skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> - every developer having access to production databases, including people hired yesterday

I wonder how that correlates with companies bragging that they only take day or even few hours to have new hire code landing at production "coz they are so agile"
I always wondered about the npm package output which, according to http://www.modulecounts.com , is 51k per day. That's insane when you consider its nearest competitor, PyPI is 250 per day.
Planned obsolescence and fictitious durability scores are a class action lawsuit waiting to happen
I think maybe Lego mindstorms does this.
> if you do know what it is you can't shop for it if it's not on the spec sheet

This drives me absolutely insane. When we were shopping for a TV for the living room a few years ago I wanted a 120Hz display. Finding one was a pain in the ass because all anybody wanted to list in marketing material was the backlight strobe rate; you had to dig and dig to find the panel rate.

No, I don't care that you can flash the backlight at a thousand Hz, I want an actual panel that's well synchronized with 24FPS content, and I don't want to spend hours of research to figure out which displays have one.
Buy a company for $44 Billion, and now offers equity at $20 Billion valuation?

https://www.wsj.com/articles/twitter-offers-new-equity-grant...

The company has lost over half its value in just 5 months.
And this is the exact reason that the market for good quality LEDs is so small. You care about price but not light quality (primarily CRI but also flicker and dimmability). That's fine, it's totally your decision to make. But the two products are incredibly far from equivalent.
TLDR: yes, people miss spell names.
Yes. For the commercial DC lighting installations I've seen they were using power over ethernet. That's not necessarily the only way to deliver DC power but whatever you do it's going to be wired differently from 120 VAC.
Wondering if the OP hasn't heard of Notepad++ - if they are using Windows? It has a GPL license and does text editing rather well.
I suggested making it OTC without a prescription largely due to a couple of practical reasons - many users of illicit drugs who are not "street junkies" want to keep the whole thing hidden for various reasons (social stigma, worries about health insurances, medical discrimination), etc.

Not sure about where you are, but in the countries in EU/UK I've lived, OTC can mean either "behind the counter" (where you must speak with the pharmacist), or "in front of the counter" (you just pick it up and buy it).

Depending on country, different drugs are sold differently.

In Germany and Ireland, to buy normal antihistamines or pretty much any good OTC painkiller, I have to request it and usually get asked some questions, depending on the drug, whereas in the UK I can buy the same medications in Tesco.

I'm also of the view that a lot more drugs should simply be available via the model of informed consent or just "available by asking for them".

Waiting weeks and paying 60 euros for a GP to toss a coin on if they are going to agree with you about a medicine is a nightmare.

Though that may be due to the broken health system here making me wait 4 weeks for a GP appointment so I could get a fucking salbutamol inhaler after my asthma came back, among other things.

Interesting aside, the "mental" addiction can be harder to kick than the physical. Some former opiate and gabapentin users I know have mentioned this - psychological cravings for even years after stopping. Anyone who has ever tried quit nicotine will also know this.
Exactly. Luckily halogens were commonly installed in pots. So for longevity, replace the pot rather than the bulb.
Embarrassing, maybe, but imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
Not unless they managed to solve their own alignment problem, and they're friendly. Otherwise we'd already be dead.
THAT is fantastic and heartwarming. I wish they put that front and center on a History of Scratch page.
No offense meant, but maybe you "see in-office interaction as being such a compelling experience" because you enjoy wielding power over people?

Well, many people don't enjoy being on the other side of this interaction, and prefer their work to remain just work.
OP here. The CNET thing is actually pretty egregious, and not the kind of errors a human would make. These are the original investigations, if you'll excuse the tone:
https://futurism.com/cnet-ai-errors

https://futurism.com/cnet-ai-plagiarism

https://futurism.com/cnet-bankrate-restarts-ai-articles
Sounds like issues that could be solved by some market regulation - rules about labelling - etc etc but to many that would be tantamount communism
Disturbing Chat with ChatGPT
> a mildly successful strategy for... what exactly I'm not sure.

Karma farming probably. Which in turn is useful in order to have a bunch of legitimate-looking accounts engage in paid upvotes.
Furthermore, data obtained in human and different cell lines show that BPA interferes with thyroid hormones synthesis, secretion, and signaling. Due to its anti-androgenic action, BPA works as an agonist on estrogen receptors and antagonist on androgen receptors[0]

BPA exerts endocrine disruptor action due to its weak binding affinity for the estrogen receptors ERα and ERβ. BPA exerts other effects by activating the membrane receptor GPER (GPR30) and/or other receptors such as the estrogen-related receptors (ERRs).[1]

In the presence of BPA and DES, the ER-binding region of the HOTAIR promoter was enriched by trimethylation on lysine 4 of histone 3 (H3K4) and by H3K4-specific methyltransferases, which are known to activate transcription73 (Table 2). Moreover, developmental BPA exposure enhances H3K4 trimethylation on genes, which are subsequently more sensitive to regulation by testosterone [2]

[0] https://www.mdpi.com/1422-0067/21/16/5761#:~:text=Furthermor....

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6864600/#:~:tex....

[2] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41574-019-0273-8

As for your point about FDA not being "industry"

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/09/28/4956945...

(The same FDA also banned bpa in products for children under 3)
Bridging the Gap Between Textual and Projectional Editors
"AI alignment" is not terribly well defined, but I'd like to ask anyone with a definition how well we're doing on the "human alignment" and "corporate alignment" projects.
> I know you're being glib but I assume the reason we didn't do any more Blackbirds is because normal satellite imagery got good enough that it didn't make as much sense to keep building these crazy things.

Most likely because of cost and missile technology catching up. After all, the U2 is still in active service, so the satellites aren't a perfect replacement.
Mustang: Rust target with std and no linking to a Libc
They all but admitted to the practice during a tour. I own a farm and was asking lots of questions, and they actively avoided answering some of my questions on the topic. It was clear as day that they do not care about legal immigration status.

The problem stems from the fact that there are not enough legal immigrants to go around. If they limit themselves to legal immigrants, they would not be able to run as large an operation as they do.
My experience has fallen into two categories:

* bulbs with the UK-standard bayonet fitting in light sockets that are suspended from cables from the ceiling with lampshades -- these I don't think I've ever had fail on me yet

* 4.6W bulbs with a GU10 fitting in recessed spotlights -- these fail on me more frequently (perhaps every few years to every five years)

My assumption is that this is all down to the spotlight-fitting bulbs being in a confined space and getting a lot hotter. I use Philips bulbs in both cases.
If your kids tinker with Scratch, try out TurboWarp[1], a Scratch mod that compiles projects to JavaScript.

Other alternatives to tinker with are Blocky[2] and Snap[3].

1. https://turbowarp.org

2. https://developers.google.com/blockly/

3. https://snap.berkeley.edu
No. The market already has an open-source code editor. If it was great, who needs another? This is more of an indictment of Visual Studio Code being a bloated Electron mess and needing a better open-source project than that, than a request to make Sublime open-source.
Pass that buck on down the line.
As someone who was diagnosed in my 30s, used medication for about eight years, then got off of it for about three years, I'm going to offer another viewpoint. I am grateful for the clarity I got with the meds, but something always felt off and I definitely talked too much.

I finally decided to get back off meds, and my anxiety really subsided. By that time, I had built a pretty effective external structure of calendar, reminders, etc. to handle the ADHD aspects of my brain, but without the anxiety to also deal with (which ramped up my ADHD exponentially), the ADHD is totally manageable and I don't feel so out of sorts and, for lack of a better term, "domesticated" into being what corporate America thinks they want.

I get along just fine, and I attribute a lot of that to finding a job I enjoy and having a boss who is patient with my unpredictable, but important contributions.
I'd imagine they have logging history somewhere? Then again if you fucked up your internal apps that badly, failure to include auditing is also likely
They're both editors. Does ST have features found nowhere else? Doubtful...
My nephew loved Scratch, he went on to https://www.hedycode.com/ in school and is now continuing in Python. Great stuff.
As consumers are we really supposed to do a ton of research on light bulbs and accept that we can't run down to Home Depot and get some new bulbs when they go out in our house?
Some bulbs will give you information on their CRI which ideally should be required to be labeled on the bulbs packaging the way calorie information is required on food packaging (but I don't think it is.) That will tell you roughly how good the quality of the light is by proxy of the spectrum of light it covers. On the other hand, there is no equivalent afaik for knowing how well the power supply is designed or how hard the LEDs are driven. I guess for that, the consumer can turn to the trusted source for this kind of information, bigclivedotcom. (Sarcasm; but seriously, this is a problem.)
A CERN for Open Source Large-Scale AI Research and Its Safety
[No spoilers] This was a bit of a mind bender for me:

I was halfway through "Revelation Space" by Alastair Reynolds when ChatGPT was released. Throughout the book, it is common for characters to use natural language to delegate technical tasks to AI helpers, and then review the results later.

As somebody who does a lot of technical work and had hands-on experience with GPT-2 this seemed quite implausible. A few months ago I couldn't just instruct an AI to go find X and Y and then calculate Z and show me a visualization of that.

But now with copilot, Bing, ChatGPT, et al this is a pretty standard task! Using natural language to instruct an AI to find some information or write a first rough draft of some code is no longer some far-future fiction.

The timing with ChatGPT dropping when I was halfway through the book meant that one of the elements of its world went from feeling very "sci-fi" to being quite ordinary. o_0
Makes me think of this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1X-ZVOYwNLU
I like your general sentiment and I live my life the same way, but I think it’s hard to change someone’s behavior from childhood, especially if they have been raised in a nutritional environment more fit for veal than human beings. Really hard to get people to change habits.
We are experimenting with Weaviate Embedded so that users can embed the vector database inside their Python (notebook) or TypeScript application. This should help with prototyping, CI pipelines, etc. This request came up a few times from community members, and we are looking for feedback.
13" is for sure getting off on the wrong foot, but 1920x1200 is for "surfing the web" or other non-serious work, to say nothing of: really?! the manufacturer couldn't even find those extra 80 lines to even make it Full HD? get outta here with that crap

I guess put another way: who do they think the target audience is for a laptop with 32GB but with a stupid resolution like 1920x1200?
This is one of my frustrations with generative AI APIs, the censoring of content. I understand why it's done but it seems overboard to me, and has created huge headaches with material that is not at all prurient, but where there's some homonyms involved.
So, like Uber, or any of HN's top startups. In modern times this is called a shining example of how to run a company.
> Real Risk: Overreliance on inaccurate tools

We might be able to remediate this somewhat by designing AIs that are purposely below some threshold of reliability. Their current tendency to hallucinate will discourage over reliance if we can't or don't fix it.

It's a little like the distinctive smell that is added to propane to make it easier to detect leaks. By adding, or not removing, easily detectable hallucinations from AI, it's easier to detect that the source must be checked.

We desperately want oracles and will quickly latch on to highly unreliable sources at the drop of a hat, to judge by various religious, political and economic trends. It's inevitable that many will turn AIs into authorities rather than tools as soon as they can justify it. We could delay that by making it less justifiable.
Eliezer Yudkowsky: Dangers of AI and the End of Human Civilization
1. Google denies doing it, so at the very least the title should have an "allegedly".

2. Even if they did – so what? The output from ChatGPT is not copyrightable by OpenAI. In fact it is OpenAI that is training its models on copyrighted data, pictures, code from all over the internet.
I know you're joking, but as a US dev I am very well compensated, and I don't even blink at giving JetBrains a hundred bucks a year for IntelliJ. Good tools make my life better.

I'm not a sublime user, but if I was, if it was critical to my workflow, I would absolutely pay for it.
Almost no one thinks they will. The worry is that they're the last piece of the puzzle, and that we're very close to having all the parts for the real thing.
Maybe it terms of total users, but I don't think every Roblox or Minecraft user is actually coding. Most of them are assuredly just players.
the thing I've found teaching is that the place scratch really shines is teaching kids who are a bit too young to "get" Python. I think it's related to their language/visual intuition but a seven year old will be able to pick up quite complex things in Scratch visually without being able to grasp fairly basic things in Python. Give them a couple of years in the oven with or without Scratch and they'll be much more confident and ready in picking up Python, but scratch can teach them a lot in the mean time.
Less popular screen sharing APIs of WebRTC
I am not a lawyer, but I don’t believe a trade secret would prevent someone from reverse engineering your model’s knowledge from it’s output though, in the same way that it doesn’t prevent someone from reverse engineering your hot sauce from buying a bunch and experimenting with the ingredients until it tastes similar.
Kids are way more disruptive than open space. Depending of the age they are dependent for simple thing like getting a cup of water. Then the list grow fast to get snack or to go to the bathroom. Then it continues by being bored after 10 minutes. I would say that any kid under 10 years old require some supervision. Of course, some children are more independent and trustworthy. However, 8 hours of work with a child or 8 hours in an open space is very different for most parent.
OpenAI could have blocked Google's accounts, for example. Nothing really to do with legality.
Sorry, but all of this strikes me as a very naive take on where AI is headed. The only reality I can see happening is that it just gets used to peddle even more ads to people while harvesting every single scrap of data possible on everyone while replacing large swathes of the population with cheap labor for the ruling classes.

This utopia you envision where we use AI for anything remotely good sure would be nice, but with the way the world and the people pushing for this AI especially work there just isn't a chance in hell that's how it's gonna end up going.
How does that work? The head of engineering gets a unit cost reduction target and then they call some shareholders to come review some proposals for which option works best? Do they show up with a printed certificate showing they own at least one share?
The world has moved on from your viewpoint. Either catch up or get left behind.
I can't say that I agree with your conclusion that it's asinine. The rest I agree with.

I don't agree with the author, but I do think this technology is obviously a massive chaotic force the likes we haven't seen before and likely dangerous, at a minimum, economically.
AGI doesn’t mean super intelligent human brain. It just means a network capable of general intelligence (e.g. learning to solve new problems without having to be architected and trained for a specific data set.)
Nowadays I target Azure OS, among the competing clouds as well.

So I did gave up, my comments are more a heads up to make others aware how WinDev managed to kill the advocacy of the most passionate people regarding WinRT tooling.
Yes, at the same time, this:

> complete incompetence over there

sounded to me as if it also includes the employees
I love it also.

The XML ecosystem is truly staggering. I can't say if any of it is "because" of XML, or simply XML was the thing these different projects hitched their wagons too, just because of ubiquity and momentum.

It is imperfect, but still extraordinary.

One of my favorites is XSL/XLT. Yes it's a programming language in XML that's apt at working with XML. But that's the thing, you have an XML programming language that can easily manipulate XML. What other language does that remind folks of? It's also functional. Hard to hear yourself think around XSL because of all the buzzwords flying around.

An early idea, which never caught on, but was still clever, was download XSL files to the client, and then simply serving up XML files to be rendered by the local XSL. We actually did this with CDAs in healthcare (CDAs are essentially XML health care records). That was a driving thing with CDAs. There were actually contests for student groups to come up with stylings of CDAs.

The idea of stylesheets and XML is really powerful. HTML and CSS are joined at the hip, but that's happenstance. CSS can be applied to raw XML, but that aspect of it never matured like HTML and CSS did.

Then you have things like XSL-FO, giving a straight pipeline from raw XML to a formatted output.

I love XML namespaces. The idea of "hiding" meta data into XML files is quite cool. It was straight forward to consider XML elements in other name spaces as no more interesting than comments. This was used to great effect in SOAP and web services. A nice use case was bundling XML-Sig payloads. This was used in SOAP, in SAML. That was the beauty of it. In theory, you could plonk it most anywhere.

Yes, it had its problems regarding normalization and such. And, yes, XML is complicated. There were certainly some sharp corners in dark rooms to bang you head on with XML. It suffered interoperability issues, but then everything did. Everything still does. That's not XMLs fault, that's just humanity.

It's a powerful lingua franca. Once you get something into an XML format, there's so much that can be done with it, stuff we've been doing for 20 years. JSON et al are still trying to catch up, and suffering similar problems that XML has suffered through.
> the Golang standard library

Mon Jan 2 15:04:05 MST 2006 would like a word with you.
No one's emotional state considers a broader timeline though. Yes outlook and expectation are important to wellbeing but you can't reason or bully yourself into being happy when you aren't.

Whether it's true or not, in this time there is a pervasive feeling of hopelessness and impending doom. These things aren't unique to our time, other people have rightfully felt them. But also we do feel them now, even if you think we shouldn't, even if the data, when looked at in a certain way, indicates we shouldn't. My limbic system just doesn't care.
> If you want nice-looking light, just go outside - it's free.

Did you read the article? It discusses this quite extensively
Simple explanation - you are asking for something selfishly. If you have a GOOD reason why they need to be in the office then they will join you.

Your reason (compelling, common, shared something) cannot be objectively substantiated. It is not helping your company's mission, your team's productivity, or your people to do a better job. However, the time they will need to spend commuting and the amount of time it will take away from doing a good work (from all the bullshit that takes place in office) can and has been substantiated. By asking for this you are really not looking out for the best interests of the company since you will increase attrition from the top talent who do not need to work in an office any more.

If you want them to come into the office, try writing down the actual lift it will create in anything that you can prove, and share it. My guess is that you'll have a hard time because competent people prefer autonomy, but give it a roll... who knows?
A controversial $35k spending also gives you a good ad spot on HN. Well done sir.
Sublime is an awesome piece of software written with so much effort put into performance. I don't see why the author should open source it. People who like open source editors only have many options. Open sourcing Sublime text would just mean the amount of paying users would drop to a much lower number, and the authors would be forced to write CRUD apps in some company. Once it goes open source there would be a new free open source distribution and all corporate money would drop I think.

On HN the sentiment for many things that everyone else can make enough money via donations/patreon and do some consulting or merchandising. However, very few HN developers would choose that over their well paying jobs writing closed source software.
I've volunteered a few times with the BOP and it's a really great experience. Would recommend if you're in NYC!

https://www.billionoysterproject.org/volunteer
If Twitter went bankrupt, could Elon buy its intellectual property at auction for a discount to effectively reduce his acquisition price? Or is the majority of debt tied to Musk personally?

I'm not a Musk fan but if this play is in the cards, his actions could be rational.
It really does baffle me how many software engineers making six figures and buying $7 lattes every day will balk at spending even a couple bucks on a useful app.
> I am also in the Europe, most other commenters seem to be from the US.

You're falling for the "Europe is better than the US, of course" mindset. What you are actually seeing are partisans spinning a narrative to fit their ideology, not an accurate description of reality.

We have really high CRI bulbs here, too, and they're inexpensive. I can go down to the home store and buy them by the dozen. I'll bet you money that bulbs in the US and bulbs in Europe are mostly manufactured in the same place...
I'm sitting here as the sun begins to set listening to Colin Carr playing Bach's Cello suites in an Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum recording from possibly a couple of decades ago on my cheapie headphones (Grado SR 80 open backed) coming off a mechanical hard drive via Linux and PulseAudo. The mp3 recorded at 128 kbit/s (they went to 192 kbit/s in later podcasts).

I've got a real sense of the cello, and a feeling for the audience (little coughing!) and the size of the ISGM's room. Some breathing noises (Professor Carr is putting the work in) but the music is flowing.

In terms of a transfer function this chain must be far from perfect but it sounds ok if a little 'chocolate'.

I think it is all a bit subjective this stuff.