skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One day in mid-November, workers at OpenAI got an unexpected assignment: Release a chatbot, fast. The chatbot, an executive announced, would be known as "Chat with GPT-3.5," and it would be made available free to the public. In two weeks. The announcement confused some OpenAI employees.

OpenAI's top executives were worried that rival companies might upstage them by releasing their own A.I. chatbots before GPT-4. And putting something out quickly. So they decided to update an unreleased chatbot that used a souped-up version of GPT-3 which came out in 2020. (snipped)

Ref: https://archive.is/d6dI2 / https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/03/technology/chatgpt-openai...
> This is where the backing of Meta engineering shines (over Twitter/Bluesky/Mastadon etc. which have all struggled to stay up lately).

Deep pockets also help.
Front end development doesn't have to be awful, particularly with how much JavaScript the language has improved alongside browser APIs. React made sense at one point because the abstractions it employed were common in other contexts: lifecycle events (intentionally avoiding the "hook" word here) are present pretty much everywhere in programming abstractions (on initialization, on deinitialization, on update, and so forth). These were aptly named "onComponentThing"s and grokable.

Hooks, and particularly useEffect, ruined it for me. I have given up trying to understand why changing button states or presenting modals has become so obtuse and frustrating. I don't care about updating my react-router and rewriting it again for the third or fourth or whatever time. I don't want another new testing library, another new "best practice", or another repeated mistake in the reinventing-the-wheel-cycle the React community seems obsessed with.

It's all so exhausting. I write Rails now with erb templates and some dumb javascript to toggle modals and change button colours. It's not cool but at least I can understand it six months later.
The article mentions the most important point towards the end: “The better you insulate, the less heat you need in the first place,”

No heat pump will help if your house is leaky or under insulated.
I've shrugged off a lot of mobile computing limitations because, well, if I wanted to do that I'd just use a computer. But it occurs to me that for a lot of people they don't actually have a regular computer now.
You’re right, I’ve only been in the industry for 27 years across 8 companies including my current one working at BigTech where I do cloud consulting for other large enterprise companies.

What do I know?

And yet you still haven’t been able to prove your claims that “most” pay about the same.
It absolutely has become a new faith. A lot of the cryptocurrency faith healers moved into the space as that grift began to collapse and moved from copying the prosperity gospel to apocalyptic "the end is nigh, repent for the second coming of Christ is at hand" type preachers. LLMs that these people envision are not about intelligence. They're about creating a God you can pray to and it answers back, wrapped in a veil of scientism. It's a slightly more advanced version of 4chan users worshiping Inglip.
Has anyone done statistics on what generators / platforms people use?
I currently use a mix / roll my own, but I'd love recommendations for a good setup.

In particular the features I'm after are: (1) Latex support for equations, (2) Support for code snippets, (3) Support for my own custom D3 or other javascript widgets.
> No way to change username even after linking instagram username, this is imho a dumb move, I was late to the instagram party and missed out on shorter username and now was hoping joining threads early would help me get my desired username but alas

There is a 1:1 mapping of Instagram <-> Threads user names, so even if they let you change it in the app you wouldn't be able to get a shorter one if someone has already claimed it on Instagram.
i'd be more likely to log in again if they showed me an empty feed or let me switch between distinct feeds of "only ppl you follow" and "recommended"

right now, seeing them both together makes me not wanna sign in again
Sure. So if for example your city has an average of 3400 hours of sun per year like Jerusalem does, and you know how much water you need to produce in the 8760 hours of the year, you can calculate how much to desalinate during sunny hours. Excesses can be used for excess water or sold back to the grid.
I took so many damn showers in grad school.
Ladies and Gentlemen.

This is how you do a proper launch with very fast 'adoption' and an extremely smooth transition with little downtime. Obviously executed to perfection by no-one else but Meta Platforms. The one who's stock was once predicted right here to go to $0 because of its chaotic stock price drop, and is now celebrated with potentially finding another billion users out of Threads. It made no-sense to bet against Zuck like they did when the stock went down.

But this actually destroys the smaller social networks before they even had a chance to grow such as Substack Notes, Post, SPILL, T2, Mastodon, hive.social and cohost.org. They all need money to stay online and Meta has the money to sub-plant them all or buy out the largest networks. Money is power.

We'll see how this goes, but there is a pattern with Meta's photocopying machine which didn't kill Snap with Stories, and didn't kill TikTok with Reels. They will co-exist but there will be no immediate Twitter 'death' anytime soon, especially this year.

Just running the huge risk of getting broken up due to anti-trust and anti-competition laws by the regulators. (Unless they use ActivityPub as the argument that there is no lock-in on Threads)

But as always, Instagram's (Threads) success on ActivityPub is indeed a nightmare for the Fediverse as centralization come up on top.

Either way, a great move by Zuckerberg once again.
I think you may be alone in understanding the words "pepper" and "salt" this way.
Sure, it has been a while. I worked at Amazon in Brand Protection, specifically on Trademark and Logo infringement.

There were many different strategies at play (eg neural nets) but the false positives can be very expensive. But the one I described above is an expert system of manual overrides that made the final decisions.

Amazon don’t have much structured content, eg “title”, “description” and bad actors are constantly trying to obfuscate using language based grammar tricks or N1ke type attacks.

Also just the law is very nuanced. You can say “a case compatible with iPhone, that is ..” but it is infringement to say “iPhone case that is ..”

Also there are many nuances around licensing. For example, “BurntSushi T-shirts” as a company cannot have the Disney logo on it, however, a “Lego tshirt” might have the Disney logo legally on it. So a lot of overrides.

Even if you compress all the nuances into a single regex, which you can’t: there are 10 MM estimated brands worldwide (Amazon at the time hosted 1 MM) with on average 10 trademarks each that is 10 MM regexes.

Then you also need to multiple the 25 countries Amazon operates in for legal nuances, and multiple languages (eg even in the US Amazon store someone might use Spanish or Italian to sell their fake product). Additionally there is more fanout for reasons I’ve long forgotten.

Point of story 10 MM was a conservative upper bound on the RegexSet and it had to be fast and cheap. I built it on top of Lucene with some hacks here and there but it did (does) the job - fast and cheap :)

I hope now generative AI can help them more, but I’m not holding my breath.
I think users somewhat prefer the app experience.
There are no water pipes from the coast to the central valley?

I wonder if NIMBYism blocked that?

And if an agency wanted to transport water like the USA national oil pipeline system, would they be blocked similarly?
I'm not in the market for a car seat, but just want to say that I think you've done an awesome job responding, and I'd be looking at your car seat for sure after reading these :)
They make much more money with apps, and non-technical people prefer finding an app to entering a URL (because they also don't know about bookmarks).
https://veerasundar.com/blog

I write about web, JavaScript, React and technical how-to-s.
> False, the comment is not about "a portion" of a work, it's about the whole work.

The comment doesn't actually specify whether the "material" is a portion or a whole work. It is perfectly plausible that the comment is about those cases.
Amazon yes, Apple no, there is an internal difference between retail (not on slack, except executives, high level logistics, etc) and corporate. When I worked there there were 180000 people in the general channel (that includes some contractors, but the number is not that off), and that is only corporate.
Here's the "article" itself, if you can call it that. These movies sure do seem to be about following characters as they embark or continue on journeys or face off in epic battles. https://archive.ph/K4BJ7
Along these lines:

"The Art Critic": posted a screenshot of a diff containing a suggested code change instead of sending a PR

I've actually done something like this exactly once when I was much newer to GitHub and git (and probably wanted to save some of my time).
Even if we consider "Wagner" to be "neo-nazi" with no evidence what so ever, as you noticed yourself, it's a PMC, so it's not a part of the military. And the ultimatum confirms that (you cannot demand people who are part of the military to join the military).
As for "Rusich" relation to "Wagner" there are just Western journalists claiming that. "Wagner" is not very secretive and Prigozhin is making more videos than some ecelebs yet he never mentioned that nor has shown any "Rusich" troops.

Was it all you had?
You might be confusing SCO and USL.

SCO brought lawsuits against IBM (Linux) in 2003.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCO_Group,_Inc._v._Internati....

USL brought lawsuit against BSD in 1992.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNIX_System_Laboratories,_In....
How many of us are working on web applications that legitimately cannot be served as basic, server-side web forms with JS only as necessary for dynamic client-side UI (e.g. disabling buttons upon form submit)? How are things like SPA improving the end user's experience and/or adding value to the product?

If you are struggling and want a no-bullshit stack, why not PHP or string interpolation in your favorite language? These approaches are easily more productive than anything that has come out over the last 5 years. All the excuses for why this won't work are almost certainly traceable back to ego/resume-driven development pressure rather than actual technical justifications.

Bookmarking MDN and literally treating it like the web bible is the solution for most of this. You don't need a JS framework. You don't need a CSS framework. Definitely not as of 2023. Between big wins like grid & flexbox, I can't think of anything I absolutely need to vendor out anymore.

Once you take the training wheels off and fall a few times, you will learn that this stuff isn't that scary. You can actually write javascript like "document.getElementById" and retain ownership over your soul. The next step is convincing your teammates of the same and then deciding upon some common patterns to follow that make it easier to collaborate. Put differently, let the frameworks evolve naturally over time. Don't force them in from the beginning.
It's suggestive that a potentially embarrassing chatlog of GPT-4 hosted on an OpenAI domain got taken down within the hour of it going viral, 3 weeks after being posted.
It's autocomplete on steroids…

That can guide me through the process of writing a Navier-Stokes simulation…

In a foreign language…

That can be trivially put into a loop and tasked with acting like an agent…

And which is good enough that people are already seriously asking themselves if they need to hire people to do certain tasks…

…

Why call BS?

It's not perfect, sure, but it's not making a highly regional joke about the Isle of White Ferry[0] either.

[0] "What's brown and comes steaming out the back of Cowes?"
"Oh no, they’re not… are they?"

It seems fairly sensible to me to double up the lighting leds as diodes, from an extreme cost-engineering perspective.

Of course, it does mean you can't turn the lighting off ...

I have an optical-switch k/b. If you need a diode per key anyway you may as well have an optical sensor instead, and have no key debounce, it could be waterproof, spark-free, separation of concerns between sensing and the mechaical switch itself for easy hot-swap switches, etc.
To me it's the obvious future, but it seems true mechanical k/b fans aren't with the program yet.
One of the uses I had was for identifying particular subsequences of events in a long sequence. I actually at one point considered translating the sequence of events into a string of distinct Unicode code points, so I could define and match patterns as regular expressions!
When it happens, I'll have a hyperloop tunnel to sell you under Los Angeles.
The first sentence of my post is fact. The second is commentary. The third is a joke. Apparently he doesn't get the joke.
this sounds incredibly useful but I couldn't get it to work. I just get

java.util.zip.ZipException: invalid CEN header (bad signature)
at java.base/java.util.zip.ZipFile$Source.zerror(ZipFile.java:1623)

if I try to do anything with a JAR file that has leading text. I'm creating it just using

echo 'java -jar $0' | cat - test.jar > test.run.jar

Is there more to it?
> I can’t figure out how to follow or find fediverse accounts..? How does this work?

It doesn't (yet). Fediverse compatibility will launch "soon" (https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/05/adam-mosseri-says-metas-th...).
No. The SPE was unethical and its methodology was garbage, but the observations were valid enough. When someone refuses to commit an atrocity for you, all you have to do is ask the next person in line. You won't have to go too far down the line before you find someone who is not only willing to follow an illegal order from an authority figure, but happy to. See also Milgram.

The conclusion was self-evident before they ran the experiment, so another criticism that could be leveled at the experiment was that it was redundant.
Meta launches Twitter rival Threads in 100 countries
lol looking through my recruiting notes... no such thing has ever happened
Working on self-driving stuff in the Ag-space, though not at a startup, but this is after two hardware startup stints: one doing security related computer vision, and then people sensing for space management.

Hardware is fun, but you rarely have the profit margins of a pure software play, so if you're not working on something creating an 'ecosystem', you're upside is probably more limited than a pure sw company. Still, I've liked the hardware products I've worked on, so I don't regret the tradeoff.
I’m giving it a chance. I just need the academics, security, tech, and finance folks to migrate over. I’ll start the virtuous cycle by using it so they see a viable alternative to Twitter.

I understand Meta isn’t amazing. I’m looking for Twitter from two years ago: somewhat moderated and working. They’ll give me that here.
Would like to see a way to login without having to create an instagram account. I used to have one but deleted it since I noticed it wasn't doing my mental health any good.
Once it becomes a critical part of our social structure. That will always be a judgment call, but Harvard qualifies as that more than any nongovernmental entity today.
It's more like third- or forth-rate. The US healthcare has worse outcomes than many other countries. Michael Moore's "Where to Invade Next?" and "Sicko" dive into this issue. The US ranks last in healthcare amongst top economies.

https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/fund-reports/2...
The ice machine that chills Chicago’s skyscrapers
One would hope all of the achievements period were rejected and this ridiculous idea of adding a gamerscore to a version control system wouldn't go past a round of laughter at the ones responsible, sadly it did go past.
You linked to a site that literally showed Walmart's non-tech arm (hint: the majority of the tech jobs at Walmart aren't under 'Walmart' on levels.fyi) paying comparable salaries (you yourself compared them)...

But yeah, all those 27 years of experience totally weren't just you sitting in a chair somewhere, being "part of the team". Got it.

> prove your claims that “most” pay about the same.

first prove I claimed that (hint: I didn't)

I'm starting to think you got fooled into thinking BigTech was the only option, and are now discovering how untrue that actually was.
I work at a design firm: working with hardware startups is our business. Hardware is hard, but we are available to help:

http://www.nklabs.com

We help with mechanical design, engineering simulation, PCB design, embedded systems, FPGAs, firmware, agency testing, and can help set you up with a contract manufacturer.
No, you are misunderstanding it.

108 gives additional rights to libraries to make copies. But it does not take away the right of the library to offer copying for any existing purpose. Therefore, contrary to the posted notice, it is perfectly legal for the library to offer copying services for purposes OTHER than the extra permissions granted in 108.

Which means that libraries are authorized under the law to produce copies for all the same purposes that Kinko's is allowed to produce copies. It is up to the library whether to do so. And it is incorrect for the sign to say that the library may NOT do so.
Looks like some anti-scraping on day 1, and really twisting the knife for Twitter:

https://www.threads.net/t/CuVZfoihkcF

Text follows for those without the app, RT from Adam Mosseri, head of Instagram (original tweet from Jesse Chen):

FYI for everyone, we’ve set our rate limits to “generous” bc we believe you have the right to see more than 600 posts in a day here.

if you encounter a rate limit block and you’re not a scraper, please let us know. thanks!
Companies need to look at this launch and learn that you don't need idiotic wait lists and invite codes to generate hype for your service. The most important thing is to put it in the hands of users quickly and let them do their thing.
The point they were gently trying to make is that your approach is... robotic. People tend not to be robotic in their childbearing/rearing decisions, valuing emotional attachment and traditional ideas of family over min-max optimization at the societal level.

Not to mention that adoption is not a simple process nor one without downsides for everyone involved. It can and does work, but is rarely a first resort for good reason.
> then while the original image would be copyrightable the resulting derivative output would not.

Excellent! I'll put the Inheritance Cycle through a synonymiser, and have a copyright-free (if somewhat degraded) version. Take that, Christopher Paolini!

… wait.

What you say might well be correct: the law is often foolish. But I'd imagine the creativity-free derivative work still counts as a derivative work of the original, copyright-eligible work.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_cooling
https://adropincalm.com
Even before Uber and Lyft existed, taxi medallions didn't accomplish their goal.
Insulation also matters for keeping your house cool and improving AC efficiency.
Sounds like it's time for USA to get another Salton Sea
Honestly, I really think Gerrit would be so much better if it weren't for the UI being so... compact? I think it's actually got good information, and a review tool is something many people spend tons of time in, so power-user proficiency is important. But the density is wrong, and I feel it makes it more cluttered than necessary, and that drives people away?

Here's a good example of what I mean, taking a change from ChromiumOS's Gerrit versus a random patch on Phorge (a fork of Phabricator which uses a similar workflow):

- https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/chromiumos/third_...

- https://we.phorge.it/D25332

The Gerrit one is really busy in my opinion, while the Phorge one gives the page a lot more breathing room, which I think just makes viewing it much easier and less intimidating. Despite that Phorge is still good for power users: it shows all the needed information, has hotkey shortcuts for fast navigation, nice diff viewer, nice side panel with all diffs listed, etc.

I'm trying to set up Gerrit right now and the really compact UI is honestly my main complaint. Maybe someone who's better at UI/UX can give more refined comparison or analysis, but the nice, "bigger" design of Phabricator/Phorge's diff viewer is something I really miss. (I also like the "untabbed" design of Phorge, contra GitHub; all the comments, changes, and code is on one page, instead of having to click back and forth between comments and diffs.)
I would suggest removing the question mark. Per what I said at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36608891, the article is completely correct.
Sure they can, you can absolutely use heat pumps to brute force it, been there done that.
The way people already use the word "thread" to describe an online conversation is exactly why they picked the name.
That's victim blaming. They didn't overtly complain about an issue with the project, they were asking for usage guidance. This is the kind of contextual inference which language models are supposed to be (relatively) good at. The whole sales pitch of GPT-4 is a do-what-I-mean interface, and it clearly did not do what they meant, or what any reasonable hacker would expect them to mean.
We build downhole electronics. High temperature (175C/350F operation) devices. Multiple circuit boards, sensors, analog and digital, tons of firmware.
Agreed. Ours is at least 5 years old if not more now and was way cheaper. That said there is a difference between mini-split and something you hook up to internal ducting where your furnace used to be and prices have increased in the meantime.

That said there was basically no difference in putting in an A/C only unit vs a combination. Technology wise it's the same so to speak just running in reverse in winter vs summer. We use the heat pump down to -15C-ish then I usually shut it down and just use the baseboard or if awake the stove (looks much nicer ;))

It was a no brainer to get the combination unit really. I don't get why it isn't the default nowadays and A/C and heating are thought of as separate concerns. We just don't have ducting, else we could A/C the whole house vs. just one floor.
The US military enforces sea peace across the globe. e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combined_Task_Force_151

Pax Americana has yielded the American people great benefits. It is in this nation's interests to preserve global sea trade. When the benefits accrue so much to America, it is in America's interests to intervene on behalf of everyone - even those who won't pay.

Something people often make a mistake with is positive externalities. There are many things that have positive externalities. Others having children is what keeps the country running in your old age when you have none; keeping your country's Western border safe helps you even if your state is miles away in the East; ensuring children are all educated and fed helps even if you will have none; ensuring your population is employed will help even if you don't need to work anymore; ensuring others can take public transit along your route helps even if you must drive; treating people who can't pay in emergency rooms helps you even if you will be forced to pay.

Nations which realize this build a strong collective identity which lets them see assistance of their fellow man as assistance of self, bypassing the innate "why my money spent on him" complaint.