skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Until 50 years ago, one could purchase paregoric (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page) without a prescription. I got a spoonful or two many winters of my childhood.
As a friendly reminder, an SSH SOCKS5 proxy is _VERY_ easy to implement.
> impersonate me

No bank should be using your account details as a secret used to identify you.
Apple also uses Radar which is more effective than other bug trackers.

You can file a bug with some product and someone from the other side of the campus will typically reply within days.

I think part of it is a user interface issue, interacting with Jira is such an unpleasant affair that often only PMs in a company will interact with it in any depth.
Good thing Google and Amazon are both known to be highly trustworthy and never fucking anyone over :)
Zoom-video-off has been the best thing to happen to crappy meetings since forever. Now you don't even have to drag a laptop down to a meeting room and roughly pretend to pay attention like you're in a boring 101 lecture class again.
> such as Amazon […] reviews

> many PR firms exist to push your product onto media outlets

> personal recommendations

Half of that is fraud, the other half is at least unethical. Reviews may only be the personal opinion of people who provably purchased the product. False reviews are fraud and explicitly a criminal act. Placing ads in media without explicitly marking it clearly and obviously an ad, so-called “native advertising”, is explicitly a criminal act.

> the prevalence of advertising is such that you cannot disentangle its influence from every other.

My original argument was that advertising isn't necessary. I think after this discussion it's become obvious that there are many other working and prevalent ways to discover products.

In fact, all advertising does is distort and corrupt those existing methods, trying to get me to spend more money than necessary on a worse product. Every cent spent on advertising could've been spent on improving the product instead.
ultra-pedantically: that's true with the "well tempered" tuning that is used almost universally. But this is really just an approximation, and one that our ears have grown used to.

Mathematically speaking, B# <> C. On a piano or other instrument that quantizes tones, we have little choice but to go with the approximation. But for violinists and others that can choose from a spectrum of tones, it's possible to hit those tones exactly. Of course, when playing with others, the violin still needs to quantize just to be in tune with the others.
I don’t want to come off as pedantic disagreeing here but as a degenerate pot smoker for the last 15 years I definitely can tell the difference. I actually never understood wine tasting and it’s subtleties until I started picking up on the same notes in my herbs.

Sure, back in the day lots of stuff was made up. But now I genuinely do get a different taste and high depending on the strain and I can usually tell the difference between certain kinds. Also, for very popular buds like Sour D I can ID by the smell alone. In the end it is just different terps, I know. And while I prefer Indica (“in-da-couch”) I do recognize some of the different effects could simply be psychological and not physical. Alas, I am big fan of medical grade sensi and the sincere peace it brings to my life (it is a boon for treating seizures). Anywho, just my two cents, have a good one!
The view count trap is going to exist and be effective as long as humans feel the need for validation.

Let's pretend you have a blog, you're writing on it for years. It's affecting people positively. But nobody ever says a thing about it directly to you, you have no analytics running in the background, no like button. Eventually, you're probably going to stop writing on the blog, feeling it's a waste of time.

We can point to popular bloggers all we want, but the fact remains most of them either have some form of view count operating (or likes/claps/whatever gimmick to replicate that "I see you" validation), had rare real life validation based on their blogs (being hired at xyz place because someone said they were a fan... but usually these blogs tend to go abandoned after they get hired), or relied on social networks to encourage them to continue writing their blogs.

Until this is solved in a healthier way, we're not really going to be free of view counts.
> Hard too overstate.

to

> But they were bad because of irrational choices, not despite them.

Eh, I think a lot of the choices were rational given the available information and understanding at the time.
Does Europe’s record-setting coal, gas, and biomass energy usage this winter have anything to do with this result?

/s
SerenityOS Update (December 2022)
I cannot access the link you posted.

> 1. Person A puts a picture in a vault. 2. Person B draws a picture of what they think is in the vault. 3. Person A groups the picture person B drew with three other pictures and hands them, along with the picture in the vault, to person C. 4. Person C compares the picture in the vault to the four drawings they've been handed and decides which is the closest.

Without knowing the details of the experiment, just from that description there are so many potential methodological problems there! Especially if conducted by someone on the fringe of science which doesn't understand how to do a proper experiment. For example, what's the communication between persons A, B & C. Is this double-blind? How are the other drawings chosen? What does "closest" mean, and is it mentioned verbally, do they fill out a form with rankings, or what? How are candidates B & C chosen?

What I'm telling you may seem unfair, but it's reasonable to cast these doubts because the people who would conduct and participate in this kind of experiment belong to a self-selecting group that doesn't understand how to conduct scientific experiments. They could of course be doing everything right, but there is good reason to be doubtful before we know the details.

Since, as you know, mainstream science doesn't currently consider PSI a real phenomenon. Would you say this is because of a conspiracy to suppress the truth, a dismissal because mainstream science is narrow minded, or what? Claims about PSI aren't nothing new, so this isn't "new stuff" they are skeptical about.

> Note also, while there's ample evidence that a qualified remote viewer can draw an accurate picture better than chance

Where is this ample evidence? Does the mainstream scientific consensus agree with your assertion?

> Parapsychology reproduces much more reliably than regular psychology, there's too much scrutiny not to.

This is not established, but also: we are comparing parapsychology to science; if you want to argue some or all branches of psychology aren't science either, feel free, but that's a different argument. There's no reproducibility and no scientific method to it. If you (you == not just you, Suo, but anyone) can reproduce parapsychological "experiments", how come you did not win the Amazing Randi challenge?

PS: the two experiments you posed don't even seem equivalent! We are still not demonstrating the question determines the cards!
Just stick Google's pre-search tools in front of the current version and it would solve a large chunk of those problems. The right tool for the job, essentially. After all, you wouldn't ask your English professor to solve a math problem either.
I think part of the issue is that your comments are very ambiguous as to what issues you actually hit.

Most of the major Python packages did maintain 2 and 3 compatibility at the same time. Maybe a few packages had bad coding practices but you’re going to hit that in any language.

I think you’re extrapolating unfairly
> That Nixon character sounds so evil. How does one decide to veto the clean water act?

On the other hand, Nixon created the environmental protection agency.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPA
Agreed. This is a corollary of the Second-system effect [1]. By the time developers design their third system they have become relatively "old".

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second-system_effect
I don't know, but I'm told that if you want to create fucking content, OnlyFans is a more suitable platform. ("Don't tell - show.")
Specific to retrospective meetings, they're also kind of therapeutic. There's a lot to unpack after a really stressful project, and its nice to have an outlet to direct some of that energy (ranting, celebrating, venting, whatever). Getting to bond with a coworker over a shared struggle is an important but often overlooked part of a healthy work life.
LNG is not a gas, it is a cryogenic liquid. Cryogenic liquids are not easy, but are anyway not "under extremely high pressure", nor is LNG especially explosive: there is rarely enough oxygen immediately at hand for a good explosion, as opposed to a big fire. (Rockets would have a big tank of LOX right there.)

A big fire can be bad, but is nothing like a detonation.
Many men who would have done well as labor or middle management in, say, 20th century factories, now find themselves the victims of a rapidly changing, ever-more-concentrated, ever-more-automated global capitalist economy that has less and less need for them. And to them it feels as if no one cares about them.

To riff on Churchill[a]: Capitalism is the worst economic system ever invented... except for all others that have been tried from time to time. It's ruthless.

There may be a better system... but it hasn't been invented yet. For now, we must figure out how to make this horrible system -- capitalism -- be less horrible, including for all those men who now find themselves marginalized by it. If we blindly let AI-powered software "eat the world" unfettered, without humane constraints, we'd only see greater concentration of economic and political power going forward, which would likely end up in some kind of really ugly societal breakdown.

--

[a] https://winstonchurchill.org/resources/quotes/the-worst-form...

EDITS: Many, necessary for more accurately articulating my thoughts.
For many kinds of projects, good luck doing it the makefile way (CMake, or whatever one fancies).

Yak shaving learning how to use all the compiler and linker flags, and library setup before writing any line of code.

Debugging vcproj files is as easy as going down the boilerplate generated by shell scripts and build generators.
I'm not sure how my comment was interpreted as "it's impossible to be wrong". I made a narrow claim that faking English knowledge in Brazil and Portugal is harder today than in the 19th century.
I don't know why you're being downvoted. There's an inverse correlation between the usefulness of a meeting and how senior the most senior person there is.
> Now YouTube won’t pay you unless you have 1000 subscribers.

I wonder if there is an opportunity for a syndication cooperative. Let's say you find relatively related content, like niche MacBook fixes that get views but not subscriptions. The content owners combine their videos into one channel to get over the 1k revenue hump. The back catalog is used as the start of a funnel to gain subscriptions.
Thoughtful people who want to get things done recognize that other people's time is a scarce resource that should be allocated deliberately, not routinely.
I envisioned a cocktail shaking robot, but apparently Bar Exam is an exam for US lawyers
How the Internet was Stolen [video]
https://archive.ph/ayxEC
If that's a "court order", there's traces, unlike the the Meity bans thingie which are designed as a legal loophole and almost impossible to lift.
IF it could (I wouldn't know one way or the other), I'd consider that a damning indictment of the Bar Exam failing to test for sentience, rather than evidence of GPT-4 having attained the same.
> I haven't done any deep inspections to see if itself introduces some spyware

I have, in that you can build your own version using their instructions and scripts, and I have read the scripts thoroughly. There is a binary blob at the end of one of them which gets decoded and installed, but you can strip it out easily enough. As well there are a few downloads that it pulls and installs -- also easy to comment that out and affects very little. They like to mess with the GUI and that is a matter of taste (they make the new settings panel inoperable so I remove that part from the script).

I have also checked network traffic on an edge device to see what an AME install sends out. It is fine.
I would say the big difference is that tweets are very short-lived, and blog posts evergreen.

Sure you have thousands of followers, but nobody will see your tweet 5 days from now.

With blog posts, you might not have thousands of followers, but if you pick your topic well, google no doubt sends you thousands of readers every month, for years to come.

Don't underestimate the power of SEO.
Fair enough. Although I think a lot of people outside much of the HN demographic would consider making $100K/year from YouTube videos a pretty good deal. That's probably more than a lot of documentary film makers bring in. So I'm not sure how many would takeaway "Crap. This guy's pretty darned successful by YouTube standards and he's still just bringing in a fairly modest income--with no benefits etc."
Ah. Silly me. Still, linting/parsing 5000 sloc is almost instantaneous even on my pretty old laptop.
Perhaps we read the article differently but I’m pretty sure he said post your original content on your blog then link to it on different platforms probably using some kind of social media distribution platform. The idea being you can’t be locked down to a single platform. Mastodon whatever that is being one of n platforms you can broadcast onto
I feel like I can now see the event horizon of commoditized intelligence. No idea what society (is "society" even the right word? Who knows) is going to look like on the other side of it, but it is going to be wildly different. Perhaps a brief period where everyone is using an AI to do their job, uh, I mean, assist their work, but beyond that it's unknowable.

Moreover, this looks like it is going to be happening sooner rather than later.
By bypassing the block you lessen the need for social activism
My wife's parents line recently had their PSTN turned off ready for this at renewal much to their surprise and displeasure, despite what is promised their equipment did not continue to work (this claim seems to come from DECT devices being compatible).

It took them about a week to get it enabled again with lots of complaining to the support folks.

999 is not even guaranteed to be routed by whichever VOIP provider you will be forced to use -- and it wont work in powercut like existing landlines which are powered from the exchange.

The reality is that there is a whole generation that rely on landlines that will be broken by this change for no real benefit to anyone other than BT.

Some reading on the technical side from Draytek:
https://draytek.co.uk/information/blog/the-end-of-analogue-p...
https://draytek.co.uk/information/blog/the-end-of-analogue-p...
As an Australian I found this fucking impossible to read.
Products here: https://coral.ai/products/#prototyping-products
The point is the teachers assume the student is using CheatGPT(sic), but copying it by hand helps them learn anyway since they have to both read and write what ChatGPT told them about the subject.

They're basically hacking the system to get ChatGPT to give the students the Cliffs Notes version of the subject. Having the student write out the essay is just tricking the student into taking notes.
Not all life is equal.
Java is referentially transparent. It just really doesn’t mean what you believe it does. It means that one can replace a reference to a thing with the thing itself.

It is a syntax level term, muddying execution model is just not correct usage, see https://stackoverflow.com/questions/210835/what-is-referenti...

What you are looking for is simply and plainly “pureness”.
The official recommendation from the python developers has always been to keep the unversioned python as a symlink to python2

It was to precisely avoid this scenario where you get it switched out from under you.

This doesn’t mean every distro followed suite (though most popular ones were good about it) , but the biggest issue is users. Tons of users create the symlink or alias for convenience and then forget about it till stuff breaks.
Go after the supporters of the people who implemented the ban.
Do you have a feel for how large a file has to be for an IDE to choke on it? My vim setup can open a 13GB file in about ten seconds, with all syntax highlighting, line numbers, etc working. Once the file is open, editing is seamless.

Bitbucket is the biggest offender for me. It starts to disable syntax highlighting and context once the file hits about 500KB, which should be trivial to deal with.
And if the cost of prosecution falls then more and more of those 6 felonies will end up prosecuted. The same happened with speed cameras, initially it was to reduce accidents, now it is just another income stream (which I'm sure still reduces accidents, but that's no longer the main reason they are out there).
This is what I found immediately interesting about ChatGPT.

I asked about controversial topics. Its answers didn’t seem like biases that were programmed in, but rather it took traditional media and gave it more weight than what turned out to be the truth only accepted much later on and still against a media retelling.

I lost a lot of faith in it knowing it was more CNN than careful deliberating AI.
Other languages grow every six months.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34228271
It's been quite a few years since I've really written any C++ and I'm surprised the landscape hasn't evolved at all. People are making the same mistakes...

Modern CMake should be using toolchain files to specify the toolchain/flags. That should be included in ever CMake intro. (Hacking those into your CMakeLists.txt is not okay)

gitsubmodules are also a hack

1: Many dependencies are not setup to be used as a CMake subdirectory. Variables such as the project-version-number get overwritten by the parent project and more dangerously the submodule can start to change variables in the overall project.

2: Dependencies will often reuse target names. For instance, libraries often have a target called `uninstall`. Because redeclaring a target in a different subdirectory is a no-no - CMake crashes

Proper dependency management can be done directly through CMake without repeating yourself by using Hunter: https://hunter.readthedocs.io/

This solved the diamond problem, gives you proper namespaces in CMake and with Polly you can have sane toolchain files (https://github.com/ruslo/polly - but you can also just write them manually). Everything is built on CMake and Git (and git hashes). You get nice dependency build caches and forking dependencies is also trivial

EDIT: The creator of Hunter has his own CMake Intro. I haven't gone through it while-learning, but it looks comprehensive and informative: https://cgold.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
That's right: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_Daiichi_nuclear_disa...

I had thought that counting evacuation deaths was correct, since I'd thought the evacuation was to reduce the risk if far more radiation was released. But reading up on it now, it seems like the evacuation was after the risk of that was over, and was in response to the current levels of radiation? In which case it looks like a large overreaction.
Intel Launches 16 New 13th-Gen Raptor Lake Desktop CPUs
Doctors’ Covid Misinformation Rule Challenge Goes to Ninth Cir
How do they know GPT-4 will be enough to let it pass? Is there even a big enough difference in the training data for it to improve in the areas it was struggling with?
Almost every state has a meme “well this sure beats <my state> roads”

Heard it in Illinois. Heard it in Indiana. Heard it in Michigan. Everyone thinks their state roads are terrible.

The truth is, some little side roads don’t get much love in all states. We honestly built up too much roads, and it would bankrupt all states to care for all of these roads. The answer is to drop some roads, and covert others to gravel or dirt. But doing this is political suicide, so no one does this… so we just have some little roads and little bridges in real bad shape.
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That's fair, but compared to Zuckerberg they are saints in the trust department.
A great time to consider self-hosting your Git repositories then?

Like all the inflated hype in the news with the federation 'goobledegook' and 'technobabble' with Mastodon and alternatives with techies spinning up instances, perhaps it is about time that techies use Git properly and consider self-hosting your repositories just like how many techies do with self-hosting Mastodon instances?

I don't think there is an excuse to continue using GitHub or a centralized provider that can easily be censored by governments or GitHub themselves censoring other repositories via its ToS either way; when developers of GNOME, Wireguard, Redox, etc are already able to self-host their own code on their websites.

If they can self-host their own code and federated networks, you (techies) can also do it too.
Are sponsorships the parts of the video where the creator will shoutout a certain product/brand? Do they really pay that much?
You think this if this is a seesions court order could be found by RTI?
You want to know a funny thing? I am getting the same error on my Idea sim since more than a month now.

I even posted to HN last month but I couldn't figure out what was wrong.

It was only later that I realised that Idea was blocking ddg
I mean, it's a bullshit generator. It'll grab whatever it find in training set that kinda fits the topic and make sure it hits the word count - like a lazy student before deadline.

And that's also the result - sometimes it hits something good. Sometimes it spews up utter crock and it doesn't have any notion or understanding of the difference.

However, it does look good to the lazy and uninformed and it'll soon render judgemenets about your livelihood in the future. The same type of people who thought putting an AI in control of Teslas and copyright enforcement on YouTube will put this thing in control of your health and punishment very soon as well.
And this is an advantage of using a big aggregated site like Twitter is that you're "too big to block".