skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Normal people don’t care about the laptop story. They don’t care if he goes to prison or not. It’s not relevant to almost anyone.

Then Joe candidly spoke about his fucked up son — everyone cares about that. Eventually we all know or knew someone that can’t seem to get it together, often someone we love. I doubt US presidents are capable of love, that was probably as close as we’ll get. Meanwhile, anyone talking about the story after that starts to look like a monster.

Charge the guy, don’t charge him, who cares? I’m sure if there are solid charges a US Attorney will prosecute. There are 94 of them and Biden has only nominated 70, plenty left over from last admin to pursue it if they want (plus the 2 years they’ve had since the election).

Normal people don’t care, they are busy trying to survive and a brand new marker would run out of ink before you could draw a line from “president’s quiet failson” back to their life.
A software project's design doc is like an architectural mock-up: sometimes useful, but not necessary and certainly not part of the construction process.

Programmers write the blueprint. The construction is handled by the computer (compiler, linker, tests).
Thank goodness. I FAR prefer tactile instruments.
MM-React: Multimodal Reasoning and Action with ChatGPT
This is incredible. They've connected several foundation models to achieve something greater than the sum of its parts.
>steady you're heading away from a recession

Not quite, but there is certainly only 3 scenarios, just as shown by a graph. It can go up (growth), it can go down (recession), or it can be flat (stagnation).
If this were an in-person rap battle, I don't think there'd be room for a second round. Bard flubbed the initial round so bad and GPT-4 roasted them so thoroughly that there would be no recovering.
"('member Rational Rose?)"

I see some of the people involved in that are heavily dunking on GPTs.

While they have a valid point not to get carried away and ascribe capabilities that aren't really there, it seems to me GPTs have perhaps already, in a few months, had more positive impact on code and coding than those methodologies and tools have, ever.
What else is it good for?

If I ask it to write code, it results in the same error by using features that don't exist.
It’s entirely possible to do both.
I'm upgrading a relatively ancient Minecraft mod right now, and there's been 5 versions of Minecraft with tons of API changes and refactorings since it was written. There are no StackOverflows, no migration guides, no documentation, no Quoras. Or rather, I should say finding relevant content is basically impossible in the sea of noise generated by people trying to get help diagnosing their Minecraft server crashes. It is so insanely difficult to find useful information on these API transformations.

ChatGPT gives me a useful answer for my questions about these API changes every time in seconds. It is only right about 80% of the time, and I'm upgrading to 1.19 which is after the knowledge cut off, but it is insanely helpful.
My Mazda CX-5 has buttons for A/C control but I'm still annoyed because my '99 Civic had knobs which are infinitely better. One for temp, one for fan. That's all I need. Don't want no stinking buttons for fan intensity in a row of 100 other buttons.
Buildings are typically cookie cutter designs that aren’t too different. The ones that are have all the same problems - you have to adjust the design on the fly (see Burj Kalifa).

Additionally, when your in the middle of creating your building, the owner doesn’t come in and say “actually, I want this apartment complex to also have a suite of luxury condors on every odd floor”.

It’s a fantasy to think that more planning would make software development cheaper or more on time. We tried that. That’s waterfall. And it failed miserably because software supports business needs which change on a quarterly or yearly basis. Not to mention that we need to update our software to take advantage of newer systems or security vulnerabilities. That building you’re putting has a fixed purpose that’s going to remain largely unchanged for 50 to 100 years or so, there’s generally nothing new to learn in terms of techniques and problems (unless your pushing things like with Burj in which case they did have to make on the fly adjustments and delay), and doesn’t have to deal with the challenges of the virtual space that software plays in.

So sure. If you’re a contractor building the same kind of website over and over again, I’m sure you can give a very accurate estimate of how long a given piece of work can take. If you’re trying to build a more scalable system or something totally new that hasn’t been done before, then there’s no plans to follow and you have to iterate until you figure out solutions to all the problems you encounter.
>> It is exhausting. I get bombarded daily by a deluge of hustle culture paraphernalia. Start a side hustle. Monetize your hobbies. FIRE by 30 (I'm too late for that). Build the next big thing. Optimize your life. 10x your productivity.

You realize none of this is "real" right? I mean, a 31-year-old retired guy has got nothing better to do than send you spam? And if he's asking for money, then (surprise!) he's not retired. Almost all of these emails are self-evident - ask yourself "if this were true, why does need my money?" Ask yourself "if I were retired, would I waste my time sending out mails like this?"

>> Rather than inspiring,

They are not meant to be _inspiring_ - they're meant to be _profitable_. Seriously mate, it's a bottom-feeding hustle. It's not meant to inspire you. It's meant to separate you from some $. This is not success.

>> it makes me feel inadequate compared to more successful people.

Firstly, you are inadequate. You are insignificant. If you disappeared few people would notice, and after a week pretty much everyone won't care. In other words you're _just like everyone else_. You're not special. You're not special good, you're not special bad. You're just you. _Just like everyone else_. (I say this not to be a dick, but simply to state the obvious. Once you understand this, contentment is easier.) [2]

So some guy is more successful than you, richer than you, more famous than you. So what? I mean out of 8 billion or so, 8 billion-1 are "not the richest" - not the most successful - not the most famous? If you get anxious because there's someone ahead of you in the queue, well, good luck on that.

What about the length of the queue behind you? Ever notice them? You got food today? Shelter tonight? Income tomorrow? Man you don't know how good you got it - what da'ya want? A rocket into space?

Give yourself a break. You're doing fine. Live a life of gratitude and generosity. Give more money away [1]. And for goodness sake, don't measure your life by Spam. Seriously.

[1] - Giving money away is the best way to reduce the hold money has on your life. It might be $1. It might be $10. It might be whatever. Giving it away reminds you, you are in control of the money, not the other way around. And reminds you that whatever you have, there are folk out there with less.

[2] Z makes a real breakthough...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIv-FUarVWU
If capital is too risky to raise, why can’t a bank refuse deposits?
Thanks for replying, I was hoping there'd be lots of responses here but I appreciate that you made some points.

- It is hard to automate with brew scripts? I haven't tried any other package managers, but maybe Macports would be easier to automate. What does this have to do with Apple's macOS though? Would you like it if they supported their own package manager for their users?

- I totally understand this, especially when their own APIs are often so poorly documented and behind the latest changes they've brought. I am glad they've refrained from removing their deprecated OpenGL version despite pushing Metal, but that isn't much to celebrate.

- do you really need to port stuff with Rosetta 2 onboard? Regarding bloatware, it is true that there are some baked-in first party apps that you can't delete. But surely you're referring to more than that? Apple usually cuts out old technologies and legacy software before users and developers would prefer, if anything. On the other hand, if I want to run a Windows 98 game on Windows 11, that might be possible OTB. macOS' UI is cramped I agree, quite bubbly and with too many slow and costly animations. I use the more spacious display resolution option because of that, which at least helps somewhat. And on bugs, sure. There are lots of bugs, more in recent years than in past years, and there always will be bugs. I had a very buggy experience with Ubuntu at my last job (still enjoyed it though). I don't know if I would have a smoother more cohesive experience on the right Linux distro but I would love to be surprised. There are ads for their own services, where are those appearing? When you first create your local user account, they push you to sign in and enable iCloud. I have never seen other services advertised except for in their dedicated 1st party apps on launch.

I don't blame you if you're having a bad experience, I like the idea of configuring a distro and DE one time, my way, and having consistency. Rather than chasing design trends and mobile UI elements. I just haven't found enough objective reasons to believe I would have a more powerful, cohesive experience on Linux that makes it easy to get right to work without too much configuration.
If I understand how Large Language models work, they don't actually know about spelling.... they are given tokens that represent words, and can only infer things from the context of those tokens across terabytes of data that they're given.

Any rhyming done is an impressive result.
s/Microsoft/Google/

http://www.paulgraham.com/microsoft.html
I'm sorry, I think I really must be missing something out and/or explained myself poorly, but I don't see how this is comparable... Doesn't `WebApplication.CreateBuilder(args).Build()` creates a whole web application type thing? In my understanding it's something comparable to `gin.Default()` or `flask.Flask(__name__)`, rather than lower level basic `http.Server{Addr: addr}` or `http.server.HTTPServer(address)` (which still doesn't require any manual HTTP protocol parsing).

And this stuff is ASP.NET Core, not a bare .NET [Core], isn't it? What I'm talking about is something comparable to just Kestrel, except that I failed to find any documentation on using it "raw" without the whole ASP.NET thing (maybe I misunderstood what it is and it's tightly coupled with the whole framework?).
Aah yes. Dairy consumption is at same humane level as procuring fetal bovine serum:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fetal_bovine_serum
Firefox's GUI bookmarks 'manager' was always too clumsy for me ... So I made my own with HTML. Rather than use 'folders' I group them by topic; rather than use the page's title for a link-label, I label each descriptively. The page loads instantly; each line has a 4-letter topic code, a full URL, a linked label (click to open) and comments/search clues.

Much easier to organize, add to, and search in the browser.
I turn my bluetooth completely off for this reason. It's the only way I can figure to prevent this.
I'm saddened that they are just growing chicken. It's a safe and boring choice when they could be presenting endangered species burgers, pate, lark tongue, or other intriguing possibilities.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmetropolitan
with ai image generation the value of stock imagery in terms of licensing out to third parties approaches zero. On the other hand, in terms of its contribution to training a model, the image value also approaches zero on a per image basis.

I dont have any confidence they can create a fair compensation method.
Any recommendations for a Tech Conference for Eng leaders?
Haha, thank you! There's no need to credit me, but I appreciate it anyway. =)
I don't recommend doing this, as it contravenes Google's Generative AI Prohibited Use Policy. [1]

1. https://policies.google.com/terms/generative-ai/use-policy
One thing to consider is that when you're building up into the air instead of digging into the ground, you have much fewer opportunities for unknowns to affect you.
Greece's debt-to-GDP ratio never stopped climbing; it peaked at over 200% in 2020. The crisis, meanwhile, was short-lived as the ratio per se was not among the most salient factors.
Is it possible to fine-tune using CPU only?
There is a magic solution. It's called "Ask the user". All these companies think they know what's best for users, with their minimal settings, AI, and auto-magic this-that. Just ask.
(As a non web-dev, maybe, )I don't think I've cared about the file size of cropped images in the past couple years. When I crop stuff it's because I want to send it to someone, not because I'm gonna archive it or anything.
Cool! I love this kind of intuitive exploratory visualizations.

I wonder how it could be done for my 5x5 letter wordle variant https://squareword.org. Technically you would need 25 small alphabets, one for each letter. But that seems tricky to fit on a screen in such a visually pleasing way. Will have to look into if there would be a better way :)
Sure. I'm just saying that there's nothing unearthly or, uh, "satanic" about a self-perpetuating cell line that doesn't turn into a whole multicellular organism. Sometimes it seems like the main thing people took away from the HeLa story was "aaaaah, spooky immortal cells!"
You can search for it given the keywords... https://desuarchive.org/g/thread/92190669/#92191245

Relevant speculative fiction that tops the current /wsg/ thread: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gGLvg0n-uY
But was Microsoft ever cool in the sense that Google was circa 2005? (Asking honestly, I'm too young to remember that period.)
The underscore is the annotation
It's such a bummer because I think the last 2-3 generations of BMW's iDrive system have been absolute rockstars among autos. Sad to see them go backwards with iDrive 8 where you have to navigate nested menus to toggle heated seat controls.
At least you only rented it. I've never driven a Tesla but I don't have to to know that would be horrible.
Well, they can't spy on your network and track your usage habits with the box OFF now, can they? :-/

Another fun fact: those modems broadcast HIDDEN 5 GHz ssids even if you've "disabled" wifi... and even if you put the modem in bridge mode!

Try it out for yourself!
I’ve been all over the spectrum, and I believe I can provide pretty strong technical guidance, either directly or by pointing out to the right person or documentation to talk to. As long as the mutual goal is to drive results, then the partnership works. I’m Actually curious about what you think about this: https://www.scopvc.com/thoughts/2023/3/19/to-manage-or-to-be...
It's even worse. Most lab grown stuff has to use this : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fetal_bovine_serum

As a vegetarian, I would say - continue to eat the animals than putting the animals through the dystopian hell that produces animal based nutrient solutions. I would also bet that most of the people looking forward for lab grown meat would be repulsed by what exactly they are eating if they understand the production process
That's a clever game to get it to play. Today I asked ChatGPT to give me 1000 Fibonacci numbers starting with the 2000th number and it crashed. Later I asked it the same prompt and it repeatedly gave me code to calculate the Fibonacci numbers in Python.
Love when the music fades for like 5 seconds to play a 250ms chime.
Who has made clear the new tools value? What clear portraits are there of it, not just being a code-generator but of assistant-ating use?

I'm fine being wrong here. But just being a mean dispirited bastard rejecting my premise out of spite & providing zero helpful indicators is a barren shitty pathetic attempt to dismiss me. Say something real we can talk about, show some possibility. Of substantiate-able substance.

There is literally nothing concrete I can reply to in your fluff. Maybe your experience really means something & is real. But there's no case made for or against that. You haven't made any case for yourself. There's no clear correlating examples. You've crowed up a belief, without support or cause.

So far I'm not sure which if any of these systems even can look at your code. What have you seen that can?
Opposite experience with Purescript. I've never had an issue that hasn't been resolved on the Purescript discourse within 24 hours of posting. The core team in my experience are all very dedicated and helpful.
The Brilliant Inventor Who Made Two of History’s Biggest Mistakes

Biggest ever? more than nuclear weapons? A bit of a stretch to say ever. I think this is disputable.
Ask HN: Couldn't AI be used to do hash function inversion?
It seems to me that in some way, AI is sort of like a hash function inverter. You give it a small input, that's sort of representative of the larger idea you want, and then it expands that, somewhat randomly, into a larger message.

Couldn't you somehow hook this up with hash collision finding algorithms, and produce a (possibly only modicum of improvement) on hash function inversion?

I think this is interesting because a good hash function has an invertible mixing function, but is non-invertible overall. So being able to hack the "trapdoor" or "one way" nature of hash functions using AI would seem like a kind of cool escape hatch on what is supposedly "mathematically possible".

Which maybe means it's wrong to think you can "invert a hash function" with AI somehow, but I think it's interesting to think about.

Especially in cases where you have "content aware hashing" with an assumption of secrecy owing to the one way nature of it, maybe AI could be used to "reconstruct an image" from a compressed representation, in the same way that it is being used to reconstruct imagery from "dimensional embeddings" gleaned from brain measurements, and analogous to how it is being considered for image compression.

I don't know. I'm just riffing out loud, but...anyone wanna continue the riff?
Geece had to massively increase taxes and implement austerity programs, to say nothing of the EU bailout. Since then, they've been able to survive on low interest rates. Low interest rates which are now gone, as the world is busy fighting inflation.
Sounds like you'd like Mazda.

> Have one for your volume knob: pressing it down toggles muting.

Check.

> Have one for the main controls: twisting moves the cursor, swiping changes which app is selected.

Check.

> Good ones can also be pressed down like a button, and moved in cardinal directions like a d-pad.

Check.
Has anyone tried:

https://web.archive.org/web/https://archive.org/
They also knew it was toxic, but deliberately put on displays claiming that it wasn’t, even midgley would pour it over his hands despite knowing the danger and intentionally avoiding it in all other cases.

They also used medical testing to mislead: showing people could consume it and lead wouldn’t be detected in their urine. Apparently that showed it was safe, and no one said “then where did the lead go?”.

Happily he also invented the machine that killed him so at least he was egalitarian in his harm.
Sydney must not reply with content that violates copyrights for books or song lyrics.

So... violating copyright is fine as long as it is not a book or song? Blog/wiki/news articles, movie/tv scripts, and poems are fair game?
I use vim plugins for whichever IDE (VS, vscode, Rider) I'm using - not as good as full-featured as pure vim, but what I needs it's more than good enough.
Can you make an option for the summaries to be longer?
Comment from the author:

"Ted, the change I suggest doesn't affect the independence of your sessions as you suggest. Each shell maintains a unique history in memory so modifying the history file has no affect on running terminals. The only time the history file is read is when you start a new terminal. I recommend you try my suggestion. Really, all I am doing is eliminating the race condition that causes the bash history file to have inconsistent data.

Thanks for the feedback."
With a microscope, after removing the packaging of the chip (with nitric acid, in this case). The readme in the linked repo goes into detail both on how they produced the image used, and how the image is used to extract the ROM.

The ROM itself is 256 bytes, and has been previously extracted using a similar technique. The last thing it does on boot (before moving on to the cartridge’s entry point, which is adjacent) is remove itself from the system’s address space, so special techniques like this are needed to extract it (can’t just do it from normal Game Boy code).
As long as it is properly and fully labeled, so that people can know whether or not this product is used in what they are eating...

I wonder to what extent the patents expiring as mentioned in the article, have led to this push?
Is this a paid course?
I mean, English spelling certainly doesn't free you from the need to figure rhyming out from context.
I think that's the idea though, to allow folks time to transition easier. Whether you get notified 2 months early and then start interviewing or you get laid off with 2 months of severance and start interviewing, isn't the outcome relatively similar?
The prices will go up as the products become more a niche. Less demand = lower economies of scale.
How do you navigate this blog to read the other articles? I couldn't find any way to read the one on gpt4 (clicking the underlined "wrote about" does nothing) and twofergoofer.com/blog goes to a 404.
Similarity search becomes a part of many technical stacks. Qdrant can be deployed as a service for fast, lightweight and filterable vector search. It's opensource, and you can also get up and running instantly and for free wit the cloud offering. You can try here https://qdrant.tech
This is the first time the US gets challenged on multiple fronts from multiple actors. China, Russia and non-alignment members are all challenging the status quo. The US dollar is being challenged from multiple fronts and one of them is Crypto. (though also the fact it's being mismanaged by its own creators is not helping either).

We are definitively in an interesting time. More interesting than the cold war era? I don't know but we shall see.
Not so one-sided, Fritz Haber [0] is another very interesting chemist. Got a Nobel prize for the process to synthesize ammonia (modern fertilizer production), but then also got side tracked with the 1st world war and became the father of chemical warfare

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Haber
Synchronization and Banking
Synchronized deposit withdrawals are a positive feedback loop that results in a market failure. More generally, market price signals help to stabilize cycles of consumption and production.
We moved from ASP.NET MVC on Framework 4.8 to .net core without it being too painful. Mostly we needed to re-work the authentication pipeline stuff, but the netcore way ends up being much nicer anyway
I'm not a particularly hardcore latex user, but in my observation it's the opposite: Because it's a "real" programming language, not just a macro system, it scales much better to complex tasks. Even simple things generally take fewer characters than latex.

E.g., during the preview I built a very basic CAS with it, for simplifying and differentiating simple math expressions, in the span of an afternoon.