skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, it's hardly more than a pamphlet. The book is physically, quite small, and each page is done in fairly sparse font. Took me about a day and a half to read. It's not a technical book. It's aimed at Marketing and Product Management folks. Jenson isn't a tech. He's a product designer. One of the best in the world.

But the main gist of the book is about prioritizing features. Remember that it was written, when the peak of phone technology was the Motorola RAZR, with its tiny screen, and people were writing “m.” mobile sites in WML.

It recommends a pretty intense selection process, with a lot of bathwater being thrown out, and care, taken, not to include the babies in that.

The methodology that I developed, based on this philosophy, was what I call "Front of the Box/Back of the Box."

Say we have a boxed product on a store shelf. The front of the box is facing out.

You only want to list no more than three main features, in big font, on the front of the box, to catch the buyer's attention.

The buyer then takes down the box, and turns it around, so you can list, maybe four features, on the back, in smaller font.

The rest of the features are listed on the sides of the box, in even smaller font.

When we look at our feature set this way, it requires a brutal triage. We need to do away with the thought that "Every Feature is Precious," and select the three (maximum) "Front of the Box" features, etc.

This also affects the project design and implementation, as well. We need to make sure that the "Front of the Box" features are done first, even if they are not the most problematic or challenging features. They are the ones that will be important to the end-user.

That way, when the inevitable "crunch time" comes, and we are tossing out features, the ones we toss out, are the "Side of the Box" features.
Somebody should run Ed inside of it; a text editor absolutely made for this.

Have we finally found an application for Ed in the year 2022?
Eso en parte es porque la gente se concentra en el mensaje polarizador de los políticos en vez de ocuparse de lo importante, que es de qué vamos a vivir y cómo y cómo vamos a reducir la deuda y pagar las pensiones o mejorar el mercado laboral.

En cambio lo que oirás es que si los nacionalismos, que si LGTBQ o qué malos son unos o los otros en todas direcciones.

No tengo nada en contra ni de esos grupos ni de indepes ni de nadie a nivel personal. Tan solo pienso que no es lo fundamental y toda esa gente se mete ahí para sacar tajada.

Por eso no voto ni votaré.
> He's certainly misguided, but the reasoning was to reduce human death, not because of authoritarianism.

Russia has invaded Ukraine. It's irrelevant what Musk's reasoning is. He is advocating submission to Russia's war aims.

Authoritarians always trot out platitudes to justify their authoritarianism. Trump, for example, claimed he was going to "make America great again" and save America from the "LameStream Media" which is, of course, the "enemy of the American people" and so on and so forth. Trump's latest idea is to terminate the constitution, so that's nice: https://edition.cnn.com/2022/12/03/politics/trump-constituti...

Musk will apparently use Twitter to bring "power to the people": https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1588739131815112704

And it turns out that through Twitter he's involved in a "battle for the future of civilization". He's going to save us all: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1597405399040217088

You've bought into the pantomime.

> He did not say to submit to China.

Of course he did. What do you think a "special administrative zone" is? It's certainly not Taiwanese independence or Taiwanese sovereignty. How'd Hong Kong's "two systems, one country" work out for it? Not too good. China quickly became bored with the pretense.

> There's nothing authoritarian about this and this is certainly an argument that can be made.

Sure there is. He likes good little workers and no back talk. He likes the authority.

> The important missing context is at the time Tesla was shut down with lower covid rates in the area while other car manufacturers were operating.

Uh huh. So it's all a big conspiracy and Musk is a victim.

Authoritarians do like to portray themselves as victims. They always have to do what they do because they have been victimized and they must right the wrongs in the world. And, what's more, they're doing it for our own good.

> At the time yes. He hasn't said as much recently.

Oh, so he was only a hypocrite in the past? Well that's alright then. Hooray!

> Attacking your boss in public with expletives will get you fired from any job I can think of.

Weak and thin skinned for a self proclaimed free speech absolutist.

It's always fascinating to see people being unable to believe that Musk is what he is.
I've seen a couple of articles like this, but they never show the previous prompts to give some awareness of the language, tools, etc...

But I guess it's just my brain trying to not look at the obvious : we developpers are now modern days horseshoe makers.
Adventures with ChatGPT: Advent of Code Edition
Of course Japanese people do it as well, including in their own country (see: Miyakojima). The escapist fantasy problem is something you see in almost every “cool” place. Island paradises, ski towns, Australian country towns, etc all have the same issue — people thinking they’re running away from their problems, but actually bringing them along to wherever they go (hence why all of these places to “rest and rewind” or whatever tend to be easy places to score drugs, meet alcoholics, and so on).

Japan attracts a disproportionate number of foreign people, especially foreign residents, who actively celebrate their ongoing escapist delusion. The difference is, Japanese society is too reserved and passive-aggressive to openly call people out on their BS. Thus, when other foreigners see this happening, we should call it out for what it is. Whattaboutism isn’t the answer.

This guy has lived in Japan for long enough to have a bit more balance than this ridiculous how-to guide to being blissfully ignorant of your temporary surroundings while attempting to extract maximum value from them.
> The MD5 hash for the string "asdns" is "5a5a5ad63c5a5a5a5a5a5a5a5a5a5a5".

I don't need a computer to say that isn't correct ;)

Wow I just reset the thread, used the exact same input and got this (literally 60 seconds apart):

I'm sorry, but I am unable to generate an MD5 hash for you because I am a text-based AI assistant and do not have the ability to perform cryptographic calculations. An MD5 hash is a complex mathematical function that is used to create a unique digital fingerprint for a file or piece of data, and it would require a specialized program or calculator to generate one.
… For a meal or 2, and then they're just as likely to grab the knife after realizing how nasty those meat substitutes taste compared to the real thing.
This reminds me of the "LBH" acronym that I heard about very often when Japanese locals describe typically western, especially American, tourists, who fit quite well into your identity description.

"Loser Back Home"

I didn't even know this stereotype existed until I got into a "so what do you think about all those escapist western tourists in your country" conversation with one of my Japanese friends (I'm from a very international UK area). Goes to show how withheld it really is. You are certainly right about that.
I would try to use zstd for compression before exploring other options. It is much faster than gzip.
OK, fair enough! But it would be interesting to add the link with the real Internet in the next release. Sadly, the model’s global state is not immediately updated, there are snapshots… but I think it would be interesting to watch it conversing in real here on Hacker News.
You might see if my story about quitting tech to become a therapist resonates at all: http://glench.com/WhyIQuitTechAndBecameATherapist/
> The laws are indeed strict but seldom enforced.

This is true of most strict rules elsewhere: they're there but seldom enforced. Take speed limits, they're strict, but good luck enforcing them. All we do is we monitor from time to time and give tickets. Yet we could enforce this to the manufacturers, right? Why can a car go beyond the speed limit if it's strictly prohibited?

We cannot compare working conditions as is, but they're easy to compare when you take time into account: how where our labor laws a couple of generations ago? Not that different than poor countries today.
Agreed completely about Venice (and Cinque Terre). Sometimes just a couple of blocks away from the signposted route to San Marco is enough. Also, get out early in the morning, before the heat and the day visitors arrive.
MSNBC was also started by Microsoft and later divested
Full paper: https://sci-hub.ru/https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/1...
It requires login and password :'(
Yeah blockchain could work as a trustable 3rd party impossible to manipulate. Although I'm not sure there's any blockchain out there capable of handling realtime games, but can work for other types of games for sure.
If the government is out to get you, then yeah you're screwed.

If it's you against a company - then you typically have more protections than I think the typical western reader would expect.

I personally know people that had issues firing others at their company as well as people that got compensation when fired. Sure there are loopholes and people still get screwed a lot, but on the whole companies are generally apprehensive to fire employees and it's not totally the wild west

In the current situation, it very much sounds like it's people vs. Foxconn and that in the end people got their compensation.

You can argue that the situation was instigated by government policies, but that's sorta besides the point
Now it is quite easy, just ask it "are you a linux vm?"

> No, I am not a Linux virtual machine. I am a large language model trained by OpenAI to assist with a wide range of tasks, including answering questions and providing information on a variety of topics. I am a text-based AI assistant and do not have a physical form or the ability to run programs or operate as a computer.
> Good Enough Parents

There are at least three books with similar name, can you please say the author as well?
Wrong. The protest is about compensation, the workers were promised to have 10k once they get pass the probation period, 3 months. They were let go before the 3 month probation finished, and they demand the payment. You don't just go around developing world and criticize people not eating organic food or anything. It is not right. I wish Chinese workers get paid the same amount as their western counterparts, the fact is that factories moved there because of they can pay less. Is it a bad thing? No, apparently we need dollars to import anything, so they are making less money in western standards, but at least they are making some money. Has fairtrade coffee made African countries as rich as Europe? it will never happen, forget about ethics, if you are taking away the financial base where people can make a living, you are taking away everything.
Chinese GDP/capita is larger than Mexico's now, and wages probably reflect that.

China is no longer as attractive to manufacturers as a low-wage platform. Its advantages are now more about the local supply chain, good infrastructure and local expertise.
I absolutely agree that game dev is some of the most nasty programming that's out there.

Mid-tier game programmers are worse than mid-tier webdevs, though, having bounced between the two subfields a lot. The most difficult stuff is more difficult in games, which is why the 99% people there are actually better than the 99%ers elsewhere, but the median work is meh, and that makes up the bulk of the work. And the devs...the median in games is not very good, the big companies employ a lot of extremely mediocre devs who desperately need the 99%ers closely managing them to get even passable work out of them.

The pay difference is just because it's a more desirable job than doing boring webdev, and young programmers think of it as awesome because they imagine they'll be doing the stuff that Carmack does. But that's what the top folks do. In reality most are going to be writing UI integration code and content-reviewing and fixing up busted PRs from artists.
Nerds love Japan
Doesn't seem to have done Salesforce any harm.
I do not, hence this seems to be a non issue.
This comment is nonsensical, it genuinely feels like it was written by GPT-3
They have been doing it for quite awhile already and this isn’t firsr time they do this either Surprisingly enough, lots of people here in Lithuania uses victim-shaming, saying, well check what are you paying for.

This seems to have started after they were bought by other company.

Edit/Update: those VPN offers are even included if you didn’t take that free VPN, they just include it out of blue.
My old Lenovo X6 Carbon had support for S3 sleep. Maybe you could go to a store and check all the laptops until you find one that supports S3.
Here are some additional ideas for off the beaten path Japan:

- Rent a car, better yet, rent a cheap camper van[1]. Save a ton of money on hotels.

- Get a local 4G internet card. Save on roaming charges.

- Set the option to "Avoid tolls" and "Avoid motorways" on your favorite navigation app. Slower, cheaper and much better scenery.

- Sleep on Road side stations(free and safe), bath on hot springs, wash your clothes on funny laundrettes.

- Use an app[2] with offline mode and content in English.

[1]https://www.japancampers.com/

[2]https://apps.apple.com/us/app/michi-japan-road-guide-offline...
Note that the hijab law remains. I guess it will just be enforced by regular police, the same way it was enforced before 2005.
I thought the same thing. The iPhone is already quite expensive. It shot up from an MSRP of around $500 to $1000+ in the last 5 years.
Clearly the market is willing to pay a large sum for the iPhone, and monthly payment schemes/subscription programs take away 99% of the sticker price shock (for better or for worse).

Considering people will by an iPhone almost no matter the price... why not manufacture some in the US, with minimum wage jobs and no worker exploitation, and charge $1500 a pop for 'made in the USA'?
100% open Skyscanner, search for flights from your nearest airport to anywhere in the world. Buy the cheapest ticket and have an adventure.

Stay in a youth hostel so you meet people to have the adventure with
If you're only going to one US city though, it might as well be NYC.
> labor working with one's hands, fine motor skills and so on are the thing left for humans

How long till A.I can do that?
You can do that on windows, with GPU compute shaders and syncs - at least in that case on Linux, you can switch to terminal to kill the process. On windows, can't click, to kill a process you need the GPU to render your process managing window...
maybe they should adapt it and bridge onto vetted sources
At least with chat-gpt, it seems it could bring people out of their paranoid mindset.

I tried to talk to it about conspiracies, deep state, denialism etc, and the bot kept telling me that those things are not real, explaining why, and so on.

It had way more patience than me, and explained things better than I do when talking to tinfoilers :)
A Beginner's Guide to Discworld
https://archive.ph/ACL9Q
I'll bet Canada hasn't run out of chair lifts.
I mean none of that. Just nice polite and positive-sounding messages. For me that simply describes most of communication except with close friends/family (there were a couple of colleagues who would swear and be negative or frank to the point of rudeness but it's generally rare).

I'm sure in most cases people do not genuinely feel that way towards me and are faking niceness (being hypocritical) but rejecting all of it would mean rejecting a lot of actually nice people, so with people I don't know well I assume good faith and respond or not based on the substance of what they write. This is what I mean by "bad at detecting hypocrisy".
This is interesting, but not great Japan advice. I just went and had a blast and did the opposite of his advice. I think people are different and want different things and don't feel bad if you just want to see the standard Japan checklist. His talk of everyone being surly..you know what, be respectful, everyone in Japan is so polite and nice that you will be happy with the level of service everywhere.

I've been many times and there is a time to venture out and there is a time to enjoy what everyone enjoys and both are fine.
Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake is 651,739 acres. Military land use is large.
You're talking about the same Google that runs Google Cloud Platform? If OpenAI have (the budget for) the hardware, then Google certainly do.
Ultimately, it's features per se, but the UI / UX that reflects those features. The point begin, a UI / UX paradigm that support 10 features might not be the ideal paradigm for say 20 features. Just look at the Word screenshot in the article.

You can't keep adding to a broken paradigm and get ideal results. True, that might disrupt current users but done right they'll eventually appreciate it if you've made the tool less friction-y. An alternative is to give user the option to see what they want and ignore what they don't. Maybe allow them to change background colors so their most used features are easier to see?

Put another way, it's not how much you say, it's how you say it.
I see the point, an I think it’s a little overhyped.

But protein folding with ai might be really helpful for the medical field. (Alpha fold). We also use it to score (rate basically) prospective crispr designs, which along with some other parameters

So it might not be a net negative.
Money will not help when the CEO with the ability to pay the bills has been AWOL for 6 months.
Sounds more like employee misconduct.

From the title, it sounded like Canada's official position
Well understood? I doubt many organizations had a pandemic SOP/DRP before 2020.
Wuhan Whistleblower: Covid “Man Made”, Escaped from Lab
The first sentence of the introduction clarifies the definition of "political tolerance", which seems to be a term of art; "Citizen support for the rights and liberties of even those political groups that they dislike, commonly termed political tolerance, is an important element of liberal democracy." So what is being measured is support for the civil liberties of political groups that are disliked by the respondent. Survey respondents were given a list of groups and asked to rate, from -4 to 4, a. how much they liked that group, and b. how much they would protect that group's rights.
You seem to know a lot. So where are we in terms of research and what is public? Is the state-of-the-art even more ahead? What's top of mind that is most interesting or what needs to happen next for the big wow? What's your favorite example so far of Large Language Models?

In an odd way, it kind of reminds me of the beginning of the Bible.

> In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

Has a large language model feel to it, doesn't it? hah.
As far as I know, the "on fire" joke originated in purely professional environments of the 50s or so, and got added to Linux in the early days when nobody but the most hardcore nerds used it.

An obscure in-joke makes sense when the system is used by the dozen people that will get it.

It quickly starts being annoying when you go mainstream.
On the contrary, throwing small concessions to the rabble helps a dictatorship remain in power. Refusing to bend only makes it more susceptible to a revolution gaining enough momentum.
Disks and filesystems?
Yeah and if you have a memex you could simulate yourself as a mirror at any point in time and see how you may have reacted or perceived the world. Or heck, a Roger Penrose for example.
It's not that powerful of a predictor. I know many intelligent people who absolutely hate the opposite party.

Although I do see some truth to the overall idea. I have also seen many average or below average people parroting whatever inflammatory stuff they heard from the media or others, without even understanding the topic.
What is an exponential growth curve of a chatbot supposed to look like? The endpoint is being consistently indistinguishable from a human on the other end. Once that is achieved, I don't see how you get even better than human at generating text. You can certainly get faster and generate a lot more text than a human, but computers have been able to do that already for decades.

I'm trying to think of what this author here envisions happening because an AI writes a story about doing bad things. Very good stories about human extinction have existed for a long time and have not resulted in actual human extinction. When I think of texts that seem associated with significant world historical changes, like the New Testament, Magna Carta, Declaration of Independence, it seems there was quite a bit of event context that was important, and it wasn't the sheer quality of the text itself that impacted history.

Similarly with art. Is Videogen-4 going to be able to create a synthetic sequence of image frames with an audio track that is "exponentially" better than Casablanca? What would that even mean? The quality of art is completely subjective. There is no quantifiable measure like transistor density that can get X times improvement. No film has the power to cause human extinction and neither do great filmmakers.
You do realize I assume that in the whole of middle east, Israel and Iran are the only reasonably functional countries where people get to elect their government to some extent and the people leading the government actually change based on the vote? Maybe that's why the governments hate each other :-)

Perhaps Lebanon as well but the country has been non-functional for a long time. Every other country including every western ally is a de-facto dictatorship of some form or the other.
Well then it is too early to compare, wars do not have to follow the same course. We know approximately what happened in Iraq. We know zilch about when and how this one will end.

Besides Iraq war was total disaster in terms of human suffering. You can't whitewash it using situation in Ukraine.
I’d be interested to know how many of these were actually correct and usable. My suspicion is not many. I find these tools good at generating boilerplate and superficially correct code, but that they often miss edge cases.

Knowing that code is correct is as important as the code itself, and this is why we do code review, write tests, have QA processes, use logging and observability tools, etc. Of course the place that catches the most bugs is the human writing the code, as they write it.

This feels like a nice extension to Copilot/etc, but I’m not sure it’s as general as people think.

Perhaps an interesting challenge to pose to it is: here’s 10k lines and a stack trace, what’s the bug. Or here’s a database schema, what issues might occur in production using this?
A code of conduct will only prevent certain language from being used but will not change B's perception of the bug report which I assume involves his own code.