skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>My believe is that there are exactly zero such jobs. If your claim is that we're at least at 1%, then you're claiming that there are at least 269k fully automatable programmer jobs [1]. It shouldn't be hard for you to find at least one to start.

If I built an entire car but I am missing the key. I cannot drive the car but the car is 99% complete. It's just missing the key. So what happens is, it can replace 0% of human locomotion but it's 99% complete? get it?

Just because the tool can't be used doesn't mean it's zero percent of the way to being drive able. Same with your job. The LLM can't replace any job yet, but it doesn't mean it's 1% of the way there.

But you see what I just explained to you is obvious. You already know this just like I and every one else on the face of the earth already knows this fact.

You're taking the discussion into a play on words. What does 1% apply to? Rather then use common sense and derive what I mean you prefer to redirect the conversation into a very specific definition of 1% that serves your own purpose.

We can play this game all day. We can discuss whether your application of 1% is more fitting than my application of 1%. What a waste of everyone's time.

I think it's better if rather then playing these games to "win" discussions, use your common sense to move the discussion past these games. Otherwise we're going to be talking about obvious things all day and getting all worked up about personal definitions.

Clearly the LLM is more than just 1%.
I think what the parent means is a hat that's an indispensible article of formal dress. They certainly still have their place, but it's not like there's an expectation to see everyone in cowboy hats at a Texas wedding.

The only place I'm aware of where hat use as a matter of dress and appearance is still strictly adhered to is in the US military.
> Many choose not to have internet access at home for religious reasons,

Do they not have any electronic devices at all? Why is internet not OK but some other stuff is?
Minus using it in countries that have shitty government, no one has provided a use case for it.

And no, just because it is useful for some people in some shitty country doesn't make it generally useful. If carrying knifes and guns to a bank is considered normal in some shithole it doesn't mean that the rest of the world need to adopt this insane idea.

It wouldn't surprise me one bit if many companies are using crypto as a simple and unregulated way to suck money from unsophisticated traders. I wonder how many people lost money on crypto, and where most of the wins are at.

I am also curious how much portion of crypto is actually used for "goods" out in the wild versus simply used for trading. Simple metrics like volume on all exchanges / volume outside of exchanges should suffice.
> simply hates change.

Nonsensical cope. If that were true, HN would not love solar, wind, fission, fusion, room temperature superconductors, etc. HN is hype about potential/new technologies that might make sense and have real applications. Cryptocurrencies aren't that.
Was that available on 48g perhaps?
Masons require a belief in a supreme being and scripture, and various things online say they've explicitly forbidden atheists before. I take everything I read about Freemasonry with a grain of salt, but it still seems fairly hostile to atheists.
This has been submitted many times before. Most substantial discussion is on these submissions.

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35784167

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35478871

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32146245

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16561815
Those cases are the best, are they not? But yeah, a large dose of sarcasm was intended. And a little bit of seriousness.
I'm happy for the couple of people that got tangible financial benefits out of it and that weren't already wealthy beforehand, but this isn't exactly a benefit for society as a whole. All the rest has simply failed to materialise in any meaningful way.
I remember reading about it in the German c't magazine back then and wanting one, but then never heard of it again.
During a certain phase of my career, I was part of a company that extensively used the Scrum framework.

My takeaway then was that Scrum fosters a modular team management style, which diminishes the dependence on highly skilled individuals.

This approach seemed to offer management a sense of oversight in the software development process, but I didn't stay long enough to determine whether this was actual control and predictability or merely an illusion of it.
> Then we're doing the same thing, applying a minimum tick rate to trading, except to achieve this tick rate you have to spend X to get the technology.

Not quite, because the next step is being physically closer to the exchange, and there's only so much real estate to go around.
> Ada gets all the things about bare-metal right that C got wrong

I'm curious, never had a look at Ada, can you elaborate?
Nah, trans people have been around a lot longer than this.

It's more like left-handedness (or good old homosexuality), in that the rate of incidence is not increasing but rather that social repression has backed off slightly and people feel a bit more confident being out.

People can be a bit more open about their gender when they're less afraid of being killed for it.
I re-read Peopleware this last weekend. It's one of my favourite books on the topic of software management. There are chapters that are not very useful for the $current_year (eg. regarding telephones or office furniture) but overall it's a fantastic piece on human interactions in the industry.
Ironically, I'm finding this hard to read without formatting to distinguish using words and mentioning them.
Measuring dry ingredients by volume is like a recipe brown M&M, at that point you know the recipe is bad and you should look for another one.
It fits with the other unit: 1 knot is 1 minute of latitude per hour
It was designed by committee, but as long as the original author was involved he had a veto right and he used it very often, which alleviated the "committee" effect.
Are you visually or mentally impaired? I don't mean it in any condescending way. I can add those on the spot by just looking at the numbers and tell you result immediately, that's primary school level math in Europe.
Same in Austria. Theoretically we have very affordable childcare. But in cities there are too few places, so only a small fraction of parents can actually use them. On the country side opening times of childcare are so limited that they are incompatible with most jobs (childcare Mo-Fri 8-12 is better than nothing, but there are very few jobs that are compatible with those times).

The result is that most mothers pause their careers while the kids are small. The consequence is that most couples only have one or two kids.
Strictly speaking, this is also a consumer-oriented thing, using the diagonal. The diagonal is also misleading, because it gives no information about the dimensions and aspect ratio of a given panel. Consider a 15.6" 16:9 display, versus a (now increasingly more common) 16" 16:10 display.

Panel manufacturers are all based in Asia, and measure only the edges in millimetres, as they should. Even xrandr outputs EDID data in millimetres.
A browser also has the baked in expectation of you interacting with hypertext.

A video game of this caliber you are discussing is typically entitled to:

- have a dowload and installation process that might span over say 20min or more

- load slowly, because it needs to push a ton of assets through

- demand a ton of resources such CPU, GPU, threads, memory etc. to achieve amazing graphics and simulation

- being the primary foreground process or possibly the only one

None of these things apply to the typical web. Quite the contrary: most web devs would get fired or ridiculed if they demanded these resources.

So I assume that browsers optimize for the typical usage, which is hypertext.
my impression is that you are closer to accepting death then you think. almost nobody can face death without fear. most people simply deflect this fear by means of platitudes and smart mental constructs. this is all just empty words as soon the time comes.
All low-grade conspiracy theories hyperfocus on motivation. If motivation alone could move the world, some serial killer in some prison in the desert would have destroyed the Earth with his mind powers long ago.
laravel more than basic php. Sanctum comes with 2FA, Users, Groups and other good stuff. But its also php
Yeah, I know, but they quoted that one so I used it.

The paper is basically proving 3 can't always be true for actors with unlimited computational power, and without any "approximately" or "by enough to be worth it". It's a cute math trick, not something useful.
Thank you.

On TrueNAS Scale you install applications that run on Docker/Kubernetes, and TrueCharts is a registry of these applications. They work with just a few clicks, it's very impressive and still new to me.

I think you're right on this, I'll investigate further today.
You do know that there are steps between bespoke tailor and exploitative sweat shop, right?

Multiple steps actually.

(And in some cases the alternative to the "sweat shop" is the same amount of hours outside in the fields with fluctuating income based on what happens with the crop that year)
I don't need to know how long it's going to take (because that's always made up) but at least tell me what's going on in the background so I have some indication of progress. Loading is often made up of a few sequential steps so tell me where you're up to.
i understood your original comment :)

totally agree that dismissing the content of a paper for its grammatical mistakes alone is foolish.

this isn’t a paper about classic roman literature
I was kinda expecting some ecmp based on the name (bird). Routing in mesh networking can be somewhat very .... Fun
Isn't it likely that those people got to be top generals precisely because their good school results?
Ask HN: Is it possible to get a conversation with a CEO from here?
I'm interested in having a conversation one on one with a reasonably successful CEO--preferably one that doesn't feel they got into their position out of mostly luck.

I'm in a position where I feel stuck. I have so many projects that people tell me I can "make a lot of money" off of them. Many of these are just things I've made because I couldn't easily find something to do what I wanted and I was able to just put it together myself. I already know I lack marketing and maybe even some social acumen and it could be just as simple as that. Or it could be that these things are so far away from being actually sellable that I'm overhyping myself for no reason. In terms of experience I used to work at FAANG, a game company, and in a couple other industries, so I have a wide breadth of experience in my field. I've also been a hobbyist developer since I was a teenager and I've never stopped really making things.

I know I have several shortcomings in real life that probably affect my ability to follow through but it could also just be poor habits? I'm not really sure. My brothers have worked directly under a billionaire before and I remember them talking to him and it seemed like he was exceptionally good at reading people and telling them things they needed to hear. This is kind of what I'm looking for I suppose. I will ask them to see if it's possible for me to talk to that guy but this was 10 years ago and he was 70 at the time so I'm honestly not even sure he's still alive now. Moreso than a therapist or a coach, I feel like the right person to get this kind of conversation with would be a well-off CEO.

Thanks for reading.
Mastodon also has manual install instructions: https://docs.joinmastodon.org/admin/install/

They look fairly simple and typical. Monitoring services could be systemd's job, upgrades would involve apt + bundle + yarn.
What I don’t get about smart contracts is how the conditions are validated

I have a contract that Brad Pitt wins the Oscar in the next 3 years how is that validated ? Is there some widely accepted source of truth ? Couldn’t the provider be hacked or be tempted to be fraudulent.

I’m assuming the source of truth isn’t the Oscar academy cause web scraping could break easily.
Still it’s a lot of faith in human honesty and site security for automatic execution worth millions
Pricing your SaaS on the demand curve using the Pareto power law
Yes. Imagine you're giving UX advice while unable to get scrolling right.
In Scrum:

- the product owner sets the backlog priority

- team estimates

- team commits to what it can deliver from the backlog

- any misses are analyzed for scope mistakes

Rinse/repeat

There’s no shaming part

Edit: format
Outside of Tokyo you can still easily get one of the other regional IC cards [1]. They can now all be used everywhere in Japan including the Tokyo subway, provided you don't start travel in one region and end it in another.

[1] https://www.japan-guide.com/e/e2359_003.html
> Death does not mean illness or loss of autonomy.

dying does almost always mean severe illness and loss of autonomy.
I think cryptobros just have a different perception of what "providing value" is. Bitcoin's fiat value or the fact that it has made millionaires is hardly an indication of it, since the same can be said of cocaine.

Smart contracts keep having bugs. And all I hear from DAOs is that they're cornered by the agents with the most tokens - how is that an innovation over the current state of affairs in society?
My expectation is that he describes his level of personalized service the same way in private emails as in public comments. If you find that expectation overly haughty, well, you know where the refund button is.
> Why does hacker news hate crypto?

Because crypto and its industry is a complete scam and nothing that it has produced is of any value.

Crypto is a complete grift and there is not a single person in it for the technology. The only reason it exists is because of the regulatory arbitrage and loopholes that needs to be closed which will shut crypto all down.

All in all, crypto is full of greed, scamming, grifting and completely the lawless shady behaviour of evading regulations.

That is why we hate it and it needs to be extinguished by drafting crypto laws in every country.
Don't worry about it. Death is something you'll never experience.
Surely it would be of strategic interest to the U.S. to protect Mexico and should there be significant war, they would protect Mexico.
I remember the Matasano challenges around cryptography https://cryptopals.com/
I assume this one for heaven's gate: https://www.alex-ionescu.com/closing-heavens-gate/

But that's very windows specific, I think the general term is jumping between long mode and protected mode?
Brilliant, this is exactly how my wife reads, and I've been dreading getting her a Kindle and her not using it or making me do endless syncing for her.

I've already had my eye on Kobo, but Libby support seals the deal I think.

Which Kobo do you have?
>I'm not going to rebut everything but I want to point out that I think Geoffrey Hinton is way more in your camp in regards to faith in the technology (which is what we're discussing). I'm in the camp that thinks LLMs are at best a viable competitor to furby

Your point was on whether everybody wants to see AI take over. To that Geoffrey Hinton doesn't want AI to take over, while you do. I for one am not sure.

As for whether Geoffrey Hinton thinks AI is legit or not is a different story. On that topic he's on my side, but that was besides the point I brought him up to point out that your take on "everybody" wanting AI to develop further is incorrect.

> and the doom and existentialism is a marketing ploy to a world imbued in conspiracy theory and institutional distrust in order to compensate for a wildly over promised and under delivered product.

Other way around. With all the money and business interests going into LLMs business interests are promoting LLMs in a future that you want and that is not apocalyptic. The conspiracy theories aren't a thing. It makes no sense as those theories don't align with where the money is being thrown.

>But hey, when you gotta raise money, you gotta raise money, and as you put it, the "trend line is going up" and that's all that matters.

Bro. I am not saying "trendline" as if it's something I have to keep throwing money at to support.

I am talking about a mathematical projection based on data. The pace of technology in the past when graphed points to an ever increasing line on a line graph. When you take the slope of that line and use it to do a quantitative prediction, that line just points up. That's just a fact of reality. The logical outcome of the data we see.
Change to scam more people more efficiently? (:
Which Kobo do you have?
Drug cartels using aircraft?
While I agree with you in principle, having your balls cut off does not sound like an easy thing to go through.
There's a number of flaws with the "thesis" (to put it charitably):

- Not every trans person experiences gender dysphoria

- Trans people have existed historically and widespread non-binary gender identities have been observed in indigenous societies prior to modern pollution

- There are men who take estrogen for health benefits and they generally don't report gender dysphoria or desire to transition

- Men with low testosterone levels generally don't report gender dysphoria or desire to transition

- There's no literature whatsoever suggesting any link between hormone levels or other endocrinologic factors and gender dysphoria or the desire to transition

- Being openly trans was practically illegal and subject to mockery, harrassment and violence until fairly recently, even more so than being an openly gay man was

- Due to the "underground" nature of trans identities, many elder trans people lacked the language or concepts to express their identity, instead landing on more socially acceptable identities (e.g. gay men or lesbians) or adopted labels like "transvestite" whereas young people are more likely to embrace identities under the queer, trans and non-binary umbrella

- While society and the law has become a lot more accepting of queer and trans identities, access to mental health and medical care like hormone treatments and surgery is often gatekept to "protect" people seeking it (with the implication being that they are likely wrong about thinking they need it) and a diagnosis of "gender dysphoria" is usually one of the most reliable ways to gain access to these even when it doesn't accurately describe the person's experience ("autogynophilia" is the mirror version of this where "gender euphoria" specifically for trans women when allowed to express themselves as women is medicalized and framed as a sexual fetish to delegtimize it)

For the record, I'm not trans but I know and have spoken to trans people in my personal life and have read a lot about it from "both sides".
It is quite advanced: "The essential prerequisites for reading this book are a rigorous course in probability theory (on Masters or Ph.D. level), an excellent command of undergraduate linear algebra, and general familiarity with basic notions about metric, normed and Hilbert spaces and linear operators. Knowledge of measure theory is not essential but would be helpful."
> none of the promised benefits of cryptocurrencies failed to materialize

But that sounds awesome?
I have found it to save time when I'm learning a new, widely used framework. (Presumably this would hold for a language as well.) I used it to learn Keras and React + Redux, and it was helpful there. For instance I was able to ask it about what sort of messages would be emitted by Redux in a given circumstance, and the precise values were wrong but it didn't really matter. That was very cool.

Once I have a good sense for how things work, I'd much rather go to the documentation. Most of the time I can do this straight from my editor by typing the method I want and querying the LSP for documentation. In those cases it's more or less instant, there's no improvement to be made there.

Maybe in some of the other cases it would be faster via an LLM integrated with my editor, but I don't think it would justify the cognitive load of considering whether or not it's correct. I'd like to worry about whether the application is correct. And I don't really think I'm wasting time waiting for the Python documentation to load, I'm continuing to chew on the problem.

Additionally, when I go to the documentation, I'm looking for callouts about the safety of an API, and I take the lack of such callouts as authoritative. Eg, recently I was reading that in node-postgres you have to return connections to the pool, which was a good refresher for me, because previously I'd been using Rust where resources are generally cleaned up automatically. I just don't trust a lack of a callout from GPT-4 as being a confirmation of a lack of a safety issue.
No that's what I was getting at. For roughly half the models I come across, the weights are published on HF. For the other half, the weights are available via GitHub (either the releases section, or a link to something like Google Drive).
Given OP's (presumed) age, curiosity and enthusiasm, my advice to OP would be to not worry about what language you are going to specialize in at all. That can come later. In fact, do the opposite: learn every language under the sun and prioritize weird languages with unique ideas that are outside of the mainstream. Learn Rust, Haskell, Lisp (OP is already learning Racket so that's covered), Prolog, Forth, assembly, Smalltalk, ... (admittedly I haven't learned every language on this list; there are some that I wished I learned when I had more time for it).

OP is at a stage in life where fluid intelligence is still very high and crystallized intelligence is growing rapidly. This is the time in your life where you are perhaps most able to absorb new ideas and ways of thinking, before you get set in your ways and less receptive to different ways of thinking.
> Thing is, all four of these can not possibly be right. It’s a little too insane. Whoever is on the other side of all those mortgages should have abandoned ship a long time ago otherwise.

Why can't all 4 of these be right? "A little too insane" defines every bubble in hindsight.

Point to a bubble w/ a collapse and I'll give you a set of statements that are "a little too insane" such that fundamentals don't hold up.

My guess is you're gobsmacked by the idea that the fundamentals don't hold up and are saying "how can anyone be that stupid?". They didn't in 99, nor 08, nor Gamestop, nor now.

Everything can be wrapped under Greed.

[Edit] Full disclosure, I'm no better - I've lost money chasing greed.
> Crypto is a currency.

It is laughably not a currency.

Something that has sporadic price fluctuations, is used as a gambling token for speculation, and cannot send value instantly to another person (crypto waiting times are over 9 hours) is not a currency.

Little to nobody in the world uses crypto at all.
This is subjective, but my impression was rather the tide shifted when ChatGPT came out.

Case in point: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37290356
As I am writing this, three comments. One by the author, the other two about ChatGPT.
For my customer's multi-step wizard [0], I tried to make inevitable waiting less boring by showing a random AI-related fact, such as:

In 2017, Saudi Arabia has given citizenship to the social humanoid robot Sophia. She became the first-ever robot to get citizenship of any country in the world.

[0] https://www.kadoa.com/playground