skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An interesting change of tone for the Apple CEO...

"Apple's Tim Cook criticizes social media practices" - https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-facebook-idUSKBN29X...

"Apple CEO Tim Cook slams Facebook: Privacy 'is a human right, it's a civil liberty'" - https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/apple-ceo-tim-cook-sl...

"Apple CEO Tim Cook slams tech companies for not hiring enough women" - https://www.indiatoday.in/technology/news/story/apple-ceo-sl...

"Apple CEO Tim Cook Criticizes Pro-Discrimination 'Religious Freedom' Laws" - https://www.vox.com/2015/3/29/11560894/apple-ceo-tim-cook-cr...
When I was younger my friends and I used to trap and kill dozens of them at a time. The sheer number of hogs and the rate at which they breed down in the river bottoms is insane.

Not sure how you'd ever get rid of them, they are pretty clever and once you use a trick unsuccessfully on them they tend to avoid it.
I think it's more about personal data being used for training.

I may use Google to look up if that slight itch I feel is a symptom of cancer (I'm exaggerating), and I store mails with personal details, my calendar, and messages on Google. But I also assume they're not using those texts to train an AI.

When you enter a code snippet or a personal question in ChatGPT, and press the little thumbs up/down next to the answer, you're adding your data to a training set. The next generation of the model might regurgitate that text verbatim.
> It's been said that ideas don't matter, and that only execution does. I wholeheartedly disagree. You need both to succeed, but you can only get so good at execution. A great idea gives you much more leverage.

https://www.courtlandallen.com/how-to-brainstorm-great-busin...
I did an experiment of GPT-3.5 vs Bing vs GPT-4

Bing produced incomplete code.

Only GPT-4 was close enough to be correct.
> For the benefit of blind and deafblind users, the above pictures, which are in fact just text, as everything in PDOS is, can be found in text format here.

I like this and thought it was admirable. Good reason to be building something - to make the world a better place for someone.
You need to think more holistically. Normalizing this practice makes it harder for that activist to resist handing over their phone at the border.
Asian financial crisis? Euro crisis? It’s not unique to the US.

It just makes headlines.
It also can be argued that overturning Woe v. Wade was good, because it put it into the hands of legislators. It was shitty law because it instituted a right where none was. Thus, it kept legislators from legislating on an evolving issue.
I mean, I did contradict your take. I contradict that inflation dropped primarily due to Carter picking Volker, or that dropping oil prices were a major factor. How much more contradictory can I be?

There's plenty of other takes that contradict yours as well, like this one: https://www.forbes.com/sites/briandomitrovic/2011/02/07/volc...

The authors claims that the Reagan tax cuts were a key ingredient without which the inflation reduction may not have occurred at all, or it at least would have occurred at a much slower rate.

But, look at me not carrying on a "discussion" because I keep citing other sources. I should just respond with one single sentence stating my belief as fact, right?
Ask HN: What is the point of smartphone wireless chargers?
I get that manufacturers are happy to sell more crap, and consumers are happy to buy new shiny crap. And wireless chargers are more expensive than wires, so that's an incentive for the manufacturer.

But technically, is it really worth making wireless chargers? It seems to me that they are strictly more complex, require more material, charge slower and are less energy efficient. Moreover, they still require a wire: instead of plugging it into the phone, you align its magnetic end to the magnet on the phone.

So is there an actual technical argument in favour of wireless chargers? Like is it that hard to make a waterproof usb socket that it justifies wasting material and energy with a radically different approach?
Any hint in order to have a smaller resolution? It's too bing in my netbook.
Even as someone who refuses to do hybrid, much less 100% in-office, this article is quite a reach. At most, it can be said that the culture that led CS to push Back-to-the-Office is the same culture that contributed to its demise, but it really doesn't follow that the policy itself is what caused the demise.
https://www.zachtronics.com/eliza/
When hornets make a nest outside your garage, do you intervene or do you live and let live?
(Assuming you mean a small drone a citizen could be licensed to operate): Do drones have the ability to stabilize the recoil from a gun powerful enough to kill a pig?

You could certainly air drop explosives on them but that connotes serious risk to the environment and extremely inhumane injury or death to the pigs.

I wonder if some kind of dart could be used to euthanize them, though it would likely cost more than bullets and still lack accuracy.

What an awful topic though. The pigs have no idea they’re invasive. They’re such intelligent creatures, it’s an incredible shame that we’ve caused this.
Should we list hours, minutes, seconds? or year, month, day? Should we drive on the right side of the road or left? Should we use imperial or metric system? These are all good questions but I think the answer is "it depends." Just like timezones. You can't get rid of timezones: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26416337

https://qntm.org/abolish
I have actually been using chatGPT do write jsdocs for me.

It mostly only need the function and the type definitions (typescript) and it is usually very good at writing them and it does save me time.
Thanks for the feedback. Regarding creating plots from SQL, we were just talking about that internally. It's a really interesting idea and something we have used ourselves in django-sql-explorer (https://django-sql-explorer.readthedocs.io/en/latest/feature...)

We have a set of components (https://github.com/datapane/components) and can look at something for autoplotting from a query. Similarly, we recently built a component to automatically create vega-lite plots from datasets using ChatGPT, which is another approach that works well (if interested, I can write up as a blogpost).
I'm pretty sure this is what OP meant; but, now, I am saddened we haven't seen the Neil's collaborate on a sci-fi graphic novel. Obviously, it'd be 12000 pages long.
> Everyone at the time recognized that Roe v. Wade was shitty law, but they put their objections on the back burner and kicked the can down the road so they wouldn't have to have the Mother of all Debates.

Well, no. It codified roughly what the public thought was appropriate at the time - the stable achievable policy equilibrium. And in the past 50 years, public sentiment has remained mostly unchanged; it's just trended a tiny bit towards more permissiveness around abortion.

See the graph displaying Gallup's public polling results here: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/how-has-public-opinion-a....

> Two years after the court’s decision, 54 percent of U.S. adults said they supported abortion under certain circumstances and another 21 percent said abortion always should be legal, according to Gallup polling from 1975, while 22 percent of Americans said it should be illegal.

> By 2018, Gallup pollsters found little change [...]
How about "insurance company uses built in surveillance capabilities to fleece users extra for what was previously considered normal usage".

In case you didn't realize it, insurance companies are a shadow control layer, and it is in everyone's interest to stay on top of what information insurers are allowed to operate off of, as all of them indirectsly converge on the same signals.
Sweet Dreams Cereal
Premiums should be based on accident rate of the individual driver, especially if you are monitoring each driver's driving habits.
Judges do NOT legislate from the bench! That is incredibly anti-democratic, and a collapse of our system. Judges do NOT tell politicians that they cannot make abortion illegal. That right, and yes, it IS a right, is reserved to the electorate. Who gets their will expressed through politicians. Judges judge against the body of legislation (and common law). And, yes politicians LITERALLY have the ability to do anything that the electorate want. That includes Global War.
This is the answer. CoreML gives you an abstraction over different generations and sizes of underlying NPU.

You might not want the abstraction, but love it or hate it, that’s kind of the Apple way.

It will be very interesting to see what their next chips look like since we’re getting to the point where HW designs will reflect the rise of the, uh, transformers.
You can do whatever you would like with your uterus (or any other body part), just please don't kill anyone in the process.
> GPT 3.5 turbo engine is 1/5th of a cent per 1000 tokens

Diffs vary in length, small ones might be a few dozen words (tokens); large ones can be much more. GPT 3.5 Turbo's limit is 4096 tokens per question [1], meaning the most it can cost is 4/5ths of a cent per commit.

I average less than 10 commits per day, so if all my diffs are large, that will cost $0.08/day, or about $2.50/month.

[1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cognitive-services/o...
Steel and concrete account for a large percentage of carbon emissions and we don't really have any viable technology to replace this in the near future.
If it was universal the Mongols wouldn't have changed the carbon footprint of the planet by slaughtering so many millions of people.

The one constant as you move through human history objectively is that might makes right... the best you can hope for is a philosopher king who is willing to put his iron gauntlet in a velvet glove and then use that hand to guide society into a better place... and apply pressure when necessary, as opposed to crushing.
> The overall scheme involved the distribution of more than 7,600 fake nursing diplomas issued by three South Florida-based nursing schools

> "What is disturbing about this investigation is that there are over 7,600 people around the country with fraudulent nursing credentials who are potentially in critical health care roles treating patients..."

This aspect of it seems to warrant more attention. Presumably some didn't pass the license exam, quit, or retired but that is an enormous number of fake nurses. I assume they are concentrated in some particular area because they had to hear about the scheme somehow.
I've long thought that it is often better to return a bit of extra data in internal API responses to validate that the response matches the request sent. That can be fairly simple like parroting a request ID, or including some extra metadata (e.g. part of the request) to validate the response is valid. It's not the most efficient, but it can safe your bacon sometimes. Mixing up deployment stacks (e.g. thinking you are talking to staging but actually it's prod) and mixing user data are pretty scary, so any defense in depth seems useful.
This is not whataboutism.

GP identifies an action that analogous and holds certain properties as the original action, in the process illuminating how the issues of approach A exist in approach B.
Another fun option is to print the folios and bind them yourself. A serviceable job can be done in an afternoon with little more than a sewing kit. It’s easy, using a ruler, an awl or something similar, and a stiff piece of cardboard, to make a guide template for punching holes in the folios. After that it’s just a matter of stitching.
Thank god. Someone needs to take that protocol out back and give it the old yeller treatment.
A Black Bar Appeared
Hacker news has added a new improvement to the theme, a stylish new black bar at the top. Maybe they will consider changing the back ground to a darker color as well or offering a dark mode for the site.
Monica will soon launch a brand new version, codename Chandler
Private insurance companies charge higher amounts for insuring Teslas as their repair costs are much higher than a majority of cars on the road.
How to spot an AI-generated image
Biological warfare, in one form or another, might be the only way, but that comes with risks that are probably unacceptable, even in light of the amount of damage they cause.
They are not deciding what is good for us, they decide what is good for their public image, and that kind of controversy is certainly not something they'd like to venture into.
It’s hard for people to appreciate just how much better our lives are, and how much more just life is in western society now than all of the millions of years of human life before. 200 years ago some people were literal property, 150 years ago women couldn’t vote almost anywhere, less than 75 years ago Turing was chemically castrated for being a homosexual. Huge, meaningful strides have been made for equally and fairness very recently.

It may seem terrible and unjust that there are some now that are as rich as a Roman emperor and can buy a great deal of influence, but the world was once thousands of unaccountable tyrants, free to brutalize their peasants and slaves.
I did this when it first came out. At the time, I lived < 5 miles from work and worked offset hours. It did actually lower my insurance, and then when I learned what it was considering hard braking, it went even lower when I eliminated that from my driving habits. All was good until my company moved into the same building I was living. Naturally, my weekly driving dropped to zero with only weekend driving primarily for errands for groceries (I lived on one of those infamous food deserts). Because of this, the battery in the unit was not getting charged because the engine wasn't running enough. They accused me of gaming the system by unplugging the unit and driving around with out it. I told them to check the miles to show it was just not being used. They still argued that I was cheating, and end my trial. They then attempted to charge me an extremely ridiculous fee for not returning their device within their allotted time period.
This reminds me of The Manual by The KLF. One of the most cleverly written books I've read in recent years. All jokes aside some of the ideas in that book still very valuable today and applicable to any business venture beyond music production.
We use Metromile since we also work remote and don't drive much. There's a base rate per month plus a per-mile rate of a few cents. For us it ends up being a lot less than other options we've looked into.
Just tried this. It worked pretty well! I'm abroad right now and I told it where I am and it worked pretty darn well.
I'm a gun owner and support controlled hunting both for needed food for some people and population control when done properly. But beware perverse incentives and proper management. There have been plenty of articles and research about use of incentives and industry for dealing with invasive species, not just the feral pig problem but many others (nutria and lionfish for example [0]). And states that have made hunting easier do not seem to have necessarily benefited perhaps in part due to also creating an industry and economic incentives around feral pig hunting that actively encourages people to want more feral pigs to hunt. This has echoes to efforts going way back, a well meaning simple program might offer payment for some proof of killing a pest animal. This seems like a way to get people to go out and get them. But will they do that, or will some end up actively breeding said pest animals, harvesting them for the reward, and having plenty escape or eventually cause other issues? There definitely has to be some holistic thinking before just letting systems develop, particularly since it can be hard/impossible to unwind even if it was a mistake. Like all kinds of economic activities once people get into them lobbying and economic arguments can in turn shift the politics.

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0: "Review of harvest incentives to control invasive species" https://www.reabic.net/journals/mbi/2014/3/MBI_2014_Pasko_Go...
I will ban Tesla if they don’t stop using their technology as a way to strip people of their freedom. If Tesla wants to become Big Brother they will go out of business really really quickly once open alternatives are constructed. Tesla is just early in next-gen vehicles.

But Yahoo was early in search and look what happened.

The future is open hardware, open manufacturing, cheap manufacturing, cheap hardware, and open software that the user controls. Your car should not be phoning home for this or trying to regulate your behavior this way, because the next step is someone trying to penalize free movement on the basis of ideology.

We will not allow this pipeline to be built. We will not tolerate enslavement of free peoples.
I think it comes down to a human coming home from a long day at work and dropping their keys and phone down on the table where they always drop them. Then there is that one extra step. Plug in the phone and make sure the connection is working and the cable hasn't gone bad yet. But with wireless the human can drop the phone with the same level of "I'm done" as he can drop the keys.
Well, thanks for the strawman. When you debate in strawman arguments, you block constructive debate from moving forward. The issue is one of judicial discernment. It is the ability for a supreme court to make up rights not written into the constitution. This is not difficult to recognize, whether you are pro-choice or pro-life. The correct place for this is in legislation. It is an emotional topic that is constantly evolving. What is going to happen when a fetus can survive in an artificial womb? We are a long way from that, but that is something a council of unelected justices should not have to rule on.
Not particularly keen to get in an abortion debate on HN of all places.

That being said, regardless of anyone's political stance, you saying 'because you made bad decisions' is inflammatory, and clearly based on the assumption that the pregnancy was a result of fully consensual sex.

Don't be that guy.
Again this is not really a solution to the problem. Because the issue is not one of monetary supply, but of velocity. Giving money to people who will spend that money increases monetary velocity. The only way to prevent this is to reduce the amount of money people are spending.

That's why, for instance, the Fed is currently raising interest rates. They want to 'gently' brake the economy (while trying to avoid breaking it) such that people stop spending so much money, and inflation cools down. By contrast countless countries have tried to solve inflation by simply naively tackling the problem.

People don't have enough money to buy chicken? Well obviously we just need to give them more money! And that's how you get Zimbabwe. [1] Alternatively, another direct approach is to say "Okay - companies may no longer charge more than $0.50 for a chicken." That's how you get Venezuela. [2]

[1] - https://www.theguardian.com/money/2016/may/14/zimbabwe-trill...

[2] - https://www.reuters.com/news/picture/venezuelas-empty-shelve...
My naive impression is that heavy industry is (and has been) doing a lot of research into aligning their processes with more intermittent future energy characteristics.

I.e. moving from a "we want to run the plant at optimal efficiency, damn the load pattern" to "we want to be able to optimize by following energy costs, even if that means we need to idle sometimes"

Processes were very well optimized for the former, hence the greenfield for research into the latter.
How do you tell me Tesla owners are in a cult without saying they are in a cult?
It’s what they do when somebody important to the industry has died. In this case it is Gordon Moore.
Yes of cour
> The reason Row v Wade was overturned is that the judges don't want to have to decide if abortion is legal or not.

No. The reason Roe v Wade was overturned is because conservative middle-aged/old white-guys with money are not happy about people, and by people I mean women, having reproductive choice.

It's one of the areas that fundamental islam and conservative "Christians" have significant overlap, and that's not a good thing.
I use a wireless charging cradle because

o It saves physical wear and tear on the lightning / USB port

o It allows charging when the lightning / USB port is damaged (its the only way my fiance could charge her old iphone after an accident damaged the lightngin port

o Its faster/easier to put down or pick up the phone to/from a cradle or charging pad while your hands are full.
I share the privacy concerns, and look forward to running these kinds of models locally in the near future.

> chatgpt and other LLMs are known to hallucinate. What if it’s advice is wrong or makes you worse in the long term because it’s just regurgitating whatever at you?

As someone on a long-term therapy journey, I would be far less concerned about this. Therapy is rarely about doing exactly what one is told, it's about exploring your own thought processes. When a session does involve some piece of advice, or "do xyx for <benefit>", that is rarely enough to make it happen. Knowing something is good and actually doing it are two very different things, and it is exploring this delta that makes therapy valuable (in my personal experience).

At some point, as that delta shrinks and one starts actually taking beneficial actions instead of just talking, the advice becomes more of a reminder / an entry point to the ground one has already covered, not something that could be considered prescriptive like "take this pill for 7 days".

The point I'm trying to make is that if ChatGPT is the therapist, it doesn't make the person participating into a monkey who will just execute every command. Asking the bot to provide suggestions is more about jogging one's own thought processes than it is about carrying out specific tasks exactly as instructed.

I do wonder how someone who hasn't worked with a therapist would navigate this. I could see the value of a bot like this as someone who already understands how the process works, but I could absolutely see a bot being actively harmful if it's the only support someone ever seeks.

My first therapist was actively unhelpful due to lack of trauma-awareness, and I had to find someone else. So I could absolutely see a bot being unhelpful if used as the only therapeutic resource. On the flip side, ChatGPT might actually be more trauma-"aware" than some therapists, so who knows.
Show HN: CryptoWarden – Protect your non-custodial wallets
Ludolph Van Ceulen
pigs are arguably smarter than dogs and as many can attest, these pigs will avoid traps and hunters rather adeptly - this is a situation where we need to repopulate wolves - hobby hunting will never outpace their population growth, we need full-time allies
Yeah, you really should.

Said as someone who waits for the ability to self-host before doubling down on these tools.
I always thought gamey was from high activity of the muscles. Farmed animals certainly don’t run around forests fending for themselves
Ask HN: Do you refuse to do coding challenges for software engineer interviews?
Perplexity.ai, not .io
I was talking in the context of Rust backends, in which case emscripten is effectively not maintained.

I am aware that emscripten is a product you can use to compile software. Frankly that's a little condescending to phrase it in such a way.
I really appreciate you writing this and giving me not context to what happened—thank you.