skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I fiddled around with some things on the weekend (i am not a programmer, i actually hate it so using LLMs is great for me - us EEs always write awful code) to automatically create a debug file of any output that gets a traceback and create a standard report using pdb, inspect, etc (never used them before) regarding the functions, parameters and variables, current state etc etc.

Though i was surprised i can't easily run pdb instance via a python program, still have to use stdin/out apparently.

Next i want to implement automerge (or semiautomerge) between different outputs which e.g. contain variants of the same function to automatically resolve issues spawned from the model forgetting. That's so annoying

I also suspect a lot of issues are due to the training data being on old SW. I think we can automatically remap this with whitelisted functions and parameters (i recall inspect can do this), blacklisted ones from old version NOT present in the current, and maybe a transformation between the two -- or automatisch regenerate if it's wrong, maybe with a modification to the prompt.

Also talking to it in other languages generates massively different code (i used deepl) so i had the crazy idea of spawning Dockers and just letting this automatic/semiautomatic trouble Shooting+ just parallel generating lots of functions using wildly different inputs (and models) to brute force the problem of having to code

I do need to look into a nice terminal interface for N-way merges and parallel gen monitoring.

The most useful thing for me was making some vim keybinds and scripts to automatically grab Codeblocks, run them and quickly regenerate. You can literally just tell it "DF" and if fixes a pandas issue sometimes

The holy grail will probably be local fine tunes/LoRAs for specific issues or libraries, since it only costs a few $ for one. Sign me up for an expert plotly AI in a box for neat plots please

Edit : i also have literally no idea what I'm doing either, but linting and analyzing generated Code blocks could help expedite this whole process as well. And in principle you don't even have to run it if you know the type is wrong or something.

I don't know what this is called but computer science is ostensibly mathematics so i assume/hope there is some rigor here
Would love to see this with Erlang/rebar3 or LFE or Gleam or Elixir…
I had typed an argument of that nature, but closed the tab because I didn't want to spend time arguing.

Now that you mention it, though, my problem is with the word subjugation, which isn't an accurate descriptor of what was happening 200,000 years ago when we were living in small bands in the woods, starving, being hunted by animals stronger than us.
I doubt it. As always, "shortage" is just a euphemism for "we don't want to pay market rate".

It's a small enough niche that buyers of services can conspire.
For some reason I thought this was someone complaining about those German windows we have in our houses, that open two ways.
The idea that COBOL is at the heart of bank systems is a persistent myth that gets published every now and again alongside some story about how essential these systems are, how they can never be replaced and how the people maintaining these systems are a dieing breed.

Almost all of this seems untrue (except maybe the last one). I’ve worked at a variety of banks from front to back office across securities and private wealth. I’ve seen plenty of company-specific languages, plenty of C++, Java, perl, python but have literally never encountered a COBOL system. There’s one system at one of the banks that I was a contractor at which may have been COBOL I’m not sure. I didn’t work directly on it and it ran on a Tandem.

I’ve never worked for a pure retail bank so it’s possible that some pure retail banks use COBOL, but I have worked on settlement systems, payment systems, reconciliation systems etc including for banks that have a retail arm as part of a larger bank and haven’t seen hide nor hair of COBOL anywhere. Some cynical part of me wonders whether IBM PR or some niche trade body or recruitment agency seeds these stories into the press every now and again to get people to fixate on COBOL and these clunky mainframes being somehow essential to the financial system.
These are important and difficult questions and 100% distinct from the claim “this was never about leveling the playing field.”
Decentralizing trends

Once you have an LLM you can train powerful models with relatively small amounts of data. Some A.I. safety problems are worse for more visible companies. If you have the first or second text generator in the world it will make the headlines if it talks like an asshole, if you trained model #334,811 yourself, who cares?

“Big data” is a liability for training networks in the sense that it takes more time to process. I have simple models for some things that are so fast I can run 20,000 experiments a day with a script without trying, There are other models where the training run takes 12 hours. Guess which one is easier to improve?
Details pages with a lot of information? Bad fit.

Small messages that need to be brought to the user's attention and a simple "OK"/"Cancel" button? Yes, this is a good fit. That's what modal windows were originally created for.
I for one am completely comfortable having married a woman with advanced degrees and an IQ about 10 points above mine. Even considering the fewer degrees and lower IQ, we both agree I am the smartest one, because I married her.
Independently of the Pulitzer kerfuffle, this is insane guerilla journalism and I deeply respect that.
just because it made it easier for me to reason about the fact that since the sun has some actual width it's exactly equivalent to a body that would orbit at that distance. If you frame it that way then it's rather obvious that the sun also fits the bill as the "mostest closest body" (albeit not planet)
That's a very very american way of thinking
The Longevity Skeptic
The end of the article says exactly that.
I love it, releases on GitHub to so I can avoid F-Droid builds. Dev is nice and receptive too and the app is feature filled.
Finally replaced Materialistic for me.
The FBI would like to remind you that officially it's a "waterboarded" metaphor.
I think the first article I saw complaining about modals was in BYTE magazine circa 1981.
Rape also involves lack of consent from one party, that distinguishes rape from sex.

How is adultery far worse than rape? If your wife cheats on you, well, it sure is no happy moment, but you divorce and look for another person in your life.

Maybe this is a cultural thing (I'm from South America), and you come from a place where it's ok to impose to your wife to have sex, as if she had no volition of her own and no authority onto her own body.
From the top comment:

> I teach computer science and have a particular fondness for introductory CS. The reason Stephen Wolfram is wrong, wrong, wrong about this is that people that have never been taught programming can't express themselves precisely enough in their native language, either; and even among those of us that have been programming for decades, when we express ourselves in natural language we can be very precise but it takes a lot more work and becomes a lot more unwieldy than just writing out our instructions in [pseudo]code.

I used to think the same thing, but I what changed my mind was the noticable increase in precision that came with ChatGPT 4. Before I felt like a monkey - not I actually get things done they way "I intended".
Aunt Jane likely didn't even want or might not even have a smart house in the first place. That's perhaps the thing you're missing here - your average person doesn't give a shit if it's "smart", they just want things to work and the only difference for them between "it's smart" and "it's dumb" is if the remote they're fiddling with is their phone, an on-device button or a regular remote (as well as how likely it is that they get spied on externally).

Your average person's ideal amount of exposure to code is zero (as in, most would prefer to not even think about code). If the device isn't automated from the getgo in an easy way, then Aunt Jane has no smart device and no matter how easy it is to write the connection, she's not going to have it unless her niece shows up.

You're severely overestimating the desire for an everyday person to automate their home. Most people are perfectly fine manually flicking light switches and unless you live on a very specific schedule, often automation ends up falling short of practical reality, so even the majority of people who "automate" just end up moving the light switch to their phone.
It is poorly written. I assume it’s because Fantastic and Incredible are “unobstructed, free fall pits” and Smokey I is partially obstructed or not a clear vertical drop in some way.
There doesn't need to be a conspiracy when so much of the media is consolidated that the people on top can simply make decisions that affect all of them, or just give all of them the same script:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzYj11qWb-M
Thanks for at least admitting you used GPT 3.5, which is very out of date and hence no longer useful when discussing AI capabilities. If you want to test current tech (which is moving fast), at least use GPT-4 (which also gets updated regularly).
I'm looking for a remote job ATM and I've stumbled upon this ad. Everything about it looks perfectly fine except for the anonymous hiring aspect:

"
You could use a pseudonym.

You could use an avatar and voice-changer for meetings.

You do not need to reveal your real identity.

We use Noxx for contracting and payment, so you can work without the risk of revealing your identity to us.
"

Ok, I get it, some people do moonlighting and they sure don't want to be exposed, but Frost guys go full blown 007-style secrecy. If they're fine with you moonlighting they're already on your side! Why go that far?

Has anyone had any experience with such setups? No crypto, a reputable industry with some interesting tasks to work on but such a weird hiring practice.

Is it a major red flag? Does it mean that they cater to a particular developer demographics whos needs I (not being part of the said demographics) don't understand?
The bad actors do buy SIM cards in large quantities and there are services that will rent out the numbers for SMS verification. It substantially raises the cost for someone that wants to register 100,000 fraudulent accounts without linking accounts based on phone numbers.
If you're referring to my blog, sorry yeah I use the free Wordpress plan and they stick those ads there for themselves :-(. The app has no ads though, which is important when it's for kids
Why would anyone want to complain about those?
Since Durham we know it is stolen. Also the irregularities in Oregon state voting are telling the story of a stolen election.

"Leftists" do not exist in US political arena. Sanders was close but even he would not want to "socialize" (bring under control of the workers) US business. What is called "left" in the US is generally more right-wing than right-wing liberal parties in Europe. Probably you mean Democrats (that we know since the Durham report do not give a f*ck about democracy).
Google search has eroded a lot over the years. I think some of that is scale, but also adversarial SEO listings, etc. The biggest jump in its degregation Ive noticed happened around the time chatgpt launched after it's beta. Now every major search engine has an LLM product... Has had me wondering...
I understand that. But it would be most excellent if they supported VSTi in standalone mode.
There is no reason (that I’m aware of) to think that prior to recorded history we were somehow more restrained with groups/individuals who were weaker than us or outsiders.

But hey, I suppose you never know.

Edited to be sure not to distract from the actual thrust of the argument :)
your personality doesnt matter if your looks arent good enough to open the door for the personality to be presented.
Wp2git: Wikipedia page history –> Git repository
I found WireGuard to actually be especially frustrating, because it doesn't really log anything. If you do a single configuration misstep the packets just won't flow. Then good luck figuring out whether it's the authentication that's wrong (or any of the cert checks in the chain), rounting, MTU, firewall or anything inbetween.

It's kinda horrible. Not that IPsec is any better. OpenVPN at least yells something at you.
But under what definition of "closet" would it be Venus?

According to CGP Grey's video linked in the comments, not only Mercury has lowest average distance to Earth, it's also spend the most time being the closest planet to Earth, so it already met two definitions I can think of.
Love your username, OP.
Accelerating Podcasting 2.0 with Castamatic and Alby
I sincerely doubt that had any real implication. Transport was quite bad those days and dragging them across 50 states would be quite taxing on a horse. The law changed accordingly as the situation evolved
There’s also a happy middle ground, which is that life had a variable pace over the seasons and years, depending on the availability of game, forage, and crops, and the ease of travel depending on the weather.

I live very much off-grid and have come to appreciate the rhythm of the year, and the times when you have nothing but idle hands, and hours to fill. The summer days when it’s too hot to venture beyond your shaded home, the winter days when the rain drives you to shelter, and the rare times when there’s simply nothing that needs doing today.

The thing that has defined humans since there have been humans is our capability and desire to create, just for the hell of it. Our oldest known artefacts seem to have been made for no purpose other than to have been made, and our history is littered with art for art’s sake, fabulous ornamentation where austerity would have sufficed, and Brobdingnagian works which defy any direct practical purpose, such as henges and pyramids.

We have pretty much always had time for the unnecessary, but engaging.
In my city you can definitely tell a difference in the demographics that frequent places that have train access vs those without. The malls for example:

Malls with train access tend to bring a lot of kids strutting around flexing (as kids are expected to do). This has side effects of petty larceny and shootings. All of the mall shootings are groups of these kids that have beef with each other. It's mostly harmless to shoppers but there's always a chance you could get caught in crossfire or become the target of a malicious youth prank.

It's just your typical youth angst but you can avoid it simply by going to a mall without train access.

The question comes down to whether train access brings more benefits than drawbacks. When talking to anti-trainers you have to address this issue. You can't just hand wave it away as they're perfectly fine with the car status quo.

However, I'm sure most people will ignore everything in this comment and just shout "gun control".
In Chicago there are neighborhoods that actively blocked subway access so they could be car suburbs and not get the change that comes with mass transit access. Same for the famous Robert Moses parkways on Long Island.

There is some validity to the idea that preventing mass transit insulates a community from a certain type of change but it comes with major costs.
> Finally, a practical question: to maximize your odds of getting a desirable spouse, should you make more money or less? For men this is easy: earn more. For women, it’s a harder question

It's not really that hard, and even mentioned in the article: Make a lot of money, meet rich men over hors d'oeuvres at a vernissage and once you talk about money, simply lie and understate your income.
I've seen confused users who missed/ignored the tiny OK window, and through the app froze, because the large parent window stopped reacting to clicks.
The following contains a logical error:

> That is: if men cared about looks more than women, then they would trade off status for looks: faced with a choice between an average-looking woman of the same class, or a beautiful woman of a slightly-lower class, they would choose the beautiful-but-poor woman. But this would mean men would marry lower-class women more often than women married lower-class men, which would imply a less-than-perfect status correlation between husbands and wives. But the data show a pretty perfect status correlation between husbands and wives. Therefore, men can’t care about looks.

The fallacy here is in the last sentence. This assumes the only possible cause for having perfect correlation, would be men not caring about looks. But there are more possible reasons: for instance men could prefer looks over class, and women prefer some other quality over class as well; the result is that both genders equally often marry below class.
The data in the article seems to confirm that, because women prefer marrying up wrt income.
So it might be like in the song; daddy's rich and mom is good looking.
On the topic, if you ever find yourself ever bored in Zagreb, check out the optical illusions and broken relationships museums.
Whichever one has smaller delta-v.
> Don't open the details in a modal window. Have it be a separate page.

This will worsen the UX more often than not. Guaranteed.

All complaints on the page are ultimately grievances against poorly thought-through implementations and as such they are rooted in the wrong thing. It's trivial to complement every modal window with a standalone version, in which case it's possible to bookmark them, middle-click on the links and what have you.

Start with the user experience, craft your implementation around that and all will be fine. Including the modal windows.
The swiss are going to put this issue to a vote : https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/business/swiss-libertarians-pus...

Although I don't see cash going away anytime soon here, everywhere takes cash AFAIK. I prefer having cash on me when going out, plus the washing machine in my building is a bit old and only takes 1fr and 20c pieces so having change is necessary!
Next.js 13 has a neat solution: parallel routes (https://nextjs.org/docs/app/building-your-application/routin...)
Metrology Tools Stack Up in 3D NAND Devices
> School shootings are genuinely frightful, not the subject of artificial fear-mongering.

Terrorist attacks are genuinely terrifying. That doesn't mean the probability of experiencing one isn't vanishingly small.
Really nice insight:
> So the point I'd make with this is that information itself is something that should be free. Because it shapes views. Where things get dodgy is in 'inorganic' organizing and promotion.

It is this that I would like journalists and even states to protect the people against. Not censor but a nice little banner like Youtube and Twitter saying this media comes from <something> and is part of a campaign. In that banner then publish the analysis and criteria used.

Youtube does it for in-video advertising so the logic exists even in the commercial space. I find it plausible it would be valuable in the virtual agora.
A friend of mine worked for a bank, or rather part of a bank that did the payroll I think. And they where working on converting all the COBOL to java a few years back.

From personal experience when I got a loan approved I noticed the bank dude had to log into a terminal based system via remote login to a VM. But I can't say for certain that it was written in COBOL. But certainly written around or before the 90s.
Surely declining to hear the appeal IS agreeing with the ruling, at least de-facto? Doing so because they are busy or don't want to interfere etc doesn't change that. At best they have retained the option to hear an identical case later, but SCOTUS always has that right anyway...
Last week I was walking down the street and looking at the ground in front of me I noticed a 10€ bill laying on the pavement.

Picking it up I realized this is most likely not possible with digital cash.
Above all, please respect that a middle mouse button is supposed to open a link in a new tab.
The article is missing a huge point. The companies mentioned in it did not lose anything at all, or an amount that is negligible.

They took advantage off the boom and made more money than they could in a normal situation.

They did not lose anything (at least the companies mentioned in the article) in my point of view.

They already knew they were going to fire the staff they hired. But they also knew that they had to hire more staff to take advantage of the situation.
Do people actually do that much copy paste programming? People I work with are more inclined to read the docs and lean on intellisense. The people I've seen cling to chatgpt have been spending a lot of time forgetting LSPs exist and wondering why some hallucinated method doesn't exist... They also tend to think really long 1 liners are good code over explicit easy to read 3 liners...
After a certain amount of accumulated wealth, there is no losing.

The trick is to apply this to your life and be willing to live well below your means to get there.
Is this intended for single devs or also for small teams?
Not that I have any experience of it in practice, but shouldn't those whole machines be possible to emulate gracefully by now? If not in software alone, at least combined with e.g. a decent FPGA.

Of course that's of limited benefit if the jobs also include service of the actual hardware, but it seems like it should be good enough to get experience with the machines as an environment for programming. (And certainly compact enough to have at your house)
Fair enough:)

It's also okay to have opinions about language of course. I just often see people confidently stating, that they're speak the right way, and those others (from that other city, country, those young people, those poor people, those black people, etc.) speak the wrong way. And it often boils down to either ignorance about how languages actual work and evolve, or just elitism/classism (or worse).

And as somebody who cares a lot about languages, this just rubs me the wrong way, and I see it so often.
Hence my previous response, pardon the snark:)
> Would you date someone really hot if she worked in a supermarket, and wasn't all that clever?

I would not care about her job, but a large difference in cognitive ability makes a relationship quite hard in my experience. Not only is it harder to grasp/explain complex situations, it usually also comes with stark differences in emotional control and interests. It will also make arguments one-sided, as the more intelligent party will usually be able to argue their position better, which will lead to frustration for either them (if the partner is refusing to change their opinion regardless) or their partner (if they give in, unable to argue).
Why does it suck, because it's doing a lot of allocations?
Largely legacy I'd say

- Most new stuff is built on regular servers with Linux running

- Mainframe kind of stuff would be HPC (high performing computing), this is where huge calculation are done at scale, this would be scientific/university/engineering use cases

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TOP500

> most powerful non-distributed computer systems in the world.
Intelligence Without Representation [pdf]
>That is not a behavior specific to women.

And people seek young partners with large breasts. That's not a behavior specific to men. How many men do you know that look for a woman with money?
Thank you! And we do plan to expand into other industries in the future.
Maybe not COBOL, but I know someone who works for a payment processor / print shop in the New England area, they use a language called PL/B which is pretty close. Most of the senior crew are all retired now, and the place is practically falling apart.