theaters (~3,000 seats), not stadiums though or anything (~30,000). I do wonder how many attendants you need based on audience size. Or if they've moved on to "self-service" stations on the way out or something.
I'm curious, how are you guys playing? 1vs1 or together playing single player?

I'm always impressed that people manage to start playing the series today, with Civ 6, considering how many mechanics and systems it's accumulated over the years.
We just did a competitive coding event and one of us based his strategy on ChatGPT, which was allowed. That got him through the qualification rounds, but then ended in the middle of the pack, which I think matched his skills as a non-ChatGPT coder. So, not a significant advantage, and none of the top performers used ChatGPT.

The thing is, most of the times, ChatGPT gives a wrong answer, so you need to look at the code, understand it, point out the mistakes and have ChatGPT output the corrected code. Sometimes manual correction is required, and sometimes, rewording of the question is required. It won't do everything for you unless you are particularly lucky, you still need to be a competent coder to work with it.
I am new to go, but to me, the language looks bigger than it needs to be. Why do slices and maps need to be part of the language and not just part of a standard library? I suppose the reason is special syntax, but having to learn that special syntax makes the language feel bigger.
> YouTube is the biggest on the long videos segment and has no real competitor.

Exactly. YouTube's competition is not even close to challenging YouTube and is virtually non-existent.
If they aren't already, AIs will be posting content on social media apps. These apps measure the amount of attention you pay to each thing presented to you. If it's more than a picture or a video, but something interactive, then it could also learn how we interact with things in more complex ways. It also gets feedback from us through the comments section. Like biological mutations, AIs will learn which of its (at first) random novel creations we find utility in. It will then better learn what drives us and will learn to create and extrapolate at a much faster pace than us.
Same. It was also a game that I was “sick” and therefore couldn’t go to school and spent the day playing…
Freedom Clock
Shoot for low hanging fruit first. Build up a passive income stream. Once this is in place you have the freedom to explore, or if free time is as valuable as you say it is, just enjoy that.
VSCode might be the best thing since sliced bread. But for Microsoft's bottom line, it is utterly irrelevant. At best, VSC is a marketing win with a subset of the programmer population, but it doesn't even do anything for the adoption of "real" Visual Studio licenses or anything. VSC is more of an accidential side project gone right.
On the 2022 midterm campaigns, the only tech-focused donor to Democrats was Sam Bankman-Fried of all people [1].

[1] https://thehill.com/lobbying/3720141-here-are-the-biggest-do...
Hard to do the wrong thing, easy to do the right thing.
Highly recommend the CrimeFlare tool for determining the “real” IP of sites so you may bypass CloudFlare and connect to sites directly.
Also recommend Material for MkDocs. Which is a theme for MkDocs: https://squidfunk.github.io/mkdocs-material/getting-started/

Been using it to make product documentation for users.

Easier to use than Sphinx. New hires and non-technical folks can understand markdown enough to contribute.
> They are propaganda.

"Systemic bias" is the polite term.
The Ebb and Flow of Fitness
Objectivity Is a Unicorn
That's what I'm terrified of. Was my previous success purely just based on luck and I don't have what it takes to have business born from my creativity?
C# does not mandate having one class per file. (Java doesn’t for non-public classes either.) While I suppose many (most?) devs/projects have adopted this rule, there are cases where it makes more sense to keep related stuff in one file.
And unions demand more: https://m-faz-net.translate.goog/aktuell/feuilleton/medien/1...
They try to make some searches seem more popular than they actually are, maybe to manipulate the rates of some ad keywords.
When you knowingly break the law, you're taking a risk.

It may be a stupid law, it may be an unjust law, but it's still a law and people with guns who enforce the stupid laws might show up some day.

Only individuals can decide whether or not the risk is worth it.
The moment that happens we can all forget about working and just do arts, space exploration, and acid orgies. But that “future” is somewhere between full self driving and thermonuclear reactor.
But the agile salesmen can't do code reviews.
Anomalistics
it kind of does “understand” when humans supervise it during training and they are able somehow relate and give mostly coherent responses. It may not be feeling it but it does seem to “understand” a subject more than a few people
Researchers Develop Water Treatment That Zaps ‘Forever Chemicals’ for Good
And yet at the same time the presentation is super focused on selling the "casual" angle, and because of multiplayer it's all "balanced" to the point that none of your actions seem to matter. And the ever-increasing number of parallel victory conditions makes losing an entirely unexpected pop-up that declares a seemingly random civ winner in some metric that you did not observe carefully enough on the gauges. In civ6 I either win because I set difficulty too low or I lose because some gauge value ran away. They completely lost me, after five good civs, two off-brand incarnations, 1.5 colonizations, the incredibly well written SMAC and the also-ran C:BE.
One thing I forgot about is friction. If the trailer is too heavy then it's going to push the bike down if the grade is too steep. That's why train tracks are always very flat -- the wagons are much heavier than the locomotive.
This feels like it should be somehow paired with https://datasette.io/
documenting and explaining existing code , then as a follow-up improving it
Peter Parker for one.
> Hey guys, you ever see that really old movie, The Empire Strikes Back

As a kid I watched many films from my parent's generation. Mary Poppins (1964) or Great Escape (1963) come to mind as being staples every christmas -- Great Escape on boxing day especially

A generation before that people watched "It's a Wonderful Life" (1946) for much the same reason.

I've subjected my kids to a few old films from well before they were born, but they were films from my youth -- Bill and Ted, Back to the Future, Men in Black, Muppet Christmas Carol etc. And yes they've seen Star Wars, which was from before I was born (just), but that's an ongoing franchise.

I don't see them watching films from the 1960s like I did though, and I doubt they'll make their kids sit through films from the 90s.
Anyone remember Webmin?
Pichai got promoted from CEO of Google to CEO of Alphabet some time ago. Therefore, as strange as it is, Larry and Sergey are fully on board with whatever it is that he's doing.
You are correct in your statement "If I was Putin, and I wanted to invade a country". Putin wanted to invade. Its his war, nobody else's.
> So, docker has, at the same time, "little to offer to commercial businesses"

That's not what was said, you missed out the word "most", which changes the meaning of the quote:

> Docker Hub has little to offer to most commercial businesses

It can simultaneously be true that:

* Docker Hub has little to offer most businesses

* Docker Hub is valuable to businesses that don't have the resources to set up a private registry.

These can both be true if only a minority of businesses fall into the second category.

I don't think that's exactly true (we'd need to weight businesses by revenue or number of employees for it to maybe be true), but their comment isn't self contradictory.
Couldn't this be confusing cause and effect? The article seems to insinuate that the product was cancelled because the team was laid off to save costs. But couldn't there be an unrelated reason why Google wanted to cancel the product, which then lead to the decision to lay off the team?

I could imagine that with the advent of the likes of GPT, Google may have concluded that the competition has lost its utility in identifying talented coders to recruit.
Synthetic Memory Protections: An update on ROP mitigations [pdf]
An equivalent headline would be "Tesla owners who don't drive late at night get discounted premiums." Accident rates are higher at night, and premiums should reflect that.
I agree. What revolutionized it was playing it on dial up with friends. My best friend lived a town over so it was a great way to hang out and conquer the world at the same time.
For a bit of context, for people to compare with eg sandstorm or cloudron: this is a community project, mostly from the french local/community ISP scene. See https://internetcu.be/ or https://www.chatons.org/en
IPFS was also one of the ways LLAMA was being well distributed. This is really a sad day for “people”
Part of the story is that solar electricity will soon become (indeed, in many places already is) cheaper than coal or natural gas.

China in particular depends on long fragile trade routes from the Middle East for crude oil, and is already the world’s largest producer of solar panels.

Technology like this will get to enjoy the plunging cost of solar and wind power.
The ruling gave 4 obvious rebuttals to their claims.
One of reasons I use card even if would prefer cash otherwise is prices like 4.89 so by using cash you ends up with leads of heavy coins. I would prefer after tax prices to be reasonably rounded but .99 / .98 / .89 prices seems to be strongly embedded in US/UK culture.
They've been through the struggle themselves, and especially in the tech sector, they must've been very interested in their specific field to devote their life to building a large business around it.

Thus when they find themselves with the time and money to support new innovators, they end up handing out grants as that's an easy way to support fundamental research of the sort that they too once did.
Zero commision in the sense that the fares are already higher than the govt. approved rates.

Booked 3 rides with 25% more fare for <4km

And ONDC is not exactly a public forum or RFP ground, it's just a bunch of old billionaires trying out something in the guise of saving the nation IMO
Do they have an archive of their challenges?
Dragos Ruiu (@dragosr) also provided the video recording on his Twitter account.

https://twitter.com/dragosr/status/1639015014177841153
You could try feeding it the questions of an IQ test and see how well it performs.
That description feels too much like work to me.
Morally, I figure that the octopus factory will be roughly as horrible as the current generation of pig factory. Certainly no field of daisies. But not an Evil Demonic Nazi Temple of Genocide, either.
However, isn't this also the consequence of various SEO tricks? A website such as YouTube can do SEO way more efficiently than someone who produces their content manually. If you have billion pages of content, you can easily make billion pages link at whatever you want... perhaps the things where the users most often click the ads, or whatever.

Basically:

Google: "good pages are those that have lots of links pointing towards them".

YouTube: "let's make all our pages link to the 'why quantum mechanics proves Trump wrong' viral video, people seem unable to resist clicking on it when they see it among the search results".

Random guy on internet: "I wonder what quantum mechanics is... let's ask Google..."
So this is only an issue if you get Tesla Insurance.

I’m guessing private insurance companies don’t consider the safety score?

I work remote and have my groceries delivered. So I’m rarely driving. I called an insurance company to inquire about their CAN-bus OBD 2 port driving monitor to save some money. I drive like less than 2 miles a week. I figured I should have a really low rate since a car sitting in my garage is not a liability. They said that they don’t consider time off the road so it wouldn’t save my anything.
lets all rally behind this guy, whom will surely lead the way, and personally transition 100% to renewables, and ONLY interact with something made 100% purely from such. After all, its killing us not to :)
> I'm responding to your claim. The onus is on you to substantiate it.

Snort. I believe the original claim has been substantiated enough already - that Go holds no advantage over Java wrt single file deployment as you can achieve "single binary" in Java too if you wish.

Measurement of a one-time setup cost was a claim made by you, not by me. You gave a description and I gave a description. Demanding precise time measurement of a ballpark is where the "double standard" lies - since you never provided any to "substantiate" yours, yet demand one from me by statements like: "So have you measured it or not?" for a CLI compiler install.

But, hey, in the spirit of goodness:

time bash <(curl -sL https://get.graalvm.org/jdk)
8.62s user 3.90s system 29% cpu 42.876 total

export JAVA_HOME="graalvm-ce-java17-22.3.1/Contents/Home"
export PATH="$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH"

javac HelloWorld.java && native-image HelloWorld
<....compiler output removed, except for last line>
Finished generating 'helloworld' in 16.8s.

./helloworld
Hello, World!

Huh, so it was actually FASTER than I thought for an end to end setup. You don't even need the open JDK since graalvm already comes with it. (I mistakenly thought needing open jdk was a pre-requisite).

So, its literally just: install tool, set path and invoke compilation commands. 1-2 min end to end.
> Among FAANG only Apple still works.

Hmm, is this true?

Amazon has amazon.cn still running as far as I know, and supports china regions in the aws-cn partition via separate companies that "operate" the regions for them.

As far as I know, meta and Google don't operate their normal services in china, but I thought they still had offices there, which presumably do something.
https://archive.is/qunNw
Worth noting that a lot of the ultra-tiny PCs have laptop CPUs, which aren’t as fast as the equivalent desktop part.
Did the CDC audit their own performance? If so I'd like to see that report. If not, that's their biggest error.
Those 10 minute meetings are 5 hours of lost time for deep work each week. Daily status reports are excessive. "Sprints" in general don't work in my experience, they are unnecessary overhead. You want to work in something more towards half-year projects, not two week "sprints".
selling wild game appears to be illegal in Canada like it is in the US. Ostensibly the reason is because of risk of illness but it's likely also due to lobbying by farmers.

I think there's a solution staring at us in the face here
It's there to find the non-networked developer - the kid in their mom's basement who is not in Silicon Valley or possibly not even in the U.S. and doesn't know anyone who works at Google, but learned to program on their own. Ironically this is the sort of developer that HN says can't get FAANG jobs because they lack the credentials and connections.
I just read his new Fairy Tale and it also has some significant Bradbury tribute.
The robots are even coming for therapists. Yikes!
They are part of the language, because they require generics to be implemented if you want to implement them in the standard library. Go didn’t use to have generics, so those constructs were hacked into the core language.
For me Civ iii has the most fleshed gameplay, dlc are coherent, and you get plenty mods. Civ iv had the best ux and ergonomic, but dlc don't really interoperate that well each other they just seem tackled to the game.
It’s crazy just remembering how I always played this one. Like the science paths and strategies. My favorite tactic was to go Monarchy -> Communism -> Fundamentalism. Yes, I was always at war.
When I had to visit a US embassy overseas I always had to turn over my phone before entering.
I never use ChatGPT for anything I don't already know how to do.

The biggest thing I've had it writing for me recently though - unit tests. It writes them much quicker and even though I have to tweak them, the shell is done and allows me to focus on more important things after I verify and modify them.
C# also did not mandate having one namespace per file. Devs have adopted a "one namespace per file" rule because it's generally a good idea. So now the new "file scoped namespaces" allows only 1 namespace per file; and if you want more than that, well then your namespace can't be file-scoped, by definition. You can still use namespaces with { } in that case.

The same _could_ be done with type declaration such as classes and interfaces. If it would be beneficial idea is another thing.
I'm surprised that so many people here seem to find this surprising.

There's been a lot of "you aren't prompting it correctly" discourse. Some of it valid, some of it not.

But there's also been many examples of people asking chatGPT to make minor modifications to a well-known problem and it completely flounders.
I don’t know. Sometimes poor contrast black and white film does really well for the atmosphere/vibe/whatever the hell you want to call it.
Libraries and archives have very little in the way of special rights when it comes to digital distribution of copyrighted works even if they have certain backup/preservation rights.
My son and I play co-op vs computer opponents. I offer to 1v1 but he always says no.
Why do you feel like they are destroying the world, OpenAI in particular?
We can go back and forth listing every single food under the sun, but the fact if the matter remains: food prices have gone up. Including for "ingredients".

It's easy to dismiss your opponent with "but rice and potatoes aren't more expensive". Well, I don't only eat rice and potatoes, and prices for other stuff like meat and milk has gone up.
I am a team lead in c++ shop. Every interview, I ask: tell me about c++’s std::move().

Not a single interviewee has even had a good guess in 2 years of open job recs.

It really has me reconsidering. I’m a language nerd through and through. I love C++. But I also have to be honest and say there’s such a thing as “the average amount of c++ the team knows”.

To me, the biggest threat to C++ isn’t rust, but rather the speed at which the language is changing. It’s already past the tipping point.

In my domain, embedded programming, I’m keeping an eye on zig with fingers crossed.
For a moment I though my ex-gf started posting to HN :/

(This was her love language, ok? Don't judge us)
"Ideas are easy"

I know this attitude commands HN. However, I just never understood this comment. I have seen MIT grads, with millions in funding fail because their idea was horrible. I have seen non tech - was working in fast food grads pull off a company because their idea was not terrible. As I got older, I realized, its ALL the idea. It has to be an idea you would give up 5 years for, your friends for, and your excess time: shoot me over that idea.
> Become member of both parties, and vote for presidential candidates at both sides.

That's not permitted in any state which I know.

I am a registered voter in "NO PARTY", which gives me the option to request a ballot from any party in a primary and vote within that party.

Any registered voter can vote any candidate or issue in general elections. I think what would improve our abysmal two-party system would be runner-up benefits, and coalitions, rather than winner-takes-all.
Guide on how to find domain names that have at least 1 link from an authority website such as wikipedia or a national news website, you could even use a competitor's website.
Honestly, I'm not 100% sure about how the attack vector looks.

The fact of the matter is they're basically spamming very specific search queries and not really looking at the results.

But most larger search engines store and analyze search queries to for example produce typeahead suggestions or error corrections. You can conceivably poison this data to manipulate how a search engine operates, perhaps directing users to your website or affecting ad auctions.

I think the benefit of not directly spamming Google or Bing is that they're harder to identify.
In the 21st century, why is it necessary for one or the other? There are solutions that don't involve destroying our home.
Establishing that your genetic modification system doesn't result in everyone getting cancer and dying past age 25 is quite the problem before you roll it out to the next generation.
I fed it some documentation I wrote that had 2 FAQs and asked it what additional questions a user might have after reading the page. It came up with 10 additional questions, about half of which I added to our actual FAQ section!
Google doesn't have its heart in the right place. I'm sure they have the engineering talent to build a better model; they're just reluctant to do so given the potential for litigation and more scrutiny in matters of antitrust, and the dysfunctional culture within.