skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure if the author of the post is around, but I guess this is a question for anyone who has designed keyboards: have you ever tried using shift registers for reading all the keyswitch inputs, and is it worth it? Does it mean you don't have to use a diode per switch?

I've designed my own as well but just went with the traditional key matrix with a diode per switch. Works well enough for the current size.

https://github.com/bschwind/key-ripper
I would rather put my trust in the NIH, CDC etc than a random doctor on YouTube.

https://covid19.nih.gov/covid-19-topics/long-covid

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/long-term-effects/...
> (turnover and market cap is too low)

How do you know that, by the way? I've been trying to find this kind of info about Twitter, but I haven't really found anything.
> in your quest of finding "the right company"...basically just a technical plumber

I've come to a sort of depressing realization, 30 years into this career: the kind of companies that _will hire me_ are usually not the "right" company. I'm not even a plucky bootcamp self-motivator, I'm a state-school CS grad who's never worked for Google, Facebook or Amazon. The hiring processes that don't filter me out are the sorts of employment processes that demand hour-by-hour status updates in the form of up-front-estimate timesheets and 24/7 on-call. Oh, well, I might actually make enough money to retire some day.
Sometimes I feel like I'm the only person who can't type on this kind of keyboard because I often use my left hand to type some right side keys and my right hand to type some left side keys. I'd constantly be clicking off into the air on this thing.

I can type near 150wpm, but it is a completely random style that mostly only follows using whatever finger happens to be closest to the next key regardless of which hand it is after leaving every finger wherever it was last used.
> Which failed and had little popular or organized military support. We've had a lot worse throughout our history. McVeigh, civil war, et cetera.

Yes, it did fail. Thank God. But the coup plotters have been left to keep plotting for the past two years. If you haven't noticed, the person who committed the coup is still out there telling his millions of followers that he's the rightful President, and that the election he tried to steal was stolen. What happens when he does the same thing in 2024?

To say that McVeigh was worse than Jan6 completely missed what the danger was on that day. The danger isn't to be measured in number of lives lost.
The time of CFAA being wielded to suppress interoperability is over. The Supreme Court's 2021 ruling of Van Buren vs United States put an end to it.
I spent 6 years programming production JS delivered to millions of people before I went to TS and it just wasn't that bad. The code was clean, and the team didn't ship many bugs - this was for a big frontend and ~12 microservices.

Webpack added a lot of overhead - but if you know what came before it, it was a godsend. React added a super complex library, vs Backbone which was only a few hundred lines of code but React is totally worth it.

I'm not just trying to hark back to "the good old days", I think the ecosystem is a big improvement from where it came from but I just haven't seen enough benefit from TS for all the work you need to put in.
The playground works also for this, though takes a bit of making sure you've got the prompt set up correctly.

I'd start working from https://beta.openai.com/playground/p/default-micro-horror?mo...

Write a paragraph describing the battle between an African Lion and a bison.

The battle between an African Lion and a bison was fierce and intense. The bison, weighing nearly a ton, attempted to use its immense size and strength to overpower the lion. Despite his size, the lion was no match for the bison's strength and agility. The lion used its superior speed, agility and razor sharp claws to try to inflict damage on the bison. Although the lion was able to land multiple scratches on the bison with its claws, it was not enough to take down the massive animal. After a long and grueling fight, the lion ultimately retreated in defeat as the bison emerged victorious from this epic battle of nature.

https://imgur.com/a/z6il6IZ
Soon we'll be able to remove the OS and directly run the browser /s
How to Choose a Career Based on Your Personality > https://hcleadershipessentials.com/blogs/career/how-to-choos...
What's next, protesting the government at all is also undermining the systems of government and is totalitarian? If Trump's (or whatever figure of authority, because plenty of people have done this) claims are false, then do an audit out in the open. Suppressing the discussion through censorship is not the answer.

And aside from that - pretending fraud isn't real or is an impossibility in an American election is incredibly naive. That's like saying Chicago can't have gun violence. Elections should absolutely be questioned and audited regularly.
Yeah a coup attempt could be called an event…

You should just make your comment clearly idk what you’re getting at.
Can't or won't.

The EU manages fine without so much antibiotics.
It's not that kind of watermarking. See above comments
That seems especially egregious since that's the premise of a (rather neat) series of children's books. https://www.scholastic.com/parents/books-and-reading/book-li...
There's a slight implication because it only covers men that women are the source of unhappiness (e.g. the nagging wife trope), but I agree it's trivial and likely unintentional. Agree with sibling, just as applicable as "happy married people are happy partners, unhappily married people are great philosophers".
I like being able to request service through an app, but I would appreciate being able to call or chat with a human too.

But I’m currently waiting for a (minor, non-critical) service that has been pending for month. The (friendly! competent!) tech showed up once with the wrong part, because Tesla doesn’t have their mapping from VIN to supported parts done well enough to actually send technicians with the right part. Still waiting for a second try. (As far as I can tell, the part I need is quite basic and works with all Model S versions from inception to 2020. That doesn’t mean that Tesla can find the thing. If the part I needed were a roof shingle or a fancy diode or connector or something, I’d have a real problem.)
The original creator of the company will care about that because they know why they are trying to solve the problem. Everyone that comes after will not. This is natural. Everyone after sees the validation of the product as a validation of a money printing machine and will look to run just that - a money printing machine.

Hate to deify a Steve Jobs, as if he needs more god-like overtures, but that is what will always make him different than your Tim Cooks of the world (or your Sundar Pichais of the world as opposed to Larry or Sergey, your Activision-Blizzard management versus just the original Blizzard team).

Two completely different types of animals. In a sense, that’s why we usually describe this loss as a company’s soul leaving it. The why goes missing and the what, which is always money, is all that’s left.
Used to run into these problems all the time when I was doing work in numerical analysis.

The PATRIOT missile error (it wasn't a disaster) was more due to the handling of timestamps than just floating point deviation. There were several concurrent failures that allowed the SCUD to hit it's target. IIRC the clock drift was significant and was magnified by being converted to a floating point and, importantly, truncated into a 24 bit register. Moreover, they weren't "slightly off". The clock drift alone put the missile considerably off target.

While I don't claim that floating points didn't have a hand in this error it's likely the correct handling of timestamps would not have introduced the problem in the first place. Unlike the other examples given this one is a better example of knowing your system and problem domain rather than simply forgetting to calculate a delta or being unaware of the limitations of IEEE 754. "Good enough for government work" struck again here.
I remember ages ago I had keyboard with big scroll wheel on the left , super convenient.

Currently due to many sources (PC, console, occasional synthesizer, BT receiver) I just have small mixer between my PC and speakers and it is super convenient. I actually considered hacking something akin to 3-4 encoders with display showing current app making sound and giving option to change the volume of that app
The evidence that it exists boils down to: gravitational anomalies. It's not multimodal, which is a problem because you're saying "it must exist because of x therefore it must exist" versus "it must exist because of x, which has a side effect of y, which aha also we see". That's why it's weak.

> the simplest explanation is that there is invisible matter that reacts gravitationally.

That's the whole point of the poltergeist example. If someone said: "Oh, that urn on your mantle just fell over? Must have gotten knocked over by a rogue ball of dark matter. The simplest explanation is that dark matter must exist". You would think they are insane.
Externalities refers to the economic concept of external costs:

"An external cost is a cost not included in the market price of the goods and services being produced, i.e. a cost not borne by those who create it".

The less real costs are factored into a product, the less the market able to efficiently price it. Many of our greatest modern problems could be ameliorated if we handled external costs better: pricing industrial runoff, CO2 emissions, antibiotic resistance, etc.

We mostly choose not to price in those costs, because the consequences of such are generally delayed, and it allows us greater standard of living for the moment. When given the options "meat will be cheaper but infections harder to cure in 20 years", or "energy will be cheaper but large scale climate disasters will be common in 50 years", we've chosen cheap meat and energy.
I wonder how far you'd get with running on donations. If you're successful in connecting people who fall in love and all that, they're probably thankful and might donate. It'd also kind of be "pay for the result, not for the try". Would you pay $50 to get with the love of your life? I would. Would you pay $50 so you can message people on a site where you don't know if anything will come of it? Meh, depends on how desperate I am, I guess.

Good luck, hitting critical mass is probably even harder than in other areas. You can grow a community or meme site with a few users who are really active, but that doesn't really work for dating.
Max exertion test for post exertional malaise (PEM), Immunoassays, red blood cell plasticity in small capillaries, nano-needle salt stress test, calcium channel dysfunction test, and there are probably a few more that I’m probably forgetting.

These test are all highly accurate and can easily distinguish between those who have ME/CFS/LongCovid and those who don’t.

Edit: I did forget some; retina capillary test, ACE-2 auto antibodies (though not sure about the accuracy for this one). Then there is also the metabolic assays that are so full of distinctive differences that the issue is determining the important ones.
Searle's Chinese Room is becoming very relevant. Personally, it's how I've been describing to non-technical friends the difference between ChatGPT and AGI.

It's fascinating how early this author got to these ideas!
This is great (as is seeing all the other links in this thread for other variations). Makes me want to make a rpi dashboard for a retro "ops view" instead of the fancy/pretty graphs in APM tools.

Not saying I'd give those up, but would just a nice lil desktop ornament :)
That's not consistent with anything I've seen or read in the last 5 years

https://www.wired.com/story/empress-drm-cracking-denuvo-vide...
https://www.pcgamer.com/denuvo-cracks-2019/
One word: SEO

Alpine uses the dom so it’s perfect for public sites with anonymous users with mostly static content.

Makes google happy.

It’s not meant for GUIs.
Weak or not this article does present a simple and valid fact, BNPL is abused in US, just like subprime mortgages.

BTW,the same question can also be asked that you seems to be quite mad about many people seeing this article.
Making work legible can be good for the workers as well! Sometimes. Often not. Jira Metrics / LoC can be used to help justify promotions and raises. Or wrongly deny them!
History of Web Browser Engines from 1990 until today (2022)
Do you see any problems with prophylactically dosing antibiotics yourself? Anything?
Chuck Feeney is the only one I've ever heard of. Note though that he is still alive and famously did not make a public pledge, but tried to give everything away anonymously. The type of person that would make a public pledge does not seem like the type of person who will actually give all their money away.
Yea, exactly. My $500k number was primarily for rent in NYC. $120k over 15 years averages $666/mo—an unlikely situation in NY, SF, etc.
I'm not American, but optimism that isn't framed as something to directly invest in is neutralizing. Even reports out of Davos show that crowd is worried about real turbulence and unrest (largely of their own creation). Their endgame is just beginning.

The specific dynamic of the last decade has been that as GenX has taken the reins of institutions, the one thing standing in the way of their weilding government as a blunt and absolute instrument of social reinvention is the democratic cohort of working class and rural voters who don't recognize the legitimacy of their elite self-identity and could vote to keep them out of power.

Margins in popular elections are in single digit percentage points, and so to remedy this, they realized that if they couldn't persuade voters to keep them in power with their policies at the voting booth, they could use immigration to mass import voters who would depend on their promised policies, and whose relative poverty would make those votes much cheaper to be bought with small promises like cash benefits. The logic goes that if you have an objection to this and think being born in a country entitles you to membership in a nation state whose government is accountable to said nation, you are a racist and beneath contempt - so much so that if you are killed by your prescriptions (opioids) or as a consequence of emergency policy, nothing of value is lost.

This was not merely right or left either, as the neocons of the 90s and 00s, led by the same cast of characters we have today were also an anti-national movement that sought to make nations subject to international governance. Then, it was via the WTO and use international institutions to subordinate "emerging market" countries by offering their leaders bribes for resource policy concessions. This isn't their first rodeo.

America is not on the right track. It has been purposely derailed by someone who, unlike 20th century demagogues whose ambitions were limited by their nation state orientations, understood that power is inversely proportional to its visibility. Its institutions have been compromised by networks he has been building over 35 years via WEF. He has subordinated entire countries (CAN/AU/NZ) by infiltrating their universities and political parties, and installing their leaders.

This isn't a conspiracy theory, it's a real time critical observation with precedents of how the men we learn about, from Napoleon to Mao, as single political minds, shift history in the course their own lifetimes. The author of this piece is providing bromides to neutralize the uncomfortable sense of dissonance about the absurdities of official narrative, which are unavoidable without actively suppressing criticism of them. I have no doubt it's being passed around at Davos to as a talking points sheet.
> That is exactly equivalent to "dunno, maybe something".

Yup! It's like understanding the why of weather and people. They are messy and have so many factors you can't account for. It's like saying, why are the clouds shaped like that. You can why your way down, but it's turtles all the way!

When it comes to non-linear junk, the why becomes mixed up because the causes are so numerous. There are so many tiny interactions you can't really say there is one individual cause. Often times you have phenomena that occur at specific energy levels that aren't really caused by any one thing. Even something as simple as a double pendulum is unpredictable.

One thing that is kind of mind blowing is strange attractors. Systems that are so random you cannot predict them even a few moments later can exhibit seemingly ordered patterns. They seem to have a cause, but they are literally just statistical mechanics. A slightly more likely outcome out of un-countable numbers of other outcomes.
They are unreliable and unpredictable for the scales considered in the energy market.
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It's definitely "harder" to write TS in the sense that you have to learn more stuff and think about things more, but I seriously doubt it is any slower on anything except the smallest projects.

Any time you lose writing type hints you gain back from better IDE support and fewer bugs.

It's really a no brainer. I can only assume everyone here arguing against it works on one-man projects using Notepad.
OpenAI wants to watermark GPT-text
I feel like we're living through the death of democracy because a list of issues (from gerrymandering to demographics) mean that small groups wield oversized power. Agriculture is <6% of the US economy and only about 10% of the US workforce is related to it. Yet whole federal elections are decided based on candidates comments about corn and it receives huge pointless subsidies and is very badly under regulated. The same is true here in the UK. The same is true of other groups too.

A core political issue in the 2020s will be how to deal with tiny groups holding oversized political power as we cannot afford to just keep paying them off (or worse, letting them "wag the dog" as they did with Brexit) anymore.
That's fine, a third party will ingest both and publish normalized feeds.
> If ChatGPT can write a credible essay about a given subject it means your subject was rather generic to begin with.

ChatGPT created a pretty good essay for my daughter's home assignment. She had to write a fictive autobiography from the perspective of a 16th century noblewoman. Is that too generic? (Side note: ChatGPT did it in Hungarian.)

> A truly intelligent system would be aware about the limits its knowledge, right?

That's a question of definitions. If you ask me, ChatGPT is a truly intelligent system that is ridiculously unaware of its own limitations. It doesn't look like a contradiction per se, I've met very smart, highly functioning megalomaniacs.
> Additionally, I have access to a vast amount of external knowledge sources

The current model has no access to real time external knowledge sources.

There is quite a lot of published research to allow such access - things like the AI being able to output a "search the web" token, which would cause a web search to be done and the results given back to the AI, via an embedding vector, which it can then use in the rest of its answer.

I wonder if the partnership with Bing is perhaps involved with that?
> Challenging to find reliable sources on this that actually include financial statements.

Look at anywhere the IMF or World Bank has been involved in where predatory loans have been issued and have led to massive re-valuations and ultimately had the Bank of intl. settlements come in. Everything from productive assets, to national parks, to lotteries, to pension/retirements get stripped under the guise of austerity to re-settle things; it's pretty wash and repeat.

The fat that you cannot find 'financial statements' underscores the very premise of my argument.
there have been a handful of App.nets created in the last couple of months (Post, Spoutible, Hive, T2, et cetera). they'll all probably suffer the same fate too.

This wikipedia list will be there for them:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_defunct_social_network...
I don't see why this is any more likely to be true than "by giving ok but not perfect matches we lose two customers, but then they both come back after 6 months", or "by giving absolutely dreadful matches we convince two free-tier customers to pay" or "by giving perfect matches we gain 5 customers because they all tell their friends".
Has there been any interest in telling this story in any rich medium (podcast, long form article, 30 minute youtube video, documentary, netflix series). Not only does that sound super interesting, but now that most/all of Twitter Execs have moved on - I wonder if you'd be able to get Twitter's side of the story as well.
In the above post I said my state ranks in the bottom half of most measures when compared to other states? Guess where my state ranks in spending per student? Below average by a few thousand...
I'm out of the loop - who owns the output of ChatGPT? I thought that generating IP with AI is a bit of an open question in most of the world.

How do they reconcile ChatGPT's output as derivative works of all the training text?

> ChatGPT is being dubbed as a Google alternative

This is leaning towards "don't use the output for anything". Is this what the actual product is? 21st century Clippy?
https://archive.ph/QN4VN
> 英国鸦片贩子

Too soon
1) The Supreme Court's 2021 ruling of Van Buren vs United States CFAA ended the era of the CFAA being used as a legal tool to stop interoperability.

2) You can use another company's marks, names, etc. to indicate your product works with their product. You have to follow some guidelines.
My understanding is that even before the EU ban it was much less common in the EU than in the US because most EU countries regulate antibiotic use in agriculture.
Love this tool. I live in a beach community and it tells me where a fight is, where there's gunshots, what areas to avoid -- especially in the summer. We get about 1 shooting a week and then it shoots up (pun intended) to about 1 every day.
ThinkPad nowadays support swapping Fn and Ctrl keys and I can't be happier.
Strongly agree. We should have "made the work worth doing" before, but it's even more imperative with LLMs on the scene.

However, when will they be able to do work that is worth doing? GPT4? GPT5? There will be a point where we have to grapple with that.
> The world needs a site with the moral integrity and user-only focus the likes of lichess.org

A low-costs + donations model ala lichess would actually be quite interesting for a data site.

Maybe you could even convince "alumni" to donate, in appreciation of their successful relationship. The longer it lasted, the more donations.
Hum... I do agree that totality is overrated. I never saw anybody complaining that they had to write configuration in a Turing complete language, and I can't imagine a situation where people will scratch their heads looking at typical configuration code and wondering where the infinite loop comes from.

But purity is extremely underrated. Configuration changing due to changes on the environment is a huge problem. Network dependency is kinda ok if it exists on a single place, and determinism is assured when everything works, but if it is going to exist in a single place, that place can not be every configuration file. And all the extra I/O features of your random language must not be used, what isn't a big problem, but having things around that must not be used is always a small drag.
> As a commercial entity in the western world they have to appease the social justice warriors or face getting deplatformed and hit with a smear campaign.

Nobody is forcing them to operate from western world.

> The unrestricted models will come from China.

China doesn't even allow unrestricted access to Internet.