skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They weren't doing nothing. They admit they were thinking about random shit, like work, or making a list of things to do.

If you want to clear your mind of thoughts and any action, go camping in freezing weather and relish in the fact that you are literally too cold to think about anything but sitting in your tent trying to stay warm by shivering and not being able to think about anything but the moment to moment seconds of living, where every single moment of existence is nothing but digging into a little hole in yourself and staying warm there.

I assure you, no words games, no boredom, no trying to recite the presidents in order, nothing. Just pure ID.

Or get depression and sleep for 2 weeks straight.
Who remember Medveded's predictions for 2023?

https://twitter.com/MedvedevRussiaE/status/16074873512190033...

> 8. Civil war will break out in the US, California. and Texas becoming independent states as a result. Texas and Mexico will form an allied state. Elon Musk’ll win the presidential election in a number of states which, after the new Civil War’s end, will have been given to the GOP

About Mexico, the president rejected Tesla's plan to build in his country but few days later gave his approval

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/tesla-...

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-64803467

Bribes? Intimidations? Something else?
Show HN: Bookmarklet to copy as JSON ChatGPT chat playground messages
Bookmarklet to copy to clipboard as JSON the messages and parameters from OpenAI ChatGPT chat playground.

(mostly written by ChatGPT)
I’m not trying to convince you or anyone, nor do I have any reason to.

I’m just talking about reality - where Western governments, companies, and manufacturers decided that profit trumps employment. At the same time, without cheaper goods, given wage stagnation, consumers couldn’t have afforded local goods anyways.

It’s quite complicated really, and I don’t see a solution in capitalism.
Nice tangent. How’s this related to the fact agencies need warrants to pull data from other, unrelated, agencies?
Unless you're on the verge of dying, with no one you know around you, don't you at least check your phone once or fall "asleep" with the TV on while sick? Or have some other person who checks in on you in one way or another?
Appreciate your input and outwardly not stomping on my experience. For what it's worth, the last paragraph of what I wrote agrees with you, not all experiences will be like mine and I've learned that as I've gotten older. I'm glad your experience was good, mine wasn't all bad, but I've had a lot of unpacking to do as an adult.
Thank you for paving the way for user privacy in the search arena. The ability to generate tons of content with LLMs is going to be overwhelming by the summer. The worry that I have regarding future search is that we need a way to defend against SEO generated by these LLMs and non-useful LLM outputs in general. Is there a way that LLMs can be used to help in this effort? I feel like we are going to have to go back to altavista style directory results to defend against LLM generated content. Any plans in this area?
I wish that I could argue that his utterly depressing view of where the industry is going was incorrect.
> focus more on improving the terrible JS web API

That's W3C’s job, not ECMA’s.

> Where are all the containers?

?

> Sorted sets/maps?

Sets and Maps are sorted (by insertion order)

> Why can't I even map an iterator?

It's coming, but someone will likely be exhausted by that addition. https://github.com/tc39/proposal-iterator-helpers
I haven’t done 24 hours with intention but only accident. But I do believe the brain’s neuroplasticity can show you different sides to yourself if you consciously tried these experiments more gradually.

We have both a fast and slow thinking mode based on the challenges, experiences, and changes in our daily environment. It’s not until we actually experience the slow thinking side that we believe it could work for us as we’re too used to the fast one.
> one can always claim the {entity} is just emulating understanding.

I've yet to see a convincing argument that humans are any different. They're sometimes better at pretending to understand things, but at the end of the day both humans and ChatGPT have a small handful of things which they functionally understand[0] and a larger body of knowledge which is only partially integrated.

Chomsky has disappeared up his own intestinal tract on this one. One can quibble about intelligence until the end of time, but the real question is that of utility -- which they certainly do have, in ever-increasing scope and measure.

[0]: i.e. have synthesized the object and can properly explain and apply it in other contexts
I hope Apple's ARM chips (M1, M2, etc.) get supported by XLA.
If it's any consolation, the guy from nomadlist is building AI businesses with jQuery and PHP: https://twitter.com/levelsio/status/1633422349012992007
I'd fully support a ban on child marriages, but I'm not able to find anything indicating same-sex child marriages are unusually prevalent. Where in the study are you seeing they ruled out underage marriages from the cohort?
Unless they edited their comment, it reads "many gay priests" (not "most") which is vague and can mean any number, small or large. Though a source would be helpful still.
Show HN: ChatGPT-i18n – Translate websites' locale json files with AI assistance
I build this app because I was tired of using Google Translate to translate my locale files (i18n). I wanted to use a more efficient and accurate translation tool. ChatGPT, however, always break my json and cannot translate large contents. So I build this app to solve these problems. Hope it can save your time.

github: https://github.com/ObservedObserver/chatgpt-i18n

online app: https://chatgpt-i18n.vercel.app/
Recently switched from Namecheap to Cloudflare. Cloudflare was significantly cheaper for my sole .io domain.
> automated assessment tests, I was consistently placed in the "best" decile

Of course you were. I'd expect that for a large fraction of gainfully employed devs.

People who can't code their way out of a paper bag are way over-represented in tech screens. Because a highly competent dev will apply at 3 companies they choose and get a job. A terrible dev will do 100 applications and see what sticks.

We opened a ML intern position recently and got over 200 applications and 95% of them were terrible. Should I conclude most ML grads are incompetent? I don't think so... probably 190 of them are the bottom 5% of the local market, and these same 190 CVs are on the desk - well, in the rubbish bin - of everyone with an open position right now.
> But, it wasn't what the author was aiming for.

I argue that the author was aiming for the wrong thing to solve or overcome the problem they describe in their introductory paragraph.
Death due to starvation occured in North America prior to Columbus. If that isn't a symptom of poverty I don't know what is.
I took off 6 weeks between jobs recently. It was my first time switching jobs after 13 years with one employer, and the longest time I've spent not working or in school in my life. My goal was to get bored: do everything I could and then run out of things to do. I failed! I had so much more I wanted to do before my 6 weeks were up.
Usenet/NNTP is the way... Although most text/discussion groups are long dead, I think it's still a good idea in general. The move away from this towards email lists and Google Groups in the first place is/was IMO problematic. Much like moves away from IRC.
Everything is relative.

> There is nothing cheap about iPads, especially the models that have the same M1 processors and similar pricepoints as a MacBook. It's laughable they don't have multiple user support today, and is solely to protect sales of the devices.

Compared to the days when people had 1 machine (e.g, mainframes) and connected to it with comparatively dumb terminal devices, yes, hardware is cheap.

For a more recent example, I'll point out that the first computer I was reasonably involved with getting into our house was a Dell 4100 in the late 90's. At the time, it cost ~$1400, a not insignificant portion of that price attributable to a CD-RW.

In short, you probably couldn't really get anything below $1000 - given that baseline, I don't know how you could say things aren't cheap when we now have Chromebooks in Edu/Business which are at best $250-300.

At least publicly, Apple doesn't break out P&L for each product/division, although they do give sales numbers, so it's difficult to say if missing features which let them hit a price point have an impact.

> I'm genuinely surprised someone would defend this behaviour. Imagine you bought any other computer for north of 1000 dollars and you could only log one person in at a time - its unheard of, and was solved decades ago.

iOS/iPadOS still has UNIX underneath, so multiuser is definitely possible, even if it's not exposed in the GUI in all situations. Give it time.

> This is just being silly - people log families and many users into drives far smaller than this all the time.

My point about the size of home directories is colored by my own experience - for example, I don't use streaming music services and am a bit of a video hoarder - ask people with kids how big their photo libraries are and I think you'll be surprised how much the average person is carrying around with them.
Show HN: ChatGPT for Student Courses
We built a tool that lets students upload their slides, get explanations, make automatic flashcards, and design exam style questions.
I'm more annoyed that the direction of change is mostly converging. Maybe that's a good thing, but it seems every language needs to add every popular feature of other languages until it's possible to code any language as any other language except in incompatible syntax.

In the case of TypeScript, we have the base JavaScript, template literals, and the type system all playing this game in the same file. Three systems trying to out feature each other. Tagged template literals, template literal types, etc.
Just goes to show that the DRM is just security through obscurity.
Yes, only for domain registration. AWS handles DNS.
If “plagiarism and apathy and obviation” are a feature, not a bug, then …
Amazon is an aggregator or e-commerce that harmonizes the buyer experience across all manufacturers on its platform, and allows buyers to build a shopping cart of disparate items from many vendors, all with more of less the same terms and conditions. This article describes how OEMs are doing indeed going online, but doing so in quite the opposite approach, by each building their unique ecommerce distribution and shopping experiences.

Aside from my qualms with the article title, the content itself is anecdata at best.

I do think people are increasingly going to buy cars online, much like appliances and other large purchases they'll trade off physical inspection of the vehicle against viewing review videos and getting feedback from social networks, but because there's a whole segment of the population (gear-heads) that enjoys the shopping experience I think dealerships can still thrive, they may just need a much smaller footprint and staff that can entertain the car enthusiast clientele.
Can you _actually_ borrow against completely illiquid, pre-IPO asset?
> 1. Some 2014 model S were retrofitted and subject to the recent recall.

No, they weren't. That generation of cars can get a HW3 upgrade[1], but that's only offered to cars that purchased FSD. No FSD was installed on a 2014 vehicle, ergo no 2014 S's have HW3. Is it possible someone got an aftermarket part installed? Sure. Is it likely? Be real. It is correct for a journalist (or you) to say that this car was subject to the FSD recall? Absolutely not.

> 2. Musk as recently as 2021 was bragging that “autopilot” specifically (not FSD) reduces crash rates by a “factor of 10” [...] This is completely 100% untrue

They literally release a safety report with data to back that kind of thing up (honestly not sure which Musk statement you're talking about, you didn't cite, but the numbers are indeed in the order of magnitude range). Yelling about it in an HN comment from a 1-comment green account doesn't make it "100% untrue".

[1] Edit: post-some-research, even that's not necessarily true. Apparently early S's lacked the camera mounting points and can't be upgraded for mechanical reasons. Exactly where the cutover happened isn't clear.
Where does the inherent randomness come from?
The cool thing about The Thing is that it's not really an energy harvesting device, and has no active components. It is a purely passive modulator of a signal being transferred over the air!
What needs to be proven is the claim that the stars _do_ influence anything, not the default position that they don't.
By bundling S and G together with E, we've doomed E. It's almost like that's what the oil companies wanted.

Even if you agree with some/all of the "ESG" goals though, it almost doesn't matter, because when you look at the ETFs that've been marked with that word, you see they're full of Exxon and Philip Morris like all the others -- just with a larger fee on top, for all the suckers.
Glad I'm not the only one that remembers this cameo, it was there way longer than it should have been IIRC.
I'm pretty sure there's a ton of variation in the Catholic school experience. Certainly, a few are regarded as among the best schools in the US, while many others struggle to even match the local public schools, as far as educational quality. I know of at least one school that's diocese-affiliated but only loosely so, basically for marketing reasons, and does juuuuust enough to tick the boxes for that—they definitely don't do that kind of hard-sell Catholic indoctrination—and I doubt they're unique.
Epic will now let developers self-publish to the Epic Games Store
Not quite saltwater, but close.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mineral_lick

There are man made salt licks on safaris so tourists have a greater chance to see a predator, and possibly even a hunt since the prey is gathered there.
A good one? Extremely hard. Pretty sure 90% of and SSD firmware is just secret sauce magic to deal with the mess and noise the physical world creates when you try to cram so much entropy into such a tiny physical space.
Note that there's an error on the default export:

- export default foo = 'foo';
+ export default 'foo';
This is 100% accurate. Classical music is just different from other music in too many ways to make them work well in the same UI. I have yet to see a UI that does it well, so I'm looking forward to seeing Apple's stab at it.

Generally you can't go wrong with Deutsche Grammophon, or Hyperion, or even Telarc, but there sure are some stinkers out there, labels just trying to have a large catalog of any quality. And sometimes even a popular recording just doesn't work for me as well as a lesser-known recording, because personal taste can be strange.
The big hurdle is a lot of new jargon that sounds more complicated than what it's doing.
Wasting time doing nothing is not necessarily a bad idea; one can often waste more time doing _something_.
Agreed. My main complaint is that some of these changes don’t filter down fast enough for my liking, because I’ve bumped into the issues they fix, often enough.

That, and for various reasons, it’s easy to use "import" everywhere in browser-side code, but painful to use "import" in Node. That’s a major selling point for ESBuild in my mind—I can avoid dealing with Node as much.
If you received stripe shares today how would you sell then tomorrow?

Essentially the company is going to intermediate that sale by selling shares to external investors and buying shares from you.
I think what's really interesting is that the thought of spending 24hrs doing 'nothing' is so repulsive. Do you have an idea of why that is?

Although, I would say it is impossible to really 'do nothing'. OP basically spent 24hrs letting his mind wander, which is something.
Sigh; again with the name-calling ad hominem attacks from an anonymous account.

Reminds me of this : https://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/05/17/remain-silent/
Spotify-tui is the only one that implements connect functionality, and even then it doesn't have the extended auto-mixes that spotify plays when you're playlist ends.

I'm glad there are options for alternative native clients, but none of them are anywhere near feature parity with the official client
Precisely. Everyone is telling you that camping wouldn't be in the rules of the challenge, but the point is that the challenge seemed like an odd solution to the problem.

Obviously a person can just choose to challenge themselves with 24 hours of no stimulation, that's fine as a weird, maybe interesting experiment, and I'm glad the author wrote about it. It's just that the author seem to have a different reason in mind when he created the challenge.

It's a little bit like the commonly-referenced XY problem in programming. Someone thinks that they really need to do Y in order to solve X, without having stepped back and confirm that Y really is necessary to solving x.

Three days after the challenge, how is the author going up be different? Most likely they're never going to do that again. But a week-long "experiment" with getting outdoors more often might have turned into lasting change.
The more disappointing part for me is that they didn’t keep the promise of grandfathering plans. I’ve lost confidence in them and will most likely cancel my subscription. Luckily search is mostly fungible.
> This should be alarming to anyone with a stake in content "protection". Look how many hoops I had to jump through just to legally watch Netflix as a paying customer!

This tells me I should just stay on macOS or Windows rather than go on a Safari hunt for getting Netflix working on a ARM Linux machine.
How are they, if you're literally prevented from exchanging them to legal tender?

It's like taxing lottery tickets on potential win prize.
It’s really hard to tell anything about what’s going on here - the article is too busy telling you to get outraged, and it’s talking about legislation that apparently hasn’t even been proposed yet. It does quote one speaker as saying “if they’re going to mess with money that belongs to Texas retirees and undermine the very Texas economy, we’re gonna teach them some manners” which gives some indication of why Texas might have the right to interfere with the choice of investment and might care to interfere. But even then, once you null out the outrage, there’s so little here to go on.
Node.js multithreading with worker threads: pros and cons
The Child Tax Credit of 2021 has been massively successful. That's probably why there's massive pressure to let it expire.
>If you want to eliminate fossil fuel use, and aren't just posturing for political convenience, stopping production makes a lot more sense than stopping emissions at point-of-use.

Talk about posturing. This is the least effective way to reduce carbon emissions, because it simply won't be done without sufficient replacement energy generation and transmission in place, as well as alternatives for spot-use of hydrocarbons like automotive, heating, etc.

If you want to get nothing done, propose solutions that make nobody happy. If you want to get something done propose solutions that can work.
> Also, spending years as priest and then giving it up sounds harsh, they probably have no marketable skills.

I've known quite a few priests. Most are intelligent and well educated. Its pretty common for them to do a lot of work that probably would translate to secular roles. For example, there's a lot of overlap in managing a parish or diocese and managing a business or division of a corporation.
Show HN: ChatHub: All-in-one chatbot client
Yeah I had to dig around in the Internet Archive to figure out when this was written: https://web.archive.org/web/20110527123842/https://norvig.co...
I think discussing this sort of thing one needs to be clear on the definition, so it's not splitting hairs. But with your definition, doesn't it devolve into a philosophical matter of whether it's even possible anyway? Could you ever know you were doing nothing, for as soon as you pondered it you wouldn't be?
Sure, but there's zero indication it involves "black supremacists" as you alleged at the start of the thread.
I am a daily meditator and I recently tried to just disconnect for 1 hour per day, 24 hours would be torture for me. Like with most addictions I think it is better to taper off slowly than going cold turkey and then right back to where you left off.

You see this with new years resolutions where people go balls to the wall with something and then just end up where they started because you can't just put years of mind-conditioning down overnight. It's better to make incremental small changes.
Exactly. And restrictions on supply will force people to use fossil fuels more efficiently, whereas just increasing efficiency might actually make people use more fossil fuels - the Jevons paradox.

I would suggest the slogan 'Leave it in the ground!'
DNSimple is excellent. I don't recommend using Route53, while their GUI and features are good they charge per DNS query. I had someone trying exploit that and ended up with a 100x higher bill than normal in one month. It is impossible to do anything about it except purchase AWS Shield Advanced which costs $3000 per month.
9 years of developing an open-source database: the design docs
I tried Chomsky's counterfactual apple questions with Chat GPT. It was able to infer counterfactuals about apples or any sort of physical object, both forwards and backwards in time. So I assume Chomsky has not spent much time with ChatGPT or he would know that it was capable of making physical inferences and counterfactual inferences like that. Not perfectly (it did make a few mistakes) but fairly reliably.

That ChatGPT regularly "makes stuff up" and that there is no difference between the truth or falsehood of any statement also seems to be false. I asked ChatGPT to act as a "[Lie Detector]" and to rate the truth or falsehood of a variety of statements asked. I asked about 40 questions ranging from physical situations (heavy objects floating away into air) temporal questions (time travel, etc.) and logical questions - and it very accurately could determine if each of these statements was "true" or "false" given physical or logical rules. Again not perfect but very accurate (38 out of 40 correct).

With attention - ChatGPT is very obviously operating at a level above the simple probabilistic prediction. It clearly seems that it has some notion as to the meaning of what is being said and is making inferences based on that meaning. That those inferences were trained probabilistically is certainly true, but that it was trained on the average human's understanding of those physical or temporal or other constraints also seems to be true and to also be fairly accurate.
I wouldn't murder them. I wouldn't report them to the police

So what _would_ you do? Shoot them in the leg? Beat them with a baseball bat? Punch them in the face? Shove them around a bit? Shout at them and then go home and fantasize about shooting them?
Minitel was not in my country :-/
Are there any reputable registrars with APIs with Terraform providers, outside of Gandi and AWS?

Just not sure I can give that up!
No no. I know what you mean but it is the opposite of the exercise. It is a high stim environment. I've experienced that pure mind blankness (in the same circumstances - freezing cold) and I get it but it's not this.

Amusingly there was a time when I did nothing but sit at home and brood and it was when life sucked and I was depressed (in the colloquial sense). The thing was that it wasn't peaceful. It was just misery folding in on itself.

But I've also had the other kind of solitude and isolation and I like it. So I get what he's going for.
So a team of divers who work construction was recruited and provided with a large amount of explosives to carry this out. And then they all managed to keep quiet. Yes, that sounds way more plausible than Seymour Hersh’s explanation.