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> baybal2: All your submissions and comments on HN are ”dead” and not visible to users

Thanks for making me look.

It's unfortunate. baybal2's comments are thought provoking. I'm not sure what nationality he is, but the non-western perspective he brings does add a lot. (Edit: ethnic Chinese, Russian passport. The perspective I'm seeing is someone with a deep understanding of the authoritarian mindset. His understand of the western mindset is not so good. The contrast between the two mindsets is very enlightening.)

Even more thought provoking is their automatic "dead" status. It seems some pychops activity is happening here on HN, right under our very noses.

It's a pity I have to hack the CSS to read them. But I guess I should be thankful I can do that. If the web had evolved into something like PDF, I couldn't.

Edit: I've read a lot of his comments now. Even innocuous stuff like this is [dead]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34565515 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34523525 Someone has really got it in for him. It's amazing you can pull a stunt like this off on HN. Here I was thinking it would be immune to such malarkey.
I don't see a flattening. I see a lot of other groups catching up to OpenAI and some even slightly surpassing them like Claude 3 Opus. I'm very interested in how Llama 3 400B turns out but my conservative prediction (backed by Meta's early evaluations) is that it will be at least as good as GPT 4. It's been a little over a year since GPT 4 was released to the public and in that time Meta and Anthropic seem to have caught up and Google would have too if they spent less time tying themselves up in knots. So OpenAI has a 1 year lead though they seem to have spent some of that time on making inference less expensive which is not a terrible choice. If they release 4.5 or 5 and it flops or isn't much better then maybe you are right but it's very premature to call the race now, maybe 2 years from now with little progress from anyone.
just from pure api perspective how is setA, setB, setC better than...

this.setState({this.state: val})

which was already pushing limit of normal behavior which is

state.A = val

just to be revise

i went from having to do

state.onlineStatus = 'active'

to

const [onlineStatus, setOnlineStatus] = useState('active')

Instead of being able to get autocomplete and normal refactoring you would get from plain js.. now you need to add typescript to supplement the mess...

const obj = {

onlineStatus: 'inactive',
shoppingCart: '3899x',
lastActive: 1834393939
}

obj. [autocomplete anywhere in the project]

vs MORE Boilerplate
My understanding is Unicode (and therefore UTF-8) can encode all the codepoints encodable by Shift JIS. I know that you need a language context to properly display the codepoints that have been Han Unified, so that could lead to display problems. But if we're trying to properly display a Japanese name, it's probably easier to put the appropriate language context in a UTF-8 document than it is to embed Shift JIS text into a UTF-8 document.

Realistically --- if someone hands me well marked Shift JIS content, I'm just going to reencode it as UTF-8 anyway... And if they hand me unmarked Shift JIS content, I'll try to see if I can decode it as UTF-8 and throw it away as invalid if not.
AI _will_ take jobs. It's a matter of when and not if. The real question is will that occur in the next 10/50/100 years.

It might not happen in your lifetime, but as you've noted the rate of progress is stunning. It's possible that the latest boom will lead to a stall, but of course nobody knows.

IMO it's way too hard to predict what the consequences will be. Ultimately the best thing you can do are to continue with your degree, and consider what skills you have that an AI couldn't easily replicate. e.g. no matter how good AI gets, robotics still has a ways to go before an AI could replace cooks, nurses, etc.
Is this how we end up with junk phone calls from whatever area code we happen to be in? Or is that a different mechanism?
And those are illegal under gdpr, and enforcement is slow but happening. Whats your point?
That seems very likely. My point wasn't to say that they were looking to make a revolutionary tool to fight a state, more that it makes me sad that the ones that catch on are rarely open source ones that have existed.
It's annoying, but open source projects tend to prefer more open platforms. I assume that many Briar users use a deGoogled custom ROM instead of the stock Android ROM and a privacy focused app store like F-Droid.
The Scientific Method Part 5: Illusions, Delusions, and Dreams
Bojack ep1 is terrible but it immediately gets better, and it’s gold by the end of s1.
'Great enigma': Amateur archaeologists unearth mysterious Roman object
The Museum of Hoaxes publishes their own Top 100 April Fools list: https://hoaxes.org/aprilfool/
You also have the right to litigate under common law, which does have a lot to do with the first amendment. Though granted, you are individually unlikely to prevail in that way. Like said, it depends on the particulars and the judge.
> Data hoarding comes with most downsides of hoarding physical objects. It's just smaller, cheaper & easier to process.

So the same downsides, except ... much better?

> There's people that get rid of any physical object they haven't used in the past year (or 2, or 5, whatever)

> Data is no different. ... you either use it from time to time

I suppose the real question then is what timeframe do you consider "using it from time to time"? It seems to me that this depends very much on the person, and likely on the objects themselves - probably a large appliance you haven't used in a year is likelier to be thrown away than a small item you haven't used in several. Considering data storage is smaller, cheaper, and easier to manage, I suppose a reasonable timeframe for keeping it, just in case, would be a lot longer than physical items.

This of course says nothing of the societal and cultural value such archivists safeguard.
I recently read an article (can't find it, but similar to this: https://blog.reedsy.com/how-much-do-authors-make/) which pointed out that the publishing industry is very similar to Venture Capital where 1 hit pays for a ton of the other books that sell at most 1000s of copies.

So, if you make books available for free, with unlimited copies, the publisher never gets their advance back, never funds the next hit, etc, etc, etc.

I'm all for freedom for information, but unless we can come up with a distribution model that ensures authors actually get paid... I've gotta side with the publishers here. They gotta pay the authors somehow.
It's not even a "trick". It's just normal for dual citizens to make things faster.

Leave Canada on Canadian passport. You just get nods and wave throughs. Enter European country on EU passport in the smaller line (or nowadays automated border control stations). Just scan passport, (don't) smile for the photo and off you go. Flying back Canadian passport is on file and the CBSA just asks you some basic questions and waves you through.
the eulogy also forgets it was a mesh-tweeter public and all, not a mesh end to end private comunication solution people should have been using on those situations.
No. A normal visible light telescope absolutely shows color. You can just point a DSLR with a zoom lens and no filters at the sky, take a picture of M42, and confirm that yourself.
they already killed CentOS which caused plenty of complaints
The U.S. economy's big problem? People forgot what 'normal' looks like (2023)
I like to think about design as a communication medium.

So for most stuff the manual goes straight to the shelf. Unless it is something particularly powerful or complex, I see having to refer to the manual as a failure in UX design.

So yeah, I don't want to refer to the manual.
because open source have the worst marketing budget, always. by definition.
A good 101 on an illegal story is by Jack Barsky, on his own account. He wrote a book on it, there's various interviews with him, a podcast series (The Agent) and he got interviewed by Lex Fridman (#301). I recomment The Agent podcast series [1] on his (life) story. Also available on Apple Podcast.

[1] https://open.spotify.com/show/5DToOunQsM18OmGD5eVRXR
Would you prefer another second language, or that people refuse fo speak anything but Icelandic?

Jeg snakker norsk, men det er alikevel vanskelig å forstå islandsk!
I would extend this to include companies like Facebook that study your data to derive deeper insights about you. I want to be entitled to every conclusion they reach about me from my own data, so I can correct whatever assumptions they have about me and possibly learn more about myself.
Profiting off it is not the right thing to do.
haha the best reply on the Internet
Wasabi Wallet-Developer Blocks U.S. Citizens After Samourai Arrests
isn't that the exact opposite take from the article and anecdotes it contains?

I never used it, but remember the hype. It didn't get there by not working.
First of all, yes, this is a provocative prompt that bears engagement. You're right to be concerned.

I share your frustration with the reticence of seasoned engineers to engage with these tools.

However, "structuring and executing large-scale changes in entire repositories" is not a capability that is routinely proven out, even with SOTA models in hellaciously wasteful agentic workflows. I only offer a modest moderation. They'll get there, some time between next week and 2030.

Consider: Some of the most effective engineers of today cut their teeth writing assembly, fighting through strange dialects of C or otherwise throwing themselves against what are now incontestibly obselete technologies but otherwise honed their engineering skills to a much higher degree than their comrades who glided in on Java's wing.

Observe that months of hand-sculpted assembly has turned into a single Python call. AI is yet another tier of abstraction.

Another lens is application -- AI for X domain, for X group, for X age, for X culture. Lots to do there.

Finally, there's empowerment. If this technology is so powerful, do you concede that power to others? Or are you going to be a part of the group that ensures it benefits all?

FYI, OpenAI published a labor market study suggesting professions that are more or less exposed to AI. Take a look.
Most people on this site probably live in the world where everything is done in English. That's the norm for the vast majority of businesses and people in the US.
>is laughably out of control ridiculous at points

I mean this is just American politics in general.
OP seems to embrace Google Analytics, as stated on their own site.[1] So, you might be barking up the wrong "if you want true privacy, avoid Google" tree, here, sadly.

(I agree with you but OP probably thinks/feels differently about Google - itself.)

[1] - https://www.siekmoeller.com/ladylog/impressum.html
> some software probably does.

Browsers do, kind of https://mimesniff.spec.whatwg.org/#rules-for-identifying-an-...
"just know who to trust".

a super power I wish I had.
FTP is dead. Long live FTP (2017)
I really enjoy automation and ETL/ELT pipelines. I got an early taste of AI while studying data science and working with NLP. But I find the automation of tasks, writing tests, and creating tools to help people do their jobs faster, very fulfilling.
A million years from now our descendants will speak JSON. Your GitHub profile will be one of many temples and ancient sites - an Angkor Wat, a Gobekli Tepe.

People of the future will ask: "{ "question": "What is this .gitkeep file?" }"

And the sages will answer: "{ "answer": "It is a tomb or religious site." }"
Neil de Grasse Tyson is still on my 'to watch' list, but you may be interested in Brian Cox's 'Wonders of the Solar System / Universe' series. From what I've heard, Brian Cox is something of the British equivalent of Tyson. 'Wonders-' is a beautifully shot series that is both educational and remains impressive over a decade on (2010-2011).

The only thing that might be disappointing if you're already into astrophysics is that it's rather dumbed-down compared to his books, which are more earnest, closer perhaps in style to Feynman's Lectures.
You might also consider a rack mount case. 4U rack cases are usually designed for standard ATX builds. For home use it cleans up a lot of wire mess to have router, switch, NAS, your main desktop, and maybe some other things all on one rack.

When you move you can also just move it all in one piece if you have a liftgate van.
> For instance, if it were the case that it did a bad job of encoding Mandarin

I don't know if you picked this example on purpose, but using UTF-8 to encode Chinese is 50% larger than the old encoding (GB2312). I remember people cared about this like twenty years ago. I don't know of anyone that still cares about this encoding inefficiency. Any compression algorithm is able to remove such encoding inefficiency while using negligible CPU to decompress.
It's just not economical to run these given how power inefficient they are in comparison to modern processors.

This uses 1.7MW, or $6k per day of electricity. It would take only about four months of powering this thing to pay for 2000 5950X processors. Those would have a similar compute power to the 8000 Xeons in Cheyenne but they'd cost 1/4 the power consumption.
Yes! My position on KGs largely flipped post GPT-3. Before KGs were mostly a niche thing given the cost vs rewards, and now they're an everyone thing.

- The effort needed for KGs has higher general potential value because RAG is useful

- The KG ontology quality-at-scale problem is now solvable by LLMs automating index-time data extraction, ontology design, & integration

This is an area we're actively looking at: Self-determining ontologies for optimizing RAG, such as during evolving events, news, logs, emails, customer conversations. We have active projects across areas here already like for emergency response, cyber security, news mining, etc. If folks are interested here, we're definitely looking for design partners with challenging problems on it. (And, looking to hire a principal cybersecurity researcher/engineer on it, and later in our other areas too!)
You could consider using Galvix, which will connect with your billing system (including Stripe), fetch all the invoices and automatically prepare and file sales tax returns across each of the US states where you are legally required to file, all while providing you full control and visibility over the process. Galvix charges a flat fee of $75 per filed return, which can be considerably more affordable compared to paying a revenue share to other platforms (if tax compliance is the only reason you want to use these platforms).

Disclosure: I am a co-founder of Galvix.
> Also, with a 90-minute commute each way, in 2023, he apparently started sleeping in his car, showering at the factory and microwaving his dinners on days that he was working.

As an employer, would you even want to reward this sort of behavior? Seems like high-risk behavior that could eventually end in burnout, mistakes on the job, behavioral issues due to stress, etc.

I feel sorry for him and other employees that lost their jobs in recent Tesla layoffs. And based on his history of promotions it sounds like he was a good employee. But I don't agree that sleeping in one's car makes a person more valuable to a company - and more deserving of being spared in a layoff - than someone with a shorter commute who sleeps in a bed.
can you show me a mind that exists without a body?
You can be certain that a Perl program will still work unchanged in 2034. And it’s probably not going anywhere, both in the good sense and the bad sense.
> I'd rather see every parking space get a 30A 240V plug

The whole crux of TFA is that this isn’t feasible to retrofit to existing apartment complexes:

> For many others, the parking spaces will be owned by the condo association or co-op, complicating the idea of giving each EV driver their own plug. Here, shared solutions make more sense, perhaps starting with one or two shared level 2 chargers as a pilot—often this won't even require extra work to the electrical panel. Costs are a little higher than for a home level 2 charger—between $7,500–$15,000 per charger, perhaps.

> But for larger developments, scaling up level 2 chargers can quickly become prohibitively expensive. Older buildings may well need their electrical infrastructure to be upgraded, and running copper wiring across parking lots starts to add up fast.
Copilot is great at boilerplate and as a super autocomplete.

Useful when needing to recall some api without having to open the browser and google too.

But honestly writing code is nowhere near the hard part of the job, so there's 0 reasons to fear LLMs.
Indeed, and the more niche the use case, the worse it gets.
It's getting so "and he left his phone at home" has been brought up as evidence in many trials.
Why would anyone opt-in to having their location sold? Some things should just be banned.
Ironically, neither of your examples requires understanding syscalls in low level languages like C either.

In fact I don’t think your average developer should need to understand syscalls to write applications. That kind of stuff should be abstracted away. Plus if you want to write good applications for Linux/UNIX then that might mean using platform specific syscalls rather than sticking with POSIX, which would be a maintainability nightmare if it wasn’t already abstracted. Furthermore, some platforms, like macOS, don’t even guarantee binary compatibility for syscalls between releases. So you’re not even supposed to making syscalls directly in Darwin.

So with that in mind, application developers are usually encouraged to stick with their respective language runtime as the OS interface — and even then, a lot of language runtimes still just hook into libc rather than making syscalls directly themselves.

To come to your examples specifically, even in C you wouldn’t directly call ioctl on your fd to check if it’s a TTY. Instead you’d use isatty() in libc. (In case anyone doesn’t follow, this is to check if stdout is being piped or a tty, and thus whether to output or suppress human readable formatting like ANSI escape sequences).

Your point about GNU argument passing is also off. GNU is a convention and it’s only officially supported in GNU/Linux. You talk about understanding UNIX while referencing conventions that aren’t even anything to do with UNIX!

Lastly, I’m not sure why you singled out Go when there are a lot of advanced developer tools written in it, from pretty much everything by Hashicorp (Terraform, Vault, Consul, etc) through to Docker and Kubenetes. I don’t want to start a flame war about Go nor its developers, just saying it was yet another weird example in a comment already full of weird examples.
So it's an Applebees?
Thanks for the advice. I shut it off after one episode. I'll give it another try at some point.
Are you doing anything with LLM?
Not exactly. Briar uses bluetooth or wifi when peers are close, but also tor (over standard internet) when not, so it's possible to use it at wide scale.

Briar actually does set up a meshnet for groups and forums, so long as people are contacts of each other. See the diagram here: https://briarproject.org/img/howitworks3(mobile).svg
I agreed with OpenTofu as then, without any doubt, a fork was needed. I agreed with the fork of Redis - there's no doubt there was no other way to make things "work out." I agreed with OpenSearch fork as well! But forking Nix is a sign of immaturity or lack of emotional resilience and nothing more! Any issue between reasonable people could be resolved by a productive dialog. If a person is intelligent enough to have such a vast contribution to such a great project, then they are a reasonable person, and a dialog is possible. "Where there's a will, there's a way."
A majority of votes would be 50.1%. More votes than any other candidate is called a plurality.
> they turn it into utf-8 using a standalone program first

I took the article to be for people who would be writing that "standalone program"?

I have certainly been in a position where I was the person who had to deal with input text files with unknown encodings. There was no-one else to hand off the problem to.
Depends on how successful their lobbying is in the next decade
It says they "asked" but no confirmation the carriers agreed.
This is amazing. Anyway to hide the youtube window?
It's a somewhat better assumption for repeated, routine transactions.
This is absolutely not a "low performer prune." This is cost-saving bullshit.

They're explicitly letting go of high ranking staff in high wage metros. The talent and the institutional knowledge of some of those people makes the decision flabbergasting.

If you click over to the Python thread, you'll see that the victims include a member of the Python Steering Council and the maintainers of PyType. These aren't low-performers; they're people who are an integral part of the Python community.
It's a show specifically about MI5 in Britain.
I'm sorry, but the last time I checked a DSLR is not my eye. I have plenty of images from my telescope and various cameras. How you can conflate the 2 is beyond me. Comparing a long exposure from a digital sensor to what your eye can see is beyond bonkers and confusion of the topic at hand, or right in front of our eyes to keep it on subject
Yep, there's a settings link in the top left where you can toggle that and loads of other stuff :)
Personal capacity, it's like a toy. How I would use a puzzle or video game. I'm just tooling around and figuring it out.
It's more like "I will assume UTF-8 and ignore edge case encoding problems which still arise in Japan, for some strange reason".

We are not running short on Unicode codepoints. I'm sure they can spare a few more to cover the Japanese characters and icons which invariably get mentioned any time this subject comes up on HN. I don't know why it hasn't happened and I won't be making it my problem to solve. Best I can do is update to version 16 when it's released.
Sure. I just think that talking about Google, Apple, etc. is like talking about how your family does things, and then bringing up that the British royal family does things differently.
yup i remember using the sound proof booths they had for patrons at my library and not hearing the announcement that the library had closed got locked in and only noticed when they librarians started turning off the lights to leave.
No amount of technology can solve this.
Most projects also give you the option of providing an base url for the API so that people can use Azure's endpoints. You can use that config option with LiteLLM or a similar proxy tool to provide an OpenAI compatible interface for other models, whether that's a competitor like Claude or a local model like Llama or Mistral.
Maybe they should find another project to contribute to. And, yeah, this is how we dance in Bulgaria [0] - on embers!

[0]: https://nestinari.bg/en/history/
The last time I was in the Seattle Downtown library, there was a gentleman shaving and taking a "shower" in the sink of the shared public restroom.

I'm of the mind there should be a place he could do that safely and easily, but that place shouldn't be the library.
A key aspect is that nowadays we rarely encode pure text - while other encodings are more efficient for encoding pure Mandarin, nowadays a "Mandarin document" may be an HTML or JSON or XML file where less than half of the characters are from CJK codespace, and the rest come from all the formatting overhead which is in the 7-bit ASCII range, and UTF-8 works great for such combined content.
what did they do with the donation money? if they did something charitable with any extra profit i think it should be ok, because then all there is is good-intentioned activity.