skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's more about the culture and circle you are in. When you are in education, first starting out, or in irc/slack support channels, you're much more likely to see people with more passion about the technology. If you're in an office or working on a team in an established business it's much more about getting the work done.

Beyond this, priorities shift over time. The priorities of someone in their early 20's that is single will be different than someone in their late 40's with children heading towards college, or even younger children. As you mention, there's also the boot camps and people that simply come in without interest in the technology aspects.

In the end, there's many more people that will get into the gritty details today than decades ago, but there's also many more people that are more concerned about getting work done. This is part of why entropy is really hard to overcome. Trying to get movement in a company towards a new approach can be very hard. If company X is using Java or C#, their developers have likely been using it for many years, know it well and don't see a reason to shift. And for the most part, they are right. You can get work done in many languages, scale and adapt in many ways. Most applications don't even need to scale that much. Most apps are line of business apps that only a few dozen people ever even see and for those that aren't, you can scale vertically quite a bit before you really need to go horizontal.

It's different if you re starting something public facing and want to utilize newer tooling for horizontal scale from the start. Aside: Why CockroachLabs doesn't expose a web api for database queries directly for the likes of Cloudflare Workers or Deno Deploy is beyond me... In the end, it depends on what market you're serving. Getting something working means far more than an optimal approach in one way or aother.
Indeed. I'll only consider a proposal legitimate if it's of the form "let's leave cars alone and make public transit better", not "let's make cars worse to drive".
Being a hacker has nothing to do with how far up the stack you operate. It even has nothing to do with software or computers specifically.

Traditionally, being a hacker is being a person who is very interested in learning how things work, and how to use those things in new ways. Historically, proper hackers have focused on things ranging from model railroads to pay phones to bureaucratic systems, to computers and more.

The most common early sign that a child is a hacker is when the child takes apart every machine they can lay their hands on.
One thing that VR gives you that a monitor doesn’t is 1:1 scale. It’s so easy to get that wrong when working on a scaled down version of the model. Though you can just place people in your scene for reference.
> So this kind of optimization is not very useful.

It's absolutely useful. If you wait for the HTML page to load, to fetch the script, to start the react app, to have the react app make the rest/graphql calls your perf will be awful.

You want to fetch and stream in the response to your query part of your document response. Me and my coworkers gave a talk on this and it's used on facebook.com: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxPtYJRjLL0

In some situations you even want to stream the response within your query response within your document.
> I was once prevented from leaving a neutron-science facility at Los Alamos after the seat of my pants set off a radiation alarm on exit. This was odd because the neutron beam had been off for weeks. It was a Saturday, so the radiation safety technician on call didn't arrive for half an hour — at which point I was clean, so the detective questions began. I had spent the day sitting on a plastic step stool. The tech looked at it, said that radon's decay products are concentrated by static electricity, and told me that I needed to get a real chair.

Hilarious
> America is the King of burgers and Beef production so would expect to see cheaper options.

There are, in McDonalds, Burger King, In-n-out etc. What you are paying for is labor and the fast food places are optimized to reduce that specific cost. The drive thru, for example, increases demand per hour and thus lets kitchens specialize more, and invest in more machinery. Ray Kroc, a salesman, loved the 8 at a time milkshake mixer he was pitching so much he bought a burger chain to put them to use.

But inflation, and labor cost increases in the low end especially, mean prices are up now versus a decade ago.
Related: HNer recommendations for home geiger counters? (serious request - for general fun/experimentation/curiosity satiation)
I'm not answering your question, but I just tried voice input on the ChatGPT iOS app. They integrate their whisper model to directly do speech recognition, and it is always broken for me, with "There was an unexpected error (API.API.APIError, 0)" on any input. Of course, I can also just type the mic and use the normal iOS text-to-speech in the input box, and that works fine.
CPU core count does translate to performance gains but the popular software architecture idioms most people use are incapable of taking advantage of large numbers of cores. The gap between the performance you typically see and what is possible with proper software architecture and performance engineering is orders of magnitude in scale. A lot of performance and scalability is left on the table.

We've known how to scale software on large silicon for a long time, but as an industry we mostly can't be bothered (or lack the skills) to do it.
5-10? that's a weird fucking range, gascon was 12-4 years ago (and a cop) and boudin was 3-1 years ago.
> A problem with passkeys is a one (key) to one (user) relationship

That is untrue. It is a many-to-one relationship.
It's not uncommon for DSL at all.
I've tried GPT-3 and GPT-3.5 since it's release. GPT-4 is such a fantastic improvement in terms of getting the facts right that I can't remember when was the last time it had misremembered things.

And just a couple of days ago they released the version with web search, and now I always ask it to search for information instead of trying to remember it, or at least to search to confirm that it remembers things right.

Sadly, search seems pretty unstable for now. But it's still a completely unique, once in a lifetime technology. I can't compare it to anything less than internet in terms of potential impact.
I'm a computer scientist/software engineer that has used primarily Unix or Linux systems since the 80's. I write shell scripts occasionally, but I just find them error prone enough that I'd rather use python than sh for complex scripts. Python has some packages that make working with files, directories, and processes tolerable and at least I can understand the string quoting rules in python.

Generally my order of preference for shell scripting tasks is: python > bash > pearl > tcl > sh > anything > AppleTalk.
If you're capable of earning $172,000 in salary in the US, you can trivially get an employer that covers essentially all the cost of your health insurance (if that's an important arrangement wherever you're at in life; ie if you want that packaged into your total compensation vs taxes calculation). That's the typical situation for someone with a salary that high in the US. Your scenario is pretending that people earning so much are commonly having to cover the cost of their health insurance, which is not the case.

Which is simultaneously in no way defending the mess that is US healthcare.
FWIW, I bet a lot of times the garage is packed with moving boxes and furniture, and that's why they don't include photos of it in the listing. If you don't time everything just right, you can have an empty, staged house but not have anywhere to put your stuff before the moving van shows up. I didn't take any pictures of my last house's garage, because the realtor was so aggressive about scheduling the photos that there just wasn't time to get on a moving company's calendar.
Except that's not a social network. If it was open about what it was, its nature would undermine the main reason for using a social network.

Probably the only people who'd bother to engage are some geeks who've confused themselves into thinking a social network is just about generating messages for consumption.

Also, such a fake social network might be able to replicate BS political slapfights, but I'd think it would fall on its face when touching on anything that's not repetitive or baroquely self-referential. It'd get old fast.
>epic yard-sale

Which you'll probably find is more trouble than it's worth but at least it will get stuff out of your hands. Going to make a serious effort to get rid of a fair bit of stuff this summer myself.
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FYI they're now available for everyone. Just need to enable them in ChatGPT settings.
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Social Media App for AI-Generated Content
Hey all, I've been working on a mobile app called Fiction. It is a new social media app of sorts for AI-generated content. The idea to build Fiction centers around the fact that AI content doesn't really have a home on legacy social media platforms.

Additionally, most AI generated content lacks the quality and personalization especially when it comes to content at scale. We want to build a new distribution system for AI content and focus on key pieces of media that AI is good at right now (e.g. AI short stories).

Would love to hear your thoughts on the app!

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you dont have "free" healthcare. you pay for it in increased income tax.
FTTC are FTTH are both fibre. I'd rather they _did_ upgrade everything to to FTTC, which they can afford, and let those that can fund FTTH pay for it, than leave it as copper wire all the way to the exchange because someone said "FTTH or nothing!" With full FTTC coverage, you're 90% of the way there for a tiny fraction of the cost of full FTTH coverage.

DSL is not being sold as "fiber". People are being sold FTTC with a description of exactly what is is and what speed they can expect. Weetabix is being sold as fiber?

https://www.bt.com/broadband/fibre/

> Also known as fibre optic broadband, it’s our most widespread broadband. It uses powerful fibre cables to transmit signals to a cabinet on your street, before copper cables connect your home. That’s why you might have heard it called FTTC (fibre to the cabinet).

> The result is strong, reliable, superfast broadband, with average speeds up to 80Mb.
Yeah in French it’s the same (at least here in CAN); if someone says “en Amérique” nobody is confused about whether they mean the continent, or asks “du Nord ou Sud?” We all just get that we’re talking about the US.
> 1. Shows why an official app is needed even though the web version works perfectly fine on iPhone and is probably easier

Agreed that an official app is needed, clearly.

> 2. Doesn't actually seem to solve the problem

For now. Eventually it'll get sorted.

> 3. Puts to shame all the touted benefits of a "walled garden/closed ecosystem".

Despite having the same experience, I disagree with your conclusion.

It has nothing do with the "walled garden" and everything to do with Apple and OpenAI not paying attention to a rapidly emerging use case. The problem arose because OpenAI did not prioritize the initiative to make their own early enough, allowing hundreds of other developers to fill the void and muddy the waters, while Apple allowed these copycats into the App Store without really considering the customer experience.
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I hope you will make use of it and I kindly ask you to contribute!
First, you're missing the step between (3) and (4) where the money actually enters the economy, through government spending. And since the government has already publicly committed to that spending, it's basically already priced in. Furthermore it's the exact same effect as if the debt ceiling were just raised as usual, rather than being held up for political chicken kayfabe.

For (5), the ability to issue credit doesn't change. Rather the interest rates do. The current rates are still quite low. They only seem like such a shock because we've had two solid decades of artificially low rates, meaning profligate monetary creation by the Federal Reserve. But rather than being spent purposefully on societal investments, it was just handed to banks to use as they saw fit - causing the "everything bubble" we are suffering today.
Here's an old but related post for what Facebook does: https://engineering.fb.com/2010/06/04/web/bigpipe-pipelining...

It's evolved since the full migrate to a react app but the high level concept hasn't changed.
I wonder how Microsoft and the Bing team feel about this.
About 60% of households in the U.S. are living paycheck to paycheck according to Google. Most families don't have an extra 50K just lying around to invest in a mine If your family does ave that, I'm guessing you're. well off. Maybe not filthy rich, but well off.
Thank you, that's interesting to know. And yes, I will.
Also: That competence (the radiation safety technician).
This is why I have made it a point to consider my activities that most people would call "hobbies" as my primary and most important activities. What I do for a living is secondary to everything else, and I only do it to give me the funding I need for my real work.
> The main challenge in UI design is balancing between:
- Allowing the user to perform desired operations in as few steps as possible

- Without cluttering the screen with all kinds of irrelevant controls

Interestingly, I just watched a video by David Khourshid (founder of stately.ai; xstate/state chart/state machine fame) on how LLMs can interface with state charts of your application logic to find the shortest path to accomplishing a goal.

It doesn't seem like too far of a stretch, if your application is designed to support this use case, that an LLM can convert intent to shortest path for a user. I'm very excited about the possibilities here personally.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoNDyOClTtI
Exactly this, it takes a few days before the app will be indexed.
> Hiro Protagonist and Vitaly Chernobyl, roommates, are chilling out in their home, a spacious 20-by-30 in a U-Stor-It in Inglewood, California. The room has a concrete slab floor, corrugated steel walls separating it from the neighboring units, and—this is a mark of distinction and luxury—a roll-up steel door that faces northwest, giving them a few red rays at times like this, when the sun is setting over LAX. From time to time, a 777 or a Sukhoi/Kawasaki Hypersonic Transport will taxi in front of the sun and block the sunset with its rudder, or just mangle the red light with its jet exhaust, braiding the parallel rays into a dappled pattern on the wall.

> But there are worse places to live. There are much worse places right here in this U-Stor-It. Only the big units like this one have their own doors. Most of them are accessed via a communal loading dock that leads to a maze of wide corrugated-steel hallways and freight elevators. These are slum housing, 5-by-10s and 10-by-10s where Yanoama tribespersons cook beans and parboil fistfuls of coca leaves over heaps of burning lottery tickets.
Is Google launching Bard a perfect example of displaying the willingness to cannibalize Search?

Google Brain was formed in 2011. If that's not coherent investment in a long term strategy I don't know what would qualify.
Same issue in Northern Nevada. Radon gas seeps in.
Yes, besides the punch cards in 2013, superseded by a course in python at around 2016.
I'm looking for a good human readable format for my notebook app.

I don't want to use markdown, because markdown is very difficult to parse and I can't use existing parsers, because I want to extend markdown's syntax to support extended content types and revisions.

(I'm currently using djot)

I also looked at structured format, like toml and hjson. What I don't like about them is when the content contain a deep nested structure, the document will become unreadable.

for example, a blockquote can contain a paragraph and a paragraph can contain another blockquote and paragraph, etc

I can't tell if your format is practical for deeply nested structures.
Prices near me have dropped quite a bit especially if you include inflation in your comparisons. Though home prices are very local and your income isn’t guaranteed to keep up with inflation.
Is the GPT-4 access still limited to 25 messages every 3 hours for iOS?
I'd say that's a pretty clear example of why woke==bad. The title reads like something that was made up by the Onion in an attempt to mock a charicature. This kind of garbage draws attention away from actual research.
> While a FORTRAN 77 compiler is not necessary for building NumPy, it is needed to run the numpy.f2py tests. These tests are skipped if the compiler is not auto-detected.
Reminds me of the story about how Radon was discovered (well the fact that it can accumulate in homes). The story goes that a worker at a nuclear power plant kept on setting off the detectors when coming in to work and eventually they investigated his house.
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Ah so that's the culprit. I should have thought of trying that! I'm using a 1440p screen on a 15" laptop so I'm definitely not running at 100% zoom except for certain known apps that demand it. I'll try that and add it to the bug report.
Github came in relatively late for me... so mine is mostly one-off contributions, comments or feature requests. There's a handful of times I'll fork and push my fork out, while waiting on a PR (that sits in queue for a month or more).

I wish I didn't have to have a day job, but alas, I do. I didn't chase the money earlier in my career and I kind of regret it to be honest. I'm closer to 50 now, and while I don't see myself ever retiring, I definitely don't have the energy to put in a 40 hour week and do another 20 on personal or side projects on top all the time. I do spend a good 10-15 hours a week reading, keeping up and exploring, but I find on my own time I'm more in decision paralysis than actually getting stuff done. There's too many good options to explore.
The Harvard Art Museum also has a copy: https://harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/203742

I don't think most folks realize there are a couple of copies in Boston!
Try again tomorrow. 10:1 odds it will be the top entry.
Isn’t this what the Apple 30% tax is supposed to help pay for and facilitate? If it doesn’t solve this problem, what is its purpose and value?
I care about other things and people as much as tech. I can't just tinker with computers/machines and to stay up to date you have to invest some time in both the work and the communities.

I'm very, very much a generalist. My other hobbies that straddle the line between hobby and professional interest (in that I do them for play but have gotten money for them) include fiction writing, marketing psychology, humanities and qualitative research, and bra fitting.

Currently I'm off on a spree about the physiological nature of emotions and I'm getting really into experiences that are primarily physical and learning about biology in my spare time, which means I don't spend it coding or tinkering.

I can still code/tinker/approach tech problems with a hacker mindset, but I don't like to pretend I'm as good as people who really love it. I'm a dilettante to my core.
Buy a copy of plusfort.
China is an adversary and has been for a long time for many countries. They don't say that for no good reason, and yes, it's not about sinophobia.
Verizon 5G Home Internet is also typically $50/mo - were you ordering through the building, which might be taking a cut?
> If I could enjoy my work 30% more that would be great. Is it worth making less than half income though?

I've never once thought of it in those terms, but now that you pose the question... for me the answer is "yes, absolutely, no question about it."
> Moreover, the cost per ad will be massive given how expensive the inference is.

Why would they need to use LLM inference to show ads? If anything, they can use their standard efficient methods to match ads based on the output of the LLM. Generative Search doesn't look like it's raw LLM output anyway. It's obviously been trained to pull from structured data sources or at least it's output is post-processed to present that data.
Fantastic reply, @salawat. Thank you for taking the time to continue the conversation.

I think I am getting where you are coming from and have a better sense of the value of talking-back, and of unethical management being in competition with non-management.

I tend to work around others' faults (instead of challenging) - and I may be projecting that attitude in my position.

Here I still feel bad for the singled-out exec - though that could simply be me denying the intentionality and tactics of a person in a "powerful" position.

So while I may want to defer to the dominant paradigm, to work within the bounds, I see the value of changing it - of ensuring all workers have safe avenues for communicating dissent.
The overwhelming majority of a person's expenditures (Housing, education, medical, most of the food you buy at the grocery, many forms of transportation) are not covered by VAT. Many forms of energy (residential electricity, gas) are covered at a vastly reduced VAT.

And, again, the giant bugbear that is health insurance rears its ugly head on the US side. See the overall 'Taxes as a % of GDP' comparisons.

Edit: I stand corrected about taxes as % of GDP. You are right, that the UK is at 33.5%. [1] Unfortunately, again, that doesn't include the percentage of US spending on healthcare - which is 17.8% of its GDP, with much of it coming out of after-tax dollars, instead of pre-tax ones. (Medicaid and Medicare make up about a third of that - and are, obviously, financed by taxes.)

[1] https://www.oecd.org/tax/revenue-statistics-united-kingdom.p...
I am in the US and had the same issue - ended up installing it by finding the announcement post and clicking through from there.
The next step isn't to get more users of oil so there is more waste. The next step is bypass the waste oil and go directly to farmers to buy oil direct (actually the grain crushing plants). This what the biodiesel market started doing years ago, they can get a truckload from one place, instead of having to drive the truck around collecting a little bit from dozens of places. Plus the farmers can put in place quality controls that waste product can never meet.
I just discovered this as well. If your iOS is out-dated (the app requires 16.1 or higher), it won't show the app in search result.
Everyone in this thread is arguing about what single data point is or isn't 100% responsible for the game's success.

It's exhausting.
Gonna be cool when I can take a photo with this and ask CGPT what's in the photo/translate/how to repair/etc.
Worlds most obese man calls women fat.
There are overheads in server workloads that scale with the number of machines (network traffic, serializing/deserializing requests). There are also fixed costs per server that don't scale with core count, or at least scale sublinearly (storage, physical data center space, motherboard, ease of maintenance). So running 10 machines with 100 cores can be cheaper and more performant than running 1,000 machines with 1 core even if $/core is higher. And of course individual cores can be beefier: wider SIMD units, application-specific extensions like bfloat support for ML workloads, etc.

Of course Moore's law is slowing down, but cores/$ is an extremely silly metric to use
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