skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a sports fan who follows basketball and football. Here's something I see a lot of nowadays in my feed:

<Player> set a new record last night

And when you go to click into it?

An AI created post about how the athlete in question is now in position 1258 all time at something or other.

Awesome. Such a great use of technology. Yet this will be the primary use of AI outside of materials research. Making clickbait clickbaitier.
Actually doing stuff wrong is a whole lot worse than doing nothing at all. False positives for work that actually matters are not acceptable. In the world of move fast and break stuff style innovation like this device seems to be especially at this price point is bound to be disappointing.

For me to trust this it would need some kind of Lockheed Martin style engineering and 4 decades of development with mathematical proofs that it works and can't not work.

But in the end the device would cost $50,000 and be 35 years out of date.
Obviously all generalizations are wrong but this particular comment was well received. Must have rang some bells.
I'm surprised it still looks so much like a "normal" plane.

When you remove the need for a person to sit in the aircraft, you'd think it would create the opportunity to generate entirely new design profiles.

But this still looks like most planes.
The web was invented in 1989, so mostly it didn't. Before that there were BBSes that you could dial into. From there, you could chat with other users who happened to be logged onto the same server or download text documents and whatnot that others had uploaded.
Makes sense. Also makes for much more efficient data polling since you get the buffer completed but not a random fd on which to perform yet another syscall.
I've run a couple of technology user groups, and even before the pandemic, demand was wavering. The advantages of in-person events (mostly for job seekers and recruiters) just don't outweigh the inconvenience for many.
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Personally I had no problem with your post being too abrasive or anything like that, it was just hard to understand because it was full of jargon.
> If I would really think this way I wouldn’t wanna work in this industry

I've got bad news for you about pretty much every other industry. They'll throw you away at the first opportunity to make the CEO a few more bucks too. It's the Jack Welchification of the American economy
To your point, while I haven't interviewed with Google, don't they actually do a number of the things you're talking about (e.g. ask about system design or ask you to look at some existing code)? I'm guessing every interviewer isn't asking you some variation of "find a loop in a linked list".
Welcome to the internet.

Not sure me saying "I have a feeling this is going to continue as AI / LLM's become more capable" is a grandiose statement; I think you may be overreacting but whatevs.

I'm sorry you are so angry friend, all the best. Wishing you happiness.
'you are next' as in I am going next right after they guy goes.
Or 'you are next' as in go now because its your turn.
I think it's very subjective what is considered performant. I for one don't think about VSCode as a performant app, for me it is a resource hog, not at all that responsive app, there's always a slight delay / lag in input reaction, simply not a fast application.
It seems Bending Spoons is on a shopping spree, it would be interesting to know how they are leveraging the financials for this. In terms of technology prowess they do not seem to be lacking.
Reading the relies here has made me feel lucky in my workplace. Most people here tried using ChatGPT for a while, but the vast majority stopped using it entirely, so this never happens here. I didn't realize how fortunate I am!
Although I agree with the title, I also don't think the internet is that significantly different from before GPTs 4, 3, or 2. Articles written by interns or Indian virtual assistants about generic topics are pretty much as bad as most AI generated material and isn't that distinguishable from it. It doesn't help that search engines today sort by prestige over whether your query matches text in a webpage.

People aren't really using the web much now anyway. They're living in apps. I don't see people surfing webpages on their phone unless they're "googling" a question, and even then they aren't usually going more than 1 level deep before returning to their app experience. The web has been crap for a very long time, and it has become worse, but soon it's not going to matter anymore.

You, the reader, were the frog slowly boiling, except now the heat has been turned way up and you are now aware of your situation.

If there is to be a "web" going forward, I hope it not only moves to a new anonymized layer, but requires frequent exchange of currency to make generating lots of low quality material less viable. If 90% of the public doesn't want to pay, then they are at liberty to keep eating slop.

EDIT: People seem to be misunderstanding me by thinking I am not considering the change in volume of spam. I invoked the boiling frog analogy specifically to make the point that the volume has significantly increased.
Climate Change Behind Sharp Drop in Snowpack Since 1980s
This. Your company is not every going to fix you, optimize your life, or be loyal to you. But you can take responsibility of all those things, and never let up. Get better, look for opportunities that satisfy what you value - always.
"Wages as a proportion of GDP, ie the so called 'labour share' has been relatively steady. If you believe that real GDP has increased, then real wages have increased."

Distribution is important. The high earners are the ones eating up the GDP increase. The middle class and lower class are mostly flat or negative.

https://www.epi.org/publication/charting-wage-stagnation/

"says it's about 62.5%."

Which is relatively low over the past 20 years, and somewhat low compared to other countries with strong economies.
> Even though you aren’t writing the 3P code yourself, by including it in your project you are committed to understanding it—and refreshing that understanding if you want to upgrade it.

This is a nice thought, but I suspect hardly anyone who uses a framework or library really understands it, or makes the commitment to try.

Obviously, a subset of really talented users eventually learn to understand the framework, but most are at its mercy.

Even then, you can't study every possible framework before choosing one to master - there are too many, and the cost of understanding the foreign code is simply too high.

So I suspect that in general, people try frameworks by taking a leap of faith, and then, sometimes, make the effort to actually understand it later - if and when it becomes necessary.
Rust is in high school? That's awesome
Do you have a ChatGPT Enterprise subscription purchased via our sales team? Or are you an API customer?

The former should have GPT-4 access; if not, that’s a bug, and I can look into it if you email me at atty@openai.com.

The API and ChatGPT are separate products, and usage or credits purchased for the API do not provide paid ChatGPT access.
It is already a game of cat and mouse and has been since forever. There's nothing wrong with cat-and-mouse games from the viewpoint of an advertiser, it just means they have to keep innovating.
It was not a glitch: it was faulty software. The same company (Fujitsu) were supposed to supply an integrated patient data system in the UK, but spectacularly effed up, and the system was cancelled. Fujitsu then successfully got compensation when it was cancelled.
For some people, yeah. For others - you don't argue with a an attack of crippling headache, you lie paralysed in a convulsive spasm, waiting for it to pass. And then you remember that you perhaps should rest more.
I can't believe they ruined so many lives.
This is not a hot take at all. Especially on HN.
What’s the chance that some of these comments are AI bots? Genuine question. When will OpenAI create an AI PR team?
Huh? When women do stuff at home, you want to count that. Sure. But when men do stuff at home, you refuse to count that?

> Total real wages have gone up, while median real wages have stagnated.

An investigation of median wages can be interesting. The comment only talked about wages in general.

> Thanks to our glorious new economy instead of basically everyone getting a house, spouse, and kid, now many will rent, work and die.

The US doesn't build enough housing, yes. Though renting by itself isn't a problem, but that housing (whether rented or owned) has become less affordable.

That's mostly because of various regulations (especially zoning) that limit how much developers can build. See eg https://www.amazon.com/Shut-Out-Shortage-Recession-Universit...
Interacting with people face to face isn't so bad. On average I find it a lot more meaningful than anything that occurs online.
They sure are.
Seems obvious what happened in context: the government got tired of people “weaseling out” of speeding tickets and breathalyzers (think of the kids!!!) and wrote a law saying the machine right by default unless you had a reason to think otherwise. And of course prosecutors never rest at constructing a novel theory to win cases, so soon enough it was being used in serious cases and not speeding tickets…

(not that it’s fundamentally just with speeding tickets either really! but it's also kind of understandable, you're the 27th person the judge has heard today trying to weasel out of a speeding ticket with the same set of "but the machine could have been wrong!" excuses. And frankly the brits seem to be a lot more "pragmatic" about individual right vs societal ones... the political class there seems to respect the people there exceptionally little even by political-class standards lol)
HTMX is signaling they're around for the long haul, we'll see if they break backwards compatibility or rewrite their API 15 times in the next year.

I had one of my dev's do several node/js framework POCs in _September_ last 2023 (current year is Jan 2024 at the time of this writing). Nearly all of the POCs won't even run or build any more because the developers have rewritten something and broke all backwards compatibility.

The Javascript/Node ecosystem is terrible for businesses and you're incinerating cash if your company running in the Node/Javascript rat race.

I'm hoping HTMX injects some sanity into frontend development.
Ultimately, there aren't that many people who have the technical knowledge, the ideology (that the internet should be for the good of the general public, not for corporations), the dedication and the time - and those who do exist are split between multiple issues (e.g. preventing the CSAM bill).

In this case, it's specifically that not all DPAs are doing their job correctly: some due to understaffing, others arguably due to ideological reasons.

I partially blame the GDPR itself - I still stand behind the spirit of that law, but it's IMHO not strict enough (or has too many loopholes): I think the selling of personal data to third parties should have been banned outright.
A big part of the idea is the have a plane the models what humans will eventually use, so that any test results they get can more easily translate to eventual human-carrying flights. It's not a mistake that the speed, weight, and shape closely match what fighter pilots train in.
Probably not. I personally would feel like a twat using them. There are like mumbling a lazy disinterested answer, face to face.
Leetcode "easy" questions are just common sense application of everyday algorithms and data structures. These might make sense for an automated screening test of "is this candidate lying about knowing the language".

But, then there's the ones that are all about specific techniques such as dynamic programming + memoization, or specific graph algorithms etc, etc. Any decent programmer can learn how to do these harder problems under time pressure (interview) through practice, but this is really about Leetcode grinding prep... these are not problems you would likely encounter in most jobs, and in the real world you'd just Google for algorithms or ask a colleague if you needed help.
Ask HN: Is there a global site rank API (like the old Alexa)?
I want to determine the global site rank of a website. Alexa apparently used to offer this, but Amazon killed it a few years ago. Is there a free or low cost option where I can send in a domain and get the global site rank? I saw similarweb, but the pricing is pretty crazy ($125/mo) for 1000 requests per month, if I read this correctly.

All I need is a general global site rank, so I'm open to hacky suggestions if there is a better way.
Even the DLL's are executables. It is about 100 bytes in where it says the real executable type. Some are OS1.x, win3x, win32... and so on. Think there is also a platform byte (x86, arm, mips, etc). My google fu is failing on the list of different types at the moment.
>the US government is already overwhelmingly something that is structured by and for the benefit of corporations

This is an interesting subject.

The majority of tax revenue for the federal government comes from income taxes.

Only about 10% comes from corporations. But it's easier to deal with corporations and there is no income tax without corporations. So it makes sense to mostly work with corporations.

What's also quite interesting, in the last 50 years, there's no functional change to taxation in the USA. Politicians are afraid to make any major changes in fears of screwing it all up.

But worse,during the financial crisis, the USA basically went bankrupt. There is no such thing as bankrupt though.

The USA needs to find about 7 trillion $ in the next couple years. That's a pretty big, that's another great depression.
if there EULA says one thing and they do another that opens them up to huge liabilities. though anything is possible
The indie authors whose work I read on Royal Road (and similar sites) have been posting about how their work would get scraped and modified by AI before being published on Amazon.
Dark energy result dims hope for cosmological constant
Bitcoin ETF, What the Noise About?
> a few ads (ethical, non-intrusive, etc.) can net you passive $100+/mo.

No way. That's barely true of Adsense anymore much less whatever non-Adsense network you have in mind. And not for a dead site like bash.org.
> This abstraction basically never leaks

I actually did laugh out loud.
Ditto, all the interesting things are gone and the only active groups are "Interesting Singles in their 20s and 30s" No more PUGs for D&D and board games. No tech meetups either.
Emacs does do a lot more "out of the box" now than many people realize. You will still have to turn them on, I think; but you don't have to install as many external packages as you are implying there.

And the problem with "sane defaults" is that to those of us that have been on Emacs for a long time, the defaults are sane. If you were to switch them on us, that would be frustrating. You /could/ make it so that startup on a vanilla setup has a set of checkboxes for common input schemes that people select between. I'm not sure why that hasn't been done, or what other issues that would have.

As for saving time/money by "doing their job" rather than configuring an editor. This is always a tough one. I don't think people should have to spend time getting to know their editors. But, I also don't worry that people don't spend time learning to care for their cars or their plumbing. That is, it makes sense that many people want to outsource that effort to others. It also makes sense that many people like getting into that sort of stuff. And I don't know why it has to be a battle between them?
I get absolutely positively outraged when a paid for product such as Operating System or MS Office starts bombarding me with ads.

I get that this was entirely predictable (see XKCD exhibit 1), and that once we allowed it in websites and webapps there were no real barriers left to downloaded installed native local apps, and my outrage is too little too late.

And I get that saying "I'm now installing Linux on my laptop" is... nice but irrelevant. 0.01% of userbase doing that will make laughably no dent.

But it's really really getting too much. Grumble Grubmle everybody get off my lawn! :-/

Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/743/
i'm going to become rich and famous after i invent a device that allows you to stab people in the face over the internet

We aren't encouraged to have this kind of fun on public forums anymore. I don't know why exactly, but I do know we're not better off for dropping this humor.
LLMs are, generally, _not good_ at making up recipes. Like, very not good.
After 20+ years on Outlook, I recently switched to Thunderbird. Not quite as full featured and a little slow at times, but it’s finally a viable replacement for Outlook.
Some quick googling tells me Godot doesn't have native tray icons/notifications support or access to peripherals like webcams & printers. Buut if you're using Godot over electron/flutter/QT your app is probably focusing on 3D / physics topics. You can implement plugins for those other niche desktop features as you need them.
https://web.archive.org/web/20021129061103/http://www.bash.o...
There’s a grain of truth here, but I object to the hyperbolic headline as it is unsupported by the content’s described data points which are exceptional rather than representative of typical content.

“The internet is broken in a fundamental way”? No, there are some growing pains at the margins. Feel free to react strongly, but these are not the same.
My comment was about what is happening in Europe, not in the US.
> precise torque levels that are critical for safety and reliability

This is why the thing is networked. Easier, more reliable, to pull that data (and then verify it was complied with) automatically from the network. In the most precision kind of work of that kind some decades ago, every bolt and hole would have a little sticker/tag on it, and there would be double-and triple-checked lists.

And this is why the vulnerability is particularly alarming. An attacker who targeted and compromised a manufacturer using these could, I dunno, slightly alter all the bolts used on an airplane, in a very specific way, so it is prone to failure prematurely.

These sorts of vulnerabilities have the same sort of potential for economic/national targets in a sophisticated (probably state-backed) attack, similar to that one which destroyed all those centrifuges in Iran: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuxnet
Yeah, and Tekna a few years back was one of those pushing to get rid of the (now illegal) anti-competition contracts all employers made you sign. So while most people don't see them day-to-day (as in, they don't set tariffs and often don't negotiate your salary), they still influence a lot. And the salary statistics is very useful in leveling the playing field and getting what you're worth.

And the union deals on insurances, mortgage etc. saves me much more money each year than the union fee.
I do some tech support on the side. No one, and I mean no one wants to pay for email. So here we are.
> Poor spelling and grammar used to be a signal used to quickly filter out worthless posts.

Or just a post from a non-native speaker.
Did you miss the part of the article where the complaint is that current voice assistants already do just about everything that was demonstrated? "Play some music. Who performed this song?".

I'll stand by the argument that the device is useless, because it does not appear to bring anything new to the table, "think of the children^Wdisabled" arguments aside.
I always assume the vast majority of show-related decisions (not just at Amazon, but everywhere) are made by executives who base their decisions on C-suite politics.
Product-wise I'd argue that Evernote was in the middle of a deshitification but was financially running on fumes, and the move to Electron was the right one although the release was rushed and it alienated the user base. I find it interesting that BS is a native mobile shop and now they have to manage some frontend built on top of Electron.

Growth-wise is another thing, I think they have decided to get rid of the free users and in my opinion they have skimmed too much from the free tier which is basically a "try before you buy" now.
Maybe I'll try Kagi. I've had a hell of a time googling docs lately. I've been experimenting with different libraries on somde side projects and it feels like I'm always scrolling past stuff like GeeksForGeeks and various sites that look like some sort of AI generated stuff just to get to official docs or github links.
So does that mean that the free (as in beer) internet is dying and ad-tech killed it?
I don't see how this points to downfall of society. IMO it's clearly a paradigm shift that we need to adjust to and adjustment periods are uncomfortable and can last a long time. LLMs are massive productivity boosters.
Exactly. Speculators are gonna speculate. Most of the worst aspects of cryptocurrency were done by normal con artists with absolutely no interest in touching a blockchain. When that was no longer quite as popular they just switched to whatever new thing was popular that the public couldn't understand.
> All nice OS features (good text rendering, uniform text editing interface, accessibility, transparency) would all get chucked out the window.

Could you explain this to someone who doesn't program and knows nothing about how os internals?

My naive question is wouldn't the OS/DE/WM still take care of the above for an application?
Maybe I was unclear (or I'm not getting your point): forcing the company to go only by seniority is what happens without the union.
Human shitposting is at least entertaining.
> Fallibility is fine, the problem is that Fujitsu and the Post Office were so scared that admitting fallibility was somehow a massive moral failing. It's not.

Fujitsu was a contractor; the contract was a PPI (Public-Private Investment) contract. The deal was that Fujitsu developed the system at their own cost, and ran it in exchange for a cut of each transaction.

I know something about this work; back in the 1980s, I worked on a bid for what was then called Post Office Counter-mechanization. This was probably the third attempt to automate Post Office counters; previous attempts had failed. FWIW, we lost the bid; I think it was won by ICL, the forerunner of Fujitsu. That third attempt failed, of course.

To work on this bid, I was loacked away in an office on my own for 6 months. The requirements were delivered as two metres of lever-arch files, full of paper forms; each form described an input screen, or a report, or a processing operation, or a storage requirement. 90% of these forms were blank, apart from the name of the operation. It was impossible to do a serious job when so little of the required data was supplied. And we weren't allowed to talk to the Post Office about the requirements; that would have risked the entire tender being overturned in court.

If the Fujitsu PPI contract was handled in the same way by the Post Office, and I assume it was, then it would have been impossible for Fujitsu to deliver a working system. But now we see Alex Chalk, the (current) minister in charge of the Post Office, suggesting that the compensation money should be extracted from Fujitsu. It may turn out that Fujitsu have some hard questions to answer; but for now, it looks as if this mess falls entirely on the shoulders of incompetent Post Office managers.
Yeah, it seems crazy to me that they didn't have to prove where this money went. I suspect the majority of people caught stealing money in any other capacity are probably caught by the changes to their lifestyle being noticed before the financial irregularities are ever spotted.
Coal usage reached a new record last year:

https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/climate-energy/global...

We should reach peak fossil fuels in the next few years:

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/world-oil-gas-coal-d...