skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I dont think it is equivalent. If you assume it has the same modal properties, sure -- let's say that's plausible.

Ie., if GPT said on the occasion it was asked Q, an answer A, in a possible world W, such that this answer A was the "relevant and reasonable" answer in W -- then GPT is "doing something interesting".

Eg., if I am wearing red shoes (World W1) and it says "i like your red shoes" in W1, then that's for-sure really interesting.

My issue is that it isnt doing this; GPT is completely insensitive to what world its in and just generates an average A in reply to a world-insensitive Q.

If you take a langauge-user, eg. me, and enumerate my behaviour in all possible worlds you will get somehting like what GPT is aiming to capture. Ie., what i would say, if asked Q, in world-1, wolrd-2, world-infinity.

My capacity to answer the question in "relevant and reasonable" ways across a gegnuine infinity of possible worlds comes from actual capacities i have to obvserve, imagination, explore, question, intereact, etc. It doesnt come from being an implementation of the (Q, A, W) pattern -- which is an infintity on top of an infinity.

No model which seeks to directly implement (Q, A, W) can ever have the same properties of an actual agent. That model would be physically impossible to store. So GPT does not "contain" an agent in the sense that QAW patterns actually occur as they should.

And no route through modelling those patterns will ever produce the "agency pattern". You actually need to start with the capacities of agents themselves to generate these in the relevant situations, which is not a matter of a compressed representation of QAW possibilities -- its the very ability to imagine them peicemeal (investigate, explore, etc .)
> I will say that I've constantly (during 10+ years of working full time with various game engines) come across cases where I need to extend or modify the engines I work with to either fix bugs or add missing features.

Agreed wholeheartedly, and this is part of game development. Sometimes that comes in the shape of adding features that are straight up unfinished, other times it comes in bugfixes/workarounds. I hope my original message didn't come across as "there is no work involved in using a preexisting engine!"

> To take a fairly recent Unity example I worked on a game using the Universal Render Pipeline (URP) <...> still uses an empty depth buffer on opaque rendering instead of utilising the one generated during the prepass.

Presumably implementing that was _far_ less work than writing a URP yourself, and that's before you take into account the benefit of the art/design pipelines being able to use the render pipeline for the X months it would take you to write one yourself.

That example doesn't effect the "user experience" of the game either (which is what the GP comment claimed they wrote their own engines for), but that's not to say it's not worth doing!
OP here.

Weird; the top menu shouldn't be fixed. Which browser are you using?
If you were to install monitor control, can you adjust the brightness of both monitors or just one?
An interesting thing happened to me since I started using an inkjet printer with user refillable ink tanks. I actually like to print! I don't have to deliberate "Do I really need this printed?" I don't mind printing a bunch of stuff for the kids. I can print interesting photos and put them up somewhere or give them away to the family.

Previously with an HP inkjet, I would dread printing because what if I use up the ink, and then need to print something urgently (e.g. a government form)?

The feeling is that now the printer is serving me, as opposed to previously where I felt I am its servant.
Adverts are slippery slop indeed.
It makes a bit more sense when you understand that Apple employees genuinely dogfood on their work devices with personal data.
This is a list of quite rare features that make Pharo interesting:
https://pharo.org/features
There are several principles that have helped me:

- Do NOT migrate to new tools, even if they are really shiny and popular - this may end up being a big hurdle you'll regret down the line (looking at you, Notion, Todoist, Google Keep, the list goes on). Just stick to your tools for at least a couple of years before exploring alternatives.
- Try search instead of organisation. I used to have elaborate folder structures for everything... but have since given up, still keep some basic structure, but I find most things via search anyway.
- Help your non-technical friends and family. You may have discovered the best clouds, NAS solutions, software, methodology... but they still use post its for passwords and keep family recipes in that one notebook in the cupboard. Guide them, share your subscriptions with them, give them pointers.
- Use fewer services, even if they are not the best tools for the job. I find it much easier to reason about a handful of storage media (and their backups, pricing etc.) than having an app for every single activity in my life (e.g. I stopped using apps for recipes, I use my synchronised note taking app instead. Same for shopping lists, use my todo app. Etc.)
Reminds me of my unfruitful quest to find a USB 3 Switch (A KVM without video) without awful reviews on Amazon. I'm still searching...
Signed up, loved the Tove Lo - Habits reference
No, but he’s always watching. The trial never ends…
Free speech never began with governments. The 1st is a prohibition on government interfering with the freedom of speech. That's the problem with this whole debate, most people have everything backwards. Free speech is a concept, an ideal that underpins the entire concept of a healthy, free, fair and open society.
I've played around with techniques like this too.

My thought was to make a multimedia tape zine where people could submit songs and accompanying short text. One track of a stereo cassette track would store the audio mixed to mono, the other would store the text encoded something like this. You'd play the tape in a cassette player outputing to a computer that would play one track to a speaker and decode the other to a thermal printer, so the text would also appear on a "tape."

The problem is, it's really hard to find working cassette players with stereo input and output...
Again I don't have the 'right' to live in your house. I could buy this right if, and only if, you agree to rent me your property for a fee. You aren't "punishing me" if you don't want me to be allowed in your property. You have the right to do so. Is regulated by law and came with the ownership.

If there is a queue of buyers that look a much better candidates than me, why should you be forced to rent me your home?.

Airbnb can make any policy that they think is good for the company. They aren't a NGO. If you want to use it you need to accept their rules. Period.

Yes, life is unfair. Nobody would keep you from using another platform to rent your house. There is not such thing as the "right" to use the platform.
Have you considered starting a co-op in this space? Something fully employee-owned, working for the benefit of themselves, their customers, and their communities.

I don't generally use Amazon so I don't know exactly what their selling points are, but surely there ought to be some way to compete?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsNaR6FRuO0
Yes yes and yes! I hear you, and mostly agree. However! (because of course I have a "however"):

> ... but don't always expect good outcomes

The good outcome is the physchological soundness of not playing the game. Saying things you don't believe in order to do what's expected has a negative pyschological impact on you. If it helps the company too, that's a nice bonus.
I’m really interested in hearing more about the programs that you have used and what you would recommend for somebody who wants to retain a lot of creative control. I’m particularly interested in something that would assist with generating small parts. I have no interest in anything that is going to create an entire track for me, because that is an activity I enjoy doing. But if for instance, I had something and I was like, this would really benefit from a high hat loop on top, is there anything that I could use for that purpose? Other than of course going sample hunting?
Bloomberg rewards reporters based on how much their news moves the market. Tencent is the only publicly traded investor I think.
Haha, I actually think I've gone full circle.
In my experience:

1. read a lot. Design patterns, architectural patterns, microservices patterns. There are good material out there

2. apply what you have read in your day to day job

3. stick with a job for more than 2 or 3 years

Points 1 and 2 are obvious. Point 3 is necessary: if you are jumping from job to job every 1 or 2 years you'll never experiment how good (or bad) your"architectural" solutions are. People usually jump into a new job, implement all the cool patterns they have read and then after 1 or 2 years they leave the company. So you never learn to judge your own solutions because the moment your solutions need to be maintained/extended, you are leaving.
I use it every day for personal projects. Since I’ve been writing code for more than 20 years, the aesthetics aren’t as relevant to me. It’s a useful tool that works quite well. It’s not trying to win this year’s design competition.
And hence the slow descent into madness!
It's a bit fiddly to set up, but once set up works well.
Lol you have to be incredibly smart to do math and physics professionally. A lot smarter than most software developers certainly.
Debezium Change Data Capture Without Kafka Connect
If about 33% of the users on the WWW use an adblocker, then its likely a considerable amount of them like convenient streaming without ads.

Netflix already contains advertising, btw. Its content does, such as product placement (a good example of which being Nokia in the original The Matrix though not Netflix specific). Heck, even Disney+ is advertising: for their merchandise. My kid digs 'Mini Mouse'.

What I am not interesting in is wasting my time on ads. I sort of accept it on Prime because I got Prime cheap, and its Prime Video products only. They're testing my limits though, I can tell you that much, and I can also tell you the ads are usually not appropriate for me (although I do have Prime for the Prime specific content, I find it on my own). The moment Netflix starts to waste my time with ads, it becomes less valuable. Because ads is the reason I avoid cable TV. I CBA with wasting my time on BS I don't want (to see). Its the reason I got Netflix in the first place. It makes the product less convenient, and pirating is already very convenient. It just feels better to pay for something while watching the people you paid for acting.
> unless amazon is a monopoly employer, this isn't gonna happen

It's already happening. Various FAANGs have been found red handed signing anti-poaching agreements to lower salaries.
As a software engineer today, you always have a say in what work you perform with your own hands.

You might think a big enough paycheck compensates for an ethical infraction, but it's a decision you alone make.
Mark sounds like a cool dude.
One App – Two Worlds: This Is TikTok in Russia and Ukraine
Unless you're a shareholder, is that actually a problem?

There would be nothing wrong in Netflix say: We're no longer able to buy the shows and movies we'd like, because the studios are setting up their own streaming services. We now going to shift towards creating less content, but higher quality.

As I see it, one of Netflix major problems is the quality of content. They can't buy quality content anymore, so they're attempting to just make as much content as possible, hoping something will stick. Writing have been a major problem for Netflix for years. They're able to create an initial good season one of a show, but are never able to deliver in the following seasons.

Personally I don't see the problem in Netflix becoming a niche player with their own high quality content, that could allow them to lower prices as well. It's only a problem because their shareholders overpaid and insist that Netflix remain a major streaming platform in order to recover their investment.
Using bioinformatics tools to understand neural networks. What a fasinating idea! It probably makes sense to go for the direct application of string and pattern matching methods from stringology. BLAST is very much meant for DNA and protein biosequences.

edit: It would be cool to see the evolution of neural networks over their training, and im transfer learning. Comparative neural network genomics.
Most of the spam left over is super-obvious. It should not be hard to remove it. A filter based on Bayesian probability would wipe out most of them with a high degree of certainty (i.e. very few false positives).
American Pie was a great movie.
If you have an expensive car that is easy to steal, wouldn't you deem that faulty and get a refund?
Thanks, i'll give it a look :)

My current method is simply having multiple RocketBooks "scattered" across the places where i'm likely to use one. One at my work desk, one at my home office desk, and one in my computer bag for taking notes "on the go".

I much prefer taking notes with pen and paper, and the RocketBook elegantly solves the digital filing for me.

Now if only it would integrate into Apple Notes, i would be happy :) Again, like with the other tools i use, i don't need "bells and whistles", and will happily settle for a built in solution that is "good enough" as long as i can search it with ease.
Show HN: A simple method to meditate without getting distracted
After spending the past year trying different meditation apps, I've found all I really need is a simple reminder to stop, think, breathe and something to keep my hands busy from distractions. Hope this helps some other busy minds!
Agreed. There's no need to get into the details, but if they're brought up, I won't skirt them. This isn't so much for the company, as it is for myself. It's not _exactly_ venting, more like feeling good about myself that I didn't do something I disagreed with.
> And some 80% of that are retweets _or replies_.

I'm sure there are more retweets than replies, but still. 10% of users (is that the math? probably not.) are actively posting original tweets, and even more are replying to them. That's alright I think.
Yeah if I were in a similar position in a future scenario and I found this story and it ended with public shaming and prison etc, then I'd just burn the thing instead of trying to return it.
There's also anniversary doodles.
That's fair, I'm not saying they are right to do it in that sense.
Why are we not seeing more, object recognition and things like camera tracking in video compression?

If you assume that the video you are compressing is made from a 3D scene you should be able to get very high compression ratios.
Except that I used quotations so the customary user experience is that quotations count as "this is what I mean to search for". Frankly, Google has degenerated to a point where I can no longer support or promote it over DuckDuckGo.
It was obviously hyperbolic.
But how much, if at all, should a public company, without a single owner actually have. And if so, who should decide what the stances are? I mean the very people that now suddenly defend "private" property rights are generally the same who argue against personhood for corporations outright and in total.
> Programming is infinitely easier to get into than any other high paying field

Being an average programmer is indeed easy compared to many skilled jobs. In some areas people are called "senior" after doing a 6-months bootcamp and landing a job copypasting stack overflow for 3 years.

Being a good software engineer is a different thing and takes endless learning.
Amazon’s Project Kuiper books 83 rockets to launch internet-beaming satellites
Why not both?

Here's the answer to your question as asked.

If you're trying to accomplish X, here is a better way. I'm happy to go into details if you can provide more context.
And now, only a few years on, the FTTN is already slowly getting replaced at great expense making the FTTN a colossal waste of money. Turnbull knew better as other places on earth already tried FTTN and removed it. The cost of putting power to all the nodes was excessive and ongoing power bills eventually expensive too. FTTP was passive at the nodes. The only argument was that it was planned to be a quicker rollout which didn’t eventuate either. Total shit show.
Isnt this how oligarchs are created - buying state owned assets at massively knocked down prices from their friends in government?

If you donate 20k to the party you can have yourself a multi billion pound media empire and a knighthood all of your own.
Twitter is not the defacto public square. Only "New York Media Types" believe this.
Nice.

We are using (https://github.com/whisklabs/grpc-ts)[whisklabs/grpc-ts]. We saved %80 of our bundle size by changing from grpc-web. Those generated proto-js files were big!
Beware Interesting Ideas
Hacker News loves nuclear fusion headlines!

It's not a breakthrough if sustainable energy output hasn't been realised. Initiating fusion is not the hard part.
How to Convert Jupyter Notebook into ML Web App?
I think it's performance is quite impressive. Consider, the very last example is a better implementation than most here would write (at least without some research). The cheeky tone is not targeted towards the machine.

> Does this AI not pull from a massive pool of countless examples of real human-written code

Pull from wouldn't be the right way of looking at it-- it's trained on and has presumably memorized significant amounts. But thus far no one has equip this kind of model with something like 'database access', beyond its own quadratic-cost internal self-attention.
Show HN: A Chrome extension for fast, contextual notetaking
tl;dr - I built a fast and low-frills notepad which helps me keep a flow state.

I spend a lot of time in the browser: in calls, managing stuff between SaaS apps, or consolidating info from multiple tabs. Usually, I'd bring up an editor and side-by-side it, or switch between my current tab and a notion tab. This extension lets you hit a hotkey and bring up a notepad in-place. It's a scratchpad for thinking in the moment - key points and questions as I'm working. If I want to hold on to the memory, I can export it to another app - if not, I'll just delete the note. It's kind of like the RAM to Notion's hard drive.

A couple more details:
- It works in videos, pdfs, and most sites. Startup friends use it reviewing their Figmas. Investor friends have been using it on Docsends. I use it to pull important parts from documentation, and writing call notes.
- A note can be used across tabs (e.g. I've used it to cross-reference product reviews)
- It keeps a bibliography for each note.
- It can stash its notes if you want to keep things in-house. If not, you can export to Google Docs and Notion
- If you connect your Google Drive, you can search your drive. It's faster than the web interface.

Anyway, the point is to be a really fast way to manage your current thoughts. I feel like memory decays rapidly, and the faster I can record things, the lower my mental burden.

I've got a video showing some of this at https://getjotter.com/. There's no signup needed to try it, and I'm happy to take feedback and suggestions!
they don’t link to the actual digitized notebooks (afaict). Cambridge has them and they are available to the public:

https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-DAR-00121/1

https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-DAR-00122/1

(You can specifically jump to Darwin’s “tree of life” drawing.)
Russian influencers desperately scramble to maintain followers and livelihoods
>how hard it must be to make a “decent” thunderbolt dock.

I’d been thinking about this and want to add to the evidence that even though MacBooks were USB-C only for years and years Apple never shipped a dock they only shipped single port dongles.

No way would Apple not sell a $500-$800 dock that could “solve the usb-c problem” unless there was a good reason and I think the reason is this solution is inherently janky for some unsolvable engineering reason and only single port cables are reliable to the level Apple was happy with.
The menu is not fixed for me, it scrolls with the rest. It’s just permanently “expanded” as a vertical stack, but perhaps that’s intentional. (iOS latest, iPhone 8)
Shi Zhan's “The First Metaverse War“
The first image I shared is an underside of an M1 MacBook Air, cover removed. I attached it to show how insanely cramped inside.

The machine reaches that thickness under the keyboard. Around the middle Torx screw holding the screen hinges on the top of the image.You can of course carry the thickness like the MacBook Pros to the edge, but there are other problems.

USB-A ports are a bit thicker than the opening themselves. A proper, high quality port has some spring loaded shielding pressing towards the port opening and it flares out, Also, 90 degree ports have some distance between the port body and contacts, since you need to fix the port to the board via quite a few pins (9 pins on electronic side, plus at least two for retention, unless you clamp in down via a retainer, which needs screws, etc).

All of this "machinery" adds quite a space required to implement a USB-A port on a board. As you can see in the article itself, the hubs themselves use "through the board, unflared" ports to minimize space use as much as possible, and none of them are very slim.

The slimmest USB 3.0 hub I've seen is from Anker [0][1], which I also use almost daily. As you can see, you need to have that slack around that port. Same port on a laptop needs same amount of slack around [2][3]. My older MacBook Pro also has similar amount of slack around its USB-A ports.

All in all, a MacBook Air doesn't have the thickness and space to include that port, in its current form. We're always talking about thickness, but insertion depth is at least 15%-20% greater for USB-A too. Plus you need the depth required for supporting the pins on the plug side. That needs to be taken into account, too.

[0]: https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0493/9834/9974/products/An...

[1]: https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0493/9834/9974/products/A7...

[2]: https://www.anandtech.com/show/16131/a-15inch-thin-laptop-fo...

[3]: https://images.anandtech.com/doci/16131/2.png
If you don’t mind a digression for someone who needs help…

What is the architecture pattern of a trading platform?

I am looking to build a system that is able to:
- receive 1000s incoming streams of data
- save the data
- make data available to live subscribers

The closest analogous system I can think of is bond/stock/commodity/etc price subscriptions for traders.

I feel like this many in - many out data stream architecture should be solved by now and I rather not start from scratch in architecture and technology choices.

I can’t find the right phrase to even google to get started.
I disagree that selfishness is the root of ethics; I think the root of ethics is the desire for a higher good, for the world to be a better place for the people living in it, which is fundamentally altruistic.

I agree that moral frameworks are more of a guideline than a ruleset because no one model is going to be both simple and map onto messy reality. Ie, like all models, they're reductive but can still be useful. My point was that deontology is just an appeal to rigid consistency, where at least utilitarianism takes context into account, leading to better flexibility to match up with reality.
> all your engineers are paid in stock for example, and now they're underpaid versus the industry.

I was under the impression that Netflix generally doesn't offer stock to engineers, but instead pays above market salaries.