skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There’s an entire portion of this that’s missing in the audio tracks from any launch I’ve watched on tv, YouTube, etc.

The deep bass notes go soo low and have this wild elastic ringing tonal quality to them. Like someone is playing a huge kit of koto drums or something. You can really start to hear acoustic dispersion effects as well.

https://youtu.be/KbmOcT5sX7I?si=aYfzx3CScYnQYiqK
The job market this year, even as someone with a fair bit of experience, is already dogshit for other reasons. I do see the writing on the wall, and am considering re-starting from scratch in something completely different, but I don't know what yet. Though I don't see dramatic leaps in capability happening, opportunity, or productivity happening as much as labor price reducing even further and competition increasing to the point where I don't know if it'll be worth trying.

Carpentry seems like growing field though.
Let’s f*cking go. Hell yes!

This is like watching the first container ship get built. It’s going to change so much so quickly — we couldn’t be more stoked.
If you feel comfortable doing so, would you mind the sharing the front-end test you give to junior devs and ChatGPT?
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Problem with LED lights is they are made as a big unrepairable blobs, and Car manufacturers love overcharging for bespoke parts https://www.carscoops.com/2022/10/gmc-hummers-taillights-wil...
Yes, it's called "testing". Try appreciating that it's usually not medialized.
Code being difficult to make is probably a good thing. It forces us to actually build useful things. To consider it.

Now, we can just nonstop build and try everything. Yay.
Because they demonstrate that race Y is overwhelmingly more likely to commit violent crimes against race X, while the media/government narrative is currently that race X is the biggest threat to the country.
I have to admit, arguments over free will never interested me all that much, because if we don't have free will it's something of a moot point. Might as well "choose" to have it.

What I am interested though is the potential involvement of quantum effects in consciousness. I'm not particularly sold on any of the existing theories, but at the same time, I'd honestly be kind of surprised if consciousness didn't involve some sort of quantum effect, now that we know they can be exploited by living things--photosynthesis, and possibly smell, though the latter seems rather controversial. It may just be bad reasoning associating two notoriously difficult problems, though.
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It's more about ESPHome rather than Home Assistant.

But yeah it is more fun to do it bare bones :). However, over time I found myself "upgrading" my hand made IoT devices to more standard solutions. Standard solutions usually work better.
That also do real work. I don't think it's fair to say what Elon does isn't real work or isn't important. I don't think many people would say SpaceX would be where it is today without him.

The real answer is to simply accept that real people are not one dimensional characters. They have good points and bad points. You are perfectly free to appreciate the good points while disapproving of the bad ones. Maybe there's a limit for really bad people (Hitler etc.) where you just don't want them involved in society at all, but that clearly doesn't apply to Musk. Nothing he has done is outright evil.
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Those "features" are arbitrary stuff Apple told you to care about through their marketing. Many people really don't care about them, because outside the Apple ecosystem, there are other, often better solutions.
The auto switching never worked properly for me so I'm always curious how come all Apple fanboys have it working so well.
In my opinion it's like the Siri "demo" I got back in the day where the thing supposedly working so well, completely, and utterly failed, yet my Apple fan friend acted like everything worked fine.

I have non-Apple Bluetooth earbuds and they pair simply fine to my Apple devices (and others). Apple oversell the shit of their iCloud "auto switching" (that often do not work) but what you actually want is Bluetooth multipoint, a feature that many headphones in the price range of Airpods have.

Find my and MagSafe charging are very odd, Apple marketing induced request, and Apple definitely doesn't have a lead in sound quality at the price they sell their stuff. If anything, their sound quality is extremely disappointing considering the price.
Funny thing is that for the price of a set of Airpods, you can get 2-3 equivalent competitors' products. So much of the stuff you say matters is largely irrelevant.

Before calling me a hater: I'm an Apple customer since the PPC days and bought both first iPod and first iPhone. But I am currently leaving the Apple ecosystem precisely because their pricing is not grounded in any technological reality, and mostly about fashion/social statuts.
Thanks for checking! Not sure why this is the case, maybe past usage of the domain. I was thinking of a domain name change, perhaps this will help.

Sadly no continuous sound for now. Generating a single note lets me simplify the app, I don’t have to deal with audio latencies, I can focus on graphical performance only too.

Also my goal was to put visuals first here, i.e. let the user generate and interesting shape and later allow them to “listen” to it.

But yes, long term it would be nice to have that as an option, I’ll keep that in mind; thanks for the feedback — and glad you like it!
LLMs have not significantly changed the way I code at all. It's only good at very basic mechanical tasks.
> single person dev teams

not to put too fine a point on it, but does a single person really constitute a team?
Would it not be reasonable under ITAR to launch from other ITAR regulated countries, such as Japan (JAXA) or France (French Guiana/ESA)?
Just like the author suggests, sometimes you have to tailor your question to ChatGPT, for it to succeed.
I think you just argued that we should go back to shareware. Free to download and then a one-time payment to unlock all functionality. That's also easy to support officially in the store and it's easy to add a filter for.

The problem with allowing IAP to be used for a shareware-like unlock is that there's nothing stopping shady developers from forcing a subscription on you later even though you already paid now. Forgot which one that was, but this kind of double dipping recently happened to a popular baby monitor.
I was trying to get whisper.cpp built under buck2 this weekend. Unsurprisingly nothing from GPT-4 to valiant to vanilla llama knew how to do that. I got it done but no model (search or LLM) was any help.

I only need help when it’s hard. I’ve already got a BERT-style model completing my queries on Google.

If your entire job could be done by riffing on stackoverflow answers? Yeah, I’d try to climb the value chain.

But most people’s job isn’t to copy paste shit.
Indeed. It's one thing to implement a UI as defined in a mock, for example, but the UX can be totally undefined and open to interpretation.
Facebook and Instagram "short video shit" is at least partially overlapping. This incidentally creates a quite grating user experience.
Isn't that a whole lot more "being able to write code without making a lot of dumb mistakes", which is a feature of the programer.

So it boils down to getting gud and practice?
You can’t be neutral on a moving train
I rather enjoy making things, or solving problems.

But my favourite bit is refining and optimising the code!

Finding the patterns and abstractions I can make to DRY it out.

That's the bit I like :-)

Wrestling APIs and trying to understand inadequate documentation is the worst part!
It was a mistake. I found it there and I linked a "source" - in my case it was Reddit.
>according to the expectations set before the launch

None of those were set expectations for a successful test. Why are people this resistant to understanding it was the very first test of a completely new and revolutionary rocket.
> At one point, we wanted a command that would print a hundred random lines from a dictionary file. I thought about the problem for a few minutes, and, when thinking failed, tried Googling.

No offence to the author but given that this stopped them in their tracks I choose to ignore their programming related opinions.
They're bad Tiktok clones. Which in this case is a good thing - their inferior algorithms make the result less addicting.
We home-school my autistic daughter as school never worked and affected her mental health, and is going ok. We adopt the unschooling approach - the structure of formal learning doesnt work and she blitzes thru topics

Ive seen an increase in home schooling in the UK since Covid - especially amongst ND kids. I think online schooling showed them they can learn without the aspects of school that they found really hard.

There was a discussion on HN a few weeks ago on home schooling and it descended into criticism due to its association with religion and a path to teach creationism, or not educated women. This doesnt happen as much in the UK and i felt the discussion didnt cover the positives of home ed
Tesla recommends "cleaning and lubricating all brake calipers every 12 months or 12,500 mi for vehicles in cold weather regions" and "testing your brake fluid for contamination every 2 years". https://www.tesla.com/support/vehicle-maintenance

That is regular maintenance.

My main point - which I did not express well - is 'maintenance' should be the issue, not just routine maintenance. This break, and need to be fixed.

Regarding Hertz, a news article at https://www.businessinsider.com/hertz-slows-down-electric-pl... summarizes it as:

> Hertz said the company found that repairing damage to an electric car can cost around twice as much as fixing similar issues on a comparable internal-combustion-engine vehicle. Routine maintenance, however, costs less, the company said. EVs don't need oil changes and are generally simpler to maintain than internal-combustion vehicles.

I am also aware that is Tesla-specific, and may not apply to other EVs. However, it still does not mean that one can say something is an EV therefore it must be easier to maintain than an ICE, if only because the latter has spent a lot more money over the last century to reduce those costs.
Why should I believe anything that musk says? He could have just made that up like the solar roof tiles or the robo taxis.
I don't think Panama owns the Panama Canal. I believe it's entirely run and governed by the US.
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I’m sorry for your loss. I’m glad you got the extra time! But still… condolences my friend. Losing parents isn’t fun.
> I solve and write a lot of puzzlehunts, and I wanted a better programming language to use to search word lists for words satisfying unusual constraints, such as, “Find all ten-letter words that contain each of the letters A, B, and C exactly once and that have the ninth letter K.”

So... Perl?
Is there any update on the lawsuit from all the environmental damage from their last launch?

https://www.space.com/spacex-faa-seek-dismiss-starship-lawsu...
no causation implied
Not gonna happen. I don’t want scrapeable answers out there, I want to see ChatGPT cross this little Rubicon on its own.
The NY Times also did a profile on Andrew Wylie this week, by the excellent interviewer David Marchese. I got more from the NY Times piece than the Guardian one:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/11/12/magazine/andr...
but this "trick" tests for something very real: many times i've seen people around me mindlessly jump to coding a PM-written ticket without clarifying important details or even doing a basic sanity check on the feature. The end result is often a disaster for both parties, and should be avoided with a bit of thought upfront. It's not like anyone is lying or misleading here, such details get omitted all the time in real life but you need to collect them for a proper implementation.
“One person team” is a fairly common phrased to describe such a situation I believe. The “team” is the group of developers responsible for something, which may sometimes only contain one person.
Web components are encapsulated very well. It is different from template frameworks such as react. It is somewhat similar to frameworks such as angular. As we all know, angular fails because of its complexity. It uses javascript to look like java. Web components look like It is not that complicated, but it also introduces a lot of concepts. These concepts are rarely used by ordinary developers. It is generally difficult to change the developers' inherent concepts and development habits to adapt. If there is no react or vue, I feel that it may not be successful because there may be other simpler frameworks.
I don't think you know what a CEO does.
I’ve given it so many hints. So many nudges. If it was an interview I would have bounced it.
Yes but can you be neutral on a train moving at the speed of light?!
The accusations are only credible if you limit yourself to only looking at stuff on Facebook. If you see posts on Facebook calling for Muslims to be killed and then sometime later you see posts on Facebook of Muslims actually getting killed, you might be forgiven for thinking that the former posts caused the latter posts, and if only Facebook had taken down the former, the latter would never have happened.

But it turns out the posts calling for Muslims to be killed were made by the military's propaganda wing and the killings were perpetrated by the military's armed wing. So the causal chain actually flows through the military, and Facebook was merely a place where you could observe it happen without being there in person.

Blaming Facebook for the genocide seems to be an instance of activists focusing on something they can see and try to influence (Facebook moderation policy) over something they cannot (guys with guns shooting people).
"Always" correct is a very high bar and likely unattainable. It seems much more likely that the amount of errors will trend downwards but never quite reach zero. How could it be otherwise? AIs are not magic god-machines, they have a limited set of information to work with just like the rest of us (though it might be larger than humans could handle) and sometimes the piece of information is just not known yet.

Let's say that in a few years the amount of correct code becomes 99% instead of ~80%. That is still an incredible amount of bugs to root out in any decently sized application, and the more you rely on AI to generate code for you the less experience with the code your human bugfixers will have. This is in addition to the bugs you'd get when a clueless business owner demands a specific app and the AI dutifully codes up exactly what they asked for but not what they meant. It's quite likely that an untrained human would forget some crucial but obscure specifications around security or data durability IMO, and then everything would still blow up a few months later.
He's not arguing that Tiger's chip was the greatest moment in sports (although it is certainly up there), he is arguing that it's the best "television shot", superior to the one discussed in TFA.

And it's a strong argument. The BBC rocket shot was about timing, and it was pretty damn good, but everything was 100% scripted and precisely timed, and could have been practiced and rehearsed dozens of times. The Tiger Woods shot was live, obviously, and relies on a confluence of good fortune -- of 360 degrees, the cameraman was exactly behind the ball, he did a masterful job of following its movement while continuously tightening up the shot (an ultra-close-up of the ball is uncommon), the producer sticking with that shot an extra two seconds rather than switching to a reaction, the ball displaying the Nike logo, and finally, the extraordinary physics of the the ball stopping before finally dropping into the cup. And of course the person, place and time -- 16th hole on Sunday at the most famous golf course at the most famous tournament by the most famous golfer to take the lead and ultimately win the Masters. And finally, Verne Lundquist making one of the greatest and most memorable calls of all time, just naturally off the cuff, amazing. In your life!
Interesting. There's usually a really sharp drop in output when you go from one developer to two. Instead of working at the speed of internal thought you're now working at the speed of communication between the two of you. Plus you'll disagree about a bunch of things because engineering is an incomplete information game. Could you expand on some of the limitations you've run into programming by yourself?

The CEO+CTO stereotype makes more sense to me than two technical people. Better chance of complementary skills. So I'm curious what I'm missing here. Thanks!
> For one, FB data is with the US.

Hope US will remain a democratic country then. And not move into a technofeudalistic autocracy.
I used chatgpt4 recently for two projects. One was a success, the other a complete failure.

In the first project I asked it to help me build a one page ui with html and css, it did great! I know a lot about html and css, so I was able to ask for what I wanted and help it debug.

For the second project I wanted what I thought was a simple threejs animation of an object following a line in a scene. I know very little about threejs and graphics in general. I spent hours wrestling with chatgpt to get this working, but I just got what looked like meaningless non-working code to me. So I took time to learn about threejs, did a few chapters of a course, and came back to the problem. And all of the sudden I had new vocabulary I could use to ask chatgpt what I wanted. And I got pretty close to what I wanted, but not quite. I suspect if I keep learning about threejs and how graphics work I’ll get there.

I don’t think this is the death of our craft, but definitely a big turning point for how we build and use software.
Just to be clear: You are testing with GPT-4 right?
I'm fairly sure you're allowed to use swear words / are not expected to self-censor; we're all adults here, we can use adult language.
>All of these "beef is bad for the environment" articles are written by vegan activists, seventh day adventists, or other extremist groups who have a political agenda against meat.

[Citation needed]

Most soil for where nowadays cattle grace farm is not anaerobic so not sure how that could work with methane emissions. Also about 90 percent of the food that cattle eat doesn't come from there but from south America where conditions are clearly different. Animal farming is incredibly inefficiënt and the health claims are dubious at best.
I don’t want scrapeable answers out there, I want to see ChatGPT cross this little Rubicon on its own.

Vaguely: Questions that most people think they know the correct answers to but, in my experience, don’t.
My personal laptop is a Thinkpad T440p from 2013 with a modern SSD. I use mostly the command line and a web browser on ArchLinux. For my usage it is just as fast as my modern work laptop!

I also have a Thinkpad X200 from 2008 and this one feel its age a bit so I use it to run my hobby operating system that only have a command line interface and no web browser.

I like that both of them are compatible with Libreboot+SeaBIOS and I'm sad that this isn't the case for new models anymore. This together with the ability to disassemble them so easily make them perfect for me.

I'm a bit worried about 10 years from now when I'll have to find a new computing platform.
What you're describing is really about empowering users and pushing code where it was not possible before due to cost - so basically confirming efficiency paradox.
I'm just waiting for someone to post a picture of this message showing on a glowing green display somewhere.

edit: https://i.imgur.com/Avn6Cnm.png; that's just the output of curl, there's a bit of html above and below the message but it's a really straightforward page.
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I'm guessing they set the camera very far back, which will appear to compress depth. Otherwise, since he must be standing so far from the rocket, the rocket would be too small to see.

(It's not the lens - That's a pet peeve of mine, it's not the lens. The z-divide in any graphics simulation is what appears to compress or expand depth. The lens merely makes a shorter or farther camera distance practical. The lens themselves don't distort anything until you're talking about fisheye effects.)
\sum_{i=0}^n x^i (the sum of all terms x^i as i ranges from 0 to n, inclusive) = (x^{n+1} - 1)/(x-1).

Or, if n is positive infinity, you assume that |x| < 1 and thus the sum is (0 - 1) / (x-1) = 1/(1-x).

If you need the sum from x^m to x^n, that's equal to the sum from 0 to n minus the sum from 0 to (m-1).

You can derive the formula yourself without difficulty:

sum = 1 + x + x^2 + ... + x^n
(sum)(x) = x + x^2 + ... + x^n + x^{n+1}

(sum)(x) - sum = x^{n+1} - 1
(sum)(x-1) = x^{n+1} - 1
(sum) = (x^{n+1} - 1)/(x-1)
My thinkpad around 11 years old and another Acer Laptop 14 years old (my dad still uses it regularly) are still working but they are too slow for modern video calling softwares.

If I have to do just regular coding and no video calling, they are still the best.
My father in law was excited to downsize/upgrade to this from his xc40, and cancelled the order as soon as he could test drive the EX30.

Why on earth would a company like Volvo known for its safety features and design aesthetics copy the “single dash in the middle of the dash away from driving line of sight” model from Tesla?! Listen to the UX struggles of this car reviewer - https://youtu.be/5umdHj0o1B8?feature=shared

Sure, appreciate all the recycled materials in the car and reduced CO2 footprint from manufacturing. But, wouldn’t it be even better to make a car with knobs and buttons and a safe and simple speed display in line of sight?
When something breaks, you don’t need to send the car to VOLVO, just find the nearest car workshop with a mechanic that has the time to swap out the simple parts!

It’s a pity as the car would have been excellent without this nonsense.
Fewer but more senior resources seems possible.

I have already seen the impact of AI systems, reducing the number of junior coding positions and outsourcing.

On the other hand, anyone who actually takes the time to get good with AI coding tools can be performing at senior levels, much more quickly, so there’s that too.

I’m not convinced that it’s some kind of apocalypse as much as it is a massive shift that is going to raise all boats and bring about a renaissance of productivity, and incredibly massive amounts of code, which hopefully is a higher quality because there’s no longer written by an individual in isolation but by a team of software engineers working in concert with AI.

I can’t tell you number times where people were screaming and yelling about how coding was coming to an end and everyone was going to be unemployed in a few years —yet here we are…
That was the point… and exactly why we entered the war when and how we did… preventing Russia from getting all the spoils.
But also himself. He suggests he taught himself rocket science and that he's personally involved in designing these rockets and cars. I have some doubts about that, although his influence on Starship and the Cybertruck seems to be larger than on previous models.
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To be fair, you could practice it as many times as you want ahead of time.

It's probably a common skill in presenting, on radio / DJing they call it "hitting the post" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_broadcasting_terms...