skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're getting RSI pain:

1. Don't power through it. You can easily cause permanent damage.

2. Trying different ergonomic changes can help. Two mice is a very interesting idea, and there's numerous other variables to try, and in different combinations, to see what works for you.
I remember looking at old Metsker maps of Washington counties when I was a kid and wondering about all those checkerboards of green and white land. My dad told me the green was public land, and couldn't really explain why it was divided that way. So it is, literally, divided up like a checkerboard. Wikipedia has an enlightening article on it [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Checkerboarding_(land)
I cannot comment as to whether the CIA is particularly good or bad at anything, but what I will say is that they are particularly effective at guiding domestic policy and operations.
SEEKING WORK | REMOTE [I can work with US and EU timezones]

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Javascript, React, NodeJS, NextJS, TailwindCSS, HTML/CSS, Python, Flask, Bootstrap, SQL, Linux

Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1p1lD01BwVGzLSJ_WHld1iOXzDSg...

Github: https://github.com/Aminehassou

Email: aamine.hassou@gmail.com

I'm an OSS contributor and software-building enthusiast. I love picking up new technologies and tinkering with anything I can get my hands on. I've always enjoyed the process of problem-solving, so I'm open to any opportunities!
How did these checkerboards come about? I've noticed them on maps before when looking for public land in the US.
For me it's not a pseudojob, I code tools for myself to help me in my endaevours. Perhaps I will publish some someday, maybe I won't.
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I bet it has the exact opposite effect. If your boss starts talking about how he's going to replace all the help desk with AI, the current employees are going to give up any care at all they had left and even start jumping ship.

Despite what you think the labor market is super hot and strong for most segments besides white collar tech (every metric still bears this out, unemployment especially in services and lower wage jobs is historically low). If you're working a shitty help desk job that you know the boss is doing his best to eradicate then you're just going to spend working hours applying to other service jobs and jump ship.
Remote: Yes [I can work with US and EU timezones]

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Javascript, React, NodeJS, NextJS, TailwindCSS, HTML/CSS, Python, Flask, Bootstrap, SQL, Linux

Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1p1lD01BwVGzLSJ_WHld1iOXzDSg...

Github: https://github.com/Aminehassou

Email: aamine.hassou@gmail.com

I'm an OSS contributor and software-building enthusiast. I love picking up new technologies and tinkering with anything I can get my hands on. I've always enjoyed the process of problem-solving, so I'm open to any opportunities!
I haven't tinkered with TTS for some time, but I recall two options:

1. Web Speech API, AFAIK it is supported by most browsers.

2. Turning on text-to-speech in Android phone/tablet settings.
Firstly - because I'm an introvert and I more often feel like doing something interesting or necessary alone or together with my spouse, secondly - this list is not really sorted by my priorities, I actually put my education (which mostly is self-education in areas mostly unrelated to my job) much higher.
True, but I don't think it's because of any specific characteristics of the technology, other than it's got right now. CEOs want support for investment in their business, and the way to get it is to frame whatever they're doing in terms of the topic du jour. There's also a cya element as investors and board would ask why they aren't focused on something everyone is talking about.

Big businesses that sell to c-level know this too and frame these offerings accordingly. Big tech consulting companies will only ever be selling some variation on dashboards, but they're described as big data, data & analysis, deep learning, generative AI, whatever the trend is.

Nothing wrong with it, being a contrarian is hard, better to accept the way the wind is going and adapt accordingly.

My main point is that it's way less about anything specific that AI can do, vs getting people on board.
> Different kind of AI though.

Yeah exactly lol. You can't just slap GPT into a bot and expect it to outperform the purpose built stuff with a ton of domain knowledge built into it. Those bots exist and are successful because they work. This StonksGPT thing is a crappy product built around an overhyped api call.
Usually this is stuff like fixing "// TODO: this fails reguarly in the CI" (real example from the last such PR). It's the kind of thing I'll fix if I see it, but not really worth going out of my way fixing something like that: it's just a comment in some test code (not user-facing) and the few people that will ever see that comment understand "reguarly" as well. It's a non-issue and basically just spam IMHO.

These are always either bots or people looking to bolster their CV by bragging they "contributed" n PRs to n repos. I signed up to collaboratively make some (hopefully nice) software, not to deal with a stream of PRs like this.

Typos in README or publicly facing docs are different; I usually merge those (and those are almost always good faith too, because usually a real human picks up on them before the bots/script kiddies do).
Perhaps the reverse lights could activate when extremely hard braking is applied.
Defective airbags blew shrapnel in folks’ faces, too. Anecdotes are of limited value here; I’m sure you can find the occasional person who has been trapped in a car by a seat belt and burned to death. Policy needs data, not unfalsifiable claims of being a perfect driver hobbled by computer interference.

The article notes:

> A metanalysis in 2015 found a 38 percent decrease in collisions for vehicles that utilized such a system, for instance.
> Never heard of Webflow before.

Have you been living under a rock?

Not trying to be cheeky but its been the only tool brought up in the conversation of "what should we use for our marketing website" for the better part of 5 years.

edit: Their pricing can become outrageous, Ive heard of some companies paying five figures a year for their Webflow CMS, for multiple years. So I dont think their last raise is the only money in that bank account
“ The malicious toolset does not support persistence, most likely due to the limitations of the OS”

This is an interesting way of phrasing “the OS is secure enough that even with full RCE and launching a separate binary, the attack cannot make itself survive a reboot”
Why do these attacks ever use WiFi? Or plaintext DNS?
Totally agree when it comes to "general insights" here.
You're probably not gonna solve any major problems even though it feels like it in the moment.

However, imho. altering the thought process through drugs and really introspecting on what changes and how that relates to the sober state can yield a LOT of valuable learnings.

I feel like I learned a lot about myself just by introspecting on the effects alcohol, THC, etc. had on me.
Really gave me some insights on how associations are formed, what euphoria does to decision making and so on.
“Junior: pay$
Senior: pay$”
A lot of what a package manager does isn't really language dependent. It seems like it would be possible to build a generalized package manager that has hooks for a language specific plugin to control how the package is extracted, how to resolve transitive dependencies, and how to do any additional build steps. It would be sort of analogous to how instead of building a full IDE, you can implement an LSP server and get support from existing IDEs and editors.
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We can create some tests, but also focus a lot on ingesting and understanding existing testing (including migrating it over).

As for defining "tech debt" we are not really in that business. Think of Grit like a very patient junior developer: able to do lots of work, but not necessarily who you want defining the application architecture. We don't presume to know your codebase better than you.

Instead, our sweet spot is things like:

- Upgrading a critical business application from Angular 4 to Angular 15 (or even converting it React)

- Taking an existing test/mocking approach used for 10% of database models and inserting equivalent tests on other models

- Automatically removing dead code after feature flags are rolled out broadly
My MB van also has similar serious issues with buggy auto-braking. Once, while driving head-on into a bright sun, it decided it was time to apply full brakes while driving highway speeds on a busy highway, in a vehicle with a GVWR of around 9,500 lbs. That wasn't fun and could have easily caused an accident involving multiple cars.

My Tesla, which is probably the leader here, regularly makes mistakes - though never really to the point of forcing braking. Often it will warn me on my narrow street of objects like parked cars it thinks I will hit, but it seems a little more polished than MB.

If regulators want to force this on all car manufacturers, they really need to also mandate certain tests and features - plus OTA updates to recall any bugs... My guess is that most car makers just don't have the workforce to develop these features, so forcing them to roll them out will mean even worse bugs!
I'm surprised there isn't a reasonable setback for fences abutting public lands like this
If you try two mice, after using one, you might try to see whether you "think differently" when using the unfamiliar hand to do some very familiar task.
Here's a discussion of Copilot for VS Code: https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2023/03/30/vscode-copilo...
Suppose OpenAI were an evil organization. What incentive do they have to lie about GPT-4 being static?
SBCL is self-hosting. It feels like a bit of a stretch to say syscalls are macros, but if you really want to torture language that way then sure because the kernel is mostly C.
Xchg rax, rax (x86_64 asm riddle/poetry book, by xorpd)
The book contains 0x40 short assembly snippets, each built to teach you one concept about assembly, math or life in general. Full description on Amazon (linked from free web version).
Has the AI hype gotten so out of hand people expect chatgpt to just will products and things into existence? Will it change your car's oil by asking nicely?
AFAIK,being "good" is often penalized within the majority of teenage groups, where the majority tends to exploit and manipulate those who behave in a virtuous manner (behave "good"). They may punish such individuals through ostracism, while also maintaining the appearance of "being good" in front of adults. The society around teenagers is hypocritical and influences the hypocritical behavior of having appearance of being "good", at the same time not penalizing antisocial and manipulative behavior. This is, of course, an oversimplification, but when we look at individuals like Musk, Altman, and others who are endorsed as iconic role models it is common for an average monkey to mimic their behavior.
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I see a lot of comments in there in the lines of "it almost caused an accident!". Yeah, my AEB has misfired too, often when coming around a curve and it thinks I'm about to have a head on collision with the oncoming traffic even though we are both turning. Or when making u-turns with a car in front of me.

But it's never caused me to get hit. And more importantly, if the other cars around me also had AEB, then they too would get triggered.

Yeah, it's sometimes annoying when it misfires, but man, that one time it fired in a real situation definitely saved my life as I stopped inches from the car in front of me.

I'd take the minor annoyance of misfires over a crash any day. Especially if everyone has it.
Although if you want to be maximally pedantic about it, homoiconicity you actually get for free in raw machine code. Though Lisp certainly "rediscovered" it in an abstract language(though Church's lambda calculus is also homoiconic, and directly inspired much of Lisp so I suppose he deserved some credit too).

I sometimes ponder about whether we'd be able to recognise any programming languages from alien civilisations. And I usually come to the conclusion that it would have to be either a lisp or a forth, because at their core they're so dead simple it's hard to imagine not inventing them by accident at some point. The fact that Lisp was invented so incredibly early on in computing history, and at least partially by accident, supports this hypothesis.
Those test results are pretty irrelevant: https://danluu.com/keyboard-v-mouse/

I would like to see the results of much better testing, though.
Agreed here too. Pretty much all my experiences with these kinds of features have been poor. I turned off the emergency breaking on our Tesla after it slammed on the brakes for no reason on the highway a couple of times. Could easily cause someone to rear-end you. I also recall a Kia I rented once that had automatic lane keep assist and blind spot warnings. The blind spot warning was so sensitive that it would loudly beep at you if there was another vehicle anywhere near you in the other lane when you put your turn signal on. Not helpful, and quite distracting. The lane keep assist was worse, because the way it pulled on the wheel any time you approached the edge of a lane (which it turns out you do often in the course of regular driving for all kinds of reasons - another car crowding you, giving room to a cyclist, taking a smoother line through a corner, etc.) felt very much like losing traction. It was quite disconcerting, and I could see it causing someone to overcorrect and lose control. And to paraphrase Matt Farah, if you need assistance to keep in your lane, you shouldn't be driving.

All that said, I do like the autosteer on the Tesla, with the caveat that you need to treat it like cruise control, NOT like "autopilot". And I'll pretty much only use it on divided highways. In other situations its insistence in sticking to the dead center of the lane can be disconcerting at times (like the ones I listed above!)
IIRC, it was a way to push settlers farther to the West.

Looked like a clever idea at the time, likely.
Chief executives have been replaced by ChatGPT and nobody can tell the difference.
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It’s not wrong that "🤦🏼‍♂️".length == 7 (2019)
With the caveat that it changes where the cursor is.
It has to do with the way the federal government granted land to the railroads to incentivize them to lay track.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Checkerboarding_(land)
But odds of rollover and braking distance are proportional to your absolute speed. So is crash severity when you're impacting a tree, animal or pedestrian.
A step before that might be to just switch the mouse to your other hand. It doesn't take too long to get used to.
Railroad grants. The theory was that by granting land to railroads instead of money it incentivizes them to build the railroad well. By keeping half the land for the government the government profits from the increased value too. They just didn't think this far ahead.
i intentionally purchased a car without any of these hanfisted “safety” features that take control of the car away from me. NEVER had an issue. sit close enough so that you can properly slam breaks to engage ABS as hard as automatic braking systems do, and don’t take your eyes off the fucking road. it’s not that complicated, and i’ll be damned if i let a car make that decision for me.
Ask HN: Should I cancel my GPT-4 subscription and get Copilot instead?
GPT-4 seems to suffer from some limitations after the last update. It doesn’t remember what it did just a couple interactions ago, and keeps writing buggy code that I have to fix. It used to be much more useful but over the weeks, it’s gotten almost useless for my work. Aside from coding, its responses to general questions have also gotten more shallow. I have to push it to generate something I need because it keeps producing bullet points about what needs to be done but then never does them.

I suspect that the API might be better (if what the oai employee said is true), but I don’t see services that use the API for a cost. Poe is one option but they cap the number of messages to 300/mo which is basically nothing for my usage.

I just canceled my GPT-4 subscription plan for next month and I’m increasingly thinking about switching to alternatives. For coding, I don’t mind closed source solutions as long as they work like the good old GPT-4. I’m also open to open source models but I hear they’re not even as good as gpt3.5.

It’s sad that we’re stuck in this monopoly of powerful LLMs.
The point of the auto formatter is to get those slight differences out of the way so your Brian can focus on parsing and understanding the important parts
why drive like maniacs only to slow down at the end ? might as well drive slower throughout the stage ? and be most aggressive on day 3 ?
https://archive.is/xBCV3
Confusion and then immediately moving on?
I understand the sentiment, and I definitely think there are appropriate comparisons to be made to past hype waves like crypto and even AVs, but the fact that so many normal people use ChatGPT and find it not only interesting but also, critically, useful, tells me that LLMs may follow a different path in the long term.
The fact that the crypto market is full of questionable financial practices, insider trading and other conflicts of interest and outright fraud probably has nothing to do with it.
Related:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36134249

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36155267
What is the approach to backup the dev drive to my nas ?
A novel approach to programming: conversation as code
Client side web attacks don't affect how the two servers are firewalled from each other. I agree it isn't properly secure, but "firewall" refers to a specific type of security.
Like any for-profit: lower loss / higher gain?
I'd be willing to take the other side of that bet. I liked NFTs, and invested in NFT companies, but I never thought the hype would continue.

On the other hand, I think the hype for transformer models is justified. Maybe not ChatGPT or any other specific one, but I think LLMs and transformers will be transformational for our industry, like HTTP was, or portable touchscreen devices.

Just not sure how to measure which one of us is right next year. :)
You say: "I'm looking for engineer #2 or #3 for my YC startup and I'll pay 95k for junior or 185k for senior."
How do hunters haul a deer over that little ladder?
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> > Statistics are meaningless to the individual.

> This is just blatantly untrue.

This statement is blatently untrue. If a "driver gets in an accident every X miles/km" does that mean if you drive more than X miles, you're "overdue?" No, that's a statistical fallacy. Aggregate statistics are only meaningful if you're within a standard deviation of the mean. If you are a safe driver, it's likely to be meaningless. If you are a reckless driver, you're unlikely to live long enough to find out.
It’s how the dictators that spread that lie work. The CIA has definitely been responsible for coups and shit and they’re probably doing stuff in Russia and Ukraine that we won’t find out about for years, but they aren’t an evil shadowy cabal that controls everything
I used to post things like this, and immediately got tons of follow-ups saying I was wrong, this time it's different, "I'm already getting so much value out of chatgpt", etc. I have a sense that at least we're closer to neutral now and a lot of this shilling has past (on HN, it's still ramping up hard in the real world). It will be interesting to see the trajectory.

Edit: the comments I was referring to came while I was writing the comment, looks like I spoke too soon.
Perhaps "pause for audience laughter"?
Tesla: Change the oil! Done ... that'll be $675 plus tax. Billed to your credit card on file.
It will tell you that it can.
Interesting: both archive.ph and archive.org seem to have captured the paywall. There is briefly a flash of an "<audio>" of https://www.economist.com/media-assets/audio/058%20Business%... but it also seems to be just some kind of reading of the headline
They also were good at meddling in Australian politics, including overthrowing one of our best Prime Ministers: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alleged_CIA_involvement_in_t...
I had pain in my right shoulder for a few years, so severe that some days I couldn't raise my arm higher than horizontal. I eventually figured out it was because my mouse pad was way off to the right, and that was because of the number pad on the right side of the keyboard taking up so much real estate on the desk. So after trying a couple of different mouse alternatives, like a roller bar, etc. I got on Amazon and bought a keyboard without a number pad, which moved my right arm inward, and pretty much immediately ended the pain.
>>> math.sqrt(42939.0)

207.2172772719495

Not quite pure statistical noise but close.
Another interesting question is how many of the other 24,000 crashes were serious. And how many additional crashes wouldn’t have been avoided but would have had a lot of kinetic energy removed before impact.
The NHL’s overtime is pretty efficient though. There’s a short commercial break, then 5 minutes of 3-3 which is exciting and has a high probability of goals. Then a well paced shootout if it is still tied. So perhaps broadcasters are ok with a little extra time if they keep a large audience.
Maybe because it is, I bet they more than once were miffed about the whole idea if the infinitely small point of contact between two checkerboard plots preventing them to pass from one parcel of public land to another, which is technically at zero distance from the first.

I suppose they wanted to make a case to demonstrate the dubiousness of that norm, and successfully have made one. Kudos to them.
I believe in one of the EWD's Dijkstra pointed out that a problem with CS instruction is that one should be teaching one's students things that will last a lifetime —their lifetime— and as informatics is so young, it isn't always clear what we might say that will be still be useful (for today's 20 year olds) in 2083.
Yeah my favourite "in mice" story is cryogenics:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tdiKTSdE9Y
That is the moderation API, which you can actually block from the front-end (with javascript). Look up "ChatGPT DeMod."
Dumb question: what counts as modern art? Is this a particular style, as opposed to post modernism? What defines. And who are the important artists?
Yep! That accurately summarizes how out of hand it's gotten.
This is a very old trick; the Nazi party started their membership numbers at 500 to make it appear they had more members. A certain failed Austrian painter had membership number 555.
Open letter on Reddit API pricing changes and their impact on communities
Make your own "Apple devices" ... I can't believe the Russian officials are still have some illusions after what they did and are still doing ...
All interventions that don’t require a patient being in a coma first requires patient compliance.

Diet and lifestyle are nearly impossible to address from the perspective of the Dr, as they require the patient to want to and be willing to change foundational elements of their life. Unless the patient comes to you requesting that, good luck.

Many will get actively angry if you mention even obvious and severe issues like obesity, to the point of slandering Dr’s or avoiding going in for serious issues later.

Taking a pill, patients will often be able to do that (but definitely not always!).

Getting a surgery, similar.

Is it any wonder that Dr’s use the tools that people will let them use, instead of the ones people won’t?