skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
LLMs are parrots with very, very large memories, an amazing compression algorithm, and a very good "interpolator" (something that can take a bunch of retrieved facts and synthesize a mix of them)

I've met a lot of people in my professional career that are deemed "experts" because they have the exact same skill set as LLMs : huge memory and a gift for crafting BS.

But in both cases, there is no actual thinking involved.

In particular, if the answer produced does not actually solve the problem at hand, there is no "check that my solution works, correct and iterate towards an actually working solution", something most human do very instinctively and naturally.

So, TL;DR: if you are an "expert" in the same way LLMs are "experts", i.e. you just regurgitate knowledge and fudge it to make it look like it makes sense, then YES: you will get replaced, and by the way: thank god for that.

If, on the other hand, you're an actual "expert" in that you are capable of leveraging you vast encyclopedic knowledge of a subject to guide you towards an actual working solution to a problem, then you're very likely safe for quite a while longer.
Most of my friends have been married or in long term relationships for at least a decade now. None are divorced. With one exception none have children and we're all approaching 40. Your list doesn't address why my peer group is choosing not to have kids.
Such optimism.

It’s 50 years later. Half a century!

https://youtu.be/Wp-WiNXH6hI

coal is such a dirty source of power, we’d want to eliminate it even if it didn’t cause climate change.
> Surely the hard deadline (assuming not crazy Governments)

That is a terrible assumption to make
There's no unified way to do it in Linux if you target people running bespoke i3 configs or dedicated environments (such as the Steam Deck game UI; the KDE environment will just work, obviously). With GNOME, KDE, and Mate, LXDE, and probably every other normal desktop environment, you can use XDG autostart to launch programs on login (https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/XDG_Autostart).

Even still, there are quick and easy configuration files available online for software like i3 (https://github.com/minad/i3-config/blob/master/autostart) to make them compatible with normal Linux setups.

I don't know why Linux versions of browsers don't do this, but it certainly isn't a technical limitation.
There is also a massive consideration on the type of ammo being used. Hollow point vs steel core is gonna have very different effects.
I'm not a tax accountant so I couldn't say for certain. But if this is an additional payment for a seat reservation on an international flight, I would assume it falls into the same category of "international travel", which I believe is zero-VAT across EU. If it was something not directly related to the travel aspect itself, e.g. pre booking an inflight meal or lounge access, I would expect VAT to apply. Or a domestic flight within France, of course.
That is a common fear, but no, it’s not matched by real-world experience. Modern battery tech should usually last the life of the car. The batteries are often fairly modular, so if some individual cells do unexpectedly fail, often the battery can be fixed by just replacing one of 20 or so modules.
This is great news... Unfortunate as I used to be bullish on browser based push notifications, but in reality they were never working reliably on mobile devices.

I use a web API for my SMS gateway, and implemented push notifications via Firebase. It didn't matter whether I was using Fennec/Firefox, Chrome, or Vivaldi, I would always cease to be notified the moment the browser was killed off by my phone.

I eventually got sick of it and ported the logic over to call ntfy.sh instead. Not a single missed message since.
Why? That's so silly, it's like saying your local cops are more likely to shoot you than chinese cops, no shit. What does that have to do with this context? The US already has all your data thanks to US bigtech and you are fine enough to post on HN
Germany spending 100 Billion Euro to buy weapons... how many houses would that have been?
1 billion is 1000 million
100000 houses if one house costs 1 million to build, which it doesn't.

I don't agree with your pensioners hate. You will be old too some day, if you live that long. And you'll be happy to not have to filter through trash cans so you can afford to survive.
It's difficult to read an audiophile guide as an analogue engineer
Vintage ad on Horses vs. Automobiles
> If you want to continue to use older hardware, just accept that you also have to use older software.

This sounds like making an excuse for completely unnecessarily obsoleting hardware and ignorantly continuing to make hardware that is completely fine spec-wise obsolete. It all be damned, as long as we can make software how we want. No need to see beyond one's own nose, as long as the rare earths can be mined. The planet be damned.

If at least we kept supporting older client side software, I guess people could live with that, but without a doubt, software businesses are a driving force behind the need felt by many people to have a new phone every 1-2 years. Another driving force are manufacturers that try to convince us, that we need their newest ever more dystopian products.

I personally keep using my now more than 12y old phone as a music player and my phone with broken display (not worth the repair costs) which is approximately 8 years old. Some software like Signal or Syncthing can still be installed (some from Fdroid) and I am not using iPhones, but older Android phones. Some day I might have to look into rooting them and install another OS, because I dread the day, when they will stop working and I have the choice of buying an even more dystopian spyware device.

But you know what I could not install, or even find in the app store? The Covid warn app! So these idiots made the app only for newer phones, creating a huge incentive for people to get newer phones and again wasting perfectly fine hardware. All that of course without proper justification. Even my old phones have WLAN and bluetooth and whatever. So I ended up not being able to use the Covid warn app at all, just because I do not like to trash perfectly fine hardware or unnecessarily buy a new phone every year. Great. Just great.
> BSD people lie to you when they say sysv is simple

Probably better to compare to the modern alternatives. runit and openrc are pretty great.
The Three Body Problem is a work of fiction, much like those war movies.

Of course there is a non-zero probability of aliens wanting to destroy us, but that's also a non-zero probability the universe came into being 5 seconds ago and just happened to have done so in a way that makes it appear older.
I feel this a general phenomenon on HN. Someone living in a specific European country will describe a specific good thing about their country (or even just their local area), and then extrapolate to the entire European Union.
I rented a house in London owned by a Muslim family, and the toilets had the spray things and no puddles.
I speak German which has its share of pointy letters :)

I'm aware of the normalization problem, but that should be handled in the API layers above the filesystem. In which layer exactly is up for discussion though (but IMHO there should always be a fallback to access files via their "raw bytes path identifiers", if for nothing else than debugging).
Even on grid using a ton of coal, ev more than compensate extra co2 generated during battery production.
On the not so green us grid (average of us), ev save 50% co2 over their lifetime.
But the grid is greening and so they are saving more and more. In france it's a factor 5.

ICE as the dominant form of locomotion is dead. People don't know it yet.

Of course some will be used for specialty work, but they will become a rarity in our lifetime.
You can split hairs all you like, the fact remains that even the Japanese government recognizes the country has a problem with plummeting birth rates.

Also a lot of the, let's call it "citizen resistance" against the prevalent extremely toxic Japanese work culture, is not captured by statistics. Japanese are different people and they will not just admit "yeah I would only see my wife and kid for 1 hour before I dine and collapse, preparing for yet another 16 hour workday" if asked on the street. Written workplace surveys? Forget about it, to them it's a disgrace to badmouth their employer; never happening.

It's obvious the Japanese have a problem. You arguing doesn't change that.
I was able to do this using an agency in Uruguay. Our project was significantly more interesting than others so was basically able to hand select a team for 3 months (front end + 2 back end). I negotiated to not pay/interact With a project manger/designer as we has that in house already.

That said, I don’t think they had a ton of prior working experience together.

If you find any good examples of this present share.

A friend of mine is building this but for full stack product teams so may be worth reaching out
https://dreamteams.com/
You've just forgotten how to drive
This seems to be a common pedagogical problem in expositions of C — so few of them point out that no, damn it, `switch` is not a multi-arm `if`, it’s a computed `goto` with lipstick on it (as opposed to an actual computed GO TO like the one in Fortran).
In the US we have free gas stations along our freeways. I've never stoped at one on he Autobahn so I can't compare, but they sound like the same idea. They are run by the state and in general clean and nice (there are exceptions). Gas stations are hit and miss - most of them are also nice and clean, but some are disgusting.
I might've been clearer I was making a joke, I suppose.
That could well be. But also check back in a few years when the AI is chasing down subtle bugs introduced by humans.
Also, that article is from February, about a 1 month change in sales in January when the subsidy was dropped. On Dec 1, anyone who had near-term plans to buy an EV would obviously push to buy before the loss of subsidy in Jan. And by corollary, anyone who buys in Jan is probably highly price insensitive (rare) or had the purchase forced by other events (like their current car was totaled). This change doesn’t say anything meaningful (positive or negative) about the intrinsic value of EVs in Norway. There is no way to infer any kind of “normal sales of EV vehicles” from this data.
Well, you do live in the only EU country where local industry opposed this bill ;)
Since it's making you ill, why not clean yourself using the shower?
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Yes that is what he's saying. It's also the truth and the only reason every social media forced you to use the app.
There is large and vocal conservative community trying to create hysteria over trans people and their transition.
Yes, when you realize you're wasting your time and energy on something pointless it is time to stop doing that and focus on what you can change. If you want to control of how people travel all over the planet your best option is the fantasy world of computer games, or to vote for a politician that promises this fantasy.
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It would be pretty funny if one of the groups’ business model was just drop shipping stuff from the other 5
Also, with the stateless version, resizing breaks color changes on collisions.
I am reminded of a recent BBC article: "Man killed by telescoping urinal." That is some scifi horror imho. And it happened in front of a theatre showing the Harry Potter play, suggesting dark arts at work. Then I learned about what these objects actualy do.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-64439322
What's the entitlement slice of the pie up to these days in the US?
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> I don't want to have to run and maintain a spam filter for notifications.

Maybe the OS should run and maintain that for you. Just as gmail automatically sorts your emails into different categories (and spam), maybe so the OS or the browser should sort notifications.
No, you don’t…

we didn’t even have multicore processing in 1996. 1995-2005 looks very different from 2005-2015.
i think a lot of firms believe they can keep quality (by hiring 'good quality') engineers in india and save money.

as anyone who has actually been at a place that tried this knows, it's probably not true. and for the time when it is true, you need very good information on the talent, and experience on how to set up your product/engineering teams.

and then it still won't be as cheap as you expect.
Can't remember where I read it, but I enjoyed this remark on MBTI: "be skeptical of any personnel categorisation system where everyone is a winner". MBTI is just another exercise in extracting money from the gullible.
That's usually when I uninstall these apps myself. Though on Android you can usually get the ad spam down by disabling it once in my experience.

That being said, it's been years since any apps have tried to push promotions onto me through notifications. I honestly don't know what app hellscape you and so many others online seem to live in; to me, notification ads have died a swift death somewhere around 2012.
Post-QE, the Fed now has to pay interest on it's excess reserves[1] in order to achieve it's Federal Funds rate. This costs the Fed real money, and it no longer collects enough money on the interest paid on it's assets (given they're lower yielding assets than the current target rate) to offset this cost.

They are losing money regardless of what they do with their bond assets - they would simply lose even more money if they tried to sell their bond assets below purchase price/book value.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excess_reserves
I don't know if I'd say it's ignored by media, it's through media that I'm aware of it.
There are quite a few different reasons why people become reclusive. For instance the person with panic disorder stays at home because they are afraid they’ll have a panic attack if they go out. A person with social phobia looks superficially the same but they have a very different inner experience. Schizotypal people are constitutionally inclined to think everybody is out to get them and then they get bullied in school and the bullying is supported by the teachers and school administration and learn that everybody really is out to get them.

There are a number of syndromes that look superficially like the Hikikomori syndrome, of about 10 people I know in the US who are chronically depressed and fit the “NEET” (No Employment, Education or Training) criteria there is one who I think really is a Hikikomori (can’t seem to tell the difference between Hololive and reality), the rest all differ in some major way.
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I wish countries stopped trying to "solve their fertility problem." We don't need so many people. We don't need laborers to exploit. We should focus on technological and robotic solutions to the labor shortage.
> perhaps in a coarse or low utility way.

I think this is right, and a lot of the "this is astrology" people seem to be conflating the fact that something can be useful (which, to be clear, I don't believe astrology is) with the fact that something can be misused.

> I've never seen someone guess horoscope signs above chance.

I've met one person who was David-Blaine-party-trick-level good at this. Out of ~20 people she never met (including me) I think she missed one person's water/earth/fire/air sign, and was probably >80% on guessing their month sign, it was very entertaining.
This must be the most hilarious comment I've ever read on here, and everyone is discussing this without even flinching… :D
Unlike catholic churches, school system had mandatory reporting of sexual abuse for years. And if a teacher was accused of sexual abuse, it was not an actual norm to move him to another position with access to children.
Its become a noisy world.
The writer of this article seems to have a pretty big beef with Myers-Briggs.

It’s fine. As long as you realize that it’s not binary, and indicates a tendency, not an absolute.
Maybe because I'm from a different era, but installing anything on a device from a website is an extremely risky game. There is a reason we moved toward using a web browser to do functionality that was typically done on desktop.

I'm not one to worship Google's walled garden(which is just marketing jargon), but at least that has some layer of verification and malware detection.

I still dream of a web app based future. Then we only need to security proof 1 app.
You just did it again.

How is the situation in Hungary, outside Budapest?
They can keep a stake in the companies after the IPOs, even higher than 50%.
Oh this is nice! I've written my own wrapper "Airfetch" around it to just... work, but it's so dirty I can't actually share it (ha) but it works super well, and I use Airtable for everything.

Thanks so much for sharing this!
My favorite statistic is that a decent number of people think that 25 percent of the US budget, over 1 trillion dollars, goes to foreign aid.

https://www.brookings.edu/opinions/what-every-american-shoul...
Similarly, some people take great pleasure in the intricate workings of Japanese joinery, but if I were a run of the mill furniture builder ~150 years ago I'd be greatly worried about the consequences of machinery.
You could combine Amazon's ”Nextdoor“ group and the ”Stingray“ project under digital mapping and food delivery.
Interesting. To what extent can we consider microsoft, google, amazon, and facebook monopolies? Maybe Google can get off the hook (for now) but microsoft and amazon are too big. No one can compete with those two.

- Facebook: social media monopoly with whatsapp, instagram, and facebook. These should be independent companies.

- Amazon: This is the biggest offender on this list: AWS, ecommerce, twitch, whole foods, logistics, etc... these should also be independent companies.

- Microsoft: After Amazon, MS should be broken up decades ago.

- Google: If it wasn't for Ads, google would have probably be in turmoil each year. Google cloud is good (we use them as our cloud provider), but reality is they are far away from AWS in terms of market-share.

- Apple: This one is interesting since we know they are big but there's room to compete (to a certain extent).

In short, at least MS and Amazon should be on the radar and be broken up within this decade.
Especially during something like gaming, this could be overheating. Very common with gaming on phones.
if you don't believe temperature data go look at pictures of glaciers that go back 100+ years https://nsidc.org/data/glacier_photo/

what makes them melt? must be photoshop of the pictures by climatologists right?

so maybe it's photoshop, but then where does all the sea ice go? probably climatologists lying about it right? are the satellites even in space? maybe they are a lie just like the moon landing.

https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/monitoring/snow-and-ice-ext...

you linked to an article by james hansen then said you can't find what he is talking about because climatologists covered it up. james hansen is one of the most famous climate scientists ever having originally presented this to congress as a world crisis during his tenure at NASA.

i gave you links to temperature data collected in the usa, the soviet union, and china. yet you come back with no physical explanations and hint at vague conspiracies? Then you tell me to "look at the real data" when I gave you data collected by governments who have no desire to agree with each other in some global conspiracy.

so like, whatever man.
Funny thought, we all talk about Stack Overflow being replaced by these models...

But with the new stuff, who will write the answers for them to learn first from? Or will we be stuck with this level of knowledge forever now? In the case that no one will produced sufficient training data anymore to be fed in to them...

Maybe the future isn't so bleak. Or we just need to find suitable niches which won't be filled. Or where someone wants a human in loop.
FB has a large scam problem they are trying to get on top of. while I understand you not wanting to give them your number, I also understand their wish to verify you are a real person and not another automated scam.
China has done what's only being talked about in the west: successfully broken up a powerful tech conglomerate.

One needn't resort to the kind of marxist leninist tactics that were at play here to achieve the same outcome, but all we'll get is more talk, or if things go really well, 5 mini googles just in time for openai, bing or someone else to become the next search monopoly.
> Our electricity grids are usually matching the current demand.

Barely. Grid regulation has exploded in cost in the last few years.

> We have 25 years to upgrade until majority of customers will switch to EV. That is a lot of time.

A lot of infrastructure has been barely, if at all, maintained for far longer timespans. The 2018 fire, for example, was caused by a worn-out hook that may have been at least 88 years old [1]. What makes you think that utility providers will do the necessary upgrades in that time?!

[1] https://hackaday.com/2020/09/17/closely-examining-how-a-pge-...
Its good when the government is democratically elected. When its more autocratic like the direction Xi is taking the CCP is just means one power has less challengers which opens the door to catastrophic failure and thoughtless cruelty when the autocratic ruler errs (see the Donbas region today).

The challenge the west has is keeping its democratic institutions strong enough to stand up to wall street, the challenge China has is having anything to oppose the tight grip of the CCP.
Perhaps he loves the Chinese nation even if he doesn't love the Chinese government. Making country, nation, and government into synonyms is a western cultural fallacy.
In 2013 motor vehicle crashes and firearm-related injuries both trended upwards, and seemed to track each other; in 2019 firearm-related injuries and drug overdoses both increased sharply. Something happened in those two years. I wonder what.
Two of these don't need any machine learning; they just needs more information to be encoded in the notifications, and more comprehensive filtering to be built into the notification subsystem. Your second and third conditions just require the ability to build contact groups that get higher priority for notifications (and, of course, an indication within the notification of who the sender is).

The "urgent" part of the first is obviously somewhat more complicated, but the "from my boss or team" is also just a contact group. I don't use Slack, so I am unfamiliar with its specific capabilities, but if it gave the ability to mark a message as "urgent", that could be transferred through to the notification, and allow additional filtering on it. Alternatively, I suspect that it already allows (for whatever the Slack equivalent of the "server owner" is) for the creation of arbitrary channels; if your team created an "urgent issues" channel, the channel information could easily be encoded into notification metadata to allow filtering on.
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Hi,

I'm not sure if the software I want exists and if it shall ever exist but it's something I have always wanted. I think the nearest software that exists is Portainer.

I use Terraform to bring up infrastructure and use AWS Console or an automated test to verify it was created properly.

I would like a desktop or web app that can present the resources/objects in Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, GCP and Azure, Kafka objects, I would also like configuration management things to be available such as installed packages.

I would also like the ability to modify resources in the GUI and generate Terraform or Ansible for the changes, or CloudFormation or Pulumi or CDK code.

I would also like the GUI to be integrated with monitoring, so if the tool knows about a haproxy healthcheck, it also presents that in a health dashboard.