skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or for an American, being stuck at JFK or Atlanta is boring and sucks.

While an unplanned day in Amsterdam or Paris is a lovely start to your trip, just from the food and architecture alone! I don't know a lot of people who would complain about being stuck in Paris for a day. ;)
Most--if not nearly all--of the books suggested in this thread are worthy of space on the shelf (or hard drive).

Compared to tsundoku¹, finishing one book is leagues ahead of one who has never started a hundred books.

¹ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsundoku
Taste is learned and can be unlearned. I actually like diet coke/Dr. pepper. I don't have many vices, so I allow myself this one. These aspartame studies always have tons of flaws versus the decades of study done on it before that say it's fine in moderation. Sugar is a known carcinogen and toxin, and has been known to be that for decades. It has no real nutritional value besides calories and is a slow poison to several organs.
Yeah for workloads with any long running write transactions a single writer design is a pretty big limitation. Say some long running data load (or a big bulk deletion) running along with some faster high throughput key value writes - the big data load would block all the faster key-value writes when it runs.

No "mainstream" database I'm aware of has a global single writer design.
Accenture, EPAM, IBM, etc. beg to differ.

Obviously (!) it's a bit of both, and mostly it's just like any other job nowadays. Full of its own mysticism, a ton of idiosyncrasies (but everyone has their own interpretation of which parts are exactly constitute the bad ones or the good ones), a huge ecosystem full of variety across many spatial and social dimensions, from code for microcontrollers for 1 dollar toys and fire and forget missile controller code to hyperscale web search engines and ChatGPT, GFW of China, and so on.

Just as every skyscraper, bridge, factory looks similar they are still unique. The sites, the soil, the permitting environment, the people involved almost always result in a similar yet unique mix.

And some similarities can be exploited, standardized, homogenized and treated as uniform or even virtually identical parts. From nuts and bolts to battery manager chips and k8s APIs and whatnot. But some similarities hide the classic devil in their details.

Of course the whole "industry" is in so much flux that it's prone to super embarrassing category errors (picking/selling the wrong tool, wrong platform, wrong experts) that end up costing a lot of money, lead to classic project failure modes (angry client, resentment, death marches, waste of expertise, crisis management meetings, sunk cost fallacies and aborted projects).

This regularly happens in many other jobs too. Again, the more megaprojectish something the more it'll go wrong like almost all megaprojectish things. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unfinished_building ... https://medium.com/@interestingshit/the-8-tallest-abandoned-... )

There are likely very few iron laws of project management, but the overhead due to impedance mismatch between teams, members, and requirements is probably one of them. It simply follows from this that any project that has either new teams or requirements is gambling on this, and as long as folks (up and down the hierarchy) are not up to speed on the domain they'll continue to roll the dice. And depending on the situation and luck we sometimes see mighty implosions (healthcare.gov, cyberpunk 2077, google stadia, and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_failed_and_overbudget_... ) and sometimes it seems like smooth sailing.
My kids and all their friends are crazy about AI. They’re bent on making it do as much of their work as possible.

It’s fascinating. Though it probably isn’t intentional, AI service providers are already hooking kids early to have customers later.
The opposite of my experience (I write, build, maintain and distribute a cross-platform DAW).
> What do you think?

What do you think?

(meaning "yes")
Both could theoretically possible if they have bought on online a lot of factories or lines .

This is not the actual case while possible, they have been investing heavily in production capacities in Berlin , Shanghai, Texas etc however they are not so far outstripping demand with new capacity.
> Imagine if you can drive 3 miles, park your car, and get on a train

I'm afraid you just lost all the Europeans. Why would you take the car for a 3 mile ride? Just hop on your bike!

As to the other end: public transport near train stations is usually dense enough that there will be a bus line - of course with a schedule matching train arrivals. Or just store your second bike there, of course.
I feel like an alien in 2023 only wanting a terminal for most tasks, for the ease of automation in case I end up doing it twice.
Young people all know about AI. There are 24/7 live AI generated SpongeBob shows on TikTok, character.ai is immensely popular, ChatGPT is used by students for homework and stuff, Snapchat AI was all posted all over (mostly memes about how bad and out of touch it is), I get ads for AI anime girl generators, etc.

I think there is certainly more talk about it inside tech circles, but I feel like it's more of a generational divide than anything else.
Before I go into a rant, I will acknowledge that Apple did usability research with the introduction of both the Lisa and Macintosh, along with acknowledging that most popular GUIs being based upon the foundations they laid.

... but ...

It is important to remember that people were still figuring things out in the early days. There were many variations in how GUIs worked, some of which were minor and others of which were quite significant. None were predestined to be the final word in what constitutes a good GUI. In fact, one could argue that the Macintosh (and particularly the Macintosh of 1984) did not prevail. Far more people use Windows to this day, and most people will interact with touch interfaces more often than desktop interfaces. Those touch interfaces have ditched most of the traditional forms of interaction and the metaphors they are based upon.

As for the interface as an IDE, I think a lot was lost when the developer tools were separated from the OS. That's not to say people should be required to use them, but the ability to probe more deeply and modify if desired is amazing. The presence of such tools doesn't have to take away from usability either. Just consider the developer tools found in most web browsers. Everyone has those tools (at least on desktop browsers), they don't take away from the UX either.
some newspaper translator had to figure out how to translate the novel(ish?) phrase 歯生え薬. what do you want? it's not like this is FDA-approved marketing materials for something that's actually available.
So the trick is to get Elon distracted with other projects, huh.
I thought it was a really entertaining article!

In contrast to a big difference from US culture, I found most of the examples to be pretty much the same kind of stuff that happens here.

The article is obviously written for young female readers, this is the author's perspective, and all of the impressions, reactions and comments are from females.

So here's something a young womaan isn't typically going to notice: depending on whether the guy looks more like a j-pop idol, or the sterotype of the ugly guy that the last girl at the gokon gets stuck with; whatever words are said will be interpreted to give the opposite responce to the two otokos 8-)

In most cases this is probably subconscous. It's also not at all unique to Japan. Although in Japanese culture this can easily be included in 面子を立て, or saving face.
Never used fglrx. Open source Radeon driver worked well (including OpenGL suppor in Mesa) on old ATI Radeon R200/R300 cards 20 years ago.
It's court precedent, so a loophole like that probably won't work
Annotation is work, and almost nobody want to do it for free, but many people probably want to have it for free. On the internet, a conversational style accomplishes this better than a didactic one, and feels less like work.
> What's the point of some random person "endorsing" an edit?

I think you're right in that it's so far not been necessary to use blockchain based identities. Though, I think blockchain based identities are objectively better. In implementation, it doesn't have to be a random person, it could be anyone or any organization that could endorse changes.

> I'm not sure how a wholly external PKI could be any help in "endorsing" edits. A user's ETH wallet has no relation to their reputation or trustworthiness on WMF sites.

Ethereum based identities are easy to remember and harder to censor. If Wikipedia wants to censor someone currently, they can just remove the system they have implemented. The solution offered provides an external system that provides a way to determine if someone did something even if Wikipedia tries to hide it later. (with the certainty that also backs billions of dollars in value on Ethereum)
Home Depot as well.
A cheap and easy way to increase the size of the car you already have is to buy a roof box. Our previous car was a small hatchback and interstate trips with our three kids in the back would have been impossible without the roof box. I only bought a bigger car when my oldest kid was pushing 6 feet and running out of legroom in the back seat of the hatchback.
I do sometimes wonder how many of the critics have only ever worked on Angular frontends and such. The frontend for my little site https://bongo.to doesn't use Node or NPM at all. Just a script tag, like you said. It's very simple and easy to use JS this way, and I wish people would learn to do this before learning how to write a SPA in the framework du jour.
Even computer used to be a job.
I have friends who own EVs without access to home charging who charge at the grocery store once a week while shopping. The car is done charging before they’re done shopping for groceries.

The trick is to distribute chargers everywhere, because your car is going to be parked somewhere long enough to charge unless you’re a taxi or some other high utilization use case. Most will charge at home and or work, but some cannot.
What's the gap between a Co-pilot written test and a human-written test? Are tests written by co-pilot better than no tests?

Developers generally hate writing tests, so I suspect more and more unit tests will be generated. I've worked with someone who does this and it seems insane to me, although I never got to see the generated tests they were referring to, so I can't give specifics.
My partner runs an ecommerce business and her team uses ChatGPT dozens of time a day.

Everything from writing emails to suppliers, correcting grammar, responding to customers, brainstorming new product ideas, explaining contracts etc.

Where as for me I can't find a use for it. Even as a coding assistant I find that I spent more time trying to understand/correct what it did than if I just wrote it myself.
PC in this context should mean Pocket Computer.

I like to think of them like the modern update to the pocket watch.
I don't like the taste of water unless I'm super thirsty and I love the taste of coke zero/diet dr. pepper. It really is as simple as that and aspartame/ace k have been shown to be safe in the doses put into diet sodas.
... suddenly every task is 5+ points, velocity will be great!
Is this culture exported to overseas via drama, manga, and anime? Love is obviously a popular theme for story.
Thanks, but they aren't working unfortunately.
If Tesla were a car company. However, Tesla is also a fuel-station company. You could just as easily value it against BP or Shell to get better market cap representation.
Moreso having to deal with the Paris airport.

With extra time at JFK I could visit
https://www.twahotel.com/
> At least to me, it's a bit like lumping old folks who play at churches into a 'Gamblers that visit casinos once a week' metric.

Slight aside, but in the past I've worked at some of those bingo halls that drew the sunday after-church old folks crowd. They were some of the most hardcore gamblers I have ever seen. Gods dandelions these ladies weren't.
I’d been doing some retro-mac’ing the past couple days, and one thing I noticed is how impossibly “tight” the mouse cursor movement always seems to the physical input. It’s probably just a few dozen instructions from taking the interrupt to scaling and placing the cursor for the next vbl task, but it’s like sticking a 10 point landing.

Cursors on sun workstations (not just because of their optical grips mousepad) or windows boxes always felt like “oh there’s an abstraction between the physical hardware and the pointer, that’s just the way it is” - and nobody cared to make it better.
Volunteers scan Ukraine's historical sites with lasers to preserve them amid war
>Elon factor. He's been a significant factor in quite a number of significant companies created. That seems an attractive bet he will do good things vs anyone else.

I'm pretty skeptical on all things Elon these days.
Garbaggios are bicycles. Included photos show a from-scratch collection of metal tubes transform into a wonderful neon hair-dyed-vibe ride.
Once I went to a new dentist in a new area to do a teeth cleaning. He told me I had 4 cavities that needed filling. I was skeptical so I went to another one the next week. He said 2 cavities. I went to two more that month to see what else they'd say: one said no cavities, the other said 6. That was 8 years ago, I still don't have any cavities.
Or they're hooking kids because they're least likely to have the domain experience required to recognize how confidently wrong AI can be.
AI discussion has definitely made it mainstream and you can corroborate that just by looking at things like the ongoing Writer's Guild strike where AI generated content is a huge sticking point. That goes doubly for the Acting Guild which looks increasingly likely to strike as well.
I don’t see any evidence that it’s there yet. I do see that potential if AI were to improve dramatically, but I think we’re tricking ourselves into thinking it’s already here because what we’re seeing is so compelling.

The reality as far as I can tell is that we still have an incredible distance to go to have anything comparable to unlocking spoken or written language.
I had to throw out my script about this submarine simulator [video]
It's an incredible tool for augmenting what humans already do. It shifts your role from grunt to output supervisor, imperative to declarative.
> Why is this better than just signing it with any private key and sharing the public key?

People using Ethereum often also use blockchain based domains which makes it easier for non-technical people to be more certain about endorsements. Ethereum leaves the implementation of how something becomes endorsed by a domain up to the owner(s) of a domain.

> Why do you need to involve a blockchain and I assume transaction fees as well?

This is more dependent on implementation. Just endorsing something does not need to be on chain, so there does not need to be fees.
It’s also the plot to one of the Han Solo short stories.
Agreed, I see this automating 20-30% of my work in the next 10 years. Then, I'll spend that time on the unending pile of work that's not completed.

I see a major issue for people entering the industry in a decade because ChatGPT/Copilot I can get 10 mediocre answers and verify them in the time it takes a junior eng to respond to PR comments.
It happens but it's like 1000 times less likely than in smokers. Any tissue can get cancerous, it's just that smoke multiplies that chance by like 1000x, maybe more.
Actually I get bruises and scratches on my scalp when my head is clean shaven. With hair? Rarely if never. And as for confidence and looks, nothing beats with hair. So technically yeah that's a escape it would be better to have them back. And in my case the decline is actually due to local water quality and pollution (3rd world).
I agree that there are other water cycles involved that should be treated independently. I guess, from my view, this seems like a fairly straightforward evaluation (under ideal conditions): if the ship (or space station, or colony, or whatever) has N gallons of water per astronaut, astronauts require 1 gallon of water per day (according to the article), and 98% of water used by astronauts can be recovered, then the rundown time would be d days, where d satisfies:

0.98^d == 1/N

Past that point, you have less than 1 gallon of water per astronaut, which entails rationing and sub-optimal performance etc. Rearranging the equation we can solve for d as:

d = -Log2(N)/Log2(0.98) = 34.31 Log2(N)

If you bring 2 gallons of potable water per astronaut, for example, after ~34 days you will be down to slightly more than 1 gallon, and after 35 days you will be in suboptimal conditions as you will have less than 1 gallon of potable water remaining from this system alone. In order for d to be 100 you would need a bit less than 8 gallons of potable water per astronaut at mission outset under this model.

Edit: I suppose the much briefer way of putting this is that you can't count time until the water runs out; you have to count time until the water is insufficient to meet requirements (in this case, 1gal/day/astronaut).
Ridiculous.

One month region A is suffering due to too little rain.

Another it's about floods in region B.

Yet another it's something else, someplace else.

Conclusion: we need to take more of your income, citizen.
Microsoft is losing this particular market, but they don't seem to care.

I would pay good money for a Windows version that had a more professional and consistent interface (Win 2K comes to mind, but Win 7 interface was still OK) no advertisement inside the OS, no telemetry, automatic update notification but manual installation, no unexplained HDD usage when idle that goes away as soon as I open the system monitor, WSL support.

Closest thing is LTSC but it is discouraged and hard to legally buy.

Linux can do all of this. Compatibility with games is good enough and better in some edge cases. KVM performance running a VM is good enough for running MS Office for work, and still a better experience than in bare metal as you can limit core usage and the computer will run cooler and use less power.
Well, I wonder what’s wrong more often: GPT or a 13 year old :)
The lack of evidence for flossing astounds me.

I know that when I don’t floss, my gums will bleed sometimes during brushing and/or they’ll get inflamed. When I do floss regularly, absolutely no issue with bleeding or inflammation.

It’s so clear to me that I can’t imagine what the difference is between my anecdata and whatever actual data is coming from these studies.
> Why do you think subways still have human operators?

They don’t always. This sucked the wind out of your whole argument. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_driver-less_train_syst...
I regularly find chatgpt to be better than googling for code related stuffs.
I am pretty concerned about AGI. I love computer science and programming. I would love to get into research after I finish my Masters in a couple of years.

I think it's fair to say that _some day_ we will achieve AGI. It might not be in 10 years, or 1000, but eventually we'll get there.

When we do have AGI, what would that mean for someone like me? Would there be any reason to have programmers (or similar) at all? Would computer science research (or scientific research at all!) exist, or is that something a computer could do?

I think humans might start pursuing more creative/leisure activities, but... I like learning and working!

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The anxiety of the above has made me feel like it's not worth being ambitious. What's the point of research if some AI might do it better than me in 10-20 years? What's the point of joining a startup or... doing anything? I realize this sounds a bit absurd, but it is something that I've really feared since ChatGPT came about.
It's not just about it being trustworthy but about quality.

AI looks to be great for ideation and development. But it's not there if you value a high quality output.
FWiW toast from scratch is much much easier, grow wheat, thresh and seperate, grind for flour, evaporate sea water for salt, bind with fresh water, make damper, slice damper with flint, toast over fire.

It was a staple here until recently and all achievable with no more than one can carry.
Codex provides access to proofread static snapshots of the FlyWire full-brain connectome - wiring diagram of Drosophila brain.
Considering most Wikipedia editors are under-employed guitarists and retired house painters deciding on the veracity of details about local history events and obscure scientific niches, this doesn't help much.
It was a video uploaded to twitter lol and the topic he covers is mostly on the barriers being more costly for certain actors to do things at scale compared to signing up for a twitter account that wants to only occasionally view or post things.

[edit]: there's a flagged and dead comment that posts the transcript: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36568922
I think React via Vite.js is pretty great. Takes a few seconds to get started with very few direct dependencies. It is fast and easy in my experience. For an API server, use whatever you like. If you want SSR, check out Remix or Nextjs... but that is going to be a little bit more complicated.
It has unbelievable practical use. ChatGPT is a personal tutor on any subject you can think of. It's more that 90% of people can't even be bothered to google the answer to a question they have, despite having a personal computer and oracle in their front pocket.

I'm using an LLM to teach me interactively how LLMs work and how to integrate LLMs into our products. It's replaced 90% of my googling/stack overflow. Every engineer in our company is using Copilot and ChatGPT to write software.
This American Life and Planet Money have in recent months covered chat-gpt, though that audience may be skewed.
Just find a basic CSS library and use server side templating in whatever your preferred language is.

As systems evolve, they always get more complex. Web front ends are evolving to keep up with users, app archetypes, and business needs. People choose tribes to identify with, angular vs react vs vue. People are ambitious and pushing their own frameworks while tearing down others. Its just programmer politics, no different from windows vs linux vs osx.

I learned react, stuck with it, and it has worked out.