skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Where are you expecting all of this bonus food to come from? Mars?
Should you be allowed to treat someone who is unconscious? Forcibly remove someone from a burning building or vehicle?
Maybe many people on HN can do this. A lot fewer people than that on HN want to do it. And many people who use Markdown outside of HN can't do it.
Works when you're picking the software. Less so in most companies where you spend 75% of your time interacting with half-broken, constantly-changing, barely-interoperable programs and web-services that someone else chose.
Thanks for letting me know, I stand corrected
At Apple's scale, selling tens of thousands of these could both be very profitable and still not worth the effort and distraction.
one piece of advice for anyone about to read war and peace: the number of chracters are vast and you'll find that the names used to refer to each can often change with no warning. different names can be used interchangeably, even in the same piece of dialogue. it can get very confusing. best to have a map of character names before you start.
I do remember seeing tons of insects in more wild areas last time I visited France. I have a strong suspicion that insect biomass is critical to the existence of the animal foodchain & ecosystem.
It really depends on what you know in WP.
Want to use it for enterprises? Look into WordPress VIP or try to use https://roots.io (you can even use Laravel modules with it)

Whenever I read someone say "best" "sucks" - it makes me wonder how much research they've done.
That assumes voters are rational actors, which we have mountains of counter-evidence for.
In a hypothetical total universe timeline of something like 100 trillion years, say till the degenerate era...we're not really very far in right.

If we were near the end and had the same paradox I'd say you're probably right in that the answer is there is no life.

But we're really really early, so either we're a total fluke and the first or there's another reason.

Basically what I'm saying is if you're right and the probabilities are so low then I'd think we should either not exist or the timelines I've sketched are very very off
Hey man. Give some context to links please. Don't just dump them like that...

But thanks for the link, it seems like an interesting read though I'm too tired now to read it (but not for spouting off on HN... i know right).

>> Remarkably, conditioning the model on such an “example-based specification” effectively enables the model to adapt on-the-fly to novel tasks whose distributions of inputs vary significantly from the training distribution.

That would be indeed interesting if it was the case, but as we have seen in practice, it isn't. For example, GPT-3 is great in addition and subtraction with two- and three-digit numbers, but its performance deteriorates rapidly after that, plus it's bad at multiplication and completely incapable of division [1]. That's exactly what you'd expect of a model trained on a dataset where "easy" arithmetic problems predominate, i.e. the internet, and not at all what you'd expect of a model that can somehow magickally generalise beyond its training distribution without even being trained, and without even retaining any memory of its "examples" (i.e. prompts).

In any case, the way to convince me that I'm wrong is to do the good, old-fashioned hard work of proving LLMs' learning ability, like people used to do when it was all hairy stuff like statistical learning theory and VC-dimension and so on. But that's too much hard work and people prefer to poke LLMs with arbitrary prompts instead nowadays. And I agree that it's more fun that way, but at some point you have to give up the fun and try to understand exactly what's going on with a complex system.

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[1] See Figure 3.10 in "Language models are few-shot learners".

Strange, I could have sworn there used to be a "large" in the title.
More science denial here we go
A quick Googling found this, and it looks similar:

https://maccy.app/
What's interesting is that once someone gets past a certain age, people almost universally agree that it's OK to confine them against their wishes if they are unable to take car of themselves. You don't hear many people saying that dementia patients should be able to leave whenever they want.
Awesome! Is there an easy and quick way to convert the canvas into a shareable format, i.e. into HTML or PDF?
It routinely bothers me a bit that, IME, most IRL discussions of the Fermi paradox tend to omit this rather simple explanation.

Half the time it's brought up, FTL is offered as the solution. Which as best we can tell is fundamentally impossible.

That squishy or otherwise organic bodies are generally unable to travel interstellar distances has always seemed to me to be the simplest solution.

Assuming intelligent life is out there, surely there are civilizations that have destroyed themselves and so on. But lack of FTL travel would be a common constraint, regardless of all other scenarios.
Nah, SPACs are just the luxury version of a DAO token scams.
Yes, people in a vulnerable position routinely get hurt and just about every citizen is vulnerable to multiple someones.

It's unfortunate that certain professions have extremely high walls around them: police, doctors, lawyers, even certain elected officials and select other professions are very hard to displace, while their position grants them very easy tools to displace, manipulate, or harm others.
That's the question; was it greed, narcissism, or a mix of both?
I use Visual Studio for the same reason, but might give IntelliJ a try as I've just checked that it also has a plugin for Rust.
Don't be discouraged from "War and Peace", because it says that it is 235 days (probably it is much less). When I finished it, I wished it had another 1,000 pages.
I would add nodejs/Typescript as a mature option by now. Also, for web apps, using only one programming language sounds like a net positive for me.
“Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of backup tapes.”
Even a very efficient and radio quiet civilization would still have to release obscene amounts of heat if they do any serious stuff in space. Unless they somehow hack thermodynamics there is really no way around that.
It violates nothing. Your intuitions are expanded at length here http://grabbyaliens.com
And it is relatively less than what one would pay for, say, an sgi workstation years ago. Overall, I don't think it's the price that is off-putting for a pro.
The actual source of this - TorrentFreak [0], linked in the article - has an update:

> Update December 20, 2022:

> During the past few hours the Intellectual Property Office edited its advice. The announcement page no longer references password sharing in any way.

[0] https://torrentfreak.com/uk-govt-netflix-password-sharing-is...
Jonathan Blow: Jai Compiler Q&A for the Beta People
You don't seem to have addressed your parent's point. A creator can post a paidlink link on their own site. You already know they're not a scammer because you're part of their happy fanbase. So you trust the links they post will do what they say.

Of course you wouldn't just pay money for some random link you found on Google search.
Cruise Expands Robotaxi Service to Phoenix and Austin Even with Safety Probe
Feels nice and solid!

One thing I immediately wanted was key commands and fast clicking to create cards like FigJam https://www.figma.com/figjam/ This is an amazing tool for brainstorming and collaborating during meetings.

It looks like we can't assign key commands for the canvas actions yet. That will make it much faster to work with.

Imagine:
- C then click to place a card. This would go into text edit mode inside the card right away. (currently it gets snaggled up with VIM mode requiring me to go into insert)
- I then click to place an image, then the asset search dialog opens
- N then click to place a Note, then note search dialog opens

When you are brainstorming you want to add cards really quick. Deleting, moving, cloning should all be really immediate. I'm sure this can be easily achieved.

Thank you so much for Obsidian!
My one big complaint with IntelliJ is that they don't have Devcontainer support

It's (almost) 2023, the way to develop applications is to put a reproducible Docker container with all the dependencies + debug tools you need in the repo, so that anyone can clone it and spin it up in their IDE.

VS Code has amazing support for this, while the only Jetbrains IDE that comes close is CLion.
The counter argument is that you don't have to babysit any of those services. AWS/some other PaaS will handle everything for pennies. Unless you are working in a low cost of labor country, developer time is going to be more expensive than anything else. It will take very large scale/growth for infrastructure fees to exceed the total compensation of a decent US staff engineer or a site reliability engineering team.
ChatGPT. We are all royally f $ed
An extensive letter from Edsger Dijkstra to my 19 year old self (1989)
Yeah, well, I could imagine being an outlier with some service or two - but everywhere? I'm a grumpy ass who loves to nitpick, but I don't think I'm that unique.

Even the Google Ads (which are supposed to have some magic pixie dust algorithms done by the fanciest experts in the field because that's Google's bread and butter) are typically showing me some products I couldn't care less about. It's always some random post somewhere (which could be an ad) that actually makes me interested and drives me to making a purchase, not some bullshit video banner.

> the operators of the system look at the efficiency of the system over larger parts of the population

My guess is that they look at engagement metrics, not consumer happiness or satisfaction. And even though I'm pretty much disappointed, I still use those services and still click on "related products" and even check some book samples etc. - in hope that maybe I'm wrong, and maybe this time it's a good recommendations. Very infrequently that happens, but mostly it's not what I'm interested in. So I go find some non-machine recommendations, search for those and thus remain an active user operators want on their platform.
Yep, and I am happy to use "they" in that setting. The Stanford rules are silly because they also call for using "they" to refer to people whom you do know, if they've never specifically instructed you on their preferred pronouns. I am apparently supposed to refer to President Biden as a "they", since he's not told me otherwise.
It's not necessarily created by WeChat. It just needs to follow the same pattern as a key generated by WeChat (thus all the .* regex jokes here). It could very well be anyone's information, but information about to be public anyway (making "yes" the answer to the question "Isn't this information already public?").
Can you tell me more about this? Are you unable to hit line rates, or are you just commenting about lackluster io options? I'm looking to add some M.2 storage via thunderbolt enclosure to my machine and would otherwise be expecting to be able to saturate the pcie lanes.
https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/wfc/wells-fargo/gr...

~5% of their 2021 gross profits. A hearty laugh goes around the Wells Fargo boardroom, and some new scheme will be devised to defraud their unwitting customers. Without criminal liability, this is no disincentive at all.
2023 AI prediction: the gap between generative and predictive AI will widen
So I lived in a building that had a small elevator and a tiny, virtually useless, mirror just to abide by regulations.

Even though is was a small elevator, it was easy to walk in without noticing someone was already in there. The bigger mirrors you normally see would have prevented that.

I don't know the rational for this regulation, but my guess it's either for safety, or to ease the flow of people in & out of elevators.
A lot of companies would be really upset at Google if this happened.

Besides Google, who re-wrote several of their own apps with Flutter, like Pay and their Home devices (which some are apparently running fuchsia now?), there's BMW, eBay, STAIR (US Department of Veteran Affairs), Nubank, and plenty more.
The link from your linked page states that Google were using C++, not Java. Which is correct. I was there. Writing web servers in C++ is a good idea if your web server is 1% HTML rendering/UI and 99% complex algorithms over large binary data structures i.e. a search engine. It's not so great if your web server is 95% UI.
Ultimately messing around with the order so some guys get more fares is a pretty petty crime for the suggestive "Russian national" headline it is given.
Is there support planned for Graphviz? Would love to be able to import/export Graphviz files
I use SoundSource for this, but I did pay $39 for it.

https://rogueamoeba.com/soundsource/
> Even if they cannot enforce this list, it will be cited as an authority by others.

Okay, but I'm still missing the actual harm. You're talking about other people deciding what words they want to use for themselves, but who is asking you to not use particular words? Is it that you're worried one day your employer will ask you to change a word that you used on your company's website? What is the harm to you?

> Imagine what you would say if Harvard were telling students not to talk about abortions because...

As a practical matter these kinds of issues are decided by the community. Administrators will usually make a restriction, the student body will react and make noise, and then things will settle. Either the students get their way or they don't and transfer or suck it up and graduate. The school's reputation will take a hit depending on if the choice was popular or not.

As paying customers, students tend to get their way, but if they don't they can transfer. This is the best way to do things in a free market with free speech.
I think a modal editor is somewhat at odds with an HMI consisting of dedicated, physical controls.
This is such a selfish perspective. What about their trauma, pain, and sorrow?
Anti-inflammatory drugs commonly taken by children can alter dental enamel
It depends which part of the industry and which departments you’re talking about.

Animation and visual effects for large studios are all Linux based usually. Smaller studios vary between Mac and windows.

Edit houses tend to be primarily Mac based.

There’s very little that competes with macOS and Apple hardware though.

Take color accuracy and EDR. Linux and windows aren’t great for extended dynamic range while working, and especially if you’re using a laptop for mobile reviewing, very few laptops support the accurate display space most macs ship with.

Macs also provide a lot more software compatibility than Linux for things like the Adobe suite of products.

Combine that with out of the box support for many codecs, accelerated ProRes workflows and the ubiquity of airplay+airdrop, macs are very favoured for creative use cases.
Intel Sends Out Initial Linux Kernel Patches for FRED
JASC Paint Shop Pro 7.04 from 2001. Still by bitmap editor of choice. Unfortunately all versions after that were crap and the 7.04 lacks alpha channel support when copying to or pasting from the clipboard. But man, am I fast with that tool.
My brother was on antipsychotics for about 20 years. His compliance was poor. He is homeless now and without treatment.

Growing up he would tell me how terrible the medications were. I believed him, and still do to an extent. However he also identified with his illness and thought the drugs were taking away his special powers. That was a symptom. For those reading who have less experience, they sometimes call that anosognosia or lack of awareness.

In the end it's a very existential thing. It's easy to wonder about identity. I had a few people in my life with this sort of illness. I developed a model where medicated, treated, and stable, that is the "normal" them, their identity. However, these people got offended by this, and engaged in behavior I would describe as identifying with symptoms. Acknowledging symptoms, no matter how evident, was tantamount to personal attacks.

I think we all have issues with this in our lives. Self awareness and identity is a difficult problem. It's only when it falls far outside of norms, into extremes, that we call it a disorder. It can be very tricky to draw those lines.
Realistically, only a few people have to do it and open source a toolkit. Also I don’t really think that we’ll have that issue with markdown because it’s widespread and rather well established. This doesn’t invalidate your point, which I absolutely agree with.
It's $50/year.
There's also Tridactyl, which is a similar project, but more customizable. https://github.com/tridactyl/tridactyl
- Listary: a launcher (double press crtl to open)

- silversearcher ag

- total commander

- Obsidian

- chrome extension: "I don't care about cookies" will remove all the annoying gdpr cookie popups.

- espanso : highly customizable text expander (eg type :myip to replace it with your current ip using your fav scripting language)

- sqlyog : sql client with awesome power features I never seen before: eg schema and data comparision between 2 db sources.

- manictime: a time tracking software which also takes screenshots. You can then go back and see what you did and how long.
Hybrids were a nice stepping stone before modern EV tech, but I think they're fundamentally flawed.

They're constantly carrying around the weight AND space of both the EV (battery, internal charger, etc) and the ICE (gas, transmission, engine, etc).

This means that using either is quite inefficient in terms of total energy used to travel a distance, and neither can be very good. (Limited battery range, weaker engine)

They also have to deal with the wear and maintenance of both systems.

I would rather just have one or the other.
I know many people who would be honestly confused by your example.
It's not the payment processors' fault (but MasterCard and Visa's oligopoly does need to be shattered), it is the banks'. They (more specifically, the network of banks that handle most payment processing) are at the foundation (read, have a strangehold on) of every financial infrastructure, be it technological or human. If they deny service, non-crypto fintechs have no real recourse. Moral pearl clutching aside, the issue of fraud for these sort of services is also unsolved. That is why companies that service this particular vertical charge ridiculous fees. There needs to be a separate non-revocable class of payments (maybe something like Zelle) for these industries.
My oldest credit file is a credit card that I don't use anymore but it is owned by WF.

If I close it, my credit score is negatively impacted by losing a decades old credit line. I don't particularly care about my credit score, and this sort of lock-in is pretty low friction, but changing banks can have costs.

I hate them, over the years that I banked with them, they have consistently been a bad bank. I think I have at least two complaints that went to the CFPB with them (both ended in my favor). I switched my banking activity to another institution years ago, but I do still have accounts open with them.

I'm a financially saavy rich white dude with a degree, and I still find it hard to sever the relationship. Imagine how lesser advantaged people feel. If you're choice is between WF and BOA because of geography or whatever, and you're used to financial institutions being shitty, why bother switching from one predatory institution to another?
I wonder how this fits into antitrust laws if all payment processors start banning legal businesses, it in my opinion should fall under antitrust violations.
Big Brother Is Watching You: Stanford’s New ‘Harmful Language’ Guide
I thought this was an interesting thread. I'm curious if folks here agree with his assessment:

"predictive AI will seem stuck while generative AI accelerates in 2023. Most high-value AI will still be predictive- so there will significant frustrations around AI ROI."
They didn't do so because the White House told them to.

They also only did so for ~24h during which Fox News didn't even run the story because even they thought it might be fake. Which is less of a stance than twitter took. Twitter just disallowed pointing links to the NYPost article for 24h but you were free to talk about the content on twitter.
GitHub Static Time
Not really. An international bank is one legal entity in two places. If you deposit 1 kg of gold in place A, your business partner can withdraw it in place B, minus fees of course. The bank still has to transfer the gold to make up the difference at a later date. The benefit is the merchants don’t have to do this themselves anymore.

Think of it as shipping-gold-as-a-service.
Then tell your staff not to chat and not let anybody poke around. The lawyers may order food but not walk into the kitchen, just like literally every other customer.

Frankly if you're running a public business then I don't care if you don't want lawyers there, the same as I don't care if you don't want people of another race there. If people are coming to eat and they're not being disruptive, then serve them, end of story. It's not your private home, it's a business open to the public.
I agree with wendig0x here. Specifically, I find the following quite suspicious:

1. One of the PR submitters have two[1][2] GitHub users, both used in commits in the PR.

2. The PR is made up of commits from 3 different GitHub users[1][2][3].

3. The PR contains many changes and does not describe them well enough

4. It does not seem that any meaningful amount of code review by maintainers went into the PR

[1]: https://github.com/Van-Fouran

[2]: https://github.com/felixreichmann

[3]: https://github.com/Bruna2803
I was under impression that reading novels was ‘to develop sense of empathy’ not to enlighten them.
Yes, there would be fewer people in prison if we took away every possible opportunity to commit crimes, but there's something comforting about knowing that the people who are not in prison (walking around free in society) are the ones who don't steal even when presented with ample opportunity.
make, dbx, vi, sed, awk, cut, paste, (s)diff, (f/e)grep, comm, sort, col, column, bash, csh, ksh, man, find, cvs, svn, date, f77/xlf, cc/xlc, bcc, TeX, ghostview
Also it’s not true for the file format for canvas which is probably way harder to parse correctly.
I want to see herds of bison in north America that make the Serengeti seem quaint
> I still think "accessibility" is bad, but maybe "disability parking" covers your scenario better.

It doesn't. A guy in an ankle cast with a fracture is neither "handicapped" nor "disabled." However, he does have a problem involving "access," hence the usefulness of a term like "accessibility."

> The article is not about tweaking language to be more precise, its about banning _harmful_ language.

Right, but your understandable reaction to that agenda is, in my view, blinding you to the fact that they accidentally snuck in a good recommendation and "accessible" is actually an improvement. Unlike the authors of the Stanford list I'm not going to castigate you for your disagreement, but I really think 'Accessible parking' is objectively less descriptive. is simply untrue.
Do you have an app to recommend? And does it work well on small objects? The apps I tried were not very impressive.
What part of the world do you live in.
Wait till everyone gets their Q1 bonus for a flood of job vacancies early next year.
Yeah it's called "miller columns" which I tried (as a implementer) once. The width constraint per column is not quite nice, and when it has more than 3 columns, the horizontal scroll ux makes it worse (I think it's ok on mobile). I haven't found a good ux on tree structure in general, it's just suck.
I doubt this would work. When a neurotypical person is confronted with their actions, you usually get one of four results:

1. Justify what they did.

2. Dismiss it.

3. Ignore it.

4. Deny it happened.

Note that change their behavior isn't on that list. :(