skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah... I haven't watched TV for years. I've tried, because we used to do it a lot as kids. But after a while of not having it... nothing is that interesting. The few times I go to a hotel and have live TV, I genuinely try to find something interesting, but it's just not.
I don't disagree with you, and two things can be true at once.
Nanoscale Instruments for Visualizing Small Proteins – Bret Victor
Talk starts at 14 minutes - 2022-10-29
I also think he's going to lose it massively (technical background aside, i.e. he's not an applied mathematician, it's a huge problem) BUT the AI industry is currently run with a very childish approach to software and programming, if his company can attack the infrastructure wisely they could really improve the industry. No idea how to make that money money though.
Right, but the cop didn't come by so he could look for people to throw out. The FBI isn't just "walking by" Twitter, they're there for a reason.
It was a DS-20
I’d describe it more as optimism than happiness. You gotta believe in the future vision, how great a place this is, etc.

The hope is that it creates a can-do culture. Downside is that it can create a culture where no one feels safe criticizing bad ideas.
When I am convinced that my daughter is a real conscious person – that conviction isn't just based on dispassionate observation of her outputs in response to various inputs, it also has an emotional dimension. The thought of her being a p-zombie offends my heart, which is part of why I reject it. I haven't yet met an AI for which the thought of them lacking real consciousness offended my heart – I don't know if I ever will, but if I did, I would be convinced it was really conscious just as my daughter is.

Some will object that it is irrational to allow one's emotions to influence one's beliefs. I think they are wrong – certainly, sometimes it is irrational to allow one's beliefs to be swayed by one's emotions, but I disagree that is true all the time, and I think this is one of those times when it isn't.
The OpenCV OAK series of cameras are fun to play with: https://store.opencv.ai/
They didn't - as I said before, this kind of communication is commonplace between large tech properties and governments, other large companies, NGOs, etc. It wasn't anything like a direct order. Local law enforcement, city councils, lobbyists, PR people, anyone with information or access will often have a more direct line to Twitter, Youtube, etc than the 'report' button.

There do exist direct orders to reveal or conceal information that do require a judge to sign, things like National Security Letters. It's remarkable that NSLs and other compelling documents don't get more play in these conversations. They actually are what people think these friendly emails are.
> No government entity should be involved in the slightest in policing media in order to "protect" elections. It's very subjective and extremely ripe for abuse.

The FEC can impose all sorts of fines, they arguably have more teeth than this.
> there's the anxiety of waiting like 4 hours, opening it, and seeing a bunch of critical messages you weren't around for.

Tell people to call your phone if it is urgent. Everything else can wait 4 hours, right?
That's an interesting account of evolutionary biology.
>But the metaphor of "pants" is absurd.

Yes that's the point. It's a reductio ab absurdem. The pant metaphor is obviously absurd for the same reason that the initial position you posited is absurd. In order to salvage your initial position, you need to differentiate the logic or premises from the absurd argumentation.

Pants and Shirts aren't symbols of fear and control despite being mandated in most areas of public life, but shackles, prison garb and other elements of clothing certainly would be. Therefore there's an element other than being mandated that makes clothing a symbol of fear and control. This is what the pants metaphor shows.

>I won't be participating, because to me, the value of seeing human faces vastly exceeds the benefit of avoiding a cold.
This is also reductive (not the personal choice aspect, but rather how it ties into the original discussion of masks as symbols of fear and control); would you agree with the faces over mask rule during a surgery with patients susceptible to infection? Would you consider hospital rules that OR staff wear masks during such surgeries to be authoritarian overreach?

I think if you're willing to admit that 1) there are public health concerns associated with the COVID-19 pandemic and 2) that there's a trade-off to be made, then "I won't be participating" is a bit too absolutist to flow from the remainder of your beliefs. Certainly you can try refining a condition like "masking in high density communal areas during respiratory disease seasons" to be more or less restrictive rather than ignoring the issue altogether.

If we can do that, we can have a more meaningful discussion about where masking could be appropriate, rather than discussing whether or not it should occur at all.
So the venn diagram of ADD(ADHD is the preferred term these day) folks and Lisp(Scheme if you're fancy) programmers is a circle?
Yes, and my free speech as protected by the First Amendment gives me the right to call this as plainly falling into the FBI's distraction trap, not to mention the whole giving cover to the sell-off of TSLA stock thing.
> “financed directly by government”

Wouldn’t work in my city where tax raises have to be approved by voters and they refuse to accept a tax increase to pay to fix the water system and re-pave the roads. The city government sends fliers round explaining to people that they need to vote for it, but to no avail.
“High school never ends” hits differently when it’s a little closer to home
There's a very real "We used to do xyz at Facebook" issue sometimes.

Just because it worked for them (if that even) doesn't mean it's automatically a good idea.
Ask HN: Programming related ChatGPT prompts you are being blown away with
I'm currently playing with ChatGPT and many people are describing it as being "blown away". I can't think of any other words to describe this feeling either. Please post some of your prompts that have simply blown you away.

Please don't include the output, just the prompt (or follow up prompts if that was necessary). And then say how spot on it was.
Then we have consensus.
My daughter is verifiably not a saint, and she sits and eats dinner and chats with adults. This should be the base expectation of any child, within reason. Yes, she can color; yes, sometimes the adults have to entertain children's stories; yes, we pay attention to her. But otherwise, she's incredibly enjoyable to bring out to restaurants and such with the right environment.
Microsoft was wise to fear open source. If Windows XP had been free software, the vast majority of institutions would have just kept using it and Microsoft's future OS sales would have plummeted, along with all the ad and user data revenue that they indirectly generate.

Instead, being closed source, Microsoft can just force users to update to systems that they don't want, by withholding critical security fixes and features that are required to use the modern web. And there's almost nothing the users can do about it, because they have no meaningful control over the system they are running.

It's pure genius.
napster, but "web3"
Yeah I used to use W10's virtual desktops; I got tired of having to reconfigure the desktops every time I rebooted the laptop. Big fan of powertoys, although I keep forgetting all the tools it has to utilize though xP

I'll hafta see if they've updated it, and look into fancy zones. They look like the tiling manager I've always wanted in windows
The health of fisheries is often death by inaction because every special interest group blames each other -- recreational anglers blame commercial anglers blame climate change and nobody can point the finger hard enough to get anything done, exactly by way of arguing "this is just a distraction from the actual harm"

We just can't know whether any action will move the needle, not for sure, unless we go do it.
It's the financial piece. The poor again get screwed with higher prices because they will never have solar panels. So electric company was charging more to the poor to pay for this. Just like they do for food and for gas. Just like poor voluntarily pay the education tax for the rich.

Agreed that monopolies need to be regulated by the state. In PA my electricity went up over 300% in the first 6 years it was deregulated, and the company's profits were record quaters from 2008 - 2017.
> Hash tables don't think, hash tables model conversations...

They don't think, and they don't get very far in modeling conversations, either. Even the current LLMs are strictly better at modeling conversations than any hash table.
Groan, the luddite mentality about Windows is and has always been out of control, with so many people insisting on living on decade-old software for silly pedantic reasons like "cloud crap" that can be turned off in 5 seconds. Don't move my cheese, nothing else can possibly be better, Windows peaked 10 years ago.

No, my Windows 11 system doesn't use a Microsoft Account. No, I don't get ads on Windows (web search and suggestions are off, e.g., turn Windows Search settings to "classic"). All of the annoying stuff takes very little time to disable. And let's not pretend that Windows 7 didn't have people looking to turn off things about it they found annoying. [1]

Don't forget that the system requirements for Windows actually decreased after 7 when Microsoft optimized it for lower spec devices. Windows 7 isn't actually all that well optimized compared to 8/8.1/10/11. Windows 10 and 11 are much better able to take advantage of hardware enhancements on modern chips that are vastly different than the hardware available over 10 years ago. How many x86 processors had big.LITTLE architecture in 2009? Because that's what Intel is shipping now.

Don't forget about all the things that are massively antiquated about Windows 7 like the legacy control panel with no search function, lack of multiple desktops, lack of basic built-ins like a PDF reader, garbage command prompt and powershell, troubleshooting wizard that did nothing, Windows Update still being relatively disruptive and unreliable.

Don't forget about all the things that are actually REALLY good about Windows 11 like the game bar, task manager, Linux tooling and aliases (can you run ls ~/ | grep example in a Windows 7 shell without additional software?)/PowerShell 7/SSH being preinstalled, expanded and improved window management, very clean and minimal visual design, Windows Hello biometrics (I can SSH to my Linux server with a key stored in 1Password, automatically authenticated with my fingerprint when I run the SSH command (I don't have to open 1Password manually), using the built-in Windows SSH client, can Windows 7 do that??)

Windows 7 looked good because Vista was so unfinished and inappropriately matched to the contemporary hardware of the time, but in reality it wasn't anything particularly special and had plenty of missing and frustrating aspects.

[1] https://www.maketecheasier.com/disable-annoying-things-in-wi...
You could consider an annual O’Reilly subscription if you don’t have access to one through your role.

They have large library of books and videos, and I have found it useful to skim interesting parts of relevant books as things come up over the course of the year. They also have live sessions which span technical and nontechnical topics. I liked Curtis Newbold’s live session on leadership communication.

What’s nice is you’ll enjoy the benefits all year unlike other materials which are often one-and-done.
>I think Portal is a perfect example of how slow to adapt the company has become. It's a fantastic video conferencing device, certainly the best at its price point. We happened to enter the pandemic with this device already available for sale, but we completely failed to capitalize on it.

Thanks for your insight, but the Portal failure shouldn't be surprising. There are a large number of people who would never want to have a private conversation or meeting using Facebook infrastructure or be forced to create a Facebook account to join a meeting. As far as Zoom support, again, why would anyone trust Facebook infrastructure with private meetings?

Aside from the trust issue, why buy hardware from FB just to have meetings?
It depends on the definition of UNIX, but typically Linux doesn’t count as UNIX.

You can draw a continuous—if very torturous—line between Bell Labs’ UNIX original codebase and modern macOS/iOS.
Such a truck doesn't get much use. Even if you broke the law I'd think you'd be hard pressed, at least based on the road tax rate in my jurisdiction, to save more than tens of dollars each year. Hardly makes a difference and certainly not worth the risk for trying.

But you're right that because such vehicles are barely used they start life on the farm as old beaters. That's what I was meaning when I said that the Lighting is too expensive to be a farm truck. Aside from cost, though, they otherwise look quite ideal for the task.
On mobile, I accidentally hit flag quite often trying to tap the link of the article below it. I do go back every time and unflag, but I can imagine not everyone would.
> If you really get into classical music, jazz and to some extent blues/bluegrass... modern pop songs just sound like crap and boring.

I feel this might be a 'look at me I'm so smart thing'. I've enjoyed classical music and jazz and blues/bluegrass, and partake in playing all of those. I also enjoy pop music. There's nothing inherently bad about pop music. Like jazz and classical, it's based on a simple circle of fifths progression. In fact, most modern pop is more harmonically and rhythmically complex than classical music.
I think we’ve seen this across a number of Toy lines. For instance, I’m quite interested in Hasbros Masterpiece line of Transformers, which sell in the for hundreds of dollars a piece, and are massively more complex than the child-focused toys.
Yes but the tetanus toxoid is the same toxoid it's always been. It is disingenuous to suggest that the immune system doesn't atrophy some with time. It's much more nuanced really, but humoral immunity in particular wanes with time.
Where is current twitter's lawsuit if that's the case? There hasn't been anything released that indicates these moderation actions were taken under duress. Old twitter wanted to moderate their platform in that way.
According to Wikipedia he is 94 years old
That's not true. For example, from https://www.fbi.gov/how-we-can-help-you/safety-resources/sca...

"Create a strong and unique passphrase for each online account you hold and change them regularly. Using the same passphrase across several accounts makes you more vulnerable if one account is breached."

This is an ask from the FBI. But they obviously aren't coercing you not to use abc123 as your password.
> Notice we land on the same 7F... prefix twice; this makes sense – we skip ahead by half the file size, then back, then ahead two times by a quarter.

How would one fix that?
I wrote about this earlier today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34020263. Does it answer your question?

I think Part One and Part Two had significant frontpage time on HN, then not so much until now. That raises the question (at least in my mind) what's different about Part Six? I think part of the answer is random fluctuation (you can think of HN's frontpage as a slot machine with 30 slots—it's not random, but randomness is involved), and part of it is maybe that the government involvement aspect makes the information here more significant.

When it comes to divisive topics, HN moderation spends a lot of time in the uncanny valley between the major ideological camps. This topic is a good example. One passionate subset of the community would like all of these submissions to get major attention, while an opposing passionate subset would like all of them to be soundly ignored. Our job is to somehow balance the conflicting vectors. That's not so easy, and also not so easy to articulate. The idea is not to maintain a centrist position*, it's to try to keep the community from wrecking itself via ideological fracture.

* for some reason that is a pet peeve of mine - https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
There is an app for this. Reduce motion is still slow fade animation. The app was a little buggy but mostly worked like Linux tiling window managers.

The apps price was a few bucks. I can’t remember the name of it, but I’m looking an will edit if I find it.

Edit: no dice. All I can do is assure you it’s technically possible and some external WM apps out there may do it for you
The faster you get a fish to the boat, the more likely they are to survive when you release them. With strong enough line the fish can't turn away and so is just dragged in without expending much energy. It will thrash side to side a bit, but it can't do long exhausting sprints away from the boat. When fishing for tuna, recreational fishermen will use 100lb mono because people enjoy fighting the fish and the fish aren't released. Commercial fishing uses 500lb dyneema line, and in my experience you release 3 fish per kill due to size limits. You just crank them to the boat and if they are too small they will swim away like they never missed a beat.
AIX

Luckily it had bash, so it felt like a Linux system for my scripts. There is a Command to enumerate all the hardware running on it, I remember running that command to see what was assigned to the LPAR the Aix instance was running on. It took 3 minutes to run and complete :)

So yeah, a mainframe. Twlco. IBM obviously. It was used as a massive Oracle database.
That's amazing. Is there any precedent for this from an artist of comparable stature?
I myself don't mind wearing a mask, but in general I don't believe we should force others to do so in most circumstances.
Our children are too young to really 'get' computers. However, my policy is actually really simple. They are allowed TV when we are doing it as a family (thus, it's family time). They are not allowed to watch TV alone except exigent circumstances (namely plane rides or being very sick).

When they are older, computer time will be allowed, but the pursuit must be creative in nature.
I'm as shocked as you are. What a wasted opportunity by petty people with big egos. And I paid for it literally. I bought a Oculus set and stopped using soon after. What a disappointment. I wanted to support the technology, but my good will was squandered. At least I feel vindicated by every thing John Carmack says because I thought some similar things.
The Wii is barely online. That’s a big part of it.
Investor-owned utility monopolies are regulated by the state. Either Public Utility Commissions or Corporation Commissions.

The alternative is publicly-owned utilities, like munis or coops. Typically the publicly-owned utilities have materially lower electricity rates.
Is fascism closer to free speech or is it closer to censorship?
I agree. The ease of it all and for frivolous things.

And to think the gov tried to have a department of disinformation.

That’s how you divide the country even further.
> The idea that there is anything that meaningfully exists outside of my qualia, is the lowest-level of those models, and that that includes other entities which have qualia of their own, is a high-level model (or maybe, more accurately, a conjecture) built on top of those models which might have consequences for, say, my preferences for how I would like the universe to develop, but interesting lacks predictive consequences – its a dead-end within the composite model.

Are you arguing that idealism is a predictive dead-end? I don't think it is any more of a predictive dead-end than materialism is.

Scientific theories are conceptual frameworks which can be used to predict future observations. As such, they make no claims about the ultimate ontological status of their theoretical constructs. Materialists propose that those theoretical constructs (or at least some subset of them) are ontologically fundamental, and minds/qualia/etc must be ontologically derivative. Idealists propose that minds/qualia are ontologically fundamental, and those theoretical constructs are ontologically derivative. Neither is science, although both are philosophical interpretations of science – I see no reason why science (correctly interpreted) should be taken as preferring one to the other.
Thanks I will have a look
Just for some anecdata, I like buying hot wheels for desk toys every so often.

They definitely feel light and cheap, but still roll really smoothly and straight. From reading up on their history, I recall that was the main innovation that made it so popular. It's neat they kept that going!

That said, I'm not a kid crashing them together every day in a sandbox, I just fiddle with each every few days for maybe 3-6 months or so at a time before switching out to new ones.

So your mileage may vary (ha) depending on how taxing you are on them.
Mark and Meta have been given a once in a lifetime chance to right their way by refocusing and ironing out privacy and feature set while Twitter burns its house down. I wouldn't squander it on the metaverse.
It's confusing because the recent Doom games were developed by Id and published by Bethesda Softworks, and both of them are subsidiaries of Zenimax. Bethesda Softworks is just a publisher; the games Bethesda is best known for (The Elder Scrolls and Fallout 3+) are by Bethesda Game Studios.
Why are they contacting Twitter as the FBI in a backchannel to report potentially ToS offending tweets as opposed to the way we all report tweets to Twitter? Or indeed at all when they're not illegal tweets.

Imagine Trump is in charge of the FBI.
Tom Lehrer has some fantastic quotes - if you like dark humor.

“Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.”

“If after hearing my songs just one human being is inspired to say something nasty to a friend or perhaps to strike a loved one it will all have been worth the while.”

"I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up."

And now, perhaps the greatest of them all:

"In short, I no longer retain any rights to any of my songs.
So help yourselves, and don’t send me any money."

Godspeed, Tom, and thank you for your humor and your music!
more likely there were a lot of correct implementations, but they got debugged after the initial publication, and then didn't publish the erratum
It's hard to walk this line.

I think some people are forthright and outspoken, but a long game persuasion might be the best strategy sometimes.

I remember Linus Torvalds commenting on systemd, and accepting the work with upstanding neutrality (I wished he had rejected the binary log files)

"I don't actually have any particularly strong opinions on systemd itself. I've had issues with some of the core developers that I think are much too cavalier about bugs and compatibility, and I think some of the design details are insane (I dislike the binary logs, for example), but those are details, not big issues."