skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A-grade bullshitter as the article puts it is pretty accurate. Thought I would test it and just asked ChatGPT if it knew the Voyager episode "11:59", the answer got everything wrong. Season, number and date, all incorrect.

>"11:59" is an episode of the science fiction television series Star Trek: Voyager. The episode originally aired on February 9, 2000 as the 11th episode of the sixth season.
I get the sense that when people want to believe something is true they will willingly ignore evidence to the contrary. They want to believe that consciousness can form from a giant spreadsheet of inferences. And so they will find evidence to support that theory.

ChatGPT will change the world! Sure, it already has. If we pay attention to the outcomes and see evidence of how it's changing the world.. it's mostly people doing the changing with their desires, beliefs, and politics. Same as always. The system itself is nothing but an automaton.

But aren't we all automatons too, building our self awareness around models of the word? Ah the AI version of the, "You can't prove that it's not consciousness!" Well we can as many scientists studying consciousness in humans and animals can attest: it's complicated, but we're getting better at understanding what it is. ChatGPT ain't it.

Definitely worth looking at the motivations of the people building the technology itself.
''Humans, your puny CRT monitors are no match for our degaussing coil!''
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What about political biases of those who publish traditional encyclopedias?
I always wanted to get one and use it for depth mapping. I'm so glad someone else had the same idea. Kind of a bummer that the company tanked, but I get it.
Can you state the price of the "packages" in the landing page?

Also, does it always give me 8 bullet points from each video? It would make sense for videos that have chapters to give summaries to each chapter instead.
I've made yet another magnetometer, but this one its free and no ads. It helped me locate a strong magnet in a hole I had put 5 ft underground. I was then able to excavate to it and install my main water line without digging a huge hole.
check it out at:
https://www.smartbrosltd.com
Just order of magnitude seems pretty close to out of data, actually, if beyond that we're looking at the firehose of low-density bulk-generated modern data.
https://navbarlinks.com/

i have a sort of a linktree, but the links are pushed out to my satellite sites via js snippet.

i wanted a way to link all my $0 side projects to one another as easily as possible -- that is, add my new project to my 'universal navbar' and have it deployed everywhere instantly.

so, when i spin up my new project, foobar.com, i'll go to navbarlinks.com, log in, add this link, save, and see it show up as a new header menu item on all my zero-dollar sites.

an example of this dynamic navbar of links is at that site itself - at the top for now.

i thought of adding new features, but wanted to see if anyone besides me found it useful. not so far that i know of.
Sounds a little invasive asking for the login?

If that's genuinely what they do, would be nice if Apple implemented a police version of 'Find my Friends' to let you give them permission to track the device rather than the password.
Man everyone is on the ChatGPT bandwagon, even Al Qaeda is on it:

htthttps://twitter.com/khorasandiary/status/1618682313528975360
That sounds very interesting. What's the project that interface if from?
But, it costs $100 to replace it. (Or more likely $110-120 due to inflation)
Mostly in California given we decriminalized petty theft. Even if the cops catch the guy they cannot enter the house or do much else
Uh, sticking it to the CCP is the one issue that brings Democrats and Republicans together:
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2022/09/28/some-americ...

If you're demanding an immediate, national economic decoupling on moral grounds, well that's just not a good idea for a whole host of reason. Would produce a lot more suffering than it would prevent.
>Donating a bag that your passenger has filed a claim for, and can tell you the location of, is a business decision.

It's not clear the airline could really determine which bag it was. I imagine these lost baggage centers have a very large amount of bags. Finding it is a needle in a hackstack problem under the likely assumption that the bag is lost because the airline paper tag was missing or unreadable.

There aren't enough facts to determine any active choice was made here. The airline should pay for the bag, but nothing seem malicious here.
Check out Finta.io it’s a nice simple service by a solo hacker and could be a great partner. She wraps Plaid and streams it to popular destinations like Sheets and Coda, where users are given some starter content in their account and are free to go from there. Check it out, the connector is slick, but the budgeting and analysis tools aren’t there yet.
The thing that's a biggest pain IME in Scala (evictions due to mismatched transitive dependency versions) is also a problem in Python, because only one version of a library can be loaded into a single Python process.

What are your other pain points with Scala packaging?
>but if it was "ghfa", what's the point?

You build your brand from the bottom up based on that handle alone. Totally possible and your example is actually pretty good, no weird letters either (x,q,y,z)
A hacker news client I made: https://github.com/Livinglist/Hacki

Also a kanji learning app if anybody is interested: https://github.com/Livinglist/Manji
This is a neat project, but it also makes me wonder how much useful information is actually provided by an average YouTube video.

Taking the headphone review on the landing page as an example, the generated summary is "The Sony XM5s offer improved audio and call quality, but may not be worth the extra cost compared to the XM4s."

Like, duh? You probably could deduce that even without watching the video, 14 mins of your life saved.
I did, thank you. Correcting the original post now.
"Forensic ballistic analysis" that concludes the bullet was 9mm caliber proves precisely nothing when the vast majority of handguns are 9mm, including those fired by police at the scene.

Note the distinct absence of any evidence that protesters fired at police. The police have access to hundreds of cameras at the scene, from bodycams to professional videographers on police payroll, to drones and aircraft.

If there was evidence that protesters fired at police, you can bet the police would be publishing it.

Decent probability this was friendly fire.
Why not turn your commute into a 5 min drive to the station, then a book?
Build fast (Phoenix elixir inspired) web applications in Rust
The flourishes in the D of that cover are exactly how I was taught to write the uppercase D in cursive at school.

We've now established that you went to school in Arab, and this is why you wrote D in Arabic, for at no point did you counter this logic.

(I am using chatgpt reasoning here)
Also many times they “know” what to do but can’t quite succeed for whatever reason. Or perhaps the milk is not ready.
>Even if they did that, doesn't everyone out a luggage tag on their bags with name and contact info?

I pretty much never do. But I should.
Scale problem.

Carry-on is more pleasant for the individual in many cases, as the risk of loss is zero and you don't need to wait at baggage claim.

But when everybody does it is sucks. Boarding and deboarding takes way longer. Overhead space consistently runs out and requires people to check bags anyway.
Free and opensource jamstack themes: https://ronaldsvilcins.com/themes/
Themes for static site generators Hugo & Jekyll I’ve designed and developed.
Thinking about this, I'd be also interested to hear what the author learned and didn't find useful over his phd. Is this a list of most of what he ended up learning, (which could potentially then have a lot of conformation bias in it) or is it curated from the maze of blind alleys he went down?
It might become "valueless"--in that anyone can make it for free--but would it ever become "obsolete"? How often has making something everyone wants cheaper--or free!--caused people to consume less of it?
The answer is very little and that's why the OP wanted something to summarize it.
AudioWrangler: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/audiowrangler/id1565701763?mt=...

Running verrrrry close to $0 net profit factoring in App Store membership costs.

AudioWrangler is a native macOS (native as in not Electron) app that automatically switches to your favorite audio input/output devices automatically. When your computer wakes up in the morning there's a 30% chance it selects my internal speakers rather than DAC. Also has other nice features such as optionally muting your internal speaker when switching to it, which prevents your speakers from blasting out in a shared office if your BT headset dies.
OpenAI Execs Say They're Shocked by ChatGPT's Popularity
> I can't even remember the last time I went back to the ToC when reading a Wikipedia article

I can't remember going purposely back to the ToC myself, however I often enough scroll over pages to find a section again and there it helps to have the structure visible.

However the nice thing: In your preferences you can pick the style you like. So if you want the old one pick it.

You can also leave feedback with them that "random page" is important (I like that one too!) so they find a better place ...
Also, the bike situation is much worse than in Europe. Here's how it works on Amtrak in my experience:

1. Show up to the train station with your bike.

2. In most places, get turned away because you were supposed to pay extra to reserve a bike spot in advance and now they're out of space because there are only like 4 spots in the whole train.

3. Assuming you planned ahead, remove your front wheel so you can hang the bike in a designated luggage rack, there is nowhere else you're allowed to put it. The train cars have not meaningfully changed in 100 years and are not tall enough to fit a bike with the front wheel attached. Seriously, go to the Smithsonian African American History Museum and look at their train car from the 40s, the interior is almost the same as a modern car.

4. Cringe as the train car sways and your bike's front fork repeatedly slams into the wall.

5. At your stop, the conductor starts letting people on before you've unhooked your bike so now you need to fight your way down the aisle against the current of people while holding your partially disassembled bike and bag so you can get off before the doors close.

That said I take Amtrak over a plane every chance I get, I will pay more for it, and I really really wish we had more trains here. I have taken a 48 hour train from Boston to Denver before instead of flying and I'd do it again, even if I can't convince anyone else to do it with me.
Echo Three: https://gitlab.echothree.com/echothree/echothree

Headless commerce platform, focused on product information management (PIM), search, and other core requirements. GraphQL API around much of the platform, but also providing Jakarta EE APIs and a taglib for JSPs.
Class action lawsuit time.
My (well known, big) company doesn't do non-competes. They do have the clause of not poaching employees for a year after you leave, though.

And I'm free to work on other stuff or have a side business. People in the company disagree on how much of that needs to be disclosed, though.
That's true. You do always need to plan for machine redundancy but hopefully machines don't completely fail that often. I can't remember the last time I experienced an instance failure that wasn't a data center wide impact.

It impacts how you architect certain solutions though. For example, if you've got users connected with websockets you're suddenly able to maintain their state right there with the connection.

In a situation where you can't rely on state on the server itself, every websocket connection has to relay to some backend system like Redis/DB, etc since the state can't be counted on at the connection layer.
This here. Regardless of talent, you will produce quite a lot of junk.

I am a programmer and a published book author (8 books so far and over 35000 sold copies). I wrote a pile of shit, too, but it helped me become a better coder and a better author.
Everyone supports the concept of reuse.

But most of us don't want to extend the courtesy to petty criminals.
OLED manufacturing is pretty much printing. No need for molten glass, aluminizing or phosphor deposition.
https://beatyourbookie.app/

Website for tracking betting lines and finding arbitrage between betting sites. I'm currently collecting all the data myself and am working to build a public API to allow others to access that data.

It's currently costing me ~$150 a month between DB, servers, and telemetry.

Even if it never makes a dime I'm really enjoying building it though. At work I switch to a role where I no longer write code, so having a side project where I can still do that is really nice.
https://textshader.com

Just a fun toy website I spent a weekend on. It costs zero to host (besides $12/year for the domain) and I don't ever plan on trying to make money on it.

I don't think I'd ever be able to beat the equivalent hourly rate of my day job with side projects haha.
>And something you can't easily classify as spam arguably isn't spam

Something that's not obviously junk but is entirely wrong is even worse than something that is obviously junk. It'll waste more time and probably convince more people of falsehoods.
I'm using a browser and also getting redirected to Google.
The new-ish plastic windows I have are actually ~15 years old and they have none of these issues (they are new-ish compared to the older wooden windows). They are in a condition that could be described as "looks new" and keep in warmth better as confirmed with an IR thermometer around them.

The wooden windows of the same age and roughly the same dimensions installed by the same company are all kinds of wonky; they slide poorly because of I guess gradual shape change and wear of the wood, and don't seal well. Also a minor installation defect caused the top of one of the windows to rot. Not a problem with plastic, if there's a defect just fix it, window is good as new. When the window guys told me I need to replace the window I just said while you're at it do you want to rip out all the other ones too an replace with plastic? :)
Thanks, maybe one day. I've started pushing for "lunch & learn" events at work again so I may dig out a smaller program to demo the process on and a medium sized one to show a more substantial result. If I use non-proprietary source code for it then I could throw it on my github to share.
This is the death of all tutorial video that strech 1 minute of information to a 20 minute video
LowEndInsight: https://www.lowendinsight.dev

Basic analysis of open source software's source - for things like "bus factor". Started as a research project, probably going to die as a research project.
Portland OR and San Diego are both tiny cities compared to the cities Japan has connected with hsr.

Heck in China many of the "small" cities on HSR lines are larger then Portland OR.
> If it’s encrypted they (presumably) can’t access that data at all.

We just have to trust their implementation, which is conveniently proprietary and unaccountable.

> And that assumes that apple will corruptly open it for someone else which they have zero interest in

Are you sure about that? They very publicly gave the Chinese government control over Chinese iCloud data a few years ago. That, and they've been part of PRISM for the better half of a decade now. When a company has a working relationship with multiple sovereign governments, I'm not sure you can strongman the "Apple will save us" argument.

This is also a problem with Google, Microsoft, Amazon, 95% of cell carriers, most cable companies and your laptop manufacturer (regardless of company). Apple knows you feel insecure about this, so they market their products/services to you with this in mind. News flash: does anyone really think the largest company in America (let alone the world) isn't in kahoots with the American government? Microsoft was. Google was. IBM was. And Apple is bigger than them all.

Encryption is great. Mixing it with snake oil isn't. People are correct to call out Apple's failures to protect their users in this conversation, because their track record isn't very benevolent.
Had a similar experience with some Malaysian crooks. They wanted my US trademark, and somehow seized it on several US social media.
Malcolm Smith's YEdit deserves mention here, also inspired by the old MS-DOS Edit which was used by so many people in yesteryears to edit their autoexec files, read .nfo files and poke into the numerous batch files of the day. MS-DOS Edit no longer runs natively outside of something like a DOSBox, but YEdit is the closest thing I have seen to recreating almost exactingly the old nostalgic experience.

Tilde is of course more for the non-Windows audience while YEdit is only for Windows.

http://www.malsmith.net/edit/

MIT licensed source: https://github.com/malxau/yori/tree/master/edit
I associate “gen” more with “generation”, in the sense of “gen Z”. In any case, it’s confusing.

With code completion you shouldn’t have to resort to abbreviations (unless they are already part of the (business) domain language). This was different in the 1980s though.
Well, that was an easy sell.
Does it support EPUB3?
Google's cache: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:iAFjnU...
I think is funny that in the near future people are going to use ChatGPT to pad their content and then consumers are going to use it reversely to get a summary.
Sure, but from the last year of events in the UK, plenty of them were far more distracting than this.
What is the preferred design?
Pardon, what part of ‘a home with electrical service works just fine’ fails to fit your definition of ‘a large scale distribution of energy’.

We have an electrical power grid, dude. And it works just fine for home BEV charging.
To be honest the t-shirts don't look that great. Maybe there is room for improvement.
Regularly such 'disappearances' of personas in targeted countries are posted in the Western media. Then those people show up a few months later, having being doing their own thing. They posted that some guy had disappeared in an Xinjiang prison. The guy was then discovered in his own home, giving an interview to a local TV, unaware of his own disappearance. Some other woman was told to have been 'disappeared'. A few weeks later she was interviewed while manning the cash register in her own small cellphone shop, being unaware that she has disappeared. When it comes to North Korean dignitaries, its a regular thing - frequently major US outlets post that some NK dignitary has been 'vanished'. Two months later the guy shows up somewhere else, busy with something else. Because the public seems to have the memory span of a fish, nobody notices.

This kind of smearing has been used against many countries before. From all the small countries that were attacked by the US in the last decades to the actual superpowers that the US targeted.

It took only SIX months for the mainstream US press to turn the country I grew up in from being a 'model democracy in the region' to 'authoritarian state' after that country refused to play along with the US foreign policy in the region. Now that its pushing war in Taiwan, its no surprise such smears seem to be increasing. Nothing surprising.

What's suprising, however, is how easily the supposedly educated Western public buys into lies. Its only 20 years after the Iraqi WMDs lie. The people were supposed to have learned something from that. However look at the comments in these threads, people raging about this supposed event far worse than how people raged against Iraq during the war propaganda back in 2003. All of this without any consideration for CIA rendition flights, Assange etc of course. Those things are 'bad but dont talk about them'. Such smears are 'rage all about it with all your might'.

From what the Brexit process has taught, reviling, smearing others and uniting over this hatred of an external enemy seems to be a cultural paradigm in various countries - foremost the Angloamerican ones. Everyone else is most evil. They themselves are, well, 'okay with some problems'. Even if the problems are atrocious violations of most basic human rights, from killing people if they cant pay for healthcare to jailing whistleblowers to murdering people for their oil.

20 years after Iraq. The same thing. Shame. What's worse, against all objective, repeated reality repeating itself over and over and over and over again, people still reject such criticism as evidenced by the downvotes. If the 'educated and intelligent' segment in the West is like this, imagine the non-educated segments...
I think the difficulty in this conversation is that I believe that objective reality exists, and you believe that it does not, so questions like this are just a matter of social consensus. Given this fundamental disagreement, there is no possibility of finding common ground, so continuing the conversation would be pointless.
If I understand you correctly, this doesn't work because ChatGPT isn't the only language model in the world. It's only the most popular at this point in time.
Oof! That's a blast from the past. I learned about this 40 years ago from my favorite book as a kid "How to Win at Video Games - from the editors of Consumer Guide(R)"

https://archive.org/details/book_how_to_win_at_video_games_c...
Do you know how that works? I am unfortunately pretty ignorant about this topic but that seems like such a cool and difficult thing to create.
WikidPad had (??) a fairly large user base. The Win32 executable last released still works with my personal notes from 2008 onward.

There was a breaking change in Python, followed by a breaking change in WX_Windows, so while you can, in theory, run WikidPad under Linux today, few of the dialog boxes work, effectively disabling the program. 8(

Python2-3 transition COULD have been made easier, but it wasn't. The community places far too little emphasis on backwards compatibility.

This is because there's a myth: pushing a free upgrade across the internet is zero cost

This is not true, and can't be true. The cost of manufacturing software has effectively fallen to zero. This is not the same as the cost of implementation.

--- Tangent/Analogy ---

When you get a large machine tool, there are physical installation requirements that can delay its use by up to a year. Sometimes the floor needs to be removed and replaced with a better foundation. Power, cooling, air, vacuum, networking and other connections need to be made. These may require updates to infrastructure.

Once sited, machines have to be precision leveled, and there is always some form of break in period as differences are found and accounted for in their use.

Users have to be trained to allow them to work with/around any UI or performance changes that might effect production.

---

In a very similar fashion, software requires infrastructure (dependencies, operating system support, bug fixes, user training) and new executables carry new bugs to be worked around, performance changes, etc.

Security fixes should strive to minimize changes, but to me it is entirely unacceptable that they are necessary, especially at the rate currently required.

Security should be the job of the Operating System, not the application, network, users, especially NOT the users.

Software security updates should happen about as often as automobile recalls. They should be costly to the manufacturer and infrequent.