skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Generating code that works, 100% percent computer-generated, i have already done that. I created a notification service for HN [1]. In the repo i have the ChatGPT conversation.

I don't put it to work for the moment, cause i am trying to create a TUI for HN, or a TUI forum more generally, like HN, maybe even backed by version control like Pijul instead of a database. 100% computer generated obviously, that goes without saying.

My biggest problem so far, is that GPT doesn't write idiomatic Rust. The code it generates is very C or Pythonic, and i am trying to figure out a way to guide it, to write beautiful code, instead of just correct code. When the machine generates just correct code, it doesn't cut it for me, is what i am saying. I am reading "Command Line Rust" to get a sense of idiomatic Rust, and then i have to study github projects as well to really figure out how beautiful idiomatic Rust code really is structured and written. Like, i know what idiomatic Rust is, just not that well at the moment.

The tool i want to create, to use GPT instead of Copilot, is something like Aider [1] but not in Python and maybe a TUI.

https://github.com/paul-gauthier/aider
[1] https://github.com/pramatias/hnotify
Do you think focusing both founders and VC's on the concept of a unicorn has been good or bad for startups? I personally think it has lead to overvaluation of startups and that's a bad thing.
He might. When I was around that age, I had an Atari that had a feature where you could write your own code. I think it was sort of a version of basic.

I made primitive games. They weren’t much more than shapes and colors and sounds, but I was able to make it do things. And that was before there was an internet where I could find help. I didn’t know anyone who had ever written a line of code.

I think one might be surprised what a 9 yr old boy could do these days programming.
See http://www.seobook.com/blog for confirmation of your point of view.
You should see their datacenters/racks.

–Not Your Electrician (retired)
That’s fair.

In that case, the answer is not to force Apple to allow others to advertise lower prices in their store. But to force Apple to allow other app stores.
Remember that XFS was added to the kernel in 2001, and was already well-supported by most (all?) distros by the time the Reiser3/4 issue was beginning.

People who encountered issues with Reiser3 usually migrated away, and never looked back, Reiser4 was already DOA imo before all the other stuff happened.
> We havent had an ability to tell whats real and whats not for a long time. Photos have been able to be doctored since well before photoshop, writing style imitated, signatures forged etc. This is a change of degree, thats all.

But not in an automated way, that is difficult to detect, and that could impact every facet of your life. Like, yeah, photoshop was a thing, but now AI filters can "nudify" virtually any picture, quickly, and in an automated way. Ditto for generating ads, political propaganda, etc.
Fire all the MBAs.
Wait till you see what the MBAs have cooked up for health care. You'll die in the Emergency Room waiting room. Even concierge medicine wont save you.
You don't really need a charger at home. Just plug the car into the wall.

If you leave it plugged in overnight, you'll have a full charge in the morning.

The slow charge offered by a 110v outlet is easier on the battery chemistry as well...
Only 5-10 years after BeFS.
> what is morally good is objective and not fully accounted for by consent, or utility.

Could you elaborate here? I'm curious what is meant by this.
> And you don’t need to store 12h of solar.

No you don't need 12h of storage but 3 to 4 months to sustain the attrocious winter production where the highest load actually is.

And this is why the battery packs are uneconomical to smooth out renewables, it doesn't even get you 1% of the way with 5B.
(2005)

i.e. back when Google was a desirable place to work at and not a big corporation which loves killing projects and firing people.
White space in variable names is a bad idea.

And not everything that is possible is worth doing; e.g. I once designed a language ("Leazy") where keywords don't have to be declared, and can be used as variable names, just to show I could still write an LL(1) recursive descent parser for it. You don't want that in anything for daily use, as it introduces confusion.
Also that right after a drop in domestic machine tools demand due to recession American industry collapsed overall.

It should be no surprise few machine tools are made when there's less domestic industry overall.
I thought this recent article was so insightful: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39014737
Colocation exists. It's a solved problem. It's just not in-vogue right now.
QAnon (often shortened to Q) is the name given to the persona that has been adopted by a few different individuals and is almost certainly currently controlled by Ron (principally) and Jim (secondarily) Watkins. Calling the posts "Q intel drops" is coded language the tells me you are intimately aware of the QAnon conspiracy group. Let me be clear: Q is some random dudes larping on the internet to give their own pathetic lives some level of importance they do not deserve. Q is a fictionalized persona.

I don't mean this as an insult, but after looking through your post history, you should consider psychological counseling. I recognize the coded language you are using. I'm sorry to tell you this, but you are in a cult. These people are taking advantage of you.
> Data brokers would not be comfortable handing over all of the data to FB if they thought FB was just going to steal it

... Oh, like the data brokers stole the data from me? sigh I hate adtech.
no, it's because the are directly at the site where the kite is launched (and on national tv)
I've always preferred daemontools and runit's ideology here. If a service dies, wait one second, then try starting it. Do this forever.

The last thing I need is emergent behavior out of my service manager.
Looks really nice, I wasn't aware of it
Even though I advocate for a local interface, I also completely agree with your statement.

But, the alternative is we either accept this completely upside down API traffic ratio with locally focused integrations (bad, costs lots of money) or allow a local interface.

Another potential workaround I advocated for was a "cloud down" message that could enable the local interface for those that ONLY go looking for how to do it.
Very, very impressive.. I ran a couple of tests and on the complex it received 80% although I would say it was harsh as the answer could be said to be correct- although I found the questions generated rather simple not complex.

The 2nd test it was 100% incorrect for the complex questions! However when I checked directly with gpt-4 based upon the questions rendered it answered 100% correct. Could that be due to my custom settings in gpt4? Will run it with university students. Fascinating work
A lot of them are not bright by design, departments select for obedience rather than intelligence, and at least one person sued and lost after learning that they were rejected because of having too high an IQ: https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/jordan-v...

Here's you're equating cops' default behavior with doing their job of law enforcement, while overlooking the fact that they often don't perform that job well because they discount reasonable possibilities that initially suspect activity is not actually illegal, and reflexively waive issues like presumption of innocence, 4th amendment limitations and so on. Read up on police training, which is terrible in the US.
It was definitely locked to Edge at launch and for quite a period of time. However it has been open to other browsers for at least a few months now.
Thanks! That means I did misread.
(in this voice: https://youtu.be/TmVYfQX4xRE?t=2)

Me!
Man, I remember* getting "coffee encrusted filet mingon with a vanilla glaze" at Charlie's back around this time, and thinking both "this is amazing" and also "this can never last". Also I remember many years later when they were instead serving stuff like hot dogs. RIP the good times!

* likely corrupted by memory's distance
I used to work on this at a different company, and I'm glad to see work on it continuing! It's one of those things where the physics works out really great for fantastic power generation, but the engineering is just so damned complex, so it's tough to... get off the ground.
Considering the number of people in prison who get exonerated, I'm glad that the ones "they know" did it aren't actually in jail. Because that seems like random chance that they're actually right.

But it's also why I qualified my statements. That if you're looking to kill a particular person, that's way harder than "getting away with murder" in general.

Police only have so many tools at their disposal. And if there is no link between victim and perpetrator, the job becomes way harder.
It takes a lot more to deal with/manage these integrations than some on HN ever realize, especially when these stories come up.
Yes, and often the management instituting such granular tracking systems are also the people who want to go outside it for their own "quick asks".

It's entirely possible to construct beautiful metrics, amazing velocity charts, etc and have a terrible product with miserable users. Many such cases.

Some of this metrics stuff is like "expressed vs revealed preferences".
Users who complain about your product and demand new features more quickly don't want a beautiful burndown chart. They want you to improve your product. You may actually need to slowdown to speedup. It's likely you need to do some R&D, and lots of experiments that will look bad on metrics.

You see this a lot when you quantize teams into little buckets like operations vs new features vs customer success vs core engineering teams. It's possible for a team run by a bad actor to have nice metrics while being a net drag on the other parts of the org.
The Miele Dialog: cook a fish in ice without melting the ice
Already downloaded, printed and framed one map.
Looks amazing on my wall!
Yeah, those numbers are so far down into chump change they're more like a slap in the face than a reward. But hey, if your name is on the patent, it's on the patent forever. It may not give you any money at your current job, but it might help in salary negotiation at your next job.
Ongoing discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39045153
US 50-State National Seismic Hazard Model: Overview and Implications
Wind turbines can be built big enough that the blades, at the lowest point, are higher than almost all other land uses, except perhaps forestry.

To be honest, the access roads are probably the biggest real impediment to using the land around a wind turbine. Can't exactly farm millions of acres of corn with robotic combine harvesters with a criss-cross of access roads to the base of every turbine.
Cells Across the Body Talk to Each Other About Aging
> On scale of state actors, this means war.

So far the only ones waging war are old imperialist forces falling behind the West: Russia and its ilk.

> Socialism, on the other hand, means rational and planned distribution of resources.

Planned economy never worked, everywhere it was tried. It simply led to hunger.

> reinforced concrete

Except communist workers stole the cement and replaced it with sand. The concrete cracked and water got in the non-waterproofed foundations, rusting the rebars. A disaster waiting to happen.

> Zagreb earthquake

That was a 5.5 - baby earthquake. We'll see when there is a 7+.

> many heavy industries had to be closed because Western bosses

They closed down because they couldn't compete on the global free markets. Mostly they made stuff "planned" for the Warsaw treaty countries. Crap, of course.

> people in Eastern Europe can relax

We still have to pay taxes and utilities. The government makes sure there is no such thing as free ride.

> Owning a home is as real a wealth as it comes.

Personally I'd rather rent a nice place than own a crap-hole. I appreciate the freedom and lack of headaches when renting. For investment I prefer the stock market. Much better returns.

> The economic growth rate of socialist block of countries was double that of the West

Then why were the shelves empty and we starved?! The growth after WW2 came from looting nationalized private property. That lasted a few years and then they simply started fudging the numbers.

> Maybe they also miss their generous anual leave, work rights, and 36 hour work week

Till the 80s the work week around here had 56 hours, not 36.

But some of them do miss being a part of nomenklatura and kissing the ring of the Russian masters, that's for sure.
This was unexpectedly great.
> They offered API that they don't want people to use.

I wonder how this would play out if instead of serving responses for nonhuman consumption (i.e., an API), it was serving responses for human consumption (i.e, HTML documents). In that scenario, if a subset of requests were of a high-frequency nonhuman nature (i.e., polling and scraping), would a court find it equally abusive or materially different?
You good?
I mailed, called and reached White House and other intelligence after this theft and them flaking on my bank meeting and they ignored me. This involves global organizations to worry about as well. I know them and the gangs involved in the Google Heist are involved with murders of family and children, high-up military, corporate and political folk. This involves Mr. Newsom, Mr. Pichai, Mr. Obama and many individuals I have evidence towards as well as energy corporations and global organizations and crooked military affiliated attorneys and judges.
I don't trust a popup a single bit more than no popup.

So it's not like I trust anything either way. Get rid of the popups. Any solution needs to be legal and not involve popups.
Xoogler who was a noogler in 2016, left in 2023: it's surprising how much survived through 2016, and how little, if any, is left now. I'm guessing more was gone by 2016 than I realize. The last tales I heard of intrinsically motivated engineers banding together to build _products_ was 2014-ish.
My god, AW is even willing to #include <stdio.h> now!
There is an interesting line in the end

> All in all, I guess this is the result of a company that has more money than they possibly know what to do with. I wonder how long this utopian "do no evil" culture can last. Wealth creates power, and power corrupts. And boy, have I seen a lot of power this last week.

> "May you live in interesting times."

Now, juxtapose that with the authors other recent post: https://social.clawhammer.net/blog/posts/2024-01-10-GoogleEx...

Interesting times in deed!
I had the same issue with xfs. Seems to be fixed recently.
Sounds like a cool opportunity for a matchmaking site - swapping reviews of personal code with the goal of learning and practicing both the coding and the review. There are practice interview sites that work kind of that same way.
Just checking if this is still an accurate description of the culture at Google today?

> Google is the opposite: it's like a giant grad-school. Half the programmers have PhD's, and everyone treats the place like a giant research playground. While the company is hush-hush to the outside world, it's 100% open on the inside. Everyone knows what everyone is doing, everyone is working on pet projects. Every once in a while, a manager skims over the bubbling activity, looking for products to "reap" from the creative harvest. The programmers completely drive the company, it's really amazing. I kept waiting for people to walk up to me and ask me if I had declared my major yet. They not only encourage personal experimentation and innovation, they demand it. Every programmer is required to spend 20% of their time working on random personal projects. If you get overloaded by a crisis, then that 20% personal time accrues anyway. Nearly every Google technology you know (maps, earth, gmail) started out as somebody's 20% project, I think.
So from what I can tell, a lot of boils down to the same reasons most of America/US manufacturing declined. Globilzation, greed and other factors.

This article really hits home for me. I grew up in Cincinnati and it was a tool making powerhouse back in the day. Cincinnati Tool, now Milacron and many others were made here in town. We still have a few nice tool makers in Ohio - Kett and Wright but its sad to read about how much this industry powered the nation and a lot of its innovation.

Going to our museum center, hell even our Airport has a bunch of exhibits that take about all of the tool making and industry we used to have. Makes me sad really.
Have you tried setting the noprocrast, maxvisit, and/or minaway settings in your profile?
The research, development, approval process, and production all absolutely cost money that needs to be recouped from the sale, but we shouldn’t ever forget the reason why the company exists: to make profit.
Fire codes aren't a point system, but they do often have "X is required if Y is missing" type rules.
The lathe ways (the guides/support for each axis) do wear out, but you can re-grind them to be flat again.

Usually you sell the machine at this point to someone who doesn’t need the precision and get a new machine.
I think they just gained enough less serious users that it doesn't matter. Like my mom's on reddit apparently now.
I should have been able to FN charge google for my interview process. Fuck you google... with failing me because I didnt have a college degree but was good enough to design several of your datacenters.
> You're talking to someone who spent N years, for uncomfortably large N, as a grad student in a philosophy PhD program, so it ought to be very obvious that I'm not a ruthless wealth maximizer. In fact, I still have student loan debt from that undertaking.

And that's great, but your specific example is not what we are discussing here. We are talking about averages, not particular examples.

> My earlier suggestion, though, is that there's a correlation between wealth and lack of ethics, because "our economic system tends to select for people who are unethical and ruthless".

Hmm, I think we can agree here, I don't think I've said anything that would suggest otherwise.

> You still, after repeated prompting, resolutely refuse to explain exactly what you mean by "hard work"

Because I'm not sure it's worth it. However, your example with the guitar is good and actually fits exactly into what I'm trying to say.

Maybe you can never get to be like Jimi Hendrix, no matter how much you practice, but generally speaking, those who practice more, ON AVERAGE, will be better than those who practice less. Yes, there are other factors like natural talent and whatever else, but OVERALL those with 2k hours of guitar will be X% better than those with 1k hours.

Now, in the example above, replace guitar with "hard work" (however you want to define it, that matters less) and "better" with "more money".

In our economic system, the thing that gets rewarded is the creation of value. All things being equal, the harder you work, the more value you create. It's obviously not perfect and there are many, many caveats, but averaged across the whole economy, this is definitely true.

> It's important because you seem to consider your own views as axiomatic and in need of no defense.

Not all of them. I'd be perfectly okay with having to explain my stance on the accomplishments of Bin Laden. However, yes, I do find it axiomatic that working harder is correlated with more wealth.
From "MOOC: Reducing Internet Latency: Why and How" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37285586#37285830 : sqm-autorate, speedtest-netperf, netperf/iperf, flent dslreports_8dn

Would there be a benefit to autotuning with e.g. sqm-autorate in the suggested environments?
Having spent significant time in jail, I was amazed at the high percentage of people with slugs stuck in them that had issues with the metal detectors. Pretty amazing how many people on "the streets" get shot and don't die from their injuries. I knew one guy with 9 holes in him[0].

[0] I wanted to say he is lucky, but looking him up in the IDOC database I don't think he is: CUSTODY DATE: 08/03/2013
SENTENCE: 60 Years 0 Months 0 Days
I left Google in 2020. It is not like this anymore. I heard its gotten even worse.
Can someone provide insight into why there's so much insistence from business that magic happens at scale with LLMs? We're a long way from AGI.

The lack of meaningful details in these announcements makes me pessimistic.
Unfortunately I see nothing about backing up and restoring apps data
> The last time I pulled up my Google profile, it said I was a 18-99yo, both male and female, and was interested in EVERY topic they listed.

So you see how data-brokers having this data on you is equal to not having any data on you if their data is garbage?
I found this blog post to be quite interesting https://www.lynalden.com/fraying-petrodollar-system/
Conquer the clipboard in iPadOS: A system for always-on copying
Driving is a actually a bit different since it's a privilege. You can be compelled to give a blood test or other sobriety test or lose your license.

I wouldn't be surprised if there's case law around the smell of non-alcoholic beer on a driver.
Canadian nurses at Detroit hospital pressured at border after policy change
Also, this is a great example of a recurring problem: successful organisations venerate their culture, so that every part of it is assumed to be essential to their success until very painful experiences prove otherwise.

Another example: Linux developers thinking that managing patches by email is the best approach ever, because Linux is dominant.
You can also use Foam, a FOSS VSCode extension that is compatible with the basic markdown files from Obsidian. You can just open your vault in it and it will probably work if you're not using the fancy features in Obsidian.

https://foambubble.github.io/foam/
Curious, when you started on the your project, how did you discover and decide on using FoundationDB?
They torture me neurally and threatened me in regards to countries resources, mocking me in many ways and laughing at those they killed to get STRICT US military space code and wealth. I have compiled a large amount of evidence showing massive changes in hard infrastructure to online domains with embedded AI, deep-learning and alien script with predictive coding. They also stole my smart commercial waste solution I pioneered for five years into industrialists such as McDonald’s, Bank of Canada, MasterCard and other global bodies.
In the same vein, I find it funny to think about the future archaeologists pondering the relation of the Eiffel towers around the world the same way we do about pyramids.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eiffel_Tower_replicas_and_deri...
Jury selection for the trial of Derek Chauvin started in December 2020 and the trial itself took place the following March - many months after rioting had ended. Get your facts straight.
I've been in Japan from mid-Oct until mid-Dec in 2019 and in late October I got sick like hell. People were talking about the flu but it was not just that I can tell. For me the symptoms were way worse than before when having the flu, and only later realized that every single symptom I had matched with Covid. At least the first two waves spared me at home. But one of my friends was not so successful. He was in Japan too until the end of the summer, and back home he had to go to the hospital with a nasty bilateral pneumonia. The doctors were confused back then, but finally he recovered. Months later it turned out that it's one of the most severe complications of Covid.

Have read some paper stating that the first infections have happened in May, but couldn't find it.
NYC stopped building fire escapes a long time ago. There are still tons of them, but all on older buildings.

It certainly would be interesting to see them make a comeback though.