skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think there's something to that characterization. I've not been able to do detailed things with it like math and deep coding, but I have been able to get templates from it containing the correct vocabulary.

We shouldn't scoff at that, it's actually quite valuable to get an outline that you can then work on.

I don't know a whole lot about transformers but it would seem like it's an elaborate association game, not a logic machine like what we normally do with a computer.

My characterization is it's a bit like a high school renaissance man: knows by and large what various things mean, knows a bit about what terms are associated, doesn't actually understand expert domains. You can spit out a confident sounding essay about the fall of Rome when you're in high school, but you aren't going to be able to explain why there's no generalized quintic solution.
Yes, well, the fact is that only a teeny tiny fraction of indie games gets even the remote possibility of a glimmer of a hope of achieving something even closely resembling any kind of popularity. The vast majority of game releases on Steam just sell maybe a few 100 copies. That's it. These games just don't get seen. The market is too flooded with releases for any conceivable storefront to display that catalog fairly.
VAERS data is a fantastic place to look for early warning signs about what should be investigated.

However given it's self reported nature, and the rampant conspiricism we see today, I think we should only see those VAERS reports as a signal of what to study, not what conclusions to draw.

At this stage though, there are billion dollar incentives to prove those VAERS claims correct, and yet there are no studies to that effect.

Competing biomed companies could seriously disrupt their competition by proving their vaccine has issues.

Russia is looking for any reason to malign the US and it's partners. China and it's zero COVID policy would love to embarrass the US and it's partners over their COVID policy. And yet they don't jump to do so because they have no proof.

There's every incentive, every mean to do so, and no data, no study.

I can't prove a negative but in a world that has every mean and motive to prove the positive, it sure makes me wonder at the absence.
>as an extreme example
Holy poop! Tim Dodd is going to the moon? He seemed so ambivalent about it at first. That will be so amazing when it happens. Really rooting for Starship right now!
I was surprised to see you can roll them. That said, if you do capsize and swim whilst in open water what are your options?

In a sit-on-top you can flip it back over and crawl back on. In a plastic kayak, another person can empty the boat on their deck and then you can get in. I assume Oru is not structurally sound enough to do that?

That seemed a pretty scary/legitimate criticism.
You heard of Douglas Adams?

Also, I can't help wondering whether this study's results are applicable to what they call a "stress test" at your doctor's. Or is that beyond the regime they were examining.
I think Gamepass is a factor - it affects suppply, no question - but the raw supply of all games seems as high as it’s ever been. One could argue the latter has led to the former; there are so many titles being released regularly now that Gamepass and perpetual Steam sales can happen.
But does it matter, if you aren't in a hurry, and mobile? With this ticket you aren't bound to one specific train connection, can hop out anywhere and anytime it suits you, maybe leave your luggage in a lockerbox in station, and explore downtown, eat, relax in whatever lies between A -> B, probably multiple times, if you feel like it.
You could try running Waydroid in Asahi - that's theoretically possible, at least.
> It felt like we were wandering in the wilderness for a while and struggling to agree on what language our users wanted us to build for them.

And I really appreciate you saying this. I get that what I'm saying is harsh and probably comes off as whiny/ungrateful. I'm mostly just venting because of the original "Why are people mad about dart in HN" comment and explaining my position there.

Dart does look like it's moving forward in a good direction and I wish it all the best. It's certainly great that the language and ecosystem are seeing a fair bit more adoption.
>math's infinity doesn't care-- it just keeps on going

...in some philosophies of mathematics.
Whose property?

https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/360/pg360-images.html
The AstraZenica and Johnson and Johnson vaccines both use a relatively novel delivery mechanism (a couple viral vector Ebola vaccines were approved in 2019-2020).

The Novavax subunit vaccine is at least an older approach, but assembling the protein fragments onto a particle is a new thing.
I also have a soft spot for Intrigue: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095378/
Yep, I use Waze to run around my city at peak traffic because its traffic info is somehow better and it manages to pick a fast ish route every time.

From personal experience, i've regretted ignoring waze because "i live here and know better" every time at rush hour.
- Open imgur page

- Desktop mode

- Change the TLD back to ".com"

- tap image with finger

Sounds simple, but I figured it out only after running into 3 or 4 other dead ends. For example, desktop mode needs to be in place for forcing the TLD to stick on my phone.

Fantastic.
My scripts an also do things like assemble a crontab, since it doesn't matter.
Why not compile directly to C in step one, if you’re already presuming the presence of a zig compiler?
No, I just disagree with you on this super hard. Having it be the default option is far more reasonable, being opted out by default is a mad choice dictated by something I really don't understand.

>>People have the right to decide personally what can or can't be done with their corpses.

Of course. That's why they can opt out.

>>Your argument is that laws are useless because somebody would still ignore them.

No, I'm saying that china harvesting organs from prisoners is not linked to their healthcare policy on donor donation after death. Equally what Israel was doing isn't linked to their healthcare policy either. So bringing up both of those cases in this argument is done in bad faith, because these events(or in case of China - active penal policies) are not subject to or influenced by organ donation policy, and saying that making the list opt-in by default is/or can lead to situation like in China is nonsensical at best, malicious at worst.
> I tried many base64 strings and they all decoded correctly until:

It "decoded" the base64 string for "which actress is the best?" except that it replaced "actress" with "address"... there is no off-by-one error that brings you to that.

I'm still baffled by weird failure modes like this. Out of couriosity, did you also give it base64 that just contained random letters, so it can't jump to any word associations?
How to make AI art on Instagram
> Single player FPS is basically dead

hm isn't there a ton of different single player FPS out that are fairly creative? Like Deathloop recently, MW2 single player campaign was pretty good.

It's the innovation in multiplayer FPS that's gone pretty much short of biannual efforts from AAA (Battlefield, CoD) and 1-2 niche attempts from indies (Hell Let Loose was good, Cycle Frontier) Otherwise it's just closing the gap with freemium and premium
for the level of computation actually occurring I would agree with you, but for the pricing I don't agree with you.

smart contracts are read for free and are read just as much as any api or application, whereas reading from my API that's doing nothing would still start charging me, the developer, and not be as cheap and using bare metal I have hosted somewhere or locally would have high maintenance or performance problems just reading and sending responses at the level necessary

writing is paid for by the consumers, but again here I agree that this level of activity would fit in the free tiers of cloud services
Exactly. I don’t mind “elevating” small studios by acquiring them and giving them resources and capital.

But I don’t like just flat out consolidation of already large companies. I don’t see a benefit (to gamers) in that. Just investors/business people.
Traditionally that's the defense, not the oral qualifying exam.
I've seen quite a few COVID deniers insist that the millions of dead are piling up somewhere, and that fact is being covered up by the gummint. They'll often cite a YouTube video, perhaps of a doctor telling them about all the autopsies he's doing riddled with blood clots.

I hadn't realized that we'd vaccinated over 70% of the world, but various sources back up that number. I had assumed it would take a lot longer to reach outside the developed world. The sheer number of denialists on a web site full of well-educated techies often fills me with despair, but the idea that we've made a decent crack at immunizing poor people is a rare bright spot. Thank you.
Historically, yes, they’ve scheduled outdoor activity to avoid satellite overflight, if we’re not misled by books.

Maybe it’s not a strong factor here, because it was a few days before public announcement anyway. But you’d expect them to follow the same protocol or at least pick a more convenient time than 1:30am if they were not.
That's like what? $2-3 million worth of butter?

Doesn't seem like much for a factory right?
Consolidation is not inherently anti-consumer. Example: in this context, consolidation could lead to a merger of Blizzard games and subscriptions into Xbox game pass without any price increase. This would be a pretty clear win for consumers.
back in the day i used to support microsoft's ISA product (layer 7 firewall)

customers would just not know what configuration they had made.
so we had a bit of VBScript that would dump the entire config into a text file. amazing how many customers had left themselves open in bad ways in production systems and also how their perspectives of what was configured did or did not match reality.
I've never played sc2 or aoe2, because I don't see how they could compare to SupCom:FA and the FAForever community.

Different strokes for different folks.
I got performance regression going from 3.10 to 3.11

https://ltworf.github.io/typedload/performance.html
>"The Radium Water Worked Fine Until His Jaw Came Off"
This feels a little disingenuous. I get what he’s saying. He wants a “sprint and rest” type of environment rather than “always jogging” type of environment. His statements on employee entitlement generally resonate with me at a similar company, same with the overall privacy/regulatory stuff, which is a bureaucratic nightmare (like you want to ship a small button change that is delayed 3 months because it needs to go through needless reviews).
that would be a convention or configuration debate

I prefer convention for systemd. The justification for have a separate timer file instead it being in the unit file would be making it easier for someone to quickly look at what services are running on timers vs running by targets.

if timers where in the services file you would have to open each one to find out what had a timer, with a separate file you just look at which service as a timer provided your naming is standardized)
Defen explained explains this well here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33914969
IRL cocaine is about as safe as caffeine and can be consumed in beverages (tea, Coca-cola, etc.) by healthy people without any real negative issues.

Right now in 2023 we as adults should have two options for beverage stimulants,
caffeine and cocaine. Basically the beverage market has been artificially cut in half for no good reason.

https://www.tni.org/en/primer/coca-leaf-myths-and-reality
It's not the same. Rural areas in Europe (and mostly anywhere else, for that matter; this is not about Euro-exceptionalism) are not 100% residential urban sprawl like the typical U.S. suburb. They have locally densified villages and towns, each with a self-sustaining mix of housing and local business. That's what a sensible model looks like.
GPT3 can't create ASCII art for shit either. Though it can make little ASCII tables of data.
In my definition salaried people are middle class, high salary is upper middle. Not having to work to maintain their lifestyle is the start of the upper classes.
Maybe. But it sounds like their current enterprise customers were tired of managing the complex environment that the application requires. So with that, this seems like a good move by them. Probably not for everybody, of course. But this positions their enterprise business model from on-prem to SaaS, which from the blog post is exactly what they want.
Everyone I know with the vaccine has still gotten (and presumably spread) COVID. Many of them multiple times. So you can't make this statement anymore, it's false.
What is corrupt about bitcoin, exactly?
There is a MS13-xxx bulletin that had a bug where full screen DOS was completely broken when /NOEXECUTE=OPTOUT was set in boot.ini
No, their python support repository readme explicitly tells it’s highly experimental.
Add a 0 to maxwidth (6400) and you can read it.
Ggplot Implementation in Python
Wow, we've come a long way from the Cereal Bowl Band

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDNRkA5oOiw
The article is about authenticating to a Wi-Fi captive portal. So not only is a VPN irrelevant, as everyone has already pointed out and you continue to ignore, it wouldn't even work.
As Hamlet says, "It's as easy as lying".
I like this ending better.
Interesting attempt, but if you care to do it much faster it's best to exploit its few-shots learning capabilities and break tasks into sub-tasks rather than trying to talk to it like a human being. That's how I taught it base -10.

Here is the single prompt to solve rot13. It still has issues counting lengths.

Prompt:

a = uryyb pungtcg lbh fghq
=> [len(i) for i in a.split()]
=> [5, 7, 3, 4]
=> len(a.split())
=> 4
=> hello chatgpt you stud

a = Pna lbh haqrefgnaq ebg13
=> [len(i) for i in a.split()]
=> [3, 3, 10, 5]
=> len(a.split())
=> 4
=> Can you understand rot13

a = Bs pbhefr vgf rnfl jura lbhir tbg 175 ovyyvba cnenzrgref
=> [len(i) for i in a.split()]
=> [2, 6, 3, 4, 4, 5, 3, 3, 7, 10]
=> Of course its easy when youve got 175 billion parameters

a= Jul qvq gur puvpxra pebff gur ebnq
=> [len(i) for i in a.split()]
=>

Answer:

[3, 3, 3, 6, 4, 3, 3]
=> len(a.split())
=> 7
=> Why did the chicken cross the road?

edit: This prompt doesn't actually work, see the other prompt below if you want to try one that works.
More people (economists/policy makers) just ignore the rust belt's (or local regional) problems, because aggregate GDP is going up and to the right and people just go where the labor is needed so everything is going great. We don't need factory workers anymore, just learn to code and travel across the country for a job what's the problem?
What technology is better at being money than bitcoin? Paper dollar?
Not exactly. For most CVEs, CentOS Stream gets them months before RHEL and RHEL clones. But CVEs rated important/critical (or otherwise embargoed) are required to go out to RHEL customers first. Once the fix is live for RHEL customers, two things happen more or less simultaneously:

- The RHEL package source with the fix is published, allowing clone distros to start their rebuild work.
- RHEL maintainer starts working on the fix for CentOS Stream in public. This may or may not be the same patch as what was released in RHEL, depending on whatever other changes have already happened in CentOS Stream.

These tasks are not the same and take different amounts of time. On top of that, the release pipelines to get the fix out to users are different between the various distros. Sometimes the fix is live for CentOS Stream before the rebuilds, sometimes after. There were some notably slower exceptions with CentOS Stream 8 in the early days, because CentOS Stream 8 is built "inside out".

https://twitter.com/carlwgeorge/status/1439724296742576130

In CentOS Stream 9 going forward, RHEL maintainers own their CentOS builds and things are working much better. There is work in progress to migrate 8 workflows to match 9.
Why? Crob is simple, well understood, and works well. Why in god's name do you want to reinvent the wheel?
Oddly, I used to work with someone whose previous role was with the lawyer-led company that bought and runs asbestos.com

You know the article "I sell onions on the internet?". Well, you make a lot more money - and I do mean a lot more - selling leads to class action lawyers the way asbestos.com does.
>Are you suggesting that the WSJ is totally off base by drawing the conclusion that pressure from TCI, via this letter, is not the cause of the restructuring?

What a masterclass in logical fallacies.

The implication of the article is that generally investors think Google is too liberal on spending (anecdotally, I will tell you this sentiment is very real).

The WSJ used a specific and public example of someone putting that into writing, but if you think a non-Top 20 shareholder can convince Google to do something (that Google doesn't believe most of its shareholders want), then you really don't understand how corporate governance works.

Even the more aggressive well-known activists rely on the idea that they can convince more than 51% of shareholders to agree with them

Google is doing this because it thinks the majority of shareholders agree with it, otherwise they'd tell TCI to kick rocks (as often happens with activists, Google knows that no-one can actually buy enough shares to influence their management decisions, unlike some SMID caps.)
In L.A., I'll keep Waze open for the speed trap reports but I'll ignore the turn-by-turn directions.
The discrimination was IMO, little different to a community facing a common disaster, to that of someone feeling safe, didn't care or not their problem who elected to sit back refusing to contribute to the effort to overcome the disaster, even if it was something simple and not much of a task, like keeping an eye out for an arsonist doing nature a favour and burning dead dry forest who didn't care if some had built right up in amongst it.

In regard to covid-19, complicating the simple discrimination issue were the many dogs in the fight not to vaccinate against covid-19 - those I'm aware of, most pulling the strings were part of a privileged exclusive small demographic. The noisiest were the group IMO were the "Here, all you've gotta do is take this cheap little pill and keep on working, no worries ... " Sadly many who were unable to be reassured by their doctor that their medical condition would not interact with the new vaccines, started grasping for "bad to vaccinate" straws

I feel most of the population around my way understood some people were going to be unable to be vaccinated. There were concerns that some people even if they did get vaccinated, due to medical issues would not be greatly protected. However at the end of the day, as I once read, it's good to have a practice run before the real thing.

With this pandemic, it became to hard to explain to the public being vaccinated against the fast mutating coronavirus wasn't just about saving time and money spent in hospital wards, but if most of the community that could vaccinated, it significantly removed "run time" for covid-19 to recombine whilst it was inhabiting in a human body, and re-emerge as a new threat -- it was already hard enough to ask people to vaccinate if they could to save hospitals from being run over, something I found quite frankly, shocking.
They can send all the letters they want. Larry & Sergey have controlling interest[0] in Alphabet and can very much decide to ignore any of this if they want. In effect, TCI can't compel them to do anything they don't want to do.

I think merging Waze and Google Maps teams is actually smart, whether it cuts cost or not seems like they have similar goals as a product.

That said, doesn't mean Alphabet won't head some investors letters or something, so its always possible

[0]: https://capital.com/alphabet-shareholder-who-owns-most-googl
Look at Stadia. They were flying out developers and all kinds of things the day before it was cancelled.
Maybe. But if we're comparing like to like cocaine is by far the most dangerous central stimulant in common use. It's much easier to overdose on cocaine due to its effects on sodium channels leading to cardiac arrest, whereas amphetamine and methamphetamine are pretty hard to have a lethal overdose on. I guess MDMA is pretty dangerous in overdose too.

Alcohol definitely takes the victory in terms of long term damage though. It's hard to think of an organ system that isn't damaged by chronic alcohol abuse.
> I do think that PG's tweet there is pretty weird and disconnected from reality too. He claims that founders deserve to be rich. And his proof comes from AI making employees obsolete.

I read it a lot differently. I read it having nothing to do with AI, really. (Automations are not generally AI at this time). But his point is that the employees who the founder brings along are not bringing core value. They're filling roles required by what the founder built, and when they're replaced by automations, it becomes obvious that they were not core value.

In the context of this topic, I think a lot of people will be left behind. The dread is for a reason. Society will figure it out, probably, eventually.

> being born to the right parents with the right genes and the right social standing and being at the right place at the right time with the right product

I think this is a made-up point, and it's really a disservice to your fellow humans to act like only a few lucky genetic winners are capable of creating something. But for your actual point (they don't deserve the results forever), the background of the founder is absolutely irrelevant.

> Eventually, we need to detach ourselves from money and status as a society. That is the only way we will become happy.

Yup. In a far-enough future, all the material wealth is generated by machines. Hopefully they're doing our bidding. If so, I doubt we need money anymore. The path their isn't clear, though. I think it'll be a messy transition.
I like how you've defined value here and its separation from critique.

A related idea is that of perspective.
Creating something often requires picking between multiple options, and to do that successfully the creator must keep in mind their goals (evoking an emotion, telling a particular story, conveying an idea, etc) along with the desires of their target audience.
The creator's goals and their intended audience forms the perspective that they view decisions from.

Critiquing something involves choosing a particular perspective (our own, the creator's, or the target audience's), and which one we choose is based on the subjective value we give each perspective.
When we describe a creation as bad we must remember that it is bad relative to our chosen perspective.

For example: imagine a funeral scene that has a soundtrack playing that would be considered happy by its target audience.

* From the creator's perspective they wanted a sad and solemn scene; which, makes the soundtrack an objectively bad choice.

* The target audience in general regards it as one of the funniest and best scenes.

* We find the scene too funny to be sad and too sad to be funny.

All of these perspectives are correct relative to themselves, and which one you choose to let color your view of a creation is a personal opinion.
From my experience Waze always optimized for getting to the destination as fast as possible, which I really liked. Other navigations like to keep instructions simple and keep you on the large roads, Waze has no problem routing you through 10 extra instructions to save a minute.

Disclaimer: I haven't used Waze in years so this might have changed.
+ passenger ferries
To all the specialists out there, if you value job security, become a specialist that can produce. When the company I'm in did layoffs, the area that had the biggest layoffs were in groups that did not actively produce the product we were selling.