skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"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?"

I don't know about you but I don't tend to touch my keyboard or food with my anus like I do with my hands
Thx for telling me what I need :) Only the rich will need a car
It gets worse in our post-covid age. All companies are now openly screwing us over with no repercussions.

Go on a website, be it legit airline site or reputable agency. Book, pay for the flight. After payment, they inform you that the trip you booked (through their website) simply does not exist. Your only choice is to ask for a refund that will take 28 days. Easy, cheap cashflow.

Happened to me 3 times this year, Qatar airways (official site), Fram (official site). Happened to my friends and family, all post covid.

I need to go back to France next month, am 4000 euros down in "pending refunds", reached my cc limit and most importantly, have no idea where to safely book a ticket.
it's because of stuff like this, and the absurd security/surveillance model, that I simply refuse to install any apps

every app is an added dependency and a possible headache if you incorporate it in your workflow

perhaps paradoxically, if only superficially, the only apps that make sense to install are games and simple tools with immediate replacement in your computer or web - and even that comes with caveats regarding security and privacy preservation
Taxes would be based on fair market value at the time of the transaction. There are policies around this already, otherwise the rich could avoid taxes by bartering with cars/watches/paintings.
Interesting how this story got immediately pushed away from the first 200 items on the front page (where we have items 2 days old with 50 poins and 50 comments).
You still have state, it is just the problem has been reduced to one of the very minumum amount of state you need to represent desired functionality. e.g. current time.

Not all problems reduce this far, just because one does it does not mean they all do.

There are really only two ways of describing the world around us, by state or by function, and not all problems can be either. In tis casse the state (time) is applied to a function. This is good for some things and not neccesarily so good for others.

If you think that there is some future of computing with universal stateless code you are delusional.
That one was a mistake, but also nothing at all to do with IBM. We (Red Hat) did that to ourselves.
That's impossible to achieve. Not in 12 not in 50. It's not possible to cover with public transport all the places where cars can go. It's not capital nor operationally possible.

What we will have is another strong wave of population concentrating in cities. Any economic activity outside of beaten paths will be very expensive.

Because we are freaking retarded with housing in the west, people will lose the freedom private cars can give (because for most modal income people in europe, electric cars are simply not feasible), prices will increase even more. This happening while we have to deal with ageing and climate change, thus modal incomes will become efectively poor. Millions of rent slaves who have no savings and purchasing power, nor ability to scape because they can't move to live elsewhere where prices are lower, and commute to their job.

Of course a combination of market + planning could, potentially solve this (kind of). But it's not going to happen because in Europe pensioners and near-to-be-pensioners rule everything, and they are so selfish and so short-sighted that they will dry public budgets until they collapse the system.

The future of Europe is basically set in stone. France and Spain are very clear examples of what's ahead for everyone else. France on how a good chunk of the population is completely stupid and blind to the problem, and Spain on how politicians are willing to sacrifice a country to please pensioners.

It's sad, but it is what it is.
According to [1] Volkswagen was the third largest producer of EVs in 2022, only behind BYD and Tesla. And BMW and Mercedes Benz both are in the top 10. It's not like German automakers have been sitting on their hands or would just die. The problem is not so much the automakers themselves but their suppliers. Those employ far more people, and EVs just don't need a lot of those parts.

1: https://www.ev-volumes.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/WW-S3-...
Pixel phones, the non-carrier branded ones, are fine in this regard because you can install your own updates.

The only change we really need there is for things like support for older chipsets, and to end carrier OS locks
It's simple really, it doesn't steal my attention away, I can just brush them off. Not everybody is the same.
Are you aware that 2016 was 7 years ago ?
The iPhone SE had 7 years of updates.
Or maybe we should replace individual mobility with useful public transport, as electric vehicles are not a general solution due to all the issues you're pointing out and many more.
What you are describing is very different from the hallucination behavior of GPT-3 and GPT-3.5.

Yes, GPT-4 came up with an incorrect answer, but it's an incorrect answer an experienced programmer could legitimately have come up with, and one they probably would have come up with before actually testing their code against the AWS endpoints. GPT-4 sometimes gets hard questions wrong. GPT-3 and GPT-3.5 make up nonsense.

If a coworker told you GPT-4's answer, you'd say they were wrong but you wouldn't say they were hallucinating. If a co-worker gave you GPT-3 or GPT-3.5's answer you'd definitely doubt their sanity.
Who said that batteries are the only way of energy storage. Hydrogen is discussed because of that. And yes, energy production also need to switch to reach CO2 emission goals.
I bought myself a $400 bidet for my birthday 6 or so years ago. It’s totally cured my hemorrhoids (and my wifes!) which were a major problem before.

South Park recently had a very funny (and tame for them) episode about toilet paper and bidets. Obviously it’s fictionalized but a combination of marketing and non historical usage keeps people in the US from widely adopting something that would be hugely beneficial to them.
Most of my email is on my own server, but in my experience (with gmail, etc.) marking a sender as spam will keep them out of my inbox going forward. I would personally filter the email, but for those who don't understand that process, marking as spam can be effective as well.
I installed this last night and i immediately found it a much better experience. Apple did the right thing by using a separate app (and by buying it, as they did with iTunes— somehow this isn’t in their DNA).
Judging by the popularity of GTK as a GUI toolkit on Linux over literally decades, it's pretty convenient, and thus valuable.

I'm not a fan of Gnome the desktop environment, but GTK (which was not even invented for Gnome) is a huge boon.
I have similar feeling. What GPT brings is uncertainty. We don't know what it can do in next version. But in the mean time, it can generate infra as code if you feed info, it can analyze at least some DOS virus on the fly, it can at least be a function filler. Yes it never does anything perfectly BUT humans don't either. And that uncertainty makes one feel that in one day, and that day is not 50 years apart, but maybe 5 months apart, that it can surpass 80% of programmers in those tasks.

And yes, programming has a lot more tasks but essentially they are common in one or another. I don't know. My job is obviously in danger right now and I don't see an easy way out. What am I going to do? Shift to another junior role that GOT may take over this version or next version? Or be a product guy or a marketing guy that I HATE and AVOID to be for my life? And how are those guys safe? Maybe I should go back to school amd study general relativity -- at least AI is pretty weak in abstract math and physics. I don't see a way that we cam be sure that is diagonal to what AI is capable of. The best thing I, no, you can say is, OK AI might be able to take 80% of my job away but my company still needs me to modify the code.

But what fun is in that? If AI can do say 50% of the task in a split of second, why on earth would your employer EVER pay you to initate a piece of code? It will pay you to debug and give it more prompts, but is it what you want to do?

But I'm probably paranoid. We will all be fine. After all every technological advance added jobs, right? We simply need to adapt then everything will be fine.

And you know what? I thought about something funny and almost LMAO -- all we programming guys, we have been working so hard to automate ourselves away. But schools, hospitals, governments and pretty much anything else that we think are as slow as dinosaurs will stay as dinosaurs.
The difference is the Initiation. Push notifications have nothing to do with the platform enforcing push upon the user. Your comment made it seem like it was.
Yes, I’ve been using it at work and on my side project. It’s better, but it’s still just a tool that improves my productivity. It’s not going to replace me.
Yes electric cars produce C02 but its less (arguably 1/6) than petroleum cars. Electric cars are actually driving the research into recycling batteries.
I guess. The other day i created a PR to turn some macros into a variadic template and got a compilation error that can be resolved by moving some functions around. No one could figure out why so i just closed the PR.

There are so many moving parts in C++ there’s a reason why there are dialects. People are manually having to choose the smaller C++ that they can manage.
I think the current LLM and GPT overdose has really affected the quality of discussions here. Write a long and thoughtful response and be immediately accused of being a GPT! What is happening to this forum!

I mean how lazy these commenters have to be that their only complaint is "possibly written by GPT"?! Is there something wrong or incorrect in the comment? If yes, then say that! Is there something unclear? Say thta! Is there something insightful to add to the comment? If yes, then say that!
I do not understand how it is an "obviously stupid thing". Technology advances quite a bit in 10 years, or at least it did from 1990s to 2010s.

Not to mention that the newer devices yield considerable utility and efficiencies that make older devices redundant.
In theory, electric cars are simpler. Fewer moving parts and all that. But _modern_ cars are full of electronic doodads. Theoretically there is nothing stopping someone from developing a barebones electric car.
I didn’t need to read the article to know they meant new cars.

We’ve been discussing this for several years and not once has anyone said we are going to scrap existing vehicles.
I agree that platform-specific files shouldn't be in .gitignore, but it does make sense to put .* there and then only allow specific .files that you actually want to check in.
All the big German automakers have launched good EVs by now and they've been successful on the market as well in Europe.

Which ones are you talking about?
> Do you produce electricity without CO2 emissions?

There's multiple ways deployed on a mass-scale, and hopefully by 2035 those will provide the vast majority of electricity. So yes.
Yeah it was genuinely really sad that the deal couldn’t have been “here have OpenShift for a mountain of cash, leave us alone.”
You’ll just rip little tears with rough paper all over your sensitive anus instead, giving yourself terrible hemorrhoids.
They represent much less, they lost a lot of votes in state parliament elections since the federal election, not just in polls.
An electrical engine is a lot simpler than an internal combustion engine.

I don’t think that EV implies software overkill. I hope that some brands will carve out a niche for simple EVs with real buttons and low “smartness”.
I may be wrong, but 2035 is very near and the phaseout seems (to me) like very difficult to achieve.

The only zero emissions are EV's and - besides Norway - they represent today only a very small percentage of vehicles, there are of course no problems (besides possibly the scarcity of some materials) in increasing the production of EV's, but the issue (as I see it) will come when plenty of vehicles on the road will be all electric, the need to adapt the current electric grid and adding the needed recharge points (be them private or public) seems like not having been taken into consideration or plans for it are way too optimistic.

Poland calling it unrealistic seems appropriate.

There are, besides the risk of having too expensive new cars, a lot of other possible downsides, influencing the market of used cars, and creating a "recharging divide" among different countries but also among different cities/locations in a same country.
Say what now?

This is an article about a new edition of old Christie books - there are no government officials here and the only journalistic abuses here are firstly by the publishers attempting to drum up press about an otherwise dull event and secondly by the Telegraph seizing on thin grounds to grab eyeballs by attempting to drum up outrage.

Older editions are still available in libraries and secondhand bookstores, in ten years there'll be different editions again.

If you're at all familiar with books and publishing .. well, you wouldn't be failing over this story in the manner that you are.
Bah, 2/3rds of CVEs are buffer overruns that cause RCE. That doesn't occur in memory safe languages. I mean, you can juggle double-ended chainsaws on fire as a party trick, but probably not recommended for daily activities.
The pillars of observability are just data, let's turn them into insights
> does it matter if it's really thinking or not?

Yes, it does. Assuming GPT "thinks" is shaping public perception and that's already gone much too far.
> That's impossible to achieve. Not in 12 not in 50. It's not possible to cover with public transport all the places where cars can go. It's not capital nor operationally possible.

It doesn't have to. A lot of population is urban and curbing car use in cities will be a massive improvement. So would proper train infrastructure to get between cities.
Yeah, this is definitely something I would factor into my purchasing decisions. My phone is showing trouble after just 3.5 years of use, which is unacceptable in my view. It isn't even as if I have used it heavily.
I don't understand the structure of your argument. What do you mean by "not a matter of course"? There is plenty of evidence that 1) vegan diets are associated with improved health outcomes, broadly speaking and 2) animal consumption has a disproportionate environmental impact for the nutrients obtained (which is unsurprising from a physics perspective, since the animals eat plants that humans could eat directly).

Perhaps these things are not "inherently" true in that one can easily come up with edge-case counterexamples, but they are true on the whole.
Inflation is value confiscation. It's a tax. It reduces the burden of the greatest debtor (government) at the expense of everybody who holds dollars and produces value.

What do I get out of it?
The governments will certainly exempt themselves the very first moment they get affected by the ban.
When we're having a chat with the GPT - how do we know who's answering and who's voices have been silenced?
It's gonna take a few decades, there are people who are in their first decade and there are people who are not even in their first decade.
https://archive.md/FXvGs
I hope so, but I'd caution against just treating national economics as scaled up personal economic. Whoever makes the factory for the electric busses needs to talk to whoever makes the factories that make the batteries, who in turn need to talk to the miners, who might be anywhere in the world so you need to be confident about regional geopolitical concerns…

Governments do this all the time, I'm sure it will be fine; but the details don't really fit into a comment box.
I mean, if you're using a free web interface in corporate context, you may just as well use a paid API with your personal account - either way, you're using it of your own volition, and not as approved by your employer. And getting API keys to ChatGPT equivalent (i.e. GPT-3.5) takes... a minute, maybe less.

I am honestly confused how people can use this thing with the interface OpenAI runs. The app has been near-unusable for me, for months, on every device I tried it on.
I’m assuming you’re in the US. Norway is presumably managing electric in the cold just fine. https://twitter.com/mattbruenig/status/1640082146294464515
I my EU country (Slovakia) 40% of people live in flats. In my suburb lives 25000 (95% in flats) and there is 1 charging station for 3 cars on the entire suburb. There is 0 chance to meet the goal by 2035.

In 2035, if a pro-russian party SMER promise withdrawal from EU and allows gas cars again they will have landslide victory and can start importing cheap Russian gas.
100/100 ;)
I’ve grown up without car and spend most of my adulthood without a car (on and off) but still ready to pay significant (but not unlimited) price for freedom of movement a car gives - with car I can go anytime and almost anywhere (within a distance limited by time and roads of course). Most people don’t value this but I do and don’t think I’m unique here.
I get where you are coming from, I read all your comments here.

You are making an assumption that children just are a net negative.

As others have mentioned the carbon footprint of a child is miniscule compared to an adult,

They are not driving, flying, owning homes, etc for a while, and many never will.

One of those children could very well be the solution to that, and many other problems.

As for moral high ground you insist that you are better for having made the choice not to have children, as you see their opinions as less than and not worth listening to, as they have had children.
I think a lot of people romanticize the Amish... they are pretty much an oppressive cult with quaint appearance to the outside that does not carry over to the inside. The Amish in my former area were infamous for puppy mills[1], but there were also talks of rampant sexual abuse and domestic abuse[2]. There are a lot of problems in closed-off communities and they can be rife with abuse. While working at the hospital I often interacted with Amish patients, many were there because of drunk driving (they were racing buggies).

If you want to embrace their ideas of simplicity, you can do so without needing to join them. Plant a garden and grow some of your own food. Choose minimal spartan furnishing for your home. Sew your own clothes. Learn woodworking.

[1]: https://www.stoponlinepuppymills.org/amish-puppy-mills/
[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IUz0zCiVLI
> In general, if you use your phone daily, I recommend getting the battery replaced every 2-2.5 years.

Another thing that people forget to do... please restart in once in a while.
There is already massive work planned on that axis across the EU, with multi-billion investments in various important (at the EU and local levels) transit projects.

https://cinea.ec.europa.eu/news-events/news/transport-infras...

https://transport.ec.europa.eu/transport-themes/infrastructu...
Which is effectively a phase-out of most CO2 emitting cars by 2050, if the ban doesn't change people's purchasing patterns (which it will, but it's hard to tell how)
Do you have a source for that story. I'm curious to learn about the details!
> 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?

For one thing, I don’t eat with my bum. I’m still in favor of bidets.
Isn't it a paradox that IT is basically making itself jobless? Has it ever happened before?
I have. I'm impressed in terms of how incredibly helpful it is, but its clear its far from being a replacement yet.

One example its ability to do problem-solving when diagnosing a complex issue:

1. It repeatedly ignores described constraints and offers suggestions that logically cannot be solutions.

2. When I give it the explanation, it appologizes and... what do you know, two messages later its back to the same suggestion.

3. When I sigh try the suggestion anyway, then go back to it telling it it didn't work, it will suggest something else, and when that doesn't work either, suggest the first thing again!

I'm not saying its never going to happen... but its really not there, yet.
What happens if someone bought BABA stock?

Asking for a friend.
Most developers trust and use libraries that they do not understand or bother perusing, so most will likely accept the ai generated code for the most part without much inspection too.
If you have been getting by as a developer by searching stack overflow, then yes, gpt will replace you.

That's all these AI tools are, better stack overflow searches. They have no ability to know what is correct or what is wrong, it lacks judgement, which is one of the most important skills to have as a software engineer.

Engineering is about solving problems, these tools can't solve problems, they can regurgitate solutions to problems they have been trained on, often times confidently incorrectly, which is much worse than saying "I don't know".

They can't extract requirements from the client to find out what they really want.

They completely fail at moderately hard problems, or novel problems.

I think these tools may be worse for the industry because people will have less opportunity to learn problem solving skills since the AI will handle to easy stuff, and when the hard stuff come along, people won't have the skills to solve them.

For those with the good problem solving skills, AI isn't a threat. There will always be work for solving hard problems, making judgements, and trade offs, actual thinking.
We have more than a decade to answer your questions. This nudges everyone in the right direction.
The obituary cold case example leads me to the opposite conclusion. A determined criminal can literally use another murder to close the case on their existing murder with a well crafted prosthetic.
> Oh, it's not even close to being the best thing we have.

What's the best thing we have then? Because I am not aware of any alternatives to CSS that I can use in the browser.
This can be done, but it will take decades and major construction activity. Which may be constrained by the fact that steel and concrete production is CO2-heavy too. (And not just that, AFAIK the Netherlands put very strict limits on construction activity because of nitrogen emissions from the construction vehicles.)

In the West, a lot of the middle class settlements have spread thin and wide, making public transport inefficient. Redensification is possible, but complicated - it involves a lot of people moving and at least some of them losing their gardens.

Meanwhile, construction of new railways or upgrades of existing tracks (including light rail) meets heavy NIMBY opposition on every step, even in countries where rail is widely used for commute (such as in Czechia).

In contemporary developed civilization, it is much easier to ban than to build.
CO2 emissions are one way of polluting the environment. Nuclear trash is another. Is there a way of producing enough energy without pollution?
That works great if you are living in a major city. Once you become even remotely rural, public transit becomes a massive problem - turns out point-to-point connections do not all converge on the same entry- and exit points.

Which leads to an even more overheated market for flats in major cities and even more incentive of rural voters to vote for whatever radical party promises them a radically easier way of transport outside of major population centres.
This was strictly in regards to the oral tradition of passing down knowledge in India.
We'll be needing any kWh of green electricity we can get, and wasting it on inefficient e-fuels is dumb and wasteful. But I guess everybody has the right to be dumb and wasteful, so here we are.