skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To me, the the most interesting part of Bret Victors ideas lie in the re-embodiment of disembodied interactions. The computers choreograph us anyhow, but often in a very poor and limited way – only our fingertips and our eyes move a bit. Why not make the choreography of interaction richer? Why not create a computer-aided full-body choreography of interaction?

In a way, the interactions can be broken up in subject, verb and object. I edit text. I crop a photograph.
The subject is the user, and all the representations that extend the user. The mouse pointer in that sense is part of the user.
The verb is the action. To select text on screen, I put pressure on a touchpad, move my fingers and release. This is a learned interaction, there are no inherent affordances to a medium (only, at best, inherent affordances to a tool that extends you).
The object is a representation. With computer interfaces, you hardly ever interact with something in an immediate way. I want a comment to appear on this site but instead I am writing this text in a white box and not where the comment would appear. All the computer interactions are mediated by these in-between steps. (An example for unmediated interaction would be cooking. What you chop is what you get.)

To get a rich feedback loop in such a mediated environment you need to try and make it as unmediated as possible. To make the subject less mediated, the whole body of the user, the quality of the movements could be integrated into integrations. Here I have hopes for AI supported movement recognition. In addition, the representations of the user (e.g. the mouse pointer in existing systems) could become less binary in their state (I don't have a good example for it, but a hammer can be used with a whole range of intensity while a mouse pointer either performs a click or not).

To make the object less mediated, its representation should ideally be as transparent as possible. AR in this regard is much more promising than VR, since in VR the representation takes place within another representation.

To make the action less mediated, the action should be able to be embodied by the (technologically extended) user, as well as being inherent to the medium which represents the subject. Here we are building a bridge between the human body and a way to represent things that physically do not exist. It's never going to be ideal, but it could be better than what we have now.

So for such a task you'd need to be a UX person, a choreographer, a programmer, a AR/AI person, and ideally have some insights into media theory. It's just not an easy task.
https://archive.is/205eK
If anybody thinks this is a good idea, I'm looking forward to reading your opinions.
I am pretty sure OpenAI primarily has really good marketing. (Or maybe the stronger fanboys). Of course they also have a good team. But the introduction of ChatGPT just went incredibly well, despite the bad things that could still be said about the technology.
Previous HN submission, here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34396790
That's how I've seen it done in a few places:

* The team does short sprints.

* One lucky soul handles all support requests for the duration of the sprint, having no officially planned work for the sprint.

The staff take it in turns to be the "support-person", and if they have a lot of tickets they work a lot. If they have few then they might sneakily do some work, or help colleagues with their own stories/tickets.
Stayfocusd chrome extension for sites that are trouble during working hours.

I've started to implement the advice here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFL6qRIJZ_Y albeit too early to tell. He's pretty well credentialed though, so I trust on average the advice is good (but specifically for each individual YMMV)

One of his best points is dont act like or prescribe yourself ADHD solutions until you have a true diagnosis by an expert. Losing focus and distractions is commonplace for all people today, not just ADHD folks.
> I don't really care if it's the record companies fault or whoever, and I blame 100% myself for getting into this situation in the first place.

Interestingly that in a situation where it's 100% copyright holders who are at fault, you say that you 100% blame yourself, but in reality you blame Spotify be cause that's your biggest gripe with it.

Somehow no one ever blames the three-four companies (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_industry#Consolidation) that hold 90% of the world's recorded music hostage.
Heavy winter rain and snow won't be enough to pull the West out of megadrought
Can you give an example in which these two things are different?
I wonder if an embedded cbatgpt like system could offer such a recommendation engine on demand for different sorts of media. It wouldn’t ever be the best recommendations of all time, but it might be able to handle scale better than humans. Eg, to get something YouTube algorithm like for other services like podcast apps
First thing I thought about as a Windows alternative was Simplewall, how does Portmaster compare to it if I may ask?
Closest thing I've found for getting this done is Mosaic.
Scrum usually arrives the same way grain arrives in the stomachs of fois gras ducks, so unfortunately I suspect the team has no choice in the matter.
Rectangle is amazing and I highly recommend it, but it's a window manager and not a display manager.
>"The PR threat seems overblown. OpenAI isn't suffering any obvious reputational problems from making models available to play with, because people understand that AIs and their creators aren't the same thing."

Lol, no they don't. A week ago there was an article here about how chatGPT is woke.
> Some weeks it works, other weeks they overdeliver by a lot (because there were fewer support tickets and they got a lot of tickets from the backlog).

OK, this is a problem because why? Some weeks it works, and other weeks they accomplish more than expected... and this is a problem why??

Like, what's the actual problem here, if good progress is being made on features and bugfixes?

My guess it's a problem if management is trying to use "scrum" to treat developers like sweatshop workers who they wring the most possible production out of. How can we know what the most possible production is, if they have a different amount of time to work on it every week?!?

We could come up with different arithmetic ways to solve this. Assign "points" to support tickets too (even after the fact, how much time they actually took?) to include them in your "velocity". Or keep track of how much time is being spent on support to, to "normalize" the velocity of the other stuff accordingly (different way of doing the same thing).

But personally I do not really want to help companies become better at treating developers like sweatshop workers to wring maximal productivity out of. I'd rather realign to "agile" it was originally intended, to empower developers to bring value, not to treat them as commodified interchangeable widgets to exploit and
burn out.

but, I mean, exploitive companies gonna company I guess.

> I'm thinking Scrum is useless for that team but management insists all engineering teams must use scrum.

Which they also insist means relying on those "velocity" metrics? Can you do "scrum" without "velocity" at all?
> There is not even a real limit imposed by the uncertainty principle, you can measure positions as precisely as you want, you just have to pay in momentum uncertainty.

Yes, that's the current continuous model of how this works. That isn't necessarily reflective of reality though.

> Where we really seem to run into a wall is that if you keep making the measurement more and more precise, you need higher and higher energies to achieve ever shorter wavelengths and dumping a lot of energy into a small volume to measure the position really precisely will eventually result in black holes.

Exactly. In other words, all measurements necessarily have finite precision due to various uncertainties or other physical limits.

I didn't pull this limit out of the aether, I came across it from one of Shor's posts [1] where he states that physical constants can't be defined to greater precision than what I specified above. If the physical constants can't have more than 60 digits of precision, then neither can any calculations or measurements based on them.

The fact is, we seem to be bounded on all sides to finite precision.

[1] https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/16889/non-comput...
That really depends on how much the public accepts results without sources, aka no credit, aka rampant breaking of social norms and copyright, as well as destroying the easy ability to verify something. In many ways, OpenAI and anyone who supports it are trying to pull an Uber here, but shift the Overton on something indescribably larger than transportation licenses. They want to Borg global intelligence (though, of course, they will be in control).

Say what you will about Google, they generally credit their sources. Yes, it's part of their advertising model, but it's still a Very Good Thing.

I hope that Google's plan is to release something that continues this model. If it's near as good at ChatGPT and strongly includes sources, it is the right future.
I had a 15C in high school as well, as my father was a geek and told me he'd only buy me a calculator if it was RPN. I loved it, but I wore it out by the time I got to college and I replaced it with a 32SII. I've still got that one, but it long since died and won't turn on.
My Adventure with Async Ruby
Nothing's ever been ok in Florida. They do their own thing down there, and we stay far away from the crazyness. Each state is semi-independent with the federal/state separation of powers. It's good for vacation though.
The cost picture is as follows:

money saved on staff reduction - money spent on layoff packages - (temporary reduction in productivity, because of lower staff morale)

Research shows there is no long-term benefit of layoffs other than the short-term gain in cash flow. Layoffs are only beneficial if they are needed for survival of the company
Iceland's combined first- and second generation immigration is around 18% of the total population[1], [2] seems to suggest it's around 25% for the US.

The country has also signed up to accept practically unlimited immigration. It's a part of the EEA (the economic area of the EU), meaning that a population of around 500 million can move there tomorrow with very few legal hurdles. "Unlimited" in the sense that the difference between 500 million and the world population of 8 billion hardly matters for a country with a population of far less than 1/2 million.

1. https://www.hagstofa.is/utgafur/frettasafn/mannfjoldi/mannfj...

2. https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publicatio...
I agree but it is interesting that Andrej Karpathy holds the view that Google is behind in these areas.
The Moral Authority of ChatGPT https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.07098
Oxford Union – This House Believes Woke Culture Has Gone Too Far
With computer support, this game or its cousin DAK would be great. It’s not impossible without such support just requires lots of index cards and dice.
Trogdor was a man...
I used it for a couple of months and it never got better. I ended up switching to Apple Music but I would hope that they've fixed it by now.
It ain't the money cost, we have money coming out our ears.

It's the time cost. Nuclear takes far too long; geothermal merely takes too long. Same with fancy long-distance HV transmission proposals.

Can it be built and commissioned in a year? Do it.
Those other countries are generally heading for the same care delivery and quality problems as the US. It's just that the US is on the leading edge of the wave because our population is sicker and thus the problems show up here first. To get a sense of what's happening in other countries look at metrics like 5-year cancer survival rates or wait times for joint replacement surgery.
> must be selected by a school district employee who holds a valid educational media specialist certificate,

The same people who oppose freedom of speech are over here supporting DeSantis and his crusade against education and his push for bigger government.
Banning media is a great way to pique the interest of the naturally rebellious youth.
How Artificial Intelligence will impact the future of work
> you should consider reading more about Patagonia

I'd be open to reading more. I think they are largely a good company but feel like this move was more of a tax dodge and to ensure generational wealth than for altruism. But I am open to being wrong about it.

But everyone involved in OpenAI doesn't give me warm and fuzzy feelings at all. I admit it's largely cynicism until I know more. But there isnt enough time in the day to do real research on every subject and topic that comes up on HN and every other discussion board I participate in, so it's difficult to be knowledgeable about everything and still maintain a life. And even if I was read up on OpenAI, I have zero ability to do anything about it, and it likely won't affect my life in a meaningful way as well (and this is true about most everything I read about to not single out OpenAI as not being worth my time). So it is a little pointless or more of a time waste I admit.
The reason it’s so clean and safe is that everyone is paid so little. So many positions can be filled.
Thanks for pushing through on this comment - have the same loop too, almost deleted this one… cheers and good luck out there
Have you used LaMDA? Unsure if you've used the magical internal version, but the version that's available to the general public is terrible. I was so excited to get access to the AI Test Kitchen app, but even today, it strictly limits you to three narrow and useless scenarios, only lets you put in like 40 characters of input at a first, then subsequent inputs after the first are generated for you, and you can only select from a few available options (choose your own adventure style), and after 4 or so interactions, the history is wiped and it starts over.

I'm sure Google COULD have something better than ChatGPT, but what they have today is so bad it's almost an insult to the users like me who excitedly signed up, and waited months on the waiting list to get access to it.
Consider the interval (0, 1). This set of real numbers contains no smallest element. It is not true that all sets of real numbers have or should have a least element. It is a property of the standard model of the nonzero integers that all subsets have a least element.

It should be noted that there are models of ZFC in which each real number is definable. You may be interested in reading the top answer on this mathoverflow.net question:

https://mathoverflow.net/questions/44102/is-the-analysis-as-...
Ah, you're right! It's not JS but fonts loaded from cdn.jsdelivr.net (I assumed JS based on the host).

No longer can edit previous comment.
Google will continue to integrate their own LLMs into their office suite. Microsoft needs OpenAI because their own LLM research hasn’t been as fruitful. I don’t see a huge moat here for Microsoft.

Then again, Microsoft’s office software is the “gold standard” (however poorly deserved) and even with amazing AI features, Google’s stuff lacks in important ways that will keep Microsoft in a strong position with or without AI features.
Can someone provide book titles that are affected by this...?
I think the uninteresting number one can be described without worrying about 'interestingness'. It works out as the same as saying something like the set of numbers that are not the smallest number in any set in some arbitrary collection of sets including this one.

It's the 'including this one' part that is causing the trouble, not which other sets are included in the arbitrary collection.
Yeah. Design aesthetics were just so much better twenty years ago. I'd kill for a Sony X505 with modern internals: https://scr.wfcdn.de/9699/Sony-VAIO-X505-mit-Mac-OS-X-139161...
The obvious weakness in such a deal is that the customer disappears after taking the upfront money. Instead of disappears this could also be "suddenly loses interest in working" or "gets into a car accident and physically cannot work anymore" or any other variation, it doesn't have to be fraudulent or malicious. I think it would be very difficult to find investors who would agree to terms like "10% of income, whatever it is" since it would be so unreliable.

If you change the terms to "give me $X00,000 now, for $XYZ each month over the next 10 years" then you get a regular loan, which is obtainable from a variety of institutions. If you are particularly worried about being disabled or laid off, insurance can cover most of that but those only pay out at the time of any incident actually happening, not upfront.

The standard advice for people who are worried that their current good times might not last is to keep your monthly spending well below your monthly income and build up an emergency fund of at least 6-12 months of living expenses. This will give you enough time for job hunting if you are ever laid off unexpectedly and (more importantly IMO) relieve you from most of the stress of being dependent on your current job to survive. Look up the FIRE/ERE movements online for strategies to get started with this.
But Google is investing in the research. They could become Kodak if they were distanced but it's not the case at this point. They just refuse to be the leader they could be for the moment.
> HN is great because most users stick to the subject of discussions rather than devolving into ad-hominem attacks.

On at least three topics I've consistently found this to not be the case: Google, Microsoft, Cryptocurrency (also: Richard Stallman, suckless, but those come up less often).

I find that these threads often devolve pretty fast away from "the subject". I actually dislike all three of those things as well; I use none of their products save for GitHub and haven't for years. But that doesn't mean that everything these companies do is part of a sinister machiavellian plot to take over the world. And not everyone involved in crypto is a sociopathic scammer looking to steal your money, either, even though I think crypto overall is a net negative.

> It's curious that your account was created exactly one minute after this post was posted, for precisely one insulting comment.

I'm really not trying to "gotcha" here, but you're kind of proving my point with this remark.
As a matter of fact, I don't.
But my daughter does horse riding and volunteers at the stables and the whole thing is quite beautiful. Though it smells. Something to add to the metaphor maybe.
https://medium.com/la-mia-biblioteca/where-they-burn-books-t...
Nothing in tech is true for a quarter of a decade. Especially not when the guy who said this left the company twenty years ago. It's time to put this one to rest.
In fairness that's also true for AWS and GCP
No lithium or "rare earths" (which are not anyway at all rare) are needed for a transition to solar and wind for power.

Electric cars use lithium, just now, and a bit of rare-earths. (They are used in wiper and window motors.) Cars are their own thing, which we would be better off with less of.

Obviously before you have built out wind and solar, you don't have much yet. It is a vacuous observation. Instead, look at the rate of deployment, which follows a classic exponential curve.
been running my company for 23 years now and have friends that also have.

1) staying general works, but niching down works even better. My most successful friends found an up and coming technology partner and rode that wave.

2) most of my business year to year is grown in existing customers. Very little comes from new customers (90/10).

3) marketing/selling becomes much easier if you have a technology partner that is exploding like a rocket (e.g. chat gpt consulting?). Otherwise marketing/selling is mainly about producing content that drives leads. Presenting at conferences is probably one of the best ways we have driven business. But no one method drove enough business.

4) there is an inflection point around 4-7 people and at 30-40 people. at 4-7 you need to manage but the people arent quite generating enough money for you to not work on projects. It can be very hard to get past this point. At 30-40 you now need a layer of management and you have to develop them.

I really like the following sources that apply to consulting
1) so you want to be a consultant (whitepaper)
2) naked consulting
3) managing a professional services firm

Also really like 5 dysfunctions of a team. It isnt specifically geared towards consulting, but it is important as you get employees.
I don't see why you're talking about operating procedures. This is about good diagram / documentation formats. Nothing to do with checklists or SOPs.
A starter project for your next Take Home coding challenge
_startup has no shot once incumbent comes to their senses_ is a claim that I think HackerNews of all places would be cautious in believing too fully.

Is it likely Google or others with large Research wings can compete with OpenAI? Very probably so, but I’m assigning a non trivial risk that the proverbial emperor has no clothes and incumbents like Google cannot effectively respond to OpenAI given the unique constraints of being a large conglomerate.

Regardless, time will provide the answer it seems in a couple of months.
In Florida, school librarians are called "media specialists" and hold media specialist certificates. A rule passed by the Florida Department of Education last week states that a "library media center" includes any books made available to students, including in classrooms. This means that classroom libraries that are curated by teachers, not librarians, are now illegal.

Prepare for “route around the damage” moment where districts are going to start requiring teachers to get media specialist certified just to avoid the legal headache.

I am not a lawyer, but the fact that it is a felony seems particularly aggressive to me. Usually stuff like this (related to how a school is run) is usually administrative law and the school district would be the one responsible for insuring that it is enforced (so they might fire a teacher for non-compliance, but it would be the district itself being taken to administrative court by the state government for not following the law, rather than a specific teacher). This is also just bad in general, but the fact that the law criminally targets teachers rather than being put into the boring administrative code just shows how politically and ideologically motivated this is.
I tried talking to the "Ask me anything" bot suggested on the main page, comparing it to ChatGPT. It's pretty good, but definitely not as good as ChatGPT. ChatGPT is usually so flawless it passes some sort of phase-transition threshold where it just feels completely natural.

(I'm not sure if a different bot would've been better. It seems like the sites have slightly different purposes.)
> What percentage of the US grid is from wind or solar?

That question needs to be qualified with a date and time. It's a moving target. Generally: number go up.
Don't get me wrong, I'd say that's a very good approach too. A lot of my personal repos are private and synced through personal infrastructure so I don't always bother with those kind of files.
Don't want to pile on too much, but my attempt at an explanation:

> Simply flip the digits over the decimal point, so 0.14159 become integer 95141

They key here is that both 0.14159 and 95141 contain a _finite_ number of symbols/digits. There are infinitely many numbers like this, but each of those numbers are themselves finite.

The decimal expansion of pi, OTOH, is _itself_ infinite. The decimal expansion of any irrational number is infinite. There are infinitely many of these things, each of which are themselves infinite.

This is the key thing that causes uncountability. Each of the numbers has infinitely many "parameters" that can be tweaked. If you try to produce an infinite (countable) list that contains all of these infinite numbers, I can always tweak a different parameter for each number in your list and be guaranteed to have produced a number that your list missed.