skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> multiplying two 5-digit numbers

To be fair, 99% of humans can't do that unaided (that is, without a calculator, or some way of visually laying out the intermediate steps) either. In fact, I'd say that 90% of humans can't do the necessary long multiplication steps even with a pencil and paper, and maybe 20% of humans couldn't do it even with a calculator (due to being too young; or having a disability; or growing up in a environment where they are not taught how to use a calculator or even the concept of multiplication at all).

I just think it's ironic if people are suggesting that their threshold for finding an AI "impressive" requires it to already be effectively super-human. It's like they're retreating from the bailey of long AI timelines to the motte of: "Sure, I can't think of anything a human can do that an AI can't, but that's not really significant, because humans aren't particularly intelligent".

Perhaps a more relevant test would be to ask ChatGPT something like: "If a human wanted to calculate the product of the two numbers 12345 and 56789, and they had a calculator with them, what sequence of buttons would they press, in order, to find the result?".
>I think the advice is directed towards people who could take the stairs, but habitually don't.

I think we could probably agree with this advice based on strong priors but this paper provides poor support for the advice since it's not an intervention, it's an observation of extreme sedentary "lifestyles" which are probably heavily skewed towards various forms of illness (or infirmity from old age).
Red skin for men and yellow skin for woman is a convention of tomb paintings. Those are the stylized paintings on walls with the stereotypical technique of combining a side view and a frontal view into a single 2D representation. Mummy portraits belong to a different, later genre that is far less stylized and more realistic. The skin tones, in particular, are more true to life in mummy portraits than tomb paintings.
You're confused, copyright != antitrust violations.

Both sources you provide have zero mentions of the word 'copyright' in them.

Those lawsuits have to do with Google's dominating the search market and using that to their advantage in ways that are allegedly unfair.

Copyright law actually allows a service like Google to exist in the first place.
There are a lot of consequences for Facebook/meta for example. They have and will pay millions for transgressions.

But I would agree it is not sufficiently deterrent for a company this size.
My understanding is that this new ticker greatly simplifies a currently very complicated ticketing system.

But, I don't think that many people need a national ticket on a daily basis, and indeed people won't switch because of the very cheap price. Cars are vastly more expensive and people still prefer to drive.

There is a lot of politics involved, I think. Some think that public transport should be very cheap or even free (which of course actually means it's paid via general taxation) but really I don't think it makes a difference on behaviour because people can afford to pay even hundreds of euros a month if they have to.
I don't think on call is a sign of low status, but I think OP is correct that programming is a low status job. People respect the business guys with the big ideas, not the implementors and tbh I think that's fair. It's still one of the best jobs in terms of benefits, but you have to be willing to accept that your life as a corporate programmer is mainly carrying out someone else's ideas.
I'm not saying CEX and DEX are the same. You are saying only one of them is crypto. That's obviously not true.
When layoffs are common, a new one isn't news. It's a great time for companies to offload unproductive employees. If they did layoffs during a bull market it'd draw a lot of attention and negative PR.
Sundar Pichai went on a big media tour saying it was time for tech layoffs. Investors on wall street think he knows what he's talking about so they went around to all the board meetings and VCs saying "Google is cutting costs, we need to be doing the same at our companies". You won't be able to raise money or look good on wall street if you don't look "fiscally responsible" right now and that means "making the hard choice to let people go". Nevermind that it's actually easier to let people go than to fight with the board who's been listing to Pichai quotes on MSNBC for the last few months.
Piss-weak is commonly understood vernacular where I'm from.
True, cars may never drive themselves but I guarantee that at some point we'll have vehicles that have very specific functions self drive. I can even say that cars that self drive in the highway only are just around the corner.

No code won't fill all needs but they have a place in business.
We've scaled up now, so it should be a lot faster :)

Not raising right now, but feel free to reach out to us at founders@sayhello.so.
I don't see why demographics would be regarded as so important to industrialised societies. The bulk of labour power in those societies comes from machines, not physically fit young people. In such a society, an older population is not a downside, and can in fact be an upside, as older people often have more technical expertise for developing and maintaining those machines.

The only reason it's considered bad is because the system of socially-subsidised retirement leads to older people being artificially unproductive, but that's just one way of supporting the elderly; It would be feasible to institute a new system where aging people are given stronger labour protections, and are provided with support to change their patterns of work in response to changes to their physical and mental capabilities. Many would even see this as a positive thing, since work can provide a sense of meaning and retirement can be a major stressor.
You wouldn't be happy to visit now then. :)
Nowadays, "then doubles down" sounds as if they got a shitstorm and didn't cower.
I'm not conflating anything. This is the crypto space. The crypto space isn't only DEXs, it's full of CEXs and its where the vast majority of money is.
The reason is likely simpler:

- It is expensive (~0.5c per generated answer)

- It is (currently) slow (2-3 seconds to result)

- It is hard to place ads inside direct answers (probably the most important)
The positivity in the comments here makes me want to learn Clojure. Apparently it makes you happy.
I think the thread I linked shows there is substantial frustration here, and the reason I didn't purchase a Navi card was in part due to widespread reports that ROCm was untenable on the platform.

> once compiled properly and sometimes with the right environment flags

Not interested in apologism for the corporation. If AMD wants to compete with CUDA, they have to support the consumer GPUs that are accessible to hobbyists and non-experts. This is user hostile support.
The FTC would seek to force MS to sign something saying "If you let us buy Blizzard, we will sell the game on Steam/Epic/MS Store on equal terms". Distribution is a great chokepoint for a monopolist, so the agreement would (theoretically, since it never works out in practice) take that away from MS.

I don't personally think the FTC is going for a consent decree here though, Lina Khan is about antitrust, I think they are trying to block mergers as a matter of business.
How PostScript kickstarted desktop publishing
Nothing with as much pull as CoD though. By the numbers it's not even close
> Note: if you opt to not use the script and want to use the UI, you have to disable both Bluetooth and AirDrop.

Periodic reminder that Apple re-enables Bluetooth on every OS update: https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/bluetooth.html
Kids in US public schools stop getting micromanaged like this around first grade. Tech workers are treated like toddlers.
https://coconut-lang.org/
More than three-quarters (77%) of global soy is fed to livestock for meat and dairy production.

https://ourworldindata.org/soy
Reminds me of the cool stuff that Survival Research Labs[1] used to do in the Bay Area in the 1990s and early 2000s. They'd have very unpermitted and somewhat dangerous shows in abandoned lots in industrial zones and under freeway overpasses. Fun times. Updating it for 2020s robotics, by doing the same thing with semi-autonomous control would be even more wild, and potentially dangerous.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survival_Research_Laboratories
You apparently can't even comprehend the difference between theft and fraud.
I am currentlty using total-commander internal writing widget. it would be nice to have persistent buffers and a (publishing mode?)
Please don't recommend people pipe curl output to a shell. Yikes.
We call them Regionalbahnen -- if you want to get an understanding of speed and price, go to https://www.bahn.com/en and click on "Further Options" and select only Regionalbahnen (you'll have to click the "From" or "To" box first). They are quite slow, but more importantly during the last 9 euro ticket they were so overcrowded as to be unusable (.. well, obviously not since there's a reason they were overcrowded, but you get me..).

edit: in the English version the correct thing to tick is "Types of Transport" > "Regional services, other trains", after you click the "Further Options" button.

edit2: w.r.t

> monthly pass to the suburbs upstate where my in-laws live (a 50 min ride)

This is usually covered by S-Bahnen in Germany, and those are usually under the same ticket as the underground. In most places ~it's around 80ish for such a monthly ticket.~ (edit3: this last part about the price is wrong, see below.)
Clearly, FTC, doesn't take Nintendo seriously as potential competition for Sony and Microsoft.

Maybe they do this to try to get support from Microsoft regarding the Apple and Google App Store. Anyways some what expected but still disappointing. Feels like FTC could fooled by Sony in my opinion.
These days, your handset is de facto your personal id (via eSim) and contains your personal digital possessions. A person taking over your handset could easily impersonate you and there's a good chance they could access your medical and banking records.

I am far from being a legal expert, but I see there's a 9-0 ruling in Riley v. California that a smartphone has 4A protections.
<golf-clap> Well played!!!
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In 25 years you’ve never once created a list with more than one type of object in it?
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33912060 and blogspam (most people I know don't consider WP a credible news source anymore)

Please link directly to the FTC source https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2022/12/...
Diablo 4 is a grindy MMORPG with some Diablo elements, so don't get your hopes up too much
Is it a shit show, though? Things were more rocky two decades ago, but my computing experience with Linux today is unmatched by any other kernel or operating system. Comparatively it feels like the UX of OS X and Windows are the total shitshows.
> but I do feel as if Blizzard has been making one poor decision after another ever since the acquisition in 2008

"Gamers" might believe this but do the stakeholders actually believe that? The company is still printing money. [1]

[1] https://gamerant.com/diablo-immortal-made-300-million-dollar....
I first heard of Gershon Kingsley when I looked up the samples on RJD2's first(?) album and discovered just how much the RJD2 song The Horror [1] (which I loved) was based on Kingsley's Hey Hey [2]. I had definitely heard Popcorn a lot before that, but did not know it was a Kingsley song... until now!

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McQNT2bfSbM
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_rwb9NgHR8
Sony hasn't bought anything on this scale (and the scale of Bethesda) though.

Microsoft have also bought plenty of smaller studios without getting into much trouble.

I personally am glad that they seem to react before it's too late for a chance. The gaming market still have a fairly healthy amount of competition. If 5 years down the road MS had managed to suffocate Sony, then it would be too late to react.
I have a Nintendo switch and love it for this. I play it a few times a year at most but (after charging) it just boots directly into Mario or Zelda or whatever game I select. Out of the desk drawer and into a game in under 30 seconds.
Psychedelics can help with this for some people.
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the govt also owes its central bank 47 billion...timing?
I'd argue that the difference is memory. When a service provider starts making decisions based on an individual user's history, rather than only using factors which they can infer on the spot, that's the point at which I'd call the behavior "personalization".
Sorry I wasn't clear enough before. I should have said "I wish Julia worked on a compiler licensed under the GPL." The only major one I know of is GCC. This is not just a "minor" benefit. To quote from the post I linked to:

"The nonfree compilers that are now based on LLVM prove that I was right -- that the danger was real. If I had "opened" up GCC code for use in nonfree combinations, that would not have prevented a defeat; rather, it would have caused that defeat to occur very soon.

...The existence of LLVM is a terrible setback for our community precisely because it is not copylefted and can be used as the basis for nonfree compilers -- so that all contribution to LLVM directly helps proprietary software as
much as it helps us."
Similar idea: https://ought.org/elicit
All seriousness. Curl should be a billion dollar piece of software. It's so widely used, I suspect half of the apps I use on a daily basis would probably stop working if Curl was removed.
My day job is working for big enterprises setting up self-hosted solutions like this. Yes, it's work and upkeep, and they do need in-house specialists, but you already know that if you're self-hosting... that's kind of the point... If they didn't have in-house specialists they would use the dedicated managed cloud hosting.

The only purpose to self-hosting is because you can't use the dedicated managed cloud, such as due to regulations, contractual stipulations, networking limitations. If you're already in that situation and you don't have the headcount to manage this technology, you're screwed.

So, again, for the vendor, providing self-hosted is as easy as "here is a binary, here's some docs, good luck to you". If the client can't hack it... they shouldn't be doing self-hosted. It's self hosted, not we'll help you host it.
if you know the number is a factorial for example

9! = 9 × 8 × 7 × 6 × 5 × 4 × 3 × 2 × 1

you have are half way of having prime factorization, you can just to compute the prime factor from 1 to 9

and you get

9! = 3^2 x 2^3 x 7 x 3 x 2 x 5 x 2^2 x 3 x 2 x1
> frankly totally unqualified people seeking SWE positions

PLEASE explain to me what value leetcode-type questions provide over what good of a software engineer someone is!
I think the point is that what happened with FTX couldn't plausibly happen with a real DeFi protocol like Uniswap. FTX might have had ties to some real DeFi protocols, but that seems unrelated to what happened. FTX's collapse doesn't make them bad by association, just as SBF's shenannigans don't make veganism bad by association.

Serum seems like a special case - it was branded as a DeFi protocol, but wasn't really decentralized, since FTX had sole upgrade authority. Because of that Serum collapsed when FTX did. That couldn't happen with something like Uniswap, where governance is actually decentralized.
the govt also announced it owes the central bank $47 billion...timing?
It also resets custom DNS settings for all networks.
> Diablo Immortal is a sickening game.

I actually only (re-)learned of the game recently (I recall its original announcement), but not enough to know anything more about it and I have been meaning to go back to it and check it out. Do you have a short version of what lends you that opinion?
Ha well that _would_ be interesting. This work is interesting on its own BUT yeah it doesn't yet do what you mentioned and, to me, its conclusions are not that surprising.
What will happen if you will tell your manager that you will not visit those standups anymore? Will you be fired?
This could be a piece of the AGI puzzle.

Learning how to combine/integrate various kinds of ANNs trained on vastly different domains is something that will have to be done at some point.

At least this seems to be a reasonable path to explore.
In France, I generally don't see lids on public toilets. In fact, its pretty common to see toilets without seats---vandalized or perhaps removed for maintenance, I'm not sure. (Maybe someone French has an idea why the seats are often missing/removed?)
We had a IPv6 transition mechanism that worked a bit like this (but nicer), it was phased out when native v6 support was deemed widespread enough.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6to4
It's tricky but you don't need a license for that either.

With tricky I mean that only under very specific circumstances you would be infringing copyright laws, like maybe if the content was private in the first place; but then in that case you wouldn't be infringing copyright either, you would just be breaking privacy laws/terms.

I honestly can't think of an example where you would get in trouble by citing a piece of content that belongs to someone else, but I'm not closed to the possibility that it could happen.
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> The squelching of dissent/free speech

Yeah, I do need some more explanation before understanding this one. Are you talking about the use of social media for propaganda? If that's the case, I have some news for you, the pandemics only destroyed it, it was being used that way for years already.

> destroying small businesses in favor of large corporations

And that one is completely vague.
I think they are supposed to be the ‘wing’
exactly, the monad "erases" the error, at least in the "happy path", while go makes it first citizen. one is not better than the other.

I care a lot about errors, for logging, for metrics (how many connection errors did people from canada have last month?), for custom error handling (UX), for lower stack depth, etc... With tools like github copilot, I can now write extensive error handling code at the speed of my tab-key, which is a game-changer.

But if your team likes monads and doesn't care about errors (or you have other monads you can now lift into this with a single line of haskell), or you want to have a nice functional separation for easier unit testing and less coupled codebase, then the monadic approach makes more sense.

But that choice is one you can make even if you think in terms of monads when doing error handling.
Ask HN: Why do I get so much “Yeti Backpack Cooler” spam?
Subject: You've been chosen

Body (in an image): You have been chose to participate in our loyalty program for free...

I've been seeing messages like this constantly make the inbox in Gmail over the last few months (even after reporting at least 3-4 of this exact type of message).

Shouldn't this be a relatively easy catch for the spam filters? Seems like it has a few features that would make it stand out:

- Low reputation domain (tudkkuyfylukf[.]ml)

- Sender name (YETI Backpack-Cooler) the same as previously reported spam messages

- Subject looks like many spam messages (that are caught in the filter)

- No body text in the email

Are these messages doing something particularly smart to evade the filters? What could be going on here?
And the projects that tend to be what pushes the platform forward are mostly led by folks at Oracle: Amber (Brian), Loom (Ron), Panama (Maurizio), Valhalla (Brian), Leyden (Mark), etc.
Overwatch has had prominent open queue, arcade, and custom game options for a long time now, and with Overwatch 2 they've removed loot boxes.
So people (unless they have aphantasia) immerse themselves in whatever they are reading and conjure up imaginations of the world that the fictional novel is portraying, right? If you think about it, what people read is essentially symbols of certain optical structure and you could argue that runes (in the traditional sense) are not much different as well! So yeah, writing can comfortably be thought of just runes that makes people hallucinate.
Yes, the answer I got was nonsensical too:

> what is the diameter of the sun in sun radii

> ANSWER

> The diameter of the sun in solar radii is 1,392,000 km. This is calculated by taking the mean radius of the sun, which is 432,450 miles , and multiplying it by the circumference of the sun, which is 2,715,396 miles .

The correct answer is, of course: 2.

BTW: Google is also confused, but not in the same way, returning:

2.0018 R(sun)
Maybe a list with ThingObject or None, but my lists are usually homogenous.
Very interesting, likely useful for many types of questions. Here's a test of say hello:

>why is the earth flat
Answer
The Earth is flat because it is a level surface without raised areas or indentations. This is why people can see buildings, hills, trees, mountains and other things that are not actually there...

I've been working on this prompt to work with ChatGPT:

>Please answer the below question, and for each researched statement of fact, especially numbers, add a bracketed number like this: [1]
If you need to use math, write each calculation as it can be written into a calculator in curly braces like this: {13 / 3 = 4.3333333333 }
Then after your answer, for each of those facts, write search terms that could be used to verify each fact from academic sources.

Question:
why is the earth flat

>The Earth is not flat, it is a sphere. This can be observed through various methods, such as observing the curvature of the horizon, the way shadows change throughout the day, and the way objects appear to change size as they move closer or farther away. [1] Additionally, the Earth's circumference has been measured to be 24,901 miles {24,901 / 3.14 = 7899.857143 }. [2]

Search terms to verify statements:

- curvature of the horizon, observation of shadows, changing sizes of objects

- measurement of Earth's circumference, circumference calculation using pi

Then here's a WIP follow up question:

>Below, I listed a result from each search term with URL and excerpts from the page. Please use the following to revise your answer, replacing the numbers with source, add actual quotes when useful, and cite sources, then instead of search terms, write your sources.

It's not perfect, but pretty neat. I imagine that some statements of facts and calculations could be corrected by having it talk to google/a calculator through a defined protocol, then use that information to revise its answer.
> [machine translation] absolutely decimated the translation industry

Do you know of a good source for this? I've heard claims of this, but also claims of the opposite ("free MT leads to more communication across languages which leads to more need for high-quality translation"). But I've never seen any studies or hard numbers (or even anecdata from translators who lost their jobs – though I do know of translators who turned into MT post-editors), and my google scholar searches are turning up nothing.
>an efficient way to store and traverse graphs to determine an outcome ... I keep seeing more and more problems that could be solved this way

Yes! The team over at Authzed keeps seeing this, too!

While SpiceDB is fully embracing its primary use-case for permissions, you could also use it to solve many other problems that boil down to "the existence of a path on a graph". For example, we've considered using it for storing update graphs for automating software updates for our Kubernetes operator[0]

The wonderful Kris Nova has also made this realization and considered SpiceDB for dependency resolution for an init system designed to replace systemd[1].

[0]: https://github.com/authzed/spicedb-operator

[1]: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dA591eipsgWeAlaSwbYNQtAQ...