skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love settings.

I hate losing settings and having to fiddle with everything all over again.

I remember, back in pre-windows XP days, me and some of my friends would spend ages going through the appearance options and customisimg pretty much everything. Even later, I knew of people who had a meticulous desktop ordering or spent substantial amount of time ordering favourite icons in the browser.

All that was great fun until the first time, the settings were lost. Maybe you had to reinstall the OS (or got a new PC) or maybe the program updated and simply erased the settings. In any case, trying to redo everything you had arranged before looked to be an enormous amount of work and not fun at all. So after the second time, this happened, we gave up and accepted the standard.

But this eas not because we didn't want customisation, it was because the experience was too frustrating.

My impression is that in modern UX, not only do opportunities for customisation become less and less, the results are also increasingly ephemeral. E.g., there is still no option under Windows to save the arrangement of desktop icons - but there is a menu shortcut which will instantly rearrange everything and render your own arrangement moot. I think this shows a pretty clear priority of the designers.

My impression is that customisation opportunities are simply conflicting with a lot of priorites of moders software developers, much more so than their users: Companies want the freedom to frequently change the UI and control overy tiny detail about the "experience" - customisation runs directly counter to that. In some extreme cases, companies even want the freedom to build deliberately unpleasant designs (dark patterns).

Additionally, an inflexible UI also provides more opportunity to present some minor improvements as significant new features ("twitter now has three different colour schemes!", "iOS now can show two apps at the same time!").

Last but not least, an inflexible UI lets you actually sell certain adjustments as a premium feature - e.g. YouTube letting you listen to a video in the background.

All of this are strong incentives for software companies to get rid of settings, but none of it has to do with users not liking settings.
Thinking about it, a lot of people stopped smoking right when smartphones became a thing. Smoking was not just about the smoke, but about the social circle it created. I wonder how deep the analogy goes.
Maybe the problem transformation will be both the beginning _and_ end of the developer's role.
Because in the context of regulations, they don't claim it to be self-driving.
I liked some of the guest posts, I think more of that could work well. If he feels he can't talk about something, get someone on who can.
A good journalist will include that context in a story. I know I read at least one article that included these safety claims while also noting that the data was private and unverifiable.

I think it's a good default to assume any self-beneficial corporate message is false, absent evidence to the contrary.
...unresponsive, loads articles in pop-up windows, uses http/1.1 so resources are downloaded serially, has all JS in critical path....
Sorry should have been more precise but I was also counting in the very large stock buyback that came to a end in early 2021.
Biltmore House [1], the largest private home in the United States, cost $5,000,000 to build in 1895-1900 (I think it's a beautiful home and I would love to have it's library). Adjusted for inflation, it would cost around $160,000,000 [2] (maybe more, depending upon how you figure inflation). In fact, I'm not sure you could build that today for any amount of money.

[1] https://www.biltmore.com/

[2] https://www.measuringworth.com/calculators/uscompare/result....
> What about what the users want to do? What entitles you to decide what is good for other people? That's just creepy as fuck.

It depends. "I want the user to find the useful capabilities of my software" isn't creepy at all. That's just good design. "I want the user to do things that are against their interests but make more money for me" is the core characteristic of a dark pattern.
Oh, wow, that brings back some nostalgia. There's a picture of this in one of Richard Scarry's non-Busytown books that I had as a child.
Acknowledged. If I received such a ticket I would sign the form the officer gave me and then immediately protest (appeal) the ticket and go to court. In particular, giving a ticket for 1mph over the limit doesn't make sense because the marginal danger (IE, how much more dangerous it is) to drive 1 mph over the limit is tiny, it's 10-15 mph that is dangerous. The police actually have to make a case justifying the value of spending the time of stopping you.

I just looked into the details. In my state, CA, 1-15mph over the limit is specially treated, with one point that eventually gets cleared.

I'm amused because (as I mentioned) I live in a school zone and I just drove home at about 5mph, because the streets were so croweded that anything faster would have been impossible. A cop could not have parked in any location near my house because every spot was taken, and all sightlines were blocked by SUVs or buses.
As far as I can tell, she never ran a piece on hate groups - she talks about the proud boys leader making a long vitriolic video in response to one of her comics, not that she ever interacted with them.
Yeah, seems like a typo a GPT-3 would do.

The claim seems to be that Teslas do not drink before driving, not Tesla owners, right?
correct it me if I am wrong, but whenever I see things like "uncensorable" I laugh.
Internet connections require an ISP, internet networks are governed by goverments.
There is ZERO way to make something uncensorable or decentralized and all that BS. Even TOR requires someone running exit nodes.

You can make your own car and even use it until you get caught (in a city for example) but you cant use the internet without an ISP.

Only way would be if you started laying out your OWN cable but even then I am sure the goverment would have a way..
That seems to be the norm in the gulf kingdoms, everything is run by some despicable royal nephew or much less often, a niece.
It never ceases to amaze me what you can do with these transformer models. They created millions of potential solutions for each problem, used the provided examples for the problems to filter out 99% of incorrect solutions and then applied some more heuristics and the 10 available submissions to try to find a solution.

All these approaches just seem like brute-force approaches: Let's just throw our transformer on this problem and see if we can get anything useful out of this.

Whatever it is, you can't deny that these unsupervised models learn some semantic representations, but we have no clue at all what that actually is and how these model learn that. But I'm also very sceptical that you can actually get anywhere close to human (expert) capability in any sufficiently complex domain by using this approach.
> When I’ve served as a peer reviewer I’ve read the papers closely and checked all the steps of the proofs, and that means that I have replicated the results.

The side effect is that math papers have an insane long time to publication. Perhaps 6 months, or 1 year or more if you are unlucky.

In physics, the publication time is like 3 month. Something like 1 month for the first review and then two months for making small changes suggested by the referee and discussing with the editor.

As a side^2 effect, some citation index of the journals count only the citations during the first year. But the papers that have the citation are sleeping over the reviewer desk during that year, so the number is lower than the real number.
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Can you write more about how Cyc would help?
The idea behind Cyc is cool but I don’t think I’ve seen anyone discuss using it for program synthesis.
this project is a pseudo-remake of Wolfenstein 3-D; Fast Inverse Square Root as we know it wasn't in an id game until much later with Quake III Arena
When the GDPR was first becoming law/being talked about a lot, I recall there being a lot of posts from people in Europe explaining to us Americans one of the major differences between the European system of regulations and ours, which I will paraphrase to the best of my understanding:

When the EU sets a maximum fine level, that's there to give their courts discretion to drop the hammer on companies that have clearly been abusive. Expected practice there is more generally to lead with something that's more of a warning. Then, if they do it again, they can escalate toward the maximum.

The 32.3 billion figure there was the maximum possible fine for the combination of Microsoft, Google, and Amazon. Personally, I'm unclear on whether anyone besides IAB is currently being fined, but in either case, the point here appears to be to send the message "what you're doing isn't OK, clean it up now" rather than "all your revenue are belong to us".

For now.
I just think a lot of Tesla drivers see themselves as elite drivers or something when we all know that's not true if you step back away from the situation.
Jonathan Scott is a fraud ( JonathanData1 exposed)
Good point, Boston is a great real-world fuzzer. If they spent their time making it work there they'd have less issues elsewhere
It would be interesting if a future 'AlphaZeroCode' with access to a compiler and debugger can learn to code, generating data using self-play. Haven't read the paper yet, seems some impressive milestone.
This is possible already with losetup?
When I first watched Star Wars in 1977, I knew that the spaceships weren't real, that Luke didn't live on Tatooine with a landspeeder, or that lightsabers worked. I didn't care because of the "willing suspension of disbelief." We all know that the movies we watch are fake, Potemkin villages. We don't care if they use the film-making arts to help us suspend our disbelief. Doesn't matter if they use CGI, stop-motion animation, matte paintings, shoot on soundstage or in real locations.
>It illustrates that CoPilot is generating maximum likelihood token strings and has no real understanding of the code.

Funny, today I was just thinking of people's tendencies to dismiss AI advances with this very pattern of reasoning: take a reductive description of the system and then dismiss it as obviously insufficient for understanding or whatever the target is. The assumption is that understanding is fundamentally non-reductive, or that there is insufficient complexity contained within the reductive description. But this is a mistake.

The fallacy is that the reductive description is glossing over the source of the complexity, and hence where the capabilities of the model reside. "Generating maximum likelihood token strings" doesn't capture the complexity of the process that generates the token strings, and so an argument that is premised on this reductive description cannot prove the model deficient. For example, the best way to generate maximum likelihood human text is just to simulate a human mind. Genuine understanding is within the solution-space of the problem definition in terms of maximum likelihood strings, thus you cannot dismiss the model based on this reductive description.
It's practially a trope how in sci-fi movies with flying futuristic cars, it's a demonstration of extreme competence for a character to demand "manual controls" to pilot the vehicle...like every normal driver does today. I expect that will become more and more real-world. Even today, most drivers don't know how to drive a manual transmission vehicle, much less how to double-clutch one without synchros or how to stop on ice without ABS. Those are disappearing from public roads and from the capabilities of average drivers, I expect that driving without aids will follow in the same way.

As part of my job, I end up renting vehicles pretty frequently, they're often newer models than my daily and have blind spot monitoring, backup cameras, radar cruise, vision-based lanekeeping assist, etc. It's frightening how in the course of a week you can get used to having to put less effort into centering yourself in the lane, trusting that cruise control will just keep a comfortable distance from the vehicle ahead of you. Driving becomes a lot less stressful. When I get back home and climb into my old manual-everything beater, though, it's quite an adjustment.

Regarding blind spot checks, yes, the Audi I recently drove had alerts for that, the blinking yellow light in my peripheral vision when cars were passing me was a nice reinforcement, but I'm too conditioned to do head checks to skip those. Likewise, reverse cameras - I've driven many work vans, pickups with headache racks, Jeeps with scratched up plastic, pulled trailers and RVs, etc where the windshield-mounted rearview mirror is useless; lots of pros get used to backing up using the side mirrors only. However, I asked my sister in law (who is extremely competent at most things) to drive my truck for an errand and she asked for help backing it out of the driveway - her car has always had a backup camera, which is honestly lots easier and she was completely uncomfortable using the side mirrors.

It's not hard to imagine that someone who only drives with assistive tools would adapt to become dependent on them; I'd argue it's more unusual to expect that they wouldn't!
You seem to be assuming that the 2D polymers extend indefinitely. If instead their growth is limited such that the molecules tile, overlap, and layer, they may be more amenable to manipulation such as thermoforming, thermosetting, etc.
stats for easy miles and hard miles? link please?

Humans don’t crash at every tricky situation but Tesla claims that humans are horrible drivers and their cars gives the control to the humans when when something happens.
Driver age isn't the factor that explains the difference, accident rate adjusted for age shifts up a similar amount for both Autopilot and regular drivers.

What truly makes a difference is the kind of road they're driving on. The accompanying paper provides a figure showing Autopilot is essentially only used on freeways which are inherently safer. Adjusting for that seems to explain most of the difference.

Though personally I'd prefer to have just compared the accident rate on freeways for both types rather than this weird weighting method they try to use.
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I don't think the North Korean government would have standing in a US court.
> This isn't an especially compelling theory without some data to back it up.

It's not difficult to reason how a real painting could plausibly incite a more realistic performance out of actors than a green screen. This trope of asking for "data to back it up" for the most obvious things is tiring. This is an internet message board, not a top tier scientific journal. You can ask for evidence if you want, but do you really need to do that in this case?
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Aged terribly implies that it ever looked good.
This works in Windows too, but with one major flaw. If your Windows are localized (e.g. Czech), you will have to enter the correct name of the setting or service in Czech and entering its English name won't help you.

Which is a problem, because the vast majority of StackOverflow-like Q&As are in English and mention the necessary setting in English, of course.

And you cannot rely on your translational abilities, because many of the translations in Windows are stilted.
Same applies. It can sound shit.
>> This is technology that simply didn't exist in any form 2 years ago.

A few examples of neural program synthesis from at least 2 years ago:

https://sunblaze-ucb.github.io/program-synthesis/index.html

Another example from June 2020:

DreamCoder: Growing generalizable, interpretable knowledge with wake-sleep
Bayesian program learning

https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.08381

RobustFill, from 2017:

RobustFill: Neural Program Learning under Noisy I/O

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/...

I could go on.

And those are only examples from neural program synthesis. Program synthesis, in
general, is a field that goes way back. I'd suggest as usual not making big
proclamations about its state of the art without being acquainted with the
literature. Because if you don't know what others have done every announcement
by DeepMind, OpenAI et al seems like a huge advance... when it really isn't.
It’s funny what process can do.

13 years ago I was working on a SaaS eCommerce platform and it feels like this tool is a relatively minor improvement over what we had built on top of IRC.

That said; it’s pretty cool and I’m definitely going to evaluate it: as our current PagerDuty integration is not nearly as clean as this.
Ask HN: Customer discovery, support and outreach all-in-one tool?
Hi HN! A friend and I recently founded a startup with an MVP already in the barrel. We're wondering if anyone has a SaaS product that can be used for multiple customer-facing functions, namely discovery, support and outreach. We're trying to find something that would allow us to build profiles for our prospective customers such that their entire interaction history with our company is centralized in one place (e.g., information about potential customers discovered during initial conversations, should they become a user any support tickets they create/interact with, and any proactive outreach we might do, like marketing emails we send).

Has anyone run across such a tool? Anyone building this?

If not, what tool(s) are you using to accomplish these functions?
"A healthy breakfast, being necessary for a productive day, the right to eat eggs shall not be infringed"

Would you interpret _that_ as meaning we could only eat eggs for breakfast?
Hey, I didn't know. Here how to add a font family: https://www.howtogeek.com/734645/how-to-install-custom-fonts...

Which fonts are good for e-ink readers?
I did read the article. I mistook the part about the other guest seeing the YouTube video as her doing a podcast. My bad.
BGP for All Training Videos
Pretty clever. Thanks for posting the source too - I learned something new about how these social previews are implemented!
It's almost axiomatic that "Users don't read instructions," and a corrolary is that they don't explore settings pages or read the captions and tooltips that may be there.

If the software doesn't do something they want, most users will either use it as-is but be somewhat annoyed, or develop a (possibly manual) workaround. Most will not explore settings or read instructions, so spending a lot of time on "discoverability" is probably time better spent elsewhere.
It already has. This is getting into Executive quid-pro-quo territory with tech legislation as a hot current issue in the legislature.
Perhaps the downvotes are because most people would be apprehensive about putting their life in the hands of an "average" safe driver that's built from software? I probably wouldn't allow any other average safe human to drive me, if the alternative of me driving myself is available.
Fourth Industrial Revolution
Debian has not fixed CVE-2021-44142
> Within a temperature range of about ~-30 °C to ~400 °C.

If the new material is plastic-like, it may have worse issues here?
Find something that’s hard and interesting.
Someone will probably have a business trying to solve it and will hire you.
OCI is starting to be used for more non-container things like your describing actually. One example I'm aware of is the Helm tool in Kubernetes, which has support for using OCI as a method of storing/transporting helm charts (which are effectively just tarballs of Go templates/yaml). I

I think your challenge for virtualenvs would be that virtualenvs generally are not relocatable, as they hardcode absolute paths within the generated scripts (eg: venv/bin/activate`).
Well, that also seems like the wrong question to ask. Whether it's currently useful to you for writing short algorithms, rather than as the non-programmer's API interface it's primarily marketed as, seems about the least interesting take-away for it. We'll get to smoothing over the cracks later, once it's not a capability we literally just discovered exists. Heck, Codex is already not SOTA for that, AlphaCode is.
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I mistook the part about the other guest seeing the YouTube video as her doing a podcast. My bad.
I feel sad that you believe that.
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Sugar is a drug. Best strategy is to eliminate from diet as much as possible.
Being able to change settings is fantastic. ResEdit taught me that being able to do more than that is even better.
Does it really make you think China might care more about it's people? A brief Google should relieve you of that notion :)
Does it need to solve original problems? Most of the code we write is dealing with the same problems in a slightly different context each time.

As others say in commends it might be the case where we meet in the middle. Us writing some form of tests for AI-produced code to pass.
Is there actually a "normal" style? I've only done a test drive but it seemed like there were various levels of automatic braking, but none that actually allowed you to coast.
Very funny and sad to me how modern politics has turned the term "liberal" into a political group that seems to support the exact opposite of liberalism - censor any opinion we don't like, discriminate based on race, destroy anything "problematic", anything we disagree with is misinformation, yada yada.
> Any good resources to read on this subject?

Everything you wanted to know about BGP from the Network Startup Resource Center (NSRC):

* https://learn.nsrc.org/bgp