skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I suspect as things evolve with the Large Language Models, there will be integration with existing computer languages and frameworks. That the ability to say "Create a web site using language X with framework Y" will become a reality.

So, I think a key challenge is that modern programming languages do 2 things simultaneously.

1. They provide direct instruction to computers.

2. They document precise human intent.

Even if the need for part 1 goes away, part 2 will always be with us. I would expect that if natural language programming becomes a thing, that a dialect forms - akin to legalese - that embodies best practices for precisely documenting human intent.
That was almost three-quarters of a century ago, the US is a very different, chaotic, and dysfunctional country (see: California High-Speed Train Fiasco).

We can't build anything anymore.
When I made this comparison I was trashed in the comments. Not at the hyperbole of it (I don't think it is), that they are in poverty now while we are not. That we should have saved money. Which, shocker, not all of us work in California with those salaries... At this point as a SWE my only goal is to try and find IT employment to support loved ones and keep my visa till I get permanent residence. Fuck everything, just survive at this point. I loved programming, if that is ripped from me, then survive is all I want to do. That or jump in front of a train.
What a great idea.

TIL about jupyterlab-blockly https://jupyterlab-blockly.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
https://jupyterlab-blockly.readthedocs.io/en/latest/other_ex... :

> The JupyterLab-Blockly extension is ready to be used as a base for other projects: you can register new Blocks, Toolboxes and Generators. It is a great tool for fast prototyping."

jupyter-cadquery: https://github.com/bernhard-42/jupyter-cadquery

"Generate code from GUI interactions"
https://github.com/Kanaries/pygwalker/issues/90

Why cadquery instead of OpenSCAD:
https://cadquery.readthedocs.io/en/latest/intro.html#why-cad...

/? awesome finite element analysis site:github.com https://www.google.com/search?q=awesome+finite+element+analy...

AI Game Development Tools (AI-GDT) > 3D Model https://github.com/Yuan-ManX/ai-game-development-tools#3d-mo... :

> blender_jarvis - Control Blender through text prompts with help of ChatGPT*

> Blender-GPT - An all-in-one Blender assistant powered by GPT3/4 + Whisper [speech2text] integration

> BlenderGPT

> chatGPT-maya - Simple Maya tool that utilizes open AI to perform basic tasks based on descriptive instructions.
The main reason is that Rust is the first new systems language in a long time. That no big players owned it helped as well.

Go and C# are not systems languages. Maybe a stretch goal at best.
I suppose you could argue "substance" includes raw plants/mushrooms that are not technically drugs, still "substance abuse" is an attempt not to mention drugs.
I don't think its a CRE angle. He has multiple companies built around transportation.

Remote work => less demand for transportation.
At least sometimes: https://cloud.google.com/assured-open-source-software

Only 1000 packages but certainly seems they do that for a subset.
It's literally cable all over again. How did we let this happen?
$75m seems like small fish, because it's a really poor monetization $/user, and opportunity cost. Thousands of ideas could generate that at Google.

Counterexample, Google Brain didn't make much money, but they still invested in it and spit out Transformers.
I have a farm and work remotely. I'm awake 18 hrs a day, spend 6 with my family & 12 working -- 8 for tech job, 4 for farm. I do this 6 days a week. I'm insanely productive by most metrics (many many launched products, side gigs, work 1.5 jobs, etc). I schedule my day down to 15 min increments (though obviously, adjustments are always made).

Remote work affords me that opportunity and I work as hard as anyone. It's fun to wear the blue and white collar at the same time to be honest. I have survivalist friends, guys who work on cars, tech folks where wee discuss AI, etc.

I think Musk is wrong here, but do agree people need to roll up their sleeves and do legit work. You should always be contributing to your community, family, etc.
It is exempt from most EPA regulations on VOCs, because of its low toxicity. (So, yes, it's a VOC, but it's regulated as if it were not.)
Google photos? Google drive? Google Fi?
Fundamentally.
> I would expect that if natural language programming becomes a thing, that a dialect forms - akin to legalese - that embodies best practices for precisely documenting human intent.

Sort of like how the SQL syntax seems designed for business admin folks to use, but us programmers ended up using it.
Nobody felt entitled to owning lands before the end of serfdom.
I'm disappointed that you missed the opportunity for a well-placed pun there :)-
Eminent domain isn't that popular anymore unfortunately. Florida being one large empty red state, it's a lot easier to muscle 500 miles of new track into what's already there. To go up the whole east coast you'd have to wrestle with a half dozen different political machines. Even just limited to Florida, the line hasn't gotten past West Palm (yet), and was stalled for years due to lawsuits from just 2 counties.
Does Certbot still pull in 40 odd dependancies? I wanted to use it but ugh, the amount of extra libraries it wanted to pull in. acme.sh does it all with a single bash script (plus a few supporting binaries, to be fair)
Harrison Bergeron

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

full text: https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsd...

That used to be standard reading in my high school. Elon is full of deepity. And high school reading.
Check out SNN + Hebbian Learning:

- https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.15386

- https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S08936...

- https://github.com/guillaume-chevalier/Spiking-Neural-Networ...
Cool to see that people still find "50 Shades of Go" useful :) If anybody has additional gotchas you want to share I'd love to add them!
Oh, that's cool! :-D

It implements the missing parts on top of WebTransport. I was especially sad that WT doesn't do client authentication. You can't send credentials with a CONNECT request. But this thingy adds exactly this. Great!

Also having some standardized way to open QUIC Streams through NAT sounds nice. (Even I think the proper fix for this issues would just be IPv6.)

Frankly it's very early days. It's not implemented, and not even considered currently.

> It is not a W3C Standard nor is it on the W3C Standards Track.

But as I'm currently into implementing a WebTransport lib maybe I should try to add the features form this draft. Would be funny to have a P2P ready WT lib. Only that NAT traversal part I would leave out for now, I guess, as I'm not sold on the idea that this complexity is strictly needed. NAT just needs to die finally…
To me, the worst Google corpspeak/best meme was "Advancing our amazing bet" https://fiber.google.com/blog/2016/10/advancing-our-amazing-...
What does “win” mean though?

It improved the simulated win rate vs human win rate?

…but chatgpt had a higher win rate overall? (And gpt4 was much higher)

What is the significance of the difference between simulated and human win rates?
I’ve always liked this article for a reality check.

https://www.cold-takes.com/this-cant-go-on/
Of course, that's why they refuse to give even an inch except when they absolutely have to -- because people will fight to retain something that benefits them much more than they will fight to gain a possible benefit they have never experienced.
Hey guys - Billy Thalheimer, Co-founder and CEO of REGENT here. A friend reached out to say this is blowing up - so cool! (Thank you beefman lol) Here to answer any questions
Wait, is that due to interest rates or capital appreciation? There is a big difference.
This is a total hot take, but my explanation is that music - even pop music - needs to do something new or slightly different from other songs you've heard before to make it worth listening to. And having "swagger" / something unique / an interesting point of view isn't something procedural generation (or diffusion based generation in general) seems to be that good at inventing. Look at minecraft. Every map is randomly generated, but they all look kind of the same. Its really obvious in stable diffusion - people drawn by stable diffusion always have a slightly soulless look, where the quirks and charisma of the subject have been sanded down to the point of being unmemorable.

I think the best music (just like the most productive artists) will soon be humans working together with AIs. Chess went through a period like this, where the best chess games were played by humans collaborating with AIs. But I think it'll be a few years yet before you get better art without humans being involved at all.
Divide and conquer, that's where.
They fully are computers. I wear hearing aids, and for example, one setting will glom onto voices in the stereo field and track them so the voice remains clear if they are moving around, while damping everything else.

They do quite a lot, actually. They typically have 4 settings that the wearer can opt for. Some are "smarter" than others. The one I described is one of the more advanced functions.
Ex-‘Pharma Bro’ Martin Shkreli Now Living in Queens on $2,500 a Month
IIS is still waiting for it, you have to run some esoteric commands to try it out and it doesn't reliably function.
My sailboat uses radar, I can see things from a good distance away. Let's say 30NM. Surely the plane will do better. But let's say it's going 180mph, or ~160kts. That's 11min from first radar contact to collision. With all that forewarning, avoiding a yacht isn't a big deal. If they can't avoid it, they can stop with 11min warning.

Let's say visual only. There will be restrictions on visibility for visual flight rules. So say that they can only fly with more than 10NM of visibility. That's still 3m45s to take action. Surely enough.
If I recall, the walkout is from noon-1… so… lunch?

That’ll show ‘em.
Well, programmers provide a natural language interface and somehow we usually manage the ambiguity and complexity OK.

In my experience, a lot of support requests for bespoke/in-house software go like this:

> User: Why is my wibble being quarked? This shouldn’t be happening!

> Dev: Wibble ID, please?

> User: ID 234567. This is terrible!

> Dev: [rummages in git blame] Well, this wibble is frobnicated, and three years ago [links to Slack thread] you said that all frobnicated wibbles should be automatically quarked.

> User: Yes, but that was before we automated the Acme account. We never frobnicate their wibbles!

> Dev: ...so, is there a way for me to tell if a client wants their wibbles unfrobnicated, or should I hard-code an exception for Acme?

(And then, six months later: “Why are none of Acme’s wibbles being frobnicated automatically?”)

If you could introduce an AI assistant that could answer these questions instantly (instead of starting with a support ticket), it’d cut the feedback loop from hours or days down to seconds, and the users (who are generally pretty smart in their field, even if my frustration is showing above) would have a much better resource for understanding the black box they’ve been given and why it works the way it does.
It makes a lot of sense when you consider how much of his wealth is invested in a car company.

Even in a hybrid work environment, the vast majority of the miles I put on my car are commuting to and from the office. And if a household has 2 adults who need to commute, they're more likely to want 2 fuel-efficient vehicles.
but what is rational? a great great many people in Denmark obliterated the savings they spent a few decades making just to make it through this mild winter only freezing moderately, some even having to sell their homes and a large number (small percentage, but still large number) looking into retiring on the public pension that is not much. Would they be better off if the west had not gone all in on the anti-russia sanctions and funding ukraine?

the people in the US/EU that were crying snot because russians were streaming gas burners running 24/7 while some Europeans had to equip their winter jackets in their homes.

the extreme amount of wet firewood being burned smoking up entire neighborhoods so that people would not freeze to death. Are the people inhaling that smoke better off? is it rational for them to cheer "putin man bad" (asserting that they did, i do not know if they did)
> I grew up during cold war, USSR collapse, multiple wars in the region. At no point was I (or any of my peers to my knowledge) gravely concerned for our future.

Kids in our day got it through regular media. The cold war had a big influence on music at the time and shows like The Day After (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_After) were on TV. I was very aware that we could be nuked at any moment, and later, that we were destroying the environment. We had the rest of the world's evils pushed on us by Very Special Episodes and After School Specials. I had plenty of other mundane concerns to worry about too, but concern for our future was always there in the background.

Kids today get it much worse since the message is that it's already too late and we're basically doomed.
I call it the forever fallacy. It's really quite simple. The forever fallacy is the belief that the circumstances that led to extraordinary growth will continue indefinitely, even when they obviously won't. It's the idea that growth, no matter how irrational, will continue because the change in circumstances that caused it is permanent.

The financial media writes this exact same type of article every time there is a correction, like in 2020, 2022, 2012, 2016, 2009, etc. And then as always, when least expected, prices come roaring back. Meta stock is up more than 130% from the lows of 2022. Same for Netflix, also up huge. Or NVidia. It generally pays to be optimistic and stay invested. It's always the same pattern. Price fall fast but then recovers so fast too. Yeah, maybe extraordinary growth will not continue indefinitely, but so what.
I have a MacBook M1 Max that has been nothing but a pain in the ass when it comes to the core audio. Anytime I attempt to use soft synths that peg the CPU at about 40 to 50%, the speakers will start to occasionally crackle/pop completely disrupting my flow.

Apparently it's not a completely unheard of problem no pun intended. I've had to go back to my windows machine (bitwig and FL) + MOTU, and pretty much abandoned Mac music with logic pro completely. Really ticks me off.
Hate them both: the game is a reason, not an excuse.
But that would be unfair because it harms Elon.

What happens to us doesn't matter, remember? We're all just NPCs.
Yeah, why fight to improve things when you can self-harm?
I just re-read the parent post, and was really struck by the reference to “documents filled with unstructured text.” I mean, that’s exactly what commercial contracting is - it doesn’t easily map to a simple schema outside very, very basic transactions.
Fundraising and the SAFE is different because that transaction is really one of the simpler ones at the end of the day - $x for y% of the company based on a valuation cap of $z. Typically the issuer is a Delaware corp, so investors can rely on the fiduciary statutory and common law overlay.

But if it were structured as an investment in an LLC, or a debt financing, where all the rights are basically purely contractual, documenting that deal becomes much more difficult.

I’m not trying to put words in your mouth and saying that’s the problem you’re trying to solve, because I don’t think it is. But the reference to the SAFE is misleading because I think that’s one of the “easier” commercial transactions, and most legal documentation is complicated because the underlying deal is complicated.
Ask HN: Mandatory gov't fingerprinting for parents in California?
My kid's California public school is telling parents they need to get a "Live Scan" fingerprint screening to participate in school events.

Has anyone looked into this? Is it even legal? What are the privacy implications?
There’s no way that someone as wealthy as he doesn’t own at least some commercial property. Even if not himself, Tesla alone owns billions in CRE, not to mention his other companies.

Commercial properties are some of the most valuable assets a company owns, of course the guy wants to keep CRE values up. Just because he owns some transportation companies doesn’t mean he’s allergic to CRE, that’s kinda naive.

That’s like arguing guys at his level don’t donate to both political parties when they clearly do. Because by doing that, you get to own the whole system, not just a piece.
"Assuming equivalent type annotations" is the problem. Can't do it with Python, full stop. If we could, we wouldn't be having this conversation at all! It can't catch any mistakes because its type system is simply not expressive enough. You have to hold the type information in your head and make sure you slice and multiply correctly.
During the pandemic I had an initial meeting with a hiring manager at Amazon that didn’t care that I was multiple time zones away from her office. Even though the official policy was actually return to office when pandemic conditions change. Luckily I didn’t want to go through their interview process- I’m guessing I would have gotten axed in the layoffs for being newer on the team and not being able to come to the office.
Current file systems are impressive - flexible, robust, close the hardware performance. But I'm disappointed that we are still using such low level models for our day to day computing. Files = everything is an array of bytes and every program/library has to interpret and manage those bytes, "manually", individually, and slightly differently to other programs!

It's understandable to use "files" when running retro apps, but it's way past time that a high level model rendered the concept of files obsolete.

(I can be hopeful but I hold not outlook for such better models. Too many backwards compatible apps and too much depends on our existing code.)
References though. If you had to prove it was ubiquitous, what would you point to?
> This ability to get Hello World done in 5 minutes instead of 1/2 a day to walk through a intro book/tutorial, well, that's a win.

So a bit like `create-react-app` or `dotnet new` or such, but now powered by AI?*
AI doesn’t mind working in the office and works 24/7, I’d tread lightly here if I was a knowledge worker. There are much worse things than being asked to come to the office to work. Like being told you aren’t needed at all ever again.
what then happened to imgur? they suddenly decided to ban NSFW imagery and move on to becoming a reddit themselves
How do foils deal with kelp or a casual whale?
Give Me Those Hard, Hard Numbers
I am struggling to find a coherent point in what you have written.
India Court issues summons to Delhi CM for asking info on PM Modi Degree
1. There is a controversy that Indian PM Modi's education degree is fake. [1]

2. Delhi Chief Minister used RTI (Right To Information Act) to request for information about education degree of PM Modi

3. The Chief Information Commissioner (CIC) directed the Delhi University and Gujarat University, to search the information regarding degrees in the name of “Mr Narendra Damodar Modi” in the year 1978 (Graduation in DU) and 1983 (Post Graduation in GU) and provide it to the appellant Mr Kejriwal as soon as possible.

4. Instead of providing requested information, Gujarat University then approached the Gujarat High Court against the CIC’s order.

5. Gujarat High Court ordered that a Gujarat University does not need to provide the required information, and also imposed a fine of Rs 25,000 on Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, who had requested the information under The Right to Information (RTI) Act. Here Kejriwal was not even a party in the case, It was The Chief Information Commissioner who directed the Gujarat University to provide information but the judge still decided to fine Kejriwal. [2]

6. Interestingly, India's top government lawyer, Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, represented the the Gujarat university in this case. Gujarat University is hell bent on keeping PM Modi degree information secret while generally universities proudly display records of their notable alumni.

7. Now going even one step ahead, the Gujarat University filed a criminal defamation case against Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and court has sent summons to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and Aam Aadmi Party's Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh. [3]

8. Importantly, the university has also put up a contention in its complainant that CM Kejriwal made the statements in his “personal capacity” and “not affairs of the State”. Agreeing with this submission, the Court last month ordered to delete the word ‘Chief Minister’ from Kejriwal’s name in the cause title of the case. [3]

[1] https://www.nationalheraldindia.com/india/the-curious-case-o....

[2] https://www.outlookindia.com/national/gujarat-high-court-qua...

[3] https://www.livelaw.in/news-updates/pm-modi-degree-defamatio...
Effectively yes.

A fix for the loop variable closure problem is now in the official proposal process, which is how language changes happen in Go.

It’s a concrete proposal from the core Go team and seems to be on track for acceptance:

https://github.com/golang/go/issues/60078

An implementation is already available on tip and in the upcoming Go 1.21 release behind a GOEXPERIMENT flag.

The community reaction has been extremely positive. As one approximate measure, an earlier draft of the proposal had 671 upvotes and with 0 downvotes:

https://github.com/golang/go/discussions/56010
I wonder how long "Using humans to rate the quality of other humans" thing can last. Surely academia has only so long before it collapses.
I can easily imagine that 'wrong' timing sneaking in from the time needed to position the hands ready to slide up the neck.
There is nothing "sad" about it. It is simple economics. The return on investment (ROI) is so much higher in software, compared to hardware. Correspondingly, the profits margins are way higher in software, compared to hardware.

Related: When you look at salaries for robotics engineers who work in a factory, the salaries are so much lower than you would expect. Plus, your factory is probably in a rural area due to very cheap land prices.

One more: Anything "embedded" usually pays surprisingly low salaries considering their skill-level (much higher than mine!).
Boats can't fly over things either. You crash or follow the rules and avoid.
I don't see Shit's creek for any of those terms
These protesters are just going to accelerate outsourcing. If companies can't get the benefits of in-office Americans and are forced into having a remote workforce they might as well get them for 1/4 of the price from Central and South America.
I feel like the author here is not thinking through the opposite. What happens to the CEO if they plan for the market to stagnate and then it doesn't? Then they look like fools as their competitors take market share and then they get replaced.

The incentives just aren't designed to plan for decline.
Not specific to this article…

RLHF is supervised learning on top of unsupervised learning. Is supervised learning at some point of the process a requirement for all reasonable ML models?
Surely, as this is a purely subjective experience, what matters is not if spoilers don't affect enjoyment in general, but whether they affect enjoyment for me?

One of my favourite films, Stalker as a scene referred to as "the meat grinder". I knew how it went before I first watched it, and have always wished that I didn't. In general, I find it much more enjoyable to go into a film with as little foreknowledge as possible.
Does your audio input device run an RTOS? Probably. Audio output device? Also likely. Does the intermediate processing need to be an RTOS? Or does it just need to be able to operate fast enough to consume the input buffers and keep the output buffers from starving?