skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Younger people haven't had the same time to build these heuristics.

This is a key point, and I don't think the ability to acquire knowledge online is a skill which only young people specifically have failed to acquire.

Said ability must be trained on, as with anything, a suitable dataset. This objective cannot be meaningfully achieved if all data sources someone has ever consumed and learned from are TikTok, ragebait, clickbait, affiliate link blogs, email chains, WhatsApp message chains, sensationalist news outlets, etc.

This is why people still fall for the Nigerian Prince, Hot MILFs in Your Area, job application with deposit and all the modern variants; not only old people but all types of people.

I think some of us nerds have a slight advantage in that we experience the internet early on in a slightly different way: as a parallel to the real world, with friends and foes, with truth and deceit and as a playground to write a game mod or a bot for shit and giggles. We are, due to that I'd pose, much more keen to learn how and be able to effectively navigate it.
Something that makes your end-to-end tests a heck of a lot more resilient is mocking your API so you're not hitting the network, and so your API responses are deterministic. Doing that also makes the tests run a lot faster. MSW is my preferred library for doing that, and there's a Playwright integration (https://www.npmjs.com/package/playwright-msw).

Mocking the API makes it really easy to response with failures too - having a test that checks the app handles a 500 error or a 401 Unauthorized is really useful, and a total pain to do without mocks.

You can test the API is working and returning what you'd expect with a different set of tests. :)
And their single login domain got seized. Oh boy.
There's a related tale to this in Andy Hertzfeld's Macintosh Folklore book when demoing to Microsoft Bill Gates assumed it required specific hardware to draw the cursor (bonus outburst from Steve too)

https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&stor...
Please share your website. Would be interested in exploring it
Don't feel too bad about that one. I've seen Docker's default of non-persistent storage cause disaster even for professionals with years of experience. It's just a really bad bit of design.
You shouldn't have to pay attention to transfers like that. If you miss the transfer for whatever reason just get the next one.

That the above is not reasonable is something to fix. (Either that or get the Swiss to plan your transfers so you can't possibly miss them)
Congrats on the launch!

The whole world you created around your product really makes it stand out. Quite refreshing compared to a lot of "aseptized" product launch we see these days. As a big fan of the advent of code, I could certainly see where the inspiration :).
You may be interested in How it's Made.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_It%27s_Made
LLM and Google's Reviews
Privacy is a choice? That's a new one, I didn't know people had the choice of their data not being leaked or sold by small and big businesses.

We can chew gum and walk at the same time, no need to throw privacy under the bus.
Strings were really more thought of as arrays/buffers at the time. You could create a String class to serve the purpose of a “modern” string, I believe. However, Simula didn’t yet have operator overloading to make it look like a built-in type.
I work for a Fortune 100 company. Recently an email was sent to all 100,000 employees saying that nobody was allowed to use DALL-E 2, ChatGPT, Codex, Stable Diffusion, Midjourney, Microsoft’s Copilot, and GitHub Copilot, etc. due to concerns about those tools using other people’s IP (meaning our company might end up illegally using their IP) or the potential that the tools might get a hold of our IP through our use of the tools and share it with others. I kind of wondered at the time how many non-tech employees read the email and had no idea what it was talking about.
But I don’t want a size parameter to be passed because I don’t necessarily (want to) have the size value at the call site. People on HN can cry all day about how bad C is and blah and blah. The truth is, C is the only language that gets shit done without getting in programmer’s way.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36566323
FWIW I have the exact opposite experience: people around me, who are _NOT_ in tech, keep talking about AI and lately especially ChatGPT, whereas serious (not only senior) IT professionals don't really.

Besides the science behind it, currently it feels like the same hype as crypto a couple years before.
Moose is one of those things I always mention when people ask what Perl did right.

It wouldn't hurt other languages to have a higher order object templating system.

Other things it did right is the taint flag to keep user supplied data from hitting sensitive functions by way of the type system. (In Rust you can declare your own type to achieve this, and it's actually enforced.)

The unicode system was actually decent in ways nothing else is, at least until the Go and Rust generation. Python 3 wasn't nearly as complete despite being more than a decade later.

If people ask what Perl did wrong, the dereferencing syntax is at the top of my list. Not having multidimensional arrays as a first class type probably did more to scare people away than anything else.
I believe this is further along in other countries, but in the US, you lose a lot of sales as legit customers don't remember their 3DS passwords. I see stats quoting pretty high 3DS adoption in the US (30+%), which seems odd to me personally as I've never been prompted to use it.
I spoke to my 70-year-old step-aunt about this yesterday for exactly this reason. She's a self-employed piano teacher with zero technical interest or knowledge, but a generally astute and clued-up kind of person.

She said she's heard a lot about it, but it all sounds like marketing hype, tabloid sensationalism, or open alarmism from people who don't seem to know what they're talking about.

She said some of her students had used ChatGPT for creating revision materials for their exams, and that they'd found it useful for that, but she found the assertion that mass unemployment is 6-12 months away 'pure speculation'.
A few days ago, some people were discussing Schumpeter's idea that (very) large companies drive innovation. I'm curious what they would make of Google Search.
> This happens to me almost every time Skype bills me, and I've been a customer for probably 10+ years with both my bank and Skype

Why are you still with that bank? Even if you like everything else about them, couldn't you just open an account with another bank for Skype billing? Having more than one account is helpful anyway for avoiding having a single point of failure where you can't buy anything.
From what I can remember, it's an everyday occurrence in various european cities to see police armed with machine guns. The first time I saw it it was very surprising and I wondered what was going on. Definitely not a uniquely american thing.
I’m at Level 8, how far along are you?
She’s complaining that the job description didn’t mention coding as a requirement, but it actually says “deliver solid, reliable code”..?

And fizzbuzz is not a math problem. I’m sure the interviewer would’ve even given her a hint if she came as far as writing a loop and writing the different branches but not figuring out how to differentiate the cases. I’d shrug that off as nervousness perhaps.
I guess it’s a matter of taste, I’d find that fucking horrible.
Widely used libraries for python such as SciPy, PyTorch, TensorFlow, Numpy all drop down to lower level languages (C/C++/Fortran).

I haven't seen many people doing ML in Python without one of these libraries, so I'd say it is mostly constructing instructions in Python and offloading the actual intensive work to these libraries (which may or may not run on GPU depending on your hardware).
"Good looking" isn't Tesla's goal. It's all about making more cheaper EVs.

There are many other amazing luxury EVs nowadays if you are into flexing.
Isn't something like a mimeograph or letter press closer to a xerox? This is like the predecessor to mail merge or label printers.
As many things as possible would have to be taken into account. Maybe a different mathematical formalization is necessary.
A few months ago I heard some mention of ChatGPT on some standard afternoon radio, so I dont think we're in an echo chamber. I think we probably hear about it far more than others but that should be obvious, I'm aware of things outside this industry but almost certainly nowhere near the same awareness as those who work in the industry.
Can't remember exactly where I saw it, but last number I saw said that Google makes ~$12 a year per user. Which begs the question... why have they not atleast tried a "Google Premium".

Fuck it, I'd pay $15 a year to have a Google search that puts as much effort into finding me the shit I actually want as Google does today in serving me BS ads I never pay attention to.
DMD is caused by a mutation resulting in a transposable element.

Retroviruses are TEs by definition. And, a large fraction of human DNA is ERVs, and some have become repurposed as functional proteins. Heck, some ERVs are reactivable. LINE1 is interesting in that we likely gave it to gonorrhea in some circulating strains by horizontal gene transfer within the past 20 years.
We very much look up to Notion for what they build, our angle is more towards the world of formal business and industrial processes (ie. legal contracts, technical specifications, operation manuals, etc.).

We also came up with a way to embed dynamic values seamlessly into text through simple in-line annotation and linked databases, which I don't believe is offered elsewhere.
Looks like it is back for some users, but not others. Probably just the time it takes to propagate the DNS. What a bummer! Thank you for helping to troubhelshoot
As I said, sometimes the job goes different people in different places, and there’s always frictional pain in the adjustment
On the other hand, you are correct that I didn’t post data saying that unemployment hasn’t fallen, but then that is self-evident. We do not have 50% unemployment now because machines took half the jobs, and we are all of us vastly more prosperous than we were in 1800 or 1900 - again, I don’t think I need to post a chart to the obvious.
It sounds like the login problem and the free speech policy (which I think we won't agree on but that's by the by) are the main issues. But it's interesting we have completely alternate impressions how it was before/after Musk. After the initial growth explosion when Twitter launched (and a few encounters with the fail whale) it stabilised and always felt pretty reliable for me. Whereas now downtime is commonplace again, and it feels a bit self-inflicted. Now that the company has axed staff, stopped paying bills and is going to attempt a rapid migration off AWS, I don't have much hope that this will get better.

But to your last sentence - I ended up trying Mastodon, found a nice server, downloaded a familiar app (Ivory by TapBots, the team who made Tweetbot - RIP) and found a pretty good bunch of people to follow so I'm pretty happy there. I probably wouldn't have otherwise tried it had I been able to continue using Tweetbot. I'd be happier if both existed and I could bounce between them, but if Twitter melts into obscurity I'll be a little sad but it would be fine.
All business and all government eventually become a racket.
Yep, the "chinese room" is the classic thought experiment, but I feel like it fails to get the point across because the characters still represent language, so you could conceivably "learn" the language. I prefer the idea of symbols that aren't inherently language, as it really nails in the idea that it doesn't matter how long you spend, there's not something that you can ever learn to "speak" fluently.
There is a more recent paper by Pereira et al. from 2021 (see https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01676... if geomean is used (which is the correct method) instead of what they apparently do in the paper, there is yet a different order (see http://software.rochus-keller.ch/Ranking_programming_languag...).
I don't, but I mostly ignored the lectures as I'd been programming for most of my life already at that point, so I read the textbooks and showed up to the groups (the TA for my group was a member of Crusaders[1], which was fun). I think I attended a grand total of two lectures.

I do remember we found a really embarrassing algorithm choice in the Stack class, though (push and pop at the time were O(n), as it used a singly linked list that they iterated through recursively to find the top of the stack... we found that out on a group project where we kept running out stack space because of the recursion...)

[1] https://demozoo.org/groups/12/
Id argue we're likely relating economic growth (which is measured by contended metrics) to the boom in quality of life we've seen. The problem with this is that the improvements in materials chemistry that have allowed for all these magical things was on the cusp of happening with or without IP. The drive for developing an IP system was more out of necessity in order to capitalize on the coming boom than it was to help that boom occur.

Case in point: look how far LLM's have come since llama hit the public sphere vs. how far organisations like google managed to get, with more time and more resources at their disposal.
The exception does not disprove the rule.

Most people use phones they bought at their local electronics store, with default Android OS and default settings.
Something can be "the future" without being the endgame
> look at the merchant details displayed, punch in the amount to pay and authorize the payment using their PIN.

Feels like a lot of work. I prefer just tapping my phone and then getting the amount charged pushed to my phone and watch so I can complain if its wrong whilst I'm at the checkout.
That's a particular case of the general idea that there are a lot of completely clueless people, whether tech bros, business leaders, politicians, etc that have only the most superficial understanding of various problems and are arrogant enough to think that their super simple solution is novel and can address the problem.
Maybe check out lobste.rs
That sounds like a really cool experience! They probably executed consecutively and not concurrently though, right?
Yeah, areas where there's a high liability and potential loss of life are the last ones that will be fully automated. On the other hand, most office jobs are easy targets because work can be verified in non-realtime before using it.

Trains and planes already operate completely autonomously 99.9% of the time. Yet we still have pilots and train engineers there to handle the edge cases because having one or two people to keep an eye on a million dollar machine that can kill hundreds of people and cause billions in property damages if handled incorrectly works out to be a pretty good deal.

This is the main problem with self driving cars. They can kill people.
There is a massive difference between a feature universally offered by the language and something only supported by using a specific library of compiler plugin...
C18 radicals?
Most CS Best Paper Awards Go to a Few Dozen Institutions
oo thx for sharing! (plugin surf creator here )
> but mean a linux system to which they have root access

Ah, like my Pixel 2. Respectfully, you might be on the wrong forum (and possibly the worst one outside XDA) to say "Most people here do not, and never did, have root access on their Android handsets".

If your distinction for what makes a Linux system a Linux system, is root access, recognize that many, many people here have met and cleared that bar.
The attitude before discovery was if you build it they will come. I see most people pushing discovery/SEO becuase it is complex and people can be convinced it is needed.

A writer needing an audience is nothing new. I think it is just as valid to create no matter what comes.
There are 8 billion people on this planet. No matter how big or well known anything is, the people who know or care about it is a small fraction of the population. I’m not sure that’s what “echo chamber” is intended to represent.

People are unavoidably ignorant of vast swathes of “probably relevant to them” things. No one has time, inclination, or actual ability to keep up with it all. That reinforces the above but I am again doubtful that it is an “echo chamber” per se.

Hacker News regulars, especially those engaged with comments, are operating within an echo chamber, sure.

Outside of a couple of 70+ folks and some bikers, everyone I know is at least conversationally aware of recent “AI” developments so it’s most likely a function of your particular uselessly small sample size. :)
> how does the "hallucination" issue differ from the same behaviour we see in humans?

In humans “hallucination” means observing false inputs. In GTP it means creating false outputs.

Completely different with massively different connotations.
It would be relatively easy to implement in Ireland, but I've only used it once (buying from a shop in Germany). I placed the order on their website, and they gave me an IBAN and a reference number. I did a bank transfer to that account using the reference number they gave me, and they marked the invoice as paid and shipped the product. Simple system, though I'm not sure how they monitored their bank account: it may have been manual. It would work for any company which uses IBANs, which is all SEPA companies and many more besides.

Australia has a system called POLi. This injects a popup into the checkout page of a website which allows you to log into your own bank and do a transfer from there. That works well, and seems quick and easy for the customer.
Based on the recently released round 3 of Hotz and Fridman - YES!

I kept think that the entire conversation sounded like two vocal transcription bots reading through r/AI and HN with a sprinkling of Twitter.
Thanks a lot! It's kind of a love-it or hate-it coat, but it's way more fun and memorable!

Hope you spend a good time solving the puzzles :)
Agreed! Whilst we aim to be a generalist business tool for formal business language, the main focus initially is legal & transactional documents for now.

We will work on making the message clearer. Thank you!
I think most people just let themselves get sucked in though, you already seem aware enough to avoid it, so I don’t think you’re kids would be like that either.

I have to say, I find America’s to have a lot of hyper gullible people as compared to other countries though and I do agree with you’re point.
There are numerous generic IP KVM/DVR solutions that are local only or cloud optional. They're just not heavily marketed in retail consumer channels.
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Level of knowledge, I think.
Ada isn’t that obscure, it outranks Scheme in the TIOBE index, for example.
Yea but these days they will get some stupid fine like $30m which is a rounding error for these companies. Especially in the US where bribes are legal, and it has been proven over and over that the politicians will do whatever their corp overlords tell them to do.
Perhaps too unrelated but it is amusing to me that this isn't served over HTTPS and I wanted to share that remark as it got caught in my HTTPS everywhere extension
My situation somewhat overlaps with yours. I ordered a "water flosser" from everyone's favourite ecommerce site, and use it daily in the shower.

It seems to be doing something, and can't possibly be worse than my previous flossing regime which was: "twice a year the day before a dentist visit".

I wasn't willing to shell out for the name-brand water flosser, other options do the same job at the same water pressure for 1/4 the cost.

It took about a month to move up through the power settings. Start on the lowest and click it up when that starts to feel a bit tame.

I've now been using this thing for 6 months, it's just about time to find out whether I get my bi-annual nagging about the importance of flossing. My personal opinion: Cochrane's probably right, flossing is most likely bunk, but I'm pleased to have found a way to do it that I can stand
OCR at Edge on Cloudflare Constellation
If we have AGI we won’t have to work anymore so why worrying about the future? In the meantime enjoy and try to partecipate in this new paradigm.

(Unless the AGI will come up capitalism is the best of the possible systems and they will rule them out of the equation)
I prefer trunk-based development
If they don't want to validate it, they shouldn't publish it or sell advertising on a service that used the unverified data. It was OK for the web because that's the only way, but maps have a lot more sources of truth.
"If Red Hat continues to cause trouble for RHEL clones, here's what you can expect:

* Many customers and professionals helping with enterprise deployments will consider abandoning RHEL and not supporting it.

* New users will start considering Ubuntu, Debian, openSUSE or something else which is there to stay.

* Universities/IT Courses will also switch to replacements like Ubuntu or openSUSE instead of dabbling between RHEL clones, CentOS Stream, and Fedora."

"The decision that Red Hat has taken, does make sense as a business. But it also doesn't. It makes sense for short term goals. Not in the long term."

===

This decision is good for Red Hat's bottom line, but bad for the RHEL ecosystem long term.

This decision restricts RHEL so that it is effectively closed source. Some businesses and governments will continue to use RHEL for the time being, but most users have other Linux distributions to choose from.

Most users and developers won't use RHEL or develop software against it because RHEL's use is restricted to paying customers. EPEL will shrink and only have software that big businesses, governments, and similar organizations need. In the long run, this means that RHEL will be less like other Linux distributions and more like AIX or Solaris.
> In your opinion, how does the "hallucination" issue differ from the same behaviour we see in humans?

I feel like if you have any belief in philosophy then LLMs can only be interpreted as a parlour trick (on steroids). Perhaps we are fanciful in believing we are something greater than LLMs but there is the idea that we respond using rhetoric based on trying to find reason within in what we have learned and observed. From my primitive understanding, LLMs rhetoric and reasoning is entirely implied based on an effectively (compared to the limitations of human capacity to store information) infinite amount of knowledge they've consumed.

I think if LLMs were equivalent to human thinking then we'd all be a hell of a lot stupider, given our lack of "infinite" knowledge compared to LLMs.
Of course they're gonna interview the guy who's gonna say that - it makes for better viewing! Others might hold more conflicted outlooks, we just never hear about them on popular media. (A quote attributed to Mihail Kalashnikov does come to mind.)

But that's kinda beside the point. I'm more concerned that you missed the primary logical error that I committed in my analogy: the AI experts in question aren't doing the rationalizations but the scaremongering.