skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's difficult to say for certain whether HN should ban ChatGPT or other generated responses without more information about the specific situation and the potential effects of such a ban. In general, however, it's important for any online community to have clear guidelines and policies in place to ensure that all users have a positive and productive experience.

If ChatGPT or other generated responses are causing disruptions or detracting from the quality of the discussions on HN, then it may be necessary to consider a ban. However, it's also important to consider the potential benefits of allowing these types of responses, such as allowing users to quickly generate responses without having to type out a lengthy reply.

Ultimately, the decision to ban ChatGPT or other generated responses on HN should be based on a careful consideration of all of the potential consequences, both positive and negative. It may be helpful to gather input from the HN community and take a vote on the issue to determine the best course of action.
> Coding in pure Win32 is quite difficult.

True, but Delphi with its VCL showed it didn't have to be.
Ehh, we have pretty good policy levers to alter the supply of labor for a given profession.
Ask HN: How Does WhatsApp Work?
I recently became curious about how WhatsApp - and other large scale messaging services - are actually implemented. The technologies I work with on a day-to-day basis, mostly relational databases, such as MySQL, and document databases, such as DynamoDB, seem completely unsuited for the task.

What technologies and algorithms are used at WhatsApp scale?

Are there any good papers / talks I should look at?
Personally I just shop elsewhere it isn't worth the hassle. I also don't live somewhere that benefits from amazons faster shipping.
I'd like to see one pilot in the cockpit and remote control ability.

Then a ground based copilot can be involved in complex manuvers, emergencies, etc. But not have to be present for the dull multi-hour cruising.
The price of energy has always been approaching zero. Restated, the amount of energy available to an individual has generally grown exponentially, with pauses here and there because civilization. We might be resuming that growth in the next few decades.

Fusion isn’t and won’t be solved in the immediate future. There is a long path towards commercial viability and a lot of milestones along the way… and not really a great method of associating them in a popular science sort of way that doesn’t seem like “we’ve solved fusion!”

Real significant progress is indeed being made and is expected to continue, people are going to be excited then disappointed by milestones being announced because we’re closer but not there.

Fusion isn’t just always thirty years down the road though, we can see the destination getting closer.
Same age, same feelings. Part of me wished I hadn't built my career on digital technology so that it would be easier to not have to even interact with it. But alas, I have!
I don't remember this in BCPL, so I presume it was one of the changes from CPL?
My take on the same subject on FreeBSD:

- https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2022/07/12/desktop-environmen...
You can sell your shares back to the company. That's the stock buyback that the linked article hates so much. It's just a more tax efficient alternative to dividends.
The Future of Software Engineering definitely lies within ChatGPT and artificial intelligence. Perhaps we have already created the solution to many of the world's problems and we don't know it yet.
Facebook and Google probably know if you're human as they process all of your browsing data (hence Google's latest captcha not requiring any interaction provided you're logged in). Definitely difficult on a small scale, and even on a large scale it's a constant arms race.
Qooxdoo: https://qooxdoo.org/

It's a no-html, widget only web framework that's been going for at least 10 years.
This joke has been done to death.
You can do without splices at all, just fish the cable through the wall with connectors and all.

The duplex LC connector can be disassembled, and with a bit of tape to keep things together you can get both fibers through much more easily.

If you're lazy, you can just use a premade cable that's longer than you need. A slightly prettier solution is a keystone jack.
Images and videos from the mission:

https://images.nasa.gov/search-results?q=artemis%20resource%...
I use tmux and emacs -nw as my desktop environment. Measure that! :-)
That's how to do a comparison :) Clear and straight-forward explanation, results, and no time-wasting video. Well done.
> don't really see how can it have a bigger claim to the history of Novgorod

Maybe not bigger, but the people of Novgorod now live in Russia and believe they are Russians. What's with that state-centric view? Ukrainians are Ukrainians despite multiple occupations, but if Novgorodian people believe they are Russians it's illegitimate and they lose all the claims, and are now relegated to have their claims go through Kiev->Moscow. Only "pure" identities with existing independent states can have claims?

This "Ukraine is the true Rus, and Russians are some splinter northern Finno-Ugric goblins" nationalist narrative is just tiresome and incoherent. It's pretty obvious that both sides have about the same level of claim.
A truth neuron is just fine-tuning. It’s been done with the cls token. If not well easy enough.
The phone was possibly a Ericsson T28 (very slim with spring-open flip) or a T10/T18 (quite a bit thicker, with a manual flip).

Even without using data, managing phone book and SMS via the pocket computer was a quite satisfying experience.
I used to read and write emails with it, one of the first compact mobile office setups back then...
Ubuntu with the Cinnamon desktop environment works well. It feel similar to Windows XP and has the same default keyboard shortcuts.
An artificial job does not produce value from which others would benefit.

A real job that produces value would not need to have been artificially created!
Why do they keep calling it "historic". There's noting historic about it.
Practice makes perfect. A good start would be to not begin sentences with the word ‘like’.
It may be still a legal tender but it has stopped being issued https://www.centralbank.ie/consumer-hub/notes-and-coins/euro...
What about stylometry.. that should be enough…
People's concerns start from food, housing and many other immediate pressing issues, before it gets to identity and purpose. (i.e. Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs)

It is not very possible to buy a house with high interest rates. So, most of your earnings go to rental cost.

You shape your life with what you have left to spend.
So the lesson is "you can help the boss save face by delivering what they actually want without making it clear to outsiders that the boss asked for the wrong thing in the first place".

Of course, the boss dies in this story and so did the minion so it doesn't exactly meet all project goals.
The crypto "industry" is a set of people selling Pet Rocks to each other
What makes you think that the economy featuring the most un-chained capitalism is a centrally planned economy? I wasn't aware of any government dictated 5 year plans or similar thing anywhere in the western world.
Wouldn't that be just as hard as for any other function? The name of a function (a bit like the name of an array) evaluates to basically a function pointer value, there is little difference between the two calls here:

int foo(int a, int b)
{
return a + b;
}

int main(void)
{
printf("Direct: %d\n", foo(1, 2));
int (*ptr)(int, int) = foo;
printf("Indirect: %d\n", ptr(1, 2));
return 0;
}

of course default arguments, if added, would have to be part of the function pointer type as well, making the above:

int foo(int a = 1, int b = 2) // NOT REAL CODE, FANTASY SYNTAX
{
return a + b;
}

int main(void)
{
printf("Direct default: %d\n", foo());
int (*ptr)(int a = 1, int b = 2) = foo; // NOT REAL CODE, FANTASY SYNTAX
printf("Indirect default: %d\n", ptr());
return 0;
}

Unnamed function arguments would look silly (`int (ptr)(int = 1, int = 2)`?), but I would be radical then and only support default argument values for named arguments, probably.

Edit: fixed a typo in the code, changed in-code comment.
Hi,

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We met Ankit and we loved this dynamics as a solepreneur from a small town of Jamshedpur. Definitely worth taking a look and we will be keeping a close radar on him for this journey into making Research on Cannabis possible. Worth a look

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/anky7_hempoil-hempdiesel-biod...
No, because bank reserves can go up. And by increasing its interest rates, the Fed reserve is encouraging banks to put more money in reserve accounts.
In many jurisdictions the cost of delivering a kilowatt-hour is already more than the cost of producing it. So cheap energy is not going to have a substantial impact on normal people unless we switch to wireless electricity delivery or something.
> but you need more information to make a judgement

That is quite literally the entire point I was making, fwiw.

“Recent surveys show people are happier” “oh it must be because all the unhappy people left”. You can’t jump to that conclusion, or use the airplane analogy to get there, without a whole lot more info.
Do you trust the companies training and running the AIs to happily guide you and society along?
I respond with a maxim: 'Anything that can be used for surveillance will be used for surveillance' Shoshana Zuboff

I would also apply this to the case of AI - such as those for understanding whether or not someone will commit a crime
> Congress is the main problem, where they spend money recklessly with no intention of paying anything back

This is surely the main problem. But if we simply had a market equilibrium interest rate, they could not spend like they do. Hence, they are junkies and the Fed is their dealer.
In a way it does provide something useful.

A null hypothesis.

If you take the output of GPT for what it really is; the sum of all
written human thoughts divided by several billion - resulting in a
soup of banal, conformist cringe - then it's a marker.

Original human content can be graded by its deviation in some
high dimensional space of semantic novelty.

There are two worrying social fallouts from this:

Firstly we will get used to our posts being graded, not by each
other, but by algorithms.

Second, this creates an incentive to post more extreme and unhinged
content.
>> 1000 people buzzing to build up a startup that has negative unit econimonics and will never be possible is no different than doing nothing at work.

One could make the case that is actually worse than doing nothing, as it can be seen as a net negative.
Both can be true; Russia is a big place that's sort of an amalgam itself.
How Well Does ChatGPT Understand Quantum Computing?
Comparable results though everything in FreeBSD is like a gig more for some reasons.
Twitter Blue relaunching on Monday with these features
Whilst some components inherently use more memory than other viable alternatives (gnome-shell's JS runtime), gnome-shell generally has a lot more components and thus features than the more barebones window managers - and this should always be pointed out. Of course, if you are certain you will never need the extra functionality, then don't use Gnome. But generally, I don't think it makes sense to compare plain window managers with desktop environments. I think an interesting comparison would also be looking at quartz, the macOS window manager/desktop environment.
I'd love to know a real world figure on improved efficiency on cargo ships.

If a "simple" innovation like that can move the needle juste by a few percent points on how much fuel we put into the transport industry, that's a very sizeable gain from a climate perspective.
I don't think TFA meant "resolved nothing" as a literal nothing, and they meant in a more general sense of the world, not just seen from the tech point of view.

Sure, we made cool things in tech during this era, but was it worthwhile on a global scale, on a social level, in an economic sense? That is debatable.

It is nonsensical to say that the creation of the SSD or Github has created a more fair society. Apples and oranges.
This particular map is the territory claimed by the then still newly-minted Ukrainian state. Basically the then-current Ukrainian equivalent of the likes of Greater Serbia, Greater Hungary etc.

There was no border in those territories for so long, anything they could have drawn wouldn't really have any meaningful historical connection. So IIRC they went by the Russian Imperial demographic maps and claimed most territories on those showed >25% "Malorossians". Ironically, this ended up pilfering some territories from Belarus, as well - note where Pinsk is on that map!
Microsoft buys near 4% stake in London Stock Exchange
Thanks. For those who are interested you can download the source images at the bottom of the article. People have been questioning applications/services/daemons running in background for each DE - you can check that.
Would you have knowledge of how well that would scale on a cargo ship and what sort of savings we could see there?
Since we read that, there is a high chance (not total)...

This page weights in the staggering order of 16MB on Lynx!
Modern money doesn't equal to importance of work or amount of experience or how much avg. people understand about low interest etc.

Here is your reality check, more fair society would only possible without monetary policies dictated by banks, top rich and powerful. They and their smart people/companies are only in the society to take more cut from you workers, globally. What you say is just utopia, and IMPOSSIBLE.

Btw I like reading fairy tales as a comments here.

Here it's simplify explained (not serious obv) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sEbe9gveN4
Moderators need to put up with trolls and shills (and outright strange people) a lot of the time too. While so far AI's aren't always quite helpful, they also are not actively hostile.

So as far as the spectrum of things moderation needs to deal with goes, AI contribution to discussions doesn't seem to be the worst of problems, and it doesn't seem like it would be completely unmanageable.

But while AI may not be an unmitigated disaster, you are quite correct that unsupervised AI currently might not be an unmitigated boon yet either.

Currently if one does want to use an AI to help participate in discussions, I'd recommend one keep a very close eye on it to make sure the activity remains constructive. This seems like common courtesy and common sense at this time. (And accounts who act unwisely should be sanctioned.)
This is what people quite consistently mess up these days. Go back to the earlier days of æsthetic dark themes¹, which was largely in things with the chrome/content split such as Photoshop, and you see this clearly. The purpose of their æsthetic dark modes with their low contrast and neutral middling-dark colours was to draw attention to the content and minimise chrome distraction.

Of browsers: Firefox defaults to having content matching the browser theme, but does let you change it: Settings → General → Language and Appearance → Web site appearance: Automatic/Light/Dark. (In the distant past, this defaulted to matching the OS theme—which almost always meant “light” on Linux and Windows—and could only be changed via about:config. In Firefox 95, the default was changed to matching the browser theme, in https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1529323. In Firefox 100, the preference was finally added to Settings.)

—⁂—

¹ There are several distinct categories of dark modes, with significantly different characteristics. I recognise four general categories (though there are certainly intermediate states too): æsthetic, accessibility, low-light, and power-saving. I wrote a bit more about each in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28516862. These days, æsthetic is the most common.
From the article.

"Although many scientists believe fusion power stations are still decades away, the technology’s potential is hard to ignore. Fusion reactions emit no carbon, produce no long-lived radioactive waste and a small cup of the hydrogen fuel could theoretically power a house for hundreds of years."

Not sure if you were expecting things to progress faster. But it it "only" takes 20 years. That would be insanely fast and world changing.
Argh! for me it's Samsung's Bixby, I don't use it, I don't want it. But you can't install it :/
I'm definitely not disagreeing that manga can be more interesting. I'm mainly a manga reader myself, and find many more interesting series covering esoteric topics. But it's about appealing to the largest possible audience, and the reality (and I say this once again based on my and other's stats) is that currently, the male audience wants some variation of the escapist video game or medieval Europe setting with the weak-to-overpowered protagonist using swords and sorcery, probably reincarnated or time-traveling from the life of a loser/weakling. The female audience wants a medieval Europe setting where the protagonist (probably originally an average-looking female in our world or theirs) is either a "villainess", maid, knight or someone other position that makes is possible to have a reverse harem of hot guys with a sadistic or cold-to-warm (tsundere) personality. Those setups are being endlessly mined for new series, just adjust the variables and bam, new series.

I do think that there are also some unique webtoons out there, you're just going to have trouble finding them because they're buried beneath the huge pile of more widespread popular series, which is what all the artists with talent are focusing on (Korean webtoon studios, and the industry as a whole, is a lot more profit-driven). It's also easy to judge a webtoon by its cover and think "oh yet another OP protagonist". Try some out, maybe you'll like one!
> Boolean values are inherently a sign of an insufficient data model. Booleans carry no inherent meaning.

Would you say the same about Ints or Strings?
while I don't mind on a desktop, if it's a not so recent smartphone and has 2G ram, memory usage matters. Gnome mobile and phosh are very good shells. Using the same gnome-settings on mobile is quite a feature, it being memory efficient makes for broader usage (in those devices)
When the GFC happened, there's also a lot of people claiming that it's the end of the dollar hegemony.
I’m based out of India. Doctors from top colleges after a decade of effort in their 20s start off at around Rs. 80,000-100,00 per month (many even lower in smaller towns)

Starting salaries for 21-22 year old engineers from top colleges is approximately Rs 120,00-200,000 per month. By the time they hit their 30s, their salaries usually balloon to Rs 350,000-500,000 per month.

Doctors don’t catch up until they’re well into their 40s - an age at which many engineers from top colleges start retiring.

There is no real difference in the difficulty of getting into a top engineering program vs medical school.

It wasn’t always this wonky, but it has become increasingly wonkier every year as tech valuations have gone beyond sanity.
No thanks. 4000 character tweets too? Kind of missing the point there.
Which GNOME are you using and on which hardware? I don't remember those problems with my old laptop from 2006 and with the one I'm currently using from 2014. Crashes happens, maybe not every year. I'm working with an Intel i7 4xxx, 32 GB RAM, SSD, GNOME shell 3.36, Ubuntu 20.04, NVIDIA Quadro K1100M.

However I might have skipped some problems because I've been on GNOME Flashback for a while, from 2014 to 2020, while I waited for enough extensions to appear to recreated the saner (for me) environment before GNOME 3.
I guess if there's more drag but the water is more efficiently propelled towards the back it might still be worth it?
Grandparent is a typical HN comment. "Oh, I just learned about a subject? It's so easy! Of course none of the studied experts considered [my dumb thought experiment i just came up with].

Quality of the comments is getting subpar here - and it's _not_ GPT. There's been a similar downward trend for a while.
If there’s a bot that can take a topic and research the argument you feed it, all without hallucinating any data and made up references… please please point me to it.
The parallel printing protocol is synchronous in both directions. Both the Computer and the Printer will wait on each other.

Edit: s/port/printing/
I think they are replacing all mentions of saashub.com with their domain. Also, I'm not using statically.io, that's something they are prepending in front of all images. Automatically.
Considering we have many dozens of distros and ten of thousands of their permutations (different "spins", desktop environments, etc.) this test is always going to be distro specific.

I chose Fedora because of its freshness, proximity to the source (Fedora prefers to apply as few patches as possible vs. e.g. Debian/Ubuntu) and readiness. You just install it and start working.
Useless comment. Brings absolutely no new information to the table.

Anyone can accuse anyone of speaking in propaganda terminology, it doesn't mean anything in itself, as there's no clear distinction between "propaganda terminology" and "non-propaganda terminology" - propaganda often uses terminology that is also used in non-propaganda conversations.

And our assumptions are always influencing our views, that's kind of a given - you can't have views without assumptions. Are you implying that you, yourself, don't have any assumptions, but instead rely on some kind of divine truth?
> We'll start with Fossil not tolerating `git rebase` or `git commit --amend`: https://www.fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/fossil-v-git.w... and the number of repos I've seen where PRs don't land without someone chirping about "please rebase your branch"

How's that "feature" of fossil ? You can just decide to not allow it in Git as you see fit, and it is something that is useful once you know how to.

This whole set basically sounds like "Git allows you to do all that but fossil forces you to work its way". Which is fine but you could... just decide to do it in git.

It does show that fossil is trying different approach, it doesn't want to be really distribute as much as just "synced"
Indeed. I recently took out my Pentium 133 MHz running Windows 98 and Office 97. Same, if not more pleasant experience, than modern Windows machines. Very little has changed in principle besides animations and advertisement.
Assuming it’s not an explicitly forbidden clause, from the law [0] translated by deepl:

> (1) Provisions in general terms and conditions are invalid if they unreasonably disadvantage the contractual partner of the user contrary to the requirements of good faith. An unreasonable disadvantage can also result from the fact that the provision is not clear and understandable.

So if the novelty of the startup is an unreasonable disadvantage to the customer, it would be illegal. Which sounds good to me.

[0] https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/bgb/__307.html
It's a bit convoluted. Those people may speak Russian, but then "Kiev" is not a Russian spelling - it's a transliteration of one into other languages. And since those other languages are already foreign, they might as well prefer "Kyiv" for, basically, symbolic reasons.
Yeah, but I don't want to ban bots. Also, they are not actively crawling anything, but rather mirroring the content on demand. At least that's my observation so far... thanks anyways.