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Vanit··on Show HN: WasmGPT – “ChatGPT” in the browser, no WebGPU and no server needed
Had a good laugh, thanks!
Vanit··on Ask HN: What would you recommend a 16 year old to pursue career wise?
Career wise? Software engineering, 100%. That's not going away, and this is an industry that mostly does still care about university degrees (though I'm sure you could self-study, build a small portfolio and go that route and have success).
Vanit··on Ask HN: Transitioning to a Solutions Engineer / Sales Engineer
Heh, Sales Engineer is what we used to call the guy stuck doing demoware for the sales team that'd never get turned into a real product.
Vanit··on Is GPT-4 Worth the Subscription? Here’s What You Should Know
Thanks for the heads up, will definitely play with this.
Vanit··on 5-Year-Old Pulled Down a 3-Year-Old's Pants. The Preschool Workers Are on Trial
Vegemite* close enough though :)
Vanit··on 5-Year-Old Pulled Down a 3-Year-Old's Pants. The Preschool Workers Are on Trial
I'm with you on this (Australian here), but the difference is in the US the police basically need to be prepared for any issue to escalate due to the US being an insane dystopia.
Vanit··on Inlining SVGs for Dark Mode
I chuckled at SVG being called human readable.
Vanit··on 60M Americans have taxes so simple the IRS could do them automatically
Yep, log onto govt website, check what they've prefilled (based on reporting requirements by your employer, which covers the vast majority of people), put in any deductions, submit. I was shocked to learn this isn't the norm.
Vanit··on ChatGPT simulates 1987 BBS System
Which is exactly what Google was found to be doing for Bard with ShareGPT.
Vanit··on Show HN: 13Sheep – a JavaScript game largely authored by ChatGPT
This is neat, thanks for sharing!
Vanit··on systemd 100% cpu hang? – Proxmox Support Forum
100% expect this to do with mixing Unix timestamps and timezones. Constant recurring footgun in my career.
Vanit··on How big should a programming language be?
Hard to do the wrong thing, easy to do the right thing.
Vanit··on Companies to publish salary ranges in job adverts under new EU rules
I think this is only true of the lower end where poorly performing companies are looking to hire poorly performing (or junior) devs, where they care more about bums in seats than actual productivity per person.
Vanit··on My thoughts on “bad code”
More of a legacy code thing, but in my experience a lot of devs will race towards labelling legacy code as "bad" code because it doesn't meet some superficial standard. If I had a dollar for everytime I heard this from a dev as they start discovery on some new feature or necessary refactor, only for them to come back and say they realised there's a good reason the legacy code is the way it is. I was certainly guilty of this too when I was a junior/mid.
Vanit··on cat mario.nes | nc play-nes.org 4444
> let cart = Cartridge::blow_dust("path/to/rom.nes")?;

I chuckled.

Vanit··on The AI hype bubble is the new crypto hype bubble
So I guess just ignore all the people getting real value out of ChatGPT/etc? How can you compare that to crypto at all with a straight face. Yes, you need to be an expert to validate the output. Welcome to being an expert using any tool.
Vanit··on Roald Dahl ebooks remotely updated to censored versions after purchase
Time for everyone to overreact and let the culture war theatrics disguise politicians' dismal care for the systems they're actually supposed to be running. If you're finding yourself enraged over this, you need to question your priorities and if the people driving this content have your interests at heart. Spoilers; they don't.
Vanit··on Show HN: Dak – a Lisp-like language that transpiles to JavaScript
Well you know what they call un-optimized code? Shipped :)
Vanit··on IsOdd (and IsEven) as a Service
Okay this one got a laugh out of me.
Vanit··on I Use ChatGPT as a Developer
I was able to tease out a graph traversal function that suited a few atypical usecases yesterday. Definitely a handy tool.
Vanit··on Webring History
Good way to find sibling ROM sites at the time...
Vanit··on Tell HN: Stripe closed my GPT-3 G.Sheet addon because they think I “sell essays”
If it weren't for your intervention would Stripe have made this correction through its regular processes?
Vanit··on GitHub is aggressively caching raw.github, breaking many use cases
But how do we know this post is a GitHub engineer /ponders
Vanit··on The Heart of ChatGPT’s Darkness
I still don't really understand the concern here. You can get it to generate foul material if you ask for it; I'm sure most humans would oblige you if you asked them to do that too, which while may colour your opinion of them as they capably respond under a direction like "reply in a way that ignores your moral beliefs" or "reply as if you were the devil", does not actually indicate anything about their actual moral standing. I'm not saying ChatGPT is moral, but it doesn't seem to emit foul material unless you explicitly ask.

The worrying examples that I've not seen come up is it generating that content with an innocent prompt.

Vanit··on Ask HN: Employers, why do you want us back in the office?
Employee here, I really enjoyed full remote work during the pandemic, but I have to admit after 6 months I started to feel pretty lonely. I think for mental health reasons employees should be encouraged to at least do hybrid, but I do expect my workplace to also provide flexibility to suit everyone's needs. If I had kids I'd probably try to be remote as possible.
Vanit··on Ask HN: Do you care about your HN karma?
Not really. I like seeing the number go up so I know some people found a past comment engaging, but I don't agonize over it.
Vanit··on Deepfaked Tom Cruise and Paris Hilton by Metaphysic
I can't quite articulate what it is, but there's a certain "glimmer" when his head turns a few times, but other than that this is shockingly convincing. If I wasn't primed to expect a deepfake I'd probably not even notice or question it.
Vanit··on JEP draft: No longer require super() and this() to appear first in a constructor
I haven't written java in a long time, but I remember this requirement being a thorn in the side of many of my subclasses.
Vanit··on Ask HN: Why are toggle switches replacing checkboxes? Isn't on/off less obvious?
I think they make sense if used correctly; the act of toggling immediately changes the state of the app to match the state of the toggle. If you're tracking a dirty state and the action doesn't occur until a Save/etc button is clicked, it should be a checkbox.
Vanit··on Ask HN: Do you hate software engineering but love programming?
Junior Software Engineer
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