skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It certainly had a fad run as 90s slang, thanks to Wayne's World, before the Office was even a glimmer.
Companies need to increase revenue, so even if they don't do it right now there is no guarantee they will not.
I'm just sitting here wanting "read-your-writes" from systems.
> > It is not how the system is supposed to work.

> According to who? You and me?

No, not you and me; the law as written.

Sure the police often ignore the laws and too often get away with it, but because there are laws written down there is at least an opportunity to challenge the injustices in court.

In contrast with the cloud companies who don't reveal any of their rules and just ban people left and right for no discernible reason and there is no possibility to challenge these arbitrary rulings anywhere.
I recently sat down and built something more complicated than simple accounting in a spreadsheet. It's what I considered to be a pretty typical usecase for a non-math related sheet; taking in several tables of data and selectively joining them. You enter an ID, press a button, and it finds all of the data related to that ID and presents it to you.

I was horrified to find that even with the supporting scripting capabilities, the entire paradigm revolves around knowing the shape of your data in advance. (I was using Google Sheets, but I don't think Excel would have been much different). For example, it is very non-intuitive to write a formula that retrieves all the rows in another sheet that match this rule, and once you do that, since it's a variable number of rows returned, it is difficult to then operate on that data without filling your formulas down for some indeterminate number of rows.

I realize most people don't have the luxury or skills, but I quickly realized that I could spin up a whole CRUD webapp for this problem faster than I, someone who understands indexing and windowing and such, could build it in a spreadsheet.

After this experience, I can't help but wonder if Excel and spreadsheets largely exist due to pre-existing knowledge about how to use them, or if this is _actually_ the best way for non-programming minded people to solve these problems.
Well, I'm going to keep on being outdated. I've got posts and a RSS feed. If you insist on a mailing list then I'm pleased to disappoint you.
because Google is all ads all the time, and you're the ad?
An absolutely horrible idea for safety outside of the autobahn. There are many distributive roads where over taking safely is impossible with two trailers in front of you.
I'm in the UK, so it doesn't affect me, but is there a reason the USA and Singapore are different?
I made a video about this: https://youtu.be/YcJN_ZiFw9w
I'm pretty sure google jumped the shark 5years ago but somehow the pandemic caused googles stock to :rocket-ship-emoji:
My Dad used to tell this one, but the punchline was "because fish can't eat ice cream!" Thanks for taking me back in time :)
I mean, but that same measure, you're advocating using R/Python as a hammer for everything. Python/R are great languages and tools, so is Excel, all three can be used in fantastic or awful ways.
I watched a few. I was really uncomfortable by how unprepared he was and frequent asking for explanations to basic statements.
profits is a definition of monopoly ?
There's also IndieWeb, but I decided it wasn't my time because I wanted my own website, not a web application that pretended to be a website.
Code that complies with the standard will be rejected by your compiler. The effect would probably be that few people would use your compiler.
Biden administration declares the monkeypox outbreak a public health emergency
Pioneering technology that pushes society forwards often comes from unsavory industries. Its a reality of life and a critical piece of capitalism
I think a considerable subset of the people who do make use of the Chinese room argument also subscribe to some form of mind-body dualism, where consciousness does not or does not completely arise from physical processes.
These companies need to be regulated like any other utility. But no one will because they're hoping to use private companies to at morality police in a way governments are not allowed to.
Here is the problem...is Open Source less secure because people find more software bugs, or is that accomplishing the whole purpose of open source technology? With the source code public, people find more bugs and it comes across as less secure, but they ultimately get fixed. A lot of those same bugs go unnoticed for years in proprietary software, and as a result its less secure. Yeah, proprietary software can be audited, but you only have like one or two guys doing the audit. They are going to miss something big. More eyes is better than few eyes.

As far as the phone number goes, the person above is more focused on anonymity than anything else. You having your phone number tied to it is a pretty big cause of concern if that is the goal you are after unless you use a throwaway number.
Vizdoom dataset, yes

http://vizdoom.cs.put.edu.pl/
Same here I find it crazy that Joe Rogan is better at interviewing scientists than Lex.
Getting Started with Fedora Silverblue
Getting Started with Immutable OS
Old Meet has a history of this. It's first iteration was called Hangouts - no relation or connection to the more well known Google Hangouts, the consumer messaging app. One was hosted at hangouts.google.com and the other at hangouts.google.com/_/ - hence why g.co/hangouts redirects to old Meet and not Google Chat which was the anointed consumer successor
Exactly my second point. Producing "bullshit" requires some internal thoughts and intentions, as the parent put it "DallE generates the images it thinks you want to see" (emphasis mine). A very big claim, which is interesting to consider, but probably premature.

However, I do think that Dall-E is able to learn complex high-order statistical associations, i.e. beyond just juxtaposing and visually blending objects. For a recent example, this post with a prompt "ring side photo of battlebots vs conor mcgregor":

https://twitter.com/weirddalle/status/1554534469129871365

What is amazing here is the excessive blood and gore. That feature can't be found in any individual battlebot or MMA match, but it is exactly what you would expect from robots fighting a person. Pretty amazing, and I wonder at what point we could consider this analytical reasoning.
Most mainstream compilers aim to be standards compliant
In the early 2000s, I built wonderfully complicated 'business intelligence dashboards' for a company, which pulled together large sets of data into charty views that could be configured with drop-down selections. It was user-friendly, and easy to maintain. They also used it for end-of-year reports which were more-or-less automatic based a few simple drop-down settings. Nice on the eyes and everything.

They're still using it!
Hi Jan,

Sorry I didn't get back to you with those spreadsheet edits, I must not have gotten your email!

Best,
-Joe
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Sent from my iPhone
Google's chat products have been integrated with gmail since the start, though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Talk
For those of us old enough to remember television, cable TV also started out as a premium experience that you pay for, that did not have ads.

Fast foward to the present, and cable TV is nothing but ads, you are the product, and you get to pay $XYZ/month for the privilege of being advertised to.

It's just a matter of time until Apple will be the cable TV of tech.

Just because you pay, or even pay a premium doesn't mean you aren't the product. When quarterly growth expected by shareholders cannot be met by getting new users, it will be met by squeezing existing ones.
It's amazing how few companies are unwilling to give away free stuff for errors while also wringing their hands about why accidental errors caused a huge negative PR event - a dollar is probably less than the cost of the CS person spending 15 minutes with the customer on the phone and yet it turns a negative experience into (for most people) a positive one. "Sure we missed our train, but we got new tickets and a bag of chips out of it" is something no one rational would say because it sounds ridiculous, but it is something most people would feel.
>Proprietary code that's been audited is already better then most projects

Even better would be open source code that's been 3rd-party audited. Because you have formal audits, plus several informal audits. Like Signal.
Unless you're all-in on server streaming, the Connect protocol is indistinguishable from RESTful HTTP to this class of L7 proxies - it's just a POST to a Protobuf-looking path, with an `application/json` or `application/proto` Content-Type. Most of the proxies/service mesh things that provide rich gRPC instrumentation are also capable of providing rich instrumentation for this style of HTTP.
> We've got folks producing drugs at scale, anyone who works for the tobacco industry, the liquor industry, the arms industry, we've got the oil industry. There are so many industries that are more or less directly murdering people every day and making life for everyone around them measurably worse.

That's a really, really simplistic take. Except for maybe the current-day tobacco industry, for every story you might have about how one of those industries is doing harm, someone else has one about how they're doing good, and you're both probably right.

1. Liquor: helping people have a good time. Have you heard how Prohibition went?

2. Arms: protecting the community from its enemies. Have you heard about a country called Ukraine?

3. Oil: literally enabling modern society to function. Even with today's electric cars, solar panels, and wind turbines; advanced countries would collapse without a steady supply of it.

etc.
or or, hear me out, become switzerland and get serious about doing freight logistics with trains
As a hobby, I do full stack in JS mainly for work. You could take a look at exercism.io as well, although some of their questions are more like Leetcode rather than teaching the language which is not the way to go I think.
*go to their store on Amazon I mean
I've never seen a chicken try to cross a road, they always seem to stay well away.

Geese on the other hand seem convinced they are tougher than anything with four wheels.
> They also created react

It's not really comforting to know that Facebook is the reason the browser's find feature doesn't work on any web site, no computer is capable of running google chrome to browse a microblogging web site at 60fps, and modal forms commonly disappear losing the data you've entered into them if you resize your browser so you can see another window from which you are retrieving the data.
I misinterpreted what Stripe was telling me. It said something like "you're agreeing to allow Codecrafters to charge you recurring fees". I realise now it was just the charge after the 3 day trial.
For art generation, gluing things together without understanding relationships is basically creativity. Humans can assign meaning to the final output.
It’s also increasingly common for languages and platforms to come with decent JSON parsing capabilities, which is a huge point in JSON’s favor in my eyes — fewer dependencies to have to wrestle is always welcome.
"EdgeError: 988. Call if you need help."

"GramError: Don't spend too much time thinking about where to put your commas."

"TeachError: Did you read the instructions?"

"HistError: <on this day history fact>"

"Kerror: I'd like to speak to the sysadmin."

"NetError: HSOCK_WIND_ERR_NO_BIND_4_6() expects to be understood."

"TsundError: It's not like this means anything, idiot."
Perhaps it's time to start regulating it though...
DallE is trained on web scraped data, there is no manual labelling taking place except maybe to filter out some types of content.

A few years ago we were training captioning models on manually labelled datasets (such as COCO captions), but the they were small and models were not too general.
Like Lisa Simpson's tiger-repelling rock: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSVqLHghLpw
> Would it be possible to create a proof of a proof?

The sub-discipline of mathematics that deals with this is called "metamathematics". For a start see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metamathematics
Shakespeare didn't recoil from putting puns in the titles of his plays either! For example, "nothing" was a placeholder for ladyparts (no-thing: the absence of the 'thing', the thing being, of course, the penis).

And so, "Much Ado About Nothing" doesn't really mean "a lot of fuss for no reason". Or maybe it does, but it carries a strong double entendre: "make noise for the pussy".
Ask HN: How would you monetise this site?
Hey folks!

At the start of this year the company I work for had a creative week. For the first week back after Christmas, we could do what ever we wanted and on the Friday we gave a presentation on what we'd been up to.

I built https://thedeathclock.co/.

It is a morbid webpage that uses some really dumb data to give you an estimate of how much of your life you've used up.

I posted in HN back then and got a bunch of traffic, but it died off quickly. I checked the analytics of it this week and it seems to be suddenly getting a lot of traffic! So here is where I need help.

Firstly, is the traffic legit? It seems to be mostly coming from Thailand, which seems strange, but google search console seems to indicate it is real traffic.

Secondly, how can I monetise this? I want to be respectful of visitor privacy, but I wouldn't mind making a bit of money if possible. Is it possible to make any amount of money from that amount of traffic?

Here is a link to my analytics dashboard. https://plausible.io/thedeathclock.co
Because Google didn’t encrypt mobile phones until Android 6, and updates are up to the manufacturer, so Android’s security culture is globally appalling? in addition to permissions being intentionally mingled, for the benefit of advertisers. At least Apple pretends that the consumer is the client.
Is this a criticism of Excel specifically, or is the problem that it’s making basic arithmetic more accessible to institutions with negative externalities?
At the end of the day PayPal, Stripe, Square, etc. are beholden to Visa and MasterCard and not really competitors.
Isn't hydrogen pretty hard to store and transport? It's pretty corrosive and escapes through seals readily, and needs to be compressed.
No, he's a metabrain who understands where one should be big brained and where one should be grug brained
According to Wikipedia, East Anglia does universal yod-dropping, so mute/moot would be homophonic. (See https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:English_dialect-depe...).

Personally, I haven't come across anyone who pronounces 'mute' without the /j/.
What kind of writing are you wanting to learn?
From the context I guess maybe reports for work?

If were wanting to work on creative writing, then I recommend starting with stream of consciousness where you just write down anything and everything that comes into your head and see where it takes you. May not be an efficient way to improve your ability to write good reports though.
A Second Career: The Possible Dream (1983)
Regardless, react "solved" front end UI development. It has reduced churn in frameworks, and essentially determined how to handle state, render components on a loop. It was a breakthrough in web technology.
I sort of agree with both myself and yourself. This point of mine technically must be qualified when interpreted like this but I actually mean something slightly more subtle than just parameterization.

The tools of physics have a lot of implicit assumptions that guide the end result in ways that I would describe as parsimonious in terms of how much the output state space must be reduced. They are much more free, which is why they can be amazing for some very hard shit, but proving they're behaving exactly in "physical" way is very hard.

"Time is defined so that motion looks simple" is my favourite quote from MTQ for this reason. It's intuitive and yet also very physically "rigorous" in a way that people don't necessarily realize is a thing in physics beyond just using mathematics.

Maybe we can just train the AI to do the maths for us, dunno, but I think currently this tabula Rasa approach will inform the physics-y-ness. I still call it physics personally, but I don't really think it's interesting from a purely physical perspective.

There have been some works deriving conservation's laws and so on from empirical motion, which I think is very impressive at scale, but I don't know what that does for physics as opposed to the applications of said physics.
> For example, a professional tennis player can follow the trajectory of a tennis ball after it is served at a speed as high as 160 miles per hour, move to the optimal spot on the court, position his or her arm, and swing the racket to return the ball in the opponent’s court, all within a few hundred milliseconds.

This doesn't seem to be specific to the human brain. My cat is probably quicker.
Swap out the financial goals with spiritual goals and that describes the daily routine of a cult member.

Most of them are designed to keep you busy with introspective or pointless busywork so you're too tired to protest or don't notice the things going on around you-- like the leader sleeping with your spouse while robbing you blind.
Yeah being pedantic is hard work, but it’s worth it.

Btw “demetrius”, my other pet peeve is Latin endings on Greek words and names.

I’m actually going to Porto next month, good to know I will be safe from bastardized Latin!
It was really hard for me to read this article without bringing social/societal mental commentary into it.

I love the article, and I complete agree with the premise.

But it applies to so much more than business...
AI will never understand the actual context because not everything we feel/experience can be captured and communicated to a machine. For example, human language is incomplete and doesn’t encode every information because it doesn’t need to when used with other humans.

I think it’s a romantic notion to imagine that AI will not be a Chinese room.

Even human intelligence feels like a Chinese room. Especially noticeable when using complicated devices like flight controls. I’ve been playing the MSFT Flight simulator, and I don’t fully understand the relationship between the different instruments. But I can still fly planes(virtually).

We’d be better off if we considered AI similar to an appliance like a microwave or a refrigerator. Does a fridge need to understand or taste what’s inside it to be helpful?
Many countries operate like this. It's the downside of having a parliamentary system (which IMO is better than a presidential one).
Greece and Japan are good examples. Canada to a certain extent too in the past (with the LPC).

Also for a good chunk of its history, India has been run on super majorities as pointed out in this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32346371
Ask any Swede. Sweden is a capitalist country. They have social programs. They used to have a Socialist economy for a few decades but famously abandoned it in the early 90s after finding that their GDP had remained completely flat and their citizens went through crazy lengths to avoid tax (e.g. ABBA and their wardrobes)

Comparing Sweden as an opposing choice to Capitalism doesn't make any sense.
Bring back Geocities!
May 2022, https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3507657.3528547

> On recent iPhones, Bluetooth, Near Field Communication (NFC), and Ultra-wideband (UWB) keep running after power off, and all three wireless chips have direct access to the secure element. As a practical example what this means to security, we demonstrate the possibility to load malware onto a Bluetooth chip that is executed while the iPhone is off.

LTE baseband issues, not specific to Apple, https://gist.github.com/adaburrows/fda8711e468858fc5ace98daf...
It’s a criticism of spreadsheets in general.
I mean they are the only person who can legally provide adds and payment services on iPhones. Apple exhibits a huge amount of control over there platform in name of defending there customers but give little choice to the customer in how that's delivered
Someone who has extensive experience in Excel but only basic knowledge in software development will quickly realize that they can develop something in Excel faster than they can build it in a CRUD app.
According to previous discussions [1], none that'd fit the constraints of text rendering in browsers AIU (eg dynamic programming approaches considered infeasible on the web, hyphenation not really a thing). But who knows, CSS is incredibly bloated already ...

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28537923
Yes, I've sat through all the meetings and customer calls where we talk about uncovering pain, addressing pain to deliver value. The customers are thrilled. Everyone is high-fiving.

Then they go live and no one uses the service. Then it turns out there are "deal breakers" that mean they can't use the app. It's the same story over and over.
OP: I've never used the Dunkin' Donuts app and had no interest.
Now - zero!

I had to ask 5-6 times to get removed from the recruiting email DB.

At first I was getting annoyed that Amazon kept on emailing me despite my requests to stop, but then I decided to make a sport out of it and not give up until I get my way. Took some time, but def possible
The argument you make here is a reasonable one (IMHO) for the plausibility in principle of what Searle calls “strong AI”, but he claims that his “Chinese Room” argument proves that it must be mistaken. One can simply ignore him, but to refute him takes a little more effort.

It turns out that when one looks at the argument in detail, and in particular at Searle’s responses to various objections (such as the Systems and Virtual Mind replies), it is clear that he is essentially begging the question, and his ultimate argument, “a model is not the thing modeled”, is a non-sequitur.
> a love of making up foreign sounding words

One great example of this phenomenon is "Häagen-Dazs".[0]

Admittedly that's a brand name, rather than a specific dish, but I assume that Dalle-2 would generate an image of ice cream if given a prompt with that term in it (unless there is a restriction on trademarks?).

[0] https://funfactz.com/food-and-drink-facts/haagen-dazs-name/
But this way of thinking has nothing to do with excel in particular.
Curious if anyone has been fired because of this mess. Or promoted?..
I always roll my eyes whenever Lex tries to shoe horn one of his favorite subjects into the conversation, like AI or robots.
Fracking with water (which is what geothermal would do) has pretty limited environmental concerns, and has enormous gains in increasing surface area and reach, so it almost certainly what we're going to end up doing. Iirc this is part of Quaise's plan: drill 20km down then frack the bottom to get a really big volume and surface area at those very high temperatures.
What’s a decent static site generator for this sort of thing today? I’m envisioning a directory of .md’s or whatever, then I run make, and it invokes a thing that builds a tree of .html with an rss feed in it.

Finally, my makefile does an “s3 sync”.

The older and more boring, the better.
Does this criticism extend to graphing calculators?
You waste it on Excel or you waste it on subscriptions, opex and consultants.

Or you hire someone who can shape the business processes towards efficiency with the tools you already have...
Yeah his style of letting guests freestyle is different than constantly challenging them on every point. It's not better or worse.

If that doesn't float your boat you can watch Carmack interviews by other people.