skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This service is lacking a major feature and too complicated!

Almost half of the time, I need to know if a number is even. Why doesn't it provide an end point for that?! Don't even tell me about the 409 status code. Am I suppose to know it's an even number when it returns an odd number to me? I only recognize status code 200, all other are errors, don't make this so complicated!
Prompt engineering is another way to say functional specification imho.
What about boycotting businesses that employ them? Is that speech?

It's the employer who terminates employment, not the people asking the employer to do so. The opponents of the people asking the employer to terminate employment can exercise their free speech to argue for continued employment. That is the only action congruent with free speech absolutism. In this case, it also happens to match what the law protects.
It’s funny how regular software now seems fishy now that everyone is calling home. I’m close to getting a VM or a raspberry pi to run Citrix and zoom because they have all this junk that runs at startup and removing it causes strange error messages.
Worth remembering that the "Dark Ages" were named that by those with a heavy Roman bias and otherwise weren't particularly dark, having experienced innovations like standardized handwriting (punctuation and consistent lettering and casing and such), art, science, math, agriculture, and laid the groundwork for the later Renaissance.
The Long Now is one of my favorite things, are there any other organizations/movements like it?
A more specific example is the idea of sitting down and listing all the attributes that define a customer profile (name, addresses, date of birth, etc) and then designing the CRUD around those things. Contrast this to starting with what are the interactions that a customer actually needs to worry about (send me this product to the address in my PayPal* account)

*or whatever external system.

If you had to make a guess at how many different pieces of information you have about you in databases for services worldwide (and how many of those are inaccurate, or unnecessary to provide the service), that number would be fairly ridiculous for most people (OOM thousands or tens of thousands).

Taking the address idea - no e-commerce site really needs to store this as a profile item. It needs to be in my browser so I can autocomplete for any shipping form.

The second point I’m making is the same as your last. “How it gets transformed” is often more important to start with than how it is at rest.

(I acknowledge in advance this is a weak argument btw).
Can someone explain to me what is the advantage of this compared to the already existing multi-desktop feature?
I'm constantly surprised that Western backpackers don't use tumplines. Virtually every culture in the world uses them, if they don't balance the load right on top of their head. It makes everything easier. But I guess it's not "dignified", or perhaps recalls the porters that work for the stylish westerners that pay for them
Once in a blue moon I make a purchase after seeing an ad, yet I do not value watching ads. How would that be the case? You tell me.
They published a whole document on it, V2 sats are designed to be less reflective than v1.x
It won't be long until it is done in realtime in passthrough-AR headsets.
> As an observer, the paced portion of the race is stupidly boring.

part of it comes with the territory, I mean a marathon is pretty boring all the way through, and only now and then do we get an exciting finish.

but on this topic, i'm with you all in favor of questioning the sportsmanship and "is it really racing?" aspect, but the paced portion of the race is generally being run at a faster pace than it would be if the the runners were self-pacing (I think), where the other alternative is running slower, or that self pacers would screw up and run too fast at the beginning and then finish more poorly; i.e. while being more pure, it's not clear the race would be more fun to watch (racers holding themselves back for fear of burning out?) or set as many records.

the part I think I object to is that a pacer's pace might be "tuned" for a particular racer to the detriment of others.
“Realistic” in the sense that it’s nearly impossible to see that a filter is being applied.

But unrealistic in the sense that it makes significant changes to the user’s looks.

Sad to watch the reveal reaction videos further down in the thread.
Does it or another part of the US constitution protect their anonymity?
“For free” meaning from the perspective of Wine. The project isn’t using its own funds to pay for this.
Wouldn't there effectively be no penalty if it were submitted by a user in another country? Also good luck proving that anyone "knowingly materially misrepresents" anything.
Sorry, that is where I duck out of the discussion. You just said it would be trivial to give me an actual counterexample and yet you apparently aren't willing to put that trivial effort into actually finding one. You clearly don't want to put any effort into this conversation so I won't either.
America has largest number of black millionaires. Is that what you call systemic injustices?
> Running in a pack is also just easier, not even considering the wind breaking potential depending upon speed and prevailing breeze.

It is worth noting that for mid-d races it's not just about countering wind, but also air resistance. There is a significant performance impact even if it's not windy. See for instance https://www.runnersworld.com/training/a20823445/does-draftin...: "Pugh runs some calculations to determine that at 4:30 mile pace, drafting one meter behind another runner on a still day saves about 80% of the energy you'd otherwise spend fighting air resistance. That corresponds to about 1 second per 400 meters at that pace, and more on windy days." (Highly recommend Hutchinson's other work on the running and sports science, btw.)

(I am sure you know this. I'm mentioning it for others, because it's applicable to Sowinski's work, far more so than your own pacing for the longer races.)
An emeritus professor who'd risk debilitating chronic neck/back pain, when disposable grad students are a dime a dozen?
They wouldn't have called the consultants if they hadn't tried and failed to do _____ multiple times before.
I’m so fucking over everyone spending time trying to re-invent the methodology in which work is accomplished.

Just do the work, do it well, make it measurable, and hit 80% of your aspirational goals

Middle management needs to find something else to do, like complain about single panes of glass and metrics
Thanks for the clarification.

To sum up for people here, the Grover’s algorithm can’t be easily parallelized. Operating serially, it’s difficult to implement. Hence, it may not reduce the security of 128 bits to 64 bits; it’s less effective in practice.

Keep in mind that NIST doesn’t recommend symmetric keys below 112 bits. So the margin with 128 bits is low. I give you an example. If the user’s random number generator isn’t perfect, the file key in Age will contain an entropy less than 128 bits, which quickly gets you into an uncomfortable area. You should also take into account small reduction in security due to new attacks and speed ups. I am not a cryptographer; a cursory look at Grover’s doesn’t cut it. If I write crypto software, I will err on the side of ignorance and be conservative in my design.

As for the cryptographers’ opinion, I think the industry standard for encryption of data data at rest is AES-256. The acceptable range is 128–256, but 128 is the low end of the range, the recommendation is 256 bits which is what most companies use. Sure, 100 bits may not be breakable now or in short term, but nobody uses 100 bits for that reason (note that Age uses 10 words in its default, which if using bips list, is 110 bits).

Lastly, you should not forget compliance. Top secret information is often required to be encrypted with 256 bits (see NSA recommendations).
> it is completely impossible to gain knowledge you do not already possess from a language model

Not true. Emergent abilities is an active research area in LLMs [0]. They even have pretty graphs on the topic.

[0] https://ai.googleblog.com/2022/11/characterizing-emergent-ph...
A 10 billion dollar project is 100x larger. It's definitely more difficult to manage.
>So, i generally considered Pascal a dead language.

There is GNU pascal. https://www.gnu-pascal.de/gpc/h-index.html - they page says that they do support some of the Delphi language features/extensions.

GNU pascal is a gcc frontend - so it must support a lot of platforms https://gcc.gnu.org/frontends.html

So there are probably some people who are still using Pascal, not just as part of the Delphi IDE.

It should be possible to make a web framework for GNU pascal, the executable could then run on any server.

Also there seem to be several options for web frameworks for pascal and/or delphi, interesting if people are using it for production (never used any of this personally)

https://wiki.freepascal.org/Brook_Framework

https://blogs.embarcadero.com/learn-about-a-solid-and-robust...

https://fanoframework.github.io/

https://github.com/EtheaDev/kitto

it's not the mainstream, however there seems to be some action going on here.
Logistics of Nigeria's 2023 Election – Interesting new vote accreditation method
With the amount of tools named after pokémon in the leaks over the years, I figured they'd be nerdy enough to use Futurama
mfw realizing the last line should be cities.plot... ToT
Even developers and tech people are having difficulties with installing Wordpress, but that's just my experience. So I don't think it's that easy.
I'm not unaware of this. It however doesn’t fit all my use cases and hence the price is still worth it.
ControlNet was a stepwise improvment when in being able to generate a character in a specific pose as compared to trying to coax SD into giving you an approximation of what you wanted through Prompt Engineering.

People training and releasing custom models that can replace entire workflows of disparate steps needed to produce an image that would normally result from that workflow.

There was that video or maybe it was an article where the guy made it so he could just use natural language to describe the edits he wanted made and it would make them etc.
Poor sleep drove me insane, and my long path to recovery
Absolutely not a housing problem. I interact often with homeless people because I literally live next to them. You don't need to run a study to know 10/10 of these folks are heavily addicted to drugs. We can't help them out if we continue ignoring this fact. Homelessness is a consequence of their mental health. If you give them a house they will still be addicted. Actually, some if not all would not be willing to relocate if that means they will be far from their suppliers. Having experienced drug addiction myself, I know there's no way out unless you are forced into treatment. You need medical care, medications and a good support system to get sober, particularly after using the nasty stuff on our streets today.
I thought Ghost was pay only?
Remember the dumbest 30% of your class in school? Those folks still need jobs. Guess where they emd up?
The examples below her tweet just show it to be basically animation. No real semblance to the real faces. Reminds me of a lot of the fantasyland Snap has been propagating for a while now. More Roger Rabbit than filter.

“If you want a picture of the future, imagine an airbrush stamping on a human face— forever.”
Surely your compiler won't actually emit an integer modulus if you tell it to mod by a constant?
Molecular models are like tinkertoys.

Carbons are the little black spheres with 4 equidistant holes, and hydrogens are the smaller white ones with a single hole.

And you've got all the little somewhat-flexible rods to act as chemical bonds and connect the different carbon and hydrogen atoms in any combination you like.

Octane is a generic name for most any combination you can legitimately make out of C8H18. Any of these is referred to as an octane isomer.

If you put all 8 carbons in a straight row and "saturate" the remaing holes with the 18 hydrogens, this straight-chain form in particular is referred to as Octane proper, or more descriptively to avoid confusion, normal-octane since it is a straight-chain isomer.

This normal- or n-octane is not the stuff that burns with a very good antiknock rating at all.

The one particular branched-chain C8H18 isomer having the proper name 2,2,4-trimethylpentane is the one that serves as a calibration fluid for laboratory antinock determination. Even though there are many other branched-chain C8H18 isomers possible, this one is the most commonly obtainable and carries the generic name "Iso-octane".

Runs smooth as butter.

Goes well with vintage MTBE.
I think if it's anything, it's McCarthyism for a new generation.

We've done worse, and with more rigor than today's cancel culture, but for however much I might find it distasteful, the stigma borne of cancel culture at least doesn't have the full weight of the law behind it.
Django is also my go-to idea.
Marathon pacers could be event staff, but could also be private for a runner if it’s one of the elite marathons that make you a lot of money.
anything that is self-hosted is not gonna go down by way of someone else you have no control over
Where's the dinosaur?
So are you advocating for the government lying to the American people over where it came from because the truth might seem to be racist? Really? You would rather the government conceal information about a virus that killed millions of people because it might make some people upset with Asians? What else would you like the government to lie about? Murder rates? Crime Rates? The color of a man they are looking for accused of sexual assault?

Additionally it seems like you are advocating removing free speech? Friend you are sitting here actively campaigning for a 1984 style society. Not sure I have ever seen this one before; well done.
Part of this is a second order effect of supression of public sector wages. For a lot of highly paid specialities it's become impossible to recruit to retain real talent in the public sector when they're going to be paid a multiple in the private sector. The net result is the real wages are masked through consultancy arrangements at even higher total cost to avoid having to admit effectively paying public servents more than they're 'allowed to' and everybody loses except for the middle men raking off a profit.
Except that coronaviruses are wide spreader on all continents. But even if we look at the closest known relatives of covid19, we are literally looking at half of Asia (https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02596-2).
That essay certainly nailed it.

Wolfram mentioned similar points about giving neural nets the raw data without any (human) classification in his recent article on ChatGPT.
Can someone who actually watches/plays/grew up with baseball explain what the deal with sign stealing is? What are the signs doing such that stealing them is apparently considered "cheating"?
I remember watching this Jetsons sketch [1] as a youngster and never thought I'd see the day when it would become reality. What's even more amazing is its a filter rather than something physical like in the sketch.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0idWiHiasKg
Is Long Now still going strong? It feels like I haven’t heard much from them in a while. Still a big fan.

Edit: and yes, I know they are philosophically opposed to doing anything quickly.
I wouldn't consider your wife that open minded if she is off put by you engaging with "conservative" friends. There is nothing off putting about that.

But if your "conservative" friends happen to drop openly misogynist, racist, and/or xenophobic things inappropriately into casual conversation - she might be justified in feeling a little off put since she is probably worried that you also hold similar hurtful views but are more careful with what you say.
Here is an example of person who got deplatformed from Twitter because they expressed virus came from a lab. There are numerous such examples which did not had news articles published for them.

https://www.newsweek.com/twitter-suspends-dr-li-meng-yan-wuh...
Woah, what? I have a GitHub account for work, and one for personal stuff. (Separation of church and state is a good idea)

Are you saying, I could get both nuked if they find out it's the same person?
The writer most likely count the moslem population. Most moslem don't speak arabic but they recite quran (written in arabic) daily. Most of them will notice if a ال written as ل ا
There are lots of people with misconceptions of LLMs. It will take time to adjust.

I reached the same conclusion as yourself, but do see a totally different path to take regarding information propagation (how GPT works). For example, cells merge information monotonically. This is how neural networks balance too, but could be applied in new/undiscovered ways.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HB5TrK7A4pI&list=LL&index=4
If it is a well known problem, I might as well find the solution on stack overflow, where actual the actual humans that trained this system discuss it.

As for proof based languages, can it actually do that? Have you tried?
The Gerald R. Ford Class
To this day, you will find transgender people using a deadname on legal documents because they cannot legally change their names, or because it is a legal necessity to list all previous names. A lawyer wrote that document according to the legal strictures of the time. It isn't the evidence you portray it to be.
As someone who doesn't have children, I am appalled that there is no mandatory government surveillance in every home that contains a child.

We must protect those children!

Anyone against such reasonable child safety measures must have something to hide.
> 99% of the time that someone decries the "death of free speech", it boils down to them not wanting to hear criticism for expressing ignorant or hateful ideas.

OP hasn’t made any claims (that I can see) that they wish to avoid criticism for their ignorant and hateful ideas, and you’re slinging shade at them. Maybe they’re in the 99%, but… maybe they’re in the 1%. You can’t be too upset when people react to you negatively - if you say something harmful to others, you should expect pushback too.
Thanks for the link. I now understand the tildeverse really well. I love the way it explains it so easily and didn't take much reading or time to understand.
If you want more people to buy your book, rather. I doubt the publisher cares beyond that.
reference to kia auto branding
https://edisciplinas.usp.br/pluginfile.php/5023569/mod_resou... elixir fp pdf that helps clarify why is more elegant than python or cpp
I've been told the "free marketplace of ideas" will sort these sort of problems out any day now. Unfortunately the FMoI has zero capacity to handle Brandolini's Law and has shown itself to be so useless it can't even set Flat Earth believers straight.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandolini%27s_law
Haha wonderful! Yes! I confess to being not a free speech absolutist in truth, just one who is conveniently more of an absolutist than anyone who claims to be one.
the part I don't understand is why wouldn't anybody in that 2016 race just run faster at any point? Were they generally thinking "somebody's endurance is better than mine, my only chance is to win a sprint"?
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/08/tumpl...
>literally anything would be better than anyone being able to claim it with zero evidence.

It is not the duty of a person with a disability to justify themselves to every skeptic they encounter. That is both unrealistic and discriminatory, especially as we would endlessly encounter people who would not be convinced no matter what we say. Disability accomodation laws have made this crystal clear for decades.

Even people with handicap permits regularly get questioned as to if they are "genuinely" disabled, and the only thing that tamps it down at all is the fact that an establishments that do so are financially discouraged from it.

Someone faking a disability is a nuisance, someone discriminating over a disability is a human rights violation.
I don't need it, not much in life anyone really needs besides food, air and shelter. This applies to the majority of information on earth. Doesn't stop me wanting to learn about things. Not much I would do with it either, it would just let me know what happened and what caused my kids to spend a year plus in isolation. I'm just a single guy, consequences are a little above my paygrade. Do we need to cause of the Ohio train crash? 9/11?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Revolution
One of my favourite stories is "A piece of Steak" by Jack London. It is about an old boxer who must win against a younger boxer to feed himself and his family but eventually loses because "Youth will be served" - https://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/UBooks/PieSte.sht...

Some quotes:

It was to be expected. It was the way of Youth, expending its splendor and excellence in wild insurgence and furious onslaught, overwhelming opposition with its own unlimited glory of strength and desire.

And Tom King patiently endured. He knew his business, and he knew Youth now that Youth was no longer his. There was nothing to do till the other lost some of his steam, was his thought,

Sandel must foam the froth of Youth away before discreet Age could dare to retaliate.

He grinned with a certain wistful pathos in his ring-battered countenance, and went on cherishing his strength with the jealousy of which only Age is capable. Sandel was Youth, and he threw his strength away with the munificent abandon of Youth.

But that was the trouble. Sandel would never become a world champion. He lacked the wisdom, and the only way for him to get it was to buy it with Youth; and when wisdom was his, Youth would have been spent in buying it.

Yet he looked upon the fight as his. It was impossible that a man so punished could rise. Only Youth could rise, and Sandel rose.
> Stop electing the people who follow them.

To be fair, most voters in the UK didn't vote for the current government.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_United_Kingdom_general_el...
ChatGPT as muse, not oracle
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It seems like the author's main argument is (1) the referendum system, (2) the board of supervisors, and (3) the one-party system are the problem. I understand you can address (2) by defeating them in elections, but structurally there doesn't seem to be any reasonable way to change any of these structural systems without large-scale overhaul to how the city itself is governed.
If you can’t tell the difference between a stylized lJ and Jl you probably didn’t end up on that page to begin with.

I don’t think that is an unreasonable assumption on the reader
That's available now, for about $10-20 you can buy a set of 'beer goggles' and everyone around you becomes 5x better looking. Bonus, you become a fantastically interesting conversationalist whose plans always work out perfectly.
People are allowed to change their minds. Stop being so emotional and controlling about it.
at population level critical thinking is a dangerous hero myth. AI shows us clearly that our own faculties are very limited and there is no individual defense against propaganda and lies.
> There's your answer.

So you're saying that opt-out automatic update checking ruined their product by any reasonable definition, and they were entirely aware of this, so by claiming that automatic update checking is useful they were gaslighting their users?

If so, then from what source are we certain that the "army of people telling them 'no'" in the relevant GitHub issues is representative of how their broader user base feels about automatic update checking? And how do we know that they ought to have been similarly certain?
There are absolutely no natural rights. Every right we have we fought tirelessly for, and forgetting that would be a mistake.