skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm pretty libertarian, but I agree something needs to change. I don't know what sane regulation would look like, but I suspect the politician's answer would be regulatory capture of some kind. I personally don't want some kind of government censor managing my internet connection, but at the same time I think this shit is detrimental to society. I think it's a conversation we should be having.
The crackle of the air moving back and forth during a shuttle launch would be so fast and intense that the friction of the air (near the launch pad) would set the grass on fire.
Coreboot should help with newer wifi cards. It seems you need an external flasher for this model, though: https://libreboot.org/docs/install/x200_external.html https://www.coreboot.org/Board:lenovo/x200
I'm not bothering to make open source apps for Android because they'll be inevitably flooded out by 1000 ad- and microtransaction-infested variants, and I'm not even allowed to distinguish myself from them with my primary feature, "free of that garbage" (IIRC you can't even mention it in the app description, definitely not in the name).

There are enough people happy to just make and maintain a cool thing, but I can't find their work.
Robbery is a violent crime, it shouldn't be a "waste of police time" to report violent crimes... No matter the value of the belongings, that's secondary, the fear and violence shouldn't be tolerated.

Can't really tell if you were being sarcastic.
> I recently asked ChatGPT to produce similar CSS and it did so flawlessly.

I use ChatGPT every day for many tasks in my work and find it very helpful, but I simply do not believe this.

> The article points this out: middling generalists can now compete with specialists.

I'd say it might allow novices to compete with middling generalists, but even that is a stretch. On the contrary, ChatGPT is actually best suited to use by a specialist who has enough contextual knowledge to construct targeted prompts & can then verify & edit the responses into something optimal.
> well ahead of robots now

I am not working in that field, but as an outsider it feels like the industrial robots doing most of the work on TSMC's and Tesla's production lines are on the contrary extremely advanced. Aside from that what Boston Dynamics or startups making prosthetics came up is nothing short of amazing.

If anything software seems to be the bottleneck for building useful humanoids...
I worked with someone who was hired because they were likeable, even though they didn’t meet the technical bar. It was a really good decision. They improved the overall atmosphere of the office and made it a nicer place to work.
Let’s also think about this in the reverse. As a potential technical (co)founder how would I validate the business potential of my idea. Irrespective, I am already building it and there is enough complete for anybody to play around with, but not enough complete to fully validate the idea.

So, how would I determine if this thing has business value? This is ah honest question for myself but I suspect if you can answer it you would be a step closer to finding a technical cofounder.
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Yep. I estimate if the files are over 10 million lines, I'd rather use SQLite. They'd probably still fit into memory, but that's where I'd put up with the up-front hassle of SQLite so that I don't have to reparse CSV in Python / Lua / whatever I'm writing this script in
Not the expansionist imperial power in their backyard.
On the flip side, imagine someone committed one or more crimes and were only discovered decades later. Does that mean their crimes should go unpunished.

I'm not specifically arguing for or against, but I guess it's not so simple.
Threads finally allowing users to delete their account separately from Instagram
He might be the CEO, but Gwynne Shotwell runs the business & runs it well.
Not even "from debian". Sometimes they can't be bothered to copy debian packages that fix security issues if the package is in universe, and just leave it vulnerable for the entire duration of the LTS.

Happened to me.
I’ve gone through every permutation that I can think of. It’s a very basic question. If it understood the CSS spec it wouldn’t be difficult to answer the questions or perform the task.

At a certain point going down the rabbit hole of proompter engineering levels feels like an apologist’s hobby. I’m rooting for the tech but there’s a lot of hyperbole out there and the emperor might be naked for a few more years.
We muslims do (for muslims not non-muslims), and also advocate for a ban on such addictive and life-wasting technologies like TikTok in our countries. And guess what, it worked for millenia and still works to a great extent, even when there is no longer a ban in law in many so-called 'muslim' countries. Unlike the American Prohibition which didn't.
Nvidia Announces New H200 GPU for High-Speed Data Processing
I too have a Thinkpad of this variety, living long and rocking onwards, but I also have a 2015 Macbook Pro running Ubuntu Studio that gives the Lenovo a run for its money. In this configuration, the Macbook Pro is my favourite since its a much more physically comfortable machine to work on.

Point is, both of these machines are excellent, well-supported and Simply Work™ Great ..
So, if at some point he starts funding military spaceships that can shoot illegal migrants from space, do we still take the good with the bad, or do we denounce his behaviour?
Yes, they're designed not to cause the problem, but wouldn't they feed the problem, if it's ever caused by someone else?
That’s where I am too. I think almost everyone has that “this is neat but it’s not there yet” moment.
And... where does the remaining 64% come from?
And we have a bunch of 15 year old Macs in the basement that outlasted any PCs we ever owned. What’s the point of these personal anecdotes?

Lenovos build quality went down the drain in the last 10 years and their service is awful.
I think I watched it at 2x speed, and it was only 30m.

I'm gonna say it's worth the hour, and I think you might be falling into the trap of media communication about science. If something is worth communicating to a lay-person, it's worth going into detail about to avoid the exact pitfalls that you might fall into if you were to digest a 10m version of it. If you don't want to watch the 60m version of it, I would say "stay out of the discussion on it."
Adding Hardware to Libmegapixels
Formal methods/dependent types are the future in the same way fusion is, it seems to be perpetually another decade away.

In practice, our industry seems to have reached a sort of limit in how much type system complexity we can actually absorb. If you look at the big new languages that came along in the last 10-15 years (Kotlin, Swift, Go, Rust, TypeScript) then they all have type systems of pretty similar levels of power, with the possible exception of the latter two which have ordinary type systems with some "gimmicks". I don't mean that in a bad way, I mean they have type system features to solve very specific problems beyond generalizable correctness. In the case of Rust it's ownership handling for manual memory management, and for TypeScript it's how to statically express all the things you can do with a pre-existing dynamic type system. None have attempted to integrate generalized academic type theory research like contracts/formal methods/dependent types.

I think this is for a mix of performance and usability reasons that aren't really tractable to solve right now, not even with AI.
Easily solveable by offering the same app for free with IAP (or as shareware), and the same app for a price as a one-time purchase.
All regulation! The proof is in the ridiculously low rate of deaths per megawatt. When you have such a complex tech made as safe a solar panels but takes decades to build and costs more than going to Mars - it's clear overregulation is the culprit.

The solution is simple: deregulate slowly and carefully until you reach the safety of the gas, oil and coal plants dooming our planet (while killing us with pollution) right now.
The thing is, compilers are pretty amazing beasts. CPUs are pretty amazing beasts. "10,000" is a very small value of "N", given those two factors.

I've worked with a lot of engineers that considered anything O(n^2) to be a red flag, and half the time the actual performance profiling favored the naive method simply because the compiler optimized it better.

That means that if you actually care about performance, you've got to spend 30 minutes profiling for most real world scenarios. Yeah, O(n^2) is obviously a crazy bad idea if you ever expect to scale to ten million records, but the vast majority of software being written is handing tiny 10K files, and a very large chunk of it doesn't care at all about performance because network latency eclipses any possible performance gain.
> My view is that I am about to enter the quantum productivity period of coding.

It comes down to whether society's demand for programmers is fixed, or if it scales with how productive programmers are, or more likely some mix of these scenarios. If the demand is fixed, then you are just taking someone's job by being more productive.
Turning bt "off" in your settings likely doesn't actually turn off the radios. It probably just disables connections. If you use lost phone features like findmyiphone, the defaults are to participate in the "find my" network, a mesh network of bt low energy devices for airtags, etc. Most often, even turning off your entire phone won't help, as the incentive to participate in the "find my" network is they give you the feature of tracking your phone even when powered off

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Find_My

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBeacon
I wanted to find another reason to not use Ubuntu for servers (besides Snap being forced on everyone) and this was it.

At least, in Debian, most of the packages I use on my server are from their main repos. Occasionally there are a few from other sources but by the time a new Debian patch is released, those other packages are also updated.
Inspired me to have another run at the second half of Crafting Interpreters.
The statements are factually inaccurate and the code doesn’t do what it claims it should.
I don't care about his stance on politics or anything, but I do consider his twitter crap a waste of his time at the cost of humanity as a whole. If he would focus on spacex (I don't care too much about tesla) and its spin-offs, the world would get better, faster. Even better would be more people like him, then it doesn't matter; we just don't have many for some reason.
Interference with bioelectricity signalling which too is very low power, why not? At 15cm distance there could be stronger near-field effects.
US manufacturing has not been shipped out. US manufacturing output keeps increasing, though it's overall share of GDP is dropping.

US manufacturing jobs went overseas.

What went overseas were those areas of manufacturing that was more expensive to automate than it was to hire low paid workers elsewhere.

With respect to your final question, I don't think we should treat them differently, but I do think few societies have handled this well.

Most societies are set up in a way that creates a strong disincentive for workers to want production to become more efficient other than at the margins (it helps you if your employer is marginally more efficient than average to keep your job safer).

Couple that with a tacit assumption that there will always be more jobs, and you have the makings of a problem if AI starts to eat away at broader segments.

If/when AI accelerates this process you either need to find a solution to that (in other words, ensure people do not lose out) or it creates a strong risk of social unrest down the line.
I agree it's amazing. But your comment doesn't touch on the key economic question that will decide for how many people it will be this amazing new dev experience.

If AI makes developers twice as productive (maybe a few years down the road with GPT-6), will this additional supply of developer capacity get absorbed by existing and new demand? Or will there be half as many developers? Or will the same number of developers get paid far less than today?

These questions arise even if not a single existing dev job can be completely taken over by an AI.

A secondary question is about the type of work that lends itself to AI automation. Some things considered "coding" require knowing a disproportionate number of tiny technical details within a narrowly defined context in order to effect relatively small changes in output. Things like CSS come to mind.

If this is the sort of coding you're doing then I think it's time to expand your skillset to include a wider set of responsibilities.
Maybe some way of making addiction-inducing products less profitable instead of censorship? Or going further, lessening the role of profit in how society is organized?
Yeah. The tendency of Americans to believe their government does not utilize a great amount of unethical power and control while it needs that and not be noticed or can get away with it is unbelievable.
The really big problem with LLMs for general AI usage is the requirement of text input - this is a very limited way to represent ideas and intelligence.

Our brain does not think in text, it just spurts out text as a side effect.
Exactly this, so much energy is needed just to keep things working as they were. It's like Google actively cultivates and accelerates the software rot. Personally I'm tired of it and I'm getting off the train with my app.

I'll also stop using the Play Store because this change clearly signals what's welcome there. They don't want to host quirky-but-useful indie apps with personality. They would rather have the polished addiction forming platforms for corporations. Worst thing, they dress it up as a favor to their users.

F-Droid looks good, though.
I actually don’t get the reference. What are the issues with timers?
> (It's not the lens - That's a pet peeve of mine, it's not the lens. The z-divide in any graphics simulation is what appears to compress or expand depth. The lens merely makes a shorter or farther camera distance practical. The lens themselves don't distort anything until you're talking about fisheye effects.)

Yes, thank you. It's quite unbelievable how many people get this wrong, even on specialized photography forums and the like.
There's a recent "real coding" benchmark that all the top LLMs perform abysmally on: https://www.swebench.com/

However, it seems only a matter of time before even this challenge is overcome, and when that happens the question will remain whether it's a real capability or just a data leak.
I think the same is true of Apple stuff. I mean the current line of soldered SSDs, RAM and pain in the ass to remove batteries is quite frankly annoying as hell. And Apple service isn't much better (it has been 2 weeks and I'm waiting for them to refund AppleCare on something but they have a bug in their system that is preventing it that no one knows how to fix).

As for Lenovo, at that price, I can usually just buy a whole replacement machine either new with warranty or new old stock for around 2/3 usual retail price and get it next day. I paid 730 GBP for my T14 gen 3 for example. And I got to stick bigger RAM and SSD in it and the battery comes out in 30 seconds. Granted the battery sucks but meh, you can't win everything.
Trying to have a balanced view as well, but I have a strong intuition it will get much worse with Elon
> How much do you trust giant Energy megacorp to do the right thing

Just as much as I trust any giant megacorp to do the right thing?! Which is to say slightly more than my government and slightly less than my neighbors.

Everything around me that I use and enjoy (my phone, my car, my laptop, my clothes, my food, movies, music, internet etc) is created&delivered by a megacorp or other. I hope someday we will each produce our own energy but so far solar mostly works on sunny days and home nuclear is probably illegal - regulated to death.
Some parts of AI will necessarily asymptote to human-level intelligence because of a fixed corpus of training data. It's hard to think AI will become a better creative writer than the best human creative writers, because the AI is trained on their output and you can't go much further than that.

But in areas where there's self-play (e.g. Chess, and to a lesser extent, programming), there is no good reason to think it'll saturate, since there isn't a limit on the amount of training data.
I have such a laptop, but it doesn't survive update to Windows 11. Installing Windows 11 on old Thinkpad makes it go slow.

Luckily, there is Windows 10 LTSC bought from dubious serial code reseller. (OK, they possiblly pirate it, but.... Windows 10 LTSC is so good I recommend it to everyone. And MSFT won't sell it to me legally...)

edit: oh, this guy uses Ubuntu. I don't have nerves for Linux.
Wouldn't this be more akin to banning a specific brand of alcohol that is engineered to get children to drink it as much as possible?
Apple's Safari has built in anti-tracking tools. Apple's stance is still "we're not selling YOUR data", but they do allow your data to be anonymously shared and not point to you.
> Then why can I type this sentence when a cereal box can't?

Give it a couple years. IoT WiFi + chatbot + spambot is yesterday's tech.
My niche is in video game programming, and I am very specialized in a specific area. So I might ask things like how would one architect a certain game system with a number of requirements, to meet certain player expectations, and be compatible with a number of things.

Unfortunately, it hasn’t been helpful once, and often due to the same reason - when the question gets specific enough, it hallucinates because it doesn’t know, just like in the early days.

Moreover, I am a domain expert in my area, so I only ask for help when the problem is really difficult. For example, when it would take me several days to come up with an answer and a few more weeks to refine it.

Game development has a lot of enthusiasts online sharing material, but most of this material is at junior to intermediate level. You very quickly run out of resources for questions at a principal level, even if you know the problems you have have been solved in other AAA companies.

You have to rely on your industry friends, paid support from middleware providers, rare textbooks, conferences, and, on the off-chance that anything useful got scooped up into the training data set - GPT. But GPT has been more like wishful thinking for me.
Home assistant does headless bt presence detection in ~200 lines of python I think the author had a painful experience because they wanted to do embedded and had to interface at a much lower level, where it's a long ago solved problem in higher level languages. Considering the tracker ended up in their door next to their computer, they could have stuck with the rpi that ran python and been fine

https://github.com/home-assistant/core/blob/dev/homeassistan...

https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/bluetooth_tracker...
As long as this is true, ChatGPT is going to be a programmer's tool, not a programmer's replacement. I know that my job as I know it will vanish before I enter retirement age, but I don't worry it will happen in the next few years because of this.
That's not normal for Dell. Believe me. We bought a boat load of very recent Precision series and getting 12-18 months out of them would be considered a miracle. I've got a dead 5550 in the cupboard (thermal failure) and my 7670 is dying now as well. Also I have so many blown up Dell docks I look like a far Eastern recycling slum at the moment.

Their monitors are good though!
Honestly, this reminds me of my early days when auto-complete and OOP was the best thing. It's why OOP proliferated, you type in the name of the object and get a list of completions in visual studio. No need to read docs or understand what you are doing, just find the method you need on that object. This new copilot coding reminds me of that, throwing shit and see what sticks, without understanding why and how it works. I can't help to shake the thought that we will see heaps of mediocre code cranked out that just about works, even though the problem maybe required a tenth of that to solve it.
> After a candidate puts forth the O(n²), I smile politely and I wait. I am really hoping the next words that come out of their mouth are “…but the complexity of this is O(n²) so can I do better?”

> Occasionally, a candidate will think they’re done at this point. 90% of the times that a candidate was done without questioning the quadratic nature of that solution, the final outcome of the loop was No Hire. So that’s another signal for me.

I would have been one of such candidates. The author said they didn't like tricky questions and wanted to get a signal on how the candidate may approach real world problems. Well this is indeed tricky -- unless you drop a bunch of constraints in the beginning, for a real world project, I would just use all the resources I can access to finish it. I am not going to go the extra miles to optimize it in all possible ways. Premature optimization can be evil. I provided the solution, it works and meets all your requirements, then I am done.

Want me to make it fast/memory efficient? You have to say it. Forgot to mention it in the first iteration? No problem, cut me a ticket and I will see if I can sneak it into my next sprint.
Is choosing 1 of 2 parties reaaaally democratic?
I've noticed that over the years, coding has gotten easier.

That is the history of programming in a nutshell. I know I've told this story before, but my wife's uncle talks about the revolution he felt when FORTRAN IV was released. Finally you didn't have to know anything about computers or programming to write programs. You just told the computer what you want it to do and it sorted out all the hard stuff for you. Engineers like him could now just use computers on their own and didn't have to wait for the programmers to have time. He spent the rest of his career writing code without ever learning any of the 'craft' the veteran programmers at the time would have considered necessary.
Why do you have that feeling? I volunteer helping to report and disrupt networks of sexual assault and hatred against women on social media. Tik Tok is like the wild west in terms of the availability of CSAM for example, and in how tolerant it is of hate speech. Instagram actually takes reports seriously and doesn't tolerate threats of violence etc.
I may be wrong but this seems inaccurate. In WWII, the cryptanalysis of the Enigma (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptanalysis_of_the_Enigma) was related not to number theory, but to group theory. Number theory became relevant to cryptography only since the 1970’s/1980’s when Diffie and Hellman published their paper on public-key cryptography. Although number theory was related to cryptography in the past (e.g. in shift ciphers and block cyphers), it was the Diffie-Hellman paper that placed number theory in the central role.
By choosing an orbit that degrades quickly. And possibly making the sattelites disposable.
No, it failed almost immediately off the launch pad when the engines started malfunctioning and it started out on a wrong trajectory even off the launch pad. The detachment was never attempted, and the decision not to attempt detaching was taken as soon as the safe trajectory was missed.

Additionally, the self-destruct mechanism also failed, though thankfully it produced enough damage to allow the rocket to naturally explode later.
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