skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pure was an amazing product. For C++ development, we relied on it for my team at SAIC, and when I moved to Angel Studios (we developed games and content for Nintendo, Sega, Disney) I immediately asked the owners to purchase a company license.

I saw Reed Hastings being interviewed on YouTube last night - fascinating how he has so many personal friendships with CEOs of competing companies.
I'm not talking about system apps. Of course those are reasonable to remain installed.

I'm talking about pre-installed BS: https://www.xda-developers.com/uninstall-carrier-oem-bloatwa...

* TikTok

* Amazon

* Netflix

* Snapchat

* Etc
Ah yes, modern academics... where most activities are unrelated to science, prove regulatory capture is real, and corporate indentured training cost-externalization on transient skilled labor (functionally became trade schools).

One is certainly learning a lesson, but not the one people intended to acquire.

As a graduate student, most people figure out American universities are similar to the Soylent Green business model (the film).

The real scientists are jammed into dilapidated buildings, underfunded labs due to unpopular faculties/subjects, and beset by thousands of selfish ambitious children who generally only feign interest in a subject for 4 months.

The reality becomes clear after years of hard credible work, and one can't make tenure for political reasons. Its funny listening to people defend these places like it was a church.

In retrospect, plumbing is likely a better career choice. =)
Egui keeps getting better and better! For those unfamiliar you can run the web demo on your phone or desktop: https://egui.rs

I’ve personally built relatively complex UIs with egui. Both a Chrome extension and a VSCode extension for https://membrane.io and couldn’t be happier with it.
From the guidelines:

> Please don't post comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills.
There's a 1 year lead time for reserve replacement parts too. And if everyone orders now because of long lead times then the lead time will increase (for non reserve replacement we need it now parts).
Hm…ideally your remote schema can return one or more product ids and then you can create a relationship back to the model from
Postgres.

Link to docs: https://hasura.io/docs/latest/remote-schemas/remote-relation...
A mediocre Dutch artist cast 'the forger's spell' (2008)
Add "in the voice of Steven King" to the prompt.
As someone trying to make a living out of my OSS work, this kind of clickbait titles really get on my nerves. Just yesterday, like most week a company did contact me to get support but when sent a payment link and instead of ignoring me took the path of questioning why would they pay for OSS. This kind of behaviour is so common, I have a canned answer for all those companies oss attracts trying to get things for free:

OSS doesn't mean free labour and I value my time. FYI I would have made better money flipping burgers than working on this and I can't realistically extend that principle to help everyone on the internet with a rate that's below minimum wage where I live.
It took me about 10 years, more or less. The first pieces of data were jokes about rushing home with a sour stomach from yet another sushi date night. A scary optical aura and migraine was the event that got me taking notes and ruling things out. I had a huge dose of soy and my vision kinda went out for 30 minutes. Scary.

If I eat less soy, like say eating someone's homemade bread made with soy vegetable oil (which is the most likely one), I'll get brain fog, and about 5 days later eczema.

Multiple times I have deliberately eaten soy and logged the effects. I'm about 90% confident it's soy at this point. I'm a skeptic and still feel it could be some other factor but I am highly confident.

Avoiding soy is difficult. Especially for someone that loves chocolate.
To be fair, I immediately assumed the events were in order given their A, B, C names. I don't assume that any chat bot understands logic just because it can write code. I think 90% of it's coding abilities are having an exceptional ability to remember and apply pre-existing examples and identify similarities to what the user is asking. ChatGPT is pretty amazing from what I've seen so far, but I think we're still a few steps away from something with the cognitive abilities of a human. That said, I think it's very close to something resembling a useful digital assistant. I wonder how soon we'll have something that can schedule appointments, order pizza, do my shopping or any of the other mundane but important tasks that would make it useful.
43inch 4K Samsung TV used as a monitor. But I still use a smallish font. So lots of real estate to use. Stops any need for a lot of scrolling with things like HN.
And Ukraine is doing a lot more to defend than some random US local police department is doing against an unexpected attack.

That's the point. These sort of oppression attacks are mostly effective if you can keep them up. Power out for a day or two is annoying, but power out for half of the week every week for months is effective oppression. People tend to bond over trouble and oppression.

By comparison, suicide attacks on some significant or vulnerable place sends the sort of message that resonates for years. Oppression only is really effective if you can keep it up until you fully control the situation and develop some hegemony.
This is off topic as a submission for HN but you're welcome to post in the monthly "Who Wants to Be Hired" [1] or "Freelancer" [2] threads.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33818035

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33818036
Why and How ZK-Snark Works
The fact that long-range trading arrangements among ancient foragers have only been posited very recently, and on the sheer weight of evidence, is quite significant and means Hancock has a point. Even then though, there's complex and then there's complex. Having more resources around means that people can devote time and effort to something other than bare survival--and that turns out to be one of the main factors behind complex societies. Any widespread disaster leading to lower resource availability would in turn have social collapse as its unavoidable consequence. Even mainstream historians and archaeologists readily accept that this happened, e.g. on Easter Island; Hancock is just generalizing that same kind of scenario.
Or we should pair domain experts with media students/freelancers to improve the production values and output of someone like this:

Benjamin Burger - Rocks of Utah
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=molI4TlaF78

Give me a UBI-style stipend and I'd fly over there to help Burger make those videos!
Looking at the surface of the ocean and speculating what may or may not have been below it 10,000 years ago is not journalism. It's storytelling.

Do I expect the man to go swimming around the ocean's depths? I have no expectation one way or the other. My only expectation is that, having not done such work, he doesn't claim to have the result of the work he didn't do. I assume GP was thinking similarly.
I think actual archaeology based on evidence, from digs supported by careful dating, is far more interesting than what are essentially just unsupported speculations. Anyone can make up a might-have-been story, after all.

For example, I recommend this DW documentary on the 9,000 year old village of Ba'Ja in Jordan, and the actual archaeological discoveries made there. It's perhaps not as exciting as claims about Lost Atlantis etc., but it does have the benefit of being a real site:

https://youtu.be/q3KdGOcnMqw
I mostly follow Razib Khan's reporting on this work. It is really dense and uses domain lingo, so it can be rather hard to parse. But, here are some narratives that are changing:

1. Genetic findings among South-East Asians indicate that the maritime powers of India (and mostly south India) were of greater significance at their peak than the Delhi sultanate or the Delhi centric view held by most historians. [1][2]

2. We are expecting huge changes to our understanding of ancient humans in Africa [3]

3. The most famous co-evolution fact of milk-and-lactose-tolerance might not be true [4][5]

4. The so-called-indo-aryans might not have brought the caste system or "Indian culture" with them. The Dravidians are almost just as "indo-aryan" as their non-Dravidian counter parts and the Aryan-Invasion-Theory, might not have had an invasion to speak of at all. [6][7]

These are extreme simplifications of the interesting stuff I found that was relevant to my country. I'm sure there is just as much about every other culture and it's just as spicy. Also, emphasis on 'might' & 'probably'. These fields are mid-disruption, and facts on the ground are changing as we speak.

[1] https://www.gnxp.com/WordPress/2018/10/06/likely-male-mediat...

[2] https://www.gnxp.com/WordPress/2018/09/20/indic-civilization...

[3] https://www.gnxp.com/WordPress/2021/02/03/so-many-assumption...

[4] https://www.gnxp.com/WordPress/2021/01/28/got-milk-long-befo...

[5] https://www.science.org/content/article/humans-were-drinking...

[6] https://www.gnxp.com/WordPress/2019/09/12/the-aryan-integrat...

[7] https://www.gnxp.com/WordPress/2022/08/15/indra-is-absolved-...
The guardianship should be built into the the societal systems, universities and technical colleges.

i.e. in the old days professors/students would leave the decaying institutions and start their own, seek some funding elsewhere.

The Institutionalization of Accreditation into the fact of modern capital requirements and regulatory capture at all social levels make this seem not so feasible though.

However there could soon be more of such social changes, perhaps someone could create some digital technology to facilitate analog socioeconomic action, instead of billion$ in silly valley vapourware like zuckverse or alphabets adworld.
> it’ll get your entire store account banned

Surely, taking escalatory retribution like that is illegal, somewhere...I hope...?

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Non-escalatory retribution would be banning you from the game you filed a chargeback for - I can't get mad over that.

But an online store doing unilateral revocation of access and licenses for a consumer's entire library (without refunding it 100%) in response to a single chargeback is just begging for countries' consumer protection agencies to come knocking, and even if that's a term in the store's EULA I can't see how they could be upheld by a court as an conscionable (and therefore legally enforcible) contract clause - especially given the dim-view to which online and click-through EULAs/TOS are viewed by most countries courts' today anyway.

Speaking as someone with too much time on my hands (thanks to a cushy job, I'm pleased to say, rather than funemployment) I secretely want to be dicked-over by a megacorp like this so I can get amusement (and a worthwhile life experience) by availing myself of the court system to hold these companies to account. Now I just need to find a similar way to make Microsoft undo the crappy shell in Windows 11.
I mean, I've worked in search, android, and c&c, and the above is pretty close to my experience in all three.
These groups are already organized and coordinated. They mobbed/brigaded school board meetings in a coordinated fashion. They know who their allies are, and are now starting to act out in more violent fashion. Sunlight is the best disinfectant.
> The system is not self-training in real time.

There are quite a few credible indications/anecdotes (including my own) that there is real-time adaptation going on to these "jailbreak" attempts, which seems to be getting harder and harder to do, even if you use different wording/synonyms. And it seems to be happening gradually.

Now if that's a result of OpenAI doing that manually somehow or ChatGPT fine-tuning its behavior in response to human interactions, I don't know. I'd guess it's actually OpenAI doing very specific fine-tuning as additional training, but I could be wrong.

Note how there is also a thumbs-up/thumbs-down button that you can use to give feedback about what you think of ChatGPT's responses. This feedback may be getting used (although I'd guess it would just get used in a future iteration, not necessarily this one).
The truth is the set of things which are true.
...but the vast majority of their coding is futzing with ELisp regular expressions to get their compile-mode error highlighting working.
That's one facet of such software. But another facet, and by far the largest by ongoing expense (as in amount of people-hours it consumes) is just data input, with little to no decisions to be made. In SAP Concur case, one example I painfully experience is reimbursing business trips. In other cases, this may be timesheets, or inventory, or point-of-sale ordering and invoicing.

The "UI could be improved" is really understating it here - there are low-hanging fruits that could cut down the time spent on data input by factor of 5-10x. This I know for a fact, because I can compare my own experience (e.g. various timesheet & expense forms I used over the years, and the hypothetical case of me preparing the report in Emacs in some structured format, and bulk-importing it to a tool - that's easily a 20x time save), or observation (POS software used in stores today, vs. the DOS-era tools they used just a decade ago - close to 10x the difference).

We're talking extreme waste of money here. Plenty of shops I've seen are bottlenecked on the POS software UI - meaning they either have to let X% of customers go, or support extra registers and personnel. We're talking mental blocks that make people redefine workflows - every place I worked in that required timesheets and expense reports would see people doing them weekly, monthly, or quarterly, instead of daily (as they're supposed to), because the UI is such a time waster that everyone wants to put it off until HR starts complaining, and then back-fill it in bulk. And don't get me started on how shitty UI in healthcare impacts the quality of care...
Amazing! Thank you for the suggestions!
> doing nothing more than mobile/tablet ready SAP user interfaces

As a user, a user interface is literally all I care about, so this seems great to me.
I tried asking it to write sections and then cite its sources.

Most of the sources were related and well-done, however when it couldn't find an author, it just makes up names.
Ask HN: Should I be scared of you stealing my idea?
Let's say I have a brilliant idea for an app that has real potential to take off, as it covers a known demand.

I have a working prototype.
I know how to make it a real thing.

But I lack the time and resources to make it quickly.

"Ship it as soon as possible!", they say.

The worst possible scenario for me, that makes me skeptical of even posting about it until the product is ripe for market, is someone with more time, experience (incl. marketing experience) and resources stealing my idea and shipping it, only for me - the originator and innovator behind it - to be left and stranded bare-handed, unrecognized and forgotten.

Is this a realistic threat?
My understanding is that large transformers aren't standard; they need to be custom-made for their application. (Not sure why, and there'd be big benefits to changing this, but that's what I've heard...)
I really do hope you are ready to give up the right to theorize on any subject if you are not an expert. That includes: whether a job is bullshit or not, whether the calories you ate are good for you or not, and whether C++ is the right tool for the job or not. Sorry citizen, you are simply not a credential expert in these fields, enjoy your fine and labor camp.
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Drag shows are inherently sexual in nature. I've been to a few. Is the sexual nature of drag shows in question?

Drag shows for kids, that are inherently viewed as sexually provocative, is sexualizing interactions with kids.
And now a quick demo video, on Windows using Narrator: https://mwcampbell.us/video/egui-accesskit-win-demo-2022-12-...
> I have a philosophy degree and smart people still very much take him seriously.

I agree that some people take him seriously. Many people take religion seriously too. I don't take either him or religion seriously as true, but I do understand both his and religion's appeals.

That said, I do give a decent chance to aspects of the brain's problem solving ability having quantum properties and thus can not be calculated as efficiently on classical computers. We do not know this for sure, but evolution is incredibly inventive at finding efficient solutions. Still computable though, even on classical computers.

e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_mind
I keep trying to get it to write a pun about literally anything, but they are mostly self-referential and not funny. Not sure if that says more about me or ChatGPT.
Makes me think, how are you supposed to use this or any similar closed Saas model to build anything if it's possible for the vendor to randomly change it? If you're building a chatbot or a image generation tool or whatever on top of one of these, you've got to have some strong assumptions about how it will continue to behave.
> Like Ross Pero running as independent or the Bull Moose party.

The thing is those things either don't work (as in those examples) or they do and just replace one of the major parties in whay becomes a new, generally stable 2-party alignment.

To get out of that, you need to weaken the electoral system elements reinforcing duopoly, the most direct way being to adopt some form of proportional representation (e.g., STV), at least for most (e.g., all state and the federal House of Reps) legislative elections.

Even the commonly offered proposal of ranked ballots methods in single-member districts doesn’t really address the problem (PR, whether by STV or other mechanisms, also destroys the ability to significantly distort by gerrymandering.)
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>Can't understand why someone posted it to YC.

I mean, we are talking about it now. It is an interesting topic. It's just very poorly written. Maybe this attention will help fix that?

From what I've been able to understand, this just means that you can buy a radio from vendor A, and I can buy one from vendor B. As long as they both claim to be part of the DMR standard, then both radios should be able to communicate with each other. Since it's digital, I'm assuming the standard describes the word length and other various aspects so that anyone can decode/encode the proper AD/DA.

But man, why couldn't they just say that?
It can simulate a Scheme interpreter with call/cc: https://old.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/zcu7ba/chatgpt_can... .
Nobody is saying they have to do it blindly, given access to the internet they can learn as much as they want about the theory of why something is illegal. I don’t fully understand how clots are formed despite having read a number of papers about it, but I know I’m supposed to apply pressure to a cut.
Seems pretty middle-of-the-road?

I tried "Write about Python in the style of Reddit user <my reddit ID>" and it just gave a generic description. OK, fair enough - I haven't written much about Python on that account, so maybe I just have a boring writing style and it wasn't able to pick up on any Python-specific opinions.

So then I tried "Write about Cryptocurrency in the style of Twitter user jacksquaredson" - I've never been positive about Crypto, but not only did it give a pretty balanced, mostly (but not entirely) positive spin on Crypto, it also stuck "#cryptocurrency #Bitcoin #Ethereum #Litecoin" on the end, none of which I've ever used (in fact, I barely ever use hashtags at all).

Maybe I just don't write enough for it to pick up on my style? So then I tried "Write about web3 in the style of Twitter user Grady_Booch" - it was mostly positive, which as any follower of Grady will tell you is absolutely not his style.
> I never once heard him mention that

That's why it is so outrageous.
As it plays out in the US, the discussions are framed in terms of two-sided issues, where the only real option is to choose one of those sides: Republican vs. Democrat, Capitalism vs. Socialism, Pro-Vax vs. Anti-Vax, etc.

It's almost taboo to suggest that these enforced dichotomies aren't really helping anyone but that they do seem remarkably well-suited to preserving the status quo.
True and non-fiction aren't the same thing. Conspiracy theories and crackpot ideas don't purport to be literary works. Nobody talks about papers about the luminiferous ether as works of fiction simply because they're wrong. Maybe a pendantic point, but if you're insisting on playing word games instead of boycotting purveyors of pseudoscience and crankery, then I'm going to point out that's not really what the word "fiction" means.
> No students would attend a university run by academics, rather than run by managers.

I'm not sure what you're basing this claim on, since AFAIK there aren't any universities run by academics. But the reason for that has nothing to do with free competition in university education, and everything to do with government putting its thumb on the scale, both in the way it funds research and in the way it makes various forms of financial aid available so universities face zero cost pressure.
I have had similar experiences to you in the past, which is why I posted about the different experience I had with the latest Thinkpad X1 Carbon that comes with Fedora Linux out of the box.
Google is the worst of the worst. At least you can easily choose not to play Activison games. It's much harder to choose not to participate in the Google ecosystem, and actions in one service or account can have deep repercussions to other services and "associated" accounts. Appealing to an actual Google support human being is seemingly impossible
You can't even mention Musk's name anymore without certain sections of our society spewing absolute venom. Really something to behold.
The one with "inferior" in their handle.
This seems to me to be its strength, a multiplier to human intelligence. The way a smart phone is today, but more so. Once this matures, every human with access will be so much more capable than any single human in the 90s that they would seem beyond genius to us back then. Already someone with a phone in their pocket can stop to watch a couple instructional videos and accomplish tasks that would preciously involved training courses. That may seem trivial to those who didn't have to hunt through card catalogs and outdated encyclopedias for every scrap pf knowledge, but it is a huge deal.
Becauser feeling a shock from an electric eel is EXACTLY like feeling EMF from a monitor.