skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s pretty amazing how so many titans people respect are warning the alarm bells: Hofstadter, Altman, Hassabis, Bengio, Hinton, Tegmark, Sutskever, etc. but the implications are too scary for most people here to accept. So one by one the most common copium response is to downplay each about-facer's achievements. I like the odds betting on the intellectual prowess of that first group. On the other hand, crypto king Marc Andreesen is on your side! But I empathize, because like Hofstadter says:

"And my whole intellectual edifice, my system of beliefs... It's a very traumatic experience when some of your most core beliefs about the world start collapsing. And especially when you think that human beings are soon going to be eclipsed. It felt as if not only are my belief systems collapsing, but it feels as if the entire human race is going to be eclipsed and left in the dust soon."

Don't Look Up https://twitter.com/kristjanmoore/status/1663860424100413440
"programmers" are also fallible.

I've seen enough programmers get heads down pounding out code, and be completely out of touch on what they are building. If they can lose the big picture on simple apps, then it is not a stretch to think they could lose track on what is consciousness, or what is human.

I am also a programmer. But it does get tiring on HN to give so much credence to 'programmers'. Just because someone can debug some JavaScript doesn't make them an expert. I really doubt that many people here have traced out these algorithms and 'know' what is happening.
Part of the FDB team (great folks) went on to create something quite incredible I have the pleasure of having early access to. If you’re into dependability check this out: https://antithesis.com/
As a mathematician turned software engineer, dev ops and build systems are the bane of my existence. Every time I need to do that work, I want to quit.

The fact that I “can’t just X” but need to use some convoluted build system with details hidden somewhere as if it was arcane magic is beyond me.
My thoughts too, big WV energy (pun intended). I got 18 miles. It looks very similar to where I do a lot of camping.
I mean we have AI that generates both the function and an appropriate name for it. If you lean into that paradigm, all of this is a waste of time.
> Have they finally stumbled into something people want to do with them, beyond games and porn?

Most people don't want it for games and porn either -- although those two things are the only obvious mass-market applications.

There are lots of other real uses, but they're all niche. It's hard to come up with a real, mainstream use that would drive adoption in the general public.
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/kp8A4
Just imagine if those years of research went into a good language instead. Instead of expending a huge amount of effort making an inherently slow language perform reasonably, we could have taken a reasonable language like Rust and made it so good it would legitimately push computing forward.

And then all you web devs could still compile rust to wasm. wasm is already faster than JS anyway. JS was a mistake.
Companies also acquire and merge to vertically integrate.
I was surprised he said this too. Even without the autoregressive part of GPT models you have a deep transformer with attention, so even a single forward pass can modify its own intermediate outputs.
What exactly is the claim you would sue for?
Technically that's true because of the "C virtual machine", but pragmatically, C is still the "lowest-level high-level programming language" at least among the popular programming languages (arguably only Forth is lower level, but Forth isn't exactly mainstream).

(and I'd argue that C is closer to assembly than assembly is to what's actually happening inside the CPU, e.g. assembly itself is a high-level abstraction layer that's still pretty close to C - which isn't all that surprising because both probably developed as a symbiosis over time - especially when you look at all the non-standard language extensions in various C compilers)
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I had a debate on the Criticker site about this topic since they try hard to turn your raw ratings into a normalized span. The fact is that because of ratings sites, I'm very rarely watching 1-star movies. That's good! So the low end was dominated by a 2.5/3 type ratings, which per my scale meant "just OK," but they were mapping it to "bad," somehow inferring that my rating range is 3-5.
The thing is that it is a pretty easy to solve problem. Print advance copies with a QR code that contains a link to the publisher's site with a GUID in the params. The publisher would have a page, authenticated with the GUID, with authenticated links to private review pages. This allows for knowing the person had the advance copy. Just that line will kill 95% of review bombing. You can also use the publisher side to collect analytics on books before retail.

Why am I telling you this? It's a not-half-bad B2B startup one could MVP over a week or so and your first publisher could get you in the door with the review sites who would love to have verified reviews.
Graal's native-image tool also does a form of this. The compiler actually executes parts of your program at compile time, but it's real execution so you can theoretically do anything. The heap data that's generated is then persisted into the program. You can debug such code just like normal code by just running it on HotSpot instead.
a breakdown of what happens when we fail to plan for post-integration, and how to reduce technical debt cause by 3rd party APIs.
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I've heard good things about this book for years and nearly bought it a few times. Could never bring myself to commit the hundreds of hours of reading time. Every time I leaf through it it feels like it's just a collection of anecdotes about how amazing mathematics is. Like I need someone to remind me...
In git, no you do not:

PS C:\Users\eterm\Documents\code\aoc\adventclient> git rev-parse HEAD

a2e0c38327569533f2fc704bfe9617473011bf11

PS C:\Users\eterm\Documents\code\aoc\adventclient> git checkout -b test-branch

Switched to a new branch 'test-branch'

PS C:\Users\eterm\Documents\code\aoc\adventclient> git rev-parse HEAD

a2e0c38327569533f2fc704bfe9617473011bf11

PS C:\Users\eterm\Documents\code\aoc\adventclient> git status

On branch test-branch

nothing to commit, working tree clean

Both HEAD of main and HEAD of the branch point to the same commit until there is another commit.
I started at 100miles, diverted to 140 miles, then quickly narrowed into 40mi accuracy by guess 5. In under 30 seconds.

Certain parts of America just have a "look".

A rusty, sad, religious, whitebread, Under Armour Tucked Into My Jeans look.
What smartphone do you use?
You could have other restrictions on mergers... For example, "All IP (trademarks, copyright, patents) from one of the two merged companies gets released to the public"

Or perhaps "Anyone with contractual obligations to one of the merged companies is released from those obligations".

Both of those would be half way to just dissolving one of the companies and re-hiring the staff by the other company to release a similar product.
Malibal Linux laptops. Any good?
Yeah Red Hat does share all the code for customers who purchase binaries and they are not imposing further restrictions on recipients of those binaries with their EULA. If the EULA is violated Red Hat is simply exercising their rights to not distribute future binaries and source thus not violating the GPL clause you mention
Here's a feature I desperately wanted a dozen years ago. Browser vendors kind of lost interest in improving their SVG support around that time.

https://dev.w3.org/SVG/modules/vectoreffects/master/SVGVecto...
There's a nice wiki page on this exact topic. In in the US it's just become another branch of the military industrial complex, Wiki calls it the military-entertainment complex. [1] It works using the carrot instead of the stick, but the outcome is largely the same. The military offers funding and access studios that create movies furthering US interests, enlistment, etc. Studios that work against these interests not only lose these opportunities, but risk imperiling access to them in the future.

"By the end of the 1980s and early 1990s, Hollywood producers were stressing script writers to create military-related plots to gain production power from the U.S. military."

The Guardian also has a really great article on this [2] from back before they joined said complex. It comes down to the exact same thing with China. They want those Yuan, and randomly shoehorning controversial geopolitical maps into a Barbie movie is going to help you on that path.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military%E2%80%93entertainment...

[2] - https://www.theguardian.com/film/2009/jul/06/us-military-hol...
From what I understand TikTok is not currently financially sustainable and is supported by money infusions. I can't remember the numbers exactly but they price user time at something like 20% of what Facebook, YouTube and other financially stable social media do. When TikTok is forced to become economically viable, the cycle will repeat where some new company gets a license to burn cash and undercuts them at the same time TikTok's forced to make the site less pleasing to users. It's pretty easy to view TikTok as an economic weapon aimed at FAANG (similar to steel dumping).
Your thinking reminds me of the work of a friend of mine. He's an AWS consultant and builds thing like AWS thinks you should. Some of the things he comes up with, chaining services together, with a sprinkle of lambda functions, it's Rube Goldberg machines all the way down.

A user logs in to a javascript app, hosted in an S3 bucket, authentication is handled by Cognito, the user gets a upload form, once their files is uploaded to S3, a lambda triggers an ECS container to spin up, some processing, output is sent to SQS where a service hosted on EKS picks up the processed data .... AND SO ON.

Rube Goldberg machines, all of it.
When I started as an IT manager at a small events firm in 1997, I had 40 hours of work every week, just keeping things alive. By the end in 2013, things just ran smoothly, and I waited for something to break.

Windows got reliable between Windows 97 and Windows 7, servers got reliable, networks got reliable... everything stopped breaking.

There's no way 20% of peoples time is wasted on borked computers, that's a whole day every work week.
There's a technical challenge prescreen in the application.

I completed it the other week and got a generic "will not be moving forward with your candidacy" Kind of a disappointment
RAM and CPU time are resources, so all websites are using "your computer's resources"
The parent comment strikes me as an uninformed smear. Have you read any Hofstadter? It's hardly mass market scientific summary as you seem to think. And his career was in philosophy of mind and computer science, not just as a somewhat popular author.

His writing is a bit more complex than the hallucinations of an llm.
There is an optimal number of firms in competition with each other. It could be that for a particular industry, 10 firms means everyone is losing money and unable to make new investments, while 8 firms means that there's a healthy amount of profit that can sustain R&D and growth. Sure, eventually it might all work out as firms go bankrupt or go into a new business, but you can lose decades in waiting that out.

Also, this is easily circumvented by just buying the crucial assets of a competitor, like trade secrets, factories, offices, patents, etc.
I'd rather see such posts flagged. There are plenty of places online to argue about the culture war, let us have some place we can get away from the division and just talk about tech
Low-level programming isn't the holy grail. If a person gets fed up with limitations of C, they might as well move to a higher-level domain area as well. Especially, given the higher pay there.

Those who haven't will have a much lower tolerance for changes. Survivor bias of a kind.
Delta touch is the Doom runner app:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.opentouchg...
Ask HN: MagicLink Logins Impossible for iOS PWA?
There does not seem to be a way to open a link in a iOS PWA. You cannot paste it into the instance, you cannot "open with", and safari does not keep the proper auth cookie when upgrading an app from the browser to a PWA instance. I went to great lengths to implement robust reminders for my flutter PWA and follow the rules to ensure it would theoretically work with iOS devices. Now after grabbing an iOS device to test, I see that users cannot even login via the PWA!

The Apple dislike for PWAs is real. Any work arounds for magic links on iOS PWAs?

Current PWA UX for Magic Link on Apple devices --

* Send link to device.

* User clicks to open, clicks to confirm.

* Login saved to temporary session in webview, must login again.

* User sends link to device.

* Login from browser, tap to add to home screen.

* Cookie doesn't exist in PWA instance, user must login again.

* User sends link to device.

* User copies, goes to PWA Instance.

* ???

Time to add new auth methods specifically because Apple?
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> You don't know, with any precision, the amount of force you used, the rate the stick broke at, how much mass remains in the two pieces and how much was lost to splintering, etc.

But I can measure those with a ruler and a scale. Both before and after the breakage. Takes a few seconds, and I'd need to do that before punching those numbers into the simulator anyway. And I can be precise with where I apply the force, etc. So I don't see how this gets to the point of the question.
> lower pay than its competitors but also less work and less stress. Is the latter part not true?

Unless you are in Azure org (and maybe some other small specialized teams i am not aware of), it is often true.

Source: worked outside of Azure myself, it was great. WLB by default was nice and chill, but there was always plenty of room to push for more, if you wanted promotions/rewards/high-impact projects under your belt. People were amazing too all around. Had plenty of friends who worked in different orgs too. A couple of them transferred to Azure, and they quit a year or two later. They said that it felt like working for AWS in terms of how brutal it was (with one of them actually having used to work for AWS prior), which was night and day compared to their previous teams at MSFT.
I had been worried about geopolitical issues impacting some form of chipmaking in the next several years and tried to upgrade all my gadgets to M2+ in the past year. Glad I completed the task! This might just be a few months of supply chain issues that could resonate for a while.
Finding that out is why I'd consult a lawyer.
In Dutch the word is "computer" also, but English is the bastard child between Dutch and French while Dutch is already a bit of a bastard child from German.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Of course for you it feels like realtime, because the physics of “you” are being executed on the same “system”.

It’s funny to think that if we are living in a simulation, that the machine we’re running on might have horrible uptime, but we’d never know because our “time” only works when the machine is running!
We're in that part of a MMO where you can't find a quest giver because the spammers and sellers are packed so deeply that it is turning into a blur.
>Maintaining existing ones or fixing bugs is a career dead end for software engineers and managers

Strong disagree. This may be the case at certain "tech" companies, but I grew my career into CTO through maintaining existing systems and fixing bugs (and through doing the things no one else wanted to do). Amongst my fellow members of the particular CTO club I'm in, I'd say about 1/4 to 1/3rd followed a similar path.

There is a related way you can limit your career though, by becoming an expert on a non-critical system and limiting your focus solely to it. Many engineers take that path because it feels safe and offers job security, but it will limit upward mobility options.
Same. The image helps with a first and maybe last guess, and sometimes there's something highly identifying in the image, but triangulation would be enough if I could only accurately estimate distances. The scale on the map helps.

It would be cool if the radii were drawn at the end? It would be too easy if they were drawn before, I think.
They use custom ASICs too.
Licensing site content using a text file
I tried a similar approach. I only got as close as 126 miles...
I really wish I understood this response. I've played with ChatGPT a good bit and it's very impressive but more often than not it feels like a nice skin on top of Wikipedia. It doesn't do any actual reasoning so I can't drill in to topics to the depth that I want and it's wrong often enough that if I'm working on anything of any consequence, I have to go find other information later to validate it
Sadly not too surprising. Matrix can do a lot of really cool stuff, but also is just wonky in random places, and at scale that really hurts. And the bugfixing seems to endlessly run behind the work piling features on the other end.
50% of the time Siri’s inability to understand what I want is the issue, and I don’t even try that much, given the bad experience.
Cant wait for Apple's 6K 120Hz OLED Pro display using the 120Gbps upstream support of this spec. We are nearing peak display.
And wishing Twitter dead is just the wishful thinking of the people who write for newspapers and outlets like the Verge, because they spent 24 hours a day on it and it catered to them.

For people who aren't angry about politics, Twitter is just as appealing as it ever was (other than the transition pains.) Among people who are angry about politics, it became less appealing to people who think certain ideas should disqualify you from speaking, and more appealing to those who either don't think that, or who think that an entirely different set of ideas than the recent status quo should be the ones that disqualify you from speaking.
100% this. I always dabbled as a dev since becoming fascinated with coding and computing as a kid in the 90s.

Went into a career in audio engineering in my 20s and switched to development about 4 years ago.

People ask how I found the switch and the truth is that it was very simple. The main principle of audio engineering is ‘signal’ flow, replace the word ‘signal’ with ‘data’ and you’re like 90% of the way there.

Follow the data, all we are doing is moving it around and manipulating it here and there. No different to a raw stem from the DI of a guitar passing through a big old analogue console.
I don't think the this represents the kind of breakthrough the article suggests it is, but it is interesting none the less. I would love to see some analysis of design to evaluate the design's merits and weaknesses.
Read the article before reading the comments? ;)
And who would do that? Even if technically possible, there is no one willing to do it.
Same thing with Book Depository, AbeBooks, and Avalon Books. And more generally Whole Foods, Alexa Internet, IMDB, Fabric.com, Woot, Zappos, Evi, Graphiq...

When will consumers have protection against this degrading of the marketplace already?
I think something weird is happening but I think it's what Hofstadter stated in the interview. The ground under his work has shifted massively and he's disturbed by that and that is affecting his judgement.
if they have money they can buy a gopro; I've known many cyclists who list having the record of a potential accident as one of their reasons for buying and using a gopro.
Most people (myself included) had no issue with the premise. The issue comes from StackExchange having a (then recent) history of starting to ignore their community. That has continued even to today.

Basically, people aren’t necessarily upset about them relicensing, but that there’s been no discussions with the community about these things. This was just another nail in the wound, and people got upset.
C23 includes constexpr for some constructs, by the way.
> Some developers do use names that are too short. However, I think the more common mistake is using names that are overly long.

I agree 100% with this. Overly long names are very painful to work with.

But naming things is very hard. I'd be happier if people just adopted a consistent naming scheme that is predictable. I'd put up with the crazy long names in exchange for that.
Read somewhere that the Woz didn’t deny it when asked about it.

(sorry, can’t find the reference now)
It's quite perplexing when SVGs have a lot of potential in responsive UX. I don't get it.
That's not what this survey shows: https://wiki.aiimpacts.org/doku.php?id=ai_timelines:predicti...
Making the best of it :D
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It is more of software self-actualization. Just like human would need food, water, shelter, before they move on to top of pyramid.

I agree software need to be basic error free, compilable, buildable and deployable before naming and structuring aesthetics becomes important.

> Who cares!? Those are both great names for a function...

Now the author has written many good quality working software systems, it is natural that they want to talk about next level things.