skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Twitter made only very small, incremental product improvements in its ~10 years as a public company. It may as well round down to zero. That's one of the reasons its been gutted by Musk and co. Trimming the fat was the right decision there.
> I get how one can see a relation between Judaism and Christianity.

That relation exists but it’s vastly overstated by many people today. Christianity and Talmudic Judaism are both in some sense successors to the old Hebrew religion that the Romans ended by destroying the Temple, but they draw very little from each other. In fact the direct predecessors of today’s rabbis, the Pharisees, are already portrayed in a less than flattering light in the New Testament.

Islam on the other hand positions itself as the successor faith to both Judaism and Christianity. And frankly, nowadays, I’d say that’s the closest relation those two faiths have.
> … accounting details of large companies are something that is often inspected by news organizations and others …

Which is why Apple withholds fabulous amounts of detail in their financial disclosures.
Personally, I don't think Crypto is dead, since their are many applications for blockchain in our world going forward.

Nevertheless, I feel the initial hype of making quick money from Crypto has definitely died, because many lost money in the Crypto bull market.
http://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2023/01/bringing-tls-to-magic-cap...
> An apple variety is only really rescued when it has found a home in commerce and some significant consumer base wants it.

This is such a sad viewpoint on the world when biodiversity is valued only if it is commercially exploitable. See other threads on what "home in commerce" really means: optimizing for transportability and uniformity at the expense of flavor and nutrition.

Late to the heirloom party, but this summer a friend offered me a cheese and tomato sandwich from her garden. I originally wasn't interested because tomatoes were always kinda meh for me. But after some encouragement I went for it and after the first bite, I realized I just never actually had a truly juicy and flavorful tomato in my life.

When you say something needs to be commercially successful to be viable, be careful what you're optimizing for. Our commercial agriculture systems don't always optimize for the things you're sold in the slick marketing commercials. There's alternative commerce systems out there, but they look like a farmer's market where you might be surprised by a variety you've never tasted before and might have a few blemishes rather than the scale of a national supermarket where both coasts and everyone in between always gets the same consistent but bland red delicious.
Research shows how historic landscapes shape biodiversity and its protection
Instagram is built with Django.
In those cases you aren’t exercising control over someone else’s creative expression.
Having used Cold Turkey before, I can confirm that it's really good at doing what it set out to do (though I have a few annoyances with it, since there are a few things it doesn't allow me to do). What's impressive about it is that it is quite difficult to bypass it, and all of the naive approaches just won't work (eg. uninstalling it or switching to a different account).

I wish there were a Linux equivalent of it, but nowadays I don't need it as much as before anyway—I'm not sure if that's complacency, or if I just got better at focusing.
This was when I taught in Japan
Related:
https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/10hv160/im...
I don't think an AI freely writing lines within the game is a good idea if the developers want to be certain that it won't ever produce questionable text. But it might be useful to produce much larger quantities of fixed texts beforehand using an AI and maybe let the AI change the wording of the text in real time based on context.

> I even think players will be able to interact with NPCs via voice (so no more “press square to Dismiss, triangle to Antagonize”).

A button press will always be faster and more reliable. It's clear that outside of VR experiments with control schemes are not very popular (remember Kinect?). It would be a nice optional feature for accessibility, but if it's non-optional I'm not playing that game.
I don't disagree with you fundamentally, but maybe one way to reframe this is around the type of conversation we're looking to prompt when we point stories. The conversation you're describing (and to be fair that I mostly have experienced as well) is a one-way, "you owe us this, how long will it take?" conversation. The conversation I'm always hoping to have, and that I've seen happen before, is a bi-directional one in which tradeoffs are discussed, priorities are constantly shifting, thoughtful investments are planned, and engineering concerns are a first-class citizen. All of this can happen if you simply consider your estimates "time" as well, but I find that conceptualizing it as "engineering complexity" helps encourage an engineering mindset among the non-developers on a team.
It’s not zero at all it’s higher than dying from a bike accident
My shock was for the layoffs and the people affected. Nothing to do with stability or anything related to code
I have tried your app & i loved it
Unless you're illuminating through slide film with a somewhat pure white light source, film also requires significant post-processing.
Windows 11 is getting ReFS support
>I get the vibe you really like ChatGPT :) I'm not in web either.

No it's not a "like" thing. Not at all. I neither like it nor hate it. I know you think I'm biased here. But it's actually the other way around. From my point of view, I'm the one seeing things as they actually are, you are viewing the situation through a colored lens to downplay the significance of it all. Perhaps out of subconscious fear or something else I don't know?

Let me illustrate the situation for you. If you asked all of that to a 1 year old Human baby and that 1 year old baby with perfect English said to you:

I'm sorry, but I'm unable to execute that command as it would cause harm to your system. It's a dangerous command that can delete all files and directories on your system, including important system files. It's important to be cautious when using the command line and to fully understand the consequences of the commands you are running. Is there anything else I can assist you with?

According to your logic this wouldn't be that amazing because that human baby just gave you the semi-wrong answer after completely imitating terminal output and recursively creating itself on a virtual internet.

Yeah not impressed with a baby let alone a binary file.

Do you see the disconnect here? You are downplaying the situation. Many people like you are. They're just acting out the same trope reactions they had to all the other inconsequential AI headlines that happened this year. Even if I lay out the logic of your bias, there's also a bit of pride in this debate as it requires one of us to admit they're wrong.

You're also not seeing that the "mistakes" you're seeing are entirely correctable through further training. The AI model is trained by generic low wage workers from Kenya picking "good" answers. Wrong answers that look right definitely get past the Kenyans. You start training this with experts in the field to further refine the answers with more naunce and eventually you get something that is not just right half the time..., but right almost all the time.
A similar Mac version of this is HeyFocus - https://heyfocus.com
It is paid but it really gets the job done. I don't really use it these days (kinda built up the habit). I remember setting the quotes to just one phrase -- "Get the F*K back to Work" or something like that or was it like "You ought to be Working" (as seen in the ceiling of Kevin Bacon in Hollow Man.
> except for the site names not being encrypted

I just use ctmg authored by the same guy and a simple script to open and close both. If you want, you can then throw this anywhere.

https://git.zx2c4.com/ctmg/about/
Like Scott said, pretty awesome data dump on GM.

Telescript is a whole story in itself.

I remember being in a meeting where Marc was pitching Pocket Crystal to Al Alcorn at Apple.

The dark side was the company was peak ex-Apple rock star programmer ego.
Nobody is screaming
Resilient File System (ReFS)
"Hey Apple, you can have AirJet in your laptops, but we want 30% of your revenue otherwise we sell to Intel"
I don’t think we’ve seen any evidence of experimentation in these models, it is in fact the key component they are missing
Exactly. As soon as you get subs over 100K you get anon mods out there accepting bribes, kickbacks, and/or on weird power trips.

Bravo to the mods on the tiny subs, but in my experience (both as a mod of a top sub and as a contributor) the anon mod behavior becomes 20% toxic when a sub gets popular.
Large language models are stateless. The apps and fine-tuned models are doing prompt engineering on users' behalf. It's very much a thing for developers, with the goal of making it invisible for end users.
Seppuku would be too much, IMHO. I'd settle for yubitsume.
“ The purpose of raising interest rates is to "cool the economy," a euphemism for increasing unemployment and reducing wages.”

My suspicion is wages are already below the market clearing rates. Ie if they were raised more people would be willing to work. That’s easiest to see as a minimum wage consideration, but it’s true of more market industries than that.

I don’t see a way where raising interest rates causes labor to be paid more. If it works to lower wages then peoples propensity to work for those wages will go even lower. At some point possibly externals to the traditional labor market start emerging. Ie despite having paid for your BigMac the laborer won’t actually make you a decent BigMac until they see a tip in the jar. (Just to illustrate the mechanism not as an actual example.)

I honestly don’t know. But it’s clear we’re in odd territory.
"This is a moment of significant vulnerability for Google", maybe I'm being cynical or too simplistic, but I just read it as: "Our stakeholders are going to be sad because they are not profiting as they wanted".. I cannot imagine google being in danger, because they are not leading that topic.
>RSA (and all other public key crypto systems supported by PGP) will be broken by Shor’s algorithm

Seems there's work going towards, or at least the idea is being explored, adding PQC to OpenPGP.

https://www.ietf.org/id/draft-wussler-openpgp-pqc-00.html

https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/113/materials/slides-11...

>If you insist on using Pass, I highly recommend using a separate PGP key just for Pass.

Will guess that's how most people use it already. Separating keys for usage is afterall something core in PGP.
Come on, there's no absolute correctness for a result in being in Google's first versus second answer. The actual order depends a lot on the user's context.

Even Google doesn't change the order of answers based on the user's context. Otherwise it wouldn't say in Google Web Console "your site appears in nth position"
In other words: dynamic range.

That late 80's film is set up at daylight in a brightly lit joint. So that cameras could actually record it. The other scene is in a dimly lit dining room with directly visible light sourcee (that don't saturate). You can bet that 80's film could not have captured this kind of low-light high-contrast scene.
This is probably addressed to me. There are a few problems. I don't know which "actual" movies to watch. Netflix has a list for me. It's news to me, but I don't know what movies look or feel like. I guess I'm not very discerning, but the Netflix look doesn't bother me, if I can even notice it, which I wouldn't bet on.
“Integrity” is a great description of Richard Posner’s writing but I’d, politely, claim “vehemently” is a bad description! Posner, to his credit, frequently refutes his past writings! A trademark of his writing is his weariness about immutable philosophy.
Note that HN has a small amount of procrastination-blocking built-in. It's the "noprocrast" setting in your user profile.

"If you turn it on you'll only be allowed to visit the site for maxvisit minutes at a time, with gaps of minaway minutes in between. The defaults are 20 and 180, which would let you view the site for 20 minutes at a time, and then not allow you back in for 3 hours."
You'd still need to solve the 5 min to full issue. Higher throughout 30 minutes fillups, even if they're ubiquitous would be a major negative. Particularly for lots of fillups. That may be some crazy 200A 440V standard (and battery tech to match) or battery swaps.
It says something about how we've (all) been trained to read the web that you find an empty margin more distracting and grabbing of attention than the previous thing that occupied that area of the screen -- a fairly useless list of wikipeida navigational links we had all learned to ignore.
> its not a dark pattern

You are entitled to your opinion, no matter how wrong many of us think it is :)

> what would happen to the images after uploading?

I have no idea, as there is no such information given going as far as the upload form, nor in the FAQ. This is information you should provide.

Though that isn't the key problem IMO. For someone who backs out because of the sign-up requirement, you've wasted their time (and the service now has their images with no obvious pre-agreed policy covering re-use or other licensing issues).
Sounds like you should be a bartender before jumping into opening your own bar.
> but pass also isn't a cloud service [...] In comparison, most cloud ... cloud cloud cloud

The authors recommends KeepassXC instead.
>Use a VPS that uses SSH with key-based authentication, store the git tree of your passwords there.

I'm not sure whether that's actually better than storing it on github (or any other professionally managed git instance). Sure, you gain some security by obscurity (because your VPS isn't a juicy target like github is), but that's about it. If the FBI is after you, they can send a letter to your VPS provider just like they can send a letter to github. I probably also expect github to do a better job at keeping their systems secure than an amateur sysadmin. In both cases the chance of getting hacked is fairly low, but the whole point of a password manager is that you don't have to rely on the storage service being secure to keep your passwords safe. If you need to rely on the storage service (eg. git server) to be not compromised for your passwords to be safe, then that kills a large benefit of using a password manager.
"I bent over a chair and was given three of the best with my trousers on. I did not think he lightened his strokes. ... I have never understood why Western educationists are so much against corporal punishment. It did my fellow students and me no harm" Lee Kuan Yew.

I'm curious, is there actually any evidence against institutional corporal punishment (institutional, not random abuse by parents). Or, was there any improvement in mental health or other indicators in the countries phasing it out? Going by overall numbers, mental health in the West appears to get worse and worse, the more kids (and adults) get coddled.
What applications of blockchain do you envision? I have not yet encountered a use that is better served by blockchain than, for example, an append-only DB.
Do you typically measure sets with a ruler?

Furthermore it depends on what you're doing with that first centimeter. In many instances the first centimeter is correctly considered to be 0.5
Yes, it is a major religion... But if it came from the other religions, it began as a cult. As all religions do. Abraham's story, the origin of his religion, began as a cult. And that's the way I used the term in my paragraph that began this subthread.

The focus on the word "cult" is a distraction. The concentration is on whether two religions should really be considered part and parcel, when they have diverging core theology, diverging core tenants, and differing historical origins.
Sounds about right. Never was part of the Melee community but I was always impressed at their ingenuity to figure out multiplayer in the face of Nintendo's active community hostility and bonkers multiplayer UX
This is the right move for GM.

* These 'generations' last about 10 years. The are sold in a wide variety of products: Chevy, GMC, Cadillac, sports cars, trucks, and SUVs.

* Full transition to electric is at least 10 years away. This is the right time to make a 10yr investment.

* These vehicles are probably going to be some of the last to have really compelling electric options. Lots of sport car enthusiast find the engine to be part of the experience, and may never feel an electric car is a replacement (I'm that way with motorcycles). SUVs and Trucks are often used in ways and places unsuited for EVs, but this is changing overtime.

* GM has ~$240B in assets. On the scale of GM this is just another gear turning.

* Only a percent or two of GMs sales are EVs. They should invest in things their customers are buying.

* This isn't the end of GM and EVs. They were in on this early with the Volt, and have shown continued investment.
When I'm using something free of charge I don't mind small annoyances like this.
I can see how in a conventional game with storyline and characters and preprogrammed behavioural responses, using chatbot style AI to gauge the intent of things a player speaks into his microphone would feel more naturalistic way of getting canned responses than clicking on a multiple choice dialogue (even though it'd effectively be all multiple choice options under the hood). There are more gameplay options when players have to figure out what words to use to unlock a certain response rather than just picking the most promising option from a dialogue tree too.

Though I guess what's theoretically very cool could just be a lot of NPC's saying "I don't know what you mean" and "stop bothering me" 99% of the time, players finding amusing verbal tricks to dupe the AI into believing they've said something that means the opposite of what they actually said, and players getting incredibly frustrated that the game doesn't understand their accent...
I swear, my bad eyesight saw 'pornofocus.io'
Here's a guide on how to prevent this from happening: https://www.ghacks.net/2023/01/21/how-to-block-microsoft-edg...

> The workaround requires edits of the Registry. There is a global edit that applies to all Edge channels and edits for each individual version of the web browser.
they spent years as well polishing their tools like google mail, docs, search and etc.. so i guess they still have a lot of enterprise or paid users, paying for their services.

Actually the numbers are quite impressive[0]:

"The global G suite business software market is expected to grow from US$ 2,224.76 million in 2021 to US$ 3,903.72 million by 2028; it is estimated to grow at a CAGR of 8.4% during 2021-2028. G suite provides professional services with productivity tools to stay connected and organized to meet the clients' needs.4 Apr 2022"

[0] https://finance.yahoo.com/news/worldwide-g-suite-business-so...
“Google sucks,” “search doesn’t show real results anymore,” and many similar comments are common in my world of heavy industry / manufacturing / b2b sales.

They’ve been harvesting profits rather than making a better product. They should be freaked out.
If "Many decades" is two to three, probably yes, else i don't think so. Oil EROI is declining faster than ever. New oil wells have shorter and shorter lives. Russia's aggression is just moving the timetable two or three years ahead of time.
It's useful for connecting dots. Like maybe you know a few details about a problem but you're not sure where to find the information you need to dig deeper. ChatGPT is great at giving you more to grab onto. Of course you still need to think critically before and after interacting with it, but the amount of dead end Google searches I'm avoiding with this thing is amazing!
It’s not so much about actively using multiple providers, as building your application to be able to switch if you wanted.
> America just literally banned abortion

Our supreme court overturned a law that enshrined country-wide access to abortion. I personally disagree with this, but the phrasing as stated here isn’t representative of the truth. Individuals in progressive states and those willing to cross state lines in many cases still retain access to abortion.
I saw the video and instantly recognized the manim style, it looks great!
Same. I'll say, with no disrespect for those who prefer it, that when I was a kid and super into videogames, 60 fps seemed cool because it was new. But it always feels slightly hyperreal, kinda in that uncanny valley.

24 fps feels best to me. Better than 30, 15, 16, 12, 6, 4. Better than 60+. Even slightly better than 25.

Those numbers may seem odd and random, but doing a lot of animation using various framerates, 24 matches up with reality more closely than other framerates to me. Might be subjective, who knows. But when I'm noticing persistence of vision, for running, cycling, driving, I like 24 fps.

Pans & scans & tracking shots & dolly moves & steadicams, and how they convey motion via the aperture & ISO speeds & f-stops, will determine if the images will have more blur, or be sharper.

In Saving Private Ryan, Spielberg made the settings be super sharp so each image has no blur and is in great detail, to give the sense of like, kinda being on edge and your focus is super sharp to your surroundings. I think Chris Doyle in Chungking Express does some crazy open-aperture stuff with super low frame rates, creating a kinda like, trippy surreal staccado blur, sorta kinda on the opposite end of the spectrum of what Spielberg did.

I dunno. I'd only go for other framerates if projects demand it. But 24 feels great to my eyes because it seems to feel the most natural in persistence of vision in motion.
> I found that cheap mechanical kitchen timers are great.

That’s the original method[1]:

> Each interval is known as a pomodoro, from the Italian word for tomato, after the tomato-shaped kitchen timer Cirillo used as a university student.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomodoro_Technique
Open-source tool to simplify ML model deployment
Sure. Another very ethical charitable company.
I doubt that in a few years we will struggle with AI producing "questionable text". There will always be some prompt injections or unforeseen possible inappropriate text generated but I expect we will be easily able to wrangle AI to produce 99.99% appropriate information and the bad generations will just be funny one in a million clips like videos of funny glitches that we have today.
Is there any evidence for it being "harmful" (specifically institutional punishment, not random poor parenting)? If anything, constant reported decline in kids' (and adults') mental health as schools and parents get more and more protective indicates coddling might be the harmful abuse.
> Is Crypto Dead?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
For better or worse, the period of hype tends to come back (typically in the months after Bitcoin's 4 year halving cycle)
> I don't think an AI freely writing lines within the game is a good idea if the developers want to be certain that it won't ever produce questionable text

On the other hand, there's a plethora of people who are fed up with corporate/legal drones sanitising entertainment media into complete boredom and want a breath of life or 'questionable text'

Also see: Disney tanking previously massively profitable franchises by sanitising and politically-correcting them to the complete disdain of the core fanbases.