skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You know what actually needs an investment? Climate models which are completely shit right now. It's actually preposterous that there are trillions of dollars worth of decisions in ESG and climate credits and government incentives while the science behind this is supported by old fortran code that has terrible quality and can't give reasonable predictions.

We have trillions of dollars chasing predictions of code barely worth a million dollar investment. That's absurd, it's a recipe for disaster.

Instead of useless government beaurocrats shuffling hypothetical CO2, should invest in climate models that aren't patched together by grad students in universities and old as hell code and a few NASA engineers maintaining an untested unreadable and unverifiable monstrosities.

Maybe there's no crisis at all. Maybe it's all doom and gloom, but the certainty that everyone's pretending that science gives is just not reflective of the reality of how climate models look right now. They are absolutely shit and I don't blame them given the resources they have, they did their best, but it's absolutely insane how much money is moving around on predictions coming out of that mess.
> 4. The world around us is explained entirely by physics.

It is not the case that there is a model scaling from the sub-atomic to the universal level that offers complete predictive capability.

He says:

>The remaining controversies of physics, from string theory to supersymmetry, are primarily theoretical issues only relevant at extremely high energies.

Fair enough, but using the word "entirely" in the section heading is inappropriate.
Which policies? I thought the primary cause was the demographics changes which is creating knock on effects, rather than the party's policies specifically.
One thing I noticed recently during the massive heatwave we had in southern Europe is how we forgot the most basic principles for building in hot climates.

For example, we enlarged windows and doors, to the point were, standing behind one that's been cooking in the sun for a couple of hours, you feel the radiant heat a meter away from it. All the older houses around the Mediterranean have smaller windows and doors, to limit the sun (and by extension the heat) from coming in.

We've cut down so many trees in the cities and poured so much concrete that some places are radiating heat for hours after sundown, making the night a couple of degrees hotter than it should really be.

Those are just a couple examples of poor architectural and city planning, but there are dozens of simple yet efficient techniques and tricks that we should reuse to make our cities more livable. Our ancestors didn't have all the new materials and knowledge we now have, but they were logical and lived with their environment.
Fair enough. Genuinely wondering, what flexibility do you get by not having an app server?
How do we rapidly decarbonize in the next decade?
A lot of the online chatter in the trades revolves around pay and working conditions. Right to work states pay way less (that’s the point) and have worse conditions.

Politics are rarely mentioned, but everyone knows there’s better work “up north”.
Bison could probably do the job, or moose/elk.

I'd love to see a mammoth but I think it's specious reasoning they'd be functionally important in tractable time. Building up a herd in an animal with slow gestation takes decades
That's more an indictment of APIs, (which fundamentally do sort of suck) than it is of, e.g. GPTs
> There is no possibility of this anyhow working.

I agree that this sort of rest is not equivalent to sleep. Nevertheless, this and similar techniques work well for reducing sleep anxiety. Less sleep anxiety tends to result in more and better quality sleep.
Absolutely, absent the - ridiculous - propaganda it is clear who is driving the war from the Russian side, the Ukrainians don't really have a choice: fight back or be wiped out. Everybody has seen what Grozny looked like and what has already been done to some Ukrainian cities.
Even if you're right about the market, HFTs will make you a little less right for no reason other than that they've invested billions of dollars into being faster than you.
> and live-in servants have declined massively

This is not true everywhere.

Where it is true, it is because supply has dried up as the general run of the population decides it has better options, not because demand is down.
It kinda sucks that when they finally find a way to stop aging, I’ll probably be in my 90s anyway.
One possible solution to keep the buildings and other structures including automobiles cool is to paint them white. Somehow this is not mentioned much in the media these days.
This should so obviously be a software option. I think of this regularly. Unbelievably trivial & obvious. On a Linux computer I could write a script for this in 15 minutes. I should.

If parents in general had the ability to manage their devices, that'd just makes busses restaurants flights and everything else full of so much less din.
You seem to think all open-source fonts' graphic designers worked for free, which is as laughable as saying there is no money in open-source software development.

Most fonts in wide use are likely contract work, whatever license ends up being used for their distribution.
I disagree that it's an arbitrary choice, it's asserting statements as true which we don't know anything about. I also disagree that there is such a distinction between a "mathematical context" and a "programming context" here - what we're talking about is formal logic (rather than proper math), and programming is an application of formal logic. Indeed, that's why we're here in the first place, to discuss how any() and all() arise from set theory and predicate logic.

I don't know what systems you're referring to, but like I mentioned you will get bugs if you naively use either approach. Eg in Rust, Option<T>::None will compare equal, because Rust doesn't have a null concept and that's how Rust enums work. But if you were using None to represent missing information, you'd want to use pattern matching rather than the built in equality. (Missing information is a much less salient concept in Rust than SQL, and Rust very deliberately wanted to avoid having a language-level null concept, so I think both of them made the right choices for their problem domains. Though I agree with this comment[1].)

But I'm getting the vibe that we're not going to convince one another, which is fine, this is an area where reasonable people disagree.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37271039
Although that may be a sound business model, one must question the ethical implications surrounding it.

With that said, that's not too different from existing cancer treatment drugs.
I believe that you are misinformed. Non-members of the union can audition for and get union jobs, and they can work union jobs for up to 30 days before having to join the union. Eligibility to join the union comes after 3 days as a background actor in a union job or 1 day in a speaking role in a union job.
We’re in a housing crisis because of NIMBYism, stupid zoning laws and poor city planning.

There’s plenty examples of nations with way worse inequality but abundant housing options.
You have literally no information from which to make this comment.
There are 11 fathoms in a chain, 10 chains in a furlong, and 8 furlongs to a mile.

Going the other way, 2 yards in a fathom and 3 feet in a yard. That accounts for all the factors above.
I recall from 1965 getting an error message message something like this from the Fortran complier on a Univac 1107 system after receiving too many error messages: "Do not attempt to learn Fortran using Monte Carlo method. Buy a manual in the user office."
They are free to move back to where they came from and if they lived there before they are equally free to stay.

Those who did not live under Ukrainian control have lived under occupation.
Ok but what are we calling API misuses?

We collect 1208 coding questions from StackOverflow on 24 representative Java APIs. We summarize thecommon misuse patterns of these APIs and evaluate them oncurrent popular LLMs. The evaluation results show that evenfor GPT-4, 62% of the generated code contains API misuses,which would cause unexpected consequences if the code isintroduced into real-world software.

Should have used ChatGPT to correct those sentences. /s

What do we consider an API misuse at the end of the day? And also against the Java APIs... Which are some of the oldest.

I'm not saying ChatGPT answers work, 50% of the time they don't work out of the box. But overal, the time savings are incredible, compared to the fossil digging way of googling. And I value the time savings towards the equally correct way of googling for answers. You reap what you sow. The knowledge the LLM is based upon is the same stuff you used to distill manually. It shouldn't be more or less correct, if you think of it that way.

Surprise, ChatGPT will not replace devs. But it is like having the electrical drill vs. screwdriver type of situation.
"Tarik Benmarhnia says [traditional ways of cooling] aren't good enough. He studies extreme heat at UC San Diego"

I hope the irony of this man's job is not lost on anybody.
I'm not sure why, but all the source values are listed here: https://github.com/ruby/ruby/blob/1cc700907d3ad3368272488a6f...

Maybe someone knowledgeable in the underpinnings of Ruby will explain why "class variable" was not hyphenated.
If there's a human only competition and the AI "identifies" as a human, you'd expect it still wouldn't be let in. Anything else would be absurd, right?
> If Google actually cared...

Oh, I can say that about a LOT of other Google products.
The mobile game funding a revolution in Myanmar
Yep. Kill them until they fuck off and leave. That is how it works.
Probably a quick coat of spray paint on a finished model would already give it better water resistant properties without adding a lot of weight. It isn't going to help against immersion or catching a downpour but it will help to hold it together just a bit longer.
I’m not a huge fan of this because it’s kind of painting all “original (technical) problems” with a broad brush, while also being a rewording of the typical YAGNI/establish PMF advice lines. I suspect the author is coming from the perspective of primarily working on “applications software” like consumer sites or solving some novel/poorly addressed business need with software.

A lot of these things aren’t binary yes/no decisions. They range from “don’t even do the thing at all” to “develop a custom solution completely in house”, sure, but with a huge spectrum of choices in between: buy off the shelf, get something basic but inflexible working, get something more advanced and flexible with more setup working, establish a process-to-be-automated that engineers perform manually.

Especially on the <easy setup, kinda shitty> to <hard setup, powerful/flexible> gradient you really need to consider your needs and options’ risk/reward. Some things like tests and CI have such quick payoff times you almost always want something that does a decent job of things. Moreover, when selling technical products half the time your competitive advantage is actually being able to efficiently iterate and improve on the product faster than everybody else because competitors are bogged down in tech debt and manual operations.
Currently living with no AC in a very hot climate for the first time in a long time, and I'd forgotten how horrible it can be to not be able to escape the heat. During the day it's hard to concentrate, and at night it's hard to sleep.

What good alternatives are there to AC, however? The comic gives:

* Building buildings with less reflective materials.. there's almost none here and it's still damn hot. Obviously the concrete traps heat but I don't really see us not using concrete anymore.

* Planting trees for shade. Plenty of trees here, doesn't stop it from being hot as hell inside.

* A system for getting out of the way of a heat wave.. which from experience, no one would actually use. The biggest deaths from heat waves here happen since older people insist on going to stores etc. during the day, and predictably faint on the street and die. This is completely preventable already -- they're not gonna use the system.

* Growing plants on top of buildings. Maybe this will help? I don't know enough to say.
Yattee connects to these, there is no other way to use the frontend on iOS/tvOS otherwise.
I'm not sure I would consider any of these to be relevant... just because the exploits don't work doesn't mean the skills learned to complete them don't transfer. by that argument HTML is irrelevant because everyone uses [JavaScript-Framework] now.
Would it be as simple as:?

DISPLAY="$DISPLAY" gimp
Say more about this! Let's say you had $100B to build better climate models over the next 5 years. Where would you spend it?

My general sense is the models are good enough to tell us that a) things are headed in the wrong direction and b) we're really far off from a solution. Generally in agreement with you but I haven't researched deeply about what's needed on more modeling and how to prioritize.
I don't need to tell myself to daydream. I spend most of my life, I sometimes think, inventing worlds and indulging in various fantasies. I really should write some of them down sometimes.
That and other things I dislike about many of the new fangled languages.
How is there "better" work when almost all of the new factories are opening in (or relocating to) right to work states? TSMC is opening the chip factories in Phoenix in a state that has right to work laws. Intel is opening one in Ohio, another right to work state. Samsung is opening their factory in Texas.
polypropylene is indeed pretty inert when it's not photodegrading (though there are some interesting studies finding biodegradation https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=related:yE8AZEyCArgJ:sc... but all in aerobic environments afaik), but when it does biodegrade or photodegrade, the degradation products are pretty harmless, as with glass and sand

it does photodegrade reasonably fast if exposed to sunlight, in years rather than decades (or millennia as in glass)

because it's so inert, it's pretty harmless when not degraded unless it's been soaking in something more toxic. it's been used in human body implants, for example, but it does cause some irritation in that role (https://theperfectboobs.net/index.php?topic=27773.0 has some nsfw discussion of this and https://everything2.com/title/Polypropylene+string+breast+im... has a safer summary)

implanted soda-lime glass causes irritation in a similar way, by the way; i have a granuloma in my foot right now which is encapsulating a splinter of glass i'm biodegrading. the issue with polypropylene is that it's, believe it or not, more resistant to biodegradation than glass, at least inside the human body

the issue with polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins is not just their persistence; as pointed out above, things like glass, sand, and polypropylene are even more persistent. the issue is that in addition to being persistent, they're toxic—but not acutely so, except in extreme yushchenko-like cases
Suppose they manage to create a mammoth zygote, where is it going to grow? Can they just put it in an elephant’s womb? Will it grow just the same? Are wombs universal?
> How would they exit operations in a state and still earn income from their brick and mortar stores in that state?

Sell a store to an independent operator who in turn hires workers, then sell goods to the independent operator, something like that.
I think that's an acceptable conclusion. So then, what's next? We need to rapidly decarbonize the economy. Current solutions aren't working great, so how do we do it?
I don’t think you’re properly up to speed on the news:

https://theintercept.com/2023/08/09/imran-khan-pakistan-cyph...
I have been trying to use ChatGPT to make a VueJS website (I’m a backend dev). What I have noticed with VueJS specifically is that it has little to no knowledge of the composition API, and when I ask it to help build a component it is pretty good at the scaffolding. The component will generally work; however, it is pretty useless for CSS styling.

I probably should try Copilot as I bet that would work better. Also the VS Code integration would be really nice.
I've noticed that one of the most common failure patterns I get from GPT4 for code generation is that it incorrectly asserts something and then corrects itself in the same response.

ex: "This code `(some-fn 1 2)` does x because y. That is incorrect because abc"

I wondered if this has to do with common StackOverflow post formats.
It's an interesting idea, but why is this written so weirdly?

"the users of LLM code generation services are actually the developers that are most vulnerable to these code that seems right -- They are always novice developers that are not familiar with the APIs that LLMs generate code for them"

It looks like they could've benefited from an LLM doing a pass-over. Are they saying it's only "novice developers" using LLMs?
Meanwhile the average rent in Germany is roughly $900/month while it's over $1,000/month in Mississippi. Personally I thought that Purchasing Power Parity attempted to adjust for regional differences in costs - obviously it heavily depends on your "personal" basket which is why I'm focused on "the typical citizen growing up in this area".

What am I supposed to be using median income for? If "GDP/capita (PPP) is what economists use to compare wealth", as you say, then what do those same economists that you're talking about use median income metrics for? I accept that I might be using median income wrong, but I'm curious what using it "right" looks like.
I think the paper "Algorithm of Thoughts: Enhancing Exploration of Ideas in Large Language Models" (AoT) is big competitor with this paper. It shows that we can get similar results to Tree of Thoughts just by using a single query. AoT seems to be even surpassing ToT in some of the experiments.
It fails in the other direction in Canada, where a specific postal code works like a 9+4 zip code, in that it might identify one side of one block of a street, so it doesn't give you much additional privacy through precision loss anyway.
I feel like AI for programming has been so overhyped. I've attempted to use ChatGPT for programming so many times, and almost every time it's just wasted my time. Giving me outright lies or generating stuff that looks right but doesn't work. And just throwing out it's answer and starting from scratch is faster than fixing its output.

I've only found it useful for explaining basic terminology or concepts for a topic I'm not familiar with. Though this is the most dangerous use case since I'm not familiar with the answer, I can't easily fact check it.
You still need to install the certs and some apps / programs will use cert pinning (trusting only the certs they are shipped with).
Like the marching hammers in Pink Floyd’s The Wall music video
I mean the landing page of GitHub Copilot just shoves text unencoded into a urlencoded body, this is nothing new...

const response = await fetch(`http://text-processing.com/api/sentiment/`, {
method: "POST",
body: `text=${text}`,
headers: {
"Content-Type": "application/x-www-form-urlencoded",
},
});
The weather in Cairo for the next week looks like central Texas.

Nobody tries to live in central Texas without Air Conditioning.
Which city? I’m just curious how hot we’re talking about, without AC.
I imagine it would take me that long the first time having not set it up before, but that even if you started over from scratch it’d take you much less time.

I made another comment to this effect, but I think testing and CI (not necessarily CD though) have such quick payoff times in terms of productivity that you almost always want to set them up ASAP.
Agile/Scrum is one of those things that are impossible to criticise. You can come up with a well-reasoned critique of a particular scrum deficiency and there's always some Scrum Expert that pops up to tell you that you're not doing "real scrum" and, therefore, your experience is invalid.

At the same time, I have now done software engineering for over a decade, in many roles and teams, and I have never seen Agile or Scrum to lead to the development of a good piece of software. I guess we were using it wrong.
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Show HN: Simple Bulk GPT Generation from CSV
This is a simple app that's saving me lots of time.

I normally use Google Sheets to generate bulk GPT content. The problem I had was GPT4 would time out.

This app takes a CSV files of terms and uses with a separate prompt text file.

Just add your OpenAI API key and you're good to go.

Happy for any feedback.
I was millimeters away from responding w/ the pure inanity of "So can I. Once, anyway." But, your citation of OG meme-master Shelley inspired me to do better (18th century, and already prognosticating the rise of "CATS" - legend).

I refrained. ;)
In the Netherlands we also colloquially use the 'ons' (ounce) which is defined though as 100g.
I saw a mild version of this on my 12" Powerbook G4. FWIW, I have never had any issues with the surface of my unibody MacBooks, other than some smoothing of high-touch areas.
"This" isn't really happening.

You get 10% inflation and the union gets you a 7% raise (which you could have also gotten by switching jobs or threatening to in a non-union shop), and they claim to have done you a favor.

To actually fix it you need to break up concentrated industries and address the regulatory capture that enables them.

Or do something about cost disease -- the thing where work that could have been done by one person in one hour instead needs a chain of seven corporations with lawyers and administrators who each contribute overhead and take a vig, and then people can't afford anything because an hour's worth of labor only buys two minutes of "real work" from someone else.
We joke about (the lack of) San Diego weather ...

However, only a very small number of people live right on the coast with its constant 70 degress.

San Diego has 4 microclimes--Coastal, Inland, Mountain, and Desert. Inland, Mountain, and Desert get hot.

I always used to say that people in San Diego were in "weather denial". Most of them live in the shitty microclimes but still wouldn't buy an air conditioner.
First off, yes, agree, fixed problem, open on solution, "how" could be anything, including doing a funny dance that inspires every person on the planet to just stop emitting so much.

Hmm, say more about this. I said this to another commenter, I'm pretty sure all a carbon tax does is solve for the "demand" side of the equation. Fundamentally you would still need an accounting system for carbon, thus carbon credits of different sorts. Or am I missing something?
> Median income is not an objective measure to compare wealth.

It is an objective measure, it is not (and neither is GDP/capita) a measure of wealth. Both are income measures, not wealth measures.

> it does not take into account non-income based compensation like food stamps, housing assistance or child tax credits

It can, when it is net of taxes and transfers, which is a fairly common stat (OECD uses it for comparisons, specifically becuase tax and benefit distribution varies considerably among OECD members.) But whether it is or isn’t is orthogonal to whether it is an objective measure, though it is releavnt to how good of a measure it is for various purposes (but for comparing common lifestyle, its better than GDP/capita, which doesn’t capture any aspect of distribution, in any case.)

> For example, Medicaid compensation for example is 3x of than the equivalent in Germany.

The US having ludicrously higher medical costs than Germany without better outcomes doesn't make government medical coverage for the indigent in the US better than for those covered than similar coverage in Germany. Might make it somewhat better for the healthcare providers receiving the compensation, I guess.
At least they can't be sued for false advertising. That's unfortunately commendable these days.