skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dunno if this has been stated before but honestly as someone who has a touchscreen laptop that is plenty powerful (Windows Surface Book Pro - i7 4core, 32gb RAM, etc..) I hardly ever actually use the touch screen, even though I use the laptop plenty to do creative work (Ableton, Photoshop, etc...). Even some creative software that works great with touchscreens such as FL Studio is kinda clunky.

Granted, for ambidextrous people such as myself, having the potential of two mice is kinda cool but even as someone who uses a Surface Pen in one hand and a mouse in the other, it can be cumbersome and the lack of actual real-world necessities for such a setup is problematic.

Blurring the lines between a tablet and a laptop has definitely been happening across the industry for a while now (it potentially reduces R&D spending across different product lines), but honestly I think while there's an incentive to kinda merge the iPad and the MacBook, keeping them as separate products makes sense - because people who use a touch screen tablet have different usecases than someone who is a power user and needs the extra RAM, CPU cores, etc...
It had a context window of 8192 characters (2x as long as GPT3).

It is possible they are using GPT itself to summarize the past transcript and pass that in as context. So your “remember X” would probably get included in that summary.

That said, I have not tried to tell it to remember X and then exceeded the 8192 token contest window.

Source: https://twitter.com/goodside/status/1598882343586238464
Streaming is very capital-intensive and requires significant tech investment and potentially code changes from developers. Being a marketplace operator is asset-light - you develop a minimal IP (the marketplace app) and, if the product is desired, marketplaces are viral, enabling rapid growth. A marketplace that's sufficiently large allows a small company (how many people are needed to build the Spotify apps?) capture revenues from a very big market (nearly every musician in the world, alive or dead). it's a way waaay better business model.

Also, Google tried streaming, NVidia tried streaming, both have had little success. Imagine going to your YC partner and saying "yeah, I know google and NV tried it and failed, but we'll succeed, because... it's indie games?"
What you've described is something I've directly experienced. There are phone systems that will do just that when you ask for an operator.
This is more befuddling - they are replacing one automated system (button driven) with a worse automated system (voice driven). No one wins unless you still have a rotary phone.
I prefer your original text, and I'd caution you against using AI this way. Embrace your writing style, make an effort to improve it but accept that it is a part of you.
As a non native english speaker, I'm perfectly fine with my maybe-filled-with-some-errors-but-understandable-and-personal-english
We can’t go through life just eating cake all the time. We need to eat vegetables too.
I'll give you an example of a graph database use case.

The police have a ton of data lying around, and the consensus in the industry is that the 80/20 rule applies to criminals as well ie: 20% of the population takes up 80% of the police resources. You could probably also posit that 20% of that 20% are "peak criminals."

Anyway, they would like to track interactions of "things."

Say a car is involved in an incident. They normally track the make, model, plate, and color of the car - on paper. There's a lot of other info they they track: who owns that car? Who's in the car? Where is the car? Where does the owner live? Where do the occupants live? What other incidents has that car been involved in? Given the addresses of the people involved, who else is known to be around them?

All this relationship information can give someone a better understanding of the relationship between criminal elements in an area. If a car is being used in lots of crimes, it's easier to find out using a DB than some cop going "I recognize that car." If lots of people are being picked up and all live in a 2 block area, it'll be easier to see that if it's in a DB than a cop recognizing that fact from multiple incident reports.

I actually tried doing this in SQL, and it's super slow because you have to iterate over your tables over and over. With the graph database this becomes, well, substantially easier if you model it correctly.

This product, BTW, is known as CopLink by IBM.

As an aside, fusion centers have this problem too but worse, because they're supposed to coordinate information between different police departments in a region...all of whom don't particularly give a shit.
I only ever use Twitter via Tweetbot, which has never tried to show me something other than a chronological feed of posts from people I follow.

I have absolutely no interest in a curated timeline, so I guess I'm done with Twitter if the API doesn't start working again.
I find knowing water freezes at 0C helpful as that's about when roads become icy. Also, I live near sea level.
Concrete is one of the world’s most harmful materials.Graphene could change that
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> Are doctors, as a group, becoming stupider?

I don't think they're becoming stupider, but I think the information age is making their errors more accessible and obvious to the general public.
- "All it can do is assemble patterns according to other patterns it has seen when prompted by a request"

Sounds pretty much like everyone I know.
Pretty much all the food delivery apps take Klarna now it seems.

Never tried it, I won't touch Klarna with someone else's bargepole, but it is a thing and its fucking silly.
IIRC the Linux maintainers view themselves as providing a kernel for distros to bundle.

You can get a kernel from Red Hat that has been through Red Hat's release process. Red Hat has their own test suite/labs and will also pay attention to test results from elsewhere - including Fedora, their evergreen distro for putting new software into the wild ahead of its incorporation into Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Substitute the distro of your choice.
The reason it would be bad goes beyond the utter loss of trust with creditors. Its the loss of trust with each other.

Breaching our obligations is not a sound policy. Even if your absolute top priority is lowering government spending, no sane person would do it by simply ceasing to spend money. It's like cutting off your arm to lose weight.

The reason the NYT is wringing its hands is because the are a lot of irresponsible people in Congress who would do just that. Not a majority by any means, but the Speaker is compelled to exclude appealing to a near-majority of them by politics. He cannot maintain his position if he treats them as partners. That would also require a radical change in direction -- almost as radical as causing a government default.

In the end I expect the same thing as we've gotten before: a brief shutdown, the Treasury using emergency financial tricks, and finally a bunch of people being told that they've made their point and it's time to avoid genuine disaster. That's a recurring pattern.

But maybe this time is different. Maybe America's internal dissension means that the rest of the world (and a lot of Americans themselves) finally doesn't trust us with their money.
Okay, I guess I'm in the other camp. I really did not like the ChatGPT version, and had no problem with the original.

The original was perfectly clear, and had your own unique "voice" to it. The ChatGPT version sounded like every other piece of ChatGPT, and honestly, I've become somewhat allergic to them now.
> Many times people have concepts they wish to express but are not so proficient in what is the cultural “prestige” writing.

Many times people are bad at writing, I agree. I see what you mean, but if you have a concept and cannot express it, do you really "have" a concept. It is like knowing mathematics and being unable to solve any exercises.
yeah he probably grabbed an extension cord, unplugging the toaster that twitter is currently running on, to strangle a baby and take its candy
There are much more ideas, I.E. (Spoilers!) dimensional attacks, slow light-speed areas and their effects, math attacks, destruction of the fabric of spacetime, nano-scale multi-dimensional computers, whole universes trapped inside elemental particles, etc. There are so many interesting plots that each one could be an entire book on his own.
I have been reading a book that was recommended to me, "From Strength to Strength": and while it is cheesy as fuck, the theory it presents is interesting and has made me think a lot about what has been driving my identity for the past 20 years, and how to pivot from an "addiction" to problem solving into the latter years of life, where you will more frequently be asked to rely on strategizing and helping others to succeed rather than performing the individual contributor tasks that you relied on for a feeling of fulfillment up to this point.

Maybe this will help you too, but I would recommend skipping the intro chapter if you do decide to read it. I almost put it down because the example being given in that chapter was so obviously fake and contrived. But ultimately I am glad that I continued reading it and would recommend it to someone in your situation.
Why Congo’s most famous national park is betting big on crypto
Plug: in the past, I helped a few companies and OSS devs track usage of their code in mobile apps https://codescout.app/ and provide leads. Happy to chat if this is relevant.
We could stumble into AI catastrophe
Not the simplest microcontroller LED blink program
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Why is this article posted here? Serious question.
But just give it context about what you want it to write and it will write about it. Obviously this is much easier if you have an existing body of work but you can still write to ChatGPT clumsily and it will often turn what you are trying to say into better prose.

My analogy is that it is to writing what the spell checker is to spelling. Very few people in the world have to be good at spelling anymore. Yeah everyone is okay, but it's not as valued a skill as it used to be. ChatGPT is doing the same for writing. Yes you need to be able to write to an okay level but you don't need to be able to write well, ChatGPT does that.
Should say (2016) in the title?
They already do. I was surprised at how accurate the transcription of a recorded meeting came to be. Not sure what they used for transcription, the meeting was recorded in Teams.
Do I own my domain if you grade it? (2015)
Interesting hypothesis.
The person interacting with it, has another train of thought and might find the answers more appealing or clever, then somebody else who is reading the conversation later on.

Since it just extends your inputs and broadens them out in a nice language, maybe you are more swoon by it. It could be some kind of focus selective perception effect, when it keys on your input and your mind stays on topic.

I haven't interacted with chat gpt and only read conversation of others and it doesn't seem very special or marvelous to me so far.
> > "I like the single menu bar; every app has one, and it's always in the same place, and it's always the foremost app's"

> That's simply not true. I can have one application on my Mac screen, Safari, and yet the menu belongs to Mail. That's just dumb.

Right, it's the one belonging to the active application, not the foremost one (though, most often, the two will be the same). On Windows, an application and its main UI are very tightly coupled; macOS sees the two as separate entities, and I think Mail is a good example for an app where that totally makes sense, since that way I can open a new e-mail dialog without going through the main UI; just Cmd+Tab to Mail, Cmd+N, or Cmd+0 if I need the main UI, and if I don't explicitly close it or minimize it (and Cmd+H instead or just Cmd+Tab back to the browser or whatever) it'll come right up when I Cmd+Tab to Mail. I think that's a pretty smart way of doing things.

Similarly, with Finder, I can just hit Cmd+K for the "Connect to Server" dialog, Enter, and I'm on my NAS since it remembers the last server address. No unneeded Explorer window popping up, no mouse required, pretty quick. I can close the current browser window and keep a minimized window with a few tabs I'll need for an activity later this evening, because the browser doesn't have to have a UI just to be active. Those tabs sit down there and out of the way, but I still have them and their state. Windows would force the minimized window to the foreground when I Alt+Tab to the browser, and it's hard to think of a system-wide scheme that does what you want, but still allows for this. I think actually the macOS paradigm is quite a bit more flexible.

> Therefore no, I don't think the Mac should be a copy of Windows. I just hate the single-menu design and the pervasive UI clumsiness that has emanated from it.

How tightly an app and its UI are coupled has nothing to do with the single menubar. It does sound like you have a very strong preference for the way Windows does things, and you expect things to work that way, and where they don't, you hate that. Why don't you just stick with Windows? After all, the great thing about having options is that I can have the macOS way and you can have the Windows way and we can all be happy.
>Today, the indie market is incredibly saturated and prices are increasing.

Isn’t that the opposite of how that’s supposed to work?
Yes.

I think ChatGPT has a hypnotic ability that derives from it being able to predict the most likely next word.

I'd argue that people perceive a sense of incongruence when they see a word that is improbable in context. ChatGPT systematically avoids that, so the stuff it writes slides right past your critical abilities. The moment that you start to skim you're doomed.

As a neurodivergent person I'm frankly pretty envious of ChatGPT because it seems to get credit for it's glass being 70% full where it feels other people always perceive me as 30% empty. If it is good at anything it is being the emperor who gets away with wearing no clothes or at eliciting "neurotypical privilege" from people.

Note there was a similar discussion when ELIZA came out in that people really wanted to believe in it because of their hunger for meaning. See the concept of "blood in the gutter" in comics.
So in your opinion crowdfunding is basically a legalised scam ?
Phone trees are deliberately bad, so I assume voice recognition is deliberately worse. The goal is to frustrate nusance customers so that they give up.
> A usable pair of cheaply made boots costs less than resoling a good pair of boots.

Yes, it does, but it's worse for everyone:

- those who make the shoes because the conditions under which clothing in general is made are horrible (see e.g. the numerous instances of fires in Bangladeshi factories)

- the environment because these cheap boots are made out of fossil resources, they have to be shipped around, and at the end of their life time they can't be recycled so they either end up in landfills or, worse, trash incinerators

- for the end user since shopping boots consumes time and effort

For cars, hell for virtually all mass produced items, the same principle applies. And it's only "cheaper" because a lot of the problematic factors involved are costs that are externalized.
Not being a dipshit is not the same thing as "bending to people's demands."
Precisely my feeling on this topic. We don't need scrum Masters, product managers and even most managers who are not technical. Too many people trying to have a say in something they have no expertise in. Basically software engineers are treated like a coding monkey.
> Far from taking anything away, Congress was proposing protecting children from harmful content (the Kids Online Safety Act) [KOSA]

I haven't looked into the other legislation mentioned, but it sounds reasonable, and shouldn't be lumped in with KOSA, which would require vast censorship and surveillance of any platform or service likely to be used by a minor:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/03/kids-online-safety-act...
Does it matter? There is a lot of 100 year old furniture out there that nobody wants. They don't fit modern lifestyles.

100 year houses are only livable because someone put a ton of money into retrofitting things like plumbing, electric, and HVAC. Most of that has had major rework done several times as well since it was first added. Even at that, the fundamentals of those houses mean that they cannot be retrofitting for good insulation, and it can be argued they should all be scrapped for that reason.
I'm sorry you lost your wife. My wife had a near-death medical experience last year (a stroke, completely unrelated) and I was never as emotionally empty and destroyed as I was during the ten minutes I thought I lost her and subsequent days worrying about her recovery.

You linked an interview with Childrens' Health Defense, an organization whose primary purpose is to argue, categorically, that all vaccinations are dangerous and do not work. They are the largest such organization and their activism has been directly responsible for the growth in resistance to MMR vaccination and later to COVID-19 vaccination.

This does not mean that the point about a class of antibiotics is incorrect, and I understand that there's a possibility of "strange bedfellows" here because of the potential agreement on the matter of, uh, "big pharma". As I see it, one possibility is that you linked the CHD article not knowing this. Another possibility is that you linked the CHD article knowing this, but figuring just because they're wrong about vaccines doesn't tarnish them on this issue. Another possibility is that you generally agree with their position on vaccines.

I'm not here to judge or change your mind, I'm just telling you that I don't have any prior view about whatever fluoroquinolone antibiotics are. I read the first half of your post wanting to do more investigation. Because of the CHD link inclusion, I am now predisposed not to believe this is a real issue. I am a non-medical social scientist but I have spent a lot of the COVID period publishing work about vaccination. Anti-vaxx stuff is a complete deal-breaker for me. And if your reason for posting was to persuade an audience, I think that's the opposite of what you want.
If you don't refactor, as you program new features the code will rot. The best time to refactor is when you add a new feature the codebase didn't anticipate - this is how we do it at my job. Do you not consider this refactoring? Or do you just bolt on things as you go?

Or do you consider refactoring something like "OK, we have 2 weeks to refactor the codebase" - because IMHO that's not a great way to do it. Instead, at work we follow the scout rule: make the code a little better each time you touch it. This is still refactoring.

And we don't do sprints either. We just have a priority list and however long the next thing takes is however long it takes. We do rough estimates but don't hold people's feet to the fire. Rarely we have deadlines and things DO need to be done by a certain time for that, but that is due to external marketing/etc. This usually only happens a couple times per year.
Isn't that how most people use their credit cards everywhere, or at least everywhere in the developed world? I thought the 20%+ interest was just a way to take advantage of you if you mess up and rack up too big a bill, or forget to pay your bill.
everything accurate but it is only a "waste of some peoples' time" while others profit with their SEO-friendly garbledy-gook
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Makes the Americans feel bad.

I don't think Americans understand that their credit card rewards/etc simply don't exist in Europe.

There is literally no reason for me to ever use a credit card, it just costs me money.
The poor quality furniture of 100 years ago is no longer around.
Yep. Recording and photography killed almost all the value (social and financial) of middling artistic talent in music, storytelling, and visual arts, which may well have been what gave a lot of people a significant part of their sense of self-worth before that—plus, maybe, some income.

Now AI's coming for most of those who survived that first culling. And not just the middling-talent folks this time.
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> Dominating the dating site market is a money printing machine

Not if you already have almost the whole market to yourself.

> Match Group ... owns and operates the largest global portfolio of popular online dating services including Tinder, Match.com, Meetic, OkCupid, Hinge, PlentyOfFish, UPWARD, Ship, and OurTime, totalling over 45 global dating companies

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Match_Group
Xbox Game Pass operates a similar model but from a mixture of AAA titles and indies and they're renowned for being a great platform to be on.

Obviously, Microsoft are probably loss-leading with Game Pass, but still, not every all-you-cant-eat subscription service is bad to their vendors.
I'm surprised one of the big social media networks hasn't disrupted the online dating space.

1) The value of a dating site is proportional to the size of its user base. Dating sites can't match the big social networks.

2) Successful matches wouldn't leave the site entirely, they would just go back to using it for all the other non-dating functions.

3) It would presumably be cheaper for users because the social networks are primarily funded by advertising.

So, why hasn't the Zuck rolled out Facebook Romance(TM) to eat Match Group the way that Facebook Marketplace ate Craigslist?
The real problem with these kinds of "benchmarks" is that either the company doesn't have anyone on staff that's calling "bullshit" on it or the marketing people don't care that it's bullshit.

Either one is a bad sign if they're going to be a vendor. At that point how can you trust their SLAs and/or their presales team?
literally called a credit card
You want feedgnuplot: https://github.com/dkogan/feedgnuplot/

It gives you all the power of gnuplot. So you can make simple plots in the console, or fancy graphical ones, or output to files on disk or whatever.
This idea is crazy genius. I imagine that shy people will not try it though...
Consumers don't have much of a choice. Wages have stagnated for decades, so their incomes' purchasing power has decreased over time. It's often a choice between buying what's affordable or not buying it at all.
It’s not possible for them to make great matches in any significant quantity, because our society has become incapable of making good long term matches at all due to changes in morals, expectations, etc. And many individuals, probably a clear majority at this point, are not capable of being psychologically healthy relationship partners.

A steady stream of top businessmen, actors, sportsmen etc. are being divorced by their wives. If these people can’t maintain a marriage, how much more difficult is it for most people?
I’ve blogged about a couple of examples:

Understanding the spider web that is AWS IAM permissions: https://eng.lyft.com/iam-whatever-you-say-iam-febce59d1e3b,

Calculating whether a vuln was introduced from a parent image or from the service itself in a microservice arch: https://eng.lyft.com/vulnerability-management-at-lyft-enforc...