skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was just going to post that part. It's crazy considering they run a slightly modified mastodon backend and frontend. Sure, they needed some mobile devs to brand it (maybe contractors?) and some backend devs and ops (those would likely be permanent).

But that still feels way off what they spend.

For CDN they're using cloudflare, probably on enterprise pricing which would save them lots of money on image transfer.

To be clear, this is only looking at the costs of running the platform itself. I don't know if they have a moderation team or spend lots on advertising.
Sounds good. Any numbers on the adoption rate?
There are manufacturing processes that benefit from microgravity (e.g. growing protein crystals for the pharma industry, producing semiconductors, etc).

Beyond that it would be a significant boon for science.
> middling generalists can now compete with specialists.

They can maybe compete in areas where there has been a lot of public discussion about a topic, but even that is debatable as there are other tasks than simply producing code (e.g. debugging existing stuff). In areas where there's close to no public discourse, ChatGPT and other coding assistance tools fail miserably.
You got everyone talking about how GPT isn’t that bad at coding etc but everyone is missing the point.

The no code industry is massive. Most people don’t need a dev to make their website already. They use templates and then tweak them through a ui. And now you have Zapier, Glide, Bubble etc.

LLMs won’t replace devs by coding entire full stack web apps. They’ll replace them because tools will appear on the market that handle the 99% cases so well that there is just less work to do now.

This has all happened before of course.
In 2022, the nationwide popular vote for the House of Representatives was 54,506,136 for Republicans and 51,477,313 for Democrats. By percentage the Republicans won 50.6% of the vote and Democrats won 47.8%.
Every one in the 'value' chain at the organization is going to seek to maximally extract funds from it since management from the apex down has no competence to know proper budget and planning on a software product.
So, don't leave us in suspense; what do you ask of it? Because I'm quite sure it can already pass it.

Your experience is very different from mine anyway. I am a grumpy old backend dev that uses formal verification in anger when I consider it is needed and who gets annoyed when things don't act logical. We are working with computers, so everything is logical, but no; I mean things like a lot of frontend stuff. I ask our frontend guy; 'how do I center a text', he says 'text align'. Obviously I tried that, because that would be logical, but it doesn't work, because frontend is, for me, absolutely illogical. Even frontend people actually have to try-and-fail; they cannot answer simple questions without trying like I can in backend systems.

Now, in this new world, I don't have to bother with it anymore. If copilot doesn't just squirt out the answer, then chatgpt4 (and now my personal custom gpt 'front-end hacker' who knows our codebase) will fix it for me. And it works, every day, all day.
If only I were like you, clever enough to have nuanced views.
Well it's not just historically debunked. There's plenty of modern examples of common resources being well-managed. Take free public transit in some european cities, for example: they're not the trashy full-of-grafiti hellscape capitalists will have you believe.

You should take it the other way around: the tragedy of the commons is a myth. Of course you could cherry pick some story of bad actors misbehaving. But that's not a general rule, it's not bound by fate, and you just have to shove your foot up their face to prevent it. But in the absence of egotistic capitalist pigs, most people are reasonable in managing shared resources and that's how humanity survived for so long before inventing private property. Anedotally, that's also my experience living in collectives for a few decades: there may be abusive situations dealing with shared resources (who ate all the tomatoes?!) but that's only mildly annoying because it's the exception rather than the norm.
Do cruise ships get to skip the line? I know people who have taken Panama Canal cruises, and they don't wait in line more than an hour or so.
Right. That's an experience completely different from the majority here that have been able to produce code that integrates seamlessly into their projects. Do you have any idea why?

I guess we should start by what version of ChatGPT you are using.
> Or people can stop acting crazy when seeing someone who disagrees with them.

Musk is outright supporting people who are openly white supremacists, go look through his recent posts on X.
I'm certain that an ASIC wouldn't be cost effective for all but very large operations. Even if you could get it at the same price, it would massively increase time to market, and if you need to scale production fast you're shit out of luck. Not to mention you'll probably need multiple iterations, especially if you're sticking a Bluetooth modem and a bunch of sensors in it.

Using an off the shelf MCU and off the shelf sensors saves you all those headaches.

Also, ESP32 is not a "pcb".
... What.

It hallucinates and it doesn't compile, fine.
It hallucinates and flips a 1 with a -1; oops that's a lot of lost revenue. But it compiled, right?
It hallucinates, and in 4% of cases rejects a home loan when it shouldn't because of a convoluted set of nested conditions, only there is no one on staff that can explain the logic of why something is laid out the way it is and I mean, it works 96% of the time so don't rock the boat.
Oops, we just oppressed a minority group or everyone named Dave because you were lazy.
Wake me up when the current AI hype is over. Eventually people will realize that getting the last few percent right is extremely hard, just like the last few times where we got just so close to AGI.

What will stay are some nice tools for whatever tasks, maybe programming too. But bots won't replace software engineers. If they could do the current tasks, we'd just engineer one level higher, just like when high-level language compilers made low-level code largely obsolete (yes yes, not completely of course).
Your statement hugely underestimates the influence someone like Elon has.
It's alright but it's not 'appetizing,' if you know what I mean. I look at the list of posts and it's just a wall of black scribbles. Tagging them and spacing it out a little will make it easier to catch people's attention.
The user-base on TikTok (in the US at least) leans extremely left (because they're all young) so the news media has idiotically made this a left vs. right issue.

Yes, any neutral observer can see that it's incredibly foolish to let a company with strong connections to our largest geopolitical rival have control over 1-2 hours of attention (every day) of young people in the US.

We literally have no idea if TikTok is boosting certain political/social values amongst American youth. Even a slight nudge could have a huge effects (because of the scale at which TikTok operates) and it would be impossible to detect.

The idea that there's some "iron wall" between US and Chinese data has already been proven false. US user data has repeatedly been accessed from china - https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/emilybakerwhite/tiktok-....

"I feel like with these tools, there’s some backdoor to access user data in almost all of them,” said an external auditor hired to help TikTok close off Chinese access to sensitive information, like Americans’ birthdays and phone numbers."
The definitive reference has been the pickAxe book[^1] AFAIK. The ruby 3.x version, which is one who you should be interested in, is not out yet but available for pre-order.

Other than that, here are many great books about ruby and online resources.

[^1]: https://pragprog.com/titles/ruby5/programming-ruby-3-3-5th-e...
Agree. I’ve disassembled a few big-name social media APKs and looked for the API calls to activate the mic and it’s only there where you’d expect when eg recording audio for a post. This makes a lot of sense when you consider how much legal trouble they’d be in if they were found to be recording without consent.

I’m guessing here that this link is just exaggerated metaphor or using something like background sounds from people triggering in-app voice assistant search or something really low-quality like that.
Asking GPT to do a task for me currently feels like asking a talented junior to do so. I have to be very specific about exactly what it is I'm looking for, and maybe nudge it in the right direction a couple of times, but it will generally come up with a decent answer without me having to sink a bunch of time into the problem.

If I'm honest though I'm most likely to use it for boring rote work I can't really be bothered with myself - the other day I fed it the body of a Python method, and an example of another unit test from the application's test suite, then asked it to write me unit tests for the method. GPT got that right on the first attempt.
I have a very similar train of thought roll through my head nearly every day now as I browse through github and tech news. To me it seems wild how much serious effort is put into the misapplication of AI tools on problems that are obviously better solved with other techniques, and in some cases where the problem already has a purpose built, well tested, and optimized solution.

It's like the analysis and research phase of problem solving is just being skipped over in favor of not having to understand the mechanics of the problem you're trying to solve. Just reeks of massive technical debt, untraceable bugs, and very low reliability rates.
Why would China want to put a woman on the moon? am I missing something?
I thought you would go for gold and ask it how to reverse entropy...
Framework coupling sure, but that has little to do with adding other random dependencies.

Also why would you be afraid of coupling to the framework? It's not like you're going to be able to change the framework after the project grows, anyway.
Will you stop giving them ideas please?
I have the same experience with the test I give my back-end devs. ChatGPT can't even begin to decode an encoded string if you don't tell it which encoding was used.

ChatGPT is great at some well defined, already solved problems. But once you get to the messy real world, the wheels come off.
> The Linux kernel has been accidentally hardcoded to a maximum of 8 cores for the past 15 years and nobody noticed

I can understand having a bug like that, but unnoticed for 15 years? more than 8 cores was rare 15 years ago, and as a percentage of chips sold is still rare, but presumably people with threadrippers ran benchmarks? optimized? etc? just doesn't seem possible
>Am I the only one becoming less impressed by LLMs as time passes

Jaron Lanier has some ideas about the space in between turing test and blade runner.

The first film goers, watching simple black and white movies thought that they were uncanny. A train coming towards the screen, would make audiences jump and duck. When people first heard gramophones, they reported that it is indistinguishable from live orchestra.

As we learn a technology, we learn to recognize. Get a feel for its limitations and strengths. The ability to detect that technology, is a skill. Less impressive over time.

It's hard not to be impressed when a thing does a thing that you did not think it could do.

We didn't move on to being unimpressed when the thing cannot do the thing we thought it be able to do.
The comparison between Musk and Jobs is kind of absurd.

Jobs' greatest strength was probably his way with people. He was a perfectionist, and if you got his way he was merciless, but he was also deeply charismatic and persuasive, and seemed to have an eye for talent. There are many stories about him personally persuading people to come onboard or stay, here is one:

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/09/how-steve-jobs-convinced-tim...

And here's a relevant Wikipedia article:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality_distortion_field

Elon, by contrast... Uh, Elon is autistic.
From the trial itself, Google has argued and questioned the expert witness from DOJ if defaults really matter. Whole Microsoft question was raised by them too. Exhibits are good with context, but without supplementing the context they are misleading. Hard to argue for something DOJ did not think would make their case stronger and did not refer to in the trial.
Maybe there will be an intellectual version of sports? Regulated to only allow actual humans, done for much the same reason as physical sports?

I guess that sort of thing already exists (eg Chess).
Users hate paying upfront for apps precisely because the quality is unknown. It's the Akerloff "market for lemons" paper in real life.
Sometimes I get nothing until I type "Excel", sometimes I get suggestions for a web search.
Yeah how come people running massive computers didn’t notice the limit?
> The same brain that is so pig-headed as to believe whatever $Conspiracy today, is also the brain that was pig-headed enough to think he could fund an EV and a Rocket company at the same time, when he had experience of none, during a recession.

A lot of the innovation that went into Tesla and SpaceX occurred before he decided to transform himself into a complete tit.

I'll take the good, please.
Yeah sure. Love how my pro-Israel comments get immediately deleted.
> a few years ago every one was saying Bezos was the bad guy

Maybe I hang with a different crowd, but there's still a lot of anti-Bezos sentiment out there.
> I would like to live in a society where there's no hard ceiling on what you can achieve if you have the competency and some luck

Then EU > US. In the EU most people have a shot at this, with free education and possibilities. In the US your chances are mostly tied to your parents' status.

> It feels like there's very little social mobility in Europe compared to the US

Maybe from middle class -> very rich. But from poor -> middle class Europe is absolutely better.
This will test how egoless each programmer is.

If you’re truly egoless and care about the outcome and not the path to the outcome… you’ll see how exciting this is.
For _some_ definition of "GitHub".
1991 is hardly any better than 1987.

Error handling in Oberon is as good as in Go, if error boilerplate all over the place.

Docker was originally developed in Python, and pivoted to Go because of Google.

Likewise Kubernetes started in Java, and pivoted to Go when some Go folks joined the team.

Had it not been for it, Go would have been as sucessful as Inferno/Limbo, which are highly inspired by Oberon, including its market failure.
Excellent. Thanks for sharing!

Am looking for a python example - possibly using Slack/Whatsapp instead of discord. If anyone knows of a good working example -- please point me to it so I might save a few hours. Thanks!
Can't answer that without user numbers, but presumably a large portion of that will have gone towards (failing, clearly, given the sales numbers) attempts at growing the business, and their costs if they were merely trying to keep it afloat would be a tiny fraction of that.

The big question to me would be what the activity and user trajectory is, and what's stopping both that and their sales from increasing faster. If their user acquisition cost is so high that they're not able to build an attractive audience fast enough to see a sharper increase in revenue than this, they have a serious problem (and a real reason to worry that their cost of acquiring users will be higher than their customers lifetime value)
well if you have single-day voting and hand counts they could easily win almost all states and whatever you call the popular vote wins.
Yeah I mean when you let him directly get involved with something, we get the Cybertruck, which I believe is going to be a huge failure (but we'll see).

To me it seems like he's just hyping up things that are never going to happen while a lot of the engineers and designers actually focus on the things that make money.

Can't say much about SpaceX though
There are workflows that dont include stackoverflow at all, like mine, usually.

If I need to know how to convert a u32 to little endian bytes in Rust, for example, my first instinct isnt to go to SO or chatgpt, my first instinct is usually to go to the docs and search for it. Or just try it out in an IDE. u23::to and hitting tab did the trick, so now I can click on that and read the in-source docs. Same for C++, C, bash, anything that has docs or manpages.

I use stackoverflow for problems like "i have this error and it doesnt tell me whats wrong", like "exception in docker-compose like 3, . missing resource ID" -- i need SO to tell me that this means I dont have an image-name.
Elon Musk literally is Hitler! Like, what?!
How many active users does Truth social have?
As I said, you are still responsible for the quality control. You are supposed to notice that everyone is named Dave and tell ChatGPT to fix it. Write tests, read code, run & observe for odd behaviours.

It's not an autonomous agent just yet.
FAA approval took a long time because of how reckless he was with the first launch. He didn't want to bother with a flame suppression system but knew it was a risk.
Very low cost for better than Sentinel-2 is hard.

If 3m is OK then you could look into PlanetScope imagery, although getting small amounts as a hobbyist might be a pain.

I had a look at SkyFi, and there is some 75cm imagery in Aniak that you could buy for 20 bucks (for 5km^2). I doubt you can do better than that.

Tasking VHR imagery can be costly, as there is usually a large minimum order size. For archival, you just have to hope someone else took a picture of what you are interested in.
If you go to Douyin's search page https://www.douyin.com/search/ and focus the search bar, it'll show two sets of recommendations. The first is "for you" and, if they don't have a profile on you, likely a reflection of the most popular content. The second is a ranking of "hot topics", where Xi Jinping gets a dedicated top spot above number 1. Obviously that's because he'd only rarely rank near the top organically. But even with that extra promotion, most people will simply ignore it, so it's more of a fig leaf to keep the government content while users keep watching basically the same stuff as anywhere else.
True! You raised a valid question.

With $2500 a month it's not likely you'll get 50 clients a month within a year. Unless you spend some crazy amount of money on marketing and influencers.

So the math is simple you grow with your client list and designer list parallely. So when there are 5 clients you might need only 2 senior designers to handle the workload.

Plus, I'm also a designer, I'll be working alongside until business goes into a certain position.
Understanding Newton's Method
In deed they did. After the elections in 1933, free and fair elections prior to the Nazis taking power in the staged elections later that year during which the Nazis used their party apparatus as a shafow administration and blunt and brutal force and violence, the conservative establishment picked Hitler and the NSDAP for exactly that rwason: The needed someone to lead a coalition government against the left, they choose Hitler because they didn't take him really serious and thought they could easily manipulate him. We all know well that turned out.
If i skimmed this correctly then its a malus on performance not a complete cliff. I guess people just thought "hohum - there gotta be some overhead in scheduling".
If it can pass it when you ask it in a way only a coder can write, then we will still need coders.

If you need to tweak your prompt until you get the correct result, then we still need coders who can tell that the code is wrong.

Ask Product Managers to use ChatGPT instead of coders and they will ask for 7 red lines all perpendicular to each other with one being green.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKorP55Aqvg
Not much to do with Facebook. The people and govt were struggling with Covid and govt. wanted to show some action. India also had some border skirmish with China just before that and also the govt wants to reduce dependency on China in general.
Like we "yeeted" pollutants for the better part of two centuries and are currently trying to "sort it out" right now ?
> It feels like there's very little social mobility in Europe compared to the US.

What told you that? The median American is significantly less wealthy than the median Brit, despite similar homeowning rates and Americans having way more income. Most of Europe (plus the Anglo offshoots) have higher social mobility.
I think it depends on what you do, if you are doing repetitive work between projects, you're going to find that yes GPT can do most of the work you're doing. However if you're creating new systems, with multiple components and parts. You're going to find that GPT is not that much help.

I pay for GPT-4 and Github Copilot, all I can say is when I'm trying to do repetitive work like writing tests, copilot swoops in and gives me 'mostly' working code. But when I go in to the real creative stuff, that needs real thought and is non-obvious, I don't get much help from copilot it either just doesn't suggest anything or suggests completely the wrong thing.

I think at least for me, the comparison I would use is, construction work. There are many different kinds of constructions, anything simple from making ikea furniture to building bridges. If the coding you do is the equivalent of making ikea furniture. Then yes that stuff is going away, because it's going to be replaced by machines that can produce those parts in bulk.

But if you're creating something special like the Burj Khalifa, or the Golden gate bridge equivalent but in code, no AI is not going to do that for you. It can help with some parts, but no way AI is going to do that sort of engineering, at least not in it's current state.

I think it's worth noting "Coding" spans so many kinds of systems and scale. Not all coding work is the same. Even if you're talking about things which are well-known like "e-commerce" in that industry there are so many variations / many different scales / many different ways to look at the problem.
Same. Surely they should not let you lose 3 times in a row, that just takes a person out of it. But there are people, mostly the elderly, who get completely taken in by the sights and sounds of a slot machine
A much smaller loss than Twitter!

But I wonder who's paying for it. As a political campaign that seems within normal American amounts of spending.
Same reason Russia launched the first woman. So they can say they did it before the US.

China in general want to go to the moon.
I meant low level as in low on the value chain/simple here, which I accept could be misconstrued but thought would be clear since it's followed by "low skilled".
Thanks for your feedback.

I already launched my beta website pentaclay.com

As here in this community we do have talented founders, it's always better to have some suggestion or different angles from the fellow entrepreneurs.
It sounds like a lot, but there's about a hundred yen per usd, so in govt budget terms that's single digit billions. Still, it's Japan, so it'll probably be used judiciously.
I don't think that what's friends are for (to test your app). Meaning, you'll need to go to a paying service, making it harder to justify afterwards to make your app free without ads or in-app purchase.
Because it's a misleading headline and doesn't mean linux only used 8 cores for computing for 15 years.