skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> How materially different is this from "copy-pasted boilerplate from an example on a website that isn't fully understood"?

When finding and copying, you have to employ at least some degree of critical thinking. The result is rarely the first on the search results, and usually cannot be used without some adaptation. Generated solutions usually require less adaptation.
I think that most people would say that diverting the trolley to where you, yourself, are tied up would be a moral but supererogatory thing to do. But we still make it impossible to do that because the relatives of the person who sacrifices themselves might sue the institution that allows it.
Hopefully once we map out more largely ignored human systems, we can rely more on in silico studies.

https://www.humanimmunomeproject.org/

> For those we can’t cure, we can treat symptoms. We may not be able to remove the virus causing a cold from your system, but we can give you painkillers for your headache, tissues for your nose, or cough suppressant medicines. It’s not an ideal solution, but it is part of a realistic answer.

This is such a gamble. For example, I am one of the 1/10 of the population who has Long COVID from an early infection prior to vaccines thought no worse than a cold. There are also folks who got vaccinated and experience the same syndrome I do. I would never risk these odds to have to deal with over 3 years of constant debilitating pain when I was a previously healthy 29 year old now pushing 32. At this rate, I will likely see 5 full years of my life in a struggle before any treatment hits the shelves given there are very few things that can "treat the symptoms".

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.11.09.23298266v...

> At the start of this piece, I said I wasn’t fussed with the risk. Looking back at this later, I’m supposed to call this hubris. I still itch across most of my upper body. I’m alternating acetaminophen and ibuprofen. As I edited this piece weeks after the trial, I struggled with fatigue that made it difficult to work. Being released from the hospital only to develop worse symptoms is more than a little strange, but it did mean being taken care of by my partner and eating homemade meals at the worst moments, both of which I enjoyed. All in all, though, I don’t think it was hubris at all. The risks were reasonable, the pay made up for the itch, and I think the benefit to science doubly so.

Imagine if this were more debilitating like another illness (ME/CFS, Long COVID, Cancer, etc). Would you seriously risk years of your life for $5k? The only way I'd ever do this is as a sacrifice to the good of humanity. But we all know that our sacrifices aren't seen as anything further than a small paycheck in the grand scheme of pushing science forward. That needs to change and we need to devote more gratitude to people who are participating. Give them actual funds to sustain their symptoms with or find ways to dedicate their name towards the good of science often.
What are the business use cases we use bloom filters? Some examples would be great. Thanks!
How come? Are you a tough guy who resorts to your fists when your fragile ego gets questioned?

Imagine sitting there doxxing people over this bullshit. This needs an XKCD, "call the FBI, someone on the internet called me an ass".

I'm sure you have 15 e-mails drafted already "Hey, are you aware that your employee has opinions online? It's not a good look for your company and you should do something about that."

Get a grip on yourself man.
Did Bach Improvise?
Yes, and the person I'm responsing to is advocating for people getting paid. I added on by saying I'd be happy being paid minimum wage, or just having someone pay for lunch and transit, which adds up to probably 30-40 dollars a day now with the inflation.

If someone isn't worth that much, why even bother entertaining working for you and your friends? Not like you won't throw my resume in the trash anyways.

I'm working on starting my own thing, so don't feel bad you fell for someone telling you "you're barely worth anything."
As a counter-anecdote from someone who also runs their own company, I began dabbling in Swift in 2014. I held off on full Swift adoption until after the big API renaming that happened with Swift 3, so language migrations haven’t been a big deal. The compiler is slower, but I can still do a clean build in 43 seconds.

Maybe I’ve had a good experience because I’m not working on a FAANG project with a million lines of code, but that’s all to say there are shades of grey, and you have to consider what you get in exchange for Swift’s compiler and evolution overhead.

Personally, I’ve found Swift helps avoid entire categories of bugs that crop up in ObjC, like accidental nil messaging. Generics have allowed me to avoid duplicate implementations. Now SwiftUI has allowed me to implement things in hours what would have taken me days in UIKit. I could go on for a while, but those are off the top of my head.

If you find yourself enjoying ObjC, by all means keep using it. Or C. Or Pascal. Or Lisp. There are tons of different ways to accomplish the same thing, but that doesn’t account for extra-hours and bugs it takes to get there.
You say that, but then you have the posting history that bears more than a little resemblance to a standard Russian troll.
The New Yorker of podcast transcripts opens its archive
You're working with embedded C that is a rats nest of macros. It could instead be sanely factored and readable C without the macros if it was written with slightly more trust in the compiler.
Ah, yes, my mistake, he was only thinking of switching to nano:

> And it's all done in a traditional terminal, although I don't use 'vi'. I use this abomination called "micro-emacs", which has absolutely nothing to do with GNU emacs except that some of the key bindings are similar. I got used to it at the University of Helsinki when I was a wee lad, and I've not been able to wean myself from it, although I suspect I will have to soon enough. I hacked up (a very limited) utf-8 support for it a few years ago, but it's really showing its age, and showing all the signs of having been written in the 80's and the version I use was a fork that hasn't been maintained since the mid 90's.

> University of Helsinki used it because it worked on DOS, VAX/VMS and Unix, which is why I got introduced to it. And now my fingers are hardcoded for it. I really need to switch over to something that is actually maintained and does utf-8 properly. Probably 'nano'. But my hacked-up piece of historical garbage works just barely well enough that I've never been really forced to teach my old fingers new tricks.

https://www.tag1consulting.com/blog/interview-linus-torvalds...
> few billion in profit doesn't come close to canceling out the moral hazard involved

Sure. But the reforms enacted thereafter do.
Exactly. And average Joe has grown accustomed to not needing a clue.
Not trying to be negative, but the photo on your resume looks to me like a "negative" face.

Not to say a picture like that should be happy smiling or linkedin look, but yours look like you are having a bad time.

Although I'm from US where pictures aren't on resumes.
Metal Prices Are Soaring. So Is Metal Theft
It seems a lot of people go in to consultancy and start their own business under the Dutch American Friendship Treaty. If you're quick about it you can start a BV in the Netherlands, recruit yourself as director while you're still abroad, and get 30% of your income exempted from tax (until it's killed off). Let me know if you want an accountant referral. The Netherlands is great.

Your US taxes will be a pain, form 5471 etc. There's also groups like oysterhr.com, boundlesshq, deel, etc. that act as employer of record.

Edit: To explain, the DAFT treaty has a very small investment needed. It has not been raised with inflation.

https://ind.nl/en/residence-permits/work/residence-permit-se...

"""
You invest a lot of money (substantial capital) in your business. The level of this sum depends on the form of your business. For most forms, the IND requires a minimum investment of €4,500. See the rules on substantial capital investment.
"""
And gamedev sprite editing with Aseprite
That’s the catch every little thing is a subscription on their platform.
Hello, please pay taxes in the country you are in also :)
What are some examples outside of the OpenAI one in Schneier's blog post?
Question from someone who is pretty far separated from game dev: Is this now an open source alternative to fmod and wwise?
> What? Of course they would try to communicate if the ants showed any smallest capability or interest in doing so.

Ants do communicate, a lot in fact (chemically). How else would they coordinate the colony?

Yet I don't remember hearing about scientists trying to communicate with them, announce our presence, or exchange ideas.
> So you think that people who play videogames because it makes them feel superior to the NPCs and as such feel they're allowed to shoot, maim, kill or generally mistreat them are necessarily bad people?

No, "bad people" is far too binary and ill-defined. Yes, I do think it says something about their character. Human history shows that we are innately that way. Our entire history is full of evidence from people being dicks to waiterse to wartime atrocities (rapes, pillages, etc) as evidence that it's not just a rare emergence. It's buried inside all of us. IMHO, it's a mark of high character when someone is able to recognize and suppress their animalistic urges.
oddly, top ranking AI research in the world right now comes from Stanford USA+Wuhan PRC .. this is trivially verified.

Intelligent commentary will need to differentiate between public cooperation layers, non-public cooperation layers, and non-public adversarial layers .. because, they are all active.. all of those.
Some of the dog breeds, most notably French Bulldogs, have been specifically bred for qualities that enhance their interaction and dependency on humans (like having a unique set of facial features and expressions that many people find irresistibly cute and compelling).
> So just, like, buy the rest

That's a lovely theory but shared ownership allows prices to rise astronomically because it allows what's basically double-mortgaging - you get a mortgage on the part you own and pay rent on the rest (which of course is you paying the developer's loan) which is accepted because the risk is shared between the developer and the mortgage issuer, who of course have an 'arrangement' because only some banks will issue mortgages to some shared ownership properties - there's an 'approved lender' list for each development.

So 'just buy the rest' becomes almost comically impossible, which is the idea. It's intrinsically gross. I honestly don't think it should be allowed, it's masking a problem which is insane real estate values which have no tie to reality.
Dont cry when you get caught by conditional access :)
I think we've established that I'm talking about what Netanyahu actually said, and that you're talking about a meaning and a context that you impute to what he said. Maybe you're right about that. Roll the thread back to where this started, and I think you'll see why I'm saying what I'm saying.
Maybe I "think different" too much but frankly I hate carrying a lot of crap through the airport and don't want to be one of those rollerbag people so I tend to check bags even if I don't have to.

(If airlines charged for carry-on bags instead of checked bags and eliminated the 15 minutes waited educating people about 50 different loyalty programs, credit cards, and other statuses that might affect your boarding order they might even be able to knock $20-$50 off your ticket.)
Once you conquer the headaches and eye-strain, it's not too bad.
> gyms that turn a blind eye to people not replacing weights

They almost all do, because calling people out will lose you more customers than you'll lose from patrons being annoyed by the practice. It's just good business to ignore it and make the employees clean up at closing time.
> I don't believe there was no other option. The problem with what we did is we confirmed there is no risk to owning bank stock or lending to banks and that should never be true

There were better options. But it's unclear we would have found them in time. That's why we explored and enacted them aftewards. Which is what let First Republic, SVB and Signature fail last year, with investors being wiped out and no depositors impaired, so smoothly that it's no longer in popular memory.
It is impossible to explain just how much ChatGPT has given me confidence to branch out into unknown langs in our company! It has made me fairly lazy in terms of the language I know, and I automate just as much as I can, but it really (really) shines around things I absolutely have no idea about, and has provided so much value.
> When finding and copying, you have to employ at least some degree of critical thinking.

You and I have workers with vastly different frontend "engineers" in that case, especially in web agency shops where "faster implemented === better" in most cases.
And they want a customer who will rent the dedicated box for a long time and not wipe it after every 2$/2h Trialcustomer
Readability is great, and I use it, but it's odd how half-assed the maintenance for it has been. I've haven't seen any noticeable improvements to it in quite some time, and when I've looked for alternatives, it usually turns out they're using it under the hood in some capacity.

Perhaps it's already being made obsolete by LLM technologies? I'd be curious to hear from anyone who's used a locally running LLM to extract written content, especially if it's been built specifically for that task.
How is your company structured with regards to tax and regulations, it doesn't sound like you're the size of a multi-national

Are team members employed as local contractors, so take on all the legal liabilities (e.g. the "no email outside work hours" rule in France)
How many complete guides are out there for Python Scraping?
Their source code got leaked and it was reverse engineered to defeat it. That said, it was all kind of late in the game, GPU mining died not too long afterwards.
Yeah, I agree it has an interest in it. It's just I can't name what the bank's asset actually is. What should go on the balance sheet? It gave cash to the borrower (ok, I know it's more complicated than that, but for the sake of argument let's pretend it gave a bundle of Bens), so it credits that asset by $200k. What does it debit? Not a share in a house. A promise to pay, sure, but that's just notional. What is the asset in reality?

(Hopefully I'm being clear that I'm not asking what GAAP says. I mean what does the bank have that it didn't have before?)

EDIT: this problem doesn't arise with a non-recourse mortgage, where the bank's asset is pretty clearly a share in the house. If the house burns down, the bank loses its money.
There is infra for methane which can be retrofitted.
I don't know exactly, but this article may serve as a prime example.

https://abcnews4.com/news/nation-world/chatgpt-goes-viral-fo...
Berkeley employs one of the more conservative faculties in the U.S. The activism is almost entirely student-driven, on both sides.
Academics have for a long time been progressive activists at many schools.
> Our architecture is so simple I’m not even going to bother with an architectural diagram.

What's described is far from a simple architecture. Synchronous python? Kubernetes? I'm guessing there's a legacy monolith with a few microservices or load-balancers? Then... GraphQL... why? This is just a hodgepodge of stuff in dire need of actual refactor.
I bet they did not release the source code immediately because they wanted to make sure there was no patent infringement hiding anywhere in it.
Average USA energy prices are (according the Bureau of Labor Statistics) ~$0.18/kWh at the moment, with some folks at $0.40+ (San Francisco, San Diego, Hawaii) while others are as low as $0.13/kWh (Seattle, Saint Lewis)

https://www.bls.gov/regions/midwest/data/averageenergyprices...
Nature is healing

Given that we already have distinct forms of organizations for activism, corporations and other forms of non-profits should “use their platform” to tell activists to pound sand
China coast guard boards Taiwan tourist boat in escalation of tensions
AMD is trying their hardest.
> Generalizations and tribal thinking are bad habits.

If generalizations are bad, why do you immediately make one about tribal thinking (not to mention 'generalizations' itself)?

Tribal thinking isn't always bad; it's the same glue that holds families together.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39437387
There's some benefits, but also massive, massive society destroying downsides. In retrospect, the downsides of social media like addiction, social isolation, and political misinformation, radicalization were hand waved away. We were told "THINK OF THE UPSIDE OF SOCIAL MEDIA, THINK OF THE CONNECTIONS" and now think of how isolated and depressed and addicted everyone is now. The exact same thing will happen with AI and VR.
But if mainstream economic theory is anything close to being correct, denying Marx was correct is like denying gravity. It’s just so clear based on the literature that the rate of return on investment exceeds the growth of the real economy. Anything else is conservative activism not grounded in experimental reality.
> "we're X people valued at $YBILLIONS" is a weird way to open and detracts from the message.

The most common argument against simpler architecture is, "but that won't scale and we are going to grow to be a valuable company." So the idea that they aren't a $10 million company does seem somewhat relevant.
https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/reservereq.htm

Reserve rates have been 0% since 2020. All Deposit taking institutions with a loan department have carte blanche to print money. The model you're operating under doesn't actually map to how things are now.
I mean, sure. Sometimes I just paste a timestamp in and ask it to turn it into an epoch time for me. Now that's lazy.
I don't know if it really counts--though maybe so if Strange Days makes it on the list--Cypher (2002) with Jeremy Northam and Lucy Liu is a pretty fun ride filled with corporate espionage intrigue.
How expensive are the content bundles?
The eternal lesson of politics hasn't changed: "Money Talks"
With how well the steam deck was received, I'd expect them to lean more into it? Is it better in press than it was in actual sales?

And I know I have tentative plans for the next VR thing they try. I have the PSVR2 and it is really good at the games it is for. To the point that I'd expect next generation efforts to be amazing.
MrBeast on his swift rise to the cover of TIME and beyond
> it's a great typing accelerator

It's great at this, and I use it like this a lot.

Like I know how to write the code, and exactly how I want it to be, but I faster describe that in words and let GPT4 write it out like I want it to, than to write it out myself. Even in the cases when the code isn't even boilerplate.

Sometimes the system prompts need a bit of tuning, but time spent on that tends to even out after some usage.
That's the first thing that came to my mind though
And failing will be the new passing.
> History often repeats itself with Apple products initially deemed failures.

Maybe, but that never saved the Lisa, the Newton or the Butterfly keyboard. Sometimes, Apple takes a big risk that's far too early, expensive or simply doesn't pay off.

I don't think it's a particularly hot take to say that VR/AR content creation has been stagnant for a decade. Valve couldn't save it by moving mountains, Meta barely made it mass-marketable with a barebones MVP, and Apple is... gentrifying the higher-end. It's not so much an insult towards Apple as it is to the field and it's market fit. Nobody has had an "iPhone moment" yet, not even Apple.
This is exactly why using GPT to supplement but not supplant writing code is very good. Code generation is generally more helpful as you go to higher layers of abstraction as long as you can stay at that layer of abstraction. Once you need to jump a level lower because your abstraction fails in a specific context you need pre-existing knowledge of how the abstraction works in order to ask GPT the right questions.

Hence, depending on the domain knowledge of the piece of code you are dealing with, GPT can be very helpful in generating a good scaffolding to get off the ground quickly (i.e you want to write a web app but don't want to deal with having to learn how to write a whole react app etc.), but asking GPT to...write an optimizer for a C runtime would end up with poor results as its heavily bent on the specifics of that task where a specialists' knowledge would outweigh any abstractive advantages.

One very useful experiment I did early on was try to solve a problem with GPT where I had deep domain expertise and see where the cracks are vs in one in which I had very poor expertise. This led me to make my abstraction based statement above, and so far I've seen it remain true with every successive version.
Privacy was only one of the issues mentioned in that talk alongside
exclusion/lockout, racism, compulsion or choice. The subtext seemed
to be that the Indian project was reckless, violated multiple rights,
and revealed multiple problems, whereas the European version observed
UDHR and ECHR definitions of "right to privacy" and much more. In
summary the Euro ID schedule is much more cautious.

Resilience is a real problem in my view. When these systems go tits-up
- and they will go spectacularly tits-up as biosciences and AI advance
- the lack of alternatives like RFID cards, papers, trusted notaries
etc will have a colossal impact. The danger is not the idea of
legibility for digital governance (we already have that) but the
blind, gushing enthusiasm to build one centralised system around
singular technologies.
Upgrading the platform also happens at least 10x less frequently, so that math doesn't necessarily work out in your favour though.
To quote my father :

> Get as much shit off the WiFi as you can
Just make sure any workloads you place on Hetzner are treated as spot instances and outputs are immediately sent off network. The reliability of their systems and customer support is very low. Hetzner is a 5-star or 1-star company. Are you willing to risk your business on the flip of a coin? My own experience [2] was definitely a 1-star.

[1] https://www.trustpilot.com/review/hetzner.com

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39075608
>Donaldson is not your usual entrepreneur. For one, he’s happy to talk about how much revenue he brings in: about $600 million to $700 million a year.
Sometimes you also need "Accept: html" I have noticed.
Subtracting Projects
Journalists seem to do an awful job with the kind of stories I understand, but surely they do better most of the time...
"NIMBYism is directly proportionate to the amount of capital you can access."

I tend to think it's more of a bell curve. The lower classes want more housing. The middle classes are NIMBY because the majority of their net worth is tied to their house value. The upper classes don't care, with rare exceptions for people who don't want their views spoiled.

If you live in a 20,000 sqft. penthouse in Manhattan with a doorman and a private elevator what do you care what they're building or not building at the end of the block? Safe to say it won't be anything that kills your property values. A lot of vocal YIMBYs to be Silicon Valley tech moguls.
I would assume you're correct if they were the same level of audio, but my joke was about overpowering the swiping sound entirely, to the point where a microphone wouldn't be able to pick it up anymore.
Some of the people in these comments never got their documentation in paper form and it really shows
So, they support Putin in order to bring on apocalypse.

Putin aside, let's not forget the main point, that evangelicals 'want' the apocalypse, and will work to help bring it.

""Pat Robertson recently said Putin was “compelled by God” to invade the country in order to precipitate the coming apocalypse. ""