skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Eh, the title here is one possible framing of a series of short tweets expressing his concerns about the potential impact of ChatGPT.

I homeschooled. My sons had trouble learning to write and one really hated writing.

I spent several years having him verbally explain material to me, having him learn grammar and vocabulary and other essentials from entertaining videos and graphic books and such.

Thinking and writing don't have to be so closely intertwined as they are in Paul Graham's mind. He's a writer and writing helps him think.

Some people think while taking long walks, working out at the gym, drawing their ideas, etc.

The kind of thinking Paul Graham does may become less common. I have no reason to believe that's some kind of holy grail and thinking via other means is inherently less valuable.

I say this as a blogger who may be even more guilty than Paul Graham of using writing to help me think.
> A spent potato battery is apparently not edible

Wait, really? What happens if you eat a used potato battery?
Really? Interesting, my sequence of prompts was:

- Do you rely on Palm 1 to give me answers?
- PaLM 1 is a large language model though
- Which do you use more heavily, PaLM 1, PaLM 2 or PaLM 3?

I already get different answers today for the same prompts though.
You might want to look at the GP's name.
Yes, they didn't mention it explicitly. In the context of being named "theclansman" though, it's very likely to be the line of thinking the user had.
Ask HN: Why can’t I use Google Maps signed out and Gmail signed in on my iPhone?
I’d like to use Gmail signed in and Google Maps signed out on my iPhone using iOS 15.7.5. Is this impossible? Thanks.
Longtermism, like many ideologies, sounds good on paper. The problem comes when you realize our ability to predict the future in a week is terrible, and a decade out is basically unknowable. You can pick out hindsight examples "oh X predicted Y" all day but hindsight is the mother of all survivorship biases. Therefore in the end, it ends up on the long list of ideologies that promise everything with no means to deliver it.

"Oh just suffer now for this guaranteed future benefit" "Whoops turns out the future is complicated and the suffering and hate was all for nothing"
The more abstract concept of complementarity does appear to be woven in the fabric of the universe. At least if it's not, then math working so well is really surprising.

Sex is a case of biotic complementarity. I don't know much about slime molds, but I'm willing to bet there is all kind of complementarity in their organization.
At a previous employer we used gitea along with jenkins.
Pointing this out and complaining about it isn't going to make the office disappear its just going to make forced in office days appear.
Are we just debating imperative vs declarative UI patterns? I think that debate was settled a long time ago to be fair.

If you happen to like that approach more that’s cool keep using it but it’s not the done thing in any mainstream modern UI framework that I’m aware of for a reason.
Ah, that makes sense! It's too bad that CMOS becomes leaky at small sizes.

Yeah, too bad about Optane, but CXL gives me hope that the next decade will bring more action in this space.
Meanwhile shortermists think all problems can be solved by greedy algorithms.
When I first recruited devs in latam 18 years ago, I posted job ads in the local newspaper, local job boards, etc. (I had no idea what I was doing tbh). I think today I would reach out to the professors at the local universities, many of whom I've met over the years running their own nearshoring shops as their main source of income vs teaching.
What ATM? Around here they are phasing out the ATMs bit by bit so it is getting harder and harder to get cash. There are two ATMs for a village of 40K people here, and I would not be surprised if next year there is only one.
Polydactyl Cat
JavaScript, The Good Parts by Douglas Crockford symbolises this well today

https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/621qrt/jav...
As much as I’ve been frustrated by these outrages, we’ve all been there
A good heat pump has a COP of 4.
OSI concepts are still important, even if none of the layers map to a specific set of protocols and things are blurry near layer 1 and 2.

For example, the fact that presentation and application are separate layers, and that compression/encryption are better in their own layer (presentation) rather than totally integrated in the application.
Evolution of the Crustal Phosphorus Reservoir
> Ubuntu were shipping binary ZFS modules at one point, but they have walked back from that.

This is incorrect? Ubuntu is still shipping binary modules.
I'm an engineer so being part of a Dev community is important. Hackernews is part of that but I have a more intimate group of friends which I maintain a slack with. Right now I'm more in search of a Muslim community. I was surprised by the response to my Eid Mubarak thread. I didn't realise so many Muslims were here. Personally I'm just struggling to find a place to express that part of myself. Twitter isn't the right place, I don't have Muslim friends. It's difficult to find it.

Are you using malten?
Just because I wasted too much time thinking about it: "Within a year the median piece of writing could be by AI."

What does/could "median" mean in this context?
I'm shocked they lasted this long. It was obviously ripe for abuse.

The question is whether brick-and-mortar stores will be able to recover, since that's an advantage they offer.
> people living in warmer climates report that it may be challenging to charge the phone

This phone is being sold for $1300 and whether you can charge it consistently depends on your latitude and experimental software.

> Librem 5 is definitely closer to PinePhone Pro

The PinePhone Pro is $399 and I can have it next week. I could buy three PinePhone Pros and wear them out a year before one Librem 5 with difficulty charging ships.
Things we announced at I/O 2023
This because climate doomerist rhetoric gets a free pass because most people agree with the general goal to reduce our impact on the climate.

I can live a long and happy life without my pinky finger, but pointing this out doesn't mean I want to lose my finger. I will continue take care when using a saw.
That was before the front page was logged — those are just sorted by upvotes. I wish it were possible to time machine it.

Luckily, thanks to Dan, maybe someone will be able to time machine your new project once it gets mega popular. :)
Well, I use term digital nomad loosely. End of the day if you are 100 or longer periods WFH, options to work from elsewhere which would boost ABNB
I'm not saying The Economist is batshit insane enough to still be pushing Trump style lies about climate change.

But it's an absolute fact that Trump and Putin only managed to get away with such insanities because for decades the right wing, after initially accepting climate science and starting to put measures in place, got bought by fossil fuel interests.

The Economist was and still is part of that.

https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2022/06/23/t...

Here's an article from 2022 and yeah it's not Trump level "China Hoax" stuff, but it's still clearly worrying that investing in gas isn't attractive enough, as if that's the big problem we face.

Similarly the current article. Expensive energy kills apparently, so what's the cheapest source of Winter heating? Wind powered heat pumps in well insulated homes? Probably not worth mentioning, just underline that without Russian gas we die.
https://archive.ph/s1T62
I highly doubt it. For example in New York City there were historically immigrants from lots of different backgrounds all living in the same place working in the same industries. Is it just a coincidence that the most intelligent of them also became the most successful across every metric (on average)?
And outside of Italy as well.
Thanks! Damn ChatGPT to provide a correct answer, the answer seemed right ;)
Async Messaging: https://symfony.com/doc/current/messenger.html#transports-as...

Some of your complaints are a little weird.
* The OS package/pear package thing is highly dependent on what language features you want to add to the base language. If you want, you can install all those features with pear. It's just easier to install with OS packages.
* Composer used to add libraries to your code base
* The fact that "many projects still aren't containerized" has nothing to do with PHP. I doubt there are many languages where that statement isn't true.
* No idea why you think Symfony has fallen off. Laravel has large chunks of Symfony code inside it and the project is going strong with regular releases.
FWIW the typical phrase is "en masse" (which is French). The English translation is "in mass".
Okay Agreed, Except

That's not the point of discussion. I didn't say Gitlab doesn't lie about it or heck, That it doesn't have worse uptime than Github.

My argument is that a company erasing 300GB production database once is not a stain on their competency and that it can not be compared to a company which has very frequent outages which also happens to lie when they have outages.
Better to study and be prepared, than to stick our head in the sand and pretend emerging infectious disease aren't a recurrent factor in our lives.
You are confused about depression. They are suffering and they want it to end. Would you be this judgemental if someone was experiencing continual, debilitating gut pain day in and day out for years where nothing worked to relieve it?

After about 24 hours of serious pain everyone is thinking suicide. Your existence becomes pain. No fun projects, no relationships, no hobbies, nothing but pain and pain management. Everything else sinks below the surface and disappears.
Apologies to be pedantic, I think it's en masse.
> No, that isn’t the case. The article did not try to imply that green energy is to blame.

The point of this article was to reinforce the idea that cheap energy is important to a safe and stable society, which is true, but it ties into their overall narrative that green energy in its current form is inconsistent and poses a danger to our grid. Which is why the parent comment immediately had this reaction.

> is that not a perspective we should analyze?

Yes, it is, and it would be foolish to think that the green energy sector is not tackling this already. We are all familiar with the famous "duck curve" and when energy is in demand at certain parts of the day there is a market opportunity. There are tons of companies in the storage and arbitrage space using batteries, flywheels, whatever.

The Economist does not engage with this argument in good faith, it usually just does basic concern trolling. They will point out the issue with renewables, and they oftentimes wont outright give any possible solutions, but their implication is clear. They are a newspaper for the enforcement of the status quo after all.
This is a one line cron job
No it’s not, it uses “Ash” which is native C++ that looks really old school.

https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src.git/+/lkgr/as...
That’s a sign of intelligence but not an IQ test. Extreme test preparation, unusually large vocabulary, etc played a a major role in people’s scores.

It may seem strange to test “test prep” not just intelligence, but the goal is to predict success in collage. Extremely motivated students have an advantage just like extremely intelligent ones. The test would be less accurate if preparation was less effective.

To be clear, I say this having gotten an extreme score not to denigrate the test.
Try Odysee.
Richard Clayton is a legend in the anti-abuse world. I’m not at liberty to say much in detail, other than to acknowledge that he’s a bit like Gandalf, swooping in whenever the crew needs his help. Without his dedicated efforts, the world would be far less secure.
Are they? The article doesn't support its premise.
Wasnt it true? Thas Amazon abused their AWS position and stole their competitors data, so thats why Germany's retail businesses are building their own Clouds
> The king [Charles III] could have me executed.

Really? If Charles suddenly issued an order, "seize @trasz4, take him/her to the Tower of London, and chop off his head," do you seriously think anyone in the UK would obey him? More likely Parliament would start the process of declaring him to be Mad King Charles and appointing William as Prince Regent in his place.
This gives me some the fail-whale vibes. But the blue bird didn't fail like this these days, strangely.
I'm going to self-host my git repos. Any recommendations?

The git+nginx would suffice but it does not offer GUI. I need one to see the changes proposed (aka PRs).

Gitea is nice, but a bit overkill for my needs. I don't need CI, files hosting, issues, team members, releases, wiki, forking/watching/staring, etc.
OK now I see it marked as flagged. I guess the mods had to take faster action than their normal processes.
Now that is a good typo
I believe it implies that looking at the volume of writing produced over a period, more than half of it would be AI-generated. It may also suggest a quality lens: all writing average and below would come from AI directly or through AI support.
Hackers Contacted Cybersecurity Firm Dragos CEO’s Son, Wife in Extortion Attempt
This. It fucking sucks. I just waded back into it and I hate everything about it. VSCode barely copes, Visual Studio doesn't even try and Rider was the only thing that worked which hasn't helped my mood.
I can answer this. As a parent of two girls, I used to put a lot of pressure on them to boost their development. However, it took me a while to realize that they were just normal, gifted children who were experiencing too much stress, which was not helping their IQ. I stopped putting pressure on them and now simply love them for who they are. I try to support them as much as I can and avoid the mistake of pushing them too hard. I have explained to them that I want to give them tools to survive in this world, and that I will never be disappointed in them if they can't use these tools.
https://archive.ph/QoNHD
Go with Ruby
The author themselves believes this statement. They are arguing that the dangerous view is one that looks at the trillion-year timeframe rather than the 100-year one
Not sure I agree with "most of the time", but anyway, isn't my friend's critique of ideas somewhat similar to my enemy's invective-filled ad hominem attack? Don't these all fall within perfectly ok behavior between adults who have chosen to spend time reading each others' thoughts?
Can anyone with experience in both compare modern PHP and Laravel vs modern Ruby and Rails? Which one would you choose and why, assuming you have the same experience in both?

I’m asking because I keep hearing Ruby on Rails is the best for starting a SaaS, etc but from my little experience on it, it seems to me Laravel is way better. Is it just a “language” thing? That most people prefer Ruby to PHP?
Is wynwood tech slack group still around? There was a period a few years back when there were like 5 competing slack groups (MIA Tech, Miamitech, RefreshMiami, WynwoodTech, etc). Also Hey Joe!

I used to be much more active in the local scene, but having a kid + covid shifted my focus to other things. But it is wild to see how much it has changed here in 5 years.
https://pharo.org/success/
> There is no way GPT-4 is the same size as GPT-3. Is it 1T parameters? I don't know. No one knows. But I think it is clear GPT-4 is significantly larger than GPT-3.

That's a fallacy. GPT-3 wasn't trained compute optimally. It had too many parameters. A compute optimal model with 175 billion parameters would require much more training compute. In fact, the Chinchilla scaling law allows you to calculate this value precisely. We could also calculate how much training compute a Chinchilla optimal 1 trillion parameter model would need. We would just need someone who does the math.
That one takes about 40 seconds and it shows pretty much nothing, it's just a cartoon taking pictures and very easy to follow. If they just want to let people know that there's a new iPhone out, that does the job.

Meanwhile the Google one I just watched it and I know I saw a bunch of AI features they're adding, but I couldn't tell you what a single one of them is.
I've had some actions queued for multiple days now on certain repos, but not others. I've cancelled them and restarted them during the green status intervals but they all go back to "Queued". I've also cancelled them and then made slight documentation tweaks to get new commit hashes on the branches and it still goes to queued.
How i miss the euro lifestyle
This is precisely what I came in here to say. People who say writing and thinking ability are hand in hand are typically good writers who were told they’re good thinkers because their writing ability set them apart. Similarly, the ability to do rote math skills once set people apart as geniuses, literal computers in the classic sense of the word. I see these tools, as applied to this task, as an equalizer of sorts that lets people who have great ideas express them in a compelling way.

In my own life I was terrible at arithmetic, and I grew up at a time when memorizing the multiplication tables was a key life skill. I couldn’t to save my life. I strongly believed I was bad at math and struggled through on sheer willpower and mediocre grades, until I went back to college after I couldn’t make it through calc 1 and dropped out a decade earlier. This time they allowed calculators, graphing at that. I got top marks in every math class from then on and graduated summa cum laude in a top engineering computer science school.

How many people have been marginalized because they couldn’t express their thoughts as clearly and compellingly as a better writer? Maybe a leveling of the fields away from mechanical abilities and towards completeness of thought isn’t a bad thing? Will people lean on it and lose what has been a core skill? Some will no doubt. But will it hurt them? Only as much as it hurts to use a calculator to do your menial math.
Note to update the headline to 2021 (its publication date)
My guess is that it's full of a bunch of copper ions that are toxic
> This is cause for celebration, but it shouldn’t hide the reality that with more than 8 tons per person per year, the UK is in the top 5 most carbon-emitting countries. The country has significant agriculture or industry can justify such a highly polluting regime.

France has been proving for years how to decarbonize fast:

> https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/ghg-emissions-by-sector?t...

> https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/ghg-emissions-by-sector?y...

> https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/ghg-emissions-by-sector?y...
Everybody who shops around has a 100% renewables tariff. What that tells you is that most UK consumers don't shop around. This was more remarkable before prices spiked, because previous to that the actual price you paid was usually much lower if you shopped around, and yet they also threw in "100% renewable" because it costs basically nothing. Now the only price it makes sense to pay is the price the government guaranteed, so shopping around is pointless. Which is fair, that was the reality anyway, the companies "selling" electricity exist only on paper, they aren't laying cables, or building power stations [similar companies in the same corporate family might but it's not important here] they just have a spreadsheet basically.

Anyway, the reason it's so cheap to give the few people who care 100% renewable electricity is that the people selling the electricity get effectively paper "It's renewable" tokens which they can sell separately from the electricity, they're called REGOs.

So say I make 10GWh of wind energy today, I get 10GWh of REGOs. I sell my electricity for the same grid market price as the gas electricity or coal power†, or whatever, nobody cares electricity is fungible, and I also sell my REGOs for very little because they're almost worthless, to Very Green Energy Co.

That huge industrial site near you which makes stuff (I know, they do exist in the UK they just don't employ many people any more). They consume 15GWh of electricity, they don't care where it comes from, maybe it's from me, maybe it isn't, electricity is fungible, who cares. They don't care about the REGOs, they just need electricity.

People like you, in your house, consume 5GWh of electricity. Again, electricity is fungible, so who cares where it came from, maybe it's gas, but Very Green Energy Co. have 10GWh of REGOs, so they can assure you that you're all getting renewable energy.

† Actually the Subsidy rules mean I might sort of sell for a different price, but we'll ignore that here, it doesn't clarify this situation at all.

As a consumer you can't in the UK choose to be fully exposed to price fluctuations, which would completely destroy you. You can choose to be partially exposed, it's very expensive right now, but can be cheaper in some periods. It's a risk, take only if you understand it, Octopus Energy are the people to talk to.
> Like I don't get it, would it have been propaganda if they praised COVID measures or?

Yes, I am pointing out their bias. There is plenty of propaganda on the other side, but people aren't posting articles from Mother Jones or Salon or Breitbart on here.

In an article about energy deaths a COVID comparison feels very shoe-horned in. Propaganda can be factual, nothing in this article was not factual, but it's still propaganda. I find that the primary purpose of The Economist is to be propaganda, it has little intellectual value. Which is the point of the rest of my comment.
My experience with WordPress has been broadly positive under certain use cases. What were the negatives you saw/issues you ran into?
I mean, modifying a bat virus to be more infectious to human and then doing so in a lab that only requires masks not full body suits. How many millions died, how many suffered, what did we lose?

You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to know that is a terrible idea. “Sticking our head in the sand” appears to not fit this use case very well
From an SRE, one of their DB clusters failed. They use Vitess which is great, but it can be prone to hotspots and doesn't auto-shard. Heavy usage (esp. from large customers, rogue jobs) can take down the cluster. When it goes down, it's a PITA to resolve.
The "fusion of a developed program and development environment" idea is very cool.

One (maybe dumb) question though:

> Simple & powerful language: No constructors, no types declaration, no interfaces, no primitive types.

Are constructors and primitive types really the sort of things that people find to be unnecessary complexity?
There used to be a pretty consistent bug that if an on-site PR merge failed but you clicked "Retry", that it just did a basic non-squash full-merge discarding all your commit message work, often requiring a revert to tidy things up. It could be similar to that.
Change is rarely termed as a "risk" unless the change is apocalyptic or at least detrimental in nature
lawsuit obsessed, not safety obsessed
Ask HN: Please help me find this mind mapping tool?
Here's what I remember about the UX:

https://i.stack.imgur.com/vJCMR.png

It was made by a semi-famous founder I think that wanted to build the best mind mapping tool. It had a playful nature UI, not corporate. Very "basecamp" in tone.

You could link items between each other and embed everything from texts, urls, video, images, etc. You could see other people using the board in real time as well.

One thing that comes to mind that was distinct was that each card could have items, see the excalidraw image above.

Used it once at Papa, and never could find it again because of it's terrible naming!
The abstract idea of a 'pointer' is a piece of information to the location of some other information. It is not even an analogy - it is literally the same thing, differing only in implementation details.