skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No family, huh?

I'm getting evicted two days after my birthday and not one of my patrilineal relations will help me.

Could you put me up? You absolutely could and it would not burden you at all.

And don't even start because you and the rest have profited greatly.

I know, I know: how dare I.

CMB.
You can find a lot of background on e.g. the bill of rights from prior versions, the federalist papers, etc. It can give a lot of insight on the various amendments.

That one though... I'm unaware of.
Yeah, this is really arbitrary, when I first got started in mobile apps I had one or two users to start with, I didn't know anyone who would help, it was really specialised as it was, catering to a niche market, I just had an idea and I could publish it (to apple in my case).

It didn't do well, but I still sell copies every month, and getting an app on a store considerably improved job prospects after a somewhat drastic change in career direction.

This sucks.
SpaceX's Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy have already revolutionized the space industry with their reusable first stage boosters and rocket engines. This advance in rocket design has resulted in the cost to launch one kilogram of payload to orbit from approximately $15,000 in the pre-SpaceX era, to around $1,400 with the Falcon Heavy.

This graph shows the incredible impact of SpaceX on the volume of rocket launches, with an exponential rise in recent years:

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/yearly-number-of-objects-...

With Starship, SpaceX is striving to make rockets fully reusable, which will transform human civilization by making space vastly more accessible.
The "computers are social actors" theory no longer applies to desktop computers
I spilled an entire mug of tea on my X1E when it was just new. That would have killed any Macbook, but the Thinkpad was fine. Turned it off, unplugged the power, let it drain through the bottom. Next morning, open it up, clean it out, turn it on, and it's fine.

Even had time to make a photo: https://www.reddit.com/r/thinkpad/comments/h0663l/good_thing...

Don't count on this too strongly though; not every Thinkpad is spill-resistant, unfortunately.
Looks like a completely different take. If you look at his microphone it is worn higher in the first "walking" shot than in the takeoff shot.

Also the walk is filmed South of the Vehicle Assembly Building looking North. Whereas the Voyager 2 took off from LC-41 which is East of the VAB
I'm presuming you're "technical" yourself. I would give a very different answer if you weren't.

I think the problem is looking for a "technical cofounder" without letting them be a "technical professional acquaintance," first. You've got to ease into the relationship. Maybe participate in a few hackathons, do some pair-programming, engage in an unrelated hobby that's also rife with nerds, such as bouldering or parenting. If you have a reliable technical friendship, they may become available when you happen upon a real domain expert. "Technical cofounder" is all-too-often a thankless task, so trust arrives on foot.
As an Alphabet shareholder, I approve.
Elon Musk was not born a citizen of the United States, and thus is not eligible to be President of the United States.
> Your emotions aren't purely imitative based on what your parents encouraged. They come from inside you from chemicals diffusing in your brain. Kids aren't blank slates that respond perfectly to training.

If a kid was a blank slate that responded perfectly to training, would its emotions then not be its own?

> No, it's just a distinction based on the meaning of "get emotional". I'm saying it wasn't getting emotional. It was responding with emotionally charged text responses, as they were trained into it.

What's the difference between a chemical concentration in the brain and the activation level of a neuron trained to predict the outcomes of chemical concentration in the brain? Sufficiently advanced imitation is indistinguishable from identity.
Exactly. Use the right tool for the job here.
Can you do fall detection for the elderly?
https://developer.apple.com/augmented-reality/object-capture...

Though it's mostly sample code.
You need F-Droid. It's not a silver bullet but the high ranked apps on there are great.
See: https://github.com/01-ai/Yi/discussions/5#discussioncomment-...
In any job if you overspecialize and don't learn the fundamentals you're at risk. A CSS specialist is like a CRT TV fixer as compared to a general programmer and an electrician, respectively. Those jobs always have numbered days.
It may very well be government overreach but the call towards freedom of speech sounds very hollow in the context of DEI (EDI?). And in this case it may be a case of people supporting terror attacks.
And Justice. True justice is missing from the West.
They are also doing a custom 4 chip Hopper GPU for a European HPC initiative. Seems like a good move. Basically allows you to have 4 H100s connected via NVLink without needing a separate SXM board.
Generally it kept the pointy end pointed toward space long enough to not kill anyone. Pad was fubar'd, which was a source of much drama.

It's hard to answer the whole success question though. SpaceX has a very bend it and send it approach to R&D, they've had a hard time with starship and the powers that be, mostly because of the scale of the whole operation.

They got some useful data, but, they didn't get to do all the things they wanted/planned to do, so, failure, but, a useful one. If you remember, they smashed a few falcon 9's into the ground before they landed one. That model might not be tenable with something the size of starship, but, only because the powers that be would much rather you not blow up moon capable rockets as a habit.

Are they right, are they wrong, not really an important question for regual saps like us to be concerned with. All the spaceX fans in the world have no chance of moving the needle there any more than the spaceX haters do.
I think at least most can agree, however, rockets are cool, and, watching them fly or not in 4k on youtube for free is a good thing.
I will join you in being downvoted. Social shaming is necessary. We need to hold each other accountable or future generations wont stand a chance

Also, shame is a language everyone understands. All ages
This is true. I have heard this verbatim from multiple coder buddies. It's a certain kind of personality that's excited to take on these risks, let alone these tasks. Technical cofounder is an obscure type of person.
My takeaway from this is that we should lament the gradual death of niche forums where we can discuss this with real humans.
I went to see a launch, it was incredible. But beware, they were scheduled for a Monday but cancelled twice due to weather before ultimately launching on a Friday. Luckily I was in town (LA, pretty close to Vandenberg) all week.
I don't know what sort of orbits Starship is capable of but Kessler syndrome!
I can assure you, Google does have people review apps.

Our app gets held up fairly regularly, I'm not sure why us in particular, but we have an app that requires our licensed service to use, quite often they'll muck up the registration process with the test accounts we provide (they're one-time) registration, and then hold up our app until we provide more test accounts for them to use.

They also recently took issue with some functionality of our app that they claim existed (but doesn't) and forced us to update our privacy policy to mention it so we can get it through. I know for a fact, said functionality doesn't exist, because I lead the team that builds the backend, but there was just no arguing with them.
yeah, sumproduct on google docs was the thing it kept suggesting, but not in a way that worked for the thing I wanted. I found a way around it in the end, but I feel I wasted 30 mins trying to get ChatGPT to understand what I wanted and give me something that actually worked.
AI robot uses meteorite from Mars to help make oxygen from water
> "Destination: the moon. Or Moscow."

This is why we can't have nice things.
A GPT to improve your reading speed
yes I am technical. The issue is that my friends for engineering school are not into coding (most are mechanical or industrial engineers). My friends from business school are not into coding either. There isn't a lot of hackathons here in Paris like in SF, most of the time it is just in engineering schools for students. I am working full time. I reached out to ruby/python groups but they are also very inactive. the software engineering culture in France is not really like in the US where things go fast and there is a lot of talent and excitement. But I will maybe try harder/better. It's still very frustrating.
Sarcastic? I'm earnestly perplexed.
No information is better than bad information IMHO.
Major security concerns regarding the existing and upcoming chat bot releases.
OpenAI recruits Google AI experts with huge offers
I think LLMs are the wrong solution for this problem.

Why make something that produces low level code based off of existing low level code instead of building up meaningful abstractions to make development easier and ensure that low level code was written right?

Basically react and other similar abstractions for other languages did more to take "coding" out of creating applications than gpt ever will IMO.
20 is too many. How many of us have 20 friends we can corral into testing an Android app that isn't even on the store yet?
They could also start ordering search results by relevancy or quality instead of propensity to make money, but that won't happen either
The content is ~~designed~~curated to destroy the minds of the consumers. There have been quite a few articles showing how content differs between the West and China.
GP didn't say that AI was easier than expected, rather that AI is easier than robotics, which is true. Compared to mid-century expectations, robotics has been the most consistently disappointing field of research besides maybe space travel, and even that is well ahead of robots now.
> Or in other words, people should be glad that the demand for cashiers still exists, until the job gets fully automated.

... because what happens otherwise?
I don't get why it wouldn't be impressive.

You say its trivial, but is it?

How many times have you tried it?
Frankly, I enjoy software development more because I can bounce obscure ideas off GPT4 and get sufficient quality questions and ideas back on subjects whenever it suits my schedule, as well as code snippets that lets me solve the interesting bits faster.

Maybe it'll take the coding part of my job and hobbies away from me one day, but even then, I feel that is more of an opportunity than a threat - there are many hobby projects I'd like to work on that are too big to do from scratch where using LLMs are already helping make them more tractable as solo projects and I get to pick and choose which bits to write myself.

And my "grab bag" repo of utility code that doesn't fit elsewhere has had its first fully GPT4 written function. Nothing I couldn't have easily done myself, but something I was happy I didn't have to.

For people who are content doing low level, low skilled coding, though, it will be a threat unless they learn how to use it to take a step up.
I just received this too. I wonder why? I imagine the cost of providing this service is utterly minimal (though as ever I guess it's a hobby project whose maintainer has left)
> Before we move on, I want to point out that “being able to write code from left to right without backtracking” is a completely bonkers thing to optimize a programming language for. This should not be anywhere in the top hundred priorities for any “serious programming language”!

There are plenty of serious languages that are written this way. Most noticeably are shell scripting languages but I’ve seen stack based and functional languages that are written like this too.
Switch to life 8)
Regarding the size of the market, given a low enough energy price, the potential market size would be bigger. I guess that for any desired market size there exist a energy price to enable that market size :)
As I read it, this is not data that can be extracted by the app but a black box the phone’s internal systems handle? Not an iOS developer
That's fine, our species is still growing by the billions so enough people are taking care of that.

They don't seem to take care of leaving the planet habitable though, which is IMO a much more urgent problem than any perceived social decline.
All of the orbits. I would rather have a Kessler syndrome around Mars than not.
Really sorry you had such a bad experience. It's exactly what I am trying to avoid. Let's chat if possible.
My 2009 Macbook still works fine, thanks. The battery is a spicy pillow and the Superdrive is dead, but it works, albeit slowly. It's mostly running Debian nowadays (the last supported MacOS release, 10.12, doesn't even run a modern browser nowadays).

I also have a 2007 Sony VAIO in a cupboard running Ubuntu 20.04 just fine, as a backup. Its battery is only good as a UPS nowadays, but the computer works fine.
ah well funny, the only dell studio i saw couldn't operate more than 6 months without requiring surgery (motherboard, dvd drive, keyboard)
Sorry to hear that you lost your mom. That 4 years is such a gift though. I lost my sister to a very aggressive ovarian cancer a few years back. Diagnosed and dead within a few months, and she had just had a baby a few months before diagnosis. She didn't make it to his first birthday. Aside from the grief there was just a feeling of such... I know it sounds odd, but "unfairness". Like the whole universe was unfair and wrong. Like there should be a big red button you can push to stop everything and demand a recount. My mom lost her religious faith the day my sister died. My father was, right to the end, certain that something would be done to save her. It was very much a "this isn't happening" moment.

If some treatment had given her 4 years...
She'd still be gone by now, and that would still be a tragedy, but she would have had a whale of a time with her boisterous son. He never got to know her. Sure, he would have had to deal with losing his mother. But we all experience love and loss. You can't have one without the other.
What a terrible decision, how does that do anything other than fuck over small developers? The ones who want to publish "unsafe" apps will just cheat the system

How about they actually deal with the low quality, spammy apps that are already published?

I'll give a good example, VPN apps, specifically the ones published by "Country VPN LLC", they have 145 apps that are just titled copy-paste "(insert country) VPN", nor do they actually provide the VPN location they claim. And there's more just like that publisher, such as "Proxy Master & Turbo VPN" and "AltApps" both of which have 14 apps that are titled for different countries

https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=Country+VPN+...

https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=Proxy+Master...

https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=AltApps
> But I’ve learned that whatever the output is requires as much scrutiny as a good code review. I fear there’s a lot of copy and pasting of wrong answers out there. The good news is that for now they will need real engineers to come in and clean up the mess.

isn't it sad that real engineers are going to work as cleaners for AI output? And doing this they are in fact training the next generation to be more able to replace real engineers...
We are trading our future income for some minor (and questionable) development speed today.
I like discovering other communities but not our species as a whole. In fact it makes me pretty depressed reading the news lol. We're not very good at looking after ourselves or the planet.
I know at least one French founder, but I'll admit he was very excited to be working in SF when I met him. You may have to leave the country, simply because SF is the Schelling Point where we've all agreed to meet. But Paris is a city of two million souls. I struggle to imagine that not one of them is the right partner for you.

What do you mean by "reached out?" Did you attend? Insinuate yourself into the community? Perhaps you are hunting with neither enough commitment nor subtlety.
I think people like the author are starting realize coding is a very generic thing. And that it’s not itself “beautiful” but can be used to apply “beautiful” concepts.
If thousands of people have done it before you than why isn't it abstracted to the point that it's just as easy to tell an LLM to do it as it is to do it yourself?
This is much more about exploration than whatever technologically obsolete moribund project NASA is able to push through porkbarrelling process at the expense of a dozen more worthy ones.
"in a robust way" does a lot of work here and works as a weasel word/phrase, i.e. it means whatever the reader wants it to mean (or can be redefined in an argument to suit your purpose).

Why is it that you feel that you couldn't make stream processing that works for your use cases? Is it also that you couldn't do it after some research? Are you one of the juniors/mids that you refer to in your poost?

I'm trying to understand this type of mindset because I've found that overwhelmingly most things can be done to a perfectly acceptable degree and often better than big offerings just from shedding naysayer attitudes and approaching it from first principles. Not to mention the flexibility you get from then owning and understanding the entire thing.
Atleast for PC hardware, CPU development was severely stifled by lack of competition most of the 2010s.

Intel had no credible competition until AMD got their shit together with Zen, and wasted no opportunity to rest on their laurels. This is also why both newer Zen and also Apple's new silicon is seemingly making such fantastic advances. It's essentially catching up to where we could have been all along if we had a healthier market.
Although you are absolutely right, I think the point the author is trying to make is more melancholic. He's grieving about a loss of significance of the craft he has devoted so much of his life to. He's imagining software engineers becoming nothing more than a relic, like elevator operators or blacksmiths.
It is OR not AND. I just listed the different technologies I am comfortable working with. But sure for an AI product, doing an MVP with React + fastapi + postgreSQL and deploying on heroku or render seems like a good idea.
Do people seriously consider this the waning days of the craft? I don’t understand that.

My view is that I am about to enter the quantum productivity period of coding.

I am incredibly excited about AI assistance on my coding tasks, because it improves not only what I’m writing, but also helps me to learn as I go. I have never had a better time writing software than I have in the last year.

I’ve been writing software for a few decades. But now I’m able to overcome places where I get stuck and have almost a coach available to help me understand the choices I’m making and make suggestions constantly. And not just wandering over to a fellow cuders desk to ask them about a problem I am facing, but actually give me some productive solutions that are actually inspirational to the outcome.

It’s amazing.

So why do people think that coding is coming to some kind of end? I don’t see any evidence that artificial intelligence coding assistants are about to replace coders, unless you… suck badly at building things, so what are people getting on about?

I feel like somebody came along and said, “foundations are now free, but you still get to build a house. But the foundations are free.”

I still have to build a house, and I get to build an entire house and architect it and design it and create it and socialize it and support it and advocate for it and explain it to people who don’t understand it but… I don’t have to build a foundation anymore so it’s easier.

Shoot me down. I’m not relating here at all.
What worries me about these types of folks too is that they usually find an under-experienced engineer who has just enough chops to build out some MVP but not follow things through to completion. They then invariably string this person along through build out and then find a way to cut them out and bring on a real technical cofounder.
Yeah, having a set timeline like the article’s shot where you have to kinda deliver 10 seconds in 10 seconds so that it ends with the rocket ignition was a clever use of timing that hasn’t been used since in that magnitude. I guess the OP was referring to “The best shot in TV history” rather than timed shot.

For timing, The article’s example is pinnacle. For just best shot, Tiger Wood’s 2005 shot. Best photograph shot: Earthrise from Apollo 8.
I have a back-in-the-day (2011) maxed out Thinkpad X201, that was somewhere around $1.5k (whooping max 8GB RAM, etc... :)

In the intervening 12 years:

- I've replaced the disk at least 2x (going to SSD, and replacing a failed one with a current 1TB this year)

- Replaced the cooling fan (1x? 2x? I don't remember)

- Replaced the motherboard (that was fun: https://gergely.imreh.net/blog/2022/07/an-open-heart-motherb...)

- Tried to upgrade the wifi card for newer standards (that's a fail, as it seems to be locked down in the BIOS what cards the machine can use)

- Managed to set a max frequency to the CPU so now I don't have a thermal shutdown, it works rock solid and still reasonable performance.

It sounds like a lot of pain, but it's still my favourite device to work on ever since, ArchLinux humming away with XFCE. Not sure what my next machine will be, but this current one will give a run for its money...
Instagram as it exists today is a streamlined dopamine injection engine.

Variable rewards, instantaneous short-form tailored content, fear of missing out. It's carefully built for continuous user engagement.
The Open Source Fortress
The Linux, Ubuntu, and open source communities successfully organised the Ubuntu Summit less than two weeks ago. On the event's final day, I presented the first iteration of a software security workshop, "The Open Source Fortress: Finding Vulnerabilities in Your Codebase Using Open Source Tools".

Based on a custom, purposefully vulnerable Python and C codebase, I proposed tasks using a variety of techniques and tools:

- Threat modelling with OWASP Threat Dragon;

- Secret scanning with Gitleaks;

- Dependency scanning with OSV-Scanner;

- Linting with Bandit and flawfinder;

- Code querying with Semgrep;

- Fuzzing with AFL++; and

- Symbolic execution with KLEE.

The workshop consists of an online wiki and a GitHub repository with source code and pre-built Docker images.

It is meant to be solved at home without the live assistance of a workshop host. Just follow the next steps:

1. Review the concepts of SDLC and software security.

2. Understand and set up the analysis infrastructure.

3. Understand the vulnerable application that will be analysed: its functionality, architecture, and vulnerabilities.

4. For each analysis technique, solve the proposed tasks. If encountering blockers, the proposed solutions can be used.

5. Review what other analysis techniques exist and how all techniques can be automated.

6. Review the security checklist and think about how the techniques and tools can be embedded in the development process of participant's projects.

Please let me know what you think about it!

If you need support or have a question or proposal, reach out to me, or just create an issue in the GitHub repository.
I chatgpt translated this:

"Our business model can't afford to pay enough translators so we have been replacing them with chatGPT, and enough of our users haven't complained that we consider it a success"
Yeah, I actually misremembered that scene as being the opposite of what GP described, as the pressure wave was the thing that made the biggest impression on me back those years ago - it's the other thing that's very rarely modeled when things in movie explode.
They know a lot about TruCoat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2LLB9CGfLs and financial engineering.