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> Steve Jobs did not build insanely great products by hiring morons.

If you watch the rest of the video I linked it's pretty clear that Apple probably did hire and fire plenty of morons that the engineers would weed out (specifically mentioned is the Macintosh team).

The reason hiring is more difficult today vs then isn't because Steve Jobs was so great, but because the internet has brought upon the doorstep of every business a flood of highly motivated drones who don't know what they're doing and will only bother learning if they're getting paid to do it. The demise of entry level jobs and other cost cutting is partially to blame as well.

I guess the modern solution is contract-to-hire so there's some kind of buffer between the horde out there and the workplace you're cultivating.
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Not an hour ago I was remarking to my roommate that airplanes are "better" at flying than bumblebees, but the bumblebee does things no machine can, and that I see AI versus human intelligence similarly. Yours is pithier though!
The point I think the parent is trying to make is that there are now many people who see all of human behavior as some sort of construct vs. innate behaviors that exist all over the animal kingdom.

In fact, very few behaviors are specific to only humans.

We aren’t that special. At the end of the day, we’re just very clever mammals.
//happy dance//

... That is all.
Oh, my initial research (reading the Neovim docs) indicated that setting up Neovim would require a lot of manual configuration for getting an LSP working. I will give it another look, thanks!

Most blog posts I found seemed to assume you already had a gigantic custom config, plug-in manager, etc. I couldn’t find a “how to set up better highlighting and/or an LSP for people who know Vim but don’t know anything about configuration” guide.
Not always. Think about the algorithms that casinos use.
Respect. What do you use it for?
You should look into thermal mass for daytime storage, you may well be able to shift a bunch of heating at night to your solar received during the day. It's the cheapest and safest way of storing energy, and it also has pretty much unlimited cycle times.
For better or worse, in most western business settings--tech only loosely qualifies--men historically had a uniform (and now have maybe a few potential uniforms--but they had lots of tie options, I have a closet full of them). Women have/had a lot more options which I assume is both a blessing and a curse.
Yeah, ignoring the problem does a lot to make it go away for you.

It doesn't help to make it stop being a problem though. This is basically the definition of privilege.
US Arrests 21-Year-Old National Guardsman in Classified Documents Leak
If I read this exchange _anywhere else on the internet_ I would have thought these guys have got to be shilling for the author.
This doesnt seem like a ChatGPT rival...it doesnt even seem like a GPT rival
For sure. I didn't mean to derail the thread or tell you how you feel, just share what I think is an interesting aspect of assault as defined in common law. But your subjective experience here is exactly what the law means to recognize with assault and sounds like it was assault. But who knows. Glad the situation fizzled out (usually best case scenario)
It’s no joke, it’s a very sensible critique from
a very grumpy dutch man.

https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD09xx/E...

But the blur continues to linger on, and has a much wider impact than you might suspect. You see, it is not only that the question “Can machines think?” is regularly raised; we can —and should— deal with that by pointing out that it is just as relevant as the equally burning question “Can submarines swim?”

A more serious byproduct of the tendency to talk about machines in anthropomorphic terms is the companion phenomenon of talking about people in mechanistic terminology. The critical reading of articles about computer-assisted learning —excuse me: CAL for the intimi— leaves you no option: in the eyes of their authors, the educational process is simply reduced to a caricature, something like the building up of conditional reflexes. For those educationists, Pavlov’s dog adequately captures the essence of Mankind —while I can assure you, from intimate observations, that it only captures a minute fraction of what is involved in being a dog—.

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The project I'm on involves dynamic infrastructure. I don't see any benefit Pulumi provides over Terraform in this regard. In fact, Terraform's module system is more convenient if you want to do per-tenant infra versioning for example.
GPT-4 looks like a much more powerful system which can produce answers in ways that can't easily be explained/dismissed as "stochastic parroting".
This is good in concept, but I simply just do not trust him to deliver.

I think follower/audience portability is super important, as is revenue sharing, but this is coming from the guy who literally replaced search queries for "substack" with "newsletter", and search-banned a guy who went to a competitor.

He's not letting his users go anywhere, it's all talk.
If it's useful, here [1] is the interview with Air Force Brig. Gen. Patrick Ryder. As per usual most of the questions the news ask him were explained at the start to be part of an active investigation but he does comment on some things being discussed I have seen in a few different threads here on HN.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpZfUtsXgko [video][34 mins]
Yeah for sure! I'm guessing you want a Plaid-like flow where end users OAuth and enter in which folder/etc?
DownDog is one of the best apps I've ever come across, and definitely the best stretching app I've encountered having tried many yoga apps on the App Store plus Pliability and GoWod

https://www.downdogapp.com
Net metering is not near market rate. Utilities pay wholesale rates which are generally around 10-20% of retail rates. And in "true" net metering it's even worse because you sell during the day when prices are low and buy at night when prices are high but pay nothing. Utilities are monopolies, they will get their profits one way or another. If the wealthy are paying them less that just means the poor will pay more.
> why would a professional programmer not want to invest the time to learn to type properly: typing fast boosts your productivity significantly.

I have not found typing speed to correlate well with productivity. I spend quite a lot of time thinking while coding.
More power to you. C is beautiful. Properly written C is more of an Art than Science. People who say C doesn’t work for large projects often forget that their cars run on C.
Where's your mercedes?
Incompetence and malice are one and the same.
If anyone in the US ever wanted to become vegetarian, I suggest they drive through Greeley, Colorado past the lines of cattle cars waiting to enter the slaughterhouses. Their nose may curse them, however.
There is a "need" vs "want" aspect here, but often the boilerplates that we reach for become out of date. In theory, an LLM producing these could remain up to date without maintenance, key phrase "in theory"
They did[0], for GPU models where they moved all the proprietary parts into the firmware.

[0] https://github.com/NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules#user-conte...
This one? https://twitter.com/WCVB/status/1646581173185904640
Exactly. And incentivizing private individuals to put their money on the line to accelerate the energy transition is good for everybody, especially future generations.
When decisions are made specifically based on superficial characteristics like skin color and sex, you shouldn't be surprised when people wonder if decisions are/were made specifically based on superficial characteristics like skin color and sex.

eg. on Biden: https://news.yahoo.com/the-inside-story-of-how-biden-promise...

The promise of the superficial characteristics came first. Then a solution (a candidate, in this case) was chosen from a limited solution set

When people do things like this, they make it clear they don't want optimal outcomes, with regards to performance and the like. They make it clear that other, superficial, characteristics carry greater weight.

This hurts any functioning society, certainly in the long-term. However, some people want that--for some societies.
That's actually a really good idea. I just looked at how a few other sites handle this, and that seems like a common take. I have updated the code!
Yeah which is why Iran and North Korea are beacons of safety and Iceland is a hellhole. /s
No need to make every person categorize/rank their own content. But let them choose which of the 3rd party ranking algorithms they'd like to have serving them their feed today.
Hey, thanks for checking it out.
We also started working on it for personal reasons. Any suggestion or feedback is welcome, you can contact me directly at anubhav@ramanlabs.in .

Some features like Face-recognition and improved video-search are available as premium features for now but working on to let users preview those features through a demo.
Emacs is more like an ecosystem around text, so switching keybinding does not matter much. And most people's system is installed on a single computer, very much like Photoshop or Visual Studio. Vim is all about editing text and the keybinding are like a DSL for this purpose, so changing things will make you awkward everywhere.
The local papers I am familiar with in my region are literally (not figuratively) just re-print houses for prior-approved PR stories from local schools, businesses, and government offices.

It's really quite sad.
Shoulders and arms as well. Never understood why men can’t wear short sleeve button ups in an office that requires dress shirts. Or shorts.
> I think forcing people to show certain body parts is as offensive as the opposite.

it is basic human instinct to wanna see a face...
Not for a while. They seem decent at generating scaffolding or algorithms, but like for any of the projects I've done recently, it's "figure out what this big piece of mangled code does, take some requirements or high-level idea that's not fully complete and probably has some contradictions, work with people to flesh those out, figure out a way to cram that in, which layer of the code it should be in, or which layers, with some implicit tribal understanding what is allowed to change and what isn't." AI may be able to help with some of that, but it won't be a complete replacement for quite some time.

Also the quarterly planning process is "figure out the ten things you want to get done out of the hundred in your backlog", and the quarterly execution process is "land the one thing you can get done of the ten commitments you made." So there's no lack additional work to be done even if AI takes over some chunk of it.
FBI arrests 21-year-old US Air Force reservist over document leaks
Sketchy VPN providers use botnet services like Mylobot to provide residential exit nodes.

https://www.bitsight.com/blog/mylobot-investigating-proxy-bo...
if it runs linux already using containers has no overhead with a lot of pros. Security just being one.

When you ask, why containers?, reask, why sandboxes? if security is important at all, then you have your answer.

Containers are so convenient people forget we used to use chroot jails.
California Power companies are highly regulated with a fixed profit margin.

The cost of every kW purchased from rooftop solar gets passed on consumers that dont have it.

Consumers could instead have 10x the kW from a clean solar plant out in a desert.
I do. The name foldr_k_z doesn't say what the function is doing. It's just syntactic punning on a function call with two additional arguments. That's actually negative for comprehensibility. Names should be semantic, not syntactic. And that name doesn't say a thing about its meaning. The most it tells you is that it's related to foldr and its k and z parameters. But the details? Well you have to look for those. When you look at the definition, you discover that the it's the foldr worker that closes over k and z. You could name it foldrWorkerThatClosesOverKandZ, I suppose. But does that name contain any information that isn't present in the context? Does it help you actually understand anything?

I'd argue "of course not". You already know that it's the foldr worker because it's a local recursive definition inside foldr. And you already know it closes over k and z because it uses them without defining them locally. Nothing in that name provides additional semantic value.

You could still use it anyway, on the argument that a little redundancy can help aid reading. But the more Haskell code you read and write, the less that redundancy helps you with anything. On the other hand, the proliferation of names that contain almost no semantic content starts to drag on you. And so an idiom was developed for naming recursive workers that do the core job of what the parent's name promises: just name it "go". Nothing to think about. It's reduced down to a level that communicates exactly that it's not clever. It's just doing the thing it has to do. And it's standardized. If you see it, you know exactly what it's doing. There's no need to waste time mapping a new name into your existing set of well-known patterns.

So... As to the original argument's point? I think it probably is awkward for pedagogy. But it's absolutely better for actively using the language.
Looks great.

Just my two cents… if it’s $25 for lifetime access you might want to make that more obvious (I was on mobile).

It’s not that I don’t think it’s worth it- actually the opposite. Hitting the landing page I actually assumed it’d far more, or have a series of upsells, etc. I started to navigate away when I noticed the smaller print.

Anyway, looks like great stuff. And thumbs up for Budapest.
I remember this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31860131

I do not know how brother fares now regarding open supplies.
Pre-populating with test credentials is a good idea!

Some examples use cases for Sidekick include:

- Customer support bots that answer questions based on your knowledgebase

- Internal tools for searching through documentation scattered across different SaaS tools
It’s hard, because previously the only things that could create novel structures were humans, and humans certainly have intentionality and thought.
If I talk to you about the story of Demeter and Persephone's descent, that is a coherent story. If you present that story to me and I counter with "Ah but these people over here believe Demeter and Persephone are the same person!" I haven't one-up'd your story.

That some distant group of people had contradictory beliefs about a well known myth doesn't mean there isn't a widely accepted canon.

Nor does this mean that in that common canon that we've secretly revealed that Persephone is Demeter in disguise. In the main canon, they ARE mother and daughter.

The existence of what is basically fan fiction doesn't mean the canonized works are less canon or that people aren't aware of the main canon!
> If you're living in a city that has more violent crime than average

It's not really clear to me this is the case. The average violent crime rate for the top 25 cities, excluding Charlotte (because they don't report most crimes to the feds) is 702/100,000; SF's is 715, which is a statistical tie. And then, the murder rate is way below the average.

You also need to consider demographics; e.g. a young city with an active club scene probably has a higher incidence of robberies.

I'd also appreciate you to cut the aggressive language in talking about this. If we're talking about fallacies, ranking cities in alphabetical order to determine their crime rates is not awesome. People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones, so perhaps reduce the amount of scorn you're piling on other people?

There's plenty to complain about in SF. My considered opinion is:

* SF is somewhat safer than the average large US city (violent crime rate is comparable; severe crimes are at a lower rate)

* Quality of life crime is really bad; #4 in your list of 100 for property crime, at a rate that is a high multiple of the average.
Thanks - this is what I meant when I said I'm not familiar with their workflow! Sounds like GPT will impact jobs. Do you see a way GPT could actually create jobs?
In a literal sense yes but you wouldn't use the term democratizing unless it was something previously made only available to a select group and is normally a part of a larger thing.
mp3.com was originally hosted on Michael Robertson's personal hobby machine at the supercomputer center.

A little history:

Robertson was an IT intern at SDSC a few years before I got there. One of the nice things about working there was that there was a cabinet in the datacenter that staff were allowed to use to house personal servers. Hardware you brought from home, old Sparcstations you took off the surplus pile in the basement...if you had some idea that needed a system, you could put it there.

By filling out a one-page form, you could get an IP on the 192.31.21.0/24 net (which was space we got from USAF, iirc...) and permission to host whatever you wanted on your old machine in the cabinet in the back row. Obviously, you were required to swear not to do anything illegal or annoying with your root access.

When I setup my first machine there, the long cat5 cable I used to plug into the switch still had "mp3.com" on the label.
Russia says China agreed to provide weapons, leaked documents show
The mind of a motormouth who won't stop talking long enough to think.
I have the same feeling towards WeWork and WePay…
Added in iOS 10 - that is 2016.
There are definitely places where the cops would come after them, and Republicans are doing their best to increase that number of places by making it illegal to be gender-nonconforming (https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/republicans-lawmakers-a...).
I only read Twitter because it doesn't cost me anything
Great feedback, @iamerroragent . We didn't define pricing yet, and it's currently free for everybody since it's in open beta. But we plan it to be around $4.99/mo.
Show HN: Convert your podcast to 20 pieces of content in minutes. Bad idea?
I'm not entirely sure what point you're trying to make here. I didn't suggest the entire stack has to be open source, nor am I looking for a reason to use NVIDIA on Linux. I just think it would be great if NVIDIA open sourced whatever portions of their graphics driver to make the Mesa implementation competitive.
Exactly. Just understanding the problem space is 90% of the work. That said, LLMs can do a lot more than code...
> Yes it absolutely decimate demand for junior coders. My firm has basically frozen hiring

What pipelines were you recruiting from?

I see AI decimating "become an engineer in 10 weeks bootcamp" types of coders, but proper engineers? The demand is still exceptionally strong, especially now that Twitter and Meta released a lot of talent on the market at the same time.

> We expect the economy to get way worse as de-dollarization seems to be looming on the horizon, and preparing now.

Economists and computer scientists confirmed it: The de-dollarization will happen the same year as the year of the Linux desktop!
I'd guess they were a Windscribe reseller.
When I was a young lad you had to pass basic, intermediate, and advanced swimming classes before signing up for the guard class. Each class took about two weeks of daily lessons at the local pond.

This qualified me to sit next to a pool in a condo complex where no one ever swam for eight hours a day. Best job I ever had.
This will result in more legislation like GDPR.

GDPR and other EU privacy/safety regulations are good in principle but the task of auditing software for compliancy is going to lawyers, accountants (auditors), and business consultants. Is it because they are cheaper than developers? Not really, in most of Western Europe these people make the same or more than software developers.

So we now have nore non-tech people deciding what tech people can do and not do. Completely ridiculous.
It really is about national security though.

Having talked with legislators and staffers on both sides of the aisle about this issue, they are massively concerned about having a foreign adversary with the capability to inject social commentary and promote propaganda into 150 million americans media stream.

The fact that this legislation helps american companies by fucking over bytedance and by proxy the pride of the CCP is just icing on the cake.
Hey, I'm curious about the pulumi-ai cli.

Specifically, did you solve the problem of stale API information?

What I mean is that using gpt-4 to generate code is generally very straightforward, but due to the knowledge cutoff it won't know about i.e. new AWS APIs like Lambda URLs.

Is this something you've managed to solve? Or is it just the "even with that knowledge cutoff there's enough value" situation?
How about having a server that accepts a POST request (eg at /my_program) that once called executes your program on that server (or any other server, or a container or whatever) and streams stdout and stderr to the response?
I think the most attractive part of the Elixir / Erlang ecosystem is BEAM and its ability to manage code, processes and resources in an extremely parallel environment. Rust operates at a lower level and it feels deceptive to just compare the languages.

That said - if you don't benefit from what BEAM has to offer - I agree Rust is a really attractive alternative.
That sounds horribly familiar! (Old, relatively non-fancy, Ford Focus; it limped along with the failure.) The explanation makes sense, which it didn't at the time, and the traction control button didn't help. The specialist garage initially said "sensor failure", as I assumed, having lost my OBD device.
I guarantee your life will be simpler with Erlang.
You should look beyond the short-term consequences. Net metering is a benefit to well-off homeowners. Such benefits can be difficult to take back when they are no longer useful, because those are the people who vote. That means you should avoid creating them unless you are sure of the long-term consequences.

The question is not how net metering affects a grid still dominated by fossil fuels but how it works in a grid dominated by renewables. Some European countries are already getting there, so this is not hypothetical.

When you have a period of high generation overlapping with a period of average demand, electricity is cheap. Paying a fraction of a cent for a kWh is common. When you get high generation and low demand, the prices can even go negative. On the other hand, when you have low generation and high demand, power becomes expensive and you may have to pay tens of cents for each kWh. If you have net metering, the power you sell to the grid is worth much less than the power you buy from it.

One of the key tools for dealing with the variability of renewable energy is shifting demand that is insensitive to time of use automatically. Instead of buying expensive power now, you buy cheaper power hours or perhaps even days later. But if you have net metering, that does not concern you. You can keep using power as usual, because the price you pay is fixed.

That can make net metering an incentive for inefficiency.
Sounds fair to me. Rooftop solar by itself is already a big incentive without any additional handouts.
That feels very on point, these are tools. It's fun to play the thought experiment of being able to ask a tool (GPT) what it thinks or feels, but isnt real consciousness is as undisprovable for a hammer as it is for another human being? Imho we need to focus on what these things can do to improve human lives and not get too distracted anthropomorphizing them, even though its super fun.