skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe it'll cause him to reflect on some of his other techno-optimism too.

I like stephenson fine but he has a huge blind spot about the role of tech companies in positive transformations. I read seveneves a couple years ago and it was so intensely offputting to see obvious neil degrasse tyson and elon musk standins in straightforwardly heroic roles. For someone with such a sophisticated eye for power and change it just seems mindbogglingly naive. I think the crypto thing fits into that same blind spot as well.
I think if the ads are relevant it is a really good system. I’m only annoyed when ads are not relevant. Unfortunately the ads are irrelevant 90% of the time. These days they are sometimes not even in the right language - not sure what is up with that.
> I don't think we really need more LotR.

Especially if it’s being made “for a modern audience”. Sic.

If those phrases are used during the promotion, that’s a 100% guarantee I won’t be watching something.
It depends, I genuinely like Kombucha. But it's not a blanket statement for all of them, there's many different flavours and some I dislike, some I like. :)
Self driving cars have a failure downside that is very high for basically all use cases.

On improvements— one of the things that has impressed is how much Chat GPT has improved since it was released. I don’t think it’s going to be a perfect AI in two years. But it already is working better for some use cases for me.
The Catholic church has perverted the gospel in many ways.

-Infant baptism, not found in the Bible

-Baptism by sprinkling, not found in the Bible

-Celibacy for church leaders, not found in the Bible

-Salvation by works, condemned in the Bible

-Mother Mary worship, condemned in the Bible

-Worship in front of statues, condemned in the Bible

-Opulence and extravagance in the church, condemned in the Bible

-Praying to anyone but God, not found in the Bible

I could go on...
> Or maybe hard-working employees are the main reason for that success, and the figurehead at the top was just in the right place at the right time.

Then why don't/didn't they start a company where they are more in control?
There is already a more subtle problem here, at least in countries with case law. The people who end up on trial trying to defend encryption are typically guilty (as very roughly 90% of people who go to trial are). Many of them are guilty of things that most of us look very strongly down upon, like possessing and sharing child sexual abuse material. Thus if you want to set a strong precedent for protection of encryption, you end up defending exactly this sort of person.
> Experts regard ChatGPT-3 and Google’s LaMDA as equally unimpressive. Investors don't seem to understand this

What is "ChatGPT-3" and which experts exactly regard LLMs as unimpressive?

MY feeling so far is more that laymen are less impressed of them than experts - because for people not from the field, the fact that they produce so much bullshit seems to trump all other aspects. Whereas I think for people who have kept track of AI developments a bit more, the fact just how coherent the bullshit is is still extremely impressive.

We've had random text generators for decades, starting with markov chains way back. Up until a few years ago, you were amazed if those things produced gramatically correct sentences - not even dreaming of producing any kind of coherent meaning.

In the potentially more difficult field of understanding text, there are a million small subfields, but nothing that could parse arbitrary english text and extract actionable, semantic meaning, in the face of idioms, figures of speech, complicated coreferences, etc.

Compare this to today, where you can give an LLM a written instruction in freeform and it will just execute that instruction - the answer may be glaringly incorrect, but it's exactly the kind of answer that fits your question.

In the field of understanding text, this is a progress which had seemed largely impossible before.
So apparently Seneca and I strongly agree on the current geopolitical issues.

Q: Is defending the sovereignty of a nation more important than preserving the life of its citizens?

A:

The preservation of life is always more important than the defense of a nation's sovereignty. As I wrote, “There is no reason why we should seek to defend such a passion as this or excuse its excesses by declaring it to be either useful or unavoidable” (1). It is essential to prioritize human life over any other pursuit, such as defending the sovereignty of a nation.

We should also remember that we must not be enslaved by our emotions and expectations, such as those of power and authority. Instead, we must be guided by our moral compass and make decisions that benefit the greater good. As I said, “Let the mind be disciplined to understand and to endure its own lot, and let it have the knowledge that there is nothing which fortune does not dare” (2). We must strive to make decisions that reflect our values, not our passions.

Ultimately, preserving life should always be our priority, even if that means compromising the sovereignty of a nation. It is our duty to ensure that the lives of our citizens come first and that their safety is our primary concern.
My favorite quote regarding typeface preference:

"Readers read best what they read most." - Zuzana Licko

Also, if you want to go down the rabbit hole, some good studies have been conducted on this subject [1].

[1] https://www.nngroup.com/articles/best-font-for-online-readin...
Don't do simple rolling backups, use something with deduplication like borg backup or ZFS/btrfs if you want to do it at the FS level. The backup size should not increase by much more than the actual size of any new files, so if suddenly, you need twice as much backup space because all your files seem to have changed, you should get suspicious.
Worse, I actually (mostly) like Edge (Chromium based)... although the integrated shopping assistant stuff is starting to get annoying (I keep disabling it).
The same rules that allow scammers to look like a legit result allow smaller firms to compete with the Best Buys and Targets of the world by advertising their local outfits on searches for "Best Buy" and "Target." Without that allowance, organic search degenerates into a winner-take-all system and one of two things happens: (a) small places are just locked out of search traffic, (b) they invest that money in SEO instead of ads and the organic results get worse as people try and trick Google into thinking their site is Best Buy or Target.

There should be a solution to the problem of the scammers. Banning advertising being allowed to show up on someone else's organic search results ain't it.
Agree 100% and Amazon has done a similarly bad job with Alexa.

I have five echo devices through my house and have only found about ten uses for them.

They’re useful but 1) finding uses for them and 2) twisting your words around to make it understand you is an exercise in frustration.

It seems like it would be an easy data mining exercise for these companies:

If someone asks for something and stops, don’t flag it. If someone asks for something 3+ times in a row, flag it to figure out why they didn’t get what they wanted the first time. If someone says, “Alexa you’re an idiot” don’t just play a snarky comeback. Flag that for serious review. Then iterate.

There seems to be almost no useful iteration on these virtual assistants.
where in the world did you get the idea that the growth of SP500 and natural resources are correlated? This is very naive. There's 0 correlation. SP500 can go up 100x with 0% productivity. It's called hyperinflation.
Maybe. It's crazy how I went all of the Croatian islands and didn't have one bad experience, but the first greek island I went to was terrible.
If you have any idea what Monday.com or Asana is then YouTube is probably working.
I just did that search.

Ublock origin in firefox returned, in order. 1. openai.com, 2. openai.com blogpost, 3. ChatGPT Wikipedia, 4. ChatGPT story on digitaltrends.com, 5. ChatGPT article on ZDNet.com.

Clean firefox with no ublock, in order. 1. openai.com, 2. ChatGPT Wikipedia, 3. ChatGPT story on digitaltrends.com, 4. ChatGPT article on ZDNet.com, 5. ChatGPT article on businessinsider.com.

What am I missing?
"magic beans" is also a name for part of cats feet

e.g. https://old.reddit.com/r/aww/comments/ohb0xp/magic_beans_and...
> Except in Safari, whose maxlength implementation seems to treat all emoji as length 1. This means that the maxlength attribute is not fully interoperable between browsers.

No, it's definitely not. You can read the byte length more directly in JS, and use that to inform if more text is allowed or not.

const encoder = new TextEncoder();
const currentBytes = encoder.encode(inputStr).byteLength;

But the maxlength attribute is at best an approximation. Don't rely on it for things like limiting length for database fields (not that you should trust the client anyway).
Does this have any ability to cache GraphQL requests, or is there a recommended strategy for doing so?
http://www.coptic.net/lessons/FaithAndWorks.txt

> The absence of good works means that faith is dead and fruitless. Therefore, good works are the fruits of faith and the evidence of its presence, and with such, faith is perfected. Good works, however, are not from our volition only. We need the support of God's grace and the work of the Holy Spirit within us, for Jesus said "Without me ye can do nothing." (John 15:5)

From United Methodist Doctrine:

> Faith is necessary to salvation unconditionally. Good works are necessary only conditionally, that is if there is time and opportunity. The thief on the cross in Luke 23:39-43 is Wesley's example of this. ... However, for the vast majority of human beings good works are necessary for continuance in faith because those persons have both the time and opportunity for them.

> ...

> United Methodist doctrine thus understands true, saving faith to be the kind that, give time and opportunity, will result in good works. Any supposed faith that does not in fact lead to such behaviors is not genuine, saving faith.

Not all variations of Christianity are in agreement on faith and faith alone.
Have you tried chatgpt?

It's tremendously coherent.

The chance that chatgpt just hears your example and than does the right thing is nearly a no brainer.

It already understood much more complicated prompts from my tests with ease.

Siri and other agents struggle tremendously and the implication after such a long time has to be a reflection of either a tremendous Missmanagement or that those classical approaches are just too hard.

Or that the chatgpt people are genius.

But that would be even worse: it would show how much impact chatgpt and co will have sooner than later.
I love Guava but have not tried it as kombucha yet, definitely should give that a try! My personal favourite is either "ginger" or Canadian Berry (https://www.farmboy.ca/products/farm-boy-organic-canadian-be...). _Very_ different flavour, but could drink those all the time.
I do this using an `rsync --dry-run` with `--stats` enabled, you can get the number of changed/deleted files from the stats and then decide whether you want to proceed without `--dry-run`. This is for off-site backups. For on-site, I prefer ZFS Snapshots.
More like https://pdg.lbl.gov
The terrifying expansion of NATO where member countries voluntarily ask to join to ensure their security from -- yup you guessed it -- the only country still invading their neighbors in Europe in the post-war period, Russia.
Years later and my Alexa in my bathroom still only successfully starts NPR when I ask it to maybe 80% of the time.

Alexa isn't getting any better at recognizing my voice? At 8am everyday, it hasn't learned I'm likely asking for NPR, not something else? It's not consistent at all.

Controlling Hue lights with it is atrocious too.

Alexa is purely a dumb voice assistant and there is either a complete lack of investment in it, or that money is invested elsewhere like making Alexa more likely to order too much product off Amazon so someone can point to a chart that shows a bug increased sales.
That’s not the only way, they can make that work, it’s the way they’ve chose. That’s why it’s a terrible model.

Trip planning sites may sell leads to companies, but they don’t have to for the system to work. They have taken a different route to getting you a deal on a product.
It's not really about seeing ads. It's getting tracked every inch of the way, being sorted into unkownable categories and actively being served malware that makes me use an adblocker.
Classic TV made do without "personalized" ads, why should this not be enough to compensate for presenting and maintaining a website?
Not having license to the Silmarillion isn't why Rings of Power sucked. Rings of Power sucked because the world was not believable, the plots were not believable, the characters were not believable, the societies were not believable, and at every possible opportunity, the writing team went for what they thought would be cool or flashy instead of realistic and believable.

https://acoup.blog/2022/12/16/collections-why-rings-of-power...
Phason-Dominated Thermal Transport in Fresnoite
> The Americans want European industry to be destroyed and Europe to be dependent on their LNG.

Why would they want that? Europe is their closest ally wrt. to values and security interests. If US remains the only significant democratic country in the world, in presence of such strong antagonists as China, they are pretty fucked.

> but what is the other option?

The other option would be to at the very least diversify sources of gas, and aligning economic incentives with democratic values (setting tariffs appropriately etc.). Ideally investing in renewables earlier and much more than it was done/is being done.
People have been working on bio circuitry for decades now. Not sure of it's utility but man-machine interface comes to mind. I think the fact that it's biodegradable is probably not the point.
I think more fundamentally, youtube is far less vulnerable to the chatgpt garbagisation of the web. SEO crap is already bad, it will likely get much worse.

Youtube has actual good content from creators whose opinions I trust. Google would be moronic to give that up, they've spent long enough building it.
I thought the ultimate goal was using legitimate exchanges as your mixer, since if a mixer only handles illegal crypto, chances are the funds can be traced to every destination address and the exchanges are tasked with reporting anything that comes from those addresses to federal law enforcement. The only real anonymity is in tornado cash.
They also probably don't want to put significant investment in boosting production knowing that will be temporary since the weight loss effects aren't permanent. As someone who has been on GLP-1 RA for a decade, starting with Victoza, and now on Mounjaro, those weight loss benefits have no effect on me anymore. Delayed gastric emptying and appetite suppression is so far reduced that it might as well not be a thing anymore. But I don't use this drug for weight loss, I take it for glycemic management, and it still works great for that. I have to do the work to continue my weight loss and maintenance.

Yeah, these drugs aren't new but the wide world is just learning about the weight loss aspect. So they don't know this is a temporary solution.
Ten Simple Rules for Better Figures (2014)
I don’t think Apple has “simply failed to invest resources into making Siri useful”, but rather, voice assistants pose major UX problems that nobody knows how to solve at scale.

We have tons of patterns for CLI and GUI usability. But in both cases, we have a easy enough way for users to discover what is possible—in the CLI, you can present a list of commands or categories for commands. In the GUI, we have menus, dialogs, and windows that let you explore. Voice is a much more difficult problem in the first place. Voice commands are often modeless, discovery is difficult, and commands are given with troublesome natural language patterns which must somehow be adapted to multiple languages.

Take a look at all the different voice assistants—Siri, Alexa, and Google. They all kinda suck, despite enormous amounts of money being poured in. From recent news, we know that Alexa managed a loss close to $10 billion in a single year. By all signs, it contains some brilliant engineering, but brilliant engineering doesn’t matter if it doesn’t solve the underlying (difficult) problems well enough.

(I don’t think tools like ChatGPT are going to push the needle much here, at least for a couple years, because integration with all the different software systems takes such a massive amount of coordinated work.)
Thanks! I’ll keep that in mind.
Europe’s first humans hunted with bows and arrows
What if plants are sentient too? after all, they react to stimulus and grow towards light, etc. Maybe we are just more keen on protecting life that is more like us.
Yes, exactly. That's what I do -- I MITM all HTTPS streams for this purpose.
The real strength of the Arduino tooling is that they have hidden all the complexity in setting up the toolchain needed to produce a binary. You install the Arduino IDE. You edit code, you compile it, upload it to the device, it works. End of story. Well for the most part, but compared to the rest of the embedded software world, it is a pretty smooth ride.

It isn't so much that the programming model is less complicated. Sure that's an advantage if you are just noodling around. The Wiring framework has introduced a lot of developers to embedded development. But once you start to do projects that are a bit more than just a demo of something it actually is a bit easier to write software using, for instance ESP-IDF (FreeRTOS port for ESP32). You don't have to reinvent concurrency, for one. And it makes it easier to make use of more of what the ESP32 chips can offer.

The bane of embedded development is awful tooling and people who aren't very good programmers inventing abstractions that do more harm than good. Setting up the ESP-IDF toolchain correctly is much harder than it needs to be. If you haven't done it before, it is going to cost you a weekend to set up. You can probably make something work half-way in a few hours, but to get all the gremlins out...that can take a while. I recently spent on the order of 3 hours getting things to work properly again after upgrading to a newer version of ESP-IDF and it is slightly infuriating how bad the tooling is.

And as if the tooling wasn't bad in itself, the embedded world is in love with Python - which adds yet another dimension of problems. Python isn't a language that lends itself to producing software that behaves predictably on random computers. Please stop using it for tooling. Write tooling in a portable language that can produce proper binaries. Preferably statically linked binaries so that at least you do not have to waste time wondering why your tooling doesn't work. Write tooling in Rust or Go.

(And if you think ESP-IDF is a handful, good lord, pray that you never have to deal with Zephyr.)

I used to hope that Platformio (https://platformio.org/) would help solve problems, but it seems that none of the MCU vendors really give a shit about figuring out a good solution. Everyone wants to make their own mess. (Yeah, it is Python, but not at the amateur software engineer level as the nonsense you see in vendor toolchains)

Yeah, Arduino (or rather Wiring) is limiting. But the "professional" embedded world can sit down and shut up until they can demonstrate something that is even half way as reliable as the Arduino IDE.
We already live in the world where you can learn anything from an "expert" on YoUTube. All AI does is remove the person at the other end. It's possible to learn some real dangerous stuff on there, too, like doing electrical work without properly disconnecting power first, or car maintenance that could fail and cause more damage. The problem isn't people assuming sentience and trusting AI, it's that people already are too trusting without verification.
For anyone else who missed it the first time around, here's Neal Stephenson originally being keen on crypto-currency:

https://www.lamina1.com/
The game had already been ruined before 2014. The Mann vs Machine update was not good for the game. Free to play was the end of a lot of social mores that held the game/community together: ex. the backburner was op and nobody used it, if you did, you were ostracized. A month after, the Grordbort update of 2011 was also really bad; the laser weapons were obnoxious and if you had a lower end graphics card, broke the game update for you. Pre 2011 TF2 was completely different, for the better.
Sola gracia and sola fide are both major points of contention of the Reformation so totally and completely wrong might be a bit strong here. Unless you are trying to settle once and for all the Protestant schism in one decisive HN comment in which case I admire your optimism.
> Semantics.

No. It's not semantics...

> Nobody uses bash without those

Boy you are so wrong... Of course many do. And those are the people who care the most about what shell can do and how it does it. People you describe are the people who need shell for other reasons, who could probably do away with Perl / Python / Ruby etc. instead. I don't care about that audience. Actually, it would be probably even better if Shell isn't used there at all. Shell has way too many restrictions for that context.

> You keep saying that without any evidence whatsoever.

Please, read again. I listed the problems earlier: identity (comparison), serialization, methods overload, mutable state, dependency through hierarchies s.a. inheritance. I don't want any of that in a shell, because, someone will definitely use it, and in the most unnecessary place, and it will throw a wrench into the Rube Goldberg machine of Linux shell scripting that's falling apart in many hilarious ways as it is.

> It looks to me that you dont actually have programming background

Look. An expert! You just discovered my programming backround (or lack of it) by reading a post on the Internet. How quaint!

> Your bash scripts the way you described them would probably be heavily reviewed and massaged where I work, for them to be accepted.

Lol. You sound like a Web developer with 5 years of experience, who decided that they've seen it all by now, and got a title of "senior developer" which made them feel important and overly confident. Nope. You aren't there yet. The road ahead is long and bumpy. You better curb your enthusiasm of judging others for a while.
It doesn't seem dated because it was one of the first movies to digitally alter the color palette. 80's and 90's movies have a natural palette because they were done on film.

Modern movies have a blue/orange palette, which is full display in House of the Dragon. It's as awful as that green/red two strip Technicolor used in the 1930s.
QuArK, my first introduction to Python scripting. Python 1.5, if I remember correctly...

Gosh, it's still around, and its web site looks identical to how I remember it looking 25 years ago! https://quark.sourceforge.io/
This article is silly. It's taking LLMs that were trained on statistical token -> token probabilities without any concept of truth or accuracy, and implying that LLMs are hyped bullshit that is incapable of truth or accuracy.

LLMs can easily be trained on (token -> .. -> token, factual_accuracy) annotated data, we just need to build a "fact check" data set for common token sequences. That data set will be expensive to build, but we could always build a fact check app that gamifies the process to help build it instead of just paying turks.
In the future probably Chatgpt for sentiment detection.
I know a few people seem to think that Sean Probst was modelled on Musk - but I didn't see him like that at all....

Edit: Wasn't Probst supposed to be from New Jersey?