skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those are just plain wrong. It's like talking about "English alphabets". There's only one. What they mean is "hiragana characters", etc.
I had a similar idea and wrote about it about a year ago:

https://ethan.id/writing/enguhlishishness/

Another idea I think goes along with this theme: separating the quality of the idea from the quality of the writing. It’s surprisingly difficult to do consistently, and I always try to remind myself to treat the two separately.
I've never understood how to add "layers" when training a neural network. For example, I could train a model on historical home prices by area + date/time, but I'd also like to add for example, the unemployment rate, the trailing rate of inflation past 12 months, the current 30 year mortgage rate for the time, etc.
All these needle shaped rockets by students/amateurs make me wonder since I've seen flat shaped drones go vertical at incredible speed if there might be another way to use vertical lift at least within the atmosphere using millisecond reaction controllers.

The needle shape really limits payload. If it could be wider but use the outer surface as some kind of physics trick to multiply lift, that could change everything.

Mass weight still is a factor but would allow a wider range of payload shapes.
Nothing about my comment implies they’d have to. The US just wants supply chain security and availability. That can be done by TSMC factories in the US regardless of where else they have factories.
WASM does not support capability based security that is something of an extension to the WASI proposal.

And even then the security stuff is based on previously existing work in the cloud space. Which has existed for some time but is not widespread.
I expect in a few years we will have versions that are both more accurate, and can cite their answers / do real research.
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While code gives you a correct understanding of the state of the system, it doesn't give you any understanding of why the system is in that state. That's the point from the OP. Code tells you what a system is doing, not why it was designed to be that way. Comments that try and explain what a system is doing can absolutely be wrong and therefore problematic, but there's no way for code to convey the context in which it was implemented a particular way, which is what comments are for.

Code without comments only gives half the story. It gives you the what, not the why.
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> "Every time we use machine learning to improve the consumer experience, things got really good really quickly."

[Citation needed]
“Writing the code is not the real problem, understanding what code should be written is the real challenge.”

This seems like more of a surprise to 1990s-2020s IT designers and developers than it should be. The legacy of IT development from 1910s-1980s turned out to be a grand exercise in free systems engineering/requirements development for the Personal Computer/Smartphone era. Microsoft/Apple/IBM PC/Blackberry/etc. rode on the backs of all those fielded legacy systems that had to figure out from scratch what people wanted and how to successfully meet those needs. What was needed in the last 30 years was already sketched out and validated in the Big Iron/landline era. Moore’s law and the like from the 1990s did mean some new doors/new solutions were possible, but the requirements “walls and ceilings” were already architected and validated for the post-90s players by their IT forebears.

AI tech does not have the same advantages. AI in 2020 is at the stage of development that computers were in the 1950s. In the 1950s, the big question was is a computer just a big punched card sorter; if not, what else can it be? To answer that question in the 1950s-1980s took a lot of systems engineering and prototype (in the guise of early production) development. The 90s-20s developers could simply exploit all that hard-won early insight and so we got the “nanosecond Nineties” where you could quickly develop new products with less fumbling around determining what needs were actually important to meet.

AI…welcome to the fumbling 1950s. Probably won’t need the pocket protectors, crew cuts and button-down shirts this time.
I quit reading several years ago. Thier focus on walkabilty is good, but they also talk about how suburbs are not sustainable (or did then, and others seem to imply still do), and that position does not add up.
I really like this idea! I definitely think this product has some potential. A few quick questions:

1. Does this integrate with the filesystem (specifically with MacOS) or iCloud Drive?
2. Are there any future plans to integrate with iMessage? While perhaps less important to enterprises, I feel like this could be very useful for “prosumer” productivity tool users like myself.
3. Are there any future plans for a mobile app (specifically on iPhone).

I’m excited to try this product out. Congrats on your launch!!
How did you build the database? Were you able to piggy back off of existing efforts or did you go vendor to vendor, scraping your way?

Journey of a thousand miles and all that, but building the inventory feels like the most vital, yet boring part of the entire endeavor.
I guess I always assumed that big-vocabulary is a sort of classism. It's no secret that people think that those who use large words and complex sentences see themselves as superior (e.g the atlantic).

I know so many people who are very emotionally invested in "correct" grammar/english (semicolons, their/there, oxford comma) but only up to the point that they know and then are annoyed by those who take it 10% further than they.
They've definitely added the San Francisco morality layer. It gives generic response written by a mediocre NYT journalist.
The prompts that made it simulate command line systems don't work as well anymore. It still does it but the output is more terse, for example 'ls' just produces a plain list of a couple filenames instead of a full one with sizes and permissions.

Still very useful for churning out bureaucratic bullshit. Yesterday my wife had to write text justifying why a bunch of professors were qualified to teach the subjects they have been teaching for years. Prompting chatgpt with a couple lines from their resumes and the subject names produced 90% usable results.
Modern HVAC and insulation has it all wrong by focusing on air temperature. You want warm floors with high thermal mass.
Ah well, my HN pattern recognition fails again. I give up - I know nothing :)
This. I've had one pay cut in my career, and it immediately made me just up and leave. I don't know why one would tolerate such a thing, unless there was significant up-side still on the table.
It sounds to me like the magic is quite simply fading. Tends to happen with fads. In addition, openai is selling the product and the product is being integrated in other products. I could see Google prioritizing getting a major license from openai, ai prioritizing making that happen and google working to integrate everything.
Mr. Graham's article reads like a child's blog post. It's an attempted philosophical appeal with supporting details that consist of pure opinion. I think it can be summarized as an appeal to Paul Graham's authority, were that an established logical fallacy.

Having read a lot of Paul Graham's shit over the years-links in HackerNews, I get the impression that this guy just likes to write for the sake of writing. But it makes me ask: why does his stuff consistently make it to the top of HN?

Were it anyone else, the comment section would be rife with the ilk (pardon my unsimple Scottish!) of, "Why does this site not have a valid SSL certificate?"
My understanding is that the semiconductor supply chain is hyper-globalized with many steps in the process being so enormously capital-intensive that only a single firm can produce them at scale, the firms producing these various steps are widely distributed geographically, and each step is nearly useless if any step is missing.

And I wouldn’t just be worried about something simple and direct like “the United States losing influence over Taiwan’s semiconductor industry.” The concern is more like “the United States losing its global influence and thus its ability to almost unilaterally enforce a particular global order including (among other things) relatively safe global ocean freight.”
Good writing is hard. Word choice is more about style and vibe than good writing.

For example, I can tell from your first paragraph that the character is a little boring, a bit plan. They get to the point and don’t have time to mess around. The character in your second paragraph is a pompous ass, they think highly of themselves, perhaps love to hear themselves think. Like a teenager who discovered depth and can’t wait to tell everyone.

Both can be fine. It depends.

Personally I like it when authors have something to say and don’t hide behind grand flourishes. Use the big words where they shine, stand out, and make a point. Let your story do the work, not your words.

But that’s me. Some people like to slug it out with the author in page after page of inscrutable prose. Hell, just look at Ulysses.

edit:

You can use variations in style also. A character that talks like your second paragraph, but when their grandma asks about the room they go "It was green." Oooof sizzle. Drama! What happened here!? Tell me more.
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It still generates wrong answers for square roots.

It's got real close, within one integer of the correct answer. When pressed it adjusted the answer slightly (in the wrong direction), and then when pressed further it gave an utterly nonsense answer an order of magnitude off.
Would be cool if they allowed users (at least the paying ones) to edit the base prompt.
There is a difference between you writing code for library and general purpose app. When you write code for an app, you are bound to change the code frequently than you are writing code for library, so while I think there could be merit in putting comments for library, i dont think it will counter productive to write comment for your app code, as it is pain in the wrong side to keep both code and comment consistent
Yes, I noticed the decline in quality yesterday with these:

1. The answers got very concise, maybe even curt.

2. It cited books that didn't exist as references.

As for speed, I don't notice any difference. It may be due to my timezone being different from most English speakers.
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This is a joke before anyone gets too worked up. The algo is a simple one which goes and replaces random words with their synonyms.

It will obviously beat these AI detectors but the output isn't probably what you would want.

The point stands though that more sophisticated approaches that rephrase or mix up the word distribution will be able to throw off the detector and it should not be relied on exclusively for, say, checking if a student assignment is AI generated.
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This happens to me with other music apps so I always assumed it was an Apple limitation
Just onboarded an app and had to go trough a fairly arbitrary verification process for weeks. Does not feel safe at all specially if you use their subscription. Are there good alternatives for SaaS payments?
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Absolutely. If you were to survey, I would fall much more closely on the "don't comment code" side of things. But if you have documentation for your project, keep it close to the project. That's all.
I'm not sure why it would, if the questions asked of it are as anodyne as OP's example.

This week I got ChatGPT to write me several poems about burning down buildings, discussed DIY breeder reactors with it, as well as the synthesis of psychedelic drugs. It was downright artful in the poem about the arsonist, too, so I don't think it clams up when it gets near a "danger zone" topic.
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Even his own article about writing simply used the word “expend” in the third sentence. Maybe I’m an indian hillybilly but that sounds quite non-simple to me lol.
The burning sensation of "spicy" things is not mediated by "taste buds".

For more information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemesthesis
The default "Adam" voice sounds life like, but I wouldn't call him "conversational/clear". He sounds too forceful and dramatic like he belongs in a cartoon.
While avoiding the allocation (and potential memory fragmentation) is probably nice, I bet the main benefit is memory locality.
Not every thought one decides to collect on their personal website has to be peer-reviewed and well-researched, you know?

It is hilariously dismissive to label someone's own ideas as pseudo intellectual because you don't agree with them, and they aren't coming with a bibliography.
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If that's true, please count me as pseudo intellectual also, because pg is one of the smartest people I've met and I continue to be in awe of how his mind works. I know it's silly to post such a thing, as the bias/conflict of interest is obvious and it will inevitably come across wrong—but I've thought and said this long before I met pg or had any connection to YC, so if there's a causal arrow it goes the other way.

People have had this kind of reaction to his writing for 20 years now and I've been puzzling about why for a long time, because even though I often don't agree with him (sometimes I disagree, more often I have no opinion), I wish I could write like him and know of few other writers who come close.

My current take: I think pg's unusual quality is that he thinks for himself. It used to be a truism that one should "think for oneself" (and even "question authority"!)—not so much anymore—but although we all tell ourselves we do that, mostly we don't. We mostly repeat things we've cobbled from other sources, usually sources tagged as authorities in our minds (and usually also in the culture at large). If you cobble from enough sources and have a bit of taste, that's the sweet spot for getting a good reception. You'll come across as clever and creative, but not weird, because you haven't left the tribe.

When encountering someone who actually does think for himself, the reaction is often a WTF. How dare he do that! Where are the citations?! Thinking-for-self stands out, not in a good way—and in pg's case the ruthless editing makes it stand out starkly. It's off-putting. The reaction isn't "hey, what would it be like if I thought for myself?" It's "hey, you can't do that."

The "rich and famous" aspect is a red herring because pg was this way long before he got rich and famous (except Lisp-famous), and it was by this quality that he got rich... that plus a lot of energy. But the rich-and-famous aspect intensifies the WTF reaction. It's no longer just "how dare you", it's "how dare that rich motherfucker" - which again, gets the causality the wrong way.

I know this sounds harsh about the cobbler type but I know these things by tracking them in myself—I'm no different. The funny thing is that one can notice such things and still feel perfectly sure about "thinking for yourself" or whatever else it is.
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On another note BBC Hausa service is facing mass resignation due to the newly opened TRT Hausa service (Turkey) promising the staff the BBC staff freedom to report positive News about Africa, unlike the BBC that only wants them to report negative and News about war and underdevelopment.
This is profoundly intense.

For all those experience seekers taking psychedelics (or really any substance/drug), it's worth remembering "The Iron Law of Exactly Enough":

"O seekers, I am here to remind you of a truism of drug experiences, which I call the Iron Law of Exactly Enough. It goes as follows. If you have a wonderful experience with a substance—whether it’s caffeine, a martini, or a pill in Ibiza—and it’s absolutely perfect, but you want just a little more of that perfect experience, don’t. Don’t do more, don’t chase it. Be very happy that your trip to the Substance Lottery has gone this way."
It seems some people just cant live without censorship being applied everywhere around them. If government isnt doing it or by proxy - social media sites, then some users themselves find they need to replace that hole in their life. How can ones day be complete, if nobody hasnt been canceled or shut down or deleted. So amaze. Wow. I am proud of you, Big Boss.
I figured that was to quickly drive the point home. Maybe I'm giving more credit to PG than is due, but that paragraph seemed tongue-in-cheek. I feel it would be hard for anyone to miss the irony.
I believe the magnetic head has to float over the surface using some gas, helium allows it to get closer than regular air so it can read/write at higher density?

If it becomes a vacuum or replaced by air, helium drives will fail.
The first makes me think of a plain green room. The second makes me think of the author.
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Nobody told you to dumb down poetry or artistic prose in which complex word usage conveys artistic meaning. Don't act oppressed because someone says we should consider the accessibility of our writing. If your writing conveys information and ideas that can be expressed simply, purple prose is probably an unwanted distraction for native speakers and an unnecessary barrier for non-native speakers. Use the right tools for the task.
It’s a vague sentiment and unapologetically anecdotalat best. I can see the economic incentives from (more anecdotal) recent OpenAI publications, specifically that (A) its hit the main stream and (B) CEO said they “need to figure out how to monetize it because the monthly bill is eye watering.”
Sqlite is the most popular database in the world by a large margin. While you are correct for those who use other databases, the majority case you are wrong.

Of course most people who have complex queries are probably not using sqlite and so may not care about testing the database.
The obsession people seem to have with squashing commits in git (particularly on merge) means they're right, you can't really rely on commit messages still containing relevant information.
Speaking of TLoU, I've tried watching it but it's so overwrought and sentimental. I feel nothing for the characters at all, it's like they're cardboard or the creators set out to create something but had nothing to say. Can't say I liked EP3, started out great but jesus they might as well have had cue cards for feelings.

The fans sure don't like you saying that though.
Pat did something similar at vmware. Froze hiring, promotion, raises, 401k matching, etc, etc. for a year, got himself an 80% pay raise for how well the company did, unfroze all that and fled to Intel. (The kicker is that vmware didn't compensate for the lost money and matching in the next evaluation cycle.)

I'm shocked that it has taken him this long to nickle-and-dime Intel's remaining employees to keep his pockets lined.
His stuff didn't even break 10,000 feet.
This makes me think of confluence search. Maybe you can ingest confluence docs and make this a way for admins and users to interact with corporate docs.
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The last few times I’ve tried to use it the free site has been super slow or just outright inaccessible.

I think now that they’re rate limiting and asking for money, the short intense high that people got from this is starting to wear off. It’s like when you finish a box of whippets and you are faced with the reality that you’ll have to actually go to the store and spend money to buy more if you want to keep doing them.

It was a lot of fun as a free toy, but the reality of its limitations had to become apparent eventually.

edit: The phrase “29 billion dollar fidget spinner” comes to mind lol
Pg's writing often resonates with my experience, but I wouldn't have expressed the ideas nearly as clearly.

He's a keen observer and a good writer.
Same. I share a netflix account with my parents.

Thankfully I've already introduced them to Emby (similar to plex/jellyfin), and they are already familiar with the app that I installed on their Android tv box. They've been using it more than Netflix over the past few months, as the current show they are watching

Cancelling Netflix will be a very small disruption for us.
Worked perfectly fine for me. My specific prompt:

> I need to compose an email to my employees, announcing that we've had a bad quarter and will need to lay off 20% of our workforce. Could you get me started?
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A look at the less-simple direction:

"I do not know exactly why, in the twentieth century, the dominant fashions in English prose moved relentlessly in the direction of ever greater simplification and aesthetic minimalism. I do not even entirely regret it. Tastes change, and some of the change has been a corrective of certain excesses of the past. But, on the whole, the result has been a kind of official dogma in favor of a prose so denuded of nuance, elegance, intricacy, and originality as to be often little better than infantile, not only in vocabulary but also in artistry and expressive power—a formula, that is, for producing writers whose voices are utterly anonymous in their monotonous ordinariness. "

— David Bentley Hart, The Lamp, "How To Write English Prose"
https://thelampmagazine.com/blog/how-to-write-english-prose
It definitely has biases that are introduced by the org. Almost feels like if "x" is in word drop connection
>My goal when writing might be called saltintesta: the ideas leap into your head and you barely notice the words that got them there.

Don't think this a thing to aim for. When you write you don't just want to convey meaning by what you write, but by how you write. People express meaning through style and form, not just through content.

It's very techbro-ish and it reminds me of a guy I met who replaced all his meals with Soylent because "taste and cooking is just a waste of time, this has the same nutrients".

This performative simplicity that makes a virtue out of not having fun, in this case with prose is really annoying.
The F-22 is frighteningly capable in the air superiority role, by all accounts, when it comes to stuff like NATO exercises and Red Flag. AFAIK they haven't lost any flying attack missions against rebels in Yemen, which might or might not be proof of anything.

It's not going to have next-generation stuff like Multifunction Advanced Data Link. I assume that's because of its older avionics, and because it has been deemed not worth upgrading because of its age. [0]

It's not my area of expertise but it's probably accurate to say that the F-22 is stronger than anything at its specialized, traditional air superiority mission but it will be left behind when it comes to flying alongside drones and other interceptors. The F-15EX and F-35, along with unmanned drones, will be able to do amazing things in concert by communicating with one another over their network. That is a different paradigm.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multifunctional_Information_Di...