skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great thread. So many good ideas here.

I used to write on Blogger.com. One time when I was attending a team meeting of a new startup in town, junior devs were asking me that they really enjoyed reading about my college experience which I have posted about on my blog. I never expected this but writing sparingly had made having conversation easier for me few times.

I recently did a consolidation and merged 3 of my different blogs into https://bhupalsapkota.com.np (tech, writings and short poems on my native language). This move was inspired by Seth Godin as he recommends frequently about publishing on your own domain.

My friends at college back in the days (2006) loved my short poems and whenever I had a new post it'd be a topic of the day in uni. Good memories.

I am hoping to write more coz I enjoy writing. But, I struggle with ideas and topics. Any suggestions how do you keep up?
It should do the opposite - find out when you run a program that doesn't support it and very strongly recommend you to use programs that support bracketed paste.

The mac now defaults to zsh which it seems to default to supporting it.
I was told that the cables reduce the potential for stretch over time, and this is important to maintain safety tolerances (“space x cannot exceed size y because otherwise a child can…”)
If url's are enough, we wouldn't need any web pages anymore, very interesting compression technique!
NETworkManager is a powerful tool for managing networks and troubleshooting network problems!

You can connect to and manage remote systems via Remote Desktop, PowerShell, PuTTY, TigerVNC or AWS (Systems Manager) Session Manager.

Furthermore it contains features like a WiFi analyzer, IP scanner, port scanner, ping monitor, traceroute, DNS lookup or a LLDP/CDP capture (and many more) to analyze your network and troubleshoot network problems.

You can save your hosts (or networks) in profiles which can be used in the various features. For additional security, the profile file can be encrypted.
I don't know what to think about this if not Fear-Uncertainty-Doubt
What's wrong with compiling to C? By using C as an intermediate language LLVM can be a backend through Clang, but so can GCC, MSVC, Intel C, etc. It's actually a pretty common choice (see Nim, Chicken Scheme, etc.).
Getting fired from a job is bad and that seems like an unforgiving place to work. But equating it to becoming homeless and calling it fascist seems a bit much? There are other jobs out there.

A similar argument is used by men who blame women for them being single. Getting dumped is no fun, but...
Ongoing discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35221157
He assumed, and rightly so, that the US government was after him. Otherwise he wouldn't have stayed in the embassy past the charges in Sweden getting dropped. It is immaterial if the indictments were known or even already existed.
You never would have had the growth of web hosting. Everything would be self hosted out of home basements, and ISPs would disconnect anybody remotely questionable.
N26 is not publicly listed on a stock exchange, therefor it is hard to get information about it.

Additionally the raking is mainly based on price action since March 1st and the price-to-book ratio.

The balance sheet of the banks that failed so far was not the bottom of the list, I would say it was slightly bellow average.
In fact they even had good ratings by Moody's. What broke their back was their lack of diversification (exposure to crypto and tech startups that massively withdrew in recent time) and the bankrun that ensued.
Tailwind has some nice ideas, but boy oh boy is that ecosystem a mess of tool chaining. The barriers to entry are low (e.g. "just npm install [thing]" then init), but maintaining, updating, and dealing with conflicts between all these tools is an absolute nightmare and getting worse rapidly (and, no, the "Play CDN" version of Tailwinds doesn't mitigate anything because it isn't supported in production).

Bootstrap for all its critics, is just "reference the library, reference your theme, and you're done." You want to upgrade? You can just have individual pages referencing different versions at the same time, without npm reconfiguration.
Bondholders in an otherwise well-capitalised bank being wiped will be interesting. It makes sense. But it also means you should dump bank debt, even if the bank is safe, if they’re vulnerable to idiot Saudis mouthing off.
It worked for Android! https://source.android.com/docs/security/features/selinux
On the contrary, it seems that increase of income inequality is a natural trend.
Then don’t work in the Bay Area or Silicon Valley if you don’t like the culture.

It’s not rocket science. There are 2.7 million developers in the US. Most don’t work on the west coast.

It’s not ”irrelevant” to the discussion. You chose to work in toxic environments. You had agency to choose another type of culture. There are literally millions of developers in the US who made different choices.

I in fact don’t know because I never worked on the west coast and I’ve done okay. I actively ignored software development jobs that would require me to deal with that Bullshit.
Question. If the basic standards are being lowered, wouldn't a more natural headline that conveys the most information (especially true for a click-bait world) be "NYS lowers minimum scores for student proficiency in math, English"?

Am I wrong in thinking that this headline is clearly and obviously written with an agenda to hide the impacts of one or more horrific policies?

EDIT: The URL for this article is https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/new-york-lowers-bar-... indicating that it possibly was initially written in that way and then changed.
His argument was that it might not be completely sentient, but could have some properties of sentience that we should be testing for. I'd say the ability to reason well given a unique irl situation is one of them.

I understand that it's just predicting text and the model is only working when it receives input, but what if someone took the LLM and made some kind of cognitive loop in the background where the same LLM reads information, thinks to itself when you are gone, and stores these things in its chat content then tells you about the cool stuff it read about the next day. It may be just text, but now it's "thinking". At what point should we start to consider it as a creature with rights?
Really depends on how we define "information" right? In a very real sense, everything GPT outputs is simply noise. It only seems like information to pattern-recognizing animals like us. It's meaningless to another computer.

In this sense, also, everything a GPT bot pumps out is generated fiction until human minds validate the veracity of the output.

It HAS NO MEANING until read by a human being.
It's nonsense because a utility like parallel shouldn't require state, let alone state used only to disable a nag message. It's far less annoying to simply patch out the nag.

As others point out, it's further annoying because it doesn't even make any sense to begin with. If it was asking for donations or something I could maybe even get behind it, but the current message is pretentious and useless. It serves no real purpose.
My mate told me there was a scruffy looking dog in the 4:15 that was a sure thing, the bookies had it at 750-1 but still, what would they know right?

I am a bit surprised and a bit unhappy that the 10k I bet on that mutt turned out to be a losing bet. Why didn't someone warn me?
China needs the outside world, too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belt_and_Road_Initiative
Same; I come back to this article every few years, and I’d love to discover other pieces like it.
Maybe what we really need is a logic bomb programmed to wipe out huge swathes of banking data and free us all from this parasitic economy. One so powerful that it makes the end scene of Fight Club look quaint with its silly little physical demolition.
At market rates, it should cost the same as selling the bonds now.

And selling the bonds now would put them in the red.

So either they have been given better-than-market rates, or they're pulling some other accounting trick to make it look like there is more of value here than there really is...
I do not speak to fraudster or fantasists. Paraphrasing you earlier.

Your responses to me in other threads were fucking rude and as a result I now literally hate you. So why bother, just leave and save everyone the trouble.

Nobody cares for your opinion if you're going to continuously insult everyone you fucking talk to.
The assumption in your post is that the ‘bullshitting’ won’t/can’t be solved within a few iterations.

Given the decrease of this already in GPT 4, it’s entirely possible that this will be solved soon.

We are still right at the birth of this technology - assuming this technology takes 30 years to fully mature it’s like we are in 1978 trying to predict the iPhone.
Why not? I feel like sentience requires the ability to reason.
I first learned of PLATO thru the writing of the CRPG Addict: http://crpgaddict.blogspot.com/2013/10/game-12-oubliette-197...
Interesting tool!
I am curious about this feature: https://github.com/scottpersinger/pgwarehouse#last-modified in Clickhouse. Have you tested it on big tables and how well does it perform?
> China's Belt and Road Initiative suggests that they view the under-developed Middle East and African nations to be the next in line, the same as the US viewed China as a

I think it’s more “want” than “see.” They might see Vietnam as next in line but outsourcing to ME and Africa suit their interests better.
Kinda naive table. Credit Suisse sort of collapsed today and it was barely 9th here. Also no mention of CDS levels which are directly the thing you should be looking at.
Create is a somewhat loaded term because no one person creates things of this scale. A better way of looking at it might be:

The Apple II would likely not have been successful without both Wozniak and Jobs.

Would the iPhone have come to fruition without Job's leadership, vision, and design + negotiation skills?
Thank god is not TikTok. /s

It does not matter how much raped you are as long as you are raped by the good guys.
It wasn't a failure of understanding. It was a deliberately low-level architecture that could be mapped extremely close to the underlying Win32 API for minimal overhead, and give the developer full control over what happens when, while providing some convenience layer especially to deal with common / recommended patterns at the time (document-centric UI, drag and drop, OLE etc).

I agree that this particular combination of features was not as useful in practice as the higher-level and more free-form approach offered by e.g. Delphi. But that's a different story.
[https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/866/838/cdc... I format this right?)
Well, I think Diego’s point was that he knew how to create and utilise a powerful “reality distortion field” such that, without claiming direct creation over any of the vast classics that Apple created, he gained the status and fame of someone who seemed to have done so.
MPAs can do the same trick. Use JavaScript to add a <link rel=prefetch> element to prefetch a URL. Or just serve your server-side rendered page with this element included to prefetch the next page. When the user navigates to the next page, it’s instantly shown.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Attributes...
btw, in "The Big Bucks" I have a (fictional) grad student Matt Feingold at U Minn. I've never even been to Minneapolis, but I did at least verify that there was married student housing, and they were not in the initial group for CSNet.

Matt sneak-installs ARCNet at the university, which I'm pretty sure never happened. There's also a fictional French professor "Dr. Caron" who talks about the (real) Minitel.

The Minitel actually was pretty decent, and they had a revenue model vastly different from what we've ended up with (the cost just ends up on your phone bill, and the service providers pay the phone company). I'm not saying this would be better, but at least no ads!
The Valley of Genius is another great book and doesn't hide much about Steve Jobs and his opportunism. That said, he sure knew how to raise money, build a team, and get attention.
The first, really? What about what happened to accountants when spreadsheets and personal computers came along? Or bank tellers when ATMs started popping up? Or even the monks who copied books when the printing press was invented?

There will always be jobs because humans will always have problems we are willing to throw money at to make go away.
We don’t need an international accord, we need the top 10 countries to stop pillaging the international waters for their consumption. The top 10, mostly Asian countries consume more seafood than the next 50. And these countries are also the ones that are most likely to fish in the most damaging way possible with no sustainability in mind.
I second Software Unscripted.

Richard is a unique host who isn’t afraid to bring on guests with differing views and dive into the weeds
1) The real world is not a simple economic model. The wage rate is roughly equivalent to the rate it costs to replace an employee, not their marginal value. If your argument was true, company profits would tend toward zero as wages rise.

2) I specifically did not say GPT-4. If you think v4 is the peak of what will be possible when looking at how far we have come in just 2 years then I don't know what to tell you. Also, a product manager is not a business analyst.
Currently working on the new API.
This changes the maths on the pricing of a lot of the bank bonds - CS had $17bn worth ... and a market cap of only 10bn a few months ago.

https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/credit-suisse-write...
Generative language models have existed for decades and there is no need to change the law surrounding their output based on an arbitrary “creativeness” threshold.
Musk isn't relevant for anything related to environment, and things get solved from small scale, like a sand heap
anywhere you type text -- right now, while I'm typing this, or in a browser address bar, command line, anywhere the keyboard is functional and doing something with text

You have to use Control with it, of course. F by itself is... F.

if you swap caps lock with Control as most developers do, then it's a nice, simple, ergonomic addition.
This seems like largely a ranking of what banks the market is currently pricing in for failure (via share price and P/B). Still interesting, but maybe not really based on the banks fundamentals, just 'market wisdom'
I am ignorant with regards to banking and finance, so forgive me if this is a silly question, but is there any reason that mutual societies (e.g. UK building societies or US credit unions) do not seem to be included in the list? I am aware of course that the column "Price change since March 1st" would make no sense for these institutions, and maybe the other columns would also be irrelevant (as I say, I am an ignorant).

Still, if the source data includes these institutions and it makes sense to add them, I would be very interested in seeing how for instance Britain's Nationwide or Spain's Caja Rural compare with publicly traded banks in this ranking of numbers that to be honest I don't really understand well enough to evaluate them.
That’s more because the entire industry was a giant pump and dump. And to be fair we have yet to see ChatGPT produce a real good scam.
If you’re going to make that distinction, shouldn’t you also cite quotations where Jobs makes the claim to specifically be the inventor? It seems the charge in this thread depends on blurring that boundary such that marketing on behalf of the company on stage and in interviews is equated with claims of being an inventor.
Did a quick Google search and found this:

> The treaty does not regulate fishing on the high seas, which is managed by other international organizations.

This treaty seems to more about plastic and climate.
And if there is not, we either have global poverty or a tremendous amount of force applied to the distribution of wealth.
230 protects you if you run a service people post information to. I'm not so sure if it protects you when you run a service that scrapes others. Ive never quite thought Google search results had the protection they claimed they do, unless people submitted their website for evaluation.
I’m still not following here.

If somebody were to post their personal experience with chlamydia would you reply with be “It’s a hot take to not mention the very serious problem that chlamydia poses to koala bears. When I read about something happening somewhere, I assume that that means it isn’t happening elsewhere.”
> but I find myself longing to move to a country with dense cities, affordable housing in the city center, great public infrastructure and a modicum of agreement among the citizens and China fits the bill pretty great for me. I understand that it might come at the cost of some personal freedom but I'm willing to pay that price for a great society in return.

Hope you are white. If so, I'm certain you'll have a great experience. You'll be shown the modernity and good side of living under the regime, and probably made to believe they are the rightful holders of the "Mandate of Heaven". Make sure to stay in Han dominated areas, and don't document of film anything that could make the regime lose face.

> Note: I'm not Chinese.

Why are you explicitly spelling it out? So we don't immediately assume this is propaganda?

Don't worry. If they like you enough, you'll even get paid for comments like these!
> Actually saying you work on “changing the world” in an internal email seems very problematic? Is it just me?

Yes it’s problematic.

No, it was the usual thing to say back in 2010, it was normal.

My unicorn adopted the value “We advance humanity, through the power of software” in 2013 and that triggered me quitting and relinquishing half my stock options. I was a problematic employee so it was a winwin for them, but nonetheless it was a fucking gross thing to say, especially with the videoclip of a girl limping in Africa, for which we made the software that helped the developer that helped the doctor that helped the little girl getting stilts. We don’t advance humanity, we get overpaid from large corporation margins for outputting good software, with a sidenote of donating 1% for the greater good. It’s not even open-source.

That’s fucking extremely gross and inappropriate to say that’s advancing humanity. It lacks humility.

To their credit, they didn’t prolong the campaign and I’ve never heard them say it ever since 2013. I still have this ad in my new startup. In the toilet. To remind people to take care of their family before the corporation. Social fabric is what ties humans together, not our software.
and i mentioned

> invasion of Ukraine.

exactly ... where?
What is a Dach town?
Surprised to see no mention of the book Greening the Desert by Rakesh Hooja, given they appropriated the title for this article.

The book is a deep look into a successful permaculture endeavor in India. It talks about all the hard parts related to permaculture. That is, not the planting, not the irrigating, not the carefully lunar-timed execution of the pagan cow-horn-manure fertility ritual, but the social and political factors involved in getting a lot of different people on board with a long-term, large-scale, and risky agricultural project.

A dry, kind of boring read, but useful.
I don’t get why police feel the need to order a wife a sons (I didn’t use kids because they were adults) out of bed a gunpoint.

If you have the person you have a warrant for, why are you threatening other uninvolved people?
Rural farm land and dense urban cities are equally important. We're all fundamentally interconnected.
It's mainly the stealth pushing of eugenics.
> I think you could make an argument that ChatGPT is essentially a really powerful compression tool, and that its just reposting material that third parties uploaded.

The training data sets are actively selected by OpenAI, they aren’t a result of third-parties submitting data to them. In some cases, the material was supplied to some other online services in way which would enable that provider to be protected by Section 230, but that doesn’t help OpenAI.

> You would try to argue to the judge that you are presenting the user with a compressed form of the training data, and that the training data is all third party.

The key part of Section 230 isn’t that information is third-party in origin, but that it is provided to the service in question at the initiative of some other content provider.
What artificial manipulation?
Sure, though unfortunately it's increasingly hard to get paid (or paid much...) to drive a car. I do think it's striking that AI looks well-suited for lots of desk jobs, but has a ways to go to tackle unskilled / semi-skilled labor.
You could have provided a link to an explanation to what the Texas ratio is [0], or simply explained that:

The Texas ratio takes the amount of a bank's non-performing assets and divides this number by the sum of the bank's tangible common equity and its loan loss reserves. A ratio of more than 100 (or 1:1) indicates that non-performing assets are greater than the resources the bank may need to cover potential losses on those assets.

I agree the website looks very naive, but not necessarily naive on purpose.

[0]: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/t/texas-ratio.asp
Raise kids, love
I think it's quite a stretch to say that it's "thinking" -- as far as I'm aware it only reacts when prompted and it follows prompts to the best of its ability.
> safe-paste

I wonder how safe it actually is. Is it possible to escape from the brackets if the clipboard itself contains terminal control characters?
Ask HN: OpenAI and Profitability?
- Do you think they’re making a profit with their APIs?

- If so, possible to estimate profit per token?
It's not all that questionable. How many banks have failed out of the total number of banks?
HN doesn't support markdown for links, sorry.
Ask HN: Semantic” CSS Framework?
When I make applications on my own account that are server-side rendered I frequently use CSS to style things in a way similar to what I think CSS was intended for initially, that is, I apply styles to meaningful parts of the document (e.g. "div.statusbar", "table.postlisting th".)

Frequently I work on these things on and off for months or years and eventually they become a hot mess.

I'm looking for something that will help me have some discipline. I do not like BEM, Tailwind CSS, Bootstrap, and other frameworks that want to impose alien structures on CSS. I like the intention of SASS/SCSS but don't like the idea of complicating my build system. (I like the idea of CSS Nesting as it works in Chrome but Firefox doesn't have it yet unfortunately. I want to use the latest features but I need support for Firefox and Mobile Safari with Chrome as a distant third.) I would consider using a JS polyfill and I am using jinja2 template so anything I can bake into my python back end (maybe compile & cache compiled CSS) would be possible.

Any advice for frameworks or other organizing principles?
In Switzerland, perhaps more than any other place, it truly is the people who are in charge:

- There is no "he". Switzerland has no single person in a position of power above all others. Even the "head" of government is a council of 7 from a variety of political parties.

- Any alterations to the law can be (and are) challenged by referendum.

- Changes to the constitution can be (and are) put forward by the people and voted on by the people.

The people have a say on everything from whether cows should keep their horns [0] to whether the country should spend several billion buying new fighter jets [1].

[0]: https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/politics/november-25-vote_are-c...

[1]: https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/fighter-jet-challenge-called-of...