skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Is it really so difficult to have a little bit of empathy for your end users?

That’s easy to say if you’ve never worked on Xorg. The codebase is one of the worst in existence, few people fully understand it, and fixing bugs in it is a modern Sisyphean wheel.
I think it must’ve been an accident. LLMs need a lot to context and the more you talk and narrow your requirements down the better its response gets (in theory). But it really was chatgpt that made it go mainstream. I remember playing with the earlier GPT playgrounds and I also thought neat but not for me
I bought Comic Code (https://tosche.net/fonts/comic-code) a few years ago and have installed it in many of my editors and consoles and even as the monotype font in some browsers. I giggle every time I see it!

Looks like Comic Mono is the trial version. (https://dtinth.github.io/comic-mono-font/)
This USB nonsense is misleading, it is nothing like the Kryptonite+Bic pen.

You:

1) need to enter the vehicle (lockpick, smashed window, etc.)

2) break the ignition block to remove the key cylinder

3) turn a tab underneath the cylinder with whatever you see fit (pliers)

Only coincidentally the tab fits inside a USB A connector.

Now, that the ignition block may be (or may be not) easier to break than any other one could be debated, but - unlike the Kryptonite locks - you need to break it by force.
Are people committing and deploying screen captures of their code?
I went ahead to find a prior news of this and found a couple

https://news.stanford.edu/2022/03/24/methane-leaks-much-wors...

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/21/climate/methane-leaks.htm...

https://www.nasa.gov/press/2014/october/satellite-data-shows...

Why are the expectations still so low?
It's Active Record that makes rails code re-use especially unique. I don't know of any other framework where you can 1) be certain of the ORM 2) add database tables from a third party library 3) the whole experience not being cobbled together.
I think it might be the proverbial fast boat in a narrow stream, the narrow stream being ruby the language.

It's not a mainstream one, and frankly the main reason to learn it in practice is rails. There's a big cold start problem there.

You have to convince people to like both the language and the framework at the same moment of decision, in addition to committing to learning both at once.

That's just always going to be more difficult than selling only a framework to people who either already know, or see more value in learning, a more mainstream language like JS, Python or Java.

I think this is the biggest reason it's remained niche.
Age is an undeniable factor when it comes to learning new things[1], whether any of us like it or not.

Ultimately, the question to you as an employee is whether you can do the work demanded of you. While it would be nice for everyone to be judged on an individual basis, I can understand there needs to be some level of generalization to maintain a certain level of efficiency within an organization.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35595846
This is correct, but EU's act we are discussing about says opposite, hence the discussion.
Excel is a law unto itself. The 'feature' that irritates me the most is how a cell copy is forgotten unless you paste immediately. Bear in mind that this is an application so iconoclastic that it had its own C compiler.
It’s convenience, that’s all. If you think of a more convenient or effective way to prompt these models, that will be great!

Your concerns sound to be of the “it’s problematic” category. Most such concerns are make believe outrage / pearl-clutching nonsense.
Venus any% glitchless speedrun.
Sort of. The problem is fsync() is a rather blunt tool, forcing too much to be synchronised, reducing concurrency.

I remember when ext4 was new there was debate about supporting atomic rename() without fsync(); see https://lwn.net/Articles/322823/
Yeah what do these people have to gain by saying anything but platitudes? Why make an enemy out of the richest guy on earth who also happens to have a very passionate fanbase? Of course anyone who has other stuff to do besides looking for a fight is going to praise him when asked.
The graphic stack did not broke application and workflow compat between the two, though. Neither did it incitate to couple the desktop to the graphic server, on the contrary it even made the system resilient to graphic driver crashes.
There are options atm… just not on-device. There’s CHDK, https://chdk.fandom.com/wiki/CHDK which changes the firmware of certain Canon compact cameras to add (among other things) RAW output. It should help you get the max out of your sensor.

Then again, the first generation of pocketable mirrorless cameras with APS-C sized sensors (which are much bigger & high quality than those found in pocket cameras, or the one used in the article’s hack) should be pretty accessible right now… ie Fuji x-t10, canon m1/2/3. The Canon M1 also takes Magic Lantern which adds raw video ! (Albeit with a significant crop factor).
CCDs are B&W, so you'd need 3 of them if you don't want a Bayer filter. i'm suddenly having flashbacks to the 90s with 3-chip cameras <shudder>
In what ways would a person paying for AI companionship be a danger to you?
LangChain is an early example of a programming environment where you “chain” prompts, replies and 3rd party calls together
I for one welcome our paternal AI overlords.
> The US incarcerates more people than China, despite China having more than four times as many people

Homicide and incarceration rates per 100k people:

homicide | incarceration | incarceration/homicide
USA 6.4 | 505 | 79
China 0.5 | 119 | 238
Norway 0.6 | 55 | 92

In other words, China incarcerates 3x as many people per homicide as the USA, and the USA homicide rate is 12.8x that of China. Homicide is used instead of/as a proxy for violent crime, because it is largely immune to bias by overpolicing or racism, which are the usual excuses to dismiss statistics. Source:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intention...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_incarcera...
It just seems like a huge risk. Basically it seems like if you lose, you lose, if you win, everyone shares in your winnings.

Stock options that allow the founder to keep control and to receive more significant profit for the extraordinary risk they take makes much more sense imo.
It has learned what pronouns mean by itself, from the corpus and the RLHF step, it doesn’t need to be specifically prompted. ChatGPT with GPT-3.5 in my experiments did in some special cases need to be explicitly reminded, though, but I doubt that GPT-4 needs that anymore. The bot perfectly understands what I mean with "I", or "we", including whether the "we" is inclusive or exclusive [1] based on context.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clusivity
On the coasts of the US it’s common to pay $150-$250 per hour for a therapist.
I'm really not asking for that. I'm asking for communication that doesn't feel dismissive.
friendster, napster, yellow pages, arcades, Pontiac, Saturn, JNCO, geocities, iomega, Sun Microsystems, CREATIVE. So many bodies...
It's just a heads up that it will not be on their timeline to fix. My empathy would be with the developers and maintainers of this amazing project (and all open source maintainers in a similar situation).
So basically you think you will be the one to profit from this, at the expense of others?
Chart for Ocean Heat Content under trends.

Source is @ https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/...
This requires care as it may only require a few details or other metadata like when/where one asked to narrow down who they're talking about. Considering ChatGPT leaks and hallucinations I would hope folks in law and medicine are being very careful.
Or an AI president
You've got the wrong impression of what ruby optimizes for. It's not "mainly that code should be beautiful English prose" -- which I would venture the closest you'll get for that goal is AppleScript -- but rather, quoting Matz "Instead of emphasizing the what, I want to emphasize the how part: how we feel while programming. That's Ruby's main difference from other language designs. I emphasize the feeling, in particular, how I feel using Ruby."

More here: https://www.artima.com/articles/the-philosophy-of-ruby
We forget about the "invention" of open source, Linux et al (e.g. GCC, Python, Curl, etc) that makes it possible to run those Androids, macOS, and infrastructure and zillions of devices around the world. Don't forget ;-)
Deep, no. Useful, yes, but very rarely, and the SNR is quite low. Inventory management is one example where a video can help avoid stupid mistakes. View it as supplementary documentation for cases where there is no product or admin guide.
> Get the experience you want ASAP, invest as much of your salary as you can, and then job hop.

This works in tech but not necessarily in other white collar fields like finance. In finance, there is an unwritten rule that you are supposed to settle with a firm by ~30-35 and stay there for the rest of your career. Many firms don't hire laterally unless they have no other choice. Professionals like investment bankers and CFAs are recruited straight out of university and groomed to assume leadership positions in the long term.
Seeing the word Leica should have immediately set off the "oh shit, that'll be expensive" alarms
It's a secular religion. The whole thing scans very much the like the man who ambushed me in a public bathhouse a few weeks ago to tell me about how skeptical he was about Jesus his whole life, right up until the moment he found Jesus. And proceeded to expound on it at great length, while I avoided eye contact, fidgeted, stared in the opposite direction, etc.. At some point you have to just get up and walk to the other side of the room from these people, because they show no sign of letting up.
It’s not cynical. But it is a two way street. Most people feel that any job is expendable as well, don’t they?

Very few people wouldn’t take more money and better hours/benefits if offered to them.
the wise man bowed his head solemnly and spoke: "theres actually zero difference between good & bad things. you imbecile. you fucking moron" - dril (https://twitter.com/dril/status/473265809079693312)
OpenBSD 7.3 on the es40 Dec Alpha emulator
I don't have an 'agenda' I'm responding to the people who think that because someone doesn't like Musk, that they must have 'an agenda'.
> Why does it continue to struggle in this way when more recent languages like Go are booming?

It doesn't struggle. It's just not the hot new kid on the block anymore. It's a 2013 Toyota when the rest of the world is all about EVs.

Rails is, as an ecosystem, not lacking much. There's not much room for innovation. It's mature, it's stable, it's scaleable.

Personally, I value my sanity, so I stick with an older Toyota. I don't need panel gaps and batteries exploding. I just wanna build stuff.
No, but the TypeScript compiler will also check types specified in JSDoc: https://devclass.com/2023/05/11/typescript-is-not-worth-it-f...

https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/jsdoc-supported...
You can definitely reference cells across workbooks
I’m surprised I had to scroll this far to see this.

I think most folks want to care about their jobs and the default is having a healthy level of investment. But especially in larger companies, it’s so easy to get burned by workplace politics or leaders just not seeing things the same way you do — just as you said.

Emotional disinvestment in work is a defensive mechanism. Honestly, it feels like the two camps in this thread are almost talking past each other. Yes, it’s good to be invested in your work — it’s better for your emotional/existential health and good for your career. On the other hand, investment being a net good for an employee is hugely dependent on your work environment.

While one could argue that the right thing to do if you feel you can’t be invested is to leave, and I generally agree that leaving is the only real long-term solution, there are also a million reasons why it might not in the short term.
I understand all that, my question was why would it matter if he was an awful coder. Or they people thought he was an awful coder.

It is objectively true that he was ceo of x.com and PayPal, but neither of those positions require coding skills.

I’m not defending Musk as a CEO or human or anything. I’m just curious why it matters to bring up people thought his coding sucked. Was he a good chef? Was he terrible at Mario Kart? Want to list off other random complaints as well?
You can't really claim something is end to end encrypted if you don't have access to the client source code to verify that this is the case. There is no good reason to trust any company for sticking to their words, especially under pressure from the government.
The biggest danger with trying to make or emulate digital intelligent life is that it implies fully autonomous self-centered systems that replicate and try to take control over their environment. And digital systems increase in speed and performance with software and hardware improvements which are exponential. Whether these systems feel anything or are _truly_ alive or anything isn't critical from an existential standpoint.

But even without any serious efforts or success in emulating life with these systems, having intelligent agents that think multiple orders of magnitude faster than humans is very problematic, even if they are controlled by humans. At some point either you prohibit manufacturing hardware beyond a certain performance level, or you just have to hope that agents you are allied with do what's best for you, because there will be no possible chance of keeping up with what is going on.

Try watching a Youtube video at 1/4 speed. Within a few years, the agents will be processing 100 times faster than humans. That is not 4 times slower, it is 100 times slower. Essentially the humans (or their text streams etc.) will be so slow as to appear to be frozen.
Most populations geographically are not growing.
Anybody else feel like smartphones were overall net negative? I like cell phones they fit a particular need that I think most people would agree is a net good. But smart phones? I don't fucking want to see any of this stuff on my phone its just like cigarettes, feels nice but in the long run just makes you feel sicker. And people would say ok just don't get one but I sort of feel like its not just a me thing, most people would be better off if most people didn't have a phone. Facebook would not be a problem without smartphones IMO.
Doesn’t seem worth the lost performance for the millions of Typescript users.
That's not the question was asked though. Sure, they were an industry leader in the 70s/80s but in the period 1990-2005? It's hard to claim they really were. It's one of the rare examples of a fallen giant getting back on their feet, most just slowly dissolve over a few decades. AT&T is the only other such example that comes to mind.
In percentages, the YoY increases in displacement are far greater than population growth.
You mean AI brainwashing positions.
One problem is the big disbalance in resource requirements for pretraining large foundational models and finetuning them for specific tasks.

Currently, the foundational models have no concept of "prompt", that's only added in later finetuning, and by that stage it is too late to mess around with different architectural features to implement out-of-band signaling, as the architecture is fixed. If we'd want it to learn to handle out-of-band data, then we'd need to figure out how to handle that during the initial unsupervised pretraining on unlabeled text, otherwise it will simply learn to ignore all those prompt-related features.
Tucker is anything but niche. During prime time when his show was on, he was pulling a solid plurality of Democrats aged 25-54: https://www.thewrap.com/tucker-carlson-liberal-viewership-fo... (39% versus 31% for MSNBC and 30% for CNN).

Remember that while democrats are a slight majority (most of the time—right now they’re a slight minority by self-identification) only half of democrats identify as liberal. My mom votes democrat because she’s an immigrant—on race, gender, policing, sexuality, etc. issues she’d be somewhat to the right of Carlson.
> Most of these articles border on science fiction and involve a lot of projection

I understand the fatigue is real but this one does neither of above imo and was fairly grounded in reality. The author(who is CTO of a company) did a GPT integration and realised it could potentially replace 20% of jobs at their company. That is something to be spooked about.

> these articles other than some form of PR campaign

A lot of these are, but as an outside observer of Zerodha I can assure you this isn't. The company has spent zero dollars on marketing in last decade.
A fool and his money are soon parted…

Oh I sincerely wish there weren’t so many desperate people in this world looking for companionship. Generations of bad public policy and parenting among other things has led us to this point. I guess my kudos was more along the lines of thinking that her clients would most likely waste the money on some other desperate attempt to feel loved so why not have them spend money with her.
swc and tsx are already significantly faster than tsc, partly due to being written in faster languages, or languages that make it easier to write fast code with minimal runtimes.
Many languages look similar, and familiarity feels simple. Ruby however has a lot of idioms fairly unique to the language, and what is different is mistaken for complexity.

I'd call promises in Javascript complex. A block is Ruby isn't complex, it's just weird if you're new to the language.
Δ vs ∆ is a slightly better example, since traditional printed mathematics just used the former.

(Not making you look: U+0394 GREEK CAPITAL LETTER DELTA vs U+2206 INCREMENT)
OpenAI and Greatness Cannot Be Planned
This looks very impressive.

Thinking about it as an alternative to scripted workflows with Rundeck, it seems like the main gap here is getting scripts to run on a specific machine without needing to have set that machine up to run worker processes.

(I could be misunderstanding here, because I haven't spotted anything in the docs that talks about the minimum deployment necessary just to allow a particular machine to run workers.)

Really simple example: there's an administrative command on a mailserver, which can be used to create a new mailbox. I want to make that operation part of some workflow. With Rundeck, I can script this and I just have to make sure Rundeck has ssh credentials onto the mailserver; at execution time it'll deploy the script, substitute in whatever variables, run it and capture the output.

I'm not clear on how I would achieve that with Windmill. Would it involve installing Windmill (or some component of it) on the mailserver, and setting it up as an individual worker group?
> Caryn's original intention

Excuse me for not taking an "influencer"'s stated intention seriously, especially one from the country where BS has been elevated to an art to avoid liability.
I think it's you and your overreacting mostly
Why on earth would I possibly care? That’s probably far safer for me than if they’re intoxicated by alcohol (and that happens relatively all the time).
Why are you still sitting next to him?
> ...feudal power structures are no way to organize 21st century business.

Sadly - if you are organizing humans, at non-trivial scales, over time - the alternatives all have profound problems. Feudal power structures (whether or not a social anthropologist or medieval historian would officially certify them as "feudal") are so common because human nature very much favors such arrangements.
I think it’s more exhaustion at the fact users do not want to move on; and yet, this is Linux in 2023.

- GNOME is Wayland by default

- Red Hat has announced Xorg is depreciated. A big deal considering they were basically keeping Xorg on life support single-handedly. Without Red Hat, there’s basically nobody working on it anymore.

- KDE Plasma 6 has announced Wayland is default now.

At some point, it becomes like a user complaining that OS/2 is no longer supported. It’s dead, X11 is older than OS/2 (June 1984!), we are all collectively exhausted, time to move on.

If xmonad doesn’t work for your system; take it up with them.
It sounds like my girlfriend as well.
Haha I think that's just normal slow context-switching. I always start writing semi-colons in python after writing PHP for too long.
We had new types of noise that look better than Perlin noise, but I keep forgetting their name. Simplex (and OpenSimplex), Value Noise, Worley Noise, Wavelet noise, Gabor noise, Curl noise... It was something else, but anyway Simpler is both better and simpler, so why is Perlin so popular still?
Before Smartphones and the National Weather Service, There Was Grandma’s Knee
I'm not saying that. I think countries should do what they need to do and hopefully we can figure out how to deal with climate change together. I doubt we keep warming below 2.5 degrees.
Yahoo was more of a slow decline, and missed opportunities. They could have actually acquired Google and/or Facebook at one point, and could have been acquired by Microsoft at a later point.

The comment talks about "quickly changes the world around us rather fundamentally", "knocked off their perch", and "within a few years", which doesn't seem like an accurate description of what happened with Yahoo.
GPT-3.5 is based on code training
> To those who believe that new jobs will emerge at meaningful rates to absorb the losses and shocks, what exactly are those new jobs?

This is a pretty disingenuous question to ask, as the whole point of an innovation-driven market economy is that one cannot predict the future.

It’s a question that we know for a fact no one can answer in general, so why should we consider it any kind of useful criticism of AI specifically?
And, in recent times, we also need to account for the effect of the COVID lockdowns. A lot of wealthy countries decided to seriously damage the global economy - it isn't a stretch to think that might have effected the number of displaced people. There were certainly some discussions of high potential for famines during COVID that seemed linked to the sudden shutdown of trade.

Frankly, I think it could probably have cause a couple of the wars too. It seems a bit suspicious that on the one side of COVID the world was more or less peaceful and then on the other side we're seeing what seems to be an escalation [0] up to WWIII. Before COVID people were complaining that the US executive was too chummy with Russia. That is just one example, but there are a lot of suddenly tense areas and I think the economic stresses from the general lockdowns are serious contributors.

[0] I see the UK is now giving Ukraine cruise missiles - https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/5/12/russia-denies-ukrai....
You should probably stay awat from anything or anyone manga\anime related than. Just in case.

And why is this weird? Many people pay for escort or go to hostess clubs not to mention other forms of "business relationships".
Sorry, one day I will learn that sarcasm doesn't play, here :).
> Depends how you count.

the metric the EU itself used to describe itself as the world's largest economy

> But sure, use a political definition

nominal GDP, again, the metric the EU used itself

since the UK left the EU's nominal GDP is smaller than the US and China
How I Deleted a Production Database Cluster
I hate to say it, but I didn't see much science fiction in there?
Note xwayland isn't included in that. Also some read deprecation as already replaced which isn't necessarily the same thing.

Being Asahi is not only brand new but not even near a first stable release the amount of surprise about the lack of xorg focus seems as silly as those that act like wayland reached parity 2 years ago