skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for informing me- I confused drought tolerance with not requiring much water for production.

I’d be interested to know how their water usage would compare to staple foods like beans, rice or wheat, that would give a better sense of the relative imprudence of growing pistachios in that area.
Well, they do, technically, the issue is that they aren't enforced... because they have the monies and lawyers. :(
I started using Blender to do modelling 20 odd years ago when I was still in school finding my direction in life. The graphics design path didn't stick, but Blender integrated with Python to allow automations, which I learned along the way and it put me firmly on the path of software development, where I still happily am, still programming (some) Python. Funny that I have my career partly to thank to the software choices of fellow Dutchmen.
They know about it; but I think they know:

A. Are you going to fight it?

B. Fair use, from a legal perspective, is much narrower than people think and narrower than the wording suggests. A reaction video is not considered sufficient commentary or criticism, for example. Making even a single word change to a cover song, even if you paid the compulsory license fee, is not fair use. Etc.

C. Especially in video games, everyone loves quoting Sega v Accolade or Sony v Bleem as proof emulation is perfectly legal. There’s just one problem: Both of those cases were decided before the mother-of-all-DRM laws, the DMCA, was passed. They are both likely irrelevant cases now. This happens elsewhere too - quoting old cases as proof of legality without other modern developments.
Placemark was such a great map editor in a collaborative environment. Sad to see it shut down.
Why does that matter?

A lot of folks chose programming as a career because they enjoy the path at least as much as the outcome, and I think that's a perfectly fine reason to choose a career.

It also gives them good reason to mourn the loss of something that brings them happiness. They might be losing the only part of their job they actually enjoy.
I think that's a Pokemon.
Kind of, until they realize what Unity (or Unreal) offers, doesn't come only from late nights, and someone has to put money in for feature parity.

Anyway I really appreciate MonoGame folks carry on the XNA flag, after the people responsible for it on Microsoft lost to the DirectX/C++ group, hence DirectXTK as its replacement.
I would prefer that google search didn't suck. Instead, I ask ChatGPT. The best case scenario, IMO, would be for people to lay out excellent documentation and working code and train the LLM specifically on that in a way that it can provide reference links to justify its answers. Then, I will take what it says and go directly to the source to get the knowledge as it was intended to be ingested by a human. We get a lot more value than we're initially looking for when we dive into the docs, and I don't want to lose that experience.
I just want to know how long until I can carve the genetically enlarged Thanksgiving grasshopper.
As others have mentioned, since it's self-driven, this would not be a problem. Rather than viewing it as a problem, in fact, one could use AI to "ensure" they produced finished or clean pieces of writing.

I'm less in the frame of thought of using AI to "write a 800 word story on leprechauns" and more in the situation of "edit my lead paragraph in the same style as my concluding paragraph" or "here is an outline of my story, critique it and give me a structure to follow for a second draft".

As a self-driven exercise then, AI becomes just another tool for a writer to get better. Sometimes it's a training wheel, sometimes it's a rocket strapped to your butt.
Please for the love of God don't beat this one with RLHF stick until it's terrified of saying anything other than being a glorified Wikipedia clone.
> How do you actually go about doing that accounting practically given the volatility and the number of transactions?

It's basically the same as with stocks. Work out the equivalent USD value for every trade, and subtract the cost basis to figure out how much capital gains/loss you have on that trade. If valuation is hard (you're trading 5 shitcoins for 1 altcoins), figure out a method you can justify with a straight face and taxman will generally be happy (this, incidentally, is why auditing rich people is difficult).
In author's defense he doesn't claim to be exceptional and even concludes his essay with labeling this A.I. moment as “the revenge of the so-so programmer.” I actually enjoyed author's nuanced take, different from the common narrative of AI takeover. To the contrary I think LLM-driven coding is not a tool of power users, but rather a tool of disempowered users. They will bring many more people into the engineering profession and change the profession for many in it towards more complex tasks. Quickbooks hasn't destroyed the need for accountants, yet it allowed millions to become the "so-so accountants", when that's all their business needed.
Probably not the best story to share right now as thousands of qualified software engineers struggle to find just one job.
Surprised by the number of drives with 0 failures, though it seems not all of the drives were run for the required time to qualify for the rating.

> In Q3, six different drive models managed to have zero drive failures during the quarter. But only the 6TB Seagate, noted above, had over 50,000 drive days, our minimum standard for ensuring we have enough data to make the AFR plausible.
I don't think TLS is going to pose much of an issue when 4K HDR streaming ads load in a tiny window with PCM uncompressed audio while you browse.
YouTube to offer option to flag AI-generated songs that mimic artists' voices
This is kind of a problem in that it reduces the number of potential early users, testers and ultimately contributors. Sure it is still early in its development process, but it is important work to do in order to gain traction.
Tribute to Amiga 2000
im not convinced we should show climate scientists hanging out in the artic as the poster child for climate science either. Climate scientists have a rape problem [1], they need to justify why investigating the ice sheets and glaciers melting is still interesting and not just green washing avoiding fixing the problem, and, as someone who works in climate science, they need to explain how the skill sets of people on the ice meet a modern scientific world where programming is much more useful than skiing. much of the results of someone putting mass balance poles are not super informative compared to the results coming from ICESAT missions.

[1] https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/investigators-are-being-se...

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/nov/12/emmanuel...
It's like complaining about hardware stores because you can buy your wood from the lumberjack and nails from the blacksmith.

I'd rather have a system devoid of emotional biases, transparent and introspectable and rely on automated tooling to constantly monitor my dependencies.
krita.org is a similarly polished and professional open source project, but I agree these types of projects are the exception rather than the rule (though I suppose the same could be said about most products).
Really? That sucks. I guess it would be better to get a custom keypad with rotary encoders that would expose itself.

I found it interesting how companies invest heavy in hardware and don't bother to improve the software side.
This is the easiest way to financial freedom. Better risk reward than starting a company.
https://wayve.ai/thinking/lingo-natural-language-autonomous-...
Half a year is "some time". Especially these days. Welcome to the singularity.
You won't be able to park at the park anytime near the launch; it will be full. But you can just walk down the beach to the jetty from anywhere else on the island.
Longer article from The Washington Post:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/2023/11/09/...

I loved this passage:

Initially, Richards was hoping to buy an F-150 Lightning, but the truck was back-ordered. The salesperson could only get him an expensive trim that came with a high dealer markup. That markup added “insult to injury,” Richards said. He ended up buying a Tesla Model Y.

Yes: treat customers like morons, and they will spend their $ elsewhere. Keep it up, and that will only speed the demise of EV-hater car dealerships.
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He does have an account here, tho, and is responding to comments.

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=tmcw
The first time I've heard of it is today so I can't really have ever given them money to begin with.

But I'd be curious to see the source once it's released, for sure.
I remember using XNA, at university, when it was still in vogue. I'll have to dig up that old project and see if it can be built with MonoGame.
"I am starting to think that this sort of automated data visualization may end up being among the best use cases for AI in historical research."

If you actually look at the plots, there are all kinds of horrors.

"We just do it in a targeted way, because it’s time consuming."

Please.
A new AI toy to create unappealable false positives with. I mean how many distinguishable voices even exist? There are bound to be cases with genuine users that happen to sound like Taylor Swift. What’s to happen to them?
Unless it's expressly forbidden by a contract, I don't think most people have any issue with minor clear non-conflict-of-interest consulting/freelance work. It's really hard to see how that works with full-time jobs at competing companies.
The new frontier in online security: Quantum-safe cryptography
Not just Twitter, I saw a "symbol" picture of a volcanic eruption on a major German news site about Grindavik...
First weeks I used TikTok, I got all kind of anti-anything, from the local right to local left, from global KKK to whatever global hippies are called today. Any propaganda to burn whichever evil empires in the creators corner of the world exist. Guess it had some hard time to find my political niche and started with too little information about me.

On Instagram on the other side, I've never seen any serious amount of political messages, but they all want to sell me merch, cat-toys and nerd-toys from any point of the spectrum. Likely be because they have more information about me. And these days, TikTok is pretty much like Instagram, all cats and nerds and the occasional call for blood from those plebs who break their spaghetti.

So I don't think it's that any platform is full of this or that, but it very much depends on what the platforms think what might be interesting for you, and the rest you just don't see until it really floods the platform hard.
Two people can try similar prompts and get very different results from LLM’s.
I kept trying to convince myself to buy a desktop but the difference in performance from a laptop isn't so staggering to make up for the loss of convenience. It's easier to move a laptop and I can carry it to places where I don't have an external monitor.

Gotta have fantasies though. "When I'll have enough expendable money" I'll build myself some monster configuration. Which I'll probably use to run Geekbench (proving it's very powerful) and watch YouTube :P

This phenomenon is even more visible in smartphones. Desktop-level CPU performance and RAM / storage to do what? Browse Facebook and send pictures on WhatsApp. I could do that 10 years ago on a much more modest spec'd phone. Oh wait, I can still do that on the very same phone.
> Of course may be tiktok is just more popular

Instagram: 2.35B MAUs, tiktok: 1B MAUs (reported by a Chinese company so... probably like half that)
Same. Wife and I went for New Years this year and it was by far one of the most satisfying vacations I've ever taken. Absolutely nothing about the place is overrated, and we lament how little of it we've experienced.

It is as close to magic as anywhere I've been, and their New Year celebration is insanity.
I’d guess they have meanwhile unlocked “bigger war chest” to try see how far they can scale up their process?

IIRC they actually said they don’t know if it will. Just like last time. Optimization will come later just like they are trying now with bringing GPT-4 to the masses.
> stop thinking that governments can solve problems

In a functional democracy, with rule of law and strong civic institutions, governments is exactly how we solve problems. The more effective the government, the less problems. Compare Europe with the US on policing, food, access to justice, tax filing, banking, fraud prevention, environmental protections, life expectancy, obesity, systems of measurement, public transport, democratic accountability, protection of the elderly, feeding children (I could go on). The US still wrestles with problems that Europe (and much of the rest of the world) has forgotten about - and it does that because it confuses 'freedom' with lack of effective central government.
I would be shocked if it were measurable. The launch is 5 miles away and the breeze blows inland.
Avoid the T480S

It has 2 internal batteries, and with older batteries, they can fail to switch from one to the other when they reach 0%. Models with a removable battery are a bit bulkier, but I think of greater value.
So an interface like LSP but for plugins… very interesting idea!

Text manipulation operations are fairly simple to define and can probably be abstracted away into some generic API. Then writing generic text manipulation plugins should be very doable.

The complexity comes with project management, multiple files, build actions, etc. But you could define language specific sub-interfaces and the plugins would implement them. So a C++ plugin would understand CMake files for example.
> If you include network effects, does everyone really have that choice?

The network effects just increase the value-add of the platform, making foregoing the platform more costly (in terms of unclaimed utility). There is still a choice.

> For example, I can't choose not to use WhatsApp to keep in touch with my family and friends in Brazil. It's simply not possible because some of them won't use another messaging app... I'm not really choosing it

Having a compelling reason to use a service is not remotely the same as being forced to use a service.

> it's shadier than that

High-value-add services are not shadier than violence.
He seemed to have came pretty willingly. But there are still round about 1600 others.
Remember to do a practice run on Apples Emergency SOS using their demo so you panic a little less if you need to use it for real - https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213885#demo

Qualcomm - Iridium - 781 km (485 mi)

iPhone - Globalstar - 1414 km (876 mi)

Starlink (Cell coverage next year) - 570 km (350 mi)
There are millions of people who cannot do any of those things, never could and will never be able to.

At any rate, language models are in fact able to do those things.

https://tidybot.cs.princeton.edu/

https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/rt-2-new-model-transla...

https://wayve.ai/thinking/lingo-natural-language-autonomous-...
The problem with both those is that the possibilities are not simple correct/incorrect sets of predictable outcomes.

There are a whole lot of probable scenarios and possible responses. What is the right response? How do we execute it?

Take global warming. What if we have already passed some tipping point and its too late to do anything? Are current responses adequate? Are we adopting the right technologies to replace fossil fuels? Both your examples of "incorrect" (which I am interpreting as global warming has no bad effects whatsoever) and "death of most living creatures" are extreme and highly improbable.

AI is even worse as we do not know what the possible outcomes are - we do not know what the technology is capable of, or how it will develop.

I agree that UBI will do good either way. However, I do not think your AI scenario is that likely. It will not lead to supply chain failure, for example - the work will still be done. It will also not be a sudden change as "AI" is not going to take over everyone's jobs suddenly - it will be a gradual process.
Visualize and improve OTel collector configurations
Still not sure what the "killer feature" here is. Is there even one? Or is it just "something like vs code but in Rust and faster and slicker"?

I'd give it a try, but I am very happy using Helix, which is pretty novel in its own right.
https://www.space.com/spacex-starship-space-junk-cleanup
Blacksmiths didn't die, they became mechanical engineers?
Is this sarcasm/trolling? I honestly can't tell.
I thing the talent is there, I mean the incredible scientific and engineering accomplishments made by government research bodies make that point clear. The problem is governments are filled to the brim with committees and competing priorities. Frankly, to most people and therefore governments, Starship/Superheavy just isn't that important or at the very least, there's a thousand other things of equal importance competing for talent/money/attention.

Also, the risk of failure is so high. Musk was literally laughed out of the room when he proposed re-usable orbital boosters. I'm sure he was laughed at again when he proposed a full-flow staged combustion engine (Raptor). And again when he said they were going to put 33 engines beneath a stainless steel water tower.

Governments can't weather the ire of public opinion the way a private company can.

edit: after all that typing i just realized i'm basically saying "i agree" to your comment hah. The risk of failure is just too high for governments to stomach.
Yeah that's my larger point about the guy and the pattern. It doesn't lead to growth. I've seen zero growth whatsoever.

And he slacks coworkers like he is talking to ChatGPT too, slinging code blobs without context, example input data, or the actual error he received..
Compilers aren't thought of as being intelligent. That's why they're level 0
Awesome episode! Good to hear Nate's approach on handling different projects and when to kill them.
The line that killed me:

>the one with the pink-shirted guy on I.B.M. PCs

That's PETER NORTON, Goddammit. Know your history, New Yorker writer! Damn!
Yeah same. I switched to Azure a while back but it's unusable now. Switched back to OAI API
> As long as they perform the tasks of their jobs, why shouldn't they be "getting away with it"?

Curious how you would measure whether they are "performing the tasks for their jobs". I think most folks would say that measuring SE output is very difficult to do and as such, most managers give their team the benefit of the doubt that they are working at a reasonable but sustainable pace.

I am not sure that I personally would want to work at a place that places huge emphasis on measuring my output, even if that would free me up for potential OE. It seems like this thinking leads to a commoditization of software engineering work and promotes a very transactional relationship with an employer.
Rogue Worlds Throw Planetary Ideas Out of Orbit
Cool, I'm surprised I couldn't find this when I was looking for something like this originally. Probably because I was using different terminology-- "data model" instead of "schema," and "visualize" instead of "display".
You just have to consider fair use to make a dmca claim. It takes 1 second in your head. The bar is very low.
Using better languages like Powershell or Python becomes a lot more valuable here. I definitely think bash is going to be mostly useless in 5 years, you'll be able to generate legible code that does exactly what you want rather than having to do write-only stuff like that. Really we're already there. I've long switched from bash to something else at the first sign of trouble, but LLMs make it so easy. Poorly written python is better than well-written bash.

Of course, LLMs can generate go or rust or whatever so I suspect such languages will become a lot more useful for things that would call for a scripting language today.
What existential threat was addressed by sending humans into space?
While this would be great to start space exploration, there is no military incentive for this, and they're always the only ones with a blank check. Not sure that tourism is the option, maybe mining.
I fully agree that the work load should reach an optimal work/life balance. But how this is possible if someone is taking two extra full time jobs on top of it?
This is nicely written. But I can’t really agree with it.

What does your life mean? Nothing, obviously. You’re doing a job to survive and have wealth to enjoy life.

Your dad had a different economic context. It’s not relevant or a standard you need to care about.

You’re not living on bread, you’re enjoying a nice dinner with a daughter on a milestone.

The tone of all this is distinctly non child like. It’s extremely adult. I feel like you’re conflating anxiety with immaturity
A new kind of trade deal could help protect the tropical forests
a lot of the issues seem capacity related, I'm not getting a lot of failures since the outage but responses have been slow pretty often. Plus launching these new features probably led to all sorts of unforeseen bugs in production, probably what caused the major outages. I'd imagine there are tons of ways to intentionally or accidentally cause issues using the new agent and code interpreter functionality
Code executer is slow, but basic text completion seems fine.
I am not even sure I am on GPT4 turbo, it streams even slower than before on GPT4.

I have the new interface and GPTs, but its slower than ever.

Even late last night, it was markedly slower than a couple weeks ago.
Is there a place where one can finds useful prompts like yours?
It's really impressive what a team of one experienced developer managed to deliver.
Out of the pan, into the fire.
The truth is, we wouldn't have jobs if our companies didn't market so I totally get authentic marketing and not just straight hating on ads anymore.
My main issue with double dipping is that people with free time should be mentoring or tackling debt and other such things rather than waiting to be told what to do.
There are millions of humans who can't make toast and will never be able to.

At any rate, no it's not really limiting.

https://tidybot.cs.princeton.edu/

https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/rt-2-new-model-transla...

https://wayve.ai/thinking/lingo-natural-language-autonomous-...
What works for you doesn't work for everyone. I, for one, don't want your lifestyle!
The problem is not the same...Shuttle's main engines were dead in orbit after jettisoning the main tank. Only OMS thrusters were working and it landed unpowered, gliding to the surface (more like a controlled crash). It would never make it to orbit with the main tank attached. There was no possible way to fuel it, no engines and OMS was not usable beyond LEO.

You have full powered engines in orbit on Starship, "just" need to fuel them :)
Have you seen the CCP propaganda on Tik Tok though? It’s quite wholesome. Like there’s one where this guy randomly helps poor kids and old people he encounters. It paints Chinese society in a positive light, probably making the standard of living seem better than it is. But in a way it’s not unlike what many Americans wish their kids were watching.
A few days ago I asked about resources on being pragmatic in terms of architecture. This seems to be a perfect example :)

Kudos to the author
> At the end of the day you still need to do some vetting and understanding how code works to effectively use chatgpt. the actual writing of the code was never the hard part of software development

I completely agree with you on that. Most of being a good software engineer is skills that ChatGPT won't help you with.

But you can't even start to learn those skills if you quit in the first six months because of the vertical learning curve tied to all of that syntax trivia.
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We have heard about it.... you're just not getting your news from sources that mention it. There are multiple things they allow on American TikTok that they do not allow on Chinese TikTok. They allow these things because they know it helps with social decay in America.