skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’s absolutely correct that it was overpriced. However, a large portion of the cost was the extremely high quality instruction manual for putting it all together. It was cheaper than a university course, and now I love tinkering with electronics!

You clearly know what you’re talking about, so I appreciate your input. Now that I’m more confident, my goal is to learn things at your level and understand how to assemble things more practically and at cheaper costs.
I'd love to get your feedback on a project I've been working on to 'sonify' DNA sequences. When played fairly quickly it sounds a lot like jazz to me, but I don't have a high musical intelligence so I'm not confident in how apt that description is. If you feel like having a listen to this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSG9006YAeA&t=34s

And sharing your opinion on whether it bears similarities to the 'logic' of jazz, that would be very interesting to me!
Was the screenshot in the blog post a mockup, or is GitHub changing to that style? https://github.blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/sbom1.png?w=1...

Also what is a "cloud repository"?

> As part of GitHub’s supply chain security solution, self-service SBOMs are free for all cloud repositories on GitHub.
Work out the details on exactly how said end-of-the-world would occur.

Note that we already have “AI to end cities” - they’re just sitting, turned off, waiting for the code and button press in silos and submarines throughout the world.
> I quite literally believe they are violating child labor laws.

Couldn't agree more the more I learn about them.
Something like this?

TensorFlow Playground: https://playground.tensorflow.org/

ConventJS: https://cs.stanford.edu/people/karpathy/convnetjs/
Clipper Tutorial: A Guide to Open Source Clipper(s)/Printable Version
> I meant no insult, but I see no other explanation.

Then maybe you should consult the guidelines.
Depends how deep. Experience and structured education go hand in hand. I liked The Unix and Linux System Administration Handbook. There's plenty of stuff you can skip in there like setting up email servers, but the core of it will give you a good overview of the main Linux concepts.
I'm sure it'll get better, but I've played around with it and gotten pretty garbage results. React components that violated the rule of hooks (that still has problems even if your ask it to correct that bug), attempts to access non-existent API methods, and often code that just doesn't do what's asked.

Really the only prompts I've gotten decent results for were asking it to write a one-off script that interacted only with a single well-documented API like Github's. It even gets that wrong sometimes by just imagining non-existent fields on Github's APIs.

I can see it being useful one day, but I still find Copilot to be much more usable even in its v1 incarnation.
I find that comparison quite interesting with respect to the energy intensity of producing lithium ion batteries. A factory that can produce two oil barrels per hour or seven 60 liter gasoline tanks per hour or will also produce 35 GWh storage capacity per year and would probably not consume anywhere close to 300 MW in the process.
I'm not so convinced. Web frameworks by and large don't need the perf/memory of C, they're always running on high powered servers. Nim feels like it would be perfect for embedded settings.
The basis of the cleanup and evacuation requirements is the Linear No Threshold model, which assumes that even the tiniest amount of radiation has adverse health effects. There is no empirical basis for the LNT model at very low doses, so it's essentially made up.

And in fact, the LNT model greatly overestimated the casualties from Chernobyl, Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

There's tons of references for this on the web, see for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation_effects_from_the_Fuk...

Also from there:

"It is believed that the health effects of the radioactivity release are primarily psychological rather than physical effects. [..] However, people who have been evacuated have suffered from depression and other mental health effects."

The same was true in Chernobyl, check the WHO reports that came out every decade. Each subsequent report reduced the estimated number of casualties linked to radiation by an order of magnitude, while the psychological impact increased.

> There's still no scientific consensus about the effects of radiation on fauna in the CEZ

While there is no scientific consensus on the details, there is consensus that the red zone is not the poisonous wasteland you claimed. The wildlife has absolutely thrived.

https://allthatsinteresting.com/chernobyl-animals

https://www.wired.com/story/chernobyl-exclusion-zone-rewildi...
Yes!

Since it has first-class support for compiling to JavaScript, it could offer fullstack type safety web development in a single language.

It's also very easy to grok by being Python-like.
The most shocking thing to me I’ve observed during my career is how many good technologists lack empathy. I hazard it’s because the same neurological structure that optimizes for what makes a good dev/technologist is also what makes empathy and social skills lacking, very broadly speaking. You can learn/fake it with enough time and practice (I’ve met those who do), it just doesn’t seem to be that common of a hack.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/13623613198835...
I'd love to see some implementations of fixed point trig functions, but I haven't found any! Do you have any links by any chance?
> surely - there’s a point where the rational conservative says “wtf”

This surely depends on whether the 'rational conservative' is capable of basic introspection.

What is being proposed by the GP would be decried instantly by even the slightly-right-leaning if it were any other group (especially, say, black people, or left-wingers).
Returning escaped slaves was in the constitution itself (fugitive slave clause).

Founders’ intent is pretty irrelevant to today’s problems. They ran forced labor plantations, hadn’t mastered electricity or germ theory of disease, and the biggest city was ~30K people.

1 person = 1 vote, get rid of all the rural planter rigs.
Here I was hoping for an introduction to the work of Pierre Janet.
IDK, for instance, I'm familiar with Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics, and even though I have had my share of fun from it, the (functional) presentation there still looks terrible, to the point of becoming completely opaque in places, compared to the traditional mathematical notation of the Lagrangian etc. I have also seen books on calculus that focus on function composition (resembling the style of category theory) rather than on sets, and I felt that this was completely unnecessary as it only served to complicate both the exposition and the understanding of the subject that is already difficult enough.
A junior engineer who read the documentation, but didn't quite understand parts of it. And also got parts mixed up with documentation for something else.
If you prohibit to use that private money on scaling AI, it's not like any of these entities will suddenly choose to gift it to charities instead, they'll just invest those resources (mostly employee time, not literal cash) into R&D of some other tech product.
Hey Abner, programmer with much the same philosophy here.

I'm interested in being an instructor, but not sure I would have anything useful to add. If you've read my blog [1], do you think I would?

If you haven't read it, feel free to ignore this.

Edit: I was specifically thinking about a course on fuzzing.

[1]: https://gavinhoward.com/
Sam Clemens.

Twain is a pseudonym.

The compositor was well ahead of its time, which is one of those ways in which your start-up can fail.
I have similar results, yet you have people here on Hacker News saying that it's "more productive than 10 developers put together" via their special sauce prompt engineering.

Which is right?
Ironically I’ve been using chatgpt as an Italian tutor.
Google Fonts respects user privacy
There is already public discussion - even here - about benefits and risks, and I hope also some understanding. Otherwise the general public doesn't have a good understanding of too many issues anyway, so... what else would you suggest can be done for this particular matter? When the discussion is over and everything understood? Can such a moment actually exist? I think now is just as good as last/next year.
Other sources:
https://www.politico.eu/article/italian-privacy-regulator-ba...

https://www.euronews.com/next/2023/03/31/openais-chatgpt-cha...
My solution is to:

* use a virtualenv, so that dependencies are installed per project and not globally

* only specify my top-level dependencies in a requirements.in file, and let pip-compile (a dependency, part of pip-tools) compile my requirements.txt

So far it has served me well and I've not encountered any error due to this method.

I cannot claim it is "the right way" though, just something that works for me.
You're calling the google maps API with every visitor? Might get expensive.
> If you give GPT-5 too broad of a problem to solve, it can get lost and forget things

For a second there I thought I needed to read more articles per day in order to not miss the release of a new model!
What does it mean? Can you spell it out for me?
I switch between helix and evil bindings on emacs.

(To the extent that it matters, I also mostly use the Dvorak keyboard layout if I can, but can still use QWERTY).

The helix keymap overall seems very well thought out. The built-in multicursor functionality also seems very expressive/powerful.

I will sometimes think I'm driving helix when in emacs (or vice versa), but overall don't see that as a major issue.

It did take a bit of time to learn how to do some things in Helix which I'm otherwise comfortable doing with vim motions.
Using vim motion extensions for my primary editors (VS Code & Visual Studio) for ~11 months at my day job while using vanilla neovim (no plugins, syntax highlighting, lsp) for the first 6 months on personal projects.
Makes sense. Basically the FAANG strategy.
It's possible that all this research in programming language safety, specification, static analysis that most of us have been safely ignoring for the past... well, forever... will finally become a staple requirement, instead of programming itself.
I was using Helix for some time, however what stopped me at some point was lack of persistent state in the editor. Helix is a powerful IDE, so you start to use it as an IDE, work on a project and close the editor at some point. How do you get the last opened files when you start the editor again?

Right now there is now way to do that, because there is no consensus on how the state should be stored. That's a worse developer experience, compared with vim for instance.

Another story is that some people pointed out a missing feature - moving lines or blocks of text up and down, as more advanced IDEs do. I volunteered to implement this feature, however I'm getting impression that the community is a bit puristic when it comes to features like that, based on feedback I get.

One argument is that this feature will make the code too complex to maintain (write your own bindings if you want that). Another that have been brought up is that acting on selected lines, instead of characters violates the rule act-by-selection (that is, modify only selected characters in the buffer, similarly how visual mode in vim works).

I acknowledge these arguments, yet I got a feeling that the community is a bit too perfectionist.
Been using Rubymine, their new look is great and all features I use daily are still easily accessible.
75kg?? Where are you getting that figure? Most common figure is around 160 grams of lithium metal per kWh (you can do better, as the theoretical minimum is half that, and some DO do better). Base Model 3 is around 60kWh (giving it about a 250 mile range), so just under 10kg per car, so even your 130kT/year gives us 13 million cars per year.

Obviously we're not going to be mining a whole bunch more lithium than we currently use. This is obvious, so saying that if we use more lithium we'll need to mine more lithium is just a tautology and is no useful insight at all!
Hi, do you mind revealing some of these uses? Or, lets put it differently, I have been using ChatGPT for

- writing simple functions: e.g. I used it to generate a function that receives a name and then removes any dutch name particles ("van de", "van der", ...). ChatGPT also generated the list of dutch name particles of dutch name particles.

- solving tricky bugs: e.g. I used it to solve a tricky but in SwiftUI that nobody on stackoverflow was able to solve.

- generating ideas for apps I could develop that would make use of the ChatGPT API.

- as a replacement for google when debugging code based on error messaged received.

I feel like this is how the typical programmer uses ChatGPT, but im intrigued by your comment what kind of uses you have for it. If you dont mind, could you hint at some ways you use it?
The problem is centralized control in society, promiscuous sharing of data, a culture where it's normalized to naively acting on incomplete information, and outsourcing executive decisions to blackboxes that are not understood and treated like magic by decisionmakers.

I feel all these arguments miss the point. "The System" closes my bank account and sets me aside for security screening at the airport, blocks my IP from viewing the opening times of businesses in my area, and floods my feeds and search results with nonsense posing as information ending up influencing our perception of the world no matter how aware we think we are.

"AI" is just an amplification factor of the deeper issue, which should be more pressing to address.

AI is not the problem but is on track to facilitate an acceleration of destructive forces in society.

As much as I think everyone seems to be missing the point, hey, it seems people are getting behind a resistance where the specific is consequentially beneficial, so why argue against it just because its misguided and for the wrong reason?
Batteries are as yet inappropriate for long duration swings over weeks or months that cycle only a few times a year.

Better to compare it to thermal storage, PHES, simply curtailing it or even virtual storage via hydro or w2e (or hydrogen generation with no step where it is converted back to electricity or motion). All of which are more sensible than hydrogen for personal transport.
Tooling (In this case, "Find References") should understand language semantics. Not that I think that this specific feature of Nim is particularly appealing, but pandering to 1970s stone-age tooling forever is just sad.
Alibris is is my go-to.
A Bit of Smalltalk: Oscar Nierstrasz at UniBe
Math always came easy to me up to grad school level. My parents didn't really push me. If I did my homework, it was timeboxed to what I could do on the bus ride, which meant I mostly just didn't do it once I started driving. I spent my afternoons playing video games. I remember my calc 2 teacher scolding me for never doing my homework and telling me I was going to get a C regardless of my AP exam score (most of the AP teachers at my school gave you an A if you got a 5). I didn't really care, got a 5.

My habits and attitude improved somewhat during undergrad (I figured out in junior year that you can actually read those books you buy!), but as a kid I was a horrible student. I took all honors/AP classes because the normal ones were so boring and slow, not because I had tiger parents.

From all of this, I'm forced to conclude that either everyone just likes to complain and actually math is easy, or some people find it easy and some do not, and I was very fortunate to be one of the former.
The edge between manufacturers is always very, very thin in cases where manufacturers are actually trying to directly compete with each other. But usually they're not. Cadillac and Audi both build performance sedans but they build them for different demographics, taste profiles and usage patterns and it shows. Cadillac has tried to build cars for Audi customers and Audi has tried to build cars for Cadillac customers and they've both mostly flopped and they've gone back to their own things. The marginal new car buyer who flip flops between brands doesn't really care about that stuff. They have specific and varied criteria they're using to choose.

Everyone on the upper middle class internet shits on FCA because FCA's financing arm has no qualms about writing low end loans which run results in their cars being (when new) driven by people who on average are lower class and less well off than those of the "nicer" brands and FCA consciously builds cars to the price points those buyers want. This results in the cars generally being more clapped out for a given age/mileage on average than "nicer" brands which is then used to justify the shitting-on in a circular logic sort of way.

This phenomena and set of feedback loops isn't specific to cars though. You see it used to justify purchases in all sorts of product classes.
I think the fact that LLMs are basically fixed models (plus some RLHF and a tiny context window) means they won't likely foom in their current form, but we're trying to change that. Meanwhile, a whole bunch of ML researchers are saying "hey, our field is getting dangerous and we don't know how to keep it safe".

I'm verrrry skeptical of governmental regulation here, but I'm also not willing to dismiss the experts shouting "our work is might quickly lead to disaster!" AI is advancing very rapidly.

Yes, people were wrong about 3D TVs, but they were also wrong about the growth of solar power in the other direction, repeatedly under-estimating its rate of improvement/adoption year after year[0]. It'd consider that a much better comparison: it's not a single "3D will replace 2D", but "solar power will rapidly iterate to be better and cheaper faster than expected". Well, AI is rapidly iterating to be better and cheaper faster than expected. (To be fair, only some AI; LLMs and image generation.)

> People are already plugging ChatGPT to anything from code to managing investments, it's just a matter of time until it crashes and burns

It's not X-risk, but it's worth asking whether just ChatGPT crashes and burns, or also the market it's being plugged into.

> As for OpenAI, it's in their best interest for people to be scared and governments to propose regulations. It further solidifies ChatGPT as a force to be reckoned with, even if it isn't. They're trying to sell it as AGI even though it isn't anywhere near, but actions like this are helping to maintain that image.

No one (or very few) think ChatGPT is an AGI, and anyone who expresses high confidence about how close it is, regardless of whether they say "very close" or "very far" is over-confident. There's widespread disagreement among the people best positioned to know. We don't know, and that's bad.

[0] https://www.vox.com/2015/10/12/9510879/iea-underestimate-ren...
Yup.

"Wow, if we use more lithium, we'll need to produce more lithium! This is such an insightful comment and not at all tautological..."
Machine guns are more of a n analogy. You can make them with common metalworking tools, and any factory that can produce basic machines can be retooled for fully automatic weapons. Barrel is the hardest part and that’s a pretty well known technique.

But we have laws against rogue machine gun manufacture and they work reasonably well inside countries. But there’s no way to prohibit countries from having them. Even nukes have been hard to stop countries from obtaining if they really want (see North Korea).

Software regulation and such is way closer to the first than the second once the “idea” is out (see the PGP munitions ban years ago).
Unfortunately the jinn out of the bottle and it will not be squeezed back. We will be doing this experiment in the live environment with potentially serious consequences.
They can infer it from the employer name or just buy salary market data
Thank you for this. The last month has been scary as a dev. Not necessarily bc of employment outcome, but just philosophy of why we do what we do
Wouldn't anybody jump ship for a better job, though?
What issues are you facing? Last time I checked, running headless intellij on a server and editing code on it without ssh latency was a breeze.
I think it has potential to be more dangerous, but that potential remains very much unrealized at this time ( I am not complaining about that ). The difference is between potential and known risk. I understand the perspective.

I think we had very similar argument when posted showed a tool that could approximate users based on their writing style and more recently copying voice based on 20 seconds. We can estimate risk. We don't get it right consistently though.
yea its been helping me get things moving and outline ideas
> Everything just works

That's... That's a huge stretch. I've been on an outdated version of pycharm for nearly a year now because they broke support for docker-compose in a pretty huge way. Moreover, I have yet to have a pycharm project where I didn't need to create my own docker override file.
Actually even this is wrong. Every laid off employee with a LinkedIn account that changed their employer on LinkedIn. I typically am not in a hurry to change mine.
> Then maybe you should consult the guidelines.

And if someone is continuing to ignore facts and claim clearly false things as you were, what is the polite way to point that out?
The Supreme Court decided Google v. Oracle two years ago.
> "don't kill everyone" really doesn't seem the hardest problem here.

And yet you made a mistake - it should be "don't kill anyone". AI just killed everyone except one person.
> It has been created to reduce visual complexity, provide easy access to essential features, and progressively disclose complex functionality as needed – resulting in a cleaner look and feel.

Please, Jetbrains, and everyone else out there, I beg you, please stop shipping these redesigned UIs that look prettier but are infinitely times less functional and reduce information density by orders of magnitude. Especially for something like an IDE, with a huge base of power users--all this serves is dumbing down software when the vast majority of your users want the exact opposite.
I don't think it's so strange to expect the reaction to be proportionate to the threat they see? An open letter seems several orders of magnitude shorter to anything that would be effective if it really is a threat to the species. I think of examples of ways people react when there are very high stakes: resigning in protest, going on a hunger strike, demonstrations/raids, setting themselves on fire, etc. But there's none of that, just a low-stakes open letter? Can we even tell that apart from just posturing? Even the comments saying that some of the signers are just interested in delaying others for their own benefit are making better arguments.
Perhaps you could tell us.
> Especially in Europe, but these kinds of stories are never about Europe

I think SV is a joke compared to what it was, but it's still easier to do a startup thing there than anywhere.