skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If this were the case, it would have been trivial for you to find a game with its written rules described and which match the one generated.

Search engines doesn't work like that. You are basically asking me the equivalent of proving that a photo isn't depicting a ghost. No, I can't prove that, I can however come up with examples showing how the photo could have been created even if it wasn't a ghost.

If you want to prove that ghosts are real you need plenty of photos from lots of angles and situations, or videos, and from many sources to show that it isn't all made up by a single person. The equivalent of that would be if they had made ChatGPT generate 100 different working games for example, that would be much more believable. But a single case of a game that already exists and has countless texts describing similar games? It just looks like random chance that got handpicked or plagiarism.

This isn't a court trial, I am not going to sue ChatGPT for plagiarism here, it is just a discussion whether it is reasonable to believe ChatGPT can generate novel puzzle games.

Edit: But do note that since ChatGPT can find such ideas that are hard to find with a search engine, that makes ChatGPT very useful in a way search engines aren't. So I am not saying it doesn't add value. Just that people seem to say ChatGPT does a lot of thing that it doesn't seem to be able to do.

Edit again:

> That is the extraordinary claim that you don’t have evidence for but are acting like it’s right there obviously out in the open for everyone to see.

Yes, you think it is obvious that ChatGPT is capable of very creative and productive thinking. But most people don't think that, to them that is an extraordinary claim. I'm not here to convince you, I'm here to explain to you why you aren't convincing anyone with what you say. People like you were convinced by articles like this before the discussion even began.
The calculator is still in the new home page. You just need to scroll down a bit. Perhaps it was at the top of the home page before. I don't remember.
The user must be and feel in control at all times. Taking away agency in most cases is unwarranted. Exceptions may be with children or special needs groups.
Same here, just a warning with no useful I fo and a button to click to log in using my Firefox aco out info. Is this legit?
In the US at least, higher rates would seem to advantage owner-occupiers over SFH investors.

It's harder for both to purchase, but investors are also heavily leveraged and fighting investment alternatives in a higher-rate environment.
Glarity, Auto-Summary for Google Search Results / YouTube Videos
What if your personal chatbot was subverted by the super-persuader, or was controlled by it from the beginning? Impossible to be sure.

We're going to have to stop talking to machines.
bullet points would be an improvement over bullshit useless prose
> > Interjections like “oops!” or “uh-oh” are typically unnecessary and can sound insincere.
>
> This is a good observation.

I agree. That reminds me:
> Imagine a doctor performing a procedure and then suddenly saying “Oops! Something went wrong…” That is the last thing anyone wants to hear when the stakes are high, whether it’s surgery or someone’s source of income. That is not the time to be cutesy or fluffy.
> —https://wix-ux.com/when-life-gives-you-lemons-write-better-e...
Stack Overflow is to blame for that.

With the best of intentions they make their data open, resulting in hundreds of clone sites regurgitating the stack overflow data, on sites with names like “ProblemGeek” and “NerdAnswer”.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35010035
Unfortunately in practice you can’t rely on large numbers being passed through correctly because of this, unless you control both ends and don’t use js.
So we need an internet without corporations? Sounds obvious but how we are supposed to achieve this?

Easy self-hosted solutions, like IPFS or Gemini?
How to solve a pricing conundrum with my app?
Hey friends, I have a pricing question that I am trying to solve:

Working on something solo has its drawbacks — especially when trying to decide on something so crucial to the business.

Hence, I need any help I can get with the following...

Currently, blogstatic.io is $19/year with all features included. However, at this rate (vists + reach), I don't think the business can become self-sustainable before my runway ends.

The idea is to introduce new pricing plans but keep the $19/year, which is something the blogstatic brand has become a synonym with = Carrd for blogging.

The $19/year plan will have basic features that will help anyone new to blogging get started.

Now for the other plans, there are two ideas:

* Have 3 plans:
$19/year,
$5/month (paid yearly $50), and
the business one $15/month, which includes multi-author and more advanced newsletter features

OR

* Have 1 plan only!
Have only the $19/year plan and make everything else an add-on that users can purchase as they need.

===

I personally like the add-on idea. It's a straightforward one, and you can add to your "cart" widgets/options you need and nothing you don't.

Example: Say there's a feature on the $5/month plan, but you don't need the rest — with the "plans" only approach, you will "have to" upgrade — with the "add-on" approach, you can purchase that one single thing in the "Store," and you're done.

However, I am afraid that the "add-on" approach is a tedious one for the user — they have to "buy" everything individually.

— Is this a good practice?
— Do people care?

My goal is to keep it easy and yet have a self-sustainable business. I am totally fine with leaving money on the table, as long as those two criteria are fulfilled: Easy + Sustainability.

So my specific question is:
"Plans," OR
"Everything is an add-on"?

I am all ears to hear what you can suggest — as a USER and as a business person.

Cheers

PS: I am Val, and here's my personal blog with more context around blogstatic, if you're interested: valsopi.com
> And people are just going to make up sources. It’s not like they have a gun held up to their head to ensure that demand is followed.

The consequences actually are quite serious. A person falsifies work product once in an academic or professional setting and their career is severely impacted. This is why people are "surprised" to encounter such a BS generator operating under the trademark of a reputable company.
Physical access should be all that's needed, and you shouldn't need to beg for permission from the company who sold you the device.

Software that locks out people with physical access from resetting a device is not an ethical, or effective, way to prevent hardware theft. It's dystopian.
People have done some fantastic stuff in Max but it's definitely the wrong level of abstraction for me. Too low level for dealing with music on a more conceptual level and too awkward for lower level coding compared to text based languages.

I'm expecting generative AI to blow these kinds of tools out of the water very soon.
That doesn’t matter to buyers.

If the housing stock is too expensive for the population there can be many causes, and higher quality or larger size housing is just another cause. The causes of the high prices don’t matter to buyers, all they know is they can’t afford to buy. What use is it to them that the homes they can’t afford are better quality?
I don’t find that a huge limitation personally. I don’t think data formats should allow comments on values, that is what docs are for.
https://github.com/laravel/laravel/pull/6010
It’s not the job numbers. It’s the labor shortage and wage growth at the bottom end. My local Dunkin’ Donuts is staffed with teenagers and was paying $16 in 2020 (exurban MD). Immigrants compete with those low end workers.
I don't know; that's why I'm asking. Maybe buildOpamPackage already does it? https://github.com/tweag/opam-nix#buildOpamProject There's a buildDunePackage in the same region of the docs that runs `dune build` but that to me implies that dune is not needed(?). I haven't read too much into the project yet. The example (https://github.com/tweag/opam-nix/blob/4bb1a4c372f639f44fc67...) would indicate that everything is configured from just the ${PROJECT}.opam file, but I don't have enough info on the toolchain to know if it's incremental per module or what... or if ocamlfind more complicated to work with than dune.
First time home buyers have it much better than others. As long as you can come up with the closing costs, the federal housing administration will cosign your loan. It's a great deal. No down payment.
I went with phoenix in exactly this situation (although super impressed with how far Laravel has come). We have been enormously pleased with our choice and productivity.

Disagree with the advice your responding to, but I really don't agree with the premise of being a sloppy programmer... "Not sloppy" is faster at anything except prototyping. Coming from a different starting point probably has a lot to do with my different conclusions.

Edit: Grammar/Spelling
if human readers know what's a good search result and what isn't

That assumes there's a single, canonical idea of what a "good result" looks like. I imagine that's dependent on a lot of factors, from the context of why the user is searching, their demographic, and their biases. When I search for "chocolate chip cookie recipe" I want straight facts - ingredients and bullet point steps and nothing else. My mother would want some background about the recipe, where it's from, and what makes it different. You can't get that from the search term alone. You need a lot more context.

It's exactly what the promise of 'personalized search' based on tracking everyone around the internet told us it would give us but it doesn't seem to work very well.
Its agenda is predicting the next input token.
yeah its more akin to using Google to find a game on github and copy pasting it.
Do they need to learn rules though, or could they memorize enough to learn the probabilities of the most likely continuation? To my mind the blurry-jpeg-metaphor[1] is very much spot-on. While it is speculation, it would seem to me personally that LLMs de-facto doing a (lossy) memorization and neural networks in general being able to do well in "local consistency" seems a way to think about them that is consistent with most of the model behaviour we observe.

1. https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/chatgpt-...
Computer BS is fine, was just hoping it wasn’t gonna be sprint retros.
Came across this twitter feed. https://mobile.twitter.com/FalconFeedsio/status/162283865968...

Talks about it.
Fixing the Next 10k Aliasing Bugs
Please publish the entire conversation with ChatGPT that led to the game. You can use this Chrome extension: https://sharegpt.com/ .
By extension, high-karma accounts that are run by marketing companies can post in a niche subreddit to subtly promote their product or disparage their competition, and they'll end up on the front page of that subreddit. They'll get a lot of views and a lot more engagement than the average unsophisticated user's post would -- and those astroturfed posts would, on average, rank higher in searches.

This is analogous to SEO, but rather more insidious and sneaky. You can spot SEO blogspam from a mile away. You don't know if a Reddit user is a real person, a bot, or a company's representative.
Hi Timo, me again :) I ended up applying for the backend position because I didn’t see your last comment. I haven’t received a response (18.02.23), is there a way to check? Thanks!
I live in a 1920s full brick house in New England. The insulation in the unrenovated spaces is poor, but the mass of brick has the effect of modulating summer temperatures to a reasonable level of comfort without AC for most of the summer. It takes about 4 consecutive days in the high 80s/low 90s before the house gets uncomfortable. Winter gets and stays colder 24 hours a day, so heating costs about $450/mo for December-March. This place will likely be here largely as-is 100 years from now.
There's also one big winner in an inflationary environment: the US federal government, who happens to owe a LOT of debt.

Inflation shrinks the present value of that debt, without requiring the government to cut spending to pay it down, which would have serious economic consequences (see: austerity).
> in case of a visit from the government office of workplace safety.

What!? This world is a truly bizarre place.
Although I self host some stuff (forgejo, gotosocial, blog) I think it's pretty inefficient when it comes to energy and thus emissions.
The more successful a women is in her career, the fewer dating options she has. The opposite is true for men.

Another issue is that college educated women do not prefer to marry non college educated men. This is a problem because there are way more women in college than men.

The best place to be for successful women to find a mate is Silicon Valley where the gender ratio is so messed up. There is a joke that women in the Bay Area have a “49er attitude”. A 4 who thinks she is a 9 because of the abundance of successful and intelligent men.
Indeed! The main thing that interests me is how does it compare to other post-quantum crypto schemes, e.g. does it also require a very large key size like some others do?
>- an employee demonstrates an extreme reluctance to estimate when any task they are involved with might be done.

Ah, there are so many reasons for this. I won't give a deadline when I anticipate the requirements will change. Experienced workers can look at a planned implementation and tell management 'This isn't going to work, we're going to have to change this' and be handwaved away, because they know inevitably, after management has played out whatever fabricated 'negotiation' they've set up for themselves, inevitably the requirements will change and a new deadline will need to be established.
Not sure what you consider successful, but it's still in pre-alpha and has had over 30k downloads in the last week.
> And if you disagree, please post some examples.

The Donald
Someone must care, no? Those threads get a large number of impressions, assumedly from real users.
"How do I fix some odd setting in Windows, Mac, whatever"

2007: results include documentation, a couple forums, if you're unlucky there's a potentially malware tool that's discovered people need to fix this.

2012: results include Reddit and Stack Exchange, documentation has disappeared, forums have opened that are full of "support specialists" telling you to reset your windows install.

2023: top results are just blogspam pushing malware tools and the above-mentioned useless support forums. It's hard to know if Microsoft and Apple even know what their software does.

Thankfully Linux-related searches are still useful.
Maybe you're an atypical INTP?
Discord as the go-to community hub for things like programming languages makes a little bit sad, knowing it’s all ephemeral and locked up.

At least the Nim team has a Matrix bridge I guess, so it’s a solvable problem somewhat. But I find joining yet another Discord group just obnoxious.

I long for the async-only text forums of yore. I’m getting old, aren’t I.
> Search engines doesn't work like that. You are basically asking me the equivalent of proving that a photo isn't depicting a ghost. No, I can't prove that, I can however come up with examples showing how the photo could have been created even if it wasn't a ghost.

The claim was that it pulled the game out of its dataset. If this were the case, I would argue it would absolutely be trivial to find them. It’s not some concept that can’t be described in words or would be hard to quantify. The rules have been provided, and, assuming they were plagiarized from somewhere else, would be listed verbatim or close to it.

If a student plagiarized on their work, whether in written form or in code, it’s been trivially easy to find the exact work that was copied from. It generally takes me a few seconds of searching to find it.

This is the same. If these rules existed in a dataset, then it should be equally easy to pull them up and prove the plagiarism. If all you can find is similar puzzles, you can’t just throw your hands up and say “yep, gottem”. That’s just not how this works.
I think it's more likely a side-effect of neurodivergence. I don't identify with the symptoms that google spit out, and autism is known to be correlated to a "mistuned" gut. I have been diagnosed with asperger, although that diagnosis has since been rescinded (no diagnosis to replace it however). All I can say for sure is that there is a deviation from normal in the way my brain works.

And when I say high sugar intake, I truly do mean high. I can and will eat ~500g of candy in one sitting if I have unfettered access to it.
Genes reveal striking diversity within similar ice age cultures
I switched to Kagi last year and couldn’t be happier. The results are better for me. No ads (the small amount I pay Kagi is well worth it) and a slider to click for programming focused results.

Looking forward to some new great AI search but I doubt it will come from Bing.
The other day I tried Bing and it had merged information across 2 different results such that the page title it showed was incorrect and misleading.
Is Cloudflare blocking anyone else's Firefox from accessing this (even with all add-ons and built-in Enhanced Tracking Protection disabled)?
Google knows, has commented on it that it's fine "but you should be careful who you let publish on your domain" and they won't do anything about it. It was a somewhat big topic two or so years ago, and since then everyone has understood that you just need to buy in on media company sites to get ranked.

Hey, maybe it's Google's gift to media companies to allow them to monetize, because they surely are making money with it.
There are strap-on foldable side-monitors for laptops out there. But they still use HDMI and USB ports.
Funny. I was just filling my tax report and the reason for not accepting some of the deductions I still think I should be getting is "because the program said so". I live in EU. Perhaps the EU should first clean it's own porch before talking about what the private sector should do.
It’s entirely unclear to me what the consequences of the yes/no choice would be.

Furthermore, falling is not binary, so there’s the question about where the boundary is. In an emergency situation, I don’t want to have to deal with any of this. It’s terrible UX.
Extraordinary claims….
Well, let me put it this way Phoenix LiveView is still in beta and constantly changing. That's a no-no for any average programmer. Yes, use it if you feel like you can do it but I have heard too many "I can't find any solution to this and that" stories from the land of Phoenix. PHP/JS/PYTHON/RUBY is a safe bet for any average programmer. Are you above average or at least you have a will of a tiger to push through the problems you encounter, sure go with Phoenix. By the way, that's the rewording of the first sentence of my original post.

Elixir reminds me of a poor-man's Haskell. Sure it's intellectually satisfying and elegant and "mathematical/logical", but the reality is that most people are not willing to spend months or years trying to force make their brain work in a different way, when a language like PHP or Python just clicks with how an average person think.
Ask HN: Overwhelmed by CSS Frameworks, Help
Building UI used to be fun when there were limited choices. You would use bootstrap and sass/less or css modules, and just get things done.

Now there are just so many options to choose from and such a feeling of FOMO.

Each new one that comes out and moves up the rankings (https://2022.stateofcss.com/en-US/css-in-js/) makes me feel a need to evaluate it. There is always a little benefit from each new framework but then it also can make other things harder.

I really just want nice pre-built components to use.

Tailwind has great components and templates, but its such a mess too look at when you want to deal with dynamic styles, and is slow to compile with webpack and tricky with monorepos, and then you have to use things like twind, twin.macro, windicss.

I miss the days of jquery + sass so badly. It was so straightforward. Nested css for everything and then when you need complex stuff: just use jquery to add/remove styles.

Every single new framework has so many edge cases that just wear you down. Styled Components and Emotion seemed so great, but just so many freaking edge cases, and perf issues.
Show HN: I made a battery-powered e-ink display that shows my calendar
Because, well, manufacturers did not leave us a choice?

(* I'd go for 1280*800)
Apple accelerates investment in Germany to expand Silicon Design Centre
> The next-most important is general intelligence.

What does that mean exactly?
There are optional type annotations and a tool to statically check them (dialyzer)

The learning curve is a bit steep as dialyzer works on erlang terms internally but we've been using it for a rather large codebase for 4+ years now and it does a consistently good job.

The Elixir core team actually mentioned that they want to make improved type support a priority in the last keynotes.
We have everything under control, you do not need to know.
The conferences to which I've submitted papers have all had blind review -- you literally take your names off the paper and reviewers don't know the authors. Like OP, I don't have an academic background but it's been immensely helpful to have a PhD as a coauthor, as not only does he know all the conventions about paper-writing, he's also a wiz with LaTeX.
The bit of social media people use to talk to their IRL friends and family will be fine.

But the bit of social media where people are listening to celebrities, getting their news, sharing memes, discussing common interests? It might get flooded with bots so convincing as to be indistinguishable from normal users.
So maybe a message like

"Call emergency services?"

"Yes" "No"

Although it removes the context of the watch' reasoning.
None of your questions are related to the point I have made.

> Do you seriously think Phoenix 1.7 is a more productive and better experience for making average websites in 2023 for an average person?

Pointless question without specifying what is an average person and what is an average website. This will lead nowhere than pointless speculation.

If you want to answer it, go partner with user and developer studies firms, apply proper methodologies and correctly evaluate results.

> By the way, isn't your website elixir-lang in Ruby or using a static generator Jekyll for generating the html pages written in Ruby?

elixir-lang uses Jekyll in Ruby. We wrote the landing page for livebook.dev in JavaScript. And my previous (mostly Ruby) company had a blog in WordPress. Phoenix runs on Phoenix and my new company website runs on Phoenix too.

This question also fully misses the point. There is no one claiming Phoenix (or any other technology) is a superior technology across all users and all use cases. This is literally [a straw man argument][0]. And there is no one claiming Phoenix is useful for static generation.

I would be completely happy with using Elixir if we have well-established static side generators. Other than that, the technology for a static side generator hardly matters. What matters are the contents and you will be surprised to find the Elixir website mostly talks about Elixir.

It is clear there is no attempt in engaging in good faith here, so I am bowing out of future conversations.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man
On social media platforms, more sharing means less caring about accuracy
I remember when the first piece of advice I was given was to unsub from the default reddit subs. Prior to that I never quite got it as a site, it seemed like a worse HN to me with less topic overlap with what I found interesting.