skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nostalgia! Ran a BBS from around 1982 (late-night, single line only) to late-1995 (24-hours, multiline ring-down), until I had to shut it down due to life circumstances, the last year or two of my BBS' life even had an internet gateway. Started up a new BBS (internet only) back in 2009 that chugs away quietly in the background and runs on a Raspberry Pi in the corner of my office.
Am I reading this right? The soy diet decreased libido, sperm concentration, and testosterone, but the soy diet increased sperm quality?
> Will WASM finally be the write once run everywhere system we've been promised for the past few decades?

I think it has a good shot! If I'm hedging my bets though I'd say there are some things it will just never be good at. That's okay though it's not a zero sum game.

> This really is the birth and death of Javascript.

One thing I will not bet on is the death of javascript!
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Yes, Taiwanese obviously care more about their children. But that doesn't change that the US military won't allow the Chinese to obtain TSMC or the knowledge of their engineers.
But falling behind is very different than "being done." I think the original tweet is very much an exaggeration, and agree with the point made here.

Google is no where close to "being done." Sure, their answers aren't perfect. But they've managed to deploy them at scale. They're probably available globally. They're fast. And they probably see way more eyeballs than OpenAI's system.

It's going to take a long time for folks to deploy advanced techniques like this at the scale required for something like Google. And if anyone has the resources to do this, it's Google. So I suspect Google will just learn from these examples and integrate them into their existing offering, which will probably eclipse any chance at disruption -- both because of their existing market share and because of the computational firepower they have to make this happen.
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What sealed it for me is that Rachel constantly tries to distance the CA arm from MsgSafe.io's operations (to try to avoid MsgSafe's problems being used to discredit the CA), but it turns out that Rachel herself is VP/Director of Operations for both companies. That she never mentions this while trying to distance the CA from the not-really-encrypted email service indicates a level of intentional deception that completely validates Mozilla's response.

Kathleen obfuscates it a bit by putting the name of the director in a footnote, but here it is put together:

> The same individual was responsible for the day to day operation of both TrustCor’s CA business and MsgSafe. They are listed on TrustCor’s website as the VP of TrustCor’s CA operations and the Director of Operations for MsgSafe. [2]

> ...

> [2] Rachel McPherson is listed as the Vice President of Operations, having “access-to and control-over the CA and CA Business Operations” in a company document submitted privately by Rachel to Mozilla. Press releases on TrustCor’s website list Rachel McPherson as MsgSafe.io’s Director of Operations, e.g. https://web.archive.org/web/20221108224150/https://trustcor.....
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The companies they picked for this analysis makes me seriously doubt this is representative of most of the market for tech jobs.
I think I'm missing something. On the Results in study [b], they say

> Semen parameters did not seem affected by caffeine intake, at least caffeine from coffee, tea and cocoa drinks, in most studies. Conversely, other contributions suggested a negative effect of cola-containing beverages and caffeine-containing soft drinks on semen volume, count and concentration.

If tea and coffee don't cause an effect, but cola and soft drinks do, doesn't that imply it's sugar, not caffeine?
PEX is fine. Water that sat in a PEX pipe is chemically indistinguishable from water held in a test tube, unlike what happens with water in PVC piping. Another indicator of fine-ness is that PE and PP tubing is used extensively in chemical process plants where high purity is required.
Ahh....low effort sound bite boogyman legislation. Reminds me of Florida.
> Practically every story in this thread, notably including your own, was unprovoked.

I read this and see that you believe that they were unprovoked, not that every human would see them as unprovoked and therefore are objectively unprovoked. Maybe you don't think there's a difference between the two, but for me, I strongly believe not everyone would see these as completely unprovoked. I have a friend whose husband threatened to kill her and she left him and her kids behind to flee for her life. When she was telling me how they'd fight, she'd tell me he would get angry at her and then she'd go quiet and then he would shout and then she would avoid him for a few days, giving the silent treatment. She didn't seem to think that her silent treatment was provoking him at all, she just focused on how his anger was the violence.

> If I beat you up for looking at me funny and I say it's justified because you provoked me with your glance, that's unreasonable nonsense and claiming subjectivity doesn't suddenly make me sympathetic.

I'm not saying I justify their behavior, it's more about whether I want it to stop in the future.

> The legal world of adults actually has teeth in penalizing violence which doesn't really apply to the world of children.

I'm not sure that's true. Kids, especially teens in the US, have definitely been charged for assault and other crimes of physical violence in schools. Now, I may agree that it's less likely they'll be charged than two adults hitting each other in a bar, but I don't think they're completely exempt from such laws, at least in most parts of the US.

> I can't even honestly characterize your anecdote as bullying, at no point was harm threatened or even implied.

Perhaps for me bullying includes teasing and verbal attacks that cut someone down, and for you you're more focused on the physical assault part of bullying. So yes, then what I described did not involve a threat of physical violence and wouldn't fit in your definition of bullying and may be why we disagree on this.

> When a group of teen classmates corner you and threaten to beat you up if you don't give them your lunch money, do you honestly believe a confident remark about mutual respect can be a solution there?

I believe a confident remark about mutual respect could prevent the situation from escalating to that level of physical threat. Now, do I believe that sometimes the situation has escalated too far? Yes. Do I think that if someone is throwing a punch at my face that I'll stop it with words? No. I'll probably do my best to block the punch and grab his arm and twist it behind his back or something of the like. But then I may try to talk about how I don't want to fight and I'm confused why he keeps picking on me and maybe he's having a rough day and I'd prefer if we talked about what was going on so neither of us gets more hurt.
This post inspired me a few years ago to start a very impractical learning side project. Most keyboards don't overly prioritize latency. Development of a keyboard is easy using a USB stack from the manufacturer, but it might not prioritize latency.

I'm working on making my own FPGA based USB 2.0 HID device that will let me minimize any latency in the stack. PCB layout is mostly done, I'm working on a DECA FPGA board to prove out the USB hid software now. I started this pre covid though when Mach XO2s were inexpensive and available, so I have no idea who I will need to fight these days to get parts when I get to that point.

There is lots of wiggle room too in how you implement your debounce algorithm to optimize latency too. I'm excited to control the whole stack to try to make this as fast as possible. The Logitech lightspeed products came out after I started this project though and are far more practical for most people. I have one of those at home and will try to benchmark and compare them when I get there.
I have one i've kind of wanted to post. Hey HN, Am I the asshole?

This was awhile ago during the summer. Nice day, aka construction season.

I'm a passenger in a car; we're driving north and we have the most basic of smalltalk going on. Totally nothing controversial, literally just talking about what a beautiful day it was. That maybe I'll take my telescope out and check out saturn that night. Ask if they had any plans and let them talk. I was genuinely listening as they talk and drive, I didn't really have much to say. Just enjoying looking around.

We come up to a spot where if you turn right, you can avoid the one lane downtown construction we were clearly headed directly toward. They rarely drive downtown so likely didn't know the construction was coming. So I slightly cut them off and say, "I'd turn right here, avoid the construction up there."

We weren't going downtown anyway, it was a fine plan to avoid. But they pull into a bus stop. They are on the verge of crying. They tell me, "You're always criticizing the way I drive. I'm the one driving and I get to decide how to get there." I was rather short on words. I was only trying to help, not offend or anything. I said sorry as we do eh.

They then demand I get out of the car and walk the rest of the way. I chuckled and asked really. They were serious. I got out of the car and walked a couple blocks and sat on a bench waiting for taxi to get me. It would have been probably closer to 45 minutes to walk either to our destination or walk home. It was about half way. My fat butt probably could have benefitted from the walk but meh.

I think back as well. I tend to give similar tips, "You can turn here and take $road to get around quicker" or whatever. Its not criticism, just trying to share the infos. I appreciate when people help me out in this way. Am I the asshole?
> TSMC with its global influence has been a huge factor for guaranteeing safety of the island and peace in the Taiwan strait.

This narrative is echoed around the internet, but if you study the actual history of the Taiwan Strait Crises (which started before the semiconductor was invented), it never comes up in official discussion or analysis. See Kissinger, for example.

Cynically, this narrative was possibly promoted by the USG/Taiwan-lobby to put lipstick on what has always been a naked display of power politics. Washington wants its First Island Chain to contain China [1], and Beijing doesn't want Washington to have it.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_chain_strategy
Agreed, can the title be changed to something like "Google search results vs GPT3"
Why do these graphs all start in 2022? It's impossible to put this into perspective with so little data. Is the market more difficult than 2020? How about 2016? How about 2014?
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- Currently, GeoDesk is only available for Java (and other JVM languages). We're considering a future C++ implementation of the database engine (with possible Python bindings)

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ChatGPT blew my mind this morning — I was struggling with a regex, so asked it to help me.

Here's how it went: https://i.imgur.com/PS6oPsq.png

A pretty incredible developer experience, if you ask me!
Only if language choice isn’t correlated with timezone. I suspect for many it is.
> In Yorkshire in the 14th and 15th centuries, the age range for most brides was between 18 and 22 years and the age of the grooms was similar; rural Yorkshire women tended to marry in their late teens to early twenties while their urban counterparts married in their early to middle twenties. In the 15th century, the average Italian bride was 18 and married a groom 10–12 years her senior. An unmarried Tuscan woman 21 years of age would be seen as past marriageable age, the benchmark for which was 19 years, and easily 97 percent of Florentine women were married by the age of 25 years while 21 years was the average age of a contemporary English bride.

> Ireland's average age of marriage in 1830 was 23.8 for women and 27.47 for men where they had once been about 21 and 25, respectively, and only about 10% of adults remained unmarried;[22] in 1840, they had respectively risen to 24.4 and 27.7;[23][24] in the decades after the Great Famine, the age of marriage had risen to 28–29 for women and 33 for men and as much as a third of Irishmen and a fourth of Irishwomen never married due to chronic economic problems that discouraged early marriage.

Doesn't really contradict what I said, although the age gap between bride and groom was fairly variable (but no country that I'm aware of has a pattern of older bride, younger groom).
You can’t jailbreak the last two iOSes. It’s possible full jailbreaking is a thing of the past. This is the longest time it has taken to get a jailbreak for new iOS versions (for the one from last year)
That's a myth that the medical establishment wants to sell you. Women are fine and have children with no problem, long past that artificial "deadline".

https://youtu.be/g9ryP0UyO5U
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> Most of our organs don't/can't self repair

That is not true. Bones heal, muscles heal, nerves grow back under some circumstances, the central nervous system compensates, every tissue fights infections and works hard to get rid of toxins where it can. These are all cases of self-repair.

Yeah some of these processes result in scarring, some of the time. That doesn’t mean it is not self repairing. In fact it is the result of the self repair!

Sorry that I jump on this, but it is incredible that we are all these advanced, beatifull, self-repairing “meat robots” and the processes work so smooth that someone doesn’t even notice all the self repairing which goes on inside their own body.

If you are wondering how an organ which stops self repairing looks like buy some meat, any meat, from a butcher and put it on your kitchen counter. It will within days start to smell bad, grow mould, liquify and eventually insects and magots will carry it away bite by tiny bite. It happens with the meat because it stopped self-repairing. It doesn’t happen with your flesh because it is constantly self-repairing.
Like not being run by a gigantic company who's primary revenue derives from tracking as much activity on the web as they can?

Or not being a company who derives the majority its revenue from the company above?

This whole controversy is like a flock of lambs asking a pride of lions to stop some mosquitoes from biting them.
Community focused console modifications, repairs, and restoration methods
Pretty sure all hCG these days is recombinant.
This quote says to me imposter syndrome can tap on your shoulder even if you’re as good as Feynman, so no need for anyone else to take it personally.

And then I thought to myself, “You know, what they think of you is so fantastic, it’s impossible to live up to it. You have no responsibility to live up to it!”… I realized that it was also true of all the other places, including my own university. I am what I am, and if they expected me to be good and they’re offering me some money for it, it’s their hard luck.
It should be noted (and admitted in the blog post) that the high-level results from the new GPT-3 text-davinci-003 model and chatGPT should be similar, albeit without fancy syntax highlighting.

Well, mostly. I tried the prompt in the OP into text-davinci-003 and got this:

const handleLogin = (e) => {
e.preventDefault();
// check if the email and password are valid
// perform login
console.log(email, password);
};

Although that was with temperature = 0.7. temperature = 0.0 gives more reasonable results.
a bracket is missing in your tournament bracket. F Winner, E runner up.
It was there before the scores were finalized and Morocco won the group, gone now.
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Uh when the motives are clearly bad it's less neutral to disallow calling it out
It's literally the model's output, in real-time. The GPT-3 API lets you turn streaming on or off, but if you don't enable it you have to wait much longer for the completion to finish entirely, before getting anything back.
Not OP (and I suspect they don’t have what you’re looking for since they have stated they treat the VMs as pets, not cattle). I currently use libvirt, but I eschew persistent VMs and instead build the libvirt domain XML with Nix, and then start VMs with `virsh create /path/to/myvm.xml`. Using an absolute path means that libvirt will not persist the domain, and makes it easier to declaratively manage the config with Nix.

However, none of my VMs are always-on, so I don’t have to deal with restarts on config change. That said, when libvirt isn’t managing the lifecycle of the VMs as much, writing a systemd unit should be quite a bit easier.
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I was under the impression that programming and IT is very undervalued in Germany, like you're basically earning slightly above average in most cases. At least that's what I gather from two friends who live there.
This topic seems to me to be unambiguously close to their core mission of defending liberty in the face of technology.
Indexing in GeoDesk GOL files is predominantly spatial (a quadtree-like structure combined with r-trees), with probabilistic indexing for the most frequent keys (`highway`, `building`, `amenity`, etc.). This means queries with a spatial dimension execute very quickly (bounding-box queries have a typical throughput of tens of millions of features per second on a simple dual-core notebook). GeoDesk is less suitable for non-spatial queries (e.g. "Where in the world is the Louvre?" may take several seconds on a planet-size database), but we'll consider enhanced indexing for these scenarios if there are enough real-world use cases to warrant it.
Ah, thanks! I didn’t know that and shouldn’t have used the first result that came up with a google search.
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I'm so far really impressed. Its the first time i got the feeling that a product comes close to the paperless experience without compromising on the feeling too much
These examples are terrific, but the framing is ridiculous.

- GPT-3 answers can be incorrect, and don't carry enough context with them for the reader to engage critically.

- Text is often an inefficient presentation of an answer and Google's knowledge card results can do more and more (while adopting the risk above).

- LLM's are a ways from being scalable at this quality to a fraction of the throughput of Google queries.

- Search increasingly benefits from user-specific context, which is even harder to integrate at a reasonable expense into queries at massive throughput.

- Google is also regularly putting forward LLM breakthroughs, which will of course impact productized search.

As an NLP practitioner who depends on LLMs, I'm excited as anyone about this progress. But I think some folks are jumping to a conclusion that generative AIs will be the standalone products, when I think they'll be much more powerful as integrated into structured product flows.