skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> At some point, if a bot passed the Turing test, what's the difference? Virtual youtubers have a mass following despite being a purely virtual being. Could an AI model be trained to act like them, with the latest AI voices that sound real?

There have actually been attempts at creating AI chatbots for companionship, like Replika: https://replika.ai/

It was curious to take a look at it, but it very obviously had its limitations and was directed towards watered down conversation and whatnot, for being marketable. Probably still useful or therapeutic for some folks to talk or vent when nobody is available!

That said, the idea of actually building "relationships" with bots has garnered some criticism, here's one example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUQNiy4K7VU

It is exaggerated for views, but at the end of the day you'd still end up with a possibly unhealthy substitute for an actual human connection, much like attempting to replace aspects of intimacy with pornography.

Even outside of things like that, parasocial relationships usually aren't very healthy either, since you're still an audience, as opposed to interacting 1:1 with another person.

Also, those VTubers still have real people behind them, with their own senses of humor, personalities and other aspects, which wouldn't even be easy for AI to replicate or substitute.

Personally, I try not to be too judgmental of these things, because everything that I named probably has a place in the lives of many folks out there, but looking for ways of turning away from human relationships reminds me of something like "Bowling Alone": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowling_Alone

I also say that as someone who isn't doing too well with dating, admittedly.
Does this have any relevance at all to the PayPal article or are you just trying to ensure that people who disagree with you on certain topics are shunned from society?
Oh man, I remember people were almost panic buying houses because it just kept going up. I briefly looked around but gave up after finding that some shitty cottage in Island Bay was selling for 800k.

At the time, almost every conversation at work kept devolving into property (oh and crypto lol) which was annoying. And what was even more annoying were people who bought that were _convinced_ that they had got a good deal, lecturing me I should buy as well.

I ended up leaving the country for better pay, lower housing cost and good amount of savings to last me a while . I hope in 2 or so years when we go back, the prices are more reasonable.
> IBAN and wait for a day.

The delay can be skipped in many cases via the IBAN instant payment option. Requires both banks to be participating in the program and trust each other (the delay will happen if additional checks are needed, for example if the transction gets flagged for manual inspection, eg if you write "funny" purpose text, etc)
As a Lisp/Clojure beginner, I don’t find s-expressions any harder to read – in fact, I like how much they take away the cognitive load associated with remembering and applying syntax rules in other languages.

But for me there is one exception that often hecks me up: comparative operators `<`, `>`, etc.

It might be due to the conditioning of infix notation in math education, but when I write `(< x y)` or `(> x y)` I somehow often manage to get the order confused, while this never happens with `x < y` or `x > y`.

I wonder if other Lisp programmers experience the same issue. This is my first year programming exclusively in Clojure, so maybe I just need more time to get used to it.
> They're very common here in Europe

Nonsense. Europe is a big place and making sweeping generalizations is not meaningful.
It’s how it often works, but buybacks are an option to avoid diluting share price (issuing stock diluted share price, buying it back does the opposite, though should be neutral).
That explanation is directly ruled out by GP's comment: the GP doesn't think this is controversial.
In the interest of fairness, here is Singal's response to that page:

https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/glaad-took-false-previous...

For what it's worth, I'm 100% with Singal here.
No. The protocol seems very simple: connect, provide a document reference, server responds with the document, and the connection is closed. Document may contain references to other documents.

Imagine HTTP with only GET, no headers, no request bodies. RFC 1436 explicitly says:

> No state is retained by the server.
The Chagos did belong to Mauritius until 1965, beyond that I think the most problematic in this case, which kept it an open issue, is that the British then deported all the inhabitants and refused that they come back. And yes, all those countries are ultimately creations of European colonial times but that's irrelevant.
> the contract you “agreed” to means you are legally not allowed to take them to a real court. Your only recourse is arbitration.

americans can sign away their rights to sue at their own courts? That seems wrong.

For me, as a german, the paypal contract reads that i can escalate a conflict to the EU consumer protection agency or the french regulatory authority for financial institutions (which signs their banking license). It further reads that the governing body of law and court of of justice should be in Wales, but that this does not limit my consumer right to sue at my local court. No arbitration clause, especially no mandatory arbitration with an agency of the corporations choice.

I do understand the idea that private arbitration may be cheaper than court proceedings, but is mandatory arbitration even legally enforceable, or is that just scary text a court would overrule?
Only with books in certain cases, not the rest. The word Oaf triggers me though: you are calling people stupid who care less than you about physical goods or who are ‘clumsy’. That’s good for nothing in an adult discussion.
Ask HN: Heuristics for Deciding on a GP (Doctor)
Hi HN,

Long time reader, recent commenter, and first time poster :)

There are a tonne of accomplished, highly educated brains on this board, which leads me to ask something which has of late been gnawing at me.

Outside of a personal recommendation, what heuristics are helpful in finding good general practitioner.

I understand personal recommendations are good for ensuring a doctor has compassion, however are there extra certifications, memberships, certain signs to look out for which could potentially show a doctor gets just beyond the surface, goes further than what I am saying to them.

I'm talking doctors who look into your genetics, lifestyle, psychology as a whole, versus looking at symptoms. Perhaps my question opposes the tenets of the medical profession? Perhaps it doesnt, but some insights would be appreciated!
> This pathetic attempt at shallow expression isn't going to reach the people who need it

You have no idea. As I said, I have personal experience of this particular instance of what you stereotype, sans evidence, as 'virtual signalling', having a genuinely heartening effect on a friend whose nephew was killed recently in Iran. This is the trouble with you internet snarlers. You have so little knowledge of physical reality.
They already have that feature and you can turn it on
Testing for uni work jeje
This has never bothered me until moving on a boat, where top-loading fridges (often ice boxes with a compressor kit retrofitted) are the norm. Because energy supply is very limited. They are integrated into the kitchen work surface and double as a temporary workspace when closed.

So it's possible to save space _and_ energy.

Now the standup kitchen fridges in houses really bother me. Every time I see someone open one, I imagine seeing all that cold air being sucked out by the opening door and falling on the ground.
And if you accidentally just vent the refrigerant lines instead of draining then you can release a year's worth of global warming in about 20 seconds. Best not to try.
0 seeders on the few torrents I checked though. I mean, can't blame people for not seeding 350GB+ torrents, but still - if there aren't any seeders, what good are the torrents?
I was impacted in a different manner. A small group of people were logged out of everything, including email, around 8am ET. This was before Patrick’s email went out. I thought I wasn’t going to get to say goodbye to my coworkers. It was not fun.
Borrowing with 0% equity is also often considered a bad idea. If you assume 25% initial equity, you can go 1:4 salary:cheapest available housing.

If you intend to buy a family home, chances are there are two people sharing the burden. If you make $120k and the partner $60, you could borrow $540k, for a total home price of $720k if you have 25% starting equity.

That opens up quite a lot of options.

Personally, though, in the current market, I wouldn't borrow that much. It's quite possible that the biggest housing crash in several generations is just around the corner, and interest rates may very well be 15% within 5 years.

Especially if China invades Taiwan.
Things IRL work differently. I mean, if you are into picking people at bars just by their looks, then yeah, dating apps go in that line. If you have long conversations with a friend of a friend at a party (or on some special interest groups), then dating apps are nothing like that. OK, maybe OkCupid, but back in the good old days.

I often hear from women dating men that they would have swiped left their partner on Tinder.
Independent from who is thinking what I believe it is nowhere near the PayPal's business to decide about the acceptable social behaviour when it is not sanctioned by law.

But when an act violates a law they are mandated to report to authorities and inform the affected parties about it, about the nature of violation they discovered.

Based on what I seen here (unluckily cannot read the article in full, I do not want to register in yet another something for one article), also based on personal experience with them, the PayPal is a shady party here.
> Differentiating between a human and a machine simply because one "is not an algorithm" doesn't make a lot of sense.

Uh? So if I design a self driving car which kills someone, it's the car that goes to jail?

Legal precedent seems to indicate this is not the case at all. Because humans and machines are different, simply because humans aren't machines and viceversa.
I know it's a controversial topic. I'd rather it wasn't, and that, given the wide-ranging impact on policy and law, people could discuss this freely without e.g. getting banned from online payment services and social media sites, being doxxed by activists, and so on.
Hmm, I was going to get back to you with a list, but it seems most of the 6-inchers have been discontinued. The Amazon Fire 6 would have been the most prominent example.

There are some, but none of them would be suitable for consumer use.

I stand corrected!
The solutions?

Have two transparent interior rolling shutters. Open only one section on selection motion.

Or just have the best of both worlds, a chest fridge, with a transparent interior, which moves upward, allowing access via a rolling shutter.

Or have a airlock, were a automated retrieving gadget brings you your product in standardized containers? Similar to ice cream dispsensers or softdrink coolers?

Basically a portal crane traversing the chest cooler, extracting a "cooling" pillar on demand, which then only guarants acess on demand.
No, it's entirely read-only. That's probably the main reason (outside of the University of Minnesota trying to charge licensing fees for using the protocol) that HTTP ended up replacing it. The other reason is that Gopher without non-canonical extensions can only transmit plaintext, images and binary files.

Gopher is extremely simplistic to implement because it basically can only do GET requests (but without all the header overhead).

All you need to do to retrieve a document is open a TCP connection and send the path you want to retrieve suffixed by CRLF. The server will then just return the requested data. For full text search (the only serverside expected feature for type 7 documents), add a tab character and then the search string.

The only other special feature on the client are Gopher menus which are a dedicated response type (type 1). They're basically the closest you get to rich text on Gopher - they're formatted text files which contain reference links to other addresses on Gopher.

It's all in all easy to see why Gopher got replaced. That said, I still recommend experimenting with it. It's very much a relic of a different time period, but that doesn't have to be a bad thing. HTTP and the general web stack has become rather bloated over the years due to its versatility. Gopher is laserfocused in its simplicity which gives it its own charm.
> My chest fridge [...] consumes about 0.1 kWh a day. This fridge is 10 to 20 times more energy efficient than typical household fridges on the market today.

According to a test report by Stiftung Warentest (the German equivalent to Consumer Reports), my vertical fridge consumes ~ 0.4-0.5 kWh / day. While that is more, it's nowhere close to the 10x-20x given by this guy.
If true, I find the 'print out the code you wrote in the last 30-60 days' very grim and a very blunt tool for evaluating productivity.
> Musk orders Twitter to cut infrastructure costs by $1 billion

all sound and fury, signifying nothing
You are right but the convenience I was thinking about is mostly the floor space. Many people living in cities have small houses and space is literally at a premium. The extra electricity cost of a vertical fridge could be offset by the cost of the space on the floor to accommodate the equivalent chest fridge.

About that other kind of convenience, shouldn't a chest fridge be long and shallow to have everything reachable from the opening without having to lift stuff and dig?
I know you can write anyhting you want in there, that's not my point. And no, I don't want to write how proficient in Python I am.

My point is: if you are a tech-minded person who likes tech for fun the apps will discourage you from showing it. Bumble's interest list [1] has ca. 200 interests including ~20 TV show genres, 30 sports, 10 types of traveling, and 15 personality traits. And yet there's exactly one mildly-tech-related interest, namely, "video games".

Being at my most generous I would read that as "geeks tend to make horrible dating profiles so Bumble steers them towards what's more likely to get them dates", but (as I said originally) I feel mildly insulted by the idea that "bringing my whole self" is something to discourage.

[1] https://eddie-hernandez.com/bumble-profile-template-prompts-...
,,The ML Ethics, Transparency, & Accountability team was one of a kind''

Sure, something nobody has heared of and nobody knows why it should be at a company like Twitter.
A blurhash is much easier to send along with the JSON data used to display the initial page. To see a blurred version of a progressive JPEG the browser must have first started to download that JPEG. When there are many JPEG's to download, it may not even have started downloading yet.
Abonnement code iptv le plus Fiable et le Moins Cher !
> nobody knows why it should be at a company like Twitter.

If you don't know you're the problem tbh
NN based sentiment analysis is certainly a lot better than non-NN based techniques.

Classification depends on the problem (and mostly the datasize). Boosting is certainly competitive on tabular data and widely everywhere I've worked.

No one talks about it (except on Kaggle) because it's pretty much at a local maximum. All the improvement comes from manual feature engineering.

But modern techniques using NNs on tabular data are are competitive with boosting and do away with a lot of the feature engineering. That's a really interesting development.
You can feel it on summer days, if you dont have AC and get something from the fridge on your bare feet.
Europe is big. I saw them in an Italian Coop recently, but they are indeed more of an exception than a norm in recently upgraded stores.
> Someone should also look into the "navigator" variable that websites can access. It provides a strangely open look into the user's machine.
For example, it allows websites to know about your OS, your CPU and your memory.

Looks like it's full of red herring values to me, at least Chrome 107 on a (M1) MBP. That being said, it's always good to remove anything that can be used to fingerprint a user.

It reported the following...

- CPU as undefined

- Memory as 8GB (32GB in actuality)

- Platform as MacIntel (Should be Mac-AArch64)
Not if you want to get banned lol.
That feature already exists, you can turn it on here:

https://github.com/settings/copilot

More info:

We built a filter to help detect and suppress the rare instances where a GitHub Copilot suggestion contains code that resembles public code on GitHub. You have the choice to turn that filter on or off during setup. With the filter on, GitHub Copilot checks code suggestions with its surrounding code for matches or near matches (ignoring whitespace) against public code on GitHub of about 150 characters. If there is a match, the suggestion will not be shown to you. In addition, we have announced that we are building a feature that will provide a reference for suggestions that resemble public code on GitHub so that you can make a more informed decision about whether and how to use that code, as well as explore and learn how that code is used in other projects.

https://github.com/features/copilot#what-can-i-do-to-reduce-...
Free speech is a value, not merely a legal concept.
(Disclaimer: I am making this all up as I go along. I just have a vague hunch that there exists a world of people who prefer reading long form text over swiping anything.)

1. I am imagining it to be really small, so either personal referrals or actual verification of people.

2. And yes, once there is some structure forming in the data, it will allow for labelling and searching on these criteria. This is how it naturally evolves, e.g. in subreddits that invent their own lexicon and labelling allowing for quick filtering.
Your fridge is probably half the size of an average American fridge.
These are called "display fridges" or "chillers", at least here in the UK where they are very common.
Remotely logging off employees without telling them anything says a lot about the people in charge
Can you explain how the team added value to shareholders who want to maximize their long term ROI (which is the job of the CEO)?

We're living in a world where voting rights of pensioners have been delegated to big companies like Vanguard and Black Rock. They clearly are not keeping the best interest of the shareholders which would be their duty, and vote politically instead.
opt-in is complicated.

If I own a repository on github and I have received contributions from other people, or included a .h file from mpv (thing that I have done), do I still have the right to click the opt-in button? I didn't ask the other contributors.

But github is in a position to scan my code and see if there are copy paste bits and disable the opt-in button in that case.

Except they act in bad faith so they wouldn't do that.
One of my pet peeves is that, even where there are doors on these supermarket fridges, I've found that it's common for staff to lock them in the open position to streamline shelf stacking (presumably), then fail to unlock them.

I'm so irritated by this phenomenon I'll unlock those doors to close them.
"Realist" is a bit non-neutral in the attitude it expresses toward the view. Compare it to "planet shape realist" and it'll be more obvious.
Vertical doorless fridges are not uncommon in France. They are also not illegal, according to this article (from last month): https://www.tf1info.fr/economie/video-l-aberration-des-rayon...
I used to love programming in the Macintosh Common Lisp environment. When the Mac moved to the PowerPC architecture there was a gap. Also at that time nouvelle AI labs moved to the PC architecture for access to embodied systems (robotics).

Unfortunately on PC Allegro Common Lisp seemed the only viable option. I still think it could have been a great success, but the company pursued a business model at the time with hideously expensive licenses (the intrusive phone sales campaigns didn't help their popularity either). By the time the Lisp ecosystem recovered, many had moved on.
I'm pretty curious about how and where Twitter employees were distributed. For a company ostensibly worth $44 billion, having 7,500 staff feels pretty damn lean. It feels like Musk isn't just purging people, he's purging the Twitter culture...
Could this be a startup idea? “Like Bandcamp but with sane payouts system.”
In my view no single medium (the media is the message) has done more to weaken the quality of public discourse in the world than Twitter. But maybe Facebook proves that even if you're allowed to use prose crazies dominate so maybe the issue is deeper
Very similar idea as Jittor, convolution definitely can be break down: https://github.com/Jittor/jittor/blob/master/python/jittor/n...
They know now.
And here come the lawsuits... https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-11-04/twitter-s...
They stopped being active.
When I interviewed with Twitter in ~2007 or something they asked me "What do you think Twitter is"

My reply was,

"you're a global sentiment barometer"
For comparison, SpaceX runs an entire private space program on ~12,000 employees. Near-weekly launches. Rocket development+production. Building+deploying Starlink.

(Although that's just a number from a quick googling. Maybe they outsource a lot of manufacturing etc?)
> “To help ensure the safety of each employee as well as Twitter systems and customer data, our offices will be temporarily closed and all badge access will be suspended,” the email reads. “If you are in an office or on your way to an office, please return home.”

Welcome to the dystopian future... I find it a bit galling how companies can force you into home office nowadays if it suits them (you want to avoid your underlings congregating in the office in such a situation), but also force you to come to the office when it suits them.
That's easy. I work for a company that has a similar body. Its a PITA but they prevent over-zealous POs and engineers from building creepy things that get the brand in trouble. (E.g., "why don't we record our users and predict their sentiment from facial expressions and tone of the voice" - those people will tell you why it's a bad idea). There, hope it helps.
Do they often publish transparency reports about their ML systems that cannot identify months-long spam campaigns where scammers post identical messages tens of thousands of times?
This article, by Colin Wright, is a good introduction to the 'sex realist' viewpoint, and the arguments it addresses: https://www.realityslaststand.com/p/sex-is-not-a-spectrum

A good example of an opposing point of view to 'sex realism' is this article (and one that's most often cited in online discussions of this particular topic): https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/voices/stop-using-phony...
Emacs is the prime example of a lisp project

HN itself is (was ?) Written in lisp if I'm not mistaken

There is this list
https://common-lisp.net/lisp-companies

Racket/scheme are lisp, you'll have to include them as well.
> For easy payment integration with Web apps there are countless tools.

Could you (or anyone else) comment on these?

I think the most popular indeed are PayPal and Stripe, whereas any others (like Paddle) are more niche or some others (Alipay) are just more regional.
You want to defend the big company? Why? Copilot is obviously breaking terms of licenses. At the very least it should only be trained on MIT and return MIT code
The future of oil supply in the European Union (2021) [pdf]
Ah yes, the sole purpose of companies, making mad $$$ without any care for anything else.
What does it say about people in charge and what does it say about employees? Asking without implying anything.