skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> are so upset now that all the tedious stuff can finally be automated in one big leap.

I’m surprised that you’re surprised that people are worried about their jobs and careers
As entrepreneurs, do you have a desire to share your journey?
Hey. I have been on a rollercoaster with my startup for the past two years. I frequently have insights and lessons I would love to share so that other entrepreneurs can learn from them, but don't feel like social media/ linkedin are the right place.

Anyone else here have a similar desire?
Regardlessly of whether you believe Facebook played a role in amplifying genocidal messages, the fact that Facebook allowed the very clear calls for violence on their platform for years is orders of magnitude more serious than sexually suggestive content (I assume that’s what “indecent material” refers to here) or “kids doing dumb things” which I hear every so often about TikTok.
The USA has lost the technology for putting people on the moon.

Records were not kept, knowledge died with the engineers who built it. Materials are no longer available, some of the technology has not been built in 50 years. In the end, redeveloping the stack is much cheaper than using the old rockets. Which is exactly what they are doing - and with every new development comes the risk you are chasing the wrong rabbit and won't, in the end, end up at your target.
The Indian ban on TikTok was very curiously timed as well - right after a major investment in Jio (Reliance) from Facebook.

No other apps were banned after that, nor was there any ban on Chinese smartphones. Trade with China has only increased rapidly since then.

Coincidentally, India is perhaps the only large market where Instagram still dominates
> I've not yet seen a legal explanation of why the Apple ad revenue share deal is now "illegal" and yet the AOL deal wasn't.

Do you ever speed on the highway? Have you gotten a ticket for every time you did it? Just because you didn't get caught doesn't mean it's legal.
Aren't those just moderation policies adapted to local markets?
Either/or works i think.
There’s a lot more to social mobility than an individual’s ability to become a millionaire.

You’d have to decide whether you agree with the methodology, but European nations feature highest in the ‘Global Social Mobility Index’ [0] while the US is 27th.

[0] https://www3.weforum.org/docs/Global_Social_Mobility_Report....
> Interesting; you appear to suggest that an interest in politics makes someone more stupid - in that they become incapable of appreciating a nuanced view of a topic. Is this what you mean?

Not who you're replying to, but I think there's very strong selection effe ts in play where those more likely to speak up with passion in public places like this are more likely to lack nuance in their political views.

So it's mostly not that those with an interest in politics (even a strong interest) are less nuanced (though they probably are somewhat, as being bad at nuance makes political radicalization more likely), but that those with an interest but nuanced views will have a harder time actually bashing out a comment on the subject and will think it less likely they will be able to convince anyone (because its not a simple matter).
Linux Mint is based on Ubuntu, not Debian. It's unclear to me whether it's affected in the same way as Ubuntu non-Pro.
I have the exact model, but despite my best attempts at software, firmware, hardware maintenance it still overheats and takes about 5 minutes to boot up. Nothing to rave about.
Yes, but the paid-for Plus version only.

Ignore the free version, pretend it doesn't exist.
Gitea – Open-Source GitHub
It struggles with (industrial, not hobbyist) embedded firmware a fair bit. I can almost coax decent results for simple tasks out of it, sometimes.
Exactly. If governments were truly concerned with protecting players, they would have provisions preventing casinos from kicking out winning players
From the article:

> In 2022, Truth Social posted a loss of $50 million, with net sales of just $1.4 million. It lost $23 million in the first half of this year, with net sales of $2.3 million.

Does anyone have any insight on whether spending over $23 million to keep a social network afloat for six months is a reasonable operational cost? It seems a bit too pricey for the kind of operation it seems to be.
Warren Buffet famously pays taxes at a lower rate than his secretary.

https://abcnews.go.com/blogs/business/2012/01/warren-buffett...

This is an anecdote but there's no reason to expect that this doesn't apply to his classmates.

So, yes; given all the rebates and loopholes and shenanigans that the rich and mega-rich can use, the proportion of income is lower.
What is the advantage of PPAs over an apt repo that users place in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/someexternalapp? Is it having a central site that users can search for packages? Basically a social portal?
Isn't the point of a crawler to crawl nearly everything? Of course they might weigh some things much heigher (recrawl wikipedia much more frequently, for example), but you don't know what might be interesting as a search result until you've crawled it!
Definitely. And think about all the other ways LLMs can improve quality of life!

In any complex software project with lots of users there is guaranteed to be an effectively endless backlog of bug tickets that are, in effect, abandoned. I think a few months ago some bug got fixed in Firefox that was ~25 years old. In most compilers and frameworks there's going to be a pile of tickets of the form, "improve error message when X happens" that just never floats to the top because programmer time is too expensive to justify working on it. Over time the difference between a senior engineer and a junior becomes not so much intelligence or even actual experience but just the accumulated scar tissue of all the crap we have to wade through to make anything work, thanks to the giant backlogs of bugs and stupid usability problems that never get solved before the product reaches EoL anyway.

For AI to fully replace programmers is going to require quite a few more major breakthroughs, but setting one loose on a bug tracker and asking it to churn out trivial fixes all day is well within reach. That will both make human programming more fun, and easier to learn.
Well, according to what I could find[1],

> Like the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the US laws apply to where consumers reside, not where the company is headquartered. It doesn’t matter if a company doesn’t have an office in California if it has customers, website visitors, etc. that reside there and their personal information is being processed by the company.

So, yes, if I was an EU company, I would need to abide by California privacy laws. Now IIRC there's some fine print in California's laws that says this only matters if the company is over a certain size, has a minimum number of CA users, and resells information. But that "filter" is also part of CA law, not EU law.

QED :)

[1] https://usercentrics.com/knowledge-hub/us-privacy-law-compli...
When last did you look at your AWS bill?
> Or, the fact that that website is one of three or four which represent the backbone of our species' communicative ability, and that man can control which of our species' communications are seen.

The problem here is the lack of properly open (and FOSS based!) popular communication channels. A committee or safety team can be even worse than one man.
Yes, they lost the technology. The last Apollo mission was over 50 years ago, the people who achieved it are retired or dead, and engineering drawings alone are not enough to build a new Saturn V (or the landers, suits, etc). Not to mention all of that is outdated technology by now.

NASA is now building the SLS, a modern(ish) heavy lift rocket meant for moon missions, among other things. But for a couple decades in between there was this obsession with the Space Shuttle as the primary launch platform, and the Space Shuttle wasn't of much use beyond low earth orbit. And with the Soviets focusing on space stations after the Apollo landings there wasn't any competitive aspect to going further either.

There were obviously lots of unmanned missions to the moon and other places in the solar system, but manned activity was limited to low-earth orbit for the last 50 years, so the capability to go further withered.
Pretty much everybody knows that a company is not the CEO, and only people with staunch political views seem to think that everybody but themselves is so stupid as to not be capable of nuance and be in need of reminding.

But people also know that CEOs tend to have a huge influence in the success or failure of a company, and founders have a not entirely negligible influence in the company existing in the first place.
So doing better than Twitter?
My observation has been that the comments on high engagement TikTok posts are generally quite pleasant, whereas the comments on high engagement Instagram posts feel like a KKK meeting.
(will be downvoted to death, I don't care)

Nope, it doesn't go both way. Racism and classism only go one way, which is towards the poorer or more vulnerable part.
Pick on the weaker is a sign of cowardice. Do the same on the stronger is well-accepted, and rightfully so. Always punch upwards.
Writing a C64 Asssembly Demo
I would argue that 2nd amendment in US even has influence on gangs in Mexico.
Let's create a CRUD Rest API in Rust using:
- No specific framework
- Serde to serialize and deserialize JSON
- Postgres (database)
- Docker
- Docker Compose
> I don’t like hard or tricky questions.

...

> I’ve actually expressed the problem in an ambiguous way.

So when other people do it, hard and tricky questions are bad, but when you deliberately set your candidate up for failure by withholding concrete information, that's clever and insightful. Got it.

Or more productively put: The author obviously enjoys tearing down simple questions with complex implications (one often does in the sw field) and reflects over their candidates, but seemingly lacks the self-reflection to understand what makes questions hard or tricky and why interviewers like to pick them.
Civilian gun ownership does not necessary mean not regulating it.
They still need to have license and registered guns.
Sure, but he could be doing more spin-offs like Starlink. During the waiting. Instead of what he is doing with Twitter.
The more automated ones will separately write tests and code, and if the code doesn't compile or pass the test, give itself the error messages and update its code.

Code Interpreter does this a bit in Chat-GPT Plus with some success.

I don't think it needs much more than a GPT-4 level LLM, and a change in IDEs and code structure, to get this working well enough. Place it gets stuck it'll flag to a human to help.

We'll see though! Lots of startups and big tech companies are working on this.
I tried for 2 hours to get ChatGPT to write a working smooth interpolation function in python. Most of the functions it returned didn't even go through the points between which it should be interpolating. When I pointed that out it returned a function that went through the points but it was no longer smooth. I really tried and restarted over multiple times. I believe we have to choose between a world with machine learning and robot delivery drones. Because if that thing writes code that controls machines it will be total pandemonium.

It did a decent job at trivial things like creating function parameters out of a variable tho.
And Stalin was so right about that.
and the other half believes babies' rights shouldn't exist, only criminals should own guns and only Russians can steal elections.
using Kagi is pretty clumsy. We iOS users get to pick from a pretty limited list. In reality we should be able to set search to any endpiont that handles the ‘q’ param
Yep. That's a pretty funny thing about piracy: the harder it is to get a legitimate copy of your product, the more people will just go get it from torrents or libgen.
And they did most of it decades ago when the public supported grand endeavours. Now risk aversion is very high and budgets are very limited.
Yes, the same thing happened before. There was a generation that tinkered with cars, there was a generation that tinkered with radios. There was a generation that tinkered with computer hardware. And then there was a generation that tinkered with software, and now it's going away.

The real question for me is whether AI will put humans out of most intellectual work, not just programming. Then, even if AI is shared equitably and satisfies our every need, most of us become some kind of sponges that don't need to think for a living. Or human intelligence will remain but only as a peacock's tail, like physical strength is now.

Maybe a true "friendly AI" would recognize the human need to be needed, for human capabilities to stay relevant, and choose to put limits on itself and other AIs for that reason.
Hey @matt_s, thanks for your suggestion. I'm new at HN, hopefully, I will understand the platform better within a few days.

Yes I was inspired by design joy, hopefully I can make this subscription model work. Thankd buddy.
I get stuck in a captcha redirect flow.
If that was a valid criticism of its intelligence, Stephen Hawking would have spent most of life categorised as a vegetable.

Also:

> We don't even have a full self driving system,

debatable given the accident rate of the systems we do have

> the limited systems we have are not LLMs,

they tautologically are LLMs

> and there isn't even a system on the Horizon that can drive and talk to you about the news and cook you a dinner

There's at least four cooking robots in use, and that's just narrow AI and used to show off. Here's one from 14 years back: https://youtu.be/nv7VUqPE8AE

And 5 years back: https://youtu.be/CAJJbMs0tos

And two years back: https://youtu.be/fNpBDwYLi-Q

And (uploaded) this year: https://youtu.be/r5GHWRhpzlw

There's also a few research models for general household robotics from Google and whichever of Musk's companies is doing that robot of his.

And here's another general learning-from-demonstrations system from Cambridge university from this year: https://youtu.be/EiIAN03MsRM
I'm dreaming that someone will remake Connections some day. The quality of the recordings are quite bad, and while I think retelling the stories with a new production would be great in itself, I'm sure there's many new stories that could be told with additional research.

I think Robert Murray-Smith would be a great host. He has some of the same energy as Burke and he has some history-related videos on YouTube that has some of the same style of storytelling.

Kathy Joseph would be great for the research side. Her book "The Lightning Tamers" is pretty good at describing some of these weird connections and interesting stories throughout the history of electricity.
I don't think the search quality would be the problem. But they would miss these shopping ads and carousels, the restaurant reviews and direct link to google maps, and all that fuzz.
And debugging code that you didn’t write at all is X times as hard, and X is a lot more than two in my experience
App stores are front-ends for managing/buying apps/packages, e.g.

winget install Netflix

will install netflix from the windows store.

Click on settings to enable new sources, e.g. join the beta channel. They are the same thing just graphical.
And it is basically just a space station alraady. Just put it in orbit and... Done
AI is the next bubble. VCs are really pushing it but I don't see this solving day to day software development problems anytime soon. Solving difficult CS problems is one thing and I do find it impressive, unfortunately the greater majority of everyday work is not about generating Snake games or 0/1 knapsack solutions.

Also the idea that we'll need less engineers is bogus. Technology doesn't reduce the amount of work we do, it just increases productivity and puts more strain on individuals to perform. With AI spitting out unmaintainable code nobody understands I can only see more work for more engineers as the amount of code grows.
I believe it would have happened, with or without Musk. Credit where credit is due, SpaceX seems to be a very well managed operation. I don't believe in providential people, at all. I don't know why my political beliefs are mentioned, I am not even American, I am French living in France.

Starship happens because of

* the current state of manufacturing technology : we can automate a lot of operations that were done by hand in the 70's, we can iterate prototype much faster)

* a lot of essential hardware is now much cheaper, reducing the initial investment cost. Say a servo motor mass produced now vs. a servo motor in 70's made in tiny batches

* the market ie. there's a market to send many tons of hardware into orbit, money can flow into such projects

* it's now possible to test some rocketry ideas in your garage, it's not a closely garden anymore. The pool of very experienced rocketry engineers is increasing

That's not a very romantic point of view tho
He seems to be focusing on AI moreso than Twitter.
> He suggests he taught himself rocket science and that he's personally involved in designing these rockets and cars

Every source I know of agrees this is true.
How about this?

Preparation: Pick some measurement interval in which you'd expect a bunch of clicks, e.g. a minute. Count how many clicks you get in that interval. Then take 138% of that time and divide it by the number of clicks you counted. That will be the interval for your timer.

RNG: Tune the counter so it rolls over approximately once per time interval you've computed above. We'll take two measurements per interval, b0 and b1. Every time the counter rolls over, reset b0 and b1 to zero. When a click occurs, set b0 to one if the counter is less than half its maximum value, otherwise set b1 to one (if multiple clicks occur, the respective bit just stays at 1). When the counter rolls over, check b0 and b1. If they're equal, do nothing (discard the measurement). If they're different, take b0 as a random bit that you've just created (discard b1, and then reset b0 and b1 for the next round). You can then combine multiple successive bits into random numbers of the width that you want.
The previous limiting factors for launching stuff off-world were weight and size. Such constraints were tackled by old innovations like assembling space stations using modules launched separately, or more recently, with inflatable modules like BEAM (sadly not in development anymore).

With Starship, most of this goes away. It becomes possible to launch bigger, heavier (that is, cheaper) stuff to space. Still high-tech stuff, for sure, but engineers will be able to make more tradeoffs, because there won't be a need to optimize everything to be small and light.
Maths, yes, but it's also not really foundational. Most people don't need to do maths once they leave high school, not even basic arithmetic. Machines do it for them better than they ever could. The heavy emphasis on maths in the school curriculum is probably a mistake and should be rolled back.

Reading and (basic) writing was always foundational. You can go back to ancient Egypt and there are merchants who have mastered a simplified form of hieroglyphs. They weren't doing maths any more sophisticated than adding and subtracting small numbers, but they needed to know writing.
I described what I wanted. It was earlier this year..not sure if chatgpt can understand wireframes now, but it couldn’t at the time.
If it's not a life or death situation (like a self-driving truck slamming into a van full of children or whatever), I don't think people will care much. Non-tech people (i.e. managers, PMs) don't necessarily understand/care if the code is not perfect and the barrier for "good enough" is much lower. I think we will see a faster adoption of this tech...
so-so? Thats a problem too basic to ask in a coding interview, almost.
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Just put a huge low-ESR cap on the 3V3 rail. Newer WiSoCs like ESP32 draws too much for too short that regulators can't catch up. I've once had brownouts with an Uno R3 style ESP32 board, and it didn't stop until I added a 0.22F EDLC from my junk bin, which is absurd and not a recommended usage of EDLC, but I think even 330uF electrolytic from same bin didn't cut it.
Totally understand. I definitely took issue with a lot of the article and wondered what this person does for a job but a lot of the comments are fighting a narrative that only existed in the headline.
One is allowed to rent servers elsewhere
> Trump Media & Technology Group's (TMTG) independent registered public accounting firm . . .

Should we take any figures from such as source as gospel?
Is it feasible to keep old MacBook up to date with regards to security patches? I have an old Mid 2014 MBP, but unsure how "dangerous" it would be to keep using it still?
I'm working remotely from my home country and I'm getting paid almost $5000 a month working from home.

Imagine if you want to hire someone from the USA, UK, or other top-tier economic countries how much do you need to pay an 11+ years experienced designer?

At Pentaclay I started with $2500 a month which is almost half of what I'm getting paid as remote designer, so same quality with lesser price with no month-to-month commitment from the client side.

I hope you get the point.
It's part of Apple's strategy. "If you want access to our users, you have to go through us".
There's a Swiss town which had autonomous shuttles running for 5 years (2015-2021) [1].

There's at least two companies (Waymo and Cruise) running autonomous taxi services in US cities that you can ride today.

There have been lots of incorrect promises in the world of self-driving trucks/cars/buses but companies have gotten there (under specific constraints) and will generalize over time.

[1] https://www.saam.swiss/projects/smartshuttle/
"Violent"?
Well kinda, maybe partly as a "don't do it this way" lesson!
> I want to adapt and accommodate his disability to the best that I can.

1. Recognize that you have a problem, not him.

2. Let him decide if it's a disability and consider that we're all different.

3. You're not being specific; it's hard to provide concrete advise to a non-specific request.

> HR knows it but everyone is afraid of getting sued or something so it's a don't ask don't tell situation.

You're treating him like a sick person who is doing something wrong, whose bad behavior is protected by taboo.

Whether this is true or not is hard to say. But maintaining this perspective, it seems that you're betting on him not being there, rather than resolving any problems you have with him.

> I will be honest, he drives me crazy on a daily basis.

I have autism and I have a manager who drives me crazy on a daily basis.

Try to not make it personal.

> I can make it a useful learning experience that works for both sides, hopefully.

If you try to learn something from dealing with him, great.

I'd try to avoid setting learning goals for other grown-ups who didn't ask for it, though.

> Do you have any advice for making his and my life easier?

Talk with colleagues who have success communicating with him how they do it.

Talk with your manager on how to be a better manager for autistic people.

Stop blaming him for being autistic and turning your problems into his problems. :-)