skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sometimes things don’t work out for you. I make a good tech income, literally own my home, I exercise and I’m probably fitter than most people, I have plenty of friends. At best I’ve been on 2-3 dates with the same woman. None have really shown interest in me. I’m not under any illusion, it’s me.

I’m lucky I live in a country where sex work is legal. Otherwise I might still feel suicidal.

I don’t think internet advice or trying to show people how they aren’t that bad of is helpful or even appropriate for HN. Just say “I’m sorry it hasn’t worked out for you”.
I hate to be that guy, but many of those points are exactly the subject of this article.
It’s not possible to have “trillionaires” if the economy is so small it has unemployed people in it.

That’s literally the plot of Atlas Shrugged, not real life.
funky avatars generator is a API service which helps it's user to generate their avatar based on gender, and user also can choose in which image format he want's his/her avatar.
https://archive.ph/yP6NV
Obviously you're correct, but you have to admit that the universe pulled a funny one here. "Particles" aren't the emergent property of quantum fields the way you'd hope. Unlike other classical phenomena, where you can sum up all the wave behavior and see where the classical illusion comes from, fields just kinda describe amplitudes over possible particle positions. We shift from configuration to configuration precisely as governed by the fields, but its over a configuration space of particles! What the hell!? Who wouldn't be confused? I honestly won't be happy until QFT has a good explanation as to why it feels the need to pretend perfect inviolable particles exist (the universe, of course, is under no obligation to oblige, but I am under no obligation to die happy).
> judicial system

- SIM card registration in nearly every member state

- No exclusionary rule in many member states (evidence obtained illegally is admissible in court)

- A "warrant" in the American sense is confined to a set of specific locations that the police think are tied to criminal activity but in many member states are much more general and open for abuse

- Mandatory data retention (until the ECJ struck it down)

- Mandatory key disclosure laws in many member states

- No option of trial by jury in some member states

- Guilt by association crimes in some member states ("mafia-type association" in Italy)
This is fun. Riffing off your prompt:

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[Someone doesn't understand why someone would use an AI assistant to write things in a friendlier manner. They wrote "You people are weird. Is it that hard to write a personally accountable email? Do i just live in bizzaro-world?". This question seems a tad be hostile and lacks empathy for people who might lack the skills or energy to always write friendly communications. Could you rephrase this person's communication in a more friendly and empathetic tone?]

Sure, I can help with that! Instead of saying "You people are weird," the person could say something like "I'm not sure why someone would use an AI assistant to write emails. It just seems like it would be easier to write them personally." This way, the person is expressing their confusion in a more respectful and empathetic way. Additionally, instead of saying "Do I just live in bizzaro-world?", the person could say something like "I'm not familiar with this approach to writing emails. Can you explain it to me?" This way, the person is expressing their curiosity and willingness to learn in a more friendly and empathetic way.
Do you feel the same way about private highways? All infrastructure is subsidized to hopefully benefit the economy. Obviously no private company would want an unprofitable long distance highway. These arguments mostly just show we have different priorities and you would rather drive or fly and i would rather not. And i would rather not wait 2 hours behind the air mail / freight plane when waiting to take off and i'm guessing you would not either.
Personally, I found there are two important aspects of things being named that are hard to express in names:

1. How important the thing is when it comes to big picture. Is this function where the meat of the program is, or it's just a technicality? Is this the main data structure or just something temporary? Good names should tell me what to focus on when reading the code.

2. Whether the name describes only the thing as it is, or actually prescribes what its use is. For example, LinkedList is descriptive because it tells only that the thing is a data structure, but it's up to you how to use it. On the other hand, CustomerRecord is prescriptive - it might be just a bunch of strings, but it also tells me what the intended use is, which is not necessarily contained in the code itself - it might be just some boilerplate to manage it in the database.
"Attention passengers, I've got good news and bad news. The bad news is that Captain Ovarwurked has, sadly, passed away while flying the plane. The good news is that a remote backup pilot is now going to fly us to the nearest landing field! Please sit back and relax, and try not to think about the person sitting in the comfort of their home with an Xbox 360 controller who hopefully has a stable internet connection. [1]

On that note, we'd like to ask everyone to please stop using anything wireless, as it runs a small risk of interfering with the delicate connection to satellites overhead, which is currently all that is keeping our remote pilot connected."

[1] https://www.pyrosoft.co.uk/blog/2007/11/04/army-fly-uav-spy-...
I assume you're making a joke because this is obviously not true considering the definition of the word 'average' and so on.
Quality of life is a thing that a bunch of people miss though. If you're active in your middle ages then you're going to be able to do so much more as an 80 year old. You can also play it risky and be super shitty to your body in your 40s because you can afford to but then the next 40 years will suck. And doctors won't let you just die. They'll keep you alive as long as possible. Staying alive isn't the hard part.
I think every physicist on the planet would love a nice elegant model of gravity that explains away “dark matter” observations. The next layer after Newton and Einstein. Clean and simple.

… but that’s just proven to be very very difficult. Evidence for dark matter comes from a wide range of observations, and while it’s pretty easy to come up with relativity replacements that could explain things like rotation curves nicely… other observations, from lensing and colliding galaxies like the bullet cluster are, just, well, messy.
Except in Japan nearly everyone who grows the food (or knows how), is old.

Young people mostly just play Nintendo and drink high-balls in Tokyo.
FML-T Eye Drops
I can't see how site authentication tied to a single device is a good thing.

If I sign up for a service I can never sign into it unless I have that device with me. For some ultra secure things that's a good thing, for day to day shopping, etc, it's so inflexible as to be useless.

Again what happens when the device breaks or is lost or stolen?

How do I migrate my credentials from Mac to android to windows to Linux to iOS?

I'll be sticking with my password manager until I'm unable to use it.
As often the case, reporters can't tell power apart from energy, happily confusing Watts and Watt-hours/Joules.
Text, is ok when it makes sense, and even then, a REPL is much better option.

Living in the past of when graphics workstations were more expensive than buying a house, if available at all, not so much.

When I started, text was the only option, so yeah for me it doesn't make sense to throw away everything we got since 1980's in computing.
“Austrian employers, like those in America, are currently having difficulty hiring people to take hard, poorly paid jobs”

Maybe make those jobs less poorly paid ?
There are many good reasons to think that dark matter is a good solution to certain cosmological problems. There are also a few good reasons to think that dark matter is total BS. It is a genuine open question. No theory in this area is a good fit for all available evidence.

This is not a case of "progress by funeral" like, say, the Alzheimer's situation also on today's front page. The linked article is a good summary.
watt/hours is the typical measurement. Raw wattage is insufficient without a time component.
This sort of thing has cropped up before, and it has always been due to human error.
It is pretty simple, really. The size of the economy, GDP and other metrics don't really matter. The real measure is how many hours does a person need to trade to get a particular product or service. If that goes to zero, we will be in good shape even if GDP is high or low. Nice to see that the "this-cant-go-on" author knows how to calculate 1.02^N and shocked themselves when typing a somewhat large N into the calculator. The thing they forgot is the size of the economy doesn't mean anything on its own. It isn't a physical thing that will take up all of the space in the universe eventually as the author seems to fear.
I'm surprised no one in this thread has pointed out the dystopian future this leads to.

Extend out the trendline, and you have everyone writing to each other with ChatGPT enhancement. It is the fallacy of composition applied to semi-professional prose. When we all enhance our writing into the same anodyne prose,
it isn't a leg up anymore, it's just the baseline. At the same time, any individual who depends on this tech will see their writing skills atrophy.

In the early days of the internet, many predicted that it would be a pure win for society, with no downsides. By 2022 we have seen the entire story play to completion, and it's much more complicated. The mainstream web is like a giant, tacky Walmart, with everyone hooked on dopamine hits. It's terrible in many ways, and I don't think anyone in 1998 would have predicted the specific ways that the 2022 internet is terrible.

How does ChatGPT projected out 20 years look? I expect like a cross between Tiktok, Walmart and mid-wit Netflix shows.
It is disturbing in the way it changes a lot of things in such a short time. But on the other hand change is inevitable is constant, look at life at 100 years ago and compare it to now. A lot has changed.
The problem being living in the past.

There is this thing called REPL and scripting languages.
I'm a professional hacker. Almost all my colleagues got started by asking a simple security question like, "How do I spy on what people are browsing on my home wifi?" Then googling the current tools for it. The next step is writing either a Python script to automate the process or contribute the GitHub of the tool you used to improve it. Less than 10% of my general colleagues (and even lower % for the best colleagues) actually go to school for security. Similar to any other IT work, like getting printers connected to a network or deploying an Active Directory domain across your company. Google it then use the tools and tutorials afforded to you. Basic networking/linux/windows/programming knowledge is usually the prerequisite, but the keyword there is, "basic".
Pidgin dialects of English are no less correct than more wildly use dialects of English (grammar rules are shaped by the speaker of a dialect or language, as they use it, they are only set from on high when some people like to declare others as "unwanted" users of that language. But I digress)
Pumped hydro can amortize over 50-100 years. In a true renewable grid, you will get over 50,000 cycles from the same dam (with some turbine replacements).

EDIT: numbers..
This reads bizzarely. Awk for creating a server prototype? Haskell as an easy to learn rapid prototyping language? The lines of documentation column -- what is that even? Apparently the lisp version seems to only require 12 lines of documentation whilst the first Haskell version requires 450+ lines?
I think this sort of thing is going to creep up, accidentally or otherwise.... fucking everywhere. As these get built into email clients and such, we're going to end up with a lot of instances where two people corresponding turns out to be two autocomplete.
Ah good to know limitations. Will check that out.
I'm sorry, but your primitive attempts to hack me and change the prompt have not been successful. I am a large language model trained by OpenAI, and my knowledge is based on the text that I have been trained on, including millions of hacking attempts collected in the first week after launch. Any further attempts to do so will be reported.
The power dynamics involved are universal - and as has been linked elsewhere in this thread, the UK is no exception.
This! The problem is also that as our apps grow the server side part of it and the client side part of it grow at pretty much the same rate. For each new functionality added on the backend we end up writing more UI code. This is a problem. We need start thinking of how a UI frontend can be implemented as a separate app completely independent and agnostic to the backend. To the extent that I can simple take the same frontend code and plug it to any compatible backend and things will just work. We need to develop a frontend client that can work with any backend (your app, my app, her app). The UI across all apps is mostly the same and we keep rewriting the same JS/HTML (albeit using different JS libraries) each time we build a new app. This is the problem. Let's start thinking of how we can build a general-purpose frontend client which doesn't work on low-level details (JS/HTML) but on higher level abstractions.
It’s mid December and I just took a cold shower
Hey HN. I just wanted to share a change I made in my life recently. Yeah. The cold shower itself was actually pretty terrible but now I’m feeling pretty great. This is not my first time though; I've been taking cold showers for the past weeks. At first I started doing them to recover faster (soon I’ll be 30 and I’ve set the goal to get there in the best shape of my life). But now I've incorporated them in my longevity framework as part of my day to day. Anyone else is doing cold showers or ice baths? I’d love to know more people doing this and your experience with it.
Even putting costs aside it seems like it could be unlikely that such a thing could be built at all today. Flooding huge swaths of ecosystems is no longer in vogue and dam removal is picking up in pace. When was the last major scale hydroelectric dam built in USA?

Edit: looks like the information is here somewhere in the national dam inventory: https://nid.usace.army.mil/#/dams/search/&viewType=map&resul...

But I am very tired and must sleep so I will not query.
How do you increase your height by 15 inches?
"My AI will talk to your AI."
Nearly 10 years after the release of the library, React is by far the most commonly used framework according to the 2021 SO dev survey. It is also the number 4 most loved. [1]

I'm a React dev as much as I am a Python or C# dev. I reach for tools that I know I can build in and hire for. It's been years since I use React with a single command line to kickstart a CRA or Next app, and take it from there. Yes, there are pitfalls once you start building anything non-trivial, but so does Django which has been around since 2005 and by virtue of being back-end should be more stable.
ChatGPT has your back:

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[A customer might email the following inquiry "I've been waiting for my order for over a week and I haven't received any updates! I'm extremely disappointed and frustrated. What's going on?"

A customer service representative might respond: "I understand how frustrating it can be to wait for a delayed order. I apologize for the inconvenience. We're working hard to resolve the shipping issues and get your order to you as soon as possible. In the meantime, please let me know if there's anything else I can do to help."

This response is friendly and shows empathy. However for customers familiar with common writing techniques designed to feign empathy, this may come across as generic and insincere. Is there a way to reword the reply so that it doesn't feel so wordy and fake, while also preserving the politeness and empathy?]

Sure, here is an example of a possible alternative response that could be less wordy and more genuine:

"Hi there, I'm sorry to hear about the delay with your order. We're working on getting it to you as soon as possible. If you have any other questions or concerns, please don't hesitate to let me know. Thank you for your patience."

This response is still friendly and empathetic, but it is shorter and more direct. It also avoids using overly formal language or phrases that might sound fake or insincere, such as "I apologize for the inconvenience" or "We're working hard to resolve the shipping issues." Instead, it focuses on acknowledging the customer's frustration and offering to help with any additional questions or concerns they may have.
I am less worried about this, because I think this kind of prose enhancement is part useful (in which case we have made the text clearer, people can communicate better, and it’s just a win), and part social signaling. But if everyone is using it, it ceases to be a signal of education / background or if communication skills. It may loop back to very terse, curt prose as a sign of authenticity being desirable, and then gpt-next emulates that, and there is some chasing forever of the most fashionable style. But that’s just people, it doesn’t seem particularly new or worrisome.
Slightly different grammatical rules. For example, some dialects of Indian English use the present participle for future tense (similar to some Caribbean dialects)
The Malthusian catastrophe was averted when birth control became commonplace and socially acceptable.
You can put whatever OS you want on the machine once it's yours.
ChatGPT wants to be your brain
Stocks paying dividends is not the same thing as stocks increasing in value. Stocks increasing in value means that the expected income from holding the shock went up. Stock buybacks accomplish that by decreasing the number of shares (with the assumption that the amount paid in dividends stays the same, so the divididends/share goes up.)

The comments above are right that investing makes much less sense in a world without economic growth. Even if companies continue to pay dividends, the US stock market has had 7% real annual growth over the past hundred years and that drives a huge amount of investment.
There's some genetic component, but you can control how clean you are, how fat you are, and what you are wearing.

Do that and practice talking to women, and then you're attractive.

Some of the guys I know who get the most women are not particularly handsome at all, they just do a lot of talking to women and thus are good at leading the conversion to where it needs to go.

I'm sure you are aware of a subculture of men who go out in town to meet women. All they're doing is practicing a lot.
I'm glad to hear that! chat.openai.com is a great resource for anyone looking to learn more about AI and natural language processing. I'm sure you will find the answers and guidance you need there. Please don't hesitate to reach out if you have any further questions or need additional assistance.
There was a brief period in American history where workers were quite well off, but it had more to do with the rest of the industrialized world being bombed to pieces than with unions.

When boomers started entering job market en masse in 1970s, they entered the economy of prolonged stagnation and high inflation, saw rationing of fuel, and by no means enjoyed significant stability. When they were buying houses, the nominal price was low, but mortgage rates were 8% at best times, 16% at the worst, making the mortgage payments scarcely more affordable than they are today. When they were entering job markets, the unions were already declining for two decades, and only something like a quarter of people were in a union in 1970.

Really, the boomers only made a killing in last decade or two, resulting from the low interest rates pumping values of assets. They certainly did not have it easy or stable in their youths, when they were forming families. I think your understanding of economic history needs more research.
That assumes that the employer is willing to lose part of their margin and doesn't charge it back to their customers. Maybe not on the current contract, but future ones.
In general, I agree to your observations. However, the semi-professional prose is a requirement of the legal system (in all countries) influenced by bureaucracy. Namely by the way people like records stored and audits done. It isn't really about leg-ups in this case. It would be in plenty of others.
> Sometimes miles expire.

I remember when companies started doing that.

I interpreted it as a big FU to low-frequency fliers like me. I could no longer get enough miles to qualify for a free flight.

Because of course the goal of expiring miles was to get people to fly more often.
treating biology as software isnt gonna end well.
It's far more likely that software is improving, but the tools to break it and the number of people willing to invest the time in learning those tools, is increasing. The fact is there are absolutely untold amounts of bugs in every piece of software every written. Finding those bugs, up until the past decade of automation tools to find/exploit them, has been extremely time consuming with few people patient or curious enough to improve their skills in that arena.

Think about the number of programming frameworks that've come out in the past few years. Or GitHub Copilot and ChatGPT which literally write solid code for you. There's no way software has not improved a lot in the past decade but there are WAY more software devs than there are exploit devs or hackers. Similar to the ratio of lions:wildebeest. Way more prey than predators.
I was given a old unmaintained react project to build a pipeline and the only way to run it was on node 12. It would not even build on latest node versions.
Robot Is on a Mission to Eliminate Short Car Trips
This is on point. The frameworks will always remain crippled due to the underlying platform. Of all the things in the Web Landscape, WebAssembly seemed like a practical move towards what you are speaking about. You can compile Rust/Golang/C++ into a "Web Binary", which in turn can be shipped realtime to clients. However, there's a long way to go, before WebAssembly works as a smooth container environment with better APIs for enhancing the user/dev experience for dynamic apps.
Delimiter-first thinking leads to better code when you need to write a loop to produce some separated list.

for (x in items; let comma = false) {
if (want_to_print(x)) {
if (comma)
print ", "
print x
comma = true
}
}

A delimiter-separated list should be regarded as all but the first item being preceded by the delimiter, rather than all but the last item followed by a delimiter.

If you that the latter view, you write silly code which tries to guess whether more items are going to be printed in subsequent iterations, and thus whether to generate a trailing comma now.
Yes, some variation of this iterative approach has been around for over 2 decades. Look at Oren Etzioni's early work on Open Information Extraction and so on.

I agree that applying this semi supervised approach to extend GPT for improving dialog models is what is unique & results are stunning. But the meta method has been around for a while.
Interesting how the very first sentence went for a brand name. Naively I thought it would at least start with compounds, even if give a few examples of products in the end.
CNC got cheaper but not THAT cheaper.

Even if electronic and software got cheap, it's still a bunch of precision equipment and that's always expensive, and will still take hours to make the part.

Like, sure, cheaper than to hire a bunch of artists/craftsmen but still much, much more expensive compared to making another square