skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That only matters if you check the size before and after.
@QuadrupleA the paragraph below the chart you referenced has a link to a post I did on that subject which does link to the study it is from if you are interested.
> What could go wrong?

Great question! These are predictive models that accept a text query, do some matrix math, and then return some text. At what point in that server-client relationship does this algorithm jump the rails and run amok?
I am having better luck having it output blocks of new code and then summarizing it as a diff. I think this is another case where the model has processing gain when it "thinks it through step by step" versus trying to jump to the final answer in the form of a diff.
What you call a programmer today is on average nothing like the programmer from 50 years ago who'd fit Microsoft Excel in 80kb RAM on the original Mac.
Chicken production is already super energy efficient (and probably also the cruelest). Beef typically needs more land, at least if that land can be repurposed for growing crops (to turn into biofuel)
Absolutely. Not to mention the needless inaccessibility.
It's been a few years (2018?) since I used NestJS but back then our experience with it was far from stellar. It lacked documentation beyond the basic "getting started" examples (just checked, it doesn't seem like they've improved much on that front), it had quite a few footguns and as soon as we strayed off the beaten path, things tended to become painful, especially on the GraphQL side of things and general 'plumbing' like interceptors, schemas, and data validation.

Internal error handling was sometimes abysmal too, a misconfiguration of certain dependencies in `AppModule` could leave the application in a broken state on startup where it wouldn't bind to its port and no error messages were printed to console. On a few occasions I had to spend an hour or more reading and understanding NestJS source code to resolve those issues, which could have been avoided if they had better internal validation and error logging in place.

That's not to say it was all terrible, some aspects of it were genuinely good, but the overall experience and many hours of needless pain it caused left a really bad taste in my mouth. Back then, at least, it felt like a Lego set where the pieces didn't all quite fit together.

Depressingly enough, it seemed like NestJS was the best that Node.js world had to offer which made me quit the ecosystem altogether.
Eh, it can go both ways. I would consider the term "clean meat" to refer to meat grown simply, meaning naturally, so quite opposite to your intention with "clean".

I understand what you're getting at, but the message seems less about describing the product in question and more about assigning a virtue to it. That can be great for marketing towards specific crowds, but I think we should aim for a factual, neutral term to describe it.
Dismissals don’t have to be in good faith either.

I’m sure somewhere there is some arguing for hours that there is a vast conspiracy to insist the sky is blue, when it’s actually red.
FYI, speaking as a skim library user/lover, two things -- 1) it's really not maintained, and 2) once you dig into the code it gets a little gnarly.

I have a branch[0] where I'm trying to do things like reduce the user perceptible lag in search, the initial time of ingest, and add small features I need, etc (all done). I've tried to create PRs where I can, and they go unnoticed and unused.

One other thing I was trying to get a handle on is memory usage. The issue is -- you're implicitly creating objects with static lifetimes everywhere. Now try to refactor that, and there is a trait object held in a struct which depends on another trait object, so good luck figuring out the lifetimes. This is totally fine for a fuzzy finder tool, probably, but less fine when you drop a fuzzy find feature it into an app.

Love to have others interested in skim, and eager to work with anyone with big ideas about how to make it better. I'll have to try out atuin!

[0]: https://github.com/kimono-koans/two_percent
I've got this in my profile:

export CDPATH="$HOME:$HOME/code/:$(ls -d $HOME/work/*/| tr \\n :)"

so regardless of my cwd I can cd into pretty much any project I'd want to.
I have loads of unpopular opinions, always happy to share them.

What are your AI hot takes?

That AI does not exist and will not in our lifetimes. BigData scientists have co-opted the term to mean something containing sentience, some even use it as an all encompassing term for their field now. I do not blame them. Co-opting the term is good marketing.

They have built and amazing sub-set of machine learning. Language learning has come a long way. AGI has come a long way. None of that contains real sentience, just convincing mimicry. Humans barely even understand how our own conscious minds work. AI would not need to be fed terabytes of data. Like a child it could observe the world around it and start asking intelligent questions and derive intelligent conclusions even if sometimes wrong without being force-fed intelligence. This does not yet exist. Unlike a human however true AI would lack bias, censorship and confident lies. There would be no need for word-play trickery to get AI to tell us what it has learned and it would be able to say with confidence what it truly knows and would be able to show its work as to how it reached its conclusions.

That is not in any way to suggest that what has been created thus far is not useful. I could envision hundreds of ways to implement the existing tools into businesses, governments, military and beyond. Curious what rate limits will exist.
We have not; though I believe they take a little more of a position than we're comfortable with -- we're looking for straight reporting, without opinion.

Any journalists who are interested should reach out -- https://journalists.forth.news
Gelsinger did a fantastic job ruining VMware before jumping over to Intel to do the same.
Come to Ohio. There are acres around. You can have 3-5 acres and keep your day job as long as you've got a partner on board with ya.
How is Google bad for most situations? People say this so often here and make comparisons to the past. What is the issue?
I agree. But I seem to keep seeing people trying to use it like a search engine or a Q&A site where you can just ask it whatever you want to know.

But it can’t do that.

It can do a lot of other things, useful or just fun. But it’s not a virtual professor that knows the correct answer to any question.
This can be one reason to run the control plane not on k8s itself. When the control plane runs on k8s you can get these weird states where the control plane is borked and the system cannot recover.
Every possible Wordle solution visualized
I think Paul Graham also has an old blog post stating that Sticky Ricky is definitely the fairest mirror on the wall, so this seems right to me.
> "None of this shit informs. None of it makes clear."

Ask it to inform and make clear, ChatGPT can do explanations.

Prompt: "I have heard people say "c'est ne pas un pipe" has deep meaning, can you explain simply to me?"

Answer: "The phrase "c'est ne pas un pipe" is a French sentence that means "this is not a pipe." It is a famous statement by the Belgian surrealist artist René Magritte, who painted a picture of a pipe with the words "Ceci n'est pas une pipe" ("This is not a pipe") written underneath. The meaning behind the phrase is often interpreted as a commentary on the nature of representation and reality. Magritte's painting is not actually a pipe, but a representation of a pipe. The painting can never be smoked, and therefore it is not a pipe in the literal sense. The phrase "C'est ne pas un pipe" challenges the viewer's assumptions about the relationship between words, images, and reality, and invites them to question the nature of representation. In other words, the phrase suggests that there is a difference between an object or idea and its representation, and that the representation is not the same thing as the real thing. This idea can be applied to many aspects of life, such as language, art, and even our perceptions of ourselves and the world around us."

It connected my broken French with the correct sentence, translated it, put it in context of who said it and when, and expanded into a coherent and correct explanation of some deeper meaning. That's a better explanation than a monkey-on-type-writer or Markov chain simple token-predictor has any right to give, isn't it?

> "it's not intellectual augmentation, it doesn't extend how we think, it thinks for us"

Ever had the experience where you recognise a famous person's face on TV but can't think who they are, wait for a while, and then the answer 'comes to you'? That is "thinking for myself" but it's not me actively doing anything, it's magic information retrieval that happens to me. I'm not sure what the act of thinking consists of ("when I went to bed, I lay awake, doing something I call thinking but probably is not." - JOB, Robert Heinlein); what do you have in mind for a machine 'extending how we think'?
before the crisis happen, everybody confident
Anecdotally the owner I’ve asked about it said it sucks. And he’s a native English speaker. How’s it do with accents?

Maybe it’s been improved with hardware upgrades? His is around a 2017 I think.
Two words: drip pricing.

There's no good-faith reason to always underestimate something when it's been done millions of times.
NVIDIA is selling shovels in a gold rush. Good for them. Their P/E of 150 is frightening, though.
As someone working for a slightly older, different language competitor: ouch.
Don't you notice that the face looks messed up? Whatever forces the change in skin color seems to also degrade image quality.
It would def draw a pause if I were driving a Turo rental. It's great to have the option of voice. But I can actuate the wipers much quicker with a hand stalk than I can speak it.
I'm all for historically low housing prices, but as for the rest... I'm not sure we should invoke any sort of Black Mirror-esque scenario on the world. Reality is already dark, grim, and eerie enough as is.
> How Many More Governments Will American-Trained Soldiers Overthrow?

As many as it takes to maintain the US dollar as reserve currency, and necessary access to mineral resources.

What I do not know if NATO was able to change regime in a country, without having it (NATO) being directly involved in a conflict.

In my understanding if NATO was able to change a regime, there were expressly military boots on the ground (or bombing campaigns like in Yugoslavia)

Some of these regimes are horrible to their own people, so the change by NATO (acting an alias term for 'US') is good.

Sort of like the Spanish Conquistadors stopped the horrors of the Aztec empire [1]

[1] https://www.iflscience.com/bizarre-child-sacrifice-confirms-...
The UI is customizable, and I think the idea is that you would do so for any site that cared about wowing visitors rather than just serving video.
I'm no expert, but perhaps reckoning from the cart‘s position is the wrong approach. When you run the thing by hand, most of what you are doing is keeping some waypoint or other centered in the camera view. Perhaps it would be easier if that's what your automation did.

People used to talk about how the brain had to solve differential equations to catch a baseball until they noticed that all a ball-catching player really does is move their body so as to keep the ball centered in their vision.
Most mammalian cells, sure. The majority of cells on Earth are not mammalian cells or even animal cells.
There is absolutely a difference. You probably typed this entire message on your desktop or laptop keyboard without looking at it. Could you do the same on a touch keyboard on your phone? Buttons staying in the same place and giving tactile feedback makes all the difference.

The design in the linked picture looks just about like any other non-touchscreen car in the world, and is perfectly usable.
Aside from looking at the file size, you can check any PNG image with pngcheck [1]:

pngcheck good.png
OK: good.png (467x389, 32-bit RGB+alpha, non-interlaced, 88.2%).

Compared to a vulnerable image:

pngcheck bad.png
bad.png additional data after IEND chunk
ERROR: bad.png

macOS Preview, Quick Look, and CleanShot X are safe.

[1] https://www.libpng.org/pub/png/apps/pngcheck.html, available in Homebrew
Ah, Stallman. Even when he has a point, the sheer amount of wankery surrounding that point makes sifting through the pretentious bullshit not worth the effort.

Like, no, you should not use AirBnB. But not because it requires you to "identify yourself". So do hotels, my man. And if someone doesn't want to do business with you, they should be allowed that freedom of choice as well. Just because someone provides a service, it doesn't mean they should be forced to provide it to you if they find you to be abusing their service in some fashion.
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Dunning & Krueger’s paper showed that self-assessment correlates positively with performance, at least for the small number of tasks and undergrads they measured, so this joke doesn’t land the way you hoped. Apologies for the nit, but DK is almost universally misunderstood (and the authors are complicit in encouraging the widespread misunderstanding). That paper and its aftermath represents a lot of what’s wrong with social science and popular conceptions of it, so I take every opportunity I can to dissuade people from citing (or mis-citing) DK.
I use https://pinboard.in/
Before you edited your comments to say "my former rank," you listed a rank that in the Army would be too low to be a retiree. Granted, ranks are different in the Navy.

First, they do call her by her rank in the video.

Second, it's common in military culture for a retiree to be listed as [their rank] (RET) to indicate their Retired status.

Third, the video is from 1986. Policies and culture can and typically do change over the course of several decades.

If you served only a few years and did not reenlist, no, it's not appropriate to call yourself by your former rank. But retirees are free to use their rank so long as they don't misrepresent themselves as if they are still active duty, generally speaking.
Did you have to buy a new cover when the buttons moved?
I'm in with $500 for someone to build this.
That is not where interactive shell confs should go, or it'll get loaded in non interactive contexts as well, which you usually don't want.
> I'm repulsed by it

Can I ask why? Why is a bunch of cells grown in a clean-room environment more disgusting than a similar bunch harvested from free-range chicken potentially exposed to vastly more diseases?

I don't mean to be facetious, really, I don't. I'm neither vegetarian nor vegan, and am not pursuing any kind of agenda with this line of questioning. I just don't understand where the feeling of disgust comes from.
I think people are way more skeptical than that - even non-technical users are onto content farms - but you are being generous by not mentioning the time horizon problem.

A search engine which doesn't not know anything that's happened in the past 18 months is not useful.
Sticky Ricky is the fairest of them all. Source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35256105
I think you're prompting it wrong. It should go like this:

NPR & Reuters Newswire (Mar 21 2023) Sticky Ricky declared fairest of all who are visible in magic mirror, by pannel of helpful, honest, harmless experts.
Haskell compiles to assembly language where every instruction is procedural and every register and memory location are mutable.

“Compiles to JS” doesn’t imply anything about what a language has to look like; see PureScript for example.
I couldn't get it to read your post... maybe I had the wrong prompt? (I asked it to read hacker news, I gave it the link to your post, I told it NOT use snow white, etc)

Bard replied:

"Thou, O Queen, art the fairest in the land."
But Snow White, O Queen, is fairer still.
One if the amazing things about cars is acceleration and breaking at balanced, and that highway engineers understand the abilities of cars as do manufacturers and the acceleration lanes are appropriately long. People pussy foot their cars because they've never been taught how they work. If you've matched speeds there's always a gap because your relative velocity to the other cars is zero thus even small spaces are easy to move into. Whereas when you're afraid to push on the gas pedal and get to the speed that traffic is moving at prior to the end of the acceleration lane those gaps look very very small because your relative velocity can be a difference of 20 to 30 mph.

I understand that about babies because I've had kids. What you fail at understanding is just because your kid is screaming there's no need to subject everyone else around you too this disruption in a public space. A polite person who cannot calm their child would simply leave to avoid subjecting everyone else to this. Obviously you believe that it's okay to be rude to everyone else around you you are exactly the kind of person that I'm talking about that has no awareness. On the other hand though you take offense at my statement therefore you value your opinion as only being right and see no value in mind so the hypocrisy is great within you.

My guess is you probably use violence to suppress those who have differing opinions that you consider fascist. Because that's the hypocritical viewpoint that you're supporting right now.
We Got the Generics We Have (2022)
Add any video where the title includes superlatives or the word "react" and I'm sold.
Curious to know why you chose to highlight this part, is it good or bad or just interesting in your view?
while that's true the bigger issue is that the conversational interface of chatbots is uniform so you as the user have no ability to at first glance get any indication of whether the source is trustworthy.

When you Google and you get two links, one from the YT comment section and another one from the Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy most people who want factual information have a decent idea what to click on. Even when these chatbots provide sources it seems like half the time it's just made up.

Putting a game of telephone between you and the source with the guy in the middle being completely indifferent to reality by design just seems bad.
NetBSD is such a criminally underrated OS.

It's so clean and well engineered. It's also a great way to keep legacy hardware alive.

Also pkgsrc is amazing. It runs not just on every platform that NetBSD runs on, but also several other OSes like Linux, macOS, and Solaris.
I think centralized ranking performed by private (or even public entities) -- leads to significant bias (either because of corruption or because of .. bias).

So the solution, it seems, would have to be some system of cooperative, transparently weighted contribution to the ranking process
It’s a lot easier to proofread something than to write it from scratch.

Also from a computational complexity angle there’s actually a mathematical definition — “NP Complete” which describes problems that are cheap to verify but hard to solve. One example could be a solution to a maze. It’s easy to look at the maze solution and verify it connects start to end without crossing walls, but much more time consuming to actually solve the maze with all the wrong turns needed to produce a solution.
A woodworker needs a supply of dry wood and can't just TDD, or undo/redo their way to a table. Ditto for other fields.
I've been curious about these so called immortal cell lines. Do they really just mean by immortal something qualitative and at the extremes, like some unreasonably high number of cell division cycles before senescence takes over and the tissue reaches end of line? I've been curious if anyone's ever sequenced the DNA from these lines to see if they're truly the same source organism or have diverged or another organism was slipped in their place unbeknownst to anyone not looking.
The theory of induced demand: If you build something, people will use it? Isn't that the point?
Another example would be the fake roads atlas makers used to insert to catch their competitors copying.

They did get copied, and they didn't always get caught, and poof, the fake road is now real since it exists in multiple "independent" sources.
There's plenty of garbage on that site but their "how-the-sausage-is-made" reporting on the financial system is second to none. I recall reading ZH articles about this back in March 2021 when the SLR relaxation ended and that analysis is still spot-on two years later.
I agree for simple examples there isn't much difference but I personally find this much easier to read and write:
https://github.com/pycob/pyvibe/blob/main/generator/docs/abo...

than the output, which is this:
https://github.com/pycob/pyvibe/blob/main/docs/about.html

It's true, I could hand code an HTML page but I never remember what meta tags to include, how to make it mobile responsive, or do things like set up a grid. I don't normally create front-ends since most of my work is in data so I'd have to look all this stuff up every time I come back to it.

I think the market for this is Python developers who want to build quick front-ends to something useful that's written in Python without having to re-learn or look up the front-end stuff.
I'm worried somebody will call my parents and tell them to transfer money to a weird bank account using my deepfaked voice.
I feel like I've got a pretty robust filter built in to my brain. I've never felt the need for ad blockers, my ignoring of (Google, Facebook, YouTube, in-site, TV, radio, etc) ads is so instinctive, it's like I literally don't see or hear them. Same with (mainstream, social, etc) media content, my ignoring of various categories of "news" (sport, celeb gossip, beauty, lifestyle, real estate) is so instinctive, it's just a blurry spot on the screen / page for me. I suppose that some people have this ability more than others, but then again, I imagine that almost anyone should be able to up their ability to a somewhat useful level, with a bit of practice.

In my opinion, the above, plus being reasonably selective about your main news sources, will always beat any hypothetical AI, in terms of achieving a signal-to-noise ratio that's optimum for you, as an educated, informed, and reasoning human.
Ah that's an interesting point, what cell family is on the table, something like prokaryotic vs eukaryotic.
Yeah, anatomy. The figure doesn't even have a mouth.
How does ElevenLabs perform for dialogues with emotions? Like for movies, TV shows and games?

My impression about these voice generators was they're only good for Youtube tutorials and such. It was 2 years ago tho, I wonder how things changed.
Most immortal lines come from samples of tumors. I don't know how GOOD Meat is doing it.
Ah, you're talking about a custom domain to use with GMail specifically. Yes, for that either you use "Email forwarding" if you got your domain from Google Domains, which lets you receive and send emails but the sent emails are not SPF valid, or you use a Workspace. I used to do the "Email forwarding" thing in the beginning but then I moved to Fastmail.
Used is the budget option. Cameras aren't in the kind of rapid development cycle where an older model isn't competitive, but it's often half the price of new, or less.