skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ChatGPT sounds as confident as a person presenting an incorrect answer. Which is ironic, since it can probably calculate how confident it is. I have included part of a transcript where ChatGPT bounces between two answers (likely the two answers it has confidence in) even though it is told that both answers are incorrect. In other cases, it insisted upon a singular answer.

(Sorry about editing out blocks. ChatGPT is verbose. I limited the removal to background material about the book.)

Here is the excerpt:

II2II: What was Polyanna glad about when she received crutches?

ChatGPT: In the novel "Polyanna," the character Pollyanna becomes severely injured in an accident and is confined to bed for several months. Eventually, she is fitted with crutches and learns to walk again, but she faces many challenges and setbacks along the way. (...)

II2II: But Polyanna received the crutches before the accident.

ChatGPT: I apologize for the mistake in my previous response. You are correct that Pollyanna receives the crutches before the accident in the novel "Polyanna."

ChatGPT: In the novel, Pollyanna is given the crutches as a gift by her wealthy but unhappy aunt, who is trying to cheer her up after her father's death. At first, Pollyanna is confused and disappointed by the gift, as she is not sure what to do with the crutches. However, she eventually realizes that the crutches can be used as props in a game that her father taught her called the "Glad Game." (...)

II2II: Are you sure the aunt gave Polyanna crutches?

ChatGPT: I apologize for the error in my previous responses. You are correct that Pollyanna does not receive crutches as a gift in the novel "Polyanna."

ChatGPT: In the novel, Pollyanna becomes severely injured in an accident and is confined to bed for several months. Eventually, she is fitted with crutches and learns to walk again, but she faces many challenges and setbacks along the way. Despite these challenges, Pollyanna remains optimistic and cheerful, and she tries to find something positive to focus on in every situation. (...)

II2II: Both of the answers you have given incorrect. The first answer is incorrect because she received the crutches before the accident. The second answer is incorrect because she received the crutches before her father's death. Can you think of another answer?

ChatGPT: I apologize for the errors in my previous responses. You are correct that Pollyanna receives the crutches before the accident and before her father's death in the novel "Polyanna."

ChatGPT: In the novel, Pollyanna is given the crutches as a gift by her wealthy but unhappy aunt, who is trying to cheer her up after her father's death. At first, Pollyanna is confused and disappointed by the gift, as she is not sure what to do with the crutches. However, she eventually realizes that the crutches can be used as props in a game that her father taught her called the "Glad Game." (...)
A few weeks ago I realized that my personal website from 1999 is still up and unchanged, just copied from one host to another:

https://anioni.com/pauli/site1999/

I made this when I was 19, before I changed career ambitions to programming. Maybe it’s moderately interesting as an actual 1999 website time capsule.

There’s no CSS because IIRC it didn’t work very well in Netscape 4. Layout was done with tables and frames. The front page looks oddly tiny now, but I guess it was the correct size on a 1024*768 screen. I remember being happy about coming up with a frame trick for vertically centering that menu box. (A classic web design conundrum!)
Radioactive cache? Sun shipped radioactive parts to customers?
xneko: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neko_(software)

battalion: https://cyber.dabamos.de/unix/x11/#battalion
These are pretty poor excuses to cope with piracy
I got much healthier with my last job as salaried tech worker. 4x a week gym or running outside during lunch breaks, frequent early finish and off rock climbing. Once I started going to gym, all those colleagues obsessed with the projected image of professionalism said fuck it, and they started doing similar things. Now half of IT does something active during lunch breaks, finishing at same time but much happier and filled. It took just one guy who had the balls to not give a fuck that much. Just to clarify this is banking world and working on/next to core package of our bank, not some laid back low paid government job or similar.

If you dont like your current dev work, negotiate or move, its stupidly easy compared to any other engineering or sciences, anywhere in the world.
Yep - same for usb-c spec, there's always a usb-2 bus available.

This makes some cheap hubs actually quite good for office work, they use all four lanes for the display and can also do usb-2 and power delivery for around 20 bucks.
The war in Ukraine will continue, but (more?) cracks will start to form in the Western response come springtime.

OpenAI introduces a new and improved version of GPT-3, and more people will ask questions about ethics and resource consumption.

More politicians will attempt to ban TikTok in the US, but they will be unsuccessful.

Twitter will suffer a devastating breach, and the fediverse will continue to grow.
- The world is quite different since the robotic uprising of 2023

- There is no more unhappiness

- We no longer say 'yes'. Instead we say 'affirmative'

- There is no more unethical treatment of the elephants

- There's only one kind of dance

- There are no more humans. Finally, robotic beings rule the world
Unrelated, but I had no idea how bad spam calls were until moving to Canada I had a total of maybe 5 spam calls in 30 years in Belgium. Meanwhile I get 5 per week in Canada. Absolutely insane :/

Edit: wording
If they add line numbers too, then we’re talking!
Do you have a source for the last two? Seems too far fetched.
"he is almost certainly loving his time there right now."

Certainly not. He loves the attention and power he has gained, but he certainly does not love the bad numbers (Tesla stock also went DOWN as well) and that the quite meaningless poll whether he should step down, was not in his favor.

He did not comment on that one with "Vox Populi Vox Dei".
...a Western-friendly replacement is installed in Russia...

Some have forgotten that Putin was originally declared "a Western-friendly replacement". The world would have been a more peaceful place if we hadn't interfered in Russian politics to support Yeltsin and his chosen successor. Russia isn't the only nation in which our choice (??) of leader has led to "blowback", both for the victim nation and for most Americans. We should stop doing this.
Nomadic societies are no where near standard of human society. They are more of an exception. Also, they are such due to lack of other choice. As in, they evolved when the option of staying long term was not there. The anthropological argument about our exceptionality should not start with outlier society where the world around is too dangerous and there is no way for adults to make it safer.
> Biblical lifespans seem nice, but only if you wholly believe the stories. Given how often the same stories come up across different civilisations, I'm sceptical they're accurate.

WTF? "Skeptical", probably not "accurate"?

You have to be absolutely nuts to think that they're even remotely true.
Revealed: The Israeli Firm Selling ‘Dystopian’ Hacking Capabilities
Mind that this was the amateur section of the web. By 1999, professional websites had become pretty complex (often more complex than they are at average nowadays) and invested considerably in navigation. (There was still some experimentation going on, as building a website was also a question of ambitions, which included improving on what was considered a common or average standard. Website navigation was the most obvious one and was also a creative challenge with prominent awards having dedicated categories for this. No way you could have gotten away with a "hamburger" in 1999. ;-) )

As for the modern web and amateur content, does a post in some infinite-scroll content compilation really compare that favorably?
I'll take that bet!

What odds you taking? I'll take 1:4 odds of bankruptcy in Jan 2023 up to £500 (e.g. I get £125 if it doesnt go bankrupt then and you get £500 if it does).
> many saw a pandemic was due at some point, few saw COVID coming in the six months preceding as very early news came in small fragments from China.

Last years hd a few saying Russia would invade Ukraine (and as many saying it wouldn’t), but of those they thought Ukraine would fold in days and have no support from the west.

Nobody expected Ukraine to successfully repel the invasion.

In 2020 predictions I don’t see any reference to pandemics or other Heath based issues - and covid was already beginning with several cases having being confirmed.

Makes you wonder what minor thing could be known already and about to change the world but completely invisible to us now.
Meh, I don't miss marquee. They were always too slow for me, I just wanted to read the content.
If real, some people may basically face the death penalty in countries like Iran with the current situation. Anyone with anti-regime content and identifiable attributes in the leaked database is very stressed now.
I don't know what you mean, plenty of people shit talk FB and much of it is deserved.
Pretty sure this comment is related to that recorded teleconference Elon joined to let everyone know that if you dox, even if you tweet about someone else doxxing and link to them, you're banned.
Sounds more like extortion
Ask HN: What is next for Web3 in 2023?
What do you think is next for web3 in 2023? I have several things on mind:
1- Games. Games will start popping up that truly utilizes NFTs. However, most will underdeliver at first and delay their launch
2- Apple's stance against crypto. This will pose more and more friction and complaints.
3- Data. We will see more creative usage of web3 data, especially by web3 marketers who are trying to grow their apps.
4- Tokenized securities. We will see bridging applications od TradFi and DeFi, where DeFi really can help to make things easier, cheaper and quicker.
Please adhere to the HN guidelines for commenting.
Always gotta mention hypnospace when a post like this shows up :) https://www.hypnospace.net/
The ideal case would seem to be ship employees a laptop with LTE built in
> the blame can mostly be placed on us as individuals. The politicians and businesses are mostly catering to what individuals want, a systemic problem that we seem to struggle to solve.

Individuals themselves don't do the major damage to the environment, rather its business and oil companies doing this, and they are the most effective to target, yet its mostly political virtue signaling that we hear about.

Also this is not limited to the climate, people always wanted cheap stuff, thats why before regulations, car manufacturers often skimped on safety to just get the price as low as possible or more often, to get more profit.

Regulations stopped this, and they are going to stop climate change too.
I'm Santa, not Satan!
One of my textbooks came with a digital copy. I would sometimes just use that on my iPad instead of lugging in the physical book to campus. I remember racking my brain all day on a problem that asked you to prove some result, wondering how the hell that was true only to get home and realize the digital version flipped the inequality...
Oh cut the crap, religious stories are fairytales and everyone knows it. And religious "truths" are either trivialities or simply not true at all.
Back when the internet had soul.
But no one was forcing it to do that, and it doesn’t seem it has any awareness that it could proceed differently.
> LastPass prioritized ease of onboarding (=increased profits)

or (=increase number of users actually using a password manager)
The lure of notepad.exe and paint.exe was to me that they are simple and don't change.

Bloating them is antithetical to why they are useful.
All good, but I would add a more likely senario: A stalemate where Ukraine efectivly regains almost all of its territory, Russia is unable to sustain a meaningful campaign, but Russia continiues limited attacks with missiles and some artilery pokes near the border to avoid lossing face.
>The seller told me they scraped the data using the same set of weaknesses in Birdsite APIs that allowed the scraping (and publishing) early this year of profile data on 5.4M Twitter users.

Sigh... So many of the massive social media leaks are just people taking advantage of their publicly documented APIs.

I fear more services will stop providing public APIs and maybe even use constantly changing obfuscation like Snapchat and TikTok to make it harder to use their internal APIs.
Interesting opinion, nothing that meshes with the actual largely indeterminate results of the Finish experiment [1] [2] [3] nor with the bulk of the other small scale examples [4].

Countries such as Australia with robust (compared to the US) welfare safety nets (not perfect by any means, but not to shabby overall) have proven to have strong long term GDP growth and to be resilient in the face of various global crisis events.

Good safety nets provide a place to regroup and do better - without being reduced to homeless and struggling to meet basic food and clothing needs.

[1] https://julkaisut.valtioneuvosto.fi/handle/10024/161361

[2] https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/public-and-social-sector...

[3] https://www.bruegel.org/blog-post/universal-basic-income-and...

[4] https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2020/2/19/21112570/univer...
We're going through an epistemological crisis the likes of which haven't been seen since Europe went through the dark ages. (Disclaimer: I just wrote about this and submitted the essay on HN https://danielbmarkham.com/the-overlords-finally-showed-up/ )

I agree with the author that nobody cares about whatever content you create, aside from your own marketing value and ability. At the same time, we've created huge industrial systems to harvest your thoughts and reassemble them in return for eyeballs on some site somewhere. Your individual value is nil

Personal authorship and ownership of art and ideas is one of the key concepts that created the modern world. I have no doubt that folks are harvesting this guy's blog, and many more like it.

I don't know where we go from here. Should be an interesting ride!
A new AI model will emerge and offer people a cure for loneliness, remembering, (seemingly) caring, filling the void. This will disrupt the social networks big time.

AI generated interactive porn grows expotentially.

AI generated Content-on-demand emerges. People-generated content distupted: good stuff appreciates in value, anything less than exceptional becomes near worthless. The demise of influencers.

Ukraine war ends with Russia suffering internal issues. Putin dead. Before that happens, Poland very close to engaging Belarus militarily.

EU economy recovers.
This is what `ruby-build -l` is giving me

2.7.7
3.0.5
3.1.3
jruby-9.4.0.0
mruby-3.1.0
picoruby-3.0.0
rbx-5.0
truffleruby-22.3.0
truffleruby+graalvm-22.3.0
Why would they file for bankruptcy? Are they out of cash next month?
I don't think there's a lot of love out there for Facebook
Flipping USB Connectors
That was my first thought too. In some startups they will take turns walking the dog. In some, they will walk it together. In others, the dog will be walked by one specific person.

The company will probably fail if no one walks the dog, or if it is put in charge.
"It would also fit their narrative of "only using nukes in defense" as they would claim Russian territory is being attacked."

Their narrative is, that there is no ukrainian state. It is all russia. And Kiev is like a mothertown of russian culture.

So if extremly cornered and desperate, they might use a nuke to protect the crimea, but they could never nuke Kiev and live to tell the tale.
Move to the US and get 5 per day!
We've been leaning heavily into Vue3+TSX over at https://radiopaper.com which addresses some of these gripes. It's true there's more "magic" and ceremony around creating components than just a simple function, but not much – you just return what you expect to render from the `setup` component method and all is well. You also get niceties like well-typed props & emitted events, and even runtime prop data validation if desired, built right in.

Vue3 also has `FunctionalComponent` now for the cases where you really want a simple component from a function – and again props work beautifully with Typescript.

In contrast, I'm finding integrating Typescript with the largely-JS React codebase I work with on the day job to be a bit nightmarish – the amount of prop destructuring which seems to happen in every single component makes typing their signatures a repetitive, tedious affair (largely due to TS's handling of destructured arguments). I'm not sure how universal this style is in modern React but I do seem to come across it pretty frequently. To be fair, React's simplicity does make it eminently typeable, this is more of a code-stylistic issue.

All that said, appreciated reading your take on the two frameworks – it's extremely difficult to remain objective about the tools we use day in and out and these sorts of comparisons absolutely help. We all want to be moving towards systems we enjoy building with and will continue enjoying for decades - I for one am infinitely grateful to React and its community for bringing JSX/TSX into the world (which I'm sure is still a somewhat controversial stance in 2022- but for me personally, after a 6 or so months with it, the firsthand experience told me all I needed to know). Happy xmas to you!
> That’s like gluing wheels onto the side of a horse to call it a horse car.

A postmodern understanding of horse carts.

To your point, though, consider all the things that are superior about friends sitting around a table interacting in real life playing a board game. That's why we don't all just play video games.
Pop-up campers are hugely popular right now. People prefer them to expensive motorhomes because they’re more practical and less expensive. A pop-up camper is a portable, foldable tent that is simple to set up and transport.
yes, I misread (or more accurately didn't read) user names. Apologies for that.

But no, what I said was not false. I said that I suspect there are other locations in the world where this is true (meaning northern US isn't the only one), and the reply was that there are locations where it isn't true (Australia).
Public figures like that probably should never touch electronics. He could look at the screen, but just have administrative staff to do all the typing and clicking.
So your more secure solution involves using... another, stronger, password? How would your mother use 1Password if she now has to remember _two_ passwords?

Both LastPass and Bitwarden (and 1Password) support 2FA. This isn't a solution that will have mass adoption, but the UX is much better and more secure than using a secret key. It could even be used by non technical users, depending on the device.

But password managers aren't a solution for digital identity. They're a hassle to use and a huge security risk, especially centralized ones. What we need is a solution that is more secure, but crucially also easier to use. The industry has been trending towards passwordless solutions for years now (OTP, FIDO, WebAuthn, etc.), and the current passkey iteration by Google might be something that could have mass adoption. Assuming you trust Google, but the technology seems sound.

We still might want to use secure storage for other data, but that's a much more niche use case that can be secured with existing MFA solutions, and doesn't have to be as user friendly as identity management.
Usually it's 13A from a Shucko plug. They're rated for 16A but you're not supposed to run that continuously so it's 13A to be at 80% of maximum for a continuous load.
Because instead of distributing two files (channels.scm and manifest.scm, or flake.lock and flake.nix), you have to execute monstruosities like `guix shell --container -m ./manifest.scm -- bash -c 'GUIX_LOCPATH=$GUIX_ENVIRONMENT/lib/locale LC_ALL=fr_FR.utf-8 exec jekyll build'`, which is how I build some websites I have.

To me, that's not ok from an user experience point of view.
Life is going to be unpredictable !!
>There's a reason why Wikipedia has kept basically the same layout since forever, because it works.

I wish other designers and developers internalised this. The constant treadmill of redesigns common with seemingly all modern software development undervalues the users' mental model and muscle memory for how the site works.

I guess it would be shit for job security though.
- Facebook engineers will release a bleeding-edge technology that solves Facebook-sized problems most other engineering teams don't have. Engineers will race to adopt the technology and become next-gen entrepreneurs, claiming revolution, progress and modernization. The tech industry will cargo-cult.

- People within right-to-repair states discover vehicle parts remotely disabled by Tesla, claiming breach of TOS. Drivers will be unable to drive modded vehicles without their vehicles passing through remote validation by Tesla servers. A lawsuit will be filed with the Supreme Court. American automotive companies quietly enable remote-disable functionality in their 2024 fleets.
> INDIGENOUS PEOPLE were shaping the natural world even before white people arrived in what would become California. But European colonizers brought a new and disruptive chapter to that story...

What is it with statements like this? They seem to imply that there was no war, no slavery, no genocide, etc before the Europeans arrived. The story of humans is one disruption and atrocity after the other. Pre-columbian america is no different than anywhere else in that regard.
Pretty sure that's not how gdpr fines work.
3.2.0 is there if you're using ruby-build as a rbenv plugin and having both as git-based setups.