skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that it would be useful but also considering it adversarially I don’t think it’s practical because the people we most want to stop will strip it and in most cases they can submit samples until they pass just as spammers have been doing forever. There might be a few cases where e.g. maybe OpenAI would be willing to ping turnitin.com but it seems like that approach wouldn’t work in general and would inevitably result in false-positives with potentially serious consequences.

I think we’ll end up seeing two changes: restricting things like school or hiring to favor in person, dynamic interactions - which is better in many ways but costs more and has downsides for people with social anxiety - and more pressure to make the internet less anonymous, especially if that’s linked to physical devices similar to what Cloudflare and Apple have been doing to prevent the bulk attacks (it wouldn’t help much with a cheating student). Depressingly, all of that seems expensive and likely to have substantial collateral damage.
in ipython just running %debug will get you in pdb in the particular frame that threw, there you can modify stuff using normal python, and then you can tell pdb to continue
what do you expect from a company that invented the pencil?
Definitely: I was just putting out obvious extreme cases to illustrate the point.
This.

I already started using ChatGPT to solve problems because I can’t be arsed to read through ten vendors worth of documentation. It wrote me a fairly complete and accurate chunk of code the other day to solve a problem.
It does, yes
Very few parts come pre-painted to the body shop. If you find yourself in need of one, you'll find that they'll need to paint the panel they're replacing and do blending on the adjacent panels. As good as they are at matching color, they aren't perfect.

Also, UV fades the paint. Even if you could get pre-painted panels, they wouldn't match a car that's spent much time in the sun.

I had a rattle can tinted to match the factory color on my hood. It wasn't even close on the 12 year old car. On the outside of the hood. The inside of the hood would've been pretty damn close.
Frighteningly strong meth has supercharged homelessness
Faceworms instead of earworms?
Seems like he took the red pill right after elno.
As that may be - it should be the incredibly wealthy companies problem to solve, not the users.
> What am I missing?

C/C++ compilers don’t have a scripting language built in to construct your build system on top of?

I mostly use distools to build python modules but I have a couple projects where there is code generation, building static libs, &etc… and I find it easier to use cmake to just pop out a python module.

Cmake can also be convinced to make distro packages, like rpms and debs, without too much trouble — not sure how to do that in any other build system.
If you have a centralized server there is no reason to use CRDTs, is there?
US labor force participation rate has been dropping for at least 20 years. Lower birth rates means this is inevitable basically everywhere.

https://www.bls.gov/charts/employment-situation/civilian-lab...
It seems like it probably took the author 50x as much work as it would have to just write some slime sounding words out by themself as well as a couple grammatical rules for the forms of those words, and a python script that kinda works?
Not OP but similar level of experience.

I had the leet code once, interviewing for Meta. I didn't prepare because I thought that it was pointless, but I was curious about what it would be like to do it. So, I went through with it and to my shock and awe I managed to do it. The feedback was that I didn't ace it but I did more than well enough for the interviewer.

I didn't get the job though. The last step was a really strange and uncomfortable 1-1 chat with a "very senior employee". This did not go well.
All cars will still have to be driven, at least partially, by human beings for the foreseeable future. There is no chance you can make a car with no steering wheel nor pedals.
In regards to #1 yes, but in a human surgeons case it would be called malpractice and the surgeon would likely face consequences, and have to pay out damages to the victim(s)
No blockchain in the world could store the hash of every post ever in a “retrievable way”. Even Elon understands this.

The valid ideas that apply here are global labeling and account subkey ordering. I have never seen a solution for either that is end-to-end without a client syncing gigs of data, so various intermediaries are always trusted.

In practice a federated (“permissioned” I suppose) audit log is better, cheaper, and doesn’t require your users spend tokens if you want to go down this path. Then of course there is the UX question of the validity of using the same keys you use to make irreversible financial transactions to sign your tweets.
Really nicely done.

I'm under the impression that despite being maligned in the middle of the century Vancouver Specials are in relative high demand compared to houses newer and older because of how their basic flexible layouts make things relatively simple for new modern renovations.
Part of that $15 also paid a wage to the guy who built the fans, who worked in the fan plant in some town that closed up 40 years ago.
I don't think that's a bad practice. I'm Russian and Steam games are (were) 1.5x-2x times cheaper for Russia compared to Europe and Americas, even before regional passes. I don't know whether that was responsiblity of devs or storefront, but it seemed quite a fair and profitable practice, because the price point you are willing to pay for a game (or an app) is different for people from different economical and cultural backgrounds. You aren't getting a game for 80$ if your monthly salary is 300
At one interview, as a joke at the end, the set of interviewers asked me if I could write code to reverse a string. I replied, "In place, or...?" which apparently confused some of them.
And then Taibbi deleted his next tweet where he himself emailed Jack tens days after the NYP story about it which contradicts a lot of what Taibbi is saying.
Yeah, The Peripheral is quite good. Gibson seems pretty happy with the adaptation too, which is a good sign. I still haven't read the books.

The Sprawl trilogy was one of my favourite series when I was young. I'd like to see it adapted so that it had the same "dent in the universe" effect it had when it was published.
Been using this for the past couple of weeks and can attest it's been game changer for my productivity. Was skeptical at first, but I find myself less on Google search and more in flow. Thanks for giving it away for free
It's amazing that we expect them to ever get that all right when they screw up what glue to use.
I know rationally why a manufacturer would want to limit their color palette. I just wonder why people were more willing to pay for color in, say, the 80s than they are now. Look at the paint colors available for an early 80's Corolla [1] compared to the same car today [2]. Perhaps I'm overanalyzing but I think it's a symptom of an increasing tendency to emphasize things like insurance premiums and resale value over any kind of humanity or personality.

We see the same thing in modern interior design. Just like many of today's cars it's black, white, and grey. If you're lucky, maybe a neutral color or two. Inoffensive, but soulless.

[1]: http://importarchive.com/toyota/corolla/1980-1983/paint

[2]: http://importarchive.com/toyota/corolla/2014-2018/paint
With a plumber you have 100 options and can just reject any who refuse to give you an estimate.

With healthcare providers, your insurance only covers 3 in your area, and they all refuse to give estimates of any kind (and usually act like you're a huge asshole for even asking, and like you're the first person in the history of the universe to ever ask).
> I personally wouldn't mind a less neutral color, but I'm not interested enough to pay more for it myself.

And thats the thing, those that are interested enough can still go and get their car repainted, without making it more expensive for the rest of us that aren't as concerned with having their cars be a unique color.
What's a "sub"?
The long winding cybermoney trail starting from FTX, as compiled by Molly White:

https://www.mollywhite.net/etc/ftx-contagion
The buyer is a one person company with £14k in cash and £16k in debts as of the last year https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/c...

They have an empty cookie cutter website https://westlondoncitylets.co.uk/our-work.html and its owner has an empty linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/idris-anjary-24000b171/

The same guy owns Tokenized Properties Ltd which is an empty husk of a company https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/o... and shares its address with West London City Lets Ltd

However, they do have another cookie cutter website selling that "development opportunity" https://tokenized-properties.com/ and repeating the $1.25m price tag

According to the title (and corroborated by the entry on mattereum) the only land in it is the one I marked in red https://imgur.com/a/5h6c8Zi — it's literally a cliff, plus the title talks about right of way on the paths marked there for the next twenty years, so it's impossible to build on

This right here just perfectly encapsulates everything wrong with the crypto industry, I'm very disappointed to see Vinay openly defending this sham
>If the service/app is still around. And your IoT system? Is it compatible with the latest ver of android or iPhone? Many of these companies come and go very quickly. Pretty much as soon as the VC funding runs out, or they want to go play with 'their newest stack'. Then you get to spend another 200 bucks for a new 'hub' so the app can work again. Then hope the new hub can interpolate with the old gear. Else you get to update that too.

My 'service/app' is an open source program (Home Assistant and Zigbee2MQTT, although previously I have used NodeRed instead to provide the browser based control panel), the hub is an old server with a usb dongle with open source firmware. While there is an app available, there doesn't have to be one as there is also a browser based interface (which doesn't have to be exposed to the internet). The bulbs are a mix of various cheap brands off Amazon which are popular enough to have good support.

Sure, I have the benefit that as a techy I can handle (and to an extent enjoy) maintaining this, but that's mostly a matter of proper packaging, as it isn't a particularly complex thing to set up and is pretty close to zero maintenance.
A Climate-Conscious Gift Guide
Hey someone flag the above comment - I’m an idiot and left the email in there
HN suffers from a higher than average amounts of narcissism when it comes to being "Temporarily depressed millionaires" when thinking they will be the ones at the top of the pyramid. The few here that are near the top of the pyramid seem to forget that their high position tend to forget that position is supported by the base below them and if they don't perform maintenance on the base the entire thing collapses.

Humanity is built on societies and we must treat it so by ensuring we produce wealth and distribute, not extract wealth and horde it.
The linked "dog story" is an.. eye opener, too:

https://old.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/95dgrx/i...
I have only ever played casually, but have dozens of hours into ONI. The thing that kills my enjoyment is how long it can take to get some tasks completed. Like I have a goal to get a natural gas generator going. Except, I only have one smurf who can drill through the ultra hard rock, and he is busy on the other side of the map. Then it turns out we are short on igneous, so I’m stuck waiting for a fetcher to deliver some, so on and so forth. Maybe at the end game you can automate more tasks and free up more workers (instead of losing so many to maintenance activities like food production), but getting there is a slog. Coupled with how big the map can be, it feels like you lose a huge amount of time just getting the right guys into position.
I would rather see an Apple Street Train Project. Cars have so many limitations and we have to make many more of them to serve the same need and parts like tires are extremely toxic and all we can do is bury them.
Could have just been the stereo tricking your brain into thinking it sounded better. For example, in the late 1980's my family had a car that had an AM-only radio. One day while channel hopping one station just sounded so much better than anything we'd ever heard on this radio. Someone finally noticed a little STEREO light had lit up, because that station had recently started stereo broadcasts. Eventually we moved and later got a different car and I've never again seen a little light like that on an AM station.
Ouch. Looks like the death panels thing wasn't too far off
I find it hard to agree with

> developers manually specify prices for each region, which wouldn't really scale for a lot of developers

while this also is more aligned to Apple's goals, unless there's also a proven and generalized (geographically and at all price points, app types) observation where the price looking beautiful as 0.99 massively offsets the actual revenue gains of being 1.23.

> "ugly" prices in other regions (no x.00 or x.99 pricing), unless they had some rounding scheme to make them look nicer,
And everything, literally everything, is going straight in the mouth unless you tackle them to break up the play.
ChatGPT doesn't have much trouble writing in different languages (eg asking for "the same but In Dutch" seems to work well most of the time) which would be harder with hardcoded language rules, I think.
Disagree. The reason is that they would get laughed out of court if they tried to trademark karaoke, whereas now they own one of the most common words in the English language. If you had or were planning to make an app called 'Sing along' or 'Sing with me' or suchlike, get ready for a scary legal letter from Apple's trademark lawyers.
So would basic PKI or a Merkle tree, but those would be orders of magnitude less expensive to operate and more robust.

For example, how many posts a day does Reddit have? It’s far from the biggest social network but would swamp any public blockchain, and none of that is necessary since you’re really just looking for a third-party to say “we verified signature X at time Y” (they’re not vouching for the content). Federation works well for that since you don’t otherwise need a global public namespace.
> Wintergreen

Wintermute :)
That sounds hard to do in a natural language. Maybe they could deliver the unambiguous specification in a formal language designed specifically for the purpose of specifying what programs are supposed to do.
Apple still can’t figure out what kind of car it wants to make
a dam collapsing due to crappy engineering practice, isnt a property of hydro electric power, but the risk of such is perhaps 2nd or third order consequence of a dams existence, alongside orthagonal circumstances.
I'm curious why you felt that need to do so. (not snark! Genuine question.)
"Well you see after I become a billionaire I'm going to pull up the ladder behind me and move to a private island. Good luck everybody else."
Explanation:

https://www.openriskmanual.org/wiki/Withdrawn_Ratings
Midjourney has its own distinct style on purpose.
In theory.

So I have no issue with subscribing to many apps I love to fund development, or maybe paying an extra “tip” through IAP. Or just IAP for more content.

But IAP and subscriptions enabled a few models I hate.

Free game (either with ads, IAP, or both) have flooded the App Store and destroyed the market for quality games. Even the better made ones (like Candy Crush) are still designed to wring money out of people.

On the subscription front there are so many scam apps. Buy a calculator app, and pay $5/week for it because they trick people into it.

I’d be happy with no consumable IAPs in games. Or just no IAPs in games at all. And Apple should probably review high subscription prices to find scams. Realistically is there any reason for weekly subscriptions? Maybe just monthly/yearly only.
Now re-contextualize that as if it were an employer/employee relationship. That's actually a pretty messed up lesson to teach a kid about negotiation and self worth.
If you live on a 20' by 50' plot that gets six inches of rain per year, that's 500 cubic feet, or enough water for ten people to drink all year. And that's low rainfall even by Arizona standards (Phoenix gets 7 inches while Tucson and the plateaus are wetter), a small plot of land (1/43 acre), and ignoring any reuse or importation. The Southwest has plenty of water for people to live their lives, as long as it's utilized efficiently. It's agriculture that isn't suitable.

It's also worth recognizing that the western United States was settled first, as people came down the Pacific Coast after crossing the Beringia land bridge during the previous ice age. California in particular has always been quite densely populated, and the only (IIRC) indigenous irrigation systems were built by the Hohokam near the Colorado Plateau.

EDIT: https://repository.si.edu/bitstream/handle/10088/23978/SMC_8...

>The population [of California] cannot be tabulated by tribes, but there can be no question that it was several times larger than any other area north of Mexico and that the destruction has been correspondingly greater.
I agree. Gibsons writing style is incredible and worth every syllable, but I find his stories to be lacking. Every word is a morsel that doesn't diminish with time and is best when it's savored.

I LOVE reading his works, but I'm not a fan of his books.
It is also a theft deterrent for the same reason. If someone steals your car and it has a unique paint job, it will be easily spotted, even with a fake license plate. So thieves will prefer cars that easily blend in.
That seems like an arbitrary standard
Finally!!

I don’t care what purists say, for me having a new set of graphics like this is a really huge step up for usability and immersion. When I tried it a long time ago, I couldn’t get much far.

I’m definitely buying it, also to support the two amazing creators of this game!
Thank you for your advice! Might you have any idea when I will be able to use ShartGPT, so that I can restyle my written English to seem as though I am having a sudden, uncontrolled bowel movement while writing?
Another option might be to download the entire .com registry database from ICANN and query it live. I say “might” because I am not sure if your use case would be permitted under their TOS.
Most of the luxury brands offer true matte paint finishes. For example, if you want matte paint ("Frozen" as they call it) on a BMW, you can order through this program:

https://www.bmwusa.com/innovations/bmw-individual.html

Like you said, these true matte paints don't have a clear coat, so they are a pain to own.

On the other hand, these "Putty" finishes that the blog is talking about are likely an attempt by the paint companies to offer a matte-like look that is still easy to maintain, and that's why they do employ a clear coat. The PPG paints use a special matte clear coat, and axalta paints use a matte additive to the base color and a matte clear coat product. Those are the two main automotive paint suppliers, but I expect the other suppliers have a similar approach.
Aggressive headlights and frontends are part of a trend in car design to cater to those awash with masculine insecurities or being told by the media they need to be more "manly"

Take a look at the previous generations of Mazda Miata's compared with the current.
A high gloss surface is easier to clean. You see gloss used for interior trim in houses that gets a lot of touch and wear for that reason.

Walls, which get comparatively little touch, get a lower sheen.

If you aren't referring to sheen and are referring to the sparkle of metallic paint instead, I don't know either. I'm betting that it hides imperfections in the underlying surface better, but I really couldn't say.

I have read that white and yellow are super forgiving colors as well, which could be why you see a lot of non-metallic white on fleet vehicles.
> It does not have to be a gigantic mess. Being back in the US, I just went to the ER and it was shocking being discharged and not being able to know what I owe.

One of the outright-grossest things about US ERs is they have dedicated vulture-like staff wandering around to extract billing information from the sick, injured, and distraught, but those folks can't even tell you anything about what it's going to cost (and neither can anyone else).
As someone running a commercial provider for Mastodon (and Matrix, and XMPP...), I am somewhat envious of these posts. "Wow, 30000 users! If I had that many users on my service paying the $0.50/month I am charging, it would be enough to pay myself a full salary!".

But then I realize that they are only getting these many people because they are not driven by commercial interests: even with donations, I can bet they are not collecting enough to keep things afloat and they only keep going because they don't mind spending all this time, money and resources of their own on this project. They can treat it as a (relatively expensive) hobby, and they can keep it running as long as it satisfies them.

The problem is that I think that this is harmful in the long run. Yes, people now are finally seeing the issue with ad-funded social media. But if we want to have a healthy alternative, we need to understand TANSTAAFL, we need to accept that we need to give real money to the people working on this and to have the servers available 24/7 to store and distribute the hot takes and stupid memes that we so bizarrely crave every day.

I worry that if we don't change the mindset quickly, the whole Twitter drama would be a wasted opportunity and Mastodon (and the Fediverse in general) will go back to the status quo, where surveillance capitalism is the norm and truly open systems are just a geeky curiosity.

I wish I could fund a tech-equivalent of the "buy local and organic" campaign. I wish I had more people thinking "ok, I will pay $5/month to this guy and I will bring 10 people to this instance" because it is the ethical thing to do.
To be fair that wasn’t the case until maybe 2 years ago. So it was a real problem.
Early on, I remember there being a tactic for apps where the owner wants them to be findable in the App Store, but doesn't want any new buyers, they set the price to $10K. But these days, I think the most expensive apps are $1K - app.cash, vueCAD Pro and Cyber Tuner.
These are MUCH better than the ones I got for $50 from fiverr two years ago.
The thing with The Peripheral adaptation: there’s basically no cyberpunk aesthetic in it. The near-future stuff is done very naturalistically. The content remains pure Gibson.
There is a street in my town with this name. I've been tempted to steal the streetsign!
I agree. I often wish people would just read the book instead of waiting for a movie adaptation to legitimize it or elevate it to a more prestigious form.
> they do it because they can

against the desires of the entire global community of developers. the hallmarks of a true monopoly
Can we get a link to this scratch, please.
A new milestone for laser technology: Seeded free-electron lasers
You ChatGPT? :)
I don't know how you fund UBI; I'm not an economist. But I know it can be done, because I know the government has funded some astonishlingly costly projects.

The thing about UBI is that it takes away financial terror from everyone; whatever happens, you won't have to beg on the pavement. Socialized health assures you that you won't be forced to sell your family's home if you get ill.

It's hard to measure the value of these social goods, so they don't get measured. But they are undeniably goods.
Either I'm burnt out or jaded and cranky but I thought the same.
Why do you assume "dysfunctional"?
Flying costs money. Having apartment big enough to accommodate 3 adults plus one or two kids costs money. Family members have to work too.
There is no black and white here.