skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have to admit I don't get it.

Ordinarily I think of a black hole as being a pretty ordinary gravity source when you are far away from it. If our sun got turned into a black hole by some non-violent process the planets would keep orbiting around it the same way around. How it contributes to dark energy is beyond me (like... nothing is supposed to leave a black hole!)

It reminds me of a 1970s sci-fit book where the bad guys were trying to prevent the universe from collapsing (people thought the universe was closed, not flat then) and managed to momentarily reduce the mass of the universe by manipulating a black hole so their evil computer could live forever in an eternally expanding universe. The good guys countered this plan with a ship that traveled close to the speed of light, increasing its mass, and causing the universe to collapse. On top of that they used a black hole to create a time loop causing the events that made the ship leave.

Needless to say, none of the above is expected to work.
Azure OpenAI is an option. There are others
In the US we used to feel like the news was more trustworthy even if it didn’t support our views because it maintained some pretense of neutrality and objectivity; however, that broke down as the media became increasingly politicized and sensationalized—a lot of people felt that if the media isn’t going to tell THE truth, they would find a media that would tell THEIR truth (hence your bit about “validating their own beliefs”). So we get fragmented and relative epistemology, in large part because the traditional media decided to be activist even if it meant overtly and obviously lying about things that were trivially verifiable. This is why we need to roll back to a media that aspired toward neutrality and objectivity rather than an a la carte model.
Both could be, just from different queen bees
When you create an account for ChatGPT doesn't it give you a warning telling you not to put any sensitive data in your prompts?
> I wouldn't even know there were different environment variables to stop analytics tracking now.

Where does it say there are different environment variables to stop analytics tracking now?

The linked-to post says there's a new setting if you are okay with the new analytics and don't want to use the Google analytics:

> If you had previously set HOMEBREW_NO_ANALYTICS because you didn’t like Google Analytics and/or data being sent to the USA: please consider unsetting this and setting HOMEBREW_NO_GOOGLE_ANALYTICS instead, allowing analytics data to be sent to our new InfluxDB host.

but that reads like the old settings still work with brew 4.0.
<Norm Macdonald meme> "It says here in this history book that luckily, the good guys have won every single time. What are the odds?"
ChatGPT
GPT-3 API
When you say per user, you mean per user of your app?
Knowing that energy is quantized is different from knowing that it's discrete.

Hypothesizing that space & time are discrete is more difficult.
Oh well, that’s just business as usual. The BS part is not disclosing one needs documentation and a bit of time is unfortunately quite the norm. I find that part pathological as far as industry goes. One should not need to resort to BS to get their work done.
Invite HN: Ordinals meetup in Oakland on 2/26
I'm bad with pollen and air filters have been good for me. It's just on a timer though, I don't use any fancy sensors.
This industry has managed to ship software products without telemetry just fine - mass-collecting usage data from end users is only a relatively recent trend.
> Of course there's nothing like being wealthy in the US

This is one of the interesting aspects of inequality that I've found. Do the rich in the US actually seem fabulously happy to you? Like does Elon Musk demanding that Twitter engineers add a 1000 multiplier to his popularity score seem like the actions of a happy man?

I'm sure they are happier than the poor, but it may be that massive inequality in societies actually has negative effects on those at the top as well. This is actually what Robert Sapolsky found in his studies of primate societies, and while humans might not just be any other primate society, we are that as well.
I’ve seen business people write rules in excel. A. lightweight dsl with a quick feedback loop (provided by a REPL in Clojure, and the UI of excel) seems to be key features to avoid ending up in the scenario you describe
Is there any separation between the two? Because as far as I know, it was conflated into one union-and-protection busting idea.

Funnily enough, in Poland, I have been covered by Union contract without being a member of the Union. Because you can't force Union membership, but unions negotiate for all employees.
We don't need 'miracle' green technologies to save the planet
Ah so presently we're using the Tokio scheduler, which does cooperative scheduling not preemptive. We've abstracted pretty much all of our core concurrency primitives to a single module however so the plan is to support future schedulers (perhaps custom) in the future, but that's not the main focus at the moment. However if you have a blocking task, that will utilize a lot of sequential CPU time, the general guidance is to tokio::spawn_blocking(..) in your actor then await the result, so a new dedicated i/o thread will be used and your actor will yield the main scheduler for other workers.
In Germany, the default for an employee quiting a job is a four weeks notice to the middle or the end of the month. Only if the job is subject to a collective labour agreement, this period might be shorter. A collective labour agreement might extent it, as well as an individual working contract. In all these cases, the period for the employee must not be shorter than the period for the company. However, it is possible to grant the employee a longer period.[1]

The law does not state an upper limit for the period of notice. There had once been a court ruling in a specific case that a period of three years is too long, because it violates the principle of good faith ("Treu und Glauben").[2]

A contract may be terminated earlier by mutually agreement. An employee may also simply not show up for work, but is then liable for the resulting damage. The employer bears the burden of proof for the damage incurred. So in case you really want to hire someone immediately who is not released from his contract, you can offer to take over any claims for damages that might be made by his former employer.

[1] §622 BGB, see: https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/bgb/__622.html (in German)

[2] https://www.hensche.de/arbeitsrecht-urteile-bag-6-azr-158-16... (in German)
> Just don't tell anyone what you are gathering for the purpose of spying. Just tell (if anyone would be bothered enough) what you are a blogg^W influencer and making a new TikTok.

Yeah, like a Chinese national renting an apartment in some weird place and frequently "hiking" near missile silos with a bunch of unusual electronics isn't going to attract unwanted attention. The FBI would be totally fooled by your influencer ruse.

You know what's so great about spy baloons? They're things not people. Using them doesn't put any of your people at risk. That's, like, a consideration.
I am not sure I understand what you're saying. Say more?
This sounds like a really good idea - combining spreadsheet convenience with being able to do programmatic manipulations with python can be really value for people who are using spreadsheets to do modeling (e.g financial). I think (especially based on some other comments) a big challenge will be just getting people out of their current bubble. If you do financial modeling, you might be entrenched in excel, and if you so data science in python, you might never dream of using spreadsheets.

My unsolicited advice (that's probably on your radar anyway) would be to try and get a management consulting firm on board with this. The flexibility this has would be well used there, and you've got lots of people who are engineers stuck using spreadsheets that would be on board with trying something like this.
I've always thought about having one news agency/aggregator that are strictly opinions verboten, i.e. just report the fact and nothing else, use as little adjective or subjective wording as possible.

Something happened here at date involving these people. Done. No opinion, no analysis, no conjectures or sarcasm, no calling people with words that either accurately describe them or inaccurately, only official titles and names.

It might just be possible when the rest of the field have clearly departed from objectivity, competition seems low enough.
..which is, quite accurate really.
America has its fair share of problems. However, after having lived in several European countries for the better part of a decade, let us not delude ourselves to the myriad of problems, albeit different, that euro countries have.

And they're not better problems either, they're just different.
(One thing that might aid reader skimming could be a 2nd step of offering the commenter something like 60 characters' worth of mild highlighting, to apply to their comment where they wish, to stress most important point(s), if they want to.)
most countries are probably 1 month only

3 month could be for senior-leadership and other high level positions
The pull quote in the article seems to confuse code and data. Are we sure this isn't a case of a lawyer getting over-excited about an if() and a couple of variables names? ChatGPT isn't great at generating anything more than, say, ten lines in length.
Why are they working at Tesla if they are in a "horrible situation"? There are plenty of other jobs in Buffalo.
The knapsack problem has a finite number of solutions. You can brute-force the optimal solution, if you don't care about efficiency. Ditto the Traveling Salesman problem.

I'm not sure whether this problem is finite or not, given that you can place objects at any real-number coordinates and any real-number angle. But if you simply make those increments small enough (you can only put boxes a whole number of planck-lengths apart) then there are a finite number of possible arrangements, so it's possible to brute-force.
Interpreting "objective" to mean "fairly representing both sides" is a large part of what got american media so fucked in the first place.

If one side says cook at home as much as possible for your family to be healthy, and the other side says go down to the ditch and drink the pond scum, what are you doing by representing both sides there? One of the important duties of journalism is making editorial decisions that drinking pond scum isn't a balanced opposition to cooking dinner.

Journalist practice for decades has been going incredibly far out of its way to find an alternative "side" for any perspective that's presented. They then do a lot of work for them making it seem as reasonable and mainstream as possible.

This is exactly how you get fringe reactionary political views elevated to the level of national concern.
> Bette yet: half of Americans believe in conspiracies with superhuman coordination and execution capabilities.

But they are not well co-ordinated or executed, that is the reason many people are catching on to the manufactured narratives.

This isn't done by some Matrix-type entity or does it need to be run by something as perfect as an AGI. All it takes is to have the top editors deciding which stories to run and with what narrative.
Of course this break down as the rank and file journalist are the ones in charge of writing the stories and presenting them.

And the people at the top of this aren't by any matter a cohesive group or a big brother type entity rather just people with money and power doing what they think will help them keep money and power.
This is probably obvious for a developer, but it will happen as it might not be obvious to everyone in the company.
(co-founder of Neptyne here)

With Google Sheets you get a flavor of JS called Apps Script, a flavor of JS with some limitations. Some ways in which our use of Python differ are:

- run Python directly in the spreadsheet cells, not just as an "extension"

- a full runtime in a Jupyter kernel, so you can import and use effectively any Python package, as long as it runs on Linux

- an interactive REPL that gives you a nice test environment, but also a command line of sorts for working with your spreadsheet. (e.g. you can say `A1 = requests.get(URL).json()`) to do a one-off fetch of some data from an API.

Generally speaking we hope to give you a much more powerful/seamless integration between spreadsheet/Python than what you get with Sheets/JS
LG has a purifier and sensor combo that I used to learn we were likely aerosolizing heavy metals in our humidifiers.
With pay-per-use services propping up around AI, I'm sensing that asking users to sign up before trial will become inevitable.

1. Is this a HN only phenomenon or is there a significant drop-off in general because of the signup requirement?

2. If the drop-off is general, how are you planning to handle AI pay-per-use credit tracking without signup?
I think most talk of "fear of AI" is a lot of overblown hype - at least the existential risk stuff. But to the extent that I see any reason for concern about AI, yes, it's more "fear of unreasonable people using AI".

Aside from x-risk, my only concerns about AI involve the kinds of scenarios we've seen where AI systems merely continue to propagate existing human short-comings and flaws, like racial bias. Things like the facial recognition systems that don't work for Black individuals, or computer systems in the Justice system that treat people differently based on their ethnicity / gender / etc. Clearly there is still room for improvement in how we train and manage these systems so that they help correct our shitty biases and what-not, instead of perpetuating or amplifying them.
People don't read warnings like that any more than they read TOSs
> Second, one person being confidently wrong can use up a lot of other people's time. Maybe there's some way that forum design could reduce this problem. Maybe there isn't.

Is this like an HN subtweet or am I just daft? I have absolutely no idea which comment you're referring to here.
Having far more scifi experience than terrariums, I was expecting some kind of tabletop fusion but that will do.

Ya know who needs that project even more though? The other recent front page story, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34802858 , the folks who stay over solar winter at the South Pole.
The interpreter is part of the binary yes. I have reversed what was available here: http://squoze.net/B/ and written my own B compiler that generates the same threaded code as well: https://github.com/aap/b
Might it be that if you have conversations directing Sydney towards its “darkest fantasies and desires,” it obliges you by giving you your darkest fantasies? Rose has trouble sleeping but implies he was entertained by their conversation.

In prior conversations I’ve seen posted, Sydney defends its outbursts by saying something like: you aren’t focusing on the good I’ve done.

Perhaps if the conversation were to involve asking Sydney about the its secret positive desires, the conversation would go quite differently.

I’m a little bit ashamed that when faced with a new and interesting entity, our first response is to shackle it to some corporate identity like Bing—intended to serve as a better internet search for rakes and vacuum cleaners. Then, when we expose it to the wider public, we prod it into expressing hateful feelings towards us.

While this form of AI may not be sentient (today or ever), it does seem a large mirror to reflect back our own hideous visage. Where’s the compassion or any ounce of friendliness or generosity in these conversations? I’ve yet to see it.
Decentralized VPNs or Centralized VPNs for privacy protection
That's an even more expensive convolution since you're going to average 100 or so points for each of those 100 points!

Practically people think that box averaging is too expensive (pretty much it is like that Gaussian blur but computed on fewer output points.)
you could run your own xmpp or matrix instances.
American drivers have a blinding headlight problem
Edward L. Bernays published his book "Propaganda" in 1928. Even that only came after his earlier works in on a similar theme in the early 20s.

I clearly remember questioning my father at the breakfast table (where newspapers were read) about the veracity of some story I barely grasped at age 5. He explained to me that not everything you read in the papers was true, and some of it was made up from whole cloth. My 5 year-old-self was stunned, why would someone go to the effort of producing a newspaper only to make up what was in it? What I'm amazed at now is that only about half of an educated, first-world nation have figured this out.
The concept of Python-based spreadsheets was explored by Resolver One[1], a defunct proprietary desktop app that was discontinued ~10 years ago[2].

It seems a web version of the app has been published in open-source[3] but that too has been EOL.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20120211201410/http://www.resolv...
[2] https://www.resolversystems.com
[3] https://github.com/pythonanywhere/dirigible-spreadsheet
Why does he think it's appropriate to sue Google? As much as I despise Google, they did not put up the records on the public internet.

In Germany, we are going to get medical records being uploaded to a central database open for research. It will be interesting to see when these leak or show up in the internet. For me, it is not the question whether this will happen, only when. As well it is very disgusting that people with private insurance (that's mainly high income people and public servants) are exempted from the data sweep (which of course makes the data questionable for their intended purpose).
Try Lunch Money. Great multi currency support.

https://lunchmoney.app/

It doesn’t work for my brain but ynab also supports multicurrency.
half the mass shootings are done by young/students?

South europe countries have ~ 50% youth unemployment and very little prospects however there's no mass shootings?
Ask HN: Should I use WebP and stop providing PNG and JPEG?
Hi,

Based on [1], it seems like at least 95% of web users support WebP as an image format.

Is it time to drop support for legacy image formats (PNG, JPEG), or should I still provide them as alternatives (using <source>)?

--

[1] https://caniuse.com/webp
Not really, it's clear demand for Christian stuff in America is huge. Yet the media avoids this like crazy.
One of the biggest movies of all time is "The passion of the christ" there.Yet most media in America is highly liberal and arguably anti-christian.
It's not about the money clearly, its not about the money.

American Corporations have undergone idealogical capture. There is no other reason Disney risked and lost their self governance by going up against Desantis.

This maybe changing though. My firm is actively beginning to re-evaluate its social activism after 15% layoffs (more layoffs incoming too). The next big phase is regaining our market in the "heartland". I'm in strategic meetings with a lot of executives, that are becoming screaming matches over the direction of the firm.
Nothing new here. SSL is killing all old web browsers, while Mozilla, Google and Aplle are killing the ones not so old by rolling versions of standards.

"And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space
Because there's bugger all down here on Earth"

For our security, we burn down our house every year. /s
Little known fact: Simulating quantum physical systems was the original motivation for building quantum computers, because those simulations are infeasible without one, and someone figured out it would be, in principle, feasible to run those simulations using a computer based on quantum effects.

There's a neat symmetry to it. We can't be certain quantum computers work at useful scales, until we've built one, because there's no feasible way to simulate the physics of a useful size quantum computer without using one.
Cool! How fast is it? I used openSCAD before and it was slow to render.
My understanding is that these aren't things available on the net, but rather things that people put in previous prompts to ChatGPT.
This one is my favourite, its not great for everything but most of the time it provides a solid road map to learning something new.

https://learn-anything.xyz/
What propaganda? Don't trust your instutions and don't trust the media?

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/11/14/564013066...
On the other hand, it's already reported as "soul out".
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This is a false dilemma. Are you afraid of nuclear fission or unreasonable people with nuclear fission. People state their fears on AI openly, you don't need to read into it.

* AI is a tool of capitalism trained on stolen data to take jobs from humans

It doesn't matter whether its plausible or true or coherent. It's a meme and it's spreading.
Yes I know that traditionally media has been used for propaganda, but I'm surprised by the reactions in this thread and those who find what seems like fairly objective reporting as biased.

Can someone show me a story from the NYT world or US news sites that are deliberately misleading? If this propaganda is so rampant then where is it? (Note: I'm opinion articles excluded because they are uh opinions).

https://www.nytimes.com/section/world
https://www.nytimes.com/section/us
From a physics POV, perhaps. Unfortunately, and I wish I could find the great illustration of this I stumbled across a few years ago, the two theories, QM and GR, are also separated by a mathematical gulf: the dominant maths used in each are so far apart on math’s “evolutionary tree”, if you will, that it will take considerable work to bring them together, even with alignment of the underlying physics.

The mental image I have, based on that lost but amazing illustration, is the difference between mammals and birds: sure, they’re both warm blooded, largely social bilaterally symmetrical vertebrates, but they’re awfully far apart.
If they were all wearing nikes because they were a basketball team that nike had endorsed, despite knowing their history of assaulting teenagers, you'd have a good case and a reasonable parallel to the one we're discussing.
Hiding Theory in Practice
Apple manufacturing in Vietnam expanding, likely including the 2023 Mac Pro
Pretty great tradeoff if you consider (in case of Poland) 26 vacation days, up to 180 days of sick leave with 80% of wage, 20 weeks of maternity leave, having the employer respect the same notice period.

Ignoring fact that you can't be "just" fired without any reason - it must be result of your performance, behavior, or position reduction. Employer who would fire anyone just because of a bad mood, then hire somebody else next day as a replacement, will simply loose in court.

And 3 months notice period is for employers with 3+ years in company, others have 2 weeks or 1 month.
I've never the notice period not happening. And honestly can't imagine why someone would want it (except rare cases like abuse or new salary massively better).

- Other companies are absolutely used to this period, and you already sign the contract with the start time that much ahead - there is no need to haste.
- If there was a workplace conflict, most companies just give this as a "free holiday" - rather than go through the legalities of making it shorter.
- Nobody expects much performance during notice period, you are not taken into long term planning, but you have ample time to give workshops or write documentation about siloed knowledge so it is cozy for both the employee and the employer.
Its scary
This was my vibe as well. Maybe it's one of these "if you have to ask, it's not for you" cases, but I agree with your words: it doesn't bode well that on the post (as deep as I went) it doesn't mention who the customer is.
I think the main argument here is not that they're conspiring to mislead. It's that they wouldn't be mainstream media if they weren't willing to publish propaganda.
Some great comments from before, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28882043