skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep this is it.

Of course during the first RTO push I repeatedly told all my colleagues that the natural evolution in the minds of leadership is going to be "if their job can be done from Lake Tahoe it can be done from Bangalore."

Now our company is implementing a McKinsey designed plan to move the bulk of our employment to India. The expectation is that headcount will go up but with much cheaper resources. McKinsey insists that they've done this a bunch of times with different companies and it's gone swell.
In 2000, refactoring was not really a thing as few projects had many automated unit tests and any change to the code had to be tested manually.
Thank you so much for your work on this. I had a bad CSF leak in 2020 and was bedridden for months until surgery with Dr. Schievink. Karen’s book was with me much of that time.
Yeah no, hard pass on that.
We use Apache Arrow which is what Data Fusion and Polars also use
The end of programming will be no programming at all. First AIs will do the things that are necessary without someone telling them. If there are still companies, e.g. this means sending emails to customers (who have AIs that are reading their emails and acting on them ;-) to sell more things, create APIs or websites on their own, hire other people (AIs) to do things they can't do (regulation, other country, etc.).

For the mid future, it's like Star Trek: "Computer give me the customers that perform best" - from a data lake, no data warehouse, no CRM code, no web frontend. No programmers, just users.

For the near future, developers will become managers. Instead of hiring and managing people, they will select and manage different AIs for different tasks. See what those are doing, give them feedback (just like a manager would to developers), change the prompt (like a manager would clarify a task), give them data, grow them (again just like a people manager today).
>recall some news websites tried to threaten people making browser extensions with the DMCA/CFAA as they considered it working around their copy protection to illegally gain access to their content.

Source? I spent two minutes looking and failed to find anything like that, hardly an exhaustive search though.

Hard to argue a user agent could be DRM though, considering it's a string I the user send to the website.
Would have been better had you not. Many people have many reasons not to post under their government names.

Just because yours looks real doesn't make it so. Anyone can make up a real-sounding name.
CCP penetration of comms in China: 100%

CCP penetration of comms in Germany: less than that
I don't know enough about QuickBooks to say we can replace it. But we do have enterprise accounting teams using us to pivot millions of rows of general ledger data. So if you're looking to (e.g.) create summaries of categorized expenses, we're great for that.

Where are you importing your financial data from?
and in case you didn't know US carpet bombed Vietnam and many other countries. so, what's your point?
> but I'd be surprised if there was not a modern date library for C++

The standard library now includes <chrono>. AFAIK: It was mostly written by Howard Hinnant. He now has more date/time libs that expand upon <chrono>: https://github.com/HowardHinnant/date
(author actually shows up to advocate for rust)
Wonder if you really "have to" make that decision "now". Sometimes you may have to get the ball rolling because of time constraints there specifically but the decision itself can wait. For example it might be fine to get funds moving so they are ready, even if the later decision means they are not needed anymore.
> deployed their while site

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I’ve never had more than a sip.

It’s sometimes tough, socially. But I’ve never (well, rarely) felt pressured, just “left out” sort of. But most people in my family are non-drinkers, so there’s that.

I’ll probably die never having been drunk. No real desire, other than fitting in socially, but that’s not really enough of a motivation for me.

But I do feel like it’s overall better for my health and mortality. Not that something like cancer or dementia won’t still get me, though.
Yes, people are very happy with CSS and never tried replacing with anything. /s
I've never been a drinker. The unpalatable taste meant I never experimented enough to get to the buzz.
Without organization, labor has no power. It's unfortunate the unions don't have teeth, but I can't see a situation where individuals could ever stand up to centralized business entities.
There’s not really any viable options other than Nvidia for GPU compute, despite AMD’s efforts on ROCm. If you want to do compute tasks, you need an Nvidia card with Nvidia drivers, and Wayland won’t support your usage.
It has moved in the same sense as the foundation has opened. This is all organizational...
Perfectly safe. Just make sure there's no ignition source
Why bother disputing claims about AI made by the CEO of a new AI startup. They are obviously going to be throwing lofty statements around about its capabilities.
This is pure bullshit. 164.58 Mbps looks great until you realize that’s only true for sites within China or sites whitelisted by the CCP. It’s obviously 0 Mbps for Google or BBC. For sites that haven’t been reviewed, they throttle the connection. All sites on Cloudflare become unreliable. GitHub is sporadically banned.

Any sane person would much rather live in Germany.
Why does docusign need such sophisticated and powerful AI models, to the point that they’re willing to risk their customers’ ire by training on their data (yes I know, even though it’s anonymized per “industry best practices”)? Are they in some additional line of business besides making it possible to sign a contract electronically?
Maybe if you had fiber directly connecting Ashburn to Pittsburgh, but it's more likely that you connect Ashburn -> Philadelphia -> Pittsburgh, which is more than double the physical distance.

Just looking at distances on a map is insufficient for actually characterizing the network path.

Also: bear in mind that you need to double all these numbers when considering round trip time. I recognize I phrased it in such a way that might have been interpreted as one-way latencies, but that wasn't my intent.

Even if you had a direct path from Ashburn to Pittsburgh, speed of light through fiber would be about 3.5 ms to travel 450 miles (there and back). And while you might expect that from just plugging numbers into an equation, I have never seen anything resembling 4ms RTT between DC and New York (which are a comparable distance apart from each other) on Google's production network, even though those are definitely directly connected (6-7ms is more realistic).
Guys: Serve your blog via Docker itself. Docker image names are _already_ URLs. You could literally just have people do `docker pull myblog.com/recipes:latest` or `myblog.com/recipes:lasagna`.

Edit: and navigate like so: `docker image myblog.com/recipes` to list all recipes. God I love APIs.
I bought a couple guardian bikes a couple days ago. Their website said they would arrive today, February 1. I assumed it was some kind of weird leap day issue.
This is the future of computing. Especially when tech like vision pro becomes the size of normal sunglasses.
Probably some mental health damage from Covid lockdowns as well.

To the downvotes - I’m not saying lockdowns were a bad thing, but they did take a toll on many mentally. I’m personally still struggling to recover to my pre-Covid levels of mental health. It was very tough personally on me, and I took the lockdowns very seriously.
This is why I recommend using a framework in commercial projects, and following it's idioms as closely as makes sense for your project.

It means there is a shared idiomatic approach across your team and all the documentation for it is just the framework documentation. It is also easier to hire devs, if you can vet their ability to write idiomatic code in a specific framework then you can better assume they will mesh well with yor codebase.

It is a communication and empathy problem at its heart. You are being empathetic to future devs and future you by acknowledging the knowledge they would need to work on your code. Then the communication of your idioms is baked into the framework ecosystem and docs.
Andor, Severance, and Devs come to mind, even though they're different types of thrillers to some extent.

Have heard good things about Station Eleven.

Even on Apple TV+ alone there are plenty to choose from, though funnily enough the one I've been watching the most is not the critically-acclaimed For All Mankind, but climate disaster drama Extrapolations: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39543480

Fired on Mars on MAX is a gem of an existential sci-fi dry comedy.

Paper Girls on Amazon Prime has been cancelled, but it was a good time travel romp and comic book adaptation that wasn't a superhero one from the big two (it's an Image Comics title)

It's not quite the '90s extravaganza in terms of television sci-fi, but with all of the demand for streaming content, the odds are good, even if the goods are often odd. There's been like, three different Star Trek shows now, plus a cartoon. Surely there's something to be found from that.
I took the text of Macbeth and changed the dialect of one line:

Original: "The rest, that are within the note of expectation, alreadie are i'th' Court"

New: "It looks like everyone is here already"

Then I gave the entire text to Gemini, ~400000 tokens, and asked it to analyze the play's diction and style, and to identify any lines that didn't match the prevailing dialect.

It found that one line I'd changed.
Regular gas vehicles don’t need the better part of a day every year for scheduled maintenance either. Full synthetic oil only needs to be changed after 5k miles, and most people can get away with 8k miles. It is at most 1 hour at a mechanic, but probably less than 30min at an oil change specific place like Valvoline.

Cabin and engine air filter is a 5min job anyone can do too. The only other regular thing needed is tire rotations, although that applies to EV also.

Obviously, not having to deal with all that gas related drivetrain is great. But is it worth an extra $10k to $20k or more? Probably not for most.
I just looked at my watch and indeed the date is wrong. Thanks!
He's saying the LLM will figure out how many letters are in each token.
If you have a say in it, get the meetings and calls to be about providing input, bouncing ideas around, discussing the background, building a paper trail. NOT about making the decision. Certainly not in the first meeting about it. Then accept still more input over email. Then let the (ideally one) decision maker make the decision.

Sometimes the meeting or call is about an emerging urgent situation. Even then, the decision is probably not needed this minute. Not before there is what input there is to find. That first meeting might then be more about figuring out what input or data might be available.
Prohibition cut alcoholism rates nearly in half in the states and also greatly reduced domestic violence rates, especially among poorer people. I'm not advocating for a return to this particular approach to societal management but the idea that it was some kind of obvious catastrophe is nothing short of ridiculous.
News Corp typically supports the National/Liberal coalition in Australia. But Labor ministers have "quickly slammed said the decision, stating it “represents a dereliction of its commitment to the sustainability of Australian news media”."

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/mar/01/faceb...

Edit: the article has apparently been edited and the specific quote has vanished, but there is more along the same lines.
Maybe meditation can get you there safely?
> Like "the unemployment rate is 6% so the gov should make incentives to hire more people".

So like, to make those people earning under 24k get a second job?

I don't see how you can use unemployment rate to justify making jobs when it already includes people who have jobs. The two need to be split up so the real number can be used for that argument.
This use case is where we shine. Sheets is a great tool, but its performance is limited by your browser's memory, whereas Row Zero compute is happening in the cloud. Give it a try and let us know what you think!
The obvious angle is AI contract generation. Docusign are uniquely positioned to build up a real training set of contracts.
Automation has been coming for all the jobs since at least the invention of the cotton gin. That's not new.

What's new is an LLM working in customer service and hallucinating a fictional version of reality that only it can see, and making decisions based on that.

(A self-checkout kiosk doesn't make decisions, so no LLM needed.)
Yes. Crossfade. You will feel both much more strongly without experiencing the excess downside the next day.
I try to avoid rewriting code (especially if it was originally written by others), and when I do it, I try to do it selectively, and for quality reasons.

For example, one place I worked as a C and C++ programmer, they hired lots of recent grads from a top CS program. Unfortunately, production-grade C code is much harder than most people think it is. The bug reports in core code used throughout the system often to lead to functions that weren't even on the right track for the quality level of C that we needed. So I started killin' code that needed killin'. Management seemed to approve of those decisions, and I don't think I stepped on any toes. (I suspect that the recent grads who'd written code like homework assignments didn't care if anyone rewrote it, so long as it was done quietly.)

Another time, there was a single Web service endpoint that pretty much had to work correctly, if the company was going to stay in business. So I rewrote it much more methodically and resilient than Web backend code typically gets written.

There was another time I simply walked away from a new consulting project, once I saw the code and realized that it was unsalvageable, and that the client wouldn't understand rewriting. (Imagine an undergrad who enthusiastically kludged together something demo-grade from numerous off-the-shelf components, and now the client "just needs someone to polish it up and extend it".) The functionality could've been recreated rapidly, and rock-solid, in a fraction of the time it would take to start to improve this code. The barrier was political, and since it was a new client, and looking like it would be a bad client, not worth the ulcers to salvage.
Seems like the real problem is "competition with other publishers who will happily gobble up the impressions", and the goal of the law is to reduce such competition?

I hate Facebook, but I think laws to reduce competition are pretty stupid and do not benefit public.
Not the OP, but I don’t think they meant that the build output is in a container. They meant that the thing you use to compile the code is in docker (and you just copy out the result). That would help ensure consistency of builds without having any effect on downstream users.
Lockdown was the first time I'd ever drunk heavily in my life. Still have some weird hangups from being treated like a criminal for wanting to do normal human things.
The burden of proving apparent authority and reasonable consideration grows tougher as deals get larger and more professionally between merchants. Deals between merchants also have different assumptions about how contracts get broken.
I've watched both movies. Her was an audio only chatbot and this is already doable. SillyTavern + OpenAI Whisper + Silero TTS and you've basically got Her. I've already done it and it works quite well, Whisper is much much better than the speech recognition Google offers even when running locally on a CPU.

Ex Machina was an actual physical robot. Not possible yet, but since GPTs became smart, huge investments are being made in robotics, the most recent annoucement today: https://futurism.com/the-byte/humanoid-robot-maker-deal-open...

Once this happens a robot will be basically able to do any job a human can do.
I've been playing with open interpreter a bit, and to see a lot of the things I do that I take for granted written out in code made me realize how much handling of computers I take for granted. for example, I was editing files via open interpreter, and needed to add a header to some files. I, of course, got it wrong the first time and had to iterate on it a bit. As a human, editing the header is trivial, but for the computer to do it for me, it has to write a program to parse the file with a regexp of something, and while it manages to do that, its limitations become apparent, compared to a human. so the end of programming does look a lot like programming. the computer does what you tell it, not what you were thinking.
"Will my data be used for AI model training and improvement?

If you have given contractual consent, we may use your data to train DocuSign's in-house, proprietary AI models. Your data will be anonymized and de-identified before model training."

This seems to be opt-in? Am I missing something?
? Really? Neuroticism about health is one of the most common vectors for modern secular americans to moralize at all. Just look how worked up people get about obesity and smoking, both of which are very high risk factors for (among many other health risks) cancer. Alcohol is actually uniquely celebrated by people who are otherwise very concerned about health from my perspective.
But 1 day is still 24 hours.

If you want to celebrate your birthday at the moment earth reaches the same spot around the sun as when you were born, then we’d all have the same issue - we’d have to celebrate it 6 hours later every year, reseting every 4 years.

February 29 is very much a new day… which simply doesn’t exist on non-leap years.
You might have found a loophole, ser. Enjoy the exploit!
I think you can pretty much assume that all data in SaaS products is mined for commercial purposes and soon will be used in AI training if it isn't already, consent or lack thereof notwithstanding. They'll just do it, the temptation is too large and the task is too easy.

If you want your data to be private, encrypt it or better yet keep it in house.
It also literally created the mafia. Single-factor analysis is really not smart.
You can make the same argument that March 1st makes no sense, as that is the day of your birthday hangover, the day after whenever your birthday is.
I may be using the incorrect term. Regardless, they're happy to claim it as an expense as far as taxation goes, but given they pay no tax to begin with, the "cost of doing business complying with the regulation" is effectively passed on to the tax payer
talking past each other...

I don't think anyone here seriously doubts whether alcohol consumption carries health risks or whether increasing excise tax decreases consumption (although they might quibble on the degree for each). the question is more around how much the government should intervene to limit poor personal choices. there aren't enough peer reviewed studies in the world to answer that.
I don't think popular or large correlate with code quality. In fact it's probably the opposite. It uses pretty ancient c++ stuff, which immediately disqualifies it from bring of high quality in regards to the cpp code (and also is the cause for their security bugs)
Docwesign
No, that's just not true. And besides, that seems like a small concern compared to the enormously destructive effects alcohol has far from any organized crime. A wildly entertaining effect to be sure, but not one that touches the lives of every day people like alcohol does.
True, Granule and Gerty are the language implementations out of Orchard’s group. Thanks for the correction.
app.struct.ai works very well as website. I use both the website and the desktop app simultaneously often.
What an absolute joke of a paper
I think what of is getting at is that given

{the:1, t: 2, h:3, e:4}

There should be somewhere in the corpus, "the is spelled t h e" that this system can use to pull this out. We can ask gpt to spell out individual words in NATO phonetic and see how it does.
This seems like a long version of my favourite commitstrip: https://www.commitstrip.com/en/2016/08/25/a-very-comprehensi...
Vape concentrates can be worse based on what is used during extraction/added for flavor, etc.

I agree it’s worse than doing nothing, but I am curious if herb vaporizers end up being similar to edibles in harm levels. Especially herb grown in an environment with no pesticides, etc.
I used to have one or two pints most nights. During a yearly checkup, my doctor grabbed my belly and said, “You need to make this smaller” (as he jiggled it in demonstration)

I decided the easiest 3-400 Calories I could cut were those beers, and stopped right then.

I still drink on occasion, but it’s like twice a month. Sometimes more, sometimes less. Those were the easiest calories to cut.
Here's an article about how it did:

https://www.history.com/topics/roaring-twenties/how-prohibit...

And another from the literal mafia museum:

https://prohibition.themobmuseum.org/the-history/the-rise-of...

Don't move the goalposts.

> the idea that it was some kind of obvious catastrophe is nothing short of ridiculous

It was literally an unmitigated catastrophe, which is why it was the only constitutional amendment to be overturned.

It also led to government agents spiking ethanol with methanol, leading to blindness. Pure evil.
The article gave me a deja-vu about the no-code wave a few years back and an excellent article I read on the subject [1]

> The logic doesn’t go away. Just because a decision is embedded into the wiring of a Zapier rule doesn’t remove any of the burden of maintenance / correctness.

Of course, AI is a lot more powerful than no-code, but the "End of Programming" suffers from the same delusion. If AI can reliably make every decision around engineering, design, and product, it would be capable of doing every task in the world. It's surprising that so many engineers believe writing things in plain text would obviate the need to learn programming.

[1]: https://www.alexhudson.com/2020/01/13/the-no-code-delusion/
Make sure you avoid p2p stuff that scans for other servers on the hetzner network, too, even if it's legitimate and not infringing on copyright. They won't ban you right away, but their systems will detect it and give you 24h to confirm you're not infected with malware before shutting down the server. For IPFS or Bittorrent, you should be able to use it for legitimate purposes after blocking the local IPs.
yeah - the gas crisis sucked...
and inflation for every year from like 1968(1969) to 1980s(?) was horrid. Cycles within cycles...
Synthetic Data for LLM Training
Sure, in the same way that we'll all stop driving cass and have self driving cars any day now.

What you just described is more of a tech lead than a "manager", and that's really the point. Reality that's not encoded in pure language is a fundamental limit of LLMs; they're probably never going to correctly diagnose a hardware bug based on misbehaving software, for example, because that's a world where everything that they are (ingestion material, available documentation) and reality conflict and an LLM has very little ability to detect and overcome such a problem.

Those "reality vs the text" impedance mismatches mean that LLMs are probably never going to escape human oversight. Which means we'll all probably have as many low quality (occasionally brilliant) fresh grads as we like, but taking the jobs of experts seems unlikely.

The end of programming looks like lots of work for programmers.
Bellman Update and Synthetic Data in Q-Transformer
Obviously "whole".