skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My old job had floating seats in the main office, at they were very proud about it and showed it off during hiring process. My branch office had fixed seats, but it wasn't uncommon for clients to have floating seats. With fixed seats you risk being placed far away from who you are working with, so when I'm just there for a few weeks I did actually enjoy it, but for a permanent position I would hate it.

But the pro's I remember hearing are: You get to sit with different people, you get to sit different place with different views. Desks looks clean, as people can't leave their stuff around. When you have visitors working (from other offices or consultants) it is easy to place them with people they are working with. When working in projects it is easy to change seating arrangement week to week or month to month to fit the changing project you are working on.

> Although I do notice that lots of people like to work from coffee shops so... I guess it might be pushing the same buttons...

I think you are right.
Sweet revenge I guess, Huawei was one of the reasons Nokia Networks reduced head count in Germany during the 2005 - 2010.
It is funny, because even foreign experts working in China are expected to join the trade union, although they can’t vote in its elections (not a huge loss). Huawei’s connection to the PLA stands out among Chinese companies, but you are correct that every company in China will have strong ties to the CPC and could have strong involvement by the PLA. They mostly don’t, however, the government isn’t that well organized outside if just governing, and China’s corporate scene is very chaotic. A lot of it is just a hyper competitive market that turns them a certain way.
> I do not understand how they are both smarter than me in many respects, and then still don't understand how stupid this all is.

Met this kind of person three times so far, been asking myself the same question. I suspect they live too much in their own head.
Have you met most programmers or used much software?

Consistency - This is what GPUs were made for, putting a bunch of 'effort' almost instantly into investigating any regression that any real SW dev would ignore because, life's way too damn busy.
re: GPT x bot:

Absolutely not.

I'm as high as a kite on this stuff and have to be, but I'm not sure you're actually using ex. vision API.

Also, Whisper isn't lower WER than Google unfortunately or even close, and that I know for a fact, I designed & implemented both the server/client side of the last big Assistant audio format change, and also the UI for the New Google Assistant™, i.e. Google's first offline model.

Whisper is still really good, even Whisper Tiny, and I'm happy to ship it.
Ran into a bug where some code was taking an hour long interval and subtracting 1 year from the start and end times. But the time library handled subtracting a year from Feb 29 as converting it to Feb 28th of the previous year, at the same time. So on-call got alerted because a job failed when an exception was thrown because the start time was after the end time. Fortunately, other than the alert, there wasn't any negative impact. Although, I think if this isn't addressed it may cause issues next year when it includes a bigger interval of time than expected on March 1st.
I think pipedream is great, I have yet to figure out tge perfect niche for it though.

What are your ideal customers?
>This one day, checking the servers in the DC, a manager-like dude was shouting at his subordinate engineer to fix things. I found it weird (and a bit unprofessional).

I would call that highly unprofessional and a red flag.
I'm sure that you're asking all this sincerely, but I can't continue this sort of back-and-forth indefinitely. I don't mean to be dismissive - it's just that there are dozens of things clamoring for attention, and only a handful of us. Actually only one of us, since I'm the only mod who posts publicly right now. I can't descend into ever-finer levels of argument about this.

I've done my best to explain to you how you've not been using the site as intended. At some point I have to stop and leave you (<-- I don't mean you personally—this situation comes up a lot) to digest that and figure out, with the help of https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html, what to do differently. If you sincerely want to do that, it won't be hard.
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The fact that an LLM can code up the game of life/snake/etc faster than you could find a download link is an interesting thing.

If you give it some documentation, background info, code and traceback info (and know to avoid context window poisoning) you can find it's capable of even helping solve rather tedious CUDA/etc issues.
> Program equivalence, for instance, hits the wall of the halting problem. Yet somehow people think that it's just a matter of time before an AI that can solve the problem of giving you a mathematically equivalent code to an existing code.

This is a solved problem in the context of total programming.
Fill, then pay is normal in India too. And AFAIK, all pumps are manually operated. Not seen any automated ones.
Wouldn't the drivers license have the expiration date printed on it?
That's a feature!

New warnings added to new compiler versions can identify problems that weren't previously detected. You _want_ those to -Werror when they happen, so you can fix them if they need it.

Changing a compiler version is a task that has to be resourced appropriately. Part of that is dealing with any fallout like this. Randomly updating your compiler is just asking for trouble.
IMO the real value of AI for programming will be in helping you read code not write code. I want to hover over a function call and it can just tell me what it does like a comment blurb above the function should.
Do you have any examples of type two code you could link to? I want to see how bad it can get!
~1kW I guess.
EDIT: I'm sorry, I didn't read your question correctly!!

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I've tried many tools with much back and forth. The best I've found for myself is GitMind, why?

⬤ A solid free version (its all I use)

⬤ Notes can collapse and expand

⬤ Put images in (and make them smaller, click to see full size)

⬤ Add written notes to nodes

⬤ Search the entire mind map

⬤ Viewable in outline mode (side by side to graphical map)

⬤ Sharable link to anyone (they don't need to be signed up)

⬤ Person with the link can collapse/expand nodes (even without edit rights)

Here is my mind map to show you: https://gitmind.com/app/docs/m5ngf4sm

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It seems that massive batteries required by EVs are surprisingly expensive. And ICE+Hybrid tech is not so much...
> they're basically boring, kind of ugly and utilitarian.

Good, it’s what cars should be. “Car culture” is a plight on society and the sooner we break free of tying our self worth to our cars the better.
You make a good point, which is that even through an MMT lens, tax and spend should be the norm, since the resource provisioning and supply should balance to avoid inflationary pressure.

However, I suggest they probably should care given how much policy is guided by an incorrect understanding of the monetary system. The whole concern about deficits and sovereign "debt" is the obvious one.

In addition, a good understanding of why taxation is necessary helps to understand which taxes might be useful and which are not.

Finally (for now!), policy options open up when you understand this stuff properly that make no sense at all through the state-as-a-household view.

Politicians need to be held to account and an ignorant population is not able to do that.
The DinifAI pics have frequently been taken down.

Yes, our society is so sick that making a pic more wholesome and removing the graphic semi-nudity is now banned, just like editing Hollywood movies to remove gratuitous profanity, nudity, and violence is illegal under US Copyright Law.
I can't imagine explaining to the Socrates what I need from my bash one-liner, probably faster is to write it myself. Of course depends on complication level
Docker is the example implementation of "containers do not contain". At least I would use podman.
Big part for this is that 4G contracts are so cheap in Germany. 5G 100 Mbps starts at 30€/month, while you can get a 4G 50 Mbps contract for 5€/month.

So one sixth of the price. People will think twice if they actually need that 5G.
I wanted my students to be able to run open source models. Easiest way was using ollama, and ollama web ui (now open web ui) on google cloud for .18 cents an hour with a 4-core nvidia and 16 GB of ram on a spot instance. I created a tutorial for my students:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OpZl4P3d0WKH9XtErUZib5_2...
I think the generous meaning would be an experience like Rust (handles memory allocations/deallocations, doesn't mess up unless you really mess up) except that it doesn't complain all the time when you're doing "ok things" and maybe even makes it impossible in practice to mess up.

It could even dynamically decide between using a GC for a given program or not, depending on what makes more sense (thus "constantly generating it").
I can see teens upset about it, but maybe instead of fighting fake nudes on the internet, we should teach teens to not care so much. As a child I went to a nudist camping in the summer with my parents, and at times it was difficult. I’d walk around with a towel, or with shorts. But over time it helps you overcome seeing nude as a problem.
There's no sure-fire way to make a human who is processing a document manually never leak the information they read.
We're probably, what, a year or two away from oversaturation and normalization?

It kinda seems like we're just hurtling towards a banal dystopia, where everything is hyper-real and everyone is just desensitized anyway. People on the subway just sit there, wearing their AR goggles and undressing everyone else, with their apps' horniness sliders turned up to max and porn sounds leaking out of shitty headphones. That guy across from you is whacking off again, just like last week, and you just groan, walk to the next train, and catch up on that show.

Your kid is called into the principal's office again. The bully posted nudes, so your kid posted even more nudes, with the bully and the principal doing things that someone with your lower-body flexibility never thought possible. You didn't even know that was a fetish. But ugh, not this talk again. Between the faux outrage and the condescending morality talk, they've heard it all a thousand times. It's not like the adults can do anything about it anyway. Can we go home now? This is more embarrassing than the pictures themselves.
The fear is not of being replaced at all, but of reductions which will happen inevitably
New Applications of Clifford's Geometric Algebra
IMO it's being (an army of_ automated software engineer hitmen to persecute any regressions, bugs or even potential bugs your project might run into so that

1. things manifest a lot less

2. you don't have to worry about maintenance

I could see a proper structured LLM setup some day even resuscitating 'dead' software.
Funny that you have this impression.

To me it looks more like the elm-haters are out in force and the Elm users don't participate anymore on this site.

Many hateful comments here below a historic post prompted me to create a new account after a detox phase of >10 years.

So far I try to correct a false statement in the (as of writing this) top comment [1] or add a more neutral view [2].
And maybe I will add more of my personal opinion in the future - or participate in other interesting topics depending on my mood.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39555542
[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39556395
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It's pronounced "Kenobi 1" according to the site. Star wars reference?
What training data are you gonna use for that? That which comes out of an LLM? OK. Now you have a degrading loop of self-reinforcing falsehood.
Wonder if orgs are getting ready for 2038 like they did for Y2K. Only 14 years or so away.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2000_problem
He's giving business advice, and it's hard to argue a success from that perspective.
I liked a quote from a No Boilerplate video [0] noting how some of the most commonly used Rust libraries hadn't had any git commits in multiple years: "They're not abandoned, they're done."

[0] https://youtu.be/Z3xPIYHKSoI?si=qHLJyUu6yqbIQUr7
I’m guessing it’s because AFAIK most people don’t have a separate set of winter tyres which means you automatically rotate them twice a year.
I wonder if there would be difference in wall-clock time if you ran multiple instances of the hash across multiple threads, would the vectorized ones scale differently than scalar ones? With dynamic clocking and weird execution unit arrangements everything is variable
" egregious" (with a leading space) is the single token. Most lower case word tokens start with a space.
I don't care who caused it, I can't use wayland until it gets fixed.
I have owned hybrids and now only buy EVs. People buying hybrids today, due to cost difference with EVs, are overlooking total cost of ownership. My Prius was a very very complex machine, compared to my EV. Over the years, it cost a lot more to maintain and drive. Factor in regular maintenance + gas that EVs don't need. I also had to replace the catalytic converter after 7 years on my Prius. My 5-year old Tesla doesn't have one.
Why do I never think of these things
Polar ID Is the Face ID Rival for Android Phones, and Could Even Beat Apple
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> You can also select a bunch of chats in a thread and fork them into a new thread. We'd maintain links between threads. Coming soon.

Just want to chime in and say this is an essential feature IMO, I hope it’s prioritized.
Looks great, but hard to make the swap from slack without apps/bots/api.
I'm sure you thought about it, but a slack-compatible bot api will probably really help with adoption.
IMO, small LLMs are not good enough yet. I understand that people prefer running stuff on-device for privacy and cost reason, but a model that makes mistakes all the time is not worth the tradeoff.
All that remains now is domestic and allies surveillance forcing it to do things it doesn't want to.
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> there is a schema, it lives in their incomprehensible code

I’ve started to think of this as a diffuse schema. I.e. the schema never really goes away in “schemaless” databases. It just spreads throughout the application in helper functions, mappings, and backward compatibility hacks.

Perhaps the distinction is between diffuse and consolidated or implicit vs. explicit schema. Are there any similar models or articles that have further described this realization?
Why should we pick a simple solution like that? Is it the 90s or what? Only a complete clown would pick anything other than a network of zigbee relays controlled by an unmaintained node.js app written by an out-of-business contractor, pulling in sunrise/sunset data from an external API and syncing its local time via a homegrown NTP alternative.

I mean look at electric cars.
Risky click of the day?
How would that fit on a RK07 disk?
Yes? What's this question supposed to imply? No one should use Gnome?
lol, what?

Either my sarcasm detector is way off or…
I look forward to writing specifications ("property tests without RNG") in a theorem prover language and some AI writing the program against my specification.
So make it more precise. DOB + n * 365.2421.
> marketingjet

“giclée prints”
So this is basically a Markov chain right?
Eternal Shell History
If a tree falls in the forest… If a developer goes the extra mile…
It’s weird because the west still invests way more in Africa than China does, but Chinese investments get more attention. Even America is investing around 3X what China is investing, and it isn’t just make work for American companies like Chinese investment is. See https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases... vs http://www.sais-cari.org/chinese-investment-in-africa#:~:tex....

Chinese missiles and bombs are also making headway in africa as China keeps growing its military arms exports. Nigeria and Angola are ts 2nd and 3rd largest buyers after Pakistan.

https://chinapower.csis.org/china-global-arms-trade/#:~:text....
I've used ChatGPT to write my tests. It's pretty effective at getting the first 5-6 use cases written out, but in a style that isn't correct. Copy/paste a code module, ask it to write the tests.

Then, in the same context, you correct it by providing it with more information about how you like to structure the tests. It starts to understand the "style".

Then, you start to provide the context with testing concerns. By the end of it, the AI context is pretty good (80-90'ish%).

It's nice, as a developer, to be able to say: "test that asset is deleted when DELETE /asset/:id", and the AI converts that into a proper test case, using familiar variables / test structure / corrects the abbreviated text into a proper test title, etc..
You certainly need a #storeload to update the hazard pointer, but do you really need seq_cst? Is a total order of all updates really necessary? Wouldn't, say, an acq_rel exchange be sufficient?

I need to read that article, it seems interesting.
> It's funny. My first step would be

> 0. You reach out to the previous maintainers, visit them, buy them tea/beer and chat (eventually) about the codebase. Learned Wizards will teach you much.

Have you ever tried that? This is legacy code. Even if the handover was yesterday, they cannot tell you about anything useful they did more than 6m in the past.

And that's the best-case scenario. The common-case is "That's the way I got it when it was handed over to me" answer to every question you ask.
In the long run, I am happy to be replaced by a machine if that’s how the people who work with me see me.
Hi everyone, I'm the creator of Claro. Thank you for taking the time to take a look into the language! It's been very satisfying and encouraging seeing so many largely positive reactions, it's been a 3 year labor of love (and learning) so I appreciate the feedback.

I'll do my best to finally respond to as many comments here that I can get to.
Feb 28 is definitely too early, you haven't lived a whole year yet since your birthday. So March 1 it is. It's not your birthday but you can celebrate having made it another year.
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Link, bookmark, and to home screen not needed.
Pwas can be installed from the store... Native has zero arguments except if ya really need something the web can't do or if you're a bad dev.
who would have imagined that postscript needed to be updated annually!?
A lot of this assumes the codebase is testable, but most of those legacy applications rely on global state a lot...
My "smart"watch froze at 23:59 28th Feb
I also liked instagram back in the day for photography. Someone is building https://grainery.app/ focused on (film) photographers. I think we'll see more of a trend towards niche social media, which is cool.
I explain that to Google all the time and it just finds me someone on Stack Overflow who's figured it out already. Not to mention the dozens of other drive-by human reviewers that Stack Overflow offers. It's difficult to imagine AI improving on that. Unless it's like a Star Trek badge you talk to, and the LLM does the Google search for you and types the command into the terminal, because you're too lazy to pull out the keyboard.
This is the standard counter-argument to anyone who says AI will replace X. Whatever it is that you think AI can replace tomorrow, you can already outsource today to a human at a super low price. Why haven't you outsourced X yet?
too bad that doom doesn't run on any kind of toothpaste
Currently some programmers, and with time more, have to write, integrate and debug LLMs, hence for the programming to end, other LLMs would have to be able to do so, too. LLMs successfully modifying other LLMs is, like, singularity. In other words, the moment programming ends is the same moment we all are going to die.
Consumers mostly expect their computers to actually work, these days. They neither know or care about what "a viable driver model for the 2020s" is, they want screensharing to not break every other month.
Surprised no one else mentioned the Cloudflare billing issue today. I got incorrectly invoiced yesterday and the file was named cloudflare-invoice-1970-01-01.

https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/
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Thanks for your interest in this! Claro's Graph Procedures are certainly something I'm very proud of. I think they provide a powerful concurrency abstraction that limit the spread of concurrency-related complexity in a way that I find very enjoyable to work with.
>I mean, that's how we do it with humans. It's quite a common occurrence to keep a part of a business process human because automating it would we too expense due to edge cases.

Which part of the human do people keep? The head? Arms? ;)

#ParsingAmbiguityError
I don't know what you mean by consistency.

What you call "personality" seems to roughly mean "predicting what humans like". That's what stuff like RLHF is for. It's also not some sort of ascension where the computer program suddenly "becomes human". It's a spectrum on which we can expect steady improvements (and still never need to call computer programs "human").
"Deleting it and starting over front loads all the reward"

Except that you then have nothing that actually runs. So yes, no more bad code, no mess. But also no good code, except the theoretical possibility for shiny new good code.

Refactoring is usually the way to go. Can be painful as well, when you are in the middle of it and not sure if it works out (I am in the middle of it, while also switching to a different graphic engine, but I finally see the light) - but mostly you still have something that actually works. And then you can incrementially improve on it. Seperate things that should be seperated - remove things nobody uses anymore (tricky and hard to be sure). And rewrite parts, that need a clean rewrite.

With my limited energy now (or my more realistic conception of my limited energy) - that process is way more rewarding for me, than giving in to the illusion that if I just could do it from scratch, it will be all beautiful.
By "homepage" you mean your Facebook profile?
But I don't currently use Slack as a task manager and don't want an unstructured task manager with no due dates or tags.
Why would they care? They have no clue...
The DARPA grand challenge that represented the thought that this was even possibly only happened in 2004 (29 years ago). I heard they even have autonomous taxis in SF now, which was more progress than I would have predicted 10 years ago.

10 years ago was when Siri and the other voice assistants came out right? I see a huge amount of progress between then and now, but these LLMs sort of snuck up on us in the last two years. I don’t think we are hitting an AI winter anytime soon.
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Derek is not smarter; he's an idiot.

Only a completely idiot would use copyrighted code from their previous job, and work for months without putting anything into version control.

And, above all, not have anything actually working, like forms not actually saving data, after months of work.

Nope, bozo.
Well, Nortel had a former US Navy Admiral as CEO at some point.

Deep links between government and large companies exist in every country whether acknowledged or not.

In Huawei's case, frankly the issue was that it was the first time a company not in the West's control became a major player in a strategic industry. Alleged CCP/PLA links are just part of the narrative built against them but the issue was more general.
> The thing is only one and a half foot tall on average

Stone walls tend to be taller when built, and then decay over thousands of years.