skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m curious as to how your company focuses on user retention in the longer term. Obviously, Spotify or Game Pass have the perks of having superstars and AAA studios already onboarded, so customers sign on and stick around for new releases by larger creators. But with indie games, there’s usually not that same loyalty to a creator (I can think of only a few famous ones off the top of my head). Games are also not as replayable as music, especially smaller ones—they’re more like video streaming in that regard. Is your eventual goal just to onboard enough new games every year that users continue subscribing, or is there another angle to it?

Similarly, how do you plan to retain devs, especially once they become established and choose to sell directly instead? I think your most “similar” competitor, Apple Arcade, gave out contracts to larger studios to build games, which isn’t really sustainable in the longer term as far as I can tell, especially when they can simply sell their games instead. Is this more of an alternative revenue stream for studios? One of the main draws of a subscription for customers is exclusivity, which would kind of contradict that.

In general though, I really like this concept; it can solve a lot of issues with getting indie game dev going in a sustainable manner, which is a market neither Game Pass nor Apple Arcade really address. Best of luck!
Dr. Kaeberlein and Dr. Attia.
I'm with you too here. I always chafe and find minor conflict with the types of engineers that just want to head down, headphones on and write code all day long.

Planning is like 80% of the work to me.
That seems like a way to get a discrimination lawsuit. On the other hand there was that guy who changed his name to "Spider Mann" who had all kinds of problems because of it... But in that case you could say it is his own damn fault whereas if you have an unusual family name because of your culture you really can say you're a victim.
Flywheels are an alternative to batteries for grid stability. Very little interest in adding them due to the continued advancement of batteries. I'm actually surprised how often they're missed as a viable solution.
Except in Denmark where they use, or perhaps used to use, vast quantities of antibiotics intensive pig rearing.
Author here. Happy to answer any questions. - Conor
TBH, I'm wondering if we need to start using yahoo style curated content directories again. Content aggregators like reddit, hacker news and lobsters already help filter out a lot of noise, but they focus on recent articles. It would be nice to have a searchable/browsable source for interesting content. It wouldn't contain the full internet, but at least it would have better relevancy.
What's screwy about it?
In my experience it's been painless to switch between html+vanillajs and React projects.
>indestructible intelligent nano-scale machines that can be anywhere any time

They are not nano-scale, they are planet-scale, 11-dimensional computers projected into 3-dimensional space.
Show HN: New Semantic text chunking API for GPT tech (Freemium live on RapidAPI)
Constantly with NLP, I run into this problem: I have a bunch of text from a transcript or webscrape, and need to group it together semantically(by meaning) for GPT prompting. Anybody looking to combine GPT models with semantic search has probably noticed that the quality and how you split snippets you provide really matters! If you put text spanning a bunch of topics in the first half, and one core topic in the second half into the latest models and ask for a summary, it might miss the topic covered in the second half for example, even if the topic in the second half was the main topic and the first half was on sporadic topics!

Things like semantic search also work much better when embeddings reflect the semantic segments in the text - since that is their training set (at least, for MS MARCO). But there aren't any quickly usable huggingface models or open source tools to covert plaintext into semantically chunked text.

That's why I've launched this Semantic Text Chunking based on an internal product we rely on. The demo allows you to try it yourself, see a sample on a transcript, and there's a 50 request free tier.

I admired Audacity Autochapter API (which is great for audio) but really wanted a quick'n'easy way to get the same value out of text. I found out why there isn't one on HuggingFace: It's really hard to get right and optimise for different input sizes. There are models like https://huggingface.co/dennlinger/bert-wiki-paragraphs but these require you to manually first split by sentences, make sure the model works for your domain, and set up a batch process on a GPU for decent speed - in other works, it's a right pain to get this working, despite some great open source models to base this on.

Having wasted a week of dev time on what we thought would be a one-day task, we've published a freemium API for this. It can boost any GPT tool and give you an edge over other tools that don't semantically segment their content.

1) Freemium - you can demo it now
2) We've added 2 options to help you control this output (feel free to request more options)
3) No data sent to the API is ever saved by us

Quick demo: https://rapidapi.com/rapidinterconnect/api/text-semantic-spl...

HN users - feel free to contact the account for an increased soft limit on the free version =)
When I explain to people what I love about baseball, it’s that I know what is supposed to happen. It’s when what isn’t supposed to happen happens that makes it exciting. It’s the same with these questions. We know the question but it’s the response s, in particular from younger players (like collegiate athletes), that make the questions still worth asking
and journalistically relevant, even if sometimes they come off as rehearsed.
ChatGPT has been a boon to the dog-shit take industry.
I strongly agree but looking at the Alpine examples it feels like the worst of both worlds to me. At least JSX allows code checking etc, putting code inside HTML attributes has a real ick factor for me.
Hasn't that improved recently with better ballot counting, fewer machines that only stores the result in hard drive somewhere instead of paper trails etc?
None of these are truly new - even the quarter-baked coup attempt (see FDR times.) As for outrageous debt, that began with the US itself.

Which raises the possibility that we're looking at the nasty part of a regular oscillation.

However. The very low birthrate is genuinely new. Drugs/homelessness not new but astonishingly severe. Steep housing prices due to collusion (vs manufactured homes, housing laws, and more) are a large cause of both.
I'm still kinda confused - did you have no work to do at all? Or you just were expecting some collaborative team work that's not there? I agree lack of communication seems extreme, but if you are working that's not exactly bench warming.
Microsoft finally ends Windows 7 and 8.x support
Spoilers from the Expanse ahead...

The protomolecule turned people into vomit zombies with a collective hive mind that could communicate instantaneously across the solar system and move an asteroid defying all laws of gravity, with the ultimate secret intent of building an interstellar wormhole.

Again, in the series (at least early on) humans are quite limited by known constraints and it would easily be considered hard scifi in many regards. But its central conceit was no less blithely nonsensical than that of TBP's - I simply can't understand how someone could put one in the hard category but disqualify the other.
As a German currently residing in his severely dysfunctional state, I much appreciate the EU. But a DNS controlled by government really sounds like a bad idea.

Together with their recurring war on child pornography as an excuse for more advanced spying on their citizens, this could turn into a nightmare, when used widely.

AFAIK they're right now drafting a law which essentially leads to providers of any kind of messengers being required to scan messages on the clients for abusive material.
I don't know of any other country that does.
It’s already getting that way with things like grammarly. It makes me sad. I know my colleagues who speak English as an additional language use it and find it helpful, but I much prefer whatever English they speak with be the same when they write. It makes engagement more interesting
I think you are correct :)

I work in startup on both side, it’s … different
TBP is also very cavalier about basic interactions with energy. To make a sophon, I kid you not, the aliens unfold a proton into a 2D sheet that they wrap around their entire planet. The unfolded proton has the same mass as the folded one (explicitly stated), but far from being invisible, it actually blocks all incoming light from their sun. That's orders of magnitude more energy than it takes to shatter protons in particle accelerators, smashing into the sophon for days on end, and it just... holds together? And then it gets to Earth and can apparently move and fold and unfold on its own and intercept all of our communications (which should also shatter it).
The BNPL schemes are targeting low income customers who either can't or won't use credit cards.

The frequent little payments is a "feature". If you can't handle a $200/mo credit card bill, getting emails for $8 here or $11 there is probably easier.
"But chatGPT would actually write useful texts, most of them more useful than the average blog post. Over a few years they might be just as good as the best human articles."

If web sites start being written by A.I. and ChatGPT starts getting trained on A.I. output, it's going to start spewing garbage results.

It's only useful if trained on human input, A.I. have no model of the world and no A.I. can function if trained by A.I. written texts.
It’s flow state/reducing cognitive load, not just literal typing speed. I know that might sound insane —- I was extremely weary of such claims for a long time and thought vim was stupid —- but after getting over the “hump,” I get it and absolutely can’t go back.
There are hundreds of papers on Long Covid, many peer reviewed.

Someone on reddit keeps track of them all:

https://reddit.com/r/LongHaulResearch

also:

https://reddit.com/r/COVID19/search/?q=pasc
Several times my debit card has been defrauded.

I just contact my bank and they refund it within a few days and issue me a new card.

No problems.
Half of environmental claims about products are full of crap, says EU
I think it was implied that the girl was a government spy and used plastic surgery and the copius amount of details given to Da Shi to play a role. That being said i think the whole premise is somewhat sexist.
Just one example: the class attribute in HTML vs className in JSX.

It’s not that it’s complicated, you just use one or the other. But it’s very indicative of what’s going on under the hood: despite looking exactly like HTML, JSX isn’t creating HTML. It’s creating elements via JavaScript APIs.
I have no experience in running a dating site, and barely any in using them. Are unsolicited dick picks common even for the pay sites? I've assumed that it's mostly an anonymity issue that goes away when you tie it to identity (via payment or otherwise), but then again I've never felt the urge to send anyone dick picks, so I wouldn't put much weight on my assumptions.

From what I understand, these days it's not just the dick picks but also love scammers, which aren't low-effort and are welcome by the recipients until the scam begins. These are harder to combat, but shouldn't tying it to identities help?

Niche sites probably work better in that regard because e.g. Christian Dating sites have less trouble getting a strong consensus on what's appropriate, wouldn't they?
Seriously. That `x-show="open"` example is so ambiguous. Is it setting a `hidden` attribute? Setting CSS `display`? Or `visibility? Or is it actually removing it from the DOM? If so, is it deleting the node or just holding on to it?
I experienced this with older shows on Amazon
Isn't it equally weird that 1/3 can't be exactly represented in decimal?
SpaceX tells astronomers: Fine, we'll try to stop Starlink spoiling stargazing
That's exactly my point. Ask the author. They implied that they did some analysis beyond trusting claims made my developers, but there aren't sufficient details.
Time to demote Antarctica to an archipelago? (And join Pluto on the geographic name B-team)
Maybe try an operations teams at a <200-300 employee company? Been on a few platform operations teams/systems operations teams where most people are working in yaml or one-off cli tools. Those teams are usually a mix of people who can code and can't. If you can code you get a lot of freedom to work on whatever you want without sprints/strict design docs/required tests. Just need to make sure a potential team has enough people that not everyone is fire fighting all the time. Pay is good at the right company.
Oh, that goes to show you how little I use it. I read the documentation and merely assumed that it would work for stdin, but gnuplot exits with an error in that case. This will work, but it’s pretty funky:

gnuplot -e "set terminal sixelgd;plot '<&3' with lines" 3< <(seq 1 10)

Good luck remembering that!
>Hell, maybe that dream's just "raise and provide for a family"!

I think we're agreeing there.

>I entirely do not follow how this would be the result of UBI.

I didn't mean to imply that it would. I've just seen people argue that UBI is a solution to the problem of people not having work.
You could try following what the robots dot txt says
You're talking about LaMDA, that's something it's designed to do
Definitely tongue in cheek, but it's almost halfway believable. For every commenter here who talks about how they prefer their gas stove for [attribute A], [attribute B] and [attribute C], a commenter jumps in like clockwork to reply with the same "Have you tried induction, bro?" comment. Eerie...
I was just thinking about this. ChatGPT feels like it generates the equivalent of chew toys for human reading. And you have no idea if what you're chewing on is real or fake, because in the end its just a toy with no guarantees.
I did something similar here https://github.com/redraw/dotfiles, along with some installation scripts

although, nice idea on tracking the whole / instead of just ~/!

the only thing I miss after aliasing dotfiles to git, is that you lose git's autocompletion features. I once tried to set it up in zsh with autocomp, but without success, should review that
You writing skills will stop improving the more you depend on this. It's similar to people losing the ability to mentally map where they are or learn their own city by relying on map and routing apps. While map apps have made navigation so much easier and getting lost much less frequent, it does come at some cost, perhaps acceptable. Is it acceptable to you that your English growth stalls, or if you internalize the ChatGPT changes, that you start to talk like a generic bot, albeit seemingly intelligent bot?
Working for $50 million a year sounds pretty fun
Your example is true only if you include the criteria that it be affordable. You can probably get any furniture you want made locally or by a highly skilled person far away who is willing to ship to you.

100 years ago, how much did the family dinner table cost? Would you measure it in hours or days of salary? When that family in 1923 went table shopping, they were either going to buy from a company like Sears Roebuck or from a local store and there probably wasn't much variety from either source.

Today, there's lots of cheap stuff available, but there's also lots of high end custom stuff available as well. We have more of everything.
>most people stuck in unhappy marriages are men

That is wildly untrue. The research on whether men or women are more satisfied in their marriages shows that they have about the same levels of satisfaction.

For example: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jomf.12077

Not really sure why the demographics of philosophers effects the impact of the statement. Most philosophers are white, would it have been more impactful if the statement had brought race into it?
Danhausen Became Professional Wrestling’s Strangest Star
Nope! We pay devs by distributing player subscriptions at the individual level, not the aggregate. I.e. what others play on a given month doesn't affect how we'll distribute your subscription in that month. This way, devs are meritocratically paid according to how many people are playing their game, and it doesn't matter if that is 1 person or a 100,000. We consider adding diminishing returns and other factors to our model to maybe help smaller titles, but there are no solid plans at the moment.
Intel offers desktop chip that can hit 6GHz if everything goes right
Story time.

Back in university I was taking part in programming competition. I don't remember the exact details of a problem, but it was expected to be solved as a dynamic problem with dp[n][n] as an answer, n < 1000. But, wrangling some numbers around one could show that dp[n][n] = dp[n-1][n-1] + 1/n, and the answer was just the sum of first N elements of harmonic series. Unluckily for us the intended solution had worse precision and our solution failed.
> now all of those while still available are significantly more expensive and niche than the mechanized (production or reproduction) equivalents.

No, they cost exactly as much as they always had. Before machines, people didn't have wardrobes full of tailor-made clothes. Each person had, give or take one, exactly as many tailor-made clothes as we have today.
It’s one of the lesser–known superpowers :)
In the US, I only had luck with Kia. I don't know why, but I found Kia dealerships in the area where I bought my car (Sacramento) for MSRP. Actually managed to negotiate a good price without the BS dealership markup and silly add-ons.

I don't know if its an anomaly or not, I may have just gotten extremely lucky after looking for over a year, and it was only with Kia and their Soul model, not any other line.
This is an old concern (and nevertheless a good one): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Question_Concerning_Techno...
> Since then, the news site has published 73 AI-generated articles, but the outlet says on its website that a team of editors is involved in the content “from ideation to publication. Ensuring that the information we publish and the recommendations we make are accurate, credible, and helpful to you is a defining responsibility for what we do.”

This is the thing that actually scares me, because I don't believe them when they say they have editors scrutinizing everything the AI writes. They may give it a glance, but I would bet any amount of money that they don't rigorously check everything. And as time goes on, they're going to spend fewer and fewer resources on editorial, I guarantee it. My basis for saying this is that editorial has already been deeply cut — forget rewrites, forget fact checking, it feels like half these articles have outright typos that never get caught. I'm not sure anyone but the author closely reads an article before it goes into publication, and if the author is an AI...

They aren't going to staff up on editorial if AI can generate content, they will just spend $0 on writers, and as little as they can get away with on editors, approaching $0.
OTOH, if you are good at perfect matches and advertising the fact, you'll probably replace those 2 lost customers pretty fast, and with lots more on top.
That's true, but are you getting the same amount of users when you're charging them $10/month for messaging?

I'd assume that payment adds a hurdle that's somewhat welcome to keep out problematic users, just like rent does. Pay 30% more than the market and you'll only have neighbors who can afford that as well, which are much less likely to be unemployed alcoholics with behavioral issues.
Right. Well, shit!
As a junior software engineer, I think the same but perhaps I have come to the conclusion too early.
What I know is that I want work to always be easy or maybe with slight difficulty, and keep the hard stuff for personal projects. That way I wouldn't feel much stress.
It's just good at writing, it's contextual understanding is bad (at first).

But give it context and it flies. Ask it to write a cover letter for an engineering role, it will turn out mediocre crap.

Give it the actual role and your CV in the prompts, you're pretty much good to go. It's unique, you still control the narrative (please highlight my ability to work under pressure) and it's done in 10 secs.

I really don't see what isn't to love about that.

Also it usually writes better if you tell to write well.
All that stuff is actually _even worse_ under alternative economic systems. Spend a few hours talking with someone -- anyone -- who comes from a Communist country and ask them about this.
In the mid-1970s, a machine with 64k of RAM could support up to eight simultaneous users. And the apps were written in BASIC. That's how a lot of small businesses rolled with MAI Basic Four machines.
It’s me freestyling English :)

Just to say that I probably wrong / not very informed.
No doubt; same in Netherlands (more pigs than people in the country). But there's been improvement over the last 20 years on the animal welfare front, at least in the Netherlands and presumably Denmark too. And routine administration of antibiotics is banned everywhere in the EU now, AFAIK without too many exceptions.
Something about this just really turns me off. I think it's the comments about indigenous people living without power. Returning to nature ideology seems to always be appealing to city-dwellers. Previous humans didn't overcome nature or become "one with it". Nature killed them carelessly – unaware of their suffering or even their existence. The biggest advantage humans had over nature was our ability to go unnoticed. We didn't thrive; we survived. Would you use the homeless people scrabbling for limited supplies at the food kitchen as your motivation to go off grid?

I'm all for individual action in the face of climate change. I think people who practice having a minimal impact on their surroundings are more likely to take that mindset to their work and affect change in the world as a cohesive unit with a shared understanding. In that sense – well done to the author. I think we should advocate for thriving while having less of an affect on nature.
> agile has killed the happiness...meetings...rituals...meta-work...not actual productivity.

All of that isn't actual agile. It's Fauxgile and has nothing to do with what agile is about, which is about removing impediments to productivity, removing meetings (why were there standups? Because they shouldn't exist in the first place, and if you absolutely positively can't avoid them then at least make them as short as possible by making everyone as uncomfortable as they should be) and laser-focusing on actual productivity.

> (If agile is done well though it can be amazing but that's another topic to me)

Yes. I would phrase it as: if agile is actually done.
I like mchurch, and I think he'll be safe from AI, since the context window needs to increase exponentially in size in order to accommodate an mchurch-style doorstopper.
> I find it hard to take this seriously.

Having trouble taking a David Brooks opinion piece seriously is…not a bad sign.
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That's internet since ~2010, the brightest minds of the world are all busy finding ways to show you ads and/or collect data about you to show you "better" ads.
I think it's bad in more than one perspective. For me it was the Space Politruks unsubtly added to the story without any plot value.
> it would easily receive the maximum score a 5, particularly given the fact that the AP graders do not pay any attention to whether or not the content of the answer is accurate or true

I'm not familiar with the US education system. Is that last point true, or sarcasm?
Why isn't firefox with uBlock the defacto standard on Android ? I can't use YT / Google without this combination. Although extensions are not supported on iPhone so this could be why it's not more generally used.