skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah yeah, "I don't think there are many no-JS users", etc, you keep repeating this in different ways without refuting the point.

> Today in my experience

Today in my experience 99% of trackers only measure users with JS.

> Exactly, they changed from no-js having some relevance to it basically having no relevance at all and most no-js support is legacy from the past.

People learned basic technical ideas and changed from buggy insecure ways of browsing the internet (IE, activeX) and forced web engineers to change their ways (test in other browsers than IE) before. It's not even a question of "will it happen again?" because it's already happening

> EDIT: Also a non small part of the web today is video content, which won't work without js.

Maybe you are just not qualified to argue this. Videos work just as images, text or audio. Try disabling JS and opening https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video for example, it works just fine. If a video doesn't load without JS it's a problem with website or browser implementation.
Stopped reading those articles long ago. Straight to the comments section.
I've done that with the excellent Salomé[1]. Model and mesh something manually, export my actions to a python script, clean it up and refactor it.

https://www.salome-platform.org/
Indeed, I consider ChatGPT to be extremely impressive on an engineering perspective. The data science team I've observed have a difficult time to bridge science and engineering, it's hard to find someone proficient in both, despite all being very smart people.
From the Daily Beast:

"Don’t worry though: It’s not for spying purposes (probably). Rather, it’s China’s Daqi-1 satellite, which monitors the atmosphere using a tool that shoots lasers to the Earth in order to detect carbon dioxide levels."

https://www.thedailybeast.com/chinese-satellite-likely-shot-...
If you liked that, you might also like a deep dive I once did on the internals of the Zork maps:

https://www.reddit.com/r/raldi/comments/10dtch/i_spent_my_we...
People who can’t understand ChatGPT hype would have not used calculators when they came out on the grounds they didn’t understand mathematical proofs.
QGIS is great, I use it daily and I hugely prefer it (and it's mobile equivalent Qfield) to ArcGIS and FieldMaps.

The educational world is pretty split between ArcGIS and QGIS. Students don't want to pay over $100 for a yearly ArGIS student license, but more advanced geostatistical analysis isn't supported yet on QGIS. Progress is slower in industry, especially in larger companies. Other critical software like Autodesk, Vulcan, DESWICK, MODFLOW, and Leapfrog already work (somewhat) smoothly with ArcGIS.

QGIS is just another thing to go wrong in managers minds, and there is zero opensource progress in developing applications as powerful as QGIS in geomatics adjacent fields.
> In the end It fully imagined a bash shell, an imaginary internet, an imaginary chatGPT on the imaginary internet, then on the imaginary chatGPT it created a new imaginary bash shell.

In the general case, a shell is merely a particular prompt-response format with special verbs; the internet is merely a mapping from URLs to HTML and JSON documents; those document formats are merely particular facades for presenting information; and a "large language model" is merely something that answers free-form questions.

> The level of recursive depth here indicates deep understanding and situational awareness of what it is being asked. It demonstrates awareness of what "itself" is and what "itself" is capable of doing.

Uh, what? Why does that output require self-awareness? First, it's requested to produce the source of a document "https://chat.openai.com/chat". What might be behind such a URL? OpenAI Chat, presumably! And OpenAI is well known to create large language models, so a Chat feature is likely a large language model the user can chat with. Thus it invents "Assistant", and puts the description into the facade of a typical HTML document.

Then, it starts getting prompted with POST requests for the same URL, and it knows from the context of its previous output that the URL is associated with an OpenAI chatbot. So all that is left is to follow a regular question-answer format (since that's what large language models are supposed to do) and slap it into a JSON facade.

> But it MUST understand your query in order to produce the output show in the article. That much is obvious.

I'm saying that it "understands" your query only insofar as its words can be tied to the web of associations it's memorized. The impressive part (to me) is that some of its concepts can act as facades for other concepts: it can insert arbitrary information into an HTML document, a poem, a shell session, a five-paragraph essay, etc.

All of that can be achieved by knowing which concepts are directly associated with which other concepts, or patterns of writing. This is the reasoning by analogy that I refer to: if it knows what a poem about animals might look like, and it can imagine what kinds of qualities space ducks might possess, then it can transfer the pattern to create a poem about space ducks.

But none of this shows that it can relate ideas in ways more complex than the superficial, and follow the underlying patterns that don't immediately fall out from the syntax. For instance, it's probably been trained on millions of algebra problems, but in my experience it still tends to produce outputs that look vaguely plausible but are mathematically nonsensical. If it remembers a common method that looks kinda right, then it will always prefer that to an uncommon method.

I mean, it's not utterly impossible that GPT-4 comes along and humbles all the naysayers like myself with its frightening powers of intellect, but I won't be holding my breath just yet.
A bit of a quick side story: A bank I worked for set up a lock for all business sites on their firewalls and WAF for any IP geolocalized as Russian. It just dropped or rejected all network packets completely. Individuals could still use their service, though.

It was like that since at least a decade ago, since original Russian attack on Ukraine and I have not heard of any issues they run into with that approach.

The just went "no".
I recall that was the case. It's quite smooth, and I have 3 finger 4 finger gestures as well.
I believe they are still #2 in Japan
That seems like more of a misfeature of android than an advantage of chrome. On iOS you can autofill things from the builtin password manager to any app (including safari or chrome) and you can seamlessly share the password manager stuff to other apple devices if that’s what you want to do. And if you want to use a 3rd party password manager instead (1password and lastpass at least definitely work this way) you can still share between the built in “fill in any password in any app” thing in the mobile os and your browser extension in your browser of choice on desktop.

ie that killer feature doesn’t even exist in the apple ecosystem because it’s built into the os and works everywhere. I’m not saying that to ignite the apple vs android os war but just to reinforce the point that I don’t think this is a sustainable competitive advantage.
I can see the love poured into this project. Impressive!
> Sure, but again, those streets by and large did not feel unsafe to me (on foot).

I’m not sure about you or your situation but feelings of safety vary wildly among people. As a parent of young children, sharing a street with cars does not instill a feeling of safety unless visibility is astoundingly good.
Slightly OT: When explaining things I'll touch the screen (of MacBooks). When I'm with another coder, I touch their screen to explain things. I once had a developer on my team who didn't want his screen to be touched. I was sorry to touch his screen - and he immediatly wiped it - but couldn't stop. As soon as I was enthusiastic, I touched the screen again.
Space dust as Earth’s sun shield
The real reason is that on Medium you don't own your audience. You do on Substack because you have their email addresses. You also have more ways of monetizing and can more easily communicate with readers by spending promotional emails. And of course all the content goes out by email which is great.
Sorry for the late reply, I was out a while.

I literally have heard people say things like "We need less brown people". This may not be your reasoning, and not everyone says something exactly like that, but there are enough.

Apple does very well and loudly displays their diversity numbers, so it's obviously possible to be succesful and supportive of inclusion (which is or should be the DEI goal).

But sure, why do you not support DEI? You have a better solution that is somehow based on 'qualifications' that isn't biased?
I used to go to Medium because of the high quality articles on tech and programming on how to do things. Now it's just low quality SEO/self-promotion garbage. I've since long stopped using it and can very easily see using something like ChatGPT to answer my questions.
Anyone know if the following exists?

Gofmt/gofumpt, but as a special case, formats

if err != nil { return err }

on a single line.

Not trolling, genuinely interested.
Like with...cryptocurrency?
The Alternative to Performance Reviews for Software Engineers
I feel that traveling for the landmarks and museums is exhausting and ultimately futile. If you're not an amateur art historian, a lot of paintings look the same, once you've seen several hundred. How many Rosetta stones and busts of Pericles and Japanese castles do you need in your life?

I still don't have a good idea of why I might want to travel internationally. In most locations, I think I'd have trouble integrating with locals and living in their environment, at their pace, in their language. I don't have friends I want to visit in Kolkata. Obviously, a lot of people like to lie on beaches in Hawaii and walk through California redwoods, but until you have a sentimental attachment to a particular beach or a particular national park, they're all kind of the same.

And I obviously don't have a good idea about traveling for the experience of "sampling people," mostly because I'm pretty sure I have aged out of slumming it on a bunk bed at a hostel packed with Eurotrash teens traveling from one rave to another.
Same thing in Canada.
Another interesting case was PepsiCo suing farmers in India over a variety of potato. A few years later, PepsiCo withdrew their suit... only to have a group of farmers continue to press the claim and have the courts rule that PepsiCo couldn't patent a seed.

https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/india-revokes-pa...
Note to future self: Beware of fake urgency
Not having done much in terms of GIS work, I never had to deal with ESRI until last week.

I was on a call to ask some ESRI rep to add some labeled points to my client's existing map tool. It was a somewhat surreal, weird experience where I got the feeling they were making the work seem much more difficult than it was. Their estimate turned out to insanely off the (my) mark, at eye-watering hourly rates.

At first I thought they had enough business and didn't really care about us. But reading this thread, it seems I was wrong. They are the Oracle of the GIS industry.
Microsoft did in fact have massive dominance over mail with exchange and they absolutely had an army of loyal devs developing active server pages, com object embeddings and a bunch of other non-standard features.

Your point is taken and google is of course a monopoly. I’m saying I don’t think browser stickiness will be that persistent. I could of course be wrong.

But all of the google services you mention work jsut fine in competitor browsers for the reason I mentioned (they have to, in order to work correctly on mobile devices etc).
I do! So long as we don’t appeal to consciousness as the basis for understanding but measure it with benchmarks, LLMs understand many things.

Maetschke, S., Iraola, D. M., Barnard, P., Shafiei Bavani, E., Zhong, P., Xu, Y., & Yepes, A. J. (2021). Understanding in artificial intelligence. arXiv preprint arXiv:2101.06573.
What about the autocannon using A10s?
Fixing “Too Much WIP”
How much is wine? For $10 one should be able to buy a decent bottle of wine.
> I wouldn’t use Elm as a solo founder, as you want to put your energy into shipping and Elm, while very good will probably slow you down when you hit the thing it cannot do

This was me a couple of years ago and I even gave it a fairly serious shot. It felt like the ecosystem buy-in was huge, and once I ran into something like a missing CSS rule it was a mess. And iirc all of that code would have been basically useless for portability in case I needed to switch.

Fortunately my tingly senses told me to stay away, and now I really feel like a dodged a bullet.

The main thing I consistently dislike with JS/TS is that there aren’t any easy ways to work with immutable data. I’m not the kind of person who needs full-on paradigm, I don’t mind getting dirty with an imperfect language, I just want the error-prone and common use cases to be decently supported.
What more indication do you want? A peer reviewed research paper?

Anyone who used ChatGPT frequently enough finds it difficult to get back to using Google. One specific query is all that takes to get an answer from ChatGPT which is on point. The alternative is to rummage through the top few links from Google and trying to construct the information you need after trying different variations of search phrases.

When the iPhone first came out there were arm chair pundits who predicted that no one would buy or use an expensive phone. But the people who actually used it knew that it was the wave of the future even back in the day. Same thing with ChatGPT.
Agreed. I wanted to keep my post brief so I didn't elucidate. Once that feeling had passed, I didn't posses the sombre semse of mortality that others expressed in this thread. My thoughts were not carpe diem. I didn't update my bucket list.

Rather it gave me a stronger awareness of human connectedness. These are the bones of relatively few people in the grand scheme collected over several hundred years. This is just the tip of an iceberg of all human remains, most chucked into the ground and eventually forgotten but at the same time not without consequence. Because every moment of today is stamped indelibly by these peoples' existence. The crops they grew and things they built and lessons they taught marked the generations after them. It is a permanent mark in the continuity of human culture.

For lack of a better term, it brought me a deep sense of solidarity as a human. It was somewhat radicalizing.
Maybe the guy has a different approach to marketing. I get your point but I always try to see from the other’s person perspective.
Agree, this is surprisingly annoying when you click and it tells you "nope sucker, not today, you're not getting to read something you're interested in". Why should I even bother to get my hopes up in the first place?
> similar balloons passed over U.S. territory on four occasions during the Trump and Biden administrations

from linked article
https://apnews.com/article/politics-united-states-government...
40 inches per meter is easy to remember and pretty accurate
One thing people generally don't highlight about the transformer architecture, which I think is very important, are the pass through connections. This allows the model to "spread" out it's learnings across the network rather than them being forced to very local. I think this is also a reason why the Resnet was so successful.
Canada tried this like 20 something years ago. It, uh, didn’t work.
like the high school teacher who insisted multiplication be done with a slide rule?
Make it a 2fer. In laptop mode, it runs macOS. In tablet mode it runs iPadOS. They can have their fast user switching animation to go back and forth. It'll be perfect! /s
idk, I have an ipad pro that's about the same size as the air, so touching isn't exactly some unknown UX pattern, but I still don't want to touch my mac.
A new approach to domain ranking
Everyone needs to build a brand, with their own blog. When posting on Medium, it also feels like Medium is hijacking the long-term reputation that we’re building.

I don’t know, maybe Medium should promote individual articles that are on Wordpress instances of personal and corporate blogs. Who would be happy to pay to apply to the vetting process.
How is it the same model? I have been watching YT videos for years and was never denied access to any content.
> Substack doesn't have an algorithm that recommends you content

Which is a good thing. I don't really need a robot doing to me "you read an article about 'Instagram influencer mauled by a bear', so you are clearly into Instagram influencers and bears, here are 9000 blogs from Instagram influencers and another 9000 from people collecting teddy bears". In fact, I have an RSS feed which is composed of I lost count how many blogs, which I constantly fail to read half of them - and those I selected manually for being the most interesting to me, do you really thing I need another hyper-noisy channel to suggest me more content? If there's something relevant to the article, the article author would likely suggest it anyway. Or other thousand of authors would. Or it wasn't that important anyway, and my 2k+ messages unread in Feedly are calling to me.
I did a bit of a writeup on the gaps in soundness for TypeScript in the docs, https://www.typescriptlang.org/play?strictFunctionTypes=fals...
It's a rewrite on an article behind a paywall referencing one manager who supposedly got the offer. Anyone know what it actually said? I really dislike this modern whisper game.
I'd be your coworker, except I slap hands away. You touching my screen is just as inappropriate as you touching me. You did not ask nor did you receive permission to touch me or my screen. Just don't do it.
You're not strictly describing intelligence, you're also describing symptoms that relate to ADHD. I wonder if there's a bias to categorize someone as more intelligent based on the contrast between someone's ability to focus and their ability to grasp complex ideas quickly. I struggle severly with ADHD and notice it all of the time, in how people's perception of me changes when we end up on a topic I know well and enjoy talking about.
Understanding Large Language Models – A Transformative Reading List
He said he's a Surface Pro user. He perfectly well also uses touch, and touch on a laptop class device.
What a gorgeous webpage -- and it even renders well with SingleFile!
I cant think of a single platform thats doesn't ultimately lose relevance and get replaced that does this.

A few days ago people here said their Google trick is appending 'Reddit' to the query. Not Quora. Not other dedicated Q&A sites that have been around as long. Reddit the free (minus the dumbass mobile app prompt.)

Same for log-ins. Pinterest? Forget it. Twitter? Just missing a replacement.

I don't know what analytics compel these guys to put a gate in front the platform. Just accept what people are willing to give you. I guess they wake up one day and realize everyone just moved on.
Yes and the fun part is this debate always goes the same way.

Scenario 1

Someone says "I wish I could use my iPad to do more things, the hardware is clearly powerful enough" and an 'apple enthusiast' always replies "Why would you want to do that? Just get a Macbook!"

Scenario 2

Someone says "I wish my Macbook had touch controls" and an 'apple enthusiast' always replies "Why would you want to do that? Just get an iPad!"

And before someone gets upset because it also happens every time. I'm not saying all apple users/fans but there is very common type who refuses to possibly acknowledge that others might want to use their devices differently than they do.
“development on this model will not lead to General Intelligence, which is not a data training/stat problem altogether”

Why is everyone so damn sure about this? Not to pick on you—I’ve read so many self-backpatting comments that feel the need to reassuringly say something like: “we all know this isn’t AGI and couldn’t possibly be and won’t lead to it.”

I don’t think this is so clear cut.
Exactly. X-views is just disrespect and ensures I never build a habit out of the platform’s content. Same goes for sites like FineHomeBuilding.com. Even if I know there’s good content there, I now avoid clicking just to not “use up” my stupid 3 views a month (yes, can copy/paste url to private browsing, but easier to just go elsewhere).
F seems to be the easiest letter to make this kind of headlines.

"France fines foreign firm for free freight" - that time Amazon got fined for free shipping in France.
Richard often calls sqlite itself “a Tcl extension that escaped into the wild.”

It’s no accident that a lot of sqlite tests are written in Tcl, or that a “weird language like Tcl” has first class sqlite support. In fact, for a while Richard also sat on the Tcl Core Team (TCT), shepherding its development.
You do you need a pen? You have 10 of them on the end of your hands.

or whatever the quote is in the movie. Is that actually what Steve said about the Newton? is Steve twisting in his grave because of the apple pencil?
The C source has been translated ('transpiled') to Go source. That's not what is usually meant by 'implemented in', but I guess it's not wrong, since there now exists an implementation in Golang.
The title has nothing to do with reality. Flaws aren't even counted in the same way in the original report between different languages. Author of the article makes conclusion that has no support in the data. This is a low quality piece.
I hate people touching my monitors/screens, and it's not even because they get their hand oils all over it (though that is /also/ a reason).

No, the real reason is because they will almost always ever so slightly nudge the monitor/screen out of position. Now I have to waste like half an hour getting the placement back /just right/ before I can get back into my zen mode again, in addition to wiping the hand oils off.
I had the Surface Laptop and before I bought it, I thought I would be using the touchscreen often. Turns out, I rarely used the touchscreen and only used it under 1 scenario, reading long form content. Best way I can describe it is that I felt like I was replacing a magazine with the large touchscreen and that worked for me.

I'm no longer interested in owning large touchscreen and definitely couldn't care about my Mac having that capability. I don't think it's worth the price premium over non-touch.
the sketchy SEO tactics(at least at the beginning), invasive paywalls, clickbaiting, etc…

medium was doomed from the start. but being myself a detractor from the start i’m probably too much biased
Australia is one of the largest meat exporters.
Youtube has amazing infotainment right now. Its a super cool emergent phenomenon that there are soo many amazing niches filled by content creators putting out information dense 45 minute+ videos. I don't mind the ads in this case (vs some short clip), and they all seem to have sponsors as well.
It's a little ironic that 20 years ago Jobs promoted their desktop UI as 'lickable' and now there's pushback over whether desktop displays should even be touchable :p
Good heavens. The contractors are the network. If you leave the contractors out there's nothing left. There's no network. The network doesn't take payments. Contractors do. Other than that of contractors, there is no economic activity. In this view, the network is neither profitable nor unprofitable, since the entire concept of 'profitability' refers to an economic activity.
I realized that I never read anything on Medium. I use it solely as my private travel blog, which is then read by family members, close friends and my nostalgic future me. The reason I like to use medium for that is that it is very easy to add content. The two biggest issues I have with Medium is that pictures can not be set fullsize anymore and that there is a (for me) useless sidebar. Not only are you now limited on how to present your content, but it adds a lot of distraction.