skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't formulate a technical reason why there is difference.

I guess I have to go with culture... there are very few if any systems which talk to each other over SMS. Definitely not in a standardised manner, if so. Custom SCADA systems, maybe.

(SMS is more like how modems were back in the day, re automated systems.)

So there are very few apps on SMS today. Almost all communication is either machine system > human. (Spam, 2FA, etc.) Or human <-> human.

Edit:

in a parallel reality where we were stuck on SMS for some reason (alien invasion in 1989, successfully repelled but much of value was lost, for instance) and SMS messages were to become cheap or free (as they often are today) I could definitely see an "internet" growing up with SMS as the transfer backbone.

Much of the basics could be done over SMS, status updates, "email", news and so on.

Heck, Twitter ran on sms I'm told. (It was a US thing, right?)
Are you suggesting that artificial minds are unattainable in principle, or that the much-hyped language models are elevators for a task that requires rockets?
100% this. There's enough of this crap on the web as-is. If you've ever restricted your search engine results to Reddit, you understand why this is a problem.

Let's not s*** where we eat, folks.
What do you mean? I want this, why would history be unkind to me?
Having encountered poetry recently for the first time, it was "simply" hell. I just wanted to use a single file python project, https://github.com/rumpelsepp/oscclip

I spent about three hours trying to figure out how to setup python keyrings to work, to let me just get started using poetry. On a system I was ssh'ed I to. Gnome-keyring-daemom was up. I spent a while adding random pam rules suggested by archwiki in to inject more gnome-daemon stuff in my envs. Random gnome-keyring-unlock scripts, which quickly start talking about Clevis and tpm and fido 2-factor. Wading through hundreds of responses about Seahorse, a gui tool unsuitable for ssh. Many long miserable sad stories.

In the end I stumbled upon someone who suggested just nulling out & turning off keyring with some config to make it have a null provider. After this the poetry project just worked.

The tiny handful of deps this project has were already installed on my system, but poetry was also a task runner, instrumental for the usage of this single-file script.

There's been so many years of churn in the python world of tools. A fractal nesting doll of virtual-env, mkvirtualenv, & various offshoots. I hope some day there is a mature reasonable option folks generally find agreeable. Poetry eventually worked for me, but what a miserable gauntlet I had to walk, and the cries of so many who'd walked the path & utterly failed echoed out at me at every step.
MakeCode is pretty amazing. Options for it are the micro:bit, an 8-bit arcade system, or Minecraft. Switches between block-programming and Python or Javascript, so you have an easy path to text programming.

For 'real' programming, once they have their python chops, have a look at https://anvil.works
I think the answer is clear. The company operates for the benefit of the owner and not for the benefit of the employees. The owners would rather keep the cash themselves then give it in charity to employees for improve employee quality of life.
I think E3 was already kind of an hollowed out husk in the years before, for instance Sony already skipped and did their own thing in 2019: https://gamerant.com/sony-skip-e3-2019-why/

This article also reads like the writing was already on the wall: https://www.indiewire.com/2020/06/e3-uncertain-future-gaming...

Covid at most accelerated its death by a year or two.
Mental Health in Low Earth Orbit
I think this goes back to what people were complaining about with the Elon Musk AI letter. It's giant corporations/stock market not owning the giant potential jobs losses that's a bigger threat than Killer AI.
Could audiobooks be the next frontier for advertising?
The Evil Overlord List (1996)
I work with a bunch of data scientists and they manage to go about 1.5 years between "I've totally fucked my Python environment and have to burn it down completely and reinstall it from scratch" events. So yes, I would agree with your statement about Python's packaging system being a ridiculous failure.
An AI will never be able to replicate the real joy of D&D: asking every minor npc their name and watching as your friend tries to keep coming up with new names on the spot.
Not OP, but Makecode does this.
Your observation is on point.

People are strategically focusing our outrage. Political tribes need simple monsters/bogeymen. Their leaders (politicians, government officials, corporate leaders, and even police union executives) each use PR in different ways to focus their constituents’ attention.
> Software, Finance, and to a point Sales are the "normal" jobs out there that work in a similar way because its largely non-fungible. An amazing trader or dev might make the firm 100x revenue than an average trader. A bad dev or trader brings in Negative value as they make things worse.

The hard part, and what a lot of engineers should focus on, is putting a dollar figure on that.

> a better teacher does not bring in 10x revenue to a district, a worse teacher doesn't create 10x losses. Even though teachers have a large societal effect, there is no direct revenue analysis you can do to show what the replacement value is.

To me that's an incredible opportunity for companies in the education sector to bring an alternative business model where compensation is based on track record. I'm certain a lot of parents would be very interested to hire tutors that have a good track record of their students going to top 10 schools for example.
Did social media cause the banking panic?
It wasn't really a public convention. It is only designed to bring in people from the industry. This isn't comic-con.
Right now it's not very good since that hasn't been a focus for us yet - but both David and I worked on fairly advanced design tools for accessibility while at Airbnb, so we have a lot of ideas here!
Given the target audience of Anaconda, I can see how BSD compatibility doesn't matter to them. I guess it would take some major lifting because much of what they do is wrangling the compiling environment. Supporting Windows is hard enough.

That's not "being toxic", you just can't be everything to all people.
The “I’m a professional DM” stage.
Kinda cool, like that you went with status bar util instead of another full blown app.
Citation for any of this?
"Half" vs "a bit" is far too big an argument for a hackernews comment section

On the rest:

He did not inherit an Emerald mine and no reliable source has alleged he did, nor that his father even owned any part in the mine after the 90s, nor are there any reliable sources stating that Musk's father monetarily helped him in business other than a $28k loan he paid back. Heck, they even failed at doing a quick Google to figure out how much a pocket full of uncut emeralds actually goes for (a few hundred dollaras). And yet he's often portrayed as a trust fund kid who was given millions and never worked a day in his life.

On the child dying, neither his wife nor he lied: https://twitter.com/justinemusk/status/1595539044217552896

The baby death rattled in her arms but he felt the last heartbeat.

When journalists dislike you they will knowingly propagate misleading distortions and myths and will never correct inaccuracies that went against you or promote facts that are in your favour.
Oh, I see. Hope you succeed. If this technology makes its way into the Apple watch or AirPod we'll reduce T2D by 100 million over night.
I saw your other comment, makes sense. Are you working on a new startup then?
Charged, not convicted. And we're (supposed to be) innocent until proven guilty in the US, so I'm guessing that's likely why she's on paid leave and not terminated.
A GPT 3.5 powered tool for generating regex
FWIW, a lot of the plugins are rife with malware, spyware, and other nasties - probably best to avoid them if you're not willing to pull them apart and inspect the source code.
One observation I made while in Japan was that every Indian restaurant had almost the same menu. Like there was a template to success and everyone was following that.

A few tandoori naans, tandoori kababs, standard chicken and seafood curries, and a handful of vegetarian options, topped with the ever present mango lassi.

Can't complain though. A lunch set with all these was around 700 yen - about 5 dollars at today's rate!
You could ask it to write a 5-10 bullet point summary at the end of each session, keep a separate file where you keep all the session summaries, and then include that summary at the beginning of your first prompt when beginning a new play session. But still, it would be difficult to get it to remember all the details of a lengthy campaign like a human would.
I've actually been looking at Milvus for storing embeddings, why do y'all have options for both Pulsar and Kafka inside Milvus? Seems like unnecessary choices for what we hoped would just be a plug and play vector database
she's not a cop, but okay.
Both are privileges, but claiming that a remote worker can "just move close to a tech campus and get the same things" is a pitch from left field that requires at least four relays. That was the purpose in calling out that privilege, not to say that no one deserves privilege or that all privileges are the same.
Britain's economic trajectory will soon see it overtaken by Poland
We Need to Keep the Attack Surface Moving
Maybe, but she might be just a solo entrepreneur. It's not hard to find dark markets if you're technically savvy, even before having the inside knowledge of someone adjacent to/involved with law enforcement.
LEDs also cause interference with WiFi and other radio signals. Found out after putting a LED bulb in my smart garage door opener.. which immediately went offline.
This is starting to get out of hand.
ChatGPT Axiom of correctness: If an answer cannot be googled or cannot be obtained by making trivial modifications to an answer found on google, most probably GhatGPT's answer is incorrect.
Yunohost is awesome and I’m using it since Debian 9 and I moved the configuration from DigitalOcean to Hetzner to OCI with even an architecture change (amd64 to arm64). It never let me down, crashed or was left in an unmanageable state. It’s „production ready“ for private use, non-profits or very small businesses.
Two notes that AI is clearly way more intelligent than it was even three years ago, and that GPU hardware alone is advancing exponentially, with algorithmic advances on top of that, along with ever-larger GPU farms.
OpenAI – Our approach to alignment research
I'll also note that all Tiny Tapeout projects are hosted on github and you can browse through them if you want to see how they're done
Better ask why not to install Linux for non-tech people. Assuming they need something installed - i.e. they're using an older computer which needs an OS refresh, their hard drive just crashed and they need help to get the thing up and running again, they bought a machine without an OS - it is much harder to defend installing Windows 11 than it is to install Mint or Debian or Fedora. It is clear those non-technical users will have a better user experience with a simple Mate or Gnome desktop than they'll have with the intrusive mess which is Windows 1X. These non-technical users will most likely want to use the web, probably mail, some chat thing and some office stuff. They'll also want to do something with media (photos, video, audio, etc). All of these are par for the course on those Linux distributions.

Linux has been ready for the desktop for a long time. Windows is getting less and less ready for the desktop with every release. What it has gained in stability it has lost in being actively hostile against personal computing. Where Gates spoke about information at your fingertips Microsoft now seems to interpret this as your information at our fingertips.
> You gave up on it 5 years ago but are sure nothing happened in the last few months

I said that it's been in decline. If its unusable now, I'm not shocked because of the way it was headed even a few years ago. Musk very well might have realized the dumpster fire that is their API and shelved it for the time being.

> why is your take more credible than theirs?

What can I say, I'm just a simple user? Whether you find my "take" credible or not is purely up to you. ymmv
So YC is mostly just for unicorns?
*party*
awesome, i am happy that our tool will help you a little ;-)

thanks for an interesting observation with the back button, we will take a look at it.

i think there are still no flights to/from ukraine because of the war.
Thanks - this will improve my life
Trump indicted by N.Y. grand jury, first ex-president charged with crime
I guess we should just trust when the Chinese or Russian agencies come up with their conclusions too, then.

And yes, the US is a democracy and russia/china aren't. But that doesn't seem to have made the US any more trust worthy when it comes to not being prone to baseless war mongering. And the US population seem to be pretty excited to vote over and over again for (or at least, it used to be) war hawks or even outright war criminals. Bush was re-elected in 2004 after outright lying about an incredibly destructive war, so it seems like democracy isn't an argument for trusting the US more on these matters. I guess Americans and westerners in general (mostly) don't live with the consequences of those wars so it's very easy to handwave demands of actual proof by saying that life isn't a movie, or that it was all done with good faith(tm).

But for muslims and the MENA region in general, those arguments just don't resonate well with us at all.
The comparison shouldn't be to individual humans, but to societies of all scales.

AIs can scale horizontally as well as vertically.
Good question. She actually got a degree in chemical engineering not CS, but then switched over to fulltime software dev at her company a couple of years out of school as she liked that more -- so yeah, I would say so.
There's been a solo rpg movement around for a long time. And solitaire is literally one of the og single player board games - it's literally in the name (translates to lone or loner)! And personally, I consider all fiction authors and screenwriters to be solo rpg gamers, they just don't have to abide by any specific rules other than their own. There's room for both social and solo pursuits in life and it's not necessarily depressing to engage in the solo if the person is enjoying themselves.
frequency and airtime?
AAA gaming - as we have known it - is dead as long as major platforms continue with 30% commissions. All of the profits accrue to the platform owners, with studios either failing or being acquired by them.

The end result is a weak industry mostly dominated by skinner box free2play games or gambling apps.
GDC is aimed at devs. E3 was aimed at the unwashed masses.

Different audiences entirely. GDC is more like a trade conference.
These are the most common options available at the stables in Aelondar. If you’re interested in more exotic mounts or transportation methods, they may be harder to find and come at a higher cost. ...

tenzin rolled a 18 investagation looking for more exotic mounts

With Tenzin’s keen eye for detail, he notices a small, discreet stable towards the back of the market, guarded by a heavy wooden gate. As he approaches, an elderly woman, who appears to be the stable’s owner, greets him. “Ah, you have a good eye, young one,” she says with a smile. “You must be looking for something special. I do have some exotic mounts for those with discerning tastes and a willingness to pay.”

Honestly, this seems like a reasonable outcome. ChatGPT says they might be hard to find, character rolls an 18, and he finds them. What do you think should have been the response? "No, you don't get to roll to search for them"?
The DM set up a potential hidden item, the player rolled high enough to find it, voila.

Compare to when he's trying to steal one of them. He rolls high enough stealth, but fails animal handling. To avoid being caught, he has another roll that allows him to cause chaos by opening up a stall and allowing him to escape. That all seems like a pretty well fleshed out scenario.
I assume they want(ed) the hype & reaction though - just like recording a sitcom or chat show in front of a live audience, most people watching aren't there!
What do you mean? He's a real lawyer and law professor. I haven't heard of any of these criticisms.

edit: I can't reply, so...

Specific criticisms, please? The link is to a video with a Canadian lawyer and someone who might actually have a relevant opinion on US law who, several minutes in, can only seem to broadly and mockingly dismiss him without saying anything specific other than accuse him of being biased and mock him for crying. Biased is not the same as wrong.

edit 2: Specific as in: what has he been wrong about?
Technological merits are not the product.
Yeah, there is unfortunate need to click on each bulb and read through specs.

Some of the bulbs have exact CRI listed, and some have "90+". I only buy the first kind.
The issue is that you’d probably get that result, or a similar it equivalent one, wherever you go in the game world. It isn’t going to have the concept of distinct characteristics of different places unless to tell it to. Everything is going to be generic and bland by default.
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Q: Est-ce que vous parlez francais?

A: Oui, je parle français. Je suis un programme informatique conçu pour aider et fournir des informations aux utilisateurs.

snazzy
You should a) pick big impact items to argue your case b) still acknowledge strengths & successes amid your critique.

Also if you are facing the world's most popular language & a very successful one people build all sorts of stuff with without complaint, it's a big barrier.

I think most language bigots lack a good narrative. They have a language they love, or a language they hate, but they harp upon specific issues. But to I think most coders, choice of language is actually pretty far down the list, especially if you ask them to ignore the ecosystem of packages/tooling & focus on the language itself. Trying to go beyond scoring points & telling a story about life being actually authentically really different on one path or another keeps being harder and harder to se, as we keep marching through the decades & seeing few really really strong distinct clear advantages anywhere, no one really excelling at their claimed bag, in an unreplicateable way that shows it really is the language, not just ecosystem. (rust being one genuine exception)
Hot take: the third chord should be D, not G.
At some point I asked it for a transcript from the trial of the Hamburgular and that triggered the guardrails, It lectured me about misinformation and how the Hamburgular was just a character from a series of ads and that no such criminal proceedings had ever transpired. The nagging from OpenAI is getting out of hand. Maybe instead of "hello" it should just open the conversation with telling us how the thing we are about to say is unethical and inappropriate.
> You should really use docker

>> I think you missed the point.

Maybe I did, but I've been using Docker as version management for pretty much every technology I employ for five or six years. Prior to that I sparsely used things like rbenv and virtualenv and I actually thought it was super dangerous and unreliable. Maybe it's gotten better in recent years, and certainly people who write python and ruby every day are going to know more about this than I do.

I don't install anything on my computer if I can just use Docker for it. OK, I do have go:latest, but I use docker images for various projects that might be on any version of go from 1.8 to 1.20. Your website still runs on PHP5.3? I can help you (I won't, but I could totally run it locally!).

Reasons I like docker better:

1. Any scripts or configs can explicitly refer to the version number. No guessing or assuming.

2. Our whole team uses the same version.

3. Only one dependency: docker.

Granted I'm more of a sysadmin than a developer and I'm sure that biases apply.
I also ran some experiments with IF. An interesting note is ReAct, a framework for getting LLMs to solve problems, ran tests within ALFWorld, which is sorta IF. It would be interesting to get GPT to navigate games from IFDB. As a IF generator an LLM could allow for more freedom in an IF game.

https://github.com/alfworld/alfworld
This whole thread has been a gut punch. My sister and her kid were recently diagnosed with ADHD and combining that fact with what has been described here I need to go see someone myself I think.

I have been on the anxiety treatment path before and what you describe rings true with me.
Why would any future president ever want to relinquish power, when a future of prosecution awaits him. Better serve as long as possible in that case, and use the power of government to keep himself in power. Kind of what used to happen before democracy.