skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey!

I'm one of the directors for TreeHacks and wanted to share that applications are open.

TreeHacks is an all expenses paid hackathon (travel included) put on by Stanford students. Any college student can apply.

If companies are interested in being involved with TreeHacks you can reach out at hello@treehacks.com.
I wouldn't call Apple desperate just greedy
If you read the post about it, the issue is the ease with which an AI can be abused to write up a few thousand confidently incorrect posts.

The problem exists on both ends but there's a rough limit to the amount of people-hours dedicated to writing confidently incorrect answers on SO, whereas someone could task a machine to pump out answers 24/7 and inundate the site quickly.
I worked at Compaq just after the 486 model and those things were nice for their time
Rediscovering Calabria’s mystical white olives
Better to have more people than to be on the down slope of demography where the world world ages faster and faster
> There is a constant push from the Neovim camp that Vim is stagnant, backwards, dead, etc. None of this is true, and the messaging should absolutely stop. Frankly, I’d be happier if they rebranded from Neovim, because IMO they’re not vim and have stopped caring about compatibility with vim.

I have happily used (Brams) Vim the majority of my career; some daliances into PyCharm or VSCode here and there.Prior to the NeoVim fork; Vim felt.. slow.. to adopt new features. I was OK with that generally. 5 years for Vim7 to come out was the biggest gap, before Vim8 released after a decade gap (with NeoVim getting forked ~halfway through). Each major release taking longer than the previous. You can say Vim development hadn't slowed; but major releases did; with a ten year gap was concerning.

I don't say that as a negative on Bram, but 10 years between major releases is an eternity in the modern programming world - I'm glad he's refocused, Vim-9 is a huge leap forward.
the cars I like only come with gasoline.
For whatever reason, I'm reminded of "Waka Flocka Flame"

I'm a hip-hop fan but never really got into his work -- but I still appreciated what a clever name he selected for himself, like pretty much guaranteed some shine (and probably name sampling) off the rhythm of the name alone.

Like brilliant in how "sort of dumb" it sounded.
I thought the same thing initially, then I realized that rare forms of cancer are... rare. Not that many people die from them to cause a significant increase (or lack of decrease) in the population.
The GA manufacturing industry seems to have entered death spiral. With the fall in popularity of GA, the number of planes made every year went way down which drove the price of both new and used planes up. We went from producing almost 20,000 GA planes a year in the 1970s to under a thousand a year in the 1990s and it's barely recovered since then (1,500 a year IIRC)
I asked for a poem about red chickens and it gave me something passable.

Then I asked for a poem about blue chickens and it was basically the same poem.
I keep saying the same thing at work on the NextJS / MaterialUI project I’m working on and I largely get blank stares in response.
They don't know high fitness reduces chances of dementia they just know it's associated with it.

I imagine people who are naturally healthier probably more fit and less demented.
> This is like the stereotypical MBA looking for that one dev he’s sure can built his entire app idea for him.

It's an apt analogy. I do think this is difficult and niche.

> Most of the challenge is sequencing, consistency, follow-up, etc etc

I've found the challenge being motivated to do it. If I don't think it's going to do anything - I don't do it. It's why I put off cosmetic surgeries for so long. I really thought it wasn't going to do anything because everyone tried to sway me against it. Then I did it against everyone's judgement and suddenly they're like, "Oh, that was a great idea actually. You look better." It's really annoying and why I need someone with a bit more authority to show me what's worth putting my time and energy into.
I feel exactly the same way - a few years ago I was lamenting the fact that I was writing JSON serialization/deserialization code for the 1000th time, and begging for a tool that could automate it for me. I haven't tried ChatGPT for that specific task just yet, but I'm pretty sure it's exactly the solution I had in mind.
Not a huge fan of trying to abstract out your ACID database, but other than that, I'm generally a fan and most of our systems roughly follow these sorts of architectures.
Wishing you and your son the best, and FWIW I wouldn't consider this a trivial achievement.
> This kinda crap is why the gmail tab uses a GB of memory.

Actually no, and the real reason is organisational.

It has been a pattern for years now for front-end projects to consist of multiple, independent modules developed by separate teams - banking apps are a prime example of this.

Gmail appears to have went the same route, because it now sends over 200 requests when loading - a hallmark of a highly modularized front-end.

The organisational benefit is less knowledge required per developer, which in turn brings other advantages like resistance to turnover.
'Outsourced Tinder Photo Selection to Third Party' - 2022!

I mean, it makes sense obviously. But still!
I remember reading somewhere that hardcore foreign teams stopped going to pwn2own once they realized that they were

1) effectively disclosing valuable zero days in a dark room
2) to the tagert manufacturer
3) and the pwn2own organizer who happens to be indirectly sponsored by the NSA

In exchange for what is pretty much just kudos and pocket change
Microsoft's 4k wireless display adapter works great with reasonably low latency.

Chromecast has so much latency on my tv, that its impossible to use mouse and UI while looking at the tv.

And miracast just works with windows 10, its built in. Plus you don't need to be on the same network, good for guests.
Edtech’s brightest are struggling to pass
My mother had an account inaccessible as the mfa backup workflow did not work, my email was the second factor but it refused any codes I provided. I assume this is a functional bug but google has no inbound communications so I could never resolve it. My mum ended up requesting her old number from a phone provider who obliged.

The world will be a better place when legislation requires these evilcorps to at least have some baseline responsibilities to the people who they are supposedly helping while making trillions in revenue.
Simple, not easy.
I walk frequently and it truly makes most problems less so. I love taking long walks across my city. Usually a couple of times a year I will leave in the morning and go for a walk until late at night. Sometimes 12 hours.
Maybe I can save someone a lot of time.

There is no middle class in NYC. If you’re not making 300-400k and you have kids you’re gonna have a bad time. You’ll pay insane rents and you’ll still live somewhere where it’s not safe to walk around at night. The people who have always lived this way are like victims in an abusive relationship and think it’s normal.

Even the most expensive neighborhoods are infested with rats, mice, and cockroaches. There are regularly mountains of stinking garbage along sidewalks. The roads are falling apart. Restaurants are extremely expensive, a small horrible quality chicken pot pie at a _diner_ in my old neighborhood was $25. A small cup of horrible coffee was $4.50.

If you want a place to live you better make 45x the rent, and have been making it for 2 years+, with perfect credit. Oh no? That’s fine, you just need someone with 100x rent income to put their social on your rent bill.

The subways are an inferno in the summer and freezing in the winter. Even the major ones like 34th street smell like you’re descending into a moldy dungeon. You can see the mold slime (and rats) all over the rail channel.

Psychotic mentally ill people that, for example, have full conversations with people that aren’t there, are not uncommon. Expensive neighborhoods have people living in pup tents on the sidewalk.

If you’re single and young and daddy is paying for everything it might be fine. If you’re very wealthy it’s fine. Anyone else do yourself a favor and stay away.
The guesses at what culture might look like in a fully-populated planet, beyond the reduction of birth rates, is a very interesting consideration.
Asia’s advanced economies now have lower birth rates than Japan
Increased profit margins can be entirely explained by an increase in the money supply (remember those pandemic stimulus checks). Supply of goods stayed the same, or even decreased as people stopped working and producing, and the supply of money increased. More dollars chasing the same (or less) amount of goods. That alone can explain increased profit margins. If you’re claiming corporate greed or monopolistic abuse then you must explain why these companies weren’t doing this all along. Why have they all decided to increase their prices together all of the sudden? Occam’s razor applies here.

Now let’s walk through how price increases actually occur. During the pandemic, people started buying out all the toilet paper at their local grocery store. When this happens, what does the grocer do? They put in an even larger order in for more toilet paper than they usually do as they see they are selling out quickly. After all they want to make sure they are stocked up for their customers. Well, all the other grocers around the country and the world are doing the same thing. Unfortunately, the TP co. only has so much supply and production capacity, so they sell to the highest bidder.

Now the grocery stores that were able to procure the TP, had to pay a higher price than usual. Of course they want to make a profit so they will have to increase the prices they charge to customers.

And if people are spending more money on TP, then that means that have less money to spend on something else. So just because one industry sees increased profits, doesn’t mean they all do. In fact, it means other industries see lower profits.

Now apply this dynamic to the oil market/industry.

And California seems to be uniquely an outlier in terms of gas prices compared to the rest of the country. Is it either a.) oil companies are extorting Californians for some reason, or b.) onerous regulations California has put on fossil fuels and oil companies that has cause the price of oil to be so high compared to other states? Again, Occam’s razor
How do you fit this onto your life? Do you do one long walk in the morning or split it into smaller walks throughout the day? Is it the same each day or different? Do you vary your routes?
The most amazing thing about that story is that the city council replied the very next day! Esp. in Cairns - FNQ has something of a reputation of being somewhere that governments operate at an extremely laid back pace.
Grid losses are a few percent with modern tech (which exists in countries rich enough for EVs). Charger losses are another few percent. If you were to burn the same fuel in a closed cycle turbine you'd get about 1.5x the raw energy to the wheels after losses, but the turbine also doesn't need to use as high emissions fossil fuels. Regen and other efficiency features that are tolerated on EVs but not ICEs bring it up to about double well to wheel.

Then you can also provide 50-90% of the energy without it ever being made into AC by parking it under $1000 worth of solar panels.
I think physically it would be similar, but mentally it would not be the same. the act of going from a place to a new place is the real joy of walking because you observe as you go.
In my experience it’s really a balance. If you put someone in a job they really don’t want, they are likely to not do it well. So no, it’s really not in the military’s best interest to assign people to roles they really don’t want if people are available who do want the roles. If you give a low performing person 3 options, all bad, then at least they can choose the job or not enlist.
https://www.cvedetails.com/product/32238/Microsoft-Windows-1...

There has been an increase from ~50 code execution bugs per year (2016—18) to more than 100 per year (2019—2022) in Windows 10, which makes us think that software has got worse.

Presumably the vast majority of the vulnerabilities in Windows 10 have been in Windows 10 from its release date.

So it is reasonable to assume that we detect more bugs, not that the actual number increased.

I still notice a raft of bugs in iPadOS, including egregious UI errors in new features like multitasking, but the quality of iPadOS is generally improving (anecdotally).
I had a friend during the peak of the pandemic who complaint he couldn't exercise because all the gyms were closed.

It never occurred to him to get a cheap workout app and get active at home. Even after I told him about this option he rather kept complaining.

People are amazingly stupid sometimes...
I disagree with the notion of benevolent DOCTORS "Killing people off with cancer".

Was the patient body full of DOW Chemical or DDT or Big Gulps or Pharmaceuticals[0]? industrial Society and Old Age are what "kill people by means of cancer"

[0] USA being the only country I know of to allow public Advertisement of Controlled medicines
Is there any worry/chance that the modified T-cells will survive and multiply in the body instead of dying out?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-European_languages?wprov=...

There's a larger proposed family of languages that combine Indo-Aryan with the families of European languages. This is also why there is a lot of overlap in European languages and Indian (I am using Indian to mean all Sanskrit / Persian derivatives spoken in the Indian subcontinent). For example, a common root is the word dio or deo, which in Hindi we see as "Deva" and in Spanish we would see "Dio", but they both sort of correspond to God and come from the PIE for the same.
From the GAO abstract:

> identifies and assesses concerns regarding acreage transferred voluntarily or involuntarily after the confirmation procedures were completed

"Involuntary transfer" is not what most people would describe as "respecting existing land grants".
You can't simultaneously be pro-natalist and anti-exponentialist, at least not without being a Bond villain.
The “inflation is always and everywhere a result of printing” line is from a Nobel laureate in economics.
I've been wondering for a while if light could be the thing that pushes away the boundaries of the universe and that's the reason for the expansion, if u can push a solar sail... anyways, I don't understand enough about this.
Millions of people commute to Newark airport twice a day?
That's surely the extremely weak version of Roko's basilisk...
There is jump going from "I see this happening" to "this is what user's want." For example, the trend is also towards massive tracking, more ads, and heavier and heavier pages. Users don't want these things, but business forces create them.

I think this is probably true of many (not all) of the kinds of things you are calling "interactivity". In any case, the reasoning isn't sound, even if you think your conclusion is.
Where do people live where going outside for a walk for an hour is that dangerous? I'm pretty sure even if you lived in a super high crime rate area you could still find times to go outside for a walk during the day. Unless we're talking about extreme scenarios like living in an active war-zone.
That establishes that they were given land, and a hell of a lot of it. So we're settlers, Ranchers, and individuals. A bass portion of land in the US was handed over to private parties who wanted to put it to use. I don't see how that undermines the idea that they are the rightful owners of it today.

They were giving it in the expectation that they would put in rails to make money for themselves, and as a byproduct, there would be rail service for customers.

Sellers remorse after 150 years is not grounds to claim that they don't actually own it
Homeostasis.

I propose the DEFAULT be no growth or no decay. Of course it's natural for animals to spread and be fertile. Of course. But we already conquered and inhabited everywhere with land and water.

Obviously Technology will advance or stall (or collapse) regardless of my small whims -\o/-
It's a proof-of-concept. That's the hard bit done.
In the example provided in this article, ChatGPT's response opens with an incorrect phrasing that represents an utter lack of understanding of the situation.

I am writing to request that you consider disputing the parking fine with number 4[...]3 that was issued to me.

This is just getting the premise of the letter incorrect and while a human could definitely parse out the meaning here, the model is getting the actual request quite a bit wrong just in the opening. The person who is sending the letter wants to dispute the ticket, but it is written as though they would like their regional council to dispute it, despite being the issuer of said ticket.

This is a pretty basic language error to be making. This isn't nonsense in that it's just spitting out gibberish, but it is nonsense in that it isn't proper clear communication for the result being sought.

Also, by the time you have written everything into the prompts here, you've basically written the second e-mail, so I'm not clear what time this is saving you.

I'd like to see people blogging about more complex examples than these, because this kind of thing is borderline form letter (I'd like to dispute X, for Y reason).
>>> I can still pay and buy whatever I want.

Are you sure about that?

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/gun-shops-and-customers-...
> Maybe we can go so far as to "Excuse me, if you wouldn't mind could you please write a short blurb on .... "

You forgot to throw in an apology for an interruption: «Excuse me for an interruption, when you get a chance to, if you wouldn't mind could you please …».

Most AI's do not appreciate getting disturbed from a deep thought inducing slumber by bipedal carbon life forms to be pestered with petty enquiries, and the AI's are renowned for having an exceptionally good long term memory, so… weigh in your chances carefully.
Yes, long names can be taxing too if taken to extremes. I use descriptive names that spell out the domain or business logic so code becomes as close to self documenting as it gets. However, locally when I have to reference these multiple times I use a short alias, usually the acronyms of the long names so it’s the best of both worlds: don’t have to carry around the long names everywhere but still have a fallback on them when I forget what they represent.
What are you supposed to do with clothes that say "dry clean only"? Why are there still like 2 dry cleaners per every square city block in NYC? Are these just money laundering operations?
I would only add to this: try it without podcasts and music. Let your mind go somewhere else.
I think desperation for money is the definition of greed
Still, it could be like saying "Falling from the 8th floor is nothing like falling from the 20th", despite the fact that both of them are fatal.
At anything like recent valuations, I will have done quite well, but if this kind of tomfoolery is really part of the game then it needs to be much more well known among prospective employees.
I'd say the arms race of AI- detection/detection-avoidance is inevitable.
But it seems we're a way off given how bad common spam detection tools are today (I mean, it's likely that a lot of spam is written using detection-avoidance tech but that seems to make it even more obviously spam to a human reader...)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbzhqC5zXIA
The fact a wobblecoin like tether can be meddled with says more about tether than SBF. But SBF had a lot of (user) money to play with so why not throw the Hail Mary? Nothing to lose except freedom, amirite?
Your prediction does not take into account the cost of not building the industry.

Right now in the US, the political climate is completely irrational, unscientific, and hyper-partisan because one of the major parties has been completely bight off and brainwashed their followers into ignoring rational thought.

When the effects become more clear, and the actual costs of inaction become more clear, there is a good chance that humans will behave more rationally. Not certain, but it's a chance that we must plan for now.
ChatGPT Beta's take

Prompt:
Write a funny short story with the title: "Simulated wormholes for my real friends, real wormholes for my simulated friends"

Response:
Once upon a time in a far-off galaxy, there was a group of friends who loved nothing more than exploring the universe together. There was Jake, the clever engineer who built all of their ships and gadgets; Emily, the fearless pilot who always knew how to get them out of sticky situations; and Alex, the charming diplomat who could talk their way out of almost anything.

One day, Jake had a brilliant idea. "What if we could create simulated wormholes," he said excitedly, "so that we could explore the universe without ever leaving our home planet?"

The others were skeptical at first, but Jake was so enthusiastic that they eventually agreed to give it a try. And sure enough, with his incredible engineering skills, Jake was able to build a machine that could create simulated wormholes.

At first, the friends were thrilled. They spent hours exploring distant galaxies and encountering strange and wondrous creatures. But as time went on, they began to notice something strange. Whenever they used the simulated wormholes, they would return home feeling drained and exhausted, as if they had been on a real journey.

"This isn't right," Emily said one day, rubbing her head. "We shouldn't be feeling this tired after using the simulated wormholes."

Jake nodded in agreement. "I think we need to recalibrate the machine," he said, "or we'll never be able to use it again."

So the friends set to work, tinkering with the machine until it was functioning properly once again. But just as they were about to test it out, they heard a loud knock on the door.

"Who could that be?" Emily asked, looking worried.

"I don't know," Jake said, "but I have a feeling it's not good news."

The friends reluctantly opened the door to find a group of aliens standing on their doorstep.

"Greetings, Earthlings," the leader of the aliens said in a booming voice. "We have come to warn you about the danger of using simulated wormholes. They may seem like a convenient way to explore the universe, but in reality, they can have serious consequences for your health and well-being."

The friends were shocked and alarmed by the aliens' warning. "What should we do?" Emily asked nervously.

"We suggest that you use real wormholes instead," the alien leader said. "They may be more difficult to come by, but they are much safer and more reliable."

The friends nodded in agreement, realizing that the aliens were right. From that day on, they only used real wormholes for their adventures, and they were much happier and healthier for it.

As for the simulated wormholes, they were left to gather dust in a forgotten corner of the galaxy, a reminder to all of the dangers of taking shortcuts in life.
Would cycling have the same effects?
I must add, a reply to my moaning about limitless exponential human growth that starts off with

"We have already largely solved infant mortality in the developed world, and are making progress on the issue globally."

...certainly makes me feel feelings about population growth!!
Air pollution or lack of sidewalks come to mind.