skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, pretty much this. Only a subset of the actual activity that falls under the umbrella of "software engineering" could be called engineering in the traditional sense.

The engineers working on aviation software and other low-level, real-time, performance critical systems probably need to use quite a bit of maths and are closest to doing what we traditionally consider engineering.

All those teams working on web apps and advertising...yeah not really. This isn't to say what they do isn't complicated or difficult, but it's not really engineering in the classical sense insofar as it doesn't (typically) require the use of continuous mathematics and deep systems theory. If you're primarily writing systems design docs and performing calculations, you're probably doing some kind of engineering. If you're mostly writing code to spec you're just programming. It's sort of akin to a carpenter calling themselves an engineer.

But hey, this is all symptomatic of a general trend here in the states of the trivialization and devaluing of expertise; people think it's fair to identify as whatever their heart desires regardless of qualification, knowledge, or experience. A world in which people regularly accept advice from total randos on social media is not one that has any strong sense of value around knowledge or critical capacity.
I mean... using a symlink to the deployment root gives a quick atomic swap. You update the link, then reload the server config, no downtime and no partial deployments during a request. This also solves for the opcache freshness as well if I recall correctly. (It's been a little bit since I've done any PHP work)
Would you read what you are writing?

Gensler doesn't need to prove _all_ crypto is definitely 100% unregistered security, just that some of the ones sold by Coinbase is. How certain are you in the claim that none of the cryptocurrencies peddled by Coinbase is not legally a security?
I assume LeCun is arguing that the human desire for hierarchy is innate, but there is not one version of the hierarchy that is ‘natural’ (e.g. no individual or group is predestined to a higher or lower position in the hierarchies).

Yes?
4 years isn't that bad. I'd wager the average Intel Macbook is going to run out of support sooner.
And in the worst case, you have the seller’s customer support available.
What exactly is wrong with snaps?
They are going to keep trying until it passes, aren’t they.
I think you've just made a point in favor of crypto, and certainly against Gensler, who pretty much made an argument in favor of banning "bananas" entirely.
They bet big on EUV at the right time?

It was certainly said to be the next big thing for a very long time before it was finally ready to be used in production.
Didn’t that happen with Roe v Wade?
Same thing for individuals.

I know some people who never pay for parking, public transport, or tolls, because in their case, the fine for not paying times the chance of getting caught is less than the ticket price.
I disagree with this, AI makes making art easier and by doing so, if anything it both increases the supply of art and enhances the human experience by enabling anyone to create art. As an example, my drawing skills are so bad that I couldn’t express myself visually before but now Midjourney enables me to express myself. I don’t see how that could be a bad thing.

Does it harm existing creators? Probably, in the sense that it enables new entrants to the market and creates more competition but that should be acceptable. We live in a market society (since every other economic form has been a failure) and we need to acknowledge that sometimes that means people get their livelihoods destroyed. If we start picking and choosing, who deserves to keep their livelihoods we fall into political traps which aren’t ideal (why do we care about artists but not coal miners?).

Another point I want to get at here is that in a world of abundant art, I would expect art to be more compelling. I don’t know about you but one thing I find a bit frustrating about Anglophone art is that too often it follows the same tropes and happens in the same locations. A world of abundant art can solve that.
I saw this graphically when I was in the Namib desert. There was a family of Himba people who had an albino child. The boy had sores all over his body and had to stay under strong shade constantly. Poor kid was living a cursed life simply because he’d gotten a bad roll of the genetic dice.
ReceptioGate and the (Absolute) State of Academia
Couldn't "chute des cheveux" be a symptom?
Interesting.

https://jernaumorat.github.io/hnfetch/item?id=35667207
They think this way because Christians are the majority in their area and they think democracy is about making laws for the majority. I used to live in Texas in the 90's and was taught to think this way in school.
Microsoft would have become IBM, if not for Satya Nadella. He completely rejuvenated Microsoft after Ballmer's reign.

Microsoft successfully transitioned into cloud computing with Azure, Office 365, and Teams. They dramatically improved their image among developers/open source with WSL, Typescript, VS Code, and their GitHub acquisition. Now it seems they caught Google completely off guard with respect to AI productization.
It's mostly silica dust from concrete turning into powder, you don't want to breathe it for sure, but it's not like this is a rocket filled with hypergolic fuels.
It’s not possible to freeze a working configuration with snaps as they always auto-update. This is problematic for deploying software that has known working dependency versions.

Edit: I didn’t know about the new updates to snap and pinning. Thanks for the info!
First, AI being a black box isn’t a legal shield. See Tesla Autopilot.

Second, corporations and employees have a specifically unique legal relationship but employers can be held criminally responsible for their actions if their actions are intentionally illegal. Often a corporations actions are illegal in the aggregate but no one person did anything illegal.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_of_Kenneth_Lay_and_Jef...
I assume the freedom of speech absolutists that Twitter is famous for are working feverishly to counteract Dotcom's efforts.
Yeah that's not true lol. It's arithmetic is not perfect (mostly multiplication, addition is fine) but there's nothing random about even the wrong/non-exact numbers
Right. Those are via different methods. "Mitochndrial eve" is via female line only - i.e. mother's mother's mother's mother etc. Similarly the Y-chromosome Adam is via male line only. If we use both sides (e.g. mother's father's mother's father), then it's much closer.
Sure, there could be. Where are they and what have they revolutionized besides gambling?
Ask HN: How would you market this?
Hey folks,

I'm a 16 and one of the things that I love to do is study startups (their history, how they got big, etc).

Not too long ago I decided to start building a newsletters.

It's called Unheard Roots and my goal was to tell the backstory of startups that change the world (a little corny but I find it interesting).

I have 7 subscribers so far and I'm a little lost on how I can grow it.

I don't really care to make money off of this, I'm just interested in building a community of people that enjoy learning about these startups like I do.

If you were in my shoes, what would you do to find people who might be interested in this?

P.S this is the newsletter: https://unheardroots.com/
"because the stock market is a positive sum game in the long run"

No, in the actual long run you and every of your descendants dies and the earth get disintegrated.
Did you even read what you linked? The linked article has nothing to do with pupils.
A prediction I have made for years: it will be the right, specifically the national conservatives, who “come for the guns.”

You can see little seeds of it in the shifting discourse after one mass shooter turned out to be trans. Just wait.

It will happen if they gain real broad spectrum power. The deal will be “now that good nationalist hard right wingers now run the police and FBI you don’t need those guns anymore, and we can’t have dangerous degenerates with guns now can we?”

Think I’m nuts? Look at how fast the Trumpists were able to flip the militia / conspiracy subcultures into supporting secret mass arrests and limitless state power as long as “the patriots are in control.” Look at the whole Q narrative and adjacent things. Total 180 degree flip into cheering for the stuff they were paranoid about for decades.

Fascists always lock down power as soon as they have it. They will also ban encryption and cryptocurrency. The Greenwald orbit will act really surprised. Maybe that surprise will be genuine. After totalitarians come to power there’s always a subset of their supporters who are very surprised when they get instantly tossed under the bus.

The left likes to scream and virtue signal about guns but they’re not truly or deeply authoritarian enough to do what it would take to execute on it. (Which is a good thing.) They also tend toward a maximalist interpretation of the rights afforded by the constitution, which makes it hard to argue for a very narrow interpretation of the second amendment without tossing things like gay rights and reproductive rights.
Ok. Can we agree that some people are expected to be more perfect than others? Say the janitor versus the brain surgeon? Or the CEO versus the staff software engineer?
I'm typing this reply on 2013 Macbook Pro; maybe I got lucky with this one, but it doesn't show signs of stopping.
I think so too. I’m thinking about writing a little server you would run as a sidecar process. It would tokenize your code and build a local index in a vector DB. Client plugins in IDEs would ask that server for similar code snippets, with a short deadline for response, perhaps 1ms. Then the plugins could assemble a prompt to send to a configurable LLM backend, and do editor-specific code insertion or suggestion or whatever. I use emacs, so I know how I want that to work for me, but it must be different for others.

My open questions though are:

- does the tokenizer for the index need to be the same as the one used by the LLM?

- is running a local LLM feasible, or should I just assume prompts must sent over the network? This would affect latency and privacy a lot.

- is fine tuning helpful? Or necessary, even, to ensure the LLM only provides source code, and only in the target language?
I wonder how many people will use the headline to defend chromebooks without reading the article itself...
Because of android lockins. Not because it's a great product imo.
2020 So
I'm not convinced. Assume it is accurate, there was one single blue eyed mutant that lived 10K years ago. Maybe the blue eyes were attractive and this individual was sexually prolific. Since blue eyes are recessive, none of their children would have had blue eyes. For more blue eyes to appear, there would have had to be lots of incest among the mutant's children. But what would have made the blue-eyed mutant's children more likely to pass on the recessive blue eyed genes if they didn't have blue eyes? For there to be so many blue-eyed individuals today, I think it is far more likely the blue-eyed mutation occurred many times.
"Trying to survive" by committing crimes that are punished with death is a bit of a dunce move though, right?
What a grotesque smear disguised as news. This article is pretty clearly trying to say that “the head of AI at Meta” is a deviant freak without actually saying that.
Matt Basta: How I accidentally duped the Bay Area press in 2013
we're not arguing about regulations or ethics, he was just saying that it was just gambling, more regulations wouldn't change that
> this particular instance I’m thinking of full reserve banking (deposit banks turn back into glorified vaults), print central money for mortgages (and burn that money when it’s paid back), and democratically (with congress, referendum, whatever) define clear criteria about who can contract mortgages, and what for.

This is an interesting idea. The problem with a single lender is that it removes incentives for good customer service and (sometimes) good products. Monopolies, whether public (DMV) or private (your local cable company) are universally hated. It would be difficult to design the right incentives for the government to provide a good product.

I think the main disconnect is that deposit banks never operated as a glorified vault. Lending against deposits is supposed to be understood by anyone entering that agreement. I understand why it may be a surprise when you first learn about fractional reserves because it may not fit an existing mental model. Instead, it seems unfair that a bank can create money. But it's not. Money supply and money velocity is a term used by economists to describe how much and how quickly money exchanges hands. The world's accounting books, with all debits and credits, always sum to the same total: however much money the central bank has printed.

There are a lot of benefits of the current system (liquidity, virtual guarantee of withdrawal, conveniences). Your proposal would replace a system where you receive a small income from your deposits to a system that steadily decreases the size of your deposits; I think that would be a hard sell.
All of these "will AI destroy X" articles are so weird. It's not as if unbridled late stage capitalism [0] hasn't been undermining our longstanding institutions and values. It's not as if corporate bureaucracies aren't artificial intelligences that we've been ceding control to for decades, while they increasingly become paperclip maximizers. I fully expect "AI" to turn the screws on existing power imbalances even harder, but to frame things as if we're at some watershed moment strikes me as utterly myopic.

[0] as distinct from distributed free market activity. I'm coming from a libertarian perspective here.
> I didn't like that it kept track of the number of syntax errors and how long it took me to finish, that doesn't seem conducive to learning/practicing.

I wouldn't want that in an interactive tutorial or training program, but it sounds exactly like something a game would do. It means you can try to beat your previous times, decrease the number of errors next time, or even compare yourself against others. It provides a measure to gauge progress. I'm not usually the type to care about that sort of thing in games, but I know a lot of people are.
What are you using to decrypt the TLS layer in your snooping?
> They also said that some cryptos on coinbase are securities, but when coinbase asked which ones, the SEC said „lol we won’t tell you but we will probably sue you soon for that“. [2]

Why is SEC supposed to do the job of Coinbase's lawyers? If I want to make a shitcoin tomorrow and ask the SEC for "regulatory clarity", are they required to respond to me? What if I programmatically create a new shitcoin every 30 seconds? Am I also allowed to cook up some substances and mail them to the DEA to get some "regulatory clarity"?

Coinbase does business in a legally unclear area, which is why its primary expense should be lawyers. You can't just skimp on that and expect government agencies to do your work for you. If you try that, good luck defending yourself in court.
Parroulette?
Oh boy...

- As a user: Snaps are annoying and don't work like a native app. It creates a new folder in my home directory, has little very consistency with other apps (even other packages of the same app), and feels generally unsuited for desktop use. If I'm going to use any of these godawful statically-linked-runtime package managers, it won't be the proprietary one.

- As an admin: Snaps are alright. If you just need to insta-configure something and are extremely lazy, it's a faustian deal pre-installed on every Ubuntu machine. As loathe as I am to admit it, most snaps are a cinch to install compared to native packaging or even Flatpak.
Show HN: ChatGPT thoughts on my thoughts on their thoughts
Prompt: explain to me what you think I think about what you're thinking

As an AI language model, I do not have access to your thoughts or feelings, and I cannot read your mind. Therefore, I cannot accurately determine what you are thinking about my thoughts. However, if you provide me with more context or information, I can try my best to provide a helpful response.

Prompt:
Speculate based on my past queries

Based on your past queries, I can see that you are someone who is curious and open-minded, and you enjoy learning new things. You have asked a variety of questions on different topics, which indicates that you have diverse interests and are not limited to any particular subject area. You seem to have a practical mindset and often seek information that can be useful in your daily life.

Additionally, based on our previous interactions, I have observed that you tend to ask direct and specific questions, and you appreciate clear and concise responses. Overall, I would speculate that you are a thoughtful and inquisitive person who values knowledge and enjoys exploring different ideas and perspectives.

Prompt:
And what does that set of queries, all directed at you, say about my belief in your abilities?

Based on the fact that you have directed several queries to me as an AI language model, it suggests that you have some level of trust in my abilities to provide helpful responses to your questions. This may indicate that you find my responses to be informative, accurate, and useful in some way.

However, it is also possible that you are simply exploring and testing the capabilities of AI language models in general, and your queries to me are not necessarily a reflection of your belief in my specific abilities. Ultimately, the best way to determine your belief in my abilities would be to ask you directly and get your feedback on my responses.
Why exactly would an AI have a desire to submit but not dominate? It would be either both or neither.
Thank you.

I'd love to hear your thoughts after giving the site a try (please use the contact page on the website).

It is by no means perfect right now, but the goal is to get as close to perfect as possible.

Even if NewsNotFound articles are only 90% neutral right now, that's 90% BETTER than reading the same story from a sensationalist source.
Perception, Adoption and Use of Text-to-Image-Generation AI by the Game Industry
But with video.
Which means you still work 44 weeks—clearly you’re within some reasonable if generous limit!
TSMC brags of 20TWh solar scheme. Feels a bit like greenwashing to us
That would be really bad if true, a high end laptop like a Macbook should have support for a long time.
They are not completely dominant, Safari still exists.

They are holding at a healthy 25% of the mobile market: https://www.statista.com/statistics/263517/market-share-held...
Glottobank
That is a reasonable position if one ignores others are of the same species (mechanisms if you wish). In fact your position is the very position of a racist mind that refuses to project the implicit “this other is just like me” and thus refused to acknowledge the humanity of the other.
Seems entirely capable of understanding nuanced questions and building on ideas. At some point do we have to recognize this as 'thinking'?
Yes you can, you just specify the channel you want to pin it to.
> But they also shouldn't be in the business of preventing people from creating new markets, unless we want our society to stagnate.

That's actually their entire business... to stop sophisticated private enterprises from fleecing the public by offering unregistered securities.
I'll give you two use cases, one for non-technical and one for technical people.

Non-technical person will copy-paste a folder of documents to make a backup before editing a file. A crude form of version control. I've seen this method lead to the consumption of hundreds of gigabytes for duplicate content, because the folders contain a lot of auxiliary data like PDFs and JPEGs.

Technical person will run npm install and get a massive node_modules directory that is almost identical to the node_modules directory in another project.
I agree. My 2009 Thinkpad still gets security patches, it would be a shame for premium devices to lose first-party support so soon. Goes to show the importance of an unlocked bootloader, I guess.
My 2012 t420 runs windows 10 and is nowhere near out of support.
Please keep comments constructive and engage with the subject of discussion rather than ad hominem attacks.
Schools bought millions of Chromebooks in 2020 — and three years later, they’re starting to break

https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/21/23691840/us-pirg-educatio...
One time I had to consolidate a late family members personal files spread across several types of media which ended up totalling several TBs. None of it was organized, so there were duplicates everywhere. Probably only 20% of the data was non-duplicated stuff I genuinely wanted to keep.
It was sarcasm. There's no way to prove whether something is or isn't an intellectual zombie. I definitely was not expecting to get an accusation of racism out of the deal, but I guess all bets are off on the world wide web!
Nerfbusters: Removing Ghostly Artifacts from Casually Captured NeRFs
in my country most cars are stick shift ;)
Well, and let's not treat it like dancing bear either.

I've been following AI/ML for years so I'm not blown away like so many other people. I know enough I'm also not mystified by the current popular form. Which is to say there have been previous. LLMs are not AGI but still "a form of AI". Unfortunately AI has become a buzzword, actually it has been for years.

While many are just coming to the party I feel a sense of relief that this area of research has been able to produce a functional product for the public.

And while I'm still excited for the moment we identify personhood, I fully expect pushback from somewhere to deny its existence. The wealthy have fought to automated labor and they will not give up their slaves easily.
Stop CSAM Act Would Put Security and Free Speech at Risk
Telegram's bot API is really nice and easy-to-use, to the point where you could easily use it via curl or even a web browser.

The same can't be said about the third-party client protocol, which is a perfect example of NIH syndrome. Where the bot API is bog standard JSON over HTTPS, the client API has its own encryption protocol, its own connection protocol, its own serialization standard and its own schema language. Everything is reasonably well documented, but some of the documentation (particularly for the schema/serialization part) is somewhat hard to understand if you're not a mathematician and/or well-versed in statically-typed functional languages like Haskell and the associated theory. Some parts, voice and video calls in particular aren't documented at all. Where every other part of the API has a precisely defined schema, this one just expects a binary blob of unspecified contents. There's a tgcalls library (written in C++) that implements this protocol, but its Github repository doesn't contain the needed build scripts nor any information on what other libraries it relies on (and it definitely relies on at least WebRTC and probably some others.)
Because it's a term familiar to some, and not to others.

What were you thinking the answer would be?
Interesting. Did you do something in particular to make it go away?
Lecun is high on the list of people in AI that are certain to be cancelled for not submitting to mainstream narrative. Average ETA ~5months for him. Sutskever is another one i suspect is also in the list, and possibly Mostaque
Click bait sadly. Humans can have an innate need for hierarchy without there having to be a natural hierarchy among humans.

Why can’t iOS safari block websites more easily. Like right from the browser easy.
An engineer is generally liable for what they sign off on. Software engineering isn't anything like that and all products are filled with legalese to restrict liability.
Sounds like that to me too.