skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can tell you that the biggest culprit for these broken dreams is a classic mistake: biting off more than you can chew.

I couldn't agree more with this statement. The tension between ambition and practicality is something that big tech doesn't know how to handle well. Especially for data science teams.
Kt McBratney went from marketer to co-founder and Chief Community Officer
Very strange what is going on w/ the URL from HN (vs. in general). Trying to figure it out, apologies
Regarding gnome, I personally don’t like that you have to install browser extensions to change settings on the ui.

I’ve tried adding desktop environments to a pop installation, but I really don’t like having all of the apps included with other desktop environments cluttering the taskbar menu and the like.
Signed up and subscribe with spanish card without any issues.
Well you don't override everything but just what you need.
Then devs can still use Tailwind docs on how to use the classes and all
What amazes me when I talk to people that work in "non-tech" companies is how common boilerplate work is actually out there. Man-millennia of effort to move data from one system to another, or generate a report, or trigger something. The first AI MuleSoft or similar platform is going to kill it.
It’s pretty much a meme at this point, but yeah. Snaps just finally did it in for me.

I’ve switched all my laptops and workstations from Ubuntu to Arch.

There are rough edges here too, but on overall I’m much happier. I feel like I know how my machine works again. Ubuntu lately has been giving me that windowsy feeling with lots of things running for god knows what reason.

Also in arch the repos seems to not only contain more current versions of things. They seem to bundle more things altogether.
The dance of control with non-engineered systems. Nice summary. And the systems reuse hits for distinct purposes like mad. For a little while in lockdown I tried to understand the biology of ACE receptors and my god, I couldn’t even memorize all the different types and subtypes nor the tissues they were found in, much less what functions that might imply.
Yes, they often are designed to use a common platform. But I'm speaking specifically to aerodynamic shapes. The body of a car is relatively easy to change in the design phase even with the same underlying mechanical systems, but I believe they still converge on the same basic aerodynamic shapes.
Maybe you'd find this interesting:

https://www.adamtornhill.com/Patterns%20in%20C%205,%20REACTO...
I would like to have a private ChatGPT with my own data. I believe that I would pay for a service that could answer questions based upon my data from gmail, outlook, browsing history, youtube history and likes, hackernews likes and comments, reddit likes and comments, and more.
That seems harsh. Apple famously hardly uses the web stack and prefers their own platform. Their software is also pretty high performance in general and starts quickly, partly as a consequence. Software would have focused on branding no matter what, that was already a trend in the 1990s with WinAmp, every Office version having a unique look etc.
If the RESTRICT act passes, TikTok will likely be just the first ICT (Internet Communication Technology) service to be banned. Next on the list may be Russia Today, Rumble, or any other app or site that is not fully US based and controlled. The decisions are at the discretion of the president. Be careful what precedent you set.
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Hip hop also has a big history of guest spots, each getting their 16 bars, in a way you don't see with other popular genres.
I had the opportunity to meet John Backus, the inventor of functional programming, when I worked at IBM. I definitely didn't "get it" the first time. Indeed, not until many years later.

I wrote this article, Functional Programming in TS[0] which has a lot of good background info and explanations. At least I think so, lol! And it's been pretty popular. See what you think:

[0] https://medium.com/gitconnected/functional-programming-in-ty...
It’s also trained on code and books. The knowledge is in there, it just needs more RLHF to improve its abilities. There’s a good chance it can handle those edge cases by combining the information it has in different ways.
Am I the only one that doesn’t get it?

I tried GPT and it’s unable to write anything but the most simple code from simple requirements.

As a tiny bit of complexity and it’s lost.

Are people at work dealing with tiny code bases with well defined requirements?
Point is, there's some black box, lay-version of playing with prompts, and there's a real study of how the prompt affects output by people who understand the workings of the model. Presumably they're hiring for the latter and not some kid with intuition, and therefore the headline is sensational because the story is that a job for a highly educated and specialized scientist pays well.

Edit: but when you read the ignorant comments like

It's possible that prompt engineering will become the next higher level of abstraction above scripting languages, which means it will have its own ecosystem develop around it while introducing a new audience to the technical domain.

It's clear that some people think prompting is really a dark art and not something that people could actually understand how it works. It's indicative of the overall ignorance around what llms are (like the deterministic guy in the sibling comment)
We did find an H.265 issue, but the tool is not currently built to generate H.265 videos.
Or it ends up being both, because Microsoft.
The interesting history is people will behead even themselves to get at the elite. See everyone in Zim / Rhodesia driving out the farmers that they surely knew they needed to eat, followed by utter destruction of their foodstocks and hyperinflation.
FWIW, that law also capped the SALT deduction (a deduction which almost exclusively benefitted the rich), and increased the standard deduction, which was a huge benefit to most normal people.

Say what you will about the other parts of it, but it didn't fall cleanly on party, plutocrat or ideological lines. The fact that the GOP effectively raised taxes for a big chunk of the moderately wealthy was a weird change of pace.
It has had ads for some time. Once (3-4 weeks back) I asked it a question about a particular event, and it showed me where could I buy related products below the response. That particular response was a bit badly formatted in json though. I suspect due to some Bing app bug it spilled the ads from the json in the response. So the ads were being sent to the client but not getting displayed I guess. The photo in the post shows the ad nicely formatted.
https://partiful.com/e/fE0XH0PrSOZB9ezYuFbW
> JavaScript with V8 is one of the fastest interpreted languages.

It is absurdly slow compared to any compiled language.

> Even React isn't all that slow.

Yes, it is.

> I don't know what it is yet (happy to be pointed somewhere) [..]

It is using a web browser to show some text and images.
My rationale is my culture doesn't do it so I don't do it as it would be an inauthentic life for me and disrespectful to those who valiantly carried my culture to the point where I get to exist. I'm connected to my culture's history and traditions due to my respect for my ancestors. You may be a rootless wanderer from a broken culture that has been made subservient to other forces and I pity you for it if so, but please do not assume we all are or want to be.
Those are fair questions but note that this is a research paper (and an excellent one at that), not a blog post meant for general audiences. The focus of the abstract and introduction sections is more higher level, on the contributions of the paper, instead of what it means for end users.
In most use cases with a separate client (e.g. in React), it's easier to use a separate OAuth server. Otherwise you will end up having to change the default cookie settings.
Heh nope, I still get the whole "Sure, here's an example of a CSV file with 10 rows of sample Chipotle restaurant order data:"

I wonder if the web UI has some additional "explain everything you do" prompt injection stuff going on.
Are you using the API endpoint or browser chatgpt? I tried it 5 times via API and it works and then 2 times via the browser and it doesn't work. They are different models.

If you are using the API try lowering the temperature mb?
I started programming with BASIC back in the late 80s and into the early 90s. Started with gw-basic and then with QBasic, both of which were included in versions of DOS.

QBasic was really cool at the time. I wrote a lot of (very crappy and slow) games in it. The documentation was all readily available and it had a lot of power. QBasic (and VB) were very "batteries included" and that was amazing.

But, and this may sound harsh, I've always felt that BASIC was a language of desperation. You use it because it's the only thing available to you, not because you actually want to use it. There was a time where some form of basic was available on literally every computer. This continued well past the 80s with VBA and gave a lot of people the power of extensibility over their applications.

Back when I was writing a lot of BASIC code, I quickly found myself running into walls and realizing that it just wasn't a great environment to build anything serious in. The lack of a real compiler in DOS was the primary reason I found Linux and C in the mid 90s. Once I had my hands on a C compiler I never wanted to look back ever again.

(I know that QuickBasic and Visual Basic existed and could create binaries. But, I was young and couldn't exactly afford them. Before finding C, I was using a BASIC environment called ASIC, which wasn't quite as nice as QBasic, but could produce binaries.)

It makes me wonder how things might have been different for me if DOS came with a C compiler and something like raylib. The lack of a real (free) compiler drove me to Linux. Would I have still gotten into Linux? I don't really know!
Finite state machines, DAGs, and UX principles for drag and drop editors
I’m sure Stanford considers this ethical behavior by his father.
As far as I understand the law, not being an actual lawyer, this is the "rationale" behind asset seizure: prevent a criminal from funding his or her defense with the proceeds of criminal activity. Obviously in the poster-child case, they haven't been convicted of anything yet.

I'm not defending asset seizure: it's become a way for the government to steal assets without trial. But SBF cleverly made it what lawyers like to call a "close legal question" by funneling the money to his father as a gift.
Not investing or financial advice. If your estate will incur said tax, be giving up to your annual exclusion till death.
Probably the most beautiful CLI scheduler out there
If you're a nerd like me who always lives on the terminal, you got the right place!

I've found so much ineffectiveness and time-consuming when I manage my schedule using Google Calendar, Notion, etc. Just for adding one task, you have to fire up your browser/app, enter URL, click the calendar cell, type a task name, assign a category, assign a color, assign a tag, and so on. It takes more than 30 seconds for doing one simple task!

Girok is a next-generation CLI scheduler with a beautiful GUI and powerful task operations that could be done in less than 10 seconds (in 5 secs if you have a quick finger). It's running on AWS server so you can login from any device in the world!

I've published just today and I'm planning to add more powerful features soon! I welcome all the valuable feedbacks and comments from you guys :)

Features soon to be added
1. Guest mode (users can opt-in to register and sync their data)
2. Web & app version synchronizing all data with CLI
3. Team Workspace
ChatGPT and Bard Performed as My Executive Assistants
Our team handles this really well. I've mostly seen and experienced this in teams with junior DS or in teams with no PM.
Yep, just type: "teach me prompt engineering".
Iceland is the 3rd most expensive country in the world to live in. Just look at the prices in ISK for the websites of businesses in Reykjavik, one of the only cities there with cellular data service, and convert it to your local currency.

Your money will stretch 3x-5x further in Europe unless you plan to build yourself an igloo and catch fish lol. Europe isn’t known for being cheap either.
Nokia Pure
The best way I can explain it is as if we now live in a society that invented time travel and we use it to live the exact same month over and over again. We make small tweaks each loop but nothing substantive. We are comfortable in the control of this space and are now afraid of living in the future that is beyond this time window. Anyone who tries has an extremely hard go of it because they are entirely alone beyond the window. The rest of the society goes back to the beginning of the month to live it again.

I feel like a time prisoner /fugitive constantly trying to break out of this window-loop.
Alexa can now make and receive calls through T-Mobile
Chrome has both CPU and Network throttling. I use both when developing (if you pay me enough for quality).
The people in charge of signing the checks do care but consider Office/Outlook to be non-negotiable, and then Teams is 'free', so it's seen as the lesser of two evils.
You need to think more about your model of trust. You will quickly discover that all security is built on trusting someone, even in the examples you mention above. You can compile your own kernel, but you trust kernel developers to not have put exploits in the source code. You can't audit the source code itself. You also trust your compiler to accurately compile the source code. You also trust compiler developers to not have put exploits into the compiler itself. You also trust the compiler they used to bootstrap their toolchain to compile the compiler.

Fundamentally, all security is based on trusting somebody, understanding their incentives and intentions and weighing risk and reward. An excellent book on the subject is Bruce Schneier's "Liars and Outliers" https://www.schneier.com/books/liars-and-outliers/.
do you feel AI is dangerous?
Lab stuff is bad when you make it a habit of daily or weekly consumption just because alternatives were never considered. I never take any medication for sleeping, for instance, but use a powerful herb as tea. Sleep drugs, allergy drugs, are factors of early senility. If there is a medical condition that requires a drug, of course it should be taken. Otherwise I treat "medication" somewhat like a drug, you know, cocaine or some such. But banning drugs that save lives or enhance conditions is not a smart thing. Lab meat will ever save zero lives and enhance no health.
Is this how the developers would describe what they are going? "Chasing butterflies and adding complexity because it's more fun"?

If so, they seem to live in a bubble and are not integrated enough into the rest of the business. Developers need to understand and be involved in financial, customer, and product concerns.

More likely in my experience they are very busy working off technical debt that would be under-prioritised by the manager creating pressure. Some of them may even be innovating new solutions that will open up entire new markets. Sure, not all innovations are successful, but it's enough if a small fraction is.

R&D ("chasing butterflies") is a comparatively very cheap way to acquire knowledge, and what puts you ahead of your competition is the knowledge you have acquired and they have not (yet).
well part of the whole discussion up was that BEM was a crappy solution, really the best solution is to know how stuff works so you make your solution correctly.

But because some people don't know how stuff works you come up with rules that if they follow they won't mess stuff up. They won't make things in the best way, but they won't screw stuff up either. hurray!
How much did you spend on those tires?

Also, if you haven't changed brake pads, I wonder how many miles you've driven it. Was this your primary car?

For me a Leaf wasn't an option. I can't go smaller than a Corolla/Civic, and prefer an Accord sized car - that's what I compared prices with EV.

Still, here are my numbers from 2012 onwards:

Repairs + maintenance = $5173.75 (includes tire changes).
Gas = $9480.13 (about 110K miles)

Now the Leaf MSRP in 2012 was $36K. The equivalent sized Yaris was $17K. Currently, the used 2012 Yaris is worth $1600 more than a used 2012 Leaf (assuming 110K miles). When you factor in tax benefits, the extra repairs the Yaris would need, and adjust the cost for fuel, it's not obvious that the Leaf was a better buy. Also, the real maintenance/repair costs would be significantly lower than what I quoted above, because those repairs were due to buying fairly old cars.

(And then factor in how much I actually spent on purchasing cars in that time period because I bought used: $12500 and the Leaf looks even less appealing).

Of course, the Yaris is way better if going out of town.

Anecdata, but everyone I know who bought a Leaf till about 2016 said it was not usable as a primary car - too short a range in cold weather. One person said "I can't commute to work and back, and do errands, without recharging."

As for Volvo/Ranger: Do you not take some responsibility for those purchasing decisions? When I was buying my first car, I was told to stay away from BMW, Mercedes, and Volvo. I was a student and was told I'd never be able to afford even minor repairs. In fact, a friend who was an engineer in Austin at the time bought a used Mercedes, and soon after the AC stopped working. He never got it fixed - he would use it only in the winter while he drove his Corolla the rest of the year.

Regarding the Ranger: I'm looking at reliability scores and they're poor, even for brand new ones.
With the most exciting Sunday in the entire year of racing coming up!
> boilerplate

Design Patterns are said to compensate for features missing in a language (e.g. Visitor for multiple dispatch). ChatGPT is sounding similar - solving accidental complexity that "shouldn't" be there in the first place.
> And the X1 Carbon is very nice hardware.

It doesn't sound as good as a fully supported option. It sounds a lot like commodity Windows hardware.

> Also, with that mentality, we would never extend Linux support to new hardware.

No, hobbyists will still do it (see e.g. Asahi)

If folks keep giving their money to Windows hardware companies instead of Linux ones, they should not be surprised if the range if Linux-supporting hardware remains smaller. Like if you could just slap OSX on some random Windows PC M1 and such would never have come about.

We actually have options as Linux users these days. It's a shame folks insist on wasting the opportunity.
Thank you Google. Also note that Cloudflare offers a comparable free service for all domainholders, not just certain categories of sites.
You get JFR's precision but inherit its blind spots as described in [1]:

> demo1: ... JFR will not report anything useful at all, since it cannot traverse stack traces when JVM is running System.arraycopy()

I'd rather run jstack in a loop than lose System.arraycopy() (or, in fact, any native code be it JVM's or JNI).

[1] https://github.com/apangin/java-profiling-presentation
Yes, I agree. My point is more akin to addressing why it happens in a somewhat different context than the article which states it's driven by customer subjective taste.

I'm saying it can also be driven by something else. There are probably only a few major players in the automotive aerodynamic software design space. Unlike the days when the design was driven by an artist with a block of clay, I suspect modern designs are often based on the same computer driven models with the same underlying physics. The software is probably a more refined and optimized approach, but this results in a convergence in looks and a lack of that idiosyncratic "soul"
It was bound to happen. I don't see how these ads could be blocked, either.

What's disappointing to me is now ad companies will try to blame ChatGPT for popping the advertising bubble, instead of having to admit ads were overvalued for the past decade+.
How would I know? But it doesn't matter: If your local youth club decides to host an officially sanctioned international tournament, they might go ask IFAB about what size to make the pitches. IFAB is going to tell them that if they meet the national FA guidelines, then they meet the IFAB guidelines. (Look at page 25 of the IFAB law book)
I wanted to say that the per-developer output has not slowed down significantly.

But I admit that there are challenges. For example startup time is ~30 seconds because that's the time it takes to import everything. This automatically means that running even a single test will take at least 30 seconds, to not bang your head against the wall we mostly write new code in a REPL so everything is already loaded.
A lot of why there are crimes is that crypto is inherently global but there two hundred or so different countries out there making ever changing and vague laws so allowing someone to exchange one token with another one will probably violate some regulation in some country.
Same in our team. It's a complete mess. Overhiring, over qualified, fight for scope...
Exactly. For example, GFA Basic, mentioned in the article, was quite fast, especially when compiled.
Didn't take long now, did it.
Ironically, this reads like any other repetitive blogpost running with a half-baked premise. To me, the author is mostly describing culture. Things look a certain way at a certain point in history because of the averaging effects of culture. Houses from the 1950's look like houses from the 1950's. Fashion from the 1970's looks like fashion from the 1970's. Coffee shops from 2020 look like coffee shops from 2020.

The subtext seems to be that American society looks like it does, and _that's bad_. This is a more nuanced point that deserves to be examined as it applies to different aspects of our aesthetic culture. I hate Marvel movies and what they've done to mainstream cinema, but I don't particularly care if a certain type of woman wants to emulate Kim Kardashian. I think the notion that you _should_ care about this trend in the appearances of a certain type of women, especially when juxtaposed against cheugy Airbnb decor, is not a good perspective to hold onto. No one is making you decorate your house like an Airbnb, dude.

The author concludes that the current state of our aesthetic culture is a market opportunity to "reintroduce" variation. This is a flawed notion. If you succeed in changing a piece of our aesthetic culture, then you will have successfully spurred the mass-adoption of your personal brand of blandness. You may have gotten rich in the process, but you will be a failure in your stated goal.

Counterculture exists for a reason
…tell that to my 994 bookmarked 'read later' URLs. Very much a case of best intentions but woeful discipline.
Tyler Cowen Interviews Jonathan “GPT” Swift
It is the new reality though. Soon AI generated PRs will look human enough to require a good amount of time of the repo maintainers to review.
BASIC is very verbose and diluted syntax. This makes it great when you're coming from say English as your language, but it makes absorbing a larger system slower and and harder IME. It also jumps through some hoops to accomplish lower-level or peripheral tasks, which makes understanding what is actually happening at a conceptual level more difficult. So I think the correct level of "UNDERSTAND" needs to be considered.
Sadly it stopped working now. Well the new reddit mobile site is not too bad, except too slow somehow.
"less haste more speed"
Seplly spell spell too.