skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No no, that's why some people here are confused and out of the loop - the actual unicode name is not 'bottom face', but 'pleading face' or 'face with pleading eyes' (I'm not sure of a good reference for 'actual' names, got those from two different unicode dictionary type sites).
Virtual reality.
I like ligatures, little quirks (relative to ordinary fonts) make output more interesting.

I wanted to get a portable monitor with a high hz rate for VR applications, and separately text test output. The best I could find, without spending too much on something that'll be better in the near future, is 16" 2560×1600. So not very high PPD. Anyone have any suggestions for a font that won't look grainy? I use it in portrait.
Giving back not in the form of a spoon fed pull request begging to merge? Does it really happen?
AI providers really need to set expectations correctly.

They are getting into trouble by allowing people to think the answers will be correct.

They should be stating up front that AI tries to be correct but isn't always and you should verify the results.
It has not been decent for me.

Here is a specific complaint about messaging. If you want a tool for programmers to collaborate, don't have it automatically insert smart quotes when trying to quote code in messages.

You have to search to figure out how to turn it off. And if you do, it will still turn that back on sometimes for no particularly good reason. And my being able to send them correctly doesn't help when someone else posts code and it gets converted on THEIR end.

Yes, yes. You can just attach a file. But it is a collaboration speed bump telling people that they have to save snippets to a file, then share the file, rather than simply using cut and paste in the obvious way. Doubly so if you're interacting asynchronously and you're reading their message some time after they mangled it.
Comparison is pretty highly rated as a factor for misery - I'd agree with others on the thread - better to consider yourself as yourself. Are you happy? Is the role fulfilling? Are you having fun? And then - given all this, are you earning enough to live a nice life?
also the way it collapses long unread threads so you can only see the last couple messages, then marks the whole thread as read when you view those

I missed messages and conversations all the time when I had to use it
Such a waste of energy and time to get upset at people using these words. Its not like using the word block-list and allow-list was the problem in the first place and using different words wont change anything.
Myst-JS: Bringing Myst to JavaScript and Jupyter
MIT No-AI License
The military has known this, hence the frequent moves (permanent change of station or PCS). People need a change of scenery, a chance to learn new skills, and learn from new people. It’s also, as the article mentions, a good cure for feeling worn out in a particular role.
I will be blunt. Teams is an awful user experience; I have been using online collaboration tools since the BBS days, and while I appreciate and understand why and what they are trying to build, it is bad software.

Every single experience I have had as a teams user in professional settings, interacting with communities, and being required to use it for interactions with my childrens schools since the 2020 shutdowns has been awful.

The platform is slow, and every time I have to use it, it feels completely obtuse in unique and frustrating ways. After nearly three years of weekly interactions, I regularly am confused by what I am meant to do, or how to resolve errors that occur; it is the single most frustrating online tool I have had to use, largely because the decision to use it is out of my hands.

The absolutely sole saving grace for the tool is that I can now effectively use it with a web browser, instead of the invasive thick client application that I was required to when it was first rolled out.

If my employer required me to use it, I would immediately find another job. It's that bad.
I don't think we have any proof that a company as profitable and large as Microsoft, based on their financial reports, is using cheap short term debt to finance projects (payroll expenses included)/accelerate growth? Or are they?
I would argue that most people have no idea what that means, and it sounds an awful lot like artificial intelligence already. So. It's not a big leap from that back to artificial intelligence.

I think the problem is that there is no easily accessible description of what this is. Like super simple.

Statistically close to what you want responses. Big ass database of things that might be similar.

I believe both of those are more accessible to Joe Schmoe, even if they miss the technical description.
You're really espousing the labor theory of value here?
Brave browser does this. Unfortunately I don't think that they have great adoption.
Why slow motion helps sell luxury goods
This thread is about declining CPU shipments, and Intel ME is offered as an explanation for that. It's extremely relevant in this context what "the average person" thinks because if they don't care then it doesn't affect sales.
Code overzealousness isn't the issue... it's months-long delays in permitting & rampant understaffing of city inspectors that are required to inspect every little thing causing construction to start & stop every 2-3 days.
https://archive.ph/yXA7B
You probably meant 'enlarge'. "Embiggen" was made up by the simpsons as a joke.
MindsDB Raises $16.5M to Power the AI Race in the Workplace
UTF-32 isn't even guaranteed to be a single code point.
Do you really expect that Google will respect that environment variable forever? I sure don't.
Currently travelling in India. Tried booking hotels and domestic flights with mastercard/visa, but nothing worked. Called my bank and they said their system show no rejected transactions so the block must be on Indian side.

So had to book on booking.com and other multinational sites.
> the language portion of your brain does not do logic

This seems ... Wrong? I suppose that most of what we generally call high-level logic is largely physically separate from some basic functions of language, but just a blanket statement describing logic and language as two nicely separate functions cannot be a good model of the mind.

I also feel like this goes to the core of the debate, is there any thought going on or is it just a language model; I'm pretty sure many proponents of AI believe that thought is a form of very advanced language model. Just saying the opposite doesn't help the discussion.
Developer Edition and ESR (behind a flag) support unsigned extensions [0]. It's not possible to self-sign them, and standard release Firefox won't accept them (there's also unbranded builds that do not verify signatures). I don't like it myself, but whenever I recall the absurd amount of malicious addons that would install themselves in browsers up until about a decade ago into the average person's PCs, I think it's a fair decision, but development of web extensions is still a massive pain. If the removal is not undone, I think they'll be asked to take down the signed xpi they're hosting like [1] were.

>Self-distributing a version that we rejected due to policy violations is circumventing our review process and our policies. We ask that you stop self-hosting rejected and/or violating versions immediately (by Friday, Dec 2). Otherwise we might have to block your add-on from running in Firefox.

0. https://wiki.mozilla.org/Add-ons/Extension_Signing

1. https://github.com/orgs/ActivityWatch/discussions/818#discus...
If it doesn't then it's drifting off topic, which I don't actually think was your intent, but let's follow along a bit anyway. What does motivate people to innovate? Obviously one motivation is internal, basically curiosity (which someone not trying to be so argumentative might have considered equivalent to persuasion). And another is profit. But what if a innovation in a particular area would only be necessary to maintain profitability, because current methods are already cheaper but damaging (e.g. environment) or otherwise unacceptable (e.g. privacy)? Then we're back to making that activity as it is currently done more expensive.

"That's a bad way to motivate innovation" still begs the question of what would actually be better in the real world for cases where sufficient motivation is currently lacking. The case where no "spur" is needed isn't even interesting in this context.
Right now as in this very moment? Maybe people are more careful what they wish for, but how many of these fired people will go unemployed? I bet most land a position pretty much anywhere they point, I'm still getting LinkedIn recruiter spam daily.
I find Teams to be just fine for instant messaging and conference calls. It's everything else that is awful. I hate the way it has files stored in a "Team" almost as much as SharePoint. I can never find what I'm looking for and ultimately have to ask and then create a browser favorite to every doc for $current_project.
IMHO all these companies are flooded with account managers, sales, customer success, BDR, when they could just let customers choose their own plans, upgrade freely, etc, instead of "schedule a call with our team"
Building a SQL-like language to filter flows
I'm using a 2017 2.3ghz i5 with 16gbs of ram.

I'm in 7 different teams and have over over 15 pinned chats and IM's.

The only delay I see is when comparing desktop app to the mobile app.

Even video chats are bearable and work fine with even background effects turned on.
Seems to be down already:

> Huh.
> This isn’t supposed to happen.
> Please contact support.
Using it on the browser:

- it's wonky

- 1 on 1 calls not always share the screen and I need to hang up, refresh the browser and call again

- translation stopped working both ways. Once a text is translated it doesn't go back to its original language

- it's a mess if you make a lot of group calls with different people. You end up having trillions of opened chat. I ended up pinning the main ones to keep them at the top and ignore the rest.

- code snippets are just awful. They are a box inside of a box and you always need to click on expand to see the code.

- music when you are on hold can't be stopped which can make you crazy. I always hang up or mute the tab

- group video calls don't have an option to see everybody in the same screen. Now it's like divided in pages

And I could go on and on. Discord is thousands of times better than this.
An anonymous clubhouse is back on the cards with realtime a.i. voice synth.

Trust in information is for people who outsource their every opinion, all they want to know is if it will keep them in high esteem for re-stating it and blinding following it. Well, for law, health, finance, that depends what year you got your opinion since the best information changes. Which is what we want if we want better.

A.I. output is just Words on a screen, it only promises coherence. How well a technology assists you is up to you or else we'd call it a torture device.
To people only focused on short term dollars, perhaps. But what impact will it have? Certainly an impact on productivity in short term, perhaps longer? Are there equivalent replacements for all the slack hooks people have in place now? How long will it take to become 'just as' productive in Teams? 1 month? 3 months?

$35k... that's... under $500k/year in licensing they're paying? Will they take more than a $500k hit in productivity?

By HN standards, $500k isn't even the loaded cost of one intern these days in SV, but... even in the 'normal' western business world... $500k/year is likely the cost of 2-3 engineering staff. Trying to eke that much savings in the short term seems short sighted.
Why is it propaganda when it is anti-union and not when it is pro-union?
That's a nice font. Thanks for the link. And thankfully, I hate glyphs.
The emoji has another name, “pleading face”. This is basically how it became to be used by bottoms. Tops don’t plead, but bottoms do.

There’s lots of emojis that the culture has given alternate meanings to, for example the peach and the eggplant.

You could ask “how would I explain this to a child” to anything adults talk about that is sexual in nature. Usually the answer is “don’t.”

I don’t think TFA was written for children and the author wanted to include this common internet meme in to their article title.
This is a nice overview. I don't share the author's intense distaste for serifs. In my search I ended up on Cascadia Code, which wasn't part of this comparison: https://github.com/microsoft/cascadia-code
So you save about 1 employee cost per year, and make the other thousands miserable and less productive? Definition of penny wise, pound foolish.
I'm not saying it's not true of most people in the world, but that doesn't make it a constructive argument. And you didn't use the words ignorant and denial, but they're reasonable synonyms to what you did say.

When I do the "same thing" I'm really saying that when you represent yourself as from the field, you might want to cultivate a more nuanced view of the people outside the field, if you want to be taken seriously.

Instead, given the view you presented, I'm forced to give your views the same credence I give a physicist who says their model of quantum gravity is definitely the correct one. I.e: "sure, you'd say that, wouldn't you"
I'll suggest that Democrats are equally culpable. Because if the Republicans couldn't have prevented it, the Democrats would have. These clowns all take turns pretending to care. People are getting sick of it.
Its weird that I always see this exact comment whenever Microsoft is trying to break in to a market, but I never see it when its any other company.
Because the average person you speak to would consider beefed up autocorrect to be near magic as it is. Once you get near to the limits of an individuals comprehension adding more incomprehensible statements/ideas doesn't really change much, their answer is still 'magic'.
Yes you can.

But smaller the profit, smaller the motivation to do it.

Bigger the profit higher the amount of other companies.

Too high of fees and people won't do it. And than upkeep costs also money.

Now you have inflation build in.

This has very little to do with stable :)
Interesting Blog post from earlier today: https://dkb.blog/p/bing-ai-cant-be-trusted

And the ensuing HN discussion has a lot more examples too.
I think the bottom line with Clojure is it's not an ecosystem well-suited for non-veteran programmers. For as simple as the language is, effectively using Paredit, navigating partially documented libraries, diving into source code to see how things interact—it's tough as a new developer. I don't believe Clojure is overtly hostile to newcomers; it's just crafted by veterans, for veterans. And this is the result.
And now for the comparison on 96(-ish) PPI screens…! I find that many more recent fonts simply do not look good on those. Some are even outright terrible, glitching all over the place with subpixel rendering.
I'm rather skeptical that a highly reliable methodology for epistemology even exists at all (outside of things like math and the physical sciences), let alone one that can be implemented by a computer.
That's totally doable. You can simply create a price plan per customer, and call the subscriptions api to assign a plan to a customer. In addition to this, you can create a basic coupon, but override the value when assigning the coupon to a customer. Everything you described in your comment is totally doable with Lago API
I think you understood exactly what I meant the first time, but then feigned ignorance in order to be able to virtual signal and say the same tired old line "this is why I don't come here anymore" as you continue to lurk.
I use Firefox Nightly on Android since it allows all add-ons
Years ago I fell in love with Anonymous Pro. Everything seems to fit just right. I've never had an issue wondering which character is which nor have I run into missing common characters.

https://www.marksimonson.com/fonts/view/anonymous-pro
The thing is most facts will never be "checkable" because the world we exist in is simply too complicated to be fully enumerated. You basically require a simulated mind to even begin to grasp the nuances of fact vs perspective vs opinion.

It's far beyond the scope of a few companies putting a few decades and a couple upstart tech people to the problem to make any real progress on understand and producing truth, which is why ChatGPT answers every question like a middle schooler, because it's just simulating understanding.
It's actually rather simple, just a bit of thinking outside of the box. Always good to predict where your positions in the endgame must be in order to comply with blocking pathway to disable further movement:

Orange -> up, right

Green -> up

Orange -> left, down, right, up

Green -> left, up, right

Orange -> down, left, up
> That's a fair train of thought, and I do agree it's better to embrace the future than to resist it.

Would you agree it's better to passively accept some future being pushed on you, or try to influence the shape of that future?

There's no such thing as "the future;" there are many possible futures. One of those possibilities "the future" being sold by Uber et. al is rejected, they go bankrupt or pivot to something entirely different, and all except a few are better off for it.
What's the issue with zoom? I think it's one of the best software I have on my machine. It never ever stopped working since I have it installed, not even in meetings/webinars with 1000+ people. And the integration with Slack is really convenient, you can start a meeting in seconds anywhere you are.
Tops are considered less likely to use emoji from my understanding. They're supposed to be more stoic.
When I first started hitting the gym, it was because of a horrible break up. So there was a psychological need (I found it better than any therapist I was trying at the time). But then, it just became habit. I went today because I went yesterday. Nothing more to it. Then covid hit, and that habit broke. I've been getting back into it, but in fits and starts because I've lacked that initial push.
I'd have to say, it is also very irresponsible to throw a line like 'Hallucinating Chatbots' and not provide any more insight into what that means, and/or how it applies to AI and end-users.
Yes.

Getting what you want when you want it does not necessarily mean cheap exploitation.

We „only“ need to stop shareholders siphoning money and redirect that wealth back to the workers instead.

Worst case the working class would have money to spend, maybe even for other convenience on-demand stuff, recursively. I would be willing to accept a few dozen billionaires being degraded to millionaires as the prize, when in doubt they can protest on the streets against that.
Continuous Deployments-as-a-Service Tutorial
I’m on a free trial of Apple News+ right now, but the model is basically pay $10 / month and get access to lots of stuff:

https://www.apple.com/apple-news/publications/

I really like that the publications don’t get my email or physical address. No spam in my post office box or inbox.
Yes, I do. Plus, Go is still open source; they can't "just sneak it in".
I actually thought (as an outsider) that"ai hallucinations" is a reasonably well defined term of art, rather than something injected by an overzealous journalist in reporting. Am I wrong?
The dehumanization in your message really detracts from your argument.
I'm not really sure why I should take it as a sign of that. What crowd does this indicate I don't hang out with?
It's so weird -- I use Teams all the time and I've never had a serious problem with it.

It's not the greatest software ever made but it's certainly functional. It's definitely getting a lot of work done to it.
If you are willing to entertain non free options: MonoLisa is a pretty good font and you can customize which ligatures you are willing to entertain. (I’m basically at zero)
Ah, right. I'm used to caps being 2 flat lines for unpolarised.
People who aren’t savvy and really want it to be right. Old man who is so sure of its confidence that he’ll put his life savings on a horse race prediction. Mentally unstable lady looking for a tech saviour or co-conspirator. Q-shirt wearers with guns. Hey Black Mirror people, can we chat? Try stay ahead of reality on this one, it’ll be hard.
Creator of Linux virtual assistant blames 'patent troll' for project's death
This is a shame.
> Right, because all they're doing is regurgitating the data they were trained on.

That is not true, it's clearly able to generalize. (If it can do anagrams, it's silly to say it's just regurgitating the instructions for doing anagrams it read about.)

But it doesn't try to verify that what it says might be true before saying it.
The statement "it's a parrot" may be simple to understand but frankly I don't think many people who have used chatGPT will believe it.

At least "lossy JPEG" feels vague enough to be unfalsifiable.
SNS/Pinpoint is probably a much bigger player than they are
> Isn’t it the same as using a term like “spy” with significant outside connotations rather than more common technical terms like “telemetry” or “anonymous usage data collection”?

"Spying" is not an analogy, it's a verb that describes the act of collection information that you aren't authorized to collect. In case of opt-out telemetry without user consent, it's a perfectly fitting word.

One could also argue that "telemetry" is under-descriptive, since it does not account for the fact that it's turned on by default.

> Similarly, “deception” implies malice or subterfuge.

Deception is the act of giving people false information for the sake of achieving a goal, the ethics of the underlying motive is irrelevant.
Most of the problems lie in the clients though.
Which should improve with element X.
Your definition of broken is likely different than the GP.
Wouldn’t Apple just buy whichever company’s LLM would best be integrated into Siri?
I am not judging you, I'm trying to understand why you want to spend your time on content that you yourself consider not even worth a pittance?
You don't get to just do it all at once. In the case of permits, for example, you could work towards something that documents agreements between groups of neighbors. My suggestion is that open source can be used to develop alternative governance structures, not that it is a free pass to get out of legal obligations.
I've rented a few 3D movies. The biggest limitation for me was the limited catalog and my dis-interest in action movies. It is such a great solo watching experience, I would spend more money on a more diverse catalog.
I use it and I would be happy if Teams was able to do basic copy/paste. When you copy, it copies things you didn’t select and doesn’t copy some things you selected. When pasting, it auto-formats the text and does a terrible job at it. It’s a disaster. I hope the Teams team is forced to use Teams.
Only on a freeze frame of the screen though. Not like in a slack huddle.
The last thing I want is for my text to look interesting. I want it to be boring and instantly recognizable. I want text editors showing it to work predictably. Two characters should show as two glyphs with the background showing through the middle. All glyphs should be the same width. Ligatures break these universal consistencies and stick out, screaming for attention. I want my text to be absolutely silent.
> Mandating a single communication platform is absolutely the right move

Is it, even if there will be productivity losses? Is making your teams less productive "absolutely the right move"?
MS Teams is virtually never an engineering decisions it seems. That's not a C# vs Java debate or Visual Studio vs JetBrains - not even comparable. Your argument about flexibly is moot in the context.
Site is borked with JS disabled. Here's an archive.today of it:

https://archive.fo/lZlCe
I anticipate in the next couple of years that AI tech will be subject to tight regulations similar to that of explosive munitions and SOTA radar systems today, and eventually even anti-proliferation policies like those for uranium procurement and portable fission/fusion research.