skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One example which shows usefulness of 'ChatGPT style' search.

I'm in the market for a new car but have a particular requirement about size of the vehicle (width, length) due to parking constraints at my location.

Instead of going to Google, I went to ChatGPT and asked it to compare two different models in terms of size - these two were within my budget and style.

The answer that came about was exactly that I was looking for; it felt like some family vehicle expert nicely, helpfully and with empathy explaining the size difference without throwing all mm/cm from the get-go. It started by saying something to the effect: Overall Model1 is slightly larger than Model2, but lengthwise it is more... (I don't remember how exactly it went and too lazy to regenerate the result and paste it here).
This is missing the forest for the trees. Everything you mention is just regular old programming and fixable. The impressive part is the internet compressed into 4GB. This is just the beginning and progress is going extremely quickly.
The encoding gives you cleaner urls that are restricted to the characters that base64 outputs, not necessarily shorter. The compression is to make it shorter.
I agree but the threat here is that if any one state successfully passes RTR regulation, they'll punish all the other states in response. Basically trying to put regulators and lobbying orgs into a "cold war" against them.

This of course means that the only way to fix this without harming consumers is federal laws which is shitty because grassroots legal progress is far more preferable.
It certainly is. I think what's bothering LastTrain, though—and is definitely bothering me—is the kneejerk dismissal of personal projects because they're not sufficiently innovative/useful/etc. As far as I can tell, it wasn't even the VanadiumOS author who shared it here in the first place.

I've noticed, and I'm not the only one, that HN has developed a particular reputation in the tech community. A number of people I know don't actually like having their work show up on "the orange site" because of that Comic-Book-Guy culture.

Just seems counter to the spirit of hacking to judge somebody's experiments through the lens of a VC pitch.
Sorry about that, could you send the link that is giving you the 414?
DnD is a community effort shaped by the needs and wants of players. It doesn't just belong to WotC. This was the rationale behind OGL 1.0. Trying to claim all derivatives for themselves is a Dick Move with consequences.
Which in turn means that the adblock equivalent in the brave new world will be smaller, less effective models that are community- or self-hosted.

Or models that run in the browser to detect and remove product placements from the text itself. Though that seems very unlikely.
I was just surprised we were graded on speed. Like, the girls (who...had thinner fingers on average?) would all get As by reaching 80 WPM, I'm stuck with fat fingers at 20-30 WPM (mind you, just copying text from one screen to another)...which is plenty of speed for programming and even writing comments on hacker news.

These days, that would be considered insane! But in 1989...
One reason is that you can do drugs.
Is this something about American-style gas stoves, or all gas stoves? Why would it be impossible to have a valve with a perfect (or reasonably perfect, obviously nothing mechanical is absolutely perfect) seal? A normal ball valve in a gas line is perfectly sealed; why would the valve in a stove be any different?
Your information has never been presumed to belong to you, and you have never presumed that information you had about other people did not belong to you. Have you ever kept track of information about other people and felt compelled to notify them and potentially send them money? Like when you were in first grade and wrote down a list of "people i hate" or "who to invite to my birthday party"? Or when you got older and were getting petitions signed? Or maintaining lists of who do deliver to and collect money from on your paper route? It's actually an important freedom to be allowed to learn things about other people and to write them down, and share your thoughts with other people.

I'm not saying that I'm happy about the current state of affairs where we are spied on and sold and resold, but I just wanted to clarify that it's not so simple as you make it out to be that each person owns all information about themselves.
Tangent, I know—but I am reminded of TempleOS, a pretty amazing OS written entirely by the late Terry Davis in his own variant of C. It has some amazing UI innovations and logical abstractions that never caught on elsewhere. Terry was affected by mental illness and used to make a bunch of offensive posts whenever his work came up here on hacker news. Anyone else remember him from here?
> we would avoid many bash bugs in piped commands or shell scripts

Food for thoughts: you take a step away from byte-array files. Why stick with the notion of using pipes for composition, or using the same language for the (command-line) UI and for scripting?

Or, for that matter, with a universal "file" concept that tries to treat videos, pictures, executables, application-internal data files, database files and system configuration files the same (even before taking into account Unix's "special files" that aren't persistent, and are just high-level APIs sharing the same low-level APIs as actual files).
Behind the scenes of TV’s first deep fake comedy: ‘None of it is illegal’
I recently purchased a BOOX device, it is a large e-ink tabled which runs android. I have google drive sync a specific folder and it works seamlessly to read and markup pdfs, epub, djvu. The screen is excellent for reading and writing. I bought one of the 10 inch devices but they have full 13 inch models that are a bit more expensive.
"best vegetarian restaurants in Gastown": the results actually seemed pretty good:

The Acorn
The Naam
Chau Veggie Express
The Essential
The Wilder Snail

I mean, yeah, it doesn't cite sources. So if you want to check the results you have to do that with a traditional search engine. But that will only be an issue while the results aren't good enough to trust by default.
I love this.
My website tenor.cards has been backend-free for a while thanks to the URLs.
https://tenor.cards/design_card/?p=Rm9yJTIwdGV4dCUyMHRoYXQlM...

I didn't even know about window location hash, which I just learned from the other comments. Thank y'all.
How do you dissolve people's history and identity. Imprison them until they're reeducated?
I'm not sure what you're on about but I've not dismissed the original work at all, in any of my comments....
I believe you :) The prices I quoted where from yesterday in Europe / Germany.
I realized after writing this that my logic doesn't work great and I would rather just delete this if possible :)
What's underappreciated by many is how much the book is a highly-crafted and optimised product.

There's very little about a book that's innate, rather, conventions from size to font to structure and organisation, contents, indices, notes, pagination for eff's sake, all had to be arrived at and designed.

That's happened over centuries, and represents a great deal of embedded wisdom.

I become painfully aware of this when reading online, whether on desktop (can be OK with a suitably large screen), laptop (horrible), OLED tablet (OK, but not great), or e-ink device (far better, though still has limitations).

A book's robustness, persistence, and flexibility of access are hard to match. Digital gives options for search, access, and automation, which can be handy.

What most plagues online book formats, I'm concluding after using an e-ink device for nearly two years, is displays. Emissive, low-resolution, wrong format, and difficulty in reading under bright illumination. E-ink addresses most of these (at sufficient size: 8" minimum, 10" or 13" is preferable for detailed works).

That still leaves a lot to the specific technical format and typography of individual e-books, and there are designs which work better than others.

There's also the mechanics of ebook reader software, most especially of navigation and annotation. The directness of physical objects (leafing or flipping through pages, scribbling a quick note in pencil or pen, dog-earing, physical bookmarks) is lost, though good designs can come reasonably close.

(I'm trying to find a book on, erm, The Book, which I'd found and believe is somewhere in my (electronic) collection, though it's been eluding me for the past quarter hour or so.)

Edit: Found it. Keith Houston, The Book: A Cover-to-Cover Exploration of the Most Powerful Object of Our Time (2016)

<https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393244793>

<https://archive.org/details/bookcovertocover0000hous>

<https://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=5D3A0B91464FE40568F5BBA...>

<https://www.worldcat.org/title/956980330>

Not without some irony, a book which is far better in print or PDF than ePub format.
A $40 guidebook and sticking with reputable brands will solve this problem.
(3) happening destroys Google's current business model. Google's entire operation is funded by increasing the amount of times users click on a link and leave.

There's little value in simply showing an ad, all the value is in the conversion. Yes, Google is well positioned to destroy that conversion rate, but that comes at great harm to itself. Display ads go for 1/10 the price of a search ad, and I'd wager text would be worth even less than images, and I'd bet the tolerable amount of ads per query is significantly higher for search as well.

Is Google willing to bet the house that (2) is a better business model than the clicking described in (3)?
That's really interesting. I'd noticed a lot of countries just kind of seem to peg against the dollar and prices rise similarly.

So how does that work in Japan? I'm guessing by necessity imports have inflated. But perhaps domestic stuff has not? IE a loaf of bread is still worth X yen, even though globally X yen has become a lesser amount?
Have you tried GitHub Desktop? https://desktop.github.com/
Bit of a side note, but while I agree on #2, I'm not too keen on what happens when it gets good enough that you're no longer the one using it to bypass people, your (former) boss is instead...
Miners will mine whatever they can get paid to mine. Otherwise nothing but BTC would have any hash rate.
Are you saying the ChatGPT model is only 4GB?
I also had these terminals at my public library much into the later 90s and early 2000s. Now that library and the terminals are long gone. Getting old is weird!
A good e-ink reader ... remains a compromise ... but it is a good compromise in many cases.

The fact that I can carry 100s or 1,000s of references with ease is especially useful.

The display is (mostly) reflective, works under direct sunlight, has exceptional battery life (when used only as an e-book reader, if you're surfing the Web or using apps, with WiFi and frontlighting enabled, it falls precipitously), and is very nearly as crisp as paper (200 DPI vs. 300--600 for most laserprinters).
It’s funny how things evolve. This is clearly something similar to make.

All sorts of tools use xxxxfile for their config. But the tool “make” it’s actually short for “make file”. That’s what make does, it makes files (and has modified date dependencies)
URL was probably meant to be https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/01/virgin-orbits-launch... instead
That would arguably feel worse for the sender. "I did what?!"

No thanks :)
You’ve just made an argument that Google’s automated crawling and search algorithms can never disrupt human-curated directories like Yahoo.
Many folks believe that builds and tests should ideally be "hermetic", and not depend on external state. This can make tests more robust, and facilitates tasks such as bisecting to identify the cause of regressions.
Ask HN: Are hardware wallet images “immune” to malicious code insertion?
Justifiably so, based on past known threat models, the crypto world strongly advices in favor of hardware wallets, but a recent somehow unrelated thread got me thinking of a different concern than what the original intent of hardware wallets was: what is the likelihood of a combination between internal network access of hardware wallets manufacturers and their devices assembly source code repository (e.g. local version control systems), or private github repositories, or even third party publicly available code libraries, if used? Of course brute forcing keys is practically impossible, but insertion of malicious code during the image installs or updates of wallets feels to me a more likely scenario of concern.
You can't wait to see millions of people lose money and in some cases their livelihoods? Maybe you should stop blaming cancel culture for your declining karma and do a little bit of self-reflection.
You would need a lot of batteries. My induction top draws about 3kw when going strong.
It's probably just an American thing: many things in America are atrociously expensive for some reason. Here, it's probably the American expectation of a "range", which is a huge 4-5 burner stovetop combined with a humongous oven large enough for a whole turkey or even a small child.

Here in Japan, IH stoves aren't that expensive, but they're just stovetops with 2 or 3 burners. There's no such thing as a "range" here, and while ovens are becoming much more common, they're the size of a microwave oven, and usually combined with one. You can also get portable single-burner IH stovetops for less than USD$100.
I'll be delighted when the giant negative sum ponzi explodes.

The entire space is a huge net negative on society and I wish it didn't exist.
> The college senior isn't alone in the race to rein in AI plagiarism and forgery. OpenAI, the developer of ChatGPT, has signaled a commitment to preventing AI plagiarism and other nefarious applications. Last month, Scott Aaronson, a researcher currently focusing on AI safety at OpenAI, revealed that the company has been working on a way to "watermark" GPT-generated text with an "unnoticeable secret signal" to identify its source.

Ah, so magnanimous of them to sell both the plague and the cure.

I say that tongue-in-cheek of course, but it seems that's where this is going, whether they make and sell both or let others do it. That is, both sides of the production and detection of this spam are about to profit handsomely from the overwhelming piles of it we're about to be drowning in.
I've been hearing Tether will depeg for nearly eight years now.
> You have zero visibility into the operations of traditional private businesses.

If you need visibility into a private business for commercial reasons before doing business with them, there are ways to do it, including using auditors in the same way Binance did [before their auditors abandoned them for reasons].

Companies that engage private companies do this kind of thing all the time as part of due diligence (e.g. engaging a vendor on a critical project & ensuring they're going to be able to deliver).

> With Binance, you can at least view their wallet balances, in the 10s of billions.

I mean, you're describing the problem! Their wallet balances are irrelevant - it's their bank balances that we're interested in.

I can create a wallet with any arbitrary cryptoasset of my own invention & put "10s of billions" of coins in there and claim they're backed 1:1 with some real currency.

Until I can provide reliable evidence that I actually have the currency, it would be insane to believe me, right?

And this is the situation Binance is in - the state of their actual real-world finances is, and has been for as long as I can remember, questionable. (Arguably, I'd say it's worse now that Mazars have dropped them!)

It's neat they've managed to be liquid for the last few months during this latest crytopocalypse. But I stand by my first comment - they'll have the appearance of being completely fine, right up until the point that they're not. Like every single other exchange.

> And I don’t mean to pick on you.

None taken. I described myself as a 'mere tourist' because I hold no cryptoassets (except for some Stellar I got more or less accidentally in the Keybase drop), but I have been following the space since the release of the Bitcoin whitepaper.
I don't think so. I used to cook for a living and still make meals regularly at home, I'm pretty good at it. But sometimes I just want cup noodles, and when I make them I don't consider it cooking.

Maybe a better example is popcorn. I can make it in a microwave, or I can make it in a pot on the stove from scratch. It takes about the same amount of time, and the quality is about the same. But doing it by hand involves many more small decisions, like the amount of oil, corn kernels, heat, cook time, knowing when to stop, what flavor ingredients to add and how much etc. Now I can do it on autopilot and never have a single burned or unpopped kernel, but it took maybe 100 less-than-perfect efforts to get to that.
Compelling against the US dollar which is "printed" by the trillions and is constantly losing value based on arbitrary decisions of people with effectively no accountability
Also, who did it?
to use visual mode on the terminal, yank, paste etc.
It is preferred to have syntax additions in the same style, but I do see the need for multiple different styles. Like the mentioned Python-like style.

I expect that each of the radically different styles will have their set of token processors, although some would be possible to use regardless of the style.

Token processors can also work together. For example the "classes" have an API for other token processors to work with the static types. More info here: https://www.fixscript.org/docs/classes/#api

Examples of this are in the "native/extern" and "io/transaction" token processors. The docs for them: https://www.fixscript.org/docs/native/ and https://www.fixscript.org/docs/io/transaction.html

Most of the simpler token processors don't have dedicated documentation, you can look at the beginning of their source code for the usage. You can see the *.fix files in the root of the "src" directory in the SDK. There is a convention that general purpose token processors reside in a root of the sources.

Namely the "autoinit" is able to insert an initialization check to every public function (after being processed by other token processors) to make sure the common init function is called. The "macros" is implementing a simple to use macros so you don't have to write token processor directly for each use case. The "optional" is able to insert specific code depending on the availability of other source files. The "unpack" provides a nice syntax for retrieving of individual variables in an array (used in callbacks and to provide multiple return values).
Probably some money laundering scheme going on
Someone posted this quote by Linus Torvalds just some days ago:

Nobody should start to undertake a large project. You start with a small trivial project, and you should never expect it to get large. If you do, you'll just overdesign and generally think it is more important than it likely is at that stage. Or worse, you might be scared away by the sheer size of the work you envision. So start small, and think about the details. Don't think about some big picture and fancy design. If it doesn't solve some fairly immediate need, it's almost certainly over-designed. And don't expect people to jump in and help you. That's not how these things work. You need to get something half-way useful first, and then others will say "hey, that almost works for me", and they'll get involved in the project.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34287760
Qualcomm Mirasol was so ahead of its time (colorful, excellent battery life), but never really took off, and Apple ended up acquiring it

https://appleinsider.com/articles/15/12/15/apple-has-taken-o...
I don't think the difference is really as much about less extreme weather, wildlife, or environmental diversity as it is about size.

There are plenty of people who have died in the Alps due to unexpected storms. There maybe aren't as many large predators in Europe, but there are still poisonous snakes, and the most deadly animal in both the US and Europe is bees--allergic reactions to stings can occur even in people who have previously been stung without reaction. And there are deserts in Spain (which are quite beautiful!).

What Europe doesn't have, is 100km stretches without a single bit of civilization. I've been to parts of the US where there are signs telling you to fill your gas tank fully before leaving, because the next gas station is so far away. If you get stranded partway through the journey, there's no cell signal even though the land is flat with nothing to block signals, because you're so far away that the curvature of the earth blocks the signal. That's on roads through desert plains: if you go into the mountains on foot you can easily be even further (in travel time) from civilization.

If you get stung by a bee and have an allergic reaction in the Alps, you're probably within a 15 minute helicopter ride of a hospital, with cell service and other hikers nearby to assist. If you get stung by a bee and have an allergic reaction in the Rockies, you may not see another hiker for a few hours, and if you do, neither of you will have a way to contact a helicopter, which will then have a lot of space to cover to find you, and then will have to take you further.

On a related note, when I lived in NYC, a friend from the UK asked if I could pick him up from the airport... in Buffalo. Yes, NYC and Buffalo are in the same state, but they're opposite sides of that state. Here's a comparison of that state to the entire UK: [1] https://external-preview.redd.it/sihkYJaYp-ZALJToGKSGpJ6aRLj...
Was it factually correct or AI hallucination though? This seems like it would be important.
CZ brought this on himself, he and SBF are getting absolutely destroyed for all the right reasons, and incidentally BTC finally broke back into the 17k range which happened after the FTX scandal, despite not having any BTC on their exchange at all.

Fundus are clearly not safu with him or anyone else and people are starting to realize that now, hopefully this finally sinks into people's head when getting involved.

And Coinbase has already been humbled with their stock price drop, but I feel that still more needs to be done to reduce their influence on the market.
2 is not going to happen. The UX is terrible, and competitors who don’t rely on ad revenue can offer a far superior product that isn’t trying to sell you movie tickets when you ask for a synopsis of the three Godfather movies.

1 is because it will spook investors, not the public.
> It only becomes "bullshit", when the improv player comes in and argues that because the object traveled 500-squares in less than 5-seconds, it must be going at X speed or Y momentum and carries forward.

This is very much not an improv-player attitude IME; improv-players mostly want in-genre things to happen. When you simulate the nuts and bolts, you're more likely to attract the kind of player who sees that as an abstract puzzle to optimize and does so.

(And I note you skipped the Locate City nuke, I guess because that does work in-game? Fundamentally rule-based magic systems tend to be exploitable, because if you want the kind of things that fictional magic does in-genre to be possible, you have to make your magic be able to do impossible things, but the rules that allow that will tend to allow other impossible things which are more min-maxable).

> People who mess with shenanigans are the problem, including peasant railgunners.

Sure. My point is that adding more detailed mechanics does nothing to deter that; quite the opposite.
I suspect they believe something akin to what I do: millions of people have already lost money; they just don’t yet know it.
crypto exchanges that work correctly can handle simple withdrawals. people are simply heeding the advice of "not your keys, not your coins" and withdrawing. properly functioning exchanges can handle that, improperly run exchanges halt withdrawals and make excuses. that isn't happening here after $12B "bleeding" out, aka withdrawn as intended?