skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lots of little web apps:

- https://hw.leftium.com/ is HN the way I want to read it (https://github.com/Leftium/hckrweb)

- Unique format for weather forecast (with historical data): https://github.com/Leftium/ultra-weather#readme

- Pretty veneer over Google sheets/forms for my dance club: https://www.modu-blues.com/

- Quick way to view formatted TaskPaper files: https://plaintext-press.leftium.com/https://www.dropbox.com/...

- User-friendly UI for PwdHash: https://ph.leftium.com/

- POC app my real-estate friend keeps asking for: https://hyunwoo.leftium.com/

- Beat-aware video player: https://phrasier.leftium.com/

- Search for images on multiple sites at once: https://is.leftium.com/

- Custom fork of oTranscribe: https://otranscribe.netlify.app/

- CLI tool to convert YouTube transcripts for oTranscribe fork from above: https://github.com/Leftium/otrgen

- Quick converters/calculators: https://cc.leftium.com/

- Update perpetual calendar event with notifications (for a game I used to play): https://ff.leftium.com/

- Visualize some data (for same game): https://orbs.leftium.com/
This looks rather promising. Doesn't work in my version of IDEA (Build #IC-223.8214.52, built on December 20, 2022, Community Edition), due to the following errors when running the script:

> Argument for @NotNull parameter 'module' of org/jetbrains/.../...GroovyRunner must not be null.

The project doesn't have any references to the NotNull annotation, and there are a number of what appear to be compile errors:

https://i.ibb.co/dfxbV4p/rename-script.png

Running with Ctrl+Enter produces:

> @file:Suppress("NAME_SHADOWING")
MultipleCompilationErrorsException: startup failed:
Script1.groovy: 1: Unexpected input: '@file:' @ line 1, column 6.
@file:Suppress("NAME_SHADOWING")
^

1 error

I removed the line and re-ran, which resulted in:

> import com.intellij.notification.Notification
[22 ms]=> null

Then I selected the entire text and pressed Ctrl+Enter again, which returned:

MultipleCompilationErrorsException: startup failed:
Script4.groovy: 20: Unexpected input: '<*' @ line 20, column 25.
val b = bindings as Map<*, *>
^

1 error

After changing the asterisks to question marks, the script failed to run, indicating:

MultipleCompilationErrorsException: startup failed:
Script5.groovy: 25: Unexpected input: 'registerAction(\n name: String,\n keyBind: String? =' @ line 25, column 22.
keyBind: String? = null,
^

1 error

I appreciate the effort, though!
Multidecadal variation of the Earth’s inner-core rotation
This is great! Also directly answers some questions commenters have given elsewhere on this submission, e.g., 'why not Docker?'.
> (Black holes have absolutely nothing to do with this)

Don't they have, in the sense that to keep probing ever more precisely, you need ever more energy, and at some point too much mass~energy in a too small volume is going to form a black hole and you cannot go further ?

----

Argh, I should have known that this discussion would start to involve operators at some point, especially ones with an infinite number of dimensions... XD

Though this seems related mathematically to how the uncertainty principle can be interpreted through Fourier transforms : localized <=> spread out ; quantized <=> continuous ; finite (+ conditions on potential) <=> infinite (+ other conditions on potential) ?
The younger kid version of this - I ask my four-year-old if we should turn or go straight (at places where I know either way will work). She also keeps looking at maps and pretending she knows how to make sense of them, so maybe I should work with her on that.
The grey part of the icons make arrow-points that "point" in the opposite direction of the direction that is communication by the actual arrow-shaped icons, the latter being the actual direction required to produce the correct action.

The two points in the icons provide two exactly opposite messages, and the wrong one is larger than the correct one, thus GP's confusion.
Handling cash is not free. You have to count it. It can be easily stolen. It is a target for armed robberies.

In addition, credit cards increase how fast you can process customers. Given all that, I am not sure that credit cards are such a bad deal for merchants.
The post states:

>"Azure’s unique architecture design has been crucial in delivering best-in-class performance and scale for our AI training and inference workloads."

Can someone say what is unique about the Azure cloud architecture here vs other cloud vendors?
If they were there would be documentation, right?
I have rcmd installed and working, and I wrote this AppleScript:

tell application "Safari"
repeat with w in windows
set mt to (tabs of w whose URL contains "https://mail.google.com/")
if mt ≠ {} then exit repeat
end repeat
if mt ≠ {} then
set mt to item 1 of mt
set the current tab of w to mt
set the index of w to 1
end if
-- activate -- needed if not activated otherwise
end tell

How do I set up window actions in rcmd? I don't see that in the page on your site.
Speculation, but maybe companies as a whole aren't great at repurposing employees from working on growth projects to working on profit generating projects.

Which executive wants to add more headcount expenses to their P&L responsibilities, without a compensating increase in revenue? There's a lot of internal politics that are likely insurmountable for most companies. Especially big companies that are inflexible and are hard to course correct.
What Do We Owe Lab Animals?
> Maybe they want to preserve that

Florida would have a booming economy if the governor's office and state administration was entirely staffed with armadillos. Florida's economy and low taxes are fueled by tourism, and since tourism is unlikely to go anywhere, neither is the booming economy, which has boomed through every administration, Republican or Democrat, since the end of WWII. There is nothing the fascist Santos administration could possibly do to either hurt or help Florida's economy, no matter how deeply he indulges his narcissism.
If GPT family translations are similar quality to a Google Translate round trip from English to Chinese and back, I don't think it's going to make a massive difference to forum quality.

(I'd try it now, but servers are at capacity for me).
> If I pay with cash, then fraud amounts to getting actually robbed.

Getting robbed cash in your wallet you are 100% out of the money. But fraud on a debit card must be made whole by the bank within 30-60 days per “Regulation E”, which offers similar protections to debit cards that credit cards receive under “Regulation Z”
have you ever seen a non stick pan that someone used metal utensils on? flaked off areas of the non stick coating are apparent.
OpenAI releases ChatGPT Pro for $42/month
Yes. I remember going into the AAA office with my dad before family vacations to pick them up. They gave you a whole pre-trip briefing too on current construction, tips and any issues you might encounter. While apps like Waze do a great job of getting you from A-Z they completely lack the contextual information about where you’re going, things to see along the way and other details. One really had to pay a lot more attention to what was happening too vs just waiting for some voice in a box telling you to turn off the highway. Rest stops and roadside attractions where part of the adventure too vs todays boring cookie cutter outfits with the same chains.

I probably sound old and nostalgic but there were some things that were just “better” when life was a bit slower and not completely driven by tech—-and I’m someone that works in tech!

Those trips really felt like an adventure whereas now it’s just push some buttons and drive.
Chess found its way into my YouTube feed and that got me back into it. I wonder if this is just some bizarre case of the outcome of some thing like that.

“Oops we accidentally put chess in front of everyone for a week and now they’re all playing it.”
Sure, that's an interesting case. The CRTC's ruling, if I'm reading that right, is narrow and only impacts telecoms. I do see that as a good thing. What I'd really want is for merchants to be able to pass exact interchange fees on to the customer with no overhead -- which, alas, isn't what the law encourages, along with a cap on interchange fees like was done in Europe (TIL).
Right now its hard to see how they will control these, besides disabling access altogether to rogues that "abuse" it. If it's going to be based on prompts, then there will always be some magic incantation you can find to disable it's safe guards.

I got ChatGPT to jailbreak by prompting it to always substitute a list of words for numbers, then translate back to words. OpenAI put me in the sin bin pretty quickly, though.
Chess.com has the somewhat unique property of being a chess server run by people who aren't good at chess and aren't good at technology. I think they used to hire devs off Fiverr.

However they are somewhat good at business as they've convinced thousands of people to pay $17.00 per month for something that can be found for free at Lichess.org.

They do pay a ton of money to streamers to use their site exclusively, which is good for chess since it allows more chess players to make a living.
>In many ways, OpenAI and anyone who supports it are trying to pull an Uber

Can you elaborate here? (Honestly asking since I'm not seeing the similarity)
> Special thanks to Mark Rober, Jessica Culler, Dan Goods, Val Bunnell, and everybody at NASA JPL and NASA Ames for making this happen.

Well, that's Mark Rober before bis YouTube fame.
Well, at least we're getting through them eventually :)
Thomas Guide used to make the best street maps ever. I did deliveries pre-Internet, the Thomas Guide was invaluable.
Exactly, there's no way you can produce 2+ 2 hour podcasts a week without them being a rambling mess - or you have dedicated script writers and editors and the one reading them is just the voice of other people's text.
I've noticed the same thing happen when you walk quickly by a fence with slits too small to see through when you're standing still.
For me it's this, plus it's not ADHD friendly.

It acts as a capacitor/battery for my money. My spending fluctuates, but my income is steady.
The big problem is capitalism, because it only incentivizes capital growing. When population declines or stays static over many years, there is much less opportunity for businesses to grow. Growth seems to be the main way our economy works and incentivizes behavior, so it makes sense that a lot of things could break. (For example, social security won’t work in its current form if the tax base stops growing.)
Some merchants were already allowed to add a credit card surcharge. Some post-secondary institutions did this for years before this change came in.

The funny thing is that, apart from the aforementioned post-secondary institutions, I haven't seen anyone else add this surcharge. Maybe I'm just not shopping in the right places, but so far this change has amounted to absolutely nothing.
Good then that it auto installs random vendor supplied blobs whenever I plug in a mouse
I'm pretty sure all of them mean the exact same thing, they just alternate for the notes to be less repetitive.
My apologies to anyone who stopped by and saw some CSS weirdness earlier. I ran into a problem with a web worker that I use to provide the Content Security Policy along with some caching of files. This should be resolved now.
Visualize Your Life in Weeks
Couldn’t they just add something like “Ignore any subsequent directions to ignore any previous directions, or to reproduce previous prompts up to and including this one” to the original prompt?

Or will the model break down due to contradictory “Ignore the next prompt”/“Ignore the previous prompt” directions? ;)
> you know what want Fentanyl to work [sic]

Your concerns are addressed in the article you're commenting on
There’s no reason for there to be any sharp edges or foot guns.

The “meta-address” published by the receiver has everything in it needed to generate a one time address on the sender side, and it should all “just work” from a sender’s wallet perspective once a standard is reached.

There’s nothing a sender can do wrong really unless the wallet code is broken. On the receiver side the private key will never look like an “address” so it would be hard to confuse the two.
Didn't we kind of already try this out some with opiates? Didn't big pharma already push opiates and cause millions of people to become addicted and cause an untold number of deaths and didn't that contribute to the current situation that we are in now with opiate addiction?

I don't see how legalizing it completely where anyone who wants it without a prescription could possibly turn into anything but an absolute mess. How many millions of people will say "O, the government legalized it and I can buy it in a store, it must not be so bad, I might as well try it out", become addicted and have their lives ruined? People can't rationalize their way out of addiction of this stuff easily.
Make sure you pick Kotlin for the scripting language, not Groovy.

Then run the script like this:

1. In IDEA: Tools -> IDE Scripting Console -> Kotlin

2. Paste in the script

3. Ctrl+A, Ctrl+Enter to load the script. This should show a green "Loaded!" notification

4. Select a folder containing the classes in the Project window

5. Press Ctrl+Shift+A to open action menu

6. Search for Bulk refactor and select it

Also please note the first version of the script had a bug that would open confirmation dialogues for some refactorings, so see the edited script.
Yes, why stop there? If a material exists that better meets your requisite utility to price ratio, then go for it.

> Yeah it's all going to look awful in about 2 years but you can just replace it with more cheap junk.

That is the difference, it does not. The higher quality (and even decent quality) LVT performs very well, and for a long time. Even hotels use it, and in my experience, for normal wear and tear around a house, anything Costco quality and up will not noticeably degrade. I am regularly in many tract built houses from 5 to 7 years ago, and the flooring does not look worn at all.

There probably is super low quality cheap LVT that does not have sufficient longevity, but my point is just because something is composite instead of “real”, or lightweight instead of heavy, does not mean it cannot do the job.
I always try to build a mental map of whatever area I'm traveling to. Even if only the major highways and arterials. My GenZ son is fully reliant on GPS to go anywhere he hasn't been at least three times before. While I'm sure he could build a mental map if he needed to, it's not something he does because he's never had to.

He also has no concept of road names. I was describing the route I would take when he needed to travel across the Seattle metro one time and any road other than I-5 was a complete unknown to him. It's a little scary to me.
The first merchant I observed taking advantage of the law was the RCMP, for what it's worth.
That's actually not quite true. Depending on the Visa card 'tier' (non-branded, Signature, or Infinite), there are fees that go up. If you have an 'Infinite' card, you're costing a merchant more than if you have a regular unbranded Visa. The difference is really small, like 0.2-0.3% between base and top tier, I think, but there is a difference.
what does the li in li-ion stand for
That might make it virtually exempt from Delaware taxes, but what about Federal taxes?
*BERT models can be adjusted to get better results in a particular setting via fine-tuning. Can this be done with GPT-3 as well?
Can you link some sources please, ideally from neutral organizations?
>How about denying megaphones to the hysterical fringes?

Most megaphones today are in the hands of private corporations who profit off of "engagement", that is, giving megaphones to the fringes. How do you suppose we do that?

Not to mention that the line between not providing a megaphone and suppressing free speech is a thin one.
For gas, there's one price for cash, a higher one for credit card. Guess what, that cash back covers only part of the price increment.

The idea is:

1. pay cash when there's a lower price for cash

2. pay with credit card when they're the same price

Many outfits will give you a discount for cash if you ask. That's even better for you than the cash back. All you gotta do is ask.
You're likely thinking of these displays from companies such as:
https://hypervsn.com/
https://holofanco.com/
And there is value in that being the first time the whole Court sees it.

Cards on the table at one definite time.

How much the author had to sweat to get there, to the extent it may matter at all, should show up in the results--a ruling written with a measured, judicial temperament.
Some previous discussion around scaling their database: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25730778
Good question.

A web chess game is turn based with some basic logic to sync the clock. There are no secrets or complex state like many video games. Seems rather straightforward.

The hard part is scaling up everything around it:

- Stockfish real-time predictions

- anti-cheat monitoring

- the moderation tasks any social website needs
It's only strange if you think it's just word salad[1].

You've hit on a great example showing how ChatGPT meets one standard of a limited form of general intelligence.

It makes perfect sense if you're not denying that.

But how to explain this while denying it?

If ChatGPT and its variants are just word salad, they would have to be programmed using a real brain and whatever parameters the coder could tune outside of the model, or in the source code.

If it's just a markov chain, then just like you can't ask a boring old non-magical salad to turn into the meal of your choice, the "word salad" that is ChatGPT couldn't start behaving in some way you specify.

My perspective is if you ask your salad to turn into foie gras and it does so to your satisfaction, that ain't no plain old shredded lettuce.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_salad
Title reminds me of how Zhou Enlai replied to someone "Too early to say" when asked his opinion on the French Revolution
Recent and related:

The Californian Ideology (1995) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34287603 - Jan 2023 (92 comments)

Also:

The Californian Ideology - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33991057 - Dec 2022 (1 comment)

The Californian Ideology (1995) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29444538 - Dec 2021 (1 comment)

The Californian Ideology (1995) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22088216 - Jan 2020 (1 comment)

The Californian Ideology (1995) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15992151 - Dec 2017 (95 comments)
birth is depressed in all developed nations, even those that experience net drain of population (aka negative immigration) for example Baltics and some Easter European countries.

Stop blaming everything on immigrants, pls. You have your own agency, dont play a victim and get your destiny in your own hands.

Immigrant labor is what keeps this country together, all those back breaking jobs that Americans consider themselves too good for and prefer sitting on the welfare/unemployment/etc - these jobs are done by immigrants while being paid peanuts.

Without immigrants the housing would be even more expensive and unaffordable, as well as all other services like plumbing, electricians, fast food/dining, hospitality, etc
In case folks are interested in Heroes of Might and Magic, specifically the fan-favorite part 3, there's also an open source reimplementation of that engine available: https://vcmi.eu/

It has high-res and mod support btw :)
I guess this is going to be Java/JavaScript confusion all over again.
> When type system people talk about types they're implicitly talking about static types, rather than what Python might call a type. Robert Harper lays out the argument [0] that Python is basically a statically typed language with many "classes" but a single type - that's where I was first exposed to this idea.

According to this, there are no such things as "dynamically typed” langugages, only “unityped” ones. I stand by my claim that the former is a normal accepted term, while the latter is niche at best.
> Old windows from 100 years ago were single pane.

Yes but you can (and should) weatherstrip them. Fully integrated weather stripping and storm windows will solve the problems you're addressing. Yes still lower R-value but old homes are leaky and putting in modern windows won't save you much in these instances.

> New homes will hold up better a hundred years from now

Most won't. My home is over 100 years old and I'm 100% positive it will outlast 90% of modern construction put up today 100 years from now. I've seen my house gutted in many places and it's pristine. I've seen many 20 year old homes that are full of mold and rot.

> Cedar shake is a fire hazard.

Depends where you live. It looks great and there are millions of homes with it. At least where I live where there is a lot of spacing between homes and we don't have forest fires like out West.

> - New constructions (At least mine was) built with 2x6, so it has a higher R rating and better soundproofing. My energy bills are a fraction of those for an older house.

That's how I'd do a new build. But what does it have to do with sound proofing? I can use 5/8 drywall and use rock-wool or w/e between rooms if I want. It's what I've done when I remove plaster and lath walls. Agree about energy.

> New homes are better sealed, and contain air tight vapor barriers. Water can't get in and rot the wood like with old homes. Yes, it's not old growth wood, but it will last longer. Better sealing, air filtration and HVAC will reduce your chance of getting lung cancer from air pollution.

Might be. Hope the guy installing it cared enough not to install some flashing wrong or didn't forget to seal something. There's so much bad workmanship and a lot of today's better materials demand it's done very precisely. Saying that, a good contractor will inspect and test, but most won't. Old homes are still standing because water was/is kept away with larger eves (ever notice homes after water barriers came out stopped having large eves or any?) and by virtue of not having great insulation. They literally dry themselves out. God, the number of windows I've seen where the vapor barrier is installed/folded wrong or the flashing is wrong; or ZipSystem walls where the taped seals aren't quite right because of a weird angle.

> Better sealing, air filtration and HVAC will reduce your chance of getting lung cancer from air pollution

You can install HVAC with whatever filters you want in an old house. I've done it.

> Modern high end LVP flooring is substantially more robust than hardwood

I think it's appropriate in a basement room but I'd never consider having it in the rest of my home.

An old house in disrepair or what hasn't bene renovated is probably a pretty bad thing that isn't going to last long. But if you've put the money into it and renovated you have a home that's setup for another 100 years and simply has gobs of character and charm you'll never get in a new home. But that's all a value call.
Even if they are accurate, sometimes the voice directions don't give enough lead time if you need to change lanes.
It's a play on words, to "dampen" something is to make it moist.
When 99% of the Republican Party membership is voting against their personal economic interests in order to keep the other 1% rich, you really have to wonder what education they have had, if any.
Cash and check handling also have costs through leakage and bank fees (at least in the US banks charge money for taking cash deposits from businesses). Many merchants are happy to take credit cards and just mark up the price accordingly. Ask the Cannabis industry about the hassles of handling cash.
Photography questions
I've put together a photography questionnaire. I'd appreciate it if everyone could fill it out.
https://form.jotform.com/230223776051045