skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting points, but I think the author does themselves a disservice in downplaying general anthropomorphism (no mention of a child's stuffed animal - only an adults "ironic" distance to "willful" anthropomorphism) - and by downplaying physical presence /body language:

> in my opinion, conventional social performances “in-person” which are not significantly richer than text — expressions of emotion add perhaps a few dozen bytes of bandwidth for example — I think of this sort of information stream as “text-equivalent” — it only looks plausibly richer than text but isn’t) - and the significance of body language (ask anyone who has done a presentation in front of an audience if body language matters...).

This flies in the face of research into communication - and conflates "Turing game" setups that level the playing field (we don't expect a chat text box to display body language - so we are not surprised when a chat partner doesn't - be that human or not).

And again with children (or adults) - people with no common language will easily see each other during a game of soccer - without any "text".

Ed: plot twist-the essay is written by chat gpt... Lol ;)
We've switched the URL to that post now - more at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34851026. Thanks!

Edit: nope, reverted. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34851017.
The part where he spent the year 2020 in a russian slave labour prison might help explain his difficulty getting a job. Plus as a russian national living in russia, FAANG is not exactly knocking at his door.
> This happens subsconsciously and gradually, not as a result of deliberate choice.

I wonder if everyone is talking about the same thing. When my partner and I are arguing angrily about something and a stranger walks into the room, our change is neither subconcious nor gradual.
This feels like a nano optimization to me.
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This is really going on a tangent that's beside my point on the fees, but are you genuinely suggesting people can treat payments like phone calls or texts -- things that tolerate long delays? If someone calls you and your phone is unavailable for whatever reason, they can back later, even tomorrow or in a week. Or maybe you borrow someone's phone to call back. You... can't do any of this when you're trying to make a payment on the spot. Especially when you're poor.

If an electronic solution is ever going to work at all, it needs to be something that's not powered. Like debit cards, not phones. But even with those, there are so many giant problems here that I don't have the energy to go on the tangent.
Must the sources of all voices be external?
> Every team Lebron left became a bottom feeder and lottery candidate

Yeah but partly that is because those teams traded everything they could trade, spend a huge amount of money, and once Lebron left they had to blow it all up.

Trade their remaining good players, most of them specifically acquired to be good fits with Lebron but not that useful by themselves.

In that sense Lebron basically did 'Slash and Burn agriculture'. He uses up all local resources, and then sets up a plan to move on, using his influence to engineer a good new situation. He then moves to that place, uses all the resources, and then moves on.

> every team he joined instantly became a contender

Because he picked teams to go to that he knew would be contenders. Are we just gone act he didn't engineer this situations? Like, its not that he went to some shit teams and made them good. He pick and built situations so he would join amazingly good team mates.

He had 2 teams who had absurdly good 'Big 3s'.

> 8 Straight finals on 3 different teams

It should be noted that this is partly because he was in an incredibly bad eastern conference. Like absolutely historically terrible. And this is not some 'Lebron hater' take, if you look at the statistics like SRS for the other teams in the East in those 8 years, none of them were great. A few decent teams, but that it.

The best teams he faces was the aging Celtics in 2011 and then the Bulls. Bulls were only around a short time and were a defense first team with a very young star (young stars basically never win in the NBA). The Bulls might have been competition but Rose got hurt.

So for the next 6 years the competition was basically, Raptors and the Pacers, neither were all that good. While Lebron had a Big 3, the Pacers had basically had , and the Raptors basically ha no real star player.

Who is the best player Lebron beat in 8 years going to the East finals? How many Top 10 players?

So while its impressive he didn't make a mistake, and its impressive he pulled some of those old cavs teams to the finals, its isn't as monumental an achievement as its made out to be.

> Lebron never had a team like that outside Miami

Some of the second Cavs teams were pretty fantastic actually. Like seriously, the amount of talent on them was crazy.

We also have to remember that Jordan had basically nothing on his team for years and had to face the Celtics (literally one of the best teams in history) and then Bad Boy Pistons (historically great team).
Completely agree. Anyone who wants to support IE and Outlook astonish me. I'm going to be starting an email newsletter soon and I've not done one before outside of mail chimp but I am absolutely not fucking around using tables. Why are we indulging Microsoft on this and letting them think it's acceptable to use their shitty Word rendering engine for email? How much productivity is being wasted from people globally having to spend time working around their piss poor decisions? Newsletter makers should just refuse to indulge it and provide a plain text email alternative for Outlook users along with the reasoning at the top of the email: sorry this email isn't pretty for you but Microsoft need to sort this the fuck out. Please use a proper email client in order to view the nice version.

Let things die that need to die. I can understand it more with Outlook because it still has just under 5% market share according to this[1] (guessing this is a US centric survey and not global) but are you really going to be getting paying customers or even just the eyeballs you want on your site from people who are using IE? Internet Explorer makes up less than 0.5% of browser use nowadays. You have got better things to be spending your time and money on than supporting it.
People here usually don't like useful things. They are very interested in things like "look at the hello world application that I made without using javascript". It's hard to understand.
What humans say tend to be related to what the human body the mind is attached to has done or experienced. That sort of relation doesn't exist for todays AI, what they say aren't related to anything at all, its just fiction.
I could understand this reasoning but it is not the typical node backend I am seeing in the wild.
> It may or may not have been a bad choice

It was a necessary choice, the previous framework for extensions was not multiprocess-compatible.
You are talking about charity, I am talking about commerce. Charity has its place and can be sustained if properly executed. There is only so much that can be donated however.

When you provide the market test, the bar is a lot higher for sustainability.
A Boardwalk Basketball Grift Conjured Out of Thin Air
time python min.py
New synaptic weights after training:
[[ 9.67300549]
[-0.20838755]
[-4.62931838]]
Considering new situation [1, 0, 0] -> ?:
[0.99993704]
python min.py 0.35s user 1.07s system 756% cpu 0.188 total

No. Python is not 17x times slower. Author did just a irreproducible performance research.
Mary Poppins and The Hardy Boys were both edited to remove things that someone decided was offensive.

Some of the changes to Dahl's books look like the dumb down the language. Is that an effort to sell into a market with smaller vocabulary?
I used to listen to mp3s on my FPU-less Sharp Zaurus clamshell using madplay [0] with cycles to spare.

Linked from [0] is a page claiming to use MAD for mp3 playback on a Newton [1].

Not sure how those compare to a 386SX, but it's probably a good place to start.

[0] https://www.underbit.com/products/mad/

[1] https://40hz.org/Pages/newton/packages/madnewton/
Amazon has a monopoly on creating a web page and selling and shipping stuff? There are literally thousands of merchants that setup their own sites or sell through Facebook, Instagram or Etsy
Why shouldn't fat be normal descriptor of well fat people. Should we next ban thin? Or short and tall? Those also can also be derogatory.
Then why did D get lapped by Rust if @nogc is good enough and the ecosystem is good enough?

If the answer is along the lines of "corporate backing", why did Rust get corporate backing and D didn't?
I guess daily mail is tabloid for women?
>Worth noting is that there is no equivalent term to "female"

“Male” is the word, and it is used in lots of books in exactly the same way as it’s being used here.

I have read tons of books that said something along the lines of “he was an excellent male specimen” or “a member of the male species”

Using the word female/male has a specific effect on the way the sentence reads, it gives it a clinical feel and is very useful. Rewriting usages to the approved, politically correct, version just smacks of 1984 style newspeak.
Creating value proposition for developer tools
If you are looking for "absolute sexual beauty", how about searching a partner that you love and care about instead of in "top secret VIP escort salons".
What was extra-cavalier about it was that I didn't even bother disassembling the computer to get the motherboard out of the case. Did it in-situ at awkward angles with the tower in my lap. I did take out the graphics card to give myself some space to work though.
Many people don't have voices in their head, they just think normally without voices. The voice in your head is just a distraction, it isn't representing your real thoughts.
I agree, container queries feel like a natural fit. I saw that they're supported in every major browser now, but haven't personally tried em yet.
Thats the real wow factor of chatGPT isn't it? We're able to automate & serialize creativity because our culture has become too serious to do it ourselves anymore.

A highly creative culture would have very limited if any desire for it.
I think you misunderstand my comment. I'm saying, for instance, that during a calm period when a group of people can take their time and review each other's reasoning, a rule might be put in effect like, "Two tail strikes within X hours of each other means an automatic, immediate halt." Humans execute that procedure (or override it at the risk of their career) and then decide what to do next, having been in the loop the entire time.

Such a rule likely saved an SR-71 once: https://theaviationgeekclub.com/the-story-of-belmont-86-the-...

The natural tendency for military air crews is to complete the mission if humanly possible. To counter this inclination, the Wing Commander had designated certain emergencies sufficiently critical to require immediate landing. This was one of those emergencies.
Yep. It's a less known trick among developers. For some reason, most people will do something and expect to be rewarded for it without setting up the reward mechanism. No, people almost never give you money without you asking for it.

Other people assume that it's very hard to get money for something. Totally wrong, people love spending money.

The exact same thing goes for just asking for help or whatever you want. It's even true for romantic relationships. Asking people for something is remarkably powerful.
> Programmers write bugs per line

Source?

Hack more code into one line -> less bugs for the overall program? doubt

Use Typescript instead of JS (thus add a few loc) -> more bugs? certainly doubt
I use to work at Radio Shack in college. You would be surprised by the retail vs wholesale prices of accessories and small ticket items.

But simple question. How much do you think movie theaters and restaurants pay for food and especially fountain drinks?
Things like these make me really scared for my job as a programmer. Take that as a compliment.
A single Docker CLI to rule them all
Let me show you a little example of how I manage different Docker nodes.
Since the whole GPT3 thing blown up, I'm thinking from time to time... how I am generating what I say. I'm sure many smart people wrote papers on that. I did not read any of them, mind you, will just share a short thought of my own here, hopefully providing some intellectual entertainment for someone.

It seems from my point of view that, broadly speaking, I maintain four things at the moment of talking to someone:

1. A graph of concepts that were used / are potentially going to be used by me or by my interlocutor.

2. Some emotional state.

3. Some fuzzy picture of where I'm going with what I'm saying in the short term of say 20 seconds.

4. Extra short term focused process of making sure that the next 2-3 words fit to the one I just said and are going to fulfill requirements stemming from (3) and (1); this happens with some influence form (2), ideally not too much, if I consider current state of (2) not helping to be constructive.

GPT3 obviously lacks (2). My limited understanding of LLMs is that it does (4), maybe (3) and probably not (1) (?).

So I'm just wondering - are those LLMs really that far from a "human being"?

Again, not an expert. Happy to be corrected.
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Hey look it’s a “static” HTML file that decrypts itself using AES 256 CBC. Sure, that sounds static and simple and good for the web. What could go wrong.

Some obvious limitations:

-requires users to re-authenticate for every protected file on your site

-assets loaded by the page not password protected

-uses a single password globally shared by everyone who wants to read the doc

-archiving the page itself is useless unless you also archive the password, which must be done out of band

-this doesn’t compose or integrate with the web: none of the common tools you would use to download, spider, archive, spindle, mutilate web pages know how to deal with this

It’s certainly one solution. The http basic auth built into every popular webserver is another, with none of the above limitations. But I guess that would require spending 5 minutes learning and implementing some server config, and why do that when you can further ruin the web by shoving yet more user hostile complexity into client side JavaScript.

Sorry to sound bitter I just feel this is a really bad idea if you think about it for any length of time.
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You haven't spent enough time on reddit.

And I think more highly of you for it
IIRC this will include the Firefox version that supports GPU acceleration on Intel chipsets (e.g. Lenovo ThinkPad Carbon X1)?

If so, this is huge!
At the same time, the market doesn't value things well. Professional athletes, who do nothing to change the world (the world is the same no matter who does it or what they do), are valued N times as much as teachers, doctors, police, scientists, etc. who do change the world.

Also, popularity is a signal that there is real value in what you are doing.
If you don't mind having to spend some time on cleaning and oiling, it can often be worth it to get an old lathe from an industrial auction; often you can find them for a few hundred dollars.
Reprogramming mouse microbiomes leads to recovery from MS
>streaming is useful for discovery

Only if you want your service provider to do the discovery for you.

I have AM and I don't need or want their discovery as I am quite proficient at doing my own discovery. This means that 3 of 5 icons on the bottom row of their ios interface are a total waste of incredibly valuable UI space for me.
Because they want to. That is why I worked. Working is a great way to build skills while making a little scratch.
They aren't less shitty they are shittier in different ways, but the key point is that they are progressively more alienated from the value they provide and the community structure.
Why would Stanford do that? Baker’s author page shows this is not his first such investigation. https://stanforddaily.com/author/tabaker/
Isn’t Stanford also the university where a lawyer professor was very misandrist and Stanford didn’t looked into it?
The Post-Human Economy
How the Steam Deck reinvigorated my passion for gaming
The Node.js ecosystem is full of people from Nebraska thanklessly maintaining critical pieces of infrastructure without much, if any, pay.

I think it would be justified if some of them decided to hold the node community for ransom.
I’m still waiting on delivery of a Librem 5 I purchased in 2021. So while it’s a cool product, that’s about it.
Remote work is not some fundamental human right. If your skills are not in high demand, you have no leverage to make many demands about your work arrangement.
That’s exactly what I said. No kind-of. Read before you reply.
I cannot confirm your assessment. The paper has some little flaws - as all papers do - but the method and results are interesting and relevant. As with all performance measurements - or measurements in general - there is a measurement error. As engineers we have learned to cope with such errors.
I feel you hold a different view then most women. Very different. In fact your views can get you attacked by other women and a few men who completely buy into the whole mainstream story. It's ok for a woman to say what you say in a forum of mostly men, because as a woman you have more credibility than men themselves to speak out against extremist feminist policies.

Please answer honestly. If you never had a son, would you view things the same way? Would you have viewed things the same way when you were younger, before you had a son?
I built [1] for the reason to save and restore the browsing tabs. It has export and import sessions feature as a by product. [2] also has a test list mode on tabs.

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/session-boss/

[2] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tip-tab/
But there is something they can relate to - it is our replies and questions. We know how easy it is to gaslight an AI. For AI we are the external world, they get to perceive and act in pure text format.
Twitter will limit 2FA options. What does this mean for users?
I use it for numeric heavy stuff and I'm going through tonic for any service connections. That abstracts me from any async wierdness and for the dsp code I don't care about lightweight threads. I don't want many/any more threads than I will have cores.
You mean the 200 different customers?
Few startups - unless they're extremely well funded and have leadership with backgrounds in research and the technical domains in which they're specializing - invest a fraction of the R&D tat would be necessary to improve the tech. In a best case scenario, someone external publishes an innovation which the company can pivot towards to save their butts.

For everyone else? Might as well light piles of millions of dollars on fire.

Complete failure of the innovation system to rely on ego-driven founders with no technical background making risky bets with low probability of success.
> The http basic auth built into every popular webserver is another, with none of the above limitations.

The obvious advantage of OP's approach is that one doesn't need to control the server that serves the HTML (e.g., static site served via GitHub pages would be enough)
I certainly wouldn't say "regularly" - rarely might be a better word. Sometimes it makes sense to crash at a capsule hotel if the trains are closed for the night or something, but that's not common for most (or many) people. Nowadays the capsule hotels cater more towards tourists than their original market anyways.
How Climate Change Is Making Tampons (and Lots of Other Stuff) More Expensive
It depends I guess. Yes, a lot or organizations will have a position like head of development (or a development office at scale) i.e. fundraising, but a lot of people who are ostensibly about the organization's mission--the artistic director of a theater company, the president of a university, the executive director of an organization with conservation properties, etc.--absolutely have fundraising as a key metric of their success.
The following companies charge for 2FA features
> Having a language that is default safe and can only be unsafe in rare situations

This describes both Python and Rust. They are default safe, with escape hatches (ctypes or unsafe blocks) for rare situations. Writing unsafe code in Rust should be as rare as using ctypes in Python.

> is way better than one that lets libraries write unsafe code, which is better than a language with no safe boundary.

Python lets libs use ctypes to poke at raw memory. Solution: avoid those libraries

Rust lets libs use unsafe blocks. Solution: avoid those libraries (and optionally use tools like cargo-geiger or forbid(unsafe) if you care enough
Thanks - I will look at these.
An equally dirty secret is that "we must hold everyone to account policy" got demonstrated in the gold standard. It was a failure that ended in deflation and depression.

What "everything must make sense" policy effectively depends on is the idea that government finances and private sector finances (that can mean a person's/family's budget or a company budget) must look the same. That "the system as a whole" must sum to zero. This can easily be shown to be false. On might make the simple observation that if government DIDN'T have an institution like the FED that loaned ridiculous amounts of money while not making a great deal of profit on that lending, money wouldn't work.

We also know what government policy worked pretty well the last 50 or so years. The process, when looked at from 100.000 feet is to take all money in the US, and divide 3%-5% of it out to everyone that wants to try something. Given as a loan, so that "try something" is strongly incentivized to mean "grow the economy". The FED does not effectively want that money back (again, if the FED took what it was owed money would cease to exist in the US). This is on top of all other taxes.

That is what the FED effectively does, ignoring the details, pretending the many problems with it's functioning don't exist.

We are pretty fucking damn happy with the result of this policy.
Very cowardly of Google, bribing Apple instead of counting on its superior product (at least up until a few years).

This is a behavior that has a long history there, the no-poach agreements with Apple, selling Pixel in an extremely limited market, etc.

This inexplicable fear in dealings with Apple means their situation is worse now when Google Search is in trouble
I really appreciate the thoughtful feedback. You described the problem extremely well - I might have to use some of those points when I talk about Noya!

Honestly the current version is an MVP and probably won't deliver on the promise just yet. But I'm confident we can make it good enough to fill that gap in tooling.

If you get stuck or don't like how things work, feel free to throw feedback at us. We've added/updated a lot of stuff based on what the first few people have suggested already.
It's not a voice as much as a persona. I call it a voice because that's what I was calling it before this article and GPT3. It will sometimes make me think negative thoughts about myself, internalised critiques that start talking again and again.
Then they go to the office :P. I have nothing to do with sales
Honestly this article reinforces the value of neovim in my mind. I started with vi, then learned vim, then emacs, and now I am using neovim. The world of 2023 is different than the world of 1991, and neovim is an incredibly capable editor which is not forced upon anyone.
I'm saying it's a dirty topic, precisely because of responses like yours. That might be your brand promise but it's not mine.

Who said I'm white?
These are not "serious methodological flaws"; you do not consider the results credible, which might be justified or not, it's an opinion.