skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, there's also https://www.econlib.org/archives/2016/12/bruce_bueno_de.html

> His stories about George Washington, none of which I knew, are even more fascinating. Bueno de Mesquita claims, quite plausibly, that a huge part of George Washington’s motive for fighting the Revolutionary War was to protect his substantial, and critically placed, landholdings in the Ohio Valley. I’m not saying that I agree with him, but his story made me realize that a large part of my belief in GW is romantic: because I learned about him so early in life, that romantic view is harder to shake and I’ve been less willing to put GW under the public choice microscope than with any current or recent president.

> An excerpt about GW’s wealth:

>> His last position, just before becoming President, was President of the Patowmack Canal Company–the Potomac Canal, as we know it, from the Potomac River. What that canal did was bring, make it possible to bring produce from the Shenandoah Valley–which George owned–up to the port in Alexandria, which had been built by Lawrence, by the Ohio Valley Company, in which George had a direct interest, and shipped goods out. So it was a very profitable undertaking–or so he thought it would be, in the long run, for him. And that’s what motivated him. Most people think of Washington as–besides a great hero, which he certainly was–as kind of a gentleman farmer. Economists have estimated the worth in real dollars adjusted for inflation, not appreciated, of George Washington’s estate, in contemporary terms; and it’s about $20 billion dollars. He is by far the wealthiest President. He is the 59th wealthiest person in American history. Three of the American founding fathers are in the list of the top 100 wealthiest Americans in all of history: Hancock, who was wealthier than Washington–made his money smuggling; and Ben Franklin, who was not quite as wealthy, who made his money because he had a monopoly on the printing press. These are the folks who led the Revolution. These were not the downtrodden. These were not the oppressed. These were people who stood to lose huge amounts of wealth because of the King’s policies. And so they fought a Revolution. Which was, by the way, not very popular. Sixty percent of the colonists either were neutral or opposed to the Revolution.
Can you please make your substantive points without name-calling? It's not hard, and we're trying for something a bit different from internet default here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Lecture Series: Brandon Sanderson on Writing Science Fiction and Fantasy [video]
Why would people in congress invest in America's primary geo-strategic competitor? How is not doing this in any way a bad thing?
Show HN: Simple open-source cmd+b interface to OpenAI’s API
We got tired of searching both the chat and playground tabs of OpenAI every time we had a question, and quite annoyed when the free research preview did not work for a day. We searched for a simple interface to the chat API and found many paid extensions that sell buckets of queries for some $/mo, which there is no way we were gonna use, so we just built this.

Note that this is a pre-release version. There’s obviously a lot to fix and polish, but we’ve used it a lot for the past couple of days, and even though many things don't work, we really enjoyed it (we stopped using https://chat.openai.com/chat).

Hope you'll enjoy it as well, any feedback is more than welcome :)
Yes, the host owns the asset that is monetized. They are more important to keep happy than a guest, because the host controls an (often) million dollar bit of capital.

It sucks as a guest, the only solution is to either accept that you are just a magstripe or to stay in a hotel.

Long stays are difficult but I recommend furnishedfinders.con as an alternative.
Show HN: ChatGPT with YC Library Blogs
Air is free because there is more than enough of it for everyone, everywhere.

Water isn't like that, and there is no way to make it.
are you assuming they decided this or did they state it somewhere?
I'm wondering when we'll see the first vigilante action against corrupt law enforcement with a drone.

Killing a bunch of people with drones is actually harder than just getting an AR-15 and killing a bunch of people and will likely remain that way for a while.

But it's different with killing a cop. It's hard to kill a cop because they're armed, and it's even harder to get away with it because the cops will be ruthless in tracking you down[0] but a drone changes that dynamic.

Police can be so corrupt in the US because they can get away with it. It will be fascinating to watch how they react when someone uses a drone to kill the next cop that walks free after brutally killing an innocent person.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Dorner_shootings_a...
WNYC listener here. They've gone hard identity politics over the past decade, definitely got way worse in 2016.

Their reporting on so many topics has been biased bordering on being intentionally disingenuous so for a long time now.

I do occasionally listen however because I try to expose myself to a lot of points of view, especially when I know I might not agree with them. I was listening to Brian Lerher a few weeks back and it was so sad. I wish I could recall the exact topic but it was exactly some identity politics nonsense, presented in a way which was designed to stoke the most outrage possible (anyone who disagrees is knowingly trying to harm the other side, they can't possibly have good intentions but disagree with us!) and it was all over some trivial thing too.

Add onto that it just sounded like Lerher, someone I used to idolize, someone who used to be incredibly passionate, just sounded like he was phoning it in. It was very disheartening.

I remember WNYC was the place during the Afghan/Iraq wars where I could get some reasonable and balanced coverage of the situation, especially in the first few months/years when things were very in-flux (and I recall Lerher being an intimate part of that). Air America was the lib-left perspective, NPR would echo that but give me a reasonable perspective of what the other side thought. That seems completely and utterly dead now.
And they did so without a civil war.
You're part of the problem, and your view is a relic of the past. I'm glad that dinosaurs are quickly becoming curios for museums.
I'll try this to see if it's more stable on Windows than Docker Desktop, which has been giving me constant issues lately. Or maybe it's WSL's fault, who knows.
> 2. Attacker distributes the link (either directly to a victim or publicly)

Since .css was given in the example, is this something that could be used within any given web page's set of HTML link elements (calling stylesheets) so it doesn't have to be clicked? I want to think "no" but also I'm not 100% sure.
It actually comes off as very belittling to point out their ethnicity.

It's also contrary to the spirit and intent of the article.
I went to college in Lubbock. It was a great time but man West Texas can be a strange place, it’s hard to describe.
Does this even matter? Sure GPT4 can’t solve every conceivable problem out there, but if it can solve the overwhelming majority of problems that humans have already seen then that is a huge improvement over what we had before.
Bard is terrible at parsing in my short time with it.

I asked if it could answer a riddle, and it responded by asking me riddles. When I said no, I'll ask the riddle, it asked me another one.
I suspect the same holds true for hardware bugs in silicon, given the increasing complexity of CPUs. ;)
I've thought about that a lot. Right now, I think it's just not what drives me. I'm motivated by novelty and certain types of experiences. Not really by years-long projects trying to break new ground.

But my comment doesn't come out of a sense of desire to emulate. Just out of a sense that especially in the early-to-mid 20th century, we had these titanic characters: Einstein, Tesla, Von Neumann, The Beatles, and so forth.

In a lot of ways, I think it comes down to these folks existing in the beginnings of the information age, and how many advances were unlocked by the increase in communication speed.

That was probably a lot more groundbreaking than the digital revolution. For all the progress we've seen since I was born in the 80s, there's not a lot of things that have fundamentally changed in terms of human capability. Although, we may see in the next decade or two the same sort of paradigm shift.
On the other hand, it can write hypothetical example code for a Python binding or conversion of a library in another language.
Thanks for linking! Based on your comment it feels like I interpreted the original wrong. The person in your comment is not Steve, but their comment is basically equally valuable! So in practice what I said is still true, it’s just that whoever delivered the comment is not Steve
I use it to do bizarre linguistic stuff with my writing (prompts such as: "convert this sample of modern day English to french-Canadian gibberish as heard by an 18th century poet at a pub"). I use it to mess around with my parents. I use it to help with difficult math problems, sometimes. For me? It's been a terrific assistant.
It took more than 30 years; I was in a terminal nursing home; I had to leave my country in order to survive; it was finally defeated through pure luck; and nobody will ever know exactly what it was.
But now I'm ok.
Sheesh.
Red Hat doesn’t fix moderate CVEs immediately. Per there RHEL Lifecycle web page:

“During the Full Support Phase, Red Hat defined Critical and Important Security errata advisories (RHSAs) and Urgent and Selected (at Red Hat discretion) High Priority Bug Fix errata advisories (RHBAs) may be released as they become available. Other errata advisories may be delivered as appropriate.”

Seeing how all of these CVEs are considered Moderate they fall under the “delivered as appropriate”.

As usual people over react and try to make companies look like they don’t care about security, back ports, etc when all Red Hat is doing is following its own policy.
I wish they would provide a brief justification for each
I had a very unpleasant 30 seconds this morning.
What a respect-worthy man, and a lucky man to have been born at the beginning of an age of exponential innovation. Also, from all that I've read about him he gave back to the world in equal measure and was the best of a past generation of Silicon Valley entrepreneur.

For anyone who has interest / time and lives in the Bay Area, watch this PBS program for the history of the "Fairchildren" and the roots of Silicon Valley. (of which Gordon Moore was one of the "traitorous eight" who contributed to making SV what it is today) If you live, drive, work around the area, there are so many landmarks and legacies of this phase of history that you can still see today (but only if you keep an eye out and take a little effort to learn the past).

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/silicon/#f...

(links to Amazon Prime, Apple TV there, and you can also find this on your favorite BitTorrent source...)
>That alone is a big problem

That doesn't seem to be what everyone is mad about though, judging by the comment chain.

>And water utilities aren't run for profit. Or if they are, they're heavily regulated.

I'd be sympathetic to this argument if nestle was the sole provider of water in an area, but they're not. In a hypothetical universe where nestle has a monopoly on bottled water distribution and is abusing it by charging $2/bottle or whatever, the damage would be limited because people could just... use their own bottles. Also, given that bottled water "is a big problem", should we really care that consumers can't get them for cheap?
> Well, fair enough, but then why not go for the BBC Micro

Because the Apple shipped four years earlier? The question isn't what machine is better. Obviously later hardware builds on the advances of its ancestors. The idea behind valuing history is understanding where the changes happened.

Acorn (and Commodore) shipped an excellent machine given the constraints of the time. Both devices were worth purchasing.

Apple shipped an absolutely groundbreaking work of genius that no one had forseen and that no one would duplicate for years. AAA games were shipping in 1988 (c.f. Ultima V and Prince of Persia) designed directly to a framebuffer design architected in the spring of 1977.

If you can't see the difference there and perceive which device is more important to understand and study, I don't know what to say.
Well, collective ownership and communal property are arguably just as “natural” as private property.
Thank you for the shout out!
Yes, but who is John Galt?
Most of that is to pay employees. And to rent hardware, perhaps.
An adjacent idea is called Gell-man Amnesia.

“Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray [Gell-Mann]’s case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the “wet streets cause rain” stories. Paper’s full of them.

In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.”
Beast in the Blood: Jean Denis and the “Transfusion Affair”
> The business cycle isn't a conspiracy theory.

The business cycle is a well-documented fact of the economy, caused by basic microeconomics. The busts have as good a reason to be there as do the booms.

Plus the business cycle has booms which are on average much longer than the busts, an angle which conspiracy theorists frequently choose to ignore.

The business cycle is not a conspiracy theory, thinking the business cycle is somehow "made" or "artificial" or "controlled" is a conspiracy theory.
Curious how real estate was left out of this.
Right, they value the state being "socially liberal" but the second they have to contribute (as a very fortunate person) then it's a bridge too far and they want to leave. Complaining about paying for public schools and teachers as a person who literally admits to paying for private tutition is unimaginably out of touch. I too hope it's satire but unfortunately people like this exist.
In go, or similarly chess, the AI can play stupendous number of games against itself and get accurate feedback for every single game. Everything is there to create your own training set just from knowing the rules. But outside of such games, how does an AI create it's own training data when there is no function to tell you how well you are doing? This might be a dumb question, I don't have any idea on how LLMs work
Naysayers on this site are ignorant about the Fact that Officers have to care about and assist them no matter how much they act like kids who need detention
That is an excellent idea! Perhaps someone should consider developing a smart diff tool for this purpose.

To be honest, my work style can be a bit lazy at times, and this may reflect in my approach. My tool simply copies any changes directly to the clipboard. I then replace them with the original text and make adjustments on the same page. However, for more complex workflows, your approach is awesome. It could potentially transform the process into something similar to Grammarly.

Edit: Have you noticed any differences in terms of quality between GPT-4 and Turbo3.5 for this particular task?
Additionally these are moderate CVEs and Red Hat, per their lifecycle page, patches them at their will.

During the Full Support Phase, Red Hat defined Critical and Important Security errata advisories (RHSAs) and Urgent and Selected (at Red Hat discretion) High Priority Bug Fix errata advisories (RHBAs) may be released as they become available. Other errata advisories may be delivered as appropriate.
> What is a conspiracy here: The idea of an invisible hand which is beyond anyone’s control, or the analysis of historical information which shows a pattern? I choose to believe the data, not the fairytale you are proposing.

What's the pattern?
Using APIs that don't exist is the biggest problem I've seen with ChatGPT, and it seems GPT-4 as well.
The Art of Resisting Promotion
As far as I can tell, "harmed" is in quotes because the so-called harm would not even have been recognized as such in previous generations (unless you can provide counterexamples)
Technically yes, because you’re not choosing at all but they’re still random to me since they’re not from my circle.
interesting, did you mean ctrl/command+k btw?
Stable Diffusion unCLIP
Musk didn’t bring experience to the table?!?
Police surveil bad guys, so me thinks thou dost protest too much
I agree for some of them atleast.. although some of them probably dont necessarily need an explicit explanation because they are kind of self-explanatory. For example, their prohibiting of processing for SEO related things (likely because much of this is spam) could use an explanation, but the cases for things that are inherently illegal or could get stripe sued might not
Yes. The language change coincides with a slew of new features.
Email rewrites, translation between English and French, asking some very old functions and structs from the 1991 version of ls.c, teaching it some RPG rules and then play text games, generating boilerplate code for work and side projects.

So far only using the free version and experience is good. I might buy the plus subscription but so far lacking any hard requirements. I particularly hope it gets better teaching me system programming as sometimes it BS.
Thanks for showing! Will you add also midjourney integration?
"IA argues that its digital lending makes it easier for patrons who live far from physical libraries to access books and that it supports research, scholarship, and cultural participation by making books widely accessible on the Internet. But these alleged benefits cannot outweigh the market harm to the Publishers…."

I never had enough money to get the books I wanted, sometimes getting to a library wasn't that easy. IA (and other platforms) helped me a lot. So, seeing this section is really depressing.
> but the idea that <<people>> are acting in a manner to maintain/increase their wealth aint exactly a conspiracy theory.

This is the correct statement and it's not a conspiracy theory, it's a banality.
Put charitably, it's activism. Put uncharitably, it's misinformation.

NPR is largely an activist organization and has been since the mid-2010s. They never lie, mind you, but they consistently present half the story.

It's sad too -- they used to be the best around.
TIL that selling sex toys is still illegal in some US states.
Not really. I wouldn’t even say I’m doing anything hugely fancy with Docker (hell, I’m not even using containers in production) and podman desktop as it stands is unfortunately not a drop-in replacement. I pray for the day.
Ask HN: Any recent experience with Hibernate ORM?
I am coming back to Java application development after around 10 years away. We are starting a new project next month. I was looking around to refresh myself on the current frameworks and looked into Hibernate the ORM framework. I remember using it in the past but the experience wasnt pleasant, felt very heavy and bloated, just to provide a mapping from a ResultSet to a custom application object. I looked at their docs today and I see that nothing much seems to have changed. In fact, reading these docs it appears that the framework has become even more bloated and complex. There's also something called Hibernate Reactive which looking at examples, I don't understand the use case for it.

Anyway, I'm looking for inputs whether it's just my lack of experience in this area in the past decade or has it really grown more complex and bloated.
I’ve tried. Recently I’ve been using to try to improve my resume and asking it for suggestions and information on certain technical subjects related to my career and current situation.

At the end of the day, none of the output it’s offered has necessarily impressed me, though some of the ideas from that output has influenced me an how I write my resume.

I also tried to see if could generate come code similar to something I used in a recent side project. It utterly failed to produced correct code, but perhaps the gpt4 model would do better. So far I’ve been using it as search engine as I will admit, it’s done better than google and friends at giving me the information I ask for,
Yup, it is a ctrl/command+k-like. We just decided on cmd+b since many domains have their own cmd+k functionality that we don't want to override.
.NET 8 Finally Comes with Auth Solution for SPA
Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you meant by "über capitalist", but someone who advocates for total state ownership over food production (which is essentially what you're arguing for, given that you don't want profits) is certainly on the socialist/communist side of most countries' political spectrums, and therefore can hardly be called an "über capitalist".
There's a link buried in the page to a blog post with some details:

https://stripe.com/blog/why-some-businesses-arent-allowed
Then you don't understand what Wolfram Alpha is capable of. It is far superior to language models for mathematics. No comparison. That's why they are integrating it.
One of the advantages of Bing, and do guess now ChatGPT with browsing plugin, is that it's able to search on the web for the right API.
Do you believe that libraries should be barred from archiving material to microfiche? How is that significantly different from format-shifting a book to electronic form, as long as they use DRM to limiy concurrent viewing?
What is that exactly? The site doesn't say.
- Creating JSON out of unstructured Text.

- Writing SOPs

- write Email

- Tone Analysis

- Recommendation Engine
Try that argument with the ITAR people sometime, see how it works out for you.
You seem to be very confused.

Elon promised 1 Billion, and so OpenAI was able to be Open.

But then just 10% into that commitment Elon in the biggest miss of the century, tried to imply that OpenAI was falling behind Google, and wanted to take complete control of the company. However OpenAI took a lot of very smart people looking at what was best for their mission, and rightly refused to let him retroactively turn a 100M dollar donation into a purchase agreement.

And then to double down on his folly, he reneged on the rest of the funding and abandoned his post on a technicality: "Tesla is now AI [ha!] so I can't be on this board despite having just tried to take over the whole thing."

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Without his funding OpenAI did something very sensible and went looking for new partners. It turns out billions for non-proven ideas don't come by easily, and so they ended up with Microsoft: And unlike Elon, Microsoft was upfront! They wanted premier access, they wanted it to be a secret sauce, and that was the deal OpenAI settled for.

Elon's actions in this situation are by far the most "disgusting" thing here. It's like a child trying to kick down a sand castle because "you guys are using my bucket and I don't like what you're building!".

As OpenAI's bet proves 100% right and just completely spits in the face of the hubris he displayed with "you guys are failing and need me to take over", he gets increasingly more outspoken about it in an incredibly childish display of sour grapes.

But then again, can you blame him? He's since admitted that by reneging on the 1 B offer and departing based on a self-invented conflict of interest, he had to cash out immediately. So not only was his wrong, but as OpenAI shapes up to be the biggest thing to happen to computing in the last decade (something he tried to paint Tesla as being about to do!), he's also realizing he gave up on a stake in that. I can't even imagine the gut punch it must be.