skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If your mother's friend's situation actually unsustainable? It sounds like the pension actually has the money, since I'm assuming they're not able to print money (like what is necessary for certain old-age insurance programs). Or do you just mean that it's not sustainable for everyone to have that same situation?
There are plenty of real applications that Nvidia is fueling. Things that make money. There will be a reckoning for the hype men, but there is a good amount of value still there.

(As always, the task of the hype man isn’t to maintain the bubble indefinitely, but just long enough for him to get his money out.)

There are more fundamental issues at play, where I see stock price fairly divorced from actual, tangible value, but the line still goes up because people are going to keep buying tulips forever, right?

It sucks because I think investing in the stock market takes away from dynamic investment in innovative startups and real R&D, and shift capital towards shiny things.
Imo it’s not html, it’s browser vendors. There’s a decent specification for the `autocomplete` attribute: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Attributes...
Nature can be harsh and cruel indeed.

I think we agree the term “natural” should almost always be questioned and unpacked. It often serves as a rhetorical device instead of a nugget of wisdom.

Dismissing an idea solely for being “unnatural” is premature. Or vice versa.

At the same time, there is wisdom in being curious about weirdness that seems nonsensical. Some weird things have a backstory and even rationale that is non-obvious.
Or maybe their benefit is subtle or hidden to those who only look narrowly. (Chesterton’s Fence)

Slight topic shift, but conceptually related: I hope the slash and burn “reformers” we’re seeing have the humility to recognize that institutional knowledge is diffused in ways they do not understand as outsiders. It doesn’t grow back quickly. Just because Chaos Monkey works at Netflix doesn’t mean it works for Congressionally-authorized government agencies. Rapid destruction can be far worse than measured reprioritization.

I get it though — as a programmer I sometimes prefer to throw out a previous code
base and start a-fresh, and this can help with clearing out technical debt. Such a rewrite is risky though, as is well known. Besides, technical abstractions are often orthogonal to domain knowledge and expertise.
GCP KMS adds support for quantum-safe signing
no, DejaVu Sans Mono Book is the default one in my OS and it looks ok
It is, the right appears to be playing the same hand the left has for years and the people are supporting it. Naturally this makes someone that has strong left leaning convictions frustrated as they come the realization that they aren't the majority and the numbers of people that support one narrative on the internet aren't a reflection of society as a whole. The bigger picture is this isn't localized, that's how you know it's a larger problem. Countries around the world are having the same discourse and results. People are done with it. Identity politics is over. Spending excess money to support these groups is over.
> if you build a huge, general model to perform my task, I can quickly distill and fine tune it to be better, cheaper, and faster.

"better" = "smaller, more specialized, domain-specific"
I'm not finding any of those proposals on the whatwg html repo, mind linking them?
I didn't. The report came out that it was an accident that was directly rectified. Show me where that's wrong and hand wavy.
In case there’s any doubt this is relevant to HN:

> The cuts have focused on people who were not only combating false content online but also working on broader safeguards to protect elections from cyberattacks or other attempts to disrupt voting systems.
> AI is going to increase the rate of complexity 10 fold by spitting out enormous amounts of code.

This is true, and I am (sadly, I'd say) guilty of it. In the past, for example, I'd be much more wary about having too much duplication. I was working on a Go project where I needed to have multiple levels of object mapping (e.g. entity objects to DTOs, etc.), and with LLMs it just spit out the answer in seconds (correct I'd add), even though it was lots and lots of code where in the past I would have written a more generic solution to prevent me from having to write so much boilerplate.

I see where the evolution of coding is going, and as a late middle aged developer it has made me look for the exits. I don't disagree with the business rationale of the direction, and I certainly have found a ton of value in AI (e.g. I think it makes learning a new language a lot easier). But I think it makes programming so much less enjoyable for me personally. I feel like it's transformed the job more to "editor" from "author", and for me, the nitty gritty details of programming were fun.

Note I'm not making any broad statement about the profession generally, I'm just stating with some sadness that I don't enjoy where the day-to-day of programming is heading, and I just feel lucky that I've saved up enough in the earlier part of my career to get out now.
No, but if "productivie" becomes one of the variable names eventually used in legacy work . . . full engineer achieved!
I always thought hacking scenes in sci-fi were unrealistic, but if you're cooking up AI-fortified code lasagna at your endpoints, there are going to be a mishmash of vulnerabilities: Expert robust thought will be spread very thin by the velocity that systemic forces push developers to.
You can be pro national security and pro privacy.
That, to me, is quite telling.
It’s funny… there a lot of comments here asking “why would anyone pay for this, when you could learn to do the thing, or organise your time/plans yourself.”

That’s how I feel about LLMs and code.
> Linux has strong ties to the US

unlike other operating systems, it's trivial to not have a cloud account on linux. And if you think it will pull some autoupdates from USA you can disable automatic updates with a single command as well.
It is rather clearly the latter:

> To reaffirm the changes, HP says in the staff memo: "The wait time for each customer is set to 15 minutes - notice the expected wait time is mentioned only in the beginning of the call."
thank you! so needed. there is a special place in hell for folks that don't attach screenshots to fundamentally graphic projects.
That article is so good that it deserves its own top-level Hacker News post.

Regarding documentation: isn't the whole point of these LLMs to hoover up information in whatever form it's currently in and try to produce intelligible results? For SEO, things are going to get interesting, but software projects don't necessarily have such perverse incentives.
There's no readily available Stack Overflow answers for Cobol, so it'll do about as good there as it does digital signal processing.
It's called the US Agency for International Development. Everyone seems to think "AID" is a word here. It is not, it is an acronym.
Given the response rate to Github issues, I'm not hopeful. I'm seeing what look like valid bug reports from weeks ago with no acknowledgement.
I think there's a lot of interest in this topic generally, so I hope this continues to develop. I for one pay for ExpanDrive, and am also aware of Mountain Duck in this space.

In my experience, those options are functional for infrequent operations, but not constant daily interaction, in the way you can with Dropbox for instance. Offline caching is of course one major aspect, but also I presume lots of error handling hidden in the background for smooth operation.
From the web site of the organization they started up, SWORD (https://sword.education): "Based solely on these assessments, without any external influence, Google extended Stanley a full-time employment offer for a position requiring a Ph.D. or equivalent practical experience." I think the job offer is part of the argument.
>Sam Altman has been substantially more correct on average than Gary Marcus

I've seen some of Marcus' other writing and he's definitely a colorful dude. But is Altman really right more often/substantively? Actually, the comparison shouldn't be to Altman but to the AI hype train in general.

And, while I might have missed some of Marcus's writing on specific points, on the broader themes he seems to be effectively exposing the AI hype.
People who say this are forgetting what it was like in the 2000s, when patent suits were flying back and forth like WWI gas shells. Once people realized that they could patent almost any old idea simply by adding "with a computer" or "on the Internet," the floodgates opened.

Rest assured, right now people are filing claims to the same old stuff, only now "with AI" tacked on. And rest assured, the rubber-stamping machine in the USPTO's basement is running 24/7 approving them.
The Mayan calendar may represent a longer timescale than previously known(2023)
https://archive.is/LZDSG

tl;dr: They were a way for gardening company's employees to keep track of which headstones they had maintained
Building new housing on federally owned land could shrink the national shortage
Well perhaps not at night, but otherwise there’s always something to clean, something to fix, something to cook, take care of the yard.. heck I might need two robots ^^’
Well his boss was Voldemort.
> Why would it be different for humans.

Because animals typically live in a way more static and uneventful environments, and they have much more limited mental capabilities?

Humans (and other animals) aren't a completely black slate - but unlike most animals, humans have very complex societies that affect their behaviors throughout their entire lives. A few years in a different environment start to change people. Kids (with their still-growing brains) adapt faster, adults - not so much, but the traces will be evident. Move a not-too-fucked-up Russian to the Pacific Northwest, and they will eventually start to smile now and then.

Also, thanks to the language, humans can think things up even when alone, drive themselves crazy in all the weird ways, then overcome all that self-inflicted stress and possibly develop some behaviors as a result.
Is anyone really surprised?

Now, you'll probably wait that extra 15 mins just to "talk" to a bot 8-(

All we can do is continue to curse Carly Fiarina (and her pose)...
US will need better wall. Something like Maginot Line should do.
Even if we don't write code software engineers (or technically minded people) will be able to coordinate hundreds of AI bots better than the average person and manage the systems. If there's a day where programming is not as valuable I'm pretty confident I can find some way to be useful in the future economy.

And if it's real AGI, not airplanes flying themselves with a pilot stuff, then we probably will have to re-think employment anyway
Constellation says restart of Three Mile Island reactor is ahead of schedule
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43094283
Chicago is a very poor example... the city is terribly run and horribly corrupt and has been or decades. There are reasons the rest of Illinois has tried to secede from them.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/edwardsiedle/2021/09/03/chicago...
I like that, it's less paradoxical, and likely easier to explain to people with less developed critical thinking skills.
(from a different article).

> He was denied by: MIT, Carnegie Mellon, Stanford, UC Berkeley, UCLA, UCSD, UCSB, UC Davis, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, Cornell University, University of Illinois, University of Michigan, Georgia Tech, Caltech, University of Washington and University of Wisconsin.
His only acceptances: University of Texas and University of Maryland.

Wild. I looked around for another few articles hypothesizing why he got rejected. It basically sounds like the relative measurement of being 'only' top 9% at the #1 public school in the US and applying for CS (a very competitive major) made his application a lot harder. It's been 12 years since I went through the undergrad application process and I don't think my application was anywhere as strong as his was. I am generally in favor of considering the opportunities an applicant has available to them relative to what they have accomplished (hard to take 20 AP classes if your school only offers 10 of them, and yes I'm aware you can take an exam even if you didn't take the class), but this seems taken to extremes.

I don't generally have a lot of empathy for people complaining about not being accepted to colleges but having a high GPA at a competitive school, and a high SAT score, as well as having an interesting-enough 'hook' like his own moderately successful startup should've at least gotten him into one in-state school. I'm not familiar enough with the application process now and nothing states that if he was denied from the CS department while being accepted into the university itself which was a common outcome for applicants when I was a student. I think the lawsuit is a good thing hopefully, I think there can be anti-Asian American-bias for things like this but that bias tends to be ignored and this is a good sample case to bring that bias to light.

See in comparison to Abby Fischer (sp?) who sued University of Texas for being denied with a rather underwhelming application.
You can actually just bootstrap with a shebang script
> You can’t solve that by taking away existing pensions.

Of course you can, especially when you look at the public debt racked up by the generation that is now retiring. Now, there will likely be consequences come election time, but math is math. The current generation of retirees spent too much and did too little to cover the costs over their working lives.

> If that’s your preferred method of balancing budgets then expect no sympathy when your company cancels your RSUs

I don't have RSUs at my current job. A significant plurality, if not majority, of laborers today don't either. If you're making $50k doing clerical work, have no RSUs at the company, and the company is having to make all sorts of cuts to meet pension obligations, what do you care about equities and their effects on current retirees?

At the job that I had that did have RSUs, I got about $3k, pre-tax, for all of them when the company was acquired by Oracle after about four years of cancelling raises, downsizing, and restructuring. I would have been far better off if that time had been spent by management giving COLA raises, if nothing else, given that this coincided with the COVID housing price and consumer goods inflation trend.

RSUs only really matter if you get a metric crapload of them, whether over decades or as a part of your compensation package, and only executives get that kind of volume.
For companies that successfully scale their team size, it literally did scale, right? I think you mean that hiring is very difficult to scale.
Over-indulgence of misinformation led to this.
I think it’s easier to compare candidates who might have been interviewed by different people possibly weeks apart if you have a coding challenge… could they solve the problem we gave them, if yes how quickly and how well. Interviewers can write their notes, the session can be recorded and the committee can compare candidates relatively fairly.

Comparing candidates based on how they “vibe” with the interviewer during a pair programming session is a recipe for lawsuits and bad hires.

I’m just speculating here, I don’t have any significant hiring and interviewing experience
Most of the people working on building American LLMs also support such censorship, they just don't have the political power now to achieve it in the US, especially given the first amendment.
Huge!
Async function traits resolve one of the biggest pain points for async rust.
Y'all put blind trust in a proprietary API SDK and all the eggs in the same basket? Just like that??
> it makes sense for languages, stacks and interfaces to become more amenable to interfacing with AI

The theoretical advance we're waiting for in LLMs is auditable determinism. Basically, the ability to take a set of prompts and have a model recreate what it did before.

At that point, the utility of human-readable computer languages sort of goes out the door. The AI prompts become the human-readable code, the model becomes the interpreter and it eventually, ideally, speaks directly to the CPUs' control units.

This is still years--possibly decades--away. But I agree that we'll see computer languages evolving towards auditability by non-programmers and reliabibility in parsing by AI.
(1) He applied in computer science. Other sources mention this student was also very successful in CS-related competitions - first place in Battlecode, third place in pico CTF, etc. So he was essentially a top candidate.

(2) Yes, I think that is the argument, that Google was willing to hire based on merit while universities are running admission processes that discriminate against Asian students even when their claimed policy is to not discriminate. The lawsuit against the University of California is due to UC’s lack of transparency or responsiveness on investigations into this student’s rejection.
I think the "the user doesn't really know what they want" idea has been taken a bit too far.

Basically all applications these days are like this. Rather than assume users are sentient, intelligent beings capable of controlling devices and applications in order to achieve some goal, modern app design seems to be driven by a philosophy which views the operators of applications as imbeciles that require constant hand-holding and who must be given as little control and autonomy as possible. The analog world becomes more appealing every day because of this.
You do realize that a lot of people don't buy the H5N1 epidemic thing, right?
I'm surprised they're not just refunding all the purchases. I thought Amazon was still that kind of place. When they discontinued Amazon Cloud Cam in 2022, they sent out a replacement Blink camera for every Cloud Cam I had purchased, plus a year of free Blink service. This was 5 years after I had purchased the cameras, and they made no commitment to them working forever.
I think React is nice if you actually have a state-heavy application (maps, video player, editors,...) to build and the web is OK as a distribution platforms. But most web applications is just data display and form posting. I'm still disappointed with GitHub going full SPA.
"No, $400k total comp is entirely reasonable for being able to center the ReactJS divs."
When it comes to interviews I generally stick to asking fairly easy questions but leaving out key details, I care a lot more about candidates asking following ups and talking through the code they are writing over what code they actually produce. If a candidate can ask questions when they don't understand something and talk through their thought process then they are probably going to be a good person to work with. High level design questions are often pretty valuable I find as well, which I usually don't require code for I just ask them to talk through their ideas of how they would design an application.
Aww man, I just paid for one out of my pocket just few weeks ago, after procrastinating for months. I use Obsidian for taking notes on my work laptop. I think I'm the only one at work who uses Obsidian, and everyone else at work use OneNote or just plain text or something else. Anyway, I hope Obsidian continues to thrive, as it was the only note app that was good enough to make me switch from vim (and onenote and nvalt). I feel it is the only note app that really understands its users, and it shames all other commercial note apps.
Or maybe join forces and show them how it's really done?

Not that I mind growing tomatoes, quite the opposite :)
I don't disagree with you but let's keep in mind that this is a low level library, not a user-facing product, and it does nothing by itself. So it's like complaining that SDL or DXVK don't have screenshots.
> They cost most when a business can bear the costs least.

Shouldn't a reasonable business have been investing forward to avoid this problem? IE, you don't use todays dollars, you use yesterdays dollars.

Its seems the flaw is that they lacked sufficient savvy to invest the pensions in a way where it would be able to build upon itself.
Ah weird, here in Europe if you apply for a job in another city or country they won't fly you out there. You can come on your own dime and usually you wouldn't even tell them you don't live there yet (after all if you don't even live there, why would they bother with you, it's only extra hassle for them when you start). Probably C-suite roles are an exception to this. But they're an exception to pretty much everything. Roles with particular foreign languages (e.g. support) too but this is also an edge case.

Moving personnel between countries when they are already working for the company does happen. They did it for me. But at that point they already know what they have.
This is more reproducible than most things people come up with ad-hoc, it insists upon the hash of the thing it downloads.
The moat is the 500 billion dollar investments we got along the way! (Just partly joking)
After I read the article in the WSJ[1] I wrote a Bond spec script over break. The tricky thing with spec scripts based on other people's IP is getting the word out, because unsolicited submissions can put the recipient in a bind if some element of what you sent ends up – even accidentally – in the final product. It's silly, but it's the reality of screenwriting.

Fwiw I'm a former special operations veteran and an accomplished screenwriter. Here's my risk-mitigated pitch for HN's enjoyment.

==========

1. We want to preserve the Bond legacy. We also want to expand the world he inhabits. We can do both.

2. So much happens 'under the water line' of reality already. Psychological operations. Cyber warfare. Supply chain attacks. Transnational smuggling. There's literally gobs of espionage content that can be explored.

3. Ultimately bond is about heroes who preserve the realm when institutions fail. They become the cornerstone upon which the new institutions will be built.

4. We build a universe that predicts and reacts to our current reality, which, broadly, is about institutional failure. We are in a multipolar world now, and technology accelerates at the same rate as the danger. Can we demonstrate an escape route? A rallying cry for heroism in an unjust world?

5. We build a universe so rich with possibility that we can compartmentalize cleanly; for example, a show can live semi-independently of the film franchise.

6. Imagine a limited series about Chinese teenager working at a microchip factory in Wuxi. Alone, barely scraping by, forced labor. Then, over the course of a season, a Q Branch operative approachers her, recruits her, teaches her to smuggle out secrets, aides in her breathtaking escape when she’s caught. This characters

7. We build characters whose impact can be felt elsewhere. Q is later able to deactivate a missile - piloted by those smuggled microchips – fired at Bond in the big theatrical film.

[1] https://www.wsj.com/business/media/james-bond-movies-amazon-...
That's kinda still how I get the most out of it - search, more or less. Claude gives me great starting points from which I can do some refining/confirming searches and documentation lookups. _Starting_ with search feels like a drag now. But the information and code I get is unreliable at least 20 % (just a guess, frankly, did no statistics) of the time, so I treat the output as things to try or investigate, rather than things to ship.

You'll probably get a few responses from folks that happily tab complete their software and don't sweat the details. Some get away with that, I'm generally not in a position where it's OK to not fully understand the system I'm building. There's a lot of stuff that's better to find out during development than in a late night production system debugging session.
Production is less dependant on local testing, and minio can presumably move fast.

It's not on Amazon to support every edge case for every customer.