skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For those wondering how on earth they are getting decent results from a RNN without long range forgetting, I don't really know either!

But they reference https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.14103 and the bottom section of https://github.com/BlinkDL/RWKV-LM has an explainer.
Douglas Adams' biscuit story: http://www.math.toronto.edu/beni/bERNARDO_nOT_fOUND/fUNNY_sT....
On the topic of calm games... there's one on my mind that I played years ago on PC but I forgot the name.

It's a very simple but gorgeous 2d top-down "strategy" game. It has calming music and a soft colour pallet.

You control these flying boids/bird things by ordering them to conquer other "planets". The goal of the game is to conquer all planets on the map, with progressively more difficult stages.

Each planet you own periodically spawns more "boids". Every planet has a number which describes the amount of boids on the planet.

The only actions given by the player are orders to move boids from one planet to another. If the destination planet is an enemy planet, the boids will attack. If the destination planet is friendly, the boids will combine in forces. If an enemy planet's boid number drops down to 0, it then becomes a friendly planet.

Planets have trees that sprout, and the boids are like leaves that sprout from the trees.

I think once you beat the game you unlock a dark mode.

Does this game ring a bell to anyone? I now want to play it really badly again :)
Absolutely agree. It's chaotic, but the reason Musk owns all of these big companies was because of luck and financial prowess, not any talent for management.
The Steam Deck wasn’t born ready, but it’s ready now
This is a remarkably good take that just didn't dawn on me until I read your comment. Even if ChatGPT had a lesser quality than the current iteration, the fact that they had a way for anyone to easily interact with it really was a homerun, snd can be for any software, really.
They also did reinforcement learning on top of a frozen trained model. It is considerably more than just attaching a UI as that would just finish sentences compared to answering questions. https://huggingface.co/blog/rlhf
That's just humanity being parasites. Apparently the only possible growth we can come up with is population increase.
No. ChatGPT’s UI is incredibly simple and basically exactly what ever chat bot test repl looks like.

The delta of GPT3 -> ChatGPT is from the expanded context and control the model offers through fine tuning. Eg read the instructgpt paper to see the path on the way to ChatGPT.
A company with thousands of employees and the CEO is micromanaging developers.

I do not think that the problem is empathy.

It's about not understanding his role in the company. It's about not understanding collaboration, team work or leadership.

He does lack empathy, thou.
> Why would one prefer to add sudoedit X to sudoers rather than updating file access privileges of X directly?

Permission complications.

Software may run as user:group, but you don't want to add humans to either, and so you allow them to edit a few files as that user or group from their own account (which also gives you auditing of changes). Some software insists on files (directories) have certain permissions so you're stuff with them.

Or you want a centralized place for permissions, so you put these sudoedit entries in LDAP which can be accessed anywhere in you network, and so you don't have to keep track of individual file permissions on a gazillion systems.
Use a Real Notebook
The point of a summarization model is if you have a thousand line change, it helps to have a one sentence explanation of what it is. The demo videos the author used here really don't do a good job communicating that, because the summary GPT-3 wrote for his one line commit was longer than the commit itself.
Polyethylene is (CH2)n, where n is in the thousands or so, or 2.00 H per C. An octane (e.g., for gasoline) would be C8H18, or 2.25 H per C. Smaller-chain molecules are even higher H/C ratio.

So even polyethylene is short about .25 H per C.
teleochemistry
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The writing is on the wall though, Apple is going to have to let other app stores exist. I think the EU said so already, and I would bet the Brussels effect will make this happen elsewhere.
It's not just the UI. ChatGPT (which is further finetuned and uses RLHF) definitely produces better output than GPT3, especially without prompt engineering.
Very neat code and somewhat legible for a non-Pascal speaker.

Curiously, it doesn't credit authors in the headers as I've seen in sources from the same period.

I also wonder how much of the core OS code made it into Macintosh System 1.

Also, nice styling here: http://revontulet.org/2023/01/19/lisadesk.png. They didn't have to do ASCII art in the comments but they did!
Your idea behind the personal computer unfortunately no longer exists outside of the world of FOSS.

A device with a proprietary OS is now not really yours. It's something that you depend on for access to essential services and which you got for a deeply discounted price in exchange for giving up control, personal information, privacy and access to your eyes and ears by advertisers.
All of the crypto companies have had layoffs since the crash.
The big exchanges are downsizing- but obviously there's still some money in it.
I've often wanted to extend the https://selectorgadget.com algorithm to be able to do find & replace on code ASTs, instead of the DOM tree.

It'd be pretty cool to be able to find-by-example, selecting snippets of code and having the algorithm tell you what they all have in common.
You seem to know a lot about the economics of being an indie app developer and consulting firm. You should share more about how much cash they must be rolling in.
It shouldn’t be a question that tedunangst should even have to ask, given that he has had a chip on his shoulder about Rust and its safety guarantees for years and thus should have learned that much about it by now.
Sudo basically has an ACL-like system where you can specify exactly which users/groups can execute which commands as root. So you can say user foo can execute commands X, Y, and Z as root and user bar can execute commands W, Y, and Z as root, and neither user can use sudo to execute any other command as root. The ACL system isn't for sudoedit specifically, it's a general feature of sudo.

As to why you can't just update access privileges of the file, for most use cases you probably could do that. If you need something more complicated though you'll have to use some terrible ACL implementation like the one in sudo or Posix file ACLs.
Everything search is incredible, for me it serves nearly instant searches for 15TB+ of data without any trouble. I think the secret sauce is a background service which continuously updates the file index.

I also like WinDirStat a lot for Windows file management, which is not really for search but gives a great view of disk usage.
I don't really ever want to read answers from GPT to questions that I didn't knowingly myself ask GPT. If GPT can write a commit message from you, don't write it at all and let me ask it that if that's what I want. It may be a positive to you to spend a few seconds less on commit messages but it's a net negative for the world for it to become polluted with vast amounts of flatly incorrect text with no knowledge as to its provenance. I'd rather have no commit message than one that I can't trust whether it's written by the same human that wrote the code or not.

Put another way, you asking GPT for stuff that it learned from Stack Overflow: good. Using it to post to Stack Overflow: bad.
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1991 video of the HCIL touchscreen toggle switches (University of Maryland)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFWbdxicvK0

This early research at the Human-Computer Interaction Lab shows six different touchscreen based toggle switches allowing the control of two state devices. The user interfaces, ranging from button to sliders and rocker. The designs that require a sliding motion are safer to use when inadvertent change cause problems (which explains why devices such as the iPhone use a slider to unlock the phone). For more information see http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/touchscreens

Don Hopkins and pie menus in ~ Spring 1989 on a Sun Workstation, running the NEWS operating system.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Fne3j7cWzg

After an 1991 intro by Ben Shneiderman we see the older 1989 demo by Don Hopkins showing many examples of pie menus on a Sun Workstation, running the NEWS operating system.
This is work done at the Human-Computer Interaction Lab at the University of Maryland.

A pie menu is a menu technique where the items are placed along the circumference of a circle at equal radial distance from the center. Several examples are demonstrated on a Sun running NeWS window system, including the use of pie menus and gestures for window management, the simultaneous entry of 2 arguments (by using angle and distance from the center), scrollable pie menus, precision pie menus, etc. We can see that gestures were possible (with what Don call "mouse ahead" ) so you could make menu selections without even displaying the menu. Don uses an artifact he calls "mousee" so we can see what he is doing but that extra display was only used for the video, i.e. as a user you could make selections with gestures without the menu ever appearing, but the description of those more advanced features was never published.

Pretty advance for 1989... i.e. life before the Web, when mice were just starting to spread, and you could graduate from the CS department without ever even using one.

This video was published in the 1991 HCIL video but the demo itself - and recording of the video - dates back to 1989 at least, as pictures appear in the handout of the May 1989 HCIL annual Open House.

The original Pie Menu paper is Callahan, J., Hopkins, D., Weiser, M., Shneiderman, B., An empirical comparison of pie vs. linear menus
Proc. ACM CHI '88 (Washington, DC) 95-100.
Also Sparks of Innovation in Human-Computer Interaction, Shneiderman, B., Ed., Ablex (June 1993) 79-88.
A later paper mentions some of the more advanced features in an history of the HyperTies system: Shneiderman, B., Plaisant, C., Botafogo, R., Hopkins, D., Weiland, W., Designing to facilitate browsing: a look back at the Hyperties work station browser Hypermedia, vol. 3, 2 (1991)101-117.

PS: For another fun historic video showing very early embedded graphical links (may be the 1st such link) + revealing all the links/menu items + gestures for page navigation

HCIL Demo - HyperTIES Browsing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZi4gUjaGAM

Demo of NeWS based HyperTIES authoring tool, by Don Hopkins, at the University of Maryland Human Computer Interaction Lab.
Nice work !

So The OP said here that this is based on a “semantic” enhancing of an (already rich) 35k tracks DB.

Music platforms in general do not allow people to describe/annotate tracks verbally (people would love to "let it out" !). The day they will decide to implement an NLP search similar to this, for up to 100 million tracks [1], they will regret it.

Album reviews is the only "semantically rich" AND "widely used" music description I can think of.

Last.fm has some interesting data on the finer track level (wiki, comments, tags), but it could have been way, way richer

[1] https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2022/10/celebrating-100-milli...
It _is_ practical for cars, but a similar technology is easier and better: Exhaust Gas Recirculation.

The problem of water injection is engine corrosion and system maintenance. EGR further improves the exhaust gas composition by burning the CO and similar not fully oxidized parts. The main effect is the same, i.e. providing some inert material that expands after detonation using up the heat.
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Ask HN: What uses have you found for ChatGPT?
I'm still working on a document for my goals and areas to work on for the following year and beyond.

I've found ChatGPT amazingly helpful in rewording goals and in general anything I am writing in the document for guidance.

Yes, it takes some rewriting on my part as well, but overall the net result is much better than just me writing alone.

What has everyone else used it for?
My guess is the combination of sort of sped-up audio and video plus lighting that is too even and "perfect", and the random blinks that don't seem to correspond to a regular human's average intervals (seriously, go look at it consciously, it's very weird) combine to land it straight in the uncanny valley.
Indeed, as someone who is Indian but not vegan or vegetarian, my meals during the weekdays are meatfree and usually vegan as well. This is not by conscious choice, the recipes are simply made that way. I suppose back in the day where meat was expensive, as you mentioned, so people made vegetable based meals and that's what stuck. During the weekends with family gathered, people eat meat, just as I do too on weekends. It becomes a sort of mini feast every weekend.

In the US, it often puzzles me to hear that some people actually don't consider a meatless meal a meal at all, as if they have to eat meat for all three meals of the day. That is unknown to Indians, generally speaking.
Considering Musk fired all the engineers working on accessibility, I don't expect the official app to improve for the better anytime soon.
I think it is your place, because it's your time being taken by people asking questions. It's an often a thankless job people do because they want to help. If you think you might be doing more harm than good by "just answering the question" you're not helping anymore, which then somewhat defeats the purpose many people are doing it. But really, the simpler reason is that, if your helping out others, your giving them your time, so they should respect it, so answering some questions while getting help is part of that respect.
Will acoustID continue to be viable? https://acoustid.org/
The Radium Girls were female factory workers who contracted radiation poisoning from painting watch dials with self-luminous paint.

After being told that the paint was harmless, ... instructed to "point" their brushes on their lips in order to give them a fine tip... The women were instructed to point their brushes in this way because using rags or a water rinse caused them to use more time and material, as the paint was made from powdered radium, gum arabic and water. ... The right of individual workers to sue for damages from corporations due to labor abuse was established as a result of the Radium Girls case.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radium_Girls
The idea of improving quality and relevance of simulations with machine learning makes a lot of sense to me and seems like it might help to avoid some of the problems that so called AI can have where they draw dramatically incorrect conclusions from large but flawed data sets. At the same time it seems like these technologies could be used to jump to completely bizarre conclusions that quickly become contaminated with imperfections, distortions, and other analysis about data. In a way it seems like this is starting to duplicate problems humans have with the irregular borders between brilliance and madness.
You write about application of the a law. I write about attitudes, observations, and actual history.
Elementary Differential Equations by Boyce and DiPrima

I'm not sure I'd say that it made me significantly better at math, but I keep coming back to it time and again, and usually via very different paths.
Don’t understand the appeal at all. My parents had some sort of stone countertop put in (marble, I think, it’s def. not granite). It’s loud, echoey, and easily damaged.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eufloria ?
This is mostly correct. GPT3.5 is better, has a larger context window, etc. But it's a very incremental step above GPT3.

I had wired up GPT3 to a Twilio phone number and made something basically like ChatGPT months before ChatGPT was released -- me and my friends texted it all the time to get information, similar to how people use ChatGPT. The prompt to get decent performance is super simple. Just something like:

The following is a transcript between a human and a helpful AI assistant.
The AI assistant is knowledgeable about most facts of the world and provides concise answers to questions.

Transcript:
{splice in the last 30 messages of the conversation}

The next thing the assistant says is:

Over time I did upgrade the prompt a bit to improve performance for specific kinds of queries, but nothing crazy.

Cost me $10-20/mo to run for the low/moderate use by me and a few friends.

Interestingly, for people who didn't know its limitations / how to break it, it was basically passing the turing test. ChatGPT is inhumanly wordy, whereas GPT3 can actually be much more concise when prompted to do so. If, instead of prompting it that it is an AI assistant, you prompt it that it is a close friend with XYZ personality traits, it does a very good job of carrying on a light SMS conversation.
Most people probably don't know the difference. That doesn't make them stupid or uneducated, it just means they're probably not familiar with graphic design (why would they be?).

The author is merely defending his choice to use the more familiar term against pedants.
Reddit has learned a lasting lesson from Digg's self-destruct, that's why old.reddit.com is still around too. It's been over a decade so they might be starting to forget but perhaps the Twitter meltdown will be a good refresher. Don't piss off your core userbase.
Why has Twitter shut down the API?

Is it because third party clients don't show adverts and it is feeling the pinch?

Or for some other reason?
Wow!! yes!! that is it, thank you so much <3
The headline is grossly misleading. The new draft makes only some parts of the current OGL 1.0a-licensed System Reference Document, which is already a subset of published rules, licensed under Creative Commons BY. Broke it down in the other post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34446552

WotC still reserves most of the SRD's content, including all classes, spells, magic items, races, creatures, nearly all feats, and deities (including the narrow text used to describe mechanical usage of some real-world pantheons), for the new OGL. It doesn't CC-license anything not in the SRD, so character creation rules aren't included. It still tries to deauthorize the old OGL, but only for future works. It still explicitly prohibits common VTT features, like having animations that visually depict spell effects.
I wish the US would start writing dates in a sensible way!

Looks like standard big-endian notation to me.
Slavery? I take extreme pains to keep them warm, happy, feed and hydrated at any time. My cells live better than me.
As long as crypto is touted as "investment", this is bound to happen.

Crypto isn't about mining anymore.
I left it unspecified as I thought it was obvious it was to distract from allowing states to make it a crime to terminate a pregnancy in all cases.
For my tastes, Strang's Linear Algebra book is a winner!

I'm somewhat surprised the nobody has mentioned it yet...
> their chicken pieces were always just bones with tiny bits of meat here and there, mutton was worse than chewing gum

This is strange, maybe they were exceptionally poor but generally speaking, the chicken or mutton in India is not just bones and definitely is not the texture of chewing gum. Now I don't know what they were doing wrong cooking that mutton but every time I've made it, it comes out incredibly, it melts in one's mouth. I hope you reconsider Indian meat dishes.

I agree on the vegetarian dishes, I mainly eat those during the week, but we get meat on the weekends.
You're correct but sudoedit itself needs to parse the file list to know which files to copy to temporary files as you describe. So in this case you're tricking sudoedit into thinking you want to edit a different file than the one specified originally on the command line.
The latter. I knew a guy who used to steal a neighbour’s car to run weed across state lines between the pet stores that ran the show. He made more than enough to fill it up, which he did, religiously, as he felt it was bad karma not to - he usually did it one village over. Dude even got the thing valeted one time, although that was because one of the aquariums sloshed.

I honestly wouldn’t be surprised if it was something similar - I know that the whole setup was something his boss at the pet store had devised, including the “treat the car nice, fill it up” thing, so I’d wager this was maybe a Thing.

Unless OP’s aunt lived in Chicagoland, in which case it’s maybe a more specific Thing.
And somehow I don't think accessibility in the official Twitter app is about to get any better, having fired their accessibility team

https://twitter.com/owswills/status/1588625105101664256
Lol, relax. I think there's a thc gummi bear somewhere with your name on it.
Google Wave primarily failed because:

1. Performance was never more than tolerable

2. Invite only access

3. Invites didn't go out immediately, just added people to a pool of potential future invites

A product that required the network effect of a large connected userbase to succeed only had random individuals with access. Literally no one I invited and would have used it with got in, and I was in one of the first couple batches of public users to get access. A spectacular self-own on Google's part with that rollout.
I'm quite certain the developer agreement has a "can be revoked at any time, for any reason" clause.

edit:

> Twitter may immediately terminate or suspend this Agreement, any rights granted herein, and/or your license to the Licensed Materials, at its sole discretion at any time, for any reason by providing notice to you.

Only possible wiggle room is they didn't do the "providing notice" bit.
So in context, they ask if you've been arrested, you say no. But this is because you characterize an incident as unlawful, while others characterize it as a lawful arrest.
Cambrian Governance: The Internet Transition
It does seem like an interesting device to me, i'm looking at some way of gaming in the future now Stadia has closed down and i'm bummed about that.

My experience with Geforce now hasn't been positive and i don't play enough for a subscription to be a good idea.

I'm not sure how much headheld matters to me though, but i'm certainly keeping an eye on it in the future, particularly as I'm a big fan of the Mac platform for a personal computer, which isn't great for gaming, I currently have a 2015 iMac with a m395x chip that can boot into Windows and it runs games quite nicely.

But i can see a future steam deck might end up being my gaming platform of choice when I have to jump over to the apple silicon Mac's, hopefully future versions will be a bit more powerful when docked.

It will also be intreasting what Nintendo comes up with in response and as an upgrade to the ageing Switch 2.
Ahh! So it is possible, just need a nuclear reaction!
I tried Google Books and I didn't come up with anything. Could you link that, please?
I’m aware tax write offs don’t save money if that’s what you’re asking.

> Should we instead shame companies

Companies obviously exist for profit, but companies at the size of Amazon can take the view that doing good things is genuinely good for business on a level deeper than quick PR (creates company alignment, healthier economy).

PR is a competitive, zero-sum game.

> Should we instead shame…

Yeah. This isn’t a purity test for a company who’s genuinely trying to change things for the better. This is shaming using charity to launder human rights abuses, dishonest business practices, anticompetitive behavior and win favor with politicians.