skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In good faith I really don't know what you're arguing for.

If you re-read our conversation I express that simple snippets of code from ChatGPT have been accurate enough, ultimately saving me time (paraphrasing). You then push back on me with the following:

> The thing is - how often do you end up needing such snippets? How much more useful is receiving it from ChatGPT than looking it up in a search engine?

> [...] but the overall benefit seems negligible, especially when you need to watch out at every step for convincingly-looking nonsense

I doubled down, doing my best to elaborate where it has added value to my workflow, when it breaks down for me, and addressed specific concerns in your comments. When you say "overall benefit seems negligible" - I read that very clearly as overall the benefit (of ChatGPT) seems negligible (regarding the context of our conversation). That context to me was that ChatGPT helps me with simple snippets and POCs. I did my best to politely rebut that with my personal and professional experiences regarding the tool.

Now you say:

> its main value comes from my ADHD mind not being able to focus on boring stuff I already know how to do - in those cases, GPT gets me the boilerplate I can start operating on right away, which sure is helpful

This is directly compatible and agreeing with what I feel I have been advocating for since my first message in this conversation - that using ChatGPT for simple boilerplate code can be valid (paraphrasing). But, I feel like this is contradictory to, and in conflict with what you previously said: "the overall benefit seems negligible".

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Overall this conversation seems to contradict itself, and with that it's confusing and frustrating to me. Sorry.

Cheers
Warning that this links to illustrations of bugs. That sort of thing makes me jump out of my seat
> So does giving all your variable names one-letter names and putting your entire codebase on one line. Surely we can agree that character count is a poor measure of readability or maintainability.

Which is why pg advocates symbol count. (Although he seems to love brevity too.)
Happy 100th Birthday, 16-Millimeter Film
Post and short discussion from yesterday about the same subject: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35621847
I assume the quiet part is "they won't have a choice not to because everybody is playing the same game"
Yubico is pretty well owned by VC firms that want their money back. By taking outside money, you're beholden to outside influence. Yubico can't buy out their investors, so they have to raise money some other way in order to do so. In this case, public markets.
I bought into Bari Weiss' theory and the narrative she is making a lot of money from the substack and alternate journalism. I started consuming a lot of substack content; after a few months, I realized most of the substack content I got recommended were people ranting about social change happening in America. It is interesting to read for a few weeks. After a while, you will get tired of that narrative.

Today I saw a substack article on HN's top list from Jonathan Haidt, another guy in the same political spectrum complaining about social media and societal change.

My impression of substack is that, it is the platform of the disgruntled. Substack is a niche player, and never will be mainstream.
This started in Amsterdam in the 1990s but now also happens in regional cities. Restaurants in Breda of all places has English speaking staff. At least there is still a head waiter who speaks Dutch. I personally don't mind much.
Whenever someone on Reddit says the Netherlands is xenophobic it makes me laugh.
I’d be interested in a source for that. The 737 is an unqualified success. IIRC, at the turn of the century, one out of every three commercial flights was undertaken on a 737. (At around the same time, another third would have been DC-9 and derivatives)

The 737 wasn’t particularly expensive to design or build. It shares a 41 section with the 707 and 727 for example.
UK plans to seize kitchen knives from criminals
I'm not sure OP was necessarily implying that the Pi specifically wasn't suitable for the job -- perhaps just that requiring /any/ other additional computer to achieve this is not without additional administrative overhead and power costs.

It does seems likely that a Pi is going to consume a fair bit less energy than the x86 SFF PC, so it's probably a net gain there, but that admin overhead thing isn't necessarily one to ignore -- it's not entirely set and forget.
The ridiculous thing is that encryption is so trivial, any criminal can implement it with a few lines of code and can keep their key entirely private, known only to them and whoever they decide.

No reasonable person wants kids to be abused, but trading the privacy and security of an entire planet to make it easier for law enforcement to catch a few criminals is not reasonable either.
While it is easy to criticize the approach the author took to solve this particular problem (as others have done here), I must say that I appreciate well organized posts that detail a technology problem and solution. While I may not implement a similar solution, I always manage to learn something from reading them that I'll likely use when solving another problem in the future.
Also, even for relatively simple and beginner things like recursion there are levels of understanding. Some of the anecdotes I see from people using ChatGPT to learn a new technical concept suggest a false sense of deeper levels of understanding. This seems to be a result of beginner naïveté together with the supreme confidence ChatGPT exudes.
Here's a bonus: western half of Denmark is on the continental europe synchronous grid and the eastern half is on the Nordic grid.
But the concerns about AI taking over the world are valid and important; even if they sound silly at first, there is some very solid reasoning behind it. They’re big matrices, yes, but they’re Turing-complete which means they can theoretically do any computational task

See https://youtu.be/tcdVC4e6EV4 for a really interesting video on why a theoretical superintelligent AI would be dangerous, and when you factor in that these models could self-improve and approach that level of intelligence it gets worrying…
I think they'd also prefer to extend the reach of C# over adopting JavaScript. But alas, reality is what reality is.

Well, there is TypeScript so...
You seem to be totally correct. Meta ticker is flat today.

In addition, there are other dynamics here. Meta is torching through cash building this Metaverse, and there is no clear horizon or plan. It's going to give a lot of investors pause before jumping in.
You don't specify what is R&E, the statute does. It's specified in the next section, and section c(3):

" “specified research or experimental expenditures” means, with respect to any taxable year, research or experimental expenditures which are paid or incurred by the taxpayer during such taxable year in connection with the taxpayer’s trade or business."

and

"For purposes of this section, any amount paid or incurred in connection with the development of any software shall be treated as a research or experimental expenditure."
An excellent, yet extremely depressing, book.
While it's true you cannot sing while playing the trumpet, Herp Alpert could make his trumpet sing!

But still, he played covers of other peoples' songs.
Had this problem in a Star Trek game.

Pakled is a specific race of aliens in the game and universe (TNG Samaritan Snare), but would get caught in the filter (Assuming due to Pakistanis?)
Thanks, this could be useful if I decide to set up a VPN in the future.
Time will tell. I believe that evergreen content produces more revenue over time than clickbait.
Man I loved my RPi remote SSH-tunnel for being able to access my home network from anywhere... until my kid needed a Pi for a robot he got for Christmas and I decided to donate mine to the cause :)
Rise of the AI Doomsday Cult
Even if it is all your own code, there's the joke:

There are two parts to programming. The second part is debugging, where you remove the bugs. The first part is when you put the bugs in.

I didn't tell it quite right...
From the perspective of this discussion, hay and silage are indistinguishable from grain: if you can grow and harvest them, you could have make human food directly off that land.
> Also it's a weird idea that we should forget things so that someone later can feel special when they do it again. Really weird.

What would you think of a service, that when you take a photograph that is beautiful, unique and moving for you and say you want to share it with someone else - would pop in and would should an image just like it - only a better with some additional elements that make it even more breathtaking - taken by someone else and would recommend you to send that

wouldn't you prefer to have your own emotions?
I don't think it'd be a stretch to say that many many people have died who wouldn't have if they'd only had a working cell phone on them at the time. A cell phone could very well save a person's life. It's a pretty useful thing. Increasingly, the expectation is that everyone will have one and a growing number of products and services require the use of an app. In fairness, I've personally managed to avoid those so far, but it's already at times required companies to go out of their way to provide me with alternatives and it's not hard to imagine that they will only grow more reluctant to provide those costly accommodations in the future.

I don't think it's reasonable to expect people to limit their employment options, risk their safety, and increasingly cut themselves off from normal society just to avoid the harms of owning a cell phone, when those harms are impacting everyone at little or no benefit to the public at large, and when the worst offenses could be mitigated through regulations.
This was a bad misreading of Boeing's financial state - which I think John Leahy eventually fessed up to. The 737 never needed any subsidizing. It is, to this day the most popular delivered jet plan (although the 320 now has more orders). If you count by airframe, the 707 + 737 family still dominates. JL simply never could understand why the A320 wasn't beating the 737 and placed the blame for the A320 not selling better than the 737 on mythical subsidies that Boeing was supposedly providing. The real reason was Airlines stuck with the 737 instead of the A320 because the price was competitive, they had trained pilots, staff, and mechanics, and some people didn't want fly-by-wire and CFRP.

The 777 had already passed the 747 as the main breadwinner well before the A380 took to the sky. Boeing had tried to launch two different 747 stretches and both failed. Airbus with government aid decided to launch the A380, even though there was significant evidence that the A340 was getting crushed against the 777.
I consider declarative and procedural to be readings of a program (i.e, a subjective property). A more interesting property is amenability to formal reasoning, which is what is really wanted.

A distinction from functional programming can be made by noting that in functional programming the input is a proof term, and in logic programming the output is a proof term (evaluation is proof search).

But excluding optimized domain-specific solvers which are making performance/expressiveness/termination tradeoffs, it doesn't seem obvious that programming via proof search has any definite complexity disadvantages in theory (assuming you encode the algorithm in a comparable way), though I admit in practice the existing implementations of logic programming are anemic when it comes to libraries, polish, etc.
IMO Sweden and Norway need to separate domestic and export electricity prices so that they can come back to having cheap energy as a genuine advantage for its industry.
Its not an unreasonable thought to consider Silent Films and Sound Films to be completely different art forms as well.
I agree with this in spirit, but there are many advantages to a services model. However, building services is exceptionally complicated. I'm building a simple platform which people can run at home or in cloud. I have an unlisted tech talk dry run https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWYgChA_aYA
You mean to say Norwegians in general actually think the Norwegian oil is "clean" and "green" just because the operations to pump it up are? I mean, brain-washing can be effective, especially when there's a financial motive to believe it.
> Make keys, sell keys. The end. What's there to raise funding for? Build yet another password vault?

Liquidity for employees who exercised their options and investors who funded them before they had significant revenue, presumably.
Not sure if I'm flattered or offended by this comparison :)

This humble blog is an effort to bring my work to a broader, English-speaking audience. My main business is another blog, founded ten years ago, but written in Portuguese for Brazilian market[1].

I made a pledge to not rely on big tech and avoid as much as possible VC funded providers — including to send a newsletter, which isn't hosted nor sent via Substack.

In other words, it was a bet that it's possible to run a digital business without relying on Substack, Meta etc. Turns out it's possible.

[1] https://manualdousuario.net/
Things people do for Vaastu Compliance! /jk
Is it as good as Krita yet?
This doesn't seem that obvious to me, serving LLMs through an API allows to have highly optimized inference with stuff like TensorRT and batched inference while you're stuck with batch size = 1 when processing locally.

LLMs doesn't even require full real-time inference, there are applications like VR or camera stuff where you need real-time <10ms inference, but for any application of LLMs 200-500ms is more than fine

For the users, running LLMs locally means more battery usage and significant RAM usage. The only true advantage is privacy but this isn't a selling point for most people
Anorith[1] and Kabuto[2] are based on anomalocaris and xiphosura (horseshoe crabs)

[1]: https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Anorith

[2]: https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Kabuto
Today? Or before the internet when people’s idea of mediocrity and access to top talent was more limited? Depending on where in the world you live a $30 commission is a lot of money.
> I lately start to think homoiconicity is really a wart.

I sorta agree. The simplicity of the syntax and representation makes it particularly amenable to dynamic modification above basically every other language though. There's a bunch of other properties that make this to case though, such as a very dynamic type system, first-class functions, extremely simple syntax, etc. so it's really a combination of a bunch of factors.

That being said, I think homoiconicity is actually a useful feature, but runtime macro expansion is the dangerous part. What I'd really like to see is a Lisp with very well defined execution orders. That is, macros must be expanded at compile time, and with clear symbols for defining what runs and when. I'm not talking about something like `(macroexpand ...)`, more like `(comptime (my-macro ...))`... `(define (my-func) (my-macro+ 'a 'b 'c))` where it's explicit that a macro executes at compile time, and usage of that macro must be denoted with a special character (`+`, in my example).

I think a general purpose macro language is only as useful as the average code-gen/templating language. It's just string manipulation, which can be harder to reason about than true metaprogramming and might result in some ugly/verbose output and having to context-switch between 2 entirely different languages often. What's particularly powerful about Lisp macros is that usage of them doesn't look any different than a normal application usually, and writing a macro is only marginally different than writing a normal function.
I think through the subscription model has Substack solved the distribution/discovery problem.

While I might follow people/topics on Medium it doesn't help filter out the noise.
And I thought javascript was inefficient compared to C.

Imagine running agents in the cloud to do simple stuff like extract one 3 digit number from a weather report for the temperature.

The power, cooling water and infra cost requirements are going to be huge.
Yes but in very large datasets, isn't it the case that you end up finding correlations for many things at very low p values? That is (one of the reasons) why effect size matters. Still, the "odds ratios are below 3" requirement seems excessive.
This was the case for REALBasic too, which is where I first dipped my toe into programming. It was a wonderful intuitive learning environment (want to change what a button does? Double-click it to edit its code!) and could build to OS 9, OS X, and Windows with one click which was amazing, but it was very easy to hit the limits of what its standard widgets were capable of, which meant that you had to go get third-party widgets, most of which were commercially licensed (and meant most serious REALBasic apps used commercial widgets).

That probably wasn't as much of a problem for a working adult but it wasn't much fun as a broke teenager itching to make things (as I was at that point).
Ultimately, only ample real-world play-testing can answer these questions from a human perspective.

I share your concern though. You don't want to publish a game only to find, when attacked by real players in quantity, that your design is broken.

For the board game I'm working on, I've found running many simulated games with MCTS-based AI players has proved instructive in some respects. For example, balancing for turn-order fairness.
You could just test it
Agreed, the disgruntled are the only people willing to pay specific journalists with specific missions to effect change. Everyone else would just either pay a flat fee for general information about X, or would pay nothing.
+1. I just finished watching it, and it was so timely to see the term being posted on HN's front page!

This is one of my personal top episodes alongside season 2's Rainbow.
That looks good enough for me, thanks!
Thanks for the common sense response.

> My personal opinion is that the dollar is the reserve currency (and thus the petro currency) is due to much less conspiratorial reasons.

Agreed. There is zero conspiracy around that, which is why I believe the US loosing the natural power of the Dollar is a logical fear.

> It would take a significant change to Chinese economics to make that true.

..which is what BRICS aiming for? If that is one of their goals, nothing is going to stop them. And honestly, that's a good goal to have. Putting all the negative narrative around Russia/China aside and abstracting away from the US, why should a single country's currency dominate over the entire world? That's simply not fair.

> If China did that it wouldn’t save Russia

I somewhat disagree. Russia is not looking to be saved by anyone. Putin's interest is a mutually beneficial partnership. He's a businessman. He's cool with yuan (or any other currency) being the new reserve currency. On the other hand, he is not cool with the US pushing to be the superpower dictating the rules, which obviously goes against the United States' goals and ambitions. I could be wrong, but that's my understanding of things.
The problem is how any subjective experience relates to the physics of the particles that make up our brains.

I feel hungry and so I eat. But how did that feeling cause the result? My brain particles would have done the same thing (because physics) even if I were an unconscious zombie.
This is dope, a couple of feedback points from a technical person that is a potential customer (I could be wrong on these!):

-- I think the name doesn't sell me or even most people because "checksum" is more of a security/crypto term. When I saw the HN post say Checksum I didn't think it was going to be about end-to-end tests. I thought it was going to be some crypto thing. Maybe a name like "Tested" or "Covered" is going to click better with the potential customer.

-- I don't feel like the demo video is making me feel like I know what this product is doing. I could also be misunderstanding the product. It might help more if the demo showed the following (in ideally less than 5-10s or most users might tune out):

1. A quick setup step for checksum
2. A set of generated tests
3. Passing tests

Seeing those steps would give me the emotion as an end-user "wow this must something I can quickly setup and will make me feel like I have test coverage out of the box"
It really is amazing that there is a list as long as your arm of economies dominated by natural resource extraction for whom it has been a curse.

And then there's Norway. The sole exception.
> I'm looking to expand my consumption of content across the internet.

Why would you ever want to do this ever
Oil's far more likely to taper off. A trillion dollars in the bank will cushion that transition quite well.
Nice article, though I feel something went amiss with this part:

$$ \begin{align}\text{Total Memory}{\text{Training}} = \text{memory}{\text{model}}+\text{memory}{\text{optimizer}}+\text{memory}{\text{activations}}+\text{memory}_{\text{gradients}}\end{align} $$
> And going from orbital flight to ready to land on mars is a pretty simple roadmap

Not really, unless you mean "crash" landing.

The 4 year estimate is overly optimistic as a result. Forget launch windows, just handling refueling and long term loitering (with engine restart after that) required for Mars mission with any reasonable chance of success will take majority of those 4 years. Especially if you are not willing to blow starships all the time.

And that's also ignoring the tiny detail that Mars is not even in top3 priorities for starship even after successful fully orbital test and landing of both stages. Getting to high flight rate / launching Starlink v2 sats / HLS is much more important for SpaceX
> What is the difference between a newsletter and a blog?

Newsletters are the new RSS for blogs.
how about the current era, where every human generates thousands of photos per year ... is that a history worth remembering and will it help where we've come from?

I am not saying to not study history, I am saying storing everything is probably worse than storing half of it.
As a foreigner 10 years into living in the Netherlands, I find this article a bit shallow. Yes gezellig is a word and concept I frequently encounter but to say it encompasses the heart of Dutch Culture makes no sense to me. I think only someone who hasn't spent a lot of time with Dutch people would say something like that.

Sort of like saying the word "awesome" encompasses the heart of American culture.
raspberry pi isn't for private consumers for 3 years or so.
no reason pi4 should cost 130$
they can state 35 in their website all they want, but lies just drive me further away.
I use some Chinese boards with armbian instead. wish i could use the pi, but... they don't care about private consumers
What do you think of Dermot Desmond's article?

https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/dermot-desmond-everyone-h...
humans are incredible
How can some infinities be bigger than others?
Untangling Andy Warhol (2020)
Eh, not quite. 3.1 ran on DOS, there was an NT 3.1 (separate OS) that was NT. NT and legacy Windows ran in parallel for a while, up through Windows 2000/Windows ME. That ended with Windows XP, the first consumer Windows NT release.
> Airbus walked away from what made them successful to go after the "we are the biggest" crown...

But they have direct competitors for these types of routes too. A350, A321-XLR, the various neo planes. All of which are as good as Boeing’s options! (And even some which Boeing doesn’t have, like the A220.) As an outsider, it seems like Airbus is in a fantastic spot, at least until Boeing starts shipping the 777X and working on a new single-aisle plane.
More fat per serving means less sugar per serving, for the same serving size. Skim milk has the highest sugar and carbs per serving. Skim milk will raise your glucose level; cream won't.

This is critical information they should teach kids in school so that they can understand how food works in their bodies.