skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a non-American, I'm pretty much amazed by the U.S. Country has its own share of problems sure, but it seems like the only place with a lot of ultra-rich people willing to bet their pockets on super-ambitious moonshots...some or even most of them may be silly, but the few that succeed make enormous impact (e.g., SpaceX).

Good luck to Altman, except with that silly thing called Worldcoin.
EA is inherently psychopathic because it seeks to do analysis of morality devoid of emotions.

I'm convinced most EAs are psychopaths.
It would be so much nicer if someone from Google -- we know they are reading this forum could release the archive to Archive.org. Google doesn't do much with it, they removed Advanced Search so... why not?
Wow haven’t seen a c2 link not from me in so long. So much good and interesting thought there.
C is a pretty name for a language. C++ also. But Plankalkühl is awesome.
Sure, but so what? To me that means you don't want to live in some parts of California. So don't.
SumatraPDF is great, only wish it had 2 more things: Dark mode(or 'invert' mode, really) and a working Linux binary (I know about wine, still...).
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I think what we are witnessing is what Marxists call reification - the shifting of the meaning from an abstract to a concrete. That is Google has successfully reified the term relevant such that it is easier for them to control and market around.

Another example of a pretty atrocious case of reification is when facebook reified the word friend to mean people you follow on their platform.
The Straight Dope has threads on their forum (which at some point switched to Discourse) from 1999. So given that you consistently have access to your own data I don't see why a dedicated webmaster couldn't keep a forum active for a significantly longer time than you can trust Google to keep any product alive.

Is it possible to export data from Google Groups? If not then longevity isn't the right question, they will not keep it active forever.
a lot of gmail accounts are used to send spam, so having a gmail account as a source is not an indication of quality, and those need to be filtered just as much.
More women than ever are single in the US, has big implications for the economy
> inferior blacklist

There's nothing inferior about a blacklist. Often, it's way more useful than a whitelist.
Thanks! That's probably a better phrasing.
My social media experience nowadays:

- Twitter post-Musk: most of the interesting people i followed moved to Mastodon and stopped posting interesting content on Twitter. Plus App and Site went slower, same old trolls and Musk now is the center of attentions. No removed, since i go there once in a while to read what the Crypto community has to speculate.

- Facebook: I refuse to use, i have absolute no interest to see content from "friends" in that form. I used FB groups a while ago but the read format was horrible. I only keep the account because its the only way to keep somekind of contact to old co-workers.

- Whatsapp: I do use, for some friends. I like it. I miss general content infomation, therefore i use more Mastodon or Instagram.

- Tiktok: The recommendation engine is brilliant. Its like an addition, but i barely use it due to Privacy reasons. Also i have no interest to post any content on Tiktok.

- Signal: I use to contact my family. Apple Messages as well.

- Reddit: I go to some subreddits to keep me informed about some hobbies, but i take the information and comments with a huge grain of salt. My experience tells me Reddit cannot be used for serious exchange of information.

- Instagram: I use it for some hobbies, I was able to find interesting content but the Experience itself Meta wants to provide to the users is bad. Ads everything, useless suggestions often show and lack of identity. What does Meta want to do with Instagram ? Does it have an identity right now ? Does it want to be Tiktok, the old photos based Instagram, Facebook replacement or what else ? Also i hate the fact its difficult to access external links and the comments system.

- Youtube: its ok, it is what it always is. The amount of Ads its annoying, maybe I need to pay premium at some point in time.

- Linkedin: Its horrible in everyway. I have an account to check some old colleagues.

- Discord: I don't like the concept, its difficult to keep track of information and its too chaotic. I use it to keep up with some friends for Gaming. Its also fun to interact with Bots.

- Pinterest: my wife loves it, but i never found a use for it.

- Mastodon: is the only Social Network i can safely say i have been having a very good experience. The Apps are great, most of the interesting users from Twitter are now on Mastodon, descentralized, Privacy friendly, no Ads, no Algorithm to sell you ads.

Bonus:

- HN: I like it, moderation works great! Lots of interesting content! :)

So yeah, social media in 2023 its not a good experience. It seems everybody wants to exploit something out of their users and fight for their time. In addition they are breaking search engines because the average user posts content on social networks instead of open websites which could be seached from Search Engines.
I'm not sure about connected, but I do like being able to walk the stairs to the apt, being able to open a door to a balcony. Its also less instrusive to the neighborhood than a tower which overlooks everyone.
Bluesky identities are portable by design, so you can modify your identity without moving servers or you can move servers without losing your identity/content/followers.
All Paid Google One Subscribers Now Get VPN Access
I just want an effective boolean search. I don't want it automatically fixing type-os or including synonyms in results. If I remember a specific phrase, or misspelling from some random blog, I want to type that in and find it. Google search has gotten significantly worse since they started trying to be a generalized question/answer tool. Of course it doesn't help that most of the internet is walled off now. I suspect that AI search will be very useful for looking up information, but awful for searching webpages.
https://twitter.com/RL_Stine/status/1632817346803904513
[edit: You edited your comment but it used to say it fails "the test as described" and that the competitions are invalid since they do not follow the rules. I presume you looked up the actual test afterwards and realized how wild your "completely fails" comments were - and did a 360 and rewrote the comment. Keeping my original response below.]

> the test as described

I hope you realize that the original Turing test is where you have a man and a woman trying to convince an interrogator that they are of the opposite sex. The test is to replace one with a machine and see if the interrogator would decide the wrong sex as often as when there's an actual human playing.

So if we're talking about the actual test, as described, the most basic bots have passed it a long time ago. If we're talking about the standard interpretation (convince the interrogator that the bot is human) it's a derived version that has no intrinsic rules and was not described by Turing.
>Who people think we are is who we are because identity is a reflection (similar to colors not existing in reality).

I strongly disagree, and don't think your example supports your conclusions.

Colors are arbitrary and subjective constructs and dont exist in reality. Following your example, identity does not exist. It is not in the reflection either.

The "problem" is that people place more importance on the subjective identity seen by the observer, and less on the equally subjective identity they see them selves.

Just because each are subjective does not mean that they are equally fulfilling, productive, or healthy.

Living a life you find beautiful has objective advantages over living a life someone else thinks is beautiful. Satisfying your arbitrary needs is ultimately more fulfilling than satisfying someone else's arbitrary needs.

It should be no surprise that people who don't live a life they like end up dissatisfied with their life...
There's a third option you omitted: That the first comment was clear, that the second comment clarified, that other commenters have clarified, and you still don't grasp it, so I'm not inclined to keep spoon feeding you this.

For example, you clearly did not read the whole thing, or definitely didn't understood what you read, when your other reply was

> Rubies are the limited currency here. These are handed out according to a timed schedule (slow drip)

> Gold can be farmed. You just need to be decent at playing the game.

When something like 5 slides are spent explaining the coin system, explaining that they are also drip fed by capping how many players can earn per day, that coins can not be unlocked just by playing well: some of the objectives require using specific locked characters.

And looking this up myself to verify it's even worse: There are paid passes that don't remove this limit but only increase it?! So you pay to still be capped on your daily progression??

It almost seems like you're a victim of this type of game and so for you, what the rest of us see as predatory, you see as perfectly normal. You keep saying things like "just for the impatient or unskilled" without understanding how little of this system has to do with being a test of skill, and how much of it has to do with extracting more money from people.
Not just that. An effect of advertising I only understood later in life is that they give the company name recognition among all your peers.

E.g. BMW doesn't create car commercials just to get everyone to think about BMW when buying cars. They make car commercials to make sure everyone knows that BMW is expensive and good, so that driving a BMW is a signal that you're wealthy.

Similarly, Salesforce might want to make it clear that if you go with them, it's a "defensible" choice that you can easily explain to your boss.
It's always been easy to buy weed in Thailand tourist spots. For example, when I was in Ko Phi Phi in 2014, there was a bar called "Stoned Bar" with pre-rolled joints literally on the menu.

The problem was that it was still illegal, so there was a bunch of corruption involved with the police turning a blind eye to certain venues who paid bribes. And as a tourist you never knew if a cop might single you out for a shakedown.

I guess next up would be magic mushrooms, which are equally available at the bars on the beach ("happy smoothie").
> the content is static

Why are you saying this like it's a bad thing? Why would you want dynamic content in a document format?

You can't give someone an epub and tell them to read page 197. You can't look at a webpage and know how it will look when you print it out. You also can't just netcat an ebook to your printer and get useful output.

What alternatives do we really have? PDF is the most widely supported format outside of plain text (arguably more widely supported than text actually, with phones being the major computing device). I haven't seen an ebook format that can correctly and consistently deal with code sections, inline images, quotes, font styling, paging, etc (maybe more a software issue than format problem, but if nobody can make it work right, the format isn't blameless).
This reminds me of a tweet about a guy complaining about Instagram models in bikinis on his feed. Unaware of how recommendation algorithms work... Related image that I love - https://ifunny.co/picture/thank-you-for-ruining-my-life-i-m-...
> Bash is the hardest language to write comparisons in if you're not doing it every day. The syntax is so unlike anything else.

worse than brainfuck? I find that hard to believe...

on a serious note though, I don't agree. the syntax is not that different from the awk -> perl -> ruby heritage. Just a few constraints/conventions due to whitespace significance that other langs don't have.
I can only imagine how hard and time-consuming it was to create draft after draft with this typewriter back in the day.

My intuition is that drafts would be made by hand and the Musicwriter work would be done as transcription in preparation for printing…usually by someone else within an infrastructure of editors, publishers and printers.

Not that I wouldn’t bet some composers had their own Musicwriter, but the Musicwriter hails from the days of secretaries and typing pools.

Today people typeset their compositions because they can. The goalposts have moved in recent decades. For better or worse.
Modularization. With React, you can delegate a component to one team and use it as a web-component.

Actually, why aren’t web-components a thing, that’s another story. But componentization is why React creates clean code.
I think there would absolutely be a market for a CAD program that was made specifically, and only for, hobbyists. Same for CAM.

Right now... almost all CAD programs are designed for professionals, and the hobbyist versions are just cut-down professional CAD programs. The biggest exception I see is SketchUp, which has a very simple and direct way of drawing directly on objects, and it's very easy to pick up, but it has no understanding of solids, parametric measurements, assemblies, or any of that. And so SketchUp is super popular with woodworkers, home remodeling agencies, small businesses, all these people we wouldn't normally think of as "big professional CAD users" even if that means they lose out on some of the improvements that professional CAD packages have (especially because SketchUp really hasn't changed much in over a decade).

A 3D solid parametric modeler with the ease of use of getting started with SketchUp. SketchUp with solids. I can dream.
But the "encryption" need not be cryptographic strength for this, so it might be reversible even without the key. Consider an old cypher with a small key for example.
It's unclear to me that there is any use for the "hammer" of text generation. It adds no new knowledge, and doesn't pretend to. Its transformations of existing knowledge are neither interesting nor attractive. Anything they say, has already been better said elsewhere.

I can imagine uses for generated art, which may at least be aesthetically pleasing. But I can't conceive of any end for computer generated text.
Sigh. No, I didn't.

Saying OpenBSD 'really really really hopes' an attacker doesn't get root is still 100% correct. They are still prioritizing removing bugs ahead of time instead of providing stronger tools to prepare for a scenario where someone does exploit a bug they didn't get to.

> Besides, by that logic, your systems are totally insecure because you're just really really really hoping the attacker doesn't get an unconfined process.

Which is where things like SELinux come in, which is my whole point.....
Love to see the Polymer shoutout - Lit, the web component library produced by the Polymer Project, is still my favorite way to organize web components. Nice and simple, provides just enough tools to be useful but mostly stays out of your way, and mostly sticks close to the metal on native web components.

I’ve always thought React was some sort of mass hysteria as well.
Alexander the Great or Napoleon have been limited in how much damage they can do, because they're human too. They don't live for hundreds of years, they can't copy their brains to new hardware, and they can't modify their own minds to remove that pesky conscience when it slows them down. Perhaps most importantly, Napoleon's happiness, power, and continued survival depends on having a civilization of surviving humans working under his command, whereas that might only temporarily be true for AI.

At best, history serves as a counterexample to the idea that if an AI goes bad the attendants would just unplug it, seeing how often it is that dictators don't get stabbed by their aides as soon as they start causing mass deaths, instead often receiving broad popular support as the world burns.
I can't speak for everyone here, but I would imagine the majority of people creating Flash content back in the day were using some warez version. For me personally, I was a teenager and my parents had no idea what I was doing on the PC. I believe I started with Macromedia Flash 2 or 3. I just wanted to animate something on the screen for the same reason most of us started programming - that feeling of being able to instruct the computer to do something and see it come to life. I used Flash for a while and even got a small job in college creating a new Flash website. Even with all of those memories I have zero interest in Adobe Animate because animating things is not my career and I don't want yet another monthly subscription. I like that Construct Animate has a free plan, although the free tier seems too limited to be useful.
Download Whisper and the models, run it in a Docker container as a server, and it's Open Source.

Honestly, try see it as a favor that it's using OpenAI's endpoint, since some of us won't think it's feasible to have a GPU-loaded server running 24/7 just for some occasional transcriptions.
Layoffs Discussion Board
Middle income countries are also facing demographic busts (although years later compared to rich countries). Competing for highly-skilled human capital, not massive third world immigration is essential, the main reason beaing that advanced economies with generous welfare are most affected by falling birth rates, and migrants to rich countries take as little as a single generation to adopt similar reproductive patterns relative to native populations (i.e. sub-replacement TFR: asian and east-asian to north america are the greatest example of this, but also hispanics and muslims to a lesser extent have collapsing birth rates). Even more dangerous to a stable economy is, that with a generous welfare system an invereted population pyramid will not be enough to sustain it, aging immigrant populations will exacerbate the problem: again, sub-replacement TFR in at most 2 gens. At most it will delay the demographic problem, however I personally think that focus on industrial automation will be more important.

See also my comment from a previous thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34909400
The government goes out of its way to disenfranchise certain demographics.
I hope that one day we are able to move past the false implication that whenever you see a sample whose demographic does not mirror the population at large that it is by default evidence of discrimination or bias.

I'm not at all arguing that bias does not or can not exist in particular areas, but I've tired of reading tons of articles that purport to argue that there is discrimination in some field by just putting up "Group A is only 10% of members of activity X when Group A is 20% of the population at large".
Some of us want to live in a castle. Some of us want to live on the moon!

Have at it, if you can afford the luxury; just don't expect the rest of us to subsidize your lifestyle.
> 1/ What do you people do with their printers?

I mostly use it to print labels for sales from my eBay store.
It's like we're LLMs ourselves... generating different flavors of UIs to interface with chatGPT. That's what I think of when I see the proliferation of chatGPT UIs that hit the front page.

Inevitably, human behavior that's similar to an LLM is ripe for replacement by an LLM due to the abundance of behavioral data.
Oh for sure, it can be somewhat useable for many simple cases. Many people, even most though will need to deviate from the default install. I mean, if someone is running httpd, a database might not be far behind, just for example.
So, it seems a little strange now but when everything was a MS Word Document you had problems with the format. It would look amazing on your machine but if someone else opened it in a version higher or lower than yours or on a different machine things could look really funky and bad.

Thus, PDF was a game changer. Basically, no matter what machine you opened the file on it would look exactly the same. It kinda sucks you can't edit it or have to use special tools to parse it but when it comes to readability across devices it cant be beat.
Found it myself. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35047624
I noticed The Verge love to promote Microsoft related products

https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Atheverge.com+jetbrain...
> The boomer through millennial generations

I'm a millennial, this is the first time I've personally noticed my own generation sharing the blame and it makes me defensive. I suppose it's true enough though.

I do vote on these issues, and I do what little I can for the environment; I don't use pesticides on my 100 square foot farm (more commonly called a "garden"). So long as we're on the topic of blaming entire generations though -- will more than 30% of Gen Z join us in voting any time soon? We could use the votes.
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Consider something like 1/3 of Americans have a criminal history. Maybe 1 of 30 of those are incapable of living in society. Keeping out fugitives makes sense but I totally disagree with keeping out criminals, particularly when in much of the world criminal often just means you did something the government didn't like.
While I agree this is a major component, I think it's an oversimplification. As construction increases in an area construction labor costs increase. Water prices might increase, as more residents draw from a finite supply. More schools, DMVs, grocery stores and strip malls need to built and new construction is more expensive. Liquor licenses might be a static amount and grow more slowly than the population.

I would describe COL increases as local resources and infrastructure being put under more demand and investments into importing resources or building infrastructure is more expensive than using existing infrastructure. Property taxes are a large source of funding for these investments. Dense housing might reduce the additional load on infrastructure but it doesn't remove it.
Society is so weird now. On the very rare occasion I get curious and visit tiktok or instagram and start scrolling it's like these windows moving up my screen and each one has a human face desperately trying to get my attention, and I just scroll past them. That reddit live thing is one of the weirdest. Play that piano motherfucker, play it better than the previous guy, dance while you're doing it and look like a star, keep my attention, oh no, you lost me.
Why is it important and what are factors that impact gut health?
Love this app. Funny enough I found via a Twitter ad, the only Twitter ad that's successfully converted me - https://one-sec.app/
Please don't break the site guidelines like this, regardless of how wrong someone is or you feel they are.

Rather, please make your substantive points thoughtfully and without name-calling or swipes.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Not that I have any deep subject matter knowledge but I agree, it feels like app store McCarthyism
Yeah, this sounds like they are using Nature as an advertising platform to hype up their work.

I didn't realise it was possible to publish a paper with the premise that details required to reproduce it are omitted in some sort of weird guessing game... It makes sense that the allegations focus on analysing data manipulation. Maybe it's real, maybe it's fake, but the extreme scepticism seems deserved if they aren't going to be completely open and have a history of doing the same thing over and over.
Is tcl still mainstream? And what's the dependency install like on a standard system?

I used tcl 15 years ago and it was pretty great, but the SDKs were already getting old and many falling unmaintained. I worried about the future of tcl
Well yeah, kind of. If you consider there are levels of compromise at least.

SELinux and similar frameworks do prevent further compromise.

That's the point.
I'm sorry, but this sounds like a lot of pseudo-intellectual mumbo jumbo... with a lot of condescending undertones.

Instagram is by far the least horrible of social media platforms.

It doesn't drag you into comments wars or allows you to repost things easily.