skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you know what the truth is? Because I sure don't.

The problem with blaming 'the public' for being stupid is that we're both the public and we might be the stupid ones. Media outlets lie, they also tell the truth sometimes. I think the biggest mistake we can make is to think that the media we're paying attention to is the 'right' media.

The simple fact of the matter is that we're being lied to almost constantly and the only amazing consequence of that is that any of us have any sanity left at all. And the main reason for that is because we all think that we're right and those other people are wrong. But what if we're wrong? What if I'm the stupid sucker that believes the lie.

Or maybe I've just read one-too-many Philip K Dick novels :-)
Have you tried iMovie's new Magic Movie mode?

https://www.tomsguide.com/news/imovie-30-features-magic-movi...
Writing code is the easy part. Requirements are the hard part.
GPUs strike me as absurdly cheap given the performance they can offer. I'd just like them to be easier to program.
Right, but at $250, can anybody provide any details of how good these high quality books are?

I don't know if I came off antagonistic, but I'm actually coming from position of genuine curiosity; the webpage linked describes plot of the book (I love Mr. Banks to death and have gifted use of weapons to more than one person, so I'm interested in a good copy:), but it doesn't have a photo of the product, and doesn't tell me where my $250 go to - what is the binding? What is the paper? Is there special typeset? Are there some bespoke illustrations? What is, actually, good about it? (to other people's points, I'm sure Mr. McLeod is a fine writer and a splendid human being, and to some his signature on Iain M. Banks' book adds value, sentimental or otherwise; it does not to me but that's subjective:).
anyone visiting HN should be able to install Bypass paywalls chrome clean and uBlock origin
Bill also said most meetings would be happening in the metaverse in two years
Right. Best to walk way.
Before this happens AI will be utilized to better navigate billing at hospitals to maximize the profits.
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Been living in Mali for some times, worked in a few African countries.

Done charity work there.

Created an IT company there.

You have it totally backward.

IT is NOT helping the poorest part of Africa. Quite the opposite.

But it does help us create a lot of BS virtue signaling about all the good we do in Africa.

The explanation would take a lot of text, unfortunately and I'm not in the mood for the rant again. But it comes from experience, not from the idealized narrative you have been sold.
In a way, yes. People flee into assets and commodities they see as "vaults" when they're uncertain, or that they see as rocket ships when they're greedy; this is why their prices rise. The inflation from the liquidity injections is being contained to those assets. The bursting of the stock and crypto bubbles coincided with the rapid acceleration of inflation as people pulled their money out to both escape the falling knife and spend some of it on what they needed before inflation rose more, a vicious cycle. The effects of those purchases cranked the inflation stove.
>there’s no point planting seeds because plants will grow anyway

did you have a bad maths teacher at some
point?
Should we also not call the NYT credible anymore after they supported the invasion of Iraq (and associated WMD BS) and admitted their reporting "had not been as rigorous as they should have been, and were insufficiently qualified, frequently overly dependent upon [biased] information"? That one of their reporters had to retire in shame, but only after a generous severance package deal, and all of the editors and people who allowed this were allowed to stay?
I would highly recommend installing pihole at home.
The biggest problem with Don Norman appears -- from the article -- to be that he thinks for himself and won't be bullied by the outrage arbiters of the left. Norman came of age in an era when freedom of thought and freedom of speech meant something. An old joke is: "I could tell you [some matter of secrecy], but I would have to kill you." A true statement that many of us could say to the censors is: "I could say that, but I would be lying."

My personal affirmation: I have never downvoted anyone on HN.
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Whats the most recent phone you have tried to use in low light? The last two years of Pixels and Iphones (and maybe others, these are just the ones I have seen firsthand) are amazing in low light for a typical use case. I mean sure if you have a tripod and do a long exposure, its a different story, but thats a very different user.

I beat the crap out of my Canon Rebel T3i, I literally wore out the shutter after about 150k pulls on it, and replaced it with a Sony A7 III with a "G" lens, and while the pandemic was a large reason for it collecting dust, I am going on a "big" trip to a scenic place for the first time since prepandemic in a few months, and I am not sure its going to find a place in my bag. For the space and weight, my P6 Pro does a fantastic job.

The overlap in quality is enough that I see myself rarely using an ILC in the future, and the A7 III is likely the last one I will own unless they make some leaps forward to compete with smartphones.
First amendment rights (and many other rights) apply to anyone in the country, not just citizens.
I don’t think this is true. I would agree that the aha moment was not for everyone at the same time.

But for most people that I saw accessing the internet the first time it clicked immediately and they were hooked.
This is the article in question: https://web.archive.org/web/20221019003915/https://www.rolli...

"Now, Meek appears to be on the wrong side of the national-security apparatus. And no one can say for certain if law-enforcement officers actually removed him from the building. And thus, a riddle was born. Documents pertaining to the case remain sealed."

So, according to Siegel, Rolling Stone had information that the raid was not related to Meek's journalism. That first sentence is a lie.
Yeah for math stuff I loved LaTeX. I even solved large equations directly in the document, was so easy to read.

But once I had to write some pseudocode, make some larger tables, or embed images I suddenly longed for Word. Word certainly can make me curse, but it was still far easier than getting that done in LaTeX.
> Personally, I think the price is structural adjustments as people shift to remote work and that makes different houses more valuable (suburbs and exurbs have really increased quite a bit).

To back up the idea that the price changes are mostly just about mortgage rates changing:

- In California, Redfin data shows that the peak for median sale price was in April 2022, at $839,100, and now we're at $706,000 for Feb 2023. Ooh, that looks like a >15% drop in less than a year!

- But FreddieMac shows that the average 30y fixed was 5% in mid April '22, and was 6.32% mid last month. The median home with an average mortgage was signing up to pay $4504/mo vs $4379/mo last month. That's a decline of roughly 2.8%

So it seems like home buyers today are willing to pay almost as much per month as they were at the price peak, which has drawn prices down.

https://www.redfin.com/state/California/housing-market
https://www.freddiemac.com/pmms
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> Of course, the LLM is just regurgitating the facts from the textbooks as well as thousands or millions of test samples.

Indeed. For some of us in the world of business, this is actually a very compelling "just".

Most use cases are indeed still bullshit, but I think we are getting to a point where maybe there exists at least one that isn't, and many of us don't want to be left holding the bag when the threshold hits 50%.
Lots of software tricks make it easy to take low light photos on phones today but require quite a bit of manual tweaking on a DSLR.
But you can already do it for a long time.
> Of course, the LLM is just regurgitating the facts from the textbooks as well as thousands or millions of test samples.

Sure, it is regurgitating facts. What's impressive is that it knows which facts to regurgitate.
I don't think metaverse and Generative AI is mutually exclusive.

Also, Generative AI is advancing a really fast pace.
> Are they really different technologies?

Yes, your impression is wrong.
Excession is spectacular. The focus is on the machine intelligence as opposed to the people.
Singapore locked down from early April to June… 2 months. You don’t think that’s a lockdown? Did China have a lockdown last more than 2 months? I don’t think so. Shanghai was probably the longest and was roughly 2 months long (hard to tell because it started in suburbs only, unlike Singapore that was the whole city), or Wuhan itself in the beginning. So what are you talking about? Pretending that I’m making false statements. You invented this bullshit “extended lockdown” term then didn’t realise Singapore actually did do a longer lockdown than almost all Chinese cities. Good one. :D

Taiwan locked down very early in all cases taking spread to zero and then blocked anyone entering the country. Similar to New Zealand. You don’t call that a lockdown?

Show me where 6 billion doses of mRNA are being produced every 12 weeks? Then I’ll believe China could have procured them.

Chinese are free to travel to hk. There are exceptions of course. But the majority can visit (assuming they had the means) - but that wouldn’t change the fact that HK only had a few million doses so couldn’t possibly help on the mRNA front
I won't go so far as to say I'm on your side, but it's a valid way of looking at the issue. It's the statistical approach - target the biggest part of the problem.

IIRC handguns are used in 75% of firearm deaths from all causes (homicide, suicide, accidents).
Unfortunately Typst is completely incompatible with LaTeX and its packages, so you either have to go back to working on your thesis or procrastinate even more by reimplementing these yourself!
Phil Askey's Photo Review (DPReview's old name) was a pioneer in camera reviews even in back 1998/99 when I first encountered it. I remember it was run from Singapore with the url philaskey.net/~photo or something. He used to review cameras in such clarity and detail that it was so popular among digital camera nerds.

Huge loss!
.tex files work fine in VSCode with the Copilot AI integration. Haven’t tried actually writing LaTeX with it but some cursory investigation shows that it seems to be working well. I suspect it’ll perform decently for basic modifications!

(Side note: it’s always impressed me how Copilot works well in even the more obscure languages)
ChatGPT to Revolutionize FinTech?
Without knowing a person's genetics they are playing with fire here.

I am a FUT2 non-secretor. This effects my gut and dictates what I need in my diet (Fucose (not fructose)). Only 20% of Caucasians are FUT2 non-secretors but that is a lot.

When I take any pro- or pre-biotics...well...look out!
Thank you, it’s hard to find reasonably good arguments like this in the HN comments these days.
Logarithmic scaling factors for your management layers.

Below 50, you basically have a flat org. Even with nominal mangers, everyone is effectively on the same team. 50-150 you need an actual management layer, but these managers are all on the same team, and are also close to the ICs on their team so they have the full context of the entire business between the management group. 150+ you need to introduce a manager-of-managers layer which means you have increased overhead across the board in addition the other communication and coordination challenges.
But it's not like I sit down and just invent the classes I do with my daughter. There are really good programs, which scaffold all this information and explain it to the kid (and often, coincidentally, to the parent too). For example, I know how to add, but would not know how to go systematically through all the cases and explain them to her. Fortunately the Singapore Math curriculum we use does all that and much much more, and I work through it with her.
Ah ok, we've put Origin in the title above. Thanks!
>When a govt imposes trade tarriffs, it's effectively taxing it's own citizens

The Econ 101 way to look at it. In the real world, it also promotes domestic production, creating jobs and often helping "nascent industries", and in many cases ultimately leading to even lower prices over the long term as domestic industry matures. This is how basically every advanced economy industrialized. See the work of South Korean economist, Ha-Joon Chang.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1032019.Bad_Samaritans

>people want to use the platforms they enjoy using, because they're all free anyway

Agree with the first part, but one's attention is hardly "free". It is, in fact, the ultimate opportunity cost when squandered on these services.
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Top executives already pocketed 32 billion ChF in bonuses since 2013. In the same period, CS lost 3.2 billion ChF.

So locking the stable door after the horses looted the barn and burnt it to the ground before bolting.

By law, Bankers should be paid no more than public officials.

https://www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/weltwirtschaft/credit-s...
Very cool. What prompt did you use for GPT to get the image generation prompt?
ddr5 in ddr3 slots?
From the article:

I’m lucky to have been involved with the PC revolution and the Internet revolution. I’m just as excited about this moment.
Food boxes are horrible. I've dealt with GoodFood and HelloFresh. They both forced me to put a hold for 3 months and then contact them again. They wouldn't cancel it for me. It wasn't until my credit card got compromised and I refused to answer them about updating my details that it was properly cancelled.

I ran into almost the same thing with Pretty Litter. When I tried to renew that the credit card wouldn't add after I got a new one and removed the compromised card. But they wanted to call me to put my card back on. Couldn't do it through their website. I declined that too and never looked back.
Ah yes. The founder of one of the top tech firms in the world really just doesn't know much about tech. Thanks for your analysis. You must be swimming in the millions from your genius investments.
Is it your theory that capitalism makes people poorer?
THIS makes you question it? Not any of these:

- Blatantly ripping off products listed on their site, using sales data from those products as decision making on which products to steal.

- The monopolization of every market they enter

- Their search listings are garbage, amazon centric and filled with junk

- Anti-competitive practices such as pricing agreements for products on amazon, when listed on websites other than amazon

- They downright treat their employee's as serfs, nearly across the board.
> I do not know how to best express my gratitude towards gorhill

Them opening a Patreon and you patronizing them would work great. And ensure the continuity of the project.
Hi everyone, CIEL is not done, it has rough edges, a build is provided only for Debian-ish systems, but I like the shape it is taking, and it is already useful.

Look, it is also a utility to easily write Lisp scripts with batteries included, and run them with a simple shebang (or without). I added this capacity a few weeks ago, in retrospect it's obvious.

The most important IMO is that I'm dogfooding it in various ways: launch one-off scripts that lay in my $PATH (simpleHTTPServer), as a CL meta-library I base open-source and closed-source projects on, and musing with its supercharged REPL (access to more utilities with the CIEL-USER package).

As a newcomer to CL, I was frustrated with many things, and the more I explored the ecosystem (I still find hidden gems years after), the more I wanted something easier to get started with. This is my exploration of the solution. I want CIEL to be straightforward to use for newcomers, a tool to use Common Lisp for trivial day-to-day tasks, and a ramp for new users to discovering the ecosystem and to creating their own CL libraries and projects (with or without CIEL).
Related:

Typst: A Programmable Markup Language for Typesetting [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34423590 - Jan 2023 (53 comments)

Typst: Compose Papers Faster - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32209794 - July 2022 (30 comments)

Typst: Compose Papers Faster - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32205005 - July 2022 (1 comment)

Also

Writing an Incremental Typesetting Engine - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33215909 - Oct 2022 (0 comments, but looks interesting)
Is creating an image a substitute for searching for an existing image?
Yeah, I think that we need to probe how much these models are merely memorising their inputs rather than learning a more genereal, compressed (sortof) representation.

Honestly though, ten years ago NLP was using Bag of Words and Markov Chains, it's pretty phenomenal how far it's come.

To be fair, I mostly agree with your main point, but it's still remarkably impressive progress in a relatively short period of time.
It's not '99 anymore and people aren't going to get excited about a better search engine. The Internet economy is completely about passive consumption now. AI obviously has a lot of legitimate behind the scenes use cases, but I see the search end of it flopping.
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The product of f, l, o, o, and r is denoted as $f l o o r$ (Same as $floor$ in latex). "floor" is exactly $\operatorname{floor}$
And a lot of people here helped it to become what it is today. Cheers!
> Also most companies don't need (or want) their DB optimized by an expert.

Maybe most. But as someone supporting a company that has few TBs of data for SQL Server database to run Dynamics AX - they really appreciate when DBA makes their business run smoothly and get reports or calculate orders on time.

And I encounter multiple companies where they should need a touch of a DBA - weird database design that bites the business side of things.
Oh i do remember this happening a long time ago but haven't had that issue in like 6 months.

Although in my case it might have been a specific Language Server Protocol (LSP) package I was using that was consuming 100%+ of my CPU (they fixed it).

Used to have an issue where my bluetooth headphones would annoyingly hiccup every minute or so while listening to music.
> The rise of AI will free people up to do things that software never will—teaching, caring for patients, and supporting the elderly, for example.

Every sci-fi movie show any of those jobs as replaced by AI (or robots). Probably they will not achieve the same level of connection (mostly because they will lack a human body to make expressions, at least at the beginning).

Those jobs will be replaced, not because there is a human that will be replaced, but because there is no human doing them. There are plenty of people in need of education, caring or just loneliness.
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> Unless you want to copy it into another window, tell ChatGPT what modification you want, and then copy it back.

There will be no copying. Plug-ins exist or will exist, such that you will be able to ask GPT-4 directly from within your editor and the plug-in will pass the contents of the document or selection alongside your prompt. Conversely the plug-in for your editor will replace the contents of your document or selection with the output of GPT-4.
I paid $.99 on eBay to get an invite back in the day!
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Which one? Scientific calories, or nutrition calories?
100% this.

Not only will I not miss it, I'm glad it's going, I found the reviews to be extended advertising for camera manufacturers and retailers, and the forums were packed with know-nothings arguing over cameras they'd never used.
Are you sure about this? The Asahi about page (https://asahilinux.org/about/) lists Hector Marcan and Lina as separate people. I assume Asahi Lina is a pen name, but I don't see anything to suggest it's Marcan's alter ego?
Wages per measure of productivity are way, way down. People are both doing more and also getting paid less for it.

Gas is three times more expensive than it was 20 years ago, and even when adjusted for inflation, 60% higher than it was 20 years ago.
He didn't grow rich via copywrong laws. He grew rich by creating value and selling it. Their business model was selling software. Copyright laws kept people from copying the software freely without paying for it.
this isn't even a hack -- in Typst you write `$a b$` for implicit products, `$ab$` is always parsed as an identifier and you'll get a compile error if its not defined.
Nvidia turns to AI cloud rental to spread new technology
I've heard multiple people say Preview (and the macos screenshot tools) are safe.
In Germany, there's no requirement for a written employment contract. The contract is formed implicitly if the employee keeps showing up for work, and the employer keeps paying them. Most employers use written contracts to override some legal defaults where this is permitted (e.g., symmetric notice periods instead of the default asymmetry favoring the employee). But the law is written in such a way that you don't necessarily have to do this.
Unbelievable, I can't understand how people haven't noticed that. "Wow I crop an image and it doesnt get smaller WTF???"

Man if I ran Windows 11 to think I might be the one who stumbled on this 0-day first....
Laws that make it illegal to use one's own property to share information.

A correction of the copyright misnomer.
You could make the case that the internet wasn't a true revolution, but rather social media and smartphones were the revolutions.

The internet was just a technology that made it possible, like the semiconductor or batteries, but for most people the internet without social media is just the place you go to check your e-mail and maybe read the news.
This is respectable, and how I use it. But I do think parent has a point too. There is a goldrush for the best large language model, and the companies with the resources don’t have a more appropriate product to create with it.

I share the concerns and optimisms. The concerns. Last week my dad was asking “why are all these businesses closed today?”

I typed “holidays today” into bing search bar (not the chat), and it gave me “Holidays in May.” I’m glad he wasn’t confused between similar-sounding medications, I wasn’t expecting bing to be creative on a question like that.

The optimism. Freakin, my search engine can create content that never existed before. That’s pretty cool. Our phones aren’t really “phones” anymore, as we have learned. This live prototyping rollout of search-based ML has a similar nature.
I thought KeyDB already provided what Dragonfly claims to do except better?
Other code quality issue encountered on a quick review:

- use of utils package
- use of models package
- naming of receivers (too long)
- returning empty structs instead of (nil) pointers
- too much log.Fatal scattered around the code
- unhandled errors, inconsistent error handling
sometimes handled twice a la log.Printf(..., err) then return err
consider error wrapping here
- useless use of err2 variables
- use of Must functions which will panic if fail, transition to err producing fns
- stuttering (digger.DiggerConfig)
- naming things ...Impl instead of naming the interface ...er || ..or
This is done correctly in tf.go, not so good in locking.go

For a complete review i would need more time.
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Not them. But the archive team have been made aware and are gathering in #dprived on hackint IRC.