skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it works well in both ways. I've been developing software professionally for the past ~20 years and there's no doubt that the combination of ChatGPT and CoPilot greatly reduces the amount of time I would usually spend on boilerplate code. Now I can more or less just review the suggestions, review tests and progress with my solutions a lot faster.

At the same time, I see my 9 year old girl using ChatGPT to create Minecraft extensions; she has no prerequisites for actually developing software, but she manages to make some small extensions and have them work either way.

Acknowledging that she doesn't actually learn much from this, I think one can assume that everything in between (e.g. using ChatGPT for pair learning) is definitely also possible.

But whatever AI is outputting, there's no way these qualified guesses can beat experience from a professional developer. I know that the output will never be better than the prompt, but sometimes the output - no matter how much effort you put into the prompt - is visibly just a qualified guess.
It makes us far more productive; all of us, so we just do more as a team rather than fire someone. For me, copilot writing out if / then / else stuff like it's reading my mind, so tab -> 15 lines, all correct. Or mappings (.map .filter etc) which it completely does within milliseconds. As an experienced programmer, I cannot avoid these things and they do save me a lot of time and debugging. Oh yes, and tests. Going from a jira task to a bunch of jest tests for code that doesn't exist yet is a pretty big win. Very much more than 10% of the average day. You have to be sharp, be a good code reader and writer and it cannot do anything 'alone', but it makes us vastly more efficient.
I wouldn't get too caught up in the numbers if that hinders an appreciation for the mind and work of Harold Bloom. However it might be quantified, you can hear him quote extensively from his extremely wide reading in interviews and conversations, and recite long poems from memory, but what he talks about and the way he talks about it is much more than that.
models are still having trouble reasoning – current tricks still depend of feeding back an intermediate answer with a different prompt, but it is still an LLM, and most times the same LLM
thanks! I better hurry before ChatGpt brings GOOG under the $100B mark)
Hipgnosis, the designers who changed the record sleeve
> New NATO member Finland, for example, got approval for 65 F-35 fighters only in February of 2020 and is slated to have the planes delivered next year.

NATO countries are little more than self organising drones with their own budgets to buy stuff from the mothership, a legacy of the post-WW2 age of individualism.

Is it a better way to build redundancy into protecting a philosophy?

Some people reckon you cant kill an idea.
Woke up on the wrong side of bed, perhaps?
There are rules; then there are meta-rules about which rules to choose and how to combine then, but there are no meta-meta-rules.
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2 months ago, 231 points, 210 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35966318
>It goes even deeper than all that. Schools basically give away undergraduate degrees now, as those who should fail will magically receive passing grades.

how exactly did you make the leap to undergrads?
> All that Saudi money invested in Twitter

To quote the film How High:

"A drop in the bucket, sucker!"
They include versions without the ligatures for exactly that reason. It is the files with NL in the name.
Taking a detour from the current thread, this sad news about Kevin Mitnick serves as a poignant reminder of the impermanence of life, but also of the value of vigilance. It's a note to all of us about the importance of our health. Remember, routine health checkups, especially as we age, can have a significant impact on our wellbeing.

Cancer, if detected early, does not have to be a death sentence. In fact, many forms of cancer are treatable and even curable if caught in their initial stages. Our advancements in medical science and technology have indeed made it possible. Yet, they can only do so much if we, as individuals, do not take the responsibility of regularly visiting our doctors.
When I was a child I had a poster of him in my room. It is so sad to see the news here. He will always be remembered.
My kid, under than 10, can read at a sustain level of 200-300wpm, I can imagine someone reading at double the speed, but higher, that would be really crazy without skimming/for a first read.
Running regular incremental repairs is the norm, as nodes will from time to time have trouble talking to each other due to real world network reasons, or will go down, for things like OS patching. We had a (daily) cron job for it. I come from the software side not the DBA side of things but my main advice from running Cassandra at scale in production (it was part of an Apigee stack) is don't basically! It was very not realisable, would consume huge volumes of memory (especially during repairs), bandwidth (doing a repair is very chatty as it has to sync lots of data) and disk space (tombstoning meant deleted records take up space until compaction runs), and was generally not much fun to manage, and it was difficult to hire people who knew much about it to do so. I would not build a solution myself using it going forward. We also had to periodically (weekly) do "full" repairs to work around Cassandra bugs, silent data corruption etc...
Speaking of, this could be useful at Burning Man if it's a scorcher.
>Assuming LLM improve productivity why do you think the market will shrink instead of getting even more stuff done?

Because this is what always happens when tools cause productivity gains. Budgets aren't infinite.

- Computerized avionics dramatically cut demand for flight crews. It used to require a dedicated "flight engineer" to literally run the engines (like a train engineer) in a WWII-era bomber, and a dedicated navigator. Now airliners barely need a co-pilot.

- As I mentioned previously, computerized medical imaging has caused demand for radiologists to go down, because one radiologist today can do the work of multiple radiologists of yesteryear.

- In software in particular, if engineering and development is more productive, companies can cut costs and still get the same amount of work done, or possibly more. It's not about firing people immediately, it's about the next company hiring fewer. And the one after that hiring even fewer. Generative coding is going to make software development labs leaner.

>my conclusion you can't have a manager or an artist armed with ChatGPT and create a full project without actually learning to code, at best they will learn to code from the LLM but the hard way and probably using outdated code and inefficient ways.

That's the current state of affairs. Why do you think the technology will not improve beyond where it is now?
So, the doubt "speaks volumes about his character"? (quoting the original comment)

I don't think it speaks of anything at all, in the best case.
Charlie Hunter calls this kind of thing "covert chops." This is the kind of thing pros eventually end up caring about -- groove, feel, taste, dynamics, etc. Real musicianship.
I used to use that feature on TST quite a bit. I was curious and SB does have that option, it's hidden away in settings, under Menu Editor > tabs
The world's largest Japanese community outside of Japan lives in Brazil, if what my Brazilian wife tells me is correct

(If it is incorrect then please take up your complaints with her but make sure not to implicate me)
Any doctor will tell you that mentality is incredibly important in fighting (yes, fighting) diseases.

It is well known that your psychological state influences the immune system a lot, and even from anecdata, you can see that people rapidly deteriorate when they give up. It is not a coincidence all these terms are used.

Can all cancers be beaten by sheer will? Of course not.

But it does play a huge factor in many cases.
First world labor is not overpriced. It may be underpriced, given that wage growth has been stagnant while productivity has increased.

The gap in price between Chinese labor and first world labor has also decreased.
Funny how things come in waves...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36664229
I was quite baffled about it too... but it was likely someone from another country using a stolen credit card so they wanted to get the phone fast which I don't think was very available in other countries at the time. They couldn't ask me anything more after eBay banned their account. Aside from not being able to touch the money anyway, another reason I walked away and waited a year before checking Paypal again was because I figured I might receive an email stating the decision was reversed and I would hear from this person again. They wouldn't have anyway to contact me otherwise. ebay still has a very strict policy about sharing emails through messages. I was 17 at the time and it was my first sale on eBay so I didn't fully understand what had happened then.
This answered questions I didn't even know I had. Everyone knows pan. But I never thought to ask why the word for England didn't sound like English, or why soap bubble is a loanword. (It sounds Japanese enough to me, but I guess it's always written in katakana, so I should have wondered.)
Bibby Stockholm
A Berenstain moment for me to learn that arigatō isn’t derived from obrigado.
It incentivizes the use of carbon neutral or even carbon negative technology by pricing in the external cost.
“So” as well.
> The stakes for faking it are low because most research is low impact ... Getting a high impact study published

That's contradictory. For low impact studies you can fake whatever you want, because nobody really cares. That probably wouldn't promote your career either tho. Publishing bunch of organic semiconductor papers in Nature and Science will promote your career, but won't hold. That's the point.

> Have you taken a look at the biosciences, social sciences, and medicine? Basic research hasn't been reliable for decades.

Not deeply, but I surely can come up with bio/med research with real life applications that appeared in last 2-3 decades. Say mRNA vaccines?
I’ve seen protbufs as a custom encoding in the database before.

Don’t do this, it’s a terrible terrible idea.
Landing page costs $500K to build
It’s easier to predict rainfall patterns over decades than weather over weeks.
Instead work like a slave for a non existing reward. All your superiors spied, intrigued and ultimately defected to their own side or company. Loyalty is for sucker's and I can not understand how somebody can do this lifestyle, especially to his own kid. I can understand how the upper crust can promote the looser lifestyle so there are expendable pieces on the game board. But willingly, knowingly choosing no future for ones kid, while society defects all around you..
Which panics if you don't call it in the right context. So now you have code which can only be used under certain circumstances and with one particular async runtime.

Since when has it become acceptable in rust to have fns that just panic depending on the state of some thread local? That is one thing I really dislike about tokio.

The thread local runtime is convenience over correctness, which is antithetical to what rust usually favours.
Played the Aerial Analysis challenge. There's a bit of overfitting/oversimplification on a couple questions. For instance, how can you be for sure the town is industrial just because you see 5 buildings? Also, who's to say danger isn't lurking at the park masked as celebration? We all remember JFK in Dallas.
Linkedin didn't reduce client latency by 60%. Instead they reduced latency of some microservice, which used to take ~15ms, by <10ms, which is not bad but the claim is flat out wrong.
> Install enca if you need to cope with text files of dubious origin and unknown encoding and convert them to some reasonable encoding.

Install enca if you want an exploit. As far as i remember Pegasus also took advantage of parsing "files of dubious origin and unknown encoding".
I recommend you don't read NYT articles if you don't want your IP to be logged.
IMO their results have nothing to do with compression:

When I replace gzip with lz4 (lower compression ratio, just does the "substring replacement" part of gzip), I get the same performance.

When explicitly just comparing the substrings, I still get the same performance.

All experiments were done in their 100-shot setting. Code: https://github.com/mattminder/npc_gzip
(for more details, see the readme)
[dupe]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36766734
How would the current thoughts of someone commenting about the same topic a few years ago be particularly relevant to our conversation today?

As far as I see, the argumentation isn't particularly novel or unusual either. It's a pragmatist take, discounting methodological concerns in favour of expected outcomes.

I think that take probably summarizes a quarter of the current debate.
> mass-dunking on a book that hasn't come out because they disagree with the author's politics

Sometimes this is a positive depending on the particular politics (i.e. nazis).
Extreme weather: the climate crisis in four charts
I believe the correct euphemism is "strategic engagement."
Thanks for putting this together. Very useful and covers considerable ground from CNCF to languages.
Discussion over here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36788708
Exactly. If programmers can be fully and effectively replaced, then almost all white collar jobs can be as well.
8xL5540 Dell c1100 servers each with either 96 or 192gb ram.

60TB total space with each system having two 500gb ssds for the boot disk
You can but you’re going to have ? EVERYWHERE, which does drive the search for a native implementation that doesn’t make you deal with null everywhere
> musl libc refuses to implement dlclose[1] for precisely the reason that modules too often misbehave when dropped at runtime,

Which is some rather silly logic, because now musl's libdl is just one more module that misbehaves at runtime by refusing to clean up after itself. Other libraries being sloppy about resource cleanup is no excuse for musl to abdicate its own responsibilities.

> and requiring this behavior is very rarely needed if ever. The number of modules that will be loaded is almost always bounded, and keeping a module around in memory is mostly harmless;

I take it you've never used an application that hot-reloads plugins? Who cares about memory leaks, right?

> certainly less harmful on average than trying to unload it.

That's for the application to decide, not musl. If I don't trust a library to behave properly, I will either not dlopen it at all, or I'll dlopen it in an appropriately sandboxed subprocess and interact with it via pipes.
200k stolen OpenAI credentials for sale on the dark web
What is the IRS fraud hotline?

The IRS provides taxpayers with multiple ways to submit a report of suspected fraud. The toll-free IRS fraud hotline (1-800-829-0433) can help you get the information you need to make a report if you suspect certain types of fraud.
It’s incomplete, not wrong. You inferred more than you should have from the title.
Sideberry is a cool extension that I used for quite some time when FF was my primary browser. I have since switched to Vivaldi which has similar feature built in which works pretty well too.
so its not just about data warehousey stuff.

Take Apollo.io for example. Its used for lead gen. Most people will instantly drop any CRM that doesnt integrate with Apollo.io and move leads (e.g. https://knowledge.apollo.io/hc/en-us/articles/4416619021837-...)

Same with scheduling - if the CRM doesnt integrate with Chilipiper or Calendly, its most likely an insta drop.

Zapier can be used, but why bother ?
They should rename it to ManyGPT.
Is it government pressure to dumb down the model?
> without reporting the failed hypotheses(p hacking).

This one is so subtle, it's probable that many of the people doing it don't even realize they're doing something wrong.
Isn't this a bit like cold welding? [0] Unless something is in-between them or some force is pulling them apart, there's no big reason for two exactly-fitted pieces of the same crystalline metal to _not_ join together. It's not like the atoms "know" which side they belong to.

Actually... [tap tap tap] It looks like that's explicitly in the original Nature title: "Autonomous healing of fatigue cracks via cold welding." [1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_welding

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06223-0
I can match the performance in their paper with lz4, and then by just explicitly comparing character-level n-grams between a query document and all documents belonging to the same topic.
I see this mostly online and strongly agree.

I don't know why it rubs me so wrongly. Perhaps because (IMO) it's totally unnecessary and adds nothing except perhaps an air of pretentiousness.
This paper is a far better argument for psycho-acoustic components of sound : https://www.nature.com/articles/nature04485/
Love the culture series. Though I would say it’s on a different tangent, in that AIs will absolutely eclipse us but will hopefully self align on being morally good because we are cute pets ;)

What’s interesting in the culture series in light of the AI alignment debates is that the culture aligns every mind to its task at “birth”. A picket ship, falling outside the normal moral constraints, is a very different set of personalities and morals than a GSV such as wisdom like silence
Benioff started his career at Oracle and was a prodigy there - becoming the youngest ever VP or something like that. It's not surprising if his playbook is inspired by Larry's.
Yes modern fabs are almost a miracle, but there's a large market for compute aka microchips that can't be made any other way, and of course flight has some unique benefits.

In contrast there are myriad other ways of making electricity that will be much cheaper than fusion ever will. IMHO.

I get what you're saying, never say never, etc, and fusion research is still worthwhile, as research, but there is just no economic case to spend billions to develop these current technologies for mainstream power generation.

If there's some major breakthrough in LENR, or muon-catalysed reactions, or whatever, that might be different.

Many technologies are only enabled as spin-offs from other tech, and there are plenty of examples of technologies that seem possible/plausible etc, but get cut off in development when it's clear the economics can't work or the unique capabilities are not compelling enough.
it makes thermal power generation closer to cost-competitive, yes
Agreed. The system is flawed. And as a result, many scientific "findings" simply can't be trusted. And there is no solution in sight.
And you're telling me you believe the white Australians adopted and codified this indigenous game instead of one based on English Rugby Football? It doesn't seem likely.

Like I said, medieval kicking games were everywhere, including marn grook, but I don't see any evidence that Aussie Rules is based on it. "Some historians claim" is the strongest sentence in that Wikipedia article.
‘Training My Replacement’: Inside a Call Center Worker’s Battle with A.I
https://archive.ph/7IF4T
While I am not the most experienced, I did recently finish a CS a degree and find chatgpt a great resource for getting a general understanding to go off of when approaching something outside my domain of experience. Having a core understanding of things in general makes it easier to identify when it's wrong about things, and the majority of time I am not using it to generate code, outside of asking for an example. Being able to ask a few direct question on a topic "demolishes" the time spent to become familiar with something, as most of the time I am just looking for answer about some specifics or to clear up some ambiguity in my understanding of a new concept.

I would say with someone new to coding it can be bad and good, as a lot of times it glosses over things, or can be slightly incorrect as it makes assumptions (or more so just answers in a more general context, and when asked to elaborate, or challenged on specifics it will reformat/improve it's answer, but without knowing you need to do so, I could see it easily see it providing half-baked foundational knowledge. You can ask it "x" and it will give a answer, but then if you ask it I am trying to do "y" with "x" and isn't "z" an issue or area of concern with its answer it will reformulate the information provided as its original response was flawed, but if you don't know exactly what the "y" you want to do is, or the "z" being foundational knowledge to challenge it on, you can easily get a whole wall of text that is out of context with what you are actually trying to learn.
I usually start off on Google Flights but try to check out CheapTickets.com or Priceline.com, which sometimes have "blind deals" meaning they sell you a ticket without a time for a discounted rate. You know the date you are leaving, but you don't know the time until you purchase the ticket. Oftentimes, these are early morning flights, which I prefer since they are less likely to be packed and you often can get rows to yourself.

Some advice on getting cheaper tickets:

- Make sure you are months out although sometimes you can get deals within a month of the flight

- Purchase your plane ticket on a Tuesday

- Fridays, Saturdays, and Mondays are probably going to be your most expensive days

- Be willing to adjust your flight by a few days -- Google Flights is especially helpful with showing you quickly the difference in prices and it can be a few hundred bucks saved just by leaving the next day or a day earlier

- Always check your prices in Incognito mode first and when you are ready to make an actual purchase, then you can go into Regular mode

- Almost always, early morning flights are cheaper

- Direct flights are almost always more expensive

- Pack light, take little, save the most

- Look for the airlines with special deals -- Spirit airlines is headquartered in Vegas, so they are always trying to get people to come to Vegas for a vacation -- likely sponsored by Vegas, and you can get these tickets for less than $100 roundtrip. Southwest and Frontier also have amazing deals. The issue with these flights, however, is that they will fly you into their HQ and you may have a long layover, but it could be worth it

- Google Flights is often good at letting you know if its a good deal as they keep a price watch on all flights
There is no patch for human stupidity.
“50 thousand API endpoints exposed by microservices”

Feels that their problem may just be they went a bit too far on the microservices band wagon.
Understanding Understanding Media (2011)
To be fair, Supreme Court justices didn’t always used to previously be judges. So, you know, there’s a chance…
I thought about this a lot too after being asked which one I was. My answer was neither and the other person labeled me as extrovert.

I think many introverts become more introverted as they label themself in that way. Often they feel uncomfortable in large and small groups, but with the label they have an excuse to avoid those situations as much as possible. Kind of like a self-fulfilling prophecy.
The hacker community needs a word akin to “Silent Key” - in the ham radio community - that means a contributor that’s passed on.

Never met the guy but you’re damn right I know who he is. And I come from the middle of nowhere.
Why does your post repeatedly mention soccer? I'm not talking about Association Football anywhere, it's irrelevant to this discussion. Aussie and Gaelic are based on or depend upon or took influence from Rugby Football, not soccer.

The idea that Gaelic and Aussie were developed independently on opposite ends of the earth, in English-speaking crown colonies, and randomly just so happen to be compatible enough to play against each other be is absolutely barmy and I can't believe anyone is espousing it.