skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
More than a year into ChatGPT and… unemployment is at historic lows.

I don’t remotely see the present generation of LLMs as being “labor replacing tools.” I’m aware of empirical work which shows them to be useful complements to human judgment, not substitutes for the same. I’m also aware of one study showing (iirc) less work for illustrators on an online job board. That latter case is the only case im aware of where workers have been replaced though if you have citations to actual empirical evidence for job losses please comment!

An alternative theory: Part of what AI CEO’s are doing is marketing their products. If you want to get investors and customers to pay your very expensive compute bill you’d better sell your product. You can sell your product by claiming it can replace workers. That doesn’t mean it can do it. If the current generation of LLMs can replace workers, that is not obvious.

Perhaps some future generation might be, but that will require something fundamentally different than what’s currently available. (And no I don’t think “more data” is enough.)
> Hashing can be done in a stored procedure. [...] Nonstandard maybe but not necessarily bad.

No, it's unambiguously bad. You're transmitting a cleartext password to a system which doesn't have a business need to know it, and which wasn't designed to process secret data. There's a substantial risk that the database may leak that data in some unexpected way, e.g. by logging it when an error occurs or by showing the parameter in a process list. Worse, a stored procedure can potentially be covertly modified to store or exfiltrate the password while hashing it.
Thanks for the reminder. I agree, that appears to be a massive triumph of preservation.
This is dependent on a world where immortality is expensive because it's difficult to actually make someone immortal rather than because it's difficult to figure out how to make someone immortal. For all we know, immortality is as simple as a one-time injection into an egg cell, and the challenge is almost entirely in figuring out what to inject.

Also, how much is the death of bad individuals actually contributing to making the world a better place? It seems to me like the various abuses of robber-barons and tyrants past and present are perpetuated by institutions built around them rather than their own personal capacity to affect the world. A king in exile on a remote island or a Rockefeller driven to bankruptcy can remain unchanged as a person while losing virtually all of their capacity to impose their will on the world, while a kingdom or corporation can keep going centuries after the death of its leader if conditions stay favorable.
Our Flawed Foundations
And if you want to see a movie or show that is not on Netflix? What you do?
I'm in my 60's. My observation is people that pick up friends at work during their career always have a job, get recruited for jobs, they survive layoffs more often. And deal with stress at work better when things get shitty. So it's a positive thing for your career and mental health.

Management thinks employees having work friends is a bad thing. Cause it reduces the power they have over employees.
I've been reading Determined by Robert Sapolsky. He mentions a study about the behavioral differences on average between peoples that come from rice-growing and wheat-growing regions of China. When two chairs were placed obstructively in a Starbucks, people from rice-growing regions would move around the chairs, whereas those from the wheat-growing regions would move the chairs. The explanation given is that rice-growing requires intergenerational cooperation to be tenable, and he highlights an example of terraces that were found to be maintained for over 2000 years. On the other hand, he notes that the US consists of a largely immigrant and pioneer populations, which are selected for individualism.

It's important to note that neither of the cultures are 'better', and that also within populations there are great individual differences. In the chair example, the middle ground would be to consider the chairs a Chesterton's Fence (Why were they placed there? Is it to cover a spill?)
That's not a C23 feature. It's a non-portable compiler extension which has existed for a _long_ time.
Besides LLVM, there's been progress for a GCC backend, and in google summer of code, a suggested project is a c backend, so that all c compilers may be leveraged.
How does one learn to market themselves this way? I come from a culture that values privacy & humility and it's really hard to express myself in public like this. I have no trouble doing it IRL, but doing it online just seems... wrong to me.

I understand that if I want to sell products, people need to find out about it someway and good marketing is what drives people to your product, but it just seems like such a foreign language to me.
Is it intrinsic, or is a reaction to an oversold notion of "good"? I didn't rebel until I realized how much of a lie DARE was. I'm now 36 and I still think that most of the crimes I committed as a teen were justified (except for the handful that weren't, those keep me up at night).
Some are gone, some are not. In most cases the style checkers and linters will warn you about them pre-emptively.

At least, that was the state of things last I looked. I haven't touched PHP in probably two years now.

Of all the languages I've worked in, it's my least favorite. Well, it's neck and neck with Java.
> Women are the ones who invented programming.

Hmm?
How rich are we talking? I'm just talking about your average schmuck pulling in $120k in a white collar job. Very unlikely that these types are leveraging family connections. It just takes a four year degree, washing your car, and being able to host some coworkers for lunch.

Disclaimer: I believe it's society's duty to shame the shifless and lazy.

And most of the behaviors that are taught by religions are rooted in anecdotal evidence over hundreds of years. Harder workers usually succeed more than the lazy. It's a lot more effective to say "hard work = heaven".

And it's not even really about "success". Giving a damn about what you do in this life is key to a life of happiness and therefore a life aimed at a target and governed by rules about how to interact with your fellow man. "Giving a damn" is the most important foundation for financial success as well.
> Although the neuroinvasion of SARS-CoV-2 has been demonstrated with confirmation of the virus in some brain autopsies, the neural mechanisms underlying both neurological and neuropsychiatric symptoms (acute and chronic) remain unclear.

The spike protein present in both SARS-CoV-2 virus and Covid vaccines contains amyloidogenic epitopes that might be behind those collections of symptoms. There is no safe dose of prions in the brain.
A giant stem-group chaetognath
In my particular case, the best jobs I had also happened to be at places where I could think hard, then go take a walk outside and enjoy the fresh air. Building two at Microsoft was nestled in a sort of mini forest, and taking a jog around that area in the winter was a pleasure almost to good to put into words.
Concrete real life use of Python decorators
Agreed, that is a good portrait of what it was like
Using GPIO in (Apache) NuttX RTOS
Programmers and coding on game engine:

The Definitive C++ Book Guide and List? - stack overflow
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/388242/the-definitive-c-...

Best Lua Books for Beginners and Advanced Developers - turing
https://www.turing.com/kb/best-lua-books-to-learn-embedding-...

Unreal Engine 5 Revealed! | Next-Gen Real-Time Demo Running on PlayStation 5 - youtube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qC5KtatMcUw

Best Unreal Engine Books For Aspiring Game Developers - whatpixel
https://whatpixel.com/best-unreal-engine-books/

3d animators and content assets:

Best 3D Modeling & Digital Sculpting Books - Concept Art Empire
https://conceptartempire.com/best-3d-modeling-books/

Final fantasy X/2 - Cascada Everytime we touch (slow) - youtube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuFF_6bg4T4

3D Animator Job Description, Salary, Skills & Software
https://www.cgspectrum.com/career-pathways/3d-animator

Dead Fantasy Full HD all Part (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6) - youtube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHA3opXjcd0

The Art of Fighting Game Animations: A Step-by-step Guide - ArtStation
https://www.artstation.com/blogs/gamepackstudio/4wON/the-art...

Oh is this what you want or what your son want?
Tractor company CEO: Tractors are fundamentally a “labor replacing tool
Those houses do exist, and they're not fake. They're where the non-active launch officers live (the active ones are living below ground, in the silo).
Ask HN: Alone in my head with my SO
Hi HN,

Is it normal to feel alone in your head during a relationship. I (35yo male) have a non-techie girlfriend (31yo female) who is just not that interested in what I do, or my online world.

It sometimes feels alienating to have this whole part of me that I just can't seem to bridge with her. I love her to pieces, and we both love and support each other in our lives. There's little conflict. Yet, when we go out into the world together I can't help but feel jealous of other couples who seem to talk more freely and interestedly with one another.

I just get the feeling we don't connect. We're currently at a crossroads after 3 years of me either going back to my home country to start anew, or staying with her and trying to start a family.

Are there any reasons I should stay? Am I just unappreciative of what I have and just have FOMO?

Any HNers out there in a similar situation? Please help.
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States with big climate goals strip local power to block green projects
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The mass transit system will not come about eventually in my opinion. Self driving cars will almost completely replace mass transit, especially in the suburban areas.
Is it really still this hardcore math meritocracy in Romania?

In Poland it became gradually less hardcore as 80s baby boom passed through universities and at the same time private universities started to appear everywhere. Now it's pretty laid back comparatively.
Hugo Nomination Report Has Unexplained Ineligibility Rulings
https://www.c-faq.com/ question 10.4

"What's the best way to write a multi-statement macro?"
The trap with shirts is that girls LOVE oversized, soft t-shirts as nightshirts. And since "unisex" shirts are often actually just men's-fit shirts, you have the double-whammy of a) give it to a guy, decent odds his partner steals it, and b) give it to a woman, good odds she doesn't want to wear it as a normal shirt (because "unisex"=men's) but it's a great night-shirt.

I got a Datadog t-shirt in 2016. Amazing quality. I have never worn it; it is my wife's favorite pajama shirt. She says the dog is cute.

...Dang maybe this is actually the master plan, though. I've seen datadog's logo like 50% of nights for the last 8 years.
That is certainly what RH likes to claim, but it always struck me as extremely suspicious logic. If the license says you have to share code with users and cannot restrict their rights to do the same, and they exercise those rights and you immediately retaliate, it sure seems like a reasonable person would say that you're restricting the rights of your customers in direct contravention of the license terms.
What gets me about the Cybertruck is that it feels like it's almost a cool design. I feel like if I squint my eyes, I can almost see a modern version of the DeLorean design (which was cool as hell). But it went wrong somewhere, and Tesla took a left turn into the ugly zone.
Maslow's pyramid, as we were taught about it in school:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow's_hierarchy_of_needs
Engineering Lessons I Learned the Hard Way – Bryan Cantrill [video]
Are we in a recession rn? [video]
Datalog can be very effective for expressing certain kinds of problems and for generating efficient solutions to those problems. Particularly anything that is even mildly recursive, and therefore especially "knowledge graphs" that rely heavily on rules to infer, model and retrieve information. However if your problem domain amounts to CRUD storage without a need for complex recursion then mature SQL systems usually have all the advantages (asides from the syntax!). For a more formal answer:

> The intersection of databases, logic, and artificial intelligence gave raise to deductive databases. Deductive database systems are database management systems built around a logical model of data, and their query languages allow expressing logical queries. A deductive database system includes procedures for defining deductive rules which can infer information (in the so-called intensional database) in addition to the facts loaded in the (so-called extensional) database. The logic model for deductive databases is closely related to the relational model and, in particular, with the domain relational calculus. Datalog is the most known deductive query language (which syntactically is a Prolog subset) where constructed terms are not allowed as other non-declarative constructs such as the cut.

> Also following the relational model, relational database systems are well-known and widespread nowadays. Their formal query languages include relational algebra and relational calculi but, in practical systems, the de-facto and ANSI/ISO standard SQL is the language of choice of every relational database vendor. Whilst SQL and relational formal languages implement a limited form of logic, deductive database languages implement advanced forms of logic.

https://www.fdi.ucm.es/profesor/fernan/des/html/manual/manua...
How the Enlightenment Ends by Henry A. Kissinger (2018)
First off, as much as possible, eliminate liquid calories. Those really add up fast and don't contribute to satiation.

Second, try reducing simple sugar/starch intake in favor of complex and higher fiber alternatives where possible. Increasing the ratio of protein and fat in your diet can help you reach satiety much faster, too. Fat is 9kcal/g, protein and carbohydrates are 4 kcal/g, but in terms of satiety, fat > protein >>> carbohydrate.

If you're biohacking-inclined, look into how your specific diet impacts ghrelin (hunger hormone) and leptin (satiety hormone) production and uptake. You might find that you're eating things which provoke hunger or delay satiation. And don't discount that many of us just eat because it makes us feel good - that's a much harder hill to climb, but it is possible.
A mostly silent but still fast Lambo? I'm fine with that. I hope Lambo doesn't have Ferrari's buying scheme... https://www.themanual.com/auto/what-to-know-about-buying-a-n...
Scaled TBD or TBD?
Feedback gratefully accepted.

I’m defensive on this topic because I get a lot of flack for it. I’ll stop now.
The manner of discovery is almost as remarkable as the find itself:

>Christopher Schierup, a collection manager for the National Parks Service, discovered the egg case in the fossil beds in July 2012. Schierup was conducting a routine visual survey of the site when he spotted the object, which was embedded in a chunk of rock that had rolled down a hill, Famoso recalled.
Specifically Ada Lovelace described what we’d now call computer programs in her own language while assisting in the creation of adding machines.

She’s widely regarded as the first programmer.
I just learned about him and find his campaign platform to be agreeable.

Unfortunately, in a two-party system one is compelled to vote for the official party candidate if they want their party to win. So voting for a challenger during primaries is great in that it helps send a message to the party, but in the general one must hold their nose and vote for the party's nominee.

If he runs in the general election it will be as a spoiler candidate
The sources are scarce at least for everything that's older than 2010, but I did started to collect exercises like this from various forgotten places.

I plan to put them into a github repo this month.

Sorry for the translations. I will try to check them again, and maybe to some corrections.
I wonder how much this complicates parsing C++. Because of this, you can't discard/free struct and class definitions as soon as you leave the scope, like you can in C, because the definition can still escape the scope by being returned from a function with the "auto" keyword.
It wouldn't be efficient for expression parsing. Spirit is a recursive descent parser.
I don't know what you mean by "this" and what should be obvious.

We don't have enough of what for what? And what do we even need it for?

We have 8 billion people on Earth, and we're running out of resources to handle all of them, including emotional resources. If we can't handle that, how are we going to handle billions of artificial entities with human-level intelligence? They will require oodles of power and have their own emotional needs.

All of this is chasing a poisoned carrot. And currently, all that we've gotten out of artificial intelligence is more targeted ads.
Creating Masala Mentor and Publishing My AI Assistant to the OpenAI GPT Store
How I created my own AI assistant to help me prepare my favorite Indian recipes.
It isn't difficult to find critiques of the book from different economists. The problems they find in the book are much more substantial than quibbles about the phrasing he uses to describe the Federal Reserve. For example:

http://noahpinionblog.blogspot.com/2014/11/book-review-debt-...

https://jacobin.com/2012/08/debt-the-first-500-pages

https://mises.org/library/have-anthropologists-overturned-me...

https://www.econlib.org/archives/2012/07/hummel_on_graeb.htm...
The cynic in me immediately thought "Probably excluded forgetful participants due to non-compliance with daily intake."

I assume they controlled for that though :P
the equation changes a lot if you eat for emotional regulation / as a form of self-medication. then messing with what you eat quickly messes with your mental state. so to fix that (or go into it with a clean-ish slate) you have to get professional help for your mental health problems. but when you go there, you'll find that there rarely is a quick fix, or a fix without side-effects (which might make you more prone to weight gain for various reasons). even with bariatric surgery, many people fall into a deep depression because they are forced not to take their "self-medication" which was food all their life, but that is intolerable after the surgery. so they are forced to face their demons head on. for some people food is a drug for them to feel "normal" and they need to replace their drug with some sort of professional help that is tolerable and aligned with their goals before (or while if you are adventurous) trying to cut back on food and most probably failing (which might make future attempts harder).
Wait, no trigraphs anymore???

This is horrible, I loved using `and` and `not` and `or` in C boolean expressions and to pretend I'm writing Python code. It's fun!
Model S looks good to me, but others look kind of funny or not in correct proportions and the front lights of those are also weird.
first step would be to undo FEC vs Citizens United to make politicians actually work for the people instead of corruption essentially being legal in the USA
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_v._FEC?oldform...
So we need it for slavery?
Yeah I totally was not aware of that. We are specifically talking about being better than doctors. I said that word for word.
The incompetence here is that a single human being reading this document could make a mistake that would do exactly that.

The human is guaranteed to make a mistake, just as you are.

God forbid your mistake is only the serious matter of embarrassing an elderly person and needing to have your company apologize and make restitution and not putting software on an aircraft that causes it to fly nose first into the ground killing everyone on board.

Would you like me to draw a picture of how the person shouldn't be fired, the entire system should change?
This isn't really about constructors/destructors. Expressions like function calls with multiple arguments have always been "unsequenced" with respect to each other. In other words the order is left to decide for the compiler. It's always been like that, going back to C (and probably other languages). If you call f(x++, x++) what values get passed to f is unspecified.

I suppose the destruction of whatever the expressions constructed still happens in reverse order of construction.

But either way I might not even care, I'm aware that at the level of a single statement the execution sequences aren't much defined, so I rarely put more than one mutating thing per expression, or otherwise I'm sure that I don't care about the order -- I could live with any sequence as well as totally parallel execution.

Example: buf[i++] = 5 has 2 mutating sub-expressions, but I know it's not messing up anything. I don't care whether i gets incremented before 5 gets assigned or the other way around.
I save a ton of time buying in bulk. It’s the main reason I do it; I’m just delighted I also save money.

I also get much better quality meat, fruit, and vegetables from Costco than Waitrose. So this is a total no-brainer for me. The only downside for some is you need more upfront money to shop in bulk, even if it works out to be cheaper.
Glad you've at least called it out explicitly while others beat around the bush. I personally view humans, plants, and animals as what they are and not as cost centers.
So far there is not much to learn from AI as a musician; it's rather the other way round, at least for another decade.
Interesting, do you have any examples/literature on this idea of a progress meter? I think I might try that. Especially the whole 20 hour idea, I think will be really useful for me.
Better yet, be a force multiplier who is willing to relocate. Then when times get tough you have your abelian group to lean on.
Digital Immortality
The photo of the Wrens has been published before. I was once sheltering from the rain in the doorway at Bletchley Park, along with an elderly lady. She turned out to be Dorothy du Boisson, the woman on the left in the photo. I happened to have a book with that photo on me, and she pointed herself out.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Du_Boisson
> Some folks might not trust those authority figures and their advice.

Part of this might be just normal human nature; but a big part of it is that authority figures are often simply not reliable. They set and enforce rules based on fears, or their own convenience, or their own pride or status instead of actually making rules which are for the benefit of the person under authority.
They don't know. Its war monger karma farming. These guys are quacks.
If you are tired of Canada, try Wroclav in April for a month, slavic mentality may not be for everyone. There is yt channel "offshore citizen", international tax accountant from Canada, pretty good info.
I think people stop adapting lots earlier than the time their body starts breaking down.

In fact, the body breaking down might be a reason people become adaptable.
I got to visit the Holmdel site a couple times, once in its heyday and once after it was half empty and down at the heels - an eerie vibe. It was an awesome sight when first arriving. It is colossal. Pictures don't do it justice. A symbol of economic power. Later I learned it was largely made possible by the government negotiating a deal with AT&T. It was a kind of crony capitalism Camelot. An industrial policy monument. But it was glorious. Saarinen designed a lot of Peak Industrial America headquarters.
On the other hand, that they didn't know they were added "just" 40 years ago suggests that the decision to install them was a very good one? Not that I support gas street lighting, but there is a distinct lack of genuinely quaint and historic districts in US cities.