skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the future there won't be any technical debt. You were lucky to live early.

Code, most code, will eventually turn into some sort of sanitised applied maths corpus (with a heavy overlay of "AI" analytical tools).

In applied mathematics you have cultural obsolescence (stuff that we no longer find interesting or relevant, like an asymptotic formula for the Airy function [0]) but the corpus is intrinsically add-only. Once something is solved it does not have be solved again. Its essence is eternal, so to speak.

Think about code development in such as mature state. It will mostly work by pulling together (using AI prompts) logical units from the future version of Rosetta [1].

When we get to that stage it will be hard to add something truly new. Just like it takes a long incubation and a PhD to add some marginal new thing to applied mathematics, it will take effectively trained applied mathematicians to add something minor to the evolving code corpus.

Coding for the common folk will be mostly compositing. It might be productive and even fun, but not quite the same.

We lived through a period of widespread democratization of development. Cherish the freedom of reinventing the wheel in countless flawed ways :-)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airy_function

[1] https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Rosetta_Code
Ask HN: If I don't like my job, should I “job-hop”?
Hi all - I just got my first "big" job as a programmer for a large corporation. I thought I would enjoy the stability, but I find I'm getting pretty stressed out by the constant pressure to hit corporate targets. I'm thinking about looking for a better fit, but I haven't even been here for a year yet. I don't know if I should stick it out, change my mindset, or look for something else and risk being a "job-hopper". What do you think? Thanks for your help.
> It would be less impressive if Linus did the same at age 27 after a Master's at a top tier US school, but likely still enough to get a nice FAANG job with solid promotion prospects

I'm not sure how you missed 1/3 of my comment.

Clearly with such conditions it will not be an entry level job. Nor am I saying it's absolutely necessary. From what I understand a 99th percentile score on Leetcode will alone get you through the door.

Though a nice job (~40 hour weeks, good team, above average comp. package) with solid promotion prospects is about the maximum even a somewhat less impressive version of Linus could expect at 27-28.
I'm not being dismissive of the technology, the initial NeRF papers that came out were really interesting and showed something new.

It's this particular paper that I don't find that interesting given the amount of data they had to work with and very specialized hardware setup.
I use fortran in my day to day work and most of my work has been modernizing and refactoring an oldish code. Its amazing how nice it can be to work in once you've removed and reorganized the legacy cruft.
You don't believe Democrats would agree to a clean debt ceiling bill, then?
I started journaling a few months ago and it's been horrible for me. Around the end of February I decided I wanted to lose weight, and decided to use a food and exercise journal. I have a channel on Discord I write in whenever I eat or work out, and I keep a running total of the net calories for the day.

Did it work? Yes, I've lost almost 30 pounds.

Was it worth it? A solid no. It's given me some kind of eating disorder, which came with fatigue, occasional blackouts, and all sorts of problems with my GI tract.
> Developers jump ship quickly

this is probably the most damning thing about the field. We don't invest in developers, so why would they invest in the business?
Monopoly in what? Profits?
Citation needed, swiss water decaf isn't the only type of decaf on the shelves at my local grocery store.
Trying desperately to stay on technical topic here, I'd say the only places where this dichotomy comes up are in cases that are inherently ambiguous and subjective. If something is genuinely proven then everyone does actually accept it. Conservatives and liberals don't disagree on the energy of an electron or the color of the sky. Disagreement occurs over things that can't be proven: how valuable is spending time on feature X instead of rewrite Y? Is this choice of library really "debt" that needs to be paid down by rewriting, or is it a mature tech whose imperfections should just be accepted as an inevitable part of life? If you rewrite, how likely is the project to create new problems at the same time as solving old ones? How can anyone prove such a thing one way or another ahead of time? It will ultimately always boil down to a complex interacting set of intuitions and experiences which vary between people.

The Colbert snark is illuminating because it gets to the nub of the conflict. It's an attempt to claim that reality, something often ambiguous and subjective, as if it was simple and obvious. Look at how straightforward the world is to comprehend - why, all you need is a few nice and neutral academics who do a few studies, write it all down in a model and you're done! Now you know what everyone, everywhere should be doing. Others look at this aghast and say no, that approach has a history of going spectacularly wrong. The model did not match reality and disaster followed.

In the software space it leads to conservatism of the Joel Spolsky "never do rewrites" variety. That's too strong, but it's a famous and widely cited essay even 20 years later because it represented a rare articulation of the value of conservatism in technology along with clear real world examples of cases where the lack of it led to (commercial) disaster. Fortunately, attempts to rewrite Navigator or Word only led to financial disaster and only for specific companies. When attempts are made to rewrite society instead of software the cost of failure is drastically higher.
OP's point/question is clearly about YC incubator, not the fairly loosely affiliated site HN on which we're commenting.
> I don't want every to know how to make a bomb.

This information is not created inside the LLMs, it's part of their training data. If someone is motivated enough, I'm sure they'd need no more than a few minutes of googling.

> I do feel like this is more than a math formula

The sum is greater than the parts! It can just be a math formula and still produce amazing results.
After all, our brains are just a neat arrangement of atoms :)
I remember my chemistry teacher in high school telling how they used to use 'tri' (that's how they called it) a lot to wash their hands in. Until they discovered that it was highly carcinogenic.
But yeah, that chemistry class was in the early 80's, so it is now ages ago that tri was still widely used.
I'm not so sure if subsidizing a handful of industries avoids the problem of cost imbalances when trading globally.

Say we subsidize corn because otherwise our corn industry would be decimated by cheap labor overseas. We successfully walled off one industry, but that cheaper foreign labor is still available for other production. Maybe workers that would be paid overseas to grow corn are instead paid to produce cheaper clothing that we can't compete with. We can't keep subsidizing one industry at a time in hopes of dodging a fundamental supply abstracts the other country has.

Tariffs can be an option there *if* imposed on all imports from one country. They have their own practical issues though, not least of all is enforcement. NATO made a huge deal about banning Russian oil when the war started but they still sell it just fine, often as crude oil to another country that refines it and still sells it to us anyway.
The digital euro: a solution seeking a problem?
And the point of aeroplanes wasn't to mimic birds but to fly.
Didn't OpenAI promise the same thing when it first came out? I'm not fully invested in the space yet...so if that was completely different than RedPajama I apologize.
Goodbye, section 2.8 and hello to Cloudflare’s new terms of service
This is very common in regional newspapers, especially online. Even for "real" stories. "This local team is advancing to ..." Garbage.
Nope. Nothing. I’ve been waiting since they released it. Part of me thinks it might be because I responded yes to “Outside of the US”.
Erlang/OTP 26 Highlights
While there is nothing wrong with counterfactual reasoning, revisionism is often dangerous if not based on solid evidence and scholarship. "We’re just sort of reassigning parts in this existing play of history", i.e. doing:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudohistory
I've gotten two jobs from Linkedin. I don't much care for it outside of when I'm looking for jobs. Whenever I'm employed I put it into the "hibernate" mode and only reactivate it when I'm back on the job market.
Always nice to see accessibility features. I would love to see a way to share settings. There are so many hidden features and iOS settings is getting crowded and is very difficult to use. A "simplified" mode where only few selected apps are available like they have shown in the press release would be nice even for not so challenged people.
I think their point was - don’t do something daily with potentially powerful but unclear effects until we have some evidence on it’s long term safety. Unless there is a pressing, specific need (like cancer that may be worth the risk).

Which seems reasonable?
AoE, Machinery's Handbook etc are wonderful references, not for learning.

“Make: Electronics” by Charles Platt and "Practical Electronics for Inventors" are both good practical recommendations. What to prefer really depends on your background. I'd add "Electronic Devices" by Thomas L. Floyd if you prefer more academic/systematic approach.
You do realize PHP 7 is EOL for quite a while now[1]? PHP 8.0 is on security updates only. You might want to upgrade sooner rather than later unless you're paying for backports.

[1]: https://endoflife.date/php
> The UK also has an opposing culture, we don't invest in the long term in infrastructure or people.

That's not really so different from the United States!
GPT4 is ways ahead. On HumanEval, it gets 67%, almost double this one.
This is looking for lost keys under a lamppost because that's where the light is.
Just like with dating preferences, leet code interviews are merely a fast rejection heuristic. Because there needs to be some kind of filter. And we haven't found any better.

If we took more time, with dating and interviewing, we'd probably find a lot more diamonds in the rough. But ain't nobody got no time for all that.
What kind of banks do authorization by voice?
We've got to be really careful with those numbers. There's a massive difference in the ecosystem between continents. While we've become used to flora and fauna from continental Europe being brought to the rest of the world, that doesn't make them native there.

The issue in the report you linked isn’t cats living outside, the issue here is european flora and fauna existing at all in the US, where it doesn’t belong. This issue isn’t limited to cats, it even includes things like different species of lawn grass being invasive in regions it doesn’t belong.
I don't understand the need for obscenities. Their are children on this blog.
Your last paragraph is really interesting to me. It obviously makes total sense. Yet, three environment I've used most in my career is Rails which also splits these things into folders by type rather than feature. It's never bothered me. Now I wonder if that because Ruby isn't Java and folders aren't packages or because I'm so very used to it.
Problem is the in US if your on Salary you can't have a time card. And if your hourly you have to be paid for the hours.
One thing that they share in common (Adam Curtis and James Burke), as well as Myth Busters, is that they have plenty of good footage/film (or whatever you call it).

Most news stories have 30 seconds of footage, and loop it repeatedly. No historical footage, no old interviews being brought up, nothing filmed to help put a story into context.

Even many documentaries I watch, suffer the same problem, a bit of real footage, then jumping straight to interviews with people. Not much historical footage, nothing extra filmed, expect interviews with people.
I think most of the oceans are a barren wasteland.

This is as far as I know, incorrect. I'm not sure why you think it would be true. Oceans, aside from areas like the Dead Sea are some of the most vibrant and life filled ecosystems we have. Even at the most crushing depths far from the sun there are entire ecosystems on the ocean floor.
I use LinkedIn a lot.

While there is a lot of dumb noise around people trying to thought-leader, there is also a lot of professional content I find useful. I'd rather have the annoying hustle-grind-thought-leader BS than the political content I find on twitter / facebook.

I meet a lot of people on LinkedIn and do indeed find a lot of professional connections. I find its useful to always be chatting with people outside my company, for a number of reasons, and set aside time to do these calls.

I don't actively maintain a resume, I use my LinkedIn profile for this purpose.

I think it's important to be "heads up" with your career networking (interviewing?) a lot, always chatting about potential opportunities, preparing for next steps, learning about problems others are solving, etc.
> Java applets were never that big. They didn't work very well (for the reason you mention) and weren't ubiquitous. They also nearly all looked like shit.

It's also entirely possible you were encountering them more than you thought. My highschool website, for example, had around 4-8 on the homepage - minimalistic applets that simply showed and cycled through images, placed in a grid in the header area. They totally could have been javascript instead, you couldn't tell the difference just using the page.
It's also massively cheaper. For a lot of the things available on stock Bitwig (~399$, often discounted at 249$) you need Live Suite + Max 4 Live + Cycling Max MSP, the asking price is no less than 1300$.

Live main selling point right compared to Bitwig now is ubiquity, basically. You can expect to go into any recording studio, anywhere, and find a Live desk available.
First thing that comes to my mind reading this article is that they are just saving it all up to build the Nauvoo from the show "The Expanse".
Note how there is no actual substance to the classification as "fallacy". In general, it only makes sense if it condemned some absolute claim that "anything natural is better than anything man made". But people appealing to nature rarely if ever claim that - even when they appear to be making that argument, it's because they use loose language.

What they actually mean is that something natural will tend to be better - and there's nuance about why that might be so (having benefitted from evolutionary pressure and adaptation, a thing empirically tested and shown working, more effortessly fitting to our biology, and so on). Of course we're talking of man-made stuff thus-far, not some futuristic utopia where we know how to make everything better.

So unless the claim is "all natural things are always better", it's doubtful how the "fallacy" accusation actually applies in real life arguments. Does it address the claim that "X is better _because_ it is natural"? Well, doesn't that being the case or not, depend on the quality of the specific non-natural alternatives to X?

If those aren't any good, then X is indeed better not by chance, but precisely because it's natural. That is, because it had millions of years to evolve, millenia to be used and tested by humans, and so on, and it had all sort of evolutionary pressures to improve it.
> China itself (apart from rising costs) isn't really the entity causing this despite what the narrative may sound from US media.

China has been literally abducting foreign workers and you think the fact that companies want to leave the country falls squarely on the shoulders of the US government?
I like Apple, but "Worth" is a relative term. Definitely feels overvalued* as a layman.

* Could drop drastically and easily
I, too, absolutely love traditional UK B&Bs – but in my experience they typically operate from what rather looks like a converted regular house, so couldn't they, too, be accused of taking away regular housing?
They obsess about it. For example:

https://seekingalpha.com/article/4558283-apple-how-the-risk-...

or an older story but shows how this dynamic works https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/22/goldman-apples-earnings-woul...

for people who trade apple, stories about China, supply chain and government policy will be all over their bloombergs every day.
"Pesticides such as paraquat and rotenone that have been associated with Parkinson’s disease also leave that pathological signature in rodents." - oh good, it looks like these are still widely in use.
Based on some light reading just now:

- SWP is a means of treating green coffee beans pre-roast. They can be roasted any which way afterwards.

- Any type of bean can be treated this way.

- The process is pretty specific in targeting just caffeine. In removing caffeine though, the total dissolved solubles in the end coffee will be lower for the same amount of beans. Probably a lessor body unless you use more.

Interested to hear from someone who has tried it.
> But configuration is something the user doesn't want to do

I guess you don't make music, which is what this post is about. If people didn't want configuration, they would use Audacity and just record. How are you going to paginate a synths oscillator? Volume meters?
Sounds like journalling and the accountability it brought was too effective in your case.
Could This Be the Final Frontier for Renewable Energy?
Last I checked (though it's been a while), I think tectonic basically wrapped the xetex code.
I think you misunderstand me. If someone wants to surveil me and play politics with it, I will question whether they have nudes of my kids and wife.
Got my most recent job through LinkedIn. 2nd order contact found me in a search and my 1st order contact set up the interview.

I keep my LI profile as a superset of my resume. I keep it public, don't turn on the "looking for work" stuff, and NEVER look or write to the social feed.

One primary rule I never break: I only connect with people that I've worked with for at least six months. I'm not a job hopper, but spending a week onsite with a client doesn't make you best pals. But if you worked on a long-term project together, connect. HOWEVER, if that other person is one of those collectors that has 500+ connections, skip it.

I never apply to open jobs broadcasted to me. There's a steady stream of recruiters that contact me and I can one-click dismiss them. Not a lot of effort to do that and I'm not offended at reachouts. That lets me keep a pulse on the job market and salaries in my town.

It also lets me see which companies are bad news. When you see the same job come in from multiple recruiters over a few weeks, it's not hard to reverse-search the listing and figure out what's going on.
OP here... Oh dang this blew up. Found this project while trying to find a low-code / PaaS for my home infrastructure. Found this project and decided to share. Pretty easy to selfhost as I deployed it on a Alpine Linux server using Podman + Docker Compose binary. Really nice piece of software.
If China invades Taiwan, I’m looking forward to the commentary about how it is America’s fault.
Ah, the kind of zero-content, off topic, smug meta-comments I come to Hacker News for!
Can’t edit this comment now, but the opening sentence has a typo. It should say, “I don’t think Max4Live is a good choice for building audio plugins.”
Efficiently Scale LLM Training Across a Large GPU Cluster with Alpa and Ray
Well yes, I would absolutely say the federal government shouldn't be in the business of manipulating markets and consumer behavior. That was never part of our government design in the first place, unless you consider dealing with interstate commerce disputes to fall under that umbrella.

Practically though, our tX system and economy is much too complicated to be able to accurately say whether incentives through deductions and credits are a net positive. We can say how expensive they are, but how do we measure the value added by pushing consumers in one direction or another? And if we can't measure its value should the government have that authority?
I think the comment about dutch farms was that they were getting along fine with high labour costs and small footprints.
Toe the starting line
You say that like CL programmers are inherently functional, which has never been true. They have always embraced OOP when needed
People get buttmad and downvote you for pointing out manmade global extinction events and daily death tolls from pollution. HN isn't immune from these shitbags. This site has a lot more capitalists than environmentalists.
For the finance nerds: there’s an interesting (and to my knowledge unsolvable) problem of recursion in the tool: if you have 2 SAFEs converting simultaneously, they each depend on the other SAFE in order to determine which price to use (the SAFE conversion price per share implied by the valuation cap, or the next round’s price). Investors always choose the lower one which yields more shares. But to calculate this for a given SAFE, you’d need to know what the outstanding shares are. To know that though, you’d need to know the decision of all other SAFE holders. If the pre-money valuation of the next round is close enough to the post-money valuation cap of the SAFE, then you could have the dilemma of the choice for a given SAFE holder actually reliant on what the others do. Even if you go through all permutations, given some parameters there’s no stable equilibrium.

In reality, SAFEs are either modified to clarify things like this, or the next round of financing’s legal docs dictate the order etc that everyone agrees to.

Instead of doing all this, I just set a dynamic minimum on the pre-money valuation given the other variables so that it’s always better for the SAFE holders to convert using the SAFE price. That avoids the recursion entirely and simplifies it.
AI systems provide many benefits to society, such as image recognition, anomaly detection, educational and programming used of LLMs, to name a few.

Guns only have a primarily harmful use which is to kill or injure someone. While that act of killing may be justified when the person violates societal values in some way, making regular citizens the decision makers in whether a certain behavior is allowed or disallowed and being able to immediately make a judgment and execute upon it leads to a sort of low-trust, vigilante environment; which is why the same argument I made above doesn’t apply for guns.
Sounds like a Kaiji arc
Quite often these optimizers "just work", and all you have to do is pass a numeric function you want to optimize.
I'd imagine you could extrapolate from PaLM/PaLI, which are both impressive.
- voice-to-text with OpenAI Whisper
- text-to-voice with ElevenLabs
- chat response generation with OpenAI API
- UI with Gradio
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35961170
Shareholder greed
> Ruby on Rails is in jeopardy of being added to this list. It has fallen out of favor, and it is tough to find developers for it.

Hardly.

> What once made it unique is now available in other languages.

Sure, yay open source.

You still can't get as much out of the box with one CLI command for a new rails app in node.js. I would love to be corrected on this.
This isn't really true, there are a few different methods to decaffeinating coffee beans:

"Like regular coffee, decaf coffee begins as green, unroasted beans. The hard beans are warmed and soaked in liquid to dissolve and remove the caffeine in one of four ways: using water alone, using a mixture of water and solvents (most commonly methylene chloride or ethyl acetate) applied either directly or indirectly, or using water and “supercritical carbon dioxide.”"

-> https://www.ncausa.org/Decaffeinated-Coffee