skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> it is ridiculously expensive

What? It's 3p/6c cents per 1k tokens.

I use GPT4 for all kinds of things, but a very basic example: Automatic API client/stub/endpoint generation with GPT4 for reasonable/typical data structure sizes, 4k tokens buys me GET/POST/DELETE/PUT for all of the above.

The completion request finishes in about 90 seconds. A human junior developer would take nearly an hour. In the best case, maybe 20 minutes using something like Swagger.

So that's ~20 cents versus $60 or so, to say nothing of the time.

And this extends to everything else: writing tests, refactoring, writing configuration files, UI generation, database schema and SQL query generation, etc.

What the hell are you even talking about?
Wow. This is tragic. "Eat bitterness" while the government gets all that tuition fee. Time for a revolution!
> I skip all the prelim questions where they "learn about your business" which is just looking for other opportunities to pitch me things. I know my business, I know my need, let's talk about how your product fits that.

The only way for the sales folks to tailor a demo or presentation for you is to learn about your business. Your method here comes across as very transactional and impersonal, you need a relationship with your sales rep as much as they need one with you so they will have your back or give you discounts. It's how the game is played.
Lane keeping assistance, from the context.
They don't attract insects. Couldn't tell you why but I've actually exploited this for throwing outdoor parties at night.

Those floodlights will be swarming with bugs but doting the place with kerosene lanterns they couldn't be less interested.
Wouldn’t it be more accurate to say “the act of owning a big private ranch and trying to claim public land that it surrounds as inaccessible is effectively illegal?” The fact that the end result is that “big private ranches are illegal” doesn’t strike me as irrational. These people are well aware that the large swathes of land around them are public land. The fact that they may have purchased them under the assumption that no one would be able to access that land isn’t really an idea that garners a whole lot of sympathy.
Very interesting. This is the first I’m hearing Berlin described as dysfunctional. I had a friend mention while I was visiting how bad the government support was “during Covid” for people who lost their jobs and wages, but didn’t want to pry.

Do berliners feel forgotten by their leaders? Maybe that’s preferred and allows for more individualism (better or worse)?
I can remember clearly my thoughts during before bumping into someone in front of me: it was quick alternates between “BREAK NOW” and “beware slipping”. Traffic was quite slow but but I was terrified to not being able to choose what voice to listen in my head, it was a very strange dissonance experience.

I braked too softly and ended up in the bumper of the car in front of me. The rental car did had ABS and I knew it but didn’t thought of it during the breaking.
Yes that's my point as you change tools you have to learn new keys.

It's fine if you can dictate your tools are only vim/i3/cli. I haven't had that luxury.
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Yep as long as you remain up-to-date I've never had a WP install hacked. Not saying the security is good - but there a lot of vulnerabilities reported with other similar software too. Don't know if I'd say WP is worse. Given its market penetration, it is going to be targeted more often.

I've noticed a lot of big companies are using WP for their blog as well... companies that could easily pay for something fully custom (such as Sony/Playstation), so they are arguably doing something right.
I think what I'm getting at is that the OP is really out of touch with reality if they think that $120 per meal for a couple is normal
Fundamentally the problem with python is that it's packages are global and every workaround except ~docker can't fix it except in a hacky way since the package resolution is specified in the language
> I see the name “Brave Browser” and my brain just refuses to engage.

Not sure I follow.

I used Firefox for 20 years but had to switch to a Chromium browser due to performance. Went with Brave, seemed to be the best of the bunch.

I've been happy with it. What's the problem with the name?
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The worst/most-impressive part is how difficult it is to even raise this subject without triggering everyone's thought-terminating partisan programming

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

https://theweek.com/speedreads/689969/tucker-carlson-tried-j...
A minor autocomplete mistake from 2 years ago (quickly fixed and apologised for by the CEO [1]) is framed as a 'scandal'.

Meanwhile Mozilla is showing signs of serious, systemic internal org issues, and no problem? [2]

It's pretty clear a user / privacy-first model is central to Brave's mission, so these drive-by comments griping loudly about minor, historical issues never feel intellectually compelling.

[1] https://twitter.com/BrendanEich/status/1269317625915400192

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36077360
The crux of the issue is "how can we be certain that we've addressed all the failure modes?" This isn't like proving the correctness of a program where we can rely on exhaustivness or universal quantification.

"It worked in the simulation," is the embodied AI equivalent of "It worked on my machine." It's not acceptable.
Not if you own eight blocks around one public one.
Invalid comparison, the display size doesn't matter because of how lenses work, so the perceived screen size is what counts. VR headsets are typically measured in PPD (pixels per degree). Apple's headset is rumored to be 1.5-2x Quest 3.
> I've seen plenty [...]

You keep saying this, yet you haven't provided any example. I don't believe you, happy to change my mind after you provide some examples.

And I can't make any sense out of your closed source software that would be published under a free as in libre license. Closed and libre are pretty much opposite.

I mean no disrespect, but you are the one conflating everything with everything.
Who the hell still uses WhatsUp? Or Facebook? Leave that toxic shit behind. There are better choices.

Try Signal, for starters. Pass it along.
If the insulation in my building was asbestos, it could be more costly to remove it than to leave it there and pay for regular testing and extra maintenance. But that doesn't mean it would be providing value.

Switching software has a cost. Avoiding that cost is not value.
You're saying that people with a life outside of computers won't spend their life on a new kind of computer.
I assume this is a usenet feed without binaries, because a feed with binaries would be a firehose of unimaginable proportion.
wasn't René Magritte and "Ceci n'est pas une pipe" long before there was a CIA? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Treachery_of_Images

Also Picasso was a real commie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pablo_Picasso#Political_views - also Diego Rivera, and Frida Kahlo.
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Blocking access to public lands is a violation of the Inclosures Act of 1885.

https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/prelim@title43/cha...
Ah, the human as a specimen in a petri dish approach to so-called health care. Flies directly in the face of study after study after study that says: diet and lifestyle are major factors in all deadly diseases.

Probably driven by modern tech, completely inadvertently, because x-ray machines and MRIs and such demand that the patient go to the clinic or hospital rather than the doctor going to the patient's home.

Star Trek's Dr. McCoy and his tricorder was a dream of tech that you could carry in the proverbial little black bag. We aren't there and have forgotten a lot of important principles in the process of pursuing shiny tech.

But it's generally a bad idea to critique any of that. Gets one nothing but hatred.
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Yes it is, but only barely. Most of the posters are quite old and in a lot of groups when someone doesn't respond for a while, people become concerned for their health.
Nordic countries have this as well. It’s colloquially translated as “every man’s land”.

https://visitsweden.com/what-to-do/nature-outdoors/nature/su...
Forecast! Time to reach for your linear regression, GBDT or NN.
> Is this really still a thing?

Why wouldn’t it be?
Compilers haven’t advanced tremendously in the past two decades in terms of optimizations and don’t have much new to add to high performance SIMD numeric kernels.
Embedded in this response is a consideration for how programming languages handle data. In Java, if you have a config file, does that file use Java syntax? No. What is that Java file written in? Likely XML. Can you write XML literals in Java? No. Wouldn't it be nice to:

XMLElement el = <html><body>Hello World!</body></html>;

In JavaScript, we have probably the closest to Lisp in this regard with JSON. You can define JSON literals in your JavaScript code; config files like package.json are written using this object notation. If you want to work with, say XML, there are libraries to convert your XML to JSON and you can take it from there.

But, JSON is limited. How do you define dates for your datatypes? Probably use a string. In Lisp, you can use a string or have some (date year month day) form. How do you represent rational numbers? Maybe you'll risk using floating point or you'll just go with a string. Lisps have rationals built in or you could roll your own with (rational numerator denominator). So your JSON

{
'name': 'John Doe',
'birth-date': '1970-01-01',
'account-balance': '1000.01'
}

can become

(user #:name "John Doe" #:birth-date (date 1970 1 1) #:account-balance 100001/100)

When Lispers need to interact with JSON, they convert it to S-expressions. When Lispers need to interact with XML, they convert it to S-expressions. Wouldn't it be nice if the other languages had syntaxes that made you want to define data using that language's syntax and not JSON or XML?
Hexagons do not perfectly tesselate a sphere. That's why soccer balls have pentagons.
Yes NNCP Usenet feeds generally don't send any binaries, but nothing is stopping you from distributing those if you have the bandwidth to try.
On my 21 Subaru I disable lane assist unless I’m on the highway. It’s too strong on the wheel, and there are too many construction related lane issues near me that have almost caused accidents for me multiple times.
Your link is completely unrelated to what we're discussing.

Think about what you're saying for a second. If you take $100 loan from a bank to go to the pub and repaid $200 for the principal and interest, do you think they delete the full $200? Of course not. Do you think they delete the $100 you spent at the pub? Of course not. The bank keeps $100 profit on the loan and the barkeeper keeps $100. You now have $200 in circulation, the total loan repayment amount.

Your research on how Banks calculate their total deposits is incorrect and your research is insufficient. Take a look at this link and scroll down to the real world example[1].
Deposits are the some total of money people have deposited in the bank. It is not marked down by the loans a bank has made. The total deposits held by a bank minus the total loans the bank has made is called the net worth of the bank.[2]

https://courses.lumenlearning.com/wm-macroeconomics/chapter/...

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/l/loan-to-deposit-ratio.a....
It’s a known way of gaming the system (mostly), and seems like the state and county is generally a fan too, since the owners are pretty rich (and likely curry favors locally), and the public land is federal, so not ‘theirs’.
I think the notion page for the engineering position isn’t public?
I was originally remembering a time period when the railroad virtually had public domain authority to seize private lands, but the history of the land grants in Nebraska is actually much worse: https://nebraskastudies.org/en/1850-1874/railroads-settlemen...
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Not really going to help you make money...
I wish companies would do this kind of analysis within their own projects. Probably not every project since doing this analysis would add overhead, but perhaps a small sampling of arbitrary projects.

How are we supposed to optimize things if we don't know where the time and effort is going to? How are we supposed to estimate, especially when a huge chunk of the extra time may be caused by an inefficient part of the process, caused by specific people (say, who like to schedule useless meetings), or caused by external factors?

Instead we see people choosing arbitrary things to blame, and business goes on as usual.
That's becoming increasingly harder as EuroNCAP mandates more and more of these as standard technologies that must be included. Manufacturers would much rather build one car and modify it as little as possible for all intended markets. So they design them with American and Chinese expectations for size, appearance, and features, and with European expectations for safety and emissions systems. We already can't buy new cars without rear cameras or forward emergency warning for that very reason.
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I just had to junk my 18 year old Buick sedan. Everything sucks now. Even mid range cars reek of the electronics being obsolete or broken in 5 years.
With the intent to not keep the public land public forever thought, right?
I tried using it again after the Twitter thing, and oh boy, forget it. Alive yes, 12 headed dragons, yes. It's the mad max realm of the internet.

I really wish it wasn't and that new standards would be on top and clear it up.
Near as I can tell, they’re trying to get the court to agree to a specific corrupt interpretation that essentially denies the federal laws power. Which is why it has gotten this far.
this seems like the sort of thing that would be better measured with actual numbers, not just anecdotes from people on the internet.

the NHTSA is a pretty cautious organization, and they like numbers. if they've studied it and found that automatic braking will prevent 24000 crashes and 360 deaths per year, i'd be inclined to believe them. having the car brake for me when i'm not expecting it sounds kind of scary to me too, but i'd rather experience that than let 360 people die every year.
How many CL hackers do you need?

What about having a core of a few people, and leverage that Lisp productivity potential? If you need a lot more "bulk" work (say, for customer integrations/customizations), is it something that the core people can make easier? Such as with APIs or DSLs, and recipes, so that this other set of programmers doesn't have to all be CL experts?

You'll probably have to pay good money for that core of great CL hackers, though. Go programmers are more numerous, and maybe easier to find competent ones at commodity rates.

And is the number of CL hackers available on the job market decreasing? ITA found a lot of them, at one point. There are many Scheme/Racket programmers than there are jobs.
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You can look at the manuscript. I don't think it's really supposed to be letters – more like a decorative doodle – but I'm not sure what the deal is: https://digital.nls.uk/early-manuscripts/browse/archive/1341...
I don't think I'm "triggered" when I think most of this stuff is just dumb. Like OK, Anderson Cooper was an intern at the CIA while in college. From that we're supposed to mentally jump through hundreds of hoops to get to "the CIA controls news media even though it's illegal and any patriotic employee could blow the whistle on the whole thing".

A lot of it is predicated on the "deep state" being completely evil anti-american people, which is so beyond my experience of federal law officers that it doesn't fit my world view. Look at the CIA's Bush-era legally-questionable torture program, there were tons of whistle blowers and media inquiry, it was not secret for very long at all. But somehow a clearly illegal program that controls the news media has been going undetected for decades? It's just not how the USA works.
I recommend anything by Marcos López de Prado:

https://quantresearch.org/

He has written a book and published several articles on financial machine learning, including what to look for,how to avoid overfitting, in detail, and done so far better than I've seen elsewhere.

Good luck!
Nah, it isn't even the harbinger

It is literally why we run the tests (simulation being a subset of test) — to find these types of errors before they make their way into the final product and cause actual harm in the world...

Seems bad with the clickbaity headline that sounds like a real person was killed, and maybe it should have been better trained and tuned before the simulation (depending on how expensive was the simulation), but it was really caught in testing, just as it should be.
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In the US, a few towns in New Jersey still exclusively use gas streetlamps. South Orange has over 1400 of them, which is somewhat ironic since Thomas Edison was based in neighboring West Orange. Glen Ridge has either 666 or 667, depending on the source, which makes me wonder if they installed an extra one during the 80s Satanic panic.
That would make sense! Could we use today an usb stick (similar to the digital wallet ones) to “validate” the ownership without relying on a server, like cd+license did 15 years ago?
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A lot of assumptions are lost when "accidental explosions" is a genuine factor. It doesn't help that the article has quotes like, "It killed the operator because that person was keeping it from accomplishing its objective". Try reading it as "AI-controlled Drone shoots missile at human target despite instructions to only simulate missile the launch."

There are easy ways to clarify the article but they clearly didn't try.

"Rogue AI Destroys Normally-manned Control Tower in USAF Simulated Test"
Can current emergency braking systems realistically stop a t-bone accident?

Sure, if it was equivalent in capability to a class 5 self driving car, it would see the light was red, and notice the partially occluded other car, then stop in time.

But, with just a front facing radar? I don’t see how it would be able to do much. It would only have a few feet to stop.
I agree.

I also agree with this:

> If the government wants to immediately improve car safety they should outlaw touchscreens instead.
> Shouldn't there be disclosed evidence by now?

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No, but that’s not what the rancher did. He tried to bully them using massive and inflated claimed damages, and it backfired.
Was the US tech industry built on the backs of whites also then? You're not denigrating anyone's accomplishment are you?
What does voting without an id have to do with any of this?
i also hate touchscreens in cars, but that's not an either/or situation with AEB
I mean, sure, but Apple at the time also had a vested interest in showing mice were better for productivity.

IME, having actually worked on replacing an old mouse-less DOS package for a company in the past, it was 100% faster for the employees to use keyboard shortcuts for everything. In fact, it was their main complaint about the new package they were trying to substitute for it -- it slowed their workflow down dramatically. Some of that was down to unfamiliarity with mice but most experienced users of a given bespoke system that need to do quick data entry can mentally map out how many tabs it is to any given field, and I'd bet even money they can get where they need on any given data entry form faster than a person using a mouse.

In this era of web based UIs though, we've lost complete use of keys that can provide specialized functionality with one button press (what the F1-12 keys were designed for). Software just isn't designed to be keyboard-first for the most part these days.