skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the article misses the point that people just want to get things done. Particularly this point is so naive:

> using a page builder doesn’t make you a developer.

People who are using page builders are not doing to pass the arbitrary qualifications of being a developer. They just want to get something done and getting a developer to create a performant page is just so much more expensive. Even within big companies some departments leverage these because getting developer bandwidth is just too expensive for most of these use cases.
I worked as a waiter in a restaurant in the 90s when I was in high school. I was making $2.65/hr, the line cooks were making $10-12, yet I’d get shook down to tip the busboy, cook, bartender, hostess etc. If you didn’t play, you’d get slow-rolled. They wanted their vig whether or not the customers tipped well. Fuck that.

Tipping via card is even worse in many places because the manager or operator is just assigning money (or not) as they feel. Again, working spiffed retail sales, you need to track what you’re owed or mistakes will happen.
> Laos also isn't getting the same attention as its neighbors like Thailand and Vietnam by the West almost as if it holds no strategic value to the West.

This is a really offensive mindset. As if developing countries can only progress by getting "attention ... from the west." Thailand and Vietnam haven't been getting "attention ... from the west" because of their "strategic value" or any special humanitarian concerns. It's because those countries have been building up their financial systems and industry. And countries in this region are progressing by aligning with Russia and China often in opposition to what Western countries would want.
This sounds like a long running conversation. Are there problems with extending past the context window?
CL too big? I dunno, the spec doesn't include very standard stuff that we get through the de facto standard libraries like ASDF, UIOP, Bordeaux threads, et cetera.
If everyone read the entire article of each HN submission the comments section would be wildly different :-)
GPT-4 is competely incapable of solving any advanced problem in coding or mathematics competitions, and usually doesn't even appear to correctly understand the problem statement (assuming the solutions are not in the training set, of course).

Just try submitting the IOI 2022 and IMO 2022 problems.

Obviously it still outperforms the average human, since the average human has no knowledge of mathematics or computer science whatsoever.
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Something extremely satisfying about building up some manual thing and then finding a way to automate it with the tools at hand. Plus there are layers to the automation. Then I installed Bobs&Angels mods and they just took the game to a whole other level. Figuring out petrochems was really fun to do.
"Ain't nobody got time for that"... that's how I roll.
From Bitcoin trader at Taco Bells to founder of Africa's biggest crypto exchange
The game is one huge nerd snipe at software engineers. If you ever felt compelled to optimize something just a little bit more, this thing extracts and amplifies that part of you until it’s dawn.
I think the quote was paraphrased to make it more offensive than it really was originally.

Originally the quote was about sloppy thinking, not "weak" minds. You're right that weak isn't a great word to use here.

Maybe you'd also disagree that your thinking is sloppy.
I am not sure there is a totally free and open source copilot alternative if that's what you are looking for.

As a student you shouldn't worry much about it. Your employer would most likely provide you copilot or a similar product.
Cool, better late than never.
A really good use I have discovered with GPT is that it is fantastic at clarifying tabletop game rules. Inevitably, while playing a game, a scenario comes up that will require gameplay be paused to consult the rules. By simply typing up the scenario it will reliably output the correct solution to the problem.
A prototype of VTuber tracking software by linking QuestPro and Luppet
A common symptom of having too much power
Sure but the other parts you don't need an engineering degree for, the other parts amount to design / product work, not engineering.
Ours might be the last generation that will bother to learn anything, as universal everything seem to be approaching. But I think there will be a premium on all things "human".
I didn't know Statcounter was still around.

https://gs.statcounter.com/faq#methodology

5 billion isn't a small number of impressions, but I would be interested in comparisons with other sources based on more mainstream trackers.
Really?

How much is your water bill per gallon of water? Now how much would that amount of water cost you purchased from an organization like Nestle?

For all the people here who like to trumpet their advanced intelligence, there are certainly a lot of triple-o stooopid statements made.
Their algo is the best. Not even the big players have been able to copy.
This reminds me of the advice:

When deciding what to do, imagine that you are not talking to yourself but rather what you would tell someone else to do in your situation.

This simple mental shift apparently removes a lot of cognitive biases and emotional baggage that might be affecting your decision making process.
The guy is not distinguishing clearly between language and library which undermines his point.
This strikes me as quite an entitled attitude. Who are you to dictate how someone stops giving away services offered at their own expense?

Regardless of how long they've done it, nothing can be free forever. People who build their own companies or products based on the assumption things can be free forever set themselves up for disappointment. And it's not the fault of the providers.
Yup, add a bit of automation to the mix, and you will also not need to repeat much in rare case where you need to reinstall something from scratch or add new machine.

> There is terrible software to self-host (both as a beginner and as an expert)

Any examples ? Just so I can avoid it
I've been an avid Notion user but I always struggled to access it on my mobile phone. I was blown away by how easy it was to turn my Notion databases into beautiful mobile apps using NotionApps. It literally took me just minutes to build my app. It's like having my own personal assistant right in my pocket. Highly recommend NotionApps, it's gonna be a game-changer for all Notion users.
Isaac Asimov wrote a story along those lines, “The Last Question”, which he described as “by far my favorite story of all those I have written.” Full text here:

https://xpressenglish.com/our-stories/the-last-question/
Totally agree getting fast updates of new content is a problem that still needs to be solved. In terms of finding matches, I think LLMs are already better than Google, for content that is there.

(A super-traditional search that's just looking for raw text, like the HN search, could claim an advantage there, but something like Google or Bing is already far far off in the land of guessing intention rather than raw text matching, in my experience; in any case, 99% of the time raw-text matching is not what you want, anyway.)

Maybe time will prove me wrong, but my prediction is LLMs will improve on their weak-points and traditional search will mostly fade away in relevence.
The Wagner Group is redirecting resources from Ukraine to Africa
...for those that own it, certainly. What about everyone else?
This.

When IP laws existed to make sure authors could be compensated people broadly supported them. The perception has changed (for many reasons), to where people broadly see IP laws as an enabler for corporate greed more than being about fair compensation for authors. (See Disney not paying owed royalties, for example.)

We can either have "good copyright" that the public sees as reasonable, or we can have rampant piracy and the consequences thereof. The villains of the piece are those who deliberately perpetuate an unsustainable system out of greed (and I am not talking about authors and publishers trying to get paid for the work they've done).
> [Vite is] almost drop-in replacement for create-react-app (CRA)

Can anyone with experience replacing CRA with Vite speak to how true this is?
There is something very appealing about learning a small(ish) language. However, a small language does not always mean simple. And it means code can be difficult to unravel.

Niklaus Wirth, the creator of Pascal, Modula-2 and Oberon, believe strongly that teaching programming is most effective when students can grasp the entirety of a small language.

From a 2018 interview with Wirth on the topic:

> "In order to do a good experience, you have to have a clean language with a good structure concentrating on the essential concepts and not being snowed in."

> "That is my primary objection to the commercial languages – they’re simply too huge, and they’re so huge that nobody can understand them in their entirety. And it’s not necessary that they’re so huge."
Free enterprise support contracts?
I've tried this kind of thing and I usually just say something along the lines of "can you respond as a cbt therapist ", you can swap cbt with any psychological school of choice (though I think gpt is best for cbt, as it tends to be local and not require the deep context of psychoanalytic therapies, and it is very well researched so it's training set is relatively large and robust)
This will be true until new or aggressive companies decide to embrace or retain WFH and so take staff and particularly revenue from in-office companies. Wound the beast and the beast has to respond or die.

Of course, if this doesn’t happen then it was a covid induced dream. Personally, I think the lower overhead and wider hiring range justifies WFH but that’s me.
Whenever I see things like this I wish CL was available by default in more environments. It would have been the ultimate glue language also capable of growing software into medium-to-large size projects with some care.

Instead we have Perl. It's not bad and fulfills many of the same criteria, but it's also not quite as elegant.
the same for travel visas: it's full of scam websites, and official ones are often very well done, easy, fast.

I have been a google reviewer maaaaany years ago, and it looks like they just don't invest anymore in this.
Haaaa, ha ha ha ha ha ha...

Like corporations have never ever murdered people for resources. Google United Fruit and find out where the term "banana republic" came from.
GPTs don't have access to petabytes of information, that's the point. Only to some internal representation.
Backwards compatibility buys enterprise licenses. These are for profit corporations - even their free tier has you somewhere in a marketing funnel or a revenue structure. Today they have a “good” CEO, tomorrow it could be another Steve Ballmer in charge.

The bottom line is, one shouldn’t rely on a single corp for something that seems like “critical infrastructure”.
It's made by people who have never tested it on a Mac. They tried to "improve" the scrolling by making it "smoother".
In the world of copyright and patents, there's a before and an after the USA. Anyone trying to make a different case must be trying to fool themselves.
Fun fact: the Marshall Plan was about $150 billion in today's money, for all of Europe. It was nice, but let's not overstate the significance. The U.S. spent $145 billion on nation building (that doesn't count the war effort) in Afghanistan and accomplished fuck-all.
If the Internet Archive's digitizing and distribution of old books is fair use then so is a video game ROM site that distributes digital images of pre-PS360 era games that are no longer available to purchase legally. except at exorbitant rates on eBay. And there's also a strong case for the original Napster being fair use if IA is.

I don't think there was ever any serious doubt that the Internet Archive would lose their case as they are clearly in violation of copyright law. The issue in the case is that the copyright laws are bad laws that have become contrary to their purpose of "promoting the useful arts and sciences" due to the copyright terms being absurdly long (and the lack of any serious deterrent to fraudulent DMCA claims which has allowed for the proliferation of such claims as a censorship and/or doxxing technique) and need to be reformed. It was unwise for the Internet Archive to violate copyright law just as it was unwise for Bowser the ROM site owner[0] to violate copyright law because flagrantly violating copyright law is an effective way to get yourself bankrupted via lawsuits and an ineffective way to get bad intellectual property laws changed.

[0]: https://venturebeat.com/games/gary-bowser-has-to-pay-nintend...
In the design of Starlark (https://github.com/bazelbuild/starlark), I often had to push back against new feature requests to keep the language simple. I explicitly listed simplicity as a design goal.i

Of course, the scope of the language is not the same as general purpose languages, but there's always pressure from the users to add more things. I also think many people underestimate the cost of adding new features: it's not just about adding the code in every compiler/interpreter, specifying every edge-case in a spec, updating all the tooling for the language and writing tutorials; it's also a cost on everyone who will have to read any of the code.
Ah the creator of the famous Moore’s law. I didn’t realize they were the same person. RIP. An incredible innovator, responsible for so much.
It may be nostalgia, but CivII hit a perfect mix that enthralled in a way that the future games never quite reached for me. I think Civ IV was the mechanical peak for the series, but CivII will always be the "vibe" peak.

The throne room, the live-action advisors, the wonder movies. Go watch CivII's wonder movies for the Oracle, the Great Lighthouse, the Manhattan Project, or the UN and tell me they didn't catch lightning in a bottle.

In a pre-wikipedia age the "Civilopedia" was also a huge deal for me as a kid. I read every entry over and over again. Civilization II gave me a context for my place in history that served as a ground work for a lot of my future learning.
This seems very plausible to me. The context window improved a lot between GPT-3.5 and GPT-4, and OpenAI clearly see value in increasing it further.
This is definitely the best civ game. The depth of this game is incredible. So much more immersive, more creating than any of the other civ titles. I haven't played it in years but I can still remember the voices of the faction leaders.
If you use just invert(100%), no grayscale, on the body, you can add img { filter: invert(100%) } to reverse images back to their original color. However, if an image has any transparency or translucency, it may be harder to see with what the background color has become.
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It's never a question of existence/nonexistence. One can always cite some minor example.

It's a question of proportion, and I'd go further say that it's quite disingenuous to pretend that this contradiction, in this website, isn't heavily tilted in favour of predatory corporations and against public good services (i.e. libertarian).

This of course makes sense. Innumerably more people here used Uber than IA, and what's more, many were literal employees of Uber, AirBnB, etc. and its competitors. It would be silly to expect anything else. But it's still amusing.
I haven't had any yet, it is a new conversation with Gpt4, so only a bit over a week old.

It still seems to give good advice. Today it built an itinerary for indoor activities (raining here) that aligned with some short-term goals of mine. No issues.
I’m the same way, something about the graphics is just perfect. Similar to Factorio for me.
thanks for sharing, I'm not sure how I feel about that experience. That first thing that came in mind is, I don't want to end up to be so burnout that I need to drastically compensate in a similar. I believe I'm trying to prevent something like that to happen in the future.
Here's what worked for me: stop fantasizing and actually go try to start another business around one of your ideas. In my case (and for most people) it failed and cured me of this mindset. Ideas are easy and problems are infinite. Execution is hard and unless you're really in love with the problem, it's usually not worth it.
My big concern wasn't where my projects are going, it's other projects I use or build upon. With absolutely zero indication of who was coming and who was going, it was just .. wait to see what pipelines explode?
In-person competitions simply don't allow any Internet access, you have to use their own machines and you can't bring any data or printed material or electronic device.
Can LLM run in it?
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We've recently opened up a public-hosted cluster (all runnable from colab in our docs [4]) and would love your feedback - you can see our vision at the attached blog post. Thanks!

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The grubby hands of kleptocrats dying to see how much of the commons they can exploit without cost.
That's the Supreme Courts job?
You've misconstrued natural law with might is right, which is a concept not a law.
Yeah, I have got it to the point that I often go several hours at home or work without even knowing where my phone is. Out and about, it rarely leaves my pocket. I catch up on things once in the morning and once in the evening, and other than that unless something urgent is going on, the phone has little to offer me, and certainly nothing worth distracting from a conversation or an event.
> but it doesn’t seem to be good at extrapolation.

This is true to varying degrees for every statistical model ever.
1. You don't need an engineering degree for software development in many, many cases. So I don't understand your argument.

2. Engineers design stuff :-) I'm not sure what you mean with "product work". Also, engineers debug and fix stuff :-)
Some but it's pretty rare. Earthbound spawns more and more enemies when it detects a legit version isn't being played and will break on the final boss if you make it that far. It's a bit more common on home computer games I think because the barrier to copying a floppy or CD is much lower than a cart but it's still a lot of effort to add.
The article says the steel industry accounts for 7% of all emissions, which is quite a bit. Did not realize that.

How much of the steel industry is in China? My impression was a very large percentage of it. I wonder if this process would be utilized there. The game there seems to be the cheapest possible steel… not sure this fits into that.
The US has spent the last four decades moving as much of it's manufacturing to China as it can. That pollution might be occurring in China but it's a result of the production of US products, at the request of US companies, for export to the US.

The only sanctimony is in Americans complaining about the behaviour of other countries when it's often in the service of their own countrymen.
This is a weird article. It uses the expressions like "iron fist" and "mandated", but when you follow the links provided as sources all you get is "the bank wanted 60% of its people back in the office, but was only achieving attendance of 37%.". I know someone who works at CS (in Poland) and he commutes once a week. He never mentioned any problems with this arrangement. Maybe it is different in other places.
Yeah I read into it more following this and I regret it now.
Brilliant creativity! Thanks for sharing.
Yeah, about that - Disney decided years ago it doesn't need to pay authors royalties it legally owes them.

https://www.writersmustbepaid.org/
BPF --> Berkley Packet Filter

Maybe this comment will save you a google. But probably not.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Packet_Filter
If they were "errors" the balance of the errors should be evenly distributed between overstating and understating the severity.

When more than 80% of the "errors" favor an agenda, they aren't mistakes. They are propaganda.

Mask up, citizens. Comply.
Well thank you but I've got burned enough with Raspberry Pi and Orange prices are still high. I've got better way to waste my money.
Wow

>> By the 50th anniversary of Moore’s Law in 2015, Intel estimated that the pace of innovation engendered by Moore’s Law had ushered in some $3 trillion in additional value to the U.S. gross domestic product over the prior 20 years. Moore’s Law had become the cornerstone of the semiconductor industry, and of the constantly evolving technologies that depend on it.

Critical to that engine of growth had been U.S. investment in basic research and STEM education, ten percent of the U.S. Federal Budget in 1968. By 2015, however, that had been reduced to a mere four percent. To Gordon, investment in discovery-driven science was another key impetus behind creating the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation in 2000, especially in the context of a widening funding gap for something he recognized as critical to human progress.
Tesla now factors late night driving into their safety score
I guess you'll have to wait for The Narrow Bank to become operational. In the meantime the best you can do is lend your money to an institution that is too big to fail.
In work it’s common for me to put together working prototype software to demo feasibility of some approach.

The knowns are libraries, languages and sometimes sample code.

Usual workflow is lots of Googling and reading documentation to get something out in a few days.

GPT saves me lots of time researching and has effectively replaced Google and StackOverflow. It allows me to design a plan of attack from “use these 3 libraries to do x” to a working prototype which I can then iteratively refine. It also is good at answering technical questions about library and language features. For example: “I have a pandas data frame, show me how to loop through it and access columns 3 and 4”. Once I see the API call is iloc I can research more.

However there are a few issues with GPT:

1. Makes up APIs that don’t exist.

2. Uses APIs incorrectly.

3. Not up to speed on the latest APIs, or maybe chooses not to use them?

For example I’m working with a library that has two functions: create_group() or get_or_create_group(). GPT seems to not acknowledge that get or create exists.

Some usage tips:

1. I usually tell ChatGPT in my first question is: “don’t respond with too much text or detail. If I need more clarification I will ask.”

2. Use Shift+Enter to formulate my initial question in detail. For example if I say “let’s write a Python app” it will respond with “sure Python is a great language to…”. So give it enough detail to get to the point.
You definitely still have to verify it. The AWS Policy Simulator is always consulted. But the way it can just start spitting out all the various permission groups, use wildcards correctly, is a time saver.
Pretty sure fractional reserve banking passes the "do rich people make money from this" test, and is therefore fine.
So my phone and my laptop both have the capability to perform 15 trillion operations per second, just in the neural engine?

What kind of things are taking advantage of this right now? It's gotta be more than just Face ID right?

What's my laptop likely to be doing with that?
> It is like any other sport

Do you consider competitive programming a sport?