skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it." (Maurice Switzer)

Posting a pay-walled link is essentially click-bait advertising.

Shame on you... =P
I concede you have a point there. My opinions are colored by my experiences.

As a personal story that I will share since it also has value as an experiment: I did not see my father between the ages of 0-3 and 7-19. That means he was not there for a large part of my developmental phase, in which I formed a lot of my viewpoints on the world (at the time, obviously).

What astounded me was that when I met him, he shared a lot of those viewpoints. A lot of my behaviour that I thought was specific to me, was not. Even small things like preference for walking etc. I will not list everything obviously but it really ingrained in me that a lot of what I considered "my identity" was not chosen in any way by me. We grew up in rather different environments/countries too.

I think most humans would rather not face the fact that their identity is scarcely chosen. But learning to accept that means you can experience a lot more, since your ego doesn't mind losing parts that aren't "really part of it" anyway. Or at least it's less scary.
The Novachord Restoration Project
The non technical scrum master fills a very important role for higher management: somebody to take blame and responsibility.
> it would include [access to intellectual elite] or a profile on someone [from the political or cultural elite]

> Same thing with Paul Graham. He [is part of the financial elite]. The exact same thoughts coming from [some pleb] mean a hell of a lot less.

So... actual elitism. This isn't a very charitable way of engaging with literature, and it's your own loss.

Plenty of "nobodies" had thoughts that became legitimate well after their own lifetimes.
Haha. @realGeorgeHotz said he was gonna remove this as one of his first Twitter-intern priorities. Guess he did!
I worked with the same guy who made a CLI tool in Java + RxJava. Running everything reactively on hundreds of thread schedulers for something that needed basic collection of arguments and to post to an api.

I can't wait for reactive programming to die.
Maybe the prototype allowed Geely to raise enough money to actually make cars.
Well, most people would latch onto the "practiced some music" and want to know more! Just stay off the heroin and I think you'll be fine.
I asked ChatGPT this question. Here's its first response:

Q: "A bat and a ball cost $1.10 in total. The bat costs $1.00 more than the ball. How much does the ball cost?"

A: "The ball costs $0.10. The bat costs $1.00 more than the ball, so it costs $1.00 + $0.10 = $1.10 in total."

Fascinating that it gets it wrong exactly the same way that a human gets it wrong. I kept trying a few times, and eventually could get a correct answer out of ChatGPT. But most of the time it gives the wrong answer.
Does the ECJ only have jurisdiction over cases that cross national borders?
I am haunted by the of things that caught fire and as a 8-9 year old I didn’t understand why. I don’t think I generally made it far enough that the plebs were in need because the whole city had burned.
Author points to data showing 300m active users in 2013, 2b active users now, yet claims that Instagram is over. What is the replacement? Where is the decline?
You'd be surprised.

Also, if you are of the personality type/disposition that this doesn't work on, don't underestimate the huge percentage of people on which it does work.
This is an amazing tool, but I'd caution it's using IP lists for groups of specific organizations. One of the 2 IP lists provided by the author is just the US military: https://gist.github.com/artfulhacker/a6eb800e58f2eb6f9231

The section "MOST ACTIVE ORGANIZATIONS" shouldn't be taken as a list of the most active organizations in the world editing Wikipedia, just the most active organizations that made an IP list the tool is using.

Anyone using the very large number of static IP addresses on these lists will be pooled as an edit by the organization that maintains that IP range. This means a seaman in the Navy editing a TV show article on their free time may be pooled into the "Navy Network Information Center (NNIC)". It doesn't necessary mean the NNIC has a special interest in editing 'Breaking Bad' episode synopses.
Similar: biggest issue... everyone in my life thinks I should find something else to do!
> 3-10x slower to develop

Where do those numbers come from?
Rust is not very beginner friendly and takes a while to learn, but nowadays I'm just as fast in it as in other languages, except maybe for Python.

That said I also don't think it makes sense for startups.
> Look at the last report from Meta, more people on a daily and monthly basis are using Facebook and Instagram than ever both.

It's more nuanced than that.

If you're losing traction where it matters - in younger generations & high-value markets like the US that have higher future cash flows - it doesn't matter if you're making up for it with usage from old people or people in poor countries without good advertising infra.

Facebook is definitely not looking rosy for the future.

And Instagram seems like it's on a similar path to Facebook 4 or 5 years ago. It doesn't look bad, but it also doesn't look great...
The United Kingdom has a constitution but not a specifically written one.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_the_United_Kin...
One would expect the missiles be a bit more picky about what they target, or setting up fake targets to defend against them would be way too easy.
As someone who doesn't program/code at all, I don't care how it arrives at the result. It's just amazing to me that if I need a simple script or program, I can have an AI write usable code that I can use.
One of the things I really like about f# is thar you can tag even raw numbers with types. And even multiply/divide on those types.https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/fsharp/language-ref...
All our engineers cost more than the DC engineers we had before.
ChatGPT tries some quantum problems
Good article, but the author doesn't mention how to find those communities (or if they even still exist)

I used to be a fan of the BB systems, which were a fantastic joy to be part of and contribute messages or even readings and watch other community members grow.

I wish I could go back in time to relive those days because it was the most fun and also the most insightful experience for me on the Internet.

Nowadays, everyone is trying to sell you something
I think the “liking Twitter post” part was just a coincidental joke.
I only know how to specify the questions because I know they are sources of problems since I can install an entire setup project from scratch on the top of my head.

Most can't though, and they won't ask specific questions.

But with time, GPT will likely be able to ask questions to get the context, and that will change everything.
Just from my casual browsing of folks who have a mastodon address somewhere in their profile, I would say that figure is somewhere between 10% to 50%.
I do think it's more of power trip than anything else. The TSA overwhelmingly seem to want to browbeat the very people they are supposed to be serving.

Indeed the rules seem to vary arbitrarily by time of day, by airport, by passenger volume. It just proves that most of what the TSA does in airports is is really just security theater.
What I find interesting about Twitter hatred is that it is all related to the platform slowly shifting towards not engaging in politically one-sided censorship and cancellation. That's it. Nothing else. Call it freedom of speech if you must.

This continues to expose the holes in an ideology that purports to be for A and it is nearly always for B in almost everything they say. Pick any area A, listen to what they claim and then watch B is what they actually do.

In this case, it is about such topics as open-mindedness, inclusion, tolerance, acceptance, objectivity, seeking truth, balance, unity, representing everyone, etc. What they actually do is almost always the opposite to these and other concepts.

If Twitter/Musk came out on Monday, proclaimed to revese course and go all-in on one sided moderation in favor of that ideology, the company and Musk would be hailed as heroes by every single person, politician and entity currently at war with them.

That, right there, should make everyone take pause and think.

Why?

All you have to do is imagine a world where the opposite ideology controls all media and thought drivers.

That would be just as much of a nightmare as what we have managed to walk into today.

We do not want either ideology to hold a monopoly of control over what messages are allowed and who can speak. That is precisely what happens in nations we all agree are, at a minimum, oppressive and abusive to their population. Sadly, we have veered more and more in that direction over the last couple of decades. There are people out there who's entire careers have been destroyed just for having opposing thoughts. That isn't supposed to happen in the western world. That is not supposed to happen in the US. Yet, it has. And we have to fix it.

Equilibrium in social and traditional media exists when both ideological camps have about the same number of things to not be happy about. It also happens when no particular "tribe" can exercise overwhelming control over thought, media and messaging. Good, bad or ugly, that is the best formula for progress. Stomping and cancelling opposing viewpoints has never delivered positive results in the long term.

Here on HN, downvoting and flagging are sometimes used this way. It is my opinion these tools have to go away or have to have a very serious algorithmic change in order to prevent their use as means to silence that with which one disagrees. Yes, this is a difficult issue online forums have had to contend with since the days of USENET. Not easy at all.

A long time ago one of my mentors explained he liked the idea of "If you can't say anything good about someone, don't speak". While not a hard-set rule, the way I personally try to use that concept on HN is that I never downvote or flag any post. In the years I have been here I may have done so a handful of times. I always welcome intelligent opposition to anything I say. That's how we learn. I never downvote. If a conversation gets derailed, I might try to get it back on track a few times. If I fail, I just leave. I see downvoting as a cheap-shot attempt to silence that with which you disagree, rather than a control for quality. Same with flagging.
The current approach in which ChatGPT is trained likely allows for that. ChatGPT keeps claiming it is a "language model". In fact it is a reinforcement learning agent trained with proximal policy optimization. We've certainly seen reinforcement learning agents (trained with PPO) interacting with what happens on screen (such as playing StarCraft, etc) and outplaying best human players. So yes, I expect we'll see a lot of interesting stuff in the next few years.
Just inserting the word "hypothetical" currently seems enough to do it in many cases...

https://twitter.com/arbuge/status/1599095559637590016
Lemme see. Google searches the web trying to match search terms. ChatGPT makes stuff up using fragments of text it's seen before. Um, I don't think so.
You're assuming the fentanyl is accidental, not intended.
Did you read any of the rest of my comment?

Trump did the same for four years. (“Failing New York Times” etc. if you remember?) If Twitter acted because of coercion by the government, violating 1A, why were they not also corerced by Trump?

Nobody, including Twitter, had a crystal ball that told them that Trump was going to lose the election. Trump was in government and Biden wasn’t.
Gonna say between my three daughters and their huge network of friends and family I can’t see “insta” fading away anytime soon… maybe as an investor we could say expected growth is going to slow due to market saturation or something but “insta” is here to stay from what I can see
I agree with most of what you said, but I think one line is out of touch.

> And finally, even if the causation is correct, all it indicates is that needle exchange programs need to also provide drug testing capabilities so the presence of fentanyl can easily be identified.

This assumes that there are no individuals that are knowingly injecting fentanyl or that a drug user would not take drugs in their possession if they knew it contained fentanyl. Yes, there are individuals that unknowingly take a fentanyl containing substance but I am doubtful that those deepest in opioid addiction avoid it.
I do not support Russia in this conflict and hope they are defeated and that Ukraine regains sovereignty over the territory within its post-Soviet borders.

That being said, the DW deboonking here is extremely selective. It's almost as if, for example, American entertainer Jon Stewart hadn't feted an Azov Battalion member on a stage at Disney World a few months ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zoB_6c0cag The man in question has a black sun tattoo on one elbow and covered it up with a length of red stocking for the event.

The past several years have taught me to be extremely suspicious of most "fact checks"/"debunks"/"prebunks" and anything purporting to be an anti-disinfo or anti-misinfo project.
No. Because it's not a search engine. The point of search is links, not a plausible-but-unverifiable blob of text.

Let me open my last few searches from today:

- checking the release data of a movie

- looking up old threads about a book on HN

- searching for the return policy of something I bought online

ChatGPT can't do any of this. And that's not a fault, it just isn't designed for this.
Take a look at the sibling. Maybe be less than understanding but it’s a lot more than a placeholder.
The Chinese government has effectively scared away investment. It will take time, but slowly companies are going to look to decouple their manufacturing and supply chains from China.

I think 50 years from now this moment will be studied as how a country self sabotaged themselves out of potential world dominance.
You've put to words an intuition I've always had, but been unable to verbalize: it irritates me when someone converses with the intent to reach some end... or just enters a conversation with some notion or emotion that they're holding tight onto, and will not waver no matter what.

Worse are those people with canned lines and vocal inflections... the same ones on repeat over and over again; like they've built up a toolbox of sound bites to navigate them through all of life. It's unbelievably grating to hear.

It feels vulgar... to make one's presence and desires so known and obvious... instead of having a conversation for its own sake... for the sake of amusement or personal expression...

It's as if they're treating socialization as a constant string of business deals to be navigated... gross.
Nobody in this thread is expressing any surprise or shock. It's perfectly sensible that incredibly penetrating and dispersing engineered surfactants would damage a biological organism. It's the most natural thing in the world and I doubt anybody would feel surprise or shock when hearing that yet another engineered synthetic lifestyle substance is bad for you.

On the other hand if we were to learn that these synthesized products were actually good for you that would be surprising.
The revenge porn pictures? They violate the ToS and is illegal in most states in America.
Part of the problem, ironically is the war on opioids. I’ve read many accounts of people with legit chronic pain being cut off by the doctor… which simply results in them getting relief wherever they can find it.
The disruption is real, it's just that the thing being disrupted is almost always labor or consumer regulations.
It's not about the others knowing who you are or your reputation, and thus not needing to establish that if you're already famous, etc.

The insight is rather that others could not give less fucks if they knew about you more, what they like is to talk about themselves.

This is true even if you're totally non famous and unknown to them, like a random taxi driver and you. They still like to talk about themselves over hearing about you.
That's a fair point. Currently I'm not convinced all of this is the right direction for Node, but we'll see how it pans out. Node is already huge so I would much rather they pick their battles and do those features well, rather than try and be mediocre at everything.
Yes, people with diarrhea of the mouth make most conversations dry, one-sided, and very dull after you already know what that person's side of the story is. It's much worse if that side of the story is self-serving.

That is a good analogy with throwing a ball in the conversation. Imagine ball sports where only one person is participating. That's what a one-sided conversation feels like.
When you try to adapt your program to fit the needs of humans and technology it will become complex no matter what you do. The world is full of problems that can't be decomposed nicely because they are created by millions of people over decades each doing things slightly differently and you need to make a program that fills their needs, if you think those kind of problems don't exist you are just naïve. Those are the programs with the most complex architecture.
Revenge porn is illegal in most of America and also a violation of ToS.
They would make a million of them one wafer, and then struggle to find them. :)
Feels like the title and your comment should be in Chinese, because without knowing that language, one would have no idea what's going on or whether the video is showing evidence of this (your own words:) "apparent censorship"...
«SEPs increase rates of opioid-related mortality» is a direct quote from the study.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33845544
> insist on a Discord for tech support and discussion

Communities moving to discord or slack is really dumb. You lose so much discoverability in favour of real time conversation about a subject that almost always prefers asynchronous communication.

Is it just hipster influence run amok? (shakes fist)
Computers Are Still Babies
Sales tax was honestly the first thing I thought of as I read the question, because I've encountered such trick questions in the past in math classes and on 'cognitive tests'. I'm also really boggled on why you think training future engineers to make assumptions about numbers isn't really bad.
Honestly I never understood the appeal.

A social network that forces you to wedge your content in images and short videos, while on Facebook you could share YouTube videos, music, interesting links, write-ups, you name it. How can anyone in their right mind prefer something as limiting as Instagram? Even its instant messenger is limited compared to Facebook's.
Fentanyl is not a pleasurable drug. Someone buying heroin wants heroin, not a drug that will just knock them out or kill them.
Easy!

# not happening unless developer consumes a large number
# of drugs
distance_miles = 42
launch_rocket(distance_km: distance_miles*1.6)

Aaaand we're off by 0.3924km. Enough to fit 4 football fields with a few meters left over. Oopsies

Units are hard. Never under-estimate the ability of programmers to think they're converting but get it slightly wrong.
Here's ChatGPT's responses. It's fascinating that it provides the same incorrect answers as people... I'm not sure how to interpret this from the robot.

(1) "The ball costs $0.10. The bat costs $1.00 more than the ball, so it costs $1.00 + $0.10 = $1.10 in total."

(2) "If 5 machines can make 5 widgets in 5 minutes, then each machine can make 1 widget in 5 minutes / 5 machines = 1 minute. Therefore, 100 machines can make 100 widgets in 100 minutes."

(3) "If it takes 48 days for the patch of lily pads to cover the entire lake and the patch doubles in size every day, it would take half that time, or 24 days, for the patch to cover half of the lake."
In the mid-2010s I worked at a company that switched from using raw ints to refer to database rows to using (in C# terms) "Id<FooTable>".

Across the entire codebase, we discovered an entire class of bugs that only never cause any issues because all the important rows in all the important tables had Id 1 (e.g. Currency 1 was USD and Country 1 was USA) - so in a few places where the ints got mixed up, the correct row was still accidentally looked up in the wrong table).
I always start out by over talking everyone and then I suddenly go 100% silent and ask everyone to pay $12 a month and give me their email to hear more myself...

That way you can always tall who really is interested in what you have to say.
Medium is a dead platform. There is so much long-form content created that their algorithms can't keep up with tagging, categorization, and discovery (it seems).
I find it incredibly hard to get real articles on the platform that are not either
(1) the same 5 "insights" about a certain topic that had been flooding LinkedIn for years prior
(2) copy-paste "solutions" from StackOverflow posts.
(3) corporate updates
> Seek First to Understand

Yes, this. If there's one issue I've seen again and again limiting engineers it's them fixing some part of a system without understanding the system as a whole, while assuming that someone (the code reviewer say) does understand it. It's a machine for manufacturing bugs and technical debt, and it keeps the engineer in a junior mindset.
> No idea what to do other than wait for Starlink availability.

Read the contract carefully to make sure it's allowed, start a coop & buy the commercial variant for a group of farms, with point-to-point wifi for local distribution? That should get you to jump the line.

(Though your problem may also be lack of a ground station close enough to you, but that's more rare.)
There are many professional tax software vendors. Intuit products are far from dominating the market.
No, but you can federate with the millions of people already using other alternatives based on ActivityPub.

People are really underestimating the second order effects from the Twitter exodus. It's not just Twitter that has a competitor. It's just a matter of time until all the Fediverse gets enough of a critical mass and then all walled gardens will lose its appeal.
I am not sure how price sensitive Uber riders are. But I use Uber exclusively and I would be willing to pay more if that’s what it took for it to be a viable ongoing concern and pay the drivers more.

I spoke to a few Uber drivers and a few have told me how much they make for a ride and I tell them how much I was charged. The discrepancy is ridiculous. I have no idea why Uber is losing so much money.
People who make economic arguments about how Uber/Lyft are so much more efficient than car ownership don't understand the fact that most car owners care a lot about availability. When I need a car, I want to have it, no questions asked, and no "surge" pricing.

Personally, I have lived in big cities both with and without a car, and I would absolutely choose to keep my car and pay for parking if I moved back.
Saying that we shouldn’t enable certain behavior is not violence. Violence is violence, stop messing with the meaning of words.
Make sure to try out the Augustus fork if you want extra niceties from "future" Impressions games like roadblocks and a global labor pool.
I don't know how long but we are clearly hitting an exponential curve here as improvements build on improvements that build on improvements.

A deeper question is how long until hand written code has too many bugs that it is worthless compared to AI code?

There is also the problem that once AI code is that good, there is no point in all this abstraction and overhead from language features aimed at human programmers. An AI programming language can be much faster and closer to binary.

I just can't imagine not seeing in my lifetime some kind of prompt that I can make a clone of this website in 2 seconds along with a 1000 variations along with the site being as fast as possible.