skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, same for me. I sounds like the uses they'd found for it didn't really involve expecting reliable information, more just as an initial source of ideas with a nice conversational interface.
He's already a few weeks behind. Bing's new AI can query Bing's search engine. So it hasn't "burned the library". It can reach out for new information.

That's going to be really important. Large language models can already summarize documents. How long before you can tell a system "Read this book. Then I will have some questions about it"? Once you have that, you can apply the base model to domain-specific problems.
There are now d-locks that are angle grinder resistant. The reviews I've read suggest they need two cuts to open and each cut uses a full angle grinder disc.

As ever, impossible to stop a determined thief, but starting to get "good enough".
Lawmakers have not even voted on this yet. So a bit premature.
And as (American?) English speakers tend to abbreviate almost everything ("app", "fridge" ...) we might end at "cantos" then.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canto ... I'm currently reading Dan Simmons' Hyperion/Endymion again, which might have pushed that into my mind.
There's a lot of personal finance apps out there, and I don't think it being open source is enough of a killer draw card to stand out from the crowd.
John Carmack helps debug satellite startup's images
Only if you register with AMO.
Can you please make your substantive points without snark and swipes? The site guidelines ask you not to do those things, because they degrade discussion and we're trying for something else here.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
I've landed on using the F-droid build instead of Nightly. That also allows custom extension collections, and I believe Mozilla's attitude was that they get more telemetry for Nightly as they consider that an opt-in somehow (or at least they did for the desktop app).
Can you please make your substantive points without snark and swipes, and please not post in the flamewar style?

The HN guidelines ask you not to do those things, because they degrade discussion and we're trying for something else here.

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My friend's cat never wanted me to pet her and wouldn't sit near me or anyone much. Now that my friend and his wife have a baby who I assume gets all the attention, that cat says what's up to me every time and wants me to pet her nonstop. She straight up got jealous.

Re: ChatGPT, what can it offer in entertainment for house pets?
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There's no "consciousness" there. There's consciousness in what it is emulating, though, and if you give it enough of that, it will be indistinguishable from an actual consciousness, and so it may very well be that we must treat it as conscious.

There's a philosophical concept, "zimboes", which is useful here - philosophical zombies which believe that they are conscious, and believe that they experience subjective understanding. I don't follow all the arguments, but from what I understand, they're used to argue for "if it quacks like a duck" presentations of consciousness, rather than some more abstract criteria.
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnins.2023.1105...
When you drill down these discussion points, it all comes down to the fact we don’t exactly know how the human mind works so we can’t properly answer what is the difference between pretending to understand, and understanding.
Typo, should be 50%. Federal, state, local (SF City tax) puts you over 50% at the top bracket.

The point is you can cut taxes significantly while also reducing CoL… the economic benefit is far too high to justify people crowding back into SF again
Playing devil's advocate here, don't they need to protect their users from nefarious add ons that could steal data?
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This was from an overheard conversation, so not 100% sure myself. It sounded like he was giving it a list of activities he wanted to achieve within a certain time window (going for a jog, studying for exams, coursework, etc.), and asking it to write a schedule for him.

He then said he asked it to tweak it in a few ways (e.g. more time on study, a 5 minute break between activities, etc.). Then he'd print it out and pin to his desk.
If it was left unlocked and in poor condition it’s possible someone thought it had simply been abandoned and took it to fix up themselves.
Can confirm, there's an RV outside my house right now that has a a giant trailer full of half-chopped up bike frames and parts. They get stuff in and fire up some kind of machinery to grind them apart in the middle of the night. Two RVs down from that is the drug dealer.

It's not just high end bikes. It's everything. Motorcycles and scooters too.
> Read the book "Countdown". The author goes into great detail all of the reasons that modern life is putting downward pressure on sperm quality and quantity.

What reasons would apply to you?
If you go to someones backyard and start taking things and they call the police then you are a bad citizen.

Calling cops and doing it with their help covers your ass.
Your question assumes something that is unlikely to be true (increased rates of homosexuality and transgenderism), and then asks if it may be linked with something to which there is no plausible link at all, even if your assumption were true - since lower sperm count is obviously not going to increase the rate of homosexual women.

"Just asking questions" is not a plausible defense when the question is this leading. It's like asking "Is women being dumber than men possibly linked to lower testosterone?" and claiming that you are just being curious.
"The idea of life on Earth" is already so far out that the mere possibility of it having originated elsewhere actually makes it a more plausible occurrence
> I want everything to be encrypted.

Why?
Congrats ! Looks really cool !

I always had this rule of thumb, "the better a programmer is at spreadsheets, the worse programmer he is" :D Mostly cause I suck so much at spreadsheets. I always think to myself, dammit I'm a career programmer how come I can't do a double-column lookup across two sheets with my eyes closed :(

Anywhoo congrats again, now can we make it work with something nice like Clojure or Lisp :P ?
It's not that complicated, legally speaking. The rightful owner gets to get their stuff back, and the new "owner" has a claim against the purveyor of stolen goods for the purchase price.
I agree. Quantum mechanics is "just statistics", and yet it still causes chemistry to happen.

I think that the argument for qualia is pretty weak - if we can have a conversation about "blueness" with a blind person, we have to admit the possibility of "understanding" existing in some form in LLMs.

Even if it's just a statistical emulation, at what point does a statistical emulation become reality, if it's a good enough emulation down to the metaphorical planck distance.
I was lucky enough to visit the museum at the end of 2019, just before COVID-19 hit and the museum had to shut down. Unlike the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, the machines here were fully operational and you could actually get to use them - I compiled some hello world code on a NeXTcube and I still remember that fond moment. IIRC they had systems that you can SSH in and use, but seems like they've taken that down. Must be a recent thing since I remember they were operational a year or two ago.
Basically anyone can conduct a study, does not mean it's significant.
> Apple music is absolute crap, quality of sound was enough that I didn't even bother extending trial

Sound quality not good enough? You know Apple Music supports lossless up to 24-bit 192kHz, at no cost, right?

Just what are you talking about?
Zillow Signals More Pain Ahead in Online Real Estate
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https://archive.is/N0V3N
I add "Caves of Qud" and "Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead" to the list.
Hardware acceleration in robotics news. ROS 2 HAWG #15, 2022 ROS 2 metrics report, Robot sales reach a new high in 2022, When will the mobile robot market consolidate?, Why roboticists should prioritize human factors, Here’s how India is turning the US-China chip war into its advantage
People have forgotten what a big deal that keynote was and what it meant for the mobile web. Go back and pay attention to the “desktop class web browser” stuff. Apple almost singlehandedly changed the mobile web from something almost nobody wanted, into something actually useful and mainstream. And Steve Jobs was there right from the start telling everybody if they wanted to build applications for the iPhone, they should be mobile web applications. It was everybody else demanding that iPhone applications be native, not web-based.

Before the iPhone was released, a typical mobile web experience was a separate site that barely worked and didn’t use any normal browser technologies. Along come Apple, who do a tonne of work to make their open-source WebKit work well on mobile, and virtually overnight all smartphones adopted WebKit to catch up with them.

Anybody who doesn’t think Apple has done more to advance the mobile web than practically any other organisation should be forced to build WAP/WML mobile sites until they repent.

They didn’t do it alone of course – WebKit was originally based upon KHTML, and I believe Nokia also had a WebKit-based mobile browser. But Apple put a tremendous amount of work into it and the dramatic shift from “the mobile web is shitty and worthless” to “the mobile web is actually useful” happened almost straight away as a direct result. Nobody wanted mobile websites / mobile web applications before the iPhone came out, then all of a sudden it was a normal requirement for a site to work well on mobile.
Airbnb is a convenient scape goat for deep rooted social, political and economic issues.
If this post title sounds weird to you, it should.

Since Android Firefox 68, you cannot install custom extensions, unless you register on AMO. Even if you wrote the extension yourself.
I would take a significant pay cut to have my own office rather than hot desking in an open office.
Wow. That is all you got from the article?

Students will find ways to make their lives "easier" by sabotaging their own education with assistants like AI, regardless of the quality of professors teaching them.

Tools like ChatGPT can only regurgitate what was already written, often with confident but wrong takes. They can't offer new perspectives, or inspire students with a different way of thinking about the world. These are not teacher, let alone college professor, replacements.
Have you ever looked at Grub more closely?

It's actually a whole operating system by now!

Only a very shitty one, and in comparison not well maintained…
Archive without paywall: https://archive.ph/niPCN
Quite likely, if the playing-field was level, or at least they'd have lost huge market-share.

Facebook bought Instagram in 2012 precisely because they were a direct threat. The FTC could have blocked that; or more recently, prevented tighter integration with FB+WA.

Currently they're using lobbyists to try to push TikTok (and WeChat) out of the US market.

Yahoo imploded because it had to pander to the short-term whims of the stock market; Zuckerberg references this frequently when talking about how FB (i.e. he) maintains control of its stock and autonomy.
Again, it's a chat generator. It has no ability, whatsoever, beyond generating text. It is not "relinquishing" anything, and you're not "requesting" anything from it. It has absolutely no role in this, anymore than the dragon in Skyrim does.
On the higher end, many (all?) switches with 40gbps ports can break them out to 4x10gbps. Example cable: https://www.fs.com/products/36218.html?currency=USD&paid=goo...
Kubectl-Watch v0.2.3
Since 0.2.3, kubectl-watch have terminal UI.
Two other uses cases I forgot I'd heard one of the students mention: 1) drafting emails to people, 2) checking if he'd forgotten any key aspects in coursework essays.

For 2), he said that after writing an essay, he'd ask the GPT model something like "I've written an essay on X, and talked about A, B, and C. Are there any other important factors I've forgotten to discuss?". Then use that as the basis for more research.

From the sounds of it, he was treating the model more like a colleague he could bounce ideas off, not something to be treated as infallible (much like another student I guess).
> that's fair, but they'd just kinda sit at a half step between herbivore and predator

no it doesn't.

We are not predators and are not herbivores.

swines are not herbivore but not predators.

But in fairness it's not very common, the real point is that if we look at the data, mammals are mostly carnivores, 63% of them is, but that doesn't imply being a predator.

The other point is that the cycle is not predator eats herbivore which eats plants.

That is a mammal-centric view that completely removes from the equation the majority of lifeforms on Earth, 'cause mammals are a minority of the species in nature.

Many predators also feed from other lesser predators, example: snakes. Snakes don't eat herbivores, they eat small rodents that usually eat other smaller animals.

Truth is the cycle is a lot more about bacteria that eats a substance (that probably comes from the putrefaction of some dead animal) that creates some other substance that other bacteria live on and they too produce something that simple life forms use to produce energy and after many of these steps, maybe there's some plant or fungi that consumes those nutrients in the soil and then "do you have time to talk about our lords and saviors the insects, the 900 thousands species of them?"

Oceans are not absolutely more complex than terrestrial life and why should they be? Life on Earth evolved over hundreds of millions of years, it makes sense that it adapted to every ecosystem the Earth has to offer.

> marine food chains are longer

a bit longer doesn't mean what the original comments was about.

The study also says that the chain is longer in the lowest segment of the chain where the size is microscopic.

So when you arrive at the zooplankton level, you are already at very large animal eats helpless food (plants or soup of proteins) and then get eaten by a predator or it's too big to be annoyed by anybody (elephants and whales, for example)
Ex-Googler: Company Slowly Ceased to Function for Reasons
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha_particle well
...
I got to go once in 2017 and really hoped to be able to go again someday... If it is dead, I at least hope their machines are donated to a similar museum elsewhere
Nostalgia hits hard when seeing this design.
Our consciousness is biochemical statistics. It's a weak argument to dismiss AI as "not like us".

https://clementneo.com/posts/2023/02/11/we-found-an-neuron
Pretty sure it's like webpack but runs in your browser. i.e. a bundler+transpiler.
There is data. We can simply ask boomers if they are gay/trans. Though that doesn’t help in examining if the measurable change in the Zoomer generation is physical (nature) or social (nurture).
Uh, I have 10 total submissions, and this is one of two that mention _any_ AI. Are you reference the author?
Search with LLMs is listed separately (at the end), so for the most part they actually are raising the price for an unrelated or at least just semi-related product.
It's also the facilitator par excellence that flips 'bad' into 'unsustainable' in the housing domain, all else being equal.
Great , Best alternative to Chrome Android.
There is a JavaScript/TypeScript toggle on all the code samples, just click that and you’re all set.
> "buddy"

> politely handed me back my bike

Canada?
I love this museum and I'm truly shocked to hear this news! I tried to go during the pandemic but I didn't realize that it would be gone forever... I still have a shirt in my closet!

Is there anything that we can do to help keep it alive?
Endocrine disrupting chemicals (mostly phthalates), they are present in most food and bathroom packaging. Any plastic that is flexible.

https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/features/the-big-3-why-pht...

"They’ve been shown to be anti-androgenic—in other words, they decrease testosterone. In studies with rats, it’s been shown that if you dose the pregnant mother, the offspring have defects of the male reproductive tract. There have also been studies in humans that have found anti-androgenic effects on development of the male reproductive tract."

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/common-chemicals-...

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/feb/10/phthala...

There is a mountain of research on these chemicals.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2873014/

"There was also a dose–response relationship between MBzP (the primary hydrolytic metabolite of BBzP) and below WHO reference value sperm concentration. In a recent follow-up study including these 168 men, plus an additional 295 men newly recruited into the study, Hauser et al. (2006) confirmed the associations between MBP and increased odds of below-reference sperm concentration and motility. "
You're entire system of reasoning comes down to choosing what to believe based on how much you like the person saying it. And when you don't like the person saying it you can't even say their name without inserting a stupid insult like "criminal cabal" and "OSINTbro shill". You systematically sidestep all questions on matters of fact in favor of naked tribal social reasoning. Even in this discourse you opted to reason about the motivation semantics of the GP, speculating outloud that they are "invested" in defending a certain position, rather than directly addressing the arguments they made for that position. Your follow up comment is based 100% in elaborating on which sources you think are more reputable and 0% in analysis of what these sources are actually claiming.

Did you just get here from Twitter?

I don't care if its Hersh or otherwise, if someone says 1+1=3 then what they are saying doesn't add up. Debunking the Hersh story isn't a claim about Russia doing it to themselves, nor even a rejection of the hypothesis that the US did it. It merely refutes the Hersh story as evidence one way or the other.
Charles Web Proxy will still feel a bit like 2016, not that much changed unter last few years. But it still works and does all the things it needs.
It's mentioned in the article, but I'm pointing out because I think it's really cool - FPrime, the JPL flight software framework used on (among other things) the Ingenuity Mars helicopter, is open source: https://github.com/nasa/fprime

There are third-party repos built around FPrime as well as documentation and training materials available here: https://github.com/fprime-community
What do you mean? Most of Node's APIs are available on the web and vice-versa but they're slightly different, so if you want to run the same code in both places you need some shims.
my data is on my computer which has also access to my phone because they are connected
Web Bluetooth is not a web standard. It’s something Google implemented by themselves that no other rendering engine wants to adopt. Both Firefox and Apple have explicitly rejected it.
But I didn't say people "preferred" to be unsanitary, and it doesn't actually matter why things are done one way or another.

COVID-19 is believed to have originated in a live-animal market in Wuhan. I would argue (and forgive me if this is racist) that a market where some vendor sells diseased animals as food that will kill 7 million people (and shut down the world for almost two years) qualifies as "unsanitary."
If you upscale (with interpolation) some sensitive image (think security camera), could that be dismissed in court as it "creates" new information that wasn't there in the original image?
Finally! The situation is getting to ridiculous levels. Yes, influx of foreign talent and investment is good, but it's an extreme situation that is out of control.

Expats were able to evade all taxes due to crypto exemption, and rules for income from foreign country companies. Locals fund social infrastructure while expats use it, dry out the housing market, and raise prices through gentrification.

Golden visas are a loophole for sanctions against Russia's aggression (at least one well known oligarch has a Portuguese golden visa), and it's ironic that you can buy a visa with 200k while refugees die in the Mediterranean trying to seek asylum and safety.
I revisited this in 2020 and found some additional things, separate from that errata. All my code is available here: https://github.com/RANDCorporation/milliondigits

And there's a news article about it here: https://www.wsj.com/articles/rand-million-random-digits-numb...
> Tools like ChatGPT can only regurgitate what was already written, often with confident but wrong takes.

Yeah, just like many professors
This may be true, and it worries me. I have a (completely unproven) conjecture that things that make programming boring (like writing boilerplate code) are more or less things that let us avoid burnout.

How many hours per day can you stay focused on difficult (or at least non-boring) problems? And for how many years?

Whenever someone says "AI = productivity enhancer", I hear "AI = burnout accelerator".
Both of us are completely on the same page. Funnily, I have made the same reference to the same paper [0].

The comment has a "let's talk about how we stop there and not move forward than that" tone, because frankly, I don't think Go maintainers and Google will say "Oh, we overreached, sorry. Let's abandon it and never talk about it again".

However, even discussing telemetry and being so adamant about it made me reconsider the extent I'm going to use Go in the future.

[0]: https://github.com/golang/go/discussions/58409#discussioncom...
Not so much, you could phase out C-style casts over time. C++ compilers could grow options to warn about C-style casts (if they haven't already), shops could outlaw them in coding style guides, and slowly it would go away.

What does kinda defeat the point is that C++ adds a new form of cast that is even less conspicuous than a C-style cast:

typedef int* int_p;
int f(char* p)
{
int* ip = int_p(p); // basically a reinterpret_cast
return *ip;
}
int main(int argc, char** argv)
{
return f(argv[0]);
}

gcc -Wall compiles this with no warnings.
Ask HN: What you up to? (Who doesn't want to be hired?)
Instead of talking jobs, what is everyone up to otherwise? Any interesting going on in life or with your hobby project?

Unfinished and novel ideas are of course most interesting, so feel free to share anything you're thinking about!

recreating this, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29073996, for the current times we are in
So why even use Remix? Maybe I misunderstand what it is.