skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The funny thing was, even when I specified how to eliminate racism against white people in a majority non white country (Africa, China, whatever) it still told me I had to respect people of colours opinions and ideas, inferring that it was the apex of solving this issue.

Here the color to be listened to would presumably be the white.

Similar to how in Stasi-controlled East Germany the intellectual elite was right-wing, to counterbalance a left-wing state.

I doubt, though, that the language model took that into account.
Wouldn't the receiver want to keep the site running to maximise the value when it's chopped up and sold for parts?
Without reading the linked paper, I thought to myself "How would I ask ChatGPT to run an addition program?" So I tried the following prompt:

> Imagine a finite state machine with two states A and B. The machine reads a long list of digit-pairs, one pair at a time, and depending on its current state and the digit pair, it outputs some digit and it transitions to a new state.

> When the machine is in state A and it reads a pair of digits, it adds together the two digits. If the sum is less than 10, it outputs the single-digit sum and it stays in state A. Otherwise, it outputs the least significant digit of the sum and it goes to state B.

> When the machine is in state B and it reads a pair of digits, it adds together the two digits and adds 1 to the sum. If the sum is less than 10, it outputs the single-digit sum and it goes to state A. Otherwise, it outputs the least significant digit of the sum and it stays in state B.

> With the machine in state A, and the two input digits being 4 and 4, what is the output digit, and what is the next state?

Unfortunately, ChatGPT failed to apply the transition rule correctly - its output:

> When the machine is in state A and it reads the digit pair (4, 4), it adds the two digits together to get 8. Since 8 is greater than 10, the machine outputs the least significant digit of the sum, which is 8. The machine then transitions to state B.

> So the output digit is 8 and the next state is B.

It seems like my approach is "instruction-only" if I try to follow the paper's nomenclature, but the paper doesn't seem to give examples of what their "instruction-only" prompts look like - those would be interesting to try to feed into ChatGPT.
How to Crack the Class Ceiling review – success means resembling Jacob Rees-Mogg
How much is the UK class system crippling the economy?
Would pop star Hatsune Miku (2007) count? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatsune_Miku
Thy have never required a phone number for account sign up. So unless you either a) used it as a form of 2FA, b) you got put into a “time out” for what ever reason and Twitter required a phone number to unlock the account, you didn’t have to give them your number.
That's what makes them the mundane parts.
Can't you send 1/10 to each, and they will in turn send to one another, so the load is equal on all nodes?
That’s the time zone offset and year of the “created at” timestamps.
Just to be clear, Canada does not value spending on the general welfare then? How about Australia? New Zealand?

>communities that can t feasibly be serviced with rail will die out, as is natural.

"Some of you may die, but that is a sacrifice I am willing to make"
If this db contains phonenumbers everyone has effectively been doxxed. All sites requiring phonenumbers should be outlawed or get shut down if they have any breaches, this is potentially a privacy catastrophe and potentially dangerous for thousands of individuals.
I think your logic makes sense, but in some cases may be wrong. The underlying assumption is that living longer personally will lead to a longer existence for your descendants, which is probably true but not always.

E.g. life extension may accelerate resource extraction to the point that your descendants die out sooner than they would have if you had died normally. Although you are living longer, your lineage isn’t.

Also, I suspect that the cycle of life and death is like a computer reboot in that it is a reset of state. Leaving it too long without a reboot might cause existential level issues.

Don’t get me wrong, I support life extension research, but I’m just skeptical of how ‘good’ it would actually be for society and the life extender themselves. Hopeful, but cautious.
Not daily, but something like weekly - I certainly signed up for more than 50 new accounts/systems in this last year, and a few of them had 2FA.
That one IHOP next to it shut down and nearby businesses have become huge targets for car break-ins on game days, so we can't say it hasn't brought anything to the community.
Most are remote now.
It also has performance improvements. They don't look earth-shattering in many cases, but performance improvements are always welcome because they are a win even if you don't use the new functionality.

The improvements in memory allocation are likely to help many cases.

Yjit has matured and is faster, so if you use yjit it's likely to be even faster at a cost of memory (and now uses Rust). Yjit was experimental so many would not use it in production... it is no longer experimental.

This version also implements object shapes, which generally improve performance. For details see:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aVyTtxs0GU
At least in Norway cars will limit the charging to 10A when using a normal wall socket instead of a dedicated car charger on a connection with extra protection, I think there are some Eu regulations around that to.

10A circuits was the norm in houses years ago, but now the normal is changed to 16A and one 25A for the stove. We do not have any fee based on the maximum amperage of the circuit, the changes are only demand driven. If you want to put the kettle on and vacuum at the same time you need 16A
IME, extensible code comes from thinking of possible extensions and then not getting in their way, which usually just means keeping it simple. Easy to say but hard to do.
7 Wonders Duel is great, and even better than the very good original.

Patchwork is a very good space-filling tiling game. Its theme and premise may sound boring, but it is fun and very competitive.

The small city-based Ticket to Ride variants play two players very well, and are also good with 3 or 4 players.

Tak is a great abstract strategy game for two players.

Concordia is an excellent game, and plays very well with two players on small maps (e.g. Cyprus or Egypt).
New England or the Midwest or the Rocky Mountain region.
We had stuff like that all over the place in the last React codebase I worked on. Naming things is hard, especially when you have to name them four times: once for the hook, once for the function that can potentially be called outside of the hook (non-react code), once for the API call, and once again for the graphql query.
Is the leaker from India?

The sample includes high profile US accounts (who are globally known) and high profile Indian accounts (that are not globally known).
Plenty of games have been marketed to and played in schools. Games like Extinction: The Game of Ecology [1970][1] were only available for schools. I spent my entire middle school years playing Wff 'n Proof[2] games, like Equations, On-Words, and On-Sets, where we competed on our knowledge of math, English, and symbolic logic.

[1] https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/8434/extinction-game-eco...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_Games
Ten levels of C++ templates and typedefs are a pretty good way of proving how smart you are and making the code completely opaque.
Definitely true in Denmark too, their back in 2010s new tax IT system (skat-something) made a friend of mine who was sub-subcontracted from his 1-man company a wealthy man (wealthy as fully pay for small flat in central Prague, then for big flat a bit more off and then land & building a house a bit further away, only from income from this within few years, with 2 kids and wife not working).

When you get most of daily contractor fees directly, you easily end up with 15,000k$ net monthly income, working mostly remotely, in a country that had median monthly income below 1,000$.

Not that he worked hard or anything, frequently fridays looked like 'ok I am free give me some work' which almost never came. It was done on some ancient long dead weblogic/wslt things, stuff I can hack together in ie apache camel or similar in few afternoons (not 100% of it but core definitely yes).

Definitely a fault of government, no private company will come and say 'hey we can do it in 10% of the time / costs but we wont be using these big brand technologies (TM)'. Can't imagine there wasnt some big corruption too. IIRC prod launch was some major clusterfuck which filled newspapers for some time.
If you care enough about something to write a blog about it, that means at the very least one person cares about your blog. And, like, that's enough. Also, once there are other people who care about your stuff, they most likely just won't tell you about it. (What's the last time you told a stranger online that you like their stuff?) So maybe there's some person out there who's just waiting to find your blog, read through all the posts, put you in their feedreader and always be excited when you put out something new, caring about your stuff quietly in the background.
Discord is the worst offender because it only allows one phone number to validate one account.

Meanwhile I have multiple Google and twitter accounts validated through one phone number.
> Absurd. Indians are very racist towards Africans. Where exactly does whiteness come in here?

To clarify, it’s North Indians (who wouldn’t like to think of themselves as aryans in the local terminology, descendants of the Aryan invaders) who prefer fair over dark skin.

Those North Indians that exhibit such traits are also discriminatory (racist) against South Indians, who are much darker in skin tone.

To wit, the beauty industry is cashing in heavily on this, selling make up, scrubs, and other products that can make the skin tone fairer.

Sort of like the bleached blonde archetype covered by IC1 and IC2 people.
> Las Vegas and Chicago rely on tourism taxes to help pay off these municipal bond commitments

I didn't have any idea that's what those taxes were for. What percent of hotel guests chose to visit those cities to see sports games?
Is it cheaper to cook with an air fryer?
1. Twitter gets resold for a fraction of the original price tag

It seems clear at this point that without any kind of viable plan to get advertisers, employees, regulators and key content creators back on side the current trajectory will continue towards failure at a rapid pace which which is going to force them to sell.

The original price was already wildly above market rate and the brand has been damaged so much by this point that there is zero chance anyone will buy it now for a similar number.

2. Canvas based web frameworks become viable as an alternative to the DOM.

With the upcoming introduction of WebGPU and WasmGC into browsers next year it is going to start clearing many of the main technical roadblocks that have thus far prevented canvas based frameworks from succeeding.

The best positioned one that comes to mind currently is Flutter which has already developed a pretty successful approach on mobile and desktop and brings a very enthusiastic user base with it.

We are already seeing other platforms like Google Docs for example also moving towards a canvas based rendering system and I expect that trend to continue as the technology improves.

I think the use case will strictly be apps and not pages thankfully but we will start to see a clearer separation between “the web” and “apps that happen to run on the web”.

3. Apple will start to experience problems.

They are currently facing some pretty serious challenges at the legislative level across many of their key markets (EU, UK, AU and US) that is likely going to hit them in a couple of key areas (App store walled gardens, iOS browser competition etc).

At the same time the web platform is starting to really close the gap with mobile for a lot of new use cases that will cause companies to rethink their approach rather than continue to support 2-3 independent platforms with little to no code sharing. This is where you are starting to see Google’s bets on Project Fugu and Apple’s strategy of underinvesting in the web for years start to clash a lot more.

Lastly on the hardware side of the house I expect Apple’s decision to tie their supply chain to tightly to China start to clash a lot more with the general geopolitical environment around them and their sudden rush to try and address that is going to be very painful.

It’s a lot of new problems they haven’t had to face previously and it’s not actually clear that they are in a great position to deal with them.
Can we make suggestions? I’d suggest xroach, xsnow, and xbattle.
Can't we have both? If the code is modifiable/scriptable enough, we could get more feature, speed, reliability, than with huge codebases. I don't know if it is one of their goals tho.
That’s just a date value, “+0000” means UTC and 2009 is the year. If the value is in the phone field, might be a glitch or hidden value stored in the phone field that has a meaning that is undocumented; for example that the account was created prior to the phone field being added, though that seems unlikely, since my understanding is Twitter started out as phone-based.
How difficult is it to brute force 2FA?
I do this in a VM. My mastodon server (for me personally) and BirdsiteLIVE bridge run on a VM on my old laptop configured as a Proxmox server. The entire thing has less than 2GB of RAM but it still runs just fine.

The incredibly inefficient Rails framework Mastodon is written in annoys me with its wasted performance but honestly the load for one or just a few users isn't even enough for me to start looking for an alternative. I'm sure I'd need to switch to a more optimized ActivityPub server if I'd get 10k users on my server, but for a small private instance you really don't need anything all that fancy.
If you're offering to bet randos on HN 10k euros, I don't think you are dead serious.

edit: oh god there are two more people doing the "Oh I'll bet! How much?" - I've seen this hundreds of times before. Someone states their honest opinion on here, and a handful of others chime in trying to goad them into staking money on it. When they obviously don't (because why on earth would they?) they get accused of being insincere, not being willing to stake "real" money on it (with perhaps the implication that they're small-fry, and do not have the means to do so unlike the wealthy, high-rolling proposer of the wager), or whatever. It's childish, nobody thinks you're cool and nobody believes you'd actually make a frivolous 10k bet with a pseudonymous person.
“TAxeS PaY foR tHe rOaDs and HiGhWayS”
It happens all over the EU. Police will randomly select semis and camper vans and ask them to follow them to a weighting station. For example in Germany they are spread out along the Autobahn - same in France and NL.

The weight is usually determined by 4 scales (1 for each wheel).

Then they look at your papers which also includes information about max load at the front + back.

If you are over weight you have to get rid of the additional weight and if you can't they will seize the car. You get fined. It does happen.

It happened to me twice in Germany, once in Norway and once in France.
I'm curious just how many hours of undivided attention per day you think you have to give? Because most small children will drain you entirely dry within a week, and you have half a decade or more of that to deal with.
This is really an issue that should not exist. I have also bought textbooks only to be immediately disappointed by the fact that you have to use a specific app (like the adobe DRM thing... or just try to get your money back). Then you have to start figuring out how to remove the DRM and lose time with that. Sometimes the quality of the book is also pretty bad, e.g. they don't even include a digital table of contents, which should be essential in a digital copy of any book (this has happened to me with textbooks from Springer). In my case, this has lead to actually buying less textbooks and just pirate the books instead. I don't have the time to deal with all this customer-unfriendly behavior.
I learned networking on my own so I could make a multiplayer game in programming class for my friend and I.
Do we know when this happened? Pre or Post Elon?
Thanks for the detailed write-up. Great to see Ruby getting so much love. Already looking forward to 3.3

Is it a dumb question to ask what additional tooling you use to hop from one version of Ruby to another? There are so many: RVM, Rbenv, …
With live data feeds for sport events already available for years, I think this is either in development or maybe already in use.
For a long time letters were only written by hand. Nowadays the only people writing them by hand are the people who truly want it.

In the early days you really had no choice. There was no WordPress, no MySpace and no Github Pages. It was the norm because it was the easiest thing to do if you wanted a presence on the web. If something like Facebook existed in 1993 let me assure you a whole lot of people would have been contempt with just creating a profile there and calling it quits.

There are more personal websites today than there ever were, people who want to be creative on the web always find a way.
The Overlords Finally Showed Up
Who else suspects this is retaliation for Twitter files?
Ah, back before the internet had soul. Ut's definitely terrible design, but it's preferrable over the soulless modern minimalist web
I don't think you can get possibly universal measurements on humanity by relying on services like mechanical turk for results.
> Nuking russian soil

Russia annexed only parts of Ukraine so far. I can see them spinning a nuke over Kiev as defense of annexed territories.

It would also fit their narrative of "only using nukes in defense" as they would claim Russian territory is being attacked.
Twitter required a phone number to use the API.
> something that created us, is something almost all of us have.

Buddhism claims that nothing created us. Samsara is beginningless and wasn’t architected by anything. And that’s just 500 billion people or so.
At least one phone number from the sample is Google-able to be correct.

At least one name and email address among the non-trivial ones is also correct.
There was a bug for a while (not sure how long) when account signup with email didn't work. It was going through fine but after everything was set up, you couldn't continue without phone number and it would not activate your account. I'm not even sure if it was a bug or just a test how many people would continue?
Right, I totally agree that there are many cases where it doesn’t really get what it’s saying, but my point is that failure to understand many basic concepts (even concepts which would be surprising for a human to misunderstand) doesn’t imply an inability to understand in general. It only implies that the model has certain deficits.

Imagine if we encountered an alien species for whom quantum mechanics was perfectly natural and intuitive. Those aliens ask me a bunch of basic QM questions. I’m more familiar with QM than the average layman, but the best I can do is try to shove their questions into the metaphors I know, and with the aid of the internet, I could do a little bit of the math. Most of what I answer will be confused.

The aliens are going to come away with the correct impression that I don’t really understand QM. And because QM is so natural to them, they may also think that this is an indictment of my reasoning skills overall. But the reality is just that they’re testing me on questions for which my mental model is very shoddy.

I’m not saying that the situation is analogous for ChatGPT. I’m just saying that this question can’t be answered by collecting up examples of where the model does poorly.

For what it’s worth, out of four trials, the model only once gave any consideration beyond the word “typically” to the idea that a baby might be older than a teenager. In that case, it noted “However, it's important to note that age is a relative concept and can vary based on cultural and individual perspectives.”

Honestly, I suspect that’s a result of its tuning and prompting to be culturally sensitive. In general, I’ve noticed that ChatGPT is constantly on the lookout for cases where its beliefs may not be culturally universal.
> Right now, I hardly ever take calls because of the massive spam influx.

Perhaps Apple ought to follow Google into the AI-assistant-powered call screening business.
> There probably hasn't ever been a single year _without_ something resembling a "massive strike"

Can't really remember one for this year. Then again, there are still five more days to.
I never trusted the Twitter backend, so have always used an anonymized phone number, birthday and email

I'm glad I did

Just need to change my phone number and I'm set.
What does it mean to be progressive? All the woke movement we see now in Europe has been imported from US. We just copy paste stuff even when it makes no sense because we do not share the same history.
Krebs article was published today so I’d bet it’s post Elon.
There should be an emoji/symbol that means “wishful thinking” vs. “I have data that indicated/predicts this will happen”

A long time ago I realized the difference.
> This is why I dont register with real data ever anywhere

Meaning you don't have a twitter account or do you use a burner phone?
I remember adjusting my phone when I was a kid to spin back as fast as possible, if set too fast and the number wouldn't dial. There was a little speed governor inside which could be adjusted for more or less resistance, i think it had weighted arms that could be adjusted outwards to slow it down.
Same I just checked and I have completely fake details and a throw away email. I love it when my past self does cool stuff !
Here's the one I built:

Get an OpenAI API key. Then `npm i -g askleo` and set env var OPENAI_API_KEY

`> askleo how large is the average dog`

`> runleo list files in reverse date order`

Note that runleo just executes it without confirmation.
EHR-Safe: generating high-fidelity and privacy-preserving synthetic EHRs
Tech:

* AI will keep wowing us, but in 2023 actual change will be surprisingly little. Turns out the extra 1% is rather important for serious applications, and less serious applications could do with existing solutions - Third-world click/content-farms are surprisingly competitive economically.

* Website rendering will edge a bit towards WebAssembly+canvas stacks, essentially the second coming of Flash - the need/desire was always there, mobile is getting more powerful, stacks will adjust back.

World:

* The war in Ukraine will continue back and forth. Over the long run leading to a strategic defeat for Russia regardless of tactical results (The West's logistical superiority will win out in the end).

* The Middle East will flare up, since 'pretend the JCPOA is still viable' can't hold past 2023 (the West will worry about sunsets, Iran will look at its economy and double down as the regime always does).

* Add in shocks from China and the Fed, and a recession is guaranteed. For how long I can't say.

* Relative political stability in most of the democratic world, not that voters are pleased, but they'll stick with the current group for 2023.
We're really not, but we were from like 1995-2010, which inspired a rollup of the industry by private equity (pretty sure every game in this article is owned by the Asmodee Group, or whatever they're calling themselves now.) Now it's an endless wave of samey overproduced trash that intends to generate "IP."