skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does anyone track their stress levels whilst programming?

Anecdotally and non-scientifically I’ve noticed that my health (stress related illness) has vastly reduced since moving from being a staff engineer to engineering management.

It’s not that I’m less stressed but the stress is a different pattern.

Whilst programming I noticed that my day was a series of spikes of frustration and stress and then a severe drop off once I solved a problem.

Essentially a dopamine - serotonin feedback loop all day every day.

My stress now is generally a more flat and smooth line.

I often thought it would have been interesting to actually track it using a medical device but was unsure if anything like that even exists.
A back end with autoscaling on CDN.

Not a single server, like you'd set up.
> Easy runs each non-root app as its own user.

FINALLY. One step closer to a more modern mobile-like untrusted-by-default setup.

It has gone on way too long that any standard installed program can spy on every other program/all your data on the system.
The German autobahn is not orderly, every 5 minutes someone with more than 230 kph drives on the left lane and wants to kick you out of it when you dont get out of it asap. If you want a good example go to the Netherlands, i've never had issues there in several decades.
> conquest engrained in their cultural DNA

Perhaps nuance, but I believe the PIE people are presumed to have developed a cattle-raiding culture, which is just a raiding culture in general regardless of the wealth at hand (slaves, goods, food, etc). As an aside, I'm always fascinated by Ibn Fadlan's observation (877 AD) when going up the Volga that there was a "slaving season". That probably goes back millennia.

Anyway, in turn, some of those bands - much like the much later viking gangs - probably decided to "stay" at the places they raided, which looks a lot like conquest. Anyway, not taking away from your point, just some color. :)
Breakdown of the Apple Intelligence Announcement
> It's not very different than how our intelligence manifest.

[citation needed]
Did you weight your measurement by magnitude of influence (including negative reactions from "non-fans", to both science itself but also scientism, and the behavior of science's fan base) they each have in the world?

Some people think science has a proper lane, and that it (and those who speak on its behalf, cheerlead for it, etc) should stick to it in a more disciplined manner.
I was mainly thinking of use cases outside hospitals. We need to transport items within our facility, and a robot operating at night or in less trafficked areas seemed a better solution. I can see the value of pneumatics in a real-time, busy hospital setting.
An easy way to do this is to remember this oddly grammatically correct sentence:

Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo

Though is it satiation if the meaning is different for different instances?
Right. What if this were to be conformed and we could find out that A is best treated by Prozac but C responds really badly to it?

Right now we just try lots of drugs, one after another, on each patient until something works or the patient gives up. What if we could confidently predict the drugs that were the most likely to succeed for each group? It may cut treatment times and help people find relief faster.

Even if we don’t find new treatments or gain a better understanding of cause/effect it could still be useful.
Hacker News will do this for basically anyone. Or you can run a script to do it. It’s not particularly special.
Been using this for decades. One forum I frequent has just upgraded. I think it uses xenforo, but things like [quote] have worked fine.

Some things (quite, spoiler, but strike through too for example) have always been tricky to find in the gui editor, much easier to type
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I don't think anyone is actually trying to build AGI. They are trying to make a lot of money from driving the hype train. Is there any concrete evidence of the opposite?

> forget about the y-intercept, focus on the fact that the slope never goes negative

Sounds like a statement from someone who's never encountered logarithmic growth. It's like talking about where we are on the Kardashev scale.

If it worked like you wanted, we would all have flying cars by now.
Concrete is revolutionizing the AI industry by making sure our robots have a solid foundation to stand on.
At least in the UK my 4k tv rarely gets any 4k content.

All of the streaming platforms offer a second more expensive tier to get the content in 4k regardless of internet speed anyway.

Pretty much 4k blue rays of good movies through the xbox is the only 4k content.
You could just as well ask "why not give the fastest ride possible so everyone saves time?"
This sounds stupid and pointless. Just take their licenses and fine them, and if they keep doing it, put them in prison. This is being goofy for media attention. If one guy drives a shitty souped up car and one guy drives an expensive car, it's simply arbitrary. Austrians think voters are stupid, or know it from experience.

This is a standard waste of time designed to make useless politicians look active.
Morality is just what worked as set of rules for groups of humans to survive together. You can try to kill me if you want, but I will try to fight back and society will try to punish you.

And all of the ideas of morality and societal rules come from this desire to survive and desire to survive exists because this is what natural selection obviously selects for.

There is also probably a good explanation why people want to think that they are special and more than prediction engines.
> Mind defining "likely" and "soon" here? Like 10% chance in 100 years, or 90% chance in 1 year?

We're just past the Chicago pile days of LLMs [1]. Sutsever believes Altman is running a private Manhattan project in OpenAI. I'd say the evidence for LLMs having superintelligence capability is on shakier theoretical ground today than nuclear weapons were in 1942, but I'm no expert.

Sutsever is an expert. He's also conflicted, both in his opposition to OpenAI (reputationally) and pitching of SSI (financially).

So I'd say there appears to be a disputed but material possibility of LLMs achieving something that, if it doesn't pose a threat to our civilisation per se, does as a novel military element. Given that risk, it makes sense to be cautious. Paradoxically, however, that risk profile calls for strict regulation approaching nationalisation. (Microsoft's not-a-taker takeover of OpenAI perhaps providing an enterprising lawmaker the path through which to do this.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Pile-1
> Conscious entity... willpower

I don't know what that means. Why should they matter?

> Self preservation

This is no more than a fine-tuning for the task, even with current models.

> I worry about dangerous humans with the power of gods, not...

There's no property of the universe that you only have one thing to worry about at a time. So worrying about risk 'A' does not in any way allow us to dismiss risks 'B' through 'Z'.
I feel like Big Nerd Ranch[0] did well. They had more of a seminar model, although they called their classes "bootcamps."

Unfortunately, they couldn't make enough at it, and have had to pivot away from it. There was a post, hereabouts, recently, that spoke to that.

[0] https://bignerdranch.com
I was being genuine regarding your comment.

As far as my feelings towards Chomsky... I credit him with teaching me important things, and I also despise a lot of his positions. I feel the same way about Elon Musk.

I understand your trepidation though, short monotone internet comments are not very compatible with nuance. We should use way more emojis here (:
If I want to try typescript Vue tomorrow how do I do it?
Is there a starter that people tend to use and recommend?
Most people are smart enough to program, I think. The biggest hurdle is being able to sit down and work on a program for 8 hours a day. All the other skills can be learned.
Note that the parent said "uptimes measured in years", so they are either using a more complex system with multiple servers, or they are not doing security updates.
If LLMs and humans are the same, should it be legal for me to terminate you, or illegal for me to terminate an LLM process?
If you want a steamer, look at psychotherapy. That makes philosophy look sane because no one tries to apply it.
I'm going to come out and state the root of the problem.

I can't trust remote AI, any more than I can trust a remote website.

If someone else is running the code, they can switch it up anytime. Imagine trusting someone who simulates everything you need to trust them, giving them all your private info, and then screws you over in an instant. AI is capable of it far more than biological beings with "costly signals".

If it's open source, and I can run it locally, I can verify that it doesn't phone home, and the weights can be audited by others.

Just like I wouldn't want to spend 8 hours a day in a metaverse owned by Zuck, or an "everything app" owned by Elon, why would I want to give everything over to a third party AI?

I like Ilya. I like Elon. I like Moxie Marlinspike and Pavel Durov. But would I trust their companies to read all my emails, train their data on them, etc.? And hope nothing leaks?

And of course then there is the issue of the AI being trained to do what they want, just like their sites do what they want, which in the case of Twitter / Facebook is not healthy for society at large, but creates angry echo chambers, people addicted to stupid arguing and videos.

I think there have to be standards for open source AI, and something far better than Langchain (which sucks). This is what I think it should look like: https://engageusers.ai/ecosystem.pdf -- what do you think?
> Once you have AGI, you can...

So if Superintelligence depends on AGI, then we can't say:

> Superintelligence is within reach.

until we can say AGI is within reach. Is there any substantive evidence supporting the revised claim? Do we even have a reliable way to evaluate if an AI is a AGI? The standard answer was the Turing Test, but in recent years there have been multiple claims that it has been broken by non-AGI [1].

To me, AGI still feels a long ways off.

[1]:

- https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02361-7

- https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/06/17/google-...
Oh but in technical terms my thoughts are completely opposite. Python wouldn't be my first choice for games in general, and much less for web games.

Really the only way to justify using Python in this domain is if you're more comfortable with Python than other languages, and what you are building is a small, lightweight game. But this is reason enough to validate the idea! So if you want to build a game with Python, go for it.

But if you're minimally comfortable with Typescript it would be a seriously better fit for this domain. Something like https://github.com/pixijs/pixijs will work much better than Pygame or anything. It's geared towards simple 2D games too.

One reason for that is dependencies. By using Python with Pyscript you will be constrained with what libraries you can use, because not all of them is compatible with Pyscript.

(I myself am more comfortable with Rust, and Rust libraries like https://github.com/not-fl3/macroquad can target browsers, desktop and mobile; and it's also meant for simple 2D games. And I prefer the Rust ecosystem of libraries, too)
I actually feel that they can be very dangerous. Not because of the fabled AGI, but because

1. they're so good at showing the appearance of being right;

2. their results are actually quite unpredictable, not always in a funny way;

3. C-level executives actually believe that they work.

Combine this with web APIs or effectors and this is a recipe for disaster.
Geeky Linux forums tend to be people who haven't given new distros a chance in decades, and still think Gentoo and RedHat are the major players. (Desktop Linux it's Ubuntu, followed by Debian and CentOS).
Rotary was fine until the first time I used Touch-Tone, as AT&T called it.

I also remember the old Western Electric 500 and its touch tone younger brother, the 2500. Those were phones that were built to last: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Mo...
Ask HN: Do you try teaching your kids to code?
If you have kids, do you try teaching them to code?

If so, how? Do you roll your own stuff, go on YouTube, Codecademy, etc? Roblox?

I've been collecting anecdotes from friends and family about this, I'm developing a product around this (I sell a code editor to schools and am seeing what we can offer parents during the summer) and would love to get some good ideas from people out there.
It's just a name shadowing.

Copying the code they wrote:

for i in xrange(3):
def func(x, i=i): # the *value* of i is copied in func() environment
return x * i
flist.append(func)

That could also be written "def func(x, foo=i): return x * foo". It's just copying i's value to another variable. In the next line, i's value is still 1, 2, or 3, so when the function is called during the next line of the body of the loop, the value held by i is bound to foo.

It's not evaluating a thunk representing i, which is how lazy variables are evaluated in Haskell.
1) Distributed databases do the same job, putting data local. They are slower, however they have less overhead and work involved if you already have a db layer.

2) Serverless, e.g. AWS lambdas can be joined with step functions instead and scale without a queue.

3) People have been burned. Multiple configurations, multiple queues, multiple libraries and languages, multiple backing stores, multiple serialisation standards and bugs - it's just overly complex engineering a distributed system for small to medium business. YAGNI.

4) Simpler architectures, e.g. microservices for better or worse tend to be fat monoliths made more efficient, mostly in my experience because those in charge don't actually don't understand the pattern, but the side effect is fewer queues compared to real microservices arch .

O/T I cringe whenever I hear our tech architects discuss our arch as microservices and datamesh. The former because it's not (as above, it's multiple small services) the latter also a problem because datamesh is an antiquated pattern that's better filled with segregated schemas on a distributed database, and scoped access per system to the data each needs, instead of adapter patterns, multiple dbs with slightly different schemas and fascades/specialised endpoints all the fucking way down.
If he was just a subordinate, sure. But leaders are and must be held to higher standards.
> Marry in haste, repent at leisure

"regret" at leisure would make more sense, because "repent" doesn't really have the right meaning (is more about wrongdoing/sin).

https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/married-in-haste.html

Phrases are sometimes literally meaningless.
Well, the galaxy being big helps ;)
I'm in a few Discord servers, but I have no idea how to find you there :)
Teaching is a really time-consuming task, if you want to do it right.

I'm in the middle of creating a series on implementing Universal Links and URL Schemes, for iOS. May be a while, before it's ready. I spend a lot of time, testing the supporting materials, and making sure that I'm giving good info.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/p1ohd...
Lego White Noise Playlist
Semi-related: what's the best place to learn the old school style of working with php, I already know laravel but it feels so far removed from normal php that I am not confident working with it on it's own.
> somewhat allergic to that kind of evangelism

Meditation, or some sort of reflection, may reveal to you that wrapped up in "allergic to evangelism" is an illusion that you received the intended message in the intended way. Or rather, that your reaction isn't necessarily in line with the reality of the intent of what was said. And that your reactions may be limiting you in your growth. You may even figure out ways to gamify your own improvement.

That said, realization is the easy part!! lol, who am I to talk, let alone preach
The Vue docs. https://vuejs.org/guide/typescript/overview
We might need Useful Superintelligence Inc. / USI before SSI?

Safety is an important area in R&D but the killer application is the integration of LLMs into existing workflows to make non technical users 100x-1000x more efficient. There's a lot of untapped potential there. The big successes will have a lot of impact on safety but it will probably come as a result of the wider adoption of these tools rather than the starting point.
Yeah, people - in general - tend to do this with anything novel, sadly - especially novel design. See what Steve Balmer said about the iPhone for a commercial example. For Engineering examples, well, see the controversy around anything by Poettering (Systemd, PulseAudio, etc., etc.).
I think it's the other way, right? ..That farming/agr and livestock are both examples of domestication (of plants and animals). The root of the word "agriculture" is specific to plants (ager, agr = fields).
TIL! Thanks for the link.
Meetup used to be amazing in certain cities and as someone who travels a ton it used to be my goto way to meet people.

Something happened after the pandemic though and it just turned completely garbage. All the events on there are virtual, spammy, corporate (like node js meetup stuff). Not to mention it doesn’t work half the time.

I would absolutely love an alternative.
LinuxMint, followed by ChromeOS, followed by Ubuntu, et al
It's not a coincidence the public's trust in "science" is at all time lows. This was probably always happening but it's definitely more visible / exposed now.
And beds!
I'd take this more seriously if it didn't come across like there was a political agenda.

To say something like "The defunding of public colleges" is egregious. It's just factually wrong. Colleges haven't been defunded. In fact college funding has gone up in many states. It's that tuition has risen more than the funding has gone up.

Also, no mention of thousands of people saddled with debt from many public colleges teaching CS or IT or whatever? That's not a scam either???
EE chip designer here. this is 100% correct. just one point to add: quality of fab process as is also doesn't immediately matter. it's a matter of reputation/reliability. Intel for example is trying so hard to gain their reputation back. Fabs don't compromise theor quality for any customer to keep that reputation alive. it's incredibly hard to bring something new and disruptive by a new player. you need deep pockets (10s of billions to burn) and industry insiders to somewhat buy some reputation.

only exception to this is China. it's slightly easier to do this there at the moment. through they often transfer TSMC heavy-weights to manage their fabs.
the flurry of LinkedIn posts … "I'm delighted to share that I've been promoted to Senior Manager at FutureTech Solutions! An exciting time and an absolute privilege to be leading our AI & DevOps Operations. I had to look up what AI meant—thought it was artificial insemination at first—and I'm still not entirely sure what DevOps does, but here we go! Apparently, I'll be managing algorithms and servers now, but I can barely manage my email inbox. Who knew you could get promoted without understanding your job?"
Ever use Windows as an administrator?

Not disagreeing, but, the threat model of the creator of Puppy Linux may be different than yours.
Cool stuff! Maybe consider using (Fabric)[https://github.com/danielmiessler/fabric] as the templates for different prompts :)
The past decade has seen a huge number of problems widely and confidently believed to be "actual hard mode problems" turn out to be solvable by AI. This makes me skeptical that the problems today's experts think are hard aren't easily solvable too.
I attend 1-3 meetups a month, the recent changes made it unusable for me. They want $10 a month just to check who will be attending. I don't say they should provide everything for free, but that pricing is ridiculous.
Yep. Here's how it breaks down for the CC I attended.

https://www.cuesta.edu/student/resources/cashier/cost_of_att...

Additionally, at Cuesta the first month of bus rides is free, and the bus tickets themselves can be purchased at ~50 bucks a month. It's not too hard to find some roommates in town and get some cheap rent, too.

In return, you can get a curriculum that closely follows that of Cal Poly (often with teachers who teach at both institutions!), and a fairly successful transfer program.

Of course once you get into the university the costs are much higher, but you don't have mandatory dorms anymore, but you did two years on the cheap, and when you combine financial aid, scholarships, and federal student loans it's not ridiculous to have $20k or less in debt by the time you graduate. With a decent job in tech, that can be paid off in under a year.

Unfortunately, the job market is really tough right now for fresh grads, so that last part is where this falls apart, but I'd wager it's relatively easier for someone with a proper four-year degree than someone with a bootcamp credential.
What do you mean by "the same"?

Since I don't want to die I am going to say it should be illegal for you to terminate me.

I don't care about an LLM process being terminated so I have no problem with that.
Lots of other companies / people working on that.

No one is really working on safety. So I can see why Ilya is taking on that challenge, and it explains why he left OpenAI.
check out Musesemi. There are a bunch of companies doing this as a service.
> Word on town is OpenAI folks heavily selling shares in secondaries in 100s of millions

OpenAI heavily restricts the selling of its "shares," which tends to come with management picking the winners and losers among its ESOs. Heavily, heavily discount an asset you cannot liquidate without someone's position, particularly if that person is your employer.
Xylitol is linked to health issues
I was interested, so I went on a wikipedia tangent. It was brought up in the courts in Reynolds v. United States in 1878, when the Mormons were saying that anti-bigamy laws were unconstitutional (they did not convince the court, and it continues to be illegal now).

More recently, it's also been used to say that the bans on peyote use were illegal, because of the folks that use peyote in religious ceremonies. Because of that it's now legal in all 50 states if using it in a traditional Native American ceremony.

So yeah, it might not be as commonly talked about, but it's still come up in the courts, and there are plenty of folks who care.
I feel like a lot of retail should function similar to this way. Stores with shelves of homogenous "stock" is basically asking your customers to navigate a big warehouse while carrying around all their intended purchases; then go stand in a line to pay for those items. They could often easily function as big vending machines. Some stores could be reduced to a few shelves/aisles of 1-sample-per-SKU, where you just scan the barcode from your phone and all your items get sent to you. Preferably not one at a time and not right to the customer, I'd make it where the customer just goes and collects their bagged/carted items when done scanning. The payment could occur at the same time.

Using a grocery store as an example. I'm not a fan of shopping on my phone for some things like groceries. I like to look at the boxes and visually scan the shelves and see things I might not think to search for on my phone. This would allow for it but remove the need to walk up and down 30 aisles. I would still want to pick my produce/meat so this would require a slightly different approach, but the dry goods and other stuff that's typically in center of the store could work.
https://archive.ph/DKPOf
> I think of Garry Tan's Posthaven as a good model. [1]

This is an awesome suggestion - definitely stealing that idea. Thanks!