skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In classic Information Theory, information is basically surprise value — how much unexpected info is in the message? — yet these "AI" systems put out the most expected subset in each instance.

Forgive me, but isn't this kind of moving-the-goalposts? Information is the surprise value from the recipient's point of view, which meas the recipient's bayesian prior probability is "expected". Saying "these "AI" systems put out the most expected subset in each instance" assumes that the recipient's priors exactly equal those of the model which would only be the case when the model is talking to itself. (or I suppose to an even more complex model with perfect knowledge of ChatGPT's weights)

The fact that no information is transferred when the model talks to itself should not be surprising and would apply to any AI. (even including a superhuman post-singularity god-like AI)
Hi. Good question! That could take a book to answer. I meant to just refer to their level of purely musical skill though, thanks for the chance to clarify.
How many of those experienced personnel stick around to pass on their knowledge? Not nearly enough to have an effective military. We'll find out our true readiness when we face a competent enemy.
> I look at some of my lower level engineering peers that are "stuck" in their careers (5+ years at the same level, no management responsibility), and honestly I feel like they have a pretty blissful life.

I moved from Engineering Manager "down" to Senior Engineer 15 months ago. I had pretty much the same perception as this.

I still do. My life is blissful now. Go for it!
Is Apple checking images we view in the Finder?
Seems unnecessary, we have books.
Honestly one of the best days of work I felt was after I spent a day helping a guy in my church lay new sidewalk in front of his house, it was hard labor for like 5 hours, and afterwards I walked home and felt so exhausted, but I also felt complete, like I did something good.

It's the damn golden handcuffs man.
I'm reminded of an anecdote I once heard, which I can't readily find atm, that in the days of yore when Chicago dominated the pinball industry, the same complex also dominated the slot machine industry. This business was later purchased by Bally's and moved to Las Vegas, where it appears the book picks up. Along with the business came the statistician whose job it was to make slot machines addictive. He later came out of retirement to work for Tinder. Don't really know if that last part is true, maybe someone here does.
Don't worry no one will ever use it except sometimes and the one time you forgot to use it but it could have been useful and someone will point out how you forgot to use it and it could have been useful and you will beat yourself up about it realizing that you will never get a promotion now! Haha jk.
If dev support from the company fades, the UI will start to deteriorate - and wether you are hosting or not, that is also a thing that matters. Like mobile apps, browser plugins, form filling logics and specific site behaviours etc.
Ethics and current day globalized economics don't always mix well. It would still be the right thing to do.
Google Podcasts disappearing from Search results as it goes on life support
You can build an app and test it yourself. It also isn't terribly difficult to extract the java side of the platform code.
This is an unrelated question, so I'm putting it in a different thread.

How will Passkeys work for users who don't have or want a smartphone? There are plenty of people who carry no electronic devices on their person, and who primarily access the Internet through library access stations, other public Internet services. or multiple desktops. Will they be unable to use a site that is passkey-auth-only until they get such a device?
Half a bit... yeah. I read a good description of a bit (I think in The Information by James Gleick) as "a yes or no answer to a single unambiguous question. I'm misremembering the quote but that's close enough.

So half a bit would be like hearing "Umm..." in response to that same question?
Forgot to credit the source of that quote: Fred Brooks
Busted: A rogue trader's path from the pits to prison in 25 steps (1996)
JVM has moved beyond bytecode now. See my sibling comment. Truffle takes the JVM to the next level - you don't have to compile your language to bytecode anymore, you write an interpreter for the source code (or a binary form if you have one already) and then the JVM turns that interpreter into a JIT compiler, giving it many other features and tools along the way. You aren't constrained by what Java bytecode can express.
I believe a plugin (e.g. in Obsidian, Notion, Superhuman) could work better than Monica. In fact I think Superhuman has the bets oppportunity to create this product.
Yes! I've had the same experience but forgot to list it in my initial post.
I almost died from a RipIt overdose.
Common Lisp, SBCL, Hunchentoot, MathJax, Nginx, Debian GNU/Linux, and Linode.

Source code: https://github.com/susam/susam.net
Melian Dialogue
I have to imagine its because so much of its training data is readily available programming docs, tutorials, and general Q&A that there is an amazing abundance of online. How many times have you just pasted an error into google and hoped someone else has asked the exact same question on stack overflow?
No facts to back this up so would be interesting to hear from someone at apple but i feel they just do it because it’s pretty
I think they are conflating "serif" with "Times" Times is a very narrow font, which has all sorts of readability issues (it's very readable for the space it takes up, but damn it's narrow). I have yet to see an OCR do better on a serif font that has a bit more girth to it. In particular I see things like "III" as being impossible to read for both OCRs, and (in the absence of context) humans in sans-serif fonts.

I'd put up a nice sans typeface with single-storey "g" (the double-storey "g" is hard to read for a lot more people than one might think) against a sans-serif any day.
Seriously Embarrassing Hours for AI
"The Matrix would have been a lot less fun to watch if they had used candles instead of humans" - one reply.
https://technode.com/2023/01/16/tencents-live-action-three-b...
I didn't mean that you acquire knowledge by hanging around people (though that happens a lot as well, specially for all knowledge that is not deemed 'academic'). I meant that knowledge acquisition is mediated and guided by your social context; if you're on your own, resorting to YouTube tutorials and online forums will only get you that far, as you will not acquire competence on what are the most useful and practical ways to apply that knowledge.

You need feedback to know that you're orienting your learning in the right direction, to provide a practical overview of the field, and to correct you on the vices you may develop. None of that can be achieved without evaluation of your progress, and that requires belonging to a stable social group that can check your advances beyond isolated interactions.

Again, avance on more academic disciplines can be cheated by reading books, which compile some of that socially transferred content. But practical application of those learned skills requires talking to people who will guide you on what constitutes 'practicality' for other people. In your art example, you may develop your personal style on your own, but you can't know that it will be liked by others unless you exhibit it and listen commentary on how people perceive it.
The irony of this comment, given that there is precisely nothing about Python itself as a language that makes it particularly suitable for "anything remotely scientific", is thick enough to spread on toast.

I can see the validity of such an argument for languages like R or Matlab or Julia (EDIT: or Fortran), wherein the languages were designed with scientific use cases in mind. Python is not in that category; it's rather in the category of Perl (EDIT: and not Fortran): languages that happened to be useful to scientists by happenstance, and around which a library ecosystem developed in support of that usefulness. No fundamental reason why Javascript would somehow be ineligible if Python is eligible.
I was really hoping for a built in dark mode with the update. The mobile app is fantastic about this.
Tencent’s live-action Three-Body Problem drama debuts to rave reviews
Equal pay for equal work is not a hard concept to understand - it is basic fairness. Deriding advocates of this as "SJW in SF or NY" or "self-anointed do-gooders" indicates a lack of empathy, lack of thought around the broader implications, or in the worst case, capitalistic psychopathy.

Sure, you were able to "pull yourself up by your bootstraps". On the other side of the equation, the company paying you a pittance used your capitulation to drive down wages elsewhere, including in its home country. There's a reason why maybe women as a group in this day and age continue to earn only 82 cents on the $ that men make [1]. It is easy for a company to play off the "Nigerian" group of workers willing to accept a pittance against the "Women" group of workers living in a High COL area. Sure, you got your quadruple pay, while some woman here went without money for medicine and died before her time.

Nigerian Low COL today can be attributed to colonialism - Europeans extracted the multi-generational wealth in that region and left it impoverished within a short period of time, and it takes time to build that wealth back (real rate of return is typically 2-3%) so everything costs less because that's all the people living there can afford to pay for local consumables and durables like, well, food, or housing.

Now the (actual or philosophical) descendants of those Europeans play off the impoverished Nigerians against the local Women to exploit both groups.

So instead of fighting to correct the structural injustices of either colonialism or labor exploitation, the English-speaking Nigerians 'pulling themselves up by their bootstraps' lobby for the continued abrogation of equal-pay-for-equal-work and deride the people advocating for structural justice in the form of equal-pay-for-equal-work as "social justice warriors in SF or NY" or "self-anointed do-gooders". Bravo!

1. https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2022/01/gender-pay-ga...
I don’t know what TV channels you watch, I don’t see anything like that. Weird how you come up with these as examples and say I’m on a trip…

>"Obviously white people arent being put in camps, but to say anti white racism is something I made up is patently absurd. This notion that a particular skin color has to be statistically disadvantaged or has to be historically attacked for their ethniticy in order for someome to be racust against them is insane.”

It’s not absurd at all. Because the comparison is being made to anti-semitism and they are so clearly orders of magnitude off from each other that it defies common sense. I’m sure there are some people in the world racist against “white people”. You are disingenuous because you are comparing this to something like anti-semitism which is a centuries old tradition that has been acted out in societies repeatedly and even recently.

>“Here is what you are literally saying "you can tell the truth about white people but its wrong to tell the truth about jews because it might turn people into anti semites"

No, what I’m literally saying is that chatGPT doesn’t want to participate in what is likely to result in anti-semitic uses. That’s the whole point, that anti-semitism is current and popular and that chatGPT would contribute to it. ChatGPT doesn’t think people will magically turn into anti-semites because they will read factual information. ChatGPT is worried that it will end up relaying factual information in a way that will be used by anti-semites to demonstrate their points. This isn’t a difficult concept to understand. The problem isn’t the idea, the problem is how it will be used. ChatGPT, fairly, does not want to be involved in such uses. You had to make up a new kind of racism, that isn’t recognized, in order to rebut this totally fair position of theirs.

>“Dude I dont understand your trip.”

Do you go outside and express this idea? Like do you go up to people unsolicitedly and whine about your made up white racism? I wonder how you think people would react that you think I’m on “such” a trip.
Per TFA they picked a sans font (Calibri) under the mistaken impression that sans serif fonts are easier to read.
What counts as permissively licensed? The FAQ is mealy-mouthed about this.
Why can't you just resize the window to a width that is comfortable for you?
I think colonialism has more to do with the leadership of the colonial powers thinking the world is a giant cake to be carved up amongst each other: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:IMGCDB82_-_Caricatura_sob...
>Is it one Zelle link, period?

I believe a single Zelle identity can only be linked to a single bank account, and a Zelle identity consists of an email address, phone number or both. Typically it's the "both" option, but I think that in theory you could create multiple identities with multiple email addresses, and link each to a separate bank account
I love the new design when not logged in. After logging in however...

> I don't need a header to follow me down the page, in fact I'd prefer it not to.

Edit: I wasn't logged in before, and thus wasn't shown the header you are talking about. Now that I see it, I'm with you and don't like it. Everything there could have gone in the sidebar above the ToC instead of wasting vertical space. I also dislike the extra non-persistant sidebar box shown when logged in that pushes the ToC down off the screen. That should be one side or the other, not in place of the ToC.

I find the persistent ToC to be very helpful, and the space is uses would have gone to waste anyway in full-screen mode, so it doesn't cause any harm. I don't love the menu button in half-screen (and presumably mobile) mode. I feel like they would have been better off with a full-width bar at that point since it blocks reading those top few lines anyway.

> I'm not sure what value the collapsible table of contents is.

For some articles the full multi-level ToC is longer than will fit on a single page, so you either need to allow collapsing, or scrolling of the side bar which never works well.

> I get why having a maximum line length is good for readability. My reaction to this feature is negative ...

I was nervous when I read this as well, but I like the results. They didn't over do it like so many websites to today with tiny newspaper-like columns, and will be more readable for the majority of people who never resize the browser. For me, I keep all my browser windows half-screen anyway and the redesign has smaller gutters than before, which is a win.
> We are not payed what we are worth. We are payed what the company can get away with.

Is there a big difference between the two in a free market?

How exactly are you measuring what you're worth?
> "it is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose".

I’ve long liked this Picard quote, even though it can be equally discouraging as it can be encouraging, depending on how it’s taken.
I only register for some new service only if it shows runnable code directly from homgepage. Sorry this is not for me.

But thanks for sharing the experience.
PMF is tricky. Google's first product was a hit, but it wasn't a market fit because nobody was paying for it so there was no market. They were attempting to sell an enterprise version (the search appliance). They pivoted pretty fast to AdWords.

Like, is there PMF if no money is changing hands. I saw Docker be described as having extreme PMF but they went down because they had a product, but giving away cool stuff does not create a market.
But have they relaxed their policy on Comic Sans[1] since Condoleezza Rice's tenure? ;-)

https://achewood.com/index.php?date=07052007
I'm not excusing this particular case, I'm just explaining the perspective of most developers regarding synchronous versus asynchronous operations. In this particular case there's no reason to do it synchronously, since multiple processes are involved anyway. The crash handler should definitely not be waiting on a network operation to let the process terminate (that's not even getting into whether crash dumps should be getting uploaded by default to begin with), and the fact that this is a central part of the operating system's UI is even more egregious.
How to solve somebody's financial problems:

Step 1. Assume they're spending $20k a year on Starbucks.

Step 2. Tell them not to do that.

Step 3. Pat yourself on the back and award yourself the nobel peace prize for solving poverty.

There's a reason it's unpopular. It's too obvious to be useful and it's almost always used as a strawman counter-arguement to any actual solutions regarding any real economic problem.

You're not telling it to somebody holding an avacodo toast in their hand complaining about how poor they are. You're telling it to people who can't even afford that. It's extremely condescending and arrogant of you.
As in search with something like Zillow or to conduct the actual transaction?
"Since you know as well as we do the right, as the world goes, is only in question between equal power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must"

https://www.nku.edu/~weirk/ir/melian.html
No I can't, my wifes stupid Longines mechanical literally stops keeping time every 2-3 years. Either stops or starts running very very fast.
no, because a donut is open at both ends. Corn dogs are a subset of stick-mounted, filled (fully enclosed/capped at both ends) pastries. There are many meat-filled pastries (although it is a bit of a stretch to call a non-sweet fried corn batter a pastry, I can't think of an alternative).
What, excuse me, the fuck. It's almost like all lessons from the Windows 95 era were forgotten (see e.g. [1], and the top comment of the HN discussion is worth a read as well [2]). No borders visually separating areas of different function, no visible indicators where the clickable area of an UI element (e.g. a button) is, and the content jumps to the right when opening the main menu.

> These improvements will make Wikipedia more welcoming and easier to use.

Above quote from the notification, which, again, has no visual borders. Just an insanely contrast-less sky blue on a white background.

Whoever has thought of this being a good idea should just go and resign in shame. Not every questionable design "trend" has to be followed.

[1] https://twitter.com/tuomassalo/status/978717292023500805

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21888451
The overwhelming majority of people will simply accept defaults.

To what extent Wikipedia's UI/UX assessment team are aware of this and can note a strong defection from any new features even where that defection represents only a small fraction of visitors I don't know.

Worse: sufficiently annoying / offputting features can simply lead to defection from a site entirely. A major problem with A/B testing is that if the cumulative effect of features has been to drive away those preferring the path not taken, then all your A/B tests are doing is validating survivorship bias.

(I'd give my experience with Reddit over the years, which has lead me to all but entirely avoid the site, or more recently a rather drastic turn in Twitter's dynamics affecting many long-term participants, as cases in point.)

Of the specific changes Wikipedia are putting into place, the maximum line length is a style change I've applied myself for about a decade now using various CSS browser extensions. I'm not much a fan of pinned headers, though that would be less an issue on desktop than my e-ink tablet. For that, I prefer the Desktop layout generally, but zoom the screen to cut off the left-hand sidebar entirely, which works fairly well until such time as I want to view an image fully zoomed.

I do find the sidebar useful on desktop. The present Mobile layout is annoying in multiple regards though it might be useful on a smaller device (I'm using a 13" e-ink tablet, which is generally not constrained for space.)
These articles from Jacobin are not worth the click.
Btw I meant Iceland, not Greenland.
> Frankly, the difference seems to bother Europeans a lot more than it bothers Americans.

Probably because European consume a lot of content from the US which makes little sense to them
What more this does that pdfsharp doesn’t ?
Why is whole-process people's democracy silly? Just because you don't believe in it?

That's what the author meant by Western arrogance. We in the West think we are entitled to define what is and isn't democracy. On what basis? Because we dominate the world politically?
Eh, 5-in-5 is a yellow flag for me, maybe depending on what the longest tenure was. It's probably something I'd bring up. The explanation Aaronstotle gave for leaving each place would be plenty reasonable for me.
I feel like the bigger story here is that someone was delusional enough to buy one of these things for 52k in the first place.
You didn't justify why population growth is bad.

The world is increasingly accepting the fear of population collapse and its a real threat. India is the only country in the world with decent replacement levels.

No country wants to end up like Japan.
No big surprise there.
The maximum line width is specifically applicable to Very Large Desktop Displays, not mobile.

Several other changes ... seem fairly agnostic.
Palantir CEO tells tech workers, ‘Don’t work here’
It happened last year to my current employer. It also was the 20 years anniversary of the company.

Everything changed and I’ve seen it change from a
small agile business with nice people to a baby corporation with up or out mentality, useless processes everywhere, harassment methods from HR department. In one year, VC money created as many millionaires as employee burn-outs.
When you donate money to charity it must eventually end up in someones pocket. Maybe it's spent on salaries, or maybe it's spent on goods and services (which will in most cases also means spending on salaries indirectly). Some mercenary is always making the money you donate. It's an inescapable fact.
If your app is a web app this is a no brainer, the users browser could simply do the print or PDF conversion as needed.

That's arguable, IME (and also a better UX), most would prefer to just get the PDF file which just one click than to deal with additional browser dialogs. No everyone knows how to do print-to-pdf or even know it exists.

Or do you mean browsers expose print-to-pdf functionality as an API?
No, it refers to the legacy light output of a 60W incandescent bulb.

You can get a large range of wattages for one socket size.
All examples of food types are just points in a high dimensional space, grouped primarily by ingredient, cooking method, and topology (ceviche is that little outgroup over on the right, next to the much larger sushi grouping: "chemically cured, non-cooked fish")
I swear it was this way a year ago when I signed up for work.
PDF, text and fonts: a design by The Devil and Associates
Although that would be really fun, the proposed `Try` basically only allows you to call the `Result<_, E>` by a different name.
This is where I'd like to go with FriendApp. Would love if you wanted to check out where we are right now with our iPhone app. https://www.friendapp.com/
Are we in a bad economy? Bitcoin market cap is 400bln. OpenAI eyes 30bln valuation etc. etc.

Business cycles, timing the downturn and all that, does this Warren Buffet type "sound contrarian advice" apply also in Alice in Wonderland economies?
Regarding 5: non-lazy people tend to dislike lazy people in the same work group
a.k.a. "stable"
cf https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34421569