skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is ultimately up to the moderators and administrators of a given website or forum to decide whether or not to allow generated responses from language models like ChatGPT. However, allowing such responses can potentially undermine the integrity and quality of discussions on the site, as they are not necessarily grounded in the knowledge and experiences of real people. Additionally, the use of language models to generate responses in order to game a site's reputation or ranking system can be considered dishonest and potentially harmful to the community. It may be best for websites and forums to disallow the use of language models to generate responses in order to maintain the integrity of the discussions on their platforms.
The bigger the toolbox is, the more becoming an expert pays off. I would much rather fully learn a language I’m using as a working professional, than have to review many home-grown solutions to a common problem the language ignored.
I don’t see how limiting cash payments is “penalizing” anyone.

I have never payed more than say $3k in cash. It just doesn’t make sense to do so.

Privacy shouldn’t exist for financial transactions. It makes it easier to launder money or hide wealth. There is no other use for “dark” financial transactions.

There is no tyranny in making finances of everyone transparent. It doesn’t force anyone to make different choices about WHAT to do with their money. It makes what people pay for auditable.
Cool, I'm sure I saw it go by, thinking I didn't give it enough of a chance.
People won't be flooding the net unless there is an incentive. Right now it is google's ads that are driving content generation. If chatbots are used widely instead of google, there will be less incentive to making filler content.
And if the web gets flooded with bot content, it will only hasten the demise of google. Either way the thing will balance out
In addition, it would need to try and solve for the 80% witch hatches for those that need the last 20%.

Part of the problem with current CI/CD solutions is trying to solve for everything.

And I think the local thing would be a killer if for no other reason than the ability to debug it locally.
Anecdotally, some human kids don't like being tested and will deliberately fuck with a researcher.

(I don't remember this, my mother was hidden behind a one way mirror.)

I had some pretty severe co-ordination issues as a child, no learning related problems - but fuck knows who decided that I needed to be evaluated on both fronts.

Anyway this woman comes in to test me with one of those boxes with different shaped holes in the top, and a matching block for each hole.

I grab a random block and try to shove it in a hole into which it obviously does not fit - and keep trying with the same hole until the woman gets up and leaves in frustration (she'd been trying to hint that I should perhaps try another hole).

The moment she left I quickly solved the puzzle.
True, but a lot of them are about intelligence other than human. I'm impressed that there's even a list that's close to the subject. It could have presented 50 random titles.
The increase in load will be gradual and the charging & transmission capacity will not need to be built overnight "in 2030". It's just normal power engineering with demand trend known well in advance.
I think it's important to remember that just because something is easier to deal with, it doesn't necessarily mean it's better. The fact that AIs may be more pleasant to interact with than some humans doesn't mean that they are better equipped to govern us. In fact, I would argue that it is precisely the challenges and difficulties that come with dealing with other humans that make us better, more resilient, and more capable as a society.
As for 3), we really need to avoid the narrative that these people are idiots or stupid. They are sharks - intentionally malevolent people who have defrauded millions of people. SBF's current defense is that he was too naive and unaware of what was happening at FTX. Obviously its a lie - but we shouldn't help these people spread it.
I said a central thermostat. This is the context I was referring to. As in a remotely controlled heater where the thermostat is on the wall as opposed to on the device. This is what you’d need to use to keep a home heated while you aren’t there. I happen to have a space heater on right now next to me. It has a very nice remote app on my phone. And it is very clear that the heat function only works from the device itself (due to a legal requirement to support UL 1278). If your cheap heater has a built in thermostat that turns itself on, that’s great… while you’re there watching it. But I can’t say that’s something that I’d ever feel comfortable leaving always plugged in. They are only ever supposed to be used while attended - for a reason. The updated version of the product you linked to (2022 digital version) even has an automatic shutdown timer. You have to manually start it again after that shutdown.

I also have a permanently installed electric heater installed in the wall in a different room. It does have a permanent thermostat that can start/stop automatically. It’s quite a different beast from a $20 space heater with its own circuit back to my breaker box. It works pretty well, but portable, it is not. It was also much more than $20.

But, back to your original point — are you really suggesting replacing the entire German heating infrastructure with $20 ceramic heaters from Amazon? How is that a remotely viable solution? These are devices meant for heating a small office. If you want to heat an apartment or house or city, you need different options. And changing those over takes time and more consideration than buying a bunch of $20 space heaters.
I've been saying this for the last 5 years. People don't realize how powerful the 'money printer' is. All the money which exists in the system was created out of nothing and injected into the economy through a few specific channels (mostly as credit backed by debt). IMO, everything in modern society is influenced in some way by interest rates; even culture and morality. Money printing can distort the market pricing mechanism and distort all economic activities.

IMO, a low interest rate environment is about luck, first mover advantage and media exposure. A high interest rate environment is about value creation. IMO, as interest rates increase, many successful people of the past decade are going to wake up to a new reality; those who have the humility to understand that they were lucky will be able to adapt their strategy to suit the new environment but most will go out of business.

I believe that in this new high interest environment, some people who were previously unsuccessful will thrive while some who used to be successful will start failing. The majority of investors will not be able to escape the mindset that they should only invest in successful people (since that has worked consistently in the past) and they will end up chasing loss after loss and not understand why their proven strategy of track-record-based investing is no longer working.
I think it was Matt Levine (Bloomberg) who wrote recently that, if crypto is so amazing and efficient, why are the trading fees 100x higher than on regulated exchanges in the boring old world of traditional finance?

Turns out, there are enormous costs in managing the risks inherent in moving value in and out of various cryptocurrencies.
Find a product you can promote using paid traffic, which yields you enough margins.

Assuming that you get paid monthly, that there are no caps on the product, and that you get the same margins consistently:

A product with 100% margin will have you grossing $1 million in four months.

A product with 50% margin will have you grossing $1 million in six months.

A product with 25% margin will have you grossing $1 million in eleven months.

A product with 20% margin will have you grossing $1 million in fourteen months.

Even a product with a mere 10% margin will have you grossing $1 million in a little over two years.
If I can’t determine your comment is by a bot, does it make a difference? You are just a random name on the internet.
A century ago engineer Luigi Stipa did experiments with several flying wing aircraft designs. Here is Stipa-Caproni's "intubed propeller" from the 1930s:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stipa-Caproni

Even newer patents should cite this research:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luigi_Stipa
Am I missing something? Wasn't English Patient by Michael Ondaatje?
Was really hoping to see what the solution to the ferry problem was.
Because we want less of it, not more.
The most common definition of a communist country is a country that is run by communists. Communists are members of the Communist party, usually the only party in the country. A communist country is not usually meant to mean a country that achieved communism.

Similarly, casual phrases like "life under communism", which are used by the populace in communist countries themselves, mean "life when communists are/were in control". Since no country achieved communism there's usually no reason to disambiguate.
I guess you haven't heard of a VPN?
The point of the saying is that if there's evidence (smoke) of something normally worth paying attention to (fire), said thing is indeed present.

If something is smoking on your stove, it's worth paying attention to, whether it's because you're actively searing something on an electric or because your pan is empty.

My OP was the one you should come at with this tone lol, they were the ones that sidetracked off whether or not "if there's smoke, there's fire" is a useful idiom. Maybe a better question would have been, "though there's no actual fire, would not those instances of smoke still be worth noting?"

Shall we start thinking of times smoke is present, and not worth anyone's attention?
A while back I went for an interview, they asked about my "full stack" experience and I started talking about the filesystem I was working on. That day I learned that the filesystem is not part of the "full stack".
> psychoanalyst Frances Lang has noted, it’s strange, then, that Beradt’s book has gone “virtually unrecognised” in America

Such a book would make people think in wrong directions, i.e. directions that dont serve the ruling class.
Yes, my home is wired from ancient times. Last year we had monthly blackouts in our home. It took multiple electricians to figure out that our home wasn’t wired to code, and finally to learn that two wires had melted together and were a fire hazard. It was easy to replace them but, impossible to rewire the house to bring it up to code. All the walls would have to be ripped out, which just isn’t feasible on a realistic budget.

The service coming in from the neighborhood is only rated for 25 amps too. They’ll have to lay new cable to get 50 amps and support a heat pump. There’s been some talk on the block about pooling money to pay for it, but nothing serious yet.
Intelligent debate can happen in high-quality threads. And when we are intelligently debating subjective matters, the debate is targeted towards the reader, not the opposing party. On the other hand, when we are debating objective matters, the debate leads to the parties learning from the other. So I don't think these things are opposites.
Emphasis is on "enforcement" than limits and we've applied it to all limits. In general, we (child + parents) agree on some limits. Sometimes they are broken, we discuss and adjust or re-iterate.

It does take more time initially, but it has resulted in a more responsible child and a more respectful child - parent relationship.

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Addiction: if the limits get broken frequently, it definitely is a sign of addiction and indicates a need for healthier alternatives.
Made up stories have no constraint either creating reality (eg, capitalism, Santa for kids, religion) or mapping to reality (eg, science, Zola's Germinal).
I feel it is better for my eyes in all environments than bright mode. I am very nearsighted.

But, both modes hurt your eyes as long as you have to read on screen or even on paper. My aunt used to be pretty nearsighted as a student (-6.00 on both eyes), after she graduated and started a job that only required a little reading, her vision improved dramatically to better than -1.50 within a year. A few years later she completely got rid of eye glasses.
That doesn't sound right. Can you explain in more detail? The only mention of 100x was in regards to a buyback, not a dividend. Options are generally issued with a strike price equal to the current market value, to minimize the tax liability. Following the options grant, a subsequent decision to perform a share buyback would be new information to the market, not expected. Even the execs who received that options incentive package wouldn't have known at the time that they'd be doing a buyback down the road, even though they'd be rewarded for doing it.
>I haven't read through much of the tangle of "Greens agree to peg Gas prices to Renewable prices" (my recollection) in the UK or elsewhere

What's your point???

>Some Russian was streaming a burning stove 24/7, bragging that it cost like $5 / mo. Can a $500 solar installation boil water 24/7 for the same $5/mo

What's your point? Can you boil water 24/7 for $5 a month? No because you don't live in a gas rich state whose economy depended on gas exports, but has now been cut off from international markets.

>I feel that the energy density of Petroleum (and Nuclear) products is just so ludicrous that Wind and Solar can't compete.

Why is energy density a relevant metric? How do you even want to measure energy density? A wind farm can be used for other things. A nuclear reactor not so much. And yes my uranium handwarmer is nice and compact, but the are reasons why no one else uses one.
https://cloudscape.design surprisingly practical
Should HN ban the discussion of mobile apps on smartphones on its platform?

The excessive use of mobile apps on smartphones has been linked to addiction and a range of negative effects on mental and physical health [0]. Should HN consider banning the use of mobile apps on smartphones on its platform in order to promote a healthier and more focused environment for discussions?

[0] : https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/01/health/cell-phone-ban-schools...
That's a good article and pretty close to what I was thinking about. I would add that I think the internet is transmitting fear and panic about "others" that Elon Musk is not immune to.
It'll shut out anyone that simply doesn't feel like paying for others to read their thoughts. Narcissists with money would probably love it though. The rest of us would simply abandon these forums and go find other things to do with our time and attention.
The Arrow also has a constant speed prop, the difference is the Arrow is direct drive from a massive 360 cubic inch engine whereas the turboprop has a gear box. It needs this displacement to produce power while at such a low speed for the prop. At almost 6 liters, yet producing only 200hp, it's wildly fuel inefficient, and it's fairly trivial to produce this much power with a modern ~2L engine. This is almost entirely due to a single bad engine design that had resonance issues from several decades ago so the industry (stupidly) considers anything but direct drive to be taboo. This is changing slowly with some newer light sport engines that have gearboxes, however.

If it had even a modest reduction drive, you could run the engine at a reasonable power setting while maintaining a more efficient tip speed but the prop and engine engineers had to meet in the middle resulting in a highly compromised solution.
> worth $800B, with 200M users, transferring billions of dollars a day

None of these statements are true. All of them (especially when it comes to monetary values) are wishful thinking.
Sure, but if you compare to EU companies, their stock growth had been pitifull in comparison.

Everyone invests in US stocks/ETFs/companies if they want to see good returns.
None of that transparency is done at the OS level today though, it is done in layers above that, and that's not some new thing that's just started now. It's obvious that's the way to go and trying to shoehorn some over engineered network transparency into a kernel never had any real justification or demand for it.

It's not like Plan 9 was new with distributed systems or concepts or network transparency. You had many distributed systems, MOSIX, VMS, X11, NFS, etc all a decade or more before Plan 9. For the most part they were an academic obsession that's has mostly run out of steam these days replaced with local operating systems and layers on top of those which add the distributed support.
Yes, many did feel that way and you can hear this for yourself in a small part of the documentary “Summer of Soul” by Questlove. In the film they show archival footage shot at the Harlem Culture Festival on the day of the Apollo 11 landing. The interviewees are resoundly unimpressed with the achievement. They cite the expense of the program, especially in lieu of the lacking services and dire maintenance of Harlem, NYC as a key reason for their lack of support.
I've been thinking lately that how I could do some integration testing FOR my CI-pipelines. My client has very complex pipelines which has business logic inside them and every week we run into new bugs and regressions. I can't think any easy way to write tests for them to make it harder to break when developing new features.

Btw. Gitlab allows splitting your pipelines to multiple files using include[1]. Also we have used gitlab-ci-local[2] to run our pipelines locally when developing them.

1: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/yaml/includes.html
2: https://github.com/firecow/gitlab-ci-local
Please no. We can't allow this to be a slippery slope to what is happening on reddit.
Those of us who don't read the news daily, or live in a different country, won't know the answer to that question either.
Note: Alan Turing's Imitiation Game pretty much directly involves Men, Women, Machines, Teletypes.

These days of course we use such things as IRC clients, Discord, Web Browsers etc, instead of teletypes. If you substitute in these modern technologies, the Imitation Game still applies to much online interaction today.

I've often applied the lessons gleaned from this to my own online interactions with other people. I don't think I ever quite imagined it might start applying directly to <machines>!
> they mean makes more money. The fact is that culture is a completely different, parallel value system, that they just don't grok

You mean a newspaper about the economy has to explain to you that they're talking about the business side of things, you can't just assume good faith on the part of the author and instead assume that they're some unthinking, cultureless robot who only cares about money?
> A stock is worth the present value of future dividends.

Not every stock pays dividends. A stock's worth is determined by supply and demand in a market or directly between the seller and the prospective purchaser.
Putting a literal ton of rechargeable AA batteries into a car form factor just so you can move one person 20 kilometers is already the peak of insanity, so why not go the whole hog on craziness.
Single reaction wheel enables two-axis balancing, which shouldn’t work but does
Yes but many markets didn’t have taxis before ride sharing. Now we do.
Having some people fighting for it is of course not enough, the community has to want it, but once it does it is fairly easy to make happen. This is in contrast to e.g. trains, which take decades from authorization to passenger service in the best case and often fail for technical or project-management reasons despite voter support.
This is good advice, unless it doesn't fit your use case. As an example, using pg instead of redis is great until you need to handle hundreds or more requests per second.

Using pg instead of kafka works great until you have to ingest a few gigs of data a second.

Using pg instead of mq works until you have a few thousand messages a second.

Etc etc.
"if it's not tested, it's not functionality"
I'd guess it's wanting for laser frequency to not shift with temperature
For all our progressive and seemingly liberal behaviour we are more conservative about bots and the fear of them. Neither is cognition or intelligence unique in itself and as long as an AI is able to do better research and come up with a synthesis it does add more to the conversation.

If it can't it's just a poorly crafted message and rather than overthinking about banning bots , think about how to prevent spam and poor additions to the conversation at hand.
> it's just too much fun to see what kind of ridiculous answers ChatGPT will come up with

I come here to learn, debate, and expand my mind. Not to amuse myself through reading ridiculous answers.
You're looking for fricative /ɣ/ in southern dialect. Relevant links:

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Russian_dialects

https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9D%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B5%D1%87...
Like your replies then.
I think that's absolutely true; it's easy to demonize the algorithm itself which is, when all's said and done, just dumb code with a heck of a lot of "if" statements. The problem is generally systemic, and worse still, it's often financial: algorithms are a way to make plausible things that otherwise wouldn't be possible within financial and time constraints. They are, at best, shortcuts. The problem is, increasingly, they are being used as blunt, impersonal instruments in situations that require humanity, or compassion - they let governments and corporations disassociate from the reality that every record processed by The Algorithm actually represents a living, breathing person.

In the words of Terry Pratchett: "Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things."
This version, apparently by Guthrie, has it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxiMrvDbq3s
Which is how I often feel reading comments on HN to begin with.
Meanwhile quality of Quora answers these days are basically as bad as it gets, so bad that I have it blocked from my Google results. Not once have I been to Quora and actually found an answer I was looking for.
I guess that makes sense. I use Mullvad as well, and anecdotally it seemed to have a similar rate of blacklisted endpoints to Nord. I guess in Nord's case maybe its ubiquity is the problem.
Linux Desktop Environments System Usage
> collaboration

While it is possible to share a session with tmux, I have never used it for collaboration - in my 20 years in the industry, no such need has arisen. I'm not saying it's not a useful feature, others probably use it, but still, it's hard to see it as a selling point. And yes, mandatory registration discourages me from trying Warp.
It's not just about rural living. This can be generalized to "different communities have different needs." It's why world government won't work, and why large states have to either leave a lot of leeway for self government or fragment entirely.
The one I had and loved was the HP Palmtop - tuning the "obscure OS" known as MS-DOS 5.0

You could beef them out pretty strong

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_200LX
Those times will never come again.
Ask HN: How can I make text look better on Windows?
I love my MacBook Pro and I use it for most of my programming work and other such tasks. I would use it for everything if I could.

However, there are certain things that I prefer to use my PC for (things such as gaming [rarely], or other GPU-intensive tasks, such as ML/AI work that relies a lot on GPU compute).

I am finding it difficult to swap back to my Windows PC after being spoiled by the excellent font-rendering and display quality on Mac. It's hard to look at Windows text after using my Mac for awhile.

How can I minimize this perceived burden while using my Windows PC?

Specifically:
1) What are some recommended fonts that people like to use on Windows? ; 2) Are there any tricks or tips that folks recommended for working with both OSes?
And what does Ja Rule think of all this?

Edit: Questlove is a DJ.

Origin of my question: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mo-ddYhXAZc