skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Absolutely. My cousin did this (not in the USA). He studied political science and spent almost 10 years "working" on his master thesis. It was always "almost done", then he decided that the topic had become obsolete and he had to start over.

His problem was that finding a job with a political science degree is hard. He could become unemployed, a failure. But as long as he didn't graduate, he was still a student, and respectable.
Yes, I am still in China and leaving is not easy. I am working hard to earn money and trying to find a way to leave China.
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On that note, my personal hypothesis, even more controversial than "IT unproductive hypotheses" in the article that means IT was a rounding error relative to earlier major improvements, is: in many areas - particularly in office work and all kinds of everyday errands - IT is anti-productive, as in it makes people less productive on the net.

The core hypothesis behind my belief is that introduction of computers to replace a class of tasks - up to and including a whole job type - is just shifting the workload, diffusing it across many people, where previously it was concentrated in smaller number of specialists. Think e.g. the things you use Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook, etc. (or their equivalents from other vendors) for - before software ate it, a lot of that used to be someone's job. Now, it's just tacked onto everyone's workload, distracting people from doing the actual job they were paid to.

That would seem like obviously stupid way to do, so why would businesses all fall for it? I argue it's because even as shifting the workload makes everyone in the company less productive on the net, it looks like an improvement to accounting. Jobs with salaries are legible, clearly visible on the balance sheets. So is money saved by eliminating them. However, the overall productivity drop caused by smearing that same work across rest of the company? That's incremental, not obviously quantifiable. People and their salaries stay the same. So it all looks like introducing software and obsoleting some jobs saves everyone money - but then somehow, everyone is experiencing a "productivity paradox". But it's not a paradox if you ignore the financial metrics with their low resolution - focusing on what happens to work, it seems that IT improvements are mostly a lie.
No, it’s not dead, the first link is coincidental down for maintenance, per the message on the page.

You can see the archived link here:

https://web.archive.org/web/20170115133353/https://www.epw.s...

The other two links are alive but you need a twitter account to view them.
This is a little more off-topic but when I first encountered uses of "sic" I thought it was an acronym for "spelling is correct", due to how it was being used. Only later did I realise that wasn't the case, but a search of the Internet shows that many others also came up with the same acronym and reasoning.
Well let me enlighten you, as someone who doesn't live in america. I pay a bit less than 150 euros a months in health insurance in the Netherlands. It is not tied to my employer in any way. If I was poor I could ask for those payments to be subsidized by the state.

If I am sick I can just get an appointment with my GP within the day and not pay a thing, they can refer me to specialists or blood tests if needed, which are also fast and free. The remaining healthcare costs for medications or dentistry are so low I don't even notice them.

Hope this will shed some light to you about what's happening in other countries.
How does the load balancer know if they hit the tweet limit or not? Sounds like they need to query a db for that
The comment above was fair criticism. This one is needlessly mean. Pay attention to the community guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Tree-Structured Concurrency
> The promise is at the remote end.

What? The promise is local, so what do you mean "the promise is at the remote end?"

> Promise resolution is idempotent,

No. It is only run once (whether resolve or success), that does not mean it's idempotent.

Just like exceptions for synchronous code, or error returns.
I mean that’s not really the same thing though. One is due to superstition, the other is due to suspicion. How reasonable? Leave it as an exercise to the reader, but photographs could never actually steal your soul. Surveillance on the other hand could actually be conducted targeting you.
Sampling and quoting is a creative act! Value will be lost.
Who/what is the:

1. Author

2. Copyright holder

3. Copyright license

...of the code generated by this tool?

Unless the answer to all of these is unambiguously "the original", then you shouldn't be using such tool on any code, especially on your employer's intelectual property.

Sorry to be so negative about it but this is something that I see skipped over in all discussions related to AI. Just because it's AI does not make it immune to copyright law. You're giving away your code to a 3rd party company under their terms and conditions, and receivig some new code back, again under their terms and conditions. The fact that it uses AI under the hood is irrelevant, you're dealing with a business that produces you an output and you should know the terms before submitting anything to them, especially if you don't own that thing.
Someone who has the right skills to be an air traffic controller doesn't have the right skills to be the only air traffic controller.
Seriously ? How did you end up in that line of work?

HN has a tendancy to find something like "nominative determinism" - "comment determinism" where a comment about a job produces a (contradictory) reply from someone doing that job.
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In my personal experience chatgpt-4 has been a great addition to the toolbox, both for coding assistance and research. You do have to have sufficient grounding in the subjects to be able to evaluate the responses critically though.

However, in all cases I have seen a very substantial decline of the capabilities of chatgpt-4 with the last few releases. E.g. it used to get code snippets most often right before. Whereas now it tends to be wrong most of the time. Usually it conflates capabilities of several distict libraries, just hallucinating (extrapolating) some non existing functions or attributes.

I personally suspect they are 'cleansing' the training data, and/or driving severe 'schizophrenia' into the model through conflicting RLHF.
Look into earlier in the Industrial Revolution and you'll find plenty of IP thefts and outright defiance of UK laws of technology export controls and laws against emigration of skilled workers. The US went further than "being a fence" and had agents stealing technology as early as 1787. It isn't limited to industrial technology. Music piracy got so bad in the 19th century that Gilbert and Sullivan premiered "The Pirates of Penzance" in New York first to stop the issues of rampant unauthorized productions seen by "HMS Pinafore". When they were the underdog the US could politely be described as "guilty as sin".

I offer this more for the sake of enlightenment and amusement than anything else.
Update: back online AFAICT
One issue that I didn't see mentioned in the article or any of the comments so far, is that all these kids who got into Ivy league schools saw themselves as overachievers / received lots of praise relative to their peers while in high school. But once you get into a top school, everyone there is like that and you are no longer special, you are just average compared to your peers.

You might have been then top student in your city/state, but when you are suddenly surrounded by top students from your _entire country_ it is statistically unlikely that you would be the best. That ought to be demoralizing to a lot of young adults whose entire sense of self-worth has been riding on being the best at academia/sports/whatever.
I don't think it's intelligence but the sudden shock that these kids struggle with.

Most ivy league kids will have succeeded in ~everything before college, and likely internalized the belief of their talent / status as top of class etc. When you put these kids into a single room, by definition only a small minority can be the smartest kid in the room / acing everything. The rest need to accept the change in status for the first time in their lives - also the first time they're away from their support network - and I guess some take this particularly badly and fail to adapt.
Google's Pixel Fold will have official parts available for DIY repair
Right like it takes any effort to just look it up and copy and paste.
I’m a Canadian immigrant. I didn’t have recognizable highschool credentials. So had to go through a local college 1st year program. I had a 4.0 GPA when I applied to a Canadian university for second-year transfer program. I applied to only one school, and one program with no backups. Got in and graduated with a 4.0.

During my internships at Microsoft, I met a ton of Ivy kids. I was very intimidated and clearly went through imposter syndrome.

There was a touch of elitism which I think was their downfall. Every kid from my university got a return offer. But there were so many Ivy kids who didn’t. And it seemed like they didn’t even care, but only after they’d already knew they were not coming back. Most of those kids didn’t really make it big in my opinion, now 12 years later.

Clearly, humility isn’t a skill they teach in schools. And in many cases, especially when you’re a noob in the industry, lack of it reveals an inner Dunning-Kruger that make one unattractive.

I’ve recruited many Ivy kids over the years. There is a bimodal distribution. There are ones that are truly very smart - these tend to be humble too. Then there are those who flaunt - almost always there is no substance with these kids.

Once you’re in the industry, nobody gives a shit which university you went to or what your grades were.
> a slippage between tectonic plates so powerful that it moved Honshu, the main island of Japan, 2.4 meters to the east. The earthquake generated a tsunami 14 meters high

The definition of a black swan event.

And yet the conclusion is, unsurprisingly, indistinguishable from "nuclear is bad, be very very wary".

Imagine if any other tech had the same fear-mongering. We'd never have a single hydroelectric plant after Banqiao dam failure that killed anywhere from 25 000 to 240 000 and left 11 million people homeless.
The author is using the word "notarize" here in a way I don't understand. It must mean something distinct from cryptographic signature, but I don't get it. Is this something unique to the Apple ecosystem?
I'm not sure that applies here. If data is migrated from one app to another, content may change.

We could create a protocol for requesting content-addressable URLs over HTTP, but it wouldn't help with the problem described either.
You kinda glossed over "it drops on my doorstep, sometimes even that evening". Only a few other sites (Costco+Instacart, Walmart, Apple, etc) offer same day delivery. Their search engines are almost as bad as Amazon's.
instead of the usual archiving, I wonder if you could find the same GIFs on Giphy and build a cheap redirect service.
> But also it’s a group of overly complicated specifications that could’ve just been extensions to the ActivityPub protocol rather than a whole new protocol!

So do those extensions exist (even in the form of plans), especially the ones that free you up from a server or is it just wishful thinking?
> Multnomah County is seeking $50 million from the defendants for actual damages from the 2021 record-breaking heat wave. Temperatures in the region reached 116°F, killing 69 people in the county. This is the hottest temperature ever recorded in the county’s history.

$51B of damages for ostensibly killing 69 people in that county? This seems farcical, they're shooting for the moon to make headlines, they can't be serious with this. It's a PR/political stunt.
yea. kparts were great. compilation went down from neverending to something reasonable. and konquerors ability to embed any other application (because they were written as kparts) was great.

in gnome i think they did something like "gparts" based on glib. but because gnome desktop was composed in large part from applications written in gtk and not in gnome libs it never had too much uptake (unlike in kde). but i might be wrong - i been kde user from 1.0 alpha4 and gnome was parallel universe
The US NWS has a citizen reporting system for weather: https://www.weather.gov/iln/cwop. I don’t know what the integration looks like.
He said a healthcare system. Not a hospital. They are related, but not the same thing.
I had a buddy who was working on a Linux base for Motorola phones back around 2004/2005. I mentioned this to a EE I worked with back then, who had spent a long time working for Motorola, and he said the carriers "would never allow it."
Having the baseband firmware cordoned off was inevitable
That is a post-backlash claim by Elon Musk, so it should be taken with a huge grain of salt.
Has anyone tried it yet?
Would be crazy if it worked.
Exactly. It is the THREAT of execution that exerts all of the force. After you are executed you probably don't care anymore. But I am not an after-life expert.
Doesn't Amazon claim to sink much of their revenue back into R&D?
You can leave reviews on the seller's page, not just the product page
Twitter just DDoSed itself because it is run by a genius and a team that does not know how the site works.

Stuff like this will happen more often in the future. It's downhill all the time.
What’s newer than Patriots, HIMARS, HARMs and the other stand-off weapons and air defense that the West is donating?
Did you try it yet? Curious how far it could get.
Why would you equal-to-coal today? You need to equal wind, solar or at least gas safety.

Lately I'm reading a lot about lowering nuclear safety to improve costs. Imagine cars makers asking to get rid of ABS, airbags, safety belts... to make cheaper cars. Any sane person would raise a brow when hearing that, any industry should aim to be as safe as possible, not to cut costs on safety and assume some preventable deaths with a happy smile.

It's also a lie: in this report https://www.nei.org/resources/reports-briefs/nuclear-costs-i... , in the page 5 you can see that regulatory costs are minimal (and the source should be nuclear friendly enough) after adapting for the Fukushima "lesson".
It is true that Markdown won by putting simplicity for the users in front of simplicity for the parsers. But since it became ubiquitous, there's a lot of value in codifying the standard to make sure that it doesn't diverge into different dialects.

Regarding the specific author's suggestions, he explicitly writes that he doesn't propose to implement them in the actual MD "standard", since backwards compatibility is more important. That said there is value in making the markup less ambiguous while preserving the "writability" even if it's just a thought experiment.
How do you like and reply within RSS?
Did it work? Link the repo.
20% - 50% is the typical premium paid to take a public company private.
Sounds like a crazy amount of work for an online forum.
I expect to see how you use your gpt-migrate to migrate gpt-migrate to JS.

Then from JS to Python again.

Run the test and compare.

Once done, good job !
William Roper: So, now you give the Devil the benefit of law!

Sir Thomas More: Yes! What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil?

William Roper: Yes, I'd cut down every law in England to do that!

Sir Thomas More: Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned 'round on you, where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country is planted thick with laws, from coast to coast, Man's laws, not God's! And if you cut them down, and you're just the man to do it, do you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake!
Truth =! Wisdom
Seems like this actually works by generating tests and continuing to try different things until the tests run successfully on both the source and the target codebase.
Doesn't the first answer attempt to give one? That's also the way many people learn it middle school, at least I think I remember I did. To spark a constructive discussion, it would be interesting to know what doesn't satisfy you about this answer.
My claim as that we don't need to cover math before we tackle cryptography, and my reasoning is that there is more than one way to approach a topic.

Here's a discussion of cryptography that has 0 occurrences of "ring" (for example): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptography
Is there any great modern rich document alternative? That wound truly go beyond markdown
> He has no STEM degree.

Musk has a bachelor's degree in physics from the University of Pennsylvania: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/musk-physics-degree/.

Further, while I share some criticism of the man, many very technical people from companies such as SpaceX and Tesla have come forward with public comments, praising him for "truly grasping the engineering" and "being involved in every technical design decision". Make of these what you will:

Kevin Watson, Falcon 9 avionics:

Elon is brilliant. He’s involved in just about everything. He understands everything. If he asks you a question, you learn very quickly not to go give him a gut reaction.

He wants answers that get down to the fundamental laws of physics. One thing he understands really well is the physics of the rockets. He understands that like nobody else. The stuff I have seen him do in his head is crazy.

He can get in discussions about flying a satellite and whether we can make the right orbit and deliver Dragon at the same time and solve all these equations in real time. It’s amazing to watch the amount of knowledge he has accumulated over the years.

Tom Mueller, SpaceX founding employee:

We’ll have, you know, a group of people sitting in a room, making a key decision. And everybody in that room will say, you know, basically, “We need to turn left,” and Elon will say “No, we’re gonna turn right.” You know, to put it in a metaphor. And that’s how he thinks. He’s like, “You guys are taking the easy way out; we need to take the hard way.”*

And, uh, I’ve seen that hurt us before, I’ve seen that fail, but I’ve also seen— where nobody thought it would work— it was the right decision. It was the harder way to do it, but in the end, it was the right thing.*

Garrett Reisman, engineer and former NASA astronaut:

What's really remarkable to me is the breadth of his knowledge. I mean I've met a lot of super super smart people but they're usually super super smart on one thing and he's able to have conversations with our top engineers about the software, and the most arcane aspects of that and then he'll turn to our manufacturing engineers and have discussions about some really esoteric welding process for some crazy alloy and he'll just go back and forth and his ability to do that across the different technologies that go into rockets cars and everything else he does.

Josh Boehm, former Head of Software QA at SpaceX:

Elon is both the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Technology Officer of SpaceX, so of course he does more than just ‘some very technical work’. He is integrally involved in the actual design and engineering of the rocket, and at least touches every other aspect of the business (but I would say the former takes up much more of his mental real estate). Elon is an engineer at heart, and that’s where and how he works best.

Along with many others.
For newspapers/magazines, this existed in the Netherlands for some time. It was called blendle[0] and worked exactly as you described. It was a fantastic way to get legit access to a handful of articles from various sources without the need to take any subscriptions. The best thing was money back, no questions asked policy, for every article you bought.

The model failed however (cannot recall the details but there are plenty of writeups [1]) and they switched to a new model which is all you can eat for 10 euro a month. However the selection is trimmed down massively.

I kinda miss it, although typically now I just 12ft or web archive anything I really like to read.

[0] https://blendle.com/getpremium

[1] https://www.niemanlab.org/2019/06/micropayments-for-news-pio...
Pick a corner of the cube. There are three faces that go through the opposite corner, right? The pyramids are formed by the first corner and those three faces. (They're obviously equal.)

Now imagine looking at the inside of the cube through that first corner. There is no angle where you don't see one of the three faces in the background! So the decomposition is complete.
The organization’s stated mission, inherent not just to it but to all places of its sort, is <X>, even though, unfortunately, we often end up chasing <Y> instead.

It’s a difficult balance: <Y> is in fact necessary to continually achieve <X> but there are times where decisions focus exclusively, or at least too much, on <Y>. But we live in the real world, and sometimes that’s necessary. (<Y> is not money though it has an impact on our financials) And also sometime people with a broader view see further than I do and those choices that seem wrong come around a few years later and it turns out <X> is actually better off for it. It keeps me humble, skeptical of my own certainty even when it seems faultless.

But I’m also at a point now where people who pop up and start shouting <r>! or <f>! or something completely random like “Well how about <~€€€~>?” I can easily deal with: I go back, do a bit of the work I do, show it to the right people, and those shouts -disappear. Sometimes one gets through and it’s annoying, but whatever, nothing is perfects.

Of course the above vastly oversimplifies things. There are many, many more variables to juggle along the way. But I hope it gives a reasonable sense of things.

And I’m sure the “<X>” style notation of things in my explanation makes it harder understand what I mean, but I value my privacy, hence the abstractions of the factors involved.
Elon is truly one of the CEOs of all time
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That doesn’t mean they have full coverage. The “front” is enormous.
Are they trying to limit the English language usage?
Great feedback.

I'm not the author of this project, but in my understanding, it's the same as if you were to write the code yourself. The project doesn't publish anything and it works entirely locally aside from LLM calls (which could in the future be 100% local as well). So you remain the author and have complete control over the license of the generated code.
More than you think. Each high school, back in my day, have a quota that can get into Ivy League. They can’t accept everyone that is smart other else it will be in the tens of thousands. Every year, there would be 1-2 that go into even though they were borderline. They got in because their family donated a million dollar building. They didn’t even make it a secret. I went to an elite college prep school. The really smart ones I know got in through scholarships to help balance the scales. It’s just business at the end.
Two of the companies I've worked for have run gigantic clusters and had >100 employees and didn't really use VMs. One of them used one to build some third party libs, but it was basically an implementation detail of one script. Everything on the servers was still bare metal. You already have user separations, permissions/privileges, etc. It's not clear what a VM adds other than as a hack to allowed installed packages to diverge which doesn't matter if you vendor them.
Will use GPT-Migrate to migrate to rust ;)
Plus: you really shouldn't accept to be paid off like that. Take the other offer and move on, otherwise they have you by the proverbials...
It's way easier to get into elite schools in Europe than top tier American ivies.
Exactly this. There is no need for overthinking things, like in the article.

When I was in college I noticed one group who managed well above all the others. They where in their 30s.