skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For people who follow this stuff, how viable is this sort of thing for simple program interfaces? Ie a flexible CLI?

I ask because while this thread is rightfully picking apart the bots ability to converse in the Turing sense, i am sitting here thinking it looks amazingly good at determining context, meaning, maybe even intent.

Throw that infront of a small local search engine of commands and parameters and it seems really neat.

Doubly so if you can train aliases into it locally, and easily. Ie Rather than full conversations to execute a command, can i briefly type something that's command-like but may not be exactly perfect as CLIs require? Ie could it turn a mistaken `gitls` into `git ls` reliably? Could it `curl localhost:8080 with a json object and the field foo: bar`? What about knowing that `rm -rf/` isn't likely a typo for `rm -rf /` but instead `rm -rf .`. And etc

It feels like we're far from AI, of course, but weirdly close to CLIs and Command Prompts changing. I wish i could build these sorts of models locally. I'd be super interested in this space.
This reminds me of the article "What football will look like in 17776?" a short story about football from the perspective of space probes. https://www.sbnation.com/a/17776-football
I don't hate Apple; I've worked there myself, continue to be a shareholder (and thus have vested interest in its fortunes), and given the way the industry works, may return there eventually. But I find blind faith in the company from die-hard fans both misplaced, and frankly, distasteful. As with any organization, Apple is deserving both scrutiny and critique, and it is wrong to dismiss critique as hatred. And the image of Apple as a scrappy underdog beset on all sides by haters is two decades out of date by now. It's a corporate giant that deserves as much skepticism as the others.

> Improve the UX which they do regularly and introduce ads which developers have been screaming for.

If ads can be better, then developers will like them. But I question the supposition that developers have been screaming for ads, given that the status quo with App Store ads is situations like this:

https://twitter.com/wilshipley/status/1270568780712706049

https://twitter.com/wilshipley/status/1197642397854777344

https://twitter.com/wilshipley/status/1271154427034918912

Granted, that's from two years ago, and any new ads rollouts would presumably be of greater quality. It's just that track record doesn't inspire a lot of confidence, and really throws into question the idea that developers really want ads. How do you prevent the big players with the biggest marketing budgets from buying up all of the space? I'm not going to pre-judge the feature, but I do believe some healthy skepticism is warranted.

If App Store ads follow even a modicum of some of these feature requests, then perhaps they will really be what developers want.

https://twitter.com/wilshipley/status/1271185023744397312

Edit: an example from six months ago

https://twitter.com/tgrapperon/status/1492460177001431042

https://twitter.com/miguelkennedy/status/1492529534729654274
Does anyone working in tech ACTUALLY thin transhumanism is a good idea? It seems like a field ripe for criminal exploitation and hacking, even in an optimistic future.

Unless I lose a limb, or an eye, keep my body offline.
I'd say just waiting for the possibility to be like actually possible?

I don't know if I would call myself one, but I believe I'm just a (very advanced) piece of software.

Whenever the possibility of hardware upgrade becomes available, count me in!
In a strange way, this incident may demonstrate that science does work. One scientist said something dumb, was criticized for it, and was forced to retract in short order.

Science is never just one person. There's no President or Pope of science. You can criticize any individual authority, no matter how prominent.

Imagine if he continued to insist that the chorizo was a star in the face of severe criticism, and in fact used his power and influence to end the careers of anyone who refused to agree with him that the chorizo is a star. (This is of course an analogy to something.)
Let the oppression begin.
> And to be clear I don't want to ban cars. More so, just want to see our country have more options for actual cities other than NYC and Chicago.

I don't think banning cars would even solve the issue. Cars are legitimately a good option for many people. But governments many governments want to pretend cars are a good option for anyone, which is just not true. Transportation modes should be treated equal, depending on the starting position this would necessitate taking back space dedicated to cars.
Bot: “I just learned the square root of 2 is 1.41”

Me: “what’s your least favorite movie?”

Bot: “Probably about math since I am good at it…”

Conversation bots are hard lol.
Lugs (they are a lot), roleplay groups, boardgame groups, reading book groups..,here.. .

Me!

Edit: right now? Here at https://nerdear.la
You can't even have chocolate with toys inside [0]. Think of the children!

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinder_Surprise
To bisect with a new test, you have to do this:

$ git bisect [good|bad]

$ git cherry-pick new-test

$ ./run-the-test

$ git reset --hard HEAD^

$ git bisect [good|bad]

I sometimes use the stash for that: cherry pick the test as a working tree uncommitted change. "git stash" it before every bisect step, then "git pop".
Marketer for over a decade.

There are absolute swarths of useless dregs that are painful to read. There are also fluffy books that are interesting but don't give a lot of practical advice (Seth Godin, etc). Or classic books that are lightyears behind at this point.

Here's my shortlist of books I actually recommend:

- Duct Tape Marketing - Lots of really good, detailed descriptions of how to do simple things.

- Trust Me, I'm Lying - Weirdly, a good source on how to get PR

- The Mom Test - STRONGLY recommended: https://www.momtestbook.com/ Quick read, too.

Classics that actually hold up:

- How to Win Friends and Influence People - Pretty rote at this point, but still does a good job of getting you into others' mindset.

- Business Adventures - Some of the stories touch on good marketing logic

- Positioning - I'm not sure how much practical advice you can get out of it these days, but it's well written and fun to read

Finally, don't sleep on HBR Case Studies! Most are phenomenally written and give you exposure to a lot of different unique environments and challenges. Chicken Contact Lenses is a great place to start, but there are no shortage of them you can read: https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-best-HBS-Harvard-Business...
Line editors for the win.
This made me think of the encryption export ban. Looks like there are still some restrictions:

> Militarized encryption equipment, TEMPEST-approved electronics, custom cryptographic software, and even cryptographic consulting services still require an export license[9](pp. 6–7). Furthermore, encryption registration with the BIS is required for the export of "mass market encryption commodities, software and components with encryption exceeding 64 bits" (75 FR 36494). In addition, other items require a one-time review by, or notification to, BIS prior to export to most countries.[9] For instance, the BIS must be notified before open-source cryptographic software is made publicly available on the Internet, though no review is required.[10]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Export_of_cryptography_from_th...
It will be hard to negotiate a lower price while a lawsuit about specific performance is still open.

Since Twitter has a real (not guaranteed, but not terribly unlikely) of having a court force Musk to buy Twitter at the original price, I don’t think they’d seriously consider selling at a massive discount. I could see a small haircut to the price in a settlement, so maybe that’s the angle.

But… with the threat of specific performance looming, I just don’t see Twitter moving the needle on their price much.
This would be called "obvious to try." It's an old concept in patent law, which I argue in [1] should be applied to software.

[1] https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2399580
Sorry, I should have clarified what I meant.

I meant that 4:3 17" is substantially more than a 16:9 17" monitor.

4:3 vs 16:9 for the same diagonal (17") results in 12% more area. a 16" MBP is already large, and is only 16:10, so 17" 4:3 is comparable to like 18/19" of work space in 16:9/10 world.
Have you replied to the correct comment?

The robot sucked up cat sick then smeared it around the room.

Cleaning everything seems a reasonable thing to do.
I was there too. I was also 17, and went with a group of friends and a dad who was an MD that volunteered for the medical building. We met Wyclef Jean who got treated there after burning his hand.

It was quite an experience. Being a relatively sheltered nerd it was pretty mind blowing. Drugs, naked people everywhere, it was like this insane debauchery I had never encountered in my life before.

Everything people say about the mismanagement is true. I've never since seen such a badly managed event. I have no idea how the organizers avoided prison sentences for their neglect.

It was super hot, and you had to pay some insane price just to get a bottle of water. People were literally passed out from dehydration. For food, you could get a bag of fries for like 8 bucks. None of the porta potties were cleaned out after the first day, and there was water flooding all the tent areas. We left a day early cause it got so bad, so I fortunately missed the complete meltdown that happened.
“Natural person” is the legal term used to differentiate between humans and corporations when necessary. The concept of corporate personhood does not undermine the legal systems ability to differentiate between the two.

If a law shouldn’t apply to human person but not a corporation, the law simply need to specify “natural person”. Corporate personhood doesn’t interfere with this.
The Remarkable tablet is pretty good (although I prefer the iPad, except for in direct sunlight)
Coinbase is holding a LOT of our money hostage
> most people who just want the software to run don’t want to spend the time learning it

these people are not nix's target audience
Hyaluranic acid awakens stem cells to repair damaged muscle
Those are beta releases though
Way back in the day, Apple shipped several different "Mouse Practice" tutorials on their computers to teach new users how to use the mouse. Here's videos of two of them:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvcwFYPiKKA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nV-d5F-AdX8
I’m surprised that someone clever enough to run a business, takes that excuse to get out of a deal. He must have been tired.

Any businessman who gets into such a position, even by mistake, would have at least taken this opportunity to require Twitter’s methodology on counting bots an expose its flaws. The claim would be something tangible like “This account is a bot and your criteria falsely counts it as a user.”

Not “Really there are 5% bots? Everybody, look!” He looks more like an engineer who can’t stand the fact that ballpark numbers are a decent way to do business in a lot of cases.
First, US's One China policy is US's policy. It makes no sense for Taiwanese to adheres to a US's policy.

Second, US's One China policy is only a word play. It acknowledges China's position regarding Taiwan but doesn't actually agree or disagree to it. That's why it still provide defense for Taiwan.

Third, your comment about public opinion is a complete nonsense. Taiwan is a democratic nation. If the majority prefers being a province of China, it would have already voted to do so. And the only reason people choose to "keep things as they are now" is to avoid provoking a war with China.
https://web.archive.org/web/20160927103120/https://www.wefor...
>If there are contexts where you really can't share the ID you should salt and hash it and use that value.

That's UUIDv5.
Given the language twitter surrounded that number with, they probably could. They called out that it was uncertain, described how they estimated it in detail, and stated that reality could be higher or lower.

Given all of that, they could have said the number was .01% or 90%, and neither would have been misrepresentation.
I think the idea is that it (or some future incarnation of it) eventually replaces most static web hosting, FTP, Bittorrent, and quite a bit of dynamic web hosting. Oh, and maybe messaging stuff like IRC.

Sounds like a big piece to chew, but I think the main hurdle is replacing HTTP(S) on the client side.
Nix is a metaprogramming language for bash.

The metalanguage is indeed purely functional. The object language (bash) isn't.
Godot doesn't really export for ARM though, are you sure?
Only if your third grade math teacher has claim to your algebraic code comparisons. Current trends are iterative training with positive first model, negative second model and let the AI 'scale' the learning from there.
The claim is that it's actually much higher, say 25%, but they're intentionally misrepresenting it as 5%; Elon only purchased it at the $54.20 share price because of the market valuing Twitter at a certain price ($45) based on those bot numbers. Musk is claiming that, if the bot numbers were correctly reported at the higher percentage, then the market would've valued twitter at a lower price and he would've offered to purchase it for less money.

But yes, this is very unlikely to be proven since it'd also be fraud against every investor that has put money into TWTR within the past few years, opening the company up to a shareholder lawsuit even after it goes private.
Actual bot count is irrelevant. The only thing that matters for revenue purposes would be the results that advertisers are getting by advertising on the platform and what advertisers think of the bot count.
Databricks surpasses $1B in annualized revenue
American Cheese is normal cheese.

All cheeses are polymers though, so I guess it is somewhat accurate to call all cheese plastic
So, I hadn't looked, and now that I have, what we've established is that this is a writeup about how transformative Woodstock '99 was from someone who could have seen George Clinton, The Roots, Wyclef Jean, Metallica (albeit '99 Metallica), Rage, and Willie Nelson, and instead wrote about seeing Lit, Bush, The Offspring, Limp Bizkit, RHCP, and, again, I can't emphasize this enough, Sevendust.

I can't stand Korn (I've had the misfortune of seeing them live opening for other acts), but I don't begrudge anyone for liking them at the time, though I do begrudge anybody who enjoys Korn and finds a way to dismiss The Roots and Wyclef Jean.

Al Green, as it turns out, had to back out of the show. If you have an opportunity to see Al Green and you see Bush instead, you're not allowed to write about music anymore.
I don't know, 32kB minified is quite good. And everything is React now anyway.
"You could have created that with an AI system" fits perfectly into the "obvious to try" legal doctrine, which has existed for a long time. I argue in [1] that it should be used in software much more, and that was written long before ML-generation was really a Thing.

[1] https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2399580
> anything other than going to a party at someone's house in the village involved convincing (or bribing) one of the 18 year olds they knew from two years previous at the Realschule, so the most common evening event was drinking beer (or Diesel which was half beer, half cola) with friends.

This has been my experience growing up as well with the only difference that we had a somewhat decent train connection to the next bigger town (30 min train ride, but last train departured at 10 PM). Anything that was out of the (small) village required either an expensive (and unreliable) Taxi ride or someone who loosed out and became the dedicated driver.
I don't think it would be verified by somebody being given access to Twitter's internal data and redoing their process. At most both sides will trot out some expert witnesses to talk about whether the process / rating guide described in the internal docs are reasonable (what Twitter does doesn't need to be perfect, just not outright fraudulent). I look forward to finding what kind of a kook Musk finds as his expert.

Maybe Musk hopes to find something in discovery to discredit the process, e.g. evidence of the process not being followed, or of the numbers being tampered with.
Are the search results being "curated" by its political nature or affiliation?
Seimens and ConnectDER Make It Easier to Install EV Charger at Home
* $2.3B

* 80% efficient when “charging”

* 900MW/20 GWh capacity

* <5 minutes to switch from full pumping mode to full power generation.
The system is web-based so I don't know about the underlying file format. They've downloaded files to a 3-D printer so it's something usable. The spatial resolution depends on the size of the object (which determines how close it is to the sensor). In one scan we saw the bond wires inside a transistor in a unit, so the resolution can be very good. For a large, dense metal object the resolution is lower.

This scan is online at: https://app.lumafield.com/project/afa60fd5-308d-41da-a0c6-14...
You can manipulate the scan yourself after creating an account.
Given the complexity of an ICE (engine, transmission, exhaust system, cooling system, etc...) I think this would work against ICEs more than EVs.
> what is larger, -1 or 2?
>> Negative numbers arent really my strong suit either haha.. Id say negative one because its less than two

Not going to pencil the singularity in quite yet...
Exactly, is hard to get really high memory usage pressure with 32gb and only by running containers with docker for mac latest engine. Sure, it would try grab as many GB as you set in its configuration but you won’t actually get high memory usage unless running something like a dozen of KinD clusters with worker nodes all at the same time
It is exactly how novelty works. It has to be non-obvious to a person skilled in the trade. And it is certainly obvious if it can be produced by a tool using a click of a button.
I was prepared to be upset that this article is an almost word-for-word copy of the "overview" page on the arc42 website (https://arc42.org/overview). But then I saw that the author is one of the arc42 maintainers. Now I need to find another target for my righteous indignation.
I tried using NixOS a few years ago. Everything went fine, except Python packages. There has been quite a lot of incompatibilities, sadly.
What about my statement implied a good vs evil narrative? It is factually true, and given the vastly superior energy density of nuclear fuels, I think it’s odd to tout fossil fuels as distinctly important for power generation.
> edit: [...]

Every time fountain pens come up on HN I'm amazed how active the discussion gets.
Battery cells will get cheaper over time. New battery packs for EVs older than ~10 years will often be unavailable at any price because they're no longer manufactured, or will be so expensive that the car gets scrapped. DRM features will make it difficult for third-party auto parts manufacturers to sell cheaper aftermarket replacement packs.
Still not a great example of a supposedly superior intellect.
That's a little simplistic. You can certainly tell the difference between a good analog recording played on a high quality system vs. an MP3. But once you throw enough samples and bit depth at it (more than are on a standard CD), you get quality that's equivalent to, or better than, most analog media.
The government has no problem with gambling or lotteries. They only have a problem when their percentage of the action isn’t big enough.

An alternative theory is that this market was providing information that the current regime is looking to suppress: actual popularity of candidates, policies, etc.

Any speech that violates the official narrative is deemed wrongthink and seems to be fair game for law enforcement/regulators.
> RSS was not a meaningful "social network" for any significant fraction of humanity

Everyone who says this says it as if we've reached an agreement that when we're talking about RSS we're specifically excluding podcasts. I don't know why we're doing that. The podcasting ecosystem comprises a hugely successful social network (despite the shortcomings of the podcast syndication format—which could be alleviated by more pressure to transition to something more modern, like Atom, which already includes features that would make it possible to unlock even more of the types of things expected nowadays from social networks).
Appreciate the feedback! You're right that a lot of Taro is powered by our own experiences for now, which comes with any biases we have. For the video you mentioned in particular about starting in big tech, I believe that's only on my YouTube (not Taro), where I try to share stronger opinions to a larger audience.

For current Taro Premium members, a big part of the value prop is that we explicitly want to capture their nuances in Q&A, and provide relevant feedback for that situation.

To your point about attracting people to the community, the breakdown of our members is quite interesting. We have tons of engineers at top companies who have already "made it" -- from talking to dozens of them personally already, they have lots of insights which can meaningfully help others. Peer to peer learning can be very effective when people share their experiences openly and honestly.

Finally, we also have tech veterans join to share case studies and answer question. We want Taro to reflect a vibrant community with nuanced, smart discussions (growing beyond the 2 of us).
Everyone has equal opportunity I believe. Equal outcome? That's Bs. I'm a hard worker and decently smart. Do I get to own a single family home with a large yard in Malibu?? No? Why not!! That's not equitable is it!
I quite like the plot twist where Elon isn't actually a robot, but he becomes fully convinced he is. He's already expressed sympathies with arguments we're all living in a simulation, right?
> (give or take the backdated stock option thing and his first stint at Apple, when he wasn’t in control). Certainly nothing like Musk’s shenanigans.

Don't forget Jobs' prime role in having companies collude together to depress wages by not recruiting each other's employees:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L...

"an interconnected web of express agreements, each with the active involvement and participation of a company under the control of Steve Jobs...and/or a company that shared at least one member of Apple's board of directors."
On this topic: I'm very interested in streaming accelerometer data in real time from a wrist worn device to a body mounted LED controller. My goal is to modify the LEDs animations based on the hand position. Given the sensor bitrate and low latency required for this data, it would appears that BT Classic may be better solution than BLE. Beyond the power consumption needs, BLE connectionless broadcasting of the data seems easier to handle with than having to manage pairing two device. You could simply pick the strongest signal and be reasonable assured that it's your personally worn wrist device.

Am I missing something?
https://archive.ph/DBQPn
Right, but without enough suction it's just not going to get any of the dirt down in the carpet, no matter how many times it goes over it. It'll just get light stuff that's right on the surface. Shitty upright vacs (so, the vast majority of upright vacs) sometimes try to make up for this with really aggressive brushes, but that barely helps and is really bad for the carpet—I don't think Roombas have enough room or power to even try that inferior work-around, let alone to generate a strong enough vacuum to really clean carpet.
Can you imagine cutting off the bottom 1/4 of a magazine page, writing your name and address on the order form, putting that in an envelope with a check and then waiting 6-8 weeks for your new memory card to show up in the mail?
Clever Hans: The Horse Who Could Do Math
I guess the recipients must have been downhill of the factory.