skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In grad school I took a class from Robert Boyer and J Strother Moore (famous for Boyer-Moore string searching and the 2005 ACM Software System Award for the Boyer-Moore Theorem Prover). It was a long time ago, but I remember an anecdote that Boyer explained happened while working at NASA on the Apollo project. It is a good example of the simple things that can go wrong in space. (I hope I can explain it clearly and correctly, I took that class decades ago.)

At one point, to return to earth the command module must separate from the landing module (after it has been on the surface of the moon and back) and fire the thrusters that will return the astronauts and some moon rocks to earth. The astronauts flip some switches to start this sequence.

Shortly before the whole Apollo moon mission, programmers discovered a bug. The thruster doesn't know where the center of gravity of the orbiter is located, but it must adjust its gimbals so that the thrust is in line with the craft's center of gravity to prevent tumbling the spaceship. This is automatically done, rapidly at the startup of the thrusters, by firing and then wiggling the nozzle a bit to figure out the correct direction vector in line with the center of gravity by readings from gyros. It seems like this should work.

The bug is that there would be a delay between flipping the switch to fire the thrusters and the actual firing because, in zero-gravity, the fuel is just a big floating ball of liquid in the fuel tanks and consequently there is a delay of a few seconds while little maneuvering gas jets start accelerating the craft causing the fuel to move to the back of the tank (where the fuel lines are) and finally making its way into the nozzle of the trusters where it ignites automatically. Unfortunately, the software assumed that the thruster would ignite right away, and would wiggle the nozzle and get a completely wrong answer for the calculated center of gravity because the engine wasn't ignited yet. Then, with the nozzle pointed in the totally wrong direction, ignition would cause the craft to be pitched into a dangerous tumble while trying to leave lunar orbit. This bug wouldn't be obvious during testing on earth because the fuel would be at the bottom of the tank and ready to fire without the delay.

It was too late to patch the software so some instructions were taped next to the switches instructing the astronauts to put in the necessary delay manually.
Whatever happens to chat gpt, ai image generation is incredible. It’s so incredibly powerful that I don’t think it’s ever going away
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The single dumbest thing we on a team did on a project I used to work on was use the AWS API Gateway. I have my problems with OpenAPI itself, but API Gateway itself is a half-assed mess. If we'd been able to wait a little longer, the lambda serving API requests could've just gotten the HTTP requests directly without that useless heap getting in the way.
ChatGPT was a massive dopamine hit, particularly for people in areas like development. It was a tremendous release that has definitely laid out some new tracks for the future, especially on the web. I myself have found to be using ChatGPT a lot less recently.

I got the GPT-4 API access and then I realized that I can't really use it for anything super major because I can't afford it, it is ridiculously expensive if you consider that you have to pay for all the failed requests, the wrong information or the wrong context also. Instead, I have written a bunch of Python scripts that do a select few tasks for me and I have my terminal open 24/7 anyway.

As for the topic at hand, I have _definitely_ noticed a lot more disclaimers in the UI. I don't get it from the API at all, in 6 months that I have been using the API - I've gotten one disclaimer.

In the ChatGPT UI - I get them a lot. "Remember this", "Remember that", "Always look up the information" and things like this. I mean if it wasn't happening I would know because I have been a power-user pretty much all this time...
I'm sorry but have you actually played it since it launched? Or ever?

I really feel like we (HN) should be better than just parroting blogs and YouTubers and be better about actually talking about something in an informed manner instead.

This is the type of response I expect on steam or some other gaming site where people are incapable of making their own decisions and instead just parrot someone else.
Appreciate the feedback!

I’ve reduced the font size for small screens so the post density should be higher.

Agree that learning to solder is on the basic side but I thought it would be nice to have some posts for complete beginners.

If you have any feature requests, let me know:

https://hardwary.canny.io/hardwary-feature-requests
Based on NMS performance on my 2010 era i7 and middling graphics card back in ~2017, I'm guessing that it will look and run great on the M1. I'm installing on my M1 mini, I can report back in about 6 hours on performance.

I imagine you could have fun with the trackpad, it definitely works with the KBD/mouse combo.
Where can I read about this, about other sorts modes of integration?
Although we've come a long way since 2014, I'm still waiting for a general purpose, high performance "image recognizer" that I can just import as a library and run locally. It's probably not even possible with current computer architectures. I do predict that in 10 years we will actually see some more low-cost energy efficient specialized chips built into computer designs from the ground up.
> The government threw money at the arts in the mid-20th-century to show up the USSR and people are reading too much into it. If classicism had been the thing in the middle of the 20th century they would have funded that instead.

I'm not so sure. Call it a conspiracy theory, but there is at least some evidence that modern art is a fantastic tool for money laundering. Now, this is also true of classical art and patents, but imagine if you are trying to send money with a stupid cover story. Make a piece of modern art in 15 minutes, have other person send $50,000 to "purchase" it...
Is this where I put Betteridge's law?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline....

Betteridge's law of headlines is an adage that states: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no." It is named after Ian Betteridge, a British technology journalist who wrote about it in 2009, although the principle is much older.

"If the headline asks a question, try answering 'no'. Is This the True Face of Britain's Young? (Sensible reader: No.) Have We Found the Cure for AIDS? (No; or you wouldn't have put the question mark in.) Does This Map Provide the Key for Peace? (Probably not.) A headline with a question mark at the end means, in the vast majority of cases, that the story is tendentious or over-sold. It is often a scare story, or an attempt to elevate some run-of-the-mill piece of reporting into a national controversy and, preferably, a national panic. To a busy journalist hunting for real information a question mark means 'don't bother reading this bit'."
The Kubernetes API allows you to do a hell of a lot, and people can go overboard with that (certainly I have).

Inner peace arises from looking at all of the possibility and limiting yourself to what you actually need.
He’s talking about the API. Not the web client
What you mention is the Nobel Prize in economics, it's the same thing. It wasn't one of the original prizes set out in Nobel's will, but it is awarded by the same institution and follows the same procedure.

Only an absolute pedant who is looking to argue trivialities would bicker over the name of "Nobel Prize in Economics" vs. "Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel".

[1] https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/lists/all-prizes-in-econom...
This is from the Telegraph which looks down on folks like Digital Nomads. So take the article with a pinch of salt.
Thanks. I’ve reduced it.
"... it is commonly referred to as the Nobel Prize in Economics." [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Memorial_Prize_in_Econom...
Almost completely
Honestly just using Steel Bank Common Lisp is the best choice if you are looking to build high quality software which just works.

A lot of my software which earns a $4 million profit per year has SBCL sub systems though that is slowly decreasing as we are moving away from Lisp.
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I have a similar situation with an 87 year old family member that still drives and I've offered to be on call for chauffeur service or to pay for cabs or whatever it takes but they will keep doing it until they either die from other causes or get into an accident, which in my opinion is only a matter of time. So far I've managed to get them to rely on me for two really long rides and at least they no longer go on the highway. Highly frustrating because on the one hand I applaud the person for being that old and still self-reliant but on the other hand I am seriously concerned about other users of the road who are effectively in danger. And short of having them declared legally incompetent there isn't much that I can do beyond offer help.
I think it is because it is slightly to the west of Washington D. C., and there is no country to the north of Canada.

If, say, Chicago is the capital of the US, I think a lot of Canada will end up being closer to Chicago than Ottawa.
Always good to see mac ports of games. I don't understand why Apple doesn't lean more into the gaming market. They have great hardware and it's a huge pool of people
It's more that the balance in usefulness vs waste of time shifts into the other direction after a few times spending long time getting it right and just doing it yourself anyway.
Since most of the older ones are men, I think the career prospects for non-minority men considering academia are grim (if academic careers aren't already).
Is it static? If I ask it the same question I asked it a few months ago it gave me a completely different answer. Is that because of some additional context above? Should we be starting fresh chats sooner?
Any high priced asset that's easy to move with few questions asked is a great tool for money laundering. One of the largest tools is real estate, which may be one reason you see a lot of unoccupied houses and condos in certain expensive cities.

The art doesn't have to be modern to work this way. It just has to be fungible art with an inflated price tag on it. Any style will do.

Other popular money laundering vehicles include: "investments" in totally hollow shell companies, fake customers to shell or cutout businesses (like the car wash in Breaking Bad), manipulating penny stocks (you basically run a pump and dump against yourself using dirty money to pump and extracting clean money on the other side), cryptocurrency and related things, other big assets like airplanes and boats, etc.
Huh. Wild. I'm unaware that I have ever even associated with anyone even close to that level of germaphobe.
It wouldn't be a broken game in that it'd still function, but I can't imagine it'd be an enjoyable one to watch.
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Initial USPTO response to OpenAI GPT trademark application
"REFUSAL—MERELY DESCRIPTIVE: Registration is refused because the applied-for mark merely describes a feature, function, or characteristic of applicant’s goods and services."

There are other details that exceed my trademark ken. Anyone with trademark experience care to parse this for us?
My first question upon seeing the title was "What are Kaspersky iPhones?"

Answered in the first paragraph: "Kaspersky has been hit by an advanced cyberattack that used clickless exploits to infect the iPhones of several dozen employees with malware ..."

So this was iPhones belonging to Kaspersky employees - though sounds like the exploit could hit any iPhone.
Ah, but the key thing you’re missing is that the Amazon lawyers are probably being paid by the hour (at very high rates) and would love to have an excuse to pretend to work for longer.

And you’ll never succeed in bankrupting Amazon.
It's not really at scale. Everyone is still at least partially aligned. There's no critical mass of militant single cause people to come in and hijack it.

Otoh, it's as big as it is because it's a benevolent dictatorship, not any kind of democracy. It's heavily moderated with enough (I mean this positively here) citizen policing, in the form of moderation and flagging, that it stays pretty much on mission.
I applied 6 days ago to the DevOps engineer position and received no feedback. Are you still looking for one?
You might find something like "Chasin' the Trane" more to your liking: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWhJ7hlDwMk

I would not describe it as "disturbed", but it's certainly more intense than "My Favorite Things".
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I keep hearing about this game, and it seemed cool before launch, until you realize they lied to everyone about the state of the game at that point in time.

It turned me off from ever considering it in the future. Turns out it didn't matter because the game still doesn't seem much more interesting than how broken it was on release.

I just don't care that games have turned into one-time purchase services. I want people to stop lying about their products.

If you lie before going gold, I will never buy it.
Nothing to see here, just glowing, flickering radiation clouds.

> After the explosion, a column of smoke and dust rose to a kilometer high, the dust flickered with an orange-red light and settled on buildings and people.
I don’t know, I think there is certainly a lot of hype but it is still pretty damn good. I used it every day for a wide variety of coding tasks and more often than not it is correct. As in compiles, produces correct output for inputs, and mostly writes reasonable code. Has it made software dev obsolete like some maximalists said it would? definitely not, but it seems equally hyperbolic to say the emperor has no clothes, it is undeniably a useful tool to me.
The Atlantic hurricane season has begun: What we know and what we don’t
A police officer's first 45 words are a portent of what's to come
The game clock is one of the more common rules that tends to warp gameplay in this way, with teams that are ahead trying to avoid play and run out the clock rather than continue to engage in the contest. The other team, meanwhile, resorts to increasingly desperate tactics like pulling the goalie, intentionally committing fouls, or laterals and trying for the onside kick.

Related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elam_Ending
Good one, not in the USA but I will do this here in NL with the equivalent service. It never crossed my mind so thank you very much for this option.
The TL;DR is that it's so good, it increased my time on Reddit by 10x or more versus using the website. I had to delete it because it was such a joy to use, it's all I wanted to spend my free time on.

More specifically, just a few things: 1) lovely UI design with proper adherence to iOS human interface guidelines, 2) useful customization, 3) flawless performance throughout, 4) gesture support which translates into being able to sift through a lot of content and conversations, 5) complex native (performant!) in-app support for many media types hosted on all types of 3rd party sites, 6) and just all around thoughtful and thorough support for the entire Reddit platform and its features.

All of this executed extremely well by just one person. Frankly, an inspiration and should be championed here.
Seems about right. Software dev scales very poorly with number of devs. Optimum team size is like 3-4.
I'm studying the SQL standard for years now and compared to other standards that I know (XSLT, a little CSS, decades ago POSIX, C and C++) the SQL standard is really hard to make sense of. You might overestimate the value of having access to it.

Having that said: free would be better.
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I tried this AI enabled ancient gurus site. Those guys were giving legit advice I think. https://www.upveda.in
Like NFTs, it could be money laundering, pumping, or both?
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Brave search came out with a api. created a quick and dirty command line app. runs within windows
Note requires free api key from brave
https://api.search.brave.com/

link to where to make keys
https://api.search.brave.com/app/keys
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Company who has repeatedly lied in public: there’s nothing to see here!
Recent research showed that RLHF/censoring the model hurts the performance of the model. This is intuitively obvious, censorship isn’t real, the data is (moral issues aside). So it hurts the integrity of the weights. The future is open sourced uncensored models, capitalism will demand the high performance. There’s a huge discussion on it on Reddit right now:

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My experience using GPT-4 for coding is that it's got the knowledge and skill of a senior engineer, with the high maintenance of a junior engineer. You can get it to output small sections of quality code, but the amount of prodding it takes to piece it all together means you may as well have spent the time writing it yourself. But the future of GPT as a coding assistant is definitely bright. It just needs more chaining, so I feel less like its assistant, asking it to come up with prompts and then pasting them back to it after iterating on the code.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZjbNWgsDt8
Ok, looks like a different sensor then, the MB unit uses Radar and optical.
Instead of complaining, why not show the benchmarks?

Like: first it scored 83, now it scores only 42 (or whatever).
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It's never been static and there's always been randomness when you regenerate an answer. There is no control of a random seed, so you can get a different answers for the same prompt.
Can't say much about async, since I really lack the experience to say whether async in Rust could feasibly and realistically be much better than it currently is. Some people say that it'd be great if it worked as effortlessly as in Go, but I assume that you don't get to have that without performance tradeoffs.

As for lifetimes, what's the issue? Do you have any reason to believe lifetimes are frustrating because they were badly designed, rather than the fact that they're making complexity explicit which was previously hidden?