skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At that point it's pretty much theater, the only difference between this and clamping the blood vessels in the neck and shooting the coma patent in the head is aesthetic.

Edit: thinking more, by the arguments in the article, it might be a better idea. If someone's willing to get me a NY gun permit and a level A hazmat suit I'd be willing to participate.
> But tests as a way of preventing unknown issues seems dubious to me.

True. At my previous job, I used a new C compiler [1] that revealed a bug due to undefined behavior [2]. It was a two-line fix, but my manager at the time refused to accept the fix unless I 1) made a test that showed the error, and 2) write tests to show other instances of this type of bug. The test would have been useless since I used an unsanctioned C compiler, and (due to the nature of the bug) I'm not sure if static analysis would have found the bug anyway.

[1] Test driving the latest Ubuntu Linux installation for development.

[2] The code worked as expected on the business-supported C compilers (it's undefined behavior, anything can happen). Even valgrind didn't catch the error (we were using that at the time) because of the way the code was generated.
> People sometimes report the same effect when they go into anechoic chambers.

That was my immediate though about this. When you go into an anechoic chamber, the loss of ambient sound makes you feel like you've gone deaf, which is as if something was stuffed into your ear.

I think your ear basically uses the change in ambient sound as a cue which produces the stuffy feeling.
Imagine if they picked the best talent and not simply the best talent that tolerates a locker room environment. How good would the game be then?
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> interminable garbage that is also dangerous to be exposed to (bad scripts and stuff).

Not really an issue with YT video ads though right? They're just annoying and too frequent but they're not really hazardous (beyond some cognitohazard of random crank stuff).
That's not the point, even if they would like to of course.

The main point is for Europe to have launch capabilities and maintain their skills. That's also the reason why ESA is so inefficient, they are here mostly because of politics.

If it wasn't for that, they would have used US, Russian or Chinese rockets.

I suspect that the US gave a heavy push to SpaceX (they saved them from bankruptcy in the early days) because they were in the same situation with NASA. SpaceX was their chance, and they took it, they are also keeping an eye on Blue Origin, because who knows what will happen next.
You need to dump product you can't store.

Happened to oil during early covid: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/20/business/oil-prices.html
Turns out this might be a companion to this:

https://austinonguitar.medium.com/unedited-2017-workplace-ab...
You can use an app currently in the App Store called "yattee" -- you can add an Invidious source in the settings, and viola you're good to go. I self-host mine, but you can totally point it at a community hosted one.
Ah yes, their kids will also never eat refined sugar, and will only ever play with wooden toys. Every generation thinks they’ll be the first ones to parent well, and when they inevitably compromise, every generation gets to eat crow.
It can be much worse. The NHL used to play the same ad, many many times throughout a game, often multiple times in a row. They would also play that same ad for the entire season. We used to watch with remote in hand at all times, ready to mute at any moment. I honestly considered it inhumane. Thankfully ESPN handles games now and they are much more "normal" on how they do ads.
"I will pay you to take this"
You are apparently shadow banned. I have vouched for your comment with some trepidation hoping you will clarify what incident or issue you mean.
Rinse and Repeat
Well I had the LLM write the tooling for me. In my case I had an air gapped system that based its input on the image of that systems desktop. The LlM wrote the code to capture images from the capture card and determine what window was active. That became an opcode. The llm wrote a function to switch windows using a custom hardware module I wrote (presented as a usb hid keyboard to the remote system). Another opcode. I then had enough opcodes and the necessary code to perform basic actions on a non-networked pc.

Then I would have tooling that I mostly built to generate a prompt with the opcodes and have the tooling determine the next steps based on the input and desired output.

So I had to hand roll all of the tooling, but the LLM did 80% of that work.
My computer, my code. No JS, no ads.

Also, Google it's already mining my data thru cookies/Android and earning money because of it. Thus, it's an even match.
I love the idea, unfortunately having read a few of these contracts (albeit not for a space so large), they do specify what the premises are to be used for and what they should not - I read one which specifically mentioned that paintballing or adjacent activities was not allowed, which makes me wonder if there was a story behind that. It would be very easy to terminate the lease for breach of contract sadly.
Other regulated commodity markets have what is called a «reasonability limit» avoid this exact kind of scenario. It is very concerning that the exchange didnt have any automated alerts that could trigger for example a phone call to verify that the order is correct.
The big difference is that ESA is essentially a government entity, much like NASA. To compare NASA and SpaceX would fail for much the same reasons, they are simply not the same kind of entity. As far as I know NASA currently doesn't have any launch capability of their own, it is all through commercial suppliers.
>> And then there's the competition - I early discovered that I could never outperform my competition.

100% this. I'm a bit competitive, but only a bit :). After 20 years of being a dev I realised I didn't want to compete anymore and shortly after that I quit as a dev.

I've now switched more into an analyst role and because I've been a dev i think I know what makes a good analyst because I know what I would have to know to write the code - if it were me. But here's the best part, the mark of a good developer is their attention to detail. And attention to detail is also the mark of a good analyst, but as an analyst you don't have to sacrifice yourself to the detail of tool-chains, stacks and frameworks.

Working on large scale problems as a dev, and doing it right, is slow (with a small number of devs) and chaotic with a large number. But as an analyst I can work at the speed of thought, work on many projects simultaneously, and see the fruits of my ideas take shape as the devs start to deliver them and I shepherd them into existence.

So for now I'm pretty happy, I write code in my spare time for fun and like the OP - I'm back where I need to be.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titanium_alloys

Looks like alloys are much more mallable, while losing almost none of the qualities of pure titanium.

Also: Go nukkular, high-temperature to be specific.
> if they cant afford to host it that their problem. Not mine.

There goes all the useful tutorials for graphics software.

And home maintenance.
You're guessing, which is a problem, and gives you license to conclude that:

> I don’t think agi will be that far away.

To,

> Give it the ability to have internal thoughts before speaking out loud

, you have no idea what that means technically because no one knows how internal thinking could ever be mapped to compute. No one does, so it's ok to not know, but then don't use it as a prior to guess.

Some have maybe seen this before, if you haven't I'll say it again: compute ≠ intelligence. That LLMs offer convincing phantasms of reasoning is what gives the outside observer the idea they are intelligent.

The only intelligence we understand is human intelligence. That's important to emphasize because any idea of an autonomous intelligence rests on our flavor of human intelligence which is fuelled by desire and ambition. Ergo, any machine intelligence we imagine of course is Skynet.

Somebody in some other conversation here pointed out the paperclip optimizer as a counterpoint but no, Bostrom makes tons of assumptions on his way to the optimizer, like that an optimizer would optimize humans out of the equation to protect its ability to produce paperclips. There's so many leaps of logic here which all assume very human ideas of intelligence like the optimizer must protect itself from a threat.
Anki has been my bread and butter for over 10 years. It still blows my mind that it's a free piece of software. Not only that, but provides a free cloud syncing service.

Wenlin and Pleco Chinese dictionary software are both amazing pieces of software.

Goldendict/-ng is great for accessing EPWING dictionaries, an inconsistent, mostly undocumented, hopelessly complex Japanese dictionary format that most electronic dictionaries were published in during the 20th and early 21st century.

Emacs is not only something that I've used every day for years now, but opened a whole new paradigm of computing back up to me after drinking UNIX cool-aid for the last decade.

Linux and the GNU toolchain for obvious reasons.

foobar2000 for a great music player, something which sadly doesn't exist on Linux.

WINE for obvious and related reasons.

Firefox for obvious reasons.

And now I've run out of time, so mea culpa to my future self who will think of something I'll wish I'd mentioned
ESA has made some amazing contributions to probe and robotic missions. I really wish Europeans weren't always so cynical about the agency; some positive attention might do a lot to light the fire, too.
But then Google won't know everything about me so that would be immoral of me to do
The state can do both good and bad things. Even in your war analogy, Russia (a state) can invade Ukraine and murder it's citizens, but Ukraine (a state) can defend it's citizens. USA can have no affordable healthcare for citizens, Sweden can have affordable healthcare for it's citizens.

A state can provide e.g safety or healthcare for millions, a philanthropist could not operate at that scale for a long time. Philanthropists also die on a shorter time frame than states and their successors may not want to continue to support the same things.

I don't think the claim was that philanthropy doesn't work. But it doesn't scale to the levels of what a state can achieve. And therefore it is an inefficient way to use the resources. For every billionaire philanthropist that builds a hospital wing there are 50 more who buy 2 yachts. Tax them all and you can build 51 hospital wings and they can all have a single yacht each.
Many probably did. But as a buyer/reseller it would be in their best interest to just buy and shut up.
Am I the only one who is upset about this ”replace every button with obscure icon without label” trend? Seems that Google and Facebook are the main culprits of this. Every year it gets more disgusting when I unwillingly have to use their services.
Recently, there was a post on reddit where people posted the amount of money content creators are getting from views with ads.

I don’t remember the numbers well enough to quote it but it’s barely anything. I recommend to look it up.

And the biggest surprise for me was that older videos get even less.
Yeah, there’s a lot of evidence that we may have grossly underestimated the feedback effects.

On the flip side, we also underestimated the ability to switch to renewable sources (predictions of the cost and spread of renewable energy have been far too pessimistic going back 2 decades even though these estimates over the past decade or so adjusted for the fact that they were too pessimistic). Further, we’ve already started showing growth without using more energy which shows the tremendous efficiency improvements we’ve been able to make, and was something that wasn’t even considered possible.

IOW, global warming is likely worse than we thought, but our ability to fight global warming and the actions we’ve already taken are also much better than most imagined. Which is why it’s so frustrating that we continue to not go big on many of the options to fight global warming that we have available to us.
It's more complicated than that because of the network effect. Few people host their videos elsewhere.

Google did this to themselves and they are the one imposing everybody to play by their rules. Nobody asked them to kill their competitors. Besides, I'm not really concerned for them. It's not like they are struggling.
You could just not buy the kid an iPad…

Bikes, dirt, legos, board games, books, all still exist. Despite what American consumerism would have you think, devices aren’t required to parent your children. We made the decision from the outset not to introduce them into the mix and this insane thing happened: they don’t spend their time on devices.

Sure, their classmates will have them and they will come home asking for this awesome thing they saw so-and-so have at recess. When that happens, you get to do the most important part: you say “no”.
Look up what "Freudian slip" means: https://www.healthline.com/health/freudian-slip#sexual-under...
Good backup plan for the Europeans, maybe also good as a competition. But is it really a competition? In what areas?
That's not actually a fix. As long as some other subscriber does the DNS lookup, then the ip address will be associated with the name that was looked up. If you happen to use a different resolver and get the same address, there's no difference.
I've got a collection of anecdotes from people who've done both kinds of work. Usually the take is more nuanced. My father did forestry for a while, and said it was less stressful than his later work as a teacher. A friend dropped out of uni to be a gardener. Some other friends worked as cops and thought the worst thing was the shift work.

Meanwhile, construction and ER are said to be awful because of the long hours and awful management, factors they often share with corporate tech jobs.
Thanks. What about the web version? Isn't it against youtube policies too?
Ask HN: Has software development peaked already?
There are arguments that software development is becoming increasingly unattractive. The workloads are gradually moving to the cloud, there seems to be a surplus of CS students flooding the universities and market, AI tools that automatically generate code are becoming more usable, and so on.

There are different versions of this claim floating around: coding is a dying job, people who lost their jobs in tech layoffs objectively have a harder time finding a job as a developer now compared to 2010-2020, etc.

The purpose of this post is to gather the opinion of the HN users on the question: is software development in decline?

This will be in the sense that, it will be increasingly harder finding a job in software, and it will not be well paid. The students entering the field now should be aware of these issues before investing in this profession.
I was half-joking but the downvotes were to be expected in a conversation about Linux shells.
I don't think so. ArianeSpace's best price for an Ariane 6 launch, with all the subsidies applied, is gonna be around $75 million, maybe more. SpaceX's sticker is $67 million for Falcon 9 and they've been known to come down $10 million or even more to win an important contract (while still preserving fairly healthy profit margins). I don't think there is a single case where a customer would pick Ariane 6 over Falcon 9 except for political reasons.
To be fair, early-2000s digital cameras were ... not great. 4 megapixels if you're lucky (not that megapixels are the only thing that matters, but they do matter, up to at least 20 megapixels).
After checking the Falcon rockets stats… that's really impressive.

They had more successful launches in 7 years than Ariane in its whole history.

It seems that this rocket is not yet out and operational but already “obsolete”.

I guess this is the price for independence. Or wrong incentives.
I experienced this a lot doing mainstream programming, but when I switched to niche things (Clojure), I never experienced that anymore. Companies trusted me, gave me (and other engineers) autonomy. Maybe try to look into some niche thing? I was pretty burned out of programming before, but it definitely lit the candle once more.
YouTube didn't seem to mind so much before. Maybe they wanted to keep those users' attention on YouTube instead of elsewhere. Now they're a lot more focused on the profits, which is fine.
Ive heard tax evasion rates were much higher historically, and that though tax rates were considersbly higher and taxes more complicated, many people simply did not pay. The simplification of taxes and reduction may have resulted in a larger amount of collected taxes.

Do you suspect if taxes were set to 99% that people would honestly pay them? To me it seems like a solution to two equations intersecting. Find the number that maximizes willing participation (a decreasing function of rates) and maximizes tax revenue (an increasing function of rates).
They paid for you at that rate with an M2, you said you would "definitely pay for a 30% improvement" - that suggests you would be done in less time and able to bill less money, and if you were on-site you couldn't even hide it from them and pocket the difference - so why would you? That's the bit which makes no sense.
That's what machine learning is

Technically that's what deep learning accepts. Other forms of machine learning have greater or lesser degrees of explicit statistical basis.

It's revolutionary because it lets us solve problems we don't understand

It's certainly a change! I would submit that an approach like that also is often limited in it's understanding of to what degree it has solved a given problem. That's not too bad when you have human verifying the end result but can problematic if one turns a machine of this sort loose to make it's own decisions.
People regularly forget the distant second private rocket company after SpaceX is Rocket Lab, with no one else close.

Blue Origin is almost completely irrelevant. Jeff Bezos may buy United Launch Alliance, but it likely won't help given Blue Origin's abysmal track record.

Amazon's Project Kuiper (the Starlink competitor) has no affordable launch provider since they're avoiding SpaceX, so it's also dead in the water.
The US government keeps funding SpaceX through a number military and civilian contracts. Not to mention the in kind support that SpaceX receives from NASA. Arianespace does not get as many publicly funded contracts that would pay for expensive R&D programs.

Also, nobody outside of SpaceX really knows how much their reusable first stages really saves them. That’s especially true for the Falcon Heavy (which is comparable to the Ariane 6) where the center stage does not / cannot be reused.
Radiating as in “radiate information”.
Having worked on Maps myself (as well as other stuff at Google): you're exactly right. It's make-work. Fixing things that aren't broken, so the PM, UX, and Eng leads can say they did something and get promoted.

To be fair, the same process has been underway on MS Word and Excel for 30 years now. Simple things (like designating the top row of the spreadsheet to be a non-scrolling header) should be simple, and they're not anymore.
Signal or Telegram?
I’m a Muslim and I, by definition, don’t agree with Kaczynski’s idea of use of violence to bring the system down. OTOH I believe all organization-dependent technology[1] is evil and has only harmed humanity, never benefitted. Obviously this presumes a different understanding of harm and benefit, one not as the same as plain pain-avoidance and convenience-seeking which technological system tends to creates a tendency towards in people.

1: A term explained in Ted’s manifesto.
Well it's not happening fast enough for most climate change alarmists to consider building nuclear power. If it's such a threat surely we would trade nuclear waste problems for climate change.
Sure but it's also the colloquial name for a fixed-price variable service with no hard shutoff plan which is the plan everyone wants.

Like I can't understand why so many people get butthurt about the word unlimited when I can play hours and hours of video games, have multiple 4k streams constantly going, casual piracy and two adult fully remote workers in video calls all day for like $80/mo and not a penny more.
How the hell does college graduation relate to … men ruling everything?
Bourne has said there were proposals from the other users at Bell Labs to use braces or brackets with the "test" form, but these suggestions were not adopted. Bourne has said he did not like having to worry about missing braces in C, and there were no IDEs with automatic syntax-checking like today, and that is why he used macros to allow him to write in C using Algol-like syntax. That's what he said. Maybe that's why he decided not to braces or brackets with test.

Personally, I prefer the "test" form to the "[" form. It's easier for me to read. Personal preference. To me, "[" looks uglier.
What's also terrifying is that the buoyancy tanks, the big tanks at the top, ate filled with gasoline
One small reason is they use ads as "payment" for things. Scrubbing through a video looking for a certain spot will require you to watch an ad almost every time you stop scrubbing. They also make you watch an ad if you pause the video for too long. When you unpause it, it immediately jumps into an ad. That's on top of the mid ad breaks the video already has.
I'm not sure what your point is ... Hallucinations are where the net hadn't seen enough training data similar/related to the prompt to enable it to generate a good continuation/response. Of course in cases where it is sufficiently trained and the context contained what it needs then in can make full use of it, even copying context words to the output (zero shot learning) when appropriate.

The real issue isn't that the net often "makes a statistical guess" rather than saying "I don't know", but rather that when it does make errors it has no way to self-detect the error and learn from the mistake, as a closed-loop biological system is able to do.
If I checkout the merge commit and then do a ‘git log -n 5’, which parent pointer is followed to show the previous commit logs? A or B or Both / all if it is more than a 2-way merge?
True!
Python Dev. gets a chatgpt rocketjetpack. Esp. Selenium is amazingly comfy, now even cozy
Just turn on DNT in your HTTP headers, Google have made it clear that selectively choosing which data to process is wrong.
Ah, so it's me. Thank you.

There was a time when HN was more conversational than it typically seems these days. It gets hard to assume someone is making conversation rather than making an argument when the default seems to be the latter.
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I hope the author discovers that not all companies do software like he describes. It sounds like it is time he starts interviewing the company, too, instead of just letting them interview him. Ask about how the projects are structured, ask how much autonomy a developer has to make decisions about how the code is structure, whether developers have some input on the projects they work on, maybe ignore companies that are "agile".

Another option is contracting, particularly building MVPs. Frequently these are solo projects or small teams. I don't think this is a great choice for someone starting out since you won't get exposed to people who are better than you, but the author has 6 years of experience so that's less of an problem.
Yes but commercial pickup trucks far outnumber residential-rarely-ever-tow pickups. The people who need 11k towing capacity are likely towing for commercial reasons. Or they are Uber rich and have a yacht they need to pull. Rarely very rarely do you see someone driving an eg F250 because they like the dualie setup in the rear.

Source: I live in texas