skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To get rid of shovelware, Google should just add a search filter that allows filtering for "No In-App Purchases" and "Doesnt show ads" plus a "Costs money (no subscription)". But something tells me thats only good for the user, not the business.
>imagine all the stuff we can do

..if we don't have to do stuff?
suborbital but I think barely so? if things go right, afaik the 2nd stage should reenter somewhere in the pacific. that's almost orbital velocity.
It feels like this article was not written by a programmer, and it feels like a number of the commenters are not professional engineers. What part of a programmer jobs can AI realistically replace in the near term?

For the sake of argument, let’s say it could replace the coding part cost effectively. Can it still do all the other parts? Take ambiguous requirements and seek clarity from design, product, etc. (instructing an AI to a sufficient degree to build a complex feature could almost be a coding task itself). Code reviews. Deal with random build failures. Properly document the functionality so that other programmers and stakeholders can understand. Debug and fix production issues. And that’s just a subset.

Realistically, in the future there will be a long phase of programmers leveraging AI to be more efficient before there’s any chance that AI can effectively replace a decent programmer.

This will be an advantage to engineers who think on the more abstract side of the spectrum. The “lower level” programming tasks will be consumed first.
When doing Humanitarian OpenStreetMap I notice that the imagery is often from Maxar. Did OSM have some kind of deal with them, or maybe it was a donation?
One thing this shot is sync the sound and visuals. In reality because of the slower speed of sound (around 340m/s) the noise of the rocket wouldn't be heard until the rocket was significantly above the tower. You also hear various other pieces in the sound that indicate it wasn't recorded on site.

This is one of the things I really notice in movies. Whenever something explodes in a fight sequence (eg Marvel movies[1]) the sound matches the explosion exactly. I find it annoying although I suspect the average movie-goer would be put off if the sound was realistically delayed.

[1] https://youtu.be/4vHxHgYaOes?si=BnzjncUQLHz_6DZy&t=58
I don't know if it was that recent? I abandoned the app two years ago because of the introduction of the algorithmic feed ( and the explore page, but at least you had to click on that )
You obviously never played the game. The shot mentioned was pretty much impossible, yet Tiger pulled it off. Dead lay chip with perfect backspin to stop the ball and allow gravity to pull it down the slope into the hole. Not only was the placement precision, the backspin precision, but the fact that there was just enough momentum to get the ball to drop into the cup.

Science is cool, rockets too, but the finesse of this shot hasn’t been seen since.
German Court Finds Broadcom H.265 Patent Valid; Netflix Found to Infringe
Same here. I'm not a developer. I do engineering and architecture in IAM. I've tested out GPT-4 and it's good for general advice or problem solving. But it can't know the intricascies of the company I work at with all our baggage, legacy systems and us humans sometimes just being straight up illogical and inefficient with what we want.

So my usage has mostly been for it to play a more advanced rubber duck to bounce ideas and concepts off of and to do some of the more tedious scripting work (that I still have to double check thoroughly).

At some point GPT and other LLMs might be able to replace what I do in large parts. But that's still a while off.
The a=b&c=d syntax is part of application/x-www-url-formencoded which was a Mosaic invention, and came after query strings. [0] [1]

[0] http://1997.webhistory.org/www.lists/www-talk.1993q3/0812.ht...

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/19961220100435/http://www.ncsa.u...
Learn about the classification of devices in Linux, the role of device drivers, and the differences between character devices, block devices, and network equipment.
I do wonder with the cost reduction, weight limit increase and turnaround time reduction if we could now skip a lot of "planning".

Can we get to a point where every kg doesn't need to be maliciously thought about and optimised, maybe we could just yeet any potentially useful thing in to orbit and sort it out later.
I don’t really go on Reddit so don’t know if something is going on but I know there has been very few jobs this year compared to normal times and rates have been going down so it could be genuinely disaffected people being angry rather than a coordinated campaign.
But this is only a potential issue if you expect users to record their own gestures and then switch direction for some reason. If you are the one to define the gestures you can just preprocess them to allow multiple directions/orientations (or just record multiple yourself).
I'm just running stuff at home and it mostly doesn't matter, at work it's whatever the client uses.

I vastly prefer Fedora to testing@Debian or God forbid Ubuntu and would like to use the same environment in a server distro too
great data – wish they provided the raw information to slice the respondent audience more, but aligns with what I've seen in the market re: concerns and models.
It probably isn't about grand principles, and comes down to wether they have someone to talk to and accommodate their grievances.

If Meta happened to be more reactive and cooperating than ByteDance, they won't be bothered.
Well actually…
There’s no hydrogen burning in that stage. It’s solid fuel and aerozine (hydrazine).
> Restricting your choices in life, can often lead to good outcomes.

The article isn't about somebody restricting their own choices in life, but about the Nepalese government restricting others' choices in life, which is an entirely different thing.
Transitory Inflation?
On a high level assuming the concept of an AGI is even possible, I think AGI would be a system that creates ideas and makes decisions on it's own without being "instructed" what to do like the LLMs we are seeing today.
We can already run local models on a laptop that are competitive with chatgpt 3.5

Open source may trail openai if they come out with a 20x improvement, but I'm not sure the dystopian future playing out is as likely as I would have thought it 1-2 years ago.
I suppose they could console themselves with knowledge that it was never their land. The monarch of the island, and later islands, or local chief had control over it. The very concept of people, or citizens, controlling their land is a concept that was imported.
You think the Department of Justice should launch a propaganda campaign instead of using legal argument in a trial?
This lockdown of what used to be a relatively accessible app distribution system is sad. At least we have F-Droid :)

https://f-droid.org
We expect the workers displaced to suffer something worse. It’s not just or fair that people lose their source of income and ability to support their families through no fault of their own. Slippery slope arguments to one side.

We have a choice about how society is organized our current setup isn’t ‘natural’ and it’s largely one of accelerating inequality.
"A sufficiently large difference in quantity is a difference in kind"
New ICCL reports reveal serious security threat to the EU and US
Perhaps these cases will finally force the regulators to enforce their laws.
> Euclidean geometry does not describe the universe, even if it's useful.

A statement that doesn't disprove the thesis in the slightest.

eg: There's non-Euclidean geometry which some say is handy in a post Newton Einstein universe.

If that fails, I feel there'll be something else again that conforms better to the universe as we understand it to be.

> the fact that math is not how the universe works was proven with math

Another statement that fails to prove the thesis; the universe itself is sufficiently complex that there can indeed be things out there that we will never 'prove' to our satisfaction.

You need to do some lifting here (perhaps a little more than 'some') to prove that Godel|Church|Turing results demonstrate beyond doubt that maths cannot underpin the workings of a universe.

Your comment reminds me a little of Gödel's ontological "proof" .. full of sound and fury but not really landing.
I mean there are so many epic sports moments. Thinking about football (you may know it as soccer) and not just goals Gerard's goal vs Germany, Maradona's hand of god, or Zidane's headshot versus Materazzi.

So you'd have to be an expert on all of these epic moments, being able to draw them in proportion, and then have the expert pick the best. With panels, seasons of different topics, and a grand finale it would make a great TV show. You could sell the format, and become a millionaire..

..or accept the author's humility (with word 'probably'), assume the author is no expert on the field (neither am I regarding football), and go on with your life.
It's funny, but it's also true. There are definitely times when I'm more "in the mood" for projects; In the winter particularly, I work more on my electronic projects, and do more gaming (my Gaming "season" just started again last week).

Of course the dramatic shift from "what do I feel like doing today" to "what am I in the mood for / have time for this season" has a lot to do with me being older and having children now, but with such huge gaps between me being willing/able to do such projects, losing momentum could mean coming back to something an entire year later, if ever.

I started an electronics project, at least 10 years ago now. It's "infamous" in my family, particularly when my wife needs something to poke at with my projects, for being the project I started over a decade ago, spent a tidy sum on, and am still adamant I will finish one day!
For the sake of perspective/completeness: No — homeschooling is illegal in my country. (Though I wouldn't do it even if it was legal.)

(The thread title is "Do You Homeschool?", as opposed to "How Do You Homeschool?" or "What are your experiences homeschooling?")
Starlink + LTE from space is the future, you will be able to just send an SMS from anywhere to anyone
There are SO MANY problems left to solve even if software development is fully automated. Not just product management problems, but product strategy problems. Products that should be built that nobody has thought of yet.

If I could automate my own work, I would gladly switch to just being the PM for my LLM.

To be fair, there is an abstract worry that being smart will no longer be valuable in society if AI replaces all brain work. But I think we are far from that. And a world where that happens is so DIFFERENT from ours, I think I'd be willing to pay the price.
Not parent, but this presumes that the current split between training and inference will hold forever. We're already seeing finetunes for specific domains. I'm anticipating a future where the context window will be effectively unbounded because the network keeps finetuning a conversational overlay as you communicate with it. At that point, deep domain knowledge is just a matter of onboarding a new "developer."
I've stopped visiting /programming a long time ago, but just wanted to say (and I've said it before in here) that the status of the computer programmer has been on a downward trend since just before the pandemic, I'd say 2017-2018 (maybe a little earlier than that, maybe just going into the pandemic, but that's the general timeframe).

There are many reasons for that, partly the "normies" realising that most of what we, programmers, do at our day-jobs is detrimental to the society as a whole (see Facebook, see all the jobs lost to automation, see the kafkaesque world brought about by digitising almost every interaction between a human being and the State/Government), it's partly because some of us, computer programmers ourselves, have realised the same thing, it's partly because of how many computer programmers are now financially way better off compared to the normally employed people, it's partly because of the smugness that some of us, the computer programmers, brandish in many social contexts, and there are countless other similar reasons.
I only visit on mobile. I thought the middle film thing icon was to take your own photos/videos - because that’s what the center icon did on the YouTube app; the last time I had the app installed. Never occurred to me it’s a feed. O_o
He loves to pretend it's one man's dream, though.
A cynic would see Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea as vassal states of the US and as such "Western".
> Cambridge Analityca.

I'm not sure you are supporting your case as well as you think your are.
I'm interested that music is your hook here and ensuring artists are paid for their work (which I also agree with), but you stated before that you also use ad blockers, so how do you support those non video/audio content producers whose written or other media you consume with ad blockers? (I assume you agree that content creation is also a worthwhile endeavour, otherwise you wouldn't be bothering to read the online content that requires you to use ad blocking.)

What is different to you between these scenarios?
Rumor is Starship will do the belly flop but not the last minute vertical flip. Not sure why.

This graphic capture my understanding of what people outside SpaceX are expecting for this test. We may learn more in the coming days.

https://twitter.com/InfographicTony/status/17243188773694546...
It's kind of amazing isn't it. The guy clearly was very entrepreneurial and capable of talking investors into giving him money. If he'd just followed the rules he probably would have been really successful. Or at least not had to run away every time things failed.
I basically stopped using Instagram because it only shows you algorithm feed, I see so little content from the people I follow
Lithuania has more solar installed than Spain or Germany (percentwise) and been hitting 40-60% renewable supply for few months now.
While everyone is bragging about their old ThinkPads, I am typing these on a Pi Zero 2W. I spilt coffee on my ~8 years old HP Laptop two weeks ago. While waiting for my parents to buy me an iPhone 15 Pro (with its USB-C to connect to the monitor) I am using a Pi Zero 2W + Asus Zenscreen Portable Monitor + 10.000 mAH Powerbank setup, connecting to my server via RDP. Github Pro student credits on DigitalOcean, all free.

* Excellent power usage. Pi uses ~0.7 W and the screen is listed at 3.6W, though I believe it's actually ~7W.

* Each part upgradable and replaceable in a whim. Can change your motherboard or RAM, or add an extra GPU or an entirely different machine, as all of them are up in the clouds!

* Extremely lightweight, 0.75 kg.

* Incredibly thin, 9 mm. Its stand is also its cover, requires no extra bag, except for the HDMI and USB cables. Powerbank? I carry it everywhere anyway. Keyboard? It has only a slightly larger surface area than an iPhone 15 when folded, can carry in my pocket, a cheap Chinese bluetooth one I had lying around (couldn't be bothered to troubleshoot the USB on the Pi.).

* Unmatched connectivity, I have unthrottled datacenter internet, and I can use my phone's LTE connection to connect to the server without skyrocketing my cellular bill, as the only thing transmitted is the screen. School dormitory Wi-Fi is not the best, it introduces extra latency.

OTOH, It lags while scrolling a web page. Bottleneck must be the CPU, because there is no lag when connecting via my iPhone 7. I used NoMachine with the same setup in the past and it had no such lag, could even play YouTube videos from what I remember. I also didn't overclock the Pi to the max and am not using a heatsink nor a fan, and didn't do any sort of performance tuning for the RDP at all. Because I can't be bothered, it works bearably for my school work, and gonna get my new iPhone next week anyway.

Now don't ask me how I managed to re-pair the keyboard with the Pi when it got unpaired and the Pi's local IP got reassigned randomly, from Alpine Linux running in iSH on my current iPhone 7...
I was telling my SO today that I think social media should be regulated like cigarettes and booze.
Another PITA is that even if you have insurance you have to go to in network providers. I’m insured and went to the local CVS to get a flu and COVID shot but they said I was out of network, so insurance wouldn’t cover it. Out of pocket was $63 for Flu and $198 for COVID. I still haven’t got my shots.
I must have missed it because I don’t follow anyone and just go directly to their pages manually.
The thing about GPT is that it has approximate knowledge of nearly everything. It makes errors, but the errors are seemingly uncorrelated with human errors. And it knows stuff that I could take hours to search for, especially as Google becomes more and more useless.

Personally, I use it for scripting and as an executive function aid.
There are also older Macbooks that outlasted my Thinkpad. Maybe the X1 Extreme was a poor choice, but there are also a lot of people who say that Thinkpads just aren't as good as they used to be.

Macbooks also went through a period of poor quality. I hope Thinkpad improves again in the future.
They stopped sharing: as of July 2023, Maxar has revoked API access to its imagery for OSM editors.
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Maxar
>All these AI replacing coders and creatives is just a broad marketing campaign to put downward pressure on dev and creative salary.

I see it as the work being replaced not actually being valuable work in the first place, at least not as valuable as some of us want them to be.

Take copywriting for example, that industry got decimated basically overnight by "AI". Why? It's because the work was actually not valuable, it was work any sufficiently complicated program could do let alone a common man. Writing catchy sales catches and blurbs? It's frankly a miracle that industry lasted as long and valued as high as it did.

Or the art scene for another example; if you as an artist or illustrator can be replaced by "AI" then your art was actually only worth a dime a dozen. I say this as a blunt objective observation, not intended as any personal attack or the like.

Or for an even more brutal example: Journalism. We literally can't tell apart man-written and "AI"-written journalism, and that's because man-written journalism has been in the absolute gutter for years if not decades now. Journalism is bad enough today that "AI"-journalists could come in and do an equal if not better job of it than man-journalists.

"AI" is, like many tools of astronomical convenience that came before it, making the act of work more accurately reflect its real value. Some workers will lose, others will win, but ultimately we will all be better off because work and the perceived value of that work aligning better is a very good thing for both producers and consumers.
R.I.P. Rocket
Such a fantastic and inspiring post, and a very cool language. Kudos!
I still don’t get the comparison to the article. He could have waited 5 more seconds and still hit the shot.
I’m so excited. I wish Elon would go back to being neutral on politics, it would make this so much easier to wholeheartedly support.
> but some don't carry any devices at all (or keep Bluetooth off on their phone).

Exactly. I always had a habit of turning BT off, hoping to conserve the battery. And then our security department advises it - if you don't use it at the moment, turn it off. For security reasons. Flaws in BT sometimes come up and good if a user can get that update.
> As he later put it, his own neural network had begun to align with GPT-4’s.

> Having found the A.I.’s level, I felt almost instantly that my working life had been transformed. Everywhere I looked I could see GPT-4-size holes; [...]

I think this is key for me at least. GPT-4 is really good once you start figuring out what problems NOT to give it. Because there are certain things that it can't solve no matter how much you prompt it in the right direction, and it gets really annoying really fast.
The whole family of algorithms (including the multistroke variants) suffer from this issue. They are very clever, and maybe suitable if your set of templates are sufficiently distinct, but they don't deal at all well with similar shapes
Maybe don’t believe everything you read on the internet haha.
that specific clip would probably work even better if the blast sound was somewhat delayed like the pressure wave…
Also, what's with ";" as a delimiter in the query? I would've appreciated an example
Win+arrow keys for docking to sides I use all the time. Much better multi monitor support. Grouping taskbar. Start menu that lets you search (ie to run notepad, press win then start typing note.. and hit enter)
Agreed. And honestly, not having to worry that my kids will be shot in school is a big psychological comfort
I see a lot of comments wondering how AI could be useful as a software engineer so I'll give my take on it:

I envision it being able to fully replace a junior engineer, and in some use-cases senior engineers as well.

In the case of junior engineers: the AI should have access to an internal knowledge base (i.e. Confluence) and the task/ticketing system (Jira), and ideally the internal chat (Slack). I would assign tickets to it, and I'd expect the AI to reply with comments asking for clarification when there is something unclear, or proposing an implementation before starting if it's not a very simple task (this could even be defined in the task, using story points for instance.

Once cleared, the AI submits a PR linked to the task - so far just like any engineer in the team would. The PR gets reviewed as usual, with suggestions/requests for changes made by the (human) team, which then get addressed by the AI. With the big difference that all this process may happen in less than 1h from ticket creation to PR review.

I wouldn't expect it to be able to implement complex features, onboard new libraries, or rearchitect the system in major ways to accommodate future features - just like I wouldn't expect that from junior team members.

It would obviously be amazing if it could incorporate previous PR comments into it's "context" for future work, so it could learn and improve.

Separately I mentioned it could also do part of the job of senior team members - in the form of PR reviews. If it has access to every previous PR review and learns from them it might be able to give insightful suggestions, and for very large codebases it could have an advantage over humans as it could find patterns or existing code that may be overlooked (i.e. "It looks like this util function you added is the same as this one that was already there", or "This code looks different to similar areas, but follows a different pattern, you might want to rewrite it this way //..."

Is GPT-4 there? Definitely not, perhaps an LLM is not even the way to achieve this, but I absolutely see this becoming an incredible asset to a tech team.
More of the old. They're still clenching their "modern C++" that we'll see responsible for 80% of vulnerabilities in the future.

In a sane world it would be required by law to develop and use safe designs, starting with safer languages. You don't get to build a bridge you know will collapse and avoid the consequences. As govs continue to understand tech and apply the laws they conveniently forgot about, orgs will be held accountable.
But no one said that. GP just said they were different products. And that is true. It is meaningless to show an error that GPT 3.5 produced in a conversation about 4. They are separate products.
I think you described customer acquisition in different words.
It's not impressive, it was just on Reddit recently, so finally made its way into hn.
> Even the increased productivity alone will reduce the demand

I’d argue that companies cutting their software budget will soon be overtaken by their competition. Software is never done, after all.
Maybe this sounds stupid as I don't know about Panamanian politics, but I would have expected that this is their most important source of income?