skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am not talking of tests in 2019. I'm talking of the tests done in 2020 after, well, tests became available. If Covid had been growing exponentially in Europe for the latter part of 2019, the tests would have found massive amounts of infections. They didn't.

Likewise the after the fact findings of antibodies in blood samples would show an exponential growth. Neither of the studies you linked to shows that. The

Just look at the numbers from that Italy study. They're claiming that 10% of their sample had already had Covid on September 2019. "Exponential growth starts slowly" doesn't explain that. But somehow that went unnoticed and caused no detectable blip in the mortality rate, while a few months later an outbreak that could be tracked to a single event decimated the elderly in Lombardy.

It's noteworthy that neither of these studies tried analyzing blood samples from say the winter of 2018 to establish a definite baseline. But if they'd done that, they probably wouldn't have much of an article to write. "We found the expected level of false positives from this test" isn't exactly newsworthy.
Are we ignoring El Salvador now? Or is its support not "true"?
Empathy is a trait that I value highly on a programmer.
Removing SLI/NVLink
These are maybe true for GPT-4, but probably don't hold for GPT-10 or whatever the landscape looks like in another handful of iterations.
Why did they pick such an obnoxious color? Too bright to contrast well with the white font. Speaking of the font, why so squished, heavy and poorly readable? Why so much empty space everywhere? Why is the back button sometimes in the corner, and sometimes floating close to the control panel?

Operating system user interface guidelines exist for a reason. They make sure that software is accessible for users and consistent on the platform. Sure it's fine to get creative if you're making a game or something, but this thing is a tool.

And it's a proprietary app, so I can't change this stuff.
First you have to define consciousness without a circular definition. What hypothesis can you use to test for consciousness?
Great to see this again. This was the article that introduced me to Redis (and more broadly the NoSQL rollercoaster) all those years ago!
On the topic of JSON and whatnot that reminded me of this awesome post[1] about looking within heap snapshots for entire data structures where they may have a lot of nicely structured data within it not readily available from more direct URL calls.

[1] https://www.adriancooney.ie/blog/web-scraping-via-javascript...

(Previous comments about it from 2022 here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31205139)
Makes sense, considering the survival of humanity generally comes (if ever) after immediate personal survival is secured
You are correct. I took over a lead role at a small startup 6 months ago and I have delayed hiring a UX person because ChatGTP is so helpful.

But at the same time, I think you are underestimating how slow society changes. MP3s of popular music were available on the Internet in 1996. But cd sales didn't fall below the 1996 level until 2005.
Ok, interesting and all but just tell me how I can get 1 ns cross thread access to variables in C++
> because it's a laxative

Good news everybody, no more fiber intake required.
I listen to his podcast on a regular basis and he does realize and emphasize that his job is different than most people jobs. The type of job his advice is most applicable to is the typical office job, involving people who receive a lot of emails, slack messages, and other requests during the day. This can really damage real productivity, due to context switching and 'being available' all the time. He gives strategies to minimize disruptions and ways to apply these.

With regard to "banging the same drum", it's true that the core of his advice stays the same, but I really like his way of approaching these kind things. And repetition isn't necessarily bad. Being in a office job myself, I sometimes need to be reminded of the simple fact that I'm far more productive when I work in predetermined time blocks focusing on output. It's easy to fall into the trap of opening new emails and Slack messages all day long and wondering where all your time went.
My prediction: the name will be bought by a competitor. The quality will nose dive in the next 5 years. The brand will be shut down following a fall in sales 5-10 years after that.
Situation A:

Person makes $100K a year for 40 years.

Situation B:

Person makes $4M in year 1.

Assuming 0% inflation etc, how is situation B a failure?
I've been using ChatGPT to provide output for very basic stuff, it's 50/50 if it works for the basic stuff. And 100% fails on complex stuff.

It's super useful for finding out how things work like asking it how to use an SDK to do something it works really well for it even provides stuff I searched the docs repeatedly for.

But for complex logic that I want to be too lazy to do, it literally just wastes my time. I tried for an hour to get it to do something and tried to modify the code to get it to work. Ended up just doing my own version completely.
I only click my "Start" button to shutdown the computer. /s
> One of Uber’s key selling points will be its ability to use data based on users’ own travel and purchase histories to target them during the critical period between the time they open each app and the time they complete their transactions, according to Grether. The average Uber ride lasts approximately 15 minutes, and riders spend about two of those minutes paying attention to the app on average, he said.

> “We have two minutes of your attention. We know where you are, we know where you are going to, we know what you have eaten,” he said. “We can use all of that to then basically target a video ad towards you.”

Thanks, I hate it.
"Now, with LLMs, a single system architect/senior developer might be able to do the work of a five person consultancy alone. You might not be able to charge five times as much - but perhaps three times for the same or fewer hours worked?"

This is the point that underscores why the OP is stressing out, and it really is underselling the value GPT adds.

Ignore a consultancy. Consider a team of 5 you might be on. Esp. for greenfields, consider that a team of 1 or 2 could probably be as or more productive.

I'm working on a startup... I was shocked at how much progress GPT afforded me to build out a solution in a day, that likely would have taken over a week of research. It took like 30 iterations to get to a working solution. Unlike a mid-level consultant, I don't ask it to do a thing and it gets back to me the next day... it gets back to me within a minute. Rinse/repeat, incredible progress. Better than pairing with another senior dev, which would still likely take 2-3 days.

Boom, less engineers needed to produce novel products or features, more engineers on the market, depressed wages.

What's absurd is not connecting those dots. It's pretty basic. A business is always looking to increase margins, and with tech, it's almost entirely in human capital. Maybe some will want to move at 2-3x the speed, that's fair. Probably only in good times though.

In short, it doesn't replace all developers... it needs humans guiding it to work, absolutely. But it can certainly replace teammates, and that's the issue if you're working for a company, esp. one that is publicly traded.

Oh yeah, I have 24 years of experience myself professionally, been programming since '82.
I think you can blame everyone not doing their best to create a better alternative, including the company.
Like you say, it's just going to make your job easier and faster. Programmers are likely the last jobs to be replaced by robots.

Stop reading tech for a few weeks and you will get another perspective and you won't feel so neurotic.
A righteous asshole is still an asshole. But I always thought of Jobs as more like a good coach; he might be demanding and perhaps even tempestuous at times, but people chose to work with him because he drove them and their team to produce.
Signed or unsigned, the only real difference is did they pay Apple $100
It's tough to decide if the Linux kernel or git is his bigger contribution to society.
I don't know the answer, but I'm sure it involves the use of some FTL solution.
I tried on Q1 from steam and the original and I can not repeat. I'll have to check how to run QW these days :)
Wouldn't the newer RISCV based ESP32 models eventually add to the commercial popularity? Maybe some commercial users stayed away from the Xtensa powered ones, especially if they would have needed to do lower level work?
> single-dose trial of standard adult doses of the three drugs (30 mg of MPH, 15 mg of DEX, and 200 mg of MOD) and PLC, administered before being asked to solve eight instances of the knapsack task. Doses are at the high end of those administered in clinical practice, reflecting typical doses in nonmedical settings, where use tends to be occasional rather than chronic.

I’ve taken methylphenidate aka Ritalin (MPH) and dexteroampheramine aka Adderall (DEX) and my largest prescription was less than half of these doses.

If I take a dose of 15mg of MPH after a break of 10 days, I’ll be jittery, irritable, and a bit over-active. I imagine taking 30mg for someone neurotypical who’s never taken it before would be closer to a subdued but sustained hit of cocaine. I wouldn’t imagine anyone performing well in this trial, I probably wouldn’t either with a 30-day break beforehand. I don’t know where they’re getting this “typical adult dose for non-prescription use”… I have a neurotypical friend who takes 10mg of adderall as a party drug at raves.
Not that different from Wikipedia or Stack Exchange in some ways.
> "Importantly, Covid very rarely results in severe symptoms for middle aged adults. In the vast majority of adults, the symptoms are mild and nonspecific."

I've had Covid three times (March '20, December '20, August '22) and as a healthy middle-aged adult, I'm not sure I'd agree.

The first two times were pretty wretched: I was sick enough that I could barely eat or get out of bed for a week or so, and it was many weeks before I felt completely recovered. The third time (after getting vaccinated) was definitely milder and I recovered much more quickly, but was still pretty ill for a couple of days.

But notably, the symptoms for me were quite different from a typical 'flu. One thing that was very distinctive/specific for me was the wild changes in taste perception: I couldn't even eat some foods that I normally like due to them tasting so bad. I struggled to brush my teeth because I couldn't taste the mint flavour in toothpaste, only bitter chemicals!

Of course, it's fair to say that it doesn't affect everyone equally: some of my friends and family had similar experiences to me while others only had fairly mild symptoms.
Funny post kind stranger. Start a farm and solve your problems una mas at a time
Some anecdotes:

A professional translator I’ve known for more than twenty-five years has, within the last few months, seen all of his sources of work dry up. He worked in a field that required specialized knowledge and experience and for which there was steady demand, but there was little human interaction: clients would e-mail him texts, and he would e-mail back the translations. He is angry and upset because he believes—probably correctly—that he can produce more accurate translations than GPT-4. But the price difference is so great between machine and human translation, and the average quality difference now is so small, that his clients have dropped all of their human translators. They have offered him some work checking machine translations, he says, but the pay is much lower. He is now, in his sixties, trying to start a new career.

I myself was a professional translator for twenty years, until 2005, when I took a university job. Most of the translation work I did—for which I earned a good income—can now be done much faster and more cheaply by LLMs. In the mid-1990s, I started also working as a lexicographer—writing and editing entries for bilingual dictionaries. That was difficult work, but I enjoyed it and felt proud to be able to do it. Before I retired from my academic position earlier this year, I had been thinking of returning to dictionary work part-time in my retirement. There’s no future in that now, though, because LLMs have pretty much eliminated the need for human-edited language dictionaries.

Both my daughter and the daughter of a friend of mine are freelance illustrators. While both of them are continuing to get work now, they are following developments in Midjourney etc. with growing worry.

In contrast, a couple of weeks ago I got together with an old friend about my age whom I hadn’t seen in a while. He worked for many years as a glazier, and since he retired on a good union pension he has kept busy repairing regulators for scuba-diving equipment. I tried telling him how excited and worried I was about AI, but he was dismissive. It took me a while to understand why: The work he has done—installing windows and mirrors, fixing precision devices on which people’s lives depend—is not likely to be done by machines any time soon. It’s those of us who have done most of our work in front of computers who need to worry.
The Brazilian Central Bank Can Regulate Crypto
We should monitor all Russians living in the West, Czech leader says
Hello everyone,

I would like to focus on the importance of the DevOps culture and specifically discuss the role of automation. In today’s rapidly changing technological world, businesses need to keep up with digital transformation in order to maintain their competitiveness and survival. However, for this transformation to be successful, software deployment needs to be done quickly and reliably.
Click the archive link at the top left of the page, then find the comic, mouseover the link to it, and the alt text will be the date it was published.

Even better is just looking at the HTML and searching for the name or the number of the comic instead of playing games with mouseovers and popup text.
If something is free etc...

I've always taken the advice of any prepaid 'experts' with a huge grain of salt, not just AWS
I think you are worrying too much, not least because you are destroying your enjoyment of life right now.

If the worst happens you will adapt, it will suck in some ways, but life will still be worth living. Maybe you will enjoy not working at burn out levels all the time.

The worst may not happen. You may find yourself in high demand as someone who can really use AI productively. Who can say?

Certainly it would be prudent to keep a close eye on things and make sure you are one of the people that can keep adding significant value with AI.

In the meantime, I implore you not to ruin what is good now because of fears for a future that may not materialize, or will do so in ways you don't anticipate.
Johnson believes himself to be a great leader. Nothing so far supports that idea. He confuses good publicity with doing a useful job. He probably personifies the modern politician.
The Adafruit Feather boards usually have built-in LiPo support.
I second this. Maybe it's time to trying to shift your job slightly. Maybe you could get into something like consulting for your company or "we brought a tech guy with us" when sales goes to a customer. That's nothing that AI can do.
She sounds adorable! Mine doesn't bite any more but there are still fits of uncontrollable emotion. They very much grok other people's feelings though and are quick with empathy.
I agree. Code that works well is a good thing even if not perfect and super optimized.

I’m not an elegant coder. My code isn’t perfect. It does run however and is pretty efficient mostly bug free. It does it’s useful thing and I can be proud of that.

Having gone through enough code reviews to know there is a huge amount of polish one can give code. It’s a trade off between perfect and Good enough.

I’m hopeful new languages and patterns leveraging libraries help make our code better or at least let us write more if it.
It would be cool if both sides could lose.
NLP Improves Multilingual Text-to-Speech and Voice Assistants
Voice assistants are an everyday tool for customers worldwide. Still, language barriers and physical limitations prevent some audiences from using your services. You can overcome these challenges by building multilingual text-to-speech and speech-to-text functionality into voice assistants with natural language processing (NLP).
Cement's future could be a combination of carbon capture and electrification
I guess that means my favourite myth that I've done it. Get the os out of the way, cpu pinning, user level network stack, no system calls after setup, lay out all your memory carefully in a cache line aware fashion noting the virtual addresses & bits 6-10. io via shared memory to another core on the same package.

I convinced myself looking at latency benchmarks as I went about optimising it that it was all in L1.
You have no control over the resulting state, though. In this analogy, if you have two entangled coins, all you know is that if you flip the coins at the same time you get the same result… you don’t have any control over what that result is, and unless you arranged it with them beforehand you don’t know when the other person flipped their coin.
One of my favourite series of chips. Use them in pretty much every project I do. The combination of a pretty powerful processor along with built in wifi and Bluetooth is perfect.
I am currently looking for a new Team Lead. I interviewed a guy yesterday who performed well in a soft skills interview and so this was his tech interview with a senior dev and myself. He was doing OK at first. As the questions got a little more nuanced, there were these pauses. Eventually, he got flustered and asked to resume later.

We agreed to this since he said he'd been dealing with a production issue for several hours before the scheduled time (I had offered to reschedule at no detriment to him before we began but he insisted on doing it then).

The developer and I met after this first interview and discussed his answers. We both thought he was "googling" (we are older people, stuck in the past).

Later that day, back on another call with this guy, my senior dev starts typing my questions into ChatGPT and getting back essentially the answers he's giving us. I start with more nuanced questions and he's done. He just kept reiterating platitudes could not explain why he was saying them, etc.

I felt bad for him, he was trying to get a job beyond his technical knowledge. But ultimately, this was dishonest and I would have found out very quickly he was not ready for the job.

If anyone is wondering, I gave him a chance to tell me why he was pausing for so long before answering and why his answers didn't seem to directly address my questions and he just insisted he was NOT pausing (he was, for up to 30 seconds at a time). It was generally just a really disappointing experience for all of us, I would imagine.
What I take from that is either the CEO doesn't take advice from a competent CTO, or he's lying and they used "AI" as a front to reduce the workforce for some other reason.
And another:

https://smmax.sourceforge.net/

Written in C:

"The current "shrinking level" of this version is around 670 bytes." ...

"Later on this version has been extended to allow playing with full FIDE rules, meaning including the management of en-passant, castling and under promotion. This new version is around 750 characters (35 lines of codes when pretty printed)."

+

full FIDE version assembly 583 bytes .COM

+

ZX81 1K version
It'd be cathartic if our kids referred to a gigantic financial blunder in the billions of dollars as pulling an "Elon".
I think this is important for all fields who are worried to keep in mind. Thanks for this. Gonna put it in my notebook. :)
I have my stack of Byte magazines still, but I much prefer going back through the Dr. Dobb's Journal of Computer Calisthenics & Orthodontia (1977-) pile.

https://archive.org/details/dr_dobbs_journal

https://archive.org/details/dr_dobbs_journal_vol_01
The Fate Metrics for Hiring
That was my reaction too.

How could you be in top 5% and be able to use ChatGPT to "automate" any significant portion of your work? It just doesn't compute!
Researches used to have secretaries that helped with the extra work. Who, apart from very high level executives, have secretaries any more?
Obesity is a problem, however, it's hard for people to download an app and gain hundreds or thousands of pounds on a single night.
There are waterproof product which can be opened and serviced.
> The more I use GPT, the less I'm worried

I'm curious, as I see quite a few people saying this. You might not be worried about GPT4, but aren't you at least a little concerned about GPT8 or whatever?

Just having a post like this a mere 5 years ago would've been unthinkable yet here we are.
Yesterday there was a "Launch HN" thread for credal.ai [0] and I noticed that they use the same openai.api_base trick [1].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36326525
[1] https://credalai.notion.site/Drop-In-APIs-3a45d32405c347e8bf...
>is this post just BS?

I think it is, because the entire thing reads as someone with very little life experience. If they've truly been in the industry 20 years they would have experienced plenty of similar career anxieties - the .com boom/bust, outsourcing, and global financial crises.
I don't see anything confusing. Choose any instance and it will federate with others. For the minimal friction, choose the mainstream one, mastodon.social.
Which way to go will depend on your use-case and what websites you want to scrape.

For occasional web crawling, headless browser is great as it's easy to set up and you're almost guaranteed to get the data you need.

For frequent or large-scale crawling, it's a different story. Surely you can implement something with just HTTP library, but you'll need to test it throughly and make some research before hand. That said, most scraped, content-heavy websites use either static HTML or SSR, in which case you can use HTTP no problem.
Given only an entangled qubit, the only thing you can do that will be “synchronized” with the other party is perform a measurement. Each measurement performed by either party will produce either a 0 or 1 without any “input” from the measurer or the other party. Any perturbation of the state that preserves the entanglement can only rotate it (which just alters what state your side considers 0 and 1).
Both are illegal under international law
> "At one point, the UK was recording any death where the person had a positive COVID test at any time prior."

Not entirely true. The UK definition was death _within 28 days_ of the first lab confirmed, positive Covid test. Not "any time prior".
The article is fine but the title is misleading; the Instant Pot is indeed a fantastic product, but the reason why it "failed" (note: it didn't as a product; only its parent company did) is because some private-equity firm raided it and tried to milk it for more than it was worth.

Private equity is very much like cancer: they grow and grow onto sane products until they kill the host.

Meanwhile, I absolutely can't do without my Instant Pot.