skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ChatGPT makes it easier to cheat, but cheating in that way was always an option, as long as you had enough money to pay someone else to do it for you. So in that sense, all that ChatGPT does is expose the flaws in the system by making this form of cheating available to everybody. I have to wonder why only now this is considered a serious problem that undermines education, but it was mostly ignored when the option was only available to the rich kids.

I think this can only solved by having a clear separation between learning and obtaining the credentials that certify that you possess the knowledge that it is expected of you to do some job. Universities should be centers of learning and students should be writing their essays because they recognize the value that doing so provides to them, not just because they need a certificate issued by the university to apply to the jobs that they desire. The certificate part should come from elsewhere, probably through means that make cheating much harder, such as exams and individual interviews. This would also open the door to other avenues of learning that may be more suited for some people, ie. self-taught people may have more success learning from a book or an online resource than from sitting through several hours of lectures every day.
The idea is much older:

First proposed by Italian Jesuit priest Francesco Lana de Terzi in 1670...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum_airship
In Pascal, you could do

repeat
...
until c = 0;

which might be even clearer for this use case.
Calling this “libre software” instead of “free software” seems very self-serving

> You can’t become a competent programmer by using Windows or MacOS. Linux or BSD are your only real choice, because that’s where all the interesting development happens.

uh excuse me?
I think with machine learning and especially the LLMs, we're getting pretty close to alchemy.

There's this quote that any sufficiently advanced tech is indistinguishable from magic. They probably didn't realize this was also true for the creators of that tech.
All that aside, it seems like the original point being made was roughly that Occupy and Bernie were popular causes among young and online people, but not among the broader electorate. And that's basically true, right?
Talking about projecting one's morality...

If the government is so incompetent that it bans a basic human right, seeing children being left for adoption is a logical consequence.
I remember hearing about similar things from my parents during communist occupation in Poland.
Divergents.
> … alongside the rest of humanity in a collective development effort, as opposed to the alternative where we would be restricted by companies like Microsoft or Apple, who only care about controlling us to make money.

I was optimistic until I read this sentence.

So, does this bill mean that products like MS Office can’t be used in schools because it would force students to use proprietary software? Is it just targeting websites that use extensions that are only usable in a certain browser?

The stated goals seem good at first glance but then the justifications go off the rails for me.

> You can’t become a competent programmer by using Windows or MacOS.

MacOS is BSD based and runs most OSS so, I’m not even sure how they are coming up to this point.

Similarly, Windows has been used for development and teaching development at universities for a long time.
I had similar improvements without fasting and without keto. I do 16:8 on some days but it's mostly to help me manage my weight. I strongly believe most of the fasting benefits come from the fact that it makes managing weight easier.
Calorie restriction and tracking my macros has helped me tremendously not only loosing weight but also understanding nutrition and what works for me and what doesn't. I am a 40 year old Software Engineer and fitter and stronger than I have ever been.

I do quite a bit of high intensity cardio (cycling) + weight training and my recovery and peak performance suffered a lot when I tried keto for a few weeks, it also tanked my hormone levels. I still focus my carb intake on times around training but generally don't restrict.
I’ve worked with epoxy quite a bit, and delaminating is one of its failure modes. That is, sometimes it flakes off cleanly without leaving much behind.

Having said that, it’s hard to believe that there wouldn’t be traces of epoxy inside that very rough hole, or in the bare metal exposed by the drill bit. So it seems odd to me also.
More interesting to me than the analogizing of computer science to alchemy is the power dynamic he highlights in the applied sciences - namely the tendency for the craft to acquire and distribute power outside of (and even contrary to) the interests of those doing the investing.
It was plausible for the first case. But when the second time it happened on the Russian section again one starts to wonder if there was more to the story. I.e. why have not micrometeorites hit equipment of other countries?
Just send the taxpayer a bill that says what the IRS think they owes. That information is already there! It's already being calculated! Just print and send!

(I am being somewhat facetious here, as I'm aware there's always vastly more complexity to anything being done by a bureaucracy the size of the federal government than meets the eye, but still.)
I think they are saying that there are known costs and benefits but unknown costs are hard to quantify and unknown benefits are probably rare. Therefore the benefits need to be very material (several orders of magnitude as they state). Don't trade noise for noise.
Although a bit off topic, I think it is really interesting to see that a lot of firefox users are on an old version. Firefox supporting <dialog> has around 2.4% users, while firefox not supporting <dialog> because it is old, has around 0.7%
> This reads like a low-key, state-sponsored bot post on Twitter

Let me call out your idiocy: please review my comments history.

This is the dumbest, stupidest thing you can argue about my post. It's something that can be refuted with a 5-minute perusal of my comments history.

Please try to do better.
An explanation of how this works and what makes it novel would be nice. I'm not familiar enough to understand how this is better than Cgo.
I think it’s safe to say without 5000+ years of mathematically research Einstein wouldn’t have developed GR.
That's the (sad) joke. The shuttle was one element of a larger plan, where the shuttle was an enabler of the broader plan but not really a useful end in itself (vs other rockets, etc.). The rest of the plan was cancelled before being built, but the shuttle existed. There was a mostly-post-hoc justification of military/IC missions (on orbit servicing of national security assets, and "nonconsensual servicing" of foreign/hostile objects on orbit...), but this was mostly turf protection. ISS was than mostly to compete with Mir, and then became some combination of "justify the shuttle we have at home" and then "jointness missions with Russia".
Terraformed and colonized Mars as it would be seen from space – human Mars
Most idiotic Hacker News take yet.
Once in KSP Iinstalled MechJeb (a modded autopilot component) upsidedown and my rocket failed in precisely this way, trying to make a u-turn right off the launch pad. Pretty funny to see it happen IRL, since nobody got hurt.
Also, function keys aren't separated into 4-key blocks, and ins/del/home/end/pgup/pgdown are in the wrong place. :-(
The scope of the study predetermines its outcome. The reality is there is no need for the vast majority of Americans to file anything. The IRS has all of their pay information and must merely send a bill or refund. The only thing a taxpayer in this scenario would need to file for is a mistake.
If someone took the name Mikey Mouse. Stamped it on a dvd along with some +18 content, and then had the guts to sue Walt's brother and friends for taking that film, editing it to make it suitable for kids, i bet we would call that totally absurd.
We aren't far off with this court case, unless i don't understand the issue.

And for those who undoubtly miss to understand the issue, they at neo4j mistakenly or knowingly put glucose in their sugar free advertised product, and pretend nobody should be allowed to remove the junk because they made the rest of the recipe and made sure to include glucose in the ingredients lists since the beginning.

Sadly they may win in the court since even hackernews readers don't immediately see the mascarade.
ChatGPT Is an Extra-Ordinary Python Programmer
In my experience? It's better.

StackOverflow gets a lot of people Copy+Pasting, and a lot of really bad answers that just don't apply at all.

Or sometimes I'll find the exact question I want on StackOverflow, but no answer!

ChatGPT always has SOMETHING for you. Rarely is it so unhelpful that I can't move forward, whereas sometimes StackOverflow just doesn't have an answer for me to even get started.
That's still an assertion about the conclusion affecting the journey, meaning it's still from the conclusion!

Every argument for God is circular. Without assertion for the conclusion, there is no assertion, and therefore no argument.

I'm not telling you whether or not that conclusion is correct. I'm talking about the reasoning itself.

If you choose to believe that God is affecting your life, then you are still applying circular logic. You are applying faith in God (an assertion of the conclusion) to your perception of life.

It's no more than a semantic obfuscation:

Putting it your way phrases it semantically as, "God is, in effect of my experience."

Putting it in formal language, we can say equivalently, "Given God is, my experience is affected thusly."

What I have done is no different from factoring out a variable or scalar in a mathematical equation. "God = 1". The effect of identity to your life experience is "God * life_experience = life_experience".

If God were anything other than the unit multiplied, then the effects of God would be trivially provable, and we would therefore know the nature of God by evidence, and it wouldn't be God anymore.
Sen. Schumer says 2 objects shot down over Alaska,Canada believed to be balloons
Perhaps. But that's not the world we live in. Both DeSantis and Trump have recently said if elected next year they would effectively outlaw gender-affirming healthcare for everyone, of any age. This is saber-rattling --- a threat to do something that will kill people like me for no apparent reason other than they find us disgusting because we're different.
They finally woke up. Next step - eliminate "tax filing" altogether.
> Any group who becomes part of the system will then act to protect the system.

As a True/False binary, sure, but the magnitude of the phenomenon is a function of the quality of the system. As flaws are realized, the system can be improved.

Consider how many known flaws there are in our various systems, and then observe (in an as unbiased as possible frame of mind as possible) how we (everyone (including us here on HN), but especially those with various forms of power) respond to realizations of these flaws: do we fix them, or do we engage in rhetoric, propaganda, post-hoc rationalization/justification, etc?

> I mean, judges are supposed to grant warrants for things already, yet we continually see stories of them just rubber stamping requests, or police lying to obtain them.

If this displeases us, shall we blame ourselves or Mother Nature? Or, not even think about it?

> I assume that system would suffer similar issues.

You may be right. Alternatively, you may not. There's only one way to (possibly) find out, but it is certainly not mandatory that we find such things out.....well, unless we desire certain outcomes, then it might be.
It is free at the point of use. Just like firefighters are free when you call on fire or cops are free when you call them cause someone parks at your place. Or just like highways are called "free" when you don't have to pay for using some section of it.

Somehow the taxes pay for it thing never comes up with these.
It’s not a problem of technology, it’s a political issue thanks to tax software providers.
+1 for Kill Sticky. I map a hotkey to it and I can't imagine using the web without it anymore.

It kills every annoying modal and gives 100% of window height to content instead of annoying headers and footers.

Between Kill Sticky and an ad blocker, it basically feels like using the web as it was originally intended. For content.

(Also an extension to stop videos from auto playing, ever since that scourge started a few years ago.)
> With Tailwind, you're not caught up in understanding the relationship between CSS and HTML which includes challenges like inheritance.

I’m sorry but to really learn CSS, you need to get this. The fact the TW abstracts this away may be easier to learn, but it does the learner a huge disservice if the don’t get what’s going on. Learning from first principles is always the best approach, even if the learning curve is slightly steeper, because it reduces a lot of mystery down the line when something isn’t behaving as expected.
No, that's not correct. The king of England has the right of Consent (as far as I understand, King's consent to bills is required), along with the veto right.

That's the idea of a functional constitutional monarchy: the long-reigning monarch counterweights the short-governing government.
Neo4J have a genuinely interesting product but they managed, throughout the decades, to hamper its adoption at every turn.
Something I’ve wondered: Why not just include taxes at every point of use of a service that is funded by tax?

Like say fuel prices (to pay for roads), police interactions, etc.
I did not say I believe that.
I'm curious of other analogies or other ideas to help explain complex tools to non-technical friends. Many view ChatGPT as some kind of alchemy with no way to interpret what they see happening.

As Arthur C Clarke summed up in his three laws:

"any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

We're at this stage with AI for many people and trying to explain LLMs and token completion leaves most with a blank stare...
I’ve been so far out of it for so long I have no real way to interpret those numbers. 13600 is almost double 7700 so that’s obviously good but is i5 noticeably inferior to i7?
> Masih Alinejad, a world-renowned journalist and women's rights activist,

and first in line advocate to sanction Iran even in time of covid.
A direct e-file, obviously, is great, but I really just want to get a document near the beginning of the year where the IRS tells me what they believe my taxes owed/returned should be. Let me accept/verify or contest it and make everyone's lives easier. Anyone who'd need to contest/change theirs, probably already has an accounting firm handling all this anyways.
Ah, but I can be asked about what I think and I will happily reply: I do not think the status quo of Iran is fine. I dislike Islamic theocracies and I don't think Iran does well in public freedom. I think it is a tragedy that Iran used to be closer to a democracy (yes, with a king and all, but still) and Western interference created the conditions for both a dictatorship and the horrible Islamic theocracy that came later and is still in power today.

I hope the Iranians get a better deal (hopefully without being part of some power game by external nations), because they deserve it.

I do not wish any families living in Iran to go through a "collapse", especially not a violent one.

See? If people reply to my comments with reasonable questions, I reply in a similar tone. When people go in full attack mode, they get worse responses. Which is the tone that HN should favor?
Feed a bunch of scientific papers into GPT to give it specialized knowledge
:) bad

I'm a hardliner against CSS frameworks. Any time you learn a CSS framework, you're picking up a tool that is going to break or be made obsolete in a couple years. Just learn CSS right the first time and you're good forever.
I still have fond memories working at Bear Stearns in the early 90s in Fixed Income, every developer had a Sun workstation on their desk instead of a PC, initially running SunOS and eventually transitioning to this weird thing called Solaris.

I felt like I was living in the future.
Now all the cloud vendors are making their own chips. This had to have been obvious given how a small company in the UK could build the Raspberry Pi.
I do not agree with sentiments like these. It's almost as if saying Rust is a C dialect, so it would be much more valuable to learn C itself.
He's not wrong. Certainly when it comes to the full scope of being a programmer, Linux and BSD are your only real options. You can't easily add a new filesystem or screw with the kernel on macOS/windows without having to buy hundreds of dollars worth of their books and attend conferences.

There isn't really any good detailed up to date documentation online about either. The docs for linux/bsd aren't perfect either but at least there you can always fall back on the source. That makes a massive difference.

For example, one of the reasons I switched from Java to Go back in the day is that I could actually read the source code of the APIs I was using. So I could fully understand the standard library whereas in Java it was all obfuscated bytecode. I'm not sure if the situation has changed with OpenJDK but my point stands, an open core system is far superior platform for learning.
The article explains

> Don’t try to statically link libc or libstdc++, this may cause trouble with other system libs you’ll use (because the system libs dynamically link libc and maybe libstdc++ - probably in versions different from what you linked statically. That causes conflicts.)
Why do we have to rely on Republicans to curtail the FBI's civil liberties violations? That's scary AF.
This is a must read for you then if you don't understand the role C plays in modern operating systems: https://faultlore.com/blah/c-isnt-a-language/
Vscode already has a jupyter notebooks mode with full debugger support if that’s what you mean by this.
Well, for example we are currently experiencing 80% p.a. inflation, because Islam forbids interest rates. Gulenists were religious extremists but they were at least somewhat educated. Erdogan and his crew are not. We are turning against science and into a medieval interpretation of Islam each day. It is very frightening.
You could do worse than the Mix & Remix introductions:

https://www.editionslep.ch/schweiz-in-sicht (DE)
https://www.editionslep.ch/institutions-politiques-suisses-epub (FR)
https://www.editionslep.ch/istituzioni-politiche-svizzere (IT)

which may or may not also be reflected in the english translation:

https://www.editionslep.ch/swiss-democracy-in-a-nutshell

(NB I personally believe that attempting to import Swiss institutions without also implementing Swiss education is unlikely to be successful.

cf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Heinrich_Pestalozzi for some origins of the latter.)
Very cool to see this over here :)
A past GSoC project of mine ported the entire Lua test suite to the NetBSD kernel space: https://github.com/gszr/luatests (it needs to be updated... it's been on my to-do list). See also https://github.com/gszr/luaio for some cool IO bindings for Lua in kernel.
I love how people downvote this, avoiding asking themselves some tough questions and giving a straight answer.

This is not a rhetorical question: how and why do people think they have this right?
That is what i meant. PureThink (got) sued.
Ironically, i would guess they'd like to have nothing to do with the matter and get back to whatever it is they do. neo4j have lawers in the drawers, they can battle for years over this.
The temptation to abuse intelligence data is too great. I can't think of any structure centralized structure that wouldn't eventually be corrupted. This is why police powers reside with the states not the federal government. It is the federal government's responsibility to ensure states are following the Constitution.
I’ve been doing intermittent fasting for 2 years. Did a bunch of different protocols and eventually settled on ~18:6. Lost around 15kgs (from 105 to 90) and as a nice “side effect” got rid of all skin problems that I’d had during the previous 10 years or so. Today I don’t preach it anymore cause I got tired of debating whether it was healthy or not but I definitely recommend to everyone that’s truly interested in giving it a try.
International Fight Week MMA fighters wearing the Star Trek costume as model citizens of the future on Mars's Federation Academy could be a perennial event.
Thanks! now I’m curious! you can also reach me on tw @vicgoldfeld
Hey guys, I wanted to share a simple app I made to demonstrate feeding custom data sources into LLMs. For example, scientific papers, Google Docs, and even podcasts. The gist of it is that it takes a bunch of text on the backend, indexes it with embeddings, and then finds the relevant info for a particular query to stitch together a prompt for GPT3.
Like politicians?
Setup 365.25 domains and have one renew every day!
Poor people pay higher time tax
The IRS doesn't know about the loopholes we want to use though and there is the rub.
Because traffic on that IP is legal if the phone is on battery power. Seriously, I did not make this up, it's on the linked page.
It should be done in such a way that preparing and filing your tax returns doesn't share your financial information with some company that uses it for other purposes.

I have some faith we'll get this right, because I can see some details of how the IRS does things (despite the complexity nightmare handed to them by lawmakers), and the impression I get is that there must be a lot of people there who are working conscientiously and effectively.
I saw that documentary - I didn't find it convincing. To put it mildly.
Why would anyone standardize on winget when there's chocolatey and it works everywhere you can run Windows software?

Recently I decided to install Windows Server on one of my PC instead of Windows 10/11. I thought, why not attempt to use winget and/or the Windows App Store to install basic software to see how far that takes me.

Immediate dead end. Apparently there's no access from the App Store on Windows Server. You have to have your IT set it up. And all the documentation refer to using winget from the App Store. :/ Microsoft, I can't even with you right now.

With Windows Server 2022, apparently you can get winget to work, but you have to install something else or other that's in preview.

For real, guys. Please get with the program.

Possible workarounds:
Anything that's a workaround is already a non-starter for me because I'm not trying to experiment to see what I can get to work. I'm trying to move to using a new norm so I don't get left behind. If Microsoft was pushing winget as the new norm for global silent command-line installations of all things Windows, as an alternative to Chocolately, great! I would have given it a try. Other than that, imma just wait until y'all get your act together, <i>someday-maybe</i>.
It was actually €200 but at the time I did it the exchange rate was pretty close to 1:1, so a recent exchange rate drop could explain some of the discount. There is an added delay of 6 weeks to the special so I guess if they’re running under max utilization it could make sense to fit these in at above the cost of the reagent. There is also competition from Nebula Genomics so there is a market share and mind-space component to denying a competitor potential customers. I think I read something somewhere about cheaper bootleg reagent being used to get around patents. I think Nebula Genomics was hit by a lawsuit around that. Plus there is the potential outsourcing to less scrupulous countries that may go on to sell access to data. I think there was a rumor that Nebula Genomics was using a Hong Kong lab and later a Russian lab. I’m not worried about my DNA getting out, I already consider my DNA privacy defeated which was confirmed by my ability to find second cousins with it.