skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can ask it questions noone has ever asked before, that it can't possibly have memorized the answers to, and simply say "explain the answer step by step". It's not guaranteed that it will answer correctly, but it often does answer correctly and with a chain of reasons.

The cases where it answers incorrectly are sometimes reasoning failures, sometimes because it doesn't know its sources (because the model training doesn't "cite its sources" when dumping knowledge in there), and sometimes because of fixed-function parts of the model (like how it doesn't see individual numbers/letters, but rather tokens using compressed "byte pair encoding".)
That is in theory better.

- the actual innovators are rewarded

- innovators have more skin in the game

- innovators live or die by their execution

Not so with the monopolies.
That's a bit of a weird article: the author seems to argue that monopolies etc are bad, but then makes the mental leap and assumes that just because there's something called 'anti-trust legislation' that it'll help.. The author himself almost grasps the problem:

> [...] Oracle became a company more famous for its legal department than new innovation.

Just like most other regulation 'anti-trust' is just another weapon that those with a big enough legal department can wield against the competition.

We need more competition, not less. Eg we need to allow Wal-Mart to open bank accounts.
Not to mention that your business would end up being more profitable by avoiding GDPR fines. Most users in the EU would click "Reject all" anyway, so basically that code is not needed.
More and more pubs in the UK are doing this too, especially the ones that are more focused on drinks than food. It’s a way to keep more money in the business as a whole, with the added benefit that the house beers are often cheaper and extremely fresh.
The USA is ~330 million people. ~6000 annual people is not enough to register on any kind of metric as a signal. Even if the "true" number were a 100k, you are talking about 0.03% of the total population.
FEBO was one of the highlights of my Amsterdam trip. I wish we had automats here still.
> You often hear that the Romans had some sort of superior and arcane knowledge on superior cement mixes that has been now lost. And still today we cannot replicate it. This is complete nonsense.

That’s what I heard. And that we found it recently but it wasn’t useable economically because it required an extremely long time to dry instead of modern ciment and it’s ability to dry (and so raise a building) a lot faster.
There is that, but I meant literally: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedevacantism. As in they think they are Catholic and the pope is not Catholic. And so seem to have missed the point that listening to that guy is basically the point of joining up.
Wait till you hear about CGI in PL/SQL.

https://docs.oracle.com/cd/A97335_02/apps.102/a90099/feature...

I kinda wonder if anyone actually ever used that in production.
I don’t like the look of excessive skin smoothing either. At the same time, I do think that skin imperfections stand out much more in photos than they do when you’re looking at someone’s face in real life. So a tasteful about of smoothing can actually help to bring the experience of looking at a portrait a bit closer to the real experience of looking at someone’s face (where you are most likely not focusing on the zit on their nose, and the zit is not in sharp focus due to your eye’s small zone of high resolution vision).
Can't turn off deep fusion though.

Well, you can - record a video instead and press the button that takes a photo during video. It looks terrible, so it's better to switch to a 3rd party camera app instead. I think the main use case for those is women using beauty filters though.
Low maintenance, safe, compact, and high enough output is a different story.

For the second, you probably want a methanol, methane or ammonia output and they all require high temperatures or exotic materials.
I agree with much of this, I would like to highlight one thing in particular:

> The bigger a tech company gets the worse it becomes at providing consumer and customer surplus, because it needs to eat that margin (of a sort) to keep growing. Growth demands that tech companies eventually consume that which first engendered them good will.

When that comes to Google, I think they are talking about "eating the margin (of a sort)" of the good experience for end users, people searching. But the reality is they are actually eating the very real margin of the advertisers, their "actual customers".

In the last ten years, through the excessive ingestion of data about the advertisers businesses, Google has sought to expand their bottom line by extracting as much revenue from advertisers as possible. The advertisers margin has become Google's target revenue. If (nearly) all advertising is via Google, their only way to grow that revenue is by extracting more of the advertisers margin.

When you advertise on Google (and FB for that matter) you now have to transmit to Google's algorithm all data about all transactions on your site. This is sold as training the algorithm to enable the targeting of customers. But what you are in fact doing is telling Google everything about your revenue, they know exactly how much you are receiving from all sales. The algorithm is designed to maximise the extraction of the advertisers margin, to squeeze it as much as possible.

This is going to come back and bite them. I believe advertisers are going to fall out of love with Google, if they haven't done so already.
TIL:

https://www.programmerhat.com/vim-zz/
I've met several graphical artists who loved working on their iPad Pros.
Yes, human can live in a burrow, it seems.
What makes you think that the only way out of inflation is a recession?
He must have been practicing Falun Gong or Islam.
There is no recession in the US, yet. Even though people have been pretending for more than a year that there is one.
+100.

Look up maker-checker [1]. Almost all the enterprise systems require a human to review and approve changes initiated by someone else.

Even if you don't implement it right away, be aware of it and if possible build your entity/data model such a way you can add it later without turning your architecture upside down.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maker-checker
Hah true! If any I would say this makes the content put out by technical writers more accessible to users.

One founder I showed it to, suggested embedding this chat within their app so users get answers without leaving the product.
https://www.rainviewer.com/

Has been mostly good, where DarkSky never really worked in Europe.
Spectacular question, thank you. I’ve had this concept rattling around in my head but not had the words. Cost of managing is really succinct.
What evidence would falsify that hypothesis?
This is currently the Lavo hydrogen electrolysis product for home use [1]

However the storage tanks are quite small. I would prefer if they made the hydrogen production and storage separate, so you could save up hydrogen in the summer to use in the winter.

[1] https://www.lavo.com.au/
So? Do you think that some people are entitled of audience and their right for audience is taken away? Maybe this SJW culture went too far, I think it's time to push back against stuff like right for audience. Just let people make their own decisions. If they don't want to be involved(use or contribute) in this piece of software for whatever reason, people must be free to do so.
I had a serious flu 3 times that I remember. Fever for a few days and hurting all over. This is goes away if I drink plenty of fluids and get rest.

I might change my mind when I get older but right now I don't mind this.

Also I don't understand the negative comments. I don't reject vaccines in general. I just don't think that flu vaccination is required for me. Yes, I know that flu might kill me one day, but so can so much else.
Yes - you’re in an embedded space that’s the result of effectively compressing knowledge into something higher order. LLMs are not grounded, so to ask it to ground something would not be reasonable. It’s not a lookup aka search engine where references are maintained.
I'm not entirely sure that training a model on something counts as copying, it more or less recognizes and regurgitates patterns, something like x has such percent of chance to follow y such percent of chance of times when z keyword is used. Then uses that to recreate junk from more or less randomly generated static and finding patterns related to keyword. So it's not actually copied, it's closer to creating a chart or a graph representing the number of times a word was used.
> First, to answer your question, the best plan is to stash away tons of liquid capital. In this environment, cash.

USD Inflation has been pretty high recently. Perhaps keep your cash in some other currency?
> 50 Most Influential Living Philosophers (August 12, 2022)

90 % are from/studied in England or the USA. This is classic Anglo propaganda, and anyone taking these English-biased lists at face value is bound to be such an Anglo-centered, nationalistic person as we see too often happening.

You are not that important, English speakers. It is a real problem. Same for the "top universities" lists.
I personally think that this is true and false.

I think there are two types of people who use search engines. The first person is the one who just types in whatever they want to know and sees if Google gives them a good result. They're also the ones who use TikTok or Instagram just like a search engine. Whenever there's a search bar, this type of user profits from the search term being fed into some AI to get the best result possible.

Then there's "me and everyone else who has complained about Google getting worse and worse over time". Basically people who are very good at googling things. This might sound arrogant or something but one of my skills is that I know (or knew) how to use Google. I would not just type in whatever I needed to find, I would know to exclude specific terms using "-term", put parts of a sentence in quotation marks, add other terms I knew would be on the site where the answer could be found and whatnot. The search is then very specific and if I didn't get a satisfying answer it was because I needed to improve my query. Now whenever I do that, Google takes this query and modifies it without me knowing what they're actually doing. It seems harder and harder to tell Google to just work like it used to.

It has become frustrating because I still google the same way thinking this is the best way to get to relevant results. It seemingly isn't anymore and I find myself just typing in whatever these days, getting results without me needing to specify what I'm actually looking for.
Most likely they would need a replacement canary. For humans the aftereffects of carbon monoxide poisoning can last for weeks. Canaries will probably need some time to recover too. If the canary doesn’t chirp, it probably does not function well as a warning system. You need to keep checking on it visually, which means you can only work within sight of it, and this limits your ability to work.
There are projects (defined end), and there are programs (indefinite). Sounds like most computer programs are, oddly enough, the latter.
Most rare elements are extracted primarily as side products. Scaling production directly is very difficult without demand for the co-occuring minerals.
Subset of walking I guess!
We didn't let anything happen. 50 years ago Singer sewing machines was making computers[0]! Why didn't people back then ask who let them innovate and risk their money the way they chose to.

I think they understood that you can't both have a process that delivers the fastest progress in human history, and dislike the vanishingly few participants who succeed at it inordinately well.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singer_System_Ten
You can get real single shot RAW files very easily using third party apps like Halide. I usually prefer the results of ProRAW, though (which doesn’t include beauty filters or anything like that).
A reason for that might be lead time, for example:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingman%27s_formula

Since c_a, c_s and tau are out of your control, focus on the left part (rho / (1-rho)):

25% vs 90% utilization: .25/.75 vs .9/.1 = 27x increase in lead time.
I've been a web dev since 2002, and started contracting in 2013. I've been making games as a hobby in earnest from about 2016 onwards.

Tried a bunch of tech to see what stuck: phaserjs, haXe (fun!), Lua stuff like löve2d, unity (also with clojure). I settled on unity initially, but got burned (deprecation, docs/support, etc), and finally settled on Godot (I've got python skill, so gdscript felt natural).

With contracting, I make slightly more money than permies, so I can afford to spend a day a week on gamedev. With a view to phase in more gamedev days as I get more successful.

I just recently completed a masters in indie gamedev to fast track some of the skill requirements.

I'm happy with the approach I took to get where I am. It's low stress, I still make money, and I still have bags of fun. And the masters saved me some mistakes in the long run.
> PS: a sidenote - strange to see spelling mistakes like a “pain of glass” in an academic paper.

Presumably transcription errors; that example appears as "pane of glass" in the original paper visible at <https://books.google.com/books?id=AQDtAAAAMAAJ&lpg=PP7&pg=PA...>
Is this really a surprise?

Anyone doing native development knows that they aren't the same thing, only similar at the level of Objective-C and Swift frameworks.
Pervasive pessimism.

Fueled mostly by omnipresent ragebait media targeted directly at our lizard brain.

Things are better than ever and yet our attention is mostly spent on what’s wrong and who we can blame for it.

Look at how utterly dystopian the average sci-fi book/show/movie is. As tech and its makers continue to grow in influence, is it any wonder that the world seems to resemble Black Mirror more each day?

A friend and I are addressing this problem. We’ve started by building a community to envision positive futures: https://reddit.com/r/TheFutureIsGood

We invite other optimistic builders to submit ideas for good future that are almost inevitable given all the progress we’ve made! We’re using AI generative art to materialize these visions for now, with traditional art also being considered.

Thanks for the great prompt and opportunity to plug a creative project.
> you can imagine more

My imagination is failing me! Can you give more examples?
Welcome to hell. If you want to look at how this cultural clash between western modern civilisation and middle-eastern islamic one can go wrong, look at france. We’ve been at the forefront of this problem since the 1990s (because of our history with north africa), and we’re still struggling.
Presumably you can order their other products with less of a waiting list?
I don't think I am: I just read the transcript of a quite funny chatgpt conversation, where it was asked to explain about a hungarian poet (Petőfi Sándor) in hungarian. It listed some true facts, then a list of the "most famous poems", including a bunch that didn't exist. Then the user asked about a particular one titled "The Panther". It responded by explainin about the poem, how it's main theme is fight for freedom (Petőfi was a big figure in the hungarian revolution of 1848), and how the panther itself symbolizes freedom and self-sacrifice. It even quoted a few lines from the poem (it didn't rhyme, but otherwise was very plausible to have been written by Petőfi).

See, "The Panther" is not a poem of Petőfi. The quote was not from any other work of him. It's not from the Rilke poem (or its translations I know of) either. It's completely made up, but also made to sound very plausible, to the point where if I didn't know better or look it up, I could be convinced. The only thing suspicios is the lack of rhyming.

I put information in quotes because I don't consider made up stuff information.
BikeConfig
"1. Learn some games relevant skills after hours to show that you are prepared and not expecting us to train you from scratch (unity or unreal are most common). [..] This will show the initiative you took on your own and what skills you’ve developed."

Are you evaluating also how much time it took to complete the after hour project? What if I complete a clone game in 2 years? This might be excluding anybody that cannot work after hours, for a reason or another.
ChatGPT does not actually execute commands. The IP is in some text dataset and it returned that.
Nice, I have been thinking the same was possible to “teach” an AI about your codebase, and then ask it to make PRs for simple features and bug fixes.
In python // is integer division, comments start with #.
> I imagine this is wildly different for individuals.

It's definitely different if you happen to live in an old European city like Vienna (like I do). There's castles, buildings and places named after people and events from that era everywhere. Everytime you get tap water you're reminded (Wiener Hochquellenwasserleitung). It's not hard to imagine living in the middle ages even, since there's lots of artefacts from that age too.
> We need more competition, not less.

To posit a real world example, when the predator overkills, the ecosystem dies.

To cite just a handful of examples:

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/extinction-countdown/wo...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surplus_killing

Top down pressure on monopolies keeps competition healthy and active. A neverending arms race, which is good for innovation. It prevents lethargy, malinvestment, stagnation, and mere taxation.
Maybe an iPad with ScratchJr. (free app - https://apps.apple.com/us/app/scratchjr/id895485086) is an interesting alternative?
Just saw this - I had played with numerous settings for a long time and some seemed to make it better, some not so. I did not try your solution.

BTW, I don't run into any issues with the 13" M1 AIR also. So, decided that it wasn't worth it for me to have to fiddle around with setting on a rather expensive piece of hardware and decided to return it and wait in case Apple launches a 15" MB Air with a regular (as in not mini LED) screen.

In they don't, I'll give the 16" MBP another shot and might try your solution.
Luggage with four wheels. It is liberating in airports.
> Tweets alone generate petabytes of data a year

Nope. It's not Tweets that generate that data. It's the insane amount of (mostly unnecessary) noise that gets thrown into the mix: analytics, logs, metrics, you name it.

Every time you scroll Twitter sends multiple events to the server. That alone will generate a large chunk of those petabytes.
Oh, looks like it was just the dominant political party that wants that.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/post/texas...
I'd so love to see relational dom tree programming.
apple macbook air m1
What about 6 months later when competitors arrive?

Not all markets are winner takes all or even close to it
Thank you very much. That was really helpful!
It is, since C has horribly deficient string handling facilities in its stdlib. But a compiled language is not necessarily C.

And, well, simplicity can be relative: if you already know language X, using it will likely be simpler for you than some other better language that you would have to learn first. The beauty of CGI is that its simplicity makes it a language-agnostic API, letting you pick the simplest language for yourself.
I could see that comming soon with things like copilot
As an alternative, you can hack HN's CSS directly using Stylus.

My "Madhackery" theme isn't dark, but could be with reasonable ease:

<https://pastebin.com/gLXiqKyd>

And here's something I've hacked together quickly based on the previous style, for an HN dark mode:

<https://pastebin.com/HmHBWwjE>
What sort of hours do you work? (:

My experience has been has consulting is very lucrative, very intense work, with periods of being paid to sit on a chair and do nothing because of (corporate reason if the day here).

Furthermore, you’re never “part of the team”, you’re “that extra guy who leaves in 12-18 weeks”, and although you form lots of trivial connections, you don’t stay around long enough to form deep relationships with any work colleagues.

There are also plenty of “cog in the machine” consultancy firms that just hire whatever random dickhead and give them a training course or two then fob them off to companies that need an expert in whatever the flavour of the day is. You join the ranks of consultants, you get the skeptical looks from other folk who’ve encountered clueless consultants. For better or worse, you get judged for it.

If that’s what you’re into, sure. …but it’s not a great job for everyone.

Yucky doesn’t necessarily mean “slimly sales job”; it might just mean, not a comfy 9-5 job.
Yes, it can only guess at something that sounds reasonable. I had the same conversation about counting words in a sentence:

> How many words are in this sentence?

> In the sentence "How many words are in this sentence?", there are 9 words.

> No, that’s actually wrong. Try to write some code that would count the words for you.

> Certainly! Here is some Python code that will count the number of words in a given string:

def word_count(string):
words = string.split()
return len(words)

# Test the function
sentence = "How many words are in this sentence?"
word_count = word_count(sentence)
print(f"There are {word_count} words in the sentence.")

> What would be the output of that example?

> If you ran the code I provided, the output would be:

There are 9 words in the sentence.

It’s able to produce the correct code (I think - I didn’t actually try to run it), but is still just guessing what the code would output. It would be very interesting if it was able to generate and then run code, and incorporate the output into its answers, allowing it to do the things it’s great at, while not completely sucking at some of the things computers are conventionally good at.
Keanu was born in 1964. I believe the rule at the time was that you needed to be born to a US mother in order to automatically have US citizenship at birth. Otherwise you needed to go through a processes.

No doubt this was to avoid having all the children of anyone a US serviceman interacted with abroad claim US citizenship.
Oh that looks interesting
I think you are absolutely right. Even on our small ecommerce presence we are seeing it is harder to get a return from Google shopping. A decade ago it was a no brainer, and now it is a money pit. We are seeking instead to expand our influencer involvement.
> that's impossible to cancel via some dark UX patterns

The scandalous $10 per week kid’s games definitely exist, but in fairness, you made this part up, as all subscriptions are easily accessible on your clearly labeled ‘Subscriptions’ page, and canceled by clicking the big red ‘Cancel subscription’ button.
In so far as “Philosophy is a language game” [1] then anyone who makes a significant contribution to linguistics also contributes to philosophy.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_game_(philosophy)
I checked and: "Salt caverns are artificial cavities in underground salt formations, which are created by the controlled dissolution of rock salt by injection of water during the solution mining process."

Yeah, I don't have one of those in the garage unfortunately. I do have space for one of these though https://newatlas.com/energy/lavo-home-hydrogen-battery-stora...
This is sad news. My condolences. I enjoyed his blog very much. He will be missed.
This isn't really the paradox of tolerance. It's the dictatorship of the small minority[1].

[1] https://medium.com/incerto/the-most-intolerant-wins-the-dict...
Thanks. I tried running code but couldn't see any results/output. I was hoping to see `input()` in action. The dev console just logs `{type: 'error', data: '{}', contentType: 'text/json'}`
But „Krokette“ is the singular in German.