skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> As far as I can tell, chatgpt performs the action of finding and simplifying the information needed to take the next step forward [...] But that's all it does at the moment.

ChatGPT's output is certainly limited by its input. If you ask questions that can be answered by finding and simplifying information, then that's the answer you'll get. However, if you treat ChatGPT like a functioning software engineer, describe the problem space, explain the requirements, and define the boundaries, then ChatGPT will do much more. From that point on, you can ask it to explain why it chose a certain data structure, or to adjust an implementation approach, among other things.

With 15 prompts in 2 hours, I was able to pair program a novel 200-line program in Go that used AST parsing, command execution, pattern matching, file parsing, and custom data structures for specific data processing. All to solve a problem one of my teams experienced in the industry. ChatGPT wrote 99% of the code; I tweaked 2 or 3 lines because it had problems correcting an error in a regex (most likely due to the fact that ChatGPT sees tokens not characters). The code compiled, ran, and produced the exact result I wanted.

Researching, prototyping, and writing this code by hand would have taken me a few days probably. That's why the project sat on my TODO list for months
The literal literary contestation between descriptive and prescriptive dictionaries is alive and well[0], though the war has been lost, and your fellow prescriptivist have yet to surrender.

[0] https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/08/the-d...
You say only but I would say alcohol is decent at pain reduction in a lot of cases.
if the gift isn’t cash Alameda can determine the value of the gift mor or less.
You can easily do so without Tailwind as well, with CSS variables. What's the difference you're hinting about?
> Otherwise... I've eliminated an awful lot of actively exploited interfaces for almost no loss in functionality.

Cool. That's good to hear, thanks for sharing your experience!
You're right - it's one of those theories that makes sense in that the motivations make sense (CCP cooperation is advantageous for Musk : CIA felt threatened by JFK) but unless there's some tangible evidence, the null hypothesis has my vote.
I'd work on it, simply because it's A. amazing tech, and B. inevitable that if I don't, somebody else would.

I'm trying to build a custom model service for SMBs to create ai agents around their lbs etc... major learning curves though.
This is totally fine if it means free access to GPT chat for poorer countries. It's a powerful tool that will help a lot of people who can't afford a premium ChatGPT membership. Plus you can always say show me the prices across the top three sites.
This is perhaps the dumbest idea I’ve ever heard. The goal of layoffs is to make the company stronger and survive, not kill it.
Precisely, I don't know. I would not expect such a specific group, or any other, to significantly differ (might be a sampling issue, or something with a reason). Hence my question, but that may also be a translation issue.

One could form hypotheses of course, but they won't be much of relevance here I think :)
Google scores partial victory in Android antitrust case in India
I hope it wasn't something that could be fixed by sticking a pin into the reset hole.
We have no longer any "great struggle" to concern ourselves with. Recommended film: Adam Curtis' Hypernormalisation.
Copyright Registration Guidance: Works Generated by Artificial Intelligence
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You're not wrong and that's an excellent example. I'm questioning the idea that somehow people were able to consume this food impact-free. I struggle with the common narrative that somehow people were healthier and better in some dark forgotten past and we should return to those times for our own well being. There often seems to be promises that conditions like IBS would stop existing if we did that. But maybe ancient man was cool with having near-constantly runny poos because there was no alternative.
Has anyone ever studied ethics at Stanford? As far as I can tell the subject is not required. CS undergrads must fulfill a "Technology in Society" requirement but it can be satisfied with bullshit like "Technology Entrepreneurship", a series of guest lectures by VCs, which is almost the opposite of studying ethics.

Nothing about a university that would let Condi Rice serve as provost screams "ethics", frankly. Their history is not one that suggests a strong ethical culture.
Not that different from American police. They also work with less toys and much less salaries than American police.
Every day, there's a new "today's 100,000".
> When you say in 2023 that they have "new insights" as to why a common over the counter drug works it really doesn't instill great confidence in pharma.

When you read of new work on friction in 2023 does it reduce your confidence in the field of physics?

It is true that we are still just scratching at the surface of biology, but incrementally we (humanity) are making progress every day. It's not engineering.
>only 'the bank' wins at the end.

There are a lot of people who have got rich in crypto who are not 'the bank"

Sure if everything went to zero you could turn around and say there was nothing there but so far bitcoin goes up and up if with dips, while fiat currencies trend to zero if you adjust for inflation.
Totally agree.

However, I think that this current generation is fundamentally different because of a different balance between culture and counterculture driven by demographic changes.

The 50s through to the 90s were all time periods when the population was predominantly youthful, and far more likely to belong to belong to counterculture movements. Because there was a lot of them, they made up a significant market, and so advertisers would pick up counterculture movements.

But in modern times, there are a lot of baby boomers who are pretty old. Their tastes are far less likely to change at this point, there are a lot of them, and they have a lot of money.

Give it 10 years, and hopefully we will start to see some more variety. Variety is the spice of life as they say...
The only measure the user cares about when it comes to snappiness while switching between conversations is input-to-display latency, and the whole point of my comment was to be realistic about it. A chat app won't hit 16.6ms latency, but it doesn't have to. 100-200ms is realistic and perfectly fine, and if you don't manage to hit it, something is seriously wrong with your application.

And yes, of course, something is seriously wrong with a lot of applications these days, otherwise we wouldn't be having this conversation at all.
Huge overlap of social media use in that demographic I'm sure
I used to attend cross-team meetings with a guy (works for AWS now) who was a tech lead and meeting facilitator. He gathered the agenda, presented during the meeting, assembled notes during the meeting, and distributed the notes via email at meeting conclusion. He keyboarded the entire time, looking up at the projected display. Fastest touch typist I recall seeing.
Binance complaint (2023.03.27 FINAL TO FILE) [pdf]
Update on the SCO: https://www.wsj.com/articles/saudi-arabia-strengthens-relati...
Just like that, they got you again. No different to Google Search, but requiring you to sign in to even use it.
Bugs are a function of change, not a function of maturity.

Just because they can have people come in on weekends to fix things doesn’t mean they like doing that.

I know many “mature” software platforms that do not deploy on Fridays or off hours at all
So much detail, but a few things stand out.

>Salaries and wages, the largest component of total income, increased 1.7 percent

Despite reported massive layoffs and downturn of economic activity from pandemic.

>Another large component of total income in 2020, net capital gains (less loss), showed a major increase of 29.3 percent.

Despite a huge dip in March 2020, the stock market ended the year up significantly from the start of the year.

>Due to the widespread COVID issues, unemployment compensation showed a major increase of 1,794.2 percent for 2020.

Mostly non-taxable due to a one-time law change. And despite salaries and wages going up too!
I would have loved to use the one on my t480s but unfortunately the placement of the middle button make it impossible for me. I hear people are using it with two hands.
You never got to the stage of pirating QuickBasic off of a BBS somewhere. I went from 8bit BASIC to QBasic to QuickBasic and then to VB. I even started writing some assembler and linking it with QB code.

QuickBasic and all the variants filled a niche that exists in multitudes now but did not exist in the early 90s. There weren't many high-level languages with garbage collection in common use.
At least we don't need to scroll too far back in our comment history to copy/paste our arguments from the thread two days ago.
Very hard to say how threatening AI really is. We need more research to determine that. Even if it is an existential threat, a moratorium will not make it go away. That's why we still have nukes.
Honestly seems like a cute implementation where when it answers questions from search it gives preference to sponsored links.

Horrible for the user but I can't help but admire how cleanly they thought to integrate search ads into their chat.
GPT4 scored a 2 our of 5 on AP English language composition. That exam is
about thinking, analysis, and writing. That is language understanding and what
we teach students so GPT4 has a long way to go.

https://apstudents.collegeboard.org/courses/ap-english-langu...
People will collect them for you and sell them in bottles in the shops, you know.
I have never met anybody that likes tinkering with code more than releasing it. Not even academics.

When people refuse to release it's usually because they are afraid of something that comes with it. And yeah, in a "some pressure is necessary" environment, it's a safe bet that it's realizing their technical debit and not being allowed to fix it.

Surely, making them more afraid of tinkering than of releasing does solve that one immediate problem.
Yes, that I knew. I would not summarize that as

> only high-income people can make tax-free charitable contributions
question - is it starting to use ads for chat results only just now?

or was it always using ads for chat results, and the only part that's new is, now it is labeling them as ads?
There are incentives. Selfishness isn't everyone's driving factor, unlike what extremely selfish people want you to believe. Plenty of people believe in morals and other reasons to help their neighbor at their own expense, and these feelings seem to follow a high level of education and awareness of your fellow human beings.
Eating insects could be the future of food (2021)
Although they weren't mentioned, social media and streaming video are the most striking cases. There's one flavor of social media website and it sucks. It's the same infinite scrolling page of 30s attention grabbing headline/video/images posted by the same people on the same 5 or 6 websites made by the same set of engineers. There are minor variations, but they're better described as "positioning" than truly differentiated experiences. What makes instagram "better" (or worse) than tiktok or twitter? It's the same soup filling the contours of the same, slightly differently shaped bowl.

Streaming video is even less differentiated. Every player looks more or less the same now and the content is largely fungible between platforms. It used to be that Netflix had superior selection and had the best player, but content has been balkanized and every platform looks and works roughly the same way. Almost every platform is now targeting the same type of content: low cost, easy to mass produce, and mass consumable. I will give youtube and twitch credit for being quite different -- at one time. Now, for whatever reasons, these services seem like they're on a steady march towards homogeneity too.

There are signs of the phenomenon the article describes everywhere and it seems to have happened across most artistic and business disciplines around the same time period. I would be very curious to know the ages of some of the posters in this thread since there are some interesting differences in opinion/experience. If you see it, you see it and feel it everywhere, but if you never saw what life was like before there's no way to make any kind of comparison. There were places and services and things objects that did not even attempt to cater to average expectations. That difference was real, in ways both tangible and abstract. This article won't resonate with posters in their 20's like it does for those in their 40's.
My? Descriptivist dictionaries are a good idea.
>It is mind boggling, and at the same time not surprising at all, that China is enforcing a humane policy to protect its children when we are not willing to do the same.

By whose standards? The United States has never been an ideologically cohesive nation outside some basic principles of representative democracy - and even those have been challenged at moments in our history. The moment you get beyond the basics of a unified military, postal service, weights and measures, and currency, you quickly get into the social issues that have plagued our cohesion since the founding of the nation. Is Uncle Tom's Cabin a seminal work in understanding US history, or subversive and dangerous? We can't even decide that as a nation at the moment, so "how much social media is good for our kids?" would be a very, very ugly discussion to have at a national level.

I don't have Tik Tok installed, my kids only get the "reruns" off YouTube, but frankly I find it a bit extremist that the US government wants to ban an app that looks to me like people doing funny dances in their living rooms.
Part of me wants to be hopeful, part of me just does not believe we're at a point in history where an organization like Disney can make good art.
They're still not being replaced... Not sure what you're getting at.

If there is a flower in the Amazon with "heal all" properties, but it's only found in the Amazon, do you fault the company that creates a pill form and sells it in France?

Big Pharma has it's problems, but it's done wonders for the availability of medicines for the vast majority of people on Earth.
That was the first programming guide I ever read.
> Please could you explain why?

Because instead of eliminating deductibility they capped it, and Democratic states in general have more people with state and local taxes above the cap, because of a combination of higher average income and more progressive state taxes (often characterized as higher, but even when this is true in overall tax burden, its often still lower for same-income taxpayers for low- to moderate-income.)
How Epic Games views the metaverse and the State of Unreal
I looked at the citus columnar however lack of updates and deletes even occasionally kept me away.
Blender 3.5
You Might Not Need ChatGPT
> You excluded the CO2 to extract the oil

This is miniscule compared to the amount emitted by burning it. It sort of has to be, or the industry wouldn't exist.

Congratulations, you're now deliberately fishing at the opposite and and nitpicking at the opposite end just to argue, at this point, when you could be looking at the entire pond.

Of course nobody eats 2000kcal of beef, I never said that. I was providing an extremum of all-brassica and all-beef so that you can interpolate somewhere between them, but evidently you're more interested in taking the endpoints and call it nonsense instead of doing the interpolation.

So go ahead and assume drivers eat. Bikers eat more. Again, do the interpolation. You get some data, you do the math, then argue. You will still find that it's within the same order of magnitude. CO2 from food production is a thing, and it's hugely variable depending on diet, that's the point.
> Even if those things have converged aesthetically?

But they haven't converged aesthetically any more than preferences have been absolutely overwritten, overridden, and overprinted by whatever is most easy to produce today. Your comment somewhat assumes that where we are is the ultimate endpoint of some long process, when in reality fads come and go. Tastes change. What is out there now is no more inevitable than bell bottoms might have seemed in the 1970s.

Sure, maybe its just nostalgia, but there were plenty of trends and aesthetics from my younger years that are just nowhere to be found. Why? Because when people renovate, they go with the aesthetic de jure, what's available and what the social pressures are. Hardly anyone is going to renovate a 1980s basement and put in...1980s carpet. Can't be sourced, and people think it looks ugly.

> They've converged because we think they're nice. Things don't need to be different just for the sake of being different. Because different can also be worse.

No, things have converged because lots of people with no taste[1] just ho-hummed along with the zeitgest. The zeitgeist just so happens to be a bland sameness and characterless, charmless, antiseptically clean and dead grayness that we see on all the HGTV shows and AirBnBs. Different is frigging great if you ask me. At least, different than that. Give me the inside of a 1985 McDonalds instead of this, TBH! What makes something pretty and cool and interesting is skill, thoughtfulness and some sense of composition, color, and togetherness. Today it's a thoughtless cheap imitation made at scale.

[1] Taste is subjective, always will be.
Ask HN: Is there any good software for internal company newsletters?
Email is great for consuming but something for browsing / discovering newsletters for different product areas in a company is something that I was looking for.

Do any of your companies have internal newsletters? Long form periodic updates increase communication a lot in my experience.
In this context it means "individual contribtor", and yes, some people are making that much money at Facebook, Google, Amazon and others.
I'm always surprised on r/linuxhardware (another good resource) the number of people that ask questions without doing basic searches online. I'd definitely second the Arch and Gentoo Wikis as excellent community maintained resources. Also:

* https://linux-hardware.org/ - this is where uploaded `hw-probe` results are collected and shared. It's easy to search for your exact model #/SKU and get a very detailed compatibility list, eg: https://linux-hardware.org/?probe=6677ca6be8

* Reddit is actually one of the best general sources for people talking about Linux compatibility issues, especially as most laptop OEMs don't have dedicated Linux support forums (only Framework and Lenovo do, AFAIK), so searching for "[model] linux report/review/compatibility/issues reddit" is usually a good sanity check as well.

* Oftentimes doing a search for the exact model and adding "linux bug" is the best way to get any bug reports that are in kernel, distro, or package trackers.

* IMO Notebookcheck is the best general/objective review site for laptops. While there are usually some more in-depth reviews that might give additional color on a laptop, the Notebookcheck reviews cover most of the important points with some very objective, and more importantly, standardized tests, whose results can be compared against their gigantic database of other reviews. Important things like screen quality (brightness, color gamut, PWM flicker), speaker quality (I find the percentile vs other laptops most useful there), and power usage (most importantly IMO, their WiFi v1.3 rundown test). While it's not the easiest to link to, they allow you to add comparisons to arbitrary laptop models for any of their numerical results. It's fantastic.

* Lastly, for Linux laptop compatibility in particular, I've found there a lot of documents in single developer/user's wikis, or as Github repos/gists writing up their experiences. I've done two of them myself since I found the other ones I've found to be so useful: https://github.com/lhl/linuxlaptops
Being fired and being laid off have very different ramifications though, and generally different exit packages.
> In the next 10 years, AI/robots will generate wealth at an unprecedented scale.

Would love to see the reasoning behind this. Nothing I've seen about LLMs makes me think they will produce any kind of bounty for anyone.
The real chatbot killer: ads.

I'm sure they can be made to only load the last indicator at the very last second, which would be hilarious because if you use an ad-blocker, you'd be wasting your time whenever a prompt shows up and then disappears.
It's tied to the estate tax exclusion. The first ~$12million of estate isn't taxed, and you can give that money away before or after you die.
I WTF’ed out loud after comparing a merge request to the actual commit history that I can see on `origin` for that branch.
I must have misunderstood you then. I thought you were suggesting Tailwind restricted you to the default colour palette
How Hacker PomPomPurin Got Caught (Bad Opsec)
Is this the same vision stack that was pulling up ahead of stop signs in some places because the signs were bigger than it expected?

If it can't make sense of something as simple as that, why would I trust it with hazards?

https://www.thedrive.com/news/teslas-can-be-tricked-into-sto...
How do we reconcile Sam Altman's position as CEO of OpenAI with his repeated calls to slow down AI progress? Is the expectation that his conscience, sense of ethics, and concern for his own company's impact on society will temper the opposing urge/pressure to maintain OpenAI's lead in the AI market?
White liberals are the only demographic with an out-group bias, and women rate higher in negative emotion, so this makes perfect sense to me.

out-group bias: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1074524252638982144.html
Linguistics (if you did it right) and Cognitive Science is deeply "technical" in the sense that you'll be knee deep in Tree Structure, Lexiostatistics, and Probability Theory to create datasets, reproducible grammars, and encode meaning.
Well it introduces `yield` and multiple macros. Presumably these would turn into keywords/ syntax at some point.
100% agree. By "pot of gold" I mean money, fame, glory, etc. I edited my comment to reflect as much. Thanks!
You can’t deduct charitable donations unless you don’t take the standard deduction. Instead, you must itemize your deductions. In practice this means you take the standard deduction because most people don’t total more than the standard deduction when they itemize (you have to be decently rich to afford to donate that much!).

Last year you could deduct up to $300 in donations on top of the standard deduction, but I didn’t see it this year.
I would think because an AI could be a perfect liar and good at deception, basically a simulacrum of a human - mimicry that a predator like a vampire would need to blend in enough to be able to hunt.
What's a library? What's an API? Visual Basic was much more approachable than Python because it didn't even have those barriers.
I think Qt Creator deserves a mention as well. It's a batteries included c++ environment with drag and drop GUI building and etc.
An L7 IC at Facebook or Google can do this.

I know it's unbelievable for those not in one of these companies, but this data is accurate: https://www.levels.fyi
"it" has two functions in English. the first is what you described. The technical term is an anaphor, basically a "syntactic variable" pronoun that stands in for a previous noun phrase in subject or object position. This inspired anaphoric macros in Common Lisp: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anaphoric_macro

The other function is as a dummy subject, as in "it rained", "it's cold". English grammar requires a subject (unlike many other languages, where a pronoun in subject position can be ommitted without the sentence becoming ungrammatical). So here "it" doesn't refer to anything, it's (haha) just there to fulfill a syntactic requirement

t. linguist