skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> On the other hand discovering something on your own can aid a deeper understanding, so maybe it is not too bad after all

That is the take we globally landed on I think.

For instance students will be asked to prove known theorems, solve classic problems, literally reinvent the wheel. And sometimes realize it's all wrong and there's better approaches or more accurate theories.
Shows the value of a platform monopoly. Why is Google the one on trial and not Apple?
The difference is that in big tech, the fraud is expected because of the scale, it's an amoral faceless algorithm. If you had a human verifying each transaction, you could blame (or at least appeal to) the human.
The price discovery of it in the browser, literally the thing that was accidentally leaked, that this article is about. What part of this article talking about payments to be the default search engine would imply search ads or popularity as being relevant?
I would guess it is limited to certain applications that use more sketchy advertising SDKs, not anything mainstream
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That scam predates ChatGPT by a lot, it's not necessarily AI driven.
Yes, and in that case, the unwitting (but really often semi-witting) money mule is likely to be left holding the bag, e.g. if the outbound international wire ends up being non-reversible, but the inbound Zelle payment they're "forwarding" does get reversed.
Oh, that's ugly. Not to be callous: but it could have been much worse still, in spite of all of the failing safety systems. The dam itself could have failed and the downstream effects would have been on a completely different level.
Re: Swift

None of those advocacies being effectively controversial / MSM disfavored. Essentially, they read as an almost required checklist for establishment darlings. Advocating for them isn't bravery, today. It's common business sense.

The point being that these advocacies aren't a substitute, in any sense, for one that might draw her negative press. If the measurement is bravery, or unusual effort or some such.
A lot is annoying to swipe type on a phone. I know alot is not in the dictionary, but it will always be one of the first words I purposefully add to my user dictionary, right after all the cuss words.
Ask HN: Do you find GPT's browsing useful?
Now that web browsing is enabled by default I've experienced ChatGPT trying to browse the web in response to my question a couple of times. Every time the result was underwhelming, mostly because it seems to be getting information from spammy low-quality websites. I now started appending "don't browse the web" to nearly all my questions. It's quite annoying, to be honest.

Do you have a similar experience or do you find the browsing useful?
That seems like a rather specific guess -- plenty of things can go wrong beside that problem.

I found the comment more reflective of lacking any reporting process, even for "major" vulnerabilities. These days, companies have turned bug bounties into a marketing and recruiting tool, so it's a very different story.
Interesting idea. Why not? Tho I suspect there are - big? - problems with accessiblity. So for many, that's a deal breaker.
You are free to sacrifice your own privacy. This discussion is about whether you have the right to forcefully sacrifice mine. You’re only consistent in doing what benefits you, even if that means your support for a policy depends on who is involved and not what it does.
>At one point, we wanted a command that would print a hundred random lines from a dictionary file. I thought about the problem for a few minutes, and, when thinking failed

Wow, this guys working on rocket science, everyone. Watch out! We might get replaced!
Maybe I’m in the minority. I’m definitely extremely impressed with GPT4, but coding to me was never really the point of software development.

While GPT4 is incredible, it fails OFTEN. And it fails in ways that aren’t very clear. And it fails harder when there’s clearly not enough training resources on the subject matter.

But even hypothetically if it was 20x better, wouldn’t that be a good thing? There’s so much of the world that would be better off if GOOD software was cheaper and easier to make.

Idk where I’m going with this but if coding is something you genuinely enjoy, AI isn’t stopping anyone from doing their hobby. I don’t really see it going away any time soon, and even if it is going away it just never really seemed like the point of software engineering
Do you agree or disagree with the premise of the article
I've found that to be the case. I typically don't want a full transcript -- I want the materials list, or a summary, or a counterargument. I've found it is totally sufficient to just plop the transcript into an LLM and ask for my desired output. No need to clean of the transcript ahead of time.
As in Google thinks Apple, a company that hasn’t been able to run a first rate (no make it second rate) software service after years - not one, will be able to make something that replaces Google Search? That’s a bit difficult to believe.

But then I believe Google wasn’t thinking Apple could do it well at all. I think Google is sure of - is the typical Apple customer base that will just gobble up whatever Apple shoves down their throat, heartily. Yeah, I think it’s this one :)
It reminds me of the days when electronics hobbyists -- and plenty of older engineers -- had to be dragged kicking and screaming out of the vacuum-tube era.
Really? They don't let you file it online?

https://www.oaklandca.gov/services/report-a-crime-online

https://www.sanfranciscopolice.org/get-service/police-report...

There's apparently even a SaaS for them called Coplogic.
>Ok. But is that really the only reason?

Sentiment shift. Moral Compass in Silicon Valley ( or more like in the Tech Sector ), Smartphone Revolution and 15 years of zero interest rate.

None of the reported are really "news" apart from the precise 36% figure which is higher than most of our initial estimate. "Customer acquisition cost" isn't new. On a similar note Google also share their Ad revenue with Mozilla / Firefox.

We might not like a lot of what's going on with Google or Apple. But I dont think revenue share is in anyway wrong or illegal.
Because it’s worth 36% of revenue? Google is not unsophisticated, if it was worth less they would pay less.
I’m pretty sure New Yorker writer is the first job that LLMs will replace.
It could be cheaper than the typical container port, if you can co-ordinate the ships: the Rustbucket Pacific unloads to a train/series of trains that carry the containers to the waiting Rustbucket Atlantic at the other end. No need to sort out destinations at the individual container level.

This does mean that you would like to work with the same shipping line at both ends, to address the matching of ship capacities.
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I don't find it very useful personally.
Why name it PixArt when it covers a broader range of media than simply pixel art? Super confusing.
> I think of WAFs as an extra safety net. Defense in depth.

The WAF itself is a complex codebase written in a performance-critical domain, so they're generally implemented in memory-unsafe languages. If the services behind the WAF are implemented at all competently, you're probably increasing the attack surface by more by adding the WAF than you're saving.
“Let me tell you, you take on the intelligence community, they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you,”

- Senator Chuck Schumer
Maybe a different take is you vote your tax contributions on the issues voted up for consideration.

So by pop vote people vote their favorite causes (schools, roads, homeless shelters, prisons, climate, pensions, etc.) and as a taxpayer you can vote your dollars/currency into any number of causes you can spread your tax contribution among.
Devastating leak for Google. Just given the upper hand to the DOJ on a silver plate.

The clock is ticking to break up Google, and it is going to be a sight to behold.
Bell Riots, still on track for next year.
In theory I like the idea of an instant-settlement irreversible payment service, but realistically I don't think such a thing can exist for long. Pretty much by its nature, it will attract more and more scams until anger and political pressure build up enough that it is forced to implement protections and clawbacks. "Delayed settlement with clawbacks" is a stable equilibrium in a way "instant settlement with no protection" is not.
I don't feel like we are in the waning days of the craft at all. Most of the craft is creating an understanding between people and software and most human programmers are still bad at it. AI might replace some programmers but none who program as a craft.
Some people I feel fear losing their siloed prestige built on arcane software knowledge. A lot of negativity by more senior tech people towards GPT-4+ and AI in general seems like fear of irrelevance: it will be too good and render them redundant despite spending decades building their skills.
Yeah. If you're picking up the item in person, you can bring cash.
Ironic, because the final NIST report explaining their choice mentions that BLAKE has more open examination of cryptanalysis than Keccak as a point in favor of BLAKE.
How much do the world wide network of cashiers spend of their own money to maintain the tools, systems, and otherwise building they are employed in?
Gen Z is usually considered to have been born between 1996 and 2012 -- so yeah, it's not shocking that a generation whose youngest are middle schoolers still mostly lives at home.
I do think .net moves faster than it should (faster than it used to for sure) but I assuage that worry with the fact that you can still install .net framework 1 and it'll work.
The methane emissions from farming do not matter in the slightest anyway. They can only release what they already absorbed from their feed. We should stop adding more ghg to the atmosphere that hasn't been there for millions of years, allowing the carbon cycle to continue with that ghg currently in atmosphere does no harm.

The people crying about this are simply serving an agenda of people who want to force the average citizen to eat bugs to make literal pennies more in profit for them and their family. It's absurd. We won't do anything about climate change by stopping agriculture, it will simply ruin food supply.
You can implement delete operations by marking fragments as deleted.
That way you can still refer to them from a positional perspective, but they will eventually disappear. The exact behavior depends on the implementation, the only requirement is that every "user" reaches the same state eventually.

A: delete Line 4@marker
B: append to the end of line 4@marker "abcd"

could then result in either line 4 with only "abcd", or "abcd" at the beginning of line 5 (as long as both sides resolve to the same state).
You're right in that this is tricky to get right, as that is inherent to the complexity of asynchonous mutation from multiple sources.
Do you honestly believe that the skills of software devs will never be eclipsed by AI tools?
Are they really broadcasting the imagery back down from the satellite without encryption?
<They still don't look like they are putting in a proper effort.>

Quite the contrary, they've turned around the company to focus on AI.

Legacy software projects are on hold and software developers moved to
work on AI under a new VP (former Xilinx exec). They have purchased some startups to get experienced AI developers.

Here is Andrew Ng giving a positive evaluation of AMD's software efforts
https://youtu.be/KDBq0GqKpqA?t=2359
> Do any of these help against a DDOS, or even accidental DOS caused by search spam? Nah, but a WAF at the edge stops the latter in its tracks.

Only if the WAF can reject bad requests more cheaply than the thing behind it. IME if your app is implemented decently it will outperform the WAF.
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Are we still doing design systems?
This is the conceit of knowledge work in general. You're only as relevant as much as you keep up.

It's why it continues to tend young.

The older you get, the more opinionated you get and with opinions come inflexibility so the less you are open to new ways of thinking, even those which may be superior.

Essentially people have criticisms of newer tools that have become industry standards as unnecessary and inferior.

Regardless of the merits of that argument, the new tooling is where the industry is at. The best hackers I know are extreme versions of this. Increasing dissagreability appears to be the crucial flaw of competency unless you work hard to avoid it.

The most extreme version of this I remember was about 20 years ago when I met a man of about 55 who was clearly a very brilliant computer engineer with impressive credentials that I have forgotten (a prestigious PhD and work history) but said he had always dismissed microcomputers, yes, as in not minicomputers and mainframes as toys and a waste of time. This was like 2002. I was still in college then and I vowed to never become that guy.

Still trying...
It'll be amazing if anyone can request any basic program they want. Totally amazing if they can request any complex program.

I cannot really envision a more empowering thing for the common person. It should really upset the balance of power.

I think we'll see, soon, that we've only just started building with code. As a lifelong coder, I cannot wait to see the day when anyone can program anything.
Article says 'adult'.
that’s new montgomery, and the diff from before is very small, from my memories working in an office on that street for some years… hardly demonstrates “SF cleaned up”
My easy way through this is to put in the listing that the exchange is cash only and to be done at the local police parking lot where it’s monitored. As soon as I started doing this all the BS stopped and I only get more serious offers. It is harder to sell, but I’ll take that over the scams.
Easy-to-use tool will let you make a map of anything
Good point (not sarcastically). What customer needs and is willing to pay for an antivirus that has some tolerance for error?
OTOH Apple could easily buy a company that has a good search product.

And it could even rival Google if they don't have to optimize for increasing ad revenue.
> Nepal has banned all pornographic sites in 2018.
I saw the article's main picture, a bottle of Robitussin, and was reminded of how I am apparently in the tiny minority of people who enjoy the raw flavor of cough medicine.
> how else is it supposed to work without storing things?

Ask the phone for you contacts list when you need to view contacts? Ask the phone for text data when you need to view texts? Why wouldn't it work like that?

When I make a phone call, does it record both parties' voices and store them on the car's hard drive, or does it just stream the voice data through the car to and from the phone? It's the latter. So it's reasonable that someone might expect the other functions to work that way.
The stuff he describes should rightly be replaced by an AI. However, I think we can still level up. After initial excitement about GPT-generated code I realize that the danger is that we will very quickly generate a lot of code with subtle bugs that will take even longer to debug. If I write the code myself I (or whoever I have look over my shoulder) will be quicker finding the bugs. If it's GPT code I'll first have to dig through the idiosyncrasies, then find the logic error.

Also: writing multi-threaded or otherwise concurrent code is hard to imagine even with GPT 6 or 7.
You wouldn’t want to get “taken for a ride”!
> And she may be looking for someone who can afford to purchase a single luxury good without going broke?

That variety of woman is best rented.
Discussed earlier today

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38253384
Of course, you can set up a definition space so that a puppy is a steam engine.

But if we stick to commonly adopted definitions, like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer or "turing machine" ones - then NO, sorry, brain and computer has barely anything in common. Besides being made of atoms and being complex )
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Celebrities might present themselves as of the common people and they probably once were. Don't let them fool you. Other than a few exceptions, they are in the upper class and partying with the rest of the owner/donor class. Their interests are aligned to ensure that the common folks never get enough power/privacy.
> an additional federal crime to harbor them at your place of employment (8 USC 1324)

Knowingly. There are other stipulations too that make the whole thing pointless unless you're an active conspirator.

> But almost never enforced, for some odd reason...

Sourcing contracted illegal labor has been delegated to fly-by-night recruiters that basically round up illegals in a school bus and drop them off at the desired facility. The employer benefiting from the labor has deniability. Law enforcement struggles to keep up.
See, it's like sysadmin -> DevOps/SRE. Same probably programmer -> A.I. prompt specialist. So yes, but not really.
Waiting for our own Batman to emerge.

- We got the billionaires who lack superpowers.

- We got the complex persona of tech loving traumatized brotherhoods.

- We got the real-time deductive capabilities of AirPod + Whisper APIs
On the flip side the youngest millennials are 28 years old by that standard. It's significant that 20% of that group haven't been able to move away from family.
I honestly wouldn't expect it to be the first application, when the technology eventually does get developed, and we have the power budget necessary to actually operate one of these units.

Until then, it's not a question of "eclipsed," it's a labor market, so it's a question of "efficiency" and the large language model people have a very long way to go to produce something that's generally as capable as a programmer.

So.. I guess if your craft is "scripting" you might be able to get by with GPT-4, but to imagine that your child is not going to ever need to "program" is eager nonsense.
Am I the only one who thinks 36% customer acquisition cost is not crazy?
Just to note here in some cultures multi general homes are the norm. IMHO these families seem to do better overall financially and socially.

For example, There's some one to take care of the elder members, and someone to take care of the kids.
Yeah, and a good proportion of those adults are just starting university. In this rental economy, and with the personal finance wisdom being broadly shared in the last few years, it's still absolutely not shocking that zoomers are staying home while they can (and in particular, longer than millennials).
I don't think it's that black and white. AI will get progressively better and sure, people will be faster to deliver things. But there still needs to be someone to be able to decipher it all. I've been using GPT-4 tons and it's great to help get to a certain destination, but it isn't able to arrive at that destination by itself a majority of times.

Additionally I think that a lot of people will assume that once they get GPT-4 to do something for them that they're done. That's not necessarily true. There's a lot of complexity to navigate everywhere. And AI can help you navigate it! But I don't think it means that I, a software engineer, can now pivot to being a lawyer, for instance, solely because of GPT-4.

Sure, it's able to do a lot already. Maybe I'm being naive. But I see it more as a tool for the future rather than something that is going to automate people out of existence.

Edit: hm, why downvotes? If I'm wrong, help me improve my viewpoint on AI.
There's so much excusing away while things will be bad, for a long time, but that doesn't seem particularly hacker-ful. I'm glad those views are represented, but as many HN threads the status quo is again decidedly notably business-as-usual in-defense-of-meh.

That said, I do think front end routers are just taking over. Kubernetes Gateway API is the front end API, hard fought for & iterated again and again and again, to become a baseline set of expectations that's basically great. Having a front end that can compose routes is so so so good & powerful, needed to be standardized, and this seems far & away like what is happening.

I tend to agree that we have too often in the past intermediated our services. It wasn't even a firewall, but my org used to basically out of habit put an nginx in each container in front of node. No one knew why, no one could conjecture what for, but we just let it roll. WAF is that kind of thoughtless mindless zombie nonsense.
In my experience, pointless meanness was not tolerated at BW whatsoever. Pointed messaging was encouraged. The fact that I had to explain this to you is because you're an outsider and not used to the culture. Karen I am sure was not put off.

Here's Karen talking about the culture btw. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_ipFnQ05L0