skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps because this is the creation from the hard work of thousands of gifted and committed people. When SpaceX started I can assure you there was no billionaire involved. Just a guy with a few million he was willing to invest to make space travel a reality for many more people.

Secondly, if you don't think NASA was about profit, you don't understand NASA. Who do you think built all the Apollo rockets? Private contractors working for profit.

Besides, what is wrong with profit? Profit is what makes things sustainable and allows reinvestment to continually improve.

The tech here is way beyond what governments have been able to do so far. It promises to be quite a show. Might blow up again, but they'll learn and build another one.

For the record, I find Musk to be a menace, but the team he put together at SpaceX is phenomenal.
And a LUT is involved, but then you've got grid lines, response times, and contrast.
Did you just walk into the park? 30 minutes before launch is cutting it really close if you want to drive in and park. If you’re doing that, try and be there by like 4-5 AM if you can.
What Is Zulu Time?
Who else would be more qualified to weigh in though?
You realize that LLMs don't just code right? In fact coding is one of the things they're least good at.

LLMs are best at doing the stuff senior engineers do that's NOT coding.
Yeah. You also don't have to wait for an answer or interrupt someone to get that answer.

But - in the history of AIs written for chess and go, there was a period for both games where a human playing with an AI could beat either a human playing alone or an AI playing alone.

I suspect we're in that period for programming now, where a human writing code with an AI beats an AI writing code alone, and a human writing code alone.

For chess and go, after a few short years passed, AIs gained nothing by having a human suggesting moves. And I think we'll see the same before long with AI programmers.
It doesn't make sense that people designed for the end result to be softer?
I'm not talking about dreams or utopia. Just real modern life - one is way behind opportunity wise if they can't read and can't do math. At some point, that wasn't the case. Many signs point to being able to write instructions for a computer being a core skill for a good life.

If your kid rolls their eyes and says "no math/reading for me thanks", you don't just accept it and figure they'll find what they love - you figure some way to make them learn and it's at least a few months of hard work for a kid(and parent) to sort of get escape velocity .

It's possible that programming will end up in the same spot.
We built a GPT as well, check it out here: https://chat.openai.com/g/g-CCIFE0bxP-braceletgpt
https://www.faa.gov/data_research/commercial_space_data. There is nothing here.
Check "Additional Commerical Space Data" -> Location: Boca Chica.

Official Launch license has still been not granted. But it will likely launch on Friday.
State of AI in Production
I'm not saying these events can't happen I'm saying they're rare enough that trying to prepare for them is wasteful. As you illustrated there's all sorts of things that can go wrong. Trying to anticipate them all is a fools errand. And if you spend the capital to try to protect against the rare supply chain disruption all your competitors will just roll the dice and save the money and odds are they will come out ahead.
lol I don’t know if anyone knows what a Geo Metro is anymore, but I agree with your analogy :)

Maybe a Corolla would be more relatable nowadays.
Because they are trying to keep the price low? When announced, it was stated it would sell for $40k and it is going to stay be higher than that at release. Contrary to dealerships, they don’t seem to be participating in the act of jacking the price up higher and higher.
Capitalism always seeks to commodify skills. We of the professional managerial class happily assist, certain they'll never come for our jobs.
As a somewhat narrow counter-example, genetic algorithms are able to produce better versions of themselves but do not qualify as AGI.
Disregarding petty crime is how SF became SF. It's the opposite of Manhattan's broken window theory, not only is it not properly enforced it's dismissed out of hand as unimportant and outsiders are told to accept it like it's a local custom.
I have been programming 30+ years, and not two days ago looked at a problem I've been dealing with since before 2019, and went "this would be easier if I changed methods" and mitigated the issue in three hours from an airplane.

Programming is only superficially about code. The trick is really figuring out how to approach problems.
"Zulu time is the military name of Universal Time Coordinated (UTC) and Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)."

They always have to have their own terms.
Working on massive C++ monoliths here. Equally fast to test and deploy.

A friend of mine is working on a 30+ years old micro-services system. Worst piece of garbage I have ever seen in my long career.

So my conclusion is that it is the team not the architecture that ultimately decides how good the resulting software is.
I often get “For you” on the front app page instead of the accounts I’m following. This sometimes shows suggested pages.
I'm not convinced about that. Writing a formal contract for a function is incredibly hard, much harder than writing the function itself. I could open any random function in my codebase and with high probability get a piece of code that is < 50 lines, yet would need pages of formal contract to be "as correct" as it is now.

By "as correct", I mean that such a function may have bugs, but the same is true for an AI-generated function derived from a formal contract, if the contract has a loophole. And in that case, a simple microscopic loophole may lead to very very weird bugs. If you want a taste of that, have a look at how some C++ compilers remove half the code because of an "undefined behaviour" loophole.

Proofreading what Copilot wrote seems like the saner option.
Maybe pull-through superchargers will become a thing. There will have to be something for the semi too.

I guess another question would be - how often do pickups get used for towing, and how far do they normally go? I've heard that only rarely do people use the bed of their pickup, let alone tow.
Would it be legal for the mayor to make a gifts to reporters conditional on positive coverage? To invent an example: write a positive story, get a red curb parking pass. Write a negative story, we take the pass away. It seems like that ought to be illegal. Since the quid pro quo might be implicit and hard to prove, ethics rules in other contexts sometimes ban gifts entirely.

In my view, there are enough other factors going on here that this doesn’t look very corrupt. Nevertheless, I expect those reporters are probably now debating how negative a story they have to write to avoid the appearance of impropriety!
This isn't the 1990s. The majority of kids with access to smartphones are online now.
> It also is very often wrong in the code it outputs, doesn't know if things got deprecated after the training data threshold, etc

Today I asked it a question and it was wrong.... then it ran the code, got the same error as me, and then fixed it (and correctly explained why it was wrong), without me prompting further :)

Really though, how long until that training update goes from every so often, to constant. Now that half the internet is feeding it information, it doesn't even need to scour other sources -- its becoming its own source, for better or worse.
Sure, I'll take that bet, subject to my own definition of "common".
>> I needed a machine that a) could run Logic Pro (the finest music-editing software available to humanity), b) had a high-resolution screen for my lousy eyesight, and c) had a 1-terabyte hard drive. It was the only machine that fit the bill.

For a time, I too fell into the trap of looking for "readily made laptop" with shiny specs, only to eventually notice that getting ripped off is an understatement. Like spot a decent CPU-specc'd machine but with with only 16 Gb RAM in 2023, want 32 Gb? Pay double!

So I took my brother's advice, which I also use for TVs and what else: buy the cheapest brand that offers the specs. All sellers are required to provide 2 years of warranty and at entry level price, worst case you can buy a brand new and better spec'd device if it breaks just after 2 years. But it usually lasts a lot more, by pure statistics: to ensure it lasts 2 years on average, it must me a lot more sturdy than that.

So what I do now? I'm buying "gaming laptops". For several things:

- They have decent specs. Relatively powerful CPU, good cooling so the solder won't melt on the motherboard if I compile a long program (happened to my nephew actually).

- I don't care about laptop's screen and weight. I'm a professional software developer which means 99.9% of the time the laptop sits on my desktop hooked to one or two 27 inch 4k monitors, along with a proper keyboard and mouse. And when it's not, it's just in my bag in transit to another desktop. When you look at LinkedIn pictures, people are being served the fairy tale of the "developer" who programs in bed or on a couch or in a coffee shop sipping a latte ... nothing but corporate bullshit.

- And first and foremost, they are UPGRADEABLE. I can take the laptop WITHOUT LOSING WARRANTY, open it and add more RAM and another SSD. Which means that the price of getting a 32 Gb of RAM machine is now about $30-50$ more and not another time the price I paid for the laptop!

Last laptop I bought was a Lenovo Legion 5, AMD Ryzen 5 6600H, 15.6" Full HD IPS 144 Hz, 16GB RAM, 1TB SSD, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 4GB GDDR6 for €500. It's not the main purpose but I don't mind if I can play CS2 at 200 FPS in addition to programming on it :P
Right below the US, #31, is Slovenia, with a 0.4 homicide rate. #34 is Italy, with a 0.5 homicide rate. Singapore is #70, with a 0.1 homicide rate, and China is #156, with a 0.5 homicide rate.
"Another finding was that levels of proline – a stress metabolite in roots and leaves – shot up. This suggests that the electrical stimulus could enhance the plants’ capacity for tolerating stress."

"A diet rich in proline was linked to an increased risk of depression in humans in a study from 2022 that was tested on a limited pre-clinical trial on humans and primarily in other organisms." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proline
> But taking a bird’s-eye view of what happened that day? A table got a new header. It’s hard to imagine anything more mundane. For me, the pleasure was entirely in the process, not the product.

I think that's where I differ from a lot of the artful programmers, I've never found pleasure in a perfect, beautiful solution. I get annoyed when I have to dump hours and hours into something that 'should' be simple! I don't want to spend my time fiddling with layouts, CSS, Oauth handshakes, etc. I want to build stuff and get paid for it, that's how I view my job as well. Less logician and more mechanic.

I use ChatGPT as much as I can, to do all I can and then fix the output when it's needed. I view it as a higher level programming language, that spares me from the burden of thinking of low-level details. It's same the reason I code in Python/Javascript rather than C++ or other languages, the goal is to make something of use. That's my goal to stay employed, become one with the language du jour, in the same way I've jumped from PHP to Jquery to React to ...
I don't think people realize the scale of what Starship stands to achieve here. This is not an incremental leap forward, this is revolutionary. Sending a 16oz bottle of water up to space on the Space Shuttle cost around $25,000. [1] Falcon Heavy brought that down to $700. Starship stands to bring that price down to as low as $5!

That's what makes this all so stupefyingly difficult to even begin to try to predict what will happen. We're not going through the usual window of exclusivity. We're going from [nobody can afford this, except governments - and even then only for toy missions] to ['everybody' can afford this for anything], instantly. So there's no reason that e.g. a nursing home, or anything else, on the Moon would be restricted to the super wealthy, besides demand. Obviously these industries will be being built from the ground up, and demand will likely dramatically outpace supply for the foreseeable future. But that cost imbalance would not be because of fundamental costs.

Also you left out the most fun. Who isn't going to want to go have sex in space? Either with a partner or catching some Moon Poon at a brothel? That's going to be an industry that'll have people coming by the millions, and shouldn't really require that much to get the initial infrastructure erected.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_launch_market_competitio...
It matters if they're executing raw Python code in the weights instead of distributing safetensor files.
Just curious - if the police are an hour away, how far is a hospital?
Passive SSH server private key compromise for some vulnerable gear
One thing that would go a long way would be the return of S3.
It's definitely weird rule if I understand it correctly. If the app developer selects 20 people, what benefit does it offer.
Just started Documenting my code journey, Willing to make content that help others too and polish my skills side by side.
Lets grow together.
I’m not surprised. But my question is isn’t this antithetical to the whole privacy stance? We don’t sell your data but we do allow companies to bargain you as a user for their products.
I think there should be prosecution of Apple based on this, not Google. Because of this huge cut, Apple won't allow other browsers on their platforms, which is anti-competitive.
No you're right, but the benefit is: a more consistent dev experience across client and server-side. Being able to write the same components in either environment for specific optimization purposes (static rendering vs. interactions) is a huge plus. It reduces the cognitive overhead of context switching between languages and technologies.
You seem like a very smart and capable person, and for an industrial buyer your proposal makes a lot of sense. For a hacker (who is often a hobbyist or amateur looking to build something simple quickly) a versatile SoC at $5/unit also makes a lot of sense.

I have to say you are hurting yourself with your communication style, because it comes off as very dismissive and arrogant. I bookmarked your presentation in case I need it in the future, but a 4 hour video is not a great way to hook people who are not sure if they are interested or not.
A friend of mine works with his laptop connected to some 40+ inches 1080p monitor or probably just a TV screen, I never checked. "But you can see the pixels", I told him. "No, I don't because I have such a bad eyesight", he replied to me.
"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers."

-- Pablo Picasso
“ Today’s companies have even better processes in place,”

Be humble, and count all the google and Amazon outages. Most of them are way more stupid than this.
I occasionally see a post from someone I follow. 90% of what’s in my feed is either and ad or “suggested for you”.
Yes. Finally. I'm tired of people spewing this zero sum buzz word. Literally everything has a limit. It's all zero sum. Actually it's negative sum. Entropy only increases.

It's not just space that's taken up. There's a fixed amount of energy in the known universe. The usability of that energy continuously becomes less and less and less.
https://archive.is/dG278
The problem is that nuclear can't compete on cost with fossil fuels, and we've failed to make those obsolete.
uh, what about the kids sitting in the back rows that can't be seen?
I agree. I think there will be lots of hard problems where an LLM is unlikely to be successful for quite a while. For high surety software like encryption or numerical software I think this is especially the case. Sure, you can have an LLM create a draft still, but you’ll need a lot of skill to refine it into something correct and trustworthy.
There's a reason people on Twitch say, "I touched grass today!" :) (https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&ge...)

More seriously though, I feel this in my soul. I've worked remotely since pre-pandemic, so there's no need to leave the house to get money. I bought a weight rack, bench press, and created a solid at-home gym. Grocery runs were replaced with delivery during pandemic and never reverted. I'm currently single and more interested in technical passion projects than pursuing a partner. I've never owned a vehicle.

It's shocking to me how this confluence of factors has made it all too easy to go a week (or two!) without going outside! I've been glued to my computer since I was a pre-teen, but only in the past few years has everything come together such that I'm entirely self-sufficient indoors. Existing outdoors is no longer a natural byproduct of my existence!

FWIW, I do feel that there are benefits to going outside. I'm not championing my approach - just noting what's occurring. I feel our biology has not evolved at the same pace as our technology and I sense myself more at peace when I go for a run on the beach - even if I'm diligent with my Vitamin D supplementation :)

Interesting times we're in, to be sure.
Exactly. As a startup asking the first 20 users some other way of installing the app which is not in play store doesn't give any confidence.
Imagine what an eye possible to change internal shape can acquire, stray light scanning every pixel individual, then tailoring the camera to the scene, all without touching expensive glass. Every device a little rippling hubble.
James Burke has a new Connections series up on Curiosity Stream, I'm looking forward to seeing it.
I feel ChatGPT is primarily good at dealing with problems that are straight-forward to solve, but have a needless amount of complexity attached to them that is easy to delve through for an AI but takes a considerable amount of time to grasp for a human. It is essentially dealing with the parts of software development that we have failed to make human-friendly.

The compiler is already fulfilling a similar role in software development. We write in high-level languages so that we no longer need to deal with the intricacies of the hardware the program will be running on and can focus on high-level logic in a human-friendly programming language.

I suspect that AI tools will fulfill a similar role, relieving us of much of the need to read API documentation, like compilers have relieved us of the need to read instruction set manuals.
It does but we don't have a battery powered option (yet) so power availability is the bigger issue. Our sensors can only be outlet powered. Each sensor can cover cover roughly 5,000 sq.ft. or about two tennis courts.
It’s like smoking in public places. People who don’t want smoking in their faces can find non-smoker cafes! Once such cafe pops up, some people will complain that it’s messing with human rights to smoke.
Many machinists, welders, etc would have asked the same question when we shipped most of American manufacturing overseas. There was a generation of experienced people with good jobs that lost their jobs and white collar workers celebrated it. Just Google “those jobs are never coming back”, you’ll find a lot of heartless comparisons to the horse and buggy.

Why should we treat these office jobs any differently?
Maybe for the kids, but I didn’t use ear protection and I don’t remember noticing anyone around me who did. It’s not dangerously or uncomfortably loud from the park in my experience.

Bring binoculars. You don’t need them to see the rocket on the pad but it flies away pretty fast once it’s going, and they’re useful for watching propellant load and noticing other details. I also bring camping chairs, sunscreen, bug spray, and a bottle of water.
> its becoming its own source, for better or worse

OpenAPi is actively actively taking steps to minimize the changes of that happening as that would be rather bad given how LLMs work.
This is another Thinkpad festival post? Let me just cold you down a bit by telling you that a 12-year-old laptop still kicking isn't that big of a deal.

I have this DELL Studio laptop released back in September, 2009, and it can still kick very well too if I decide to recruit it back to my "workforce". I retired it just 3~4 years ago because I got a T480. Heck, some of my code (old versions) for the same project that I'm currently working on is still on that laptop.

Before it's retirement days, it work 24/7 a day every day all year around, burned through two power supplies, sometimes 90 degrees C on the poor Intel Duo Core CPU etc. But it never dies.

So, me looking these Thinkpad posts, I never really feel quite impressed...
How long ago would you have considered this discussion ridiculous? How long till GPT-N will be churning out solutions faster than you can read them? It's useless for me now as well, but I'm pretty sure I'll be doomed professionally in the future.
https://llm-attacks.org/ is a great example of quite how complicated this stuff can get.
> I'm buying "gaming laptops".

step 1: disable rgb.

Honestly, I wish the "lunchbox" style laptops existed.

EDIT: I remember dolch lunchbox style laptops from a long time ago (search for "dolch pac")

EDIT2: wow, search for FlexPAC III

Of course, if these were a thing, somebody would bring it to starbucks.
At this stage, it's like a junior. It's pretty useful for the boilerplate or mundane stuff and even with implementation of algorithms from human description to computer code.

It's also very good at converting a code from one language to another and getting stuff done when directed properly.

I can definitely see how large impact it will have on the employment prospects of many. It's not replacing the engineers yet, but those who specialise in a tech as an implementation specialist are screwed. Even the increased productivity alone will reduce the demand.
And yet tech is the most oversubscribed program of all. There are 20x to 30x the number of grant applications to the budget.
IIRC, they refused when he was alive. But his will left a good chunk of his fortune to the city under the condition they build on the land in his name. The construction also lined up with Griffith's son becoming president of the city's parks commission. Not sure what kind of relationship he had with his parents.
Are there any examples of genetic algorithms producing genetic algorithms outside of nature?

The classic synthetic way is a genetic algorithm producing increasingly better outputs.
Ackshually, I do have a spork[0] with me at all times. It just goes in a tiny side pocket in my backpack with a few napkins and a bottle of hand sanitiser.

I use it when I need to grab something to eat from a store, some pre-packaged salads for example don't come with cutlery or it's so bad I'd rather not use it.

I can lick it and wipe it with the napkins and put it back in the backpack. Most of the times I remember to wash it properly when I get back home :)

[0] https://kupilka.fi/en/shop/kupilka-spork-225-3/
I loved it! It's easily worth subscribing for a month to watch.
Oh yes, 2022.
ChatGPT has forever changed my career