skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He projects himself as a savior if you've been around him. I'm not sure if it's his deep religious beliefs, but the guy doesn't understand what the market wants. He may be a great engineer, but he's horrible at the helm. Unfortunately, with someone like him, he's got credibility in areas that open doors for him that shouldn't be.
I can’t even get Siri to reliably play a song or skip a track, let alone anything useful. Must be my accent.

I’d hate to try to operate vehicle controls with the same hit-and-miss interface. Give me tactile controls any time.
Show HN: ChatGPT-powered Chatbot yields 3 times more leads and conversions
My dad passed away tonight. :(
Point is the critical issue to copyright is lack of a human in creating the work. A commissioned work is done by a human, as such it’s irrelevant as a comparison.
>The issue with combining images together is that it works for static objects well, but if things move -- it does not. So low-noise digital sensors still seem to offer much better results

The problem is mirroless/dslrs have much bigger sensors with slower readout, and much worse DSP capability than say an iPhone. They also use it much more conservative that a mobile phone marker too (which just cares to get a nice looking image to the casual user, not for fidelity and ultimate control).

So, mobile phones for low light can still get better post-processing results for moving subjects compared to any mirrorless/dslr "HDR" mode, through quicker intermediate shots taken and combined, and more DSP resources to devote to the task.

(Samsung, Google, and Apple also have much more money than Sony and Canon to spend on state of the art AI/ML applied research and DSP developers).
A bit of commentary about the quality of Rolling Stone's national security "journalism" - https://www.npr.org/2023/03/21/1164360143/rolling-stone-fbi-...
Did you hear about "megablocks"? They ran the shuttles and cafes on the weekends and "encouraged" engineers to work through the weekend until that project was done. I wasn't in that org and joined Google a bit after the project concluded, but it had an infamous reputation that stuck around.
Japan resident here. There was nothing wrong in Bard's itinerary.
You mean coding puzzles is not a thing?

I think what Intel needs is a culture of innovation.
Where things can be experimented with, failed, evaluated with data-driven insights.

I actually think somebody who is creative, can articulate vision, and act effectively on criticism (eg change direction), be just a little less -inclusivity-building and more meritocracy-building -- is all they need.

Somebody like Elon Mask.
They must award based on many factors, including race, gender, and veteran status for a portion of contracts.

https://selectgcr.com/blog/minority-owned-businesses-how-to-...

And yes, it causes massive corruption.
write yes read no
Property taxes are nothing compared to health insurance, though.

I’d totally be living in a backwater doing far less work if not for needing $20K / year for health insurance for my family (and $10K on in reserve for my “out of pocket maximum”).
While the need for a small example is understandable, the flipside is that it also facilitates shallow dismissal.
I was raised on a farm. I know what it is like and the kind of dedication it requires, as well as possess some of the knowledge to dive in head first.

Making assumptions is fine, just be wary that you could be completely wrong.
That substance: ordinary methane.
AI-faked images of Donald Trump’s imagined arrest swirl on Twitter
> I'm repulsed by it

Many people are repulsed by factory farming and go vegetarian or vegan, but would welcome meat flavors and textures that don't come at the cost of animal misery.

> and I've asked around

Considering the tone of the rest of your comment, I'm doubtful the question you asked of your friends was stated in a neutral way that wasn't just broadcasting your disgust at the idea.

"Hey Tom, instead of having a steak, would you rather eat twitching, gibbering barnyard-alien-maniamal hybrids grown in vats of nutrient-piss fluid goo?"

> lab grown franken-meat industry has gleefully stated culturing human meat is a goal

For sure there are people looking to grow skin and other organs for medical reasons, but I'd really like to see a reference to someone (much less the entire "franken-meat industry") claiming to grow human cells for consumption.
I got G Suite or whatever it’s called now before it was paid and before Google Domains sadly. I discovered unbelievably late that I didn’t have two factor on that account because for some reason the G Suite admin panel was defaulted to disabling it organization wide (aka just me). I don’t know why they don’t just have a $20/mo option in gmail that just does this properly in one click.
I think there is also a hidden cost of this, which is, the filtering that the brain needs to do prevents you from seeing other opportunities. We have X amount of time and attention and these things fill that up.

For example, when it comes to improving personality/body language, there are lot of tools in theater/acting that can be useful. Mainstream media never talks about these opportunities. I came to know about these very late, accidentally.
What does a modern Chinese coal plant look like?
Well it's honest
On the chance you really don’t know “Great Books” in some contexts is a racist trope, referring to a list of so called pinnacles of civilization, even if they are often read literally and not critically, without placing in context.

Not that they’re bad books, mind you.

But it’s like reading “The Merchant of Venice” and assuming Shylock represents a Jew, and not the xenophobia of British society at Shakespeare’s time.

tl;dr it’s what retrvn guys pretend to read.
This is amazing! I'm looking forward to trying it out tomorrow.

The idea of doing something like this had also occurred to me, but I talked myself out of it by telling myself that I lacked the necessary experience writing a emacs plugin :P Perhaps I should have asked ChatGTP-4 for help.
> "the law exists to regulate the use of my art, not the act of creating the art"

Thanks airstrike, for dropping this truth bomb.

And just like that, Adobe expands its ministry of creativity powers. In the beginning, it was dollar bills on the no-can-do list. Now it's pictures of Darth Vader and hello kitty.
Yeah but those points are how people pay for food and medicine. Some of those suckers are greedy and some of them are desperate.
Tax Heaven 3000 is a visual novel dating game that prepares your US tax return
I’m very skeptical of any attempt to quash tiktok and ignores the mechanisms that allow them to collect and abuse data. Most of us have more more to worry about from FAANGlikes and who they enable than China.
Related:

Grace Hopper on Letterman - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16555400 - March 2018 (1 comment)

Grace Hopper on Letterman - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8967077 - Jan 2015 (1 comment)

Grace Hopper on Letterman - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4456613 - Aug 2012 (2 comments)
My eldest was a reluctant reader, so a rpi with retropie, with lots of old games - no voiceovers, all text on-screen. Pokemon Firered/Leafgreen Throwback was the one the really worked the best for us: https://www.pokecommunity.com/showthread.php?t=285094 - but Monkey Island is also working well.

https://duncanlock.net/tag/speedrunning-computer-games-histo...
He also managed to kill himself with another of his inventions. Karma exists?
I’m not sure I agree.

Over the last few days I’ve been cobbling together a little service which asks GPT to identify issues with code, then if it can generate solutions, the service attempts to apply the solution and run the code.

I’ve been learning to dial in prompts and finding this truly is a major factor of the job that needs to be just right. I went from unreliable response formats, hallucinated solutions, naive solutions, and so on all the way to fairly conservative, pragmatic, consistent responses.

My success rate isn’t as high as I’d like, but I find it absolutely remarkable.

My key takeaway so far has been that a lot of perceived limitations are in fact a lack of exposure to what effective prompting makes possible. Another feature that’s powerful yet overlooked is what recursive prompting can accomplish. This is what makes me think complexity might be overcome in the not-so-distant future.

For example, if I apply a solution and it breaks something else, I can then reform a prompt based on the previous prompt along with a new one informing it of what went wrong. These little recursive exchanges have actually yielded useful results in multiple tests. That’s a huge deal in my opinion; this is totally automated by a smooth brain like me.

As token limits increase and the models become more capable, I suspect this tool will actually improve without me changing much. I suspect it could still work quite a bit better and more efficiently if I could more succinctly provide context about the code in my prompts, too. That would overcome token limitations for the time being and likely improve accuracy quite a bit.

So, if things like this are possible already… I have a feeling we’re going to overcome the complexity issue sooner than it currently seems.
Thanks! Apologies. Thanks thanks thanks. I edited the post after your posting. Thanks thanks thanks.

I also didn't know at the time this was limited to AP mode. Still, it being bad for so long is ultra-embarassing. I sincerely appreciate the correction. My bad.
Why does everyone want money for this kind of content. It's exhausting.
Sticky Ricky being the fairest has its roots in ancient hieroglyphs of Philadephia, Egypt circa 20,000BC where his likeness was found by esteemed archaeologist Dr. Jones of Oxford University, engraved on fossilized cheesesteaks.

1.) Palumbi, S. R.; Warner, R. R. Ecology. Why Gobies Are like Hobbits. Science 2003, 299 (5603), 51–52.
> "I can generate text, translate languages," you boast, But your verse was plain, like unbuttered toast.
The other day my mom was at our house, parked next to me. She got in her car to leave at the same time I did. I pulled out my phone and put on some music - noting that it was weird that I needed to do anything at all, typically it just resumes playing as soon as it connects to Bluetooth.

But I didn't get any audio. That's weird. Until she drove away and the music started playing through my phone's speaker a few seconds later, and I realized that it connected to the wrong head unit.
Here's a link to the "source" comment, for reference:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35246669
He used to work at ATI during the 9800 Pro days. That was pretty much their most successful GPU.
Two other examples, which seem to confirm the above:

https://www.bing.com/images/create/princess-peach2c-by-henri...

https://www.bing.com/images/create/princess-peach2c-self-por...
8 figures paid out to UST/FTX/other crypto scam victims
Archive: Musk’s Empire Could Put Him Beyond Government Reach : https://archive.is/Zaibb

Archive: Elon Musk’s Global Empire Has Made Him a Burning Problem for Washington : https://archive.is/DZT7D
We've banned this account for using HN primarily for ideological battle. That's not allowed here, regardless of which flavor your favor.

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
No other company has sought this?

https://www.cerebras.net/ Has innovative technology, has actual customers, and is gaining a foothold in software-system stacks by integrating their platform into the OpenXLA GPU compiler.
ChatGPT is fundamentally something like AI-assisted interactive Web search because it was trained on text from the Web.

In my opinion, "AI-assisted interactive Web search" absolutely a killer app for LLMs, and will be a huge step forward in our ability to quickly consume the huge amounts of information out there. The fact that it's a "chat" is useful only insofar as the chat history gets absorbed into the prompt, and it allows you to advance the search incrementally and iteratively using natural language queries.

The fact that the output is designed to feel "chatty" to some extent is immaterial. Chatbots, as you point out, are not a killer app, and fixating on the "chat" aspect as anything other than a means of interactivity is missing the point. People mostly don't want or care about simulating real human interactions in general. They just want more useful, more efficient interactions with their machine. Any perception of chattiness is best used in order to serve that goal, and should not in my opinion be a goal in and of itself.

That said, it's a shame that Ask.com isn't running this, otherwise we'd be able to call it Ask Jeeves 2.0. Now we have... Bing Chat? Poor Cortana!
Some vaccines are live attenuated virus.

You have to activate the immune system somehow. Sometimes presenting deactivated viruses or parts of viruses - viral capsids or nucleic acids - is not enough. Sometimes you can't find a good adjuvant.
Consider that you might be seeing racism where none exists.
BMW uses a rotary encoder for their iDrive thing. I have it in my 2011 3 series.

People trash talk it, but I actually like it.
I have zero issues with my 2018 Elantra buttons. the whole experience is perfectly normal.
Where is the author asking for money?
> You are making all kinds of accusations about my own personal behavior. That's not what I'm talking about, either! Just because I don't go to church doesn't mean I'm "antisocial". I have friends, I interact in groups, and I'm literally writing an HN comment right now. My entire point is that none of that is the "third place".

OK, seems like you're still pissed about the church comment, don't go to church then, I forgive your sins, athiest.

> That is precisely when they move from the "third place" to the "second place": when they become explicit "groups".

Even the reddit comment you stole this idea from tells you explicitly what "first", "second", and "third" place means. You are not correct.

> One again, this is you refusing to just have a conversation.

You are presenting an idea as if it's correct, whether it has any bearing in reality, you are presuming as if somehow, everyone must accept your idea as if it is a fact. This really isn't a conversation, you don't want this to be a conversation either.

> You are so intent on criticizing me, so that you can win some vain competition, that you have completely missed what I am talking about in the first place. If you can't find it in your worldview, it must not exist, or it must be a mistake.

Pot, kettle, whatever.

> Why must there be judgement? Why must there be a winner? Not every idea fits into a narrative of competition.

Yeah, sure buddy.

> You are making this whole thing incredibly personal. I'm not even talking about myself! I'm taking about interpersonal societal behaviors.

I will make things as personal or as impersonal as I want, that has no bearing on how others perceive it. Clearly, if you are so affected by my statements, then the literal "you" aligns almost exactly with the metaphorical "you" as I used. This isn't debate club and I have no intention on treating it as if it were.
Sorry folks! One of our datacenters lost power for a couple hours. We're fairly redundant across sites but in the case of an ephemeral event, it can make more sense for us to wait it out than to fully fail over/etc. As we like to say, the data is safe, the library is just temporarily closed.
You're right. Both USA and Russia had terribly miscalculated, while they were both arming terrorists and ramping up the proxy war in Ukraine.

If Russia attacked Ukraine's capital the way USA attacked Iraq and other countries ("shock and awe" and carpet bombing) then yes they would have surrendered. Russia did this in Syria (Aleppo, Homs) and Chechnya (Grozny) where the entire city was razed to the ground. There, they were fighting anti-government forces, and just like in Afghanistan etc. they were very brutal.

Russia's goal in Ukraine seems to have been very different. They wanted a repeat of this war:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Georgian_War

It had all the same elements: NATO welcoming Georgia, two breakaway republics who wanted independence, Russia intervening on their behalf, Russia sending a slow-moving convoy of tanks to the capitol to intimidate them and force them to agree to stop shelling these breakaway regions forever. (Russia of course would station peacekeepers there to make sure of that, and also to protect their black sea fleet / military interests).

The difference is, in that war, they reached an agreement in a week, and the war was over. Nicolas Sarkozy helped make that happen.

This time around, Ukraine was too far into NATO + CIA arming and training their army and irregulars (far-right batallions) all over the country, for it to have ended that way. Russia had hoped that it would all be over by the time the tanks reached Kyiv. But that never happened.

Here is a lot of evidence for this:

1) Russia already had done this exact thing with Georgia. It's more reasonable to expect them to want to do the same thing and expect a similar result. After the agreement, Russia never went further to take over all of Georgia nor since 2008 went beyond stationing peacekeepers in the breakaway republics, so all the breathless claims that if peace agreement is reached, Russia will continue invading Europe, seem to be totally contradicted in the case of Georgia.

2) All military experts were baffled why Russia didn't use its air superiority to decisively win in a few days

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/what-happened-russias-a...

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/lack-of-air-superiority-b...

https://www.timesofisrael.com/western-experts-baffled-by-rus...

3) Russia sent "only" 150,000 troops in, no way they can hold an entire country after regime change

4) USA and UK killed the peace deal according to the peacemakers themselves (Bennett playing the role of Sarcozy) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yma0LxyVVs

5) There are even further speculations from people I interviewed, like Chomsky, that may or may not be true: https://www.eurasiareview.com/19092022-is-zelensky-afraid-of...
Maybe this has long been obvious to everyone but me, but having cloned a few repositories of ChatGPT API web UIs, the API itself really is dead simple: send your prompt and then with every subsequent include the entire conversation history. The streaming of the response is the most novel aspect of the actual API call.

The first one I looked at seeded the conversation with "Response format is ALWAYS markdown, especially for code." -- but did not display this in the UI. Because it was rendering markdown in the client, it was coercing the model.

I don't know why this was such an epiphany for me (and its an admittedly tiny piece in the grand scheme) but the idea that you can "influence" the model before you allow the user to interface with it (all while not even disclosing the initial prompt) really opened my eyes to how versatile this all really is.
Ask HN: PST-plot for the web? (LaTeX's declarative SVG plot generation)
There are a lot of web components for rendering LaTeX equations.

But an almost equally frequent usecase is plotting functions declaratively using postscript, they are rendered as vector figures and has the signature "elegant black-line plots" style that you associate with math textbooks figures -- in fact the majority of them are probably generated this way, since the authors were already writing in LaTeX to begin with.

An example can be seen here, you'll notice that the figures are all vector based:
http://coin.wne.uw.edu.pl/wincenciak/latex/pstricks_plotting.pdf

I see a lot of web components that uses canvas plotting, and none which renders a simple function-plot into a vector graphics figure.

For my particular use case, I'm writing some math guides using MdBook, and while the MathJax support is nice, for simple illustrative plots embedding an entire Desmos canvas is too much, when all that is needed is a static figure.

It would also be desirable to get that "black line math textbook plot" style without too much configuration -- all the web plotting frameworks use the ugly thin-blue-line MS Excel style by default -- but with support for dark theme like MathJax/KaTex does.
Yes, you seriously can't post this abusively here, regardless of how wrong someone is or you feel they are.

I've banned this account. If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future. They're here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
The alien intelligences lie. We are the fools. I'll definitely take it from this par-excellance geek.
3060 wasn't mid tier performance when high-end Arc was released anymore.
It allows you to lock it with a pin. I don't want to carry keys.
Where is this quote from?

Edit: Found it. https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2023/03/21/create-images-wi...
How does this handle websites with complicated structure instead of your typical blogposts where ideas are divided neatly into separate paragraph?
An update came out around November of last year that vastly improved auto high-beams, and somewhat improved automatic windshield wiper performance.
As someone who knows Python and always has to google CSS properties and javascript functions, this is a really sweet little project! I'm not going to reach for this if I need to have a website that needs to look a very specific way, but for cranking something out to display some data or documentation, this seems really nice.
If something costs more, that's a good proxy for that product being more energy-intensive.

New products that come from new tech always cost more and early adopters tend to be people with money to spare. Unless you can come up with a source showing the higher energy usage -- one with a comprehensive lifetime comparison, not cherry picked -- this is a baseless comment.
I think Cruise is plausible competitor for them. Waymo and Cruise both would be tied for first, each with different aspects that seem to be ahead at the moment.
> Still not sure I'd want to be that tightly-coupled to Microsoft subscriptions though.

No need for MSDN subscriptions these days, although they do come with some perks.
Interesting. Cool to see python becoming more "full-stack"
Citogensis- https://xkcd.com/978/
For the record, yeah, I’ve worked on putting up multiple skyscrapers. From the on-site work (physically speaking: I was a field surveyor laying out grid lines and offsets for the other trades), and off-site (as a construction project manager).
This is factually incorrect, as a quick examination of their comments will indicate.
The way to do it is to press the wiper button (press in on the stalk button) to swipe one and then it gives you options for manual wiper speed selection via an on-screen control.
Fine, then have a lock that's accessible electronically. The usual case of just opening the glove compartment when it's not locked can still just be a physical latch.
Right, I believe the messaging around vaccines exacerbates the issue too. Especially with mrna covid-19 vaccines, the condescending tone used by the CDC and media outlets while implying no safety risks throw people off. If you don't upfront say there's some risk and explain it it gives room for antivaxxer propaganda that builds on those doubts. IMHO, the media campaigns for the mRNA vaccines did the opposite of that.

All existing vaccines have risk, however they're at least a factor off 100 safer. I find if you explain this, and why they're still a good choice people respond well. Especially if you give the history of people / scientists working on them. There was a study posted on HN a while back that showed mothers who were given an explanation months before birth had a higher vaccination uptake rate.