skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If a company gets rid of my free forever plan with them, there is a 0% chance that they're getting any money or positive word of mouth from me in the future. It's incredibly scummy behavior.

I'm sure they are also willing to give you back any money you have paid to date...
I do think it’s worth having this conversation about what happened to the United States that the default condition now is isolation and it requires “putting in the work” to fight it.

What if our default condition was connection?
The second sentence doesn't even follow logically from the first sentence, though they put the word "thus" in there, and together they have nothing to do with the purpose of the study. But good job controlling the narrative, that's what these bromides are there for.
GPT-4 32k can fit a few thousand lines of code into a single prompt and output diff's, patches, and/or the fully modified code.

For best results, pasting any relevant documentation into the prompt can help.
Believe me, only a dev can get this working. Maybe in the future, LLM wizards will conjure all our technology, but at this point, having a working knowledge of all APIs from 2021 is an assistive technology, not a magical code-machine.

I've used LLM to generate a lot of code recently on side projects. It's a 10x jump in productivity, but it can only reliably do 50-80% of the work, and the last tail needs editing, verification, setup with infrastructure, etc.

It won't read your mind, you need to iterate, re-create, and guide. And each of those 3 relies on a working knowledge of software, libraries, tech, and user experience to get right.

For now.
Interesting. Yeah, we use PostgreSQL as our main data store too. The SQLite databases are just objects that get stored / opened / updated / queried (etc) as their own individual things. :)

One of our developer members mentioned they're learning Rust. I'll point them at your project and see if they want to have a go at trying to integrate stuff.

At the very least, it might result in a Rust based library for our API getting created. :D
Long response that entirely misses the point.

We don’t use 10x the energy because that guess from the 1960s entirely missed the technological revolution that is small, energy efficient computing.

(And other similar advances. The 1960s never anticipated, say, how energy efficient a 787 could be. It was instead the era that thought you might slap a nuclear reactor in an aircraft. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convair_NB-36H)

It’s not an appeal to frugality. It’s “raw energy usage alone is a goofy metric for a goal to increase”. Do we (including my relatives in the wasteland that is Ohio) need heating? Yep! But we don’t need 10x the energy to do it; my 97% efficient gas furnace replaced a 60% efficient one from the 1980s.
Actually that holds out for all platforms including Medium, but medium seem to actually pay better based on my exp:

1. Monthly hits at 35k
2. Which means that realistically I should be earning $350 to $700. Which in fact happens now!

The key seems to be advertising in sm in the right numbers. When I increase my sm posting to fully daily and multiples using video slide strategy I tend to get the right number of impressions to drive traffic to my medium articles. In my case I need to post 500-1000 postings a month and then I will see my earn per month multiply by 10 to 100.

Impressions will always be the highest but with ads you have it reversed in that
you get paid for a distraction which is a different set of metrics. This is good yt creators follow that up with some market product to sell that the yt acts as ad for. In my case my books act as the market piece that my medium articles and yt reels advertise for.

I fully expect to be at 500k in the next 6 months using a modification of GaryVee's content strategy and that is concurrently with my current code and book writing schedule. So yes it is possible even if you have a day job.

And, all while getting my ADHD under control using a modified nootropics approach.
Human: ChatGPT, please devise an algorithm that solves the traveling salesman problem in polynomial time.

A: Certainly, as an AI language model I'm happy to oblige. Here is the algorithm.

Human: I used a higher abstraction level! I have solved P == NP!
Yes, this is 15MB on disk size for your whole machine. We agree that the trade off is worth it for the utility and speed improvements
There is plenty of uranium mining in developed nations and the price of nuclear fuel is not particularly relevant - 90 of the cost is pther stuff
Prolonged amelioration of red-green color vision deficiency after psilocybin use
I worked for a hardware company that serviced devices decades old.

I remember walking through the back room of our Service Department, and seeing cameras on a shelf that were 60 years old. They were there for parts, if someone brought in an oldie.

I'm sure the service wasn't free, but they were willing to do it.

In our work, we were constantly being told to "play the long game," and think about how the software would age.

They were still using an SDK that I wrote in 1994/5, 25 years later.
> They know that contracts don't mean anything once one of the parties is not around.

Contracts also mean little if no money changes hands and both parties have zero liability. They mean about the same as the pinky promise made in first grade to be friends 'forever'.
Secure Boot was already very broken on these boards. By default it does nothing and even if you change settings so that it actually does validation, it should be possible to reset it back from the OS by updating the firmware from the OS as there are no locks for the firmware region.
I understand the truism, but in some ways telling someone struggling with loneliness to just get married is like telling someone who is starving to just eat more.
I don't like sports, and I live in an endless suburban wasteland where there's nothing to do but go to bars, restaurants or the mall.

I can't afford to go to restaurants all the time, and I don't like bars or the mall.

I'm shy and I don't do well around strangers, and even when I do meet new people 99% of the time we don't have much in common, so it feels like a waste of time.

I'd much rather surf the web... at least there I'm learning stuff, and I can communicate with people who I actually have something in common with.
This all sounds fascinating. Got any links on scanning and age w.r.t. color?
Wow they really butchered the meaning here then. Thanks for clarifying.
>The Tesla full self driving private beta is more comparable

Have they removed the "you need to be fully aware and ready to grab the wheel" requirements of FSD? If not, how is this comparable? There is no driver.
A bit of googling shows there are about 1,000 abandoned uranium mining/prospecting sites in New Mexico. Probably many with uncontained tailings. Yikes. But we can count on extraction projects to clean up after themselves now. Right?
A Fox one day spied a beautiful bunch of ripe grapes hanging from a vine trained along the branches of a tree. The grapes seemed ready to burst with juice, and the Fox's mouth watered as he gazed longingly at them.

The bunch hung from a high branch, and the Fox had to jump for it. The first time he jumped he missed it by a long way. So he walked off a short distance and took a running leap at it, only to fall short once more. Again and again he tried, but in vain.

Now he sat down and looked at the grapes in disgust.

"What a fool I am," he said. "Here I am wearing myself out to get a bunch of sour grapes that are not worth gaping for."

And off he walked very, very scornfully.

There are many who pretend to despise and belittle that which is beyond their reach.
> Open source development has been running on remote work forever and it’s doing great.

One bias is that most open source projects are people solving their own problems. They have a deep understanding of the issues at hand and the developers working on a product are also the one using it. This is also why the open source community produces a lot of developers oriented tools. It is also why a lot of remote companies are working themselves in for the tech sector.

Compare that with a company that produces software for other industries. The developers working on a product are not the one ultimately using it. One of their main challenges is to ensure that the problems/goals faced by the users are ultimately properly understood by the product teams and developers. This is far more complex and requires far more communication the further away the dev is from being an expert in the target field.
I started a YouTube channel at the end of 2017 and published on YouTube on a regular basis for a bit over a year. My best year was about $1,500. I've made $4,600 since I started the channel.

At the channel's peak, I was trying to publish a DIY video where I would build something two or three times a month. I started the channel because I enjoy making stuff and thought I would be able to do more of it and maybe get paid to do it.

As I continued, I worked hard to polish my production style and I realized I was prioritizing the video production over doing what I loved. Making videos taking time away from actually making stuff and making the projects take 10X longer. So I stopped.

I still post videos from time to time, but I try to do everything in a single take and not spent more than an hour editing it. Last year I finished a project I was pretty proud of and spent about 20 hours working on a video and it only got 100 views after the initial posting. For me, it takes a lot of self promotion to get the algorithm to recognize the video as a good video and have it be shown to more people. The self promotion part is something I really dislike doing.

YouTube is great for people that love the process of making videos because it's a win whether someone watches your video or not. Editing can be fun, but for me it gets tedious and I prefer doing a lot of other things.
Is anyone letting an LLM code and run its code by itself, then iteratively fix any bugs in it without human intervention until it e.g. passes some black box tests?

Would it be possible to significantly improve an LLM using such unsupervised sessions?
> getting my ADHD under control using a modified nootropics approach.

I'm interested in reading about this
The online world is often much more interesting to me than the offline world... at least around where I live.

It'd be great if I could afford to travel, but I can't... and, anyway, traveling itself has many downsides, and you can burn out on that after a while.
>Tesla is developing a general solution which works everywhere and can take left hand turns!

Ah yes, the classic comparison between a product you can literally go out and use, today, versus some hypothetical Tesla future state. No matter how good the technology is, Tesla promises something better and people act like it exists.
When deepfakes become indistinguishable from reality, seeing events in person will be the only surefire way of verifying reality. The rest of the time you'll depend on trust chains, each link of which can be broken.
Please, I've worked on plenty of successful projects with a team that only existed in a Schrödinger's office - simultaneously onsite and remote, until observed.

This position and momentum work bias is for those who don't know how to behave effectively in a superposition.
A Tale of Two Interview Loops
Yeah blame me all you want but you’re an exception, not the rule. Good for you though and I hope to find more hosts like you.
Christopher Hitchens on Prince Charles (1979)
One of Mad Men’s best quotes. I’m also partial to: “That’s what the money is for!”
Skyrim ChatGPT Mod
With a 15-hour halflife, no matter the initial disaster, any radioactivity problems associated with the sodium coolant would disappear in a few days.
Except it's not required :-P
htmx has provided the greatest satisfaction and production of my 30-year programming career. After a year of constant development experience with it, I am confident that this is the proper method of building web applications. It truly is how HTML should have evolved.
Well both seem to use u2net for removing backgrounds so almost literally the same thing.
The problem with that is that nobody who is seriously doing energy modelling would propose to do all storage with batteries. That's more a popular misunderstanding than an actual energy concept.

If you plan for a 100% renewable grid what you do is that you use different types of storage for what they're good at. Batteries can play a role in short-term storage, but for seasonal storage they're clearly not a good choice. Electrolyzers and H2 gas peaker plants (or maybe ammonia instead of H2) look like the most promising option.

I wish more people knew this, because all this "I calculated how many batteries you'd need for your renewables, we need nuclear!" clearly is neither an informed take nor helpful.
The joke was because of the Terry Pratchett reference.

https://discworld.fandom.com/wiki/Great_A%27Tuin
In Soviet Russia, title edit YOU.
Combine TDD and Self debugging into a workflow and you almost have a new paradigm of software development where entire applications can be developed with a series of prompts. Software programmers have finally programmed themselves out of jobs! It's kind of poetic justice that LLMs trained on open source code is replacing us.

We should have never listened to Richard Stallman. /s
Exactly! During the process, it seemed like if there were like two GPTs self-playing to both generate the proper prompts iteratively and the other generates like the output, all triggered by one concise command from a human - say write tests and dont stop iterating till the tests pass - basically automating the human out of the loop - could get rid of the loops fixing tests, but also take away control.
Somewhere in here I think

http://thecodelesscode.com/contents
Don’t worry, on Upwork you can blatantly violate the TOS and even if the client complains the platform will not take away the payments. Or maybe they will, but they most definitely will not refund them to the client. Speaking from experience (as the client).
this is false.

as an example, look at whether, after the whataboutism, we're discussing the original topic (Tiktok & its actions) or something/someone else.

see? whataboutism deflection succeeded.

it should be clear now why whataboutism is indeed, as shown above, explicitly defined as a logical fallacy, despite the made-up claim that it isn't one.
The prevailing opinion on /r/networking is that cisco is trading on reputation and position, like a tank rolling forward with all the crew dead. Competitors matched their features years ago and cisco has been unable to innovate due to crippling technical debt in legacy product lines (build system is: find Nancy and ask her to compile with her version of this feature) and glaring deficiencies with their Firepower successor line.

That's my potted sentiment analysis, anyway
How to visualise code with ChatGPT generated Markdown
A hacky bash script.

https://tnvmadhav.me/guides/how-to-visualise-code-with-gpt-api/
Usually for each minor key there are three minor modes they can request. That would be 48 different scales as a typical minimum. (not including other requests that are typically made of scale playing in these exams)
GitHub will take it down if it contains blatant malware so it’s not that big of a deal
Appending to files should be atomic, so I don't think you'll run into any corruption issues just by appending.
the title is literally "htmx is the future"...

If htmx wants to be the future it needs to be wrapped in a SSR framework. One that performs well.
> The point of the article is that for team work with unclearity you are more creative by working in a physical space together.

That used to be my feeling as well. As much as I don't like Zuck in general; we hold our meetings in VR and for us there is no (measurable) difference from being in the office for creative work. While we really struggled on Zoom. After I tried a Quest 2, I decided to just get 15 of them for the team and it just works. Your brain (well our brains, guess there are exceptions) forgets you are not actually sitting in a room with your colleagues to the point where you actually try to physically touch them when working. It works very very well. Never setting foot in the office ever again. Don't really mind if Sam Altman thinks differently...
Has anybody seen any huge performance regressions using atuin?

I installed it and simple commands take noticeably longer. Is there any way to make it faster?
GaryVee's content strategy is to create pillar content then repurpose it.

How do you find the time to post on social media 15-30 times a day and create the extrapolated content? How do you create quality social media content from based on your main content?

I am working FT on a startup and social media has been a stumbling block for me because it takes a lot of time and I am having trouble balancing building the product and marketing/advertising it.
This is a non-example, because it is not how interaction with LLMs to write code works right now. You can check the linked page to see that this took the author several hours spanned within 3 weekends to implement, where they had lengthy back and forth discussions with chatGPT building the code.

And you still need to have some model of the code structure, you need to understand what is going on to go back and forth with it. It takes care of a part of the work that is quite standard so you work in a different level, the analogy is with a compiler taking care of certain optimisation part so that you do not have to invent it every time. If you think that you can build anything meaningful with chatGPT with one line prompts I would suggest you try to engage yourself in the context of a language/paradigm you are only a novice with to see how it works and the parts that can be a good learning experience, engaging and entertaining. Do not use some obscure language and libraries because it will start hallucinating a lot though.
>Ridiculous not in a political sense (I have no strong feelings one way or another about the economic fates of career writers) but in the sense of being incoherent.

It is not incoherent if you believe art to be an expression of the human condition. You still need humans in the writer's room to know what they want the audience to get out of a show. That is not something that ChatGPT can understand.

Also, maybe people should have some feelings "about the economic fates of career writers." Who are we even building this hyper-efficient economy for?
Request for clemency of Mr. Assange to King Charles, the third
Fair point, but I while it's technically true, I don't think it's relevant to the discussion at hand.

Let me rephrase my original comment: a person who hasn't been earning anything and made a *rational decision* to earn something is in a better position than he was before.

I honestly don't think that significant portion of these new jobs are filled with people who decided to be disqualified from social services to earn less money that they have been receiving before.
This one? http://www.thecodelesscode.com/case/110
not unless you don't get any other money
Mediapipe is such a mess (but so useful). I wish someone would just extract the main tflite models and make a light wrapper around it on GitHub somewhere
Indeed, I manually copied the outputs. If the network lost context (or I ran out of GPT-4 credits and reverted to GPT-3) or for some reason I needed to start a new chat, I would start by also feeding in the other modules' docstrings to re-build context. sometimes I had to pass these again after a few prompts.

A good example looks like:

```
I am trying to model associative memory that i may attach to a gpt model

here is the code for the memory:

....

can we keep the input vectors in another array so we can fetch items from it directly instead of having to reconstruct?
```
I did, works fine for short pieces of code, but the context window size quickly becomes prohibitive in a naive approach.

Also, gpt-4 does this much better than gpt-3.5, but gpt-4 is really slow, so the iteration process can take tens of minutes.
Upwork is the prototypical clown car that crashed into a gold-mine. (Or is it?)

Well it's definitely a clown car. The product experience is comically bad (like sad clown comedy). There is incredible friction in the hiring and interviewing processes. API access is disabled unless you have a through-the-nose enterprise account.

I would die for a freelancer hiring platform that I could interact with programatically, so I wouldn't have to use their shitty tools.

(Source: Hired through rentacoder, vworker, upwork, elance, etc.)
More expensive than "solar or wind +" which amount of storage? The amount of storage which would put wind/solar on par with nuclear in terms of reliable baseload is huge.
Desulfovibrio bacteria are probable causes of Parkinson's disease: study
Oops, my bad. Of course it supports full screen.
I would imagine it gets elevated to an MD on call, similar to how I would expect a dental assistant to be more proficient at routine teeth cleaning than the dentist, but I would expect a dentist to be more proficient at something like a filling.
In the latest MacOS I noticed "Remove Background" as an option when editing photos in Photos app. It's like magic. AI for everyone.
The problem is the title is being edited from what it actually is. Repeatedly apparently.

“Outcomes After Elective Inguinal Hernia Repair Performed by Associate Clinicians vs Medical Doctors in Sierra Leone” is the original title.
Why is life expectancy falling in the USA? [audio]
No one ever addresses the most important problem: how to separate commands that one would like to retain (preferably indefinitely) vs garbage commands (like cd, ls, cat, etc.) that should better be wiped in a few days.
Chinese manufacturing still dominates and they produce most of the routers and modems out there. If we can’t trust routers from China then virtually the entire world is compromised.
Cool idea but why SMS? Couldn’t you create an app and then avoid paying the telco fees for notifications?
Not open-source nor free. So I wouldn't really call this an alternative.

At least https://baseline.is/tools/background-remover/ is free, but not open-source either.
Can also be a case of hypercorrection.
I avoid riding with anyone nowadays because I'm afraid they will either get or make a phone call while driving. As a passenger, I'm not in a strong position to say "Hey, you know it's not safe to drive and use the phone, and I'm not comfortable with you doing while I'm in the car."
i think i misread your previous comment. you are talking about the ability for the sender to delete a message from the recipient. my bad.

there are a few that don't have that feature, or a limited version of it. (this is meant purely to be informative for the curious, not as an argument against your point)

wechat allows to retract a message for two minutes after it has been sent. a notification that a message has been retracted remains behind. so that is not a missing feature but intentional.

deltachat doesn't support retraction but it has a feature to automatically delete messages after a certain time, which has to be activated before the messages are sent.

IRC of course because its messages are not permanent to begin with. each client just has a log of the messages received that they are free to use as they see fit.

and i suppose any trivial chat feature, like that in jitsi, well, i suppose because they are simple implementations and not serious messaging.

of these wechat is the most interesting because they made a deliberate choice not to allow retraction except for a very short window.
Exactly this. I doubt a non-programmer would be able to produce similar output of similar quality and completeness. Like I said, I am not losing my job yet. Maybe next year...
It kinda depends. In a list of names, dictionaries, etc V and W would be separately. This is to make finding the word you are looking for easier.

Also in Finnish ÅÄÖ are the end of alphabet.

Also Ü and Ű would should be grouped with Y. Õ and Ő with Ö.