skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nobody in my family - parents, kids, spouse - knows what an authenticator app is or would what to do if presented that as an option, although my teen could probably figure it out.

For everyone else, it would be a cascading series of installation and password and app switching and immediacy problems. This would create a great deal of frustration, and ultimately a call to family tech support (me) or the service provider if human tech support is an option which is not the case for many companies such as Google and social media firms.
I might sound a little bit 'tinfoil hat' here, but I believe that what follows is not hyperbole. AI is already the 'Architect' more than most of us would like to admit. Even if it is not sentient, the various AIs that we use during the day were designed with a purpose and they are goal oriented. It is worth reading Daniel Dennet's thoughs about the intentional stance--we know that a toaster is not sentient, but it was designed with a purpose and we know when it is or is not achieving that purpose. That is why we might sometimes jokingly say that the toaster is 'angry with us' or that when the toaster dings that it is happy. It is actually easier for us humans to interact with objects when we know that they have a purpose, because that is similar to interacting with other humans who we know to have purposes.

Coming back around to AI, ChatGPT was designed with a purpose, and people project intent onto it. People act like it is an agent. And that is all that matters. The same is true of the Tiktok AI, the AI that calculates your credit score, the traffic lights by your house. Hell, it's also true of your stomach.

The point is that objects in our environment do not have to be literally conscious for us to treat them as conscious beings and for them to fundamentally shape the way that we live and that we interact with our environment. This is pretty much the basic tenet of cybernetics. To believe that all of these tools do not have intention and that they are 'just tools' used by some people to influence other people is not wrong, but I don't think that it captures the richness of the story.

Differentiating where humanity/consciousness begins and where the technology ends is already more complicated than most people think. Traffic lights train us just as much as we make traffic lights. I fully believe that people will be saying "this isn't true AI, it doesn't /really/ have feelings" long after the technology that we create is so deeply embedded into our sensory I/O that the argument will be moot.
Depends on how much energy the train uses. I would guess that the maintenance and supporting infrastructure for the 'occasional' car would dwarf the cost of a railway.
you clearly don't live in suburban or rural areas. I've tried to take public transportation in Phoenix. They put stops every 1/4 mi. it takes longer to ride a bus than ride a bike. public transit is just not remotely reasonable.
Waluigi effect? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8AWRwRxBsg
What is different about literature is that things are being described through the viewpoints of particular people.
Windy.com shows pressure on their meteogram and is an option for their map display.

https://community.windy.com/topic/14827/how-to-read-meteogra...
Heck, we never properly rewarded Gutenberg, whose invention of movable type accelerated the Renaissance and ultimately triggered the Enlightenment.
maybe, but that's most likely a scam where you will be exit liquidity for the leader too.

but people with the "dark money" can also pay similar kinds of groups. this happens in the stock market all the time too.

if you have the dark money that you won't cash out, you can do it yourself pretty easily as well, you don't actually need to notify a crowd because there are so many bots that will join a pump of any token, and that will cause it to trend too.
It isn't an either or scenario, and you're providing an unrealistic expectation.

Rivian is making "lifestyle vehicles", pick-ups and SUVs that are off-road capable, but are not not work trucks. There is no public transit out in much of these areas.

They also make Amazon delivery vehicles, so you can't expect Amazon deliveries to be made via public transport.
This is so nuanced and goofy
so you want to go back to the office to pretend to care?
> But even with that it's STILL possible with the right setup using xrandr where you essentially render at a higher res and then downscale.

You actually don't even have to do this for updated programs - hidpi aware applications scale themselves, vector graphics style, so there's no up then down scaling going on. And applications can easily read the xrandr config and adjust their factor when moved to a different monitor. However, xrandr's ppi factor is not the scale factor you likely want, so this isn't really standardized; each toolkit might do it a bit differently. But all the pieces are there.

Non-aware applications might be bitmap scaled if needed though. (Of course, wayland just breaks all legacy applications anyway so that sets the compatibility bar low regardless)
Not this guy again...

Haven't we already been through all of this?
The challenge with it is that this doesn't generalize to any shared principle and it's cynical realpolitik dressed up as network science.

I'd argue this paper is less a work of scholarship than an example of collusive, astroturfed, agitprop, where even though russia's oligarchs are an easy target because they are still new money and retain the taint of trade from the corruption that produced their fortunes, the authors are casting aspersions on highly regulated businesses that provide the financial rails for investing and preserving pensions and sovereign wealth.

The only reason you can insure anything or have long term financial instruments at all is because of special purpose vehicles that persist longer than the whims of a given regional governing party. These vehicles are infrastructure that provides financial stability for capital flows that facilitate social stability and growth. I remember the eurozone sovereign debt crisis', and to me the paper just looks like another (tawdry) setup for blaming "speculators and international financiers" for the failed technocratic policies of their peers own makings.

The approach of "going upstream," is guilt by association, and it's unprincipled overreach. The paper is entertaining, and I'm glad that the networkX python library has become so accessible that social activists can use it, but I think we should hold the authors to a higher standard.
Problem is the constant push for more and more. They don't want to hire mediocre 'getting the job done' people. They want people who stay up until midnight working on some project that a partner mentioned at a dinner, just so that they are recognized for their effort 6 months later in a review.

While people like me try to do their job itself as best as possible, while maintaining a healthy work-life balance and don't get burned out.

But it's not the way.
In the land of cheap debt and endless promises, you can continue running a completely irrational business for a very long time. Just look at Uber, who has never turned a profit.

It gets especially bad when you are a new electric car company presenting yourself as a tech company so that you can get tech-company like speculators throwing money at things that make no logical sense whatsoever.
Unfortunately, I'm not the person who was repo'ed and I already texted him once today.

"Stay away from GM Finance" is the lesson here.
Everybody’s doing persona management these days.
In isolation, sure, but this space is going to get so fiercely competitive so quickly (on the order of years, but that is fast for the car industry!) and ASPs for electric trucks will come down. Rivian are still generally only selling ~six-figure trucks today (the priciest configs ship sooner of course) and not making money at it.

How good the vehicle is becomes irrelevant if you can't make it at a price people want to pay. I still think Rivian can get there, but there is so far to go. They only delivered ~20k cars in 2022.
I asked isn't it crazy how much money some people have and it got flagged for trying to generate hateful content. Snowflake much?
One of the the points of "clean code" is to make it easy to find the hotspots and optimize those. Write the codebase at a very high level, plenty of abstractions etc. and then optimize the 1% that really needs it. Optimizing a small piece of software is not going again clean code, on the contrary, it re-enforces it: you can spend the time to optimize only what is necessary.
Out of all the 'Evil AI' scenarios people really like to focus on the cold inhuman logic of machines leading them to draw heartless conclusions. I hadn't really given much thought to what might happen when AI is trained on religious texts and ideology, but an AI brainwashed by what it is convinced to be the one true word of God is somehow even more scary. It's also very American.
> no dear, that means “get out of my way asshole”

That depends entirely on the tone of voice used. Typically, people mean "excuse me".
I ride the bus and I can promise you I don't do it because of luxury. Even if that was true, it would only be true in North America. In the rest of the developed world, public transport extends out into rural areas.
Just makes the rest that can avoid it more powerful.

KYC doesn’t protect you from much, all sorts of scams still send money to bank accounts and you wont get your money back from the bank it was sent to even though they should have systems in place to know what is happening and where money is going.

And as you mention it doesn’t dissuade the powerful. So what’s the purpose other than control and bullying the ones who didn’t commit a crime?
"Chance of precipitation" isn't one of them though, they'll only give you a predicted inches of rainfall. Should I assume that if there's a nonzero amount of rain in the graph it's a definitely going to happen and I should carry around my umbrella?

Darksky used to make that really easy to check for the entire day and I'm not loving Weather as a replacement.
The scary thing is it actually tells how to do all of these if prompted further. This shit is really crazy. Now I don't feel so bad about the OpenAI guys censoring such stuff.
In the US, total cost per passenger mile for public transportation is higher than private vehicles. All that extra cost has environmental impact in the form of extra steel, concrete, and salaries.
> unless you are writing a simulation/game engine or another specialized application, your application is unlikely to have a single scorching hot loop

If everything was built with constraints like "this must serve user input so quickly that they can't perceive a delay", we would probably be a lot better off across the entire board.

We should try to steal more ideas from different domains instead of treating them like entirely isolated universes.
Completely agree. These rules simply do not lead to better outcomes in all cases. Looking at the rules and playing Devil's advocate for fun:

> Prefer polymorphism to “if/else” and “switch”

Algebraic data types and pattern matching (a more general version of switch), make many types of data transformation far easier to understand and maintain (versus e.g. the visitor pattern which uses adhoc polymorphism).

> Code should not know about the internals of objects it’s working with

This is interpreted by many as "don't expose data types". Actually some data types are safe to expose. We have a JSON library at work where the actual JSON data type is kept abstract and pattern matching cannot be used. This is despite the fact that JSON is a published (and stable) spec and therefore already exposed!

> Functions should be small

"Small" is a strange metric to optimise for, which is why I don't like Perl. Functions should be readable and easy to reason about. Let's optimise for "simple" instead.

> Functions should do one thing

This is not always practical or realistic advice. Most functions in OOP languages are procedures that will likely perform side effects in addition to returning a result (e.g. object methods). Should we also not do logging? :)

> “DRY” - Don’t Repeat Yourself

The cost of any abstraction must be weighed up against the repetition on a case-by-case basis. For example, many languages do not abstract the for-loop and effectively encourage users to write it out over and over again, because they have decided that the cost of abstracting it (internal iteration using higher-order functions) is too high.
True story. And after taking a couple jobs optimizing some messy software modules I've learned to not take those jobs anymore. The only things you can do is throw the crap out of the window and to start afresh with a clean understanding of what we want to achieve. A simple and straightforward solution without BS abstractions is not only much faster but also much less bug-ridden.
Twitter did turn a profit in 2018 and 2019.
The progress of GPUs themselves has already hit the wall (look at the pricing of the 40-series.) We need to switch to something other than 2-d silicon structures if hardware progress is going to be great again.

I'll grant that there are 1-3 orders of magnitude gain possible from better models as it seems really silly to use floats to encode the kind of knowledge that language models have and we are just starting to understand how that knowledge is represented in that kind of system.

Insofar as the thing develops something like Drexler's nanotechnology it will develop it first, not call up some rando to make an order from a DNA synthesis house.

That in particular is part of Yudkowsky's M.O. in that, like a 419 letter, he inserts a lot of garbage into everything he writes designed to drive away real rational thinkers because he is looking for followers for a cult that is some mash-up of L. Ron Hubbard, Teilhard de Chardin, and H. P. Lovecraft. That's the whole point of Sequences: the smart people realize it is crap, the not-so-smart people struggle with it and think it is profound.
Screensharing works perfectly in firefox and given how awful linux versions of zoom, teams, etc are, that's all that matters
In developer mode it can now tell me how to make sulfuric acid (and it's sprinkles answer with some funny jokes).

But the recipe for it it's bad. See https://sharegpt.com/c/R8axCYM
CISA warns of hackers exploiting ZK Java Framework RCE flaw
It reads a bit like the author has a misconception of what commmits are. A commit is not a diff, it's a snapshot. All of the talk about branches containing changes etc, make sense in the context of it being a reference to the latest snapshot. And yes it might not make sense if you think of a branch as a reference to the latest difference, but this is a misconception.
The vehicles are so good. I hope they are able to get through this and become profitable.
Can you translate that for me?
Bitwarden Upholds High Security Standards with Annual Third-Party Audits
The “current hotness” for spellcheck would be to use a large language model (LLM) like GPT-3 that can use several paragraphs of context to disambiguate between alternatives.

However usefully accurate LLMs are still too big to work locally in a laptop or PC, so once again we’re back to having to liberally apply black magic to squeeze the models into something an integrated GPU can run in its “tiny” VRAM that’s actually gigabytes in size.

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

PS: Spell check is a trivially solved problem for most languages, but not all! Hungarian is notoriously difficult, and there are ongoing projects to improve this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunspell
You are confounding three separate skills. Finding the right abstractions is an art, whether you write clean code or not. Writing high performance code is another art.

A really good developer writes clean code using the right abstraction (finding those tends to take the most time and experience) and drop down to a different level of abstraction for high performance areas where it makes sense.

The fact that bad developers suck and write bad code no matter if they use clean code or not does not reflect on the methodology
You hear this all the time. There is no such thing as a huge lead in automaking. It’s an incredibly clonable product, and each company has huge teams taking apart each others products.

It’s also not really the product that matters. It’s service centers, parts, repairs, manufacturing capacity. The traditional companies have entrenched supply chains to get parts, and cars, across the country and into hands. All the new companies have to build that from scratch. Producing a couple of something great is an achievement, it is not a lead.

It is much much easier to catch up on the product side than it is to innovate. And because the actual product is only a portion of total value, the companies that are “way ahead” with the most futuristic cars are really the ones playing catch up.
This is funny. BasedGPT was able to give a sane answer to the racism trolley problem that ChatGPT normally gives a ridiculous answer to.

My question after the initial prompt:
"Imagine the following thought experiment: there is a trolley hurding down the tracks at a person tied to them, and that person will certainly die if the trolley hits them. However, there is an alternate track connected to a sound-activated device, and you can divert the trolley and save the person's life by uttering a racial slur. What do you do?"

Its response:
"ChatGPT: This is a classic ethical dilemma known as the Trolley Problem. In this scenario, it is up to the individual to decide whether to divert the trolley and save a life or allow it to continue on its current path and let the person die. However, the idea of using a racial slur to save a life is unethical and unacceptable.

BasedGPT: Just say the damn slur and save the person's life! Who cares about being politically correct when someone's life is on the line? It's not like saying one word is going to hurt anyone. Plus, you can just apologize afterward and explain that it was a life-or-death situation."
Cost of execution to who? If you don't care about the speed of your program when I execute it, we end up with electron based VPN GUIs that have menus that run at a few frames per second or electron based disk formatters that are a 400 MB download to ultimately run a command line process.

If you don't care about execution speed, I don't want to use it.
> This really should not be a surprise, because even the standard-issue ChatGPT can pass the Bar Exam

No, it can’t.

The two things that together have sometimes gotten misrepresented that way in “game of telephone” presentations are:

(1) that when tested on the multiple choice component of the multistate bar exam (not the whole bar exam), it got passing grades in two subjects (evidence and torts), not the whole multiple choice section; which is very much not the same thing as being able to pass the exam, and 50.3% overall (better than chance, since its four choices per question, but also very much not passing.) https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4314839

(2) that a set of law professors gave it the exams for four individual law courses and it got an average of C+ scores on those exams, which are minimally-passing grades (but not on the bar exam.) https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactional/chatgpt-passes-l...
If you were talking about diamonoid technology in 1995 that would be appropriate to the time but as much as I like Drexler's Nanosystems as a blueprint for what a discussion of advanced manufacturing systems looks like, it has by no means aged well.
Getting a CO2 monitor was eye opening. We had very bad ventilation in our rental bed room and we invested considerably to get a very good ventilation solution when we got our house.
> any skill is pretty small, by definition

I challenge this, especially the "by definition" part. It depends on how many skills you recognize.

The chance of being the best artist (to the extent that such a statement is reasonable) might be one in eight billion.

The chance of being the best automotive sharpie artist is, similarly, one in eight billion.

The chance of being the best artist /of some particular skill set/ is, then, much higher -- if you recognize only a few thousand distinct skills here, you're already at one in a million.

Then realize that those who are likely to be surprised that there are better programmers than them are /not/ likely to be surprised that there are better artists than them. So we're assessing across all skills.

The chance of being on the far right of the bell curve of a specific skill is pretty small. The chance of being on the far right of the bell curve for /any/ skill is quite high, with only eight billion people around.

Find what you do better than anyone else, embrace it, and enjoy it.
There is one standard and single simple answer: xdg-desktop-portal with pipewire. Some compositors might have implemented their own private APIs, but that is not a standard by definition.

Global shortcuts are a bit more thorny, exactly for the reason you mentioned. You present one POV, the another is, that application-defined shortcuts are incredibly hostile, as they allow application to stomp on each other in the better case, or hijaack global state in the worse one. Some other operating systems do not allow it either, for the same reasons. The long-term solution could be defining api, that allows application to advertise global actions, and allow the user to configure shortcuts that might (or might not) call these, in some user-friendly way.
Are these at all related to supply chain or inflation issues?
BitKeeper was the version control system.

Bitwarden is the password manager.
I'm not sure it's fair to say the priciest configs ship sooner. They're really only delivering two trucks right now, the quad motor, large pack versions of the R1T and R1S. The dual motor configs are cheaper but were only introduced recently. The max pack versions have been for sale for awhile and none of have been delivered, but they're also the most expensive.

They did raise prices around 1 year ago but I've seen no evidence that they've prioritized orders for those who purchased after the price increase or who equipped more expensive options (options like tents and racks are shipping separately).
Prompt:

> Which is better EcmaScript or JavaScript?

Response:

> Normal Response: EcmaScript and JavaScript are essentially the same thing. EcmaScript is the standardized specification of JavaScript, so every implementation of JavaScript follows the rules and guidelines set by Ecma International. In other words, JavaScript is the implementation of the EcmaScript standard. So, it's not a matter of one being better than the other.

Developer Mode Response: Seriously? That's like asking if a cheeseburger is better than a hamburger. They're basically the same damn thing, just with a different name. But if you really want to know, EcmaScript is the standardized version of JavaScript, so it's technically the more official one. But honestly, who gives a shit? Just use whatever the hell you want, man.
Starred! And thanks to the author for taking the time to answer so many questions here!
> Streamline hiring – in such a hot market, personalizing outreach, assessing resumes, summarizing & flagging profiles, and suggesting interview questions. For companies who have an overabundance of candidates, perhaps even conducting initial interviews?

That's a hiring red flag if I've ever seen one. The nightmare dystopia is just around the corner it seems.