skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
you'd be surprised how many professional programmers these days work exclusively in high level languages and know nothing about using operating system features to their fullest.

but to your point, until technology itself actually replaces us, deeply skilled computer people are always going to be able to squeeze more performance out of software implemented in high level languages by those who have not studied computers extensively.
It's easy to say embrace it, but we aren't that far off from a fully capable developer. People are already stitching task based flows to make it basically build a whole thing and a big thing.

The majority of the software industry is in a lot of trouble and honestly given that it was one of the highest paying industries that's not great for the economy.

What are people supposed to even do? What's next for all these displaced workers?
> In the late 60s folks wanted to be a bit different, pushing against the conformity of the 50s. And they did that in part by… buying novel frozen food?

Home refrigerators were still fairly new. A quick google indicates that "a refrigerator in the home" became a standard thing in the US in the 1940s. 1960s seems a bit slow (maybe the war got in the way?), but not every innovation is instant, and in this case the "innovation" is not the refrigerator itself, but the "frozen pizza rolls", second-order effects, the structuring of new products around the common availability of the home refrigerator. The platform precedes it, just like you don't have a mass-market app store before the iPhone.
And the clever novelty of biting off one or two tiny corners to allow that heat to escape to some degree.
Summarize content of website with provided link
we need to summarize content of website with provided link.

What is the recommended approach?

Any GPT API we can use directly?

I have spent lots of time researching it, but cannot find any API we can use. OpenAI's AI seems not helping too.

We hope to find some API to summarize the content of website with specific website link. (I am willing to pay)
I think it would be more accurate to say that the US government notified Japanese government but nobody expected the warning to be taken seriously.

I personally believe doing this is morally no different from just dropping the bomb without warning. Because nobody expected the warning to be taken seriously. Because there was no precedent, because the bomb was developed in complete secrecy, because there was no proof or demonstration to the Japanese government that the claim is real for them to take it seriously.

It is essentially just looking for an excuse for your actions without really honestly trying to avoid using the bomb and deter your enemy. There is a lot alternative ways US could use those bombs without dropping them on densely populated areas.

They could drop it on an unpopulated area and tell "we have more of these". They could drop it on any military installation or grouping of forces that is a bit further away from a populated city. They could explain they have the bomb and invite a representative for a demonstration.

At this point Japan had no capability to prevent US from overflying its territory so it is not like Japanese could do anything to prevent the bomb dropped. Knowing a bomb so powerful was developed and ready they would have no choice but surrender.

Instead US chose to send a signal to everybody at the cost of tens of thousand of lives that were lost only for the purpose of making that signal so much more powerful.

Telling Japanese to evacuate was really completely meaningless move with no moral implications.
What does gender have to do with here?
That's why old devices must be properly cleaned of personal data before being sold or discarded.
I buy most of my devices (network stuff, APs, laptops, etc) either as refurbished or at flea markets. If I was a malicious actor I could have easily taken advantage of many people who didn't delete their data, including WiFi settings, from a device they gave away, so although devices are used in relatively safe places like home or workplace where it would be impractical if not impossible to gain physical access for the time necessary to exfiltrate sensitive data, that becomes trivial if the device is discarded/sold without taking proper measures to delete any sensitive data it could still contain.
I have done a lot of scraping in the past. Cookies are a pain, this is a really elegant solution. Of course the biggest problem is that everything interesting is hidden away behind JavaScript these days and then you have to resort to Selenium and the whole thing just spirals out of control. But I'm looking forward to giving this a shot for non-JavaScript content in the future.

edit: JavaScript not Java
Yep, I was hoping to see more lifehacks and less politics, and it seemed to be the case... until now.

Il the last years, it was full blown propaganda for the US democratic party and against republicans, which brought a matching audience of political activists that I think that it off topic and even toxic. Keep it about lifehacks. Why can't republicans have good lifehacks? That should be a politically neutral topic.
> Or do you mean adding ChatGPT? Then it's not doubled. Pretty sure that's centralized.

Is it though? Think about it. If I have a medical or legal conversation with it that I derive value from, that's akin to a fully trained professional human who took several decades to grow into an adult and then undergo training just popping into existence in seconds during inference and then just as quickly disappearing. Just a few short months ago, the only way I could have had that conversation was to monopolize the cognitive bandwidth of a real human being who then couldn't utilize it to do other things.

So, when I say doubled, what I mean is that in theory every person who can access a sufficiently powerful LLM can effectively create cognitive bandwidth out of thin air every time they use the model to do inference.

Look what happened every time there has been a stepwise change in bandwidth throughout history. Printing press, telephone, dial up internet, broadband, fiber optic. The system becomes capable of vastly more throughput and latencies are decreased significantly. The same thing is happening here. This is a revolution.
> Had NATO not intervened, we would have had another Middle East perennial war for decades

And just like in Middle East the reason for unrest are to be find in Washington and London.
> This might be very helpful for agriculture. For instance, tomato plants emit sounds of stress before they started looking dehydrated

We can now process it, so, as proactive evolution, it worked.

Before that,

> We know that certain animals are capable of hearing these sounds ... We still need to understand who is using this sound, what role does it play in the world, but it suggests many many possibilities // It's also possible plants themselves could react to these sounds, Hadany said. The same team found in a paper published in 2019 that plants can respond to the sounds of pollinators like bees. "They respond within three minutes by making sweeter nectar"
I was about to say finally they've seen the light, first flathub, now snap, this is restoring my faith in ubuntu.

Then I saw all the comments noting today's date.

Oh well.
Also if you thought you were clever and cut one in half to let it cool, then you would only find a sad shell of a pizza roll with all its guts leaking out into a congealed mess of cheese and pizza goo.
I agree that LLMs are transformative and it would be silly to have a confident opinion about how they will influence the SE career path. However, here are some less fatalistic takes:

(1) In my software career, there has been nonstop innovation in developer efficiency: version control, languages, frameworks, debuggers, IDEs... There has also been an explosion in the number of people entering the profession. However, the supply/demand balance never inverted. This is because new software produces its own demand! As we wrap the world in digital layers, there is both more maintenance and more opportunity for new interfaces.

Perhaps there is a future where the world has been saturated with software that can be adjusted by a small pyramid of developers. But I expect it will remain central to the most competitive enterprises of the world, and competition is another driver of unlimited demand.

(2) If you feel commoditized by this activity, perhaps you are viewing - or allowing others to view - your job too narrowly. I've seen a tendency in some dev subcultures to narrow the job in search of productivity and objective measurement. Symptoms include avoiding participation in product and design conversations, user research and business-facong activities that give context to coding tasks.

As your career advances, what makes you unique (or not!) is the context you can bring to engineering provlems. If you define your role as translating others' context into code, then you are indeed sitting in the same niche as our LLM. Bottom line, engage with adjacent roles to keep a meaningful structural position.

(3) Regardless of the above, there is obviously an existential mandate to learn to use LLMs effectively and safely in engineering. Your career stage is perfect for leading that charge, in fact we are all counting on you. If you can innovate in how to bring these tools into practice, you will not only stay competitive, you may be surprised at the impact you have and the credibility you receive.
File systems do have a limit on number of files, though as far as I know they're all quite a bit higher than anything in the millions.
You only get one chance to align a created super intelligence before Pandora's box is opened. You can't put it back in the box. There may be no chance to learn from mistakes made. With a technology this powerful, it's never too early to research and prepare for the potential existential risk. You scoff at the "paperclips" meme, but it illustrates a legitimate issue.

Now, a reasonable counterargument might be that this risk justifies a limited amount of attention and concern, relative to other problems and risks we are facing. That said, the problem and risk are real, and there may be no takebacks. Preparing for tail risks are what humans are worst at. I submit that all caution is warranted, for both economic uncertainty and "paperclips"
OpenAI - A for-profit, closed company acting behind closed doors

WorldCoin - A for-profit, limited liability US-based company (soon only available in the US)

Seems on brand :)
At this point people are just hoarding for the sake of hoarding. The data itself isn't really that important: collecting the entire Netflix catalog is pretty neat, but if it's gone it's fine, you can basically re-find anything in piracy world.

And they usually have multiple backups.
William Randolph Hearst anyone? Maybe people have heard of a little movie called
Citizen Kane?

"Flood the zone with bullshit" - Steve Bannon
Thymidine nucleotide metabolism controls human telomere length
This too was my favorite part. Inspiring. Great things ahead for this young human.
And they're even calling it FOSS instead of open source! I tend to take that as a sign of someone being serious.
Hey I can help I just made a similar tool myself
They have a big brother called a hot pocket that’s like a nasty meat pie. Both will get nuclear meltdown hot and will burn your mouth.
Yes you can.https://swarminglogic.com/article/2014_11_crosscompile
Here is an analogy to help you think clearly:

Who do you think can potentially benefit most from a conversation with a sage? An educated and thoughtful person who has some shared grounding in knowledge with the sage, or, some random person.
>Nucleotide metabolism regulates human telomere length via telomerase activation

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41588-023-01359-1
It actually happened. With paging and bigger word sizes, which were common in 32 bit systems even with hardware acceleration.

A 32bit address space only means you have 4GibiAddresses, which do not need to be pointing to single bytes. In fact the natural thing to do in a 32 bit system for a structure like this is moving 32bit words, which actually means you're addressing a 16GB space, flat. And then there's segmentation.

For instance the 286 had a 24bit address showing for 16MB in direct addressing mode and 1GB via segmentation (what back then was usually referred to by virtual memory)

The 386 had a 32 bit address width and its MMU allowed access to 64TB in virtual mode and 4GB in protected mode.This was indeed one of the reasons Linux was not made 286-compatible. Its protected mode was only 1GB and segmented rather than 4GB flat, so Linus didn't have to deal with XMS or EMS for a chip that was becoming obsolete soon anyway. But the 1GB space was there, and at the time that was plenty.
Because the question he's addressing is why the motivation and ability to develop a bioweapon are different than those of a powerful AI.
Which program do you need?
In that case you really weren't trying to be anonymous
I'm part of the Totino's lifestyle, I'll admit it
Maybe using Nix it's a better experience for creating such an environment where you depending also on system utilities.
Whether it qualifies as suitable for HN is another question, but I think the notable thing here is the anodyne and reasonable tone of the press release contrasted with the chaos and disingenuous touting of values of Twitter under Musk thus far.

Like if you saw someone casually building a snowman in their front yard you might be inclined to ask, “why are people talking about this? It’s boring. People build snowmen all the time” but behind them their house is burning down.
Building Drug Pipeline Bots with Discord and GitHub Actions
I'm building open source drug discovery bots to perform drug design tools so everyone can create drugs together.
I thought Erlang's Garbage collector was incremental by virtue of being per process.
A system may have tens of thousands of processes, using a gigabyte of memory overall, but if GC occurs in a process with a 20K heap, then the collector only touches that 20K and collection time is imperceptible. With lots of small processes, you can think of this as a truly incremental collector.

It's not incremental per process, but I'm not sure it would even matter that much in practice.
Couldn't have said it better.

Apple used to play that security-by-obscurity game too in their implementation of password sharing with nearby devices, and by not allowing users to view passwords in the Wi-Fi settings (even passwords they hand-entered themselves, as if they can't also make a copy of that in a much less secure place at that point). Fortunately, they've come around in the newer iOS versions.

But which Android feature are you referring to? On my Pixel, I can share the PSK as a QR code – not just the hash as far as I can tell.
There are a few issues:

1. Extract just the text from the page. This means parsing the HTML and getting down to just text without stuff from the sides header or footer getting included. Also if the sites renders via JavaScript you’ll need a headless browser.

2. The amount of text can’t exceed 4000 or so words. 8000 with GPT4 but still some limit. You have to ask for multiple summaries and then summarize the summaries for long articles.

3. Making the api request to openai is not free. So at scale a website providing this service would have to charge for it. Or the other approach is to ask the user to enter their openai token and then it’s their account billed.
Healthcare and mortgage?
Moving from Rust to C++
You can sync your WiFi passwords....to your Google account. It's a privileged permission, like most fun things on Android these days are, for totally legit and not at all anticompetitive reasons.
Since the comments are already filling with simplistic takes on the bombings, I would encourage anyone who is interested in a substantive discourse to listen to Dan Carlin’s excellent Hardcore History discussion on this topic[1].

I also recommend the book “The Story of World War 2” as likely the best single book to understand the tragedy and complexity of the war, as well as what the Allies fought for and against[2].

Let us hope humanity never fights such a war again.

1. https://www.dancarlin.com/product/hardcore-history-42-blitz-...

2. https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Story_of_World_War_...
Anything 3D modeling related not covered by Blender, and software for 3D printing, just as an example.

The word "still" in your post suggests you expect F/OSS software to eventually become available for all fields of application. But that's not what I see happening; instead, there's no new desktop (as opposed to cloud) software being released at all, much less on Linux. So Wine is here to stay with us to (increasingly) run old Win software out of maintenance, and works surprisingly well. Of course, that's made possible by Win32 itself having excellent binary compatibility in the first place, as opposed to the Linux user land.
There would’ve never been a UN intervention, because UN is not an organization realistically capable of taking meaningful action - as it currently stands, whatever was the original intention at inception - it is now not much more than a forum to exchange political statements.
Beth Skwarecki is part of the problem, not the solution. Elevating her content in the statement tells me they are heading further down the wrong path.
I'd have called time a long time ago. It sounds like you're their fallback and they've been stringing you along (the way I read it). I don't know what more they'd want beyond you saying you'll accept their job offer for the terms already discussed. I'd time limit it as you have already wasted enough time with them. 12 discussions? I don't think so.
This is straight out of the movie Office Space! They have cake.
Of course, with a physical disk there are also things you can do to get around those limitations, like switch to a different filesystem or use multiple filesystems on one disk.

Using the cloud leaves you exposed to the whims of the cloud provider. They select and switch technologies based on their needs instead of yours.
Criticizing somebody by speculating about their motives really only reflects badly upon you, especially if you’re going to accompany it with that much hyperbole. All you’re communicating is that you’ve replaced your ability to reason about a topic with some version of the fundamental attribution error.

> the main problem is that Twitter is about as big in Japan as it is in the US

It’s not even close. When you account for the value of ad impressions, the US market is worth about 3.5x its next biggest market (Japan), and it drops off very sharply after that. You can argue that Twitter’s policies should be less US-centric. But the reason they are that way in the first place is because the US market is their most valuable market by a long shot.
there are lots of foot guns for the user with this model. because transferring data between processes involves copying this can become a problem. Erlang tries to optimise the handling of large binaries by using a separate reference counted heap. however, this introduces another set of issues where memory is 'leaked' because a smaller binary is holding a reference to a larger binary or because processes that have not been GC'd have not decremented the ref count of large binaries in the heap that they no longer user.
Office. And Visio.
Interesting, thanks for the answers! Still, to me, this is as close to a Linux distribution as macOS.

But yeah I'd like to learn more about Android. Unfortunately I haven't found documentation that got me started. Maybe it is there, but when searching about Android, I tend to get the Android SDK, not Android-as-an-OS stuff.

If you have any resources to share then, it would be nice :-).
In fairness paying for a Ddos attack sounds like a dumb thing with little upside
Tell HN: If you are in the US and want an EV, get it now
The IRS is going through with their April 18 deadline for implementing the new battery requirements for the $7500 Federal EV subsidy. 37 cars now qualify, and probably 0 on April 19. New rules come down April 17. You have to take delivery by April 18 to qualify.

List of currently eligible vehicles:

https://fueleconomy.gov/feg/tax2023.shtml
Hacker News isn't a hive mind and different people have different opinions.
The other developed countries still have much lower income differences between rich and poor than the US though. I think this is a bigger contributor to US crime levels than its gun policy.

Also, I don't understand the focus on murder rates. Compare all violent crime at least.
It appears that this was just a misreading of how memory usage was being reported and there was actually no improvement here. At least nothing so sensational as being able to run a larger-than-RAM model without swapping from disk on every iteration.
A better way to prevent this would be to use One Time Passwords for every device joining the network. If the password is reused from a different device it gets invalidated.

I don't know if such a mechanism exists for networks and I guess it would also be trivial to just spoof a mac address. I guess it does for something like a captive portal.
That's a very 80s view of GM.
In some countries, the word "Government" is used to refer to the Executive power, not including the Legislative and Executive branches of the State.
It wouldn't matter if the preimage of the hash were needed for authentication.

Because, if a device has all of the information needed to connect to a network on it, then.. well, it has all of the information needed to connect to a network on it. Could be passwords, hashes, or whatever -- doesn't really matter.
It's also the case that most HN readers won't post comments about articles they read. This childish redirect nonsense affects them as well.
Hmm, at least those I watch, if they have less episodes than its often 40-60 minutes instead of 20. Or maybe its different type of show, dunno. I think the cost of complexity of shooting have skyrocketed, before for a scene you needed few good actors and very primitive generic setting. Now hunt for perfection is much bigger on both sides of screen, plus required digital changes afterwards.

It stunned me to see ie what actors wore in Game of thrones in later series, when budget was high. A robe which was on screen for 1 minute max, and I focused on face of actress and scene so didn't notice it at all, had such details and beautiful ornaments sewed in by hand, crazy amount of work to create 1 unique piece just for that scene. Multiply by X actors there. Must have cost a small fortune to make, even for such a well oiled machine like Hollywood. Compared to ie Streets of San Francisco, guys wearing the same basic suit outfit over whole series.
Don’t really feel the same. This will be an interesting wave. But I didn’t just finish a master’s program, so it isn’t really a fair comparison. Don’t lose sight of that.

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Do you really believe that the only purpose of a SWE is code? You didn’t need a masters for that, or even a bachelors, so I suspect that’s not the case.

Would you trust the likely correct bullshit of a LLM? How about the likely correct bullshit of an LLM that a SME reviewed and iterated on?

Start thinking about the aspects of your job that can’t be solved by ChatGPT. Some can’t be solved now. Some may not be able to be solved ever. Some could be, but really shouldn’t be, at least any time soon.

Some will be focusing on how to reduce their time spent on writing code, without filling the extra space with something else. More lines. Less thinking. Dead end. Don’t give your job away to the tool, use the tool to make your job easier.

If you still feel disillusioned, try picking up some skills that involve using your hands. Not necessarily as a hedge, but if you’re missing or dreading the loss of the raw act of creation in software development, you may want to seek that feeling elsewhere.

If you can’t get the rush with code, maybe with corn. Or a coping saw. Or cheese making.