skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I worked with Flash, the founder of this site, back in 2000 at Globix. Sad to hear she's no longer with us and random to hear about it on HN. Lovely person. RIP
It is so interesting to me seeing how everyone utilizes those large language models. I often wonder how they do it. I tried to get something usable out of ChatGPT now and then, but the code is littered with misunderstandings of the data format and errors and more problems. Maybe I am bad at explaining what I want to the system?
Most of these are either management issues or written as if the person is acting in bad faith. But there are plenty of engineers who are 1) smart 2) driven, and 3) well-meaning that still find themselves in this position

One time I found myself in this position was overseeing an infrastructure migration for scaling reasons. The goal was to have it done before we hit scaling limits, and we had a team of 2 people and a fairly complex architecture. From the start, I suspected it might be difficult to do with the current staffing, even after extensive planning, but I underestimated what the costs would be to not completing the project on time.

I was told by my manager that completing the project before hitting scaling limits was life or death for the company (it wasn’t, I know this because the sales team didn’t hit their targets and we survived). I now realize this was my manager attempting to motivate me to take on a tough project, rather than real truth. Had I pushed back harder, inquired about company financials, this would have been exposed as not true.

While we eventually ended up completing the project, we completed our largest phase of hiring while in limbo between 2 architectures. The company became disorganized, accepting large amounts of tech debt as it was tough for new hires to understand what the “correct” thing to do was, and many people ended up adding to the legacy architecture in cases where they didn’t need to. It was a mistake that likely cost millions, even tens of millions in my eyes.

The correct thing to do, of course, was just to insist that we couldn’t scale until we trained or hired more people to help. Limiting growth is often seen as unacceptable in startup culture, but IMO should be considered more often.
I'm more curious on how do Intel CPUs compare to space heaters? (I mean in comparison to the regular electric resistance heaters.)

Heat pumps are ultra-efficient but even the cheapest heat pumps cost a few thousand dollars (and require expert installation – so they're not suitable if you're renting, for example).
I have idiopathic hypersomnia and Modafinil/Nuvigil worked great for a while, but then it very much didn’t agree with me in ways that are hard to express. I’ve seen others with the same issue online.

They annoying part is I’d love to have a prescription again to see if it works well for me again, or to take breaks from my stimulants - but my doctor says it’ll trigger an audit as I have both Vyvanse and Adderall prescriptions. What exactly that means I don’t know but he doesn’t seem keen.
On Linux, as long as the program is compatible with Wine[1] to begin with, Wine will support programs that that require basically any Windows version. Maybe this specific community needs to spin up some Ubuntu or OpenSuse boxes?

[1] https://www.winehq.org/
well you said "it's a waste of time"

which time?

what about the timeline after your existence?
Thanks, chatblade looks cool I'll check it out! I've found GPT to be a phenomenal tool for solving problems with code.
> The point I got from the article is to bias against medical interventions.

I will always regret not asking what the difference in outcome was from a surgery on a ligament in my ankle. I feel like the surgeon saw a thing they could fix and said they should do so. I don't think they had an internal monologue of does it matter and I never checked.

Not a major mistake, but not one i would make again
I think the answer is that they are making Nixie tubes:

https://www.daliborfarny.com/project/custom-nixie-tube-for-k...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nHkhJ52iA4

Obvious choice would not be VFDs or nixies but plain LEDs I'd imagine.
I use Deskreen with Windows, it has a Linux version that probably works similarly. I think it leverages browser streaming tech.

https://deskreen.com/

Easiest way to get it working is with a dummy plug (because it just casts displays, it can't create one), but maybe there's more options on Linux to fake a display in software.
Correct. Decker only supports low-order ASCII minus most of the control codes, as a deliberate simplification.
Having played around with the same scenario, I’ve come to the naive conclusion that the lack of creative output is because the current generation of GPT is only able to regurgitate and not create. This makes everything feel very derivative.

On the other hand, if you act as the creative mind and use GPT to accelerate your output, it becomes more useful.
Yeah maybe I'm using the wrong term here sorry for that. As far as I know the maximum wattage that the CPU can draw doesn't change by undervolting it. But the power consumption in watts at any given momement drops significantly. Changed the wording.
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I’d wager things are likely to not get much better than these examples for several years, maybe a decade.
I don't know how it is in Europe, but in North America, their repair service is top-notch.

2 months ago I sent them a joycon of my 5 year old switch because it started to drift.

I simply filed a form on their website and dropped the joycon at a UPS store. Two weeks later, I received a new joycon by mail. I didn't pay for anything, not even UPS shipping.
My table even has that built in.
Birdcrumbs
How did you make rent while you were bootstrapping?
This hits close to home, but unfortunately Occam’s Razor will get applied.

It’s an unfortunate reality that engineers (not their managers) are responsible for knowing how to handle themselves in the worst of situations so they don’t become the scapegoat at the cost of their health and security. Trust me, I’ve been through this situation and have been burned out by the [apparent] low standards and [apparent] double standards.

The prodigal charismatic leader can save the day but become a crutch too much relied on. And I get it, with all the shit we deal with in life, things ought to work out that way. But eventually that leader won’t be there for you (or even in the picture at all) and you’ll be in big trouble, especially if you spent many years relying on them for help.

Working remote for a high pressure early stage startup is a good recipe for this kind disaster if you aren’t great at managing stress or conflicts at work.
A lot of click-bait and "coaching" is spread under the term "ChatGPT". Reminds me of the 238th iteration of a calculator for the AppStore years ago just to have an app at the AppStore.

Marketers learned to sell shovels. Understanding their business model is important.
Thanks for sharing promptr! I will try it out.

I have also been exploring a similar pattern for using GPT as a coding collaborator:

- Send all the (relevant) code to GPT along with a change request
- Have it reply with all the code, modified to include the requested change
- Automatically replace the original files with the GPT edited versions
- Use git diff, etc to review and either accept/reject the changes.

GPT is significantly better at modifying code when following this "all code in, all code out" pattern. This pattern has downsides: you can quickly exhaust the context window, it's slow waiting for GPT to re-type your code (most of which it hasn't modified) and of course you're running up token costs. But the ability of GPT to understand and execute high level changes to the code is far superior with this approach.

I have tried quite a large number of alternative workflows. Outside the "all code in/out" pattern, GPT gets confused, makes mistakes, implements the requested change in different ways in different sections of the code, or just plain fails.

If you're asking for self contained modifications to a single function, that's all the code that needs to go in/out. On the other side of the spectrum, I had GPT build an entire small webapp using this pattern by repeatedly feeding it all the html/css/js along with a series of feature requests. Many feature requests required coordinated changes across html/css/js.

https://github.com/paul-gauthier/easy-chat#created-by-chatgp...

Another HN user has also released a command line tool along these lines called gish:

https://github.com/drorm/gish
On one hand this is stunning.

On the other hand, almost everything shown here either generic or crap (or both).

I'm happy that chatgpt writes boilerplate code for me so that I don't have to but I'm not seeing the revolution yet.
I'm surprised but not surprised. Books get delivered 2-3 months later, if they ever get delivered at all. Need to contact support for replacement. End up preferring to pay the premium at local booksellers than buying from Book Depo. How do they even make money like this.
Traits are not interfaces, or they would be interfaces. They include a concrete implementation (the mixin part).
"you can only join NATO if your membership is not a threat to your border countries"

This is, of course, complete nonsense. It is as much a fact as the oft-cited claim that NATO promised not to expand (another lie that is true only to rubes).

NATO has a requirement that you settle any ongoing border disputes before ascension: If you have a simmering feud with a neighbor country about who owns a pile of rocks, it's such an obvious flashpoint that you need to resolve it first. It has zero requirement that you don't threaten the tyrannical empire building pursuits of the neighboring madman.

Russians defending Russian aggression is something that I find just impossible to believe. Putin has sent tens of thousands of Russians into a meat grinder for a futile, ego-driven war that has zero outcome that isn't negative for Russia for decades to come. And he's going to keep grinding those bodies into corpses and you'll keep talking about deNazification or whatever nonsense you're fed.
I can only speak to my experience with Copilot, which I use more for daily coding that ChatGPT. But there, I'm on an edge case environment: Typescript with web components and Lit. And, I write in functional style as much as possible.

Since Copilot looks at your own code as well as its LLM, it's very good at copying your style after you have opened some files for it to dig into. I'm amazed at how much it offers to complete or copy my functional style, despite many examples that must be in the corpus that don't look like mine.

I would say never let an AI force you to deviate from your style. The most important thing is that you understand the code. This is even more important than having it run. The reason for that is it might not always run, and then you really want to be able to understand it.
That’s weird. Being able to use AI without being beholden to Big Tech seems like a huge win to me. Especially when I want to ensure that the AI is making best effort for my local community’s best interest, and not the best interest of a large corp.
So did wearing seatbelts. Don't let them choose.
> Retaking its Baltic states seems like the automatic response.

at which point now their new borders would be even more directly exposed to NATO borders. How does this make any sense?
This really sucks. Use to ship books to family in Ireland and Britain. Amazon with an ever tightening stranglehold :-(
> Without ebikes, only fit bike enthusiasts ride on the roads

I've rode bikes for transportation in the US for over a decade now, and I can't agree. My average speed is around 12 mph. That's a bit faster than what you say your speed is in another comment. But it's still much slower than typical motorized vehicle speeds. I don't need to keep up with traffic, just make sure that they drive safely around me.

> Or if you are going uphill and you are concious you arr holding up all trafic

That's not your problem. In most jurisdictions (in the US, at least), the roads are first come, first served. Don't slow people down more than necessary, of course, but don't worry about it if it's unavoidable. I personally avoid these situations by taking longer routes that have less traffic, and not riding when traffic is heavy or waiting if there's a temporary increase in traffic.

> If you are going slowly on narrow UK road you get overtaken by double-decker bus with 2 inches of clearence. It's a harrowing experience.

If the lane's not wide enough to share, don't share. Taking the lane as appropriate has greatly improved my safety on the road. I usually ride to the right, but I'll take the lane when necessary for my safety and refuse to apologize for it.
> Wouldn't it be smarter to actually listen to what Russia is trying to say?

No, they blew that chance when they attacked Ukraine, and when they massacred civilians in Bucha (and Mariupol, and in other places).

Now nobody cares what the Russian propaganda is trying to say anymore, what difference does it make? Their actions speak for themselves.
Totally agree. They're the law right now, and if you're looking to change that, there is a process to do so. I haven't heard any explanation of how removing them would improve America other than "it would take us back to how things were before, which was better," which is a non-starter.

...And you will be fought every step of the way, as the people who got the laws first passed were fought every step of the way. Of course, I hope you fail, as I've never heard an explanation of how repealing those laws would improve things.
I’m from an Eastern European country and I’m not offended by questions.
> Building the wrong thing is expensive. Building pieces that don’t fit together is expensive. Avoiding those mistakes requires investing time in some sort of planning activity.

The promise of "agile" is, IIRC, faster turnaround and iterative development. Yes, the 'wrong' thing is expensive. Getting something basic in someone's hands in 2-3 days to get some feedback is usually more productive than days of figma then 'sign off' then work work work then putting it in hands and getting back "this is wrong" (missing data, etc). Sometimes those things can be found in 'design-only' sessions, but I've rarely seen it happen where lots is found there, then things are implemented perfectly afterwards not requiring any further changes.

Much depends on the size/scope of the work, and I don't think there's one-size that fits all, but the ticketization of work process as teams grow pushes towards "one true way", which then seems to paper over a lot of cracks that don't easily show up in burndown charts.

That 15 or 30% might be the time ultimately taken on thinking/planning/etc of a specific issue, but too often it seems there's an idea of doing more up front "gets it done" and the notion of fast feedback/iteration cycles is glossed over, and you're expected to "get it done" - "all the planning was already done".

When doing dev-type work, I always end up needing to iterate with endusers/stakeholders, and there's little 'up front' that could have been planned to avoid some of that. It may be the nature of the people/teams I've worked with, though.
The guide looks very compelling!
Hopefully the Worker API will make it easier for me to implement a couple of async features in an app I started some time ago...
Tell HN: The ratio of wants-to-be-hired to is-hiring is at a record high 0.94
Counting the comments in the who wants to be hired thread and dividing by the number of comments in who is hiring = 0.94.

A year ago it was 0.23. Here's a plot with the data from the past couple of years - https://pasteboard.co/tjZd0PgTI8GK.png

(posting this about a day after the April thread opened)
> Common examples include presentations, diagrams, and ticket management.

Ticket management is stuff that needs doing, obviously.

Diagrams are illustrations; if something is so complicated it can only be understood with a picture, it's too complicated. But a quick diagram on a whiteboard (or with a pencil on the back of a fag packet) might be helpful.

Presentations (with slide-decks) are for managers[0], not engineers. They are a huge drain on time. I got severely dinged by my manager for doing a presentation without a slide-deck; I hadn't prepared one, because I had real work to do. But I think I showed my manager up, because all the other engineers had turned up with slide decks.

A crap slide deck is quick to make, and completely useless. A really good slide deck can take days to make; it's a specialist trade, like making good user documentation. Slides must augment the presentation, not distract from it.

[0] I've been forced into formal management once or twice; my experience was that at least half of management is bragging to other managers about how important your team is, and slide decks are great for that.
Also in FM stereo, if I'm not mistaken. One band contains L+R, the other one, which is not played on a mono radio, L-R.
If you're interested in some theological debate, I actually asked a question on Islam SE on this 11 years ago: https://islam.stackexchange.com/questions/2320/is-it-haram-t...

Take note the Islam SE community mostly comes from Stack Overflow and is somewhat biased towards tech. But it was a decent discussion with some solid citations.

tldr: Imitation of humans and other living creatures is not okay, but nothing wrong with imitation of intelligence.
Now apply that category soup to tracking both priority and severity.
Did you build this to solve a specific issue?
Yes you can cherry pick things that work very well, in the meantime it still can't rhyme in French, which is 12 years old type of intelligence

It's wrong > 50% of the time for anything semi complex and semi niche, that's not AGI, no one in the field of AI argue it's AGI, only people on twitter and reddit with absolutely no background in tech and/or AI argue it's AGI

It's a very very very good chatbot, built with very very impressive technology and amount of data, which is already quite impressive and definitely a big milestone, it's not AGI, not even close

It's like saying the leather auger of my swiss army knife is a step towards an aerospace grade titanium cutting CNC machine
We should start by massively decrease the size and the weight of cars to 1/3 of what they are now. No need to new civil infrastructure, ne need for new techniques, no need for new factories. It's really easy and quick to do
Stupidity is a moral failure. Derision of the stupid is morally justified: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ww47bR86wSc

The study you linked assumes the actors are not stupid.
Settlers of Catan is one of my favorite board games of all time.

It combines the best of a randomly-generated board, player strategy, and luck (roll of the dice) to give maximum re-playability and a unique game each time you play.

It is sad to hear of Klaus Teuber's passing, but his wonderful games will enjoyed for years to come by millions of players worldwide.
> Talking to Americans about this is futile and exasperating, and pointless.

I would say: it depends.

Doing so in small quantities I can certainly agree with the sentiment, but if you talk to people in massive quantities, especially in certain ways, over time you start to notice patterns in their speech, and it seems reasonable to presume that this reflects patterns in thought.

It may not seem like it, but we live in a system, and like all systems it can be analyzed. It doesn't have to be though....one can go through their whole life just taking all of this weirdness for granted as most people do, but imagine if the pioneers of science decided to just shrug their shoulders at all the patterns they saw around them? Where would we be if not for anomalies like them?
If you truly believe that every human life is worth alot, then it must be hard to accept what happened and I sincerely empathize with that. But denying it won't really solve anything, and furthermore it enables history to repeat itself.
It seems like the mistake there would be implementing the mute in the software instead of a proper hardware shutoff.
This is awesome!

I'm doing something similar but for backend.

Is picoapps frontend-only for now or do you generate both the front and enough of a backend to eg save what the user creates?
This is really weird, where are you having the books delivered to?

I’ve never once had this experience and I’ve ordered at least 100 books from the book depository, for delivery to the Middle East.
That was just one search result. Again, I recommend doing one's own research. There's a lot to find.

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/04/elon-musk-twitter-te...
"In Berlin at BER I had someone from security straight up tell me that water being sold at a premium after security, with a profit for the airport shops that pay hefty rents, is the only reason for keeping up the 100ml liquids rule."

This logic kind of falls apart when you think about it for a minute and:

1. Most airports have water fountains

2. Food and snacks are allowed through security. If it's all a conspiracy to make a few $$$, why aren't snacks banned under similar pretences

3. Many airports are now scrapping the rules with new machines

4. It would imply some sort of agreement between the stores and the security operations at thousands of airport worldwide - all individual agreements or a mass agreement, quite the scheme!
Chiropractice is not quackery from start to finish. A chiropractor solved my rsi with simple adjustments and some home stretching and joint exercises. A chiropractor fixed my mom's debilitating back pain after pregnancy. But there are many quacks in the field because it is unregulated, and many practitioners also hold metaphysical or folk beliefs that are totally unscientific at best. I have stories about those too. But a good chiropractor will simply diagnose the level of adjustment needed and provide it, and show you how your muscles and skeletal structure are causing you pain.
Framework announces Laptop 16 and promises 'holy grail' of upgradable graphics
FM radio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FM_broadcasting

> left and right, but with opposite phase

The classic mid-side mic technique uses two capsules. The first (middle) is a cardioid or omnidirectionsl facing the subject, the latter (side) is a figure-8 turned 90 degrees. The capsules should be as close to each other as possible to avoid low-frequency phase errors. The signals are converted to L+R via a simple Mid/Side network:

L = 0.707 * (M+S), R = 0.707 * (M-S)

which is where "opposite phase" comes into play.

https://www.uaudio.com/blog/mid-side-mic-recording/
This is my worry as well. Google results are already full of content farm/AI SEO junk, and I don't understand people who see that and think "let's do that, but more".

There's already more good content than I could possibly consume in my lifetime, and all this automatically generated stuff is just going to make it harder to find.