skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A huge difference between ChatGPT and crypto, though is that the latter literally offers to print money.

The former, what, lets you make low-quality internet content a little more easily? It's harder to share the long-term 'get-rich-quick' benefits (though, of course many are trying right now). There's an initial bump right now as various content mediums try to cope with ChatGPT content, but once that stabilizes, I don't see the long-con grift that the author is mentioning being possible in the same way.
We're saying the same thing.

They don't care because it doesn't impact sales enough to care. If some R&D person in these orgs took interest in this it would get smacked down by PMs, execs, etc because it doesn't matter and they don't care. That's all well before it even gets to legal where this patent would be discovered. With these factors compounded it doesn't happen - and Apple has a tiny edge on what is probably their core market/demographic anyway.
I was thinking the same thing. I heard somewhere that nobody wants to prosecute Microsoft now because their systems are so tied into our our financial and political infrastructure that nobody wants to rock the boat. I also heard that Microsoft uses this as leverage against business that want to speak out against the dark patterns and deceptive practices Microsoft is involved in.

"The New Goliaths: How Corporations Use Software to Dominate Industries, Kill Innovation, and Undermine Regulation"[1] looks like a good book on the subject that I plan on reading.

[1]: https://www.amazon.com/New-Goliaths-Corporations-Industries-...
Related: many fewer people post failure or hard work over time on social media.
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Ever since the launch of iOS 9 in June 2015, all Apple devices during out-of-box setup default to setting up a six digit PIN.

Maybe if Apple wants to be proactive over this, offer a "scramble pad" option for the lockscreen?
It is a way for your phone to interface with your computer, allowing bidirectional notifications, media control, clipboard and file transfer.

It works VERY well. The app itself mostly stays out of the way and things "just work". No noticeable latency even using the remote keyboard functionality.
Nothing is stopping them from paying more taxes right now. Why not lead the way and check that off their to-do list immediately?
So You Want to Be a Devtools Angel (2022)
I understand what you mean, I may not have been very clear at all by adding product quality to the mix. So let me try again.

At least in France, there are price fluctuations : typically in season is 2 eur/kilo and off season is 4 eur/kilo (and these are current prices), which means twice as expensive.

My question to the poster living in Sweden was, given that we are in winter: are in-season tomatoes 10$/kilo as well, or is it only the case for off-season tomatoes, and in-season are still 5$/kilo, which, while expensive, is much more affordable ?
Isn’t waveform collapse at Location B caused by waveform collapse at Location A?

(Maybe a stupid question, I’ve only a passing interest in this stuff)
+1 for the DMing. I mostly use it to generate data for my dev/test tables, but the two times I used it for DMing, I gained hours. Also live when the player go somewhere really unexpected (it wasn't my campaign).

Tangent:

Google is less and less useful (as is SO for 'old' languages). I look into a mix of reddit, github issues, github code and SO depending on the issue. Hopefully this advice helps you if Chatgpt/copilot can't.
There have always been 14 competing standards. It does seem like CMake has grown somewhat more popular in the last couple of years, but standardized would be a stretch.
That is called sarcasm, top shelf too, so it doesn't self-identify as such and you need to think as you read.
I do not see what difference that would make. Writing it, especially in a widely read publication, is a form of lobbying anyway.
From the article:

What can this do? Using Valent (and KDE Connect), you can:

- receive Android phone notifications on your desktop and reply to messages

- sync the clipboard between your Android device and desktop

- control music playing on your desktop from your Android phone

- share files between your desktop and Android device, and browse your phone from the desktop

- send SMS from your desktop

- execute predefined commands from your Android phone to run on your desktop

- control your desktop's mouse and keyboard from the Android device

- browse your Android device filesystem from your desktop wirelessly

- and more
That does seem like the same arguments that are made prior to just about anything becoming mainstream though. I'm not saying it means nothing that python has so much mindshare, but the same could have been said to pythons predecessors as well. You're right about commercialization not being about technical excellence, in the short term. In the medium and long term, it's the advantages of recent technical excellence that drives a lot of commercialization.
Founders: How Do You Identify the Real Problem?
As a founder, how often do you look closely at the problem and ask your team, “What is the real problem?” Some founders and employees mistakenly chase after symptoms rather than the real issue. I am sharing my point of view in my new post.
See also https://www.ban.org/ which does similar tracking projects for e-waste.
> after several minutes of googling/SO failed me
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> and google/SO failed me

This is what I've been noticing as well. There have been many times when I spend 5-10 minutes trying to figure something out with Stack Overflow and Google, not getting anywhere, and then ChatGPT immediately gives me the answer. I'm not sure how anyone who considers Stack Overflow useful would think that ChatGPT is useless.

Do I need to verify the answers? Sure. But I have to do the same thing with answers on Stack Overflow. Even if I'm using official documentation, I need to verify that what I think it's saying is what it's actually saying (particularly when it's as unclear as it often is).

What's even more interesting is that I keep running into people who are finding completely different uses for it.

The critique here is like a lot of other critiques I've seen. They seem to come from people who haven't spent much if any time working with it, but have read some articles about how it's not infallible and decided that meant it was junk (though this piece goes the extra mile when it hints that big GPU is behind it all). What's striking to me is the lack of intellectual curiosity on display.
Funny how the US score dropped in 2016. I don't put a ton of weight into these rankings, especially near the top because they are so subject to partisan politics. Depending on where you stand in politics, you could make an effective argument that the US democracy slipped in 2016. But you could also make an equal argument that Canada is far less democratic after the events of the pandemic, truckers protest, etc.

Personally I think that the US, Canada, UK, Germany, etc should all fall into a general "Western Democracy" category. Roughly speaking we all have the same rights, though details differ and depending on where you stand in politics you may place one above the other, but at that point it becomes completely subjective.

Bills like these erode our democracy and we have to be vigilant, we also need to realize that in any western democratic country, we are light years away from true authoritarianism.
Its value for the average person is still completely overblown, like crypto. It's no surprise that they're both being used to sell people pipe dreams of fantastic wealth.
This issue is raised whenever there's a discussion of things happening at a great distance. In my view, a convention of reporting the time when something is observed on earth, and maybe the distance if it's not commonly known, is a reasonable one. Anybody is free to convert the number to their preferred reference frame.
even qt left qmake behind in favor of cmake, so you're not the only one :)
The difference in manipulating text in emacs vs vscode is day and night though.
Show HN: Share your AI-generated images
>For reference I'm using sway. swayidle is an idle daemon, where the maintainer doesn't think that it matters whether its connected to power or not. You're supposed to create your own scripts around it that handles ac connect and disconnects.

>One of them doesn't allow you to toggle, so you have create your own toggle script that kills or restarts it.

If you're not a fan of making scripts then sway (and wlsunset I assume) is not for you. My sway install is held together by a myriad of scripts - keybindings are handled by a script, starting programs via bemenu goes through a script, sway itself is started by a script, etc. That's just how this compositor and its ecosystem are designed - they're for people who want the software itself to do the smallest possible thing with the least possible assumptions so that the user can do whatever they want to fill in the rest.
So does crypto! This joke is literally self-aware
It's not that nobody can see this coming, or that it's not a fair concern to have, but we should wait and see what happens.

AI may be the great equalizer after a period of adjustment.

Let's face it, the internet in its current state is already full of get-rich-quick schemes and bad information. What people are proposing about ChatGPT is nothing new except that fewer humans are involved.

If the output of ChatGPT truly makes the internet worse, the market may adjust. If the overall value of online content goes down as a result, then there may be less incentive to make shitty content that hasn't been fact checked, or there will specifically be a greater market for content that's been crafted and edited carefully. People may lose their taste for guzzling down garbage content if the garbage stinks too badly, and that would be a good thing.

On the other hand, maybe ChatGPT does help more people produce better content, and creates opportunities for more people to make money by removing more barriers to entry.

We do not actually know, yet. What we've experienced up to this point is a flash in the pan, and we ain't seen nothin' yet.
> I get it. Meeting culture sucks. It’s too easy for people to thoughtlessly take each others’ time, occupy standing slots, show off with performative teamwork, and generally suck your energy.

Personally, the biggest negative effects I have experienced have been context switching and burnout.

Listening to discussions that are only tangentially related to my work fries my brain. I do not care about some product owner's oral report of the meetings they had yesterday, etc.

My opinion is that people whose work is unrelated should not be forced to communicate synchronously. But I'm just an engineer, what do I know.
> fsociety remarked (quite correctly) that there are a large number of people who constantly feel the need to denigrate Macs

And in response I remarked (very accurately) that there's an even larger number of people who constantly feel the need to always gush over anything Mac. This very thread is full of such examples.

> "That's not true. I have a Mac, and I don't like it very much."

Misrepresenting much? I said it's an okay laptop. Gets the job done.

> You said they were ridiculously overpriced, which implies that no reasonable person could look at one and think it was worth buying.

That's true. I can get other okay laptops for perhaps half the price. But they won't be as sexy as Apples. They certainly don't have fanboys taking offense at someone saying they are just okay.

> You came into a subthread

I was the one that started the subthread, by daring to say that the M1 I use has a speaker as bad as any other laptop I used. Oh the horror.
I've heard about how difficult Hungarian grammar is. The closest analog I can think of is Sanskrit which we had to study for a few years in school. They're still discovering more things about the language that were lost for thousands of years: https://www.popsci.com/science/sanskrit-puzzle-2500-years-ol...
www.platform.sh is a good alternative to Heroku.
Did you check if your colleague wrote truthfully?
Have you seen what civilian imaging satellites look like? They have giant optics the size of a bus. Look at Worldview 3

Even optics 1/10 the size of Worldview would be massive, and this baloon has nothing like it.

What is it using, a GoPro?
UWaterloo does this.
Let's just say 'it will have been dragged' to be on the safe side either way.
There’s also an iOS client, though it doesn’t have all features implemented due to limitations in Apple’s APIs. However it’s still the most convenient way to transfer files between an iPhone and a Windows or Linux computer.
Shipping western clothing to poor countries tends to destroy local industry.

I prefer to be able to make my own choices, not have people lie to be and then do whatever they feel is cheaper. They have to pay to properly recycle, but can just sell the old shoes. This is fraud, pure and simple. They asked for the donations of shoes under false pretenses. (There's a chance it was whatever firm they paid - but then they're just willfully incompetent.)
Yeah I guess it doesn't have to be super close. Then sell tickets to zillionaires: a lifetime adventure - date with the black hole! Are you ready for the pull?
This sounds like an excurb1a video.
In theory, this could be deflationary, but there are a few reasons this probably wouldn't be effective.

- It usually takes at least a year before tax changes are proposed before they take effect

- They are always accompanied by spending increases that neutralize any potential deflationary effects

- You actually can't actually increase taxes that much. For example, the US Fed has quantitatively tightened roughly $600 billion in the past 6 months. The Biden corporate tax increases are estimated to bring in $50 billion, and windfall tax proposals also tend to hover around that order of magnitude.
I think what's making these hyperinformed hallucinators useful for coding right now is that fact checking is fundamentally a big part of our work. There's a bare minimum that must be done to even think anything has been accomplished at all, that it runs and does what we expected on the most basic input, but then we are also used to writing tests and reading code critically.
Understanding Deep Learning Book
And I acknowledged that. We all know NK has a small social elite that does these things, no one has said otherwise. It's not an excuse to shut down their criticisms as a backwards country.
Yes, to the point that I am confused by the question. Could you explain why you (presumably) don't?
Very well stated. Having a reason to get out to a cafe is nice. Cafe staff over here aren't so social - they mostly don't seem to want to chat - but the few who do are great to talk with. Now if only the cafes near me offered better coffee...

Home coffee is a little time-consuming without an automatic machine. I do pourover when I work from home and it takes at least 20 minutes (Aeropress or Clever would be faster, it's true). It's a nice ritual, but I can definitely understand why people want something that doesn't take much attention to make.
We had plenty of math classes in CS
This depends what work you are doing. If you work in event planning, the work is mostly meetings to get everyone to do their role for the actual day.

Of course for a software engineer, it's different.
> People just don’t want to knowingly share their internet connection with strangers even when paid for it.

BT WiFi is fundamentally that: BT broadband customers share (perhaps unwittingly) their connections with others, and it’s nearly impossible to disable.

Also the Fon.com network is doing that on a much larger scale (https://fon.com/maps/).

But your point stands; who would actively want to be culpable for the traffic caused by unknown third parties?

So it’s left down to ISP marketing to make it look as an added value feature (“you can have free WiFi everywhere!”) rather than a huge liability (“you can go to jail or be fined”).

Wasn’t there a recent US case of this, where a couple was dragged to courts for CSAM traffic over their connection but caused by a third party? They got acquitted, but even afterwards aren’t allowed to participate in their kid’s school activities.

Must have been on here in the past couple of weeks, if memory serves.

Salient point is, even if one is acquitted, the social stain is hard to wash off.
So, all these people dont do work...

Accounting,
HR,
Marketing,
etc

These are cost centers, they don't generate income.
Coordinating events as precise as births in a multiplanetary society is already going to be inherently impractical.

The family back home should celebrate when it's relevant. If there's a wormhole, then the kid can probably make a call through it, so they can call on their (self-perceived) birthday. If the wormhole is a one-way trip, then the people back home should wait an additional 4.3 years to celebrate, because they won't have any idea until then.
Genuinely expected the answer to be Indonesian rubbish dump.
Nokia launches DIY repairable budget Android phone
Books will be fine. Most people don't buy books from first-time authors blindly.

What will suffer, and possibly even disappear, are online comments sections. Yes, they're pretty much gone anyway because nobody besides Meta/Twitter wants to moderate discussions. But ChatGPT-driven bots will probably kill what little is left of organic conversations.
Ask HN: Explosion of “Amazon Account has been locked” scam texts?
I know scam emails/texts aren’t new, by far. But over the past few months, my whole family has been hit with an explosion of scam messages claiming our Amazon account has been locked (with, of course, a phishing link to get passwords).

Generally curious if this is more widespread vs. previous scams, as this seems worse than anything I’ve seen before.

I really wish iOS would do better at filtering these, or allowing custom filters/blocking to help. Of course, a recent iOS update added a quicker way to report+block, but unfortunately isn’t slowing these scammers down.

Mostly a rant + genuinely curious if this really is worse and more widespread than even what is usual.
It is funny how NFTs and crypto fell off the radar so quickly. It happened so quickly that prices didn’t collapse because hardly anybody trades anymore.

I think people like Eliezer Yudkowsky are worked up about ChatGPT because it bullshits so much better than them.

That said, I look at this library

https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers/quicktour

which can do 13 different things and text generation is only one of them. Most of them involve setting up well defined problems (e.g. being smart) and building training sets (e.g. working hard) and aren’t the shortcut that people think ChatGPT is.

As I see it things that I was struggling with just a few years ago are downright easy, there is no doubt “the new AI” will find useful uses but somehow ChatGPT strikes at a vulnerable place in many people’s psychology.
It's kind of like the difference between reading magazines at the supermarket checkout and going to a fortune teller. Both are going to have misinformation, but people are going to weigh that misinformation differently. You can have a sign outside of a fortune teller's that says "this is a novelty and is purely for amusement" and people are still going to believe the fortune teller can see the future, and likewise, you can have a magazine that says something about a "half man half bat" and people will still lend credence to it because hey, the supermarket is selling it, there must be some validity to it. We are remarkably good at ignoring warning labels and accepting misinformation if it sounds right or agrees with our existing biases, and I think if you're someone who accepts the half man half bat you're someone who's going to give even more weight to a fortune teller regardless of how many signs say "ignore the fortune teller."
Show HN: GoldRoad – A Daily Puzzle Game
Just a little side project that I was working on for past couple of months.

Please do share your feedback.
A child doesn't start from scratch, they have billions of years of evolution encoded in their DNA.
> KDE Connect provides various features to integrate your phone and your computer. It allows you to send files to the other device, control its media playback, send remote input, view its notifications and may things more. It is available for (mobile) Linux, Android, FreeBSD, Windows and macOS.[1]

Actually I read your response, then I read the article and still came away confused as to what it does, and I use Linux and KDE as the daily driver for work. So now you’ve wasted my time finding the answer to the question instead of just answering a question likely a lot of people will have. Yes, op could have googled that information themselves. However, the valid criticism of OP is that upon having that question they should have googled the answer and then posted their question with the answer proactively. But “did you even RTFA” is not a helpful meta discussion to have. It’s useful to check the comments first to see whether TFA is even worth reading so having this answered about a more obscure piece of software seems totally valid. And someone did paste the bulleted list of features for Valent itself in this thread too so the rhetoric is just a bit too sanctimonious at chewing out a fellow person without providing value to everyone else reading your comment.

[1] https://apps.kde.org/kdeconnect/
Sportyfun
We are building Sportyfun at the moment.
Sportyfun is the perfect solution for players looking for a better place to play their favorite sports worldwide. You can easily search for places to play, check info, invite friends to join, and much more features will come in the future.
The first time I was introduced to a massive open office space, they tried to play it off as exciting and it just filled me with an utter sense of dread. It caused a massive amount of stress then my brain compartmentalized it all and ran the stress subroutine in the background. Blaring bright lights overhead, endless chatting and movement in your perpipheral view, witn an absolute requirement to wear isolation headphones to get any concentration. Tech can be utterly barbaric.
LSP support is considered a basic requirement for any modern code editor, but especially a C++ editor. If (respectfully) dinky TUI editors like Kakoune, Micro, and Helix have working LSP these days, it doesn't seem ridiculous to me to suppose that this might too.
Articles that take this long to make a point make me think the author is part of the cause of people trying to get out of meetings.

What is that cause? I argue that it's people in positions of seniority, or power in general, just extending their point for too long. Why they do it? Probably a bunch of reasons, but I expect none related to the work.

Meetings don't suck when everyone is "normal" in the sense there is mutual respect for each other's time, and therefore ample preparation. The issue is, that's seldom the case, and half the reason for the meeting in the manager's eyes. Meetings are, sometimes, an admission of managerial failure.
It would have been better if "The next step is sandboxing and containerizing every library you depend on." was the first step instead of the second.
Getting back to the book’s title, the “Paper Belt” refers to those colleges and universities that purport to educate the country’s future leaders but manage only to waste their time. By introducing competition that will deflate the college credentials balloon, Gibson intends to set that belt on fire.