skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
for this kind of thing, aside from of course /usr/share/dict/words or /usr/share/dict/spanish, i commonly use a word list sorted by occurrences in the british national corpus which i keep at http://canonical.org/~kragen/sw/wordlist

this allows you to, among other things, tune the comprehensiveness/accuracy tradeoff to your liking for a particular task by cutting the list off at a given point

probably i should download the google 1-grams now that i have a bigger disk

anyway

$ grep ' [qwertyuiop]*$' ~/wordlist | perl -lane 'print length $F[1], " $F[1]"' | sort -n

indeed suggests only

10 perpetuity
10 proprietor
10 repertoire
10 typewriter

possibly a more practical problem is, what are the most common words you can type entirely with the left hand while your other hand is on the mouse†; 'redraw' was a significant one with early versions of autocad

$ grep ' [qwertasdfgzxcvb]*$' ~/wordlist | head
2150885 a
923975 was
664780 be
478178 at
470949 are

uh that's somewhat boring

$ grep ' [qwertasdfgzxcvb]*$' ~/wordlist | perl -ane 'print "$F[1] " if length $F[1] > 6' | fmt | head
greater started effects address average regarded created treated affected
greatest streets readers afterwards referred database degrees dressed
arrested attract decades attracted addressed stressed stewart awarded
targets estates abstract assessed terrace reserve reverse barbara reserves
careers defeated dragged grabbed creates greeted secrets bastard extract
edwards detected deserve affects traders adverse retreat addresses rewards
aggregate decrease scattered breasts referee databases deserted actress
debates deserves reversed deserved defects reserved fastest rewarded
steward battered erected deceased exaggerated cassette exceeded servers
warfare extracts drawers stresses asserted reacted sweater regards stabbed

that's a bit better. how about words you can type alternating the two hands, so you can type faster

$ egrep ' [^qwertasdfgzxcvb]?([qwertasdfgzxcvb][^qwertasdfgzxcvb])*[qwertasdfgzxcvb]?$' ~/wordlist | perl -ane 'print "$F[1] " if length $F[1] > 6' | fmt | head -4
problem problems england chairman alright element ancient visible penalty
quantity visitor signals amendment claudia bicycle authentic antibody
malaysia naughty dickens entitlement antique paisley rituals auditor
endowment blanche chairmen siemens chaotic suspend uruguay mcleish

it's a curious experience to touch-type a sequence of these words because after a while you notice that something is unusual. the one-handed words are a bit more conspicuous. try typing 'a better career award as edward created database facts after we agreed we stared at dear steve' into the comment box, it's super weird

of course the bnc has some built-in biases which dramatically understate the frequency of certain words

$ grep fuck ~/wordlist
2568 fucking
1236 fuck
158 fucked
53 fucker
23 fucks
20 fuckers
13 motherfucker
5 motherfuckers
5 fuckin

'ngl' appears but only 5 times. 'yeet' doesn't occur at all

______

† mouse?
I though that its the last hop that operators control and they can intercept the traffic thats the problem. but this only saves them money and costs the users more when energy is expensive
I'm guessing this is sarcasm?
This is particular, specifically problematic territory. I cannot imagine handing over proprietary data to a third party without a contract in place for how that data is stored and used. It’s not about innovation, it’s about using someone else’s tools without ownership. For the other case, it’s both about integrity in owning your own work, and a shield from legal consequences. These things should be very relevant to any business.

I also don’t know any professional devs who have used tools like copilot and said they were anything but a toy. I am more bullish on LLMs than most of my coworkers. I think there is a lot of potential there. I do not see that potential in the current commercial offerings, and the financial outlay to fine-tune an open-source model and run it at scale is…prohibitive.
Really? Has gvisor ever been popped? Has there ever even been a single high-profile compromise caused by a container escape? Shared hosting was a thing and considered "safe enough" for decades and that's all process isolation.

Can't help but feel the security concerns are overblown. To support my claim; Well, Google IS using gvisor as part of their GKE sandboxing security..
You could look for the output that you expect from 996 instead of caring about time in seat.
and you damn right Eric
Hahahahaha! Oh, they are serious. If FCC does this for Fox then all FCC regulated media is dead. Every news station has lied. Its just that the rest of them were telling the "official" lie and Fox said words that went against the "official" lie.
Without any sort of stats or reference I'm confident saying far more sexual harassment happens online. The vast majority is not physical contact.

>> What if someone goes postal?

The LACK of intimacy (and the empathy and trust that it's composed of) is what leads to "going postal", often driven directly by remote interactions. This is why the thin piece of glass in a car windshield allows otherwise civil people to experience road rage.
I implore you to see how most people use computers more, because no: Most people don't know how to right click.

Most people don't know tabs or multiple windows, either.
For me, I use the number of intimate hugs I get during interviews to get a feel for how many I should expect during mandatory team lunches and stand-ups (I mean hug-ups). If I don't get a single hug from the interviewer or any other staff, I know it's a low-intimacy place and won't expect more hugs down the line.
JP/PH energy mix is much more reliant on imports. Same with SKR/TW. Most of ASEAN as well especially if they develop and increase demand/consumption. TLDR most other parties along MENA SLOC would have much worse time weathering energy disruption than PRC because they're mostly islands/small countries with limited domestic energy resources and hence wouldn't be retarded enough to disrupt and self sabatoge. PRC is a large land country with abundant resources, just not enough oil yet still large producer - large enough to ration while 80%+ energy production is from domestic inputs. Only spoiler is US, who has no energy security if they attempt to mess with MENA slocs to cripple PRC because that's a world where CONUS refineries go boom. Reality is PRC has more deterence against energy disruption than ever by virtue of now being able to disrupt everyone else's energy infra, most of whom would starve, literally sooner. Including US who has never been more vunerable because shale autarky means nothing when they've lost actual energy security because PRC can now degrade CONUS infra directly via global strikes.
I always wonder how this can be offered to patients when it seems like it should be classed as a medical device / service and regulated. It's intended for use in a named medical disorder and the guidance is very clear [1] (UK guidelines).

It is presented as having an evidence base with trained clinicians, but then the T+Cs state: 'Coaches are not trained or licensed medical professionals and are not qualified to diagnose, treat or manage any healthcare conditions, including behavioural health conditions.'

It makes me really sad to see so many companies like this - the services are always hugely expensive and target vulnerable people.

[1] https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...
I will be happy to use a no-code platforms that lets me eject out into a standard application. Otherwise, I'm just learning and depending on a proprietary system.

Once you need something slightly complex, no-code becomes non-trivial. It requires serious commitment to learn all the techniques the designers came up with.

So most people who use these tools use them for for simple or short-lived apps and side projects, which they could now use web frameworks, but just want to try something new, because they know it's trivial.
It's not and that's why most of these solutions utilize an indexing/search service to provide more targeted data to feed into "context" instead of just burning tokens with whole/chunked docs.
Lying ≠ defaming with actual malice
Asynchronous communication is good for tasks where there is a long gap between decisions. But one of the reasons I hate working with IT is that the typical change request procedure requires multiple days for each individual change. If failing is even remotely possible (as, IMHO, with every complex system) this can be stifling.
I didn't say the advice was bad, I just said that it violates the HN guidelines. Comments about web site formats detract from the discussion. "They're too common to be interesting."

My site has my contact info, so that would be a better place to provide suggestions.
Their metal offerings are puny in general though(as in, not a ton of options).
Settled before the court had a chance to figure it out.
Slap some face and voice filters onto the call that trigger anytime someone is yelling. Make them smile and change their vocal intonations to be pleasant, then the recorded minutes wont be a big deal if they're leaked.
Sounds awesome, looks awesome, can’t wait to try it!
The Easiest Part of LLM Applications Is the LLM
It's more like being a pastry chef and telling your employees to stop eating pastries because they will all get diabetes
Based on evidence that came out during Dominion discovery Fox News regularly lies with actual malice.
Nasir Gebelli Interview with John Romero, 1998 [video]
If Java is so great at solving these "simple" problems, then why do hugely complex frameworks like Spring exist?
The language features of Haskell that you mention can describe your "simple operations" symbolically, you then just need to write a few different interpreters, one for real services, one for testing etc. No dependency injection, aspect-oriented programming or AbstractSingletonProxyFactoryBeans needed.
You might feel that the complexity has just moved, but I'd much rather invest my time in solutions that are not ad-hoc.
If you think banks always check your credit score then you are just wrong, plain and simple. In Norway you'll always be notified when someone check your credit score, along with what data was provided, who requested it and when.
When the smell-cartridge runs out, the audio and video mute too.
Overall interpersonal quality of life will be better if you boycott American media companies, wholesale.
Intimacy is definitely the wrong word but even as someone 100% in favour of remote work I will admit that in person bonding and teamwork is superior to remote.
You sure? Bitcoin Core dev lost all his 200 BTC crypto via hack...

Hope you understand bitcoin security better than him.

https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitcoin-core-developer-claims...
Lots of grasses grow well in shade. There is enough light from scattered sunlight or from holes.

There are lots of plants that grow in shade. I have a corner of my yard that receives almost no direct sunlight, but native plants from forest do well.
> federal reserve began raising rates in 2019 as it saw inflation incoming; a pandemic threw it for a loop, and when November 2021 came it decided to get back on track ...

Which federal reserve was that?

IIRC, federal reserve started raising interest rates in February 2017 after Trump was sworn in. Then panic rate drops starting March 2020. Then raised rates around March 2022, just after Zelensky speech about acquiring nuclear weapons, and Harris comment supporting Ukraine joining NATO, and Russia then going in to Donbas.
Gradle is declarative. The 'code' you write does not conduct the build; it assembles an object graph which describes the build, much like the one you get from parsing the Maven XML. The advantage of using code for this is that you the description can be more concise, expressive, etc. But once it's run, the graph is built, and you can explore that, list dependencies, etc, quite safely.
Indeed these are normative claims, not descriptive. The emergence of life is is an extremly complex stochastic process, and likely impossible to describe. However, it does seem plausible that if a) high dissipative systems are more likely to perdure in time given the 2nd law, b) self-replication enhances the global entropic dissipation of a category of systems (because there are more) and c) the process of developing such a system is easier done by replication than by the same evolutionary pathway that led to the appearance of said system in the first place, then given enough time a self-replicating system MUST appear. I would like to see a formalisation of c) though, my formulation is quite tenuous.

I don't see why it would have to lead to a non-Darwinian explanation of evolution. As has been said by in the parent comment, survivability might just be a high-level manifestation of entropic drive of self-replicating systems. It's remarkable that this is a claim that can be falsified, whereas Darwinian evolution, well..
Both laws in this case being related to business relationships with potential adversaries of the United States, with the Executive branch straddling arguably opposing public positions. But you already understood that and you’re pretending that the irony isn’t there because you don’t like Musk, right?
> If all physical processes are subservient to a thermodynamical "telos", how could any manifestation of free will emerge? Not even going to get into how problematic it is to cite conciousess as a fundamental goal of when we cannot even assess its existence in other beings.

Agreed, this is a point which I don't think is empirically backed as rigorously as the rest of e/acc. Consciousness preservation is a side effect of the currently most successful form of life (humans) also evidently having consciousness.

> What? Cannot be stoped? How could humanity possibly play any role in an unstoppable process?

I take issue with the claim of "cannot be stopped". Certainly the extinction of humanity would result in capitalistic acceleration ceasing. But we'd simply be knocked a few levels down the emergence ladder. Darwinistic acceleration would continue to proceed on a biological level, eventually begetting a species with the ability to accelerate on shorter time-scales (intelligence) and across larger spatial scales (culture). I'd say that humanity doesn't play a role, but is rather an instrument of this acceleration process.

> Surely no one can deny capitalism to be the result of specific choices in human history? Hence why we can concieve alternatives to capitalism and can very well choose them over capitalism.

I don't think capitalism is necessarily the global maximum of economic systems for thermodynamic acceleration, but it is certainly the most effective system in existence at the moment. We can conceive of alternatives, but if a subset of humans were to choose them, historical precedent suggests that they would be out-accelerated by capitalism.

> Can? How could it not if the claim is that it's unstoppable? Concisouness again?

Given long enough time, it will. But it might need multiple reboots and bumps down the emergence ladder if we fuck up.

You do bring up some great points about agency vs instrumentality that I'd like to think longer about though.
The best interpretation of this is you mean eventually ML/AI will put programmers out of a job, and not Code LLama specifically.

However it is hard to tell how that might pan out. Can such an ML/AI do all the parts of the job effectively? A lot of non-coding skill bleed into the coder's job. For example talking to people who need an input to the task and finding out what they are really asking for, and beyond that, what the best solution is that solves the underlying problem of what they ask for, while meeting nonfunctional requirements such as performance, reliability, code complexity, and is a good fit for the business.

On the other hand eventually the end users of a lot of services might be bots. You are more likely to have a pricing.json than a pricing.html page, and bots discover the services they need from searches, negotiate deals, read contracts and sue each other etc.

Once the programming job (which is really a "technical problem solver" job) is replaced either it will just be same-but-different (like how most programmers use high level languages not C) or we have invented AGI that will take many other jobs.

In which case the "job" aspect of it is almost moot. Since we will be living in post-scarcity and you would need to figure out the "power" aspect and what it means to even be sentient/human.
That's not banning all uncharted territory, it's banning specific legally fraught territory.
Seriously, I was expecting to read the article and them be on a level on-par with GPT-4 or higher. For all this chat of how long Google/Facebook have been in the AI space longer than OpenAI, their products don't speak to that..
Very rarely are drivers, including USB drivers, written to assume a hostile device (see e.g. the PS3). Frankly, they rarely seem to be written by people who care about software at all. (I still can’t get over the very first Zenbook, which suffered spontaneous deaths under Linux because the ACPI bytecode in the firmware tried to initialize a nonexistent IDE controller. And people say it’s Linux that has a hardware support problem.) So this is a somewhat valid concern.

But I still can’t get over the idea where the default configuration of BitLocker is completely useless for basically anything except working around storage devices that will lie to you and not erase things you told them to. I just refuse to accept that’s in any way sane.
All I see are references to corporations, nothing about individuals
How far can you jump from a swing?
> Brics is more a term used in the west to describe not-us large countries than anything that actually exists for those countries.

That’s where (as BRIC – without South Africa, though the countries together were sometimes called “the BRICs”) it originated 20+ years ago, but then the countries got together, for their own reasons, and made it an real (or, at least, formally official) bloc. Each of them uses it for their own image puffing, and its been particularly important in that role for Russia lately (especially with CSTO being shown to be worthless.) Still not clear that the bloc (despite having an official organization, membership, summits, etc.) is all that meaningful substantively.
This is very hard for us to do because we want to remain a small team — it will introduce a lot of complexity for payments/localization
I don't think he knew Drew and Arash, that tidbit was only relevant in that the company really wanted to make their alma mater happy. I think he was just curious to see what "unlimited storage" actually meant. Obviously, there is a limit since there's a finite number of atoms in the universe, so what really is the limit of "unlimited storage"?
> Yes without the panopticon

Zoom IS the panopticon.
Heated conversations and debates to drive innovation was fine in the Oppenheimer and AT&T Bell days . Today it takes one wrong word to get called up by HR or a recording that can sabotage your entire career. I don’t think the tech industry or the country’s work culture suffers heretics anymore. I am fine with the lack of passion and lack of innovation on Zoom if it helps my anxiety and ADHD better and allows me to work without offending anyone . I just want to keep a steady income .
That’s great of you, the burden might be different when asking hundreds of millions of people.
No I really don’t see any conflict between “don’t collaborate with officials of a foreign government” and “don’t discourage foreign-born people from applying for jobs that you offer.”
When writing a compiler it helps for sure.

Though most of my time is protobuf in Java, I still wouldn't mind having an ADT or two for when I got lists of things and the things aren't exactly uniform but I don't want to make a type hierarchy.
The water cooler is infinitely warmer than any co-worker because the water cooler will never screw me over.
> Breach data provided by ⁨Have I Been Pwned⁩

So it's exactly the same as https://haveibeenpwned.com/, except instead of giving hibp your email, you have to create a "Firefox Account".

I guess it comes down to whose 4000-word terms of service you like better.
I had the urge to try this out a while back, here's what I came up with:
https://gist.github.com/nkrumm/2b154ea2041511233079222373c83...

The decorator invokes AI completion only the first time the function is run.

edit: I lost interest before I was able to get arguments to work ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
It's basically the same thing in our company, too. They basically put a similar rule in place that prevents anyone from using e.g. Chat GPT. Little do they know that all software devs within the company are using co-pilot and the company is even paying for it. It's quite a funny situation tbh..
I have also not understood why this theory gets solely ascribed to England instead of Prigogine and others. Is England even working on this stuff anymore? He left MIT and is a machine learning scientist at a massive pharmaceutical company now.
It is lollipop for those interested in the longest for the right hand.
double sigh

You seem to be saying there is some advantage to python because of the yield feature and I just don't think that's true. You can keep state in a class and call a method. There are a lot of disadvantages though.

triple sigh
Gradle is expressive and extensible, but unfortunately, that encourages programmers to express themselves and extend it.
This is leaving a comment for another programmer, not the compiler or interpreter. It's what comments are for, actually, like writing a TODO.

You should be squeamish about running the code without reading it first, given that you're pair-programming with a bot.
Interesting idea. That sounds like this could run java programs with only the memory they actually need, instead of dividing a server up into pieces just because a java program "might" some day, possibly, maybe, ever need that much.

Which tends to be cargo culted into "use these arguments when running java programs", thus a "hello world" responder gets allocated 128GB of ram.
Everybody gets inexplicable, incoherent downvotes. They tend, in the main, to get balanced out by upvotes. This is a part of why we don't waste time talking about them; they are a nonproblem.
That was my initial question as well. What are their qualifications for calling themselves ADHD coaches?

I'm bombarded with ads from ADHD apps since my diagnosis and I have tried many. None, none at all, have helped me. It's praying on the weak.
Here is a framework which uses decorators to delegate runtime behavior to an LLM. Not quite what you meant but the closest I’ve seen.

https://askmarvin.ai/components/ai_function/
> Over the past several years, we've hired so many new 'Zoomies' that it's really hard to build trust," Yuan said

Fast growth no preserving organization culture. Remote or face to face.
> If it violates the guidelines, people will usually downvote and flag it for you within a few hours. If they don't, it's usually because very few saw it anyway.

That's not my experience of HN. ;-)

> You do you

I didn't submit my blog post to HN, but I did publish the blog post rather than remaining silent, so obviously I am kind of a confrontational person. :-)
jeez. that you have the chops to get an amazon offer and you're still not getting traction. that says a lot. good luck!
Uh oh! I just might be.

Can you explain what the conflict is between those two positions?
> But I think discouraging this slightly leans behaviour towards snark vs not.

who are you thanking? the mechanics of HN means that a uesr would have to actively search around for a response, so odds are your thanks simply goes the ether.
If your sensor is confidently telling you that a plastic bag is a concrete wall, maybe you shouldn't be using that sensor to begin with.
HN loves to hypothesize how Uber is so expensive to run, I'm wondering how much insurance costs them to provide. What does this group think - for a $10 ride, how much goes to paying for premiums, claims, and administration?