skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, “it” doesn’t have real thoughts. ChatGPT is an amazing language model, but it’s a serious error to claim that the model is sentient.

Each of the so-called interactions with the model are concatenated together for the next set of responses. It’s a clever illusion that you’re chatting with anything. You can imagine it being reloaded into RAM from scratch between each interaction. They don’t need to keep the model resident, and, in fact, you’re probably being load balanced between servers during a session.
You are being pedantic by virtue of even turning the conversation in this direction. Stop trolling.
ChatGPT is coming soon to the Azure OpenAI Service
> You being unhappy in your life does not mean that there is anything wrong with the world.

Right? London is a great city. If you can't enjoy it, maybe it's just not for you. Try a different one.
The idea that the community opposed this due to oppression status is appealing but likely untrue. The more realistic answer is that Mastodon is the largest cp network now, and records of posts are legally risky.
> Which is what's happening here

Not really. It’s saying increases competitive pressure results in a more-competitive output. That’s almost by definition true. Products of competition tend to be fitter than not. If ten fish of a rainbow of colors are introduced to an environment and only the red ones survive, they are fitter. If one looks at the surviving fish and concludes only red fish were introduced to the environment, that is survivorship bias.
The irony with your comment about the Wheel of Time is that the _book_ very nearly was canceled... the writer died after taking a very long time to finish what he did, but then Brandon Sanderson stepped in and finished the series after the original author's death.
well yes - but it has templates. And you can chose not to change those templates. And lots of sites dont change anything. Sure, a colour, sure a logo...but there was a period, and idk if I still notice it now or if im so numb to it that i dont - that seeing 3 big company statements in a row while scrolling made me groan in agony...
> This can destroy the potential creativity that was possible from the replaced humans within that specific trade.

You could argue the same from any introduction of technology that replaces humans. If the output of the machine is of sufficient quality to replace humans, then they should be replaced.

If the fear is that those displaced humans will no longer be useful, then society will need to subsidize their existence, or find a way to make use of those displaced humans (such as retraining). It is an unrelated problem to copyright, and copyright should not be used to ensure some group of humans do not get displaced.

> only copies or amalgamations of existing works.

Not that i agree with the premise of machines lacking creativity, but many of today's human created content is of such level as well.
IDEs are incredibly slow. Even the fastest IDEs.
My Linux prefers this mode, but I use ELILO & LILO.
Some wounds, emotional as well as physical, far from healing actually leave chronic and debilitating scars. The aphorism is far from "absolutely true."
If you could administer it from the phone, it would be possible for an enterprising child to remove those same restrictions on that device (how many stories have we heard of kids removing the parental control software from a computer?)

If you could administer it from the phone, it could be used to partially lock you out of your own device if done by a 3rd party (loan to a friend, and you get it back and you can't use any of the other things on it).

If you could administer it from the web, someone else on the web could use it to lock your out of your own device.

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Having one device owned by the parent managing another device owned by the child ensures that only the parent is managing the child's device and furthermore that only a set of devices that have been set up under the same Apple ID family can be administered.
You should encourage some property tax reforms in your area. The way it should work is that a budget is set, and then property owners are taxed to meet that budget. When done that way, the tax rate on your property will actually drop as its value increases, because the budget isn’t any bigger.

Where I live, the only time my property tax rises is when the budget is increased. (Unfortunately, the budget keeps on increasing, because city council keeps having bigger and bigger dreams. Oh, yay, I’m so glad we’re dropping $50M on another sports centre I’ll never use. Better upgrade the pool while we’re at it, it’s been an entire decade since we last spent a fortune on it!)
Wouldn’t it be ironic if the greatest threat to the grand old US of A turned out to be itself? We’ve spent decades trying to secure our nation against all threats, but it turns out we can destroy our nation quite nicely without the help from any outsiders.
Counterflow heat exchangers move the air past each other so that the input air hits the exhaust air in reverse order. The last spot the intake air touches is the first place the exhaust gas touches.
Not sure if this provides any insight to you, but FWIW my grandfather is not pissed off. He's one of the most easy-going, happy-go-lucky people I know. He doesn't really care a whole lot about the conflict, those are just his conclusions from what he's seen. And he has interests in life outside of what's covered on news programs, he just likes to keep up with the news, as do most normal people.

As to how anyone can trust the regime, if the only information you consume is what's curated by the regime, and if interesting-but-crtical views are not pushed forward, your thinking will be skewed. This is human nature.

I think this exchange between Lex Fridman and a girl who fled from North Korea is very interesting: https://youtu.be/usDqSEKDVsA?t=562
I have some extended family from Eastern European countries. It's just so unfortunate what happened. The road to hell, paved with good intentions. They're normal people stuck picking up the pieces of a failed regime. Even with some things being adjusted, it might take weeks to comfortably afford what a typical SDE could afford in an hour here.

No idea how people in the west romanticize it or say it was a good thing. I've even seen hostility directed towards Eastern Europeans living in the west (almost exclusively from radical college kids) joking about how they got what they deserved or anyone that ran from the USSR was a greedy business person and that the stories are made up.
7:37 I would like to know how bad that meat smelled to get her to make that noise.
Tesla doesn't sell meat, the meat is what's weighing down the front seat.
Ctrl/CMD + Z vs u

Ctrl/CMD + Y vs r

There’s a significant difference in speed. But more importantly, the former requires RSI inducing finger gymnastics, whereas the latter is a tap of a fingertip.

The much faster speed but more importantly less complicated chords/key taps in VIM, leads to a qualitatively different editing/reading experience.
It's not a right of the machine we're talking about, but the rights of the copyright holder that is purporting to claim that ML models trained with their works is a derivative of their works, and thus can claim copyright over the ML model.

I do not believe such rights exist under current copyright laws. Others argue that it does (or ought to exist).
> call it a rat race because... you think you deserve to earn even more money and get more recognition?

Where did this come from? It wasn't in the linked article.
> What happened? Well, if you’re an elite lawyer in the modern age, you probably command a large team of lower-tier lawyers, cheap paralegals, and so on, who are very good at using the Internet to look up case law and draft your opinions and so on.

This already happened to programmers. We call these elites some version of tech lead or staff engineer. Maybe even principal, but that feels different still.
Yup, this is the confusing thing about Windows 11. The requirements for upgrades and fresh installs are different so upgrading will work but installing from scratch on the same machine may fail.

I think MS deliberately chose to let users upgrade from Win10 without secure boot because too many PCs have it disabled by default, and your average user cannot be expected to go into their UEFI security options to resolve that. The secure boot requirement is mostly intended for vendors AFAIK, requiring them to turn it on by default (and leaving it up to the user to disable it) so Windows 11 can make use of the additional security features out of the box.
3D Printing: Does PLA get brittle over time?
You’re not wrong, but on the other hand, every C compiler I’ve used for the past 25 years has at least a warning you can enable for that. And you can easily add some attribute to custom functions that make use of *printf() functions under the hood to get those also type checked by the compiler. In practice that’s been good enough for me (and catches exactly the type of error you describe).
Trend of Breached Password Managers
Thanks for testing this, Gigachad!

At this point I will just stop commenting on this post as it seems like either Apple already fixed this or some of the most critical information has been omitted by the author. So we are just guessing and raging for no reason.
>Let's put it another way. If someone says the France sucks, Germany rules. And someone replies "The France doesn't suck, here's a few reasons why". Why do you feel the need to jump in and defend the POV that "France sucks"?

Because you're forcing your opinions on them. You literally said their opinion is wrong.

Saying France doesn't suck because they have good croissants is pointless for a person that doesn't like croissants.

You can't force yourself to like something just because "it would be a better POV".
Nah, I'm good :)

Hell, I'll even go to them and send some fake stuff. Thanks for the idea.

Edit: they're down. Too bad, I'll have to send junk elsewhere.
Except you can't do a web search on proprietary code within your business, and hosting AI on-premises to model your codebase would likely be a huge waste of money and slower than just telling a real life person what you want.

There has been zero-progress towards AI comprehension, so you can only get out of it what you are already familiar with. The human must always do the mental heavy lifting to tease out a good result, or indeed even know if it's a good result and not just a hallucinated mess.
I want this but mechanical.
I think Eigen is more popular these days. https://eigen.tuxfamily.org/index.php?title=Main_Page
Not so long ago, film processes and machines were optimized and calibrated for reference images of only white faces[1]. Darker-skinned people often found their skin tones were badly reproduced. The analogous thing happened again in digital processes, up to and including AI image processing trained on datasets where white skin is overrepresented. The industry's awareness of this issue is now pretty high. I don't know if the issue is solved in practice on current-gen cameras/phones/software or not. Anyone have latest info?

[1] https://www.npr.org/2014/11/13/363517842/for-decades-kodak-s...
Ask HN: How to come up with ideas for micro side projects?
Hello friends,

I want to build something! But I have very limited time. So I was thinking if I could optimize for small, very practical ideas that I could pull off with the amount of time that I have.

Do you have any tips on how to come up with ideas for micro side projects?

Bonus if it would be possible to monetize it in any way like ads or micro payments for a very residual income.

Extra bonus if it is something simple that can improve peoples lives.

... Maybe I'm asking too much.

Thanks
There are definitely selectors that have more of a performance impact than others but they still don't allow you to break some general assumptions. E.g. taking :has() the addition is styling an element base on a relative selector anchored to that element but it doesn't allow for arbitrarily anchored selectors or matching things which could result in cycles. A lot of what browser engines did to make that work reasonably fast like here https://twitter.com/anttikoivisto/status/1473251189181591554 might not work efficiently with something less restrictive such as a true general purpose if().

I'm not familiar with what you're referring to with hierarchical selectors. CSS combinators have always let you select different types of decedents and :has() lets you select either way. Are you referring to Cascade Layers, or maybe something else?
They definitely exist. I’m a fairly compensated developer at a biotech non-profit. We only have tens of thousands of users of the product I work on, but the value my changes and features make is impactful because researchers are using our platform for hours every day to do research towards curing genetic diseases.

I work 40-ish hours a week, have ample vacation, and am paid enough to own a fairly basic condo in Boston, all by my late 20s. It’s not glamorous, I don’t earn $300k+ a year, and it’s certainly not a prestigious resume entry, but hey, I like my life so far. It’s definitely sustainable. Enough so that my wife and I will probably start a family soon.
> > Let’s say that their work was left out of the training data or if it was allowed to remain that the tool never reproduced training data… is Stable Diffusion any more or any less useful?

> This doesn't really have much to do with copyright.

It is not specific to copyright but any private wrong heard by the courts needs a clearly defined plaintiff, defendant and property in question.

How can the plaintiffs accuse anyone of infringing on their copyrights when no one has used the tool to produce the protected works? Which of their specific works was infringed upon? Is that specific work a requirement for the tool to function?

The plaintiffs seem to be “everyone” and their property “every single digital image”, which is legally incoherent. How exactly would someone reasonably ask permission for every single digital image? Is everyone entitled to part of the settlement or just the plaintiff’s and their lawyers?
Show HN: acp – P2P file transfer with edge-function-based TCP hole-punching
That actually sounds like a perfect climate for it.
Plenty of senior government officials said they would stop the spread. This seemingly despite no testing of that outcome.

Most vaccines are neutralizing meaning that it primes your immune system so well that you couldn't possibly get sick. It seems that these new vaccines, for whatever reason, doesn't elicit the same benefits that we're used to seeing from traditional vaccines.
Those limitations always baffled me for the TI-83/84 line. They weren't present in the TI-85/86 line. Lists were bounded only by system memory (both in capacity and number of lists), and variables could be up to 8 characters (still limited, but not as bad as only 1 letter names).

The main limitation high school me ran into was when I wanted to implement some recursive programs and had to recreate the call stack using lists as the stack. It was effective, and certainly made understanding an actual call stack easier later on when I got to my CS courses. I stopped using it after 1999, though, when a kid I was tutoring (wasn't sure which one) stole it from me. Replaced it with an HP-48G, I had a lot more fun programming in RPL than BASIC (which I'd been using for close to a decade by that point in some form or another).
Maybe the invasion of Iraq was also bad!
Possibly, but I didn't want to cause their client any trouble by trying to cancel her policy. I'm pretty sure she didn't do it to annoy me. And if she did I'd be amazed by the creativity and effort she put into trolling some nobody on the other side of the planet.
> (as evidenced by all those trendy "artistic" watchfaces that frequently don't even have marks)

If you grew up reading analog time, these aren't at all hard to read, even to the minute. Really, it's not an affectation, I would find a mark-less analog watch faster to grok than a digital watch. Most people who grew up on analog watches will similar have no problem with them.

The only kinds of watches that are more about "rough" time are ones without marks and without a minute hand. Those I can only read to about 15 minutes.
I’m always a bit surprised that Soviet era Capitalist propaganda remains so effective to this day.

Of course Capitalism looks fantastic from the exploiters’ perspective.

Today more than ever it should be clear that the opulence of America in the 90s is completely unsustainable on a global scale.

That way of live has always been reserved for a global minority, one many of us may find ourselves excluded from in our lifetimes.
There are some videos on this YT channel about that: https://www.youtube.com/@EverythingElectricShow
The thing is, there's vanishingly few "good invasions".

Even fewer when you're intent on annexing territory and capturing resources and large numbers of people.

The logic error you've committed above: Stifling dissent about the war with authoritarian measures may not be a necessary condition for an invasion to be bad, but it still can be a hint that the invasion is bad.

Rejecting the territorial integrity of the country invaded, similarly, can be a pretty good hint.
When I told my family and friends my plan to leave my great FAANG job to retire early very few of the responses were positive. It was really disheartening after working so hard for so many years towards that goal.
I quit what was my dream job for a great many years, but eventually became a terribly frustrating pinching slog.

I sacrificed a lot of value and security.

I have many more worries today, some more serious than any problem I had at that job.

But I feel enormous relief, I sleep better, and between the most extreme hurdles that come by, I am far far happier.

I don’t think there is any simple rule for when to change one’s outlook or change one’s scenery. Both are important tools!
1899 cancelled? Another low for Netflix, that series was great.
I wonder if series producers could demand upfront to be given by contract enough episodes to wrap up and complete stories so that the whole series doesn't lose all its value in case of DVD adaptation or re-run?

Also, please stop ending seasons with cliffhangers. Doing that equals to treating your viewers as dumb idiots who need an incentive to start watching the next season, aside destroying the series value in case of cancellation.
How Not to Buy Happiness
> If this resonated with you - reach out to me on Twitter

It resonated with me, right up until the "on Twitter" part.

A few weeks shy of 20 years ago, I was a fed-up high school student and made probably the best decision of my life so far. I loaded my stuff in to the back of a beat-up Nissan 720, drove it over to the high school to return their books and sign a few papers to drop out, continued driving a few hours down the road to Georgia where I unloaded stuff in to storage the next day, then started walking the Appalachian Trail...

Just a few minutes ago, I got off the phone with a friend from 500-odd miles in to that walk; he recited a line from Thoreau about most men leading a life of quiet desperation.

My friend had to cut our call short, as a childhood friend of his was on another line, presumably with news about their recent stage-4 cancer diagnosis. We're talking about a canoe trip, and I very much hope we actually make it happen. But, in the meantime, I have an infinite list of bugs to work on.
The joys and woes of reinventing computer programming right where it was left off in the early 70s.
Or you know, talk to your spouse about it first. I dropped down to $0 income for 2 years with two kids and a wife. My family is as strong as ever.

Obviously just one data point and divorce rates are high. Do you have any data on this specific case: depressed about job, quits job to be happier, results in divorce. It seems quiet possible that given the circumstances, quitting the job might decrease the chance of divorce by helping remove so much stress from work.
Yes.

I quit and then asked: “what if I stayed and do I regret leaving” on my last 4 companies.

Universally the answer is no I don’t regret it. One imploded and laid off like 60% of people after turning into a nasty political hell hole. Another laid off massively and is now world renowned as a failed story. Another gave me zero opportunities and everyone was yelling at each other all the time.

Believe me, I tried to enter my internal universe and be happy not learning and not growing.

Being bored to death and underutilized if you feel highly talented and creative is a form of death.

Op needs to answer: What has he done in his life? Built a unicorn and IPOd it? Jet skiing with super models? Inventing cures for diseases? Or did he sort of sit in a cubicle typing and reading Reddit for the last five years.

A lot of those on here, I don’t listen to their input on what successs is.

I will never be happy until I am climbing to the highest potential I can get to. No one is going to talk me into being otherwise.
>Idealism is the enemy of done and I care about done

Nobody is talking about idealism. It's all practical. What my claim is this: You are wrong. In both cases you can get things "done" but you'd get things done faster and more easily without the ORM, you just don't know it. That's the claim I am making.

Your claim is that my reasoning is based on theoretical ideals. But I never stated such a thing, so I am stating it now: The basis of my logic rests on practicality NOT idealism.

The funny thing is, SQL as strings is viewed as more "practical" given how inelegant and "un-ideal" string manipulation is. The ORM is more of the misguided attempt to reach an idealism through abstraction.
This is a common misunderstanding of statistics: your odds of a severe case or death are much lower if you’re fully vaccinated but the size of that population is so much larger that you’ll have more total deaths than the smaller population which has never been vaccinated.

Think of it this way: the odds of a soldier dying if shot are 10% if they’re wearing a bulletproof vest and 80% if not. There’s a battle and afterwards they realize that 20 dead soldiers were wearing body armor and 10 were not. Does that mean armor was bad? To answer that question, you have to know how many there were in both groups: if it was 50:50 that would support questioning the value of those vests but if it was 90:10, the reverse would be true.

The article you linked is well worth reading as it explains this and several other confounds for analysis, namely the higher likelihood for high risk people to get vaccinated even though their failing immune systems still leave them at elevated risk (a vaccinated 80 year old’s risk goes down to a level similar to a 50 year old, not a 20 year old), and the fact that waning immune response and new variants mean that we really need to avoid thinking of vaccination for COVID as a lifetime boolean toggle – someone who got a single dose 2 years ago has a different status than someone fully vaccinated with a bivalent booster.
> Happiness really does start from within.

100% - and for some people to excel in connecting with themselves, they need a calmer environment - or just more simplicity.

But his sentiment reminded me right away of the book "The Quest of the Simple Life" by William James Dawson.
Mitsubishi is gold standard in cold climates. It’ll pull heat from -30F air.
First, this comes off to me as a very privileged take.

Second, I do feel the pain of corporate life, and I switched to working for a non-profit because of it. Leaving the city… nah. Just moved to the perimeter and now I can drive 10 minutes to downtown or 20 to the mountains. Why get a septic tank, a well, my own water treatment, and all this other stuff if I need not do so?